#growing faith

[beemintty]

today was an interesting day. I have this friend who I actually love so much. we have had very similar experiences and grew up in similar environments. both of us are incredibly blessed when it comes to the life we have been given. I thank God for her every day because I get to have these incredible discussions with her about the world and our faith and Christianity without judgement and regards of whether we agree or not. and it's just so refreshing to be able to just talk with her.

she's also incredibly strong in her faith and honestly it's so admirable! and admittedly I have walked away from my faith a little bit... most of that is because I'm never going to be accepted into a church for what I think or how I think or who I love or who I am. and part of that is because I spent my life going in and out of churches that didn't want my family. and part of it was just because I had no one that consistently pushed me in my faith. and ik my faith is my responsibility but when you become so far removed from the church, the only community you have in faith is your Christian friends.... and I live so far from them that it's hard to keep in touch all of the time. and most of that's my fault. I let my faith become my last priority. but I'm realising how much of who I am I miss being built on Christ. I will admit, there is stuff in the bible and in the church I can't sit behind, but the church is only human and god is not the church and the bible is read so out of context most of the time that if I sat down to understand the context I think I would have a better time connecting to my faith.

remember: god is not the cause of my suffering, he is the solution. it's not all churches and it's not all Christians --those that truly follow Christ will love you and accept you just as you are and allow you the space to grow. love completely and live through Christ-- afterall, he gave his life so I could live a life in step with him.

so this is where this starts again. today I give my life back to Jesus and seek to understand and live by his wold.

#thoughts #on life #my thoughts #rambings #musings #on love #on christianity #on being a Christian #christianity #jesus #jesus christ #on faith #on rebuilding #on growing faith #growing faith #faith in jesus #faith #growth #turning to him #god

[sureshe]

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[wisedreamerreview]

Faith

For the past while I have been reading and rereading the lessons in old Bible Study magazines. Last night since I had finished the one I was reading the night before, I picked up a new book. Not so new maybe, this one is from fall of 2022. I opened the magazine and flipped to the first lesson. Faith on Display in Hard Times.  Snippets of the sentences are, “we should consider trials joyous.”…

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#Believers #Bible #Christianity #faith #God #growing faith #hope #trusting

[vectorman64]

#christianity #bible #growing faith #feeding the fire #faith #Youtube

[melvingaines]

Sunday School Live Stream - March 5, 2023

https://www.facebook.com/akronalliancefellowship/videos/565147962241018 Sunday school session with Asst. Pastor Melvin Gaines. John 9:1-12.

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#blind #blind from birth #conflict #darkness #disciple #faith #growing faith #heal #Jesus #John #John 9 #light #Pool of Siloam #reach #religious #sent #sin #time

[orionsangel86]

Somewhere Michael Sheen is watching the latest episodes of OFMD and taking notes lmao

#he so wants to kiss david tennant like that #i hope crowley grows his hair long in s3 #just so aziraphale can run his hand through it the way stede did to ed #i hope he shoves him against a wall just like that #michael will do this for us #i have faith in him #lol #good omens #ineffable husbands #ofmd #blackbonnet #ofmd s2 spoilers

[shu-bullshit]

Where will we be when we grow up?

#I don't ship them I'm just very sentimental about childhood friends stuff #I also have this head canon that Lisa changed her beliefs growing up while John didn't #my art #faith game #faith the unholy trinity #john ward #faith john ward #lisa pearson

[bitchthefuck1]

I feel like people sometimes have a tendency to paint Inej as a little too wide-eyed and borderline naive and I feel like that's such a misread and disservice to her character, because her faith and hope for a better future isn't some misguided assumption that everything will be okay or that the world isn't so bad. She knows exactly how bad things can be and exactly what kind of evil people are capable of, and she's saying "fuck you, you can take my autonomy and my childhood and maybe I'll never see my family or home again, but I will literally die before I let make me think that the shit I've been through is all there is. The beauty and love I experienced was real and valuable and nothing you do or say will make me let go of that or believe it's not possible for me to have again," and it is genuinely the most incredible and real thing in those books.

Inej has fought tooth and nail for every ounce of goodness she has and she'll keep wringing it out of the world because those things are real and possible no matter what, and there's nothing naive about it.

