Rev. Michelle

Hello New Followers, I’ll likely disappoint you with a mix of theology, farm & family life. I’m an immigrant, in 🇫🇷 France & a PCUSA pastor. Weddings are my jam. I’m (hopefully!) a whole lotta love and a splash of glitter with a side of smash the patriarchy.

@emilykmay Oh gosh. Thought I had blocked that 🤣.

time for me to pop up with the niche term from my evangelical days: "the 10/40 window"

@BetJett Oh Bethany, praying.

Our son was in a car accident last night and rushed to the hospital. Currently stable. Internal bleeding. We’re still hours away. Please pray.

@LiminalRJ Me? Never!

@RuffledByGrace Biased much? 💙

Going to try a new name for a while, I get viscerally happy when I use it for myself Howdy folks, I am… Vera Sage

BTW Romans 1 isn't about homosexuality. It's about powerful political figