I simply NEED to know why Philadelphia cream cheese is so much better than all the other cream cheeses. Idc if it’s chemicals, I just want the truth. I can take it.
I asked for dress code for an event I’m singing at today and was just told to “wear what you’d wear to church”.
Babe, you are from Texas. I am Alaskan. I have gone to church in waders before. Gonna need you to be more specific. 😂
I need someone to commiserate with me on the senselessness of cruises as a vacation option. The aggressive mediocrity. The dystopian nightmare of being at sea with thousands of other people just for fun. Etc. Pls, can anyone relate???
The looks on people’s faces when I give them jars of smoked salmon as a gesture of gratitude make me feel like I’m from another world. This is the social currency of my people. I caught that salmon and smoked it myself. It is my love and my labor. 😭
Me: “Do you have any songs you’re really hoping to learn in piano lessons?”
7 yo boy, dead serious: “Well my main goal for being here is really to learn The Muffin Man.”
You got it, brother. 🫡
The Christmas card I sent to my older brother got returned to me. He did let my mom know he was alive a few months ago but now we don’t know where he is again. He is an Army veteran who has really struggled since his time in Iraq. I’d appreciate if you’d pray for him.
Today I am
#thankful
bc we hadn’t heard from my oldest brother, the veteran, in almost a year. He called my mom yesterday to let her know that he is severely depressed but is alive. Please keep him in prayer if you think of him.
@emilykmay
As a piano teacher, students like you are my favorite. It’s about learning the music, sure, but it’s also about healing the part of you that was taught that being good AT something meant being valuable. ❤️🩹 I’d love to hear how it goes.
Lady at our church who used to be Wiccan, bringing her crockpot in for the potluck: “This used to be my cauldron for spells. I use it for the Lord now.”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@EmilyC_R
And then posting about it like this? Like sorry I didn’t know about this wildly specific sub-genre of fashion but do you want me to show up w the Amazon gift card or not?
8 yo student is sobbing uncontrollably bc I am trying to get her to not start from the beginning after every single mistake.
Her Army dad comes rushing in: “Eleanor, it’s like when we play Modern Warfare. We don’t start from the beginning every time we die!!!”
Ok, sir. 🫡😂
Hockey is the only sport where you can just enjoy a closeup of a ref’s bleeding face while Uptown Funk plays uselessly in the background and I love it so much
My mom just sent me a picture of a tiny clay face I made in art class in the 4th grade and guess where she found it? In the pocket of my brother’s desert camo he wore in Iraq bc he KEPT IT IN HIS POCKET THE WHOLE TIME😭😭😭
Every time someone is like “if you disagree w me on this v controversial issue pls exit my life” I lose some respect. Why do we want to live in intellectual vacuums???
Prayer has always been hard for me. I’ve been going through some difficult things lately. I told the Lord today that I’m not sure if my prayers matter.
Got a FaceTime from this kid to tell me he’s become a Christ-follower. That has been on the top of my prayer list for 5 years.
Just wanna give anybody this permish who needs it: you don’t have to make turkey for Thanksgiving. Even when it’s “done right”, it’s still not that good. It can only do so much; it’s not prime rib. If you’re the only one in your fam who’ll say this out loud, stand your ground.
A lady in a Facebook group I’m in is asking for advice on how to get her 7 yo son to not hate going to the beach. Some of us are just lifelong beach h8rs ok??? It’s sandy. It’s hot. Sunburn sucks. Sharks. Too many people. If he wants to stay in the shade w a book let him liiiive!
A few years ago I had a pretty intense confrontation with my dad about how critical he was with us kids and how it was harming our relationship with him as adults. Now whenever we hug him goodbye he tells us he’s proud of us and tells us why.
These movers just told me people “don’t usually” offer them food and drinks and I really need to know what is wrong w people??? Offering Gatorade and sandwiches to people heaving dressers and pianos into your house is, like, basic politeness.
This pic came up in my Facebook mems and I wanted to share…I was experiencing thoughts of self-harm almost constantly at this time. This friend knew I needed to get out of the house, asked me come skate. I refused to change out of PJs so he got all our friends to wear theirs too
Pastor during church: “For God so loved ‘the elect’? No. For God so loved the world…”
My husband, who is completely uninterested in theological systems, to me: “Hahaaaa suck it Calvin.”
😂😂😂
@helloreilly
I would 1) spend more time volunteering for an org I really care about and 2) choose an activity you had interest in as a kid and didn’t get to pursue and do that. Musical instrument lessons, rec sports, art classes, dance, etc. Love this q! ❤️
Part of my role as a piano teacher is making sure the kids know, from an early age, that they are responsible to know music theory bc the guitar players on the worship team won’t.
Husband came home and informed me that another Air Force aircraft maintainer died by suicide yesterday. Commander, in briefing, actually said: “I’m supposed to tell you all your resources but the truth is, the military has abandoned us. All we have is each other.”
Watching The Two Towers w my nephews and my sister just said, “Movies where it looks like everyone needs to shower the whole time are not my favorite.”
Every week our pastor texts us to remind us it’s Bible study night, prayer night, etc…guess he saw my Insta story last night and made some changes. 😂😂😂
Hey friends I have learned this afternoon that my grandfather’s death is imminent. Would you please pray for all of us? A lot of travel is involved for a lot of family members in addition to the burden of grief. He has been a pastor, to our family first above all, for many years.
