I have not! 🙋🏻‍♀️ it’s amazing. Love their daily sunscreen, day and night creams, and vitamin c serum. They have a great leave-in hair conditioner too! Every time they get something new, I have to try it.

I don’t know who needs to hear this…

…but you can ask for help finding joy, delight, and glimmers today, if they feel elusive.

God’s not too busy.
You’re not too much.
❤️

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Relatable

Today feels like breaking down slowly but also the beginning of new life. I don’t know where I stand, but I know God is here with me in this space too.

At a time when the concept of “empathy” is hotly debated, Advent enters the chat with the clearest picture of empathy available to Christians:

God with us.

The Big Ask What if this is God's love language?

“Asking questions as a believer can feel like a faux pas at best and damning at worst. 

Depending on who you talk to, certainty can be tantamount to strong faith. It indicates arrival. Approval. Like the passing of a test.”

- We view God as being harsh and stingy when it comes to grace. When our view of God changes to see a love full of compassion and generosity, it changes us and how we act.

- We’re living under a cloud of scarcity, of only so much to go around. It feels more natural to be critical and judgmental (and fearful) in that state.

3 reasons we don’t extend grace:

- It hasn’t been extended much to us. Sometimes we don’t know what it looks like. But we still have it in our control to break the cycle.

🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️ crafty but not a painter though

As people of faith, we live in a liminal space, a kingdom that is often described as “already…but not yet.”

During Advent, we celebrate the “already.” And we lament the “not yet.”

The kingdom is here.

Lord, let your kingdom come.

@jenaiauman.bsky.social Jenai Auman fan girl over here 🙋🏻‍♀️

It’s not a religious movie by any means. But it definitely doesn’t glorify evil. It calls evil out.

Maybe it all depends on what your definition of evil is.

Someone posted on Threads that Christians shouldn’t see Wicked because it glorifies evil.

Actually—the point is that Elphaba is called wicked by people who want to stay in control. What’s popular is compromise and corruption. But to stand for your convictions and be set apart is courageous.

Love this movie 😍 and Whitney Houston’s version too!

We do not deserve Cynthia ❤️🙌🏼

It’s okay not to shop Black Friday to save money or time or energy, to just enjoy the holiday or avoid consumerism.

It’s also okay to shop Black Friday to get gifts for the holidays or save on stuff you usually get or even to get yourself a little treat because it’s been a hard year.

You do you.

I know @lizadaye.bsky.social nominated me but I nominate her right back. She has been through it this year and continues to show up and do the important work she does. She’s a constant inspiration.

😭 I would absolutely say the same of you ❤️

All those people who have the nerve to walk casually around the grocery store the day before Thanksgiving 😡

Defying Gravity - the unwitting theme song of every church kid now reassessing and redefining their faith journey and beliefs

It’s nearly winter and my dream of hibernation would include a big stack of books, the fluffiest pillow and fuzzy blanket, and an automatically refilling hot water dispenser.

I’m trying to figure out when I’m going to go. I wasn’t going to see it because honestly I’m afraid it won’t live up to the musical I love so much, but people are convincing me. Also feeling along with you that it’s going to hit home with my faith journey right now ❤️

a man is saying `` i would like that very much '' while wearing a black hoodie . ALT: a man is saying `` i would like that very much '' while wearing a black hoodie .

All the gifs.

Resist the urge to say, “that’s not God” in the glimmers. ✨

God is just as much in play in the small details, the coincidences, the things that make you smile or laugh, the perfect timing, and the small hope as he is in the mountain-top moments and miracles. (James 1:17)

This makes my day.

Songs living rent-free in my head these days:

Hard-Fought Hallelujah by Brandon Lake

Defying Gravity by Cynthia Ervo (or Idina Menzel, I can’t let that one go either)

So excited the Advent season is drawing near.

The good news of Advent is not that we are faithful in our waiting (we often aren't) but that God is faithful in his coming.

I used to think resilience was steely, but I’m learning that the truest resilience is strength + softness.