#08282019

[hannybstudies]

daily wrap up ☆ august 28, 2019

(this photo is actually a few days old but I didnt take any pictures today so)

[hannybstudies]

when clients start to open up and bond with each other in group therapy

[hannybstudies]

also, quite a lot of you have sent some questions to my inbox and I promise I'm working on them! 💗 sorry I'm much slower at responding since school/internship picked up!

[eonabritta]

Throwback to when Jon took the two girls to a Shawn Mendes concert in Philly over the summer. #08282019 #tbt #throwback #throwbackthursday https://www.instagram.com/p/B3dk0kZAkxLY0NHoOCoeGTCFy4DaH96si0Yovo0/?igshid=194q6w7rp9jpf

[inconspicuousfangirl]

#Lunanoona on the side (and staring intently at you). 🐕😍 #08282019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2JBMTXAlrZ/?igshid=1vkr6lhfe2y8q

[inconspicuousfangirl]

An interview with #Lunanoona 🐕😍 #08282019 https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Gz-xkgmk0/?igshid=1kmo3o6fsb8km

[whitewolfofbrooklyn]

ive been posting abt merlin since 2014. some things never change

[3500things]

#0003 do you believe in god or a higher power?

08.28.2019

Another tricky thing to answer today.

Long story short, kinda. 

I believe in a higher power- if that is a God, then it is a God.

I do not believe we are all here by happenstance. 

We all have a purpose, a goal and authority that was set unto us by a higher calling.

Again, if that higher calling is a God, then it is a God.

I believe the Bible. I believe it was an inspired word passed down through the generations as a set of thoughts and opinions, so to speak, for how humans should live their life. But I don’t agree with all of it. It’s not all black and white as grey is a prominent color in the scriptures.

The Bible was written in ancient times for a modern setting. Through translations and transcriptions, not to mention the 100’s of versions of the Bible that exist today; I don’t think the Bible encompasses all settings and situations of today’s modern world.

I am not doubting the existence of a God or an eternal resting place. I believe our souls go somewhere when we die and that we are judged on our works here on this Earth.

I was raised Pentecostal. Strict Pentecostal. Not snake charming, rather tongues speaking holy-roller. But I was taught flawed logic by the Christian church. I was expected to hate gays, taught that women are subservient under a man’s authority and that abortion is murder.

None of those three things do I agree with and for the record I never have aligned with and here’s why:

I cannot fathom to think that God really cares if people are gay- he made me and others this way and in his infinite wisdom and perfection I cannot believe he made a mistake. The Bible talks about the processes and ideas of love more than anything else, so who cares who I love and where I fall on the sexual preference spectrum?

Abortion is a medical procedure that a woman can electively choose to terminate a pregnancy- for whatever reason they so choose. You may agree with it or not, but I feel that classifying it as murder is extremely off base and detrimental to the mental health of women who feel they have no other option than to choose it.

On that same note, women should be considered equal to men in all aspects and not thought of as baby machines or helpmates. Welcome to 2019 asshole- who am I to tell a woman what to do, how to dress, how to think and how to conduct themselves? What kind of fucked up thinking is that? 

Flawed logic. Flawed logic propagated by religion rather than spirituality.