Monday Inspiration: May 2, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz Hello my fellow warriors. Monday is upon us. I hope you have an amazing start to your week. My weekend was lovely. It was a time of fellowship and laughter; of encouragement, family and love. It’s in moments like these that we experience strange types of healing. Something you can’t even pointContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: May 2, 2016”

Reflections Before Bedtime #84

By: Gabriela Yareliz Excerpt from a letter to my mother earlier in the day: I was on the train, and I brought my Bible. I opened it and began reading in the book of Jeremiah. This is a man whose life scares me the most because it’s evidence that life can be so much lessContinue reading “Reflections Before Bedtime #84”

Monday Inspiration: April 25, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz Hello! A new week begins. It’s my last full week at this age! Birthday week is almost upon me. And as you can tell, I am BEYOND excited. This past year was filled with exciting moments, difficult moments, new beginnings, new frustrations, new friends and a new phase in life. It’s beenContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: April 25, 2016”

Monday Inspiration: April 11, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz This week is going to be like climbing a mountain. Monday was the “strap-on-the-backpack” day. And how about those taxes? *eyes as big as tomatoes* Adulting is hard. Learning things and trying to figure out life when you don’t quite understand what the heck you are doing… That requires bravery, my friends.Continue reading “Monday Inspiration: April 11, 2016”

Reflections Before Bedtime #81

By: Gabriela Yareliz I just finished what is probably one of the best books I have read in years: Just Mercy, by Bryan Stevenson. Attorney Stevenson’s non-fiction account of many of the cases he took on to save people from execution on death row are haunting, memorable– and pretty much each story will fill your eyesContinue reading “Reflections Before Bedtime #81”

Monday Inspiration: April 4, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz Who knows what this week holds in store for us. I just pray that whatever comes, we will be ready to face it. This weekend, it was windy and springish, until Saturday night, which quickly turned into torrential rains and air that chills you to the bone. At 4 am Sunday, theContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: April 4, 2016”

Monday Inspiration: March 28, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz From a productive weekend to, what I hope will be, a productive week. Happy week. We begin anew. Last week was absolutely dreadful and draining. Not sure how I survived it, but by the grace of God and my mother’s wisdom, I am still standing. It was a loud week; a headache-inducing,Continue reading “Monday Inspiration: March 28, 2016”

Monday Inspiration: March 21, 2016

By: Gabriela Yareliz Greetings! Ready to not only survive Monday but to thrive on Monday? It’s Holy Week and officially spring. SPRING!!! *Spring* (Spring) Spring make us feel like no other season. Autumn is cozy and romantic. I love it. However, there is something about fresh new air, soft rains and flowers. Rebirth is moving. LifeContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: March 21, 2016”

Friday Glee: March 18, 2016

“Compassion and dialogue are essentially vulnerable positions. If you are into control and predictability, you will seldom descend into the weakness of listening or the scariness of dialogue. You will not only be incapable of hearing others, but you will also be incapable of hearing God. How we do anything is usually how we doContinue reading “Friday Glee: March 18, 2016”

Women’s Month: Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh

[Image from World Mag] By: Gabriela Yareliz How many of us believe something so strongly that we’d die for it? How many of us have an integrity that allows us to stare death in the face and not flinch? Maryam Rostampour and Marziyeh Amirizadeh met in 2005, while studying theology in Turkey. After completing theirContinue reading “Women’s Month: Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh”