I am sitting at my computer screen with my mouth open, because I just cannot fathom how someone writes something this amazing.
Wow. Just. Wow.
(via lamarrwilson)
Source: givemebackmyhomo
From my daily devotional reading.
I’m posting this in its entirety because it’s just that good. :)
Expansive Questions,
Not Constrictive Answers
Meditation 8 of 52
Your image of God, your de facto, operative image of God, lives in a symbiotic relationship with your soul and creates what you become. Loving people, forgiving people have always encountered a loving and forgiving God. Cynical people are cynical about the very possibility of any coherent or loving Center to the universe. So why wouldn’t they become cynical themselves? Of course they do.
When you encounter a truly sacred text, the first questions are not: Did this literally happen just as it states? How can I be saved? What is the right thing for me to do? What is the dogmatic pronouncement here? Does my church agree with this? Who is right and who is wrong here? These are largely ego questions, I am afraid. They are questions that try to secure your position, not questions that help you go on a spiritual path of faith and trust. They constrict you, whereas the purpose of The Sacred is to expand you. I know these are the first questions that come to our mind because that is where we usually live—inside of our mental ego. They are the questions we were trained to ask, because everybody else asks them, unfortunately!
Having read sacred text, I would invite you to ponder these questions:
- What is God doing here?
- What does this say about who God is?
- What does this say about how I can then relate to such a God?
Adapted from the webcast A Teaching on Wondrous Encounters
The cross is the standing statement of what we do to one another and to ourselves. The resurrection is the standing statement of what God does to us in return.
~ Richard Rohr, Easter 2012
A version for tumblr that can be read without opening a new tab, since plenty of people would scroll past this story otherwise.
(via whispersfromthestacks)
Source: sigfodr
Doctor Who Original 1963 Theme / BBC Radiophonic Workshop
Press play!
Still the best theme in regards to how it was made, how it’s one of the first pieces of electronic music ever, and how it’s (basically) the same theme still, 50 years later.
Incredible.
There’s just something so comforting about this music.
Source: cosmicsyzygy
Dear Internet rage-aholics,
Just because someone disagrees with you about any issue major or minor or has incorporated something into their lives that is unfamiliar or unappealing to you, it does not make them a Nazi, a worthless piece of ____, a ____-____ing ____bag _____ of a _____, or any other insult you think is sooooo clever. It makes them a human being with as much a right to their opinions and lifestyles as you. Your targeted rage dump does not help your cause. It does not make people take you seriously. It makes you look like a fool in desperate need of a grammar book.
Please, think before you post.
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