Stephen Colon is a politically moderate, service-minded student leader with a heart for others and a passion for public policy.Tumblr (3.0; @stephencolon)http://stephencolon.com/“Oh, grant us help against the foe,<br/> for vain is the salvation of man!<br/> With God we shall do valiantly;<br/> it is he who will tread down our foes.”<br/><br/> - <em>Psalm 60:11-12</em>http://stephencolon.com/post/23170252621http://stephencolon.com/post/23170252621Wed, 16 May 2012 09:47:14 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m430f0ZI3k1qzn34wo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p>I moved home and discovered that the jacaranda trees on our block started blossoming. The cool thing about jacaranda trees is that when they blossom, they don’t keep their pretty purple flowers to themselves—they spread flowers everywhere. The street, the sidewalk, my car… Everything around gets covered in flowers and becomes seriously majestic. I am going to choose to be like a jacaranda tree. Whenever I am blessed by God with the chance to blossom, I won’t keep it to myself. I will use the gifts I have been given to bless others and lead them to a place of bringing Him glory. </p> <p>“Restore to me the joy of your salvation, <br/>and uphold me with a willing spirit.</p> <p><br/>Then I will teach transgressors your ways,<br/>and sinners will return to you.”<br/>—Psalm 51:12-13</p>http://stephencolon.com/post/23120324744http://stephencolon.com/post/23120324744Tue, 15 May 2012 13:47:24 -0700“Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.”<br/><br/> - <em>Philippians 2:3, <em>ESV</em></em>http://stephencolon.com/post/18852584815http://stephencolon.com/post/18852584815Tue, 06 Mar 2012 09:41:56 -0800<a href="http://youmeadhd.tumblr.com/post/6024298335/why-i-hate-to-read-fiction">You, Me & ADHD: Why I Hate to Read Fiction</a>: <p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://youmeadhd.tumblr.com/post/6024298335/why-i-hate-to-read-fiction" target="_blank">youmeadhd</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I read. I read all the time, but I read a lot of nonfiction. When a coworker asked me if I read fiction books, I told her I didn’t really like to read fiction books.</p> <p>“I’m not really interested in reading books….” I told her.</p> <p>“Well, what about audio books?” She proposed.</p> <p>“Mm. Yea. I think that…</p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/16216032591http://stephencolon.com/post/16216032591Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:45:27 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxeec5zdi91r9fnado1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://nprradiopictures.tumblr.com/post/15416708527/killer-sunset-overlooking-bryant-park-ice-rink" target="_blank">nprradiopictures</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><em><span>Killer sunset overlooking Bryant Park ice rink from NPR’s NYC bureau. BONKERS. (Mito Habe-Evans/NPR) via Instagram</span></em></p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/15657675302http://stephencolon.com/post/15657675302Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:39:24 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxk13sCfcR1qiwpkro1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://collegeproblems.org/post/15588086701/decaf-decaf" target="_blank">collegeproblems</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>decaf.<br/>DECAF?! </p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/15657500373http://stephencolon.com/post/15657500373Tue, 10 Jan 2012 20:35:33 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lq4qvmSmjq1r1wf4ko1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/15339449980http://stephencolon.com/post/15339449980Thu, 05 Jan 2012 01:02:51 -0800<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9h8u3fqO01qc0rr2o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://marginsintheland.tumblr.com/post/13815530609" target="_blank">marginsintheland</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>I am actually sure that this is the most accurate thing I have ever seen in my life.  University life at its finest.</p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/13842820631http://stephencolon.com/post/13842820631Tue, 06 Dec 2011 14:29:32 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvfxz96agt1qzn34wo1_500.png"/><br/><br/><p>Progressive.</p>http://stephencolon.com/post/13512346870http://stephencolon.com/post/13512346870Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:21:09 -0800“A culture that is rooted more in images than in words will find it increasingly difficult to sustain any broad commitment to any truth, since truth is an abstraction requiring language.”<br/><br/> - <em>Ken Myers, All God’s Children and Blue Suede Shoes (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lifeinthestory.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">lifeinthestory</a>)</em>http://stephencolon.com/post/12983776914http://stephencolon.com/post/12983776914Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:53:15 -0800“Men are in a restless pursuit after satisfaction in earthly things. They will exhaust themselves in the deceitful delights of sin, and, finding them all to be vanity and emptiness, they will become very perplexed and disappointed. But they will continue their fruitless search. Though wearied, they still stagger forward under the influence of spiritual madness, and though there is no result to be reached except that of everlasting disappointment, yet they press forward. They have no forethought for their eternal state; the present hour absorbs them. They turn to another and another of earth’s broken cisterns, hoping to find water where not a drop was ever discovered yet.”<br/><br/> - <em>Charles Spurgeon (via <a class="tumblr_blog" href="http://lifeinthestory.tumblr.com/" target="_blank">lifeinthestory</a>)</em>http://stephencolon.com/post/12983263459http://stephencolon.com/post/12983263459Fri, 18 Nov 2011 14:41:47 -0800““When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.””<br/><br/> - <em>Bernard Bailey</em>http://stephencolon.com/post/12551240964http://stephencolon.com/post/12551240964Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:41:36 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lubmoqZD6w1qbx0bvo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://losangelestendencies.tumblr.com/post/12496997090/forever" target="_blank">losangelestendencies</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p>FOREVER. <span>♥</span></p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/12523476883http://stephencolon.com/post/12523476883Tue, 08 Nov 2011 12:43:07 -0800<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltuzd692c61qktz6ho1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/12392640702http://stephencolon.com/post/12392640702Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:02:32 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsw0z4zD7b1r11hw1o1_500.gif"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/12392623766http://stephencolon.com/post/12392623766Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:02:08 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lrpui5rulG1qhmhdfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/12392551650http://stephencolon.com/post/12392551650Sat, 05 Nov 2011 17:00:27 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu77w3tagT1qefnxfo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/12392103709http://stephencolon.com/post/12392103709Sat, 05 Nov 2011 16:50:06 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu0cpgIuVT1r36642o1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><a href="http://losangelestendencies.tumblr.com/post/12250421371" target="_blank">losangelestendencies</a>:</p> <blockquote> <p><span><span><br/></span></span></p> </blockquote>http://stephencolon.com/post/12252139653http://stephencolon.com/post/12252139653Wed, 02 Nov 2011 13:26:56 -0700<img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lt1c36EUbc1qzzhdto1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/><p><blockquote></blockquote></p>http://stephencolon.com/post/12102374743http://stephencolon.com/post/12102374743Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:33:18 -0700<img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls5n716OKf1qh3hwbo1_500.jpg"/><br/><br/>http://stephencolon.com/post/11872645168http://stephencolon.com/post/11872645168Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:22:36 -0700