Evaporation

By: Gabriela Yareliz
Look who is back… I know after much silence. It’s a tough life we lead. (Smile). It’s back to school, and I am already preparing presentation outlines in French, and trying to decide how I will live through my capstone course. I will. I am convinced all things are possible through Christ. This now means, my life has officially evaporated. Yup. Last time before fall, when it really goes “poof!” because of law school (grin).

At least I still have my books. I finished a Queen Noor autobiography “Leap of Faith.” I felt like it was more about her husband, but whatever. Something had to fill the 600 pages. She is an interesting woman with interesting thoughts. I still don’t know how I’d feel being the fourth wife of a man double my age, but hey- whatever, right? That is why is is called “Leap of Faith.” I am now reading Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. I am surprised I didn’t have nightmares (thank God). Truly tragic. It put my problems into perspective by page 3.

Lastly, I read a book called “Cross Examination,” the author will be coming to UF at the end of Feb. it’s about whether our beliefs make our religion true or if we believe our religion because it is true. It was pure excellence. Logic and philosophy at its best.

In the book I found a quote about Jesus, by C.S. Lewis, that I really liked:

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic -‑ on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg ‑- or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse.You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come up with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”

Truth.
I have contemplated much lately. So, I’ll have a lot to share on other days. For now, I depart from you to breathe. I have to get into some social media thing because my professor wants me to have the account-lame- no offense to him.

I am just a weird non-conformist who respects authority, but I don’t like people telling me what to do, when what is ordered is dumb. But here goes-
PS. It is End Sexual Trafficking Week!!!