Hey everyone! I hope this week will be better than last week. It was a frustrating week, last week.
On the bright side, I slept like a boss. I have had a terrible sleeping pattern.
Despite the hecticness, life has always granted me many lessons throughout. So, here is a melange of all that is running through my mind.
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I love these head wraps.
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If anyone of you ever considers starting to belly dance, I just want to give you a fair warning… hip circles and undulations can seriously injure you (and if you are careful it will hurt for a bit). If you begin doing these movements and feel like someone is snapping rubberbands at your lower back-STOP.
A lot of the moves are not hard, but if you can’t perfect one-DO NOT decide to be overly dedicated and repeat the movements for an extended period of time. Even if you feel nothing then, while doing the moves, you will.
The lessons should come with a warning label, so I am warning you.
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Philippians 1:6: Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
Whatever He started, He will finish in you.
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Song of the week: If You Believe 🙂 We are goin back in the day.
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“When the sinner sees his Saviour dying upon the cross under the curse of sin in his stead, beholding His pardoning love, love awakes in his heart. The sinner loves Christ, because Christ has first loved him, and love is the fulfilling of the law. The repenting soul realizes that God “is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9). The spirit of God works in the believer’s soul, enabling him to advance from one line of obedience to another, reaching on from strength to greater strength, from grace to grace in Christ Jesus.” Review and Herald, Nov. 1, 1892
“But my God shall supply ALL your need according to His riches in glory by Jesus Christ.” Philippians 4:19
“And whatsoever we ask, we receive of Him, because we keep His commandments, and do those things that are pleasing in His sight.” 1 John 3:22
“And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that, if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us; and if we now He heareth us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desire of Him.” 1 John 5:14,15
“And we know that ALL things work together for good for them that love God, to them who are called according to His purpose.” Romans 8:28
“As man is converted by the truth, the work of transformation of character goes on. He has an increased measure of understanding, in becoming a man of obedience to God. The mind and will of God become his will, and by constantly looking to God for counsel, he becomes a man of increased understanding. There is a general development of the mind that is unreservedly placed under the guidance of the Spirit of God.” Review and Herald, July 19, 1887, Ellen G. White
When the 23-year-old medical student from New Delhi had her life shattered, many hearts were broken with her rape and death.
I hope we meet someday. For now India, please prosecute the men who did this; seek justice; seek justice for each case that keeps getting uncovered. Unfortuantely, she is not alone. Her case just served to open eyes to a widespread problem. This time, it is not just the media painting us a picture. Women everywhere are opening up to share their stories.
Most of all, I ask that you make it so no other young woman or girl needs to have her life broken in this way. As in every place, nothing is perfect. Danger lurks in the most unexpected places sometimes. However, each society’s ills shows a disease that eats at the people themselves. There is something in our societies that enshrouds our hearts in darkness.
Humanity everywhere must stop playing a game of trying to be simply moral and do good things. Change goes deeper than that. Our societies must be transformed starting with each individual heart.
Even if time goes by, this should not be forgotten.
The problem needs to be fixed. The police must stop shrugging, and men must start caring in action and attitude not just in word and philosophy.
Nation, it is time to mend some broken lives, hearts and deep wounds.
With all of my hope for a brighter future and hope for the healing of the women of this nation,
I am thinking about true, lasting love. Love that is expressed in action more than word. Love that is commitment and lasts. Love that goes through storms. Love that doesn’t fade. Love that sacrifices. Love that makes us dream. Love that leaves us with no air or words. Love that is powerful enough to change us.
Here is a collection of inspiring things, photos, icons, and music; celebrating love.
Shakespeare in love…
“The very first time I saw her I knew at that point, cross my heart hope to die… my life’d never be the same again.”-William, The Russian Dolls
“Love costs all we are
and will ever be.
Yet it is only love
which sets us free.” -Maya Angelou
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.” Dr. Seuss
Monica Bellucci and Vincent Cassel
“Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around. You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more. You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you. When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement. They are not embarrassed to cry with you when you are hurting or laugh with you when you make a fool of yourself.”- Bob Marley
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.” -Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.” -Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets
“I am nothing special, of this I am sure. I am a common man with common thoughts and I’ve led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten, but I’ve loved another with all my heart and soul, and to me, this has always been enough..” -Nicholas Sparks, The Notebook
“Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind.” -Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
“Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.” -Alfred Tennyson
“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.” -Alfred Tennyson
“Just when you think it can’t get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can’t get any better, it can.” -Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight
“You are, and always have been, my dream.” -Nicholas Sparks
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that’s keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)” -E.E. Cummings
“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”-Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
“So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” -Paulo Coehlo, The Alchemist
“Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love.”-Shakespeare, Hamlet
“In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you.”-Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“You know, when it works, love is pretty amazing. It’s not overrated. There’s a reason for all those songs.” -Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
“Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.” -Albert Einstein
“When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.”-Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet
“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” -Emily Bronte
“What Is Love? I have met in the streets a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, the water passed through his shoes and the stars through his soul”-Victor Hugo
“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
Valentine’s Day for journalists…
Hilarious pick-up lines and taglines at Media Bistro.
Song for this year’s Valentine’s Day: Dreams Come True, written by Rudy Perez. It is a lovely song that expresses an emotion that can’t be expressed in simple words.
GABRIELA YARELIZ 