#face value

[punishedsaints]

[detective-jane-rizzoli]

[rock-n-roll-queen]

his goddamn face is goddamn perfect fuck me

[hiddenintheyard]

MY FAVOURITE ALBUMS OF ALL TIME (1-9)

FACE VALUE - PHIL COLLINS (1981)

JOHN LENNON/PLASTIC ONO BAND (1970)

THE WALL - PINK FLOYD (1979)

THE LAMB LIES DOWN ON BROADWAY - GENESIS (1974)

SEVENTH SON OF A SEVENTH SON - IRON MAIDEN (1988)

TUSK - FLEETWOOD MAC (1979)

...AND JUSTICE FOR ALL - METALLICA (1988)

THE HARMONY CODEX - STEVEN WILSON (2023)

RUBBER SOUL - THE BEATLES (1965)

[momentsbeforemass]

Face value

To be childlike is to take things at face value.

It’s something most of us don’t do. Not anymore.

We’ve learned to protect ourselves. By looking for the catch, the hook, the real reason why someone is doing something.

Because we’ve had to.

But if that’s all we do, then we miss out on a lot of the good stuff. And even the stuff we don’t miss out on, we don’t really enjoy it. Because we’re looking for the catch, the hook.

It’s especially true for relationships. Both our relationships with people and our relationship with God.

There’s nothing wrong with protecting yourself.

Go ahead and look. If you find the catch, if you find the hook? You know what to do.

But at some point, if you haven’t found the catch, the hook? Then maybe. Just maybe. There’s a reason for that.

There isn’t one. Which means?

Which means that this is someone you can take at face value. This is someone you can trust. This is someone you can enter into a relationship with.

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel. This is what it means to be childlike.

Go ahead and look at God. Not someone’s idea of God. Look at God.

Look all you want. You won’t find a catch, you won’t find a hook. There’s a reason for that.

There isn’t one.

Which means that God is someone you can take at face value. God is someone you can trust. God is someone you can enter into a relationship with.

For some of us, figuring this out can take a long time.

I know this, because I’m one of those people.

Because I am one of those people, I can tell you this – when you do figure it out, you’ll find God waiting for you with open arms.

Today’s Readings

[balashutaman]

I see Carter and Briggs, maybe I'm tripping idk

[archivist-crow]

Phil Collins - “In the Air Tonight” (1981)

Forty-four years ago today, on January 9th, 1981, “In the Air Tonight,” the lead single from Face Value, the debut solo album by Phil Collins, was released. Reaching no. 2 in the UK and Canada, no. 19 in the US, and no. 1 in Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden, Phil Collins’ debut single was an immediate hit and helped take the album to no. 1 in the UK and no. 7 in the US. With its distinctive and captivating drum intro and break, the song remains Collins’ signature and among the best songs of the 80s.

[claremont-psychiatric-hospital]

So… did you figure it out?