#On Our Own

[needynia]

[momentsbeforemass]

“God won’t give you more…”

(for someone who needs to hear this again)

There are a lot of unhelpful statements about God.

“God won’t give you more than you can handle.” That one has to be in the top 10.

I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard it. Or how many people I’ve heard it from.

It’s people who are trying to help. Said with the best of intentions. Usually at the worst of times.

It seems reassuring at first.

Let it sit for a minute, and you start to see what’s wrong with it.

It’s got things backwards. About how we work as human beings. Life isn’t about us handling it.

We were never meant to handle things on our own. That’s not how we’re built.

And that’s not who God is. God is not the god of abandonment, of leaving us to handle things on our own.

One thing God will never say to you? “Not my circus, not my monkeys.”

We have to push God away, we have to work at it, if that’s what we want from God.

God is willing, God is waiting, God is wanting to help us.

God will be with us in every part of our lives. God will support us and strengthen us, no matter what we’re going through.

All we have to do is ask.

If you and I want to fix that line, maybe it should read something like this,

“God won’t give you more than He can handle.”

Today’s Readings

[everything4free]

On Our Own drop-in center, 1984

[shirleyjacksonesque]

there's a train that goes from little rock to phoenix and tbh that sounds so fun would love to do it tbh

[djevilninja]

Now I find out that nothing is given; Don’t know where the cards may fall. All I know is that we’ve gotta get it; We’ve gotta make it on our own.

Bobby Brown - On Our Own (Dance! Remix)

[theglassdragoncollective]

I love (sarcastic) how one of our common archetypes for system members is short gay guy with an androgynous shoulder length hair.

[becuzmdsaidineededpersonality]

[bebx]

reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something

[sagegarnish]

🦀 Kudos Crab 🦀

If you are scrolling and see Kudos Crab, your fics will be blessed!

You will get good comments and kudos!

You will beat your writers block!

GO AND WRITE!

[team--edward]

Another AO3 thing I’m curious about, how do yall decide if something is good enough to read? Usually I follow a rule of 1 kudos for every 10 hits. One because it’s easy math and two it’s yet to fail me. Thoughts? Do you just go for it and pray it’s good?

[jotasuis]

How I found out about trump getting shot

[wrenchwenches]

[paigegonerogue]

I, of mostly sound body and spirit, request that if I’m ever to die, someone post a new work on my AO3 that says “sorry, she died, ongoing stories postponed forever” because don’t I want my fanfic buddies to think I ghosted them. Amen or whatever you say in a will.

[jackwolfes]

thinking about that post of people assuming ao3 has an algorithm and also about how bonkers persistent the view is that ao3 is social media lite. like with startling regularity I get comments saying something along the lines of "it's probably weird to comment on a fic this old--" no it isn't!!!! this is an archive I am literally just assuming you searched for a selection of specific tags or sorted by kudos or looked back on my pseud or any other number of completely normal ways to use an archive site ?? kill the tiktok ghost in your brain and comment on old stuff it's NOT weird

[allthingswhumpyandangsty]

feeling called out today

credit: _ADWills

[mythicamagic]

One of my favourite things when reading fanfiction is when you click with an author's style so much that you adore the fanfiction you're reading, and once it's over you need more. So you go to their page and hope that there's more for any fandom you might know- only there isn't any. They've written for other fandoms you aren't familiar with and never would've thought about before.

But you're down so bad for their style and talent that they got you wading in like: