#christian singles

[oasisr]

Struggling. Met a Christian man. Had a short long-distance relationship with him. We talked about marriage and family. I prayed for us daily.

But, I just kept seeing red flags with him. And, I also felt this voice telling me that he isn't my soulmate.

I hate to break things off with him. But, I just don't think this is right for me.

[thechristiansingleshub]

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[ash-and-starlight]

by far the funniest thing to find while reading a canonverse atla fic. what is blorbo from religion doing there get him out immediately

[rebellum]

The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"

And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"

[hikaruchen]

I’ll keep the king when you are gone away. I’ll keep him safe from the dark things that wait. — King by The Amazing Devil

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Some details for archaeology nerds (Here we go again AHAHAHA)

First of all the costume Alfred wears in this pic is BY NO MEANS historical accurate, but if we really want to be 100% accurate then to my knowledge there’s a high chance that Alfred wouldn’t be wearing dresses gowns at all (whoever decided to make Alfred wear those pretty cough dresses cough in the show I wish your family to prosper for all eternity YOU’RE A HERO), so instead I just chose to design whatever clothes I want and add some Anglo-Saxon elements in it :)

1. Alfred’s earrings

Took inspiration from the 7th century Anglo-Saxon/Frankish crystal ball, now in Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Here’s the thing, I know English men (and the monarchs) don’t wear earrings until the 16th century and earrings weren’t even popular during the Anglo-Saxon period, but once I saw Charles I wearing pearl earrings in his portrait I just can’t help but put something pretty on Alfred’s ears as well lol…Sadly I can’t find the exact size of this one but the official site says that it was used as a pendant/an amulet! Probably for pagan practices though, but it’s pretty, isn’t it? :D

2. Patterns on Alfred’s gown

Taken from the patterns on the Bewcastle Cross in Cumbria (which used to belong to Northumbria, built in around the 7th to early 8th century, aka the period Bede lived in.

3. The woven band

The pattern is taken from the Laceby band found in Laceby, Lincolnshire, dated to early 7th century. It seems both Scandinavians and Anglo-Saxons enjoy wearing tablet-woven bands? Saw this kind of things a lot in viking clothes reconstruction as well.

4. …Whatever this is

From fol. 34r in Book of Kells, the famous Celtic gospel book completed in Ireland circa 800 AD. As you can see I got lazy during drawing this lol but the illustrations in the original manuscripts are really impressive!

Now I don’t know if this is a good news or not but I’ve still got like…six wips for alhtred in hand…Good god of arts DELIVER ME

[journey-to-the-attic]

au where this was how ik and diavolo met for the first time when she was like seven

[maximura]

DPR IAN-Limbo | How I leave 2023 and enter 2024

[deservedgrace]

The double bind of "if bad things are happening to you it's because you're not a christian and god is punishing you" but when you are a christian and bad things are still happening it's "bad things are actually a gift from god because trials make your relationship stronger" is actually wild. If a romantic partner was like "I'm going to cheat on you and treat you badly so we can overcome it together and strengthen our relationship" we would rightfully call it abuse. If you punished someone for the grave offense of *checks notes* choosing not to engage in a relationship with you, people (hopefully) wouldn't be like "just get in a relationship with them to stop the abuse". You don't owe a relationship to anybody, but especially people who are abusive and harmful!

[rabbitprayer]

No desire to convert to catholicism but the desire to kind of pretend that no schisms ever happened.

[mizandria]

if you genuinely believe that you are a radical feminist while you STILL think that misogyny & male violence is a black male problem / white male problem / christian male problem / muslim male problem / any male problem that isn't just a male problem i do have news for you

[quark-nova]

If (cultural Christian) angels have bird wings, demons have bat wings and fairies have insect wings, who should get the pterosaur wings?

