Cannes 2013: Elegance update


[The lovely Guillaume Canet and Marion Cotillard.]

By: Gabriela Yareliz

So, there are more important things in life than this, obviously. I am dreamy and filmy, however. I have enjoyed the art, taste and elegance exhibited at Cannes this year. Cannes shows the best of the best. It is true art, passion and class on display. Bollywood has made its presence known; and beautifully.

I find many of these people embody their brilliance and talent, and do such extraordinary work. The are unique about their roles and work on projects they believe in. What a feeling to be at Cannes! To celebrate your work and see what you wrote or directed be reacted to. It is also a time to celebrate those we see as representations of ourselves in the characters they play; they move us, show us things we thought of but could not put together and inspire us to dream. (–And some just show up to look pretty!)

This Week’s Picks: May 19, 2013

By: Gabriela Yareliz
The end of 1L year. By God’s grace we have made it through.

Thank you Jesus, for all the amazing blessings. Thank you for dreaming big dreams for us, and for caring so much for us that you make a plan for our lives. Thank you, because if we are willing, you guide us along the path to marvelous things.

I have had such a marvelous time at my school, in this profession, and I have met extraordinary people. I have seen God’s hand move and protect me; I have seen His love and care for me through every person who expressed their love and concern for me, and who had me in their prayers. I have seen miracles. I have been healed. I have missed the most important people in my life. I have befriended what seemed like the impossible.

I want to say thank you to all of you who read this blog. My blog has reached an extraordinary amount of views from literally all around the world, and I feel so blessed by that. Some subscribe, some bookmark me, others have my entries emailed to them, some have me on Google or WordPress reader, others just google “how will gabriela end” (which I have no idea what they mean… but they end up here)–
Thank you for reading what I write. My blog is not exactly a niche blog. I don’t talk about the same thing all the time. I think the blog is a reflection of a part of me. I am not the girl with the same hairstyle, style, hair cut and makeup everyday. Each day is a new invention. Each day has a different theme. In the same way, some days I am thinking of weddings, other days I am thinking of Bollywood philosophy, sometimes its a good song, a movie, a quote, some piece of art (fashion or photography) or something deeper.

If you review my blog, the majority of tags are religion/theology topics. Granted, that is what I believe life revolves around. It is an aspect of my life that fills every other. Often times the philosophy I find in movies, books, songs and quotes often reflects some sort of deeper message. I am a serious person, but at the same time light-hearted and creative.

I hope that each person who visits this site, leaves inspired by something. I hope you continue to find something to laugh about, something to learn more about and most of all, something to think about.
Thank you.
XoXoXo.
Truly yours.

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“Dream and don’t ask too many questions, or fear will overcome your feelings.” Paulo Coelho

Don’t be afraid to dream. Don’t over analyze; just trust that if God places a dream in your heart, He will bring it to pass. Don’t ask or try to find logic because He can work the impossible.

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3] The elegance of Madame Ines de la Fressange @ Cannes 2013

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9] What a powerful message about discovering the stone in your life keeping you from true life.

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The purity of a message

By: Gabriela Yareliz
Spirituality is not about convenience and whatever makes you feel good. In fact, if we feel good and comfortable–there may be a problem. Our spiritual lives are compared to a race, something we need endurance for–something difficult and strenuous.

2 Timothy 4:7-8
7 I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 8 Finally, there is laid up for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give to me on that Day, and not to me only but also to all who have loved His appearing.

This week, I have been thinking about how sometimes, spiritually, we make things complicated and fake. Some brush off teachings as if they are suggestions and not truth; hearts filled with pride, frivolousness and themselves.

Others, take certain teachings and cling to them by the word, trying to not mistep, and they legalistically follow everything; while hearts are filled with self-righteousness, paranoia and judgment.

I think it is important to analyze ourselves. When the Bible says be not conformed to the world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, it clearly means we cannot be saved in our sins. We cannot keep living however we please and be okay. It also states something deeper: Sometimes we think it is all about the exterior, but it is not. The exterior reflects the interior, but it says we are transformed by the renewing of our minds. God wants to mold our minds and renew the way we think.

It is time we go back to the beginning, away from the mixtures and down to the pure basics. We need to go to the truth and message that comes out of scripture, which is one.

Let us study scripture, and know what truth is. Let us not choose the words of men over scripture. In the words of Hilary Duff: “Let’s go back; back to the beginning.”

Let’s go back to the basics and become clean.

Who is afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Quotes from one of my most adored writers.-Gabriela Y.

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy steals over all the finer nerves and faculties of the soul. She becomes all outer show and inward emptiness; dull, callous, and indifferent.
-Virginia Woolf

Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.
-Virginia Woolf

Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
-Virginia Woolf

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
-Virginia Woolf

Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
-Virginia Woolf