RebeccaSusan

Wife, mom, LDS, ER RN, DNP-FNP, Montanan, incidental political heretic. Unsettlingly jaunty.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

You don’t have to respond to every ignorant, derisive, or unpleasant thing someone says, and in fact it’s much better for your soul if you don’t.

[Joshwelt @weltszzn]

i want to read 5 books a day and consume all poetry and learn new languages & study different majors and pick up pottery and learn how to play instruments & own a bookstore and run a cafe and....

[Kari Ann 🍓 @kariwarburton]

Creed is a good band but I don’t think they are the ones who should determine who is Christian or not

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

I’ve thought on these chapters a lot the last several years. We are prone to blaming the natural consequences of our own faithlessness and worldliness on our enemies. And the Lord does not need worldly strong men to preserve, protect, or prosper His people. He never did.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

That’s really the only acceptable amount.

[Old Hollow Tree @OldHollowTree]

I must procure an irresponsible amount of fireworks.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

@jkimballcook Remember that part in the Good Samaritan where the man beaten nigh to death spat in the Samaritan’s face for trying to help, due to their significant theological differences?

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

A rule that will improve your life: Never assume bad intent, but don’t ignore repeated patterns. Everyone gets grace. Nobody gets unlimited passes.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

@jkimballcook I get what he’s trying to do. But the question that really matters in terms of “proving” what we believe is “Have ye received His image in your countenances?” And, my concerns about our current governance aside, we could pretty much all improve greatly on that point.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

So spot on and well said. This principle applies to everything. If you’re asking where the line is—just how far can I go—in *any* type of behavior, you’ve lost the plot a bit.

[Sky @_sky_sorensen_]

Can gay people hold hands and be worthy of a temple recommend?

Can they kiss and take the sacrament?

Are these even questions we should be asking?

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

It’s really something to smugly tell people that belief in Jesus as the Messiah, the sole means of salvation from death and sin—coupled with loving obedience to His commandments—is entirely irrelevant to your definition of “Christianity”.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

@NoblestCalling My mom has very dark brown eyes, my dad has very blue eyes. Three of my five siblings have bright blue, blue eyes, one sister has mom’s, and I have light brown/hazel-y. Those blues were playing to win.

[Kari Ann 🍓 @kariwarburton]

“God is in relentless pursuit of you. He
wants all of His children to choose to return to Him," and He employs every possible measure to bring you back.”

-Patrick Kearon

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

It’s astonishing to me how many members of the Church of Jesus Christ of LDS who have resided in the social safety of the Wasatch front cultural majority their whole lives are completely oblivious to how hostile to our faith many of their Christian political “allies” actually are

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

@rightzachatya Of course. Laws are only as good as the men who make and keep them, however. I am not a doomer. But I am not a blind optimist either. My ancestors’ experiences prevent me from taking for granted that the first amendment will always protect us

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

I really don’t care what SecDef or the federal govt thinks of my religion because I need my Christianity validated; my relationship with my Savior is more than enough there.

I only care because of what it -may- imply about how my people will be treated by a powerful central govt

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

This is actually great advice. And I say that as someone who loves flowers so much I buy them for myself every couple of weeks

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

Pro tip for my fellow husbands:

Next time, instead of buying your wife flowers, get her one of these in her favorite colors.

Not sure what her favorite colors are?

Look in her closet to see which colors she wears most often.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

SecDef hails from the same cultural faction of Christianity that helped reelect Obama by refusing to support “non-Christian” Romney & has been instrumental in DJT’s electoral success. So I’m skeptical this is just bureaucratic streamlining.

[Latter-Day Saint Dad @RandomLDS]

If I could talk to my younger self, I’d tell him that staying calm does more for your kids than any long lecture ever will.

They match the energy you bring into the room, and when you keep your voice steady, they usually settle down too.

It’s not about being perfect, it’s about showing them what it looks like to stay grounded when things get loud or emotional.

The more you practice it, the more they learn to do the same.

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

I’ve been saying this for some time, and Trump fans get made and don’t believe me

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

Oh so NOW you think “we have to elect the clearly immoral and repulsive guy because we can’t afford to let the other guys get any power” is a bad argument?!

[RebeccaSusan @GroundedWhimsy]

@DavidAFrench Me, 3 hours ago. It’s quite difficult these days to have what I used to think of as very normal conversations. Which doesn’t bode well for life in a pluralist republic. But hope marches on, refusing to cave to hostility.