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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

Merry Christmas from Mrs. Claus and me. /cc @swimflythrive.bsky.social

My wife and me dressed as a kind of hipster interpretation of Santa and Mrs. Claus in front of a Christmas tree at at airport.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

I’d forgotten these!!! 💯 adding them to the “home from college” watchlist with my daughter.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I have zero idea what any of this means but still liked it, as is appropriate for my wifely role.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

🙃 I respect that opinion. The movies were imperfect to be sure.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

And I haven't read the Emily of New Moon books. Sounds like I should!

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

I thought it too dark and revisionist at first. But a friend shifted my thinking when she observed it was more like modern fan fiction. Then it was 🤯🔥.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Ohhh- say more! A friend and I had been trading thoughts about AoGG and the “Anne with an E” Netflix series. I get the feeling there’s more to her than her books reveal.

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Tim Berglund @tlberglund.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

The day after Thanksgiving with @swimflythrive.bsky.social

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Tracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Happy pie for breakfast day.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"So I give thanks for our deep coinherence Inwoven in the web of God’s own grace, Pulling us through the grave and gate of death. I thank him for the truth behind appearance, I thank him for his light in every face, I thank him for you all, with every breath. 3/3

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

"Our interweavings on a deeper level, The modes of life embodied souls can share, The unguessed blessings of our being here, The warp and weft that no one can unravel. 2/3

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Thanksgiving - Malcolm Guite "Thanksgiving starts with thanks for mere survival, Just to have made it through another year With everyone still breathing. But we share So much beyond the outer roads we travel; 1/3

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Pouring rain on all the obscure musical acts and float handlers in the Macys Thanksgiving Day parade really turns the “dystopian drug trip” dial up to 100. 🙃🌧️☔️

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Last week I found myself putting Handel’s “Hallelujah Chorus” on repeat blast mode, which is uncharacteristically early for me. This explains why. #ChristtheKingSunday

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Post script - not sure why @sometimesalight hasn't made her way here yet. Might have something to do with her being enrolled at Duke getting some serious theological education or something.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Adding this:My question is what to make of the many purportedly serious theologians and/or theological influencers who so uncritically interested / affirming of him in the first place. Maybe our assumptions about what makes for a serious theologian worth following and heeding are a problem too. 6/6

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"To quote the classic film, Ratatouille, "Anyone can cook"--but you still actually have to be able to cook. Just being "anyone" does not make you a better cook than a trained chef any more than being a trained chef means that you can cook." 5/6 (@sometimesalight)

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"It is absolute(ly) possible that an expert can get so lost in their subject that they forget how it relates to other things or that they become beholden to establishment thinking w/in the field... but you know what doesn't fix that problem? Hacks & amateurs....4/6

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"This is the problem I have to anti-expertise bias of this current moment. It presumes that the person who dabbles in a field has more insight than those who have sacrificed years of their lives to it. ...3/6

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

"Reminder: While too many folks are hobbyist theologians, there are actually people for whom theology is serious work requiring more from them than simply forming & voicing an opinion about God or sacred text... 2/6

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Sharing @sometimesalight's thoughts on this because, as per the usual, they're worth careful consideration. 1/6 🧵

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

That is so hard, and yet what a good man for doing what’s hard for your sake.I used to experience the opposite. It was deeply damaging- to the whole family.

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Persis 🙏🕊️📚🧶 @thecuriousreader.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

“Gray rock” the trolls. Especially trying to justify a different opinion to people who refuse to listen and learn.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Thinking further on this, ISTM that one step forward on this better way is how we respond to the Twitter trolls and bullies who will inevitably make their way here. Loud “screenshot/block” bragging and noisy negative name dropping is the stale bread they feed on. Starve them of it.

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Russell Moore @drmoore.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

In this case, I cannot take credit for convincing her to join us, but I can tell you she’s here and that she’s amazing. Follow her.

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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Word of this morning is ‘procaffeinate’: to put everything on hold until you’ve had sufficient amounts of coffee.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

May my struggles keep me near the cross And may my troubles show that I need God. May my battles end the way they should And may my bad days prove that God is good. May my whole life prove that God is good.

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

Are you serious??? Here’s me thinking it was just a badass scarf accessory like the whitest of white witch women would wear. (Thank your son for pointing this out. That’s even worse.)

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Rachael (sometimes SaaSy) Anne Berglund @swimflythrive.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

So the sky here is so blue and the air is so clean and fresh. What are our thoughts about how to keep it that way? Specifically - thoughts on muting all, and I mean ALL, political shenaniginsanity?

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