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I care about showing up for people. I also know how easily women, disabled people, and lower-income folks get praised for overextending themselves while calling it faithfulness.
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I care about showing up for people. I also know how easily women, disabled people, and lower-income folks get praised for overextending themselves while calling it faithfulness.
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How do you stay generous without baptizing exhaustion?
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I am trying to treat limits as part of discipleship instead of evidence that I care less. If a community only works when certain people run themselves into the ground, something is off.
Following up from the thread about caregiving before a crash
The class piece matters more than people admit. Some church advice assumes everyone has time, money, and flexibility they simply do not have.
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I do not think certainty is the measure of faithfulness. Sometimes staying honest is the holier thing.
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