#cqod

[tail-feathers]

✒️ “We must be willing to accept the bitter truth that, in the end, we may have to become a burden to those who love us. But it is necessary that we face this also. The full acceptance of our abjection and uselessness is the virtue that can make us and others rich in the grace of God.

It takes heroic charity and humility to let others sustain us when we are absolutely incapable of sustaining ourselves. We cannot suffer well unless we see Christ everywhere, both in suffering and in the charity of those who come to the aid of our affliction." -Thomas Merton

[tail-feathers]

Christina Rossetti:

I have no wit, no words, no tears;

My heart within me like a stone

Is numb'd too much for hopes or fears;

Look right, look left, I dwell alone;

I lift mine eyes, but dimm'd with grief

No everlasting hills I see;

My life is in the falling leaf:

O Jesus, quicken me.

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[storizenmagazine]

Tarana Husain Khan's novel tells the story of a nineteenth-century Dastan through the lens of a twenty-first-century family lore, in which a quintessential tale-telling, full-of-stories 'Dadi' narrates the story of her aristocratic grandmother to her granddaughter, Ameera. Ameera's life weaves a gossamer-thin frame-story interlaced with textures of the commonplace and mundane, propelling us into the extraordinary, suspense-thrill-filled life of Feroza Begum, one of Nawab Shams Khan of Sherpur's many spouses circa 1897. It makes no difference if you are a begum or reside in a patriarchal society. A woman in the nineteenth century was always referred to as ''JUST A WOMAN,'' regardless of whether she was a Begum or had official royal rank. The author carefully researched and detailed the Nawabi culture of the nineteenth century. Overall, author Tarana Husain Khan has interwoven fiction and facts to tell a disturbing story about the lives of women and ordinary people under tyrannical dictators in the early twentieth century. A story that is recommended but with a disclaimer: A harrowing story to digest! @bookreviewscafe @hachette_india @taranahusainkhan #books #bookstagram #bookreview #review #reviews #bookreviewer #bookreviewing #reviewbooks #writingcommunity #womenauthors #womenwriters #hachettebooks #storizenmagazine #bookrecommendations #bookrecs #bookrecommendation #booksworthreading https://www.instagram.com/p/CqOD-toy1w3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[lumadreamland]

365 days of ouat ladies: day 150

[tail-feathers]

"It is in books, latterly printed but originally hand-drawn by illuminators, that the message of Christ travelled around the globe; and by the medium of speech, directly between sentients. This message has not benefited from improvements in technology."

-David Warren

Bookworm

[tail-feathers]

“Human history is the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.”

C.S. Lewis

[lumadreamland]

365 days of ouat ladies: day 67

[misscoda]

- Practice sketch - 💕 Comments and shares are highly appreciated 💕

[mrtj822]

😸 https://www.instagram.com/p/CQod-hlACeLvpge2IAL-W_eL_hHYvJZZfLSozg0/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tail-feathers]

Twilight of a Great Civilization

 We are so steeped in the antichrist philosophy--namely, that success consists in embracing not the values of the Sermon on the Mount but an infinity of material things, of sex and status--that we little sense how much of what passes for practical Christianity is really an apostate compromise with the spirit of the age.    ... Carl F. H. Henry (1913-2003), Twilight of a Great Civilization

[hirocouoh]

El origen… (en Cafeto Tizimín) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQod-joqB1G/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tail-feathers]

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Storm over La Bajada Hill, ca 1946, Laura Gilpin (1891 - 1979)

[tanyapeacock]

Beer for breakfast. Can you see her? #lallorona #wailer #weepingwoman #modelo #modeloontap #mrstapcraft #weekend #sundayfunday @tapcraft_draught @rosestastingroom @modelousa @peacocksd19 https://www.instagram.com/p/CQod-5njADd/?utm_medium=tumblr

[grizzlydogs]

Grizzly day number two at the Alaska Scottish Highland Games at the Palmer fairgrounds. There are a lot of food trucks. Thank you to the record number of people out yesterday. Come down and have a grizzly Sunday. #foodtruck #discgolf #alaska #kilt (at Palmer, Alaska) https://www.instagram.com/p/CQod-_OH8Rm/?utm_medium=tumblr

[tail-feathers]

As the light of the sun has only one common nature towards all objects that can receive it, so God has only one common nature of goodness, towards all created nature, breaking forth in infinite flames of love, upon every part of the creation, and calling everything to the highest happiness it is capable of.

-William Law (1686-1761), Christian Regeneration

Ernest L. Blumenshein

Three Burros

27 x 28 1/2 inches

Oil on Canvas

[lumadreamland]