Instead of a show

"I hate all your show and pretense
the hypocrisy of your praise
...the hypocrisy of your festivals
I hate all your show

Away with your noisy worship
Away with your noisy hymns
I stop up my ears when your
singing ‘em
I hate all your show

Instead let there be a flood
of justice
An endless procession of righteous
living, living
Instead let there be a flood
of justice
Instead of a show

your eyes are closed when you’re praying
you sing right along with the band
you shine up your shoes for services
but there’s blood on your hands

you turned your back on the homeless
and the ones that don’t fit in your plans
quit playing religion games
there’s blood on your hands

Ah! let’s argue this out
if your sins are blood red
let’s argue this out
you’ll be white as the clouds
let’s argue this out
quit fooling around

give love to the ones who can’t love at all
give hope to the ones who got no hope at all
stand up for the ones who can’t stand up at all
instead of a show
I hate all your show"

-Jon Foreman

Traveling Pants

Hay pocas cosas en la vida tan emocionantes y tan motivadoras como viajar.

Viajar abre la mente y el corazon, nos sensibiliza y nos saca de nuestro mundo personal, abriendo nuestros ojos a miles de fronteras que no pensabamos que existian.

Aqui hay una lista de los 20 sitios que mas quiero visitar a mediano plazo. Algunos lugares son mas populares que otros, pero creo que en todos se encuentra la misma belleza, solo que manifestada de maneras distintas.






1) Santorini, Grecia






2) Teheran, Iran







3) Colorado, USA.







4) Beijing, China.







5) Paris, Francia.







6) Monrovia, Liberia.







7) Londres, Inglaterra.







8) Venecia, Italia.






9) Amsterdam, Holanda.








10) Angra Dos Reis, Brasil.







11) Praga, Republica Checa.








12) Bangkok, Tailandia.








13) Jerusalen, Israel.







14) Port au Prince, Haiti.





15) Ciudad del Cabo, Sudafrica.





16) Gran Sabana, Venezuela.






17) Canterbury, Nueva Zelanda.






18) Marrakech, Marruecos.







19) Calcuta, India.






20) Hamburgo, Alemania.

He IS, indeed, your life

"When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory". Colossians 3:4.



For years and years I've been asking myself the same question: What is the purpose of life?
How can people be so different and at the same time come from the same Creator? (because we ARE all created by the same God).

Why does it really mean to be a Christian? Is it just a matter of being religious and conservative? Or it should radically change how I see God, how I see people, how I conduct myself, and the way I choose to live?

Today, after reading an article on www.setapartgirl.com , an online magazine I highly recommend, I took my Bible and started meditating on Colossians 3:4. The whole intention of the versicle is to remind us that when Jesus comes back, we will be with Him and we will take part in His amazing Glory.

But if you read carefully, you'll find that this versicle has also a key phrase: "When Christ, WHO IS YOUR LIFE..." Wait a minute. Here it says that Christ is not only part of my life, or that God is important to me... He IS, in fact, my life. Wow.
So, that implies a LOT to us. It gives us a purpose. It should destroy all of our fears. It should shape our lives to do what He created us for.

I want to keep making Christ, my whole life. Everything that is good and great comes along with that. :)

139

Of all the books and versicles in the Bible, there is one specific Psalm that's always captured my heart and spirit. It portraits how beautiful and deep is God's bond with each one of us, and how intimate and special He expects that relationship to grow. And yes, that goes for all 6,855,900,000 people on earth.

This Psalm talks about the magnanimosity of God. And yet how close He is to each one of us. I don't need to know anything else. :)

PSALM 139

1 O Lord, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O Lord.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,”
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O Lord,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

Haiti’s Hope

I wanted to share these pics with you... Haiti's cry still awaits for us to hear it. Just take a minute to listen to it through these images.

(Photos are courtesy of Given.Photography and Brittany in Haiti Blog)

No wonder our perception of beauty is distorted

Aqui les dejo un video corto de la Campanha de Dove: "The Real Beauty".

Siempre me he preguntado por que entendemos como "bellos" determinados patrones de apariencia, ya sea de contextura, raza o altura.
Aunque respeto y creo en el derecho de cada persona a someterse a una cirugia estetica, muchas veces me pregunto si esa misma persona, en un contexto social distinto, se someteria a una operacion cuyo costo bien podria pagar un postgrado y donde abren cualquier parte de tu cuerpo en dos.
Despues de todo, de quien depende que es hermoso y apropiado, y que no lo es? Beauty is in the eye of the beholder y punto.

Lo "divertido" es que la mayoria de las veces, aun esas mujeres y hombres que representan nuestras directrices de belleza, no son tan perfectos como se ven en la revista o en la pelicula. Nuestro enfoque deberia estar en ser personas sanas,y en cultivar una sana autoimagen, concentrandonos en lo interno mas que en lo externo. Por supuesto que hay que verse bien! Pero empezar por estar contentos con quienes somos y no forzarnos a ser un modelo que, en realidad, no existe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYhCn0jf46U&feature=player_embedded