đ„ȘLil Treasures #132: Tender Sports Moments and a Sick Little Sandwich
We're talking Top Gun and facial sheet masks...
Happiest of Fridays to you, friends! I am writing to you today with the power fully- functioning at my house (His love endures forever) and my air conditioning unit working in overdrive. Itâs been in the high 90âs/100âs all week in Bammy and we are really freaking hot, but Iâm fully embracing these days of summer camp and popsicle-hands and evenings spent at our local pool. Wet clothes and dusty Pirates Booty trash take up most of the space on our floor, but we are making it, tree limbs and all. A very favored Black Cherry White Claw also helps contribute to the general peace, and for this I am grateful.
I have lots of treasures this week and canât wait for you to read them! Letâs go!
This weekâs treasures:
đšđ» If youâre not seeing Top Gun like this then you shouldnât be seeing it.
đŁïžDarren Walker gave this Juneteenth speech at Monticelloâs re-dedication of the Burial Ground for Enslaved People. Please take some time to read it.
⟠I love a good tender sports moment like this one that happened this week at a Los Angeles Angels game. Have a great sports moment you want to share? Post it in the comments! Bonus points if it also hacks-your-cry.
đ©ł I have been LIVING in these All In Motion shorts this summer and I pretty much have them in every color.
đ This weekâs episode of The Bible Binge is a Favored or Forsaken with a special celebrity guest (and one of my favorite humans), Holland Moon! We got to talk about what itâs like for 13 year olds to think about faith, as well as her experience being raised with two parents who are deconstructing. It was such a sweet conversation and Iâm just so proud to be her mom! You can listen to the episode here. (Also a good conversation-starter if you have a teen or tween in the same boat.)
đ§¶If youâre feeling isolated at all in your current state of faith and belief, you should read this post on "theological beatitudes" by Chris EW Green.
đ The second post in the Affirming Theology series was published earlier this week! Hereâs a lil slice of part 2 (caveat: the names below have been changed for privacy reasons)
By the end of the hour, I was sitting with Steven, John, and Elizabeth. Steven and John were dating, and this was the first time I knew people who were out. The more I got to know them, I learned that John was a deeply committed believer. I learned that Steven wouldnât step a foot into a church, but he still had questions about God. By the end of the week, I was two different people. One Erin was on the leadership team at the church where she grew up, waking at 6am for campus Bible study, and nursing a crush on one of the members of a pack of Reformed boys at the BSU. The other Erin sat outside on the loading dock while my new friends smoked between classes, scream-sung The Last Five Years on the way to Sonic, and laughed as they told me about their own crushes within the pack of Reformed boys.
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Time for the Tweets!
Please click on the news story within this Tweet, it is incredible.
Okay thatâs all for now, we did it! Please donât forget to post your treasures in the comments, they are always such a delight. See you next time!
Fun fact that will make sense later in my comment: I just in the last week learned that the human brain only has the capacity to keep track of the basic rhythms of life for 10 people. And as for wider 'acquaintance only' numbers? 150 people. Your brain can only really socialize with 160 people.
Trigger warning: infant loss.
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So my treasures this week all revolve around essentially making it through burying my sister's baby girl and still standing afterwards.
It was incredibly triggering of old & new trauma in a whole bunch of ways but the fact that I have yet to go catatonic is in fact a massive win.
I definitely felt heaven close.
Nobody tells you about how many other things still need to be taken care of after the funeral & I'm used to being the person who helps my grieving loved ones in the emotional/intellectual sense & not so much the actual physical/logistical sense so that's been.... hard.
I am still in the process of trying to figure out how to pick up my boring less fast paced life again, but the temptation to overfunction for an unsustainable time is blunted from what it definitely could be.
AND! My dad's sister who attended the burial but that I haven't had an in depth conversation with in years reached out afterwards and we have a lunch date set for Tuesday to catch up. As someone who struggles feeling guilty I don't have the capacity to sustain as many relationships as I have family (literally. I come from a huge family & so does my husband) being guilted by my grandmother for not being the one to always initiate contact is something of a hot button for me so to have her own daughter reach out in a bid for connection fed my heart.
Hello, all! Iâm a long-time Lilâ Swipe, first-time Big Swipe (what do paid subscribers call themselves lol), and first-time commenter. Just saying hello, and thank you to Erin for providing this space. Iâve been in a super tender place for 7ish years now with my faith/worldview and I need community of people who can relate. I have a feeling this is a good place to start. Iâm going to try and put myself out there and actually engage a little despite my fear of Being Perceived On the Internet (enneagram 4 here!!).
So right now, my treasure is knowing that Iâm not alone â€ïž