'Forth now, and fear no darkness!'

some people will even annoy you often! some people aren’t good at social cues and will therefore be frequently annoying! still not a reason to blow everything up!

if you can live with being annoyed sometimes and treat it like it's not a big deal, it will be easier to accept and believe that the times you are naturally, as a human, annoying in some small way to other people are not actually a huge crisis where everyone hates you and is thinking badly about you. you can live with knowing sometimes people just clash a little and can be mature enough to brush it aside and see past it!

“This is why the Enemy wants you to think you have no song to write, no story to tell, no painting to paint. He wants to quiet you. So sing. Let the Word by which the Creator made you fill your imagination, guide your pen, lead you from note to note until a melody is strung together like a glimmering constellation in the clear sky. Love the Lord your God, and love your neighbor, too, by making worlds and works of beauty that blanket the earth like flowers. Let your homesickness keep you always from spiritual slumber. Remember that it is in the fellowship of saints, of friends and family, that your gift will grow best, and will find its best expression. And until the Kingdom comes in its fullness, bend your will to the joyful, tearful telling of its coming. Write about that. Write about that, and never stop.” ― Andrew Peterson, Adorning the Dark: Thoughts on Community, Calling, and the Mystery of Making

Anyway this is about Peter and John, because although it's funny to think John might just be reporting having outrun Peter as a way to tease him... I wonder if it was like this. If John had the excitement to run all the way to the tomb but then, on getting there, was just too full of that warring hope and fear of what he might find to act on it yet. And Peter, who for all his faults moves towards Jesus even (sometimes) as he denies him, passes John and sees the evidence first. (Did John recall, then, the last shall be first and the first shall be last?) But John still gets to go in, still gets to receive the victory too, because it wasn't about when he showed up after all, it was about what Jesus had done.

Sometimes they don't even have to say anything back. Just being able to hear it out loud or see it written down can be enough for you to snap out of it.

Sometimes they don't even have to say anything back. Just being able to hear it out loud or see it written down can be enough for you to snap out of it.

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Éowyn was, in fact, a woman. Who cares if she did 'women's work'? Why are we still letting people get away with the connotation that that makes it lesser?

'The House at Pooh Corner' illustrated by E.H. Shepard, 1928.