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Earthly Love

2024 taught me lessons

Immanuel Smiles
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21 min readJan 17, 2025
Photo by Azrul Aziz on Unsplash

This last year was a rollercoaster. There’s so much to be thankful for but there’s also so much to cry over. I want to write so badly about how encouraging the previous Christmas season has been But I’ll be a liar if I don’t speak truth in this piece.

The last few months leading up to Christmas has been a battle, I have fought tooth and nail to stay alive I feel as though I have climbed the highest mountains of my life and fallen down and still had to pick myself up over and over again.

My life became a joke. In all humility God has been teaching me about love In other words he’s been teaching me about himself because in the scriptures 1 John 4:16 describes God as love “And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.” As I construct this very piece, I hope to share with every listener of mine what I have come to learn about LOVE

Essence

Oxford dictionary defines essence as the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, especially something abstract, which determines its character.

I introduced the word essence because I’ve been learning what is essential to life and from my 21 years of living, I have come to understand that the very deity that we all need and crave is…

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Immanuel Smiles
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Written by Immanuel Smiles

I am here to expose secrets untold, to speak of my life as though it matters, to evoke emotion and challenge society. May my writings edify whoever reads them.

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