#harsh

[downfalldestiny]

Once the harsh winter is gone, when come the good and easier days, we often encounter bears swimming by the ice edge. Polar bears are extremely capable of having fun alone with whatever they find 🐻‍❄️ !.

[minsungincorrectquotes]

Jisung: Do you mind if I come in? Minho: Do you mind if I leave?

[love4ng1e]

Stop for a moment and imagine where you would be if you applied the law instead of scrolling to no end? Go apply the fucking law.

- 𝜗𝜚

[correctopinionhaver]

[lillipad72]

does anyone else randomly open their copy of the complete journals of l.m. montgomery and flip to an entry that corresponds with the actual day just to see what maud was up to. for example today in 1894 she was discussing all the people she writes letters to and how, "all my correspondents are not equally interesting. some are dull and it is rather tedious to write to them"

[momentsbeforemass]

Bitter

How do you help people?

I don’t mean the things you say or do to help people. I’m talking about the point that St. Paul makes in today’s first reading. In what spirit are you saying it or doing it?

Because how you do what you – that gives away the spirit that you do it in. That gives away what’s going on in your heart.

Even though you may be telling yourself that you’re doing it to help people…

If you’re doing what you’re doing to make you feel better, people will know what’s in your heart.

If you’re saying what you’re saying so you can be right, people will know what’s in your heart.

If you’re shoring up a fragile self by being better than someone, by owning someone, people will know what’s in your heart.

When we do that. No matter what we tell ourselves about why we’re doing what we’re doing. No matter what we tell ourselves about why we’re saying what we’re saying.

People will know that what’s in our hearts? It isn’t love.

In the words of Pope St. Pius X, “It is vain to hope to attract souls to God by bitter zeal.

On the contrary, harm is done more often than good by taunting men harshly with their faults.”

Watching priests from both ends of the political spectrum have very public meltdowns on social media last week? And then watching people line up to condemn them, or join them in railing against their real and perceived targets?

Sent me back to Pius X’s concise and beautiful statement of why doing or saying whatever in anything but the spirit of Our Lord’s love is a complete waste of time. 

I’ve been reading and re-reading it the last few days (it’s paragraph 13, and it’s totally worth your time). For me, it’s a clarion call to take a hard look at my own motives. To do an examen – not of my day, but of my heart.

But I know I’m an outlier. Most people who saw those meltdowns? That wasn’t their reaction.

They reacted by choosing sides. And getting in on the action.

Or by tuning us out. In the words of my agnostic friend, the one that I quoted last week,

“This is why I can’t take you people and all your ‘God is love’ sh*t seriously.”

Today’s Readings

[flannelepicurean]

Bulma enlisting Goku and Krillin to help her stage a full musical performance of Avril Lavigne's "Girlfriend," and at the end Vegeta just kind of stares blankly and awkwardly goes, "... Raditz and I aren't... dating..." But Raditz is already shopping online for cheerleader uniforms in his and Nappa's sizes.

[howifeltabouthim]

'But I still love you.' 'You must deal with that problem yourself. There are various well-known methods of extinguishing love.' 'But I don't want to extinguish it.'

Iris Murdoch, from A Fairly Honourable Defeat

[afza147]

Ep8 when the phone rings(4)

Agree with hee joo

[michaeldamico]

Geez Louie... You didn't need to be that harsh...

[odinsblog]

that’s kinda fucked up tho

[femdom-universe871]

[wiirocku]

Proverbs 15:1 (NLT) - A gentle answer deflects anger, but harsh words make tempers flare.

[lawofcollage]

Yeah I don't have any explanation for this. Happy Halloween?

Threadless

[uuuhshiny]

Vladimir Verevochkin in Code name: Cranes

@giftober 2024 | Day 15: Reference

[lomotunes2008]

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