Merry Christmas!


By: Gabriela Yareliz

Hi! Hi! Hi!

One more exam to destroy. I want to wish everyone an amazing Christmas season. Spend time with family, reflect, have some introspection, get some safe sunshine, thank God for His amazing gifts and our incredible lives, relax, drink tea, do something new, spend less time on your computer or phone, LIVE IN THE MOMENT IN A WAY YOU WON’T REGRET.
XOXOXO.

Week’s Picks: Dec. 17, 2012

By: Gabriela Yareliz

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“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only the past.” -Virginia Woolf

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4] Theodore Roosevelt

“It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes up short again and again, because there is no effort without error or shortcoming, but who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself for a worthy cause; who, at the best, knows, in the end, the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat.”

“Citizenship in a Republic,” Speech at the Sorbonne, Paris, April 23, 1910

5] Whom God Chooses

When God wants to drill a man, And thrill a man, And skill a man; When God wants to mold a man to play the noblest part;

When He yearns with all His heart; To create so great and bold a man; That all the world shall be amazed, Watch His methods, watch His ways!

How He ruthlessly perfects Whom He royally elects! How He hammers him and hurts him, And with mighty blows converts him

Into trial shapes of clay which Only God understands; While his tortured heart is crying And he lifts beseeching hands!

How He bends but never breaks; When his good He undertakes; How He uses whom He chooses, And which every purpose fuses him; By every act induces him To try His splendor out- God knows what He’s about.

– Anonymous

Study break: Bollywood style

By: Gabriela Yareliz

After Barbri… some entertainment…real people, dancing. I love it.

The first one if from a British TV Show…Britain’s Got Talent? Maybe… I don’t know; I don’t watch TV. It is brilliant though.

Staff at an Adventist College (Flaiz), I believe, in Narsapur, India.

Get it guys!
Meanwhile, elves, Santa Clause and all of his little helpers are crawling all over New York because it is Drunk Santa day in NYC. Who ever thought of that one? Sigh.
I will stay here studying and dancing… Bollywood style, of course.

As a nation

By: Gabriela Yareliz

As a nation, we must come together and pray for all of the families who lost loved ones, not only today (in the school shooting in Connecticut), but in all of these terrible and recent tragedies, shootings and suicides.

President Obama sums it up so well.

Our prayers are with you.
In these times, it seems people are giving into desperation. People are so broken, they not only hurt themselves but others.
Today, the nation lost many bright children, caring teachers and a broken young man. May God help us to always rest in Him. To not give into sadness and anger, but to always hold on through the pain, hoping for a brighter day.

Just Man

By: Elie Wiesel

“One of the Just Men came to Sodom, determined to save its inhabitants from sin and punishment. Night and day he walked the streets and markets protesting against greed and theft, falsehood and indifference. In the beginning, people listened and smiled ironically. Then they stopped listening: he no longer amused them. The killers went on killing, the wise men kept silent, as if there were no Just Man in their midst.

One day, a child, moved by the compassion for the unfortunate teacher, approached him with these words: ‘Poor stranger, you shout, you scream, don’t you see that it is hopeless?’

‘Yes, I see,’ answered the Just Man.

‘Then why do you go on?’

‘I’ll tell you why. In the beginning, I thought I could change man. Today, I know I cannot.

If I still shout today, if I still scream, it is to prevent man from ultimately changing me.’”

Because you’re worth it (wink)

By: Gabriela Yareliz

You must give yourself value. The value you believe you have, and the value you believe God places on you. If you do not, the world will not place this value on you. Instead, it pulls you and stretches you. It surrounds you with destructive habits, numbers, labels and beauty, which in the beginning make you giddy but leave you feeling robbed and broken.

Week’s Picks: Dec. 10,2012

1] My little angelic creature, Milica, performs

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3]All that glitters-Tout ce qui brille

5] The Devil Wears Prada

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8] Heard it on Kidd Kraddick yesterday, live–and loved it.

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This Pinterest is lovely.

10] KHALED; YES