#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]

[apollosbirthdayplaylist]

���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.

[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

[aizaibela]

https://youtu.be/ldVTbMypH_k

[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.

[wiirocku]

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

[daddyslittlewhore93]

[djevilninja]

Thee Sacred Souls - Overflowing | Audiotree Live

[apollosbirthdayplaylist]

藤井 風 (Fujii Kaze) - 満ちてゆく (Michi Teyu Ku, Overflowing)

[shirozen]

Overflowing with enthusiasm