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[albertfinch]

DAILY MEDITATIONS AND AFFIRMATIONS - May 25, 2024

"Arise from the dead..." - Ephesians 5:14

The life and power comes after we "get up and get going," God does not give us overcoming life -- He gives us life as we overcome.  When the inspiration of God comes and He says, "Arise from the dead," we have to get ourselves up; God will not lift us up. Our Lord said to the man with the withered hand "Stretch out your hand" (Matthew 12:13).

Luke 17:21 - "...for indeed, the Kingdom of God is within you." God wants you to be conscious of the abundance of resources in His Kingdom. Jesus said "The Kingdom of God is within you." this means that the Kingdom of God is not some physical place. It is within you and it is where the abundance of resources is.

So if you want to experience abundance in your life, come to understand, and be conscious of your Christ identity, then what is inside you will become a reality on the outside because His Kingdom is within you!

AFFIRMATIONS: 

My love is set on God and I know His name  -  so He delivers me and sets me on high!  He answers me when I call and is with me in bad times.  He delivers me, honors me, satisfies me with long life, and continues showing me salvation.  (Psalm 91:14-16)

The Lord is my rock.  He is solid and does not change.  He is my Fortress, surrounding me with protection.  He is my Deliverer, always making a way for me.  My God, my refuge!  (Psalm 18:2)

I will not be like those who are delivered over and over again  -  those who are bent on rebellion and choose to continue to go back and waste away in their own sin.  I will not abuse the goodness of God!  I will not go back to the very thing I was delivered from!  (Psalm 106:43)

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[shotbyshe]

Words of the Day

shiftless:  (of a person or action) characterized by laziness, indolence, and a lack of ambition.

democratize:  make (something) accessible to everyone.

snarky:  critical or mocking in an indirect or sarcastic way.

bad-tempered or irritable.

urbane:  courteous and refined in manner (typically used of a man).

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Social Media has become democratized and that is why it:

is so boring;

lacks originality; 

is littered with mediocrity being swallowed, coughed up, rinsed and repeated. 

It has to be accessible for children therefore it has to be a CERTAIN way, a.k.a. not your way, not unique...but profitable, digestible, dull and flat.

God forbid you have a niche, it’s then copied and drilled to death. But perhaps that’s just me being snarky.

[canisalbus]

How do you draw so frequently???

I'm starting to think I probably have some passive ADHD so I end up always admiring ppl who can just constantly do stuff, it's like a dream, your art is also like a dream, Vasco is also a sweet dream, I really like Vasco, he looks really sweet

I set aside a little bit of time every evening just to draw, it's become almost like a wind down routine for me. It helps if I don't treat it as serious 100% effort hard mode art time, I usually multitask a little on the side, watch a movie or take breaks to do little chores around the house and art just sort of happens if it happens. Lately I've been making mostly personal low pressure feel-good pieces.

[notbecauseofvictories]

you know, I have to give algorithms credit sometimes---or at least when I log onto netflix and the very first suggestion is "what if life in 17th century poland was a comedy"

[charmwasjess]

My favorite part of my day is feeding these greedy losers

[markodragic]

to the person who stole my feebas/milotic in pokemon violet instead of trading it back in good faith, I hope you die today

[echthr0s]

post about amphetamines and ensuing thread about how "ADHD people just feel normal on stimulants" is anecdotally true but not necessarily scientifically true on my dash and I'm just thinking about that first time that I tried meth with Sigma and we just both hyperfocused on our computers the entire time (they do have ADHD but I do not), or how I used to take Adderalls for the wakefulness and euphoria yes but also because I felt like it was easier to ride the strange winding pathways of my cognition to a place where they'd end up as a fic or some other project rather than just petering out because I couldn't keep up/got distracted by something else/got intimidated by the breadth of my thoughts

which I think is what the euphoria was actually related to. it wasn't just a direct result of Having Consumed An Substance, it was the exhilarating feeling of riding those strange winding pathways to wherever they wanted to take me, and not falling out of the train and landing unceremoniously on the side of the tracks with nothing to show for my grandiose thinking except some fragmented concepts

and to me, that's... therapeutic. that's a therapeutic experience, to be fully present in and engaged with my own mind. to feel centered and yet expansive, to be unbowed by anxiety, to see an end goal (a finished thing, in all its weird glory) and be inexorably propelled towards it by my own steam.

but I don't have ADHD. so I guess I'm just Being High, by this dichotomy ("people with ADHD on amphetamines are experiencing therapeutic effects" / "people without ADHD on amphetamines are experiencing recreational effects"). but it doesn't seem fair to make such a flat division, or to even assume that what people think of as "recreational highs" aren't therapeutic in some way (see also: the wide variance in how people respond to THC)

anyway tl;dr the ever-evolving wars on drugs really decimated how we think about the interactions between our bodies and the substances we put into it

[lupines-slash-recs]

Rec: Do Not Go Gently by Aki_The_Shiftless

Title: Do Not Go Gently Author: Aki_The_Shiftless Canon: Hellboy Pairing: John Myers/Nuada Silverlance Rating: Mature [R] Word Count: 50,511 Summary: The most amusing thing for Life is to watch people struggle trying to win the game, and while they will always be

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[guessimdumb]

The O'Jays - Shiftless, Shady, Jealous Kind of People (1972)

Of course, I’m referring to the Philadelphia Eagles fans.  Just kidding,  Here a song from the O’Jays fantastic LP Back Stabbers.

