🐻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!
Yay! It’s Friday!
☕️ This morning I didn’t wake up early enough to do my morning devotional, so I decided to just sit outside with a cup of coffee and soak up the quietness of the morning. I wondered if I was “doing this right” and if I was actually accomplishing anything. Then later, I came across Stephanie Duncan Smith’s poem in today’s The Swipe Up. Definitely a God moment and a treasure!
⛪️ Another treasure: reading Swipe Up+ “Church Re-entry.” First, let me say I love the audio feature. More importantly, it helped guide me through a lot of questions I have re: re-entry. I feel more confident now in that journey.
👩🏻🤝👩🏽 The treasure I’m really grateful this week is Erin and you guys! On my deconstructing journey (or whatever we’re calling it), I’ve lost people who I thought were friends, so I guess my questioning couldn’t withhold the relationship. Unity was not wanted but rather uniformity. Anyway, in my quiet moment this morning, I realized I do have community here. It doesn’t look like what I expected and am used to, but it is a place where I feel I can speak freely and it will still be ok. I will still be accepted and encouraged. Thanks you all! 💗
Hope you all have a good weekend! 😊
👻 I went to Disneyland for a quick whirlwind trip and got to meet the lovely Shelby for a brief spell of time! It was overall a fun trip but it was a bit rushed and I wish I had planned a little bit better.
💃🏻 I saw Ben Platt in concert last night with one of my best friends and he was wonderful!
😞 Yes, this week had several bright spots, AND it also has really sucked in a lot of ways. To be on the safe side, I can’t really share much, but your prayers/positive thoughts/Care Bear vibes are appreciated!
🤦🏼♀️ I related much too hard to that tweet about how it’s brooding and not depression if you’re staring out the window. I feel like you can also prevent sin that way!