Grace-given Tree

I'm Ashley, a Christian anon. I love God, I like Kdramas, and I'm here to learn and share. Called to celibacy since 2015.

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"Indeed there is health and vitality in keeping an appropriately loose grip on all aspects of our temporal life as a way to acknowledge that all the material bestowments we have are good gifts from God but temporary in their duration." -- Redeeming Singleness by Barry Danylak

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I'm reading The Feminine Mystique, which says, "...men said the daily prayer: 'I thank Thee, Lord, that Thou hast not created me a woman,' and women prayed in submission: 'I thank Thee, Lord, that Thou has created me according to Thy will.'" It made me think of the passage below.

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"I came to hear him speak about
the sins of evil Rome,
but what he wanted was for me
to think upon my own." - excerpt from "Waters of Insurrection" (inspired by Luke 3:2-14) in God Speaks Through Wombs by Drew Jackson

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"I felt the future closing in—and I could not see myself in it at all. I had no image of myself, stretching beyond college... now that the time had come to make my own future, to take the deciding step, I suddenly did not know what I wanted to be." -The Feminine Mystique, Friedan

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"And let endurance have its perfect work, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing." Jacob (James) 1:4 TLV

#verseoftheday #votd #scripture #bibleverse #tlvbible

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Surprisingly, yesterday my pastor acknowledged Mother's Day, made references to mothers in the sermon, but the sermon topic was a continuation of the series we are in and specifically about perseverance. I think this may be the first year we didn't have a "Mother's Day sermon." https://t.co/OT1kj0bvfA

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I think Pinterest may know me too well, showing me this shortly before I graduated with no career plans.

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"Please. Let the wise words roll like honey off your aged lips. Whisper. I’ll listen." - from the poem "Gray Heads" in God Speaks Through Wombs by Drew Jackson, inspired by Luke 2:36-38

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I feel really touched and grateful that I have gotten to know that people have engaged so genuinely with something I wrote.

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Three people told me that the group that considered whether to publish the work I submitted to the school literary journal all cried because of a fictional short story I wrote. At the journal reading last night, my mom read the story, and people laughed and cried.

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I'm genuinely so thankful for the people who paint the lines on roads. Driving is the most dangerous thing a lot of people do every day, and those lines help people stay safe.

Stay safe out there!

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@noah_nonsense Thanks!

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I did end up submitting both! 3 poems, two short fiction, and one short narrative non-fiction. I'll hear back sometime in March what they do or don't want to publish.

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Should I submit some of my writing (poetry and/or fiction) to my university's literary journal for them to consider publishing?

(Two years ago, they published a creative non-fiction essay I wrote)

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A professor said I should read the news. I might ask why, because I'm genuinely curious. I've seen the harm news consumption can have on people. I'm always a better informed voter than my dad, despite his consumption of the news, because the news doesn't talk about /our/ ballot.

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*other than for research before voting, which I do for the specific people and issues on the ballot when I'm preparing to vote

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Finally making the connection between taking Intro to Criminal Justice (and watching the assigned videos) and YouTube sending me more political content. This is where things went astray. I don't see a practical reason for engaging with news*, yet I've been engaging more.

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"Do your time the best you can. The people who came before, they sacrificed so you could be here, so you could do something. They gave themselves away. There comes a time when we all have to do that. If we don't, it's like we never lived." -Songs of Deliverance, Marilynn Griffith

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Unfortunate that I could not get home for two days this week, but a great blessing that I had a friend who let me stay in her guest room during that time.

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@noah_nonsense Ah, that makes sense. Since I took the class that runs the journal a few years ago, I'm pretty familiar with the policies, so I don't think there's really anything I would need to ask before submitting.

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Should I submit some of my writing (poetry and/or fiction) to my university's literary journal for them to consider publishing?

(Two years ago, they published a creative non-fiction essay I wrote)

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@noah_nonsense It's primarily student run, so I don't think emailing the student editors is something that is done. The posters just say to email submissions to the journal's email. Why do you think I should email the editors first?