The Botanic Garden of Smith College
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🌻💜💙🥰 #love #sunflower #lexasiouxsiephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CLTIOyYszO-/?igshid=5bw38pku2tkg
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Five years ago, I may have said “We can disagree and still be friends.”
I had thought that to love one another was enough in itself, that it could transcend even the harshest of disagreements.
But when the truth cannot be met, then there was never an option to “love” at all. If proof is denied, if inconvenient facts are called “fake,” if unproven claims are called “true”—then to humor such a position is to enable a destructive delusion. To let you drive off a cliff. To enter a minefield of falsehood. If we cannot even meet on the grounds of reality, then any semblance of friendship would require me to pamper a dangerous fantasy. And if I love you, which I do, I cannot do that to you.
If you can “disagree and still be friends” but you deny the incontrovertible evidence of domestic terrorism, racism, and double standards, then no, you are not “speaking the truth in love.” Evil must be called what it is. It cannot be explained away by cowardly conspiracy theories meant to tidy up the ills of our fractured systems and hearts.
If you can “disagree and still be friends” but you do not see your neighbor as having equal worth made in the Image of God, then all truth has been revoked from the equation, which also removes love in all its capacity. Then no, we cannot be and were not ever friends.
To “disagree and be friends” is possible, yes. But we must begin with the good will that we are grounded in truth. Otherwise, any sort of friendliness is a false truce. And so long as we dance on that thin ice, we risk drowning in lies. To love must include the truth.
— J.S.
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Mr. Bassist
Naalala ko tuloy yung pinagprapray ko ng sobra kay Lord tapos one day may sinama na siya sa church then pakilala eh the one nya. Grabe yung iyak ko nun, sobrang durog na durog ako halos hagulgol ang iyak ko nun kasi di ko inaasahan yung ganung pangyayari..
Pinag pray ko ng simula naging close kami. Grabe yung inspiration ko nun, sobrang saya ko lagi pag kasama ko siya noon. Halos lahat ng dreams ko shinashare ko sa kanya at siya din shinashare niya din. Ngiting laging kinikilig
Lagi niya kong nireremind to Put God First. Nakakatuwa lng dahil both kami nagpupush sa gawain ng Diyos, musician siya at back up singer ako.. Tuwing practice nag aantayan kami para sabay pumunta ng Church.. Grabe yung prayer ko nun
Yung sobrang saya ko sa tuwing kasama siya at pinupush niya akong magtuloy sa gawain ng Diyos at patuloy sa pag remind niya sa akin na si Lord muna ang unahin. Kaya sobrang nagustuhan ko siya. Pero in the end, hanggang doon lang yung friendship na yun.
Yung closeness namin ay natapos na simula nagka girlfriend na siya. Well, pinagpray ko parin siya na maging masaya siya sa napili niya at always siya mag-iingat.
The End.
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Thank you Don Romantico Janjie! 😆🥰😘🌻 Labyu! #siouxsiephotography (at Bitbit River, Norzagaray Bulacan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJAKEfKsBnU/?igshid=13vexoq1zr2og
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I miss u... #love #siouxsiephotography https://www.instagram.com/p/CIauWx_srEK/?igshid=9q7ux2dx31a8
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Soul Mates I don't know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place—some other existence. -Lang Leav #siouxsiephotography #langleav #love https://www.instagram.com/p/CIaoVrWMHKk/?igshid=wgso99ntagbu
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Soul Mates I don't know how you are so familiar to me—or why it feels less like I am getting to know you and more as though I am remembering who you are. How every smile, every whisper brings me closer to the impossible conclusion that I have known you before, I have loved you before—in another time, a different place—some other existence. -Lang Leav #siouxsiephotography #langleav #love https://www.instagram.com/p/CIaoVrWMHKk/?igshid=wgso99ntagbu
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