October 2011
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September 2011
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“Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world - the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does - comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.” 1 John 2:15-17
Storm.
Man, these last four weeks of school have been hard. Seriously. I feel like I can’t even catch my breath, for the amount of homework and responsibilities that I’ve been shouldering lately.
(In fact, I should be studying for my nursing test right now)
And this constant stress has weakened me and made me susceptible to attack from the devil. I’ve been questioning my calling as a...
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly...”
– C. S. Lewis, The Four Loves
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“Todos estamos - oh mi amor - tan llenos de retratos interiores, tan llenos de paisajes no vividos.”
We are all - oh my love - so full of interior portraits, so full of non-living landscapes.
Elena Poniatowska, El recado
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“There is no wrong way to have a body.
I’m going to say it again because it’s...”
– Hanne Blank
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If you have so much business [or schoolwork, or reading, or social life] to attend to that you have no time to pray, depend on it that you have more business on hand than God ever intended that you should have. -D. L. Moody
Please, excuse me while a whopping wave of conviction washes over me.
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Dr. Paul Farmer
For me, an area of moral clarity is: you’re in front of someone who’s suffering and you have the tools at your disposal to alleviate that suffering or even eradicate it, and you act.
But if you’re asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well...
Humans - Christians - have been entrusted with major responsibilities when it comes to living our lives. We were given emotions so that we could feel empathy and compassion for people, a mouth to say kind things and to smile, brains so that we could come up with ingenious ways to help our fellow man, and we were given hands, not only to reach out to people, but to change the way people view Jesus,...
Childlike Innocence
I have a tendency to be really pessimistic and cynical of our present world. I also have a propensity to be a bit preachy to people. A good friend of mine once asked me why I did not set up a blog (obviously, before my Tumblr days…) because she knows how talkative I can be when I get going on a topic that really interests me (like the Dominican Republic, children, affordable public health, or...
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Abraham's Story
“My life is beautiful,” Abraham Rose states simply. Abraham is one of the many millions of victims of the AIDS crisis in the world, and as she states this to the four of us – four students of Elmhurst College – during our interview with her, I cannot help but being shocked at her words. This is a woman who has had innumerable tragedies in her life and yet, here she sits happily, her...
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“At some point you have to make a decision. Boundaries don’t keep other...”
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I'm in love with this idea.... →
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“Never look at yourself from the standpoint of-Who am I? In the history of...”
– Oswald Chambers
I have chosen a name for my bike.
Not that any of you particularly care…. (but for those of you that did help me choose, I thank you!)
I am naming her Lindy Marilyn.
I think she was always Lindy. And, well, I just like the name Marilyn.
So thanks again. Merci. Gracias! :)
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Lovely Things
Do you ever feel like you want to consume as much life as you possibly can at every moment of your existence - so much life that you’ll surely drown in the headiness of it, be stunned by all that it has to offer?
I do. Constantly.
There’s so much that I want to accomplish, that I want to experience….
I want to host great dinner parties and drink fine wine and be sophisticated...
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Dear Tumblr friends.....
I need a name for my new bike.
Choices are:
Lindy
Marilyn
Betty
Cynthia
Gail
Evelyn
Patsy
Norma
Sylvia
Rosemary
Lucille
Mara
Audrey
Gwendolyn
Eva
I know it’s a lot. Sorry! I really do need help picking a name, though! (Yes, I do name most of my possessions. My computer’s name is Melvin, my car is Penelope, my camera is Lola… you get the idea…)
I was going...
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The Sacrament of Sacrifice
“He that believeth in Me . . out of him shall flow… .” John 7:38
Jesus did not say - “he that believeth in Me shall realize the blessing of the fulness of God,” but - “he that believeth in Me out of him shall escape everything he receives.” Our Lord’s teaching is always anti -self-realization. His purpose is not the development of a man; His purpose is to...
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