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January 3 - January 8, 2025
as unknowable as El’s plan might be, there always is one. Even when we don’t like where it takes us.” Raeleth sighed. “A truth that is most important to accept when it’s hardest, unfortunately.
Faithful people suffer and evil people prosper all the time, Davian—you must know that is true. Besides, if our actions are driven only by reward or punishment—eternal or otherwise—then they are motivated by greed and selfishness, not faith or love. That is where so many people go wrong, even those who say they believe in El. They obey because they think it will make their lives better, rather than themselves. And that is very much the wrong reason.”
“They are trying to convince everyone that our creator wished to create a world in which He could not take part. Could not help, guide, or save. In which He was functionally irrelevant.”
“The El I believe in is not just the creator of this world, but inextricably tied to it—if He were to withdraw from it, it would cease to be as we know it. It would become a place where all the things we value, all things that have beauty and life and meaning, are simply not possible.
“El could convince the world in a heartbeat—but if He did, it would no longer be our choice to follow Him. Instead, He enables us to choose Him.”
What kind of god would create us and then leave us with no guiding hand, no plan, to the mercies of chance alone? Is a lack of discipline caring? Is absence somehow love? Should a father take his newborn and cast it out into the wild, helpless and alone, all because he does not want to unduly influence its life?”
They couldn’t let trying to survive here strip them of everything that made that survival mean something.
“I’m not suggesting that enemies should suddenly be friends, but I am choosing to forgive. Because if I don’t, I’m nothing more than empty words.”
“I said that I don’t trust Aarkein Devaed. But I trust you.”
oh i really like you raeleth and that’s probably going to be a problem
“Killing in war is sometimes necessary. That doesn’t mean that war necessitates killing,”
“It’s not enough to fight for the right side. You have to figure out how to fight the right way, too. If winning is truly all that matters, then we’ve lost sight of what’s actually right and wrong in the first place.”
that he should fight was unquestioned, but how he fought mattered just as much as the result of the conflict.
“Because the things we crave are wonderful blindfolds,” he said. “When they start to slip, we want nothing more than for him to pull them up again.”
“Because I know you.” Davian’s voice was sure. “Because you are my friend. Because I and those of us who love you will accept those consequences. This darkness in you, telling you that we are better off with you gone—it’s him. It’s him, Tal. This is the trap.”
It didn’t matter. Eventually, he knew, that man would change.
why on EARTH do all of the epilogues in this series reveal the CRAZIEST/WORST things and the just END?!!
and this one was actually the worst because that’s was the actual ending
i’m crying okay