#it's crying about inej hours again #it's literally always crying about inej hours #she makes me soooooooooooo #i will literally kill for this girl #like time and time again the books prove her right and Kaz's extreme nihilism wrong and yet people will talk about it like he's the one who #'really sees the world as it is'. AND HE KNOWS SHE'S RIGHT AND SHE'S STRONGER FOR STILL HAVING FAITH. HE LITERALLY SAYS IT. #deadass wanna be like her when I grow up #not to say kaz doesn't have every reason to believe what he does about the world's cruelty but these books are literally full of these kids #creating the space of love and safety they were denied for each other even as he says it's not possible #inej ghafa #kanej #six of crows #soc #crooked kingdom #inej ghafa my beloved

[lambnotincluded]

no promise of heaven will make me march with my final breath I deny the church

#seeing a band from the bible belt write a song about growing up in a christian environment #and ultimately distancing yourself from it as you get older and recognize the hypocrisy and corruption within the church #means so much to me #idek where to start w this video #the colors #the grainy film #the southern gothic vibes #one thing about knocked loose is they're gonna make some capital-A Art baby #blinding faith #knocked loose #K//L #you won't go before you're supposed to #hxc

[chuckyray]

the walten files fans try not to demonize people with addictions, understand these characters are meant to be complex, and learn to grasp the concept of nuance + remorse + grief and fear causing people to make poor choices challenge: impossible

#every time i open that tag i am faced with the most dogshit media literacy and bad faith interpretation of canon the world has ever seen #felix did not KILL the kids. his irresponsible actions lead to their deaths yes but you people talk about him as if #he broke their necks with his bare hands intentionally. he loved them. he was their uncle hed seen them grow up since they were born. #he was in such shock and grief he couldn't make rational choices. did you people not watch guilty or hear his agonizing screams in bunnyfarm #and to top it off people act like this wasnt an accident. how him being an alcoholic and dui causing this ACCIDENT is justification enough #to act as if he deserves to be treated like a murderer. i believe him living with that grief and suffering and losing everyone he ever had #is punishment enough lol. hes sick. hes mentally ill. and we dont even know anything else regarding how or if hes involved in shit #or how its all impacting him. you people just hate people with addictions. #so called progressive people when a mentally ill sick man makes poor choices because hes mentally ill and sick 😡😡😡😡 #anyway. rant over. #twf #the walten files #felix kranken

[logicalbookthief]

The most important seed you can plant is kindness; the most important crop it yields is joy (x) 💐

#mp100 #mob psycho 100 #mp100 season 3 #kageyama shigeo #minegishi toshiki #every time mob’s faith in people is rewarded my heart grows another size #and idk it especially when it’s someone like minegishi. who is a near stranger to mob #and who still goes out of his way to help mob based when mob would’ve been none-the-wiser if he hadn’t #simply because mob helped him when he had no reason to either #don’t mind me just getting emotional as I type these tags

[dearjewels22]

ebb and flow.

let go of what needs to go... better awaits you.

Happy 1st day of Spring ☀️🌸🌱🪴🌻🌺🤗

#hello spring #spring #autumn #fall #fall back #spring forward #let go #let go of the past #hello joy #goodbye winter #out with the old #in with the new #newness #growth #grow #planted not buried #bloom where you are planted #elevation #life #quotes #inspiration #dear jewels #pray through it #peace #faith #know your worth #better in time #it gets better #winter blues #falling leaves

[stagefoureddiediaz]

Thinking about step 9 and the whole concept of forgiveness of one’s self and others and it bringing healing and how bobby and Eddie have been paralleled a fair amount and the idea that Eddie started this process back at the end of s5 with his forgiveness and acceptance of his father but how he hasn’t yet gone anywhere near his mother and their relationship .

How his catholic guilt storyline seems more likely to play on his reltionship with his mother than his father (if his father wasn’t around that much it would’ve been Helena taking him to church etc each week) so the idea of an Eddie - Helena storyline that plays on catholic guilt and potentially his queerness in relation to that has me chewing on glass - it could be so epically good

