#Not a mistake

[grace-of-spades1]

my testimony

for eighteen years,I lived a life of fear and dread. My parents were toxic and abusive and the best way to avoid that was through just taking the blows. I was born and diagnosed with autism. Since I was the one kid that couldn't do anything the way they wanted or in their words, 'the right way' i became the family scapegoat. It was my fault if something went wrong always. I was never like my siblings or into the same things as them. My parents praised my siblings because they were athletic and smart and followed along with the mind games they would play. I was quieter and more into the arts. My gifts and talents were seen as useless and stupid. I began to believe it and fell into a massive hole of depression, anxiety, self loathing, and suicidal thoughts and actions. those who figured out what was happening at home were pushed away and were seen as bad people. I never felt more alone in my life. Eventually, I moved to a private Christian school. I was miserable. I was disgusted by the thought of Jesus Christ and how He allowed all this suffering in my life. But I remember one day in class, one of my teachers pulled me aside and told me that Jesus saw me and He never left me alone. He was watching over me and had big plans for my life. After hearing that, I could feel the Holy Spirit moving in the room. I burst into tears and allowed Jesus into my life.

After I graduated, i moved out. I have tried to restore a relationship with my family but no onehas bothered to return texts or calls. It has been a few months and I heard I had a new baby brother. The family made it clear I was not invited to see him. Please pray for them.

One verse in psalm 27 was 'when mother and father forsake me, the Lord will take care of me.'

Since I came to Christ, He has done so much in my life. I now have a job, a relationship with the distant family I missed out on growing up(so many cousins!), amazing group of friends, and a wonderful boyfriend.

So yes, my physical family may forsake me, but my Father in Heaven never will. Praise the Lord

He will turn your life around, He is knocking, let Him in

[serenityquest]

No matter what other people have said to you, about you, no matter how much rejection you've had or abandonment or how many people tried to put you down, God says you are wonderful. You are not a mistake.

Now maybe everything you do isn't wonderful but way deep down on the inside, the person that you are really is. And some of you maybe have had so many problems in your life, you don't even really know who that person is anymore. Maybe you've pretended so much and you've tried to be so much of what you think other people want you to be that you've lost sight of who you are.

But the real you, the you that God created, the you that's inside wanting to be free, that is wonderful and you can begin to say, "God created me with His own hand in my mother's womb. I am not a mistake. I'm not weird because I'm not like everybody else. I am unique." and I dare you to say, "And I am wonderful."

-- Joyce Meyer Ministries

[lightfromthelighthouse]

Good Morning!☀️

Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations. Jeremiah 1:5 KJV

Jeremiah begins his writings with the story of his call. He lets us know that it was not something he chose or even volunteered to do, but that he was literally born to do it. In fact, God had a plan for his life before he was even conceived in his mother's womb and set him apart before he was born.

It takes many of us quite a while before we uncover our purpose in life. As a youth, Jeremiah's purpose was revealed to him, and he was to start fulfilling it from that day through the rest of his life. God would not let Jeremiah disqualify himself by claiming to be too young. You might say his was the ultimate example of on the job training with God himself being the trainer!

Just as God knew Jeremiah before Jeremiah knew himself, God knew you. You were not a surprise or a mistake to God. He has a plan, even for YOU!

[kactusnz]

I have eaten the pizza that was in the icebox

and which you were probably saving for breakfast

Forgive me it was delicious so cheesy and so cold

grandma ate my fucking pizza

[pouletpourri]

"You just have to look closely."

[demaparbat-hp]

That infamous prison escape.

[fairycosmos]

every time i make a mistake im like theyre going to put me down like a sick dog

[spacialsquid]

i like them

[oceangenasi]

I'm absolutely obsessed with Laios' logic that the other shapeshifters made mistakes the real party members were too knowledgeable/careful/wise to make

but for Marcille he's like "only the real Marcille would do something that fucking stupid"

[devilofthepit]

2024:

1. GET EVEN WEIRDER!!!!!!

2. GAY AND TRANSGENDER SEX

3. DO WHATEVER YUOU WANT FOREVER

4. STOP OVERTHINKING IT

5. YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO ANYTHING TO BE LOVED

6. FIND MEANING IN EVERYTHING

[inbabylontheywept]

I was walking out of the Walmart today, and a car passed me, and I got this incredibly vivid impression. It wasn't really in words, but if I had to put it into words, the two key points would be

a). I needed to watch that car and

b). That I needed to be careful, because the driver of the car was a massive bitch.

It kind of took me by surprise, because I really had no reason to be beefing with that car, and I also hadn't really had an impression like that since I was religious, which was in my teen years. Right? It'd been a decade since I had a little voice whisper in my ear, and I'd basically written it off as nonsense.

Anyway, I watched the car, because The Spirits or whatever were very insistent that I did. Car drove fine, went into the parking spot, inched forward, and right when it should've just stopped, the driver gunned it for some reason and it ran into the curb and cracked its bumper.

So, the driver got out, and she went to the front of the car to check that yes, she had cracked her bumper, and then she turned to look at me. The parking lot wasn't empty, but we were the only two people standing in that row, and I'd probably been staring at her for tenish seconds now.

She demanded very angrily to know why I hadn't warned her of the curb. And I could have said I didn't know you were about to gun it or is it my job to help every stranger park, or even could you have even heard me, inside your car?

And all of those would have been fine, but I was really, really busy digesting that I had somehow communed with Mormon Jesus again for the first time in fifteen years, and that the communion had mostly been there to let me watch someone park badly (?), so what I responded with was:

"Because it was foretold."

And I can't tell which would be funnier, if she went silent because there's not much to be said to that, or if she went silent because in Utah, she might actually believe me, but we parted ways without more words.

I'm still kind of digesting this myself, actually.

[hunchoco]

"Wow, you threw that ball quite hard. Was that a mistake?"

Into The Ring (2020) - episode 7

[dont-read-this-im-dead]

IDK who needs to hear this, but life is full of mistakes---you are NOT one of them.

[zimshan]

Attention Pennsylvania voters!

Senator Bob Casey’s race is now at a margin of 0.53%.

An automatic recount in PA is triggered with a margin of 0.5%. That’s a difference of 0.03% or a little over 2,000 votes. We need to make sure every ballot is counted here, and there’s thousands of uncounted ballots right now due to voter error.

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See full instructions for curing by county here.

You have until November 12 to cure your ballot in PA.

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[myclericalromance]

i went to a tiny counterserve diner once and accidentally poured sugar instead of salt all over my hashbrowns and was eating them sadly anyways. the waitress took them away and started making me another one and I tried to protest, but she just snorted and said "we're not catholic here". now every time i'm doing something painful out of obligation i think about how that is not repenting, this body is not a catholic establishment, there is no nobility in suffering.