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Just a normal gal Ig. Nothing much to say lol

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No, I Do Not Hate People and No I am Not Judging Them

God is my Icon. I aspire to be like him in all I can. That means I dislike sin. That means I am a disagreeable person. That means I express my faith even when I know you don't believe the same thing. But that also means that I love sinners. That also means that I must be humble. That also means that I do not judge. That also means that I love my enemies like myself. And I love myself very much. So no, just because I don't agree with you, doesn't mean I hate or even dislike you. Jesus' favorite people are sinners. And it's not like I havs no sins, so I have no room to judge you. When I point out a sin that offends, I'm not doing it to judge you, in fact, 9/10 I am guilty of the same sin at one point or another. I've lied, cheated, lusted, cursed, liked my own gender, ignored God, been quick to anger, been lazy, still am and I need to fix that, been a glutton, still am and need to fix that too but thank The Lord for high metabolism, disobeyed, been disrespectful, etc, just like the rest of you. So I don't look at an athiest, or a witch, or lgbtq+, or a satanist, or literally anyone and hate or judge them. I look at them, say wow, a person just like me who just hasn't found God for themselves yet. I pray one day they give their life to God, oh cool, they have pretty hair.

Just spreading the love man. If you take it as hate, I'm sorry, but I'm not changing anytime soon, soooo want some popcorn?

So with that said, I will repeat my main point cuz nobody read that I'm sure.

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▪︎ I am a christian and child of God

▪︎ That means I do not approve of sinful activities, no matter how harmless they seem

▪︎ I do not discriminate against unbelievers or sinniers

▪︎ I do not judge unbelievers or sinners

▪︎ I love unbelievers and sinners

▪︎ I AM a sinner (Though in God I am redeemed)

▪︎ I do not think of people any differently regardless of their beliefs

▪︎ I do not treat anybody different no matter their orientation, sexuality, hobbies, beliefs, religoun, etc

▪︎ I am not trying to offend people

▪︎ You can do whatever you want and I respect you and your freedom

▪︎ I love you

▪︎ God loves you

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It hits a lot different when you realize that Jesus sacrificed more than JUST his life. Like, his life is already so significant but there was more on the altar than that. Jesus came down and when he died on that cross he did not simply suffer for 3 days and go back home like nothing happened. The minute he decided to be messiah his name was destined to be tarnished for the rest of time until judgement. It is stated throughout the bible many MANY times that all things are done for the Lord's name sake or glory. All of it is for that purpose. So, when he died, he gave up not just his life but his name and glory. People spat on it and cursed it, ridiculed and poked fun of it. They still do, all the time. His name has been dragged through horse poop for 2000 plus years and until the day of judgement, it will continue to be. He is mocked by the same people he died to save for the rest of the time Earth exists.

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I will be so honest right now, I genuinelly can't stand when I see someone who is clearly not Christian wearing the cross as an accessory. Like, don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to gatekeep Jesus. If you genuinely are interested, I 100% welcome you to explore every single bit of Christianity. But to those who plaster the cross on fashion, making necklaces and jewelry out of it, not even recognizing the signifigance of what that symbol means, I can't explain how blatantly disrespectful and ignorant that is. You don't wear a hijab for fashion because it is significant to muslim culture. You don't place a bindi on your head because you think it looks pretty or cool. I've literally seen a heck ton of arguements break out because people were using the feathers seen on Native Americans ignorantly, not knowing what they mean. If you're going to be upset about culture apropriation, please stop seperating Christians from that group. People often think we can't be victims because we're a majority, but you all realize that isn't true right? We get insulted and cursed at all the time, we are constantly generalized into harmful stereotypes, and our beliefs are constantly undermined, stepped on, and wrongfully used by people not even in the faith. And if you're about to say, "you guys do all pf those things to other people so you have no right to complain", I would like to bring the GENERALIZATION back into conversation. I will admit there are a lot of Christians who say they're Christians that aren't. There are two types. The pharisees and the lukewarmers. The pharisees are who you are all lumping us together with, the ones who hate everyone and throw bibles at people's heads. The lukewarmers are people who say they're Christian but live a life completely seperate from God. You lump us with them too thinking we're all hypocrites. We recognize there are these people in the world, there are MULTIPLE sections in the Bible talking about tuese types of people, literally stating that none of them are doing as they are meant to. There are a lot of fake Christians claiming the Spirit of God, but that doesn't make REAL Christianity bad. That's like saying because this certain group of muslims commited terrorism, surely all muslims are like that. We all know that isn't true, so why are you saying so about us? Please give us the same respect you're willing to give others.

