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Just a heads up for my followers, I'm going to be stepping back from religious content for a while. I've been having a severe OCD flareup for the past few weeks and religion has historically been one of my triggers, so outside my personal practice I'll be treading very carefully with religious topics until my mental health is stabilized.

#ocd #mental health #I am starting treatment soon

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#pics of cats

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NGC 2264, Cone Nebula

#pics of space

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im done with my ocd shaming me and telling me im evil im okay with being the villain now

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These Tiled Steps In San Francisco Glow At Night From The Moonlight

#architecture

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Caritas is one Hildegard's most inspired and progressive theophanic images. Standing in the center of the illustration is a commanding female representation of divine love, Caritas (Figure 2). She stands holding the divine Lamb of God as a "male godhead erupts"[xix] from the top of her being (Figure 3). Lying underneath the feet of Caritas, crushed and vanquished is the personification of evil... The anthropomorphic rendering [is] of the Holy Spirit as a female of divine love... The female figure is the most prominent in the manuscript. God the father exists not of His own accord, but sprouts from the head of the female Holy Spirit. "The generation of God the Father from the Holy Spirit's head explicitly implies that male’s dignity derives from female intellect."[xxi] In Caritas, Hildegard created a theophany dependent upon a feminine ideology. 

#caritas #st hildegard #holy spirit #divine feminine in christianity

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#quotes

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Christ knows what it means to suffer. In his own body, he knows. Since he is Wisdom incarnate, this knowing is embedded in the very heart of the living God. As Creator of the world and liberating Redeemer of Israel, the biblical God has always had compassionate knowledge of creation's suffering. This becomes clear early on in the Bible when at the burning bush Moses hears the voice of God, focused on the Israelites enslaved in Egypt, saying, "I know what they are suffering" (Exod. 3.7). The verb "know" here refers to an experiential kind of knowing, being the same Hebrew verb used to describe sexual intercourse in Genesis: "the man knew his wife Exe, and she conceived (Gen. 4.1). God knows what creatures are suffering, such knowing is continuously part of the Spirit's indwelling relationship to the world. What is new in view of the cross is divine participation in pain and death from within the world of the flesh. Now the incarnate God knows through personal experience, so to speak.

Ask The Beasts by Elizabeth Johnson

#problem of evil #suffering of god #Christianity #crucifixion #solidarity #immanence

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Summer day in Norway. By instagram.com/hilde_marie

#pics of water #pics of nature

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“Dreams of the Oregon Coast“ by | Alex Hinson

#pics of water

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#pics of cats

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daniel_casson

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Siobhán Danielle O’Dwyer

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