Britta Alton

Ditch flower lover.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

I just made @thekevinalton feel my little strong bicep.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Keep speaking out and standing up.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Let me tell you something that #lovingkindness does. It protects children.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

You know what’s a really great feeling? Have you ever felt like you were universally connected with your fellow humans? Even in spite of things that demand our attention away from the fact that we are all deeply, humanly connected? #Olympics

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Snow dust sightseeing with @thekevinalton, we came upon a lovely silver-lined cloud with light bursting out toward the ground below. B-Oh, heaven coming down! K-Ladders out its ass. Simultaneous appreciation, different words. Still a shared moment, adding laughter to beauty.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Let it be known for all time: This was the year she put FROGS in the children's pew worship bags for all the children. Mmmwwaaahhahaha...

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Waking from dreams with spiritual meaning is a holy moment. God is with us. God shines through each of us.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Back discomfort makes muscle relaxers into manna from heaven.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Nationalism keeps telling us
Christians to take up our swords and make our nation "Christian" by any means necessary.

Jesus keeps calling us Christians to take up our crosses and be like him, serving the world through grace, humility, compassion, and self sacrificial love.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

I have never heard so much of my mental processing experience summarized in one brief moment! #TikTok https://t.co/G6pAoQtBqW

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

For those of us with ADHD, the shame of its impact on our lives can be overwhelming.

It's like we inhabit a secret world, somehow managing to find a way to keep things going, despite the simplest tasks feeling gargantuan.

Most people don't understand this. I don't blame them for not understanding it; I just think they would be shocked if they could get a glimpse into how we think and live.

[Nick O'Brien @nickmobrien]

I have a confession to make

I support female pastors and equality between husbands and wives

And it’s time to admit…

I feel this way because I’ve been influenced by culture 🧵

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

“I was changed by love.”
My goodness, that is a scrumptious sentence.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

I was as far right in my political and theological beliefs as a Christian one can imagine for the majority of my life.

As a fundamentalist evangelical Christian, homeschooled k-12, my beliefs about God, humanity, stricture, sin, and salvation were extreme in every way.🧵

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

@UMC_CommonSense I made this while in our annual conference. It’s pretty easy to win bc I didn’t feel like more difficulty would be desirable in the setting. What you’re asking about would make a good version of Bishop Bingo.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Don’t ever get so vigilant to catch a flaw that you fail to see the reason for an action that appears to be a flaw.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

Dumb-one @FoodLion Carrying a keychain full of plastic tags was not enough inconvenience? Add crappy store Wi-Fi to install an app that will not work so 20 minute fiasco leads 2an invite for a kiosk hassle. Nope. Life is a hassle. Boo 2u @FoodLion Keep my $1 & jump in a lake.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

As people are being groomed by public personas to loathe, fear and disrespect humans, wouldn't it be awesome and simple if people just used God-given curiosity to get off the emotional manipulation ride being perpetuated?

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

With an ADHD brain, I've learned that panic and overwhelm can be neutralized by curiosity. Brain wiring makes it nearly impossible to hold the two thoughts at the same time. The more you can say 'interesting, why would my brain be doing this?' the clearer you'll be able to think.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

If you are hearing multitudes of voices telling you to protect against a person or a type of person (aka: fear, hate, dehumanizing) then you are listening to the wrong voice. Try the still small voice instead. Better result.

[Britta Alton @happybritta]

I hear so much in this brief thread that resonates deeply with my experience as a child who became a woman. I had to seek basic bodily information thru a lens of shame and inferiority that was so intrinsic to social interaction that no one ever had to state those tacit facts.

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

Hot take:

The evangelical world embraced the "Every Man's Battle" route to porn recovery (bounce your eyes away from women; try hard to not lust) because it didn't challenge them to grow emotionally or to view women as whole people.

They got to keep objectifying women.