#Be with God

[momentsbeforemass]

The one thing

There is something in us that absolutely loves the idea of the solution.

The one thing that solves everything.

There’s something in us that wants to believe that if do that one thing, use that one product, then everything else will work. All of our problems will be solved. Life will become transparently easy. Or all of the above.

It’s why sales pitches for miracle products promise to solve multiple problems. And why so much click-bait has lines like “this one weird old trick…”

Those approaches work – to draw us in. Because they’re punching our “one-thing-that-solves-everything” button.

So, in today’s Gospel, when we hear Jesus say, “There is need of only one thing.”

It can sound to us like someone else punching our “one-thing-that-solves-everything” button. Yet another sales pitch. As if Jesus was pushing another over-promising miracle product.

Which misses the point that Jesus is trying to make.

Because (as anyone who’s dealing with an addiction, or a chronic physical or mental health problem, can tell you), when it comes to life’s heavy lifting, to the hard things in life, there is no “one-thing-that-solves-everything.”

So what is Jesus talking about? When He tells Martha “There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part. And it will not be taken from her.”

Jesus is talking about some of the most vital, and most often overlooked, parts of self-care. Taking care of your spiritual and emotional needs. By ensuring that you have the depth, the capacity, the grounding to deal with all of the different things that you are dealing with.

And that starts with taking the time simply to be with God. To let God love you. To let God fill you up with the peace that comes only from spending time with God.

Not that our needs and the needs of others aren’t important. We should always bring those before God. Just like we should always bring everything that’s weighing us down to God.

Not that God doesn’t already know all of it. But so that we don’t fool ourselves into thinking that we have to carry all of that by ourselves. And so that God can let us know what things to let go of entirely.

But in addition to all of that, you and I need time to just be with God.

To lay down everything we’re anxious and worried about at God’s feet. To let the source of our strength be the source of our peace.

That is the “one thing.”

Today’s Readings

[angelic-loveerr]

isn't she lovely 🥹🩷

[monophobix]

the real MVPs of arcane

[demadogs]

this happened months ago. i cannot keep it in any longer. a while ago i went on a porn site ive never been to and it asked if i was over 18 and i misclicked and said no and it automatically sent me to google images of puppies and kittens. i still cannot get over how funny this is.

[bonesbunns]

Mel ✨

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

[feralcringeman]

PROOF IN CASE YOU NEED IT

UPDATE:

I put this in my reblogs but I’m going to attack this to the main post.

TRUMP HIMSELF DIDN’T CHEAT BUT SOMEONE DEFINITELY TAMPERED WITH THE ELECTION RESULTS.

^

Made by the amazing @the-gay-prometheus (genuinely thank you for saying this)

[churrotowns]

the definition of aura

update: choose your fighter

[plaguedocboi]

I hate the “open floor plan” that everyone is obsessed with in houses now. I want nooks and crannies and bizarre floor plans. I don’t need to be able to see what someone is doing on the other side of the house. I want places to hide and lurk and dwell in the shadows. I am the beast who awaits in the labyrinth

[kawareo]

screaming, crying, throwing up, as I force myself to write a story i'm very passionate about and love writing and have no obligation to write except that i want to

[nigelgraz]

Fabric study :)🤍

[danlous]

Ignoring the real possibility he intentionally let himself be caught from the little we know so far Luigi Mangione's case is a fascinating combination of astonishing brilliance and confusing stupidity. This young man plans and executes his assassination and escape with such a meticulous care and calmness that it's suspected that he's a professional hitman. He comes up with Riddler-sque moves like writing his manifesto poetically on the bullets and leaving his backpack behind full of Monopoly money. He carefully wears a mask to avoid being identified but removes it because a woman who was checking him into the hostel was flirting with him and wanted to see his smile. He still manages to escape the most surveilled city in the country in the midst of ongoing national manhunt only to get caught in the middle of bumfuck nowhere Pennsylvania while eating at the McDonalds. Because for some reason he had the same clothes and mask as in New York and was carrying the same gun and suppressor. And when the cops detained him he showed them the same fake id he used in New York. And oh yeah he's a frat bro gym rat who has a masters degree in computer science from Penn but reads stupid self-help books about being on the grind and is 'anti-woke' while being bisexual suffering from anxiety and wanting to end oppressive capitalism. Not even god himself could invent a person like this

[mias-back-from-the-dead]

tbh i think the funniest phenomena that's been happening in the last couple years is "youtuber, having gone too deep into the research hole, has been made an investigative journalist against their will"

[anoptimisticdevil]

society if women were seen as people

[uwudonoodle]