#Faith Comes Hearing

[shalom-iamcominghome]

Something interesting I've noticed about conversion stories is many people seem to have both a rebellious streak and a deep-seated, insatiable desire to learn everything.

One of my shul's well-respected members (who runs the hebrew/judaism class that will start soon) talked about how, when he lived in my town, he would sneak out of the house just to go to shul. That's what I'm doing now, and it's funny (I'm not sneaking out per se, but I am also not telling anybody I'm going to shul). There's an aspect of free-spiritedness that I notice in many converts, and it's fascinating to hear each of their stories. And you know the funniest part? They sound like my story.

[wiirocku]

Romans 10:17 (NKJV) - So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

[catofoldstones]

Saying that Sansa’s rest of the plot is in the Vale is like saying Arya’s rest of of the plot is in Braavos. Hope that helps.

[fantasy-costco]

As soon as I tell people I study history they always want to drop their history opinions on me. As soon as I tell people I study Christianity but I'm not personally religious OH BOY do they want to tell me their religion opinions. Usually these are much more interesting than their history opinions. Yesterday we were touring a potential wedding venue and the event coordinator told us his entire religious background (he was a preacher before going into public history) (the venue was a museum) and then ranted for a solid ten minutes about grace and works and also people who use religion to gain power and misinterpret and mistranslate the Bible to oppress people and every beef he had with the history of the church. Right there in the reception space. 10/10 interaction

[garden-of-thoughts-fruit-of-lips]

Currently gathering up friends to point and laugh at you

2 Chronicles 36:16

But they kept ridiculing the messengers of the true God, and they despised his words and mocked his prophets, until the rage of Jehovah came up against his people, until they were beyond healing.

[sesamenom]

Ar-Pharazon from the Reverse Gondolin AU and as Witch-King of Numenor - thanks to @who-needs-words for helping develop this idea!

[hauntingblue]

chopper has become catholic

[puppyeared]

who up seeing their disorder in a fictional character but feel like its not their place to put a name on it

[soracities]

I'm 3 days late to this but I just saw that anon about being anti makeup and i want to thank you for articulating so concisely and patiently why certain women are against makeup. mostly because if i were in your place i absolutely wouldn't have the patience to deal with it lmao. mostly because I've been trying to articulate this stance to my friends irl and the most common reaction to this ime, in real life as well as online from women who disagree, is "but I like it 🥺 what about me? 🥺does that mean I'm a bad person? 🥺 but it's fun and cute and girly 🥺" and they just refuse to engage with any of those ideas because for them it's just harmless fun.

and after running up against this response enough times you just start to get sick of it. a lot of this (most of this) is my own personal exasperation talking but it's frustrating to try to make structural critiques and people are so individualistic they can't think past their own preferences.

I think some women, on some level at least, probably are aware of these things, or they have an inkling of them--if not consciously then subconsciously--but it isn't something they are willing or ready to confront, which explains why some can get incredibly defensive about it. We have this whole thing where your individual choices have become linked to, or representative of, your identity and so any comment against those choices is taken as a personal attack because in a sense, for someone living within that framework, it is. I completely understand your exasperation because I've felt it, too. But I think I'm at a point where, for me personally, I'm not trying to argue with people or convince them because trying to make people see or hear what they aren't willing to will only make them double down harder.

I agree with you and I wish there was a way to actually have these conversations in an open manner without getting stonewalled, but the best thing I can do right now is stay true to my own stance and embody that through example and hopefully I can be open enough through this that it allows others to see they can do the same--or that, at the very least, they have the option to.

[spaceratprodigy]

god I love drawing my ocs kissing my friends ocs

[lleclercism]

on a real note though i need u all to know i 100% trust charles and his decisions; and when they told him about signing another world champion as his teammate and he didnt back down then thats how i know i will put my whole faith in him. need people to realize it was never about winning with a minute ahead of any other driver or about getting handed the wdc, one thing about charles is HE LOVES COMPETITION he loves a challenge and most importantly he loves ferrari, and he's doing all of it and nothing will stop him as long as hes treated fairly and his opinions are being heard which i believe are the reason he signed his multiyear contract

[pyramidofmice]

Sally's apology to John really struck me as a raw, meaningful parent-to-child apology. She didn't dumb anything down, she didn't lie to soften anything, she claimed all of her actions... he was so young, and Sally reacted to his age not by talking down to him, but by finding a way to describe the whole truth so he could understand

Most importantly I think is how she kept saying that John is a good person. Like...she thought she was about to die. And she didn't spend that time asking John for forgiveness or to remember her in a good light. She dedicated her words to making John feel loved. She spent that precious time giving him something to make sense of it all, to heal somewhere down the line even when she's not there

[lususnatura]

do y'all ever just get told something by a stranger that completely uplifts you because, like 😭 i was just told something that i think i really needed to hear by someone that i've barely spoken to and i just want to repeat it back to y'all because it made me feel so much more hopeful for the future... and that's that thing's will turn around for you. so, whatever you may be going through right now, just remember that it's temporary and that there are good people out there who are willing to offer you support ❤️

[garden-of-thoughts-fruit-of-lips]

"Open reproof is better than concealed love."

Proverbs 27:5

[turtleduckmocha]

making blorbo stamps and coming up with some... interesting duos

claude & mel

marcille & jaehee

mercedes & falin

leonie & bloom

flayn & wolfwood?????

[stamp template credit]

(these aren't necessarily ships btw—although melclaude DEFINITELY is, and jaecille...tempts me.)

[christian-culture-is]

Christian culture is randomly having "LET'S SING MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY HOLIDAAAY" in your brain

it’s june why do I have these Christmas songs inside my head —literally every Christian ever