#Have Mercy Upon Us!

[granonine]

Have Mercy Upon Us!

Psalm 123. Unto Thee lift I up mine eyes, O Thou that dwellest in the heavens. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that He have mercy upon us. Have mercy upon us, O LORD, have mercy upon us: for we are exceedingly filled with contempt. Our soul is…

[bklily]

Silver: I love and support you father, but there's a time and place for everything!!

(this is entirely based off the interaction i had with a friend who is avoiding spoilers for book 7, and when she allowed a single minor non plot spoiler we told her Lilia was confirmed bi. her reaction was hilarious)

(so you know i had to make a comic out of that lmao)

[a-very-sneaky-mimic]

Just said "Change" as an expletive out-loud instead of "Stars" and I think this MIGHT be a sign I've been writing too much Mirabelle

[mrxadreamin]

The men of Hades are SOMETHING but Levi and Foras hit different istg

[aled4laide]

Manifesting Trumps death 🙏🙇‍♂️

May he die in a ridiculous and/or painful way if possible

[dieddeadrecently]

Not me logging in to my old tumblr account to see how my gomens mutuals are doing

The answer is awful obviously

[rosencatholic]

I have seen such cruelty of words towards the people of California from the right these past couple of days, I never want to hear about the right being morally superior to the left, for those parties are both parts of the same coin.

Have you forgotten that those people, who although think and vote differently from you, Christian or not, are your brothers and sisters?

Watch your tongue so that it may not condemn you and watch your heart so that it may not darken, for God searches your heart.

The words of St. Paul come to me when I see such lack of compassion:

“They were filled with all manner of wickedness, evil, covetousness, malice. Fully of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malignity, they are gossips, slanderers, haters of God, insolent, haughty, boastful, inventors of evil, disobedient to parents, foolish, faithless, heartless, ruthless.”

[jukedoxxed-st]

Ughh I made this for a friend you guys can see it too if ya want

he gave me the quote and let me mess with it a bit so here's the thing

Fun fact: I dont like Byakuya all that much.

[aromanticasterisms]

okay penacony has been very fun so far but the only thing to actually make me say Oh Shit out loud was acheron saying yae sakura's line. anyway

[acatandamouse]

So, we finally got the covid. But I'm really glad I had enough energy to put up a plague cross on our door.

If you're going to be miserable and trapped inside for a week, and court death, you might as well have some fun while you do it.

[moon-and-rain0]

الْيَوْمَ أَكْمَلْتُ لَكُمْ دِينَكُمْ وَأَتْمَمْتُ عَلَيْكُمْ نِعْمَتِي وَرَضِيتُ لَكُمُ الْإِسْلَامَ دِينًا

“…This day I have perfected for you your religion and completed My favor upon you and have approved for you Islām as religion…”

[cultivating-wildflowers]

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[rin-sith]

THANK YOU!! I adore the connection there and what it says about Odysseus that he tried at all, despite knowing it wouldn't work.

Ngl Odysseus' "Maybe you could learn to forgive?" is my favorite moment from the whole saga just for what it says about Odysseus that he tries this before jumping to... well, repeatedly stabbing Poseidon. This moment of leading from the heart, of "Can't we forgive each other and let it go?" and how we are explicitly shown that it does not work puts what Odysseus does to Poseidon in 600 Strike in a very different light compared to what it would be if he hadn't tried reason and mercy first. Quite simply, it shows us proof of what we might have already inferred from just Poseidon's character and how he acts—that stabbing him repeatedly was really the only way to make him give in and back off. He wouldn't have listened to anything else or learned any other way.

However, I believe that no matter how unhinged Odysseus may have been in 600 Strike, this offer also means that he's no longer using ruthlessness as a first resort the way he did for a while after Monster. I mean, would the Different Beast version of Odysseus have offered mercy and forgiveness to the dude who drowned over 500 of his men just like so? I don't think so.

600 Strike, to me, simply means that Odysseus isn't hesitating or shying away from using ruthlessness and violence when he has no choice, or he's facing someone or something with whom mercy doesn't work... like Poseidon.

There are times for mercy, for leading from the heart, and then there are times when that doesn't work—times for ruthlessness. And finally, finally Odysseus is no longer existential-crisising over one or the other because it's been both all along.

See the thing is, Odysseus still tried to reason with Poseidon. He tried to resolve this with words, with his wit. That didn't work. It would never work with Poseidon. So, he became the monster he needed to be to get home. He turned the lesson Poseidon taught him back on him. He was ruthless. And at the end of it, he got his mercy. He got to go home. But he did try, one last time, to be the man Polites believed him to be. Open arms didn't work. So ruthlessness it was.

[toraavanak]

Writing and especially worldbuilding is so funny sometimes because I can tell you the details of a multi-decade astronomical cycle but I can't tell you the name of the mentor who trained my mc

[victusinveritas]

Episcopal Bishop, Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde, publicly called out Trump to his face today at a service at the National Cathedral in Washington, DC. This was some next level Jesus-style calling out the powerful that you rarely see exampled anymore.

“Let me make one final plea, Mr. President. Millions have put their trust in you, and as you told the nation yesterday, you have felt the providential hand of a loving God. In the name of our God, I ask you to have mercy upon the people in our country who are scared now. There are gay, lesbian, and transgender children in Democratic, Republican, and independent families, some who fear for their lives. The people who pick our crops and clean our office buildings, who labor in poultry farms and meatpacking plants, who wash the dishes after we eat in restaurants and work the night shifts in hospitals, they may not be citizens or have the proper documentation, but the vast majority of immigrants are not criminals. They pay taxes and are good neighbors. They are faithful members of our churches and mosques, synagogues, gurdwara, and temples.

I ask you to have mercy, Mr. President, on those in our communities whose children fear their parents will be taken away, and that you help those who are fleeing war zones and persecution in their own lands to find compassion and welcome here. Our God teaches us that we are to be merciful to the stranger, for we were all once strangers in this land. May God grant us the strength and courage to honor the dignity of every human being, to speak the truth to one another in love, and walk humbly with each other and our God, for the good of all people, the good of all people in this nation and the world. Amen.”

[exopelagic]

in the next step of my slide towards becoming eric bittle, i’m about to get into beyonce