i don't think anyone can disagree that we need more kindness. we need it more than ever. and i believe the best way to be kinder is to first understand the impact kindness has had on us. so i've brought to life kinded, a place where i invite you to write and share a kind thing someone did to you. every note is anonymous and joins the others. through kinded i hope we can realize that kindness, just like us, doesn't belong to an algorithm. it is still ours to choose, and it is free.🌹

one of the problems i have with the feed is that it is designed in a way that you never stay with anything. the consequence of having a lot of content fed all at once is that we forget most of it the second we see it. so we learned to let go of each thing to get to the next one, and after enough time of that i think we forget we even know how to hold onto something.so i brought to life a wall that runs the opposite way. it asks you for one thing, which is the answer to, if everything digital vanished tomorrow, what's the one thing you'd keep, and why?there are no names, no likes, nothing that rises to the top. it's anonymous the whole way through, so the only reason to leave something is that it meant something to you.i've already left mine there. come add yours!!🌹https://thethingsidsave.thehiddeni.com/

there’s only one way to be saved and it’s not just “having faith”“the mysteries of the gospel have now been made known to all the nations by God TO LEAD them to "obedience of faith"” (Romans 16:25-26)what does “obedience of faith” mean?i believe the Word of God & i submit my will to It, even when it is against my desires. i die to my self-will and ALWAYS choose God’s will because i am convinced God’s path is the bestthis way my inner life is being transformed by the Holy Spirit & i am becoming more Christlike, which is the proof that my faith is real and thus i am saved🌹

if you are a catholic you do not love Jesus at all. Jesus said that those who love Him keep His commandments (John 14:15)and the only way to keep them is to obey God, to always do His will instead of yours. and one of the things that Jesus didn’t command is praying to icons, having feast days for saints, yearly parish contributions, worshipping the pope, and other human-made traditionscatholics are far from loving Jesus. the same is true for everyone else who's not doing ONLY God's will🌹

"faith comes from hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ" (Romans 10:17)8 months ago i was in the back of a car, smoking, when a voice came to my mind asking me, “where are you going when everything ends?” and i was aware of the word of Christ from my mother and from the Bible, but none of what I heard until then pierced mebut this hearing aroused within me a living desire, a fervor for God, that made me want to follow Him with all my heartthis is how faith comes from hearing🌹

LEADING TO “obedience of faith” appears as the reason why God has made the mysteries of the Gospel known to all the nations (Romans 16:25–26)but what does it mean for us today, after Jesus paved a path where “He entered as a forerunner for us” (Hebrews 6:20), so that we can become perfect as He is, something that Abraham, Noah, and those who walked with God before Jesus came to earth could not have achieved?🌹

“and inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once and after this comes judgment” (Hebrews 9:27)God is so good that He only judges us after we die. so for as long as we are alive we won’t be judgedwhich means that for all of us who are still alive there is still time to repent, get baptized, and do God’s will till the moment we die!!! without doing these steps we will go straight to hell!!and as we never know the hour we are gone, please wholeheartedly decide to take these steps now🌹

it's not a diploma or an earthly authority (including yourself) that makes you an apostle, or priest, or whatever else you want to be in God's service
it is only God who can make you an apostle if that is His plan for youand to discover that plan God wants you to wholeheartedly repent, be born again, and do His will at all times (it means that for the rest of your life you are saying NO to your will and always YES to God's)it is only by doing this that your ministry will be revealed to you🌹

one of the wrongdoings of catholic/orthodox priests is that they ask people for money for their services, and this is completely against Scripturewhatever they do for people, they ask money from thembut where did Jesus teach that? where did Jesus teach that people should get rich from doing god’s work?when Jesus told the rich young man "go and sell your possessions and give to the poor" (Matthew 19:21). He didn't want the money for Himself or the apostles. He wanted just the man🌹

the first step towards knowing God is repentance, which means turning our back completely on sin (just on the one we are aware of at that moment, and the more sin we discover with time, we will need to repent of that as well)if 8 months ago i had lived in sin (smoking, gossiping, lying, pornography, and other sin I was aware of) and barely looked at God, when i repented, i stopped looking at that sin at all (gave up on it completely) and the same passion i had for sin, i now have only for God🌹