April's Bountiful Blessings!

April 23 is a very special day for two individuals who are very close to my heart. This day are the birthdays of my beloved wife, Muffet and my beloved eldest son, Joaquin. I remember twenty-seven years ago when I started to court and dated my wife how GOD in His Holiness, Mercies and Graces protected our relationship and kept us pure (preserving us from indulging in pre-marital sex) until the day we got married. We spent our honeymoon in a beach house owned by a very close relative. In the Old Testament book of Genesis the word of God says, "...a man shall leave his father and his mother, and be joined to his wife; and they shall become one flesh. And the man and his wife were both naked and were not ashamed." In the New Testament book of First Corinthians the word of God says, "The husband should not deprive his wife of sexual intimacy, which is her right as a married woman, nor should the wife deprive her husband. The wife gives authority over her body to her husband, and the husband also gives authority over his body to his wife. So do not deprive each other of sexual relations..." Our union was blessed by a son whom we named after my father. My wife's obstetrician and gynecologist who also assisted her in giving birth gave us a fifty percent discount on her professional fees upon learning that it was her birthday that day when she gave birth. Later on, God allowed us to have a beloved daughter whom we named Mary Antonette Magenta and another beloved son whom we named Dan Paul. Concerning children and the family, the word of God says in the book of Psalms: "Behold, children are a gift of the LORD, the fruit of the womb is a reward"..."How blessed is everyone who fears the LORD, who walks in His ways. When you shall eat of the fruit of your hands, you will be happy and it will be well with you. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine within your house, your children like olive plants around your table. Behold, for thus shall the man be blessed who fears the LORD."

It is my heart's desire and prayer that GOD in His lovingkindness and mercies would allow Muffet, Joaquin, Magenta, Dan Paul and myself to reach our highest potentials as husband, wife, father, mother, and children based on the New Testament book of Colossians: "You wives must submit to your husbands, as is fitting for those who belong to the Lord. And you husbands must love your wives and never treat them harshly. You children must always obey your parents, for this is what pleases the Lord. Fathers, don't aggravate your children. If you do, they will become discouraged and quit trying."