The Wendy Bird

When you find the place that your heart belongs, you'll never leave

[uinra]

BARBIE AS RAPUNZEL (2002) dir. Owen Hurley

[elioli-art]

Noah’s Ark

The number 8 in Hebrew numerology means “new beginning” “new creation” etc! And what do you know, 8 people were on the ark! It’s amazing how deliberate the Bible is with its scripture and details like that! Guess that was by TOTAL CHANCE!!!!?????

[fear-not-beloved]

That ache you feel in the core of your heart is a desire that God created in you, which He intends to satisfy with His love alone.

[cratoons]

Barbie and the Magic of Pegasus, 2005.

[atesan]

Um, Julian, we're missing one teeny tiny detail. I don't know a thing about being a Princess. Leave that to me. It's all here in the Princess's Book of Etiquette.

BARBIE AS THE PRINCESS AND THE PAUPER (2004), dir William Lau

[thewendybirdr]

THINGS PEOPLE REGRET BEFORE THEY DIE

Number 3: 

I wish I had the courage to express my feelings. 

Most people don’t realize until the end of their life that they’ve been cowards their whole lives. They just wanted to keep peace with others.

 We’re all told this in society. Don’t bring up religion. Don’t bring up politics. Don’t bring up anything. Just make peace. Just don’t argue. And so most of us shut our mouths and don’t make an impact. Most of us shut our mouths and we don’t speak our true feelings.

Source: http://www.glennbeck.com/2015/09/01/the-top-5-things-people-regret-before-they-die?utm_source=glennbeck&utm_medium=contentcopy_link

[sosuperawesome]

Vika Muse on Instagram

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[cinematv]

ALADDIN (1992) dir. Ron Clements, John Musker

[aestum]

(by Josh Hild)

[fear-not-beloved]

Our primary vocation is to be loved by God. What a radically freeing idea. If we simply allow God to love us, then we have done the most important work of our lives.

Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

[fear-not-beloved]

A smile communicates God to others and reflects back to them something of their own innate goodness.

Claire Dwyer, This Present Paradise: A Spiritual Journey with St. Elizabeth of the Trinity

[fear-not-beloved]

Alas, what is not our misery! We remain far from God and we suffer so little that we don't even feel it! I believe that the cause of our lukewarmness lies in the fact that as long as we have not tasted God, we cannot know what it is to be hungry, nor what it is to be satisfied. This is why we are not hungry for him and that we never have enough of creatures. Our heart remains cold, it is divided between God and created things, it is lazy, without strength and has no taste for the things of God.

Now the Lord wants at His service, not lukewarm souls, but hearts enkindled with the fire which he brought on earth and that he wants to see burning (cf. LC 12,49). For this fire to burn, he let himself be consumed on the cross. He wanted us to collect wood from the Cross, in order to warm us to His flame and respond with love to His immense love; Because it is just that we are cut with a sweet wound of love when we see that he is not only hurt, but put to death for our love. Yes, it's just that we are the prey of the love of the one who gave himself out of love to cruel hands(…)

If the fire begins to alight in us, take care to cover it for fear that the wind would not extinguish it. Hide it under the ashes of humility and silence, and he will not die. But above all, let's approach the fire that is lit and burning, I mean Jesus Christ our Lord to the Blessed Sacrament. Let's open our souls, the mouth of our desire and let's run quench our thirst at the source of living water.

// St. John of Avila

[fear-not-beloved]

In order to become open to all existing goodness, and thus to find happiness through affirming that goodness, whether in beings or in things, you first have to be yourself. In order to be yourself, you must first become yourself. In order to become yourself, you must first receive the gift of yourself. In order to receive this gift, there has to be another who gives, who gives without taking, without demanding anything, who gives you what is not his or her own, but yours, your own goodness. The other can do this only when the other is already happy with himself or herself, and thus open to the goodness of all else.

Conrad W. Baars, Born Only Once

[fear-not-beloved]

The celebration of a day such as today leads us to two thoughts: remembrance and hope.

Remembrance of those who preceded us, who led their life, who concluded this life; remembrance of the many people who were good to us: in the family, among friends… And also remembrance of those who did not manage to do so much good, but who have been received in God’s memory, in God’s mercy. It is the mystery of the Lord’s great mercy.

And then hope. Today is a day of remembrance in order to look forward, to look at our journey, our path. We walk towards an encounter, with the Lord and with everyone. And we must ask the Lord for this grace of hope: the hope that never lets us down; the hope that is the everyday virtue that carries us forward, that helps us to solve problems and to look for ways out. But always forward, forward. That fruitful hope, that every-day theological virtue, one for any moment: I will call it a theological virtue of “the kitchen”, because it is approachable and always comes to our aid. Hope never disappoints: we live in this tension between memory and hope. (…)

Let us pray to the Lord for our departed, for everyone, for everyone: may the Lord receive them all. And let us also pray for the Lord to have pity on us and give us hope: the hope to press on and to be able to find them all together with Him, when He calls us. So be it.

Pope Francis, Homily, War Cemetery, 2 November 2023.