#easy road

[acrylicalchemy]

It's so easy to not become everything you are capable of being...But when have you ever taken the easy road?

Michael Carini, @CariniArtsPoetry on IG

[sims3morgans]

[lostinthehubbub]

Duran - Easy Road

[bballinspiration]

"LEBRON JAMES ALWAYS HAS AN EASY ROAD TO THE FINALS" THEY SAY... Let's actually have a look at his opponents in the Conference Finals Finals and then proceeded to make 6 in a row. 2011 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: CHICAGO BULLS - Reigning MVP Derrick Rose (prime, pre injuries) - Bulls were the best defensive team in the ENTIRE league. 2012 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: BOSTON CELTICS - Second best defensive team in the entire league. - Had to face Rajon Rondo, Paul Pierce, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. 2013 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: INDIANA PACERS - Best defensive team in the ENTIRE league. - Best rebounding team in the ENTIRE league. - Paul George, Roy Hibbert, David West and George Hill. 2014 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: INDIANA PACERS - Best record in the East. - Best defensive team in the ENTIRE league. - Superstar Paul George. - All-Star Roy Hibbert. - David West and George Hill. - Lance Stephenson who played the best basketball of his life and led the league in Triple Doubles. 2015 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: ATLANTA HAWKS - Best record in the East. - 19 game win streak. - Number 1 in the NBA in assist percentage. - Number 2 in the league in three-point percentage. - 4 All-Stars in Kyle Korver, Jeff Teague, Paul Milsap and Al Horford. - James swept with no Kevin Love and basically no Kyrie Irving. 2016 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: TORONTO RAPTORS - Top 5 offense in the NBA. - 4th best three-point shooting team in the NBA. - The only eastern Conference team with 2 All-Star guards. 2017 EASTERN CONFERENCE FINALS: BOSTON CELTICS - Best record in the East. - 2nd Assist percentage in the league. - All-Star Isiah Thomas 3rd in the entire NBA in scoring. People need to stop with the "weak competition" claim. The reality is the East hasn't been trash for 10 years, this dude has just been a flat out monster come playoff time, and people need to appreciate and realize what this man is doing every single year with two different franchises, different players, different personalities, different opponents and different coaches. We are witnessing something we'll probably never see again in the modern era. LeBron is on the verge of reaching the NBA Finals for a 7th straight time. Unbelievable, when you truly think about it. Credit: DPeters

[yesterdaywastheonlyeasyday]

How easy to get to Hell

It seems quite common these days to hear of Near Death Experiences (NDE’s), one type is where the person sees Jesus and feels the bliss of heaven and the other where a great sinner is reprimanded and given a second chance and sent back with a warning for humanity.

The other day I found a German Catholic pamphlet from the 1930’s with something a bit different. It was called ‘A Soul in Hell ... the story of Annette’ .

Annette, who had died in her twenties, was (and therefore still is) in hell. Her testimony was given (by God’s command) to a friend who had been praying for her since her untimely death in a car crash. First she told her not to pray for her as there was no point. Then she told her about her life; her father and mother didn’t go to church more than twice a year, nor taught her to pray. She narrated how she had ignored the many opportunities of grace or conversion that were offered her by God even to the day of her death including the many admonishments given by her friend.

What I found most astonishing was that there was nothing startlingly evil in her lifestyle. She was charitable and served her mother during her illness. She was not a murderer, nor an adulterer nor thief or anything out of the ordinary; she was happily married, liked going out for the day or to the movies. She probably had a pleasant enough eulogy at her funeral.

But her heart rejected God. It was full of earthly desires, pleasures and strong attachment to creatures. The habit of prayer never formed in her, no meaningful communication with God nor desire to be reconciled and united with Him. And so at the moment of death as she was shown her life, through His eyes, she hurled herself directly into hell, having by then, no desire to repent nor change. Her indifference and coldness to all things holy was the reason for her loss. How many people do we all know who are just like her.

As to the torments of hell, apparently no one has ever exaggerated them.

The one thing that could have saved her was much prayer and sacrifice, her own and that of others on her behalf. As Annette put it “especially prayer to Her who is Christ’s Mother, and whose Name we never speak here (in hell).”

It’s a stern lesson.

A Soul in Hell ... the story of Annette (Download link)

[judahmaccabees]

[indywatchman]

Regret

Sadness and disappointment about a wrong decision or something done.

  Traveling down life’s road not paying attention and not harassed.

Meandering, thinking, contemplating with no clear vision and no map.

Then out of nowhere and for no reason existence takes a turn.

You thought you were on an easy road, alone and unconcerned.

Little did you know then, that such a simple thing

Has always been…

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[ravenclaw-owl-named-rose-blog]

Okay but I feel like everyone has a predetermined amount of hardship that they have to go through and if you are constantly taking the easy road you're pretty much putting it all off for later and when it hits it will be this giant ball of 'how the heck do I get through this' and that makes the little hard things easier, I think. Idk, just a random thought.