Elizabeth L

We love the things we love for what they are

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

@DennyBurk I saw this gesture at the inauguration this week. Sounds like it’s your time to take a stand.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

Thanks, evangelicals, for restoring my belief in total depravity and my desire for retributive justice in the afterlife. I can’t say those were the aspects of my faith I was hoping to hang onto post-deconstruction, but I suppose it is what it is.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

For those concerned that romance is dead, I just wanted to share that a man with no shirt on yelled “Hey lady” at me out of the open window of his jeep as he drove past me this afternoon.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

@racheljwelcher I am! I’m a teacher with dreams of being a poet and many years of editing experience.

[Christa Brown @ChristaBrown777]

This story is also illustrative of why the SBC still can't manage to "reckon" with the horrors & harms of its clergy sex abuse problem. Too many powerful men who have no clue what "reckoning" even means. #ThisistheSBC #SBCtoo

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

Many conversations around forgiveness shame the survivor for how they’re coping with being traumatized. To suggest the survivor is unforgiving takes focus away from the abusers horrific actions. To help someone heal, hold their abuser accountable & let the survivor heal in peace.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

There’s a tremendous difference between “purpose for” and purpose from.” It’s strangling to try to fit grief and recovery into some “purpose for” it but startlingly beautiful to discover purpose from and within trauma and the healing that follows.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

God grant that we should be more afraid of sin than of its exposure. Sin hidden or buried within a God-ordained structure (such as a marriage or church) is hardly success.

[Nate Postlethwait @nate_postlethwt]

You are not responsible for your parents emotions. You are not responsible for their reactions to boundaries you place. You are not responsible to make them understand you choosing a different life than they did. You are responsible to live in a way that helps you feel whole.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

My Iraqi coworker shared a snack from his home country with me today, and I’m sad I missed the opportunity to take a picture and make a silly post about my Valentine’s Day date, which was of course, some sweet dried fruit.

It would have been so funny.

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

It is always the responsibility of the person with power to maintain the integrity of the relationship. Always.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

Interesting that ChatGPT requires me to prove I’m not a robot.
(Also I just used it for work and it’s quite remarkable!)

[Sheila Gregoire--She Deserves Better is here! @sheilagregoire]

Whether it's about treating women as second class; revering racists; advocating punitive methods of parenting; calling mental illness merely lack of faith or belief issues; ignoring sexual abuse; creating religious structures where people have unchecked power...

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

Wordle 501 2/6

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[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

In Matthew 5 Jesus blesses those who mourn—
not in dismissal of their pain,
not by promising future happiness,
but with the assurance that they will be comforted.

In pain, we need not merely to replace sorrow with happiness but to receive comfort from someone who loves us.

[Elizabeth L @elizabethwrites]

“Then I remembered that the real world was wide, and that a varied field of hopes and fears, of sensations and excitements, awaited those who had courage to go forth into its expanse.”
—from Jane Eyre
19th-century hope for when life feels narrow