#Gifted and Blessed

[amorrsinfinito]

Gifted in this life

November 2023

At times I feel cursed with this gift

Simply because I do not know how to control it

I want to turn it off sometimes

Like when I lay awake for hours wondering about these powers

In the middle of the night

Impatiently waiting for dark to turn to day

Most nights my thoughts and my heart break daylight

I get this ringing in my ear and sometimes it’s like I’m underwater and cannot hear

But I constantly hear the voice of Yahweh

Feeling energy from source inside me

That is when it is clear, that it is love

Last year I decided to start chasing my dreams

This year I’m over due for my annual scream

I found myself looking for lots of answers

But I still cannot do it by myself, so I’m calling on my ancestors

My angels and my peoples

My great grandma she taught my family how to keep it lethal

Shout out my fam

Shout out my bredrens

I pray for their peace and everlasting protection

Being an only girl I know that this is my curse

Because I’m surrounded by security but I am still the strongest fortress

Being the boldest woman is also my gift

Because I’ve died and been reborn again a thousand times to exist

It truly is a blessing to be so gifted and so loving

I am now shamelessly confessing about my twisted life and it’s tugging

At my heart strings

The chocolate fibers that melt in the rain

The confection connection that can snap at a shady comment or misjudged opinion

This is insane right to think I can continue to not believe and then expect a different outcome

I grow impatient and then become impulsive

Trying to dull my powers because I am afraid I am too gifted in this life

My heart will flow like chi

My mind sharp like Bruce Lee

My soul grounded like a garden

My spirit up in ciel will hearken

I know that I am blessed to love others even when they do not know how to love me

And surely my only curse is to not let my gift in this life, live in me.

-Cielamorr**

[nightingaleatdawnwrites]

It’s not what I have been through in my life that defines my past, it’s how I got through it that has made me the person I am today.

I have been through a lot of struggles and challenges in the past. I thought I would never overcome them, however, I’m still here… Breathing and still alive. For that I will be forever grateful to God for never leaving my side.

I could say that I’m a completely different version of myself than I was in the past. Thankful for the struggles and challenges I’ve overcome as if not, I wouldn’t be the person I am today. A better “Ally”, honed by my life changing situations and challenges.

I’m looking at the brighter side of life… Thinking that everything happens for a reason and those struggles and challenges are given to me by God to test my faith in Him.

Still thankful, grateful, and blessed and counting my blessings. I will always be gifted and blessed

[cuntyvicodin]

my beautiful hair flip angel girlfriend. her name is shithead and she was born without morals or a cerebral cortex

[odetokeons]

congratulations to ineffable bureaucracy for being the first queer couple ever to plan to run away together and ACTUALLY succeeding at it!

[heilos]

So this was a wonderful surprise even to me, but Luis just uploaded a whole lo-fi mix of the entire Mystery Skulls Forever album! If you liked the Ghost remix then I think you're gonna love this one too. Each song is also uploaded separately on his youtube page along with a 2 hour version. Go get yourself some good vibes!

[ynhart]

Don't forget to not only recite prayers but also to be in God's presence everyday in our ordinary lives. We might be busy at work, but maybe once in a while when you get distracted or feel tired or frustrated you can stop for a second and call His name and say "I do it for You" or "I offer it up to You". And when good things happen just saying "thank you" works too. It's a way of sanctifying our jobs :)

[benevolenterrancy]

"At the sight of Luo Binghe on the verge of flattening this entire courtyard with a flick of his arm, Shen Qingqiu hurriedly picked him up and retreated."

a four-year-old's tantrum is much more concerning when that four-year-old is actually a Heavenly Demon emperor...

[cyoungjaeist]

I JUST SAW THESE SET OF PICS LIKE HELLO??!! WHY DIDN'T NO ONE TOLD ME THIS EXISTS?!!

[cornflowersandspoons]

HAPPIEST OF BIRTHDAYS @tamanegi-san !!!!! ✨️✨️✨️

Yay, I can finally return the gesture! 😊

Soooo, I asked Nikolai to help out a bit, and he pulled out this magic trick where he just spawns a huge number of cats. I hope you'll like your army of kitties! 😊

Thank you soo much for being the absolute best mutual ever, I can't describe how lucky and honored I feel to have seen your art and got to know you! You're an amazing artist and a wonderful person, and whenever I see a new work of yours, or your comments under my posts, it always makes my day! ☺️

I hope you have the best birthday ever!!!!!

🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈

[driftingballoons]

You can wave them down if you want them to land! The slingshot can be painful for a sentient balloon

Inspired by @spicybeefu’s pokemon/animal crossing crossover gifs :3

[dragonslayer-secretagent-a]

4 types of energy

Shy,blushing boyfriend and bold girlfriend.

Awkard but happy boyfriend and loving girlfriend.

Married.

A second away from doing it.

