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A Short Story About Achieving Self-Love With Jesus
Do you struggle with pleasing people? Do you try to be someone you think others want you to be? I’ve been there, done that. I continue to struggle with it to this day. I didn’t always have confidence or love for myself. I was abused, abandoned, and neglected in my childhood, so I didn’t always have the healthiest relationships to teach me self-esteem. I had very low self-worth and was depressed for many years. My very low self-esteem gave me the desire to want to please people.
By Effie Fields3 years ago in Journal
Get 3D Close View of the PiXiu Celestial Coming With Fortune: Emblem of Wealth Luck Potential just for this Short Window of Opportunity
The auction orgainsed by Sothebys for the masterpeice will be on website display here at this link for maybe once in a Lifetime for the next 3 days
By Estalontech3 years ago in Journal
Mother Earth's Flower Vs Devil's Lettuce
I was once jealous of my, one day to be, ex-husband after he got his medicinal marijuana card. It was hard for me to fathom being able to walk into a store to purchase marijuana, almost as easily as milk and bread. How easy it has become!
By Jamie LeFebvre 3 years ago in Journal
God Is Our Sovereign Lord, Not Our Puppet Master
God doesn’t sit on his heavenly throne, controlling us the way a master puppeteer controls his puppets. And despite popular misconception God is not the author of struggle, pain and wars, that’s Satan’s territory, but the Lord can use these things to draw us closer to him, he has the power to use something horrible and turn it around.
By Michelle Renee Kidwell3 years ago in Journal
Kicked in Ribs
I, coincidentally, am the back-of-the-coffee-shop mystery. I bring thrifted books, sharpies, and sharp eyes. I scribble blackout poetry and sip on iced coffee and listen to James Arthur and pop my fingers again and again. My tote bags are overflowing with straw wrappers, Midliner highlighters, and forgotten stories.
By Macy Lynn Evridge3 years ago in Journal
UN REPORT CITES “SERIOUS HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS” IN CHINA
I’ve taken some flak about a certain issue over the past few years. I’ve learned not to let barbs from readers bother me, but put-downs are still a good way to take the temperature of a particular topic.
By David Morton Rintoul3 years ago in Journal
Are you a good witch or a bad witch?
Once upon a time there was a girl who was different from a lot of people she knew. Now we all know that is how the stories usually go. Mine is a bit different. Since an early age, I never really fit into any type of box. Not just my appearance, but the way I thought about things. Religion being one of those things. Now I know what you are going to say, 'Another person trying to convert people'. Yeah, that's not me. I just wanted to share my experience on how I became a Wiccan who practices witchcraft. Before you ask, yes there is a difference. Wicca is a religion. Mostly it is one motto, "Harm none, Do what ye will". Kind of like the Hippocratic Oath that doctors take. Wiccans believe in using the energy of the elements: Fire, Earth, Air, Water and Spirit. The five points of the Pentacle. Yes Pentacle. Pentagrams are upside down and used mostly by Satanist to scare people. I never could understand the ardent faith that some people have with organized religions. I have read all of the Bible, though it has been sometime since I did, and I have researched other religions too. None of those religions ever made me feel faith. That is until I was introduced into Wicca. All my life weird stuff has happened. From seeing or hearing ghost to thinking something was going to happen and it actually happen. I have written before about dreams and experiences I have had. Some of it happened even before I could give it a name. Now I am a practicing Wicca for the past 27 years. At times, I have questioned my faith. I think there is always a time in which your faith comes into question. How much do you believe? How much faith in the powers that be do you have? During one of these times, I found Wicca. I'm a Gen X child. So naturally my generation wanted to explore new ideas. A friend of mine began reading about Wicca and the craft. Partially because we were inspired by the movie The Craft. I know it sounds ridiculous but, hear me out. It was a bit of an eye-opening experience. I started dabbling a bit with my abilities. One of the things I was always good at is my gut feeling about people. I call it my traffic light. People I feel I can trust are green. People to stay away from are red. People who fall in between are yellow. Those are the people you really have to be around more to get a better feeling for. Yes, I am right 9/10 times. There are only a few times when I can say I was wrong. Mostly with the yellow people. A gut feeling is more of your internal alarm system. Hence the reason how I found Wicca. No other religions could explain the way I was feeling, the things I was experiencing. Then a friend of mine told me about reading a book about Wicca. She lent it to me, and I began to explore. Everything I was going through began to click into place. The way I was thinking and what I was thinking all started making sense. Now Witchcraft is another thing that I began to experiment with. Using simple spells along with my will (intent) behind it. I began to notice that I was making things happen. There was never a question or doubt in my mind about either Wicca or Witchcraft. The only doubt that ever plagued me at the time was whether I was doing the right thing. Yes, I did dabble in the darker side of the Craft as well. To experience both sides leaves one with a respect for the Craft that you hadn't before. To really know the highs and lows of the Craft is to test both sides. That is where true faith lies. To know you can help or hinder anything in your life. That changes a person. Your level of respect changes your perception of the Religion and the Craft.
By MaryBeth Calahorrano3 years ago in Journal
The Halcyon Effect
A moment of clarity, though this one transcends what you’ve come to expect of them. Colour more vivid. The light is different. Above all, a sense of change prevails over the perspective. It is as if the lens has focused in. Now, this sensory phenomenon (For sensory it is, though it also seems to transcend any of the senses) may occur in a relatively mundane period of life, it is normally associated, at least in my experience, with periods of life that touch are soul, and periods, whether we know it or not at the time, which will form our future self. The beginning of a new relationship usually. It is as if an obscuring film that takes the lustre out of the everyday is lifted, revealing the world in its true splendour.
By Harry Hunter Baxter3 years ago in Journal