So in short, stop generalizing us into stereotypes and stop using our religion as a fashion statement when you don't know what it means or are actively against it. It is equivelant to culture apropriation, if not worse because it is religous apropriation which we can all agree is wrong.

Thank you.

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I can't really wrap my head around how intentional God is about me. Like, I've only been intentional in knowing Him for like 3 years now, and even then it's practically surface level and I fail a lot. But when I look back at my life, He was there every second. Like, not just standing in the corner, but He was actively supporting me and loving me even when I didn't know Him. Like, Idk how anyone can hate Him. He's my best friend, even though I don't always treat Him as I should. But He never left me, even once. When the entire world was ignorant to my feelings, God never ignored me, even once. He has loved me in a way I haven't seen love be shown ever.

Nobody has ever loved like this. Someone willing to go through torture and pain and riducule and death, then wait for you to choose them and even then they don't force you even though they 100% deserve your love. The kind of love that even when you push them away and curse at them and spit at them for your own mistakes and issues, they still have your best interests at heart because your best interest is all they want. The kind that looks on you with kindness and love, knowing that you won't understand the extent to what they had to go through just to be able to be with you. And even the kind of love that puts you in your place when you get too roudy or need discipline. Someone who will never decieve you, or ignore you, or validate you at your own expense, or idolize your affection over you and your well being, someone who loves me as I am, isn't afraid of my flaws, helps me grow, sits with me when I'm sad, laughs with me, calms me when I'm angry, someone who never leaves even when I do. That's God. That's my dad.

Happy Fathers Day to God.

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God is awsome and nobody can tell me otherwise. Idk anyone who would go an eternity of being ragebaited by a bunch of 12 year olds for over thousands of years and still be willing to not blow up the Earth. I mean, I rage when my sims or miis don't do what I ask immediently, I can barely imagine the amount of self control it would take to govern over the entire world. He died and was disfigured voluntarily because he loved all of us little ragebaiting punks. I would have blown it all up the first time they ate the forbidden fruit and that would be the end of it. Yall be thankful God is God else none of us would be here cuz I know ALL of us would absolutely destroy humanity.

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I feel like there's this really bad view of christianity that honestly isn't completely unfounded. There are 4 types of christians. The far left, the far right, the off the grids, and the middle ground.

Legalism

The far right preaches the fear of God, his glory and power, and the very real consequences of disobeying Him. But they don't preach the mercy or grace or love of God and just come off as judgy and condemning because they only speak on people's sins and hell.

Validators

The far left preaches the love of God, His mercy, grace, and gift of free will. But they don't talk about the fear of God, how the consequence of sin is death or that being a christian means letting certain things of your past go. They tell people God loves you so do whatever you want, he'll still love you either way, basically validating everything and everything with the idea of love.

Hidden Faith

The off the grid christians never talk about God at all. They only speak of Him in church and nowhere else. You'd never even know they were christian at all if they didn't tell you.

Healthy Christianity

Then there's the middle ground, who acknowledges the fear of God and the love of God at the same time, making sure not to justify wrongdoing or promote sin, but also making sure to exemplify through actions the love of God and demonstrate His mercy and grace in their daily lives. They aren't judging people but they aren't validating them either.

