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somerunner · 1 month ago

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this sucks, I’m going to (remembers suicide jokes are bad for my mental health) - TRIM MY FEEBLE LAMP

[through gritted teeth, with fists clenched]

When upon life's billows you are tempest-tossed, when you are discouraged, thinking all is lost, COUNT YOUR MANY BLESSINGS, NAME THEM ONE BY ONE, AND IT WILL SURPRISE YOU WHAT THE LORD HAS DONE-

#suicide #jclds runnerpost #religious runnerpost #hymn 335 #“Brightly Beams Our Father’s Mercy” btw.#It’s…ok‚ I want to do my regular “somerunner puts up a whole bunch of disclaimers and acknowledgements” thing —#— the “acknowledging my faults will absolve me of them” thing. So the rest of the tags will be about that.#I love this song. It’s dear to me. It says that we (jclds peeps) have a (religious) duty and not abandon others in (spiritual) need.#and I know that thinking of yourself as “burdened with responsibility to save others” (especially religiously) is…um.#Quite condescending and bad. Problematic would be an appropriate word.#But it still touches my heart deeply and for that I cherish this song.

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