Friendship

The Voice and The Accent
My Voice and Accent I have a few videos up on YouTube and this is where people can hear me talk. I seriously don’t think my voice is special, in fact, I think I sound uncultured and fairly inept, however when people across the pond hear it some people think I sound a little more than acceptable.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 5 days ago in Confessions
I Haven't Spoken to My Twin
THE MYTH OF TWIN CONNECTION 🔗 Everyone who learns that I have an identical twin sister immediately says some variation of "that must be so amazing, you must be so close, do you feel each other's pain, can you read each other's minds" and I smile and nod because the alternative is explaining that I have not spoken to my twin sister in five years and that the bond everyone assumes is magical and unbreakable broke under the weight of differences that our genetic identity was supposed to prevent but that grew wider with every year until the two people who shared a womb and a face and a childhood could no longer share a conversation without it ending in argument, resentment, and the particular pain of being hurt by someone who looks exactly like you 💔
By The Curious Writer5 days ago in Confessions
"Fixing" Made Drama
It's frustrating trying to have a relationship with someone you find out never wanted to have a real relationship with you in the first place. They present you with issues to fix that you didn't start. They don't even want the issues fixed in the proper way either. They don't want anything to happen where everyone gets a fair say, build trust, and find reasons to gain closer intimacy.
By Seashell Harpspring 7 days ago in Confessions
The Playlist He Made
How a Stranger's Music Healed What Therapy Couldn't TRACK ONE: THE DISCOVERY The playlist appeared on my Spotify account on a Wednesday afternoon six weeks after my divorce was finalized, a collection of thirty-seven songs titled "For the Girl Who Forgot How to Sing" shared by a user whose profile name was just the letter M and whose avatar was a photograph of a piano in an empty room, and I did not know anyone with this profile and I almost deleted it as spam except that the first song on the list was "Skinny Love" by Bon Iver which was my favorite song, a song I had listened to on repeat during the worst nights of my failing marriage when I would sit in my car in the driveway unable to go inside because the silence between my husband and me had become more threatening than the loneliness of the car, and the odds of a random spammer choosing this specific song as the opener of a playlist addressed to a girl who forgot how to sing seemed too coincidental to dismiss.
By The Curious Writer7 days ago in Confessions
Observations On An Ancient Childhood. Content Warning.
Introduction I do find it amusing and odd when certain things inspire me to write but I suppose that is just the way my mind works. This morning I went out to pick up my weekly deliverance of two pints of milk from McQueen's Dairies and that started me off for this story.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!-P6
In the Gospels, the Temple leadership had become a world of its own. It had ranks, special garments, sacred spaces only certain people could enter, and a sense of distance between the “holy” and the ordinary. Jesus walked into that world and challenged it, not because the Temple itself was evil, but because the system had become more important than the God it was supposed to reveal.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!-P5
The official teaching says Mary is a saint, the greatest of saints, and that believers ask her to intercede. But the lived reality often looks different. People speak to her as if she has her own power to act, to heal, to intervene. And when you combine that with the emotional devotion, the icons placed in the center, the candles, the bowing, the kissing, it’s easy to see why it feels like she has been elevated to a place the New Testament never gives her.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!-P4
Well, ‘’worshipping the objects or the ritual itself instead ’’= they do that actually. You can tel me what you want. But they do make- ‘likenesses- and bent to that ‘likenesses’’- the icons. And kiss them as something sacred. And the Bible book itself. And the hand of the priest.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!-P3
The Eastern Catholic Churches (like the Greek Catholics, Maronites, Melkites) also kept these prayers, because their liturgy is very close to the Orthodox one.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!
I still do not see the difference between the two! Think of it like this: In the Catholic West, over the centuries, people started to treat the seven holy actions (baptism, communion, confession, etc.) almost like things that needed clear rules. For example: what exact words must be said, what counts as valid, who is allowed to do it, what happens if something goes wrong. It became a bit like a legal system: very organized, very defined, very precise.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Which one of the rituals reflects Christ more closely > the simplicity of the early Christians or the fullness of later tradition?!
hat are the “Holy Mysteries” in the Romanian Orthodox Church? In the Romanian Orthodox tradition, the Holy Mysteries are the seven sacred acts through which God gives His invisible grace to believers. They are the main ways Christ works in the Church to sanctify, heal, and guide people.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.10 days ago in Confessions
Slow Dating Trend Helping Singles Build Deeper Emotional Connections Today
The current dating culture is no longer about the instant-match and high-speed dating but now is more deliberate in nature, also referred to as slow dating. The trend allows single people to take time and learn more about emotional compatibility before committing. Slow dating is not about the number of dates, or the amount of swipeing done in the app, but about the quality, richness of emotions, and connection.
By Kellee Bernier10 days ago in Confessions