"Don't save something for a special occasion. Every day of your life is a special occasion." - Thomas S. Monson
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I used to watch my mom switch out the candles around the house to different colors with each new season. She remembers it better than I do, and she'll tell me how I stood, enraptured, watching the magic of out with the old fires and in with the new.
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I'm not rich. I'm pretty much the opposite, and I used to only have a few candles, and I would only light them on "special occasions" when I thought I could get away with not feeling like I was wasting money.
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Now, I have fifteen candles burning around my room any gray day. It's something I'm willing to spend money on - tea lights, tapers, pillars, and scented soy candles with fragrances like oak moss and cedar - because these candles /make/ the day a special occasion.
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What's the thing that turns your ordinary day into something special?
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HERE IS A THING ABOUT WHICH I AM PASSIONATE.
When Christians say
things like, "You can't smudge with sage, Native American shamans smudge
with sage," or, "You can't listen to music with a beat, some African
tribes believe that's demonic," or "You can't have wind chimes, some
Eastern religions believe those ward off evil spirits" (so?? nice, I'll
put them right up by a gargoyle, the more the merrier) - ALL OF WHICH I
have heard people say, I'm not making them up - they are allowing OTHER
RELIGIONS to influence them OVER the religion they claim to believe in. /Stop letting your fear of other belief systems + religions define you
and what you do, and start living wholeheartedly in the one YOU HAVE
CLAIMED AS YOUR OWN./ That is all.
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I realized today that I've tended to think of the fruit of the spirit - love, joy, patience, etc., as fruits. Plural. "Having patience isn't the same as having joy, but it's just as good." God didn't tell us about the FRUITS of the spirit - only the fruit. If we're living how He said is best, then we'll begin to grow the whole fruit + nothing but the fruit.
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Love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self - control. I don't have all those things, but I know I want to.
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I love your art, the Civil War trailer made me emotional too.
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GORGEOUSNESS. *dies over new trailer with you*
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Congrats to Lawrence + I dig all these sketches. Mirriam-skill is goals.
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that movie is going to rip me and my feels to shreds. x(
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this movie is going to tear me and my feels apart. x(
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I love all your art, but the faces in the top photo are especially compelling. I hope there’s a story about them that I can read someday.
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The ‘insufferable egghead’ happens to be Solas from Dragon Age (I’ve never played a game but occasionally a character nabs my heart and pencil) and the other two are….surprises. So, who knows? They might end up in a story!
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