soulinthemists:We are here….to live……to love…..and to learn. But do we do so? When I saw this I h
soulinthemists:We are here….to live……to love…..and to learn. But do we do so? When I saw this I had to ask myself this simple question: Am I doing so?Tumblrs can be used by people to express their anger, frustrations and, to put it bluntly, hatred. Tumblrs can serve as a cathartic of sorts. One can “get it out” and attack whatever and whoever anonymously. Everyone, it seems, is having it out with God for any number of reasons and use tumblr because its better than standing out in the front yard and yelling to heaven or burning your church down or attacking your target(s) or just doing harm to someone else, this last seeming to be the target of choice, women especially when you see the photos and artwork. The Virgin Mary is taking a beating in particular. The protraits and artwork are pornographic in the extreme. The Roman Catholic Church is the whipping boy right now. Other religions not so much. Why? Probably for any number of reasons, which I won’t address here. What I do see is many people reaching out to “Satan” to be able to “get back” at God and Satan isn’t going to take the rap. The problem is God isn’t the one that made our problems. We did. It’s easy to blame God for our “screw ups”. The answer I heard this morning from a christian wife was that “God, if he loved me, would never have let this happen.” Why such a response when this mother of three knows that she can’t completely control the behavior of her children especially when they enter their teenage years. They have their “own mind” and she, as a mom, has to love them and can be disappointed with them. Have you ever considered that is how the christian God see us-as a parent whose child or children has disappointed him? . And its the same with the Dark Lord.I’m not into all the blood and gore and violence one sees in numerous tumblr blogs. And there are those who love to explore the “dark side” of human behavior. We do love to cause pain to others. We women, many of us, have created drama in the life of others just for fun or to strike back or to keep us from being found out. We can be and are devious bitches if we admit to ourselves. We refuse to recognize this if we feel we are in the right in some way and wonder why life suddenly turns to crap for us. Maybe we need to see life differently, avoid the drama, get on with it and live…love a little and learn. Look at the coffee cup or tea cup or glass of water in front of you and see it as half full rather than half emply. Be wicked, whatever.Consider the darkness not your enemy but your friend. For me, as I sit in my pentagram especially, I find it a time to meditate, to think, to rest my mind, to chat with the “supernatural” for those of you who say you don’t believe in anything or anyone else (but you really do) beyond this mortal life we have. Night is usually used for sleep isn’t it? Doesn’t that give us a clue about the use of the night or darkness? At the same time darkness reveals our vulnerability. Natural fears emerge. At the same time we use darkness selfishly. We use the darkness for our own purposes in so many different ways I won’t try to list them here. The darkness hides things, and the darkness says a lot about who we are. For in hiding there is also revelation. The usual question arises from the “mists”. Why this article? Sharon is a single mom of three, two girls and one boy. The girls are l9 and l6. Her son is 13. She is divorced because of her own behavior and this happened several years back; and she and her ex work hard to co-parent amicably. That isn’t her problem. Her dilemma is domestic but doesn’t involve “the usual suspects”. In fact, she doesn’t have any in law or other family problems. All of the family , maternal and paternal, are helpful and supportive. Sharon’s situation is that her older daughter is having a fling with her mom’s boyfriend.What do you do and how do you react when you come home unexpectedly and find your oldest daughter naked and in your bed sitting on top of and screwing your significant other? and you listen to them talk and discover this has been happening for some time? To listen as your daughter rides his cock cowgirl and is asking him if she is better in bed than her mom and that she will make sure she is. Then you learn during the fight following the finding out of the situation that your daughter was the seducer and tells you she is “in love” with your frequent fucker. Because that is what he turns into after the discovery. He is no longer the loving significant other. The problem doesn’t end there. The daughter suddenly packs up and moves to his place and tells her mom to “get over it.” laughs and the two leave together with the now former lover smiling at her with “that smile”. Why has the supernatural, why has God or the Dark Lord, let this happen to me? is the cry. The issue for Sharon is the supernatural didn’t cause the shit she is bogged down in. Other people did and they were people she cared for intensely.…people she loved. Why? As a pastor’s wife, do I have the solution? As a witch, do I have a spell or potion? As a follower of the Dark Lord, can a call upon a special power?Life has to be lived and it means looking forward. Who we “love” and how we “love” can be fluid. How do we deal with this facet of life? Hate? Sharon will, whether she likes it or not, learn from this and it won’t be easy. Yes, she has been screwed, by a guy she centered her life around, by a daughter she loved and care for deeply and who she thought she was very close to. She has a right to be angry, hurt, betrayed. She is going to have to refocus her life but it will take some time. No, I don’t have a solution to recomment at the moment nor will I attempt one here. Im simply sharing my own feelings as a follower of the Dark Lord who finds herself listening to real world personal problems that often, really, if I am honest, always involves sex and the sensual.Horror isn’t my genre even though I am a witch and follow the Dark Lord (I do enjoy a good horror story at time or even movie on occasion), blood and gore aren’t my thing. Why should I wish such things on others? Does it give me a sense of power and control? I suppose so. I “hurt” for Sharon and wan’t to be there for her. How to help? Right now, just listen and ask the Dark Lord for direction. I will tiptoe through the tumblrs. I’m not criticizing anyone about how they express themselves, especially on tumblr. My focus for me is living, loving (including lusting) and learning. And maybe sharing along the way so we learn from each other. -- source link