#face value

Phil (and his team) actually remembered that this year is Face Value's 45th birthday? They actually put up live versions? Live versions from the 80s?? New interview about Face Value??

Fucking finallyyyyy. My time has come!!

To be childlike is to take things at face value.

It’s something most of us don’t do. Not anymore.

We’ve learned to protect ourselves. By looking for the catch, the hook, the real reason why someone is doing something.

Because we’ve had to.

But if that’s all we do, then we miss out on a lot of the good stuff. And even the stuff we don’t miss out on, we don’t really enjoy it. Because we’re looking for the catch, the hook.

It’s especially true for relationships. Both our relationships with people and our relationship with God.

There’s nothing wrong with protecting yourself.

Go ahead and look. If you find the catch, if you find the hook? You know what to do.

But at some point, if you haven’t found the catch, the hook? Then maybe. Just maybe. There’s a reason for that.

There isn’t one. Which means?

Which means that this is someone you can take at face value. This is someone you can trust. This is someone you can enter into a relationship with.

This is what Jesus is talking about in today’s Gospel. This is what it means to be childlike.

Go ahead and look at God. Not someone’s idea of God. Look at God.

Look all you want. You won’t find a catch, you won’t find a hook. There’s a reason for that.

There isn’t one.

Which means that God is someone you can take at face value. God is someone you can trust. God is someone you can enter into a relationship with.

For some of us, figuring this out can take a long time.

I know this, because I’m one of those people.

Because I am one of those people, I can tell you this – when you do figure it out, you’ll find God waiting for you with open arms.

Tony remembers the hard way that Bruce doesn’t like losing control, and that goes double for bedroom affairs. He sinks the main event, but he can still salvage the after-party. There’s just one stumbling block: panic attacks tend to make Bruce big, green, and moody.

Characters: Bruce Banner, Tony Stark

Relationships: Bruce Banner/Tony Stark

Fandoms: The Avengers (Marvel Movies)

Category: M/M

Rating: Explicit

Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply

Chapters: 1/1

Words: 8,085

Additional Tags: Attempted Sex, Bruce Banner Hulks Out, First Time Together, Hurt/Comfort, POV Tony Stark, Tony Stark Has Patience, Unresolved Sexual Tension, + more in the link.