#The Desire for Healing

[dkcdude]

Do You Want to Get Well?

In the fifth chapter of John’s gospel, we encounter a story of Jesus healing a paralytic man who had been waiting by the pool of Bethesda for 38 years to try to get healed. It’s easy to glide past this little narrative as another of Jesus’s healings or miracles in general. But instead of doing that, I’d like to pause to ponder the simple question Jesus asks the man before doing anything…

[cloudimahi]

How I shifted with my eyes open, three times...

First time, I was lying on my bed and visualizing, this is what I normally do when I want to shift because I prefer visualizing over affirming. Anyway, in the middle of my calmness my imagination started moving on it's own, I got really annoyed so I opened my eyes and I saw my s/o laying next to me I smiled then realized there's a yellow light, (I don't have a yellow in my room or outside it) so I knew my eyes weren't closed and shifted back (gonna kms)

Second time, I was also lying but I was only visualizing without really thinking of shifting. So, I thought of my s/o standing in front of me and I realized that my surroundings are becoming significantly vivid and realized that he was standing in front of me, I kinda panicked and shifted into his body instead but thank God I automatically came back here

Third time, I was babysitting my cousin and just looked away because she was sleeping and out of nowhere the furniture shifted it's shape and I was suddenly in an abandoned place in the woods and just broken bricks, idk where that was but I remember I was wearing a beige flowy dress, and my hair was wavy, unlike here, straight

That's all, I'm gonna choke myself because school starts tomorrow, in literally less than 9 hours

[vampireposter]

meeting wyll at the grove, as someone who the tieflings trust enough to train their children, says so much about him. it's so sad that he doesn't get explored in acts 2-3 as deeply as the other companions, when his problems are equally intense. the average player probably long rests once before coming across the grove, but even if not, in that time wyll has already proven to the tieflings that they can rely on the Blade of Frontiers.

this is the immediate first thing he chooses to do after being condemned to slow death via ceremorphosis. his priority list in the first conversations with tav is: 1) hunt down a dangerous devil, 2) help zevlor with the goblins, 3) once nothing threatens the tieflings he will gladly search for a tadpole cure. wyll is perpetually his own last priority, and i wonder if it has to do with the lore about souls.

if he believes mind flayers' souls have been destroyed, and fiend warlocks will all have their souls sent to the hells after death, then becoming a mind flayer isn't the worst possible way for him to die. he would never become a mindless monster to save his own soul, but he's not gripped by horror the way that some of the other origin characters are. lae'zel has been made revoltingly impure to her people, astarion is terrified of losing the scrap of bodily autonomy he just regained, gale is guilt-ridden over the orb detonation if he dies, shadowheart has to survive to prove herself to her cult leader, and karlach has also just regained bodily autonomy and is desparate to live.

this is just another quest for the Blade, whose persona guards wyll ravengard against the vice of self-concern when he ought to be concerned for those in need.

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[btbonescanon]

[eamour]

be kind to yourself.

whatever you have seen today, whatever you have witnessed today, whatever has made you go out of your character — you will choose to be kind to yourself. you will be nice to yourself. you will treat yourself with respect and compassion. you will be empathetic with yourself. you can react and respond to whatever has stressed you today but you are not going to let it control you, making you say or do things to yourself that aren’t healthy. you will choose to have love for yourself.

it doesn’t matter what you are going through right now or what you are currently experiencing — you deserve to treat yourself with kindness. your body deserves it, your mind deserves it, you truly deserve it.

with love, ella.

[nil-elk]

I desire women carnally, and that's okay. I want to kiss, bite, and eat women. I want to consume and be consumed. And that's okay.

[feral-ballad]

Topaz Winters, from Portrait of My Body as a Crime I'm Still Committing; “Call Me Before You Leave Again”

[Text ID: “I will survive. I will remain here either way, my / bedsheets made of velvet & lavender, falling in love / with the sound of my own want.”]

[misspermitted]

I’m on board with the “Adar was/is Celeborn” theory purely because I want this crack exchange -

Adar/Celeborn: You cheated on me with Sauron!

Galadriel: Well you also cheated on me with Sauron so the scales are balanced

Adar/Celeborn: What?? In what-

Galadriel: You left me, your wife, for 1000 years, to have a family and children with him

Adar/Celeborn: Okay, well, you fell in love with him. Which means you weren’t even in love with me in the first place. Which is worse

Galadriel: YOU LITERALLY HAD HIS CHILDREN

Adar/Celeborn: You married me for all eternity wiTHOUT EVEN BEING IN LOVE WITH ME

High King Gil-Galad, to Elrond: Still think he’s fake and they’re not married?

