Jess💫🇬🇭

Christian. Hebrews 11:1 | Pokemon Trainer | Bubble-tea enthusiast | 🇨🇦🇬🇭

[Chief Chilo💋 @therealchilotam]

You are already feminine by virtue of being born a woman. Femininity is not only “being soft and vulnerable” (whatever that means). It is being strong, assertive, wise, intelligent, vivacious, independent, confident, owning the room, taking control, etc.

[✍🏾🗣 @writtenbytruth]

I really want black people specifically to realize children are not your legacy. They are their own human beings. Legacy is the impact you make and how you’re remembered.

[Z∀⅄⅄N @ZayynHassan]

I dunno who needs to hear this but read your friend's Substacks.

There's a version of them living in those pages that everyday conversation never reveals.

[ÁFRICA DO JEITO QUE NUNCA VIU @AfricajnViu]

As mulheres pretas transformaram o mundo que nós vivemos e nunca nem ouvimos falar delas.

[Prakriti @kritipraaa]

When I was younger, I rebelled against the idea that cooking was something I was obligated to do. As I grow older, I’ve begun to fear that if I don’t learn my grandmother’s and mother’s recipes, I’ll lose the flavours I love most. Both of these things can be simultaneously true.

[Rima Evenstar @RimaEvenstar]

I don’t think Frieren lacks tension. I think it avoids visible tension.

Frieren is often misunderstood as “just a comfy anime,” but it’s really slow burn angst packaged as one. Its main theme is realizing what you’ve lost only years, sometimes decades, after it mattered. The tension isn’t loud or confrontational. It lives in the waiting. In the remembering. In the understanding that arrives too late to change anything. And that’s what makes it tragic.

It’s also deeply realistic. We rarely understand the consequences of our actions in real time, do we? Meaning is often assigned retroactively, if it’s assigned at all. That kind of clarity requires contemplation, and many people never stop long enough to reach it. Frieren does.

That’s why the contemplative slow pace isn’t accidental. It mirrors how time passes for Frieren herself. Long uneventful stretches punctuated by moments of sudden emotional clarity. Frieren doesn’t lack emotion. She lacks urgency. By the time she understands what something meant, it has already passed.

Himmel embodies this perfectly. He understood the value of connection in the moment. Frieren did not. Their dynamic isn’t simply unspoken romance, but a mismatch in how time was perceived. Himmel acted knowing time was limited. Frieren waited because, to her, it wasn’t.

Most of all, Frieren teaches a painful lesson. She treated silence as something neutral, as a suspended decision rather than an action, believing she could always return to it later. But silence is a choice. And every choice carries consequences...

What I love about this show is that you don’t need to fully understand its entire scope to enjoy it. You can engage with it on a first level: sympathetic characters, gentle humor, comfy vibes. Or on a second level: regret, grief, love recognized too late, and the melancholia of time passing irreversibly.

Frieren works because both readings coexist. The comfort doesn’t erase the angst. It simply delays it.

[Whemïmor @hy_wemmy]

I think women ( including myself) need to let go of the whole “ I don’t ask for much” narrative. Ask for it and get it.

[Nandkishor @devops_nk]

Age 25–30 is the weirdest phase of life.

- Friends are getting married
- Someone is buying a new home
- Someone is still struggling to even begin
- Someone is earning well and “settled”
- Parents are getting older every year
- Responsibilities increase silently
- Comparison becomes unavoidable
- Nights are full of overthinking
- Dreams feel expensive
- Time feels faster

- You smile in public.
- You fight battles in silence.
- You question your worth at 2 AM.
- You’re not lazy.
- You’re not failing.
- You’re just carrying too much alone.

If you’re in this phase please be gentle with yourself.
You’re trying. And that matters.

Are you also feeling this ? ✋

[D @_Unknown_D_]

Approaching my fifth year of marriage and every season in my marriage has shown me that character, integrity, trust and loyalty are much important than many of the things than people focus on, in dating culture.

