life in color

Adding up how many hours you've spent on social media in a week is like counting calories on Thanksgiving -- you'll just feel bad about yourself. I'll be the first to admit that I spend way too much time on social media. I enjoy staying connected with others, sharing the happy moments in my life, and having a mindless activity to do when I'm bored or stressed. But I want to be better. I want to limit my social media consumption. However, sometime that's hard, especially when my homework is literally to post on Instagram. So instead of limiting time, I want to better utilize the time that I'm already spending on social media. I want to be proactive and mindful in my social media consumption. I don't want to open the app just to get rid of the notification or to watch every cat video just because I'm bored. I want to scroll with a purpose. That purpose could be to read the news, find an uplifting quote or video, post for homework, find an event n...

Today is International Women's Day, so I felt it was appropriate to write my thoughts about a topic that's been on my mind. In Luke 10 , we read about when Christ visited the home of Mary and Martha. Both women sit at His feet to listen to His teachings. At one point, Martha gets up to cook dinner, while Mary remained. After working in the kitchen for a while, Martha is likely hot and tired and stressed (because, um, the SAVIOR OF THE WORLD is in her house and she doesn't want to feed him burnt Ramen noodles). Frazzled, she calls out Mary for not helping. Christ hears these comments and lightly reprimands Martha for her comments. We often use this story to illustrate the importance of placing spiritual things over temporal, but I'd like to use it to emphasize a different point. First off, I don't think Christ minded that Martha left His feet. He was likely familiar with the family, maybe even close friends with them. He knew Martha's personality and that s...