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⚜On the wings of the night amidst the stars ⚜

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I follow Jesus Christ ✝️. I'm 33 years old. I am currently doing the "Bible in a Year", would you like to be prayer buddies? I am a woman rooted in and moving ever more towards traditionalism. 🌻 Slytherin House. 💚🐍 I'm very much into spirituality, it is the natural development when dealing with trauma. 🌱 I love languages and history and nature and learning about people. I'm a fan of many things, books and art and stories. And there is so much more, feel free if you want to ask. 💖
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I have to ask this because I feel like I can't solve this on my own.

I wanted to ask you guys and ladies out there if you've ever felt really crestfallen or in a really bad experience and felt God or Jesus close to you?

I have heard people saying that in their misery they truly felt Him near and being there for them. Personally I have almost always made the opposite experience. I've often even talked to Jesus in the midst of my hurt but there was absolutely nothing.

I don't doubt God's existence and I don't doubt Jesus Christ coming here for us. I just don't have any personal account of Him ever being near me when I needed Him and I was wondering if maybe some of you have experienced that too and how you cope with it. Only if you want to share anything.

God bless ya.

This is important to me.

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welsharcher

I have had some serious bouts with anxiety over the past 5years and I can very much relate to feeling vacant and abandoned when I needed most to feel seen and counted amongst His flock. I have since come to realize that faith is holding on tightly to the truth even when my "emotions" and "feelings" aren't lining up with it. I had to lead my heart to trust in Him and I would read and claim every promise I could in the Bible until the feeling had passed. I think it was Moody who said praying is us talking to God, reading Scripture is God talking to us.

I am reminded of Ezekiel in 1 Kings 19; after the wind and the earthquake and the fire had past, he finally heard the "gentle whisper". Sometimes life and our emotions have a way of disconnecting us and tuning God out which is why it's important to take the time every day to make sure you can hear the still, small voice so, when the storm rages, you still can hear your Shepherd calling you 🤍🖤

First of all I want to say thank you very much, I'm really happy to read your insights! That's really kind. 😊 I had half thought people didn't see this post or possibly also didn't have an answer. I'm so happy that you could relate to this (I'm very sorry also that you can relate to this) and that you shared your experience, thank you! ☺️💚

I've struggled with this for a loooong time now because that's probably the main experience in my troubles and it took me a loooong time not to completely lose faith and become a raging ball of anger because of this. ;)

It took me a long time to actually observe more and see what is happening.

So what I've learnt so far is maybe similar to what you also were trying to convey. Last night in prayer (which I did begrudgingly at first) I got sent a feeling, like some higher loving being touching my heart very softly and briefly. And it didn't really come as words (it usually doesn't when it's really genuine) but it felt like a quick touch of my perception and it was like - "Do you really think I could do this, leave you?"

It was very matter-of-factly and it's hard to describe in words. But with the help of what you wrote I would translate it as an analogy like : someone covers your nose with his hand and you freak out because you think your nose is gone and you can't breathe. You suddenly cannot see your nose and don't know why and you think it's gone and you get sad and feel terribly lost. All the while you don't realize that you've been breathing through your nose the entire time.

The message was definitely not patronizing or anything, I would say it was very loving and just trying to point at something that was there. Like, child, you were just caught in the middle of a smoke grenade, it is not possible that I leave you, genuinely. In a totally pragmatical way too.

I think those of us who had a parent or a caretaker leave at some point have this crazy picture in our head due to this not-computable experience that this is in fact possible. That someone you love deeply and who you assume loves you deeply would actually be able to leave us for whatever thing and go so much against our best interest and our needs. As a small child it is usually not thinkable that this is even possible because we know oneness. Until something like this happens and then we think it is. I am having a very hard time unlearning this but I'm honestly thoroughly thankful that I have my faith even if it's rocky and that I have Jesus who seems to help even though I'm still wary oftentimes. And I'm mighty glad to have people like you who understand.

This is a long post but maybe it can help someone out there too. Thank you again. 💜

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Whoever reads this, I hope something beautiful happens to you soon.

I hope you know that you are loved and that God thinks good things about you all the time, even when you think you've messed up so bad, there is NOTHING that changes God's love for you. You are loved every second of your life and your existence. God KNOWS you, He has no reason to think anything bad about you. He knows you better than your own judgements against yourself. He has no judgement against you, you are His beloved son, His beloved daughter, He will love you forever and forever and even longer than that.

