#spiritual poverty

[fivestarhuman]

There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty— it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There’s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God.

Mother Teresa

[creature-wizard]

You did not "manifest" poverty into your life.

You did not "manifest" abuse into your life.

You did not "manifest" illness or disability into your life.

Anyone who tells you differently is victim blaming, and you should not be listening to them.

[mentally-ill-wizards]

Loki cares about all of you

If you're young, if you're trans or gay or a part of the LGBTQ+ community, know Loki loves you.

If you're POC or an Immigrant or from any background know Loki loves you.

If you're mentally ill or neurodivergent or disabled or chronically ill, know Loki loves you. If you're spooky or nerdy or shy or weird, know Loki loves you

If you're traumatised or a survivor, or an abuse victim, or a war or poverty victim, know Loki loves you.

If you feel like an outcast, if your family doesn't accept you, if you feel unsafe and alone, if you feel depressed, if you feel scared, know Loki loves you.

They feel the pain of each and every single one of you who will be harmed by Trump's presidency, and they care. Loki is on your side. Even in the darkest night when it seems like the world has abandoned you, when you are shivering and sobbing, Loki is there, and he cares. They care for the outcast and downtrodden, the vulnerable and the grieving, the fearful and the despairing.

Don't lose hope, a new dawn will approach. But until then, know Loki loves you.

[tankgotstuckinthecircusgate]

Every city's got a graveyard The service bought and paid for Now I'm sleeping in the backyard Passing out as night turns into day

[dramoor]

"Even as Archbishop, St John (Maximovitch) of Shanghai and San Francisco (June 19/ July 2) lived in poverty, wearing a cassock was made of Chinese "peasant cloth" stitched with crosses by orphans once in his care. His "miter" was sometimes a cloth cap to which he had glued paper icons. He went barefoot in all seasons, even in the United States-- until, after a foot infection, his Metropolitan ordered him to wear shoes. St John chose sandals.

At his funeral, the eulogist declared that because Archbishop John was able to live the spirituality of the Orthodox Church so fully, even in modern, western, urban society, so should we-- without excuse."

~Via Orthodox Christian on facebook

[wickedherbgrimoire]

✨GINGER✨

Ginger is great in protection and money workings, and it can also be added to love spells to attract passion.

Element: Fire Deities: Apollo Zodiacs: Leo Planet: Sun Crystals: Citrine, Clear Quartz, Pyrite, Selenite Good For: Protection, balance, safety, clarity, money, & more! Protects Against: Health curses, negativity, & poverty mindset

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Source: The Wicked Witch of the Web

[meirimerens]

thinking about how mishandled the herb brides are because like. The Text tells us they're not sexual beings (P1 mentions them being virgins, engaged to the Earth, and not to be touched even by their husbands, almost, for a lack of a better word and to conjure an image more than anything, priestess-types) and that their dances are nonsexual and sacred (all all true and correct) WHILE. giving them detailed / 3D modeled nipples. topless. clothes very conveniently torn [in ways that would be unrealistic for actual dancing like in the fucking moshpit]. all pretty thin hairless white-passing blemishless 20-something women. being already sexualized as white-passing asian women, but if they looked more like other NPC models/members of the Kin like the Kayura models (which to me would make more sense because they are never mentioned to be mixed in the way Artemy, an indigenous man who's blonde blue eyes due to being mixed, is [while still very much being indigenous and it being a central part of his story]), it would be even more obvious and would steer even more into Very Blatant fetishization of asian women. and then one asks, are they white-passing because they're sexualized? are they sexualized because they're white-passing? was it an admission of guilt to not make them look like Kayura model, because it would be too obvious then? or is it an admission of lust for women more white-passing? is it about beauty in the eye of the beholder?

then there's bewildering and dehumanizing lore of members of the Kin being non-humans, through the existence of the Worms (literally half-soil), them being a (more or less literal) hivemind, and that being "less human"/closer to the earth (nice_dichotomy_what_lies_outside_of_it png but also... the game touches on that...) immunizes them to the Earth's disease... and yet the Brides look like women... pretty thin hairless white-passing blemishless 20-something women who someone found wise to give 3d modeled nipples to, still good for the ritual cutting... do you hear how i'm going mad yet...

edit to add because while i was so mad and it WAS in my mind i just didn't have the strength to add it when i first wrote:

and they're bought and traded between the odonghs they pair with (again, closer to cattle or things) ... ladies there's so much. there's too much.

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Dorsal Atlântica - God Complex

[brown-little-robin]

oh great. I'm being sanctified again.

[wayti-blog]

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.

Aesop

[random-xpressions]

At times I feel there's a demeaning in prayer when we ask of God for everything except Himself...

Random Xpressions

[algolstare]

head in hands!!!!

[roygattero]

"Contractura" ("Contracture")

vector illustration, done with mouse and keyboard

surrealist vision of the effects of poverty and capitalism over mind and body

[revtimgraves]

Squishy Hands & A Man Rolled into a Fetal Position

Wrapping my aging adult hands around the cast iron toy bus, I move out of my body and into an inexplicable sphere. I feel the soft squishy child’s hand in my own. It is as if my hands cover and simultaneously inhabit her hand. My deceased mother’s toy bus. Partially hidden behind a ratty chair in the dark room, my four or five year old mother scoots the toy across the worn and smoggy rug.…

[shadyvoidhologram]

This is actually a big point in Christianity (at least for the Mormons) and the only thing that they didn't account for is the possibility of a depressed youth trying to find some kind of reassuring words abt why they came to earth, and finding sum passages saying "yeah, you chose to come to earth even after knowing abt all the horrible stuff that will happen to you and the people you love, God gets a bit quirky when designing trials for your kind. Also if you don't spread Gods word actively many souls won't make it to heaven and it will be exclusively your fault, have a happy life!"

And that's supposed to make me feel better about the dread caused by the horrors of everyday, like I was already sure I was dumb and harbored a lot of self hate, but now you're telling me I actively said "huh, I think I can endure years physical and mental abuse and the feeling of doom and hopelessness for not being able to help anyone in the way they need and come back here with my faith even stronger! What could go wrong?"

Well, turns out I was dumber than I thought and I'm possibly going to hell for wanting to at least call God a motherfucker for creating mankind at all.

But I'm told I'm a pessimist, so it depends I guess, maybe he'll find it funny, I think Jesus would lmao

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

Dorsal Atlântica - R.I.P. (Racism, Ignorance, Prejudice)