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2018-09-19

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6.2.23

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I hope you believe that you can still make a beautiful life for yourself even if you lost many years of it to grief, or darkness, depression, or a wound that wouldn't close.

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Not to sound like a fuckin hippie but please for the love of god start noticing and appreciating the natural world around you. You don’t have to go hike the entire Appalachian trail or anything and I get that not everyone has access to the outdoors for various reasons, but just fucking … look around you when you’re outside. Notice the sky and the sun and the birds and creatures. Start caring about them. I’m begging you.

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spotlight by indojo

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Narnia forest by Barbora Medveďová

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"It's not pink it's rose"

Oh 👏 my 👏 God 👏 someone 👏 hold 👏 my 👏 missalette

1. The concept of pink as a female gendered colour didn’t even exist until the mid 20th century, and while that may be before I or my priest were born, in the broader perspective of time it’s really really recent. Go back farther, it’s actually far more common to see “pink for male, blue for female”. But of course, fun fact, there’s nothing inherently make or female about any colour.

2. Ok, so say we’re going with this modern “pink is female, blue is male” nonsense. Why, though, is it chill for me as a woman, or any woman, to wear blue, but men wearing pink have to make self depreciating jokes about it? Is it because society thinks feminine things are inherently inferior or shameful for men to participate in?

3. Ok reroute but if I’m wearing a forest coloured cardigan its green. Ok? It’s freaking green. The guy’s jacket in front of me may be navy, but it’s navy BLUE. Rose IS pink.

4. Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Latin: rosado, rose, rosa, rosa, roseus. They mean pink. If I say “hola” to someone, I just said hello to them, even if in a different language. Rose is pink.

5. So why are you wearing pink? I can look it up, I will, but having been Catholic for 12 years in total I know off the top of my head: red is for the blood of the martyrs, white is for light and innocence and purity, etc. I know this because priests say it in their homilies. They inform their flock. But all I’ve ever heard on Gaudete Sunday, whether it be on American east coast, west coast, south, or in the UK, is “it’s not pink it’s rose”.

It’s pink. And it means joy.

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it’s okay if you’re still healing from things and people that happened years ago. it’s normal to still be hurt by things that happened to you and people who left you. just because you’re still healing doesn’t mean that you haven’t healed from parts of it already. it doesn’t matter how long it takes for you to heal because everyday you get stronger, even if it’s a bad day and you feel like nothing’s getting better. you’ve made it through all of those bad days and you’re still here and stronger than ever. don’t rush your healing!! just trust that with every second that passes you’re healing more and more and that there isn’t a specific timeline of where you should be right now. you’re doing so good and you’ve come so far already. be proud of the progress you’ve made instead of looking at how far you’ve still got to go. the person that you were a year ago would be amazed at the person you are now.

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"Bridging the Gap" | calibreus

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Kissing every mentally ill Christian on the cheek very tenderly right now. God made you perfectly, in His image. But this is a broken world, and it's not your fault. You are not your illness; God certainly doesn't see you that way. Do you have any idea how much He loves you? Through the psychotic episodes, the chasmic depressions, the tempestuous mania, debilitating anxiety, terrifying hallucinations, anything and everything you might suffer from...

You are still beautiful to Him. And to me, too. God loves you, and so do I.