Jonathan Puddle ~ OPTIMIST PRIME

Author. Parent. Jesus-follower. 🏳️‍🌈
Trying to leave everyone a little more loved than I found them.
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[Jonathan Puddle ~ OPTIMIST PRIME @jonathanpuddle]

@BarstoolHubbs This is the truth.

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If you need a bit of that ol' Holy Ghost fire, I can confirm the Spirit has never left, and God has never abandoned me or the people I do life with. Despite some being suuuuper gay.

Happy Pride Month!

[Jonathan Puddle ~ OPTIMIST PRIME @jonathanpuddle]

I was largely formed in the Charismatic tradition of the Christian church. One of the major ideas drilled into me for a long time was not to grieve or quench the Holy Spirit, explicitly because your life would suck if God abandoned you,

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(basically checked all the boxes of my tradition) AND was affirming of LGBTQ+ relationships. Some parts of me I needed that example, needed to hear him speak in tongues, to know it was OK.

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@DiscussingFilm Just saw it. Fantastic. Well worth it.

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Our dear friend @SaveWildBees died on Sunday. She was a wonderful human being, a brilliant researcher, passionate about grassroots justice work.

Among many of the gifts she and Marc gave us, was introducing us to Puerto Rico (the board game) and good espresso.

She was 43.

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Hilarious and spot on. Bravo.

[Marina Hyde @MarinaHyde]

My column on the TOP! SECRET! White House Signal group

https://t.co/ayDsD1qH3k

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@MarinaHyde Absolutely brilliant and hilarious. Well done.

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@WightmanTel Full outage right now? We have no connectivity.

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@SJBedard Praying!

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There was a time, years ago, when I thought Elon Musk was super cool. Like a real life Tony Stark.

Lex Luthor seems a more appropriate comparison now.

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The whole thread is cool.

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@KatelynBeaty I love you Katelyn but if you hadn't reshared this I would have been content in almost forgetting he existed.

[Sharon Hodde Miller @SHoddeMiller]

The loss of hope does not always look like despair. Sometimes it looks like control.

We know we have stopped hoping in God when we take matters into our own hands.

[Jonathan Puddle ~ OPTIMIST PRIME @jonathanpuddle]

"Presence not withheld" is what God's love feels like.

"Presence not withheld" is also what we can offer ourselves, and especially to our pain.

There is endless grace & care for the ways we numb out / dissociate in order to survive. But healing and growth is about presence.

[Jonathan Puddle ~ OPTIMIST PRIME @jonathanpuddle]

"Doubt is not an act of unbelief, in fact and ironically, doubt may be a supreme act of faith and devotion. If this is too much to claim, at least doubt and skepticism are stances that Scripture understands and for which the Bible has the utmost sympathy."
— Hubert Locke

[Ken Shigematsu @KenShigematsu]

"God said, 'Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth.'" (Genesis 1:26) – God made us to care for the earth, bearing witness to his own care for the world.

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@StephTaitWrites Oh friend, I'm so sorry.