The problem is, only 2 sides are ever heard. The left and the right. People who hear the far right have a bad taste in their mouth and refuse to even hear any other christian out. The people who hear the far left now have a misunderstood concept of christianity and see any commandment of God as legalism and judgmental. The off the grid aren't heard because...obviously, the don't talk about it. The middle ground is stuck in this space where everyone who's heard from the left or right don't even want to hear what you have to say on the matter.

People hate christians. And yeah, it's partly because people naturally hate the idea of giving up pleasure, they don't fully understand God as a being, and they're not mature enough to talk about bigger concepts than me me me. But it's also because we as christians are very ununited and suck at talking about God and correctly demonstrating his truth. A lot of the people they see and hear are either not christians that claim to be, or pharisees who can't grasp the concept of humility and are always on self righteous mode...

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The whole your truth is your truth thing has got to be one of the most shallowest things I've ever heard. Seriously? Ok then, my truth is that the sky is green, bunnies walk on 18 legs and the sun revolves around a giant rubber ducky that controls time and space. Whether I believe that to be true or not changes nothing about reality. If the entire world believed that, it would change nothing about reality. If the whole world was colorblind, the real colors wouldn't change, just our perception. Facts don't change just because you view things differently. In the same way, whether there is or is not a God doesn't depend on you, me or anyone else. Our opinion isn't going to zap Him away and our opinion isn't going to zap Him into existance. He is or He isn't and that ain't gonna change. The truth is the truth and it doesn't need any of our permission or acceptance to keep it true. In the same way God doesn't need our permission or validation to exist either. The only thing we can do is use our brains and observation skills to come to a conclusion whether we believe in that truth or not. Like I said that conclusion changes nothing except for how you respond to that truth. You're free to believe whatever you want but it doesn't change reality. So let's just be real with ourselves and admit that, maybe. Just saying. I'm lowkey tired of everyone's shallow validation.

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I used to wake up with depression everyday since I was 7. I prayed on the stairs constantly to die in my sleep. I cut off all my friends, isolated myself, and became addicted to all sorts of crappy behaviour and depressants. I lost my sense of empathy and didn't even look at myself as properly human anymore. The only ones I could talk to was my cat and my posters. I hated everyone and everything and wanted nothing more than to just stop existing. That was me for soooo many years until I met Jesus. He held my hand, let me rest on Him, called me by name and saved my life. I can't explain how different my life is right now in comparison. I haven't had a depressive episode since, I cry at the smallest of someone else's inconvenience, I pray for reasons other than death wishes, I've become more sociable and no longer have anxiety, and I havem't had any addictions since. Bro, stop fooling around and just give it to God, He can help. Just saying.

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I'm not looking for a whole debate right now, I'm busy and don't have the energy to deal with that right at this moment, but I am curious about something. I recently restarted the bible because God led me to start over and annotate, and I'm at Exodus 21 right now. I had wondered why slave traders tried to use the bible to justify slavery when the bible literally condemns kidnapping, which was how they obtained a lot of their slaves and such, so I went to the beautiful ✨️reddit✨️ to seek answers or view points. I instead was met with an arguement on why did God allow slavery at all. I was like, ok, whatever, I can look at this debate and such later, let me finish my bible study. But as I read the literal NEXT VERSE I was like...this kind of answers a lot of controversy concerning slavery and the bible, yet I've never seen anybody even mention this part.

"When a man strikes the eye of his male or female slave and destroys it, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his eye. If he knocks out the tooth of his male or female slave, he must let the slave go free in compensation for his tooth." -- Exodus 21: 26-27

So, slavery as we recognize it is whipping, beating, raping, torturing, etc the slave so they work, at least in the most bluntest terms. The kind of slavery we're familiar with wasn't allowed according to this. Slavery in America's history was so brutal and bad, you would be beaten so you couldn't even move for like weeks. Sometimes, you'd be brutally disfigured. In these verses, if you hurt your eye and you have permenant damage from it, the slave owner loses all their ownership because of mistreatment. I don't know how easy it is to lose a big tooth, but I assume it's a lot easier with a whip or rod. Losing a tooth is warrant for release. Permenant injury, which was common in American slavery, would make it so the owner had to let the slave go free.

