What do these texts suggest to you about the ways in which individuals deal with the prospect of an uncertain future? Creative response to the visual Habitar la Oscuridad by Marco Antonio Cruz When an[…]
Tag: purpose
For A Reason – Night Personal Response
“We could bear nearly any pain or disappointment if we thought there was a reason behind it, a purpose, to it.” — Rabbi Harold Kushner, When Bad Things Happen to Good People. Many I[…]
Importance of Purpose – This I Believe
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” -Pablo Picasso How do I establish excellence? What is the reason why I was born into a[…]
the flames of motivation: polished critical
prompt: …the nature of motivations that direct an individual’s course of action. text: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley Motivations provide the clearest understanding of what an individual desires in life. The actions that follow provide the[…]
I’ll Be So Much More
It’s funny how I’m always being told, “Home is where the heart is.” It’s even more amusing when they tell me I have everything I should want in life. That my beauty is far too[…]
umbra
um·bra /ˈəmbrə/ noun — the name given to the shadow cast by a celestial object that entirely blocks out illumination (when my anger gets the best of me) ○ ☾ ○[…]
Patterns We Follow and Choices That Enlighten ~ Polished Personal
When grief or hardship assaults us, we as humans fall. In the face of any difficulty, our instincts are to despair, to treat the situation as incurable, and to buy into self-pity. But the human[…]
This I Believe: Purpose Grounded in Love
This I believe: people come into our lives with definitive purpose. They come to be a lesson, a blessing, or sometimes they come to be both. The philosophy may be clique and perhaps a[…]
This I believe…BELIEVE
Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. -Saint Augustine This I believe…—what? Here I am, 5:00 pm Sunday night, 2 hours before[…]