April 2, 2019

Hi, I’m Joann

My name is Joann. I am from, and live in Taiwan. Since I came to terms with my sexuality this year, it has been a freeing experience but at the same time I started to struggle with church. I felt … Read the rest here

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23 hours ago

Friends, we almost missed this opportunity 😉 🐸

Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈

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1 day ago

Family should be measured by love. By support. By safety. By the people who strengthen you, stand beside you, and make room for you to become fully yourself.

If there is love, protection, commitment, and care, then that is family.

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2 days ago

I saw a listing this morning for a house plant on the Facebook Marketplace. I seriously considered buying it for my husband, but given the fact that he has already lost count of the plants in our house, I decided against it. (Seriously)

The listing was for a jade tree that was about thirty years old. It was mature and beautiful, but struggling to grow because of the really small and unique pot it was originally in. The roots had outgrown the boundaries and its life was slowly eroding and restricting.

That feeling of restriction felt very familiar to me.

The seller was in a bit of a dilemma. Thirty years ago, she planted the jade in her most prized ceramic planter. It was a turtle shaped pot with gold inlays. A “treasure” she acquired on a trip to India nearly four decades before. The pot, to her, was beautiful. It held both sentimental and intrinsic value.

But all these years later, she recognized that because of the shape of the pot and the growth inside it, the only way to save the plant and allow it to continue growing would be to break the pot into pieces and transplant the root-bound tree.

It was clear she had a dilemma. She would need to sacrifice her beautiful pot to save the life of the tree inside it. Or she could force the plant to stop growing and allow it to deteriorate in suffocation.

Maybe now you see what I see?

To save a life, sometimes you have to make difficult decisions. And when you can’t make those decisions on your own, you can turn to others for help.

I’ve met many people who have outgrown their containers. I’ve met many who are suffocating.

Sometimes those containers are social circles. Sometimes they are friendships. Other times, and most familiarly, those containers are churches and families. They are societies and expectations.

To survive, sometimes we have to make really difficult decisions. Sometimes we have to break free from the things that keep us from becoming what we were created to be—even if our own pots seem too beautiful, too golden, and too precious to disturb.

That is when we grow. That is when we can take a deep breath again. ... See MoreSee Less

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