#gratitude and praise

[thetarotman]

A Moon Serpent and Bone 5th Annual Yule Festival Thank You

I often say Gratitude, Praise and Self-Care are DAILY practices for me. And they are.

I often say that Gratitude, Praise and Self-Care are DAILY practices for me. And they are. Also, I love expressing Gratitude to everyone who makes any Event at which I offer my Psychic Services extra wonderful. Indeed, regarding the recent Moon Serpent and Bone 5th Annual Yule Festival, I AM most thankful to Amy, the Living Goddess of the Moon Serpent and Bone Markets, for setting an amazing…

[livechristcentered]

Psalm 4 Devotional

Psalm 4For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. 1 Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God.Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?3 Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call…

[bringthekingdom]

[littlefankingdom]

~ Nightwing (2016)

Bruce letting himself fall, with his eyes closed, to show that he trusts Dick that much, is really great, but it gave Dick a heart attack. He already saw his bio parents fall to their death, he was terrified.

[n4rval]

SOMETHING IN MY MIND? SURE IS. LIKE HOW GREAT AND COOL YOU ARE

🫵  AND YOUR GASTER WHOM I WANT TO SQUEEZE LIKE AN ALMOST EMPTY PACKET OF MAYONNAISE. HOLD HIM IN THE MIGHTIEST OF GRIPS JUST LIKE HE DID WITH MY BRAIN FOR ALL THESE YEARS

AH.

THE HANDLING OF PRAISE IS ...

STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS.

[brenda-walsh-ministries]

No Matter What - Praise God

When everything is going wrong in your life – instead of complaining, praise God! When you focus on praising God, you’ll develop a stronger trust in Christ, your Savior and a faith that is rock solid. Never underestimate the power of praising Jesus! So often we see God as the "giver," and our prayers are reduced to "give me this," and "give me that." But when we neglect to praise and worship our Creator, our relationship with Him suffers. We shouldn't wait for something wonderful to happen to us, to tell God just how awesome He is and how much we love Him! Our praise should not be based on what kind of day we are having. True praise is not based on feelings! It is precisely when you are down and out, feeling depressed that you should praise Him the most! When you do, you will experience the amazing, uplifting power of praise and through Christ, you'll be able to overcome all the hopeless feelings that threaten to overcome you! No matter what - Praise God! Text: Psalm 108:1-2, Jeremiah 17:14, Psalm 18:3

Bible Texts:

Psalm 108:1-2 KJV - [[A Song Psalm of David.]] O God, my heart is fixed; I will sing and give praise, even with my glory. Awake, psaltery and harp: I [myself] will awake early.

Jeremiah 17:14 KJV - Heal me, O LORD, and I shall be healed; save me, and I shall be saved: for thou [art] my praise.

Psalm 18:3 KJV - I will call upon the LORD, [who is worthy] to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.

[randomfoggytiger]

What a difference in the two interviews - Duchovny's in 1997 and Anderson's in 1998.

Duchovny was super arrogant and pretentious, thinking he was the King of Cocada Preta, trying to pass himself off as an intellectual, bored with fame. Winona Ryder never came out to David because she was much more famous at the time.. Thankfully, in the years that followed, he had to tone it down. Less Duchovny, much less…

Anderson, on the other hand, looked like a working mother, working non-stop to support her daughter, zero glamor, a bit depressed, like a middle-aged woman broken by life.

And in none of the interviews did the geniuses who interviewed them talk about Mulder and Scully, who were the soul of the show.

I'm slowly working on a progress-through-Season-8-based-on-the-burnt-out-interviews post, so this was timely. :DD

To be fair, David was suffering. Both of them were. The X-Files was simply a job to DD and GA; and they coped with its insane hours and insane stresses differently. For Gillian, she internally imploded: eating disorders, panic attacks, anxiety so bad she wouldn't wish it on her worst enemy. She was afraid to put a foot wrong because she'd gotten pregnant so early on and could have threatened the longevity of the show; but she kept putting a foot wrong due to a shoot-from-the-hip personality. Then she was a divorced co-parent trying to do everything herself. David, meanwhile, didn't have that stress; but instead of marrying quick to escape the unbearable loneliness (like Gillian did), he tried to escape by getting outward attention... or through porn, joking in Playboy that his favorite pornstar had gotten him through some very, very lonely days. He also outsourced constantly, making connections with other entertainers and etc. to try to establish himself in Hollywood away from the show. Part of that persona-- that he had everything together and was living the dream-- was part and parcel of selling himself to the business for, in turn, more work.

Secondly, DD WAS arrogant. It wasn't until AA that he learned gratitude, per his own words. Until that time, he'd overachieved into such heights of success that he, naturally, developed an ego. But that wasn't enough-- it never is-- and he kept devising other ways to get attention. Per his old interviews, he described being 'shocking' or 'funny' or etc. as a way to keep others' eyes (and attention) on himself. He always feared they'd lose interest in him and walk away, otherwise (still does.)

