“You get to decide who gets to be a part of your story, and how much.” Brianna Wiest By: Gabriela Yareliz Every day, we decide what roles and weight people have in our lives— the ones we choose and even the ones we are surrounded by circumstantially. It can be a boss, a podcaster, aContinue reading “Weigh the Role”
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This Week’s Favs 4.22.26
“Confidence doesn’t come from believing in yourself. It comes from having done the uncomfortable thing enough times that your nervous system stops flagging it as an emergency. Because nothing is actually hard, it’s just unfamiliar.” Layla Shaikley This message: “Maybe because my mind is always overflowing, chaotic, holding a hundred ideas and emotions at once,Continue reading “This Week’s Favs 4.22.26”
A New Prayer
By: Gabriela Yareliz Have you ever prayed, “God, show me how good life gets”? (Mantra from Alyssa Hermann) I wonder what would happen if we did pray this prayer. Thirty days, and then, we all come back here and share what happened.
An Opening
“There’s something humbling about realizing your timeline isn’t real… [it] felt like an expiration date.Now it feels like an opening.” Danielle Bernstein By: Gabriela Yareliz I always want to play a game, but we never have enough people to do so. I got this new conversation game from Wilde Paper that I wanted to open,Continue reading “An Opening”
Retreat to the 90s: Pop-tarts, Fitting Rooms and Paradoxes
By: Gabriela Yareliz Have we made everything too complicated? *Plays Avril Lavigne “Complicated”* Cigarettes are always bad, kids, but the meaning of the image above hit home with me. What the hell were we doing in the 90s? I guess doing exercise aerobics videos (remember the step?) and there were crash diets. But it wasContinue reading “Retreat to the 90s: Pop-tarts, Fitting Rooms and Paradoxes”
Bits of Beauty and Wisdom
“The uglier the outfit, the better the walk.” Natazia Zu Stolberg “Love isn’t the means to an end. It’s the end.” Amy June
What the End Looks Like
By: Gabriela Yareliz Maundy Thursday and Good Friday. What does this time remind us of? Even when we are confused, God is doing His thing. Our confusion doesn’t mean a plan is halted. The disciples thought the world had gone insane. Jesus was right on track. He knew exactly what He was walking into. Sometimes,Continue reading “What the End Looks Like”
Some Thursday Inspiration
“Time is a liar. Stop letting the calendar tell you what’s possible. It doesn’t know who you are. It has no clue what’s still alive for you. Culture measures age in years. It tells us to grow older and grow up. To be reasonable. To trade aliveness for safety. But maturity is not measured byContinue reading “Some Thursday Inspiration”
This Week’s Favorites (4.1.26)
“April, the angel of the months.” Vita Sackville-West By: Gabriela Yareliz Thank God March is over. That is all I can say. March was a month that felt a lot like drowning. It’s another day in another week, but when we start a new month, I picture a hand turning a page into a nextContinue reading “This Week’s Favorites (4.1.26)”
Wandering Wonderland
“We don’t always get to choose the season.But we do get to choose how we live inside it. We get to believe that God loves us, is for us and with us in all of it.” Dr. Edie Wadsworth By: Gabriela Yareliz Wonderland was a strange place where absurdities abound, much like life. Planning hasContinue reading “Wandering Wonderland”