Hello! I have no idea what I’m doing but God’s got a plan! I’m a 21 year old woman. Christian, Bible student, fangirl, love Star Wars, AtLA, LotR, Cosmere, and much, much more. Pro-Jedi. Pro-life. Gotta go, my cat’s yelling at me for attention 🐱
A strange thing about stories -- Though this all happened so long ago and so far away that words cannot describe the time or the distance, it is also happening right now. Right here. It is happening as you read these words.
Idk it would have been more satisfying if Dick had to actually reconcile with the fact that he did a bad thing and an innocent kid died because of it, and there’s nothing he could ever do to fix or undo it, and he had to figure out how to move on and change his wrong behaviour while acknowledging his true remorse, but choosing to forgive himself at the very least and get on with his life, freed from the secrets he’s been keeping and lies he’s been telling for so many years, with an earnest desire to never let something like that happen again — it would be more satisfying to have that be the outcome of his self-loathing, self-punishing stint, rather than… just figuring out with his detective skills that the kid isn’t actually dead.
Please be wary of imposing things that have worked as good spiritual habits for you onto the lives of other people as law.
I'm afraid even the best teachers and pastors have done this but it's precisely because these habits were born out of sincere desire that it worked for them, and it's admirable to have strong self discipline and dedication and wish to share such habits as ideas with other people but please don't let anyone tell you that you are sinning if you don't:
Read the bible at a specific time of day
Read through the whole bible every year
Never miss church ever (even if you're sick)
Schedule your travel so that you never miss church
Avoid being in a room alone with someone of the opposite sex
Have a bible that's literally physically in bad repair
Many, many other things I've heard people speak as if they were law
I think it's time we Christians take a good hard look at what we do to celebrate Sundays and make sure that our Sunday activities are not preventing others from celebrating it the way we wish to. I understand not everyone is Christian, but if you go immediately from church to mall crawl, those employees can't go to church because they have to be there opening the store. If you don't want to cook on Sundays, going to a restaurant is just making other people cook for you. If you don't want to clean on Sundays, don't invite yourself over to other people's houses on Sunday without giving them a day or two warning so they have time to clean. We should be careful and conscientious of how our actions affect others' rest on Sundays and I don't think enough of us are.
There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees