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grief & joy are intertwined
The title pretty much says what Iāve been thinking (and feeling) a lot lately: that grief and joy are very much intertwined. I recently got a new kitten. Sheās all black and so, of course, I named her after the black cat in Animal Crossing named Kiki. Sheās brought so much joy already (and also a bit of a learning curve since I got her at about 6 weeks old ā sheās now around 8 weeks ā and myā¦
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"healthy" isn't the same for everyone
Trigger warning for talking about weight loss/gain. In the fall of 2017, when I was 19 years old, I lost a lot of weight. I was on a medication for chronic migraine that was working well at first, but did come with a lot of side effects ā including weight loss. I didnāt mind the weight loss. At my lowest adult weight, I was about 10-15 pounds away from what is considered ānormalā or āhealthyāā¦
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church talk & vulnerability
church talk &Ā vulnerability
I havenāt listened to a sermon in months. My younger self ā from even just a few years ago ā would be flabbergasted by this. I was in church for years. I loved church; I threw my whole self into it. The music, the scriptures, the sermons: all of it brought me so much comfort, joy, hope, peace. Now, any time I think of listening to a sermon, I feel myself flinch. I brace for the worst. Myā¦
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Human Overboard: My Thoughts
Human Overboard: MyĀ Thoughts
James and the Shame (Rhett McLaughlin) recently released a country music album titled āHuman Overboardā, with 11 songs that share different aspects of his personal deconstruction story. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVkdI7gZ0gU This is a link to an episode of their (Rhett and Linkās) podcast, Ear Biscuits, in which Rhett and Link discuss the album. Iāve written a previous article* about theā¦
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Why I Am In Favor Of Debt Forgiveness
Why I Am In Favor Of DebtĀ Forgiveness
Lately, with Joe Bidenās $10,000 debt forgiveness plan, Iāve seen a lot of people discussing the issue. Peopleās experiences and perspectives lead them to their conclusions ā some people feel it would be better going towards medical debt rather than educational debt, for example. I think thatās a fair and valid point. I also know a lot of people are not happy with the amount. Many people areā¦
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Loss and Chronic Pain
Loss and ChronicĀ Pain
Earlier this week, on August 2, 2022, my cat Frodo was euthanized. Similar to our other cat Snowflake ā who died on May 8, 2020 ā he had blood work done which showed he was starting to have kidney failure. He had lived a good long life, and we didnāt want things to get worse for him like they had for Snowflake, so we made the decision to have him euthanized that day. Snowflake lived to be 14 andā¦
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James and the Shame "Believe Me" - My Thoughts
James and the Shame āBelieve Meā ā MyĀ Thoughts
Lyrics: āI think you want an answer Iām not prepared to give, ācause the one I gave you said that that aināt it. Must be something that I want ā fame and fortune, or at least a little jaunt. It may seem too cut and dried, but I just found some things I could not brush aside. Now if youāll oblige: I donāt think itās true. Iām not asking you to agree, Iām just asking you to believe me. You say myā¦
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Why I Want Abortion To Be Legal
Why I Want Abortion To BeĀ Legal
Growing up, I was very much pro-life. I was raised in conservative evangelical Christianity: this is pretty much just a given when youāre in that camp. Itās assumed you hold the pro-life stance. And while people have varying degrees to which they agree with the stance (some may make exceptions for rape/incest for example), it is very common for pro-lifers to be adamantly against all abortions, noā¦
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More Thoughts on Easter & Resurrection
More Thoughts on Easter &Ā Resurrection
I know weāre past Easter 2022, but the following words from J.S. Park about Easter and resurrection keep coming to mind for me: āFor so many of us, there is simply no resurrection. It can be painful to see in Scripture how the sick were healed and the dead were raisedā all while so many of my patients remain still under sheets, their families deciding when to disconnect theā¦
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Resurrection: Literal or Metaphorical (or both)?
Resurrection: Literal or Metaphorical (orĀ both)?
I recently saw a tweet asking Christians if or how their lives/faith would change if the resurrection of Jesus could be definitively proven as false. Reading through the responses was interesting as it presented many different peopleās perspectives and experiences and why they chose to see resurrection as literal or metaphorical (or some of both). [Note that as I talk about this tweet as well asā¦
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when prayer feels pointless
when prayer feelsĀ pointless
The last couple of days have been painful. What is happening in Ukraine and what is happening in Texas anti-trans legislature right now is terrible to observe (and I can only imagine is far more painful and terrible for those most directly affected by these things.) I want to do something, but all I feel like I can do at this point is pray. Prayer is always one of the ways Iāve felt mostā¦
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when rest is difficult
when rest isĀ difficult
I am neurodivergent, disabled, and chronically ill. Based on the Myers-Briggs and Enneagram personality typing tools, Iām an INFJ and 9w1. I grew up in conservative white evangelical Christianity. And I want to take about rest today, as it has been necessary but hard lately. Those things may not seem very related or intertwined; but they are all very real aspects of my life. Last week I woke upā¦
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hi again - I'm still here
hi again ā Iām stillĀ here
Itās been a few months since Iāve published anything on this blog. I have wanted to ā and I have 10+ drafts started, plus other ideas swirling about in my head. But I just havenāt been up to writing on here lately. For those who donāt know, I had a few health scares in 2021. In April, September, and October, I had 3 separate incidents. The one in September we (me, my parents, and my doctors)ā¦
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Thoughts on White Privilege, White Supremacy, and Racism
Thoughts on White Privilege, White Supremacy, andĀ Racism
Several weeks ago, I posted to my instagram story several posts from Black people about how making Juneteenth a national holiday felt much more like performative actions than actual anti-racist efforts. One of the posts included was from Twitter user @YesAurielle, whose tweet read: āGaslighting is making Juneteenth a federal holiday while banning critical race theory in schools, destabilizingā¦
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Anti-Abortion ā Pro-Life
Content Note: this post involves a lot of discussion around pregnancy, abortion, and abuse. Please be careful and kind with yourself and know that if this blog post is one you feel you need to avoid, take care of yourself first and foremost. This is an important thing for me to talk about, but you do not have to read or engage in conversations around this if it is too much for you. Abortion is aā¦
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Faith and Fear
āāFaith over fearā is a toxic half-truth.ā Full post from KJ Ramsey: https://www.facebook.com/plugins/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fkjramseywrites%2Fposts%2F189506376333669&show_text=true&width=500 āFaith over fearā seems to have become evangelicalsā mantra during the COVID-19 pandemic. Certainly, this phrase wasnāt new to pandemic times. Iāve heard it throughout my life. Butā¦
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Disability And Chronic Illness Don't Weaken My Faith
Disability And Chronic Illness Donāt Weaken MyĀ Faith
Earlier this week, #ACrippleHasWalked was a trending hashtag on Twitter. I wrote some thoughts out on twitter, but wanted to talk more about it on my blog. In my 4-tweet thread, I wrote the following: āIām just gonna say that if word of faith/name it and claim it/prosperity gospel/health & wealth etc. theology is triggering for you, avoid #ACrippleHasWalked. That theology is rooted in greed &ā¦
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