The Joshua Yoder Blog

 Ever get the feeling that there is a change happening around you? Whether it be in your dreams, listening to music or just simply going through your day? A better question is, what do you make of it? Or What is it suppose to mean? I have been getting some sightings of a butterfly these last few days and it has for some reason really gotten my attention. It started with me seeing blue butterflies in my dreams, which have always made me feel so peaceful. I didn't really think much of it at the time. But as time went on, I started other things happening to me that features butterflies. But the biggest sign that made me realize something interesting was happening was when I lay down my rosary next to my bed one night and I swear I did not do this on purpose, but when I looked down at my rosary the beads were in a shape of a butterfly. It blew my mind and I just had to look up the meaning. The common meaning behind seeing a butterfly or butterflies is about joy, rebirth. And Blue Butte

 Ah! Valentine's Day. It is a very special day to many people around the world as a day to celebrate love and romance.  It actually was originally a Christian feast day which honored St. Valentine of Rome who was imprisoned for ministering to Christians under the Roman Empire in the Third Century. Many stories associated with St. Valentine involve the theme of Love as well as the tradition of St. Valentine performing weddings for Christian soldiers who forbidden to be able to marry because of the Roman Emperor. An interesting part of the story was how St. Valentine wrote a letter to the jailer's daughter which said from "Your Valentine" as a farewell before being executed. Romance has been an interesting thing to me. It is something I humbly believe we all search for but no one ever truly masters it. It is something we all try to explain but never can. We all try to make it look simple, but it has been simple and it never will be. Mainly because we find different ways

 As I have slowly try to be more honest with myself and be more open to other people. I wanted to talk about something that I've always wanted to explore, but never really knew how to approach it. And that is interracial relationships.  To best explain why I am writing about this is a movie I once watched a little while ago, and that movie was called China Girl. China Girl had came out back in 1987 and was written by Nicholas St. John and was directed by Abel Ferrara. The story was a contemporary take on the classic story of Romeo and Juliet. The setting of the movie is in Manhattan during the 1980s where we meet Tony, a young man from Little Italy and Tye, a young woman from Chinatown who formed an emotional bond throughout the film. Another factor that was major part of the movie was that the main characters' brothers were in rival gangs. And also how neither brother wanted them to date one another.  But both Tony and Tye would continue to see each other in secret and grow mo

 Some of you maybe surprised by this, but I do enjoy some opera here and there. One of those musicals/ stories I really love is the Phantom of The Opera. The Phantom of The Opera was created back in in the late 1900s. It was written by french writer Gaston Leroux. It is a romance, horror, mystery, gothic fiction kind of story. The plot starts off at the Palais Garnier Opera House which is a real Opera House in France is haunted by the "Phantom of the Opera" after a stagehand was left hanging. Later in the story, Christine Daae is called upon to sing after another singer was ill. Her performance was a huge success which catches the eye of the Phantom. He later abducts her in her dressing room and plans to hold her in his secret lair. Originally he plans on keeping Christine there for a few days. But she unmasks him revealing his deformed face as well as his name which is Erik. Erik agrees to let her go free on a promise that he would marry her. As Christine is let go she runs

 I don't like to cause any problems with anybody but there have been a lot of things that I been wanting to get off my chest for a very long time now. And that is in my humble opinion people don't seem to want to be honest about really anything anymore. Now, I could be just a little paranoid, maybe my anxiety is getting the best of me or whatever. But as time has past I have been getting a weird feeling all over me. You see, I just feel as though people no one is really being honest with each other, themselves or to God anymore. I wish I could describe it better but it has been a concern of mine for quite a long time now and I feel like it is getting worse. People would always say things to me like, Josh it is just a different time. But honestly, I think that is just a lame excuse. And the reason I say that is because a lot of those same people who say that kind of stuff to me are the exact same people who then say that they don't understand how things around us are getting