#withhele

[goldenguillotines]

Salvis:

They walked closer and sat down next to him, eyebrow raised.

AC: You seem awfully surprise☽ by me taking you up on your offer... AC: What ☽i☽ you think I was going to say?

AC: And I wasn't oppose☽ to the i☽ea of learning something new, I just...

They sigh.

AC: I was frustrate☽ at you for the information you withhel☽... and my work feeling like a waste of time... AC: ... an☽ I ☽i☽n't know what might be interesting for me to learn...

AC: ... I'☽ like to make a ☽eer though... maybe some other things, but that's a goo☽ start, I think...

"ᓚᘏᗢ You are stubborn. Whether or not you wish to accept the fact... you've always been like that."

"ᓚᘏᗢ Nonetheless, don't assume I am going to hold this over your head. My offer was simple and true. If you want to learn something new. I'd be willing to teach you.. or perhaps learn it along side you."

->His tails wag.. Short and low. Brushing past them..

"ᓚᘏᗢ I only withheld it for your own sake. If you wished to make them, I was not apposed to it. Simply do not tire yourself on them"

"ᓚᘏᗢ I don't think I need to comment, but you have stressed yourself silly. Even to the point of hurt."

"ᓚᘏᗢ Focusing on one activity wouldn't do as much good as you believe it to do. It can border on obsessive..."

->He stretches out.. before neatly storing his project away..

"ᓚᘏᗢ Then I'll teach you. You'll have to excuse me to obtain the paper- I'll only be a moments time.. but we can start with the basics.. and then we can apply what I've taught you to that deer."

[buggie-hagen]

Midweek Lenten Homily III: The Creed - The Second Article - On Redemption (3/15/23)

Primary Text | Luke 23:39-46

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Dear People of God,

          Last week we learned the First Article of the Creed – On Creation. This week we learn the Second Article of the Creed – On Redemption. Here we see the work of the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. What he has done to bring us back from the dead. What he has done to free us from sin. What he has done to unbind us from the power of the devil. The Small Catechism grounds us with these words: “He has redeemed me, a lost and condemned human being. He has purchased and freed me from all sins, from death, and from the power of the devil, not with gold or silver but with his holy, precious blood and with his innocent suffering and death.” Notice that what he has done for us was not accomplished with gold or silver, but it says, “with his holy, precious blood.” Things like gold and silver though deemed of great value were not used for this. I admit I like shiny things as much as the next guy. Our Lord also did not buy us with a fancy house nor did he think to use a Tesla to redeem us. Life is not found in such things—though I’m sure if we offered everyone a private jet we would have more people in church. God does not allure us with shiny or attractive or luxurious things. God has used something of little value in the world to redeem us—his own blood. Blood we are told in the scriptures is the life of our flesh, our bodies. It sustains us. It is through the blood of Jesus that we are saved. Blood is very much what sustains our life, and the scriptures will inform us the life of our flesh, our bodies, is in the blood (Lev. 17:11). So when we talk about Jesus’ shedding of blood on the cross we are talking about him giving up his life so that we may have life—that we may be raised from the dead. It is through the blood of Jesus that we are saved.

          The one criminal on the cross rebuked the other criminal who was reviling Jesus by saying, “This man has done nothing wrong” (Luke 23:41). Indeed, Jesus was innocent. He was on that cross not because he had committed some great wrong, but because people hated him. Jesus went against the grain. Particularly, he would do the most offensive thing—forgive people their sin apart from any standard or measure of the law. That is to say, he would forgive people who don’t deserve it. He did this with the criminal next to him on the cross. Clearly this criminal had done grievously horrible things, he admits it himself. Perhaps he was a great thief, or a murderer. We do not know what his crimes were. Still, Jesus said to him, “Today you will be with me in Paradise” (Luke 23:43). Jesus did not hold the criminal’s sins against him. He simply showed mercy. (pause)

On  the cross the innocent Jesus harbored no animosity to those who put him up there. He willingly endured the abuse of human hands. Hands are themselves a blessing from God. They can be used for much good. Especially in love and service of the neighbor—the poor, the naked, and the hungry. Love is what God has given us hands for, never forget it. But with the cross our hands showed their true colors. That is, our true colors. We desire to be as gods—deciding what is good and evil for ourselves. Turns out we cannot tolerate the only One born of a woman who is truly innocent. This Son of God who shows mercy to people who don’t deserve it offends us in the core. And so, he was crucified for our transgressions, and on him was laid the iniquity of us all.

          We are told in the Large Catechism, “There was no counsel, no help, no comfort for us until this only and eternal Son of God, in his unfathomable goodness, had mercy on us because of our misery and distress and came from heaven to help us” (LC 2:29). In this way the cross becomes the ultimate sign of God’s mercy. That by giving up his own life, his own blood, God in Christ has withheld nothing of his own goodness for us. He endured death by our hands to show us that his love is still stronger than that. God has chosen to bring us out of death and into life. To replace our heart of stone with a soft, fleshy heart. He makes Paradise not someplace we go to, but delivers it to you in the proclaimed word: I forgive you all your sin, unconditionally and forever—that is, in Christ you have God himself in your ear and in your heart. By the word the sting of death, devil, and sin is taken out of you. And, now, in Christ, you are held within the glowing furnace of God’s love—which warms your heart in the coldness of the present life, and keeps you in his warm and gentle heart forever.  

[ziggy-solarecreator]

i had an IUD put in before I finally got my hysterectomy (and it took 20 years to get THAT because of the patriarchy) and it wasn’t until a year ago I learned you can request pain meds for that procedure - which was excruciating for me.

but we’re just expected to suffer when it comes to our nether regions, aren’t we?

Medically speaking, informed consent does not just apply to things you want done to you or for you, it also applies to things that you don't want done to you or things you don't want withheld from you.

I don't think a lot of people realize that, and I don't think a lot of medical professionals want to acknowledge that, because it means they would have to reevaluate the ethics of denying treatment to patients. Also they would have to reckon with their patients' agency and right to self-determination. Both of those things really freak some medpros out.

[oww666]

Judicial Watch Uncovers HIDDEN Fauci Agency Records--Shows China Withhel...

you are not the only one Tom ..fauci for the gallows 

[ratsoh-writes]

Apeared behind Rain when she is talking to bossman (PERMISSION GRANTED TO STICK WITHHELL YEAH)

Just gonna *akwardly pat rain on the back to hype her up in front of boss*

“Btw can i have one never heard of snickle doodle before, i thought it was some kind of art where you chuckle while painting?”

-🍎

Ask for you @rainbowut !

[reasonandempathy]

“But Democrats are the party of racists”

[gotojobin]

#JORMUNGAND (pronounced “YOUR-mun-gand;” Old Norse Jörmungandr, “Great Beast”), also called the “Midgard Serpent,” is a snake or dragon who lives in the ocean that surrounds Midgard, the visible world. So enormous is he that his body forms a circle around the entirety of Midgard. He’s one of the three children of Lokiand the giantess Angrboða, along withHel and Fenrir. The god Thor is his particular enemy. Two battles between them are recounted in the Eddas. In one, Thor fishes for Jormungand, and fails to pull him up only when the giant Hymir, terrified that this will bring about Ragnarok, severs the line, sending the snake back down to the depths. When Ragnarok does arrive, however, Thor and the Midgard Serpent are destined to slay each other. Jormungand likely already featured in the religion of the original Germanic tribes, as evidenced by his existence in the later pre-Christian religions of different branches of the Germanic peoples. For example, continental Germans attributed earthquakes to his movements well into the Middle Ages.