#prayer box

[ssinnabar]

This sums up my past year pretty well.

"You were given new opportunities, but something happened to bring disappointment shortly after. However, the future is bright, and marriage is on the horizon."

I got engaged this year.

[puppyfriedrice]

[janicegshop]

Does sobriety change your life?

Yes, sobriety can change your life in many positive ways. Addiction can have a profound impact on a person's life, affecting their relationships, career, health, and overall well-being. Achieving and maintaining sobriety can be a significant accomplishment that can lead to a range of positive changes.

Some of the ways sobriety can change your life include:

Improved Health: Alcohol and drug addiction can have a devastating impact on physical and mental health.

Better Relationships: Addiction can strain relationships with family, friends, and coworkers. Sobriety can improve communication, trust, and intimacy in relationships, leading to stronger connections.

Increased Self-Esteem: Sobriety can help individuals rebuild their self-esteem and self-worth, leading to a greater sense of purpose and confidence.

Career Advancement: Addiction can impact job performance and lead to job loss. Sobriety can improve focus, productivity, and reliability, leading to new career opportunities and advancement.

Financial Stability: Addiction can be expensive, leading to financial instability and debt. Sobriety can lead to better money management and the ability to save for the future.

Positive Social Connections: Sobriety can lead to the development of positive, supportive relationships with other sober individuals, providing a sense of community and support.

Overall, sobriety can lead to a happier, healthier, and more fulfilling life. While achieving sobriety can be challenging, it is a worthwhile and life-changing goal that can provide numerous benefits for years to come.

[butts-bouncing-on-the-beltway]

In the early 1980s, my mom came out as a lesbian and her mom told her "fine, but don't talk about it in front of your cousins" talking about my uncle ron's youngest daughters who were young teens at the time.

And for a while mom went along with this, but then her middle cousin started becoming more and more visibly a lesbian in the closet herself, so my mom said fuck it, and brought a partner with her to the next holiday so she could show her cousin it was okay to be herself.

My uncle ron putters over to this giant of a woman (mams always did like her butches over 6ft), looks her up and down, shakes her hand and slips her a gin and tonic, and then turns to mom and just says "cousins is cousins" and wanders back off again to chat with one of his kids.

I grew up my whole life hearing that phrase. Cousins is cousins. And it wasn't just about blood, it was a found family thing, you know? From inception, the whole point of this was "kiddo, I love you, and so I love anyone who loves you like they're my own." I think a lot about what it means to be a man like that with the weight of family obligation and generations of religious trauma on your back, and still look at this young woman you watched grow up and say that loving someone and being loved by someone will always matter more than anything else, no matter how important that other thing might be to someone.

I don't think the man ever understood a goddamn thing about my gender, but I know he loved me and he was happy that I was happy, and he was tickled pink that I liked the idea of aging into him.

[shiftythrifting]

More so garage sales than thrift stores, but I found a rubix cube box and spider-man Jesus candle (Spider-Jesus)

[upthewitchypunx]

My friend just posted this on Facebook and thought it might be a joke. Nope, it's real. it only has 3.8 stars. naturally the first thing I went to look at was the 1 star reviews.

[bobowizard]

[royalnavyart]

Lord please free me from this wretched heathen… teach me how to resist temptation.

[kehlanifenty]

[yahweh-official]

Dear God

If you made man in your image and men have prostates then does that mean you have one? Are you a bottom?

child,

i have everything and am all. my form has every characteristic of man plus a rib with every characteristic of women. i'm a top and a bottom. at the same time. Not a switch. both.

[unopenablebox]

it's possible that im just experiencing distorting nostalgia for the religious experiences of my childhood. but unfortunately i kind of suspect that the reason i respected and was moved by the sermons of rabbi [redacted for being an astonishingly googleable rabbi even though the rest of my post still makes it easy to google him and also im not even sure knowing this makes me more doxxable] is because he is an extraordinarily insightful, empathetic person who had the moral clarity and courage to vocally denounce the treatment of palestinians from the bimah for years until he eventually got thrown out and had to start his own congregation/work for the quakers instead. and it's possible that any rabbi who still runs anything resembling a mainstream congregation is also going to be, at best, kind of milquetoast/simply not interesting, or at least not obviously possessed of moral and ethical insights that i don't already have from things like "being able to read" and "already having thought about judaism before"

unfortunately i can't just go to the new congregation that rabbi formed bc it's 1. not in a city i live in 2. more of an activist group in kind of a vague congregation shape that mostly made me feel like i'm a disgusting western ashkenazi supremacist for wanting religious practice to involve melodies i know and can sing instead of a rotation of international sephardic melodies accompanied by hand drum

[janicegshop]

What's a God box in AA?

