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An observation on parenting. On some level, mortal parenting involves a certain amount of "getting along" - dealing with when people are being annoying, wanting less friction, etc. Unfortunately as a parent this makes it really easy to favor behaviors that reduce friction rather than behaviors that are healthy.

I don't want to hear any whining -> you're supposed to be okay. I don't want to hear your weakness.

this has an effect on prayer.

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some Luci Shaw for the carpenter-Jesus-encounters-the-cross enjoyers

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Here are paintings by the late deaf Korean artist Kim Ki-Chang, depicting Jesus in Korea in the Joseon era. Painted in 1953 while Kim was in anguish during the Korean War.

Shown: saving Peter, falsely accused woman, inviting Peter and Andrew, feeding the multitude, refugee flight, baptism of Jesus, the Nativity, the adoration of the Magi.

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From The Backwater Sermons, Jay Hulme

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“Christ’s wounds were in fact not healed. He’s got them now, in Heaven. He had them when He appeared to the disciples; they’re part of the imitation of Christ by the stigmatic saints. God heals some wounds. Others, He glorifies. He transforms them in some way we can’t necessarily imagine beforehand, just as we can’t quite imagine what it will mean for our flesh to be glorified in the Resurrection.”

— Eve Tushnet. This is an astonishing insight to me.

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A little while, and you will see me no longer. Again in a little while, and you will see me.

John 16:16

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Finally have all 4 life stages let's gooo

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There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

St. Óscar Romero

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[img txt = "Jesus laying down his life out of love for the world rather than using all cosmic and political power to force the world to obey him will forever be the greatest critique of any Christian movement that seeks to secure power in order to ensure that others conform to their will." - Rev. Benjamin Cremer]

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Kind of gives you chills .

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Romans 15:13

"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit."

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Forgiveness bears witness that in our world love is stronger than sin

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In the previous paragraph, I said that God was the beginning and end, Alpha and Omega. These pairs (not binaries) can unlock a beautiful vision in Genesis 1.

‘Beginning and end’ is a pairing that represents the whole scope of history and time. ‘Alpha and Omega’ stretches from the first letter of the alphabet to the last, representing the whole alphabet in one swoop by referring to its extremities. ‘From head to toe’, ‘from top to bottom’, and ‘from cradle to grave’ all denote a spectrum through the use of pairs considered to be extremities of that spectrum. Take for example Genesis 1.1: God creates the ‘heaven and earth’, i.e. everything. Or even the phrase ‘there was evening and there was morning’, signifying the passing of a whole day.

Now return to Genesis 1.27: ‘male and female [God] created them’. Male and female. I think you can all see what I’m probably getting at here. The ‘and’ is not a binary ‘and’. Male and female can disclose a spectrum of varied gender identities in the same way that ‘Alpha and Omega’ discloses the whole alphabet, or how ‘from head to toe’ means the length of the whole body.

'Queer Creation: Queering the Image of God,' Alan Hooker (2013).

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I can’t stress...how important it is to be gentle...to those who are struggling with their faith.

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From The Backwater Sermons, Jay Hulme

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“We call Lent a ‘penitential season’. It is striking, then, that the symbol with which it begins does not focus so much on personal sin as on our contingence as created beings […] To take the ashes is to confess kinship with this world of dust, to declare our readiness to abdicate pretensions to omnipotence. Standing before God in this way, I profess that I am not God. I admit the chasm that separates me from him. I accept the uncomfortable otherness of God. He is what I am not, yet my being bears his mark. I crave a completion no created thing can give. I walk this earth as yearning incarnate. I am at home, yet a stranger, homesick for a homeland I recall but have not seen.”

— Erik Varden: The Shattering of Loneliness