Oh, this is a good conversation. Last week I found about 7 or 8 blank books that I 'journal' in, and saw my progression as a Christian from 2018 to present day. 2018, I was still using [not the formal tarot cards] but animal oracle cards and examining astrological things [because God made the planets, right? That's where I was in my 'maturity'], and I wrote a lot of anger out about the cult I had come out of...2019, I was still using Norse runes but no cards or astro, and still angry over the cult with my parents added to the list...2020, I was caught up in the prosperity gospel but no Norse runes [for gleaning info], which was really hard because it's part of my heritage - so I worked at making my spiritual heritage more important than my physical heritage, and now angry at myself for how I handled my exit from the cult [in a very self-destructive way]...2021, I was praying for Holy Spirit to work with me to 'clean house' in my heart and mind and 'redecorate' it with God's things, because I was feeling uneasy and stuck and unhappy with the 'Christian community' sniping at each other [some of them arguing 'how far up the elbow to wash' like the Pharisees] so I kicked church to the curb and just went on my 'walk with Jesus', [I had just dealt with cult 'ish', parental 'ish', and self 'ish' - who wants to deal with their 'ish', honestly]...2022, my 'journaling' was curating all the stuff I felt was helpful and that I could save from my old journals, and trying to build on that...2023, feeling more settled and open to listening to what everyone has to say, but not buying into or accepting it all until I prayerfully 'sit with it' and try to imagine Jesus putting this or that in His life; and I'm open again to finding a church. If I can't find one immediately and there are 'issues,' I'll let them throw me out for speaking up. Just like the cult did. Hey ho. I guess all that to say this...we all are on our own walk with God, with our own lessons to learn. And if you decide one day something in your life is not for you, you'll do something about it - but you will have your own very specific reasons that are important to you - so your changes will last. We have to trust God's process and quit spiritually steer wrestling each other. If I had someone spiritually steer wrestling me from 2018 to now, I would not be here where I am today. I would have probably been wasting my time verbally slicing and dicing them 6 ways to Sunday, rather than coming to the conclusion that tarot and runes and astro tell me nothing with regards to the future [they were really good at telling me what happened in the past, but I was already there and bought the t-shirt so what good was that?] - and I'm supposed to put my trust in God when it comes to that [I was a real Miss Nosey Parker, having to know every little thing]. As far as the prosperity gospel, I pray for them. I'm not into a poverty gospel, either. Phil. 4:12-14 [happy with a little, happy with a lot] works for me. So, this comment got rather long - I'll try to keep them shorter from now on. But I really loved your video today - I love your thoughtfulness.
wow, thank you so much for sharing this!! we definitely had a similar journey in some ways. having a Native American heritage, I also had to toss many things that were part of that, & it made it harder, so I totally get what you mean. so glad you got away from all that mess! I was in the prosperity gospel for a while too - so damaging! thankful we're both free 🖤✨🙌🏼
Thank you for sharing your faith Harmony!! You have such a light about you and I think it is awesome that you are always trying to improve your testimony! I know we don't have the same exact beliefs, but I love hearing your thoughts as a sister in Christ. Love you!! 🫶
10:42 same! I was an avid reader in grade 11 and grade 12 and I read more books in grade 12 because in grade 11 I read mostly non fiction books and I find that non fiction books are harder for me to get through than fiction books.
