Michelle Quillin

Seeker. Thinker. Observer. Reader. Questioner. Listener. Communicator. Writer. Peacemaker. Bridgebuilder.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

@MarketerSamm @thejustinwelsh Saved this reply! 👌

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

If you're partial to people trying to spread light & love, people who give back to the communities they live in, maybe you can throw some of that light & love back at one of the good guys on this crazy planet. May God bless us so we might bless others.🙏 https://t.co/IX9Myf6Qvf

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

From a resident of Western North Carolina, here’s some clarity about what’s going on in outlying towns, who immediately showed up and continues to show up, and how important it is for all of us to be prepared to take care of ourselves and our neighbors in any disaster. 🙏 #HurricaneHelene

[Prester Khan @thepresterkhan]

I'm sure a lot has been speculated about what's going on in Western North Caolina. I'm a resident. One who has just now got enough of a signal to access the internet for more than a minute or two at a time. I'll explain.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

Conflict is inevitable in all relationships where honesty and authenticity is valued. Learning how to be a #peacemaker is a critical skill that will make the greatest difference in your relationships both personal and professional.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

@aliciaandrz I come from a long line of alcoholics on my Dad's side. We all harmed ourselves & our families. For me, sobriety is an act of love for God (who answered my desperate prayer that first night) & for others. I'm cheering for you! ❤️ (Sober for 23 years this past September!!)

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'" Fred Rogers

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

"So I thought it was a good idea to fly by myself with a 2 yr old and a 5 year old 😐 we were standing in line in security, on the verge of tears because Wyatt was screaming and James was exhausted.

Out of the blue, one mom stops the line for security and says “here, jump in front of me! I know how it is!” Wyatt fell asleep and I was trying to carry everyone’s carry-on when another mom jumps out of her place in line and says “hand me everything, I’ve got it”.

When I said thank you to both of them they said “don’t you worry, we’re going to make sure you get on that flight.”

The second woman takes everything and helps me get it through security and, on top of all that, she grabs all of it and walks us to the gate to make sure we get on the flight.

To top it all off, Wyatt starts to scream at take off before he finally falls back to sleep. After about 45 min, this angel 👇🏼
comes to the back and says “you look like you need a break” and holds Wyatt for the rest of the flight AND walks him all the way to baggage claim, hands him to blake, hugs me and says “merry Christmas!!”"

Credit: Becca Kinsey

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

In the early days of my faith journey, before I believed in Jesus, I was invited to a women's Bible study -- "A Woman's Heart: God's Dwelling Place" by @BethMooreLPM.

I didn't understand why the women reported being moved to tears every week.

Now I do. ❤️

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

I’ll get slammed for this but it’s been on my heart to say for months. I love you SBC women so much. You were such a privilege to serve. You made me study Scripture 10 times harder than I would have. You gave me room to make so many mistakes and grow. You were my first and longest compadres in Bible study.

I would not have chosen to leave you. I believe a fight is worth having if you are fighting for someone you love. You are who I fought for even if you disagreed and even if my mouth got away from me. Most of my ministry was too far behind me to have fought for my own selfish sake.

When you get to be my age, you start thinking what you want to make sure you’ve said to those you cherish before it’s too late. I’ve been thinking for weeks now how I wished I could say this to you but haven’t known where to post it. I decided this was as good a place as any:

Thank you thank you thank you thank you. What grace of God to serve you. Thank you so much for allowing me into your church libraries, into your dens, into your sanctuaries, into your lives. It was never lost on me. I was aware every second what a gift from God you were.

Through all eternity, I will thank God for the honor to serve you, study Scripture and seek the Lord Jesus with you. I’m positive I love him more because of your impact on me. I had problems with the SBC. But you weren’t one of them. You will only ever be dear to me. I will carry you on my heart to the grave. I love you so.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

"It's a collaboration, writing. It's one side of a conversation. You write a piece and you put it out there and then you see what happens in the other person's head about what they think about what you said and how they collaborate with it..." @Hanifkureishi

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

I've started turning off my radio on the way to the office to practice being fully present in each moment as it unfolds. No input. No distractions. Just me, alone in my car with no other voices. The silence is sacred.

#mindfulness

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

❤️

[AltTunings (Scott Quillin) @AltTunings]

Pre-6 a.m. improv this morning. New tuning.
I'm in my feels this morning. It's before 6 a.m. and I'm improvising in a new tuning, focusing on the wonder and beauty of friendship.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

I’m recovering from my first bout with COVID after letting my guard down around people who always thought following CDC protocols was silly. I was tired of being the only one trying to keep from getting COVID. Let me tell you…It’s not “just a cold.” It was brutal.

