Editorial: Taking A break

  By Ana Evelia Recinos

          In the world of technology and websites, having a break isn't good. There are many reasons for this. If I as the online editor decided to take a break, the website could get neglected. If the website server decided to take a break, the website would go down. I know that everyone wants to take a break every now and then, but even then you have to arrange to get a break.

          God doesn't. God never takes a break. He is right there waiting for us, even if we push him away. God will always want to be near us, to be always “there for us.” He is our net in the acrobatic lives we carry on every day. And when we think we can't possibly go on, God gives us a little push. Sometimes he even carries us on his back. You see, we couldn't possibly afford it if God decided to take a “break.” This summer, if you take a “break” from school or from work, remember to thank him every single day for working tirelessly every second of every minute, of every day, of every week, of every month, of every year.

Editorial: God's Love is Selfless

        => Guest Editorial

    God’s love is selfless. Love is what it is because it’s selfless.  If we loved someone enough we wouldn’t think about ourselves ever.  That is what true love really is. Love is an emotion to give, not receive. When the one you love rejects you, it doesn’t mean you should give that rejection back to them in full blast; instead you should still love them. Originally you love them for being who they are, not for what they are doing to you or how they’re acting towards you. Not because they loved you, because if that’s the case, you really didn’t love them as much as you claimed, do you? That really means not many people “love” as much as they say they do. Loving someone should bring enough happiness already. When you give love, other people will want to love you back. Basically, what I’m trying to say is be like Christ, and love others, because the song goes, “Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus. Oh, how I love Jesus because he first loved me.”

Editorial :What's In a Name

    By Cameo Cove

Have you ever heard the line from Romeo and Juliet that says “That which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet”? That basically means that if we were to name a rose something else, say, like, bacon, or something, would it still smell just as sweet as it does when we call it a rose. Now you’re probably thinking about the connotations we automatically combine with the word “bacon”. You’re thinking…food…meat…gross, maybe? And when you think of “rose”, you think of… beautiful flower…sweet smell…along those lines, right? So naturally, those two aren’t going to combine very well. But now think about it this way. What if you grew up calling what we know now as a rose “bacon” and what we know as bacon “rose”? If you didn’t know any different, you would still see a rose just the same. Beautiful flower, sweet smell, and such, even though you had spent your whole life calling it “bacon”. This goes to show that names and titles, generalizations and stereotypes don’t matter nearly as much as the world implies. Titles, or what you may automatically think as soon as you see a person, aren’t what really matters. Those things aren’t what really make a person. After you’re gone, whether you’ve moved, or died, people may not remember your name, what you’ve accomplished, or where you were born, but what they will remember is if you were kind to them, or a dependable person. That’s what matters. How you were on the inside. How you treated people. Not what you did or where you went. What they will remember is if you cared about them or not. How you treated them in the little moments of the day, or what you did for them. So be nice to people, do things for them, and treat them in a way that you would like to be remembered by. Everybody wants to leave a legacy, so make yours worth remembering. Just be nice to people, so they can remember you, so you can leave them something valuable.

Editorial: Kids these Days

        By Cameo Cove

Have you ever noticed how the world is set on instant gratification? We have technology to make communication and knowledge faster. We have microwave ovens and stoves to make cooking faster. We have discovered the freezing power of liquid nitrogen and have used it to freeze things in an instant. This world doesn’t like to wait, and teenagers are no exception. Many teenagers are doing very poorly in school because they want the grade here and now—they don’t want to have to work for it. Many don’t realize that in order to succeed in life, they must work. Often, they are so caught up in the instant gratification that they never get to feel the satisfaction of a job well done. They don’t realize that the world isn’t going to work how they want it to. Either they’re going to end up with a lot of money without working (very unlikely), or they’re going to end up in a trash heap because they have no money, no job, and no way to get one. Parents aren’t going to be around forever, kids. You’re not always going to be able to call home and ask for money. One day, you’ll blink and you’ll be surrounded by your crumbling life, and you’ll have no way to fix it because you don’t know how to work. The time to fix that is now. That paper isn’t going to write itself, so go do it! Stop being lazy now and you’ll be successful later. Learn how to work now. Stop slacking. Start taking charge of you’re life, your money. Make sure that the trash heap you’ll be sleeping in if you don’t learn how to work stays vacant. Life isn’t going to get any easier, so do your best now so you can do better later.

Editorial: Happiness

        By: Jarod Keith

        We have therapists. We have Prozac and a host of other anti-depressants. We teach little kids songs about being in-right, out-right, up-right, down-right happy all the time. But do we even know what happiness means. A dictionary definition might sound like “the temporary emotion of satisfaction, contentment, or pleasure.” In reality, no one can expect to be happy all the time. Even children, who normally shouldn’t have a care in the world, will, at times, cry for no apparent reason. However, when you get older, most people pretend to be happy, even when they’re not. You might think that these people are lying to themselves and others about how they truly feel. When we do this, we are not bad people, as some might think, we’re actually acting happy so that we won’t drag everyone else down with us. We have to actively choose to be happy.
The concept is biblical, as demonstrated in Philipians 4:4, “Rejoice in the LORD always: and again I say rejoice. God encourages us to set a good example for those around us, even in our attitude.