Miss Eva

Writer. Artist. Christian.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

I'm glad that married Christians with kids celebrate their joy in family life and share that it's the best thing they've ever experienced. I want them to keep doing that. What I wish they would stop doing is declaring it the highest calling that anyone can have and that anyone who doesn't have that life will never be as happy as they are.

God doesn't give marriage and parenthood to everyone. Many Christians pray and seek and try to obtain it and never get it. So we need to work on our contentment and finding meaning and joy in the roles that God has ordained for us, which can be hard, when we wanted Him to assign us married life and parenthood. And then we get this message from our fellow Christians - that the very best we can do with our lives will never be as good as what they're doing with theirs.

Please don't do this. What you have is already obviously wonderful; all you need to do to honor God with it is honor your spouse/kids and celebrate them. You don't need to also tell us that you think your calling is higher than ours and that raising a family makes you more generous and giving than we are. It only tempts you with pride and us with envy, and it dishonors the God that we're all trying to serve.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@KristanHawkins @McJuggerNuggets This hadn't occurred to me, but now that you've said it, that actually makes a lot of sense. Thank you for the encouragement! God can bring purpose and hope out of darkness!

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@jamesonhaslam Happy birthday, Ms. Kendall!

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

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[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@sappholives83 Add a squeeze of lemon or lime. It makes a surprising difference.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@KinelRyan @Nerdrotics Been praying for you. Glad you're safe at home!

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable I know im preaching to the choir - just felt compelled to air my thoughts.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable I really wish more Christian advice would acknowledge that He might not send a husband. When that's not even a possibility, it makes being never-married feel outlandish or freakish. And it makes it seem like trusting in God is only something you do to get a husband.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@imPenny2x I like to look up sermons by Skip Heitzig and teaching by Mike Winger to help me better understand stretches of Scripture that feel dense or confusing. The narrative sections can be easier to follow, but the more intensive detail does have meaning to add.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable That's actually a really good perspective. I hadn't thought about that.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@London_W4 They were a charming childhood theme when I was a little girl in the '80s. And they've always been a symbol of God's convenant with mankind. Ultimately, they belong to Him.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable nudity; not an outrageous but genuine attempt at humor like A Knight's Tale. Just flouting politeness because they could, in an otherwise super polite film. sigh - I guess I can't have everything! 😆

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable I'm prudish, but I own that. 😆 I like how, in older films, they could tell stories of the most scandalous behavior while showing you absolutely nothing. In this case, it was just so utterly pointless - not making a tough but important historical point like Schinder's List's

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable I was ready to hate that adaptation and was floored by how much I loved it, so the "edgy" nudity was so much more irritating; now I can't show it to my nieces until they're older. The stylized approach shouldn't work, but it somehow charmed my socks off. 🥰

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@MaeOfFable You're stronger than I am. am not going anywhere near Woke Austen, Gen Z Austen, Bridgerton Austen, whatever you want to call it. I'm good with Austen adaptations stopping for me forever at Emma 2020 (if we censor out the needless booty scenes).

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@BaronDestructo AVON. Always Avon.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@audrawrongspeak I shared a room til I was 11, had my own room until I moved out at 22, and have lived solo ever since. In my case, rooming alone was a big relief; my sister and I had a lot of strife. I do think sharing can teach endurance and humility, but it can also just suck. 🤷‍♀️

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@KinelRyan Praying for your safety and peace as you deal with the ticket stress.

[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

I signed up for my first writing contest in a long time, and my story placed first! I'll share the final when it's published on the site, likely this summer. So excited to be back to fiction writing after a long break!

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Congratulations to all of the cash-prize winners from our second Jerboa Lit 250 mini-contest!

And thanks to everyone who tuned in to the livestream 🐿️

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[Miss Eva @EvaIn280]

@TheScribblerCMB Mr. Robert Martin, faithful and forgiving. 🥰