I simply ✨do not understand✨ the ensuing histrionics from my Connecticut in-laws about me wanting to host ONE HOLIDAY at my house in New Jersey when 1) we drive there 5-6 times a year and 2) my family members regularly visit from Indiana and ALASKA.
One thing I have noticed from teaching a lot of young boys: if young give them like even five words of affirmation they will basically be ready to run through a brick wall.
Why am I seeing so many pastors on here flexing that they preached their regularly scheduled text instead of a Mother’s Day sermon? Like…do they want a medal? A single white rose? Breakfast in bed?
I heard it pointed out today that someone baked the bread Jesus broke on the night He was betrayed.
What a glorious testimony to the value of every kind of work.
Was reading 1 Samuel 1 this AM, and Hannah was praying to God “from the depth of…anguish and resentment” and at the end of that passage it says “Hannah went on her way; she ate, and no longer looked despondent.”
Do we think this is bc of snack, or bc of talking to God?😂😭
@emilykmay
And don’t even get me started on how people do not know WHY people are DINKS and that those reasons, whatever they may be, are actually not the business of anybody else.
Guys I got a new piano student that just started today - a 65 year old lady who works in a PRISON - and she has me saved in her phone as “Piano Fingers”.
More has piled on than I thought possible and I called my best friend and she just said “give me time and place, I’ll fly to meet you”. 😭 Couldn’t be more grateful. This is her, my
#1
. Thank God for friends, fr.
He is 2.5 and can empty the whole dishwasher by himself like…??? If something goes in a cabinet he can’t reach he just sets it on the counter and points hahaha.
My grandfather’s funeral is this weekend and my family just sent me the list of hymns I’ll be playing. My grandparents paid for my piano lessons starting when I was just 4 years old. My grandfather’s booming voice carried over every hymn I played in church growing up. 😭
Nobody explain economics to me, I am simply whining but WHY is my town about to get a fifth dispensary when we still do not have one decent coffee shop😭😭😭
My 65 year old student at the end of her lesson:
“I’ve been feeling really anxious lately. Will you just play ‘Jesus Loves Me’ before you go?”
😭😭😭 She hasn’t been to church in 20 years, she told me. I’ve invited her with me. Please pray she will accept.
Idk why I didn’t realize this but actually paid attention to Matthew 1 today and Boaz’s mom was Rahab…and then Uriah’s wife is in Christ’s lineage? I didn’t know that. God is amazing.
I don’t usually comment on the Christian Twitter drama du jour but…the “effeminate” comment on dudes singing to piano accompaniment is, plain and simple, hilarious.
For whoever is just learning that replying w gifs makes you seem old, you prob also should know we’re not saying things are our our “spirit animal” anymore. That’s way over.
Texting my hot friend who chooses all my makeup in a panic is reminding me of my
#1
fave makeup story:
Walking into a Belk in the south and the Clinique lady exclaiming, “Honey, you’re wearing the WRONG SHADE, you are so washed out.”
But it was just my skin.
Asked the guy in produce where the cranberries were and he literally said “I don’t know but I do know you’re in the right general area”.
Yes, thank you Sherlock.
“Why cry about it if it is what it is?” I asked my counselor this last week.
He said, “Jesus, knowing He was on His way to heal Lazarus, stopped and wept.”
Haven’t stopped thinking about that.
Faithful friends: our dear Kellen got baptized this past week. We are sad we weren’t there but so proud he did not wait to publicly profess his faith. He called tonight expressing struggle and pushback from his parents who do not believe. Will you please pray w us for him?
It dawned on me that a lot of my stress while Dan is gone comes from not ever considering just calling a professional and leaving issues to them. Have never considered it an option bc my parents never did and Dan doesn’t. But paying someone else to handle it IS handling it right?
@Roxanne_Reid_
This is exactly why I never play the piece for my student. I have them sight read hands separately during lesson for the coming week so I can catch any confusion.
I guess if TSA says they need to scan you again and you say “oh you liked what you saw?” they do not really find that amusing. Not that I know this from experience or anything.
Since I tweet about him a lot: this is Kellen, a random kid I met playing pond hockey in Connecticut one time who is now somehow mine. Pretty sure I would die for him. He is a Main Character in the plot of my life.
This PM joy-outing was visiting Katie, the woman I was named after. She served on the mission field in South Africa (as a single woman!) for 63 years. Became a Christ follower at 19, taught IN ZULU at the Bible college in the country, truly shared the Gospel and her entire life.
As I was playing the piano during church this AM, “Come Thou Long Expected Jesus” just hit in a new way. I’m ready for Jesus to come back. Pls be soon. 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Me: “We’re going to use something called a metronome to help us play these notes to a slow, steady beat.”
Judah, 7yo: “This is not very rock and roll.”
“To be with the LORD: what a beautiful ending, what a blessed beginning.”
Johnnie Gillis - for all his years of earthly ministry, he shepherded those Christ entrusted to him with faithful love and truth. I am grateful to have been taught the Gospel by him early and often.
Trying to help my student through some frustration today and he told me his brain felt full so I asked him to tell me 3 things to hold so he could let them go. He ended up telling me about being called a name on the playground yesterday. But he focused much better after that!