Lael Johnson
@beadgold
Retired cat lady and life coach. Also a Jesus believer/follower, creative, loves Japanese culture, Celtic music, Pinterest and clean humor, plus other stuff.
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rarely stop to consider that the universe—and even my small home—is drenched with the presence of God and full to the brim with spiritual mysteries.
Tish Harrison Warren • Prayer in the Night: For Those Who Work or Watch or Weep
It’s easy enough to think and talk about ridding your mind of unnecessary things through a process of subtraction and simplification, but actually doing it is hard.
Haruki Murakami • Novelist as a Vocation
In Japan, these grandparents didn't want Kids to feel lonely while waiting for the bus. So, they made a life-sized version of Totoro at the bus stop Now, the kids have a friend waiting there with them every day. https://t.co/fXxF22ldY1
Write down the basics.
Scott Berinato • Good Charts
"When we fail to critically examine dominant terminology and discourses, our worldview becomes shaped by external agendas, often without our consent. However, consciousness of language's constructive role allows us to reclaim agency over our self-perception and values and allows us to actively participate in reshaping language to articulate diverse
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Toxic shame is no longer an emotion that signals our limits; it is a state of being, a core identity.
John Bradshaw • Healing the Shame That Binds You
And I include myself in the criticism. We as the American church need to take more ownership for our collective sin, our obsession with things that will not make an ounce of difference in heaven, and our failure (past and present) to stand up and speak up for the poor, for the stranger, for the ones who don’t look like us.