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archaicwonder:

Joan of Arc’s Ring, 15th Century AD

The ring is unusual for its type in having text rather than an image of saints on its faceted bezel. It matches the description Joan gave at her trial of the ring given to her by her parents, and is inscribed ‘I M’ for ‘Jesus Maria’. This ring sold at auction for £297,600.00.

The ring’s connection to St. Joan, who was burnt at the stake in 1431 for heresy, has been documented for over a
century, and was published by F.A. Harman Oates in his privately printed
catalogue of 1917. It was kept in an oak reliquary casket and was sold
with a book of excerpts from national newspapers in Britain and France,
as well as research notes compiled by Cyril Bunt in the 1940s, the BBC
features on the ring and exhibition catalogues.

made some gnostic prayer beads tonight! i wrote my own stuff for the most part, which is how i ended up with punk song lyrics somewhere in there lmao

materials: wooden beads, amethyst beads, cord of some material that may be leather, random piece of coral, a crucifix from a broken rosary

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The infamous I want peach cobbler in a week spell. Usually its for pie and usually it’s not put into practice. But I felt a need.

i want the directions to this spell

it sound slike it would come in handy

I’ve been WAITING»>

1. ) Candle [white] from 30 pack candles from walmart (cause they were cheap). You can use whatever candle you got. 

2. ) Sharpie (but you can use a needle to push into the wax/carve into the wax, water, whatever you feel comfortable burning).

3. ) Wrote on the top of the candle first:

“I want peach cobbler.”

4. ) Around candle:

“This will happen in one week.”

5. ) On an ordinary piece of computer paper I wrote:

“I will get a piece of peach cobbler in seven days.”

3 times.

6. ) Folded that paper. 

7. )Stuck under candle

8.) Lit candle.

8.a) accidentally laughed out my candle (blew it out with my breath) and had to relight it.

This is beautiful. XD

*breathes life into this post*

*reactivates peach cobblah spell*

Does this spell work with other kinds of desserts?

You are more than welcome to adapt the spell to the dessert you need/want/favor/etc. I did for this one, originally it was for pie. 🙂

Other people are definitely putting it to use on other desserts. So please feel free to adapt as you need!

Can confirm spell works. Eating blueberry cheesecake right now after doing spell yesterday. :0 

If its okay, would you be able to write something about being queer and hope? We’ve got the government backing a thing in Australia that will see an entire nation vote on whether marriage equality should be legal. There’s going to be equal funding for the “no” side, it’ll hurt a lot of young queers and its not even binding at the end. Its just so overwhelming.

boykeats:

i dreamed last night of jesus.
he was a protester with top surgery
scars on his bare chest, with a mouth painted wedding ring gold, with a heart
so unmistakably bright you knew
he was the one who sang the stars
into burning. he stood at the front
lines. he had scabbed knuckles. i asked
him to kiss me right there in front
of the thunderstorm & he did, nice
& slow, like we had nothing but
forevers. in some life i believe we do.

but who are we here when the reckoning
tries to stumble its way forward?
women with river shale knees,
men with pink lemonade shoulders,
people who smile at their lovers,
hold their children, construct bronze
monuments to those we lost
when the past reckonings arrived.
& look how our history shines
in the light anyway. & look how we
teach ourselves to dance & write
poetry & leave everywhere we go the rose
petal sheen of kindness.

see that thunderstorm, its smile
full of bruise colored snake teeth?
you are of the holy wholly beautiful gay
blood. keep marching.

Sometimes I think of Jesus in Gethsemane with the disciples falling asleep around him and I get so sad because he would have been so scared and they let him down. How do you all feel about it?

millennialgospel:

I think it’s one of the moments in the gospels where Jesus is the most vulnerable and powerless. Like, he’s terrified. He’s literally interceding with God one last time to spare him from the horrors to come even though he knows he has to go through with it. He knows there’s no way out, at least in most interpretations. And he asks his closest friends to stay awake with him and watch for the man who is coming to betray him and the men who are coming to humiliate, torture, and kill him. And they fall asleep multiple times. Brutal. Of course they’re reconciled to Jesus after the resurrection; Jesus forgives the disciples and cooks breakfast with them and laughs with them and teaches them but man. Gethsemane was not a shining moment for Jesus’ friends.

If I was going to preach on this text I would say it highlights how we all fall asleep on God a lot. We aren’t capable or being what God needs/wants us to be all the times, and sometimes we don’t even try to be. And seeing that played out through the incarnation, where Divinity experiences the limitations, pangs, and fears of flesh makes meaningful relationships with individual humans is sobering. It’s also one of the many moments in the gospels where we see Jesus praying and I think prayer is something a lot of Christians don’t understand or have trouble doing, so it reminds us that prayer is always a good thing. God is with us even in the Gethsemanes of our lives, when the sun wont be rising for a long, bloody night yet. 

-S