#the meek shall inherit the earth

[vintage-tigre]

[elijowa]

Something I've noticed is that everyone seems to think that the Crowley's Falling timeline is definitely:

> Angel!Crowley finds out about the 6000y expiration date

> goes to put his questions to the Almighty

> immediately gets thrown 10 million miles into a lake of boiling sulphur.

But I don't think this tracks with other things that Crowley says about hanging around with the wrong people, sauntering vaguely downwards, here comes Lucifer and the guys ...

I think it's far more likely that it went something more like this:

> Angel!Crowley finds out about the 6000y expiration date

> goes to put his questions to the Almighty but gets fobbed off by the Metatron

> is dissatisfied by the non-answers he's been given, starts hanging around other angels who also feel dissatisfied (but for different, more mutinous reasons)

> when Lucifer and the guys try to overthrow the system, Crowely gets tarred with the same brush even though he wasn't ever into this whole 'staging a coup' business - he'd just wanted some signatures on his petition to set up a suggestion box

> but the Metatron doesn't care, so down they all go into the boiling sulphur.

Or ... Try this one on for size ... What if when he went to ask his questions, Crowley accidentally overheard/discovered Something Shady going on with the Metatron, quid pro quo he had to be got rid of.

I guess for this to make sense, Crowley would have to not realise the significance of the Something Shady he'd discovered, but the Metatron can't risk Crowley accidentally revealing it or prying any further (such an inquisitive little angel!) So he manipulates situations to make sure everyone (including Crowley) believes that he was cast out for the 'asking questions' thing - and that it was deserved.

Win-win-win: get rid of the nosey little angel who has the power to bring you down AND make everyone believe that he deserved it INCLUDING the nosey little angel himself!

Or, if you prefer, Crowley might have had his memory wiped and all he can do is see where the furniture isn't any more.

And now the Metatron knows that Crowely knows about memory wipes. Maybe that's why he has to split up Crowley and Aziraphale, before they start putting the pieces together, which is another reason he has to rush Aziraphale into making a decision.

And maybe that's why he almost gives a sigh of relief when he's finally got Aziraphale in the lift up to Heaven.

He thinks his secret is safe...

But of course he hasn't reckoned with the relentless enthusiasm of the 'dim one' and her newly acquired reading habit ...

[aeshnacyanea2000]

What a mess the world was in, Vimes reflected. Constable Visit had told him the meek would inherit it, and what had the poor devils done to deserve that?

Terry Pratchett - Feet Of Clay

[mikarchive2]

ALEXANDER THE GREAT Miroslav Holub (tr. by me)

Alexander the Great wept when he learned that there were other worlds in the universe.

Don’t cry. You got that from the heavy infantry, you got that from the empire, you got that from the fourteen carats of intercontinental fame.

Don’t cry. Boys are building a castle with stars on the battlement. Carpenters are building a ship that will float upwards. And one day pearl hunters will surface on the Moon, women will bathe in the Milky Way.

Boys, carpenters, women, today or tomorrow, boys, carpenters, women.

They’re all just ordinary worlds of ordinary lives with nails, shovels, chains, buttons.

Don’t cry. It is enough not to be Great.

[peaceandnature]

[chloeworships]

I have a message for Meek Mill

🤩💲

I’ll update this post soon. It might also be someone else too.

I forgot the scripture for Drake 😩🤦🏾‍♀️

[summeroffire]

[attleboy]

Attleboy why are you literally like the coolest person ever

-@smbaby

oh hello again.... erm erm erm i'm so cool because.... it is winter in canada and it is very cold . get it? temperature??? [insert laugh track]

anyway thank you, you are very cool too... i'm looking at you with big ol eyes full of gratitude... like this.....

[wiirocku]

Psalm 37:11 (NKJV) - But the meek shall inherit the earth, And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.

[communistkenobi]

people who read mass effect fanfic back in like 2013-2014, did you notice a weird amount of christian retellings of the games with shepard as literal space jesus? because I remember finding multiple popular longfics with that exact premise

[holysaintscathedral]

My disdain for and defiance towards authority is and will forever be at war with the fact that that attitude would (probably) quickly vanish as soon as some priest speaks to me in an authoritative tone.

[azgedaspy]

ECHO'S RELATIONSHIPS + NPCS

pre-military:   age 0-8,  year 2126-2134.

diana kom azgeda: 2126-2134. echo’s mother. an azgedan warrior killed by trikru radicals. looks like alyssa sutherland.

akron kom azgeda: 2126-2134. echo’s father. an azgedan warrior killed by trikru radicals. looks like travis fimmel.

dayton kom azgeda: 2126-2134. echo’s father. an azgedan farmer killed by trikru radicals. looks like rodrigo santoro.

military and pre-series:   age 8-23,  year 2134-2149.

queen nia kom azgeda: 2134-2150. echo’s leader, mentor, and projected mother figure. an azgedan queen killed by heda lexa kom trikru.

prince roan kom azgeda: 2134-2150. echo’s leader, friend, and colleague. an azgedan prince and king, a former outlaw, and a protector of the flame killed by luna kom flokru in the final conclave.

robyn kom azgeda: 2134. echo’s friend, mentor, and first kill. an azgedan warrior, archer, and spy killed by echo in forced combat.

heda ontari kom azgeda: 2134-2150. echo’s leader and colleague. nia’s prodigy, a nightblood, and the commander of the thirteen clans killed by jaha kom skaikru and alie.

north (kom azgeda): 2134-2150. echo’s horse and best friend.

kairo kom azgeda: 2134+. echo’s friend, first crush, and sexual partner. azgedan warrior. looks like alex høgh andersen.

reed kom azgeda: 2134-2150. echo’s friend. azgedan healer. looks like nathan parsons.

andria kom trikru: 2149-2150. echo’s ally and ex-lover. killed by bellamy and pike kom skaikru in the trikru massacre. looks like christian serratos.

series timeline:   age 23-29,  year 2149-2156.

belomi kom skaikru: 2149+. bellamy blake. ally, enemy, and boyfriend.

spacekru: 2150+. bellamy blake, raven reyes, monty green, harper mcinytre, john murphy, and emori. found family.

erika kom wonkru: 2156+. adoptive daughter. looks like danielle rose russell.

[mikarchive2]

the last neanderthals garden by robbie bushe

[soaringeaglesingingjoy]

What Is Meekness? #SolidJoys https://www.desiringgod.org/articles/what-is-meekness

[foughtgod]

drop001.

[tom4jc]

September 21, 2023 Verse Of The Day