Fatima

spiritualinspiration:

The lynch mob doesn’t want truth. It doesn’t want redemption or righteousness either. With the shame of the woman they had tasted blood. Now they wouldn’t back down until their desire was satiated. No word could hold them back. They would press Jesus till they had what they wanted. But then Jesus spoke a word they had not expected. It was a heaven-sent word. It was a word rooted in truth and a word that struck their very soul. They knew they were not sinless. This word of truth penetrated to the hearts of those who were mature and knew both life and law. As Jesus glanced away to write in the dust, he gave them permission to leave without being shown up. For a brief moment, righteousness triumphed over hatred and self-importance. Those who were younger followed the example of the older men, leaving the woman protected and safe with Jesus. Redemption in action. The Gospel portrayed before our very eyes. Jesus takes the hate of hell and our own sin and turns back the foe, leaving us safe and in his presence.

Thank you Lord for teaching me humility. Although I haven’t the full grasp of it yet, my small understanding continues to save me from a world of hate…a world of pain. Who would have ever thought that by admitting to myself my own faults, shame and weaknesses, I would be saved from pain? That although at times bowed, I remain unconquered by the storm raging around me? In a world were pride is considered synonymous to strength and admission of fault is a sign of weakness, this may be considered a miracle. Thank you for the mysteries hidden in Your instructions. Those little priceless treasures that make trials of life so much easier to bear. Thank You for Your love and Your mercy.

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“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.”

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Osho (via electrichoney)

I love this quote.

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“You cannot find love
Until you fall in love with
The One who made it.”

— Haiku by Ariel Nelson (via prettymath)

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spiritualinspiration:

“Let Them Go”
By T. D. Jakes

There are people who can walk away from you. And hear me when I tell you this! When people can walk away from you, let them walk. I don’t want you to try to talk another person into staying with you, loving you, calling you, caring about you, coming to see you, staying attached to you. I mean, hang up the phone.

When people can walk away from you, let them walk. Your destiny is never tied to anybody who left. The Bible said that they came out from us that it might be made manifest that they were not for us. For had they been of us, no doubt they would have continued with us. [1 John 2:19] People leave you because they are not joined to you. And if they are not joined to you, you can’t make them stay.

Let them go.

It doesn’t mean that they are a bad person; it just means that their part in the story is over. And you’ve got to know when peoples’ part in your story is over so that you don’t keep trying to raise the dead. You’ve got to know when it’s dead.

You’ve got to know when it’s over. Let me tell you something. I’ve got the gift of good-bye. It’s the tenth spiritual gift. I believe in good-bye. It’s not that I’m hateful, it’s that I’m faithful, and I know whatever God means for me to have He’ll give it to me. And if it takes too much sweat I don’t need it. Stop begging people to stay.

Let them go!

winter-dew-drop:

nengveraa

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spainonymous:

Un niño palestino llora al ver como el gobierno de Israel le ha dejado la casa

barcelista-blackstar:

A Palestinian boy comes home from school and discovers that #Israel has demolished his family’s home in the Palestinian capital of Jerusalem on February 5, 2013. And after all this they dare to say that Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East! Freedom for Palestine

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palinightingale:

My little brother with his awesome scarf

“You cannot find love Until you fall in love with The One who made it.”

“You cannot find love
Until you fall in love with
The One who made it.”