Tabitha
@tabithamcduffee
Writer. Learner. Beauty chaser.
Tabitha
beautifuldiscipleship.com
I want to find my place
amongst the people of Advent
but I can’t quite decide who I am.
I want to be pregnant with God
but it takes such a toll on the body.
I have given birth to things before
And labor is hard and untimely //
I want to welcome angels and say yes,
to anything.
but if I saw an angel I would hold him
hostage and send a ransom note of questions
... See more“I had been visited by grace in its distressing guise of having run out of any more good ideas.”
— Anne Lamott, Somehow (52)
Make Christianity Beautiful Again?
open.substack.com
Ideas I want to write about and the digital age
So heartbreaking. This needs to change for the health of the church.
Write about the focus on uncertainty as the opposite of certitude in evangelicalism, and yet Progressive Christians are just as incapable as Conservative ones of continuing a journey with an unpredictable God.
We need a new definition of Beauty.
Hans Boersma writes that radically open communion invites the devil to the Table, but we with our own hubris are enough to cause problems. After all, wasn’t it pride that led Lucifer to fall from Heaven in the first place?
“Trust in the value of making things, not just in the value of the things you’ve made. Try to avoid being overly invested in the outcome. Let go of that as much as you can.
“Remember: You’re not for everyone. Your work isn’t for everyone. If you’ve made something no one would object to, it’s probably something no one will feel passionate about
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