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21 | she/her | ✝️🌈🌻| “I’m gonna guard this foxhole against any atheists”
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dramoor

“You do not love yourself better than God loves you. You cannot shrink from pain more than He dislikes your bearing it; and if He puts it on you, it is as you would put it on yourself, if you would be wise, for a greater good afterwards.

God has created me to do Him some definite service; He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another. I have my mission – I may never know it in this life but I shall be told it in the next.  I am a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.  He has not created me for naught.  I shall do good, I shall do His work. I shall be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in my own place while not intending it if I do but keep His commandments.

Therefore I will trust Him.  Whatever I am, I can never be thrown away.  If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him.  If I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him.  He does nothing in vain.  He knows what He is about.  He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers.  He may make me feel desolate, make my spirits sink, hide my future from me – still He knows what He is about.

Let us feel what we really are–sinners attempting great things.  Let us simply obey God’s will, whatever may come.  He can turn all things to our eternal good.  Easter day is preceded by the forty days of Lent, to show us that they only who sow in tears shall reap in joy. The more we do, the more shall we trust in Christ; and that surely is no morose doctrine, that leads us to soothe our selfish restlessness, and forget our fears, in the vision of the Incarnate Son of God.”

~John Henry Newman

(Photo © dramoor 2017 Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré, Quebec, Canada)

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rocksama24

Blood was not spilled on your behalf, I was disgraced, unavenged and left in a game of tag with a madman.

Do you love me the way I am? or mourn what could have been instead?

It would have been better if you had killed me instead.

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