Expect miracles.
By: Gabriela Yareliz
This week, so many people almost fell out of their chairs when I spoke to them in Spanish. Apparently, no one believes I am Latina. I also visited the Barrio for the first time.
This reminded me of: From Prada to Nada. One of the best films ever [in my opinion]. Always makes me smile.
“Welcome to the Barrio mija!”
By: Gabriela Yareliz
“Change the way you think, and the way you eat will follow.” Pg. 11-12, French Women for All Seasons, Mireille Guiliano
Living in a healthier way not only takes a new mindset, but also a plan.
I found a great piece by Melissa Kravitz on eating Gluten-free in NYC, if anyone is interested:
The Twenty-Something Foodie
Stay strong with whatever changes you have made in 2014.
By: Ellen G. White
“Wake up, brethren and sisters. Do not be afraid of good works. ‘Let us not be weary in well-doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.’ Do not wait to be told your duty. Open your eyes and see who are around you; make yourselves acquainted with the helpless, afflicted, and needy. Hide not yourselves from them, and seek not to shut out their needs. Who gives the proofs mentioned in James, of possessing pure religion, untainted with selfishness or corruption? Who are anxious to do all in their power to aid in the great plan of salvation?” – {2T 29.2}
“The reason why God’s people are not more spiritually minded and have not more faith, I have been shown, is because they are narrowed up with selfishness.” Chapter 2, Doing for Christ
Testimonies for the Church, vol. 2
By: Gabriela Yareliz
I had a conversation with someone about how it’s harder for women with higher education to date, marry or simply find someone they can hold conversation with who isn’t afraid of her.
“In reality it is the college-educated woman who is the prize. Her husband can expect a higher level of income, a healthier life and longer marriage.” Princeton Mom vs. the Facts, The Atlantic, Lisa Endlich Hefferman
This was an interesting article about college-educated women and marriage.
“When you serve others, your own heart heals. I encourage you to sow good seeds by serving others. You may find that the life you transform is your own.” Pg. 136, Limitless, by Nick Vujicic
what we are going through?
New York is under a mattress of snow. I have seen people try to get out of their parallel parking spots and slam into the car behind them. I have seen people try to park between mountains of snow. Some guys were shoveling today outside of the church, and the pile of snow was taller than me (perhaps not hard to do, but nonetheless impressive).
Walking outside is virtually impossible because there is so much snow coming down so fast. The chess players, art vendors and people usually there to chill (they are probably thawing now) weren’t even around Union Square.
Walking across the street becomes some awkward slide fest–but lucky for me, no one saw because the snow had them blinded.
I feel like going outside and finding Narnia…
but with all of this snow, I may not see the lamppost.
No winter lasts forever, though.
So, I guess we’ll enjoy winter storm number 6(?) while it lasts.
-Gabriela Yareliz
“Your life is not a romantic comedy. Right now it seems more like a sad documentary about a criminally insane spinster. Kinda sounds like it could win an Oscar, though.” -The Mindy Project
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Una de mis historias de amor preferidas…la de Ulises y Ainhoa.
“El hogar no son cuatro parades y un techo. Ni una hipoteca de 30 años. Es mucho mas. Es a la gente a la que quieres.”-Ulises
Feliz dia del amor y la amistad. Y que tengas el amor y a la gente que quieres contigo, siempre.
“To love another person is to see the face of God.” Jean Valjean, Les Miserables
By: Gabriela Yareliz
Happy Valentines Day! I thought the storyline in the ad [above] was so cute…and Hrithik Roshan looks ah-ma-zing.
Here is a beautiful remix of songs that I found. Paying some tribute to a language that inspires so many to believe in the beauty of love.
Here is to all of the types of love:
the familial;
the unfulfilled; the sacrificing; the broken;
the inspiring; the everlasting; the overcoming;
the unmatched; the incomplete; the hopeful;
the impossible; the enduring;
the unperceived;
the friendship;
the confusing; the passionate; the innocent.
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.” 1 John 4:18
