#Growth and maturity

[gloryofgod]

HEIR IN CHRIST

I am a child

Carried in the bosom and nursed

Can’t seat for long

with short attention span

Crying to get their attention

It work like magic

Unstable

Tossed to and fro by the waves

Carried by every wind of doctrine

By human cunning

By craftiness in deceitful schemes

Untested and theological

Complain about everything and anything

I am a child

Heir

But I am not different from a slave

As long as I am a child

Though the owner of everything

But I am under guardians and managers

Until the date set by my father

The full time has come

To be to grow and mature

To be who He has called me for

To accomplish

To stand

To proclaim

To heal and mend

To build and plant

To uproot and pull down

To rule with my father

To be the heir to the throne

But all I thought off was

How ineloquent I am?

Childish I behave

How people would perceive me?

Their thoughts

How scared I am?

How young I am?

How unskilful I am?

With all the frenzy excuses and all the fear

How long do we want to continually be children

How long would we sleep and slumber?

How long would we be spiritual babies?

How long would we be immature?

Prayer is wahala

Reading the word is dreadful

Fasting is ..............

How long would we stay in our comfort zone?

How long would we hide?

How long would we run from the calling?

Let us put off childish staff

And let us run

The race allocated for us

Let us not conform ourselves to the standards of this world, but let God transform us inwardly by a complete change of our minds. Then we will be able to know the will of God- what is good and is pleasing to him and is perfect.

By speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in every way into him who is the head, into Christ.

And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his son into our hearts, crying, “Abba! Father!”

So you are no longer a slave, but a son, and if sons then an heir through God.

Grounded in Christ, Repositioned for maximum impact

Reference: Jeremiah 1:4-19

Ephesians 4:14-15 Galatians 4:1-2

Number 11:12 1 Corinthians 13:11

Archbishop Dag Heward Mills’ preaching

Written date: 3rd June, 2023

[bloodraven55]

i’ve seen too many people arguing that marcille was already a full grown adult when she went to school at 35 despite literally all of the canon evidence indicating otherwise

[yakayla-withay]

I am having fun all by myself for the start of my birthday, surprisingly

I did call my girlfriend but her beautiful ass is sleeping for work tomorrow but we have been watching the office and I think imma finish it for my birthday

I wanna end this cycle of being afraid something is going to end because all things come to an end, movies, series, life; so why not go for it

I’ve been personally watching Planet of the Apes and if there’s not a black person on whichever Caesar’s side next movie then I think it’s just a plant to keep black people down

But anyways

I’m drunk and high and thinking but I love the series so far. I wish that some of my friends would come back but I also love the ones that never left and they only matter now 🖕🏾

Yeah I think imma love life dead ass for real

P.S. I posted exactly on my birthday because I really love me

[classycookiexo]

[crazycatsiren]

Just a quick not friendly reminder: someone who has apologized for past mistakes, made amends for past actions, and clearly no longer holds past beliefs, is a far better person than one who digs up old dirt and uses a person's past that no longer exists against them.

[astrolovecosmos]

Saturn in Aries: “Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.” ― Erin McCarthy

Saturn in Taurus: “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing.” ― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

Saturn in Gemini: “Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.” ― Douglas Adams

Saturn in Cancer: “Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.” ― Kim Stanley Robinson

Saturn in Leo: “In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.” ― Lindsey Vonn

Saturn in Virgo: “If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.” ― Lindsay Buckingham

Saturn in Libra: “Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.” ― Julius Gordon

Saturn in Scorpio: “To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.” ― Edward Weeks

Saturn in Sagittarius: “Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” ― Steve Maraboli

Saturn in Capricorn: “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.” ― Roy T. Bennett

Saturn in Aquarius: “Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.” ― Donna Goddard

Saturn in Pisces: “There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.” ― Shannon Alder

[crabussy]

the psychological horror created by Hasbro’s desire to sell more toys rather than honour the desires of the original creator resulting in an immortal alicorn princess of friendship doomed to watch her friends grow old and die without her is so interesting to me. by trying to cater to children more you have accidentally created a reality in which death of the main characters friends as she lives on for centuries is not just implied but confirmed. idk it’s fascinating to think about

[dlartistanon]

"Hey there, Little Lamb"

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

Uwe Henneken, A Teaching in Transfiguration

[maream2636]

2024.25.6

It was a day full of psychological realizations, but exams hindered my full focus on them, but I am happy that I realized my weakness and dealt with it. I felt relief when I got it out of my system.

So what I did today :

1. Take a shower and eat a healthy meal! (I was suffering from breakfast and every time I ended up with cake and tea)

2.I liberated myself from an old belief, or will we say progress, because it is a very big point and connected to a lot (it was through a story that I read yesterday and I found myself very affected, and today I woke up upset and did not understand the reason until I realized that I saw a part of myself in that story..)

3.I have finished studying for the pharmaceutical accounts exam (after trouble)

4.I studied for my optional chemistry exam (need grades)

When I wrote, I realized that I was still being hard on myself. I mean, look at what I accomplished, and all day long I say, “Oh, I didn’t do anything.” Also, my brother asked me how I changed like this, and after a long conversation, he said to me, “I really respect you because you are always improving yourself" Sometimes I forget how far I have come.

