#martha/bethany

[leet911]

If you saw my last reblog, you know why I'm posting this. The world needs more Martha/Bethany.

Someone also made a podfic recording of this piece, for which I am eternally grateful:

[devonsawas]

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE | 2017 ↳ Directed by Jake Kasdan

[ldrloversblog]

RAW, next question

[rambleonwithrosie]

Definitely put it in the tags and comments who your other picks would have been if Tumblr polls allowed multiple selections

[clever-dana]

Martha, Mary of Bethany and Lazarus

[apenitentialprayer]

Six days before Passover, Jesus came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, whom Jesus had raised from the dead. They gave a dinner for Him there, and Martha served, while Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with Him. Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus, and dried them with her hair; the house was filled with the fragrance of the oil. Then Judas the Iscariot, one of His disciples, and the one who would betray Him, said, "Why was this oil not sold for three hundred days' wages and given to the poor?" He said this not because he cared about the poor but because he was a thief and held the money bag and used to steal contributions. So Jesus said, "Leave her alone. Let her keep this for the day of My burial. You will always have the poor with you, but you do not always have Me."

the Gospel According to John (12:1-8)

They were having their supper, having a good time. And Mary anointed His feet with perfume and wiped them with her hair. The perfume was worth the equivalent of a year's wages. Maybe she had to take out the pins that were holding her hair bound. I would be embarrassed. It was a transcendent act, beyond boundaries. But the Son of God, He's going to die - I would probably do something dramatic [too].

Mary did a good and lovely thing. What can I do that would be good and lovely? It doesn't have to be great. If someone aroused our anger, hurt us, you could search for a way of reconciliation. It doesn't have to be publicized. A phone call. A postcard. Go down the street and knock on their door.

We shouldn't carry our resources around in a jar and use a medicine dropper to expend them. We should give what we have for His glory, not for our own. That's difficult for me; Mary did a gauche thing, an intimate thing, an embarrassing thing. […] How can we break through our shell and do something good and lovely, reach out to another human being?

President Jimmy Carter, in a sermon given in April of 1995 (x).

[ballpit-bakery]

festive themed crow fest art dump lol

[pomegranatetemples]

Christ in the House of Martha and Mary (1886) - Henryk Siemiradzki

[incorrectjumanji]

Martha: This food is too hot... I can’t eat it.

Bethany: You’re very hot, and I still eat you.

Everyone at the table: *silence*

Fridge: YOU GUYS ARE DISGUSTING!

Spencer: One dinner... I just want ONE DINNER!

[theflirtmeister]

where do I even BEGIN with fic scenes of yours I constantly think about like?? you KNOW I have hoffdon bodyswap memorised. the wedding ring swallow. adam's ghost chilling with diana. hoffman pinning larry down on the rugby pitch. addie taking diana to the dentist. the reveal of lawrence watching like a crocodile. strahm punching hoffman in the stomach on her period. martha and bethany being soft holding hands.

;u; saving this message to my review folder because oh my god... this is the nicest thing in the WORLD <3 so many different fics! so many genres! ahhh!

[lessirussolvr]

[classic-art-favourites]

Martha and Mary Magdalene by Caravaggio, 1598-1599.

[devonsawas]

JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE | 2017 ↳ Directed by Jake Kasdan

[goddesscookiefelix]

Words from the Wise

There’s plenty of fish in the sea. Sometimes they don’t swim your way~ Goddess Cookie Felix

[hitchell-mope]

Just as funny as the last one.

[sassystudent-me]