[cinematic-literature]

How to Be Single (2016) by Christian Ditter

Book title: The Bell Jar (1963) by Sylvia Plath

[momentsbeforemass]

Contradiction

(for someone who didn’t realize that was a vocation)

Should I get married? Or should I become a priest, or a friar, or a nun?

The Church’s answer is “Yes. If that’s what God is calling you to.” Today’s Gospel is the reason for that answer.

Looking in from the outside, a lot of people see this as a contradiction at the heart of the Church.

   You’re for marriage and families?

Yes, the Church answers.

   But you’re for consecrated lives of holiness that forgo marriage?

Actually, they’re all lives of holiness. And yes.

   That makes no sense. Aren’t those mutually exclusive?

No, they’re both positive goods. And both mutually supportive.

In its healthy, holy form, the vocation to marriage supports the priesthood and the religious life. Likewise, a healthy, holy vocation to religious life or holy orders supports marriage. How?

At their best, they are both practical schools of a living Faith. Both of them show us power of love in action, one that can only be had at the price of commitment. The only way any that any vocation can be healthy, can be holy.

Because of this, they lead us to, and support us in, deeper relationships with other people. When they are grounded in a deeper relationship with God.

Sometimes that grounding is not obvious looking in from the outside. Because some of the greatest vocations you will ever meet are seemingly built on the smallest things.

Smallest things done as if they were the greatest things.

This is the secret to a healthy, holy vocation. Including the vocation to the single life.

In the words of Brother Lawrence, “We ought not to be weary of doing little things for the love of God, who regards not the greatness of the work, but the love with which it is performed.”

Today’s Readings

[dollsinvogue]

Monster High picture day Spectra Vondergeist shoes » Christian Dior fall 2003 rtw

Spectra shoes picture credits to Serendipity Doll Boutique

[theprodigxl-daughter]

A goodbye (but not a sad one!!!!)

I've been on antidepressants for almost a year now. This is the first year of my life in many, many years where I've been, genuinely, enjoying life. And, even in the moments where things are Not Great, I still feel great because I'm not constantly trying to off myself.

And it's not just the meds. I've been more in contact with my friends, I'm going out, meeting people. I'm getting the opportunity to be a young woman in my early twenties, to drink and wake up in the morning kind of regretting staying out late, but still having so. much. fun.

I still go to church, sometimes. Because it doesn't bother me anymore, because I can sit there, finally comfortable in my own skin, knowing that I know who I am and what I believe and that's enough.

And all of that has got me thinking: this is truly the only life that I have. There's no way of knowing what comes after this.

And I finally feel safe enough to feel really fucking great to affirm that there is no way that I'm going to spend the only life that I know I have denying myself of all the joys that exist in being a human being. I don't want to spend my days thinking of all the ways I was made wrong. Of all my shortcomings. Days of Making myself little, so He can be Great.

Which is why I think I'm ready to let go of this blog.

I created this space when I was feeling so much rage, so much sadness, and I needed community. And I got that, I truly did! I never really interacted much, but it was so great to know that I wasn't alone in my feelings.

This space means so much to me, because not only it helped me heal, but it's also proof that, yeah, I didn't think I would, but I survived.

I've been thinking of this for a while, and this post was supposed to be just this: a rant. But I feel like, in order to continue, I need to put some things behind, which includes my lovely blog.

I don't know if anyone cares, but I felt like I needed to say goodbye. I've been here for a while, and I've seen people come, and go, and I know I remember people and still check their blogs even when they disappear, so to anyone that might remember me and come across this blog:

I was here. I stayed, and it hurt so much, and I thought this kind of suffering would be never ending. And it wasn't. So I left.

[hookhausen]

this entire scene just lives rent free in my head CONSTANTLY

like the way steiner is looking at everyone and laughing bc hes like are you fr right now? hes lecturing us in the middle of this meeting?

meanwhile christian and toto fighting like theyre in the principals office blaming each other

and poor checo getting dragged into it even tho he isnt even there to defend himself lmaoo