#unbearable

[ask-spiderpool]

[thegoodmorningman]

It is a hell to endure. Good Morning.

[reuna]

I was watching the snow outside and thinking of Palestine

If you lived here you'd see the pretty blues of snow and wintry skies The trees frosted and bare asleep, waiting for the new morning of a sun-dappled spring. If I were there my children wouldn't play in snow but in ashes, if they'd be playing at all Thousands in need of parental care Of loved ones destroyed The feeling of not being enough Amplified thousandfold. My home is shrouded in peace and quiet In gratitude I hold my children close, in desperate love. In a country advertising with Santa Claus The happiest place in the world Funding the genocide of families like ours. If you were here They'd probably be still alive. My children gone because of bombs or lack of insuline, And a world watching in silence as humanity is discarded as economically unviable.

[randomfingthings]

✨ The Carlando moments ✨

[gasstationpopcorn]

[incorrectly-quoted-queers]

I love imagining a young Sarek meeting Amanda Grayson and instead of being like "oh I'm in love" he very logically decides "alright, now that I know this woman exists I will be wholly unberable if I do not have her in my life"

And you know what he's right

[theoddsideofme]

[nobeerreviews]

The shortest distance between two points is often unbearable.

-- Charles Bukowski

(Vernazza, Italy)

[howifeltabouthim]

'He's looking for her . . . Not just looking . . . he's dying without her.'

Chris Whitaker, from All the Colors of the Dark

[fannyyann]

flapanthers: Night flight 🌅

[thegoodmorningman]

It's too early to think about partying like that. I'm "BARELY" awake yet. Good Morning.

[theupfish]

"I got rhythm...!"

[heart-songs]

P.S.

I close my eyes and see a seagull in the desert, high, against unbearably blue sky.

There is hope in the past.

I’m writing to you all the time, I am writing

with both hands, day and night.

– Franz Wright

[gasstationpopcorn]

youtube

[steelthroat]

I envy kids and their random screaming so much... like- I hate it. I fucking hate loud noises, but the fact that they're able to screech to their heart's content without a care in the world just because they can is cool.

I was a quiet kid anyway, I lost my chance.

[momentsbeforemass]

Unbearable

Today’s Gospel sounds harsh, even cruel.

Someone who wants to follow Jesus asks to first bury his father. The way Jesus responds?

Of all the things you and I have ever heard someone say at a funeral, what Jesus says isn’t one of them, “Follow me, and let the dead bury their dead.”

What the man was asking went beyond grieving the loss of a parent and the need for closure. For him, burying his father was a sacred duty. It would dishonor both his father and God for him to not give his father a proper burial. And yet, it is God – the Second Person of the Trinity – who is saying this.

Which means what? That God has had it, that God is done with His own stuff? Not at all.

While Jesus says it in a jarring way, the point is not to offend but to get through to him. To break through the numbness, the autopilot that we so easily slip into when we are in the worst parts of grieving a loss.

In order to give him what he needs to get through what’s hurting him the most.

Jesus is saying that he doesn’t have to do this alone. In fact, he shouldn’t even try. That to deal with all that he is dealing with, he needs to do it with God.

And that starts with following God, drawing close to God, making God his first priority.

Not as a way to avoid his duty to his father. Not in an attempt to avoid grieving and somehow magically skip right to closure and healing (which never works).

In fact, it’s just the opposite. Doing it with God will give him the grace to fulfill his duty. Doing it with God will give him the strength to grieve the loss. 

It works the same way for you and me. By putting God first, we will have what we need to deal with all that life drops on us.

“The difficulties of life do not have to be unbearable. It is the way we look at them - through faith or unbelief - that makes them seem so.” – Brother Lawrence

Today’s Readings