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I wish you could change a side blog into a primary blog - I feel like I'm never posting on my primary anymore lol. I'm just here for queer Christian stuff. Anyway, if you ever want to send me a message / want to check out my primary - follow/message me at @hopelessseagull
Never get tired of asking God to guide you. Never.
what's interesting about miracles in the bible is that they always involve a leap of faith. when jesus feeds the 5000 he tells the disciples to go and hand out bread; to the disciples at that point it probably feels silly, since they've seen the rations they actually have... but they go and start handing out bread. and the bread just doesn't run out. when jesus tells peter to throw the fishing net out again, once again, it seems foolish since peter was there all night and didn't catch a single fish. but he does it, and that's when the miracle happens. in the old testament when elijah goes to stay with the widow of zarephath and asks for bread, the widow tells him she has nothing but a handful of flour and a lick of oil, and yet elijah asks her to make bread for him first instead of for herself and her son; it's an impossible situation, but the widow ends up trusting him and lo and behold, the jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry. when god tells moses to throw his staff onto the ground, moses has no idea why or what it's supposed to do, but then it turns into a serpent. in all these stories the people had to act first before the miracles happened. they had to take a leap of faith. they had to do their part, which was to trust the lord.
There's a curious but popular notion circulating around the church these days that says God would never stoop to using ancient genre categories to communicate. Speaking to ancient people using their own language, literary structures, and cosmological assumptions would be beneath God, it is said, for only our modern categories of science and history can convey the truth in any meaningful way. In addition to once again prioritizing modern, Western (and often uniquely American) concerns, this notion overlooks one of the most central themes of Scripture itself: God stoops. From walking with Adam and Eve through the garden of Eden, to traveling with the liberated Hebrew slaves in a pillar of cloud and fire, to slipping into flesh and eating, laughing, suffering, healing, weeping, and dying among us as part of humanity, the God of scripture stoops and stoops and stoops and stoops. At the heart of the gospel message is the story of a God who stoops to the point of death on a cross. Dignified or not, believable or not, ours is a God perpetually on bended knee, doing everything it takes to convince stubborn and petulant children that they are seen and loved. It is no more beneath God to speak to us using poetry, proverb, letters, and legend than it is for a mother to read storybooks to her daughter at bedtime. This is who God is. This is what God does.
—Rachel Held Evans, Inspired, p.11-12
Sometimes we ask things of God and we think He doesn’t listen. And then, when we least expect it, He delivers more than we could possibly imagine. God is so so good.
I love all depictions of Jesus. I think it's really beautiful that each and every culture has represented him in their own style. He's universal so he should be depicted universally. But I just realized that I've never seen him depicted as
Bald
No Bald Jesus. My entire life.
He was 33. He could have been balding. Why does no one ever depict Jesus as bald or balding? I know men that age that are balding. What's up with that?
Someone PLEASE make a portrayal of a bald/balding Jesus. The baldies deserve the rep
I just want to find a beautiful woman to go to church with me, who also happens to be my wife.
as a Christian lesbian YES
*teenaged me, crying and praying for God to make me straight*
God: but you’re not broken, I made you with so much love :(
*me now embracing the fact that i’m a lesbian*
God: :) ❤️
just remembered a while back when i was struggling, i went to church and i was starting to get a little idk worrisome about how maybe it would be "easier" if i weren't a lesbian. i truly don't believe that God would ever reject queer people (or trans people either!), but i was just having a bad moment. i was hearing and seeing a lot of hateful things that i internalized.
and as i'm leaving church, i look up and see the most vivid double rainbow i've ever seen here. (i saw them visiting ireland a ton when i was little, but i never see them where i live!) it just felt like a genuine sign from God. it made me feel just warm and peaceful inside and out. and idk, i totally forgot about that until i saw a picture just now that reminded me! :)
Today is the last day of pride month and I would like to remind everyone that God does not create people that he hates. He loves every person that he has created. Gay, straight, trans, queer, disabled. God loves each and everyone of us.
reminder that this is an explicitly affirming Christian space. I don’t just ‘love the sinner’ i love the ‘sin’. gayness, including sex and romance, is good. HRT and gender affirming surgery is good. God is good, and He made all of the above as distinctly holy and beautiful.
Redraw for mother's day 👉👈
"See mother, I make all things new."
Just a message to my fellow queer Catholics/Christians on here:
God loves you. God supports you. Jesus would lovingly break bread with you. Jesus would defend you against those who persecute you.
Especially to my trans siblings, he loves you.
Happy Pride, God bless you all.
i am queer. and i am the way God made me. I know He loves me. Not 'despite' me being queer but because i *am* queer.
i am queer and God loves me
The God that decided the world needs sunsets and sunrises and the moon and starry nights and oceans and beaches and puppies is the same God that made me and said “the world needs one of these too.”
And that’s just the coolest thing.
God doesn’t expect perfection, only willingness and desire for Him. This is evident with the Pharisees, who followed the law, yet their hearts were not open to God. They followed the law for their own benefit, not as a means to worship God. Love God, because He loves you, and His most precious desire is to be with you on the other side.
