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”
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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 18, 2016
By: Gabriela Yareliz I was walking with headphones in (listening to the TED Radio Hour podcast on NPR), when I heard a sound. I turned. A block away, a child, who was maybe 6 years old, had fallen and was wailing hysterically. The fall was loud. So loud, I heard it a block away. OnContinue reading “Monday Inspiration: April 18, 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”
Friday Glee: April 1, 2016
“God honors faith—stubborn faith—that sees His promise and looks to that alone.” Thomas Champness
Reflections Before Bedtime #78
“We’ve all done it; talked ourselves into the penguin because we didn’t think we had a shot at the elephant. If I am your elephant, you have a shot.” Haley Dunphy [Images from Tumblr]
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”
Radiance
“Undaunted radiance is not built on anything passing but on the love of God that nothing can alter.” Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest: March 7 “Those who look to Him are radiant, and their faces shall never be ashamed.” Ps. 34:5 I want to be undauntedly radiant.
What is Holiness?
We are called to be holy and consecrated. But what does “holy” mean? I think the following quote illustrates holiness beautifully: “Holiness is not rapture; it is an entire surrender of the will to God; it is living by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God; it is doing the will of theContinue reading “What is Holiness?”
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