Being 25 Is Like: Im Dying. Im Living My Best Life. Im A Failure. My Life Hasnt Started. Everything Interesting

(neither Catholic nor Protestant) chiming in to add another dimension; the problem isn't just that they're not letting Catholic priests keep the seal of confession (that is a problem), this bill explicitly protects E-V-E-R-Y other type of confidentiality and seal known to law, including several I had never heard of.

Just a 'screw you' to religious persons, that is the one type of confidentiality that is expressely being targeted.

I am, among other things, a mandated reporter myself, and glad to be so. I feel strongly about the evils of child abuse and the duty of every person to act & prevent it.

However, this bill wasn't designed to protect children*, it was made to attack religious freedoms.

*please check with the child abuse prevention organization of your choice; note that their advocated approach to prevent/end child abuse has nothing to do with diminishing religious freedom or the seal of confession. That is not the root of the problem, and so cannot be the focus of an effective solution.

NCR

Washington Governor Signs Abuse Bill Requiring Priests to Break Seal of Confession

Spokane Bishop Thomas Daly said in a statement that clergy there would not break the seal of confession even if required to by law.

Hey, pray for these priests extra hard, Washington state just passed a bill trying to force them to break the seal of confession. Pray for your politicians and victims of abuse while you are at it

we are all going to be ookay some day i promise

stingray blast

I do not understand, but thank you nonetheless :)

Kitty beans to you too, my friend!

Cosmere Inktober day 31 : Silence

CAN´T BELIEVE IS LAST ONE! it took a few years of my lifespan, but it feels good to be able to finish the challenge.

Anyways, here´s Susebron if you have read Warbreaker you know the secret that must be kept in secret :P

Grasses in the wind.

ComeUntoChrist.org

Among those waving palms, there were those in the crowds that asked, who is this?

"This is Jesus."

This is Jesus who even as a boy, underage and unfit, elders were hearing Him and asking Him questions as He taught in the temple. This is Jesus who filled and started sinking two ships of fish in great abundance. This is Jesus who supplied a luxury for His friends at a wedding because of His deep love and dedication for us. This is Jesus who even evil spirits confessed Him to be the holy one of God. This is Him who cleansed the temple because He has the ability to cleanse us.

He who sleeps during the storm, not because He doesn’t care, but because He knows perfectly that all will in fact be well regardless of the storm. He Who is aware, conscious, mindful, active. He Who is perfect regardless of our narrow mindedness because does not turn His back, neglect, abandon, or play favorites. There is not one misfit, not one outcast, not one sinner, who Jesus is not saying to them, follow me, and offering them something more. There is not one who Jesus does not see great worth and great purpose and great need of.

This is Jesus, who gives us access to power to change, to renewal, revival, relief. This is He who goes to the hated, the forgotten, the different, the outcasts, the sinners, the excommunicated, and befriends them, calls them to great things, blesses and loves them. He who goes to the shamed, the judged, the detested, ostracized, and sees great worth and great purpose and great need of them. He who sits with sinners, calls the publicans, touches the unclean and impure, forgives in the act, reaches for those sinking, stops for those buried in the crowd, or alone in the heat of the day.

This is Jesus who, even among mass multitudes, blesses us one-by-one, personally and individually. He Who purposely travels where others don’t to help, to teach, to connect, to love, forgive. He Who comes to us when we are facing emptiness, and weeps with us. He Who stops in the middle of a moving masses because He notices us on the ground, in the dirt, buried under the crowd, to heal even lingering impossibilities. He Who meets us where we are and comforts and lifts us. He comes to us because He doesn’t lose sight of us. He Who only exists to bring us to be better and make us better. He Who is yours.

This is Jesus, who will not meet His match with our suffering, our impossibilities are not a struggle, nor an inconvenience, for Him. When everything and everyone says no, Jesus says, I will. While others may fail us, He comes with healing in His wings and compassion that knows no bounds. This is Jesus who stays until we are filled, and we can be whole. There is a love that satisfies.

That is this Jesus. That is your Jesus.

- Al Fox Carraway

Falco Peregrinus, pencil drawing by T. S. R. Hardy, June 1942.

Robert Hardy was a competent artist, and kept a small number of his own pencil and watercolour artworks produced in his later teenage years during the early 1940s.

You assign university work to the university student? You assign university work to the university student at university? Jail for professors! Jail for professors for one thousand years!

Guys I hear something