“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”
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Happy at Home
“To be happy at home is the end of all human endeavor. The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a person alone reading a book that interests them; and all economics, politics, laws, armies, andContinue reading “Happy at Home”
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Begin Again
By: Gabriela Yareliz It’s officially spring. This week, many cultures celebrated something. There was Hindu new year, Eid, and the Persian new year Nowruz. New beginnings abound. The sky is a pale blue, and I overheard a bird song this morning. I had lunch with a new friend, this week. It was the first timeContinue reading “Begin Again”
Getting Yourself Back
“It turns out that when you stop trying to fix something that was never yours to fix, you get yourself back.” Tara Schuster
“A Line in the Sand” by Erwin McManus
“God will silence your accusers.”
Wisdom from Martha Graeff
Words and advice by Martha Graeff: “1. Not everyone who loves you knows how to show up for you; 2. Peace is more valuable than being understood; 3. Boundaries will cost you relationships and then save you; 4. You can’t heal in the same environment that hurt you; 5. Being strong for too long teachesContinue reading “Wisdom from Martha Graeff”
Welcome, March!
By: Gabriela Yareliz Happy March! We enter the month that invites an unstable spring into our lives. It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade. -Charles Dickens It’s the season of spring break andContinue reading “Welcome, March!”
Thoughts and Favs from this Week 2.27.26
By: Gabriela Yareliz The snow piles remain. Winter has us all about to fling ourselves on the snow piles in resignation. “Just leave me here,” we want to say. But “onward,” as someone who does nothing at work typically says to those doing the heavy lifting. Onward, indeed. Today, I heard a clown horn (youContinue reading “Thoughts and Favs from this Week 2.27.26”
Don’t Die In Another’s World
“Had I not created my whole world, I would certainly have died in other people’s.” Anais Nin By: Gabriela Yareliz Some of the most glorious moments of our journeys are the ones where we buck all expectations and cultural rules imposed, and we create our own operating system. My rule is that the only opinionContinue reading “Don’t Die In Another’s World”