That mindset, he's stated here and there, was a result of habits he'd formed in his childhood-- the middle child caught in a turbulent divorce: father suddenly gone, mother heartbroken, and older brother and younger sister taking sides. He had to become intermediary for his siblings and shoulder-to-lean-on for his mother. He became his mother's pride and joy: a shy kid who thought he wasn't a looker when he was younger, who transferred to a better school on a scholarship, who was "captain of the basketball team and the baseball team and a straight-A student, and I was in my last year of high school, and I'd applied to four schools–Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Brown–and I got into all of them." Who was, in short, an over-achiever; and became arrogant because he achieved everything through his own efforts. But he was also a kid who fainted in senior year, breaking his front teeth, because the stress was too much.

And he was also a man who spent long hours overworked on a show he wasn't particularly passionate about. One who spent long, isolated hours alone (in the bathtub) in Vancouver when not working. And one who always had to be "on" when he was out with his friends or spotted by people on the street. Further, no one wanted (wants) to hear the rich and successful complain about the hardships of their success. So, he turned on the charm for attention, instead; and resented having to "sell himself" for people to care about his work. And his performance, on and off screen, earned him fifteen years of public backpatting and"Fox Mulder"ing everywhere he went.

He didn't deal with the stress perfectly, and created his own problems that had to be worked through later on. But Gillian did, as well (per her own words); and they've both owned up to their mistakes and have, seemingly, moved on from the past.

Lastly, there are other interviews where his truer self comes through: those are sadder, pre-marriage; or more stable and happy, post-marriage. Gillian had happy interviews, too; but her life was much more accelerated than his (marriage, pregnancy, divorce on close heels), and thus sounded more burnt out than he was.

I don't like to pit or compare faults because I'm sure they both handled global fame and nonstop work better than a lot of people would have (David was rock-bottom depressed and Gillian was afraid she'd quite literally go insane; but they made it.) And there are always interviews where he looks like a cherub and she a hag, or he an arrogant scumbag and she a hard-done-by saint. Neither were either.

About the Winona Ryder speculation:

Even in interviews from the early days, DD kept personal details close to the chest, not referring to romantic partners as "my girlfriend" unless his significant other had an established public persona (or an upcoming project.) The person he spoke the most about was Tea-- and that was after their marriage, and only during interviews to promote their next tv series or movie. Tea was a talker, and she didn't mind when he talked about her; so, she rubbed off on David for a good chunk of their relationship-- even after the rehab stint-- until their divorce. (Now, she's taken a vow of silence and enforces it strictly with Tim Daly, as stated by both.)

I'm not up-to-date on Winona, but I'm sure the relationship wasn't serious enough for either to really acknowledge it. She looked happy in their picture together; and I don't think she's the type to deny a relationship because it might not be advantageous to her "brand." But what do I know? XDD

Those are my thoughts, anyway~ :DDD

[woundgallery]

Gratitude by Anna Kamienska

A tempest threw a rainbow in my face so that I wanted to fall under the rain to kiss the hands of an old woman to whom I gave my seat to thank everyone for the fact that they exist and at times even feel like smiling I was grateful to young leaves that they were willing to open up to the sun to babies that they still felt like coming into this world to the old that they heroically endure until the end I was full of thanks like a Sunday alms-box I would have embraced death if she’d stopped nearby

Gratitude is a scattered homeless love

[fideidefenswhore]

After that last ask about Cromwell’s involvement, I’m really curious how you’d characterise Mary’s relationship with him overall?

Because I’ve seen some historians suggest things were - on the whole - more conciliatory, whilst others have seen it as just another bullying minister in a line of them for Mary.

And yeah I’m just interested in how you’d describe it!

The "bullying minister" is more in line with some older pop history, like Carolly Erickson, but Mary's biographers do tend to take a more cynical view...

Chapuys was informed he must persuade Mary to sign the articles [...] The ambassador, his tongue firmly in his cheek, responded that he thought Mary would take more notice of Cromwell, who was like a second father to her. In fact, Cromwell was more like a wicked uncle. He sent Mary a letter that was both uncompromising and threatening. [...] The prospect of abandonment by Cromwell [...] finally broke Mary's resolve.

Her correspondence with him after her capitulation was cordial and warm. But I don't think she would've forgotten that he promoted the cause of her mother's demotion, any more than she would've forgotten for anyone else. She's aware that he's the most influential person with her father at this point, that's why she uses him as an intermediary on matters of finances and such in the coming year(s).

Like her relationship with her second stepmother, I think it's important to consider the self-fashioning: she knows everything she writes will be relayed to her father.

Mary sent Cromwell a letter of thanks in effecting her reconciliation. Surprisingly, she did not take up the offer obviously made by either letter or messenger for new clothes. She told him she had written to her father saying she required no more clothes than her father's favour.

Again, we know she'll be asking Cromwell to ask Henry to send her more funds later in the year, so this could suggest various possibilities...1) she wasn't so destitute of clothes during AB's reign as Chapuys suggested, and/or 2) Henry hasn't been quite so generous absent of her influence as Chapuys has suggested, so she's hedging on asking for anything further than what has been granted on the hope it will be offered and that she doesn't have to later be in the position of 'beggar', and/or 3) she's being intentionally self-abasing/humble as a matter of self-fashioning (not necessarily 'sincerely' thankful).

