Category Archives: culture

This week’s picks: Jan. 28, 2013 (last of January)

By: Gabriela Yareliz This week has been so strange. It has been overwhelming. More reading, assignments and cold calls than ever. I got an offer and accepted a fantastic internship that I never imagined I would be working in (thanks for the prayers guys), and I helped head up a panel that was a completeContinue reading “This week’s picks: Jan. 28, 2013 (last of January)”

Lift up your head

By: Gabriela Yareliz Lift your head, the crown may fall. You are a child of the Most High God. He is owner of all in the world, and will only give you His best. Fear not if you lose something or sparkles fade. He is standing by with Amazing Grace. Things won’t be perfect, someContinue reading “Lift up your head”

The Same God

Song by Lilly Goodman That you heal the hurt; and you give the blind man sight; that you teach how to forgive; I have heard all of those things and more… That you help the fallen and give him words of faith; that in you, people find peace; all those rumors I have already heard…Continue reading “The Same God”

Powerful Address to Athens

By: Gabriela Yareliz This is one of my favorite speeches and discourses ever given. It was Paul’s address to the men of Athens. It is an address to men of education, skepticism, spirituality and philosophy everywhere. It is poetic, deep, powerful and most of all, truthful. Paul Addressing the Areopagus (Acts 17:22-31) 22 Then PaulContinue reading “Powerful Address to Athens”

Cold day

By: Gabriela Yareliz Okay, so don’t quit your day job, but do buy a ticket, get a tan and fall in love. Today, the weather channel said it felt like 8F degrees. Personally… I don’t know what it felt like. Dante’s inferno with ice? Just kidding. In my mind, the perfect world has the colorContinue reading “Cold day”

The power of a dream

By: Gabriela Yareliz Thank you Martin Luther King Jr. for dreaming. Thank you activists for marching. Thank you minorities for boycotting. Thank you God creating us for equal. I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.Continue reading “The power of a dream”