[ransomnote]

     I’d been battling holiday blues over the MSM's holiday schedule of negative events - I pull myself up (prayer, Jesus name) and then slide back down (watching human suffering, vax, the evil loose in the world, split families post Pandemic/vax).
This morning I had some success thinking of miracles in my life, and how they uplift me, and that the Source of Miracles is still with us.

Years ago, I got to know a group of troubled young teens. I lay in bed this morning, remembering how, one by one, they came out of their trauma state like people waking up from coma. One was a young African American girl. ALthough she was black, when speaking to her I felt like she was a faded grey news clipping in dull, lifeless tones. Life had been so cruel she was in hiding in her heart/mind. Then one day she arrived a vivid, blooming ROSE! It was like a different person! She had wrestled past what had been and now had hope for what could come. It almost floored me. I and another woman agreed it was like she was a different person. Blushing sweet smile and sparkling eyes.

One was an autistic young man of 18 or 19. He was shut down, staring at the floor, answering yes or no but little else. One day I joked with him, expecting no reply, and he looked me in the eyes and cleverly joked back! I almost fell to my knees in shocked gratitude. People who knew him said he had been shutdown for a few years and suddenly, DAYLIGHT!!! He certainly fought his way through, and he faithfully prayed despite continuous hardship. And WHAM! :D

Thinking of them, how they bloomed when a little of the pressure came off even for a little while, brought tears of joy to my eyes.

We have been under intensifying pressure and psyops for years. I believe that indoctrinating ourselves with our good memories can help.

God is good, even when times are not. We didn’t fall under the Clinton regime - it would have been the worst period in recorded history had God not spared us.

In the stew of bad news - we have in us Good News. Perhaps turning through the pages of family albums could help remember the good times.

Some are separated from family over ‘vaccine’ disputes - is it possible to remember the good times and savor those, knowing those who have rejected us are duped by trillion dollar psyops and didn’t have the support we have?

Perhaps not for some, but for others? Each of us finding remembrances to grant comfort? Holding the new baby, attending the graduation, and looking ahead for the time when the truth is set free, what might our relationships hold then?

Decorating our own Christmas spirit, one blade of tinsel at a time, staying close to FRens in these hard times.

You help make my Christmas bright.

I'm so grateful for God's gift to the world, and His tireless love. These are the greatest cause for hope!

Merry Christmas!

[17strings]

Merry Christmas to all my FreeQ FRens!

[USMC79to83]

A powerful reminder of the transformative power of Love.

Wishing you and yours a very merry Christmas!

[AFB-XYZ]

Excellently said. Christmas is all about the Light that brings us and others out of the Dark.

[sweetiepiezer]

Dear RN-The G.O.A.T.!!!

You have helped us all immensely through these last Q years.

Everyone sharing what they know about the going on of, Covid, Covid cures, Covid fears, perhaps we have saved a few lives, I think many.

Through the swamp draining and more.

Letting our hearts be joined in praying for 45!

With hand 🙏 to hand combat praying for our beloved country

You have guided us through many things and I would say you have been very strong and fair on your decisions.

I want to thank you for keeping this thread going and tolerating all that you do.

Merry Christmas Dear ♥️!

Happy 2024!

[freeangel]

Merry Christmas to you and a blessed New Year!

[bitt]

You help make my Christmas bright.

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YOU ALL make my Christmas bright.

I was lucky enough to have a great day with my families.
Life is good.

[LittleLinda]

I’m sorry to learn about your melancholy, ransomnote. The words you wrote are profound. There’s nothing easier than to wallow in our despair over losses and longings and to become bitter over them. I try so very hard to live in active gratitude, even if much of what we have to be grateful for is in the past. At least we HAD our joys for a time. Some people never experienced what we lost and have no memories to fall back on to carry them through the darkness. It may not be related, but if you’re tiring of the burden of carrying these threads for so many years, please let us know and we can share the burden. As long as you’re here, you are not alone.

[CJ Wolf]

Ransomnote. Merry Christmas and thankq for all you do. I am also thankful for the freeqs who wouldn’t have collected here on this “great wall of text” as my kids joke, if it werent for your dedication to making this world better. In viewing these words of others over the years I have found the wisdom, humor and frenship of others and hopefully have passed a bit along as well.

Merry Christmas you Freeqs. ❤️

[Guenevere]

Beautifully expressed

[WildHighlander57]

Not to worry, MqD; the frQ team has got your six!!!

[outinyellowdogcountry]

We are thankful for you.Hope your celebrations have been sweet.

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Most excellent slice, mQd.

[generally]

A wonderful and uplifting post.

ThankQ for sharing some of your personal wins. Kinda big ones, IMO.

Prayer always, but I will admit there have been times when it didn’t make me feel any better. I just needed to slog through the dark days and continue to pray for better ones.

What I have gradually learned to do over the past few years is:

1. try not to dwell on the losses - no matter how great they may seem.

2. Realize that many things that at first appear to be losses are really part of the plan. We are seeing so many things boomerang back on the derps. (Think mirror.)

3. focus on the wins. Even the small ones. Maybe even especially the small ones. A smile, crossing something off my huge to do list, getting snail mail that’s a real letter and not a bill, sunshine, snow, pings and FReepmail,
and always coming to FR and

seeing ransomnote’s thread header,
reminders & reposts of Q drops,
finding a meme that makes me laugh (foldy, Melian, and many others),
finding out a meme I posted made someone else laugh,
17s,
seeing the “I’m IN!” posts and gifs,
reading gymbeau’s atrocious puns,
link back to Festival,
links to good stuff (bitt and so many others),
easy bake oven,
beautiful scenery (EasySt, lj, Sobieski, ...)
seeing bagster’s icon and remembering him,
seeing the Declaration of FreeQination,
seeing T. Rex jumping rope,
seeing familiar taglines (I’m looking at YOU, lyby, and many others),
seeing who’s in under fiddy,
seeing familiar FReeQs’ posts,
seeing NEW posters (or at least names I don’t recognize),
seeing new NAUTICAL TERMINOLOGY,
X22 & AWK links,
seeing pictures of PDJT & FLOTUS,
reading the latest slide,
cats. so many cats. and I’m not at all a cat person, but I love seeing them here,
prayers,
scripture posts & gifs,
lists of resources (thankQ Farcesensitive, H-TN, s&s forever, and others),
the pledge of allegiance (thankQ, HoneysuckleTN),
welcome (from infool7),
lj’s leis,
23 Skidoo!,
News Blasts,
and so much more.... but I’ll stop here because I need some sleep.

I’m grateful to every FReeQ, not just those mentioned. I treasure each and every one of you. You have made it so much easier to navigate through all we’ve had to deal with over the past 6 (?!) years.