By: Gabriela Yareliz Reading Jane Austen is upsetting, sometimes. The author had such a sad life, but she made sure to give her characters happy endings. It just isn’t real. I heard recently that one of our greatest sources of unhappiness is when we fight reality. As humans, we do this a lot. We holdContinue reading “How To Be Happy In Pain”
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Reflections Before Bedtime #19
By: Gabriela Yareliz Sometimes in life, we make the mistake of thinking that people will have to come around to respecting and accepting us and our ways of thought. It doesn’t always happen, obviously. We know this, but it stings a little when it unfolds in real life. People owe us nothing, and best ofContinue reading “Reflections Before Bedtime #19”
Hero
By: Gabriela Yareliz Sometimes, we discourage people even though we mean well. Often, we can’t see when people are really unhappy because all we see is what we want for them. We keep pushing them out of love, not out of malice, because we think we know what is best. I heard Wilson Wilson Jr. tell Tim Taylor a quote: “You don’tContinue reading “Hero”
Expectations
Great Expectations
By: Gabriela Yareliz Sometimes in life we feel God disappoints us. We feel things aren’t going the way we wanted them to. Lately, I’ve been getting a lesson here. Sometimes we feel disappointed because our plans don’t align with God’s plans. I heard a speaker at Advent Hope talk about how we need to takeContinue reading “Great Expectations”
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