I wish you peace and love and so much gentleness and kindness and mercy. 💚 Amen.

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Not that I ever get annoyed by the aggressive Snape hate on the internet at all (I actually do 🤧) but I feel like some perspective is genuinely needed.

I can't hear the 100th regurgitation of why Harry shouldn't have named his son Albus Severus and how people don't accept it and how it is ugly and crazy and whatnot. Might I suggest the wild possibility that Harry Potter actually has the ability to genuinely empathise with Snape? That which the people who endlessly rile about him just cannot see or feel Harry does and that's why he chose that name with intent and not just with pathos? The name Albus is another topic to discuss but really Harry seems to be able to see Snape from an angle that made him want to do that and call a child of his this name until his own passing. I don't think that was a crude or promotive act. I think Harry felt Snape beyond the surface. Whether people accept this or not, Harry was at the receiving end of Snape's bullying but somehow he was able to let go of his pain related to this experience. Maybe because he recognized a genuine love, I don't know. But I have faith that he had good reason to feel like these are the names that he wanted and they were right for him.

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Ugh don't you just hate that - I want to dissociate far away for a while with a disgustingly sweet Fred&Ginger fanfiction but I cannot read it unless I write it! 😩 The agony! But a) there is rarely the themes I want to read written by other authors at the moment and b) the fandom is really small (Why is it so small, they're both beautiful and absolutely legendary!? 😯🥺), I have read all good Fred&Ginger fanfictions already thrice at least and now I don't know what to do. I guess I really have to do something about it myself. 😭🥴🧐😉

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Ugh don't you just hate that - I want to dissociate far away for a while with a disgustingly sweet Fred&Ginger fanfiction but I cannot read it unless I write it! 😩 The agony! But a) there is rarely the themes I want to read written by other authors at the moment and b) the fandom is really small (Why is it so small, they're both beautiful and absolutely legendary!? 😯🥺), I have read all good Fred&Ginger fanfictions already thrice at least and now I don't know what to do. I guess I really have to do something about it myself. 😭🥴🧐😉

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I love the Brandenburgischen Konzerte, the Brandenburg Concertos. 😃😍🥰🎶

And not just because of Scully but yeah, also because of Scully. But they're just so good, this is just amazing, AMAZING music! 💚 I even lived in Brandenburg for a while, which is probably not a huge accomplishment since I'm German. ;) But Johann Sebastian Bach was actually Thomaskantor in my hometown. Which sounds so casual because we grow up with it and I've been to St. Thomas's Church so often (it was lovely last Christmas 🎄) but it actually is quite a wonderful thing. 😃😊

My favourite composer is and remains Georg Friedrich Händel, who ironically was born in our neighbouring town. 😄 His compositions are without rival though to me for sure! It was quite an epiphany when I finally actually discovered them as an adult when I understood what I was listening to. I should probably take my violin back up again, she's been resting in her case here with me. She's precious and wonderful. 💖🎻 Hah, music! 😩😀😊💜🎵

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alwaysginge

Their love never changed.

I'm still a bit in my Fred&Ginger crisis 🤕 but I still think this is very cute. 😊 I love the one on top the most, I think it's so beautiful and it genuinely radiates affection and deep mutual appreciation (which is somewhat rare to see it so undisturbed on Fred too, usually the cameras affect his display of open feelings). I love it and I have it as my messenger profile picture because I find it so soothing and I enjoy seeing it every time. 🥰 They would've made a great couple and were so at ease with the other. Maybe they have known each other in many lifetimes and yes, I still wish I can find a way to continue that story (fanfiction). :)

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This may be a really hard Christmas in many ways and I'm still sick with the flu but I got myself the most decadent Christmas bouquet and that's something I have to share! 😁😄💐🎄

In Germany, Christmas is already this evening, it's Heiligabend ("holy evening"). 🙏🏼💚🎄

Well go to the church in 2 hours and I'm just incredibly thankful for being at home with my mom for Christmas. 🥰 Thank you mom and thank you, Jesus.

