Just Breathe

i wonder who i would be without debilitating anxiety

Self worth comes from God. Not your achievements. Not from people. Not from outward appearances. Not from materialistic possessions. But from God alone.

-Relentless Woman

Love this! 💗

THE MOST PURE!!!

— C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce (via bluecollarclassicist)

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“We need to live in a society that welcomes and accepts disabled people!” cannot coexist with “Parents should get to abort their babies if they find out the baby is going to be disabled!” You cannot argue that we need to treat disabled people better while under the same breath advocating for the murder of disabled people because of the “burden” they place on their families. Any society that accepts disability as an inherent reason for someone to not deserve life is not a society that values the disabled as human beings.  

So this video was super interesting! I would like to know how my Christian friends would respond to these questions, so, if you identify as a Christian you are welcome to answer any of these questions! You don’t have to follow me, or be a mutual, or be any sort of specific denomination, gender, or age - I just want to know everybody’s thoughts because I think these are super interesting questions to discuss! So, you can answer by responding on this thread, or sending me asks, or messaging me (although I would prefer the first two because I mostly just want to know your thoughts, I just want to listen).

These are the questions, stated as statements, and you can say whether you “strongly agree, agree, somewhat agree, somewhat disagree, disagree, or strongly disagree” and explain your thoughts:

If you can respond to all that would be ideal! I really wanna know what people think. Maybe after a bit I will reblog my own post with my own answers but I want this starting out neutral, without any of my own opinions stated.

Discuss!

(I haven’t watched the video, but I might get back to it.)

Madeline Art

okay this reminded me of the strongest human being (I use that label with some reservation) I have ever met and I still think about him like once a week because about 4 years ago on Thanksgiving night my sister, cousin, and I were going to pick up a friend about a 40 minute drive from home, and I got lost and tried to turn around on a little gravel pull-off on the side of the road, but my front tires got stuck in the snow.

we were in the middle of nowhere with no cell reception, and the only sign of life was a single, completely dark house across the road from us.

We all did our best to push the car out, and we’re strong people, but we couldn’t make it budge. Cold and stuck, we climbed back and wondered what to do. A car full of men pulled over beside us and asked if we needed help, but getting out of our locked car on a backroad at night with strange men felt like a bad idea, so we said a tow was coming and waved them along. We did that twice before finally deciding our only option was to accept the next offer for help and just risk it,

when a man came out of the house across the street.

He’d clearly been watching us and figured out why we’d been lying to people, which really surprised me & he said “it’s okay, you can stay in your car and keep the doors locked. Just start backing up when I say so.”

I had the window cracked and told him “it’s too stuck. There’s no way we’re getting out. Could you call a tow?”

And he said “just back up when I say so.”

So he walked around the front of the car, squatted, and said “okay back up,”

and I did, and

he lifted

the front of the car Into The Air. Off its front wheels, and we backed up while he essentially wheel-barrowed us back onto the road.

And we were honest to god yelling. We couldn’t help it. We just yelled until all four wheels were back on the ground and he was waving us off while we thanked him.

And then I looked at my sister and cousin & said “he REALLY told us we can KEEP our doors locked as if THAT WOULD’VE FUCKING STOPPED HIM!!!! As if he couldn’t have just RIPPED EM OFF THE HINGES.”

I later looked up the weight of my car, and it’s 3200 pounds without anything or anyone in it.

This haunts me.

I can’t believe he killed Harrison Ford twice

whenever you don’t feel motivated to work, just imagine your future self. if you do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be calm, collected and be able to keep working at a steady rate (and eventually finish the task at hand, stress-free). if you don’t do the work when you’re supposed to, your future self will be rushing around, trying to complete things they should have done before, and overly anxious and stressed. be kind to your future self and do the work now.

remember: discipline is just empathy with your future self.