🐻Lil Treasures #147: Fat Bear Week and the Body of Christ
We're talking truffle butter garlic bread and some holiness tips
Hi, friends!
Last week’s Erin believed that this week’s Erin would tend to some of your delightful Q+A’s, however an overextended schedule and a bad back with a side of migraine headaches have me once again delaying that plan. I’m needing every word of this prayer by my friend Stephanie:
If you’re wading through the weeds of fall activities and work deadlines, I hope you and I are both able to cultivate quiet waters this week.
For now, here are some great treasures from this week 💛
🏡This week on The Bible Binge it was a SWDGISS (Stuff We Didn't Get In Sunday School) on “Who Is Our Neighbor?” with a lovely special guest, Shannan Martin! You can listen to that episode here! Also as a bonus, don’t miss this post by Shannan with her perspective on what it means to be welcoming.
💙Make sure you get a chance to read this blessing when you need a little motivation to change by Kate Bowler.
🥐 This will be me after my Relics and Ravioli trip this December and I’m not even going to apologize.
🚀My family and I have been re-entering (or re-launching, as I like to call it) the church search after a weird 2020 and some church tension that followed. If you want to hear more about my experience + chat with others who have some pointers for this process, come join me behind the paywall for just 600 pennies a month!
🫶Hurricane Ian hit last week and brought with it so much devastation to our dear friends in Florida and South Carolina. If you want to help but aren’t sure where to start, please consider donating to Convoy of Hope!
⛽If this video isn’t a completely accurate depiction of a gas station in Texas.
🧈I didn’t know I needed to make (and eat) truffle butter garlic bread until I stumbled across this recipe but OH MY GAH.
🐻Lastly, it is my joy to inform you that it is officially Fat Bear Week, where we all get to vote on our favorite chonky brown bear out of Katmai National Park in Alaska. My favorite description of this competition said: “In many ways, it's a model election. The campaign runs for only one week, and all the candidates are well-grounded and devoid of hypocrisy.” My kind of election! You can vote for your favorite here.
Let’s do the good Tweets!
Alright guys, that’s all for this week’s newsletter! We’re celebrating my sweet buddy’s 5th birthday this weekend so if you need me I’ll just be here weeping and looking at pictures of chunky bears to cope.
I hope the treasures this week brought you the most joy. Don’t forget to leave yours in the comments! See you next time!
SWIPES I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL FRIDAY IT IS TOO GOOOOOOOD
https://www.instagram.com/reel/CjgZoGMvHZb/?igshid=Y2ZmNzg0YzQ=
Re: board game instructions, I went to a get-together at a friend's house once that she later revealed to be partly an attempt to set me up with a friend of her cousin's, and then she said "but y'all never even talked to each other!" At which point I had to correct the record and remind her that a) no one tried to stop us from sitting at opposite ends of the table, and b) I was tasked with administrating a very complicated board game and could not possibly have been expected to carry on further conversation.
I apparently have not been paying enough attention at truck stops, because I have completely missed double-decker oatmeal cream pies.
After several days of trying to pin my boss down for a conversation, we finally talked on the phone and I should be full-time at my main job by the end of the year. Benefits, baby!
There has been Dog Drama with my neighbors this week (long story short, we share the backyard, I have a reactive dog, which I have made them aware of and am as cautious about as I can be, they also have a reactive dog and are dogsitting currently, one of them has been a real doofus about the whole thing resulting in some easily avoidable close calls) which should be resolved, BUT both neighbors were out for awhile this evening which meant I could sit outside with my dog without having to worry about random dogs magically appearing. Sometimes a dog just needs a few minutes to smell the city air and eat her grass in peace.