#suffering of god

[fierysword]

What I discovered while doing the research on Sophia was this: all the feelings I had had all my life of being different, of not fitting in anywhere, of an inability to fit into groups, of the humiliation from hearing the cultural message of woman's inferiority and stupidity, all of these feelings were stirred up into consciousness. The ejection from my lifestyle following [my husband's] death was not so unfamiliar, after all... [Sophia] herself was exiled, pushed out, was neutered or masculinized by theologians. The feeling of not being alone anymore, that out here in the trash bin was such a powerful, feminine presence was intriguing. Imperceptibly, a shift began to happen in my own soul. I began to realize that the forces of exclusion and oppression were the same ones that banished Sophia from the mainstream. I was in good company in exile[...] Who else is the "Mother of Exiles" but Sophia, whom Caitlin Matthews so eloquently identifies as "Mistress of the Marginalized"?

Sophia: Exile and Return by Kathleen Granville Damiani

[esistkeinponyhof]

percy being told that you burn what you'll miss the most and immediately burning his blue jelly beans to talk to his mom. i don't think anyone understands how much of a big deal this is to me

[vmkhoneyy]

“People are inherently terrible” no!!! Have you ever seen a child wait for their friend while they tie their shoelaces? Have you ever known someone who would bring hurt squirrels and rabbits and mice to the nearest vet just so it doesn’t suffer? Have you seen someone grieve? Have you ever read something that hit your heart like a freight train? Have you looked at the stars and felt an unexplainable joy? Have you ever baked bread? Have you shared a meal with a friend? Have you not seen it? All the love? All the good? I know it’s hard to see sometimes, I know there’s pain everywhere. But look, there’s a child helping another up after a hard fall. Look, there’s someone giving their umbrella to a stranger. Look, there’s someone admiring the spring flowers. Look, there’s good, there’s good, there’s good. Look!!!!

[maibeloved]

Need to draw them more actually ;((

[literarymerritt]

Thinking about Them 🥺

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[mardyart]

kiddos

[akanemnon]

I wonder if she takes cash or credit.

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[opens-up-4-nobody]

:-P

[lucabyte]

On autonomy, and what it means to be Obliged to Help.

Bonus:

[girl-lostconnection]

New continuation to this

I’m sitting on the idea of Ghoap x Reader AU where Reader is Simon’s best friend that’s been with him since childhood, through thick and thin.

They leave together when they graduate, start renting a flat before Simon leaves for army which initially changes nothing. He still comes whenever he can, calls them pretty often, he’s there for Christmases (if they get leaves for it).

And then something changes. It’s nothing noticeable, he is just a little more distant, he’s slipping their Christmas for the first time instead inviting Reader to come out somewhere in Scottish Highlands (you decline partially because you are upset that he just cancelled out on you all of a sudden and partially you and Simon are two socially inept people and the thought of spending Christmas with bunch of people you don’t know is…well, not alluring).

And then at some point Simon introduces the shiny John (“Johnny”, practically purrs Simon and you feel your blood pressure rising) “Soap” MacTavish who’s beautiful and joyful and whose smile is infectious.

And you are cordial, trying to be friendly, trying to push down the “oh, so that’s who you spent Christmas with in Scotland” because it’s not fair to Simon, because Simon doesn’t owe you anything, you aren’t together after all.

And Soap is incredibly friendly, grinning wide, touchy in a way that overwhelms you at some point, discomfort probably evident because Simon pulls Soap away by the nape of his neck, growling that he needs to let you breathe.

And it would be better if Soap instead didn’t drape his hand over Ghost’s shoulders and god, you never were one to be jealous but for some reason (yeah, why is that, i wonder) you want to hole up somewhere and hide.

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[fierysword]

Wisdom traditions and Wisdom images of God were also newly filled with the prophetic aims of justice and God's partisanship for the oppressed, and that they were in fact reinterpreted as well. Now it is not the simple whom Sophia invites to her palace; she invites the poor to her meal. Now the yoke laid on people is not that of hard study, but the yoke of oppression. Now the rejection of Wisdom does not simply result in her withdrawal and exaltation, but in her crucifixion, death, and exaltation and that of her messengers…

Preexistent Sophia becomes human, suffers violence, is rejected, killed, and exalted to God, whence at the end of time she will return… in Jesus [Sophia] came to the poorest of this world, including especially women and children, but also to all who are discriminated against because of the color of their skin, and shared their fate. This gospel is also the message that God enters entirely into her/his suffering creation…

Sophia-God shares the suffering of the oppressed women and men of this world and the suffering of the exploited creation; in Jesus she shared their death. But she overcame death and is Mistress of the whole world.

Wisdom Has Built Her House by Silvia Schroer

[kedreeva]

i love my silly little bird who would absolutely never survive in the wild today she was preening on her sitting perch and a wing feather came loose and fell onto her perch instead of the floor and she was SO upset about it she came all the way down onto the arm of my chair to make puffy little :((((( noises at me and tug on my sleeve until I moved it for her. the feather. that she made. that she is fully capable of picking up in her own beak and moving. but it was in her way :(((( mom help :((((

the offending feather and giant baby helping me write this post

[ainsi-soit-il]

The thing about being religious is you'll talk about your beliefs and/or experiences with non-religious people, and they'll sort of pat you on the head and say, "Yes, what a nice little idea, I'm glad that you have your beliefs to comfort you!" and every time you have to bite your tongue because your religion isn't just a "nice little idea" to you, it's a cosmic truth that underlies all things, and furthermore, although God Himself has comforted you, that doesn't mean that faith itself is comfortable, but if you put any of that into words, they'll look at you funny.

[incinerated-vestiges]

target destroyed.

[hinamie]

domain expansion

[arcanegifs]

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