Having Jesus in the boat with you doesn’t mean the storm won’t rock you; it simply means the storm will not sink you.
– My Pastor
Tag: keep in mind
To you reading this:
I don’t know what you may be going through, I don’t know how you’re feeling right now, or how did it get this bad. However, I do know one thing, and that is the fact that, if you are still here, alive, it is because your life has a purpose and a meaning. It does not matter who you are, what you’ve done, where you’ve been or how bad your past was, your future holds a promise, and that promise starts with Jesus. Hold on to Him, let His love guide you and mold you, and make of you a testimony of strength and perseverance. Do not give up. You have come so far, and this is not the end of the road for you. There is so much more. Just hold on. He will make a way.
Today I felt really crumby for the most part, and I ended up outing my depression to a friend. I was crying and shaking, but I had to be kinda quite because we were backstage of a play, and she decided to tell my friends about how I had said that I wanted to die.
I could not be more thankful that she did.
She brought a big group of our friends and they’re all so wonderful, and she told on of the adults, who formed a bit of an intervention. I’m still really embarrassed that I created such a fuss, and I feel awful for worrying my friends, but I’m also very thankful to the people that helped me and relieved that I can trust others with my feelings.
I got to talk to some very godly people (one of the awesome directors of the show and one of the dancers parents [who are in ministry]), and they helped me with my feelings. They knew what I was going through, and they were just positively wonderful.
One lady told my parents, which really freaked me out. I was worried that my mom would get mad or start interrogating me (which she did a little bit [which I don’t blame her for doing]), and that my dad would get too worried. But I’m thankful she told them. They were both so supportive. I love them so much, even if they drive me crazy sometimes.
I want you all to know that it’s really not health to just bottle everything up. PLEASE, for your own sake, find someone to talk to about your problems. If they really care about you, they’ll want to know so that they can help you. And if you truly feel alone, know that God loves you. You might not believe in God, but there are people who do; those people, if they truly know God, know that He made everyone with a purpose in mind. He does not create anyone without a plan for them. He loves you. Please, if you take anything away from this, let it be that God loves you, and that those who truly believe Him love you too. I love you.
God has been waiting billions of years for a lifeform to be able to study atoms and quarks and quantum entanglement to really appreciate how much painfully intricate effort he took to make the universe. Humans are finally there, but they think it’s all evidence that God must not be real.
Writing prompts just got really real
This isn’t even a writing prompt, this blog is just spitting straight truth now.
SERIOUSLY
I am going to print this out and plaster it everywhere I go
my heart just broke
Not gonna lie; I’m on the verge of tears right now.
Because this is what I see every night when I come into work. I work at a Jewish-run elder care non-profit. Even in the memory care unit, we’re seeing a rise in the residents’ anxiety levels, to the point where they’ve had to stop turning on the TV news stations (and these residents still love the news). Multiple residents are direct survivors of the Shoah; some barely escaped, and almost all of them lost family members in death camps. One resident was one of the children saved by the Kindertransport. Many other residents tell me stories of when they were kids, how their neighborhoods were destroyed and relocated and of the siblings and parents they no longer have. One newer resident was finally starting to settle in when Charlottesville happened. Even though we immediately changed the channel, she was shaken. She was inconsolable for hours. When I left for the night, she was still crying and refused to leave her room. Even now, weeks after the direct event, she still is wary to come to programs, fearing that if she is away from her room too long that her possessions and place will be stolen from her like they were in 1938. Even with dementia, even with Alzheimers, these residents remember what happened. They cannot forget their lost loved ones. They cannot forget the things stolen from them. They cannot forget, period.
Because this fight against Neo-Nazis isn’t just a theoretical thing. These groups know that people are forgetting about Shoah; they take great strength knowing that people from that generation are dying. When they regard WWII as a “dark cloud” hanging over the heads of this generation, it is not with a solemn regard, with they knowledge that we must not forget lest we repeat our mistakes. These White supremacists, these White Neo-Nazis, see Shoah remembrance as something they will gladly eradicate. When people gladly throw out the Nazi salute, chant the 14 words, or march under the banner of “hail victory,” they are two things and two things only – Nazi apologists and Nazi supporters.
Shoah survivors are not gone. They are still here. We need to stop ignoring that this normalization of Nazis marching in the street harms real people. It’s not just ideas. It’s not just “free speech”.
We cannot forget. We cannot forget. We cannot forget.Remembering is not enough.
Sorrow is not enough.
They are in our midst againWe need to know how to stop them:– https://socialistworker.org/2017/07/03/what-strategies-will-stop-the-far-right
“Such is the confidence that we have through Christ toward God. Not that we are sufficient in ourselves to claim anything as coming from us, but our sufficiency is from God,”
2 Corinthians 3:4-5 ESV
REMEMBER KIDS !! some very important relationships are PLATONIC. some are maternal, paternal, friendships, siblingships. they do not all have to revolve around romantic/sexual attraction. please don’t ever think that i wouldn’t write with you if you didn’t want to bring a romantic/sexual ship to the table. I LOVE PLATONIC RELATIONSHIPS. THEY ARE UNDERRATED, UNDER EXPLORED, AND LOOKED PAST WAY TOO OFTEN. THEY CAN BE THE MOST IMPORTANT RELATIONSHIP TO A CHARACTER. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE.
Everyone struggles with this feeling.
But you know exactly how much work you put into your art, how many hours and how much care and love went into your pictures and no matter the amount of likes or retweets you get, you KNOW the worth of your work.
I’ve had this feeling bothering me a lot lately and I know I’m not alone out there, so here’s some positivity for all of you from my main artblog!
AngelMihe 