[n4tsum1-san]

every time someone mischaracterizes nuanced character relationships and turns it into a basic parent-child dynamic, i die a little inside

my main gripe with this is about nahida being called scara's mom/aunt but it also extends to zhongli & xiao, beidou & kazuha, wriothesley & sigewinne, neuvillette & furina, and others.

like. i enjoy found family as much as everyone else, but that is a terrible injustice to the characters' writing. the character typecast as the child is infantilized to hell and back while the other character is reduced to a 2d caricature of the perfect parent. Bruh

don't get me wrong, headcanons are fine and all, it just irks me that some people consider it lore accurate when it really isn't

[mctwinkdom]

I'm obsessed with the man Lando is becoming

[dg-outlaw]

Batman #148 Thoughts... or Why Jason Todd is Awesome and Batman Doesn't Deserve Him.

So... I know a lot of the discussion about this issue has been about what happens to Jason, and IYKYK. What I want to discuss are parts of the rest of the issue and why I think Jason is one of the best characters (and more than how many perceive him). *spoilers ahead*

I know many outsiders and even those in fandom look at Jason Todd or the Red Hood and think of him as the hot, angsty edge lord who isn't afraid to break Batman's one rule. He's cool and badass so you want to be like him or he's the romantic fantasy bad boy with a soft side. These things are fine, but this is often where people stop with Jason or if they dislike him the above descriptions are why.

Some people want him to be an antagonist again because villains are cool and this is where we get things like 'The Boys' because it's edgy, subversive, or some intelligent deconstruction of superheroes. Colorful and honorable superheroes like Superman or Spider-Man are boring, just a fantasy, or for kids who don't understand the real world. Again, fine if that's your take, but I don't believe that one "graduates" from one to the other.

Beyond the Fast and Furious style cool factor of fast cars, guns, and explosions that often get associated with Jason, there's more to him than that and it's why he's still one of my favorites. Hell, this is the same character that writers thought would be a priest in the Flashpoint universe, a universe that had gone to hell in a handbasket but in all that chaos and darkness he became a PRIEST.

(The World of Flashpoint: Issue #2)

Say what you will about organized religion, Christianity, or the Catholic church (because there are definitely issues there), but I think two of Jason's core traits that I admire are his faith and hope. Traits that often get Jason hurt by the people closest to him, but that often see him through the darkest times.

The cheapness of using Jason's "death" aside, these traits are seen again in Batman #148. Not only is Jason willing to put his faith in Bruce again (after everything "not" Bruce did to him in Gotham War), but he's the first down into the cave.

This isn't blind faith, but a willingness to try. A hope that maybe this time he won't be hurt, even if time and time again history has proven otherwise. Note: This can be a slippery and dangerous slope and not one without consequences as many people fall into the trap of going back into or staying in toxic relationships that only bring them pain. (And I never said his greatest strengths can't also be his greatest weaknesses).

We also see some emotional maturity and growth in this issue and I love that for Jason. Has he been going to therapy? Maybe, but my money is that he's probably been reading lots of self-help books or something.

Does Bruce deserve this level of forgiveness and compassion from Jason? No, but Jason gives it to him anyway. I also feel like this is a soft challenge from Jason. "I'm not here to save you from yourself or to ask you to save me. We do this together or not at all."

And if you're thinking, "Oh no, Jason has gone soft. Not my Jason Todd!" He's still a cheeky bastard in battle, even when he's on the ropes.

Now, for Jason's "death", one could say that it was a cheap ploy by the writer or DC to get people talking or to have a random "Jason dies" scene (though he's revived in the same issue so I feel the emotional stakes/hype are less compared to leaving it open-ended until the next issue).

One could also look at it in a cynical light given it's Jason that Bruce brings down into the cave during the flashback reveal with the secret Lazarus Kool-Aid. Did Bruce plan that knowing Jason would volunteer in some sort of reverse psychology manipulation? Was it just a random plot explanation to justify having the "Jason dies" scene? Who knows? Though I think Dick or Tim would've volunteered as well. But my focus is on the conversation.

This is another example of Jason's hope and faith, and his faith in Bruce. Bruce's plan isn't tested, though one could assume that he's done the math so to speak, but it's still Jason literally putting his life in Bruce's hands. It's also fairly clever because if Failsafe is some echo of Batman, then something in his programming probably knows about the emotional pain of Jason's initial death. So not only is "killing" going to make him glitch out, but killing Jason is probably the ultimate Failsafe glitch.

Deep down I think Jason knows how much he means to Bruce, even if Bruce is terrible at showing it sometimes. He's willing to take the risk and die, not for Bruce, but for the greater good of saving the day.

Let's also not forget that in the span of a short amount of (in-universe) time, Jason has saved the entire East Coast (end of Gotham War), Gotham City (end of The Joker: The Man Who Stopped Laughing), and is now ready to die again to stop Failsafe--all while his brain is still probably a little messed up from Gotham War.

Let this young man take a damn vacation!

Was this issue perfect? No. And I agree with others about it not being cool that Steph, Cass, and Duke got sidelined as the clean-up crew, but I do think it showed a lot of Jason's deeper character (flawed or not) and how he's more than just the edgy, sarcastic bad boy. That part of him is just the hard candy shell he's had to create to protect the gooey center that is his hope, faith, and love. After all, Damian has previously (and rightly) called him out as the "emotional one".

P.S. I know my previous post picked on Jason's Red Hood outfit at the end and I still stand by the fact that it wasn't my favorite, but seeing that it's Jorge Jimenez's art, I can forgive it. I love most of Jorge's art and would kill (not literally) to be as talented as him, but that outfit design is still a no for me. Sorry, Jorge. :(

[laylakeating]

Guess I'm saying I don't not love you // Here I am, full heart, full stop...I love you

[lady-griffin]

*Helping a Drunk/Unconscious Vi*

Jinx: Don’t draw on her face. Don’t draw on her face. Don’t draw on her face. Okay, but maybe, just a tiny, little moustache – no! Bad Jinx!

[kashmimo]

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