Oh this is my fave video of yours to far 🥺🤲🏼 I love your commentary it feels so so kindred. Idk if you’re into homesteading or cooking but I feel like you’d love the talks of Jess from Roots and Refuge. I have thoughts swirling at everything you say and I feel like we are in similar places in our journeys in life and walks with the Lord. Love it, please keep this channel up for as long as it serves you 🤍 ❄️ALSO I CANT BELIEVE YOURE GOING TO READ THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE I WAS JUST GOING TO RECOMMEND IT TO YOU I have a feeling you’ll love it and it’ll be such an interesting next stepping stone after your ACoTaR series, maybe even give you some catharsis. The themes in the book are so timely for your discussion in this video. I loved the book so much that I began studying Russian, and my dream is to buy the Winternight series and read it in Russian. I need to finish the series first, only halfway through the Girl in the Tower!! Arden’s prose and language for the Winternight series is…. I’ll legitimately have to go draft a separate love rant for it in a different video. Now I need to binge your videos to see if you’ve started it IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU
awh thank you so much 🥹 i love roots & refuge!! my husband & i are actually just starting her garden book together 😆 ohh this is all good to know!! i think i might save the bear & the nightingale for later this winter since i just started redeeming love. i've heard lots of good things about it though!! 🖤
❄️ 🌨 ❄️ thank you for sharing! I really appreciated this view. I've been struggling with legalism mentally and trying to decipher if it's the Lord's will or I feel that way because someone on Instagram said xyz. So thank you. I'm gonna have to pick that book up! I am currently reading mere Christianity and it is a hearty book. So good bur difficult lol! Praying for you and your family as always 💛✨️
yes! it's definitely a process to discern our own convictions from others. & oh gosh, mere Christianity is just incredible. i hope you love it!! thank you so much 🖤 xoxo
❄️❄️❄️ Great video! And I agree fantasy is just that fantasy. And of course always seeking Gods guidance in all we do. Allowing His Holy Spirit to tell us when something should be avoided. ♥️ Kawp sharing you wonderful videos. And I’m always praying for healing over your family! Xoxo
❄❄❄ Stories, to me, are like the parables that Jesus used - they put you in a space outside yourself, where you might better relate to a situation because it's happening to someone or something else and it's easier to talk about. 'Content' in each story is that 'personal' thing. I don't recommend movies to people anymore because I don't assimilate them like a lot of others do...I will watch a movie that others will either get off on special effects or go, 'meh' - while I will be connecting dots like crazy and seeing correlations and I'll think about it for YEARS [ to the point that I've decided some movies are just 'coming attractions' or 'trailers' for what's coming up in real life]. OR, there'll be a LOT of eye candy in the set and costume departments, but the rest is garbage...I own movies that I only have and use for certain clips, to refer to for eye candy. Or there will be a character - or it's the story itself. [example: Last of the Mohicans, The 13th Warrior, The Man From Snowy River, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, LOTRs, the first Matrix, the first three Star Wars movies - to mysteries, who done it's, - to classics put on film - to musicals, etc.]
yes! I didn't prepare for this video at all, but I wish I would have because I have so much more to say about this topic. I watch secular movies with a 'Christian lens', & can see sooooo many biblical allegories & lessons even when they weren't put there on purpose. I hope to get Frank Turek's book "Hollywood heroes", he talks a lot about this - Christian messages being in so many non-Christian books & movies. we can see Jesus in everything! 🖤
I bought a few months back C.S. Lewis's Signature Classics Collection, and I am so excited to start that off with Mere Christianity. I have heard quite a bit about his writings and I am excited to delve into them this year! 🤍and oooooh girl you are calling me out in being in a season of guilt for not living up to this image of a "righteous Christian." Thinking that if I wasn't ONLY reading the Bible then I wasn't a "true Christian." I have been eliminating this perfectionist mindset of "you're never quite there yet," it is a very toxic thought that is clearly from the enemy. It is not of God to believe that WE ourselves must obtain this perfect state. After receiving deliverance from New Age/Witchcraft less than a year ago, then being baptized in water, and then being baptized in the Holy Spirit...I was continually experiencing this "not there yet..." thought, which reminded me SO MUCH of my walk in the New Age! This is how I realized this is a unclean spirit of the mind, always telling me "you're not enough" no matter what path I have been on. This morning in prayer as I pleaded for help with this "not enough" and mental confusion the Lord said to me simply "Do you want to be healed?" I said "Yes Lord, more than anything." Then He said, "So it is done." There has been this level of lightness I have been experiencing that is so beautiful...beyond my deliverance experience. I no longer am experiencing this "I am not enough" mindset. The world trying to convict me through other Christians personal convictions. Wow, the timing of finding this vlog and finding your channel is so divine! God knew I needed to meet you. I love fantasy, I am a big Tolkien nerd, I am an artist, I was a tattoo artist for many years, I am a painter, a book lover, a lover of all things creativity! I use to feel SO convicted thinking I was the "only Christian" who was into these subjects in this way...and God has answered my prayer by leading me to your channel! 🥲🙌🕊🤍 We were made perfect by His grace! What a good and gracious God He is, thank you Lord for all that you do for us 🥰🌿☀✨ God bless you sister :)
Oh, this is a good conversation. Last week I found about 7 or 8 blank books that I 'journal' in, and saw my progression as a Christian from 2018 to present day. 2018, I was still using [not the formal tarot cards] but animal oracle cards and examining astrological things [because God made the planets, right? That's where I was in my 'maturity'], and I wrote a lot of anger out about the cult I had come out of...2019, I was still using Norse runes but no cards or astro, and still angry over the cult with my parents added to the list...2020, I was caught up in the prosperity gospel but no Norse runes [for gleaning info], which was really hard because it's part of my heritage - so I worked at making my spiritual heritage more important than my physical heritage, and now angry at myself for how I handled my exit from the cult [in a very self-destructive way]...2021, I was praying for Holy Spirit to work with me to 'clean house' in my heart and mind and 'redecorate' it with God's things, because I was feeling uneasy and stuck and unhappy with the 'Christian community' sniping at each other [some of them arguing 'how far up the elbow to wash' like the Pharisees] so I kicked church to the curb and just went on my 'walk with Jesus', [I had just dealt with cult 'ish', parental 'ish', and self 'ish' - who wants to deal with their 'ish', honestly]...2022, my 'journaling' was curating all the stuff I felt was helpful and that I could save from my old journals, and trying to build on that...2023, feeling more settled and open to listening to what everyone has to say, but not buying into or accepting it all until I prayerfully 'sit with it' and try to imagine Jesus putting this or that in His life; and I'm open again to finding a church. If I can't find one immediately and there are 'issues,' I'll let them throw me out for speaking up. Just like the cult did. Hey ho.
