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Learning to grow mushrooms indoors (without dirt)!

Learning to grow mushrooms indoors (without dirt)! These are blue oyster mushrooms and they are yummy! 🍄🍄‍🟫

Welcome, Advent. 🕯️🎄

Welcome, Advent. 🕯️🎄

Look what @readfarandwide found on their recent tr

Look what @readfarandwide found on their recent trip to Maine! This is the lighthouse on the cover of The Way Back and one of the lighthouses that inspired Charlotte’s Beacon Bed and Breakfast! I can’t wait to visit this lighthouse as part of our Maine Readers Retreat in Maine! I’m working hard with @readfarandwide as well as fabulous Christy award-winning authors @amanda_spins_stories and @melissatagg to create an unforgettable literary travel experience complete with quaint inns, bookstores, beautiful landscapes, hiking, and author chats! AND if you are looking for a perfect surprise for that book-lovin’ loved one in your life, we’re offering a 10% off coupon until Wednesday, December 4th! We want to create an intimate experience, so space is limited—register soon! Use Code: THANKSGIVING at checkout (link in bio). Can’t wait to see you there!
#readerretreat #maine

The Destroying Angel. When we spotted this beautif

The Destroying Angel. When we spotted this beautiful mushroom several feet off our path about a month ago, we were excited. It was so beautiful! After identifying it, the name told us all we needed to know. This mushroom attacks the kidneys and liver and can lead to death within a week of eating. Yikes! Gazing on it is both terrifyingly beautiful and awe-inspiring—and made me appreciate and respect nature and the Creator all the more.

#mushrooms #destroyingangel

Continuing with last week’s theme of loving our

Continuing with last week’s theme of loving our neighbor, I’ve been trying to dig a bit deeper. Why is this so difficult for me/us? Why are we finding ourselves so divided?

I think, in part, it’s a lack of imagination. We can’t imagine holding two truths at once—of loving our neighbor while not agreeing with them on everything. We’ve bought into the lie that if we express care for a person, we are validating their every choice.

At the same time, we latch onto single doctrines and conflate them, brushing aside everything else. We hang our hats on what we perceive as one moral wrong and assume that, because of that one wrong, everything else that group also believes is wrong. (i.e. “I don’t think abortion is right, therefore I’m going to stand against EVERYTHING Democrats think is good and right,” or “I believe America should welcome immigrants, therefore I’m going to stand against EVERYTHING Republicans think is good and right.”)

The truth is, there’s a lot more to our conversations than our political leaders and social media algorithms lead us to believe, but this lack of imagination has left no room for nuance in our dialogue.

If we are truly aligning ourselves with Jesus and his values, it’s very unlikely that standing with him will put us neatly into any one of these bipartisan categories. Let’s draw out the nuance. Let’s stand for good. (And call out our leaders—no matter what side of the aisle they are on—when they are not standing for good.) Let’s not look for easy answers. (Did Jesus ever give any???) Let’s vote prayerfully (both nationally and locally) as our consciences lead us. Let’s love our neighbors and our enemies and not contribute any longer to the hatred in the world. ♥️

#thursdaythoughts #jesus #goodsamaritan

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