Elrond: Oh no, I take it back, they’re definit- oh my god Galadriel do not challenge him to a duel there is nothing wrong with your womb gods above

[lovebvni]

WHAT ARE YOU SO AFRAID OF?

— Anna to Elsa in Frozen, November 27 2013

!aggressive/rude motivation!

ok, so what was holding me back from shifting was fear. fear of the future more specifically. and why the fuck was i scared of it? because i’m afraid of the impact i might make. in my own words “im afraid of what i may do for my future, positively or negatively, so i want to change the past.” I said that last night.

i said something so true yet so stupid. i’ll fix something that is already perfect in Gods eyes because I don’t like it? please. i’d rather try to edit what went wrong than make things right for my future?

what if ur favorite artist did that. they didn’t wanna change, so they never released their music. they wouldn’t have made an impact on you.

manifestation and shifting is BIGGER THAN YOU! stop trying to carry everything with you! you don’t need your past, you don’t need your fear.

i’m not starting a new chapter, i’m ending this book, and stating anew.

do you wanna paint over a finished canvas or start with a new one? one that isn’t folding over itself, crumbling before your eyes.

why keep working with something that’s frustrating you. start anew.

this is your new book, written by you. write the narrative in your words, not someone else’s.

i love you all. this is a reminder to all of us, it’s okay to start over or leave something behind.

from the deep depths of your mind,

abyss

[cloudimahi]

U want shifting motivation?

Think about your s/o

Think about the food

Think about your appearance

Think about the MONEYYYY

Think about how you'll be able to travel everywhere and anywhere

Think about being a cat that only sleeps and gets pats from its owner

Think about the makeup

Think about the hairstyles

Think about having a family with your s/o

Think about telling a stranger that you're actually from a different planet and wait for their reaction

Think about asking your s/o if the two of you are gonna be together

Think about the accessories you'll have

Think about being loved by every creature

Think about being globally famous

Think about being the icon of your country

Think about feeling safe

Think about group shifting with your friends in your realities

Think about being talented af

Iconic, isn't it?

[misscamthenorwegian]

“He loves her,” Robert Aramayo says. “She’s his hero. I’ve always thought that about Galadriel—she represents so much of what it is to be an elf. Elrond has such a complicated relationship with his own [people], and with who he is. There’s a natural ambiguity in his past and she’s this symbol of Elven wisdom and strength. He admires her so much. And they push each other and there’s a tension between them and he fights back, but all the while he’s thinking—even when they’re at odds with each other—’What would she do?’ and then he does that.” [x]

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[k-wame]

Kyle Soller as DI Alfred Hillinghead & George Parker as Henry Ashe BODIES (NETFLIX) ‧ 2023 ‧ S1·EP4 · dir. Marco Kreuzpaintner

[eamour]

practice gratitude.

here's the thing · you, very often, don’t give yourself credit for all of the amazing things that have happened and still take place in your life. i can assure you, there have to be so many great things that you‘ve experienced this week — no! even today, there has to be at least one thing that made you smile. it really doesn’t matter how big or small it is. it could be someone winking at you when you were out, getting a message from someone who you haven’t talked to in a long time or something casual that you already got used to but still makes your every day special. appreciate it. don’t take it for granted. if you feel like life is boring or if you are complaining about things not going your way and feeling frustrated, think of the things that DO go your way. celebrate your small achievements that often go unnoticed. turn small victories into big ones and make them meaningful to YOU. remind yourself of the things you are happy to have, happy to experience, happy to see,… we really tend to overlook the beautiful things in our lives and take them for granted because we don’t know what it’s like without them.

GOOD things, BETTER than good things, MORE than just a few good things happen to you every day. yes, there is also probably going to be a handful of things that weren’t as pleasant or weren’t nearly as worthy of appreciation compared to other things, but you decide what you want to focus on. every day, you have the option to choose on which thing you want to spend your energy on by thinking and reminiscing about it. it’s up to you if you want to celebrate your accomplishments and feel content about them, or look forward for the next bigger, worthier and more valuable thing to cherish.

today, i want you to recall at least a handful of things that you are thankful for. there is no limit. you can continue as much as you want. but just think about it — what am i grateful for? what do i appreciate to have? how does it make me feel to be the person that gets to experience these wonderful things? i promise, you will definitely think of some lovely things. ♡

with love, ella.

[hottreesinurarea]

In another universe I wrote an essay on how a lot of Bill's lore could be interpreted as him desperately trying to find a stable, safe home after the destruction of Euclydia, then created a multi-chaptered fic based on the many "Bill becomes human for redemption arc" aus centered around Gravity Falls and the Pines family becoming his home.

Not this one though.