#uplifiting

[dank-wholesome-memes]

[mydadisdracula]

a bounty of wholesome comics to bless your timeline ✨

[annamadsen]

I’ll be your candle in the dark, honey. Always and forever. 

- a.m. (@annamadsen)

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m : Rae

[ghostofpa]

I kept you in a locket inside my throat,

You kept me on the heel of your shoe.

With every step, I became less and less.

Until I had to become my best. - hanny g

[endlesslyblonded]

me when Moon River starts playin

[aetheric-aesthetic]

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[momentsbeforemass]

Baggage

When God puts something in your heart, whether it’s a desire to do something that seems too big for you or a simple impulse to help someone, the easiest thing to do is…?

Nothing. To do nothing. And let the moment pass.

When we do. When we ignore God, we like to rationalize. To explain it away.

One of the most poisonous ways we do that is by sorting through our baggage. To find something that we’ve done. Or something that our parents did.

And use that to tell ourselves that this is why God didn’t really mean it. Why God won’t really give us everything we need. Why we just can’t.

Today’s readings introduce us to Melchizedek. He’s powerful. He’s holy. Someone so good that even Abraham looks up to him.  

That’s impressive. Where does someone like that come from? God only knows. Literally. Because all we get is that Melchizedek is “without father, mother, or ancestry.”

Does that mean that this guy just magically appeared out of nowhere?

No. There’s an ancient tradition that Melchizedek’s family isn’t named because he came from a cursed bloodline. A family where each generation followed the bad example of the one before.

The sort of family where the cops remember arresting the parents and grandparents of the people in the back of the squad car. People who might as well just change their last name to Defendant.

Why am I bringing this up?

Because your baggage isn’t God’s baggage.

Melchizedek is living proof. And you’re thinking, you don’t know my family. You don’t know how messed up we are. You don’t know me. You don’t know what I’ve done.

With much love, may I say, who cares?

The point of Melchizedek is that God isn’t held back by your family history or mine. There is nothing that you and I have done that can keep God from loving us. You and I are just not that powerful.

Your baggage isn’t God’s baggage.

When it comes to the new life in Christ that God is calling you to, you can be certain that God will pour out for you everything you need. And more.

Receive God’s love. Follow God’s call. Be who you were always meant to be.

Throw out your baggage.

Today’s Readings

[syrupsummer]

I can’t give up on myself.