Oh friend, you’re a talented writer and your thoughts here are captivating. Thank you for sharing this with us and for doing this good work! Praying for you and with you!
Thank you Sheila! It’s so encouraging on a Saturday morning to think that you’re maybe at your computer sweating over chapters too. Here’s to the good hard work!
Okay, I’m insanely excited about this. I remember you telling Lia and me a bit about what you’d like to write next last year at TGCW. Elated to see it’s happening!! 🎉
My husband is into cars. I know nothing. If someone asks what I drive, I say, "A silver minivan," and that's really all I know. My soon-to-be three-year-old knows more about cars than I do. All that to say, I actually enjoyed watching Top Gear with my husband and was known to finish episodes even if he left. I have added the farm show to our watchlist.
Oh good! Yes, I grew up around cars and car races in Kansas, so I always wanted to share episodes of Top Gear and now the farm show with my dad. It's a real kick of a show! Enjoy!
Thank you Erin! Just read your piece and it has such helpful and raw insight into what I think we can all call "the intrusive body thoughts during church." This is so much of why I've often seen the body as in the way of the spiritual. But I want to train myself to renew my mind to see it, as you did in your post, as a pathway back to the good maker of it, who is not stumped or stymied by our outfits. Amen.
So excited for you Whitney! This is such a rich premise and I think very needed right now. "The work that was meant to form us"—that phrase makes me think of the work I want my kids as they're being formed, but how often I forget that work is meant to for me, too.
Thank you Emily! I think this is really true with some of the choices being made around AI right now. All technology is developed to solve a perceived "problem," but I think Christians in particular need to be asking, "Is this really a problem?" Is creating a meal plan for my family or writing a thoughtful email to my boss really a problem, or a hard thing that can be formational and therefore worth doing, even if it's hard?
Oh friend, you’re a talented writer and your thoughts here are captivating. Thank you for sharing this with us and for doing this good work! Praying for you and with you!
Thank you Sheila! It’s so encouraging on a Saturday morning to think that you’re maybe at your computer sweating over chapters too. Here’s to the good hard work!
Oh yeah!! I’ll be sweating’ and praying’ with ya! 🤪😅🙏🙏🙏
Well done, excited for this!
Thank you Will!
Yay this is great Whitney!
Thank you Brianna!
So excited for you! This sounds like it's going to be great and so needed!
Okay, I’m insanely excited about this. I remember you telling Lia and me a bit about what you’d like to write next last year at TGCW. Elated to see it’s happening!! 🎉
Ahhh thank you for your enthusiasm Brandi!! I can’t wait to share more of it and have more of these conversations.
My husband is into cars. I know nothing. If someone asks what I drive, I say, "A silver minivan," and that's really all I know. My soon-to-be three-year-old knows more about cars than I do. All that to say, I actually enjoyed watching Top Gear with my husband and was known to finish episodes even if he left. I have added the farm show to our watchlist.
Oh good! Yes, I grew up around cars and car races in Kansas, so I always wanted to share episodes of Top Gear and now the farm show with my dad. It's a real kick of a show! Enjoy!
That book sounds so timely for the age we're living in! I love the title, too. I actually just wrote a Stack about a bad body image day and how I had to change who I was listening to: https://erinmount.substack.com/p/whose-voice-is-loudest?r=3w3o6
Thank you Erin! Just read your piece and it has such helpful and raw insight into what I think we can all call "the intrusive body thoughts during church." This is so much of why I've often seen the body as in the way of the spiritual. But I want to train myself to renew my mind to see it, as you did in your post, as a pathway back to the good maker of it, who is not stumped or stymied by our outfits. Amen.
“Not stumped or stymied by our outfits”—love that!
So excited for you Whitney! This is such a rich premise and I think very needed right now. "The work that was meant to form us"—that phrase makes me think of the work I want my kids as they're being formed, but how often I forget that work is meant to for me, too.
Thank you Emily! I think this is really true with some of the choices being made around AI right now. All technology is developed to solve a perceived "problem," but I think Christians in particular need to be asking, "Is this really a problem?" Is creating a meal plan for my family or writing a thoughtful email to my boss really a problem, or a hard thing that can be formational and therefore worth doing, even if it's hard?
This sounds wonderful and I’m so excited to grapple these things alongside you!
Hooray! And I have already worked birdwatching into the first chapter, so mission accomplished?