[𝖑𝖔𝖔𝖙𝖊𝖉 @6looted]

being left to stand alone when you need support has a way of permanently changing how you see everyone around you.

[Ekaji @ekajiibe]

The peak of our Christian experience is beholding Christ in His magnificence and being conformed to His will. Yet, this is impossible apart from true knowledge of His revelation.

Correct doctrine matters greatly because they are the doorway into the presence of God. There is no such thing as faith in Christ grounded in falsehood. It won’t stand the brokenness of this world.

This is why Paul admonished Timothy greatly to take heed to himself and to continue in the things he has received, for in doing so he will save himself and those who listen to him.

Our Lord Himself tells us that the Father seeks only those who will worship Him in *truth* and in spirit. This is why we oppose errors vehemently because they preclude men from having true communion with Christ.

But even this is not enough, for in all our pursuit of true doctrine, it is better to mortify one’s sin than to acquire all mysteries. True doctrine is important to the extent we are willing to yield our lives to it.

As Thomas Watson noted; “knowledge without repentance will be a touch to light men to hell”. The one who has truly seen Christ in His word will be more sensitive to the presence of sin in his life. Because love for Christ is incompatible with a taste for sin.

This is the essence of all our labors in the scripture, it is to the end that the precepts of the Lord becomes the rudder that governs our lives. And holiness is the truest sign that a man walks in the truth of Christ, not his profession of faith.

Even those who do not have saving faith have great knowledge of theology and Christian history, you have pagans who display great power through divination and unbelievers who have wealth and influence, the kind that only a tiny minority will ever know.

None of these things can be the distinctive for what it means to be a disciple of Christ. Jesus already told us what to aspire to; “In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.” - Mathew 5:26.

This is what we must constantly watch out for in the way we conduct our affairs. How are my decisions bringing glory to Christ? Is my life consistent with what Jesus proclaimed in the gospels? Is He truly Lord over my soul or my faith is merely good for the aesthetics?

Because it is indeed possible to be deceived that you are in the light perhaps because of the community you belong to, the knowledge you have acquired or your religiosity in a world that hates God whereas you are still a slave to your sins without any urgency for repentance.

God is truly kind and gracious to this world, this is why entire nations have not been destroyed despite great iniquity being practiced every other day. But this forbearance is not infinite, men will give account for how they stewarded this life that was handed to them by God.

Yes, we must absolutely contend for the supremacy of God’s word to thrive in our land above the many ideas that sets themselves above the knowledge of Christ, but even more, we must not forget that we have been called to walk worthy of Christ and to confirm our election as being a part of His kingdom.

When Paul tells Timothy that he has fought a good fight and kept the faith, he speaks of this in relation to his faithful perseverance in the Lord’s cause. Many things are calling for our attention, even within the church that are a diversion from this faithfulness expected of us. This is what we must retrieve and hold steadfastly to.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

crying is a somatic coping mechanism biologically designed to calm you down. People really need to cry more.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

The healer also needs healing. The planner also needs surprises. The giver also needs to receive. The thoughtful also needs to be thought of. The considerate also needs to be considered.

[Gbemisola Taiwo @MisolaofJesus]

“Then God opened Hagar’s eyes, and she saw a well full of water.”

Hagar didn’t see the water until God opened her eyes.

Pray for your eyes to be opened, not just to physical sustenance, but to the divine provision that surrounds you.

El Roi. ❤️

[A @AOSpeaks_]

Harsh truth is, a lot of you deserve better, but trauma, abandonment and attachment issues are holding so many people back from walking away from things. You deserve better, and you should therefore only accept the things you know you deserve. Love yourself enough to walk away.

[A.VICTOR @Lifeof_AG01]

I get the urge to make their life easier however i can.

[Dura🎀 @ms0nigghaz]

This is the lowest I’ll ever be financially in life! From here, it’s only up, no stagnancy, no setbacks!!

[ᅠ @artindetails]

forget-me-not.

[DABI @luckydabi24]

RT this lucky clover for luck! 🍀

[Juny @JunyIsHere]

legends za