They're cold, they'll fold and don't care

[albertfinch]

March 3, 2024 - Exhortation

It's time. Don't fight. Get in the water. Let it come. Let it birth. Let it be messy. Let all see.

An intense battle is ahead of you! God is speaking loud and clear right now. There is a supernatural strength coming upon you to be instrumental in birthing the next wave of revival which will be super intense as it brings into the spiritual consciousness of the Laodicean Church the necessity of advancing His Kingdom through discipling believers into their Christ identity so they will be more effective in bearing fruit that remains. We will not fail to complete this assignment from Heaven.

God is sending helpers, angels of fire, and a new wave of prayer that will hit the apathetic, aimless, unambitious, indolent lifestyles of many in the Church. Is your obedience to Him worth the possible pain and suffering along the way? You must ask yourself if you're willing to lay it all down.

ALBERT FINCH MINISTRY

[razorsadness]

Everybody that's on my block They're tired of me that ain't no shock And I ain't got no idols I ain't got much taste I'm shiftless when I'm idle I got time to waste

[canisalbus]

I hope you have a lovely day today. ❤️

Thank you! You too! 🧡

[bitchycasenthusiast]

BERTIE STOP THIS IS THE EXACT BEHAVIOR THAT LEADS TO A MAN GETTING ENGAGED 10+ TIMES

I NEVER want to hear this guy say he’s tough to hang out with AGAIN

[projectdivaar]

u ever listen 2 a song an ur js like. why did this take me so long oh my god. coz. yeah.

[citylighten]

teaser for the next sink or swim update

[giftedeath]

just rewatched lifeserial and it had me thinking so hard abt how much buffy has to go through that season gahh like its one of those episodes that is very fun while also being very sad. i mean its fun to me bc we get spuffy antics that episode and i love their lil antics so much <3 kitten poker <3 her going to spike bc he loves the brawl and she loves the brawl but being disappointed in how brawl-less it ends up being. but anyway thats just my spike and buffy brain talking what is really tragic and upsetting in this episode is everything that happens w giles. him coming through for her with the money and she's like 'knowing ur always going to be here makes me feel safe' they joke in the episode how giles doesn't wanna be her mom or her dad cant he just be her rakish uncle! but at this point her actual father is tht shiftless absentee dad, and i think about this all the time bc its probably just the writers decision not to include him for screentime purposes or w/e less abt plot but in doing that they're saying 'buffy's dad is so far gone that he did not go to his ex-wife's funeral, probably didn't even go to his own daughter's funeral and he sure isn't there for the fifteen year old that is now without any family! oh and now that my eldest is magically alive i still do not give one fuck.' which is crazy, but its established very early on that giles is something of a father figure to her, and probably the reason the writers didnt have her Real Dad around. like at first yeah maybe he was just her uptight, preachy, watcher but by season six he's so much more than that and so yeah in that moment in this ep when she admits to him that its like her mom is back, that she's not alone, that a weight had been lifted bc for one moment she didn't have all these responsibilities and obligations that normal twenty - one year olds don't typically have so early on. that is the culmination of seasons of giles always being there, and supporting her, and loving her like she's his child. and it makes me think all the way back to surprise/innocence when joyce finds out buffy loses her virginity to angel and so does giles, and giles feels a sense of responsibility in a season early as 2, to have that knowledge of what buffy's going through, when the only other adult in her life who knows is joyce. its giles and joyce and when its not joyce its giles! and then what happens when its not giles? and its only buffy? i dont know its just such a tragic spin to the narrative to have giles leave, and for their relationship to deteriorate the way it does, and not even really ever recover. bc i would say it gets significantly worse in season 7 actually. maybe if we had more seasons we could have seen them properly reconcile but giles leaving accomplishes exactly what he sets out to do. he leaves bc he believes that she relies on him and that him being her father figure has gone too far/he wants her to stand on her own, which she does i think. but that doesn't mean buffy's going to not be bitter about it? i actually would argue and say it feels like probably the biggest betrayal she has ever experienced at this point. which is why in my head, them being so tense in s7 makes sense. i do think w time buffy would forgive him but its one of those things where i just think the bitterness would stick for at least a few years! given the context.