I was commissioned to create 5 pieces for #Advent this year! This one titled Little Lamb is a painted fabric collage.
***We have goats and the babies are irresistible. I imagine lambs would be just as cuddly.
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1 simple trick to help children count their blessings
1 simple trick to help children count their blessings
As a mother living in North America, I know we are blessed and have so much to be thankful for.
But my 3 kids don’t seem to understand the privilege they experience and complain about everything.
A few years ago, the complaining was non-stop about everything and I knew something had to change.
We started immediately and implemented a few things that helped our children count their…
sometimes i read stories about the creepy things astarion fangirls have subjected neil newbon to, despite him asking them like, outright to stop sexualizing him as a person just bc he voices astarion, and i shudder because some of y'all should have been raised catholic like i was.
then maybe you'd know some fucking shame.
edit: I must clarify this is a joke because no one should be raised Catholic. but some of y'all do need to be punished. biblically.
💔🤬My God. They discover the obliterated and desecrated remains of their dear mother who was bombed to death moments ago by the United States and Israel. SHAME ON THIS WORLD and all of its cowardly leaders. I’m ashamed to be human right now.
aziraphale, the one who gave the first human exiles his flaming sword as both a source of protection and warmth, who did not look on them as sinners deserving of destruction but people entitled to the best chances possible, has never once looked at crowley, a heavenly exile, with anything other than compassion and a desire to protect. from their first meeting, he never wanted anything bad to happen to him. when crowley slithers up to him in eden, he treats him like an equal rather than an adversary. when crowley appears, his eyes fill with love and excitement, his gaze turns soft and hesitant, his whole body seizes with joy of seeing him. crowley might typically the one to seek him out, but aziraphale has always welcomed him home.
"As a child in a Christian home, I did not start out with an understanding of the Word discipline. I simply knew that I belonged to people who loved me and cared for me. That is dependence. They spoke to me, and I answered. That is responsibility. They gave me things to do, and I did them. That is obedience. It adds up to discipline. In other words, the totality of the believer's response is discipline. While there are instances where the two words DISCIPLINE and OBEDIENCE seem to be interchangeable, I am using the first as comprehending the second and always presupposing both dependence and responsibility. We might say that discipline is the disciple's "career". It defines the very shape of the disciple's life. Obedience, on the other hand, refers to specific action.
Discipline is the believer's answer to God's call. It is the recognition, not of the solution to his problems or the supply of his needs, but of mastery. God addresses us. We are responsible---that is, we must make a response. We may choose to say yes and thus fulfill the Creator's glorious purpose for us, or we may say no and violate it. This is what is meant by moral responsibility. God calls us to freedom, fulfillment, and joy---but we can refuse them."
- Elisabeth Elliot
From her book, Discipline, the Glad Surrender
Shoutout to trans Christians on this Easter Sunday and Transgender day of visibility. You are loved and cherished by God, who sees your true self and calls you by your true name.
I also want to send comfort to every trans person, religious or not, who has been hurt by religious transphobia. Hatred is not Godly, and you deserve so much better.