#walmart jesus

[runihura-kek]

just this whole interaction keeps me breathing...

my child in his "smoked eye" era...

[reptilia2003]

i really think some of you are just lazy…like omg what do you mean I have to do the dishes again I just did them yesterday?!?

[codacheetah]

My horrible little star they have every disease

Beanie baby Loop... oh poor thang... based on the much more dignified creature by @insertdisc5

[walmart-icarus]

do you guys ever think that the Devil cries everytime a soul has been doomed to be tortured forever because of their sins

[queenlucythevaliant]

We see him come and know him ours

Russia: "Carol of the Russian Children," traditional // Kenya: The Nativity, Elima Njau // France: "Bring a Torch, Jeanette Isabella," Nicolas Saboly // Haiti: Madonna and Child, Ismael Saincilus // Australia: "The Three Drovers," William James // China: Tryptic by Lu Hongnian // Canadian/Algonquian: "Huron Carol," Jean de Brébeuf

[momentsbeforemass]

Someone else's miracle

I saw God at Walmart last week.

A mom was getting shoes for her two little boys. They looked to be about 4 and 7 years old.

She had found a pair of shoes that fit the older one. And he really liked them.

The younger one really liked them too. And that was the problem.

Because the 4-year-old didn’t just want the same shoes that she found for his big brother. He wanted the same shoes – in the same size as his big brother.

She was trying to get him to try on the shoes, but in a size that would fit him. And he was having none of it.

The more she tried, the more upset he became. Because she wouldn’t give him the same thing that she got for his brother.

He didn’t understand that she was trying to get him shoes that would work for him. Instead of the comically huge ones that he was demanding.

It gave me a glimpse of how you and I must look from God’s perspective.

When we see something that God did for someone else – someone else’s healing, someone else’s healthy relationship, someone else’s promotion, someone else’s successful struggle with addiction, someone else’s growing business.

And get bent out of shape because God didn’t do the exact same thing for us. Because He didn’t give us someone else’s miracle.

We all do it, just like the people in today’s Gospel. We pray for something, we ask God for it, we believe for it. And then get upset when God doesn’t do it for us the same way that He did it for someone else.

Whether our reaction takes the form of doubting ourselves, wondering whether we prayed and believed hard enough for it. Or if it takes the form of doubting God. Maybe even rejecting God because we didn’t get someone else’s miracle (or trying to kill Jesus like in today’s Gospel). It really doesn’t matter.

Because all of them leave us in the same place as the 4-year-old who was angry with his mom for not getting him the shoes he was demanding.

His anger makes perfect sense. But only to his self-absorbed 4-year-old brain.

All because he can’t see the big picture. Because he can’t see beyond himself enough to trust that his mother loves him and wants the best for him.

The challenge for you and me when it comes to our relationship with God?

To see if we can do better than a self-absorbed 4-year-old.

Today’s Readings

[glass-cannon05]

I blame Hozier for my standards for men being so high

[corcnaiism]

;-- when i have a handful of drafts and inbox asks aching for my attention, but i'm instead disappearing into the void and spending hours world building my oc's lore and writing one-shots for side characters bc i'm just a chill guy

[kindheartedgummybears]

guess who got bored and decided to color-swatch most of the lh characters

now obviously take all of this with a grain of salt since we all know color-picking from screenshots and models isn't the best way to get their skin tone due to color theory and color-picking being pixel but pixel but its the general kind of skin tone they have so <3

all images sourced from HariboStixx on DeviantArt.

[spurgie-cousin]

Being this conservative must be exhausting. Every 2 weeks you have to get mad and boycott some stupid shit that wasn't even made for you in the first place.

Thanks for the update JackNemy, hope your wedding's outdoors and there's a thunderstorm AND a tornado. At the same time.

[childofeberron]

read something horrific in the news from back home and kind of reeling a bit over it

[everfaye]

Stop trying to christianize me in the Walmart parking lot!!! I’m just here for a sample platter of CHEESECAKE!!!!

[charhuahuakelly]

sunny cubby is coming together 😋 just need to figure out how I want to display the charms (from @triviamurderparty2 !! tysm for the stickers)

[settingorange]

What do you do when it is 10pm and your mom is scrubbing your bathtub (which she has already done multiple days in a row)

[tears-that-heal]

Sometimes when certain inspirations struck your mind and you’re able to run with it. GO FOR IT!!!!! *spontaneous creative me time* So Needed it. 😌

☺️💕🎨

[thekidsarentalright]

have been in salt lake city for 3 hours now and all i can say is it is hot and miserable in this hotel room and i am blowing everything up <3