faith & recovery

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[god-has-always-been-love]

Happy pride month!! Jesus loves you, I promise :) 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

[madonnamadeofasphalt]

You'd think people who follow a religion where one of the main tenets of faith is that literally the most righteous and perfect man possible got sentenced to execution by imperial occupation forces and died horribly after many hours of torture would be immune to the "good things happen to good people, if you're unhappy it's probably your own fault" kinda thinking, and yet

[bluest-fluff]

May you be filled up with hope, again and again and again. Slowly but surely, assured no matter how tenuously so, like the waiting out of the flood in the rainfall. As many times as you need, as many times as you are knocked down and emptied of it, as we human beings often are. May the patience to hold out for the hope to fill you always prevail, and may it return to fill you up, indeed.

[highabovethecloudssomewhere]

A couple years ago, I was staying with a friend for New Year’s and we’d decided to drive down to this adorable strip of locally-owned small business shops and check them out. The bakery was particularly crowded and since I wasn’t planning to buy anything, I waited outside. It’d been snowing, and since moving I’d picked up a “Californian-experiences-true-midwest-winter-for-the-first-time” habit of making at least one (1) tiny snowman every opportunity I get

so I built a little snowman on one of the small tables on this strip. 

after about three minutes of cramming ice together, I hear, “Do you want espresso beans for the eyes?” and I turn around and there’s this gal leaning precariously far out the window of her coffee shop, surrounded by her coworkers, holding out her hand and said espresso beans.

I think of those strangers often. just the thought of them all looking out the window to see this random stranger on the corner in the snow building a tiny snowman and deciding to join in, make it special for no other reason than that they wanted to. people are so, so precious and I’m never going to forget that moment.

[hungryhungryterminator]

[hungryhungryterminator]

[sophs-seraphims]

Homophobic, transphobic, misogynistic, racist, etc Christians people piss me off so bad. You took a relationship with the divine, a relationship with a God that calls you to love, respect, and treat all people with dignity, and you poisoned it.

You poisoned it with hate, and decided to use God to control and abuse others. How fucking dare you. Genuinely why would anyone have a problem with people happily and peacefully living their lives? Are you so miserable and unsatisfied with your own life that you need to make everyone around you miserable too?

I can’t even blame people for leaving Christianity, not believing in God, or not liking Christians. If my only exposure to Christianity and God were miserable, bitter people who can’t stand to see someone different than them just existing in the world, I probably wouldn’t want any part in it either.

I know I should forgive and pray for these people. That they have a chance to change and be better. That it’s up to God alone to judge. But it’s genuinely so difficult for me, you people make me want to rip my fucking hair out.

[faithfully-limping]

There is still so much to discover about life, no matter how long you've been here. There is still art you haven't seen that you will love, things you will learn that will blow your mind, jokes that will make you laugh until you cry again

Every time I think nothing can surprise me anymore, nothing can get my heart racing, nothing will ever make me happy again- I am proven so, so wrong

[perequiste]

things will work out + it’s still early + not everything is lost + trees

[theslowesthnery]

🥹🥹🥹

[ohholydyke]

Happy feast day to St Julian of Norwich (yes ik she’s only canonized in the Anglican Church I don’t care she’s a canonized saint to me the anglicans got this one right) the best anchoress to ever live

- Penned the famous all shall be well and all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well line

- Wrote about a Christ who willingly chooses to become permanently disabled out of love for humanity and how this elevates the honor and dignity of the disabled body

- Lowkey a universalist?? She hedges it by going “of course disclaimer here I agree with the church” but fully espouses a theology in which all shall be saved and all shall be restored to Christ and thus all shall be well

- Had a cat

- Gave us gems like the world is a hazelnut

- Apparently cast Satan out of her anchorhold “the power of Christ compels you” style

- Was a renowned teacher and frequently sought after for advice in her community and by pilgrims including the famous Margery Kempe

- Seriously go read revelations of divine love/the shewings of Julian of Norwich it’s so good it changed my relationship with religion

[fierysword]

She also spoke of God as a mother!

[ohholydyke]

SHE ALSO SPOKE OF GOD AS A MOTHER

[hisloveadnored]

[milli2nds]

Figured I’d post this here, I’m not a particularly religious person, I’m actually very agnostic, but I did this piece for my grandma, plus, whether or not he was a prophet of god, I think Jesus still seems like a pretty sick guy.

[tomicscomics]

05/01/2026

Education?!

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: This cartoon references a lot of verses, so here's an explanation for them all:

Matthew 1:18-24 is about the Annunciation (Gabriel announcing to Mary that she will bear the Son of God). This takes place "when Mary and Joseph were betrothed but before they came together." In this context, the word "betrothed" is being used for the stage of ancient Jewish marriage where the bride and groom had entered into the marriage contract but did not yet live together. So Mary and Joseph are legally a couple, but Joseph doesn't take her into his home until the end of this section after the angel reassures him in a dream. The taking of the bride into the groom's newly built home was the final stage of the marriage.

Matthew 22:1-2 is the beginning of one of Jesus's parables where He likens the Kingdom of Heaven to a king preparing a wedding feast for his son. The Bible is just lousy with wedding imagery when it comes to God's relationship with mankind; or rather, marriage is lousy with imagery pointing to the ultimate destiny of humanity to unite entirely with God in life-giving, self-giving love.

Matthew 26:26-28 is where Jesus lifts the bread and wine at the last supper and declares them His Body and Blood of the covenant. Jesus's cup is the cup that all other cups and covenants reflect all throughout the Bible. THIS is the big one, where God pledges Himself once again to mankind, IN THE FLESH!

John 13:33 and 14:1-3 are where Jesus talks about leaving the disciples for a time, then assures them that He's going to prepare a dwelling for them in His Father's house. He adds that, once He's done, He'll come back for them, to take them to Himself. In light of the other verses compressed into this fun little amateur Bible study, we can see Jesus is once again using very wedding-coded imagery to speak about heaven and the anticipated union with the Divine.

Thanks for reading! As a reward -- and because I can't post something without a joke (per MY covenant with my patron, St. Lawrence) -- here's a classic: "What do you get when you eat all the potatoes?"

[xinakwans]

just gonna go cry thank u kermit

[deathstars]

HELLO ! have you thought about Van Gogh’s First Steps today ?

[deathstars]

Here you go. This world is beautiful. Humans are beautiful. I love you

[kosmogrl]

you can begin again and again and again for the rest of your life