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Happy Ostara everyone!!

Reminder that Easter is actually a pagan holiday that was appropriated by Christianity. Just like Christmas.

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-My Loved Ones-

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someone needs to show these posts to these people’s employers

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Remember, you are held in the hands of the Most High, you are nourished by grace, and replenished with God’s love.

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Incipit of the Gospel of Luke (Quoniam quidem multi...), fol. 188r from the Book of Kells, created in an Irish or Scottish monastery ca. 800. Now in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin.

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Hey stop thinking of God and Jesus as your "homie" or "the man upstairs" or even your "best friend" in the same sense as your human best friends.

I get where those impulses come from--they help you feel relationally "closer" to God. But that's the thing. The whole Gospel is "He's way high above you and totally perfect and in complete authority over you—and yet you can still have a close intimate relationship with Him, without that aspect of His nature ever lessening or changing."

That's the wonder and the awesomeness of the Gospel—that His holiness and otherness and authority doesn't make your relationship less intimate, and in fact, you can have the closest relationship to Him of your whole life. Without Him ever being brought down to your level. That's the wonder of the Gospel. Don't cheapen it by letting humanism-shortcuts taint your view of Him. Don't settle for normal mud pies when it's actually an extravagant feast like nothing else you can taste.

Leviticus 10:3: "By those who come near Me I will be treated as holy."

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Unknown women, 1912, Sweden.

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-Christmas Morning-

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Secret about autistic people: a lot of times we don’t actually miss a social cue. We see it. We just decide to ignore it because we think it’s a stupid social cue.

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embroidered silk net dress with court train, 1814-16 in the london look: fashion from street to catwalk - christopher breward, edwina ehrman + caroline evans (2004)