This life

snapdraws:

Apologies for the terrible image quality - I’m lacking scanner access at the minute so I had to take these photos on my phone

I was reading hyperbole and a half’s blog entry explaining their experience of depression and decided to make another sketchy comic based on my experiences with anxiety, which is another mental illness I think people tend to misunderstand quite frequently

Hopefully this will be of use to some people - whether they suffer from anxiety themselves or if they just want to know more about it

This is my life.

(via daily-dose-of-average)

Today is the first day of Lent, and people all around me are giving things up- chocolate, smoking, facebook.  When I googled it, the internet informed me that we give things up for Lent so that we can share in the suffering of Christ so that we can share in his Resurrection, too. We give up things that we love, but I don’t know that we replace them with things that grow our relationships with Christ or with others. If Lent is the season of turning back to God, recommitting our lives to him and shaping them to be lives that are in a better place with him, wouldn’t it also be true that God wants more than our suffering. 

Our God is a relational God. He doesn’t just want our suffering, he also wants our passions. He wants our best lived life. In a time of the year where we begin to think about how passionately Christ loved us, how far He was willing to go, and how much He was willing to give, it’s impossible to think that we don’t owe the world a reflection of that love. 

So I’ve been thinking about the next 40 days. Maybe this isn’t the year to give something up, but rather the year to give something back. Maybe this is the year where I should be less worried about my own suffering and more concerned about assuaging the suffering of others.  

So for the next 40 days I will be trying to complete a challenge a day to find big ways and little ways to give back to the people in my life, to God, and to myself.  My day 1 challenge was to make this post. My day 2 will be to try to come up with a list of challenges.

Stay tuned, I’m excited to see how God responds to my desire to grow.

(Source: spiritualinspiration, via christdaily)

wryan:

Crunchy’s in East Lansing knows what’s up.

I did this…. back in 2011. It just got reblogged at #effyeahnerdfighters

No regrets.

(via effyeahnerdfighters)

the three MOST honest minutes in television history. EVER. 

Wow. I wish this was less profane, because I love the facts.

(Source: eatprayqueeef, via danrezler)

Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society, p. 35 (via anarcho-fabio)

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(Source: ForGIFs.com, via whynotdosomestuff-deactivated20)

Seriously Arizona, how are you planning on making this work?

abaldwin360:

You can safely assume that you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.

- Anne Lamott

So strive to hate no one.

(via uncultured)

stopjohngreen:

They’re just as sad and pathetic as One Direction, or Justin Bieber fans. Entirely blinded by their obsession with some guy just because they don’t know any better than they can’t even recognize when there are things wrong with him.

Newsflash for you, Nerdfighters. John Green is sexist. If you…

All I want to know is how someone “has smart”?

No, but seriously, smart has very little to do with people’s ability for intelligent discourse and far more to do with how much effort they’re willing to put into making clear, concise, well-reasoned arguments.

You don’t seem to be putting in much effort.

Lots of anger.

Not much effort.

(via urinedabathroom-deactivated2013)