🍑Lil Treasures #190: Summer Fruits and Alpha Dads
Plus we're discussing butterflies, snapchat and back-to-school shopping
Hello there, friends!
How’s your Friday going? How are you spending these last few days/weeks of summer? As for me, I’m headed out west this weekend for our annual family reunion.
These family reunions are really a sweet time, and I’m excited for the s’mores, hangs and one last celebration of summer before my kids start back school next week (including my youngest little cherub who will be starting kindergarten 🥹).
I strongly dislike summer (it’s been a particularly hot one) and my family tends to thrive on structure, so I am ready for the change of pace, and especially excited for the elimination of the daycare expense from our budget.
All that to say though, send up some prayers for me this week as I get ready to send Baby Cy to school! And for my friends in the rest of the country/world who start back school at a more normal time at the end of this month, I hope these last few weeks of summer bring you the utmost joy!
Here are this week’s treasures:
🏆Next time someone tells you they’re an alpha male, show them this video.
📔It’s time for back-to-school shopping, and my friend Retha Nichole is offering a discount on her SP Circle products! I have used the amazing Sunday Planning Journal for a few years now, and without it I would honestly be swimming in chaos. Use code SCHOOL for 10% off at this link!
🔄Big news friends, The Bible Binge is getting a rebrand! You can now listen to our content under the new name, Faith Adjacent. We’re talking about the rebrand plus digging in to some other Biblical rebrands on this week’s episode!
🌊As always, the beloved
striking gold with this beautiful piece about someone else’s deconversion.🍑I am all for summer fruits being cobblered, crumbled, etc - whatever we need to do to get them ready to pair with a heaping scoop of Blue Bell Homemade Vanilla ice cream. We love the air fryer at my house so I saved this recipe for easy air fried peach crumble so fast!
🐑My creative friend Brett is working on a new film project called Lamb of God. The goal of the film is to shed light on those who have lost ministry communities as a result of acknowledging parts of their identities that don’t line up with their faith community. Brett, having experienced this in his own life, is the perfect person to tell this story in an important way! He is currently raising funds to make this film and I’d love to rally behind him - you can give towards and find out more about the project at this link.
The good Tweets!
Folks, that does it for this week’s newsletter. Don’t forget to drop off your treasures from the week in the comments below before you go! Love youuuuu, bye!
I'll say it here because my public spaces have a lot of people who would be quite upset with me, but I got to preach two Sundays! That's a huge thing for this girl who was raised suuuuper Church of Christ. My new faith community is so lovely and supportive and I wouldn't have wanted to try preaching in front of anyone else.
And so excited to try the peach cobbler! This heat dome has been ridiculous and I refuse to cook real food.
I found out two weeks ago that I'm being laid off from a job I love. It's been a tough couple of weeks. I've applied to 20 jobs and have gotten 3 reject emails and had a phone interview yesterday. The phone interview went well, and I'm being pushed through to the next phase which was a take home assignment. The assignment might be a little challenging, but I'm going to do my best.
I feel lucky that I'm married and my husband has income that is still coming in. He works in sales though, so his salary isn't always consistent and I still need to have an income in order for us to long term be able to pay bills. However, the best treasure of all was when last week he was looking ahead at what his commission check might look like (which he receives on Aug 15)...turns out it just so happens to be the highest commission check he's ever gotten at this company. August 15th is the last paycheck I get until I find another job. Although we still are stressed, I feel reassured that this commission check coming in this month is no coincidence. God knew I'd be laid off. He also knew that my husband would receive his highest commission check. Although I know that God's provision doesn't always look like getting the money you need, and sometimes it just means surviving another day when you didn't think you would, I feel completely humbled and grateful in this moment.
I don't comment on here as much as I use to when Erin started the newsletter, but I wanted to share this in case anyone else is in a similar spot in life. When life happens to you unexpectedly, and your days are consumed with the "what ifs" and worrying about what the future will look like. I hope you feel held, and I hope you feel God's provision for you even in the small things. I hope a friend calls you when you need it most, someone pays for your coffee in the drive thru, that insurance check comes in the mail at the perfect time, a stranger smiles at you when you're feeling low, or you finally get that job offer you've been waiting for. Happy Friday friends. <3