#I’ve always viewed Helena as the biggest issue in Eddie’s relationship with his parents - Ramon has always - to me a least always seemed to #just go along with what Helena wants or dictates #it made sense with how his trauma ptsd army related arc played out that it was Ramon who was the centre of that #now though - catholic guilt - possibly playing into his queerness and suppression of that queerness #to keep some kind of reltionship with his mother - who only seems to view him through a lens of failure #leading him down a road where he wasn’t able to be his true self - it would be so powerful #there is so much potential there #eddie saying his mother wasn’t an issue in s6 - was such a choice and so pointed that they have to be wanting to explore that #so many aspects of who Eddie is and why he is the way he is - his want to nest but not being able to with women - stems from his mommy #issues and the fact he’s been denying they exist #I will eat it up - it would be the right kind of angst for the show and Ryan would deliver #plus the way it parallels with Bobby and his relationship with Catholicism would be fascinating #not to mention the whole Eddie not having a relationship with the faith he was brought up in only to start dating someone who is a literal #embodiment of that faith - and female - as a symbol of his needing to explore and reconcile the actual reasons for his faith lapsing- become #could not be queer and Latino and catholic when Eddie was growing up - it wasn’t an option - so if you step away from the faith that’s #denying a fundamental aspect of who you are #even if you still can’t act upon it - ​it is easier to keep that part of you concealed #911 spoilers #911 Thinky thoughts #eddie diaz #I need this arc to be a thing so badly #911 abc

[leitnerpiper420]

i think laura lee would have become antler queen if she didnt explode. she has command over people even if they dont take her seriously all the time. especially since lottie looked to her like a saint. laura lee was the one who had misty show them where van is.

#poor laura lee #i wonder how her faith would have changed #would it grow? would it leave her angry with god #a nonbeliever? #how would the relationship with her and lottie change???? #would she think of the rituals as blasphemy?????? #i need to know #yellowjackets #laura lee #lottielee #lottie matthews #yj #character analysis #i love hiding my thoughts in the tags #its like a little surprise

[melvingaines]

Live Stream Sunday School - March 5, 2023

https://www.facebook.com/gaines.melvin/videos/604771777707409 Sunday school session for Akron Alliance Fellowship Church, Akron OH. John 9:1-12.

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#blind #blind from birth #conflict #darkness #disciple #faith #growing faith #heal #Jesus #John #John 9 #light #Pool of Siloam #reach #religious #sent #sin #time

[americankimchi]

it's so hard to take star wars seriously nowadays because i'll watch someone get skewered by a lightsaber and then somehow walk it off with a bacta patch and a slap on the ass. like you're telling me a weapon that can carve furrows into foot-thick solid durasteel doors, dripping melted slag in its wake, when applied to the flesh of a sentient being leaves behind nothing more than superficial damage. like be so ffr. "it cauterizes the wound instantly" this is not a little cut. this is not minor burns. you were IMPALED BY A BEAM OF PLASMA. your ORGANS have been COOKED. your BLOOD has BOILED. your BONES were INCINERATED. what are you TALKING ABOUTTTTTT

#personal #I CANNOT TAKE IT SERIOUSLY #you do not grow up with the OT and the PT watching people get cut down instantly and then just #GESTURES FURIOUSLY AT THE MULTIPLE INSTANCES OF PEOPLE GETTING A LIGHTSABER THROUGH THE GUT #AND JUST WALKING IT OFF!!!!!!!! SOMETIMES RIGHT AFTER THE FACT!!!!!!!!!!!! #LIKE WHAT DO YOU MEAN #WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT #i tried desperately to justify it in the ST movies because rey was established as having like #anakin-levels of force bullshit so why not. i mean anakin couldn't force heal for shit but whatever. #it's not like him having the ability to force heal would've neatly sidestepped the MAIN CONFLICT OF EPISODE 3 OR ANYTHING #STILL MADE MY EYEBROWS RAISE WHEN SHE HEALED KYLO. BUT I TRIED TO LOOK PAST IT. OUT OF GOOD FAITH. MOSTLY DESPERATION. #BUT WHAT! DO! YOU! MEAN!!!!! THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WALK OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!! IMPALEMENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BY LIGHTSABER!!!!!!!!!! #ON THE REGULAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #I GUESS QUI GON DYING WAS A FUCKING. SKILL ISSUE???????? #???????????????????????? #i need to go lie down. #dont talk 2 me about maul coming back in tcw it's an old wound i refuse to examine #''but in legends—'' i put my hand over your mouth so lovingly. No. <3 #i love star wars SO MUCH but they need 2 stop impaling people on lightsabers if they dont want them to be dead #LOP OFF A LIMB INSTEAD #okay im done. thank u for letting me yell it's all out of my system now #im back on the ''i love star wars'' train again <33