Just as I am

Oh lamb of god I come, I come

[fifthwoundofchrist]

Alexander Sebastian Ruth

29, gay man, christian mystic

I see jesus in visions licking his lips and screaming like a puppy at the door when you get home

[religiousextremist]

[nerdygaymormon]

“They say Jesus was a friend of sinners, but he didn’t describe himself that way. His motto wasn’t “eating and drinking with prostitutes and tax collectors.” Those were the labels used by the religious community, by the disapproving onlookers. What’s amazing about Jesus is that when he hung out with sinners, he didn’t act like they were sinners. They weren’t a “project,” a “mission field.” They were his friends. People with names. Defined as beloved children of the Creator, not defined by their sins. Icons of God’s image. His brothers and sisters.”

— Micah J Murray,  Why I Can’t Say ‘Love the Sinner/Hate the Sin’ Anymore

[ohholydyke]

“Yet I believe the very foundation of what we mean by holiness, or, in this case, mysticism, is that they knew and loved from a different source; they knew by participation in a Larger Knowing that many of us call God. Or, as Paul says, “They knew as fully as they were known” (1 Corinthians 13:12).”

- Excerpt From Eager to Love by Richard Rohr

[fifthwoundofchrist]

"If you're willing that this cup might pass

I could find my way back home

Maybe start a family all my own

But does not the Father guide the Son

Not my will but Yours be done

What else here to do

What else me but You"

-This line in "A stick, a carrot, and string" is so striking to me.

Jesus facing his death. Unable to go home and have a family. Thinking about what a normal, sweet, and simple life could be like.

I want to go home. Jesus feeling homesick and mourning normalcy on the way to his death, overfills me with heartache and adoration.

[eesirachs]

I’m very lonely. Is God lonely too?

the first question this god asks, in the hebrew bible, is אַיֶּכָּה, 'where are you?' he will spend the rest of the bible repeating it

[sacredheart-stigmata]

lord, make me soft. let my heart not be hardened– let it be pierced with compassion as your own sacred heart is, let it burn with love as yours so does. let me love. let me love and love and love. let my soul be slow to anger and quick to forgive. make me soft, heavenly father. oh god, please make me soft

[medievaljournalist]

basically the whole bible happens to me daily

[woundthatswallows]

sorry that i want to eat God. like it's my fault

[iscariotapologist]

all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. btw

[bobbole]

Nicolas Régnier, Saint Sebastian

[fifthwoundofchrist]

I love to see art of Irene tending to his wounds

[nyquil-guzzler-420]

The Lord isn't a man, the Lord is the universe. Infinite, ever expanding. God isn't a person or an entity, God is everything. The stories of Gods wonder are told in the terms of man so we can just begin to understand his greatness. The vast expanse of space, a multiverse within a single atom. God is evolution. God is the atmosphere. God is the stars. God is the vacuum of space. God is the galaxies and planets uncharted. God is the chirp of birds and the decay of fallen trees. God is emotion and life and beauty and fear. To study his creation is reverence. The sound of rushing water is prayer. The whistle of storm winds is a hymn. To simply live is devotion. God is great. God is everything.

[fifthwoundofchrist]

Pieta, 1590s oil on canvas, artist unknown Italian School

[fifthwoundofchrist]

Christ with Three Faces: The Trinity c1500, artist unknown, Franco-Netherlandish/Flemish School

[rubenista]

Santa Cruz, Saint Sebastian (detail), before 1508. Oil on wood, 99.5 x 46 cm. Wellcome Collection, London

[lionofchaeronea]

Title: The Mourning Mary Magdalene Artist: perhaps Colijn de Coter (Flemish, ca. 1440/45 - ca. 1522/32) -- attribution contested Date: ca. 1500 Genre: religious art Period: Early Netherlandish Medium: oil on panel Dimensions: 112.3 cm (44.2 in) high x 55.3 cm (21.7 in) wide Location: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

[fifthwoundofchrist]

"Blessed are those who often drink at the source of life" Prayer/Holy card. Eulalie, Bouasse-Label (1847) "Madame Bouasse, nee Label" printing firm 29, Rue St. Sulpice Paris, France