God bless you all and Merry Christmas. ❤👼🏼⭐🎄

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I'm a bit conflicted at the moment because I really want to continue writing at least one of my Fred&Ginger fanfictions, they gave me so much joy and epiphanies while writing them. Even if not many people read them anyways. And I still feel good things while watching Fred&Ginger dance. But like, even if more people block me for saying this, I've really been looking at Ginger more because I like her and enjoy her solo-movies also. And objectively speaking, Ginger deserved a lot better than Fred gave her. I still very much enjoy his work but honestly speaking, he didn't treat her the way she deserved. I don't know whatever the f they really had but in either context, judging by everything we know so far, this was not a healthy relationship. And Ginger deserved better. 💛

You can possibly make that point for Fred too, I don't know.

But I just can't honestly and beautifully write about them when I see that so blatantly. I feel flat about their whatever kind of relationship.

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I don't think I'll ever get over the fact that in "Flying down to Rio" Fred's character was actually called 'Fred Ayres'. 😄 (One could possibly even argue that it is interesting how Ginger married Lew Ayres one year after this movie came out and his second name was Frederick. 😏😄)

Fred&Ginger's karmic resonance playing out around them in their movies is sometimes really funny and also a joy to behold. ☺️🌞

Also I can't quite get over how long-term compatible they would have been if they had spent their lives closer together, seeing how Fred later went into breeding horses and Ginger owned a ranch and did a lot of horse riding during her later life, and beautifully so. I mean it's totally okay how they spent their lives and who they loved and everything. I just often can't help but see the golden thread that weaved all through their respective lives and always somehow connected them together, and I'm pretty sure that I'm only seeing the surface here. 💗

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There is one thing I read in a Pinterest comment yesterday and it got me thinking, because it seems like there could be truth to it.

Might it be possible that Lily reacted so harshly and unrelenting to Snape calling her a mudblood because he already meant a bit more to her and it hit her a lot harder? I'm not saying that she would've just brushed it off otherwise because I know I also wouldn't have. But it would make sense that it had more impact on her because she had gently started to feel a little deeper and he meant more.

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It was on my mind a lot recently so I just want to say a few things about some insights I had on Snape's character and what his choices came down to.

I recently read a fanfiction that was so brilliant in many ways as it put a different spin on the situation of Snape knowing, Lily was in danger due to the prophecy. It put a different context around all of the events and it had some amazing insight! Parts of it were not so well executed, Lily's relationship to James for example and also the way Lily and Snape were written romantically, that was rushed and incongruous to me. Some other parts were also not quite what I might've thought but I'll link the story here in case you want to read it, it is still really worth the read and such a new and genius idea to resolve the circumstances without going too far off the way it happened in the book :

Now spoiler alert, I'll discuss also what happened in the fanfiction.

So after reading this and having many thoughts, I found it interesting that Snape found a new and ingenious solution in this story but it also ended with him making the only choice that he could given the conflict on all ends and sacrificed himself. It took a better turn here though because he also cut himself off of Voldemort powerfully.

But it was always clear that he could not make it work within himself to love Lily and at the same time to follow a direction that brought so much darkness over the magical world and that killed muggleborns. He would have to sacrifice one or the other. And somehow I still wonder that he didn't apparently have the awareness that he couldn't put Lily on the backburner, regardless their practical relationship. Whether they were together in any way or not, anything he did on his own would affect his relationship with her. And even if they had no contact at all, he would give his life for her safety at any point. So it was always clear that he would die if she did. And I think if Harry hadn't survived, Snape definitely would've committed suicide one way or the other. It could be called entanglement and ego-attachment but so be it, it became clear here that in acting against what was best for Lily, he acted against what was best for him without realising it. I think she just kind of amplified his behaviour against himself, she made the split in his being very visible. (And by the way, the same could be said for Lily and her choices!)

There might be a higher solution in higher consciousness. And we might actually still see it in our lifetime as we rise up in consciousness ourselves. :) But for the story as it is told by J.K. Rowling, it is still one of the most beautiful things ever written! And I'm truly fond of the fact that Snape's love for Lily easily surpassed all of his bad choices and trauma-driven shadow personalities. Regardless what role he would've played in her life, and the way it went in the books, it was a particularly interesting role, he would've always given his life for hers. Because of his love and not because of what he received.

