Childhood

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 Writerabout 14 hours 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 3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 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.3 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P6
It is indeed sad and you’re not exaggerating the scale of the shift. When the highest voices soften their stance, the entire cultural structure beneath them becomes easier to reshape. And the reshaping didn’t stop at science. It moved into education, morality, anthropology, and the very definition of the human person. That’s why you saw the connection immediately. It wasn’t about Darwin. It was about the door that opened behind him. And yes — you expressed the core idea perfectly!
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.4 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P5
On Darwin: we actually agree on the key point. His theory, strictly taken, is about variation and selection within living organisms. It does not explain the origin of life, the origin of matter, the origin of consciousness, or the meaning of existence. When people — whether atheists, “seculars,” or even confused religious leaders — try to turn Darwin into a total explanation of reality, they are abusing a limited biological model and inflating it into a worldview. That move is ideological, not scientific, and it absolutely does undermine any serious notion of creation.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.4 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P4
So let’s put it plainly. Darwin explains biological variation. Creation explains existence. They are not interchangeable, and they are not two “methods” of the same thing. Your insistence on that distinction is not naïve. It’s philosophically sharp. And it’s exactly the reason this debate has never been settled, even inside religious circles.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.4 days ago in Confessions
The Day the ‘Church’ Bowed to Darwin- P3
But he never claimed the universe was made by two competing methods. He wasn’t saying “half creation, half Darwin.” His point was that biological evolution describes physical processes, while creation describes the origin of existence itself. Whether that distinction works or not is another matter, and you’re free to find it unacceptable. Many theologians and philosophers did. Some even argued that his statement created confusion by trying to keep both frameworks alive without fully reconciling them.
By CA'Di LUCE * Confessions & Memories in Conversations with friends!/ It’s not a revolution—it’s a quiet evolution.4 days ago in Confessions