Mary does thank him for his kindness to her servant and her mother's. But I don't necessarily think this means their relationship was completely beneficial to Mary's well-being...it's likely that as Cromwell is "stringing Chapuys along", he's likewise doing the same to Mary, as late as August that year still telling him that Henry will name her heir to the throne. Charles V seemed to take a more realistic view, even from farther away: "he doubted Cromwell's sincerity in promoting either Mary's marriage to Dom Luis or her restoration the succession".

There's often an anachronism of Mary's life 1536- being 'fairly tranquil'. But what follows is the execution of her chamberlain in connection to the Pilgrimage, and Cromwell was very active in carrying out Henry's will in regards to reprisals for that rebellion. We don't know what she felt about that, nor how much blame she felt was due, and to whom. Maybe she believed, underneath all the courtly politesse towards Cromwell, that much like AB, he was a corrupting influence on her father...or, maybe not. Later on, he's extremely active in the reprisals of the "Exeter Conspiracy", which led to the arrests and executions of many of her supporters and friends. How did she feel about Cromwell's role in this? Again, this is all speculation, but I don't necessarily, personally believe her only emotion towards Cromwell was gratitude.

Elizabeth Seymour asked her to be godmother to her son, but it's hard to know how suggestive that is of Mary being an ally /of an affinity/friendly with the Cromwells, and/or the Seymours. It might also just have been reflective of an honour that Elizabeth wanted conferred on her son; her son was the King's nephew-in-law, it would've been entirely appropriate for his daughter to be his godmother as well, reifying that royal connection.

Cromwell warned Mary (or took her to task, depending on your view) that her lodging foreigners in her household without permission from Henry made her suspect to him. He also instructed her to meet Charles V's ambassadors in 1538, and then to inform him exactly what they had said. Mary seems to have perhaps 'technically' (what did they say, vs what did they write) followed his instructions, but ultimately defied them (she either spoke in a language her ladies did not know, or slipped them a letter apprising them of 'secret matters'). He later sent instructions to 'sound Cleves in regard to a marriage for Mary with the Duke'.

In 1540, Mary thanked him again for looking after her own interests. It was to be the last time she did so. These are Melita Thomas' last remarks on the subject:

From Mary's letters to Cromwell, and the presents exchanged between them, we can infer that they were personally on good terms [...] Mary never sought to undermine or circumvent his power with Henry. It is impossible to know whether, secretly, she hated him as the author of the destruction of papal authority, and the Dissolution of the Monasteries, or whether she was sincerelly grateful to him for effecting the reconciliation with Henry. [...]

Interesting, but I don't think 1) Mary had enough power or influence to undermine or circumvent Cromwell's power, even had she wanted to, and 2) "sincere hatred" and "sincere gratitude" are not mutually exclusive emotions, necessarily. Even if it was more the former, she would have been disabused on the notion (if she held it), that he was the sole influence responsible for the destruction of what/those she held dear (much like she was in 1536); because days after Cromwell's execution, Dr Abell, her mother's chaplain and supporter, and her own former tutor and supporter, Dr Fetherstone, were executed.

[ae-cha08]

In verse 16, the psalm becomes a song of assurance, praising the Lord for His past mercies and grace, exhibiting David’s confidence in God.

Like David, let us remember, to proclaim/sing, of God’s strength, protection, and His loyal love for us. God is our refuge, a place of shelter in times of trouble, and our strength. Let us remember to give thanks praising the Lord for His loyal love every morning, afternoon, and evening.

[dawn-eyes]

I’m only just halfway into the first chapter of your new romionarry fic and I’ve already decided that you should never stop writing ever because it is your calling and your destiny (kidding no pressure) and I thank the lord that you’ve decided to dedicate your talents to the love story between my three best friends Hermione Ron and Harry. God bless you. I’m your biggest fan. It’s hard out here being a romionarry truther but luckily we have heroes like you ❤️

Thank you omg I'm so glad youre enjoying it so far!! Romionarry truthers around the world you are all so loved and protected by me

[progressofthepilgrim]

[livechristcentered]

Psalm 4 Devotional

Psalm 4For the director of music. With stringed instruments. A psalm of David. 1 Answer me when I call to you, my righteous God.Give me relief from my distress; have mercy on me and hear my prayer.2 How long will you people turn my glory into shame? How long will you love delusions and seek false gods?3 Know that the Lord has set apart his faithful servant for himself; the Lord hears when I call…

[bringthekingdom]

[mouthsfullofsharpteeth]

one thing i really adore about this fandom is how many incredibly talented and creative fanartists there are. like, i draw too but the amount of sketches and full color pieces and art asks and requests that the artists in this fandom do are just....wild to me. its so impressive and makes being a fan of marble hornets so enjoyable.

[random-xpressions]

Some eat their food silently. I'm of those who will lavishly praise the food that's in front of me - its color, its aroma, its texture, its taste. I consider it to be the essential gratitude that the meal on your plate deserves. I'm sure the food on your plate can hear too...

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