By: Gabriela Yareliz Semana Santa (Holy Week) begins. Easter weekend is coming. Easter and Passover always reminds me that God can do and does the impossible. It’s a reminder of His crazy love for us; a reminder that redemption has been completed; a reminder to rest in His provision and leading. I haven’t been resting much, literally, (IContinue reading “Sunday Girl: March 20, 2016”
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Friday Glee: March 18, 2016
“Compassion and dialogue are essentially vulnerable positions. If you are into control and predictability, you will seldom descend into the weakness of listening or the scariness of dialogue. You will not only be incapable of hearing others, but you will also be incapable of hearing God. How we do anything is usually how we doContinue reading “Friday Glee: March 18, 2016”
Women’s Month: Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh
[Image from World Mag] By: Gabriela Yareliz How many of us believe something so strongly that we’d die for it? How many of us have an integrity that allows us to stare death in the face and not flinch? Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh met in 2005, while studying theology in Turkey. After completing theirContinue reading “Women’s Month: Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh”
Radiance
“Undaunted radiance is not built on anything passing but on the love of God that nothing can alter.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: March 7 “Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.” Ps. 34:5 I want to be undauntedly radiant.
Friday Glee: March 11, 2016
By: Gabriela Yareliz “God, finish the work you started in me before I got in the way.” Hannah Brencher “As you move forward in pursuing your passion and dreams for the future, don’t forget to be grateful for the many ways God has already shaped your life. It’s absolutely necessary for living and leading withContinue reading “Friday Glee: March 11, 2016”
Wings
By: Gabriela Yareliz Today was a beautiful spring-like day in NYC. Thank you, Jesus! I wasn’t outside for very long, but when I did step out, without a coat, I felt the sunshine on my arms. It was magic. I haven’t felt like that in forever. Thoughts of future warm, dark blue New York CityContinue reading “Wings”
Monday Inspiration: March 7, 2016
By: Gabriela Yareliz It’s a new week! Diverse trials and perhaps exhaustion awaits some of us, this week. If you are already looking at your week, and your eye is twitching– here is a word for you: “But now, says the Lord, He who created you, O Jacob, He who formed you, O Israel: ‘FearContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: March 7, 2016”
Reflections Before Bedtime #76
By: Gabriela Yareliz And so, that is what I have learned; that when you love someone, you never give up on them. Because, “love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.” 1 Corinthians 13: 7-8
Women’s Month: Katharina von Bora
By: Gabriela Yareliz First day of March! March is Women’s Month, and throughout the month, I like to feature notable women who marked history, show boldness, take up action or causes, or minister to people in a special way. The first woman I want to feature is one my mother told me about, Katharina vonContinue reading “Women’s Month: Katharina von Bora”
What is Holiness?
We are called to be holy and consecrated. But what does “holy” mean? I think the following quote illustrates holiness beautifully: “Holiness is not rapture; it is an entire surrender of the will to God; it is living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God; it is doing the will of theContinue reading “What is Holiness?”
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