[Dr. Tom Frieden @DrTomFrieden]

The evidence is clear: Masks can reduce the risk of spreading Covid and of being infected with it. In a new review, my colleagues and I examined 40 studies on masks with seven different methodologies. Here’s what we found.

Masks play two roles—protecting the wearer and protecting the people around the wearer. If someone wearing a mask is sick, the mask can drastically reduce the amount of virus they spread to others. For personal protection, a high-quality mask such as an N95 or KN95 can protect the wearer, particularly if it fits well and is worn consistently in crowded indoor spaces where exposure to Covid often occurs.

Although masks work, they’re not perfect. Factors such as how intensely the virus is spreading, in which settings it’s spreading (such as indoors with poor ventilation), what proportion of people are wearing masks and how consistently they’re being worn add complexity to the question of how much protection masks provide and when.

Read our review in @JAMANetworkOpen: https://t.co/MRE5T3PmZS

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

@DrTomFrieden I’m recovering now from my first bout with COVID. I let my guard down around people who have always rolled their eyes at protocols like masking and social distancing with sick people at the office. “It’s just a cold.” Never again. It was not “just a cold.” At all.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

@DefectiveBecca Oh, sweetheart…we are all holding you close in broken-hearted prayer. Every mama here. 💔😔

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

I just backed FretboardGPS: Master the Fretboard in Any Tuning or Scale on @Kickstarter https://t.co/NaffW2FTXG

Shoutout to my amazing husband @ScottQMusic @MusicianlyApps @AltTunings

So proud of your groundbreaking work!!

#fretboardgps #guitar

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

I’m reading an eye-opening book about transforming self-sabotage into self-mastery. It’s called “The Mountain is You,” by Brianna Wiest. Finally got to the coaching & encouragement part of the book! *whew* 😅

Podcast for more info: https://t.co/CsS9SP5RqJ

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

This has been my experience as well. The church is where I found refuge & mutual encouragement for the work of carrying the gospel to the world. When I continued to feel more like a missionary in the church, I began to pull away. I’ve left the building. But I didn’t leave Jesus.

[Sean Muldowney @sean_muldowney]

That politician got arrested today. I've been reflecting on how I've pastored people since late 2015.

Spoiler: lots of failure.

This probably isn't good and I have no twitter/X audience but whatever.

Thread:

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

One of the people in the replies makes an excellent point. If a pre-K or caretaker did any of these things to your child, they’d be removed from the classroom.

[Dan Wuori @DanWuori]

I want to talk about trust and attachment in young children. And there’s no video here for good reason.

Several of you have recently tagged me to ask my thoughts on trending videos depicting parents engaging in one appalling behavior or another - in pursuit, apparently, of social media likes.

In one trend, parents pretend to be FaceTiming with their child’s new kindergarten teacher and call their child over to meet her. When they get to the phone, the child comes face to face with a photo of a scary looking adult (which in some cases appear to be mugshots of women deep in the throes of drug addiction, if, in fact, they are real at all). The children are almost always alarmed. Often they cry.

During one of the biggest transitions in their young child’s life (the start of school), these parents have chosen to stoke anxiety rather than provide comfort.

Other recent trends have involved parents in throwing slices of American cheese at their toddlers - or, more recently, unexpectedly cracking a raw egg on their child’s forehead during a joint cooking activity.

Obviously I’m not going to uplift any examples here. But I do want to address the harm these kinds of behaviors create from a developmental perspective.

The years of early childhood are a time during which trust and attachment are (ideally) formed. With love, attention, and responsive caregiving, young children learn that their world is safe. They develop self worth and self esteem. These are prerequisites to both learning and healthy development.

But the key to developing trust is consistency.

And the behaviors in these videos - even if rare and anomalous - serve only to undermine healthy attachment between parent and child. They provide children with data points that suggest their parents can be unexpectedly and arbitrary cruel. They are a violation of hard earned trust.

Some will argue that these are just jokes in good fun. They aren’t. They are the deliberate infliction of trauma, however brief, for the amusement of strangers. It should go without saying that this isn’t good for children.

Please. Don’t. Just don’t.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

Spent the whole morning writing, setting up a social media scheduling dashboard for several accounts, and doing some social media engagement. Gosh, I have missed this!! But I don't miss the "spent the whole morning" part. Nope. Time to go play!!

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

Nailed it.

[Missy Quiver @ArtemisQuiver]

@RedHeadedPat @mhdksafa I am a progressive. I have many conservative friends. More often than not, we agree on problems and disagree on solutions. Humanity is becoming too tribal and too easily convinced that because the other side disagrees, it makes them immoral. May we all foster more kindness.

[Michelle Quillin @MichelleQuillin]

Digging into this book for my 10 minutes of Miracle Morning reading. Who else didn’t know what a critic CS Lewis was of other writers and their books?

He would love social media.

#cslewis #writers #writersarereaders #critique