#Overflowing

[new-philosopher]

Source: GMM 2677

[xxssbhmjoe450xx]

I'm kinda obsessed with what gluttony is doing to my body. And how good morbid obesity looks on me 🫣

[mystical-growth]

I mean~ I think I’m still growing ^^ and it doesn’t feel like I’m imagining things either 🤭

[daddyslittlewhore93]

[momentsbeforemass]

The end times?

This time of year, the Mass readings focus on the four last things – death, judgment, heaven, and hell.

Including stuff about the end times from the Gospels, from Revelation, and even some of the Old Testament readings. Which means that people are understandably going to ask the question,

“Are we living in the end times?”

The answer? Of course we are.

Because time is divided into two parts – before Christ and after Christ. Even if you don’t use the traditional labels (BC – Before Christ, AD – “Anno Domini,” The Year of Our Lord), the event that starts CE (Common Era) is the birth of Christ.

And we are living in the back half, which will come to an end.

The important part of living in the end times isn’t knowing when it will end. Countless people waste their time trying to figure that out. None of them ever get it right. None of them ever will.

As Jesus tells us, “about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father.” If God’s own Son doesn’t know, the odds of a human being figuring it out are, well, you know.

The important part of living in the end times is knowing what to do with the time we have.

Because the end times are the days of grace, the aftermath of Good Friday and Easter Sunday.

When God’s mercy and compassion are overflowing for all His children. When God’s call to use the time we have is a call to have a heart for Him and for all His children. As one translation puts it, to

“Overflow with mercy and compassion for others, just as your heavenly Father overflows with mercy and compassion for all.” – Luke 6:36.

Today’s Readings

[apollosbirthdayplaylist]

藤井風 (Fujii Kaze) - Tiny Desk Concert (full show)

[dabiconcordia]

When is enough enough

[stargirl-and-potts]

Mary is butch!! Jim is punk!! Stede has a big beautiful beard phase!! Izzy has a pegleg. Ed is laughing wildly into the storm and snarking and gazing wistfully into the distance so very Edfully. Swede has a style evolution. Ed meets a bunny! Ed loves the bunny! There’s duels and emotional responsibility and dykes everywhere. There’s Ed looking bright eyed and tender and glad. I have feasted.

[aizaibela]

https://youtu.be/ldVTbMypH_k

[djevilninja]

Thee Sacred Souls - Overflowing | Audiotree Live

[xxssbhmjoe450xx]

Sooooo...... I have out grown last summers clothes... ooops.....😅🙃👌👀

[mystical-growth]

Something wakes me, a restraining tightness. I take off my blankets and sit up to try and adjust my top, but some feel very different. I go turn on a light only to see my shirt straining with swelling flesh. What the-? *pop* Mmm~ what’s happening? My mind races as I try to rationalize over the intense growing pleasure on my chest. Maybe that wish did come true? Or I did like that one post- *pop* Mmngh~ 💕 my thoughts are ripped back to my strained pajama top. How big was I going to grow? How long was this shirt going too last? *pop*…

Thanks again for 1000 followers ^^ I know this is different than my usual posts. But a few old requests and compliments I’ve reread recently inspired me to make this 🤭 also kinda had this fantasy distracting me lately 😳 so~ I figured I’d share it 🫣 I hope you like it.

[daddyslittlewhore93]

[momentsbeforemass]

You can’t give what you don’t have.

If someone with a cardboard sign is asking me for money, the only way I can do that is if I first have some money.

Because you can’t give what you don’t have.

It’s a universal truth. The kind that seems super obvious when you say it. Almost like I’m insulting your intelligence when I point it out.

And yet, there are so many areas of our lives where the way that you and I do things? It’s like we’ve never heard this one before.

This is the dynamic that’s behind what Jesus is saying in today’s Gospel, when He says,

"You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment.

The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself."

Loving your neighbor is no small thing. Because it’s exactly how our faith is supposed to play out in our lives. That is what you and I are called to do, if we’re really followers of Christ.

But let’s be clear – loving your neighbor isn’t some mushy sentiment. Because love isn’t a feeling. Love is a choice. As St. Thomas Aquinas tells us, “To love is to will the good of the other.”

But loving your neighbor can be hard.

Willing the good of the other – who lets their dog do it on my lawn and leaves it there? Willing the good of the other – when their backyard cookouts make the block smell like burning tires? Willing the good of the other – with that super-special [something I hate] flag on their front porch?

I don’t know about you, but I don’t have that kind of love. Not on my own.

And yet, Jesus is calling me to love my neighbor, to love that neighbor, as myself.

Where am I going to get that kind of love? Because I can’t give what I don’t have.

That is what the first half of what Jesus is saying, the first commandment, is all about.

If I love God with all my heart, with all my soul, and with all my mind? God will do things His way, by paying me back in kind, a thousand-fold. Here’s what I mean.

God already loves you more than you know (see Good Friday for details). But when you start trying to love God back, when you take that first faltering step of loving God, God lights up and says, “Game on!”

Because you and I can’t love God without God paying us back in kind, a thousand-fold.

And our dixie cup of love for God will be met by God with horse trough after pond after lake after ocean of love until we literally cannot contain it - and God’s love overflows into every area of our lives and into the lives of everyone we meet. Even our neighbor.

But it all starts with loving God. Because you can’t give what you don’t have.

Today’s Readings

[unscramblerer]

Todays Word Of The Day is: Effusive

Effusive originates from the Latin effusivus(pouring out freely). English usage of the word began in the mid-17th century. The word describes expressing feelings in an overly emotional way.

[wiirocku]

Colossians 2:7 (NIV) - rooted and built up in Him, strengthened in the faith as you were taught, and overflowing with thankfulness.