Color Me Other

Advocate, speaker, writer, novelist. Trauma & cancer survivor. French pastry connoisseur. Rêveuse. Still-learning follower of Jesus.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

Brace yourselves... It's taken 3 days to get to the point where I can speak of #ShinyHappyPeople without developing hives. As @BethMooreLPM suggests, I'll try to use "ladylike" words, but here are the 4 excerpts sitting heavy in the gut of this spiritual/sexual abuse survivor. 🧵

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@Etsy I've contacted support, but there's no way of speaking to a real person. Still no explanation of the block from Etsy. (No promised email.) Still unable to purchase. And the appeal could apparently take 2 weeks!

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

Correction. @Keurig's $25-off discount brings the cost (for replacing a practically new coffee maker) to $134.99, a full $25 more than the Walmart price for the same item. Keurig, this is not a discount for replacement of a clearly defective Keurig.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@DavidAFrench Just finished. What a luminous interview.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

Yes.

[Compassion International @compassion]

Compassion isn't just an emotion. It's a call to action.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@united DMing you now.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@KPowellFYI Thrilled for your family (truly) and I ask this sincerely. Did you also pray that your son's life would be beautiful and meaningful and complete even without a wife?

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@StateFarm I've found that X agents are much more proactive than Facebook agents, so I worry that he might not get the same kind of help there...

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@StateFarm He isn't on X. Can I DM you his contact? You really need to make this right.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@LivingGodsTruth "...until they are." It may not be what you meant to say, but these words imply the *expectation* that children will marry. As a 58-year-old single woman who no one ever pursued for marriage (though I'm a catch! 😀), this even unintended message stings.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@KSPrior I wanted to love it, truly. (And I'm in line to be Clooney's next wife, so there's that! 😀) But I found the clichés disenchanting—the predictable dialogue and the portrayal of Italians as cartoonish characters. But as mere entertainment, the movie is fine!

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@CTmagazine Can you post a link that non-members can read?

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@garonnevik I thought of you the whole time I was watching him! What a profoundly loving family. (Did you, like me, think he was going to skipped over as the episode ticked by?)

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

Beth Moore speaking truth in the wake of the Yancy news. This is a time for self-reflection.

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

We must take heed, is the thing. We must take heed lest we think we ever age out of foolishness or faithlessness. We don’t. Look at Solomon. Time doesn’t heal. Time tells. It tests. And tries.
Time can make us lazy. After all, who’s watching anymore? It can make us meaner. Angrier. Harder headed. More bitter. More prideful. More selfish.

It can make us freak out. Fear that our lives will end without us ever feeling “alive” again, how ever we might define alive.

We have an opportunity here to examine our own lives and take heed lest we assume we’re beyond blowing them up sky high.

Can we finish well? Yes. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, help me. This kind of thing scares the living daylights out of me. My story is not over and there’s still time to be even more foolish in my future than I’ve been in my past. And that’s saying something.

We CAN finish well. But it will not be accidental. It will not be incidental. It will take humility. It will take a radical mindset like that of the apostle Paul. He adopted one goal. One absolute pursuit. “This one thing I do.” All else was a far and distant second.

It will take everything we’ve got. And the revelation will be that Jesus IS everything we’ve got.

How I thank God for the cross of Christ. How I thank God for his grace. How I thank God that he loves Philip Yancey so much that he wanted him to finish well. To repent. To pivot. To love his wife and his family well. To love the Giver of eternal life well. Thank God, none of us can take that right from Philip. His public life may be over. Beyond repair in our eyes. His private life is not. That’s what’s so amazing about grace.

Jesus, be with them.
Jesus, be with us all.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

This is...stunning! I'm so tickled and thrilled that my book is a CT winner...

[Christianity Today @CTmagazine]

Missions and the Global Church:

“Pieces of Purple: The Greatness, Grit, and Grace of Growing Up MK” by @frenchphoenix.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@ChMontel Mme la Consule, pourriez-vous considerer ma demande de réexamen concernant mon renouvellement de passeport refusé ? Malgré toutes les démarches effectuées, je reste sans solution. Je vous en serais reconnaissante! Merci de votre attention.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@BethMooreLPM Of Stillness and Storm, by two-time Christy Finalist Michele Phoenix. "The Poisonwood Bible for a New Generation." Bonus: a GREAT voice actor.

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

I love hobnobbing with this kind of company! 😉 Thank you, @AmandaGeaney.

[𝙰𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙳𝙰 𝙶𝙴𝙰𝙽𝙴𝚈 @AmandaGeaney]

These authors write Christian historical fiction. Check out their profiles and follow them to learn more about their work.

@frenchphoenix
@heatherwauthor
@J_C_Hopkins
@KathleenRouser
@kendypearson
@kimwoodhouse
@LauraHile
@LynnUWatson
@MarilynTurk
@MichelleDAuthor
@Michelleule
@MNStroh
@sarahsundin
@shellshocklee
@SJWellsAuthor
@SusanGMathis
@TaraMinistry
@ToscaLee
@JenelleHovde

If you spot a favorite author, please repost this list and drop a book recommendation to help your fellow readers.

#CFauthors #acfw #christfic #christianfiction #christianhistoricalfiction #christianauthorassistant #historicalfiction #acfw #authorsofx #bookx

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@ChMontel @FranceinChicago @AgnesvdMuhll @franceintheus @FrenchAmbUS @FR_Consulaire Félicitations ! Expatriée française, je vous supplie de m’aider. On m’a récemment informée que le passeport et la CIN obtenus en '06, après 2 dossiers complets, sont considérés comme invalides et que je ne suis pas reconnue comme Française. Je suis dévastée. Pouvez-vous m'aider?

[Color Me Other @ColorMeOther]

@CTmagazine This misrepresents deconstruction. It doesn't always mean *abandoning* the faith. In the young adults I work with, it more frequently means stripping "American faith" of its cultural accoutrements in search of authentic relationship with God and Jesus. https://t.co/TPwLQ5yMmK

[John-Uh Harris ☀️ @johnnarae]

Those of us that are tired of assault rifles and large capacity magazines being used to shoot up kids at schools are NOT the exception.