@DaveLawsTX@SHoddeMiller Please consider replacing “anxiety” with a different word in future. Esp if you have any influence in a faith context where ppl struggling might never seek help because they think it’s a lack of faith when they can’t “willingly” make it stop.
You may have learned to adapt in order to survive a toxic environment.
When you get out of there, give yourself permission to breathe fully, speak clearly, and take up space.
Don’t confuse who you had to become with who you actually are.
Tonight at 6,
I interview JSU Student Tiranda Plummer. She’s desperately searching for a matching kidney donor. The 21-year-old contracted Covid 19 in January, and now she is dealing with some major kidney complications. She’s actively looking for O Positive (O+) Donors.
Happy “that’s not what he meant” Day!
Here’s a primer on spotting misuses of MLK’s life and legacy today.
You know they’re misusing MLK when they
1. Promote peace and unity at the expense of justice.
Dr. King pointed out that any peace not founded on justice is a false peace
@rachaelstarke P.S. Just in case she hasn’t read it yet, it sounds like she might like the YA book My Lady Jane (clean & appropriate for 14). I *highly* recommend the audiobook. The narrator is amazingly entertaining 🤓☺️
@rachaelstarke I would absolutely pay to read this, too!! Please tell her that Twitter strangers are very intrigued by those titles, and basically already her fans 😂
This entire thread. But especially these words. “I don’t know where I belong anymore except I belong with Jesus.” 😭💛 Thank you, Beth. You’ve helped me hang on and often put words to feelings I haven’t been able to articulate.
very troubling realities in the face. Then I started digging at the roots. They weren’t pretty & neither was I. I don’t know where I belong anymore except I belong with Jesus. I belong in His Word. I belong in a local church. But I no longer belong to a system. I changed my mind.
I hope in the next year you're able to worry less. I hope you find time to learn and delight and create. I hope you love deeply and resist bravely and stand strong against tyrants and never stop asking questions and that you are always, just always amazed by beauty.
When we pick up a novel there’s a temptation to toss it aside and say “shouldn’t I be doing something productive with my time?” Resist that impulse. Novels can be nourishing things and you deserve delight.
@RevSarahLocke Over 70% of voters in MISSISSIPPI voted to allow prescriptions for medicinal marijuana AND we approved a new state flag to replace the confederate version!!! Small steps for most of the country, but huge progress for my home state!! 👏🏻😁
a woman’s place is on the battlefield defending her dying uncle, removing her shining hauberk and plunging her blade straight through the helmet of the Witch-King of Angmar
@S_L_Sanderson I had one for a few years (19-22ish) and loved it. Ended up taking it out because I got bored with it 🤷🏼♀️ But lately I’ve been thinking about getting another one! (30 now)