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I have known a woman for years and in the last two have seen her in zoom groups almost every week and one day she said to me “I’ve known you for two years but I still feel like I don’t really know you.” I thought her...

So my mom passed away shortly after my little brother was born. I was 5. My dad buried himself in his work and my grandfather moved in with us. He basically raised me. I love him for it. I have no animosity towards my...

I had a dream months ago, where God told me, that if I trusted him, He would take the ugliness in my life and he would make it beautiful. When I was a child, my parents were too lazy to spend time with me and too bitter...

One of the most important things I learned from work was not to fight back when somebody attacks you. Jesus said it 20 centuries ago, but I did not understand how important his guideline was, until I broke his commandment...

I learned when I was 19, that sometimes God would rather change your desires than grant you your desires. Like you might pray for a good looking football player to be your husband at 15 and at 40, pray for a doctor to be...

In one of my dreams, God taught me a new law that might not be written in the bible. I’m my dream God told me that if I wanted God to help me achieve my goals, I would have to help other people achieve their goals too. My...

These are rules I learned to help me control or reject feelings of jealousy I might have towards others. They are: 1 - Learn from your competition instead of trying to deny their achievements. This will save you time and...

As a woman of color in the states, I would always stand out, even within my own race. The differences in my appearance would always make people wonder, especially those that belong to the European (White) race. My traits...

I have shared several winter photographs, Snowstorm & Yellowstone Now here is a location that is not usually that cold. Sand-hollow State Park Sand-hollow State Park In Southern Utah This is my take on it, with some...

It's that time of year where a lot of us start selecting annual goals. It can be inspiring and fun to imagine where you could be by at the end of 2022. Maybe you'll release that amount of weight you want off? Maybe you'll...

At the end of 2020, I purchased Jordan Peterson’s future authoring program because it was half price that week. The future authoring program is basically a conversation you have with yourself where you answer a series of...

Currently the ever so recent bannings of the popular Twitch streamers HasanAbi and Vaush which recently took place because of the two using the word cracker to describe racially white individuals. This incident has seemed...

I mentioned previously that I believed the salt was a symbol for religious sacrifice and the salt that loses its saltiness is the religious sacrifice that loses its holiness, such as the people who think the vaccine is...

When you testify about God, your testimony must be about the love and wisdom of God and not about your own pain and trauma. When you teach about God, your teaching must be about God’s kindness, friendship, caution and...

There are two Jewish musicians I used to follow on YouTube who sang about how our differences make us unique and are a cause for celebration and God has taught me to rely on the gifts and endowments He has given me and...

With the pandemic, I see friends my age in person less than 7 times a year and yet I feel less lonely now than I did when I was surrounded by people 5-7 days a week, or when I was a university student with dozens of...

When I was in between stages in my life, I had a dream that there was a wedding taking place at a banquet hall within a hospital to the far left and all the brides maids were dressed in shiny pink dresses that were almost...

I opened up my laptop and found myself staring at my childhood friend's mug shot. He looked like he had been through hell with his face drawn tightly and deep bags under his eyes. My mind just didn't want to believe this...

I was blessed with beauty from the moment I was born and what I learned about it; is that I would get many haters of all types-left and right, up, down and all around. It didn't matter if I was the extremely kind girl...

In the bible Jesus breaks the bread saying that it’s his body and pours the wine saying that it’s his blood, and tells his followers to do this in remembrance of Him. To me the bread of Jesus is a symbol for the teaching...