#the hidden person of the heart

[preacheroftruthblog]

1 Peter: Braiding Hair and Following In The Footsteps of Sarah

Do not let your adorning be external – the braiding of hair and the putting on of gold jewelry, or the clothing you wear – but let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.  For this is how the holy women who hoped in God used to adorn themselves, by submitting to their own husbands, as Sarah…

[gummi-ships]

Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance - Traverse Town

[humlase]

HATSUNE MIKU??????

[daffodil--lament]

look i figured out how to put this post underwater

my personal opinions and interpretations of a piece of literature are incoming. this is me nitpicking but: by the end of the first ghost scrooge is already ashamed of himself and looking toward change and when the third ghost comes he assumes that theyre looking upon a future in which he has changed so he's terrified and devastated when he sees the reactions to his death because he doesn't know if the scrooge they know in a year's time is one who has changed, or one who has changed enough.

like yes i do think that seeing his own miserable lonely celebrated death is vital to the man he becomes on christmas morning BUT. it's not just that. scrooge's fatal flaw isn't just greed, it's isolation and indifference. seeing that there is tenderness and love in this world not far from him is as important as watching his own kin disregard him as lost and loathsome.

that's why, in my mind, seeing how loved tiny tim is, understanding the love and faith and perseverance of the Cratchits as well as his own hand in continuing their poverty and illness, and being struck with the abject tragedy of tim's (really quite preventable) death changes him as much as the businessmen's jokes about him do.

i think what the point one might make here comes down to the fact that it isnt until scrooge is confronted by the reality of the suffering he is enabling that he understands how badly he needs to make a change. he knew Bob Cratchit is poor, I'm sure, but he was able to ignore that fact until the spirits show him the Cratchits' home and their malnourished children. Healthcare CEOS see that every day, they arent ignorant. healthcare companies actively fight to keep people in poverty and sickness. so maybe they're way more evil than Scrooge, who's to say

[catabasis]

“Now, look here, nothing good will come of it. You must take that emotion and you must bury it. Never let it out.”

BBC Ghosts | Good Omens

[teeth-draws]

“What do you mean he’s scary!! Look at him!”

— taking artistic liberties to scrunkle the face of @shepherds-of-haven’s Blade Bronwyn - a man with 0.6% body fat lol

[byanyan]

had a full on breakdown in counselling today so that was fun but painfully necessary. cookie's appointment went well too, the vet thinks it's probably just a bladder infection since she couldn't see any masses so we're getting some meds. now.... some minor errands to run n then i can get back home to lie down on the floor adjgks

[airenyah]

just watched the bl & chill interview and it's just so delightful to see how much more confident joong has gotten speaking english compared to the hidden agenda era interviews from a year and a half ago. like, he still gets a little shy sometimes or switches to thai for some stories/explanations, but still, he's sooo much more talkative now in english, it's sweet

[thebirdandhersong]

I've mentally blocked out most of last year's romantic fiasco, but sometimes things come to mind suddenly and I'm forced to Deal With residual mortification at the very thought of the person I was

[aroaessidhe]

2024 reads / storygraph

Fifty Beasts to Break Your Heart

fantasy short story collection of dark and quirky fairytales, including:

sapphics working at a roadside attraction called the eternal staircase

a clique of teen girls dabbling in witchcraft told in first person plural

an outcasted goat girl and vampire who become a family

and women who turn into houses, a girl who regularly magically drowns, a boy made of thread,

interesting writing styles & illustrations included

[nonsensechemicals]

crying whenever i talk about Cookie9 because all my friends have these interesting and unique theories on them while i take everything too literally and they all just stare at me like “dude… uuugh we r TIRED” <-they dont actually say this they are very kind to me but i can Feel It

[whenthegoldrays]

it’s also like. sometimes you watch something and get obsessed with it and have this idea of its themes and implications and the truths you can see in it and then you find that other people don’t love it so much or at least don’t love it for the more detailed reasons you do and you stop and ask yourself whether it was actually that good or whether all that good stuff is just what YOU saw in it and then the conclusions you drew and headcanons you added onto it afterwards

[purplepenntapus]

Writing Sanji is a delicate balancing act between making him kind and not making him too nice, because he’s one of, if not the kindest member of the Straw Hats, but he also has incurable asshole disease and can’t go three seconds without being a prick

[lynxfrost13]

I genuinely wonder about Ariane and the Itous friendship they’re such a delightful little trio of outcast weirdo kids to me

[downsteepy]

i feel cute so i want to point some details out in my recent leon piece

the bunny he's holding is actually based off of a bunny plush that i bought for my bf (he associates me with bunnies, i associate him with sheep. i have a matching sheep plush from the same brand). the bunny's name is rutabaga

i dont have the unblurred version (on mobile rn) but eva cameo!!

more things related to me and ally . the dogy is a plush hes had for a long time and the blue bear is a plush ive had since i was a baby

thats all thank you for joining my fun detail hour

[wiirocku]

1 Peter 3:4 (NKJV) - rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.