“Do not look for rest in any pleasure, because you were not created for pleasure: you were created for spiritual joy. And if you do not know the difference between pleasure and spiritual joy you have not yet begun to live.”

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🫂 Carried Yourself
You have carried yourself through every valley, every doubt, every breaking. Yet Christian mystics remind us: grace was carrying you too.

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Mystic In My Pocket ✨ amazon.com/author/mystic1


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Seeing Christ in the Chaos.

🎨 ARTWORK
Christ Enthroned  
The Book of Kells 
Circa 800 AD, Trinity College Library, Dublin

🎵 MUSIC
Into the Wild (Acoustic) by Ebunny
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Where do you see yourself in this painting? Emily Mary Osborn’s "Nameless and Friendless" is about poverty, grief, gender, and survival. What might God want you to notice as you gaze at this woman’s story?
View at: https://youtu.be/9t-eM9dYvC4
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