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Defiant Delight

By: Gabriela Yareliz The other day, I opened my weather app and the image above popped up. I was nowhere near Chinatown, and the phone was clearly not registering where I was. This may have been a signal issue, or a loud sigh from my phone given I have refused to update the software forContinue reading “Defiant Delight”

Pause

Sometimes, one just wants to scream a pause into the open sky. Our hearts yearn for the day when what we love isn’t lost.

Being Human: Here Comes Autumn

FALL TRANSITION By: Gabriela Yareliz And here we are. Inside of my little studio, French jazz playing, little amber candles burning and the drawers of my dresser only half closed. That’s the way it goes on a Friday where I don’t want to leave my house anymore, and I just want to start my sentenceContinue reading “Being Human: Here Comes Autumn”

A letter for a confused, frustrated and sad soul

By: Gabriela Yareliz Dear confused, frustrated and sad one, For the person who feels no true joy, I am writing to you. There are people around you who love you. There is at least one; one who would do anything for you to feel valued, worthy, precious and happy. Sometimes the path is dark. WeContinue reading “A letter for a confused, frustrated and sad soul”

She’s the kind of girl

By: Ravi Zacharias-From his talk The lostness of man part 4 of 4 “Man is not just unethical, he is lost and dead. If a man is only lost in guilt, what I have given you is bad news; but he is lost in sin, and our great priviliege is to tell him we have aContinue reading “Lost”

The Hound of Heaven: excerpt

By: FrancisThompson “Ah, fondest, blindest, weakest, I am He Whom thou seekest! Thou dravest love from thee, who dravest Me.”

Rain

By: Gabriela Yareliz I was driving this morning. It was raining. I saw this mom and her two little girls at the bus stop. The mom and youngest girl with thick round glasses were standing under the umbrella, while the other girl with the wild curly hair was standing out in the rain because sheContinue reading “Rain”