Kareisma

Recovering Religious Elitist | Writer📝 | I’m a Very Unserious Person Who Just Happens to Do Very Serious Work 🤓|Studying Spirituality in Digital Spaces👩🏾‍🔬

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

Hello Kings and Queens! ♥️ Some of you may have noticed that I have been MIA for a few months. I do this from time to time and I want to publicly address this. Beginning in 2023, I started to engage in the New Age Spirituality/Occult space. Providing daily astrology and tarot readings.

Admittedly, I started doing this to help me make sense of and heal from something personal going on in my life. Diving into these practices gave me a sense of relief at first, knowing that I’m not the only one struggling in love, going through a dark night of the soul and a sort of spiritual awakening.

I didn’t know what was happening but in my ignorance, I needed answers and I needed them now! (It’s my money and I want it now! Hehe 😝) Engaging and “helping” you all gave me a sense of pride… until it didn’t. Constantly the Holy Spirit would nudge me, tug at my heart and soul, redirecting me to question engaging in activities that were against Christ and clearly warned against in the Bible.

Yes, I am a Christian and thought I was always one. My religious elitist pride convinced me I couldn’t be deceived.

It’s funny because I started to actively engage in activities and with people I previously looked down on. And for the latter, I am truly sorry.

But I resisted the Holy Spirit. Saying things like “I’m calling on the name of Jesus, though” “I’m helping people” “This is helping me” All excuses. But my ego couldn’t let me admit that I’m leading people away from trusting in God only, and turning myself into a replacement “god” of sorts. I’d never prop myself up, but I might unintentionally be leading others to do so.

Due to the Holy Spirit’s conviction, I simply couldn’t continue engaging with the community in the way I was. I was a lost soul guiding and directing other souls. I wasn’t leading you to no where good.

Hearing your stories, seeing your pain. I had no authority, I had no right. I’m not special and I’m not “gifted”. That authority is Christ’s and Christ’s alone.

I know this post may be triggering. Whether your healing from church hurt, religious abuse or you do not consider yourself a Christian. Please do not view this as a sermon, a dismissive post or a conversion attempt.

I simply want to publicly renounce my previous involvement with the occult and New Age Spirituality and make a formal statement of the Christian Faith that aligns with the Apostles Creed.

Thank you so much for your kindness. I will still be here but with a slightly different focus. We live in a world of spiritual confusion, I think we all should navigate this spiritual world with clarity and discernment.

I love you all! God bless 💕

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

I just discovered air fryer French fries 🥹

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

On Christ alone, our Chief Cornerstone.
No other foundation can we build upon. 
Not philosophy, nor the wisdom of man.
All other ground is sinking sand.
Upon this rock, You build Your Church.
And the gates of hell will not prevail.
When we bind and loose, we proclaim Your truth.
And in Jesus' name, we will not fail.
Jesus Build Your Church. ✝️🕊️

Ephesians 2:20 (NIV)
1 Corinthians 3:11  (NIV)
Isaiah 52:7  (NIV)
Romans 10:15  (NIV)

[Chris Fizer @ChrisKindaReads]

it’s pretty dope

[Hollie Da LiBRAT 🖤♎️ @hollie_115]

Matthew 10:14

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

“Extremism, whether in conservatism or liberalism, whether in politics or religion, is never satisfied. It will always inch a little bit further. It’s a constant test of the purists.”

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I’ve never pastored a church. Couldn’t pay me a jillion dollars to. Never been ordained. Have no desire to. The only paid staff position I’ve ever held in a church was as an aerobics teacher in our church gym. But how in heaven’s name a woman discussing a sermon on a podcast could be objectionable to some is beyond me and what I believe to be beyond scripture. If you have no idea what I’m talking about, good. Stay sane. If you do, I’ve lived a long time and this has been my observation:

Extremism, whether in conservatism or liberalism, whether in politics or religion, is never satisfied. It will always inch a little bit further. It’s a constant test of the purists.

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

@gavinortlund In Christ Alone ✝️🙏🏾 One of my favorite songs so much so that it will be sung when I go home to the Lord. 🥹

[Gavin Ortlund @gavinortlund]

When the pain of this life feels overwhelming, it is comforting to remember that future resurrection can heal and redeem all sorrow. In Christ our suffering will not merely end, but be turned to glory.

[Ichigo Niggasake @SomaKazima2]

Baby THIS is community 🤎🖤❤️

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

@Cubs I can’t believe this shit, how are we getting away with this?!?!

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

My prayer for you all 🙏🏾 No matter your journey, go with God my friends. Always, with love ✝️💕

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

@Cubs I just came over for the comments 🤓

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

@Neliswa_Nelli Ok sis!!! I SEE YOU! 😝♥️

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

@Lammie_Art01 Yesssss!!! A win for you is a win for me! 🤓❤️

[Kareisma @KareismaReads]

You know what? I’ve shared my spiritual awakening dozens of times… but I don’t think I’ve ever told it quite the right way. 😅

https://t.co/b0lEOys1i6

See, I’ve noticed that when I tell my story, I don’t always give the awakening experience itself its proper weight.

Because how do you explain what it feels like when something outside of you lifts the veil from your eyes?

When you can finally see? Truly.

I was so far from God… and yet, He was never far from me.

So when I talk about that moment, I usually lead with my sin. My mistakes. My darkness.

But if I’m being honest… that’s not the true story. One can assume my joy, my whimsy, my complete unseriousness came after the Holy Spirit awakened me but actually… I’ve always been this way.

Who I am never changed, even in my own darkness, just where I focused my energy. God simply reminded me of who I am, who I was made for and whom I belong to.

Christ restored what I had forgotten.

And led me somewhere I didn’t expect… back home. Back to him, back into the body of Christ and back to the Church. Yup, your girl was befuddled. 🤪

My words don’t give the experience the justice it deserves, but you know whose words do? Peter Gabriel in his song “Solsbury Hill.”

Word for word.
Bar for bar.
No notes.

And that’s the beautiful thing about the human experience, sometimes we think the things we go through are so unique that no one could possibly understand, when really, they echo across time.

“Solsbury Hill” came out almost 50 years ago… and somehow, it still told my story, through someone who doesn’t look like me, nor has my same cultural, racial or socioeconomic experiences, yet… here we are.

This is why I believe so deeply in learning from one another, across generations, divides, and time. If this is your first time around the block, it’s okay. There’s someone out there who’s been around that same block more then they’d care to admit. Connect. Share your story and leave yourself open to learn a thing or two.

Or just have a Kiki, you don’t have to listen to me ☺️

None of us are as alone in our experience as we think. And as I reflect on my own awakening, my only prayer for you is this: that you, too, find your way back home. With God’s help. ✝️

Anyway, that’s it for now 😊 I love you all 💕 May God bless you ✝️ https://t.co/b0lEOys1i6

[Sofi @streeprafferty]

mamma mia you will always be famous❤️‍🩹

[Stag @StagBeChillin]

GODS WILL MADE IT 🤣🤣🤣 this is CRAZY

[Andrés J. Colmenares @wawawiwacomics]

I'm so nervous!! 🌔 #ArtemisII #NASA #Moon