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[faithwalkjournal]

When a relationship is built on Christ, it does not crumble under the weight of trials. A marriage rooted in God’s Word will endure every storm because its strength comes not from man, but from the Lord Himself.

In marriage, it is not enough to simply love one another—we must also understand the sacred roles that God has given us. “Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave Himself up for her” (Ephesians 5:25). “Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord” (Ephesians 5:22). These words are not burdens, but blessings. For when we walk in God’s design, we discover that marriage is not a battle against one another, but a journey of two hearts fighting together, hand in hand, against the struggles of life.

Without this understanding, the path becomes rough, filled with conflict and confusion. But when we embrace God’s call for husbands and wives, the road becomes smoother—not because it is free of trials, but because we are united in Christ, walking in the same direction, holding fast to His promises.

I confess, even I stumble here. I have moments when I feel weak, unsure of how to be the supportive husband God calls me to be. Yet it is in these very weaknesses that His grace shines brightest. “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness” (2 Corinthians 12:9). Life is unpredictable. It takes us into valleys we never imagined, storms we never prepared for. And yet, through it all, the call remains: never let go of each other’s hands.

It does not matter who carries more or who carries less. What matters is that we carry together. “Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ” (Galatians 6:2). Support one another in every way—emotionally, spiritually, financially, physically, and mentally. Let your very presence be a safe place, a source of peace and harmony in each other’s lives. “Let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth” (1 John 3:18).

Marriage is not measured by who gives more, but by whether both hearts give in love. It is in respect, in gentleness, in patience, and in forgiveness that Christ’s love is revealed between husband and wife. And above all, never forget the covenant you made—not just with each other, but with God.

Hold on to each other. Hold on to Christ. And let your love be a testimony of His grace, shining even in the darkest valleys.

[taylorswift]

And, baby, that’s show business for you. New album The Life of a Showgirl. Out October 3  ❤️‍🔥

https://taylor.lnk.to/TSTheLifeofaShowgirl

Album Producers: Max Martin, Shellback and Taylor Swift 📸: Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott

[illkim]

[soracities]

I looked at my mother because I was a version of my mother. I looked away from my mother because I was a version of my mother. I was me, but I was also her—my mother, and I understood this all too well.

— Nora Lange, "Dog Star", pub. The Rupture (#120)

[oliviamew]

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[rozieramati]

[spinnaker1509]

“Dogs don’t know what they look like. Dogs don’t even know what size they are. No doubt it’s our fault, for breeding them into such weird shapes and sizes. My brother’s dachshund, standing tall at eight inches, would attack a Great Dane in the full conviction that she could tear it apart. When a little dog is assaulting its ankles the big dog often stands there looking confused — “Should I eat it? Will it eat me? I am bigger than it, aren’t I?” But then the Great Dane will come and try to sit in your lap and mash you flat, under the impression that it is a Peke-a-poo… Cats know exactly where they begin and end. When they walk slowly out the door that you are holding open for them, and pause, leaving their tail just an inch or two inside the door, they know it. They know you have to keep holding the door open. That is why their tail is there. It is a cat’s way of maintaining a relationship. Housecats know that they are small, and that it matters. When a cat meets a threatening dog and can’t make either a horizontal or a vertical escape, it’ll suddenly triple its size, inflating itself into a sort of weird fur blowfish, and it may work, because the dog gets confused again — “I thought that was a cat. Aren’t I bigger than cats? Will it eat me?” … A lot of us humans are like dogs: we really don’t know what size we are, how we’re shaped, what we look like. The most extreme example of this ignorance must be the people who design the seats on airplanes. At the other extreme, the people who have the most accurate, vivid sense of their own appearance may be dancers. What dancers look like is, after all, what they do.”

— Ursula Le Guin, in The Wave in the Mind (via fortooate)

[heyyy-its-j]

This paragraph went in so many different directions before it ended. What the fuck Ursula

[currentlycryingaboutlancelot]

literally never underestimate how contagious kindness is. I saw on venmo that my friend had sent someone 5 dollars for coffee because she was having a bad day and I thought that was a cute idea and so I venmo’d a different friend coffee money when she had a huge assignment and now I have a huge assignment and that same friend sent me money for a chai latte. she doesn’t know the friend who taught me to do this but she learned it from me because I learned it from my first friend. like we are all learning from each other all the time and learning how to be kind anyway yeah buy your friends coffee do little favors for them tell them you love them. it’s cute and good

[figma-deactivated20161222]

it dont even feel like june it dont even feel like any month we just floatin thru time

[fairycosmos]

absolutely criminal how falling into bad habits is the easiest thing in the world while developing positive habits feels like fighting a literal war

[coffeeman777]

Hi there! I have been seeing that the eclipse next month I think is the start of the 7 year tribulation because it’s predicted in the Bible. Where is this specific eclipse mentioned in the Bible that would occur over Texas?

Heya!

So, short answer: No, the Tribulation (probably) doesn't start on Monday.

Longer answer: There is a prophesied event that could be a solar eclipse in the Revelation towards the beginning of the Tribulation (Revelation 6:12-14), but it's more than a solar eclipse. The moon also "turns to blood," and a *global* earthquake occurs at the same time. Also, there's something like a meteor shower that happens. All of these things occur with the breaking of the 6th seal. Depending on your eschatological position, this would be a series of literal events that take place either just before or in the beginning of the Tribulation. But unless all of this happens together on Monday, then the eclipse on Monday is just an eclipse.

Also, Texas isn't mentioned anywhere in the Bible. A good thing to keep in mind when looking at these sorts of prophecies is that they usually happen with reference to Israel. If an astronomical event is supposed to be prophetic, find out whether that event will be prominently visible from Israel.

The prophesied "signs in the heavens," as well as all the other end-times signs Jesus spoke of in Matthew 24 are "birth pains," but not evidence of the immediate end of the age. Jesus attached one event directly to the end of the age, in Matthew 24:14, and that's the completion of the Great Commission. If you want to gauge how far from the end we are, investigate how close we are to having all people groups everywhere in the world properly evangelized.

Hope this helps!

[vas-perditum]

“People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they’re just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don’t realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they’re shitty because they’re afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it’s like self-defensive shittiness.”

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

[vas-perditum]

“Some marriages aren’t really that great. Some loves aren’t all-encompassing. Sometimes you separate because you weren’t that good together to begin with. Sometimes divorce isn’t an earth-shattering loss. Sometimes it’s just two people waking up out of a fog.”

The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid

[cache-e]

“Had my silence really been a silence, or a loud voice that is mute?”

Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

[latibule-e-deactivated20231012]

— Manuel Bandeira, from “This Earth, That Sky.”

[taylorswift]

Um ok this is unreal?? I just wanted to say to anyone who listened to my music this year, anywhere in the world, thank you. Getting named Spotify’s Global Top Artist in 2023 is truly the best birthday/holiday gift you could’ve given me. We’ve seriously had THE MOST fun this year out there on tour and now this. Are you serious. So I was trying to think of a way to thank you, and a lot of you have been asking me to put “You’re Losing Me (From The Vault)” on streaming… so here you go! You can finally listen EVERYWHERE now 💋

https://taylor.lnk.to/YLMfromthevault