Rules so far:

No permenant damage

No killing

No kidnapping

Then there's also Exodus 22: 21-24

"You must not exploit a resident alien or oppress him, since you were resident aliens in the land of Egypt. You must not mistreat any widow or fatherless child. If you do mistreat them, they will no doubt cry to me, and I will certaintly hear their cry. My anger will burn, and I will kill you with the sword; then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless." -- Exodus 22: 21-24

Many slaves were seperated, so many many fatherless children. And also many widows. Yet slave traders mistreated them regardless of what the bible said. Also, exploiting resident aliens was frowned upon and forbidden by God, as was oppression.

Rules so far:

No crippling

No killing

No kidnapping

No opression or exploitation

No mistreatment of widows and fatherless children

It's also important to note how even though God laid out certain laws and regulations, people, including the Israelites, would try to find loopholes. Jesus literally came back scolding the Jewish leaders because of how they abused the law. Obviously, slave traders did the same, but on a big, obvious level. Israelites took the law out of context a LOT of the time, but in minor tweaks that piled up into major ones. Like mysogyny. God said don't take for yourselves many wives and yet Solomon had as many wives as I can count. Honestly, I don't know how he even kept up with their names. God didn't adress the issue further like He did with idolatry though. He kind of just let it happen. It eventually sorted itself out, but it still happened. Why God did it this way, I don't know. Is that going to kill my faith? No. Because even though I don't understand EVERYTHING doesn't mean I now have to ignore all the things that I DO know. I understand and encourage investigation, but to throw away my faith because I don't know why God did something is beyond me. God said we wouldn't understand everything. Job didn't get answers and believed. So I'm gonna do the same.

I don't know everything about everything, and why God allows or does some of the things that He does, I will tell you right this second that I don't know. God is kind of like that. He doesn't always provide clear answers on why He does things, or give a mapped out explaination on His plans. You just gotta have faith in what He's already done and how He's already shown how even if we don't have all understanding, He is moving for the good. I'd like to understand everything, but my brain can't even compute a highschool math equation, let alone a plan by a God that exists outside of time, space, and all senses of reality.

Anyway, I just wanted to put this here to act as personal commentary, not to spark a huge arguement. I'm not challenging anybody right now, I'm simply saying things I noticed.

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I see a lot of people struggle to understand the concept of LGBTQ+ and Christianity and how they should interact. I've seen some pretty nasty fights about it. So here's my take on it.

I've heard the line "I was born this way" more times than I can count. I've also heard the "it's not a choice" sentence almost as frequently. And I've heard the opposing arguements saying "it's a choice, you can't be born gay or born in the wrong body", etc. I say you're both wrong and you're both right. But mostly wrong.

Being sexually attracted to the same gender is not a choice. Being uncomfortable in your own skin is not a choice. Who you find attractive and who you feel comfortable as is not a choice. However, it is still a point that it is against the will of the Father. God didn't make anyone gay or anyone in the wrong body. We call desires that go against the will of God, temptations. We can't control those. We'll always be tempted with something, it's just this is a type of temptation that some people deal with and others don't.

I can for certain say it is a VERY difficult temptation to resist, as it is pretty much denying oneself in a way. But that's the thing about Jesus. He told us to do that with ALL temptations. Deny yourself, pick up your cross, and He will give you rest. Now, having desire isn't something we can control, nor is it something we should try to focus on. If all we focus on is Jesus, we're set. Our desires shift to match His. We become renewed in His blood. It's not exactly a fix yourself up and then I'll accept you kind of deal with Him. So don't be surprised if you see a lesbian or a gay person or a trans person in a church. Good! That's where they're supposed to be, that's where Jesus called them to be. They're on their walk with Him and God will continue to work on them until either that desire goes poof, or He strengthens them enough to be able to do the very difficult feet of denying that desire anyway. It's possible, I've seen it many times. We're all works in progress, so just because they're on a different part of their walk or they're dealing with a different situation, doesn't suddenly mean they can't or don't want to be with God.

