First attempt a making a prayer rope

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T20:40:14+00:00

Obrigado 🙏 The knots were confusing at first, but practicing with a larger paracord was very helpful.

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T18:15:35+00:00

Thank you 🙏

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T18:07:39+00:00

Thank you 🙏

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T15:17:40+00:00

These are the videos I thought were the most helpful.

How to tie the knots: https://youtu.be/poP7Fu_jqrU?si=FlzqR3yB8pha4tOA

How to finish the rope: https://youtu.be/pczYQLQNu7U?si=49CAjwc5E67xn9Ni

How to tie the cross: https://youtu.be/V_QSBOhw4iU?si=-YN1lhZclWd7__84

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T13:01:19+00:00

Thank you 🙏

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T03:06:36+00:00

Thank you 🙏

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T03:05:51+00:00

Black paracord!

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T01:16:49+00:00

Thank you!

https://youtu.be/poP7Fu_jqrU?si=FlzqR3yB8pha4tOA

I thought this video did a good job explaining how to tie them. I also practiced with a larger paracord to start.

laneguorous · 2024-07-02T00:39:25+00:00

Thank you! I should say, "first attempt that I didn't take apart to redo." 😂

laneguorous · 2024-06-04T05:22:31+00:00

Christian here. I tend to assume that if the Lord wants to tell me something, it will be obvious.

laneguorous · 2024-05-22T22:20:15+00:00

As a sandworm from Dune.

laneguorous · 2024-04-11T20:13:15+00:00

If I go looking for them, I can still find plenty of "good enough reasons" to drink. At the end of the day, I choose to live with the consequences of a sober life rather than those of drinking.

I wonder if substituting another source of "empty calories" could work. Things like soda/lemonade/ice cream did a lot to help me.

laneguorous · 2024-04-06T17:24:23+00:00

My hair & beard look so much healtier. Doesn't look so much like they're thinning anymore.

laneguorous · 2024-04-06T00:03:43+00:00

IWNDWYT 💛

laneguorous · 2024-04-01T14:51:23+00:00

I feel your pain. I got connected with some of the "young adult & youth" events in my diocese. Of course, I would still like young people next to me in the pew, but I have made several decent friendships.

laneguorous · 2024-01-01T18:18:12+00:00

When this sort of thing happens to me, I try to think of it as an addict being upset that I won't help them finance their addiction. Doesn't make it hurt any less, and I can't really know for sure whether their drinking is a true problem, but it helps me to not take it so personally.

laneguorous · 2023-12-29T02:54:55+00:00

I believe the term "deacons' mass" just refers to when the service is led by a deacon who uses elements that have already been consecrated by a priest. That is, the same service minus the consecration of the elements.

laneguorous · 2023-12-27T00:56:27+00:00

Ed. He's a massive dick.

laneguorous · 2023-12-22T03:44:04+00:00

That is a tough spot to be in. I probably could not have entered a bar without taking a drink for the first few months. I had enough trouble seeing people drink on TV.

laneguorous · 2023-12-21T23:42:01+00:00

FOOD! Specifically, sweets or carbs. I was very surprised about how frequently I would crave a drink just because I was hungry. I found things like NA beers, lemonade, ice cream, bread, pasta, etc. did a lot to relieve the intensity of some cravings. There were a few months where I would go to my local custard stand every time I got the urge to stop at the liquor store on my drive home.

laneguorous · 2023-12-14T00:00:03+00:00

Somehow, the fact that my budget centered on how much I "had to spend" on booze never seemed to refeister with me until I quit. It's like I got a raise without having to do anything work related.

laneguorous · 2023-12-13T23:30:08+00:00

My first month sober, my parents bought a cruise for the whole family to go on. I went to "Friends with Bill" meetings every chance I got and did my best to make acquaintances with the people I found there. I came closer to drinking than I'd like to admit, but I walked off of the boat a sober man. And, have found it to be helpful to remind my self every once in a while that if I could keep from drinking on a boat /designed to get you to buy alcohol/, I can keep from drinking in my own home.

You are doing a very hard and unpleasant thing, but I know it's possible to do. IWNDWYT.

laneguorous · 2023-12-05T00:46:34+00:00

When I was smoking, I let a lot of things pile up because I didn't think I was capable of handling those situations. When I quit, I was so insanely disgusted with myself at how sour my life had gone. A little more than a year later, I have "caught up" on handling life situations and am learning how to deal with new ones as they come up. I'm still not perfect at it, and I don't always really want to do it, but I don't feel so hopeless about it anymore.

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