Abby Barr

Laughing my way through marriage and motherhood. 👨🏻👩🏻👦🏻👼🏼👧🏻

[Rich Villodas @richvillodas]

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

-Thomas Merton

[✍🏼 roxana | ✊🏼 zivar | ⚒️ hadadi @roxana_hadadi]

I am so excited to share this piece: I have your deep dive into #TheBear episode 7, that astonishing oner, and how it was written, shot, directed, and acted. grateful for #TheBearFX cast/crew who spoke to me and @juliekosin for her guidance! at @vulture:

https://t.co/sP89oWcagA

[Timothy Keller (1950-2023) @timkellernyc]

Why would Jesus, to convey what he had come to do, choose to turn 150 gallons of water into superb wine in order to keep a party going? The answer is that Jesus came to bring festival joy. He is the real, the true 'master of the banquet.'

[7 Grains Planning & Investments @7_grains]

Need a role model for running a business? Find a mom! Check out these 5 lessons one CEO learned from his mother that have helped him succeed as an entrepreneur: https://t.co/slJmPSbUdC #WednesdayWisdom

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

@Cline4Virginia You may be proud, but we are not @Cline4Virginia. We are scared. We are appalled. We are mourning.

To be clear I am a conservative-leaning, gun-owning constituent who finds this tweet disgusting.

[Genevieve Roch-Decter, CFA @GRDecter]

Good Morning! Remember, the stock market crashed in:

2020 (-34%)
2008 (-56%)
2000 (-49%)
1990 (-20%)
1987 (-34%)
1980 (-27%)
1973 (-48%)

…and recovered to all time-highs each and every time!

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Autumn

by Emily Dickinson

The morns are meeker than they were,
The nuts are getting brown;
The berry's cheek is plumper,
The rose is out of town.

The maple wears a gayer scarf,
The field a scarlet gown.
Lest I should be old-fashioned,
I'll put a trinket on.

[Hillary L McBride @hillarylmcbride]

For a person to say "I am not ok" when they are in fact not ok, is a marker of health. This disrupts our construction of health as absolute or binary, and reminds us that we can both be powerful and vulnerable, struggling on and brave, all at the same time.

[Sean Mortenson @sean_mortenson]

I would still be able to articulate a defense of complementarianism, but I’m no longer in that camp. I know many people are working through their own questions on the subject, so I thought I’d share some of what led me to change my view.

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

Why is it important to me that my food delivery person never sees me in my house? Do I think they believe they’re delivering food to an empty house?

[Shane Blackshear @ThatShaneB]

The year is 2090 and the new president is sworn in by placing her hand on the 100 year old family bible.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

Hey friends, the response to my thread yesterday has been overwhelming. I am so glad it was helpful to so many of you! However, had I known it would get the kind of response that it did, I would have written it more carefully. Here are a couple things I want to clarify: (1/)

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

Had to look up the difference between insurrection, coup, rebellion, sedition, and treason today. This is the American vernacular now. Sickening.

[Karen Swallow Prior (Notorious KSP) @KSPrior]

Character matters. And the character that will matter most in coming days will be our (my) own.

The days ahead will be ones like few before in testing our (my):

prudence
courage
justice
temperance
humility
patience
kindness
diligence
faith
hope

and love.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

10 yrs ago I sat in a room with a few pastors, one of whom was in the midst of a meteoric rise in fame. I noticed him frequently making sexist, inappropriate jokes, while the other pastors laughed. They brushed it off as harmless, and continued to commend him to me & others. (1/)

[Simon Sinek @simonsinek]

The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

@spenserfoley @Visible .@RyanLeeBarr and I need all these details for sure. We pay so much for att AND have bad service at our house!

[Hillary L McBride @hillarylmcbride]

There has got to be a word by now, probably in German, for the phenomenon of having too much hand sanitizer dispensed onto your hand, having nowhere to dispose of the extra, and it’s slipping around your palm.

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

@claireriss I’m coming up on 7 years... don’t overthink it. 🤣

[Abby Barr @abbycbarr]

@crosby_katie 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♀️