dichos

Me importa un pepino lo que piense.
I could(n’t) care less what he thinks. (Literally, I couldn’t give a cucumber.)

llamar al pan pan y al vino vino (to call bread bread and wine wine)
to call a spade a spade

estar más bueno que el pan (to be better than bread)
to be gorgeous

más largo que un día sin pan (longer than a day without any bread)
if something goes on too long, you can use this saying

ojo por ojo, (diente por diente)
an eye for an eye, (a tooth for a tooth)

ver la mota en el ojo ajeno
to see the mote in somebody else’s eye

en boca cerrada no entran moscas (flies do not enter a closed mouth)
silence is golden

costar un ojo de la cara (to cost an eye of the face)
to cost an arm and a leg

entrar con el pie derecho (to enter with the right foot)
to start off on the right foot

tener cara de pocos amigos (to have a face of few friends)
to have a very unfriendly expression

tener la (ser) cara dura (to have a hard face)
to be shameless

aburrirse como una ostra (to get as bored as an oyster)
to be bored stiff

no distinguir lo blanco de lo negro (not to be able to tell what’s white from what’s black)
to say that somebody is unable to tell right from wrong

a paso de tortuga (at a tortoise’s pace)
at a snail’s pace

A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda. (God helps him who gets up early.)
The early bird catches the worm.

No por mucho madrugar, amanece más temprano. (For all your getting up early, day won’t break any earlier.)
Time will take its course.

¡Que sueñes con los angelitos! (May you dream of little angels.)
Sweet dreams

estar como el pez en el agua (to be like a fish in water)
to be right at home

thankful

here are a few things I am so thankful for

dear friends...


memorable experiences...


seeing my brother in love...


humor...


colorful cultures...


kids and cuddly friends...

walking with God

john eldredge quotes

"To hear the voice of God, we must be in a posture of quiet surrender." (30)

"When it comes to crisis or events that really upset us, this I have learned: you can have God or you can have understanding. Sometimes you can have both. But if you insist on understanding, it often doesn't come. And that can create distance between you and God, because you're upset and demanding an explanation in order to move on, but the explanation isn't coming, and so you withdraw a bit from God and lose the grace that God is giving. He doesn't explain everything. But he always offers us himself." (81)

"Until God has become our all, and we are fully his, we will continue to make idols of the good things he gives us." (87)

"We are so committed to arranging for a happy little life that God has to thwart us to bring us back to himself." (87)

"But pain does come, and what will we do with it? What does it reveal? What might God be up to? How might he redeem our pain? Those are questions worth asking. Don't waste your pain." (88)

"What I am describing is a heart that is present and engaging with God, bringing our desires to him, yet submitting our wills to his, genuinely trusting that what he says is best. That is how we come to learn to remain in him." (92)

"We want to be loved. But we hide from it too, building defenses against it, fortressing ourselves from being hurt again. We settle for a doughnut. Then we wonder why it's hard for us to connect with the love of God, let it in so deep that it heals us, and remain in his love." (94)

psalm 23

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
He makes me lie down in green pastures.
He leads me beside still waters.
He restores my soul.
He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name's sake.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,
I will fear no evil,
for you are with me;
your rod and your staff,
they comfort me.

You prepare a table before me
in the presence of my enemies;
you anoint my head with oil;
my cup overflows.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me
all the days of my life,
and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

to smell

here is the description of my new perfume...

Dream. Dare. Laugh. Love.

Experience the fragrance as colorful as you are with this combination of sparkling green apple leaves, zesty orange mandarin, charismatic pink magnolia, seductive purple freesia, and soft blue musk that explodes into a colorful floral fragrance.

south georgia

How to cuddle with an elephant seal
Not smart, but I probably would have done the same thing if I were her

rejoice & lament

by Josh Garrels

Learn this lesson well, my friend
There’s a time to rejoice and lament
Every season will find an end
All will fade and be made new again
Standing on the rocks of the railroad tracks
Feet calloused, eyes open, sun beats on my back
As I gaze upon the unseen winds
And they are wandering, whispering
Wisdom that’s eternal
From the heart to the mind
To the hand to the journal
Now the kernel of the seeds in the cleft of the rock
And it’s watered by the winds
Having power to unlock and
Stop the clock of chronological logic
With its homogenized systems
That are dead and can’t dodge it
Being deaf to the voice of the Almighty One
Spirit illumines the dark like a fire
Revealing the way that was hidden but is higher
Now we must travel on the wings
That will never grow tired
Of searching the mysteries of God
I said Father the feathers of my wax wings
Fall away by the rising of the sun
And I have descended when I was undone
And I will ascend when your Spirit comes
Because what’s been done and overcome
Cannot be stopped by the power of any human
Like the number of sand we will stand
And we will fall, all
In the face of an eternal call
But those who call on His name
In the midst of the pain
In the guilt and the shame
And the world full of blame
And all the bloody stains
From the unjust gains
I learned all men suffer the same
Because we’re wayward sons
And all our jokes betray
Our foolish hearts and our selfish ways
But if we would turn to the Father’s grace
We would never be the same
This is an unseen land of a devastated soul
That’s prepared in contemplative silence
For the mighty working hand of an unseen Lord
To come restore this land from its violence
I said walk another mile
Stare across the fields of grain
This is how the prophets train
Learn this lesson well my friend
There’s a time to rejoice and lament
Every season will find an end
All will fade and be made new again