I guess all that to say this...we all are on our own walk with God, with our own lessons to learn. And if you decide one day something in your life is not for you, you'll do something about it - but you will have your own very specific reasons that are important to you - so your changes will last. We have to trust God's process and quit spiritually steer wrestling each other. If I had someone spiritually steer wrestling me from 2018 to now, I would not be here where I am today. I would have probably been wasting my time verbally slicing and dicing them 6 ways to Sunday, rather than coming to the conclusion that tarot and runes and astro tell me nothing with regards to the future [they were really good at telling me what happened in the past, but I was already there and bought the t-shirt so what good was that?] - and I'm supposed to put my trust in God when it comes to that [I was a real Miss Nosey Parker, having to know every little thing]. As far as the prosperity gospel, I pray for them. I'm not into a poverty gospel, either. Phil. 4:12-14 [happy with a little, happy with a lot] works for me.
So, this comment got rather long - I'll try to keep them shorter from now on. But I really loved your video today - I love your thoughtfulness.
wow, thank you so much for sharing this!! we definitely had a similar journey in some ways. having a Native American heritage, I also had to toss many things that were part of that, & it made it harder, so I totally get what you mean. so glad you got away from all that mess! I was in the prosperity gospel for a while too - so damaging! thankful we're both free 🖤✨🙌🏼
Thank you for sharing your faith Harmony!! You have such a light about you and I think it is awesome that you are always trying to improve your testimony! I know we don't have the same exact beliefs, but I love hearing your thoughts as a sister in Christ. Love you!! 🫶
appreciate you so, so much my friend 🥹🖤✨ love you bunches!!
❄️❄️I just found you recently but am so honored to be a small part of your life. Thank you for your words, and for being an inspiration to others. ❤❤
wow thank you so much for being here!! 🥹🖤✨
10:42 same! I was an avid reader in grade 11 and grade 12 and I read more books in grade 12 because in grade 11 I read mostly non fiction books and I find that non fiction books are harder for me to get through than fiction books.
❄Creating your own meaningful traditions is truly magical and being able to choose who to share them with makes it seem all the more special.❄
so true! thank you 🖤✨
Thank you for being so honest and open about your family situation cuz I was in the same type of thing too!
thank you for sharing that, you're definitely not alone! 🖤🖤
❄️ I love you and pray for your family 🩵 thank you so much for your video about Christianity and fantasy books. Such an eye opener ❄️
thanks so much for being here! 🖤✨
Oh this is my fave video of yours to far 🥺🤲🏼 I love your commentary it feels so so kindred. Idk if you’re into homesteading or cooking but I feel like you’d love the talks of Jess from Roots and Refuge. I have thoughts swirling at everything you say and I feel like we are in similar places in our journeys in life and walks with the Lord. Love it, please keep this channel up for as long as it serves you 🤍
❄️ALSO I CANT BELIEVE YOURE GOING TO READ THE BEAR AND THE NIGHTINGALE I WAS JUST GOING TO RECOMMEND IT TO YOU I have a feeling you’ll love it and it’ll be such an interesting next stepping stone after your ACoTaR series, maybe even give you some catharsis. The themes in the book are so timely for your discussion in this video. I loved the book so much that I began studying Russian, and my dream is to buy the Winternight series and read it in Russian. I need to finish the series first, only halfway through the Girl in the Tower!! Arden’s prose and language for the Winternight series is…. I’ll legitimately have to go draft a separate love rant for it in a different video. Now I need to binge your videos to see if you’ve started it IM SO EXCITED FOR YOU
awh thank you so much 🥹 i love roots & refuge!! my husband & i are actually just starting her garden book together 😆 ohh this is all good to know!! i think i might save the bear & the nightingale for later this winter since i just started redeeming love. i've heard lots of good things about it though!! 🖤
❄️ 🌨 ❄️ thank you for sharing! I really appreciated this view. I've been struggling with legalism mentally and trying to decipher if it's the Lord's will or I feel that way because someone on Instagram said xyz. So thank you. I'm gonna have to pick that book up! I am currently reading mere Christianity and it is a hearty book. So good bur difficult lol! Praying for you and your family as always 💛✨️
yes! it's definitely a process to discern our own convictions from others. & oh gosh, mere Christianity is just incredible. i hope you love it!! thank you so much 🖤 xoxo
I love Melissa Dougherty! I think it’s cool that God used her posting that video as an answer to your prayer.