[johnskleats]

hey so do you guys remember how zuko was deemed worthy and blessed with the true nature of fire by the guardians of light themselves and became 100x the firebender he was after, with a newfound understanding and oneness with his element

kind of like how katara handled the moon and ocean spirit with her own hands and was blessed with unmatched waterbending power and oneness with her element and also spirit water but get this, also the healing ability to bring someone back from certain death

y'all remember that

[nightingaleatdawnwrites]

Red is one of my favorite colors. It symbolizes my personality. I used to be an introvert during my younger years, however, I could say I’m an extrovert now. Probably a side effect of my mood condition. I don’t question God why he has given me this illness. I just consider it as a blessing. Yes, I am gifted with a mood condition and blessed. Acceptance is always the key to everything.

[cor-lapis]

who doesn't like that lady bird

[she-posts-nerdy-stuff]

A few interesting parallels in the SoC duology that I don’t think I’ve seen anyone talk about yet

(Analysis/discussion of these parallels/quotes may come later if anyone's interested)

“These creatures were made to be weapons” - Jarl Brum on Grisha, Six of Crows chapter 35

“He looked like what he truly was: a weapon” - Jesper Fahey on the Khergud, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“Welcome to the Hellshow” - Kaz to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 6

“Welcome to the Ice Court, Nina Zenik” - Matthias to Nina, Six of Crows chapter 34

“Is this a play?” - Alys Van Eck “Yes love, and you’re the star” - Jesper Fahey, Crooked Kingdom chapter 8 when Alys is taken captive

“What was this but a play Kaz had staged, with that poor sucker Kuwei as the star?” - Jesper Fahey on the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“he looked like a priest come to preach to group of circus performers” - Inej on Kaz’s appearance in comparison to the rest of the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter 2

“started to preach” - Inej on Kaz leading a coup against Per Haskell, Crooked Kingdom chapter 27

“Whoever he had become, Matthias was not going to shoot someone unarmed. He'd not yet sunk so far” - Matthias Helvar, Six of Crows chapter 29

“I am unarmed” - Matthias Helvar, Crooked Kingdom chapter 38

"I didn't even know the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on his first night gambling in the Barrel, Six of Crows chapter ()

"He knew his guns better than he knew the rules of Makker's Wheel" - Jesper Fahey on the concept of aim and its relationship to his life and his zowa/Grisha abilities, Crooked Kingdom chapter 36

“a tiny voice inside him said he should offer to take the drug as well […] maybe he could have helped to draw the parem out of Nina’s system and set her free. But that was a hero’s voice and Jesper had long since stopped thinking he had the makings of a hero” - Jesper Fahey, Six of Crows chapter 44

“Matthias gave you the remaining parem, didn’t he?” “So?” “[…] I can’t let my father down again. I need the parem as a security measure” “No” “Why the hell not?” - Jesper and Kaz in discussion about the auction plan, Crooked Kingdom chapter 30

I'll probably be back to add more, feel free to add your own as well

[queerprayers]

Waiting for God is like... You're expecting a guest. You haven't seen them in ages. You know they're coming, although you forget the exact time. And you don't need to impress them—they'd probably sleep on the floor, but why wouldn't you give up your bed? And it's not clean enough and you don't have matching curtains and they're not gonna care because they love you but you'll still probably do your best. Scrub the counter, at least. So you try to stay up to greet them but they're late or you were wrong about the day and you keep dozing off. All you really have to do is be at home when they knock and you'll wake up and figure everything out when they get here—but who wants to answer the door half-asleep? And you can probably get a few more things done while you're waiting. You can light a candle—that's welcoming, right?

So maybe you stay up doing dishes or maybe you give up and go to bed, but the knock makes you jump either way. It's light outside when you let them in, and that's not right, it can't be morning already. The windows are dark. Anyway, you're pouring them tea and apologizing for the mess and you realize they're not a guest at all—they live here, actually. Have your whole life. They probably make your lunch every day. Your house isn't yours at all, now that they're here, now that they've arrived and always been here. It's been yours, plural, yours together, and isn't it lovely that you don't have to worry about the curtains matching anymore? They've already seen them and chosen to stay every time.

There's another knock at the door. They arrive and you pour them tea. You get some sleep. You stop being surprised when your lunch is ready to go. You're expecting a guest. They make themselves at home; they are at home; they've been making themselves a home.

Your days are spent opening the door. They've been gone for so long; how could they have left you; why are they always forgetting to use a coaster and leaving icy circles on the wooden table; why can't you have any privacy in this house; you can't find them anywhere; this is only home when they're here; they keep arriving and you keep making tea do you think they'll ever get tired of tea do you they'll get tired of you opening the door half asleep do you think they're secretly annoyed by the mismatched curtains

Someone knocks on the door. You are interrupted. You keep forgetting you're expecting a guest. You were hoping they'd come and interrupt you. Someone knocks on the door. You're awake. You always make enough tea for two.

Eventually someone doesn't knock on your door. You find them on your doorstep waiting. You've been expecting a guest. The windows of your house are open all the time now, even though it's dark and cold, and you make your home some tea. It's never cold inside, as if opening the door let in warm air instead of cool. The candle you lit has been burning without getting smaller. You can't remember why you used to be surprised, why waiting was frantic. You wash the dishes because that's the next thing to do; because you wash the teacup of your not-guest like it's the chalice of a king.

One day you don't have a door anymore. You can see through the walls of your house and the whole galaxy spreads out before you. They're expecting a guest. You walk outside. The universe makes you tea.