i would die for you, he wept

JAY • 18 • HE/IT

[bookofjudith]

This will be my last confession: “I love you” never felt like any blessing.

moderation, florence + the machine // the last temptation of christ, dir. martin scorcese // many hands, lingua ignota 

[givemearmstopraywith]

dog days, ethel cain

[cruciform-solidarity]

The Gospel clearly states and bluntly illustrates that in history, God takes sides. God takes sides, not in terms of being against, but in terms of suffering with the poor, the oppressed, those unjustly treated. The suffering of God is a consequence of God's taking sides. This presence with the poor is unconditional.

Fr. Roberto Ubertino

[stuckinapril]

you will get up & you will make that to do list & you will be realistic about your limits & you will take it easy but steady & you will eat good food & you will get things done & you will move your body & you will do things that make you happy & you will limit your screen time & you will be the thing that saves you

[morallyambiguous]

upstream, mary oliver; gravity and grace, simone weil; journal of a solitude, may sarton

[charlesoberonn]

[theparadigmshifts]

evangelicals being like "god made men to do This and be like This and women to do That and be like That that's just how it is" and it's just a picture of a white man and woman following traditional gender norms makes me so insane like you boring fascist fucks. god made 2 million species of beetles. god made whales, ducks, humans, and 1500 other species capable of same sex behavior. god made fish and amphibians that change sexes. god made more than 30 different intersex variations in human beings. god, in his infinite curiosity. wake up!!! fuck!!

[theparadigmshifts]

"god wants women to have perfect no-makeup makeup looks and stay at home not talking back and upholding capitalism" god??? that guy who made lizards that shoot blood out of their eyes?? that guy who made salmon do whatever the fuck that is?? are you fucking crazy???

[stuckinapril]

I genuinely feel ashamed that all I can do is write words while more and more Arab people die - but momentum for fundraisers is one of very few things any of us can do at the moment

Please donate to the Sameer Project. They are doing amazing work on the ground. Try to do while you can. Sharing and donating as little as 5 dollars can culminate into a big difference. I have enough of a following to know that we can make a truly big difference if this didn’t simply go ignored bc people decided they’re bored now

[beguines]

Who among us will celebrate Christmas correctly? Whoever finally lays down all power, all honor, all reputation, all vanity, all arrogance, all individualism beside the manger; whoever remains lowly and lets God alone be high; whoever looks at the child in the manger and sees the glory of God precisely in his lowliness.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, God is in the Manger: Reflections on Advent and Christmas

[eesirachs]

How do you reconnect with God when you don’t enjoy reading the Bible?

god is in appetites, in sex, in folding napkins, in the bible (read it again, this time with tenderness), in death rites and in mourning, in killing parts of yourself, in the bible (read it with violence now), in the sun on your face, in the man in your lap, in the bible (it is its turn to read you)

[eesirachs]

biblical sites that you may read until they start to read you back: elijah and elisha (1 kngs 19, their beginning; 2 kngs 2, their end); david, the lover god never gets over (1 sam 19); saul, wrecked with grief, drags samuel's ghost from sheol (1 sam 28); the mothers (but especially hagar, the slave who spits at her captor's god, gen 16; gen 21); god forcing the israelites to drink poison (exod 32); god's erotica (song); god fucking moses (exod 33:17–23); god fucking saul (1 sam 31); the three resurrections, the first two of which are haptic, body-on-body, crawling on floorboard affairs (elijah's, 1 kngs 17; elisha's, 2 kngs 4 and 2 kngs 13); god wrestling men and throwing cheap shots (gen 32); god's first question to his clay- and rib-creation ('where are you,' gen 3:9); the red cow sacrifice, which cleanses one body by ruining another (num 19); judges 19, to which no words can be attached; god's fingering-as-theology (gen 2, exod 24, dan 5); abraham sacrificing isaac (and he does do just that, gen 22); the two psalms that do not end in resolution with god (88, 39); and god's steadfast love—his ḥesed—quiet and enduring (e.g. joel 2:25)

[shimaajoj2]

‏HELP SAVE A SEVEN YEAR OLD BOY!

‏This is Jihad. He's seven. He needs your help urgently! My friend Shaima and Mohammed are raising money for their family trapped in Gaza, the family includes Shaima's seven year old nephew Jihad (the cutie pictured above). Since October, not only has he become an orphan, his liver is failing him and he has hopes that when the Rafah border opens he will be able to go to Egypt to get a liver transplant. Unfortunately it’s not just his liver that’s failing, his heart and his blood are also giving him problems.

https://gofund.me/0b2961ae

‏Please, please please please go to the gfm linked here and donate what you can to both Shaima and her baby nephew Jihad. If you can’t donate please share this wide so it can get more reach towards people who can. 

https://gofund.me/0b2961ae

[gnostick-deactivated20210607]

Donald Duclow, The Hungers of Hadewijch and Eckhart

[bostonpoetryslam]

“Each time the same - I am holy, holy, holy, laid out as a banquet. His hands are plate, cup, and knife. Always a long table, a single high-backed chair. This is my body. He eats me up and I believe in transubstantiation, that I will awake someday in his veins, pound my fists against the walls of him.”

— Margaret Bashaar, “Claire and the Demon Hunter Give It Up For Jesus,” published in Vector Press

[hermitcoat-deactivated20260321]

We cannot take a single step toward God. We cannot walk (march) vertically. We only have the power to direct our gaze toward God. We do not have to search; we must only change the direction of our gaze. It is God who searches for us. We must be happy knowing that God is infinitely beyond our reach. We thus have the certainty that the evil in us, even if it submerges our whole being, does not defile the purity, the bliss and the divine perfection at all.

Simone Weil, About the Our Father

[womanwhyareyouweeping]

every day i think about jesus and the samaritan woman at the well. she really said why are you bothering to speak to me? do i matter to someone? does god see people like me? and jesus really said i see you. i love you. god loves all the people you've been told god doesn't love. and honestly when i realized that i wanted to drop a water pot and run screaming about it into town too

[imaybeabear]

Above all, serve God, love well, and commit to the Bit

[sweatermuppet]

from Philadelphia Gay News, 1976

[wolfythewitch]

This too shall pass but like holy fuck

[fantajoseph]