🥑 Lil Treasures #258: Dads, Avocados + Cringe Christianity

How is it almost 2025?

It’s Friday, Lil Swipes! 🪩

I hope your holiday week was lovely, and you’re not in the same boat as me today, trying to squeeze every drop of productivity out of December before the break:

Hoping you leave lots of room for slowness and merriment as we make our way through the Advent season. If you’re doing an Advent study this year, please share some tidbits or highlights with us in the comments!

There is a time for everything, but especially for treasures:

💥 David Gate’s poem “Joy Is Act Act of Rebellion” is one of my personal favorites, and I felt like it was even more powerful hearing him read it out loud in this post.

💚 My FYP is pretty much just inundated with these three and I’m not mad about it.

👻 Raise your hand if you cringe when you think about things you said or did in your evangelical youth 🙋🏻‍♀️. If that’s you, you’ll want to listen to the newest Faith Adjacent episode, The Ghosts of Cringe Christians Past. Cue it up here or wherever you get your pods!

💔 Grief is a really inconvenient thing, especially for those of us who don’t always make the time to stop and feel. This perspective about grief from a hospital chaplain has stuck with me all week and I thought you might need to read it, too.

💨 When I think about the how 2015 was almost TEN YEARS AGO and the amount of lifetimes I have lived since then, this is the only sensible way to respond.

🏃 I have a hard time getting motivated to go for a run, but I think a sign like this would do the trick.

✨ Take a minute to read these words about the importance of raising sons who understand how to express their emotions and be vulnerable.

📞 I couldn’t stop watching this video of different ways that dads end a phone call.

🌱 With only a few weeks left in December, we’re closing in on the end of another year! Was 2024 good? Was it bad? Was it chaos? A resounding “yes” to all of three of those. A new year on the horizon always makes me a little contemplative, as did this post from Morgan Harper Nichols on growing out of the boxes we’ve always known.

👯‍♀️ It makes me extremely sad when I remember that I am in fact not actually best friends with Ilona Maher.

🐈 I got carried away and started sharing every one of these these tweets, but I thought it might be easier for you to just scroll on through them instead.

A meme a day keeps the doctor away (or something)

Thanks for reading, folks! Have a magnificent weekend, and I’ll see you in the comments!