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If you need a good cry, this might be for you. 💔😭

I have to say, I personally think that the female voice in this is far too mighty and too rough and I think the ending and some parts in between are way too chaotic and need better arrangement. But nevertheless I hadn't ever known this song even existed and even with its flaws I think it's absolutely beautiful and worth listening to! It caught me by surprise and I genuinely cried. 💚 It's special and I thought you might like it too.

I truly cannot recommend this enough, it's so beautiful and so touching, always. 💙

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If you need a good cry, this might be for you. 💔😭

I have to say, I personally think that the female voice in this is far too mighty and too rough and I think the ending and some parts in between are way too chaotic and need better arrangement. But nevertheless I hadn't ever known this song even existed and even with its flaws I think it's absolutely beautiful and worth listening to! It caught me by surprise and I genuinely cried. 💚 It's special and I thought you might like it too.

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Sometimes I am just so freaking, terribly tired.

I really, really, really love drinking milk. 🥛 And I buy the milk as raw milk from our local dairy farmer. I visited the place recently and saw the cows, they were munching lazily on their food. They looked clean and healthy, as far as I could tell from the outside. They seemed relaxed and like they were taken care of, no clumpy fur, no soiled legs, they were quite nice. I'm not an expert, so obviously I don't know but from what I could tell, things looked okay there and like people cared. Here is a picture of those gentle friends (there were many cows present in this area, about 10-15 I think) :

I love cows. I genuinely love them, they're so pretty and lovely and I like them, in so many ways. 🐄🐄😍☺️💞

Now I watched something about the process of milk production and yeah. The more detail you know, the more you scream. I'm sure the people where I've visited the farm are treating their animals as best as they know and I'm sure they are taking care of the cows and their calves with good intentions. But that certainly doesn't change the process.

I'm not going to triangulate against any inner parts now, so I won't burn the part that loves drinking milk for example in favour of the part that wants this practice of milk production to stop yesterday. We can't look away anymore, I know. I believe it is God's will that we feel. All aspects of this. And I hope I can find a solution in my little world too. I love cows so much and I love animals so much even though I know and I'm sorry I fail a lot.

I'm so thankful for milk and cheese. But I cannot say it doesn't rip me clean apart when I hear what is happening to the calves that the farmers don't keep and they are a lot. And I cannot and will not say that it isn't freaking heartbreaking to my core when I see how we tag those lovely animals in the ears with a number as if they weren't a person!!

Those are beautiful cows and they're so kind and so friendly and they're innocent. 🐄💜 God help me help, please. God bless and protect and hold in your merciful and everlasting love these beautiful animals. You made them absolutely perfect and beautiful. 🙏🏼💚 Amen.

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Sometimes I am just so freaking, terribly tired.

I really, really, really love drinking milk. 🥛 And I buy the milk as raw milk from our local dairy farmer. I visited the place recently and saw the cows, they were munching lazily on their food. They looked clean and healthy, as far as I could tell from the outside. They seemed relaxed and like they were taken care of, no clumpy fur, no soiled legs, they were quite nice. I'm not an expert, so obviously I don't know but from what I could tell, things looked okay there and like people cared. Here is a picture of those gentle friends (there were many cows present in this area, about 10-15 I think) :

I love cows. I genuinely love them, they're so pretty and lovely and I like them, in so many ways. 🐄🐄😍☺️💞

Now I watched something about the process of milk production and yeah. The more detail you know, the more you scream. I'm sure the people where I've visited the farm are treating their animals as best as they know and I'm sure they are taking care of the cows and their calves with good intentions. But that certainly doesn't change the process.

Now I'm not going to triangulate against any inner parts, so I won't burn the part that loves drinking milk for example in favour of the part that wants this practice of milk production to stop yesterday. We can't look away anymore, I know. I believe it is God's will that we feel. All aspects of this. And I hope I can find a solution in my little world too. I love cows so much and I love animals so much even though I know and I'm sorry I fail a lot.

I'm so thankful for milk and cheese. But I cannot say it doesn't rip me clean apart when I hear what is happening to the calves that the farmers don't keep and they are a lot. And I cannot and will not say that it isn't freaking heartbreaking to my core when I see how we tag those lovely animals in the ears with a number as if they weren't a person!!

Those are beautiful cows and they're so kind and so friendly and they're innocent. 🐄💜 God help me help, please. God bless and protect and hold in your merciful and everlasting love these beautiful animals. You made them absolutely perfect and beautiful. 🙏🏼💚 Amen.

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