To hold a letter

By: Gabriela Yareliz

I like writing letters and leaving them for my mom. I don’t think people today realize how meaningful it is to receive or write a letter. To have a piece of that person that you can keep, smell, read, over and over again…It is gorgeous. Handwriting conveys so much more than a perfected typography. Letters convey emotion, love and hope for perhaps something good in the future.

Sometimes, you will read it a second time and catch a joke, a little drawing, a subtle suggestion. You usually write to someone you have a relationship with or want to have a relationship with.

It reminds me of the ultimate letter we have, the Bible. Scripture is a letter from God. It has advice, stories, and lots of love. It is there for us to gain something different from it each time. We are to keep it, guard it, memorize it and make it a lamp.

A letter–an ultimate expression of love.

This Week’s Picks: June 9, 2013

By: Gabriela Yareliz

Hello dear ones,
I am in a new city for the summer…ahh, yes, summer intern.
I am in an Ernest Hemingway kind of mood this week. Despite my dislike for his storylines, he has always had something valuable to say.

Take wisdom, and run with it.

Of course, along with Hemingway are many other things that I found charming and inspiring.

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Pain is the refiner of the human soul.-me

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I like Paris in the summer—la, la, la…
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9] I identified so much with her video. I really love her story. She is such an inspiration. Everything she is today, was through blessings and hardwork. Go Michelle!

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Regina, a raw talent genius.

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GUJJU GUJJU 🙂
Rohit and Naina.

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Invasion

By: Gabriela Yareliz
People want guns to guard them from an invasion. Just in case. An invasion of what or by whom? Some say China, others Iran, and some even say our own government.

Regardless of what people’s stance on guns may be, I wish people realized that there is a more serious invasion going on in our world and society.
An invasion of the mind.

Investigate. Don’t be apathetic or conformed.
Be different. Educate yourself. Think independently. Love humanity. Don’t be a copy.
Above all else, seek truth.

Intern ready

By: Gabriela Yareliz
I have pre-internship jitters. Just the usual butterflies in the stomach. Normale.

I do have to say, this is one of those experiences. The one where everything works out, and things fall into place. An experience that reminds me that someone greater than me has a plan, and He is working it out in my life right now.

God knows your needs. He will provide.

God has a way of orchestrating things in life. I can’t explain it. It is one of those things each of us has to live.

Life is incredible when God speaks to you and guides you.
Life is a masterpiece.

It can be messy, confusing, strange, incomprehensible and difficult–but normale.

God is in control.
Ready.

Quotes from Sofia Coppola’s Lost in Translation

Life may not be a Sofia Coppola movie, but there are strangers who become friends and leave their mark.-Gabriela Yareliz

Bob: Can you keep a secret? I’m trying to organize a prison break. I’m looking for, like, an accomplice. We have to first get out of this bar, then the hotel, then the city, and then the country. Are you in or you out?

Charlotte: I’m in. I’ll go pack my stuff.