#deny

[daily-mc-block]

Deny

#minecraft #request #deny

[traumatizedjaguar]

Are you that type of trauma victim that just has one abusive relationship or friendship or peer interaction after another and after another and after another?

#my text #actually traumatized #actually cptsd #actually abused #actually traumatised #actually bullied #actuallyabused #actuallymentallyill #actually mentally ill #actuallytraumatized #emotional abuse #actuallybullied #darvo #deny #attack #reverse #victim and offender role

[stoicmike]

Never underestimate the power of denial...and if denial stops working you can deny that it did. -- Michael Lipsey

#deny #denial #de Nile #No Way! #nope #not #never!

[momentsbeforemass]

Called out

What do you do when something hits hard? When it strikes a nerve?

When someone calls you out on your BS? How do you respond?

Deny it? Deflect it, with some “what abouts?”

Or like the Pharisees in today’s Gospel, when Jesus strikes a nerve - get angry at the person who said it?

If we’re honest, you and I have done all of these at one time or another. Just like the Pharisees. Just like every other person in the history of ever. It’s human nature.

None of us like to be called out on our BS.

But none of those responses help. They don’t change anything.

And when we’re done reacting, we’re still stuck in our BS. Just like the Pharisees.  

I like to think of interactions like we see in today’s Gospel as “missing the point moments.” Because Jesus has a point in calling people out on their BS.   

It’s not the point I would have. If it were me, given the Pharisees constant efforts to embarrass and entrap Jesus, I would deeply enjoy publicly humiliating them. And I would do it every chance I got.

But that’s not who Jesus is (thank God). In spite of them absolutely not deserving it, Jesus loves them.

Which is why the point of what Jesus is doing is to hold up a mirror. To get them to look closely at themselves. To get them to ask themselves some questions. Questions like,

“Why am I having this reaction?” “Do I want to be someone who reacts like this?” “What is this telling me about me?”

The same questions you and I need to ask ourselves, whenever someone calls us out on our BS.

Whatever our answers might be, our answers will be pointing us to something that’s getting between us and God.

Something that we need to take to God in prayer. Something we cannot ignore.

Because anything that can make you and me react like that? It’s on the way to becoming the center of our lives. Whether we mean for it to or not.

It’s a subtle form of idolatry (not all false gods have statues) and one of the most toxic.

And if God puts it in your heart to ask whether you should talk to a therapist about it? You already know the answer.

Today’s Readings

#Called Out #BS #God #Jesus #Catholic #Christian #Church #Reacting #Deflect #Deny #Anger #False Gods #Therapy #What about #Moments Before Mass

[fentanyl-rabbits]

Comfort

#mine #vent art #trauma #repress #deny #tw drugs #substance abuse #cptsd #collage #words #negative #velvet underground lyrics #tw opiates #addiction #dear diary

[dk-thrive]

To deny or to defend is to admit vulnerability.

— Alexandra Auder, Don't Call Me Home: A Memoir (Viking, May 2, 2023)

#Alexandra Auder #vulnerable #admit #truth #authentic #mask #deny

[legendsoffodlan]

An anon just sent me an ask (not replying to it since it mentioned blogs by name) and said my post about Edelgard and Byleth's anger was screenshotted to be made fun of on twitter by edelstans. Is this true? can anyone confirm?

#Legends of Fodlan #Fire Emblem #Three Houses #Edelgard #Edelgard von Hresvelg #question #request #confirm or deny #confirm #deny

[wisdomfish]

Is the message of Christianity self-fulfillment, or is it self-denial? It can't be both.

John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 5

#message #christianity #self #deny #law of non-contradication

[yeesiine]

You can try and push eachother away, we can try and deny what we feel but when two hearts have connected and two souls have been reminded of love there is simply no way to fate can keep us apart.

#nikki rowe #heart #fall apart #love #push #try #deny #connected #apart #souls

[askeindtheenderman]

Just Deny being evil~

#deny #enderman oc #expressions #minecraft

[crows-templets]

like the group description im sorry for my poor fazing (also sorry for spamming angne)

I’m going to deny this request simply due to lack of understanding on my end, sorry

#deny #ask