#Who God is

[momentsbeforemass]

What Jesus doesn’t say

Today’s Gospel is the story of Jesus walking on the water. With Peter trying to walk on the water. And failing.

So, Jesus pulls him into the boat. And afterwards says to Peter, “Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?”

Which is Jesus’ way of saying, “Why are you worrying? I’ve got this.”

The best part? What Jesus doesn’t say.

When Peter cries out for help, Jesus doesn’t say, “You know, Peter, you really need to get yourself together if you expect Me to help you.”

Jesus doesn’t say, “What have you done to deserve My help?”

Or “How many times am I going to have to do this?”

Or “What’s in it for Me?”

Jesus simply pulls Peter into the boat. Before He says anything.

Why is that the best part?

Because it shows us that Jesus isn’t keeping score.

Jesus isn’t looking at you or me or Peter, to see whether we deserve His love, His help.

Because if it was left to what we actually deserved, Peter would still be in the water.

Jesus is looking at us through His eyes of love. The same Love that’s looking for you.

Let’s be clear.

The Love that’s looking for you has nothing to do with who you are.

The Love that’s looking for you has everything to do with who He is.

Today’s Readings

[beloved-not-broken]

Today's post brought to you by: considering the implications of God being our friend

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

Love it when Rolling Stone puts out an article about the 25 most influential internet creators and I've only heard of 7 of them

[tearosepedall]

EDIT : THIS IS A MEME DO NOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY (and seriously just don’t be Rude????? Like wtf lol)

[lgbtlunaverse]

The world exists in such a baffling state of simultaneous sex-aversion and sex-hegemony. Every social platform on the internet is trying to banish sex workers to the shadow realm but I can't post a tweet without at least two bots replying P U S S Y I N B I O. People are self-censoring sex to seggs and $3× but every other ad you see is still filled with half-naked women. Rightwingers want queer people arrested for so much as existing in the same postal code as a child and are also drumming up a moral panic about how teenage boys aren't getting laid enough. I feel like I'm losing my mind.

[maggotnursery]

[gerardpilled]

I hate when an artist gets exposed for being a bad person and people start the narrative “why would you even want to listen to their shitty music” when are we going to be freed from the idea that only good people create good art and bad people create bad art. It just makes it harder for these types of people to be exposed because now you got people thinking “how is this possible, his music is so good!”

[dramatic-dolphin]

when we were studying the bible in literature class (so we have the context necessary for later works that reference the bible), i think we were at the book of jonah, and one of my classmates was studying the text very intently, and then looked up and earnestly said "professor, i don't understand the will of god"

the teacher was just like. well sadly i am a literature teacher and not a priest so i can't help you there. but if it helps, many people throughout history had the same problem.

[lesbianralzarek]

"life doesnt get better, you just get stronger" does NOT include ages 11-17. life does in fact just get better from there. those years are dogshit. like, you do get stronger but its mostly just a factor of not being 11-17 anymore. positive thinking helps but it doesnt fix whatevers going on at 15, you have to brute force through that one raw

[iscariotapologist]

today in church one of the priests referred to trans people as "those who are growing into the gender they were called to be" and i'm kind of enjoying the idea of like....divinely ordained top surgery

[noelledeltarune]

EVERY SINGLE DAY there are MILLIONS of characters in their late 20s who get falsely accused of being father figures to teenagers when in reality the description of "weird older cousin" or "step-sibling that moved out before you were born" is 1000000x more apt

[momentsbeforemass]

God or…

There are basically two ways to deal with God.

In our relationship with God, we can follow the direction that Jesus gives us in today’s Gospel. When He says (quoting Isaiah), “They shall all be taught by God.” Or we can do the teaching ourselves.

That is, we can either open our hearts and our minds to God. And let God teach us who He is.

Or we can teach God who He is.

Our relationship with God will be radically different, depending on who we let do the teaching.

If you and I do the teaching about God, we will soon find that we have made something to suit our own preferences. Whether it’s something that we’re comfortable with.

Or something that we’re comfortable ignoring.

We’ll make it work for a while. But in time, we’ll find ourselves further and further from anything real. Further and further from anything that will ever satisfy the hole in our hearts.

If we let God do the teaching, we’ll find ourselves drawing closer and closer to the source of reality itself.

If we persist, if keep letting God do the teaching, then we will find a peace and joy that can only come from satisfying our hearts by filling them with the very thing that they were meant to be filled with.

“The only One who can truly satisfy the human heart is the One who made it.”

Today’s Readings

[beloved-not-broken]

Posted in honor of my cat's first gotcha day

[edgebug]

the thing that sucks most about Joanne Rowling being a terf is that she is actively hurting real life trans people every day.

the second worst thing about joanne being a terf is that the Harry Potter intellectual property is So Much Larger than her. look at the credits for just one of the harry potter movies. every single one of those people put YEARS of time and effort and dare i say love into those films. think of all the people involved in theme park design and operation who put together the wizarding world park lands and detailed them so lovingly and fully

and yet even though the intellectual property of harry potter is so much larger than joanne, she's poisoned the whole well

i feel so. so immensely sorry for every person involved in the harry potter ip who isn't jkr. doubly sorry for every trans person involved. it's fucking sad

[xamitras]

For many of years I had this tradition of drawing Wirt and the beast once a year to see how much I have improved, then depression hit in 2023 and couldn't continue, but it left so really amazing art in the process