Now, I will say, this is different than if you were to take pride in the desire/temptation, feed it, worship it, serve it, claim it, and then walk to God with the intent to stay with the sin. If you walk to God and you sincerely want to know Him, love Him, be with Him, and do all He desires for you, but just can't shake the temptations quite yet even though you want to, that's different. You're walking in humility. If you do not even recognize that the will of the Father is above your desires, and you continuously, unrepentedly, and unconvictedly walk with the Lord like that, I would say, that is not a true walk. Like, I'm saying absloultely unwilling to give up this desire to be your own person, with your own identity, and your own rules. I mean like misusing scripture on purpose to your advantage, flat out ignoring scripture, saying God said things He didn't say simply to validate it, etc. I'm not talking about you want to please God but you're conflicted with the idea of giving up this desire. That's normal. The inability to even consider the Lord when it's inconvienent for you means you probably don't actually care for Him and you simply want the feel good sentiment of an accepting God who loves you as you are. He loves you where you are, but He does. Not. Leave. You. There.

I say whether they even want to consider God at all doesn't change the fact that we should treat them well. Let's not call them mentally ill freaks please. Let's not say they need to be put in asylums please. Let's not harbor hate in our hearts for them please. Remember, hate the sin, love the sinner. So don't treat them like the plague.

And for the LGBTQ+ members. Please also treat us with respect. I understand the treatment towards you. I've seen it, it's bad, and it's not what was meant to be. I don't agree that what you do is good, but I don't think yelling slurs at you would make my Father in heaven any happier either. I don't hate you. I really don't. I just wish you could see God for who He is. He's not a fun hating dictator. He's not a for everything hippie either. He's a just God with a righteous hand who simply wants you to come home.

Anyway, love each other

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Yall. I forgot how actually powerful God is. I was in worship today, and I had to literally fight tears. I want everyone to know, I am NOT a public cryer. I hate crying in public. I hate showing majority of my deep emotions in public. So when I say I was moved to tears, I was biting my lip, clenching my fists, lost in a trance, sniffling, wiping my tears, and UGLY SOBBING in my soul. Like, it took everything in me not to break down crying. I had to do it internally but it kept seeping out externally. When God moves you, you're gonna be moved whether you want to be or not lol

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You ever just be chillin and then all of a sudden you have the urge to just scream? Like, for no reason? You're not mad, sad, or even happy, you're just so content in the moment that you want to run around, roll in the grass, and scream? That's me rn

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Yall I am so fr right now. Lock in. Lock. In. Yall think we're joking but why would I drop all of these pleasures and deny the "freedom" that comes with atheism and such if I wasn't dead serious about God? You think it's easy denying sin? Yeah cursing sounds tempting. Yeah, lust is pleasurful to the flesh. Heck yeah I'd like to laze around all day and just eat a bunch of junk food. Yeah, I'd love to spill the tea about what happened yesterday. Ya, it'd be so much easier to lie than tell the truth. And yes, It'd be so much more comfortable to NOT put myself out there spreading the word and instead just have fun doing whatever I want. But I KNOW that God is real because I've SEEN Him, HEARD Him, TOUCHED Him. These temptations are only here to hinder me in my walk and lure me into a hardened heart. I know whats behind those shiny facades of pleasure, so I'm not taking the trap, even though it's SO HARD AND SO ANNOYING. Because I know God told me not to do it to protect me.

Like yall really think I'm out here trying to take as many people down this rabbit hole of chains and restrictions, no, I'm so serious. Jesus is coming back. He really is. You think we're crazy for saying the world is coming to it's reign's end, but He said He'd be coming soon and that He'd take His people like a thief in the night. I am NOT joking. I don't think people understand exactly the severity of this situation. Think for a SINGLE second, what if, just what if, He really is telling the truth. If there really is a heaven and a hell. If you actually, actively, pushed away the forgiving hand that feeds you your entire life. If He really did come back tommorow, what would happen to you?