In AA, a God box is a small container or box that is used to symbolize turning over problems or worries to a higher power. The idea behind the God box is that individuals write down their worries or concerns on a slip of paper and then place it in the box as a way of relinquishing control and trusting in a higher power to handle the situation.

The God box is often used as a tool in Step 3 of the 12 Steps of Alcoholics Anonymous, which involves making a decision to turn one's will and life over to the care of a higher power as the individual understands it.

[tireddovahkiin]

IIYEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!!🗣🗣🗣🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[subskz]

cw // bondage, rough punishment (?), feet lol

tying lino up?🥰

idgaf feet are ugly but I'd tie his legs up so his feet are elevated and bound together and I'd gag his bitchass and shut him the fuck up and grab those pegs (yk to hang up clothes) and put them on his toes one by one🤭

awww it hurts? good🥰

imagine taking those canes yk and just fucking smacking it against the soles of his feet🤭 aww poor baby crying against the gag🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

punishing him by also using different types of floggers, crops, loops, paddles whatever you have lying around to spank/hit his legs, thighs, ass etc. leaving pinkish marks and the more you keep going the redder the skin grows and the more you see the marks left on his delicate skin🥰🥰🥰🥰

imagine the way he'd flinch each time🤩🤩 crying so cutely and pressing his legs together, seemingly nervous suddenly? oh? so you walk around and he tries to turn away and you yank him back and see his dick hard and throbbing against his tummy🤭🤭

heehee hitting his tummy? hitting the skin of his cute tummy with a crop? leaving marks on it? using the flogger to tickle his sides just so smack it down when he gets too squirmy? 🤭🤭🤭🥰🥰

you should definetly take a picture of his lewd position, lower body filled with marks and flustered skin🥰🥰🤭🤭🫶🏻🫶🏻

now what could have possibly sparked this sudden cruelty towards sweet innocent angel lino who has never done anything wrong in his entire life? 🥰

gagging lino is always a favorite…pretty pouty lips wrapped around a ballgag so no matter how much he tries to mouth off it all just comes out as cute garbled nonsense instead <3 clothespins on his toes is actually such a deliciously evil idea i love it hehe restraining the kitty’s claws so he can’t lash out at you 😼 it’d be fun to go the extra mile and put clamps on his nipples too i just can’t get the idea out of my head that they’re extra sensitive…toying w every part of his pretty body except the spot where he needs you most~ there’s smth so satisfying abt the thought of his sweet, airy, angelic voice getting rougher and raspier w each lil shout and gasp he lets out each time you smack his skin ❤️‍🔥

hitting the skin of his tummy…….this is a direct calculated attack on ME -_-; the soft expanse of his stomach rising and falling so rapidly and littered w fresh red marks…i loveee the idea of gently tickling his sides almost to soothe him, then surprising him w a sudden impact. the difference between his soft mewls that it tickles and his yelps of pain would be so good (esp w the added thrill of carefully smacking around the area where his dick is twitching against his tummy…just to make his heart race a lil more)

[imnotkosmic]

I couldn't tell if you had anon on so I'll just send it like this :)

I think you're a wonderful, kind person! I think you're nice, have cool interests,and from the picrews I've seen you're also pretty :)

You also seem to be going through a lot right now, and I just wanna say, God is looking out for you and I've been praying for you! God bless!💗💗💗💗

Awh, Mon!!! 😭💕 Thank you so much!! Your legit one of the nicest people I've met on here, and I'm so grateful for you. This has legitimately made my day haha! I love you!! ❤️❤️ God bless!

(Also I turned off anon asks cause I was getting hate 🥲)

[bobowizard]