#ive been thinking about this a lot lately
Not being welcome is your greatest fear. It connects with your birth fear: your fear of not being welcome in this life; and your death fear: your fear of not being welcome in the life after this. It is the deep-seated fear that it would have been better if you had not lived.
[So] here you are, facing the core of the spiritual battle. Are you going to give in to the forces of darkness that say you are not welcome in this life? Or can you trust the voice of the One who came not to condemn you, but to set you free from fear? You have to choose life. At every moment you have to decide to trust the voice that says, “I love you. I knit you together in your mother’s womb” (Psalms 139:13).
Jesus offers you His own most intimate life with the Father… Everything Jesus is saying to you can be summarized in the words “Know that you are welcome.”
Henri J. M. Nouwen
“I am not worthy of the call,” or we might think of all our sinfulness and think that we don’t deserve to be called. We might think that we are not smart enough or capable to do God’s mission. However, it is God who calls us and gives us the strength to follow Him. The call is something we cannot understand. That is why it is a mystery. All we can say as Mary did is: “Let it be with me according to Thy word.”
Sister Maria Guadalupe
Every time that we sin, we are born of the devil. But every time that we do good, we are born of God.
Saint John Chrysostom
Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening but sweet and precious.
St. Rose of Viterbo
When we live well– with our desire & goal being heaven alone– then death is a fulfillment of a life lived for Him, and an ending only of all struggle & hindrances to holiness. To one who lives for God, death is but the doorway to unending joy.
imma say it again, i truly do believe kubo made rangiku’s assault similar to sexual assault in order to highlight how toxic male pride can overshadow a woman’s pain. throughout gin’s entire crusade, never once did he think to take into consideration rangiku’s feelings on the whole kill-aizen plan when SHE was the one who got beat up by a sleaze and got a piece of her soul stolen, when SHE was the victim while gin was a witness, and yet gin let what little common sense he had go to waste and chose to follow his pride instead of stepping back. gin may not have had many options once he joined squad five, but he had an option to take rangiku WITH him when he joined the shinigami academy instead of leaving her behind. he had the choice to let HER choose how she wanted to deal with her grief instead of deciding for her that her tears would only go away if he killed aizen and changed the soul society. in the end, he accomplished nothing, and made the only girl who ever mattered to him cry over his dead body. all because he chose his pride over the woman who loved him more than anything else. all because his toxic male pride told him it was better dying alone and unloved rather than accepting tragedy and being a supportive man. gin’s sin wasn’t that he hated aizen and wanted vengeance (97% of the cast wanted that). gin’s sin was that he let his pride and his ego drive his decisions in the end, and that same pride and ego are what made him fail in the end and die a miserable sack of shit.