Like, I can't be more fr than I am right now, you do NOT want to go to hell. There is only pain and evil. There is no special place where you can just chill out. "I'm a good person, surely there's some purgatory or easy way out of this" No. There isn't. You could donate all you had to cancer research, adopt every foster child, end world hunger, but you would still end up in the same place as the murderers, rapists, thiefs, and manipulators. Why? Because you may not have sinned against your community outwardly or hurt anyone, but you have sinned against God. You could be a saint in the world's eyes but if you so much as say a single white lie, you're no longer right in God's eyes. Works do not get you saved. It's only through the Son. Only through his blood.

SO LOCK IN WITH GOD I AM SO FR RIGHT NOW

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If Joseph and Mary were in today's age, I can only imagine the confusion. Like, if there were DNA tests...oh boy. They look at the DNA report and see...what? There was only one physical, earthly parent. I'm honestly so curious what Jesus' DNA structure even looked like. Man, when I get to heaven, I am soooo asking that...if I'm not too distracted. Just gonna pray to not forget that question.

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Doodles

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There are 2 types of Atheists.

One who genuinly has the faith to say there is no God/Heaven and Hell, and is willing to stake an eternity in suffering on the belief.

And one who is too scared or lazy to question the afterlife or the existance of a higher power and instead chooses to stay in ignorance because ignorance is bliss.

To the first, at least you genuinly thought it through. Can't say it'll get you anywhere good, but at least you believe, or rather don't believe, because of your own conductive reasoning. God says be hot or cold, and you picked cold. I can respect logical thinking and I also respect faith. I mean, you're putting your faith in the wrong thing, but the faith and dedication itself is something I can't argue with.

To the second...why? Why do something so clearly stupid to yourself? Ignorance is only bliss if the truth isn't revealed. The truth will be revealed to you no matter what because we'll all die one day. I'd argue that this is the most important question you could ever ask yourself because it's inevitable, inescapable, and eternal. Why would you purposely ignore such an important topic? Ignorance is only bliss in situations that have at least a chance of staying unaware, but death? How can you be ignorant to something that is looming over your shoulder and threatening to take you any second of everyday? It's setting yourself up for failure and relying on simple luck to be in your favor. This is dumb. Put some thought into your life.

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One thing I love about when people say acceptance is that their perception of it is totally warped so that correction and advice is a negative. Like, you don't look at someone cutting themselves and say nothing. You check up on them and try and get them the help they need. I've had this happen before, and I didn't know what to do. I tried to convince them to get help, but I didn't really know them in person, so that was all I could do. People say acceptance is completely loving a person where they're at and validating their choices. Yeah. You should love people where they're at. But you don't validate every choice they make. God meets us where we're at. We don't even need to meet in the middle, he meets us at rock bottom. But something everyone keeps forgetting is that He doesn't leave us there. He meets us as we are and helps us to improve and walk in the light, not sit with us in the darkness and let us mope around in sin. So, why do we all think love means validation? God didn't validate our current state or position, he hates it. He hates what it does to us. God came to our level and brought us out of it. So no, loving isn't validating. I can love you and not validate your actions. A mother loves their child even if they become a murderer, but they don't accept the crime they committed. A friend loves their friend even if they hurt them, but they don't validate the hurt. A lover loves their partner even if they cheat, but they don't encourage the betrayle. At least that's what's supposed to happen. But it doesn't. It becomes a world where you're completely for the things I do or you're against me. Why can't I love you and also not agree with you? Why can't I love you and also not validate everything? I accept you, but that doesn't mean I accept what you do. I'll love you gay, straight, trans, witchcraft, Islamic, Jewish, Budhist, Athiest, Christian, whatever! I'll treat you the same as I treat anyone else. But that doesn't mean I'm going to conform to your every thought and want and ignore what what my God tells me. Because He loved met me where I was at, and He led me somewhere greater. So, I follow HIS definition of love, which means praying for those who persecute me, loving those who scorn me, loving those who don't agree, all while still remaining true to Him. So, yeah. I love you and so does Jesus.