Kami no kodomo

"Give yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life, and surrender your whole being to him to be used for righteous purposes."

For the first time in my life, I'm about to hit pan on my favourite lipstick 🥹🥹 #growingjoys

Anime with plot twists you'll never see coming

@CallMeBiola In due time

@Jexika_M God when

Happy holiday to me 😪 I don try

The fact that I haven't even thought about what anime to binge watch during this holiday (rewatching KnK)

Without reading the options, and even if it wasn't part of the options, YOUR NAME. PS: ty for the recs

Now that I'm no longer fighting for my actual life, time to rebuild my social life

I experienced this one verbal tic that impacted me so powerfully it changed how i talk to people forever. No joke been ranting to everyone I know about it for ages now A couple months ago I asked my friend a question over dinner. I was conscious it might come off the wrong way so I prefaced it w a bunch of qualifiers: “this isn’t a jealous inquiry, but…” He smiled gently and said “even if it is you can be jealous, that’s okay” and answered it It stopped me short. I actually *wasn’t* jealous, but the warmth and safety that flooded through me in that moment was immense. He gave me total and permanent freedom of worry from coming off a certain way, more than if he’d said smth like “don’t worry I didn’t think you were jealous” Since then I’ve been noticing this self-consciousness a lot more, in big and small ways. It’s a barrier to communication and trust. And I’ve been using that exact pattern and it always totally disarms their hidden tension For example was on call w my friend, she was very agitated. I asked her what was wrong and she kept saying “it’s stupid, it’s so stupid, I’m being so stupid” At one point I would have said “I’m sure it’s not stupid” but this time I said “it’s okay if you’re stupid” and her tone IMMEDIATELY changed. she said “really????” with audible gratitude and sweetness and relief and told me everything. And we had a great convo and she felt much better

I pray to every power in the heavens that one day I am even half the mother she is

Hanging out with your (real) friends is the best thing ever. No matter how bad things get it will always make you feel good oh. Always.

Anime

Another wonderful thing about being Catholic struck me today. I was in a different county, nearly two hundred miles from home and I had chance to go to Mass in a different city. The priest today gave his homily, after the readings as it customary, and one of the things he spoke about was how the themes of today’s readings follow on from yesterday’s. As I had been at Mass yesterday in my home town, it all made perfect sense as I had heard the same readings there and it struck me how wonderful it was that the same would have been the case wherever in the world I had attended Mass. I am also finding that I am understanding passages of scripture in a deeper way than ever before, especially aided by the way that the readings are structured from day to day and week to week.

Mary, Mother of Hope, intercede for us when we pass through trials and burdens. Remind us that after Good Friday came Easter morning. Help us trust that no suffering is final with God. May hope rise within us even in difficult times. Amen🙏🏽

Buat yang lagi belajar bahasa Jepang (terutama kanji), pasti sudah tau ada yang namanya 部首 (bushu) radikal, yang berperan memberi makna secara garis besar pada sebuah kanji Berikut, beberapa 部首 "hewan" yang berguna dalam belajar kanji:

The sky looks too angry for this jacket I'm wearing. Should've checked the forecast 😪

Mary, Woman of Magnificat, help us to recognize the many blessings God has given us. Teach us to live with grateful hearts, especially for the gift of salvation through Christ. May gratitude protect us from complaining and fill us with joy in every season. Amen🙏

Listen carefully, Catholics and most especially, Protestans. I think God is too calculated - way too precise, way too sovereign - for the Blessed Virgin Mary to just be some random occurrence. Protestants say the Blessed Virgin Mary could’ve been 'anybody'. That God just randomly picked some ordinary woman who “found favor” with Him. That is egregiously wrong. Mary didn’t just stumble into a divine lottery. She didn’t “just happen” to catch God’s eye like some cosmic game of chance. Our God is omnipotent and omniscient, He doesn’t wake up one morning and go, “Okay, time for the Incarnation… uhmm... let’s cast lots and pick somebody real quick.” NO! This was planned from the very foundation of the world. For instance, if we take a look at the Book of Job. When Job dared to question how God runs the universe, the Almighty didn’t gently pat him on the back. God answered OUT OF THE WHIRLWIND and thundered: “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you, and you shall answer Me!” Then came the divine bomb; “Where were you when I laid the foundations of the earth? Tell me, if you have understanding. Who determined its measurements, surely you know! Or who stretched the line upon it? On what were its bases sunk, or who laid its cornerstone - when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” ( Job 38:4-7 ) God wasn’t just flexing. He was reminding Job, and us, that EVERY SINGLE DETAIL of creation was measured, marked, and masterminded by Him. The dimensions. The foundations. The cornerstones. The very song of the stars on day one. Nothing was left to chance. Not one atom. So if the same God calculated the exact width of the oceans, the exact orbit of the planets, and the exact moment the morning stars burst into song, do you really think He left the greatest moment in human history (the Word becoming flesh) to a last-minute random selection? From the instant man fell in Eden, the plan was already rolling. Genesis 3:15 (the protoevangelium) God Himself declared war on the serpent: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers; He will crush your head….” That wasn’t a vague idea. That was the first announcement of MARY’S SON. Then the prophets narrowed it down with laser precision; the line of Abraham, the tribe of Judah, the house of David, the virgin of Isaiah 7:14, the exact town of Micah 5:2, the “fullness of time” in Galatians 4:4 when Roman roads, Greek language, and Jewish longing all converged like a divine symphony. --Every piece was pre-calculated.-- Mary was prepared. Her heart, her lineage, her faith, her “yes” at the Annunciation - all of it was woven into the eternal blueprint long before Gabriel ever appeared. It is worthy to mention that the same God who laid the earth’s foundations had already chosen the perfect vessel to carry the uncontainable One. This is not “God picked a nice Jewish girl.” This is the Master Architect executing a plan written before time began. Protestant friends, we love you, but flattening Mary into “just some random favored woman” robs God of His glory. It turns sovereign providence into divine improvisation. Our God is not improvising. He is the God of Job’s whirlwind, the God who measures galaxies and counts the hairs on your head. And when the fullness of time came, He didn’t scramble for a mother. He had already chosen HER. The Blessed Virgin Mary. She was planned, prepared, perfectly calculated. Glory to the God in the highest, who leaves nothing to chance.

@CallMeBiola Amen. I deserve it 💪🏾

@Jexika_M Rich kid

I can finally afford to go out and touch grass

SOML Toddler: I want to be a Doctor!!!! I want to be an everything Doctor!! Preteen: I want a 9 to 5 so I have lots of time to do fun stuff Tween: I am an everything Doctor doing a 9 - 5. The only fun stuff I'm doing now is sleep but, baby steps, baby

@CallMeBiola Tomorrow🙈

@Jexika_M Oya go