#misunderstand

[burntoutuserboxes]

[This user misunderstands things a lot.]

[koreanaswego]

Korean Word of the Day

오해하다

Misunderstand

[whatharrysang]

Harry Styles & misunderstanding

Harry Styles 

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Fine Line

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Harry's House

Boyfriends - They don't know they're just misunderstanding you

Kiss All The Time, Disco Occasionally

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Songs Harry wrote for other artists

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One Direction Songs Harry wrote on

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Unreleased Songs

Pop Tart - Did you miscommunicate or did I misunderstand?

[netscapenavigator-official]

Do you ever come up with a banger of a post, but have to draft it because it's just ripe for someone on this hellsite to purposefully misunderstand and yell at you?

[macrolit]

When a man is unable to understand a thing, he ridicules it.

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910) Russian novelist and moral philosopher

[my-funked-up-life]

[momentsbeforemass]

What will they think?

“What will they think?”

It’s a simple question. And a powerful one. When it comes to stopping us, when it comes to keeping us from doing something.

We’ve got an idea, an impulse to do something or say something.

But we worry about someone reacting badly. Or misunderstanding us. Or saying something critical.

So we don’t. It never happens. And that idea, that impulse flickers and fades, like a dying candle.

When it comes to something we didn’t think through or just something mean or petty, maybe that’s not such a bad thing.

The problem comes when we let “what will they think” become our go-to. When we let “what will they think” become all-powerful.

And instead of being a simple stop and think before you act, it becomes a reason to never act.

Even when that idea, that impulse is something good, something kind, something that someone needs.

Because we can guarantee that no one will ever react badly. Or misunderstand us. Or say something critical. If we don’t.

This is exactly what Jesus is pushing back against in today’s Gospel.

Because when you and I have that impulse to do something good, something kind, something that someone needs, we need to recognize what it really is.

That is a movement of the Holy Spirit within in us. Helping us to turn towards God, in very practical, everyday ways. Helping us to take the next step in becoming who God made us to be.

Because God made us to say and do the good, the kind, the needful. To roll up our sleeves, and live out our vocation to love.

And because that’s who God made us to be, our go-to needs to be giving in to that holy impulse, that movement of the Spirit within us.

Today, ask God for the grace to give in to that holy impulse. And to stop worrying about what “they” will think.

Today’s Readings

[bruhplease]

Distortion

A ringing in the ears

Uncanny, yet a resemblance to white noise

Or the needles pinning your legs after sitting for too long

When confronted with the idea of failure,

our minds can easily develop a craving for clarity,

A thirst to flip the shame and misunderstanding into a

Reality we can comprehend.

A realm of anarchy blends together as the answers we seek are lost into an abyss

Paralysis sinks into our nervous systems like venom into our veins

We beg for amnesia, hoping these drowning feelings of failure and inadequacies dissipate

Through it all we learn to shed the lingering confusion to accept that failure is never the end

It's not a black hole trapping us

It's the beginning of a brighter journey

Enhanced by the our experiences

Molding us to be that much better than yesterday