reflecting on various topics
If you haven’t read it yet, please read my Disclaimer. These are all painful for me to write about, but it’s been important for me to see where I’ve gotten certain ideas, as I’ve tried to change my own thinking. I grew up thinking that the best way to serve God was to focus on …
(If you haven’t read it, pls read my Disclaimer). Tw: potentially triggering Here are some Bible verses that I’ve applied in ways that have increased anxiety in my life. Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect. Matthew 5:48 NIV It led to some perfectionism. Jesus answered, “If you want to be perfect, go, …
(This is part of a series. Please read my Disclaimer). There are a lot of Bible verses that I’ve leaned on, over the years, for what has amounted to self-gaslighting. Here are a few of them. The heart is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? Jeremiah 17:9 NIV I took …
If you haven’t read it yet, please read this Disclaimer post. I grew up interpreting Genesis as literal truth. Here are some of the ways the way that I applied the beginning of it, especially, that harmed me. 1. It caused me to have a distrustful view of science, public education/educators, and science education. Thus …
I want to do something kind of uncomfortable, which is to specifically name which Bible verses, due to their application in my life, led to harm for me. It’s not something I’m done unpacking or processing. I don’t have “final thoughts.” I don’t have conclusions, necessarily. But I feel that it’s been important for me, …
it’s me, hi There have been so many awful things happening lately, especially the hurricanes in the southern/eastern US. I really don’t have the words to say anything other than it’s horrific. There are a lot of people who have already done the work of putting together places where ppl can help/donate, easily findable on …
I thought I’d write about some of my favorite Taylor Swift songs. Of course there are too many to choose from, but here are a few… Why: the anticipation she builds through the lack of satisfying cadences, for a really long time. We would hate it if the whole first minute and a half were …
Do you ever feel like the pain of being alive is just too much? I don’t know what it is. Sometimes I think it’s hormones. Sometimes I think it’s empathy. Sometimes I wonder if it’s fibromyalgia (joke, but also I do have it so it can be honestly hard to know.. *laugh-cry*). Seriously though. I …
It it is a glorified pillow with eyeballs. And it is a thing of beauty. You can squish it. You can hug it. You can toss it. You can arrange it on your couch. You can arrange it on your bed. (“bop it! twist it! pull it!” comes to mind) Anyway they are cute, they …
This might seem a bit weird but. I’m going to list these. By sense and ability. k. Do you have the ability to smell? Then here are some things to live for: the smell of bacon cooking in the morning the smell of a huge white blooming rose the smell of the ocean, salty and …