yes!! she's amazing, so glad God spoke through her on something so specific! 🖤
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Great video! And I agree fantasy is just that fantasy. And of course always seeking Gods guidance in all we do. Allowing His Holy Spirit to tell us when something should be avoided. ♥️ Kawp sharing you wonderful videos. And I’m always praying for healing over your family! Xoxo
yes!! allowing the Holy Spirit to guide us is so important - there are limits in everything. thank you so much!! 🖤✨🥹
❄️I love fantasy too😊👍🏽❤️
it's so fun! 🖤✨
❄❄❄ Stories, to me, are like the parables that Jesus used - they put you in a space outside yourself, where you might better relate to a situation because it's happening to someone or something else and it's easier to talk about. 'Content' in each story is that 'personal' thing.
I don't recommend movies to people anymore because I don't assimilate them like a lot of others do...I will watch a movie that others will either get off on special effects or go, 'meh' - while I will be connecting dots like crazy and seeing correlations and I'll think about it for YEARS [ to the point that I've decided some movies are just 'coming attractions' or 'trailers' for what's coming up in real life]. OR, there'll be a LOT of eye candy in the set and costume departments, but the rest is garbage...I own movies that I only have and use for certain clips, to refer to for eye candy. Or there will be a character - or it's the story itself. [example: Last of the Mohicans, The 13th Warrior, The Man From Snowy River, The Lion The Witch and The Wardrobe, LOTRs, the first Matrix, the first three Star Wars movies - to mysteries, who done it's, - to classics put on film - to musicals, etc.]
yes! I didn't prepare for this video at all, but I wish I would have because I have so much more to say about this topic. I watch secular movies with a 'Christian lens', & can see sooooo many biblical allegories & lessons even when they weren't put there on purpose. I hope to get Frank Turek's book "Hollywood heroes", he talks a lot about this - Christian messages being in so many non-Christian books & movies. we can see Jesus in everything! 🖤
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I bought a few months back C.S. Lewis's Signature Classics Collection, and I am so excited to start that off with Mere Christianity. I have heard quite a bit about his writings and I am excited to delve into them this year! 🤍and oooooh girl you are calling me out in being in a season of guilt for not living up to this image of a "righteous Christian." Thinking that if I wasn't ONLY reading the Bible then I wasn't a "true Christian." I have been eliminating this perfectionist mindset of "you're never quite there yet," it is a very toxic thought that is clearly from the enemy. It is not of God to believe that WE ourselves must obtain this perfect state. After receiving deliverance from New Age/Witchcraft less than a year ago, then being baptized in water, and then being baptized in the Holy Spirit...I was continually experiencing this "not there yet..." thought, which reminded me SO MUCH of my walk in the New Age! This is how I realized this is a unclean spirit of the mind, always telling me "you're not enough" no matter what path I have been on. This morning in prayer as I pleaded for help with this "not enough" and mental confusion the Lord said to me simply "Do you want to be healed?" I said "Yes Lord, more than anything." Then He said, "So it is done." There has been this level of lightness I have been experiencing that is so beautiful...beyond my deliverance experience. I no longer am experiencing this "I am not enough" mindset. The world trying to convict me through other Christians personal convictions. Wow, the timing of finding this vlog and finding your channel is so divine! God knew I needed to meet you. I love fantasy, I am a big Tolkien nerd, I am an artist, I was a tattoo artist for many years, I am a painter, a book lover, a lover of all things creativity! I use to feel SO convicted thinking I was the "only Christian" who was into these subjects in this way...and God has answered my prayer by leading me to your channel! 🥲🙌🕊🤍 We were made perfect by His grace! What a good and gracious God He is, thank you Lord for all that you do for us 🥰🌿☀✨ God bless you sister :)
😭😭 thank you for being here!! appreciate you so much!! 🖤
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