Ashley Smith

saved by grace. MSW. recovering csr / PR director. Florida Gator. fond affection for Jesus, Turkey and my family.

[Joseph Fasano @Joseph_Fasano_]

Today's Poetry Thread: NAMES

This poem breaks me open. Feel free to add poems about names and their power.

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

@NashSevereWx

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

@BethMooreLPM Didn't see it at all either! Too many clouds ☁️

[༻Carly༺ @Xarluna]

I’ll be 87, you’ll be 89, I’ll still look at you like the stars that shine 🥺✨

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Taylor Swift has generated an equivalent brand value of $331.5 million for the Chiefs and the NFL, Apex Marketing Group tells FOS.

The figure includes print, digital, radio, TV, highlights, and social media going back to Swift’s first game in September.

https://t.co/xUzMDsqIgE

[Beth Moore @BethMooreLPM]

This article was good for me to read for a number of reasons, not the least of which was the closing exhortation. Yes, I hear you. Yes, I needed to hear it. But a couple of things I’d like to say in response:

What I wrote in that post to Southern Baptist women had been on my heart to say for some time. How the fissure began in 2016 was so chaotic and the studies were thrown out of numerous churches so quickly that it has taken me a good deal of time to sort it all out. I may never get it all sorted out but I know the Lord has overseen it all and had purpose. I believe I did what he told me to do and am now where he meant me to be. But, man, it has been brutal.

Those words to southern Baptist women were something like you might say to a friend that you lost in a conflict years earlier after you’ve healed up a bit: “no matter what happened, I want you to know I love you so much and I’m glad for the time we spent together and I’m the better for you being in my life. Thank you.”

You were not wrong, however, to connect the apology in some respects to the Wolfe tweet. Most of the time I can let this stuff roll off my back. I know it does not come from the Spirit because people who walk with Jesus don’t treat people the way Wolfe and his ilk do.

I can easily intellectually tell myself the truth when I see things like that but I’m not sure my skin will ever be thick enough to prevent every arrow from hitting my heart. My apology was not for speaking out. I make no apologies for that and I have not changed my mind or my stand. But in 40 years of teaching, the fact is, all of us owe some apologies to the people we’ve served. We’ve said too many words. Been poor examples at times. We’ve been self-centered and we’ve let our anger dictate some of our messages. Thus much I know: I helped prop up misogyny in the denomination and helped build up trust in some systems and some leaders that were not worthy of our trust though I did not realize that was what I was doing. I do indeed owe some people I’ve served a long time an apology for any harm I brought them. It was never my intention. My desire was to do good. My desire was to be godly.

Lastly, I’d like to say that what men like William do to women is not without effect, which, of course, they know and which, of course, is why they do it. And there is a “they.” Wolfe is just saying publicly what his circle says privately. In an ideal world, we would be unaffected by those kinds of things. But we are humans here. Still breakable. Still well able to be bruised. Still bothered in the dark night by questions like, did I do them harm???

And I have to think that, if the time comes that I cannot still be wounded, my heart has grown hard and I’ll probably need to retire.

So, what to do? Take those things to the Lord and learn from them and ask him to do something good with them.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The problem with this country is people who make $700 per hour have convinced people who make $25 per hour that people who make $7.25 per hour are the problem.

[John Ray Clemmons @JRClemmons]

The grand celebration at @MillRidgePark was a wonderful way to spend a morning today. If you haven’t yet discovered this gem in #SoutheastNashville, it’s a must-visit. Many wonderful orgs were present today that are doing great work and need vols & support. #TN55 #TeamJRC

[NashSevereWx @NashSevereWx]

Don't you think I was too young to be messed with? Beware of tonight's storm system which I am calling - let me choose from a random name generator - first name (beep bop boop) "John" - last name (beep bop boop) "Mayer."

https://t.co/5ZahIhF2vA

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🚨FOX NEWS POLL: “Voters favor gun limits over arming citizens to reduce gun violence”

-21 age min: 81%
-Red flag laws: 80%
-30 day wait period: 77%
-banning assault weapons: 61%
(cc: @tnhousegop @WilliamLamberth @CSexton25 @JasonZacharyTN)
https://t.co/PvbA6tfjQP

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

@GovBillLee Thank you!!!

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

For the love of God, just tell me how much I owe. Stop making me pay people to prepare my taxes when you are going to tell me if I got something wrong anyway. #annualrant

[ABC News @ABC]

The IRS has been tasked with looking into how to create a government-operated electronic free-file tax return system for all.

But that doesn’t sit well with the big tax-prep companies. https://t.co/OsO3uDsGgC

[The Spicy Teacher @msangieb31]

Angel Reese & Caitlin Clark are a real time example of what happens in our schools & classrooms. It's an example of the way yt children are seen, allowed to show up in their full humanity, unapologetically them. Yet Black children are not seen, their spirits are murdered.

[The Eras Tour @tswifterastour]

🚨| Taylor Swift performing “Clean” dedicated to Gracie Abrams (@gracieabrams) for tonight’s show of ‘The Eras Tour’! #TSTheErasTour #ArlingtonTSTheErasTour

[Amanda Held Opelt @AmandaHeldOpelt]

I’d like to speak to Evangelicals.

If you are like me, you’ve spent most of your life being told that you have to vote Republican to be a good Christian.

I understand if your convictions prevent you from voting for a Democrat. But let me suggest something: 1/10

[John Ray Clemmons @JRClemmons]

How does a tragedy like this happen in #TN? 🤔Our governor signs NRA bills in gun factories. Our AG enters Agreed Orders on legal challenges to our gun laws. Almost any adult can carry a handgun almost anywhere in public w no training. You can buy an AR in a Kroger parking lot.🤬

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

@NashSevereWx - East Nashville

[Michael Frost @michaelfrost6]

I was saving this until Advent, but it’s too good. Biblical womanhood, folks.

[Ashley Smith @abarwig]

Wish @taylorswift13 would create her own ticket sales platform #ErasTour #TicketmasterDown

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Thanks to President Biden’s infrastructure bill, remote locations on the Navajo Nation reservation are receiving electricity — for the first time, ever.