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I've felt drawn to God for years but I always pushed Him away because of the hate many Christians preached. But one morning, I woke up suddenly and heard a voice say to me "You have to take Jesus back"
And in that moment I knew I couldn't let their hate drive me away from my savior. So I gave my life to Jesus. And the rest is history
So here's your reminder: That we can not let hateful Christians overpower the love of Jesus. Let our love and grace be louder than their hate.
I used to be a Pagan and it was such an impersonal experience. Trying to worship a deity which never showed any love or care for me, and left me feeling more lonely, was absolutely key to me building a relationship with God.
Amen! I had a really similar experience!
"Atom-bombed Mary", also known as Our Lady of Nagasaki.
It is a part of a wooden statue of Mother Mary that survived the atomic bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. It was found in the ruins of Urakami Cathedral.
going to church, i’ll tell god you say hi
People talking abt autism like its a set of quirky silly traits and not an often debilitating neurological disorder genuinely drives me up a wall, especially as someone who's support needs are higher.
"I want a gf with autism :3" ok are you prepared to help them with hygiene tasks? Are you gonna help them with laundry and cleaning their room? Are you gonna be patient with them when they're using AAC? Will you comfort them through meltdowns? Or do you just want a gf who talks to you about dinosaurs and has a cute "neurodivergent aesthetic"?
The minimization of autistic struggles to just "socially awkward sometimes" ends up making higher support needs autistics feel real isolated, because it's obvious that when you romanticize neurodivergence, you're not talking about us.
guys i’m so sorry to say this but exercising and indulging in hobbies rather than scrolling on your phone for 200 hours actually does improve your mood and overall mental health, this has deeply upset me more than anyone
guess who's back to posting????? It's been a long time since i've interacted with this blog in anyway besides reposting. I've been on a long journey of ups and downs with my faith alongside my mental health. But we still here, we still queer, and we still love our Lord Jesus!
Believing wholeheartedly in God and Jesus and prophets and miracles while also being a schizophrenic is... exhausting
The researchers, the psych ward nurses, the therapists, and the concerned friends all stress the impossibility of Revelation and Elijah, of saints and angels, of Gemma Galgani or Catherine of Siena.
The reporters write of hidden monsters who slaughter pregnant mothers and little girls because 'Jesus told them to', and the true-crime fans speculate in comments with mocking, gleeful concern on what mental deficiency that psycho must have had.
You must acknowledge every schizophrenic and bipolar and epileptic abused at the hands of exorcists before you speak. You must explain that yes, you "know" your thoughts on saintly callings are false before you can join the conversation, because madmen must still be sane to be allowed to speak. You must take the meds to be allowed to go to church, lest stained-glass and communion wine trigger banned thoughts. You must go to therapy to be allowed to go to Adoration, lest the present Lord drive you back to 'dangerous places'. You must have a meeting with your support team before you are allowed to even think a prayer.
Stupid schizo, don't you know that only us sane folks get to love God? Don't you know our love of Jesus is warm and safe, while yours tastes like sedative drugs and hospital food?
God bless us, the beloved sane, and God damn you, the schizophrenic, whose belief is a danger to the public!
i know this post is incredibly rambley and such, but everyone, especially Christians who don't experience psychosis, are welcome to reblog
a compilation of posts that contributed to my conversion
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Kissing every mentally ill Christian on the cheek very tenderly right now. God made you perfectly, in His image. But this is a broken world, and it's not your fault. You are not your illness; God certainly doesn't see you that way. Do you have any idea how much He loves you? Through the psychotic episodes, the chasmic depressions, the tempestuous mania, debilitating anxiety, terrifying hallucinations, anything and everything you might suffer from...
You are still beautiful to Him. And to me, too. God loves you, and so do I.
I hate to tell you all this but you have to leave your room and leave your house and find a community with good kind imperfect people and it will change you in ways you do not expect and cannot imagine and you cannot in fact say you’ve tried everything if you haven’t done this yet
thinking about how jesus knew me and wanted me even when i rejected him
I came to this way later than I should have as a supposedly engaged Friend, but holy shit Britain Yearly Meeting's response to the transphobes is fucking incredible.
this is the most profound "fuck you and your shitass underhanded tactics" i have ever seen from an official Quaker source. do you know how badly you have to fuck up for the clerks to outline five different ways you're out of right ordering?
and they have, as one would expect of Quaker bureaucracy, brought the goddamn receipts.
nyah nyah yah boo sucks
like i am just. I'm not surprised but it's still always good to see it acknowledged that Quakers are disproportionately trans and non-binary (literally four times higher percentage of us in Britain Yearly Meeting than in Britain as a whole) and also as a disabled Somewhat Trans the original message leaning so heavily on "but think of the poor disabled people!" pissed me off so fucking much. so. another W here.
yes i know this is just the stuff trans activists have been saying the whole time but this is the stuff we've been saying the whole time and it's laid out just. so fucking succinctly and obviously that it just feels like a sick burn, you know?
HOOTIN AND A-HOLLERIN again, i know this, but having it in official terms as A Fact Of The Situation is just like. ugh. my heart is healing.
it is a very quaker "shut the fuck up" move to repeat "discerned" twice in one paragraph just so you know for damn sure it was done under the quaker process and is divinely/spiritually/bureaucratically solid, and i know because i have done this exact thing while clerking
fellas is it possible to do a pacifist murder
SCREAMING CRYING THROWING UP again like. if you are not used to quaker spaces i need you to know that it is SUPER uncommon for modern quakers to straight-up say "this is offensive and wrong" to each other. like. it is frankly one of the real problems in the Society, our tendency to be conflict-avoidant and try to find a middle road and be polite.
so i need you to know that being this unequivocal on a contentious issue, in a published communication from BYM, is a fucking nuke in Quaker terms. this is gloves-off bare-knuckle quaker convincement. fucking get 'em.
and finishing out on one final "no YOU'RE out of order!" which, again. as someone who clerks on an area meeting level and has wanted to say this kind of thing to people a lot, this is additionally satisfying in ways that aren't even about the trans rights of it all.
although also
including pronouns in the sign-off is also, i think, standard practice for the Clerks now, but god it's satisfying in this context
WHOOOOOOO i am FIRED UP this has MADE MY MONTH
I frickin love Quakers man
bro it sounds like maybe you need a reminder of the glorious interconnectedness of all things?
I tried my hand at making a trans flag rosary and I'm absolutely in love
stop romanticizing satan he's a dumb loser who literally hates all that is good
apparently some people think this is a joke but i can not emphasize enough how entirely serious i am about this
truth. think of all the good things in life. delicious food. a warm hug. a sky full of stars. having a good laugh. satan literally hates all these good things because they come directly from his ultimate enemy, God. sure, he may use good things for a while as bait to get you hooked on destructive habits, but he always cheapens and distorts good stuff and makes it less good. if you don't believe that, stick around to the end and you'll eventually see him suck every last drop of joy out of the very pleasures he used to trap you. and yeah, his ultimate goal is literally to destroy you and all the good things you live for. he's not the guy on your left shoulder trying to get you to have a little fun at the expense of 'the rules.' he may masquerade as that to get his way but in truth, he is anti all good things, including everything mysterious and intriguing and cool, everything hilarious and exciting and fun. satan is not fun, he's boring, lame, vindictive and malicious. it's *God* that is good, because He created goodness itself, He is its source and He is not just good like righteous and just, He is good like a good laugh, good like good wine, good like good music, good like love
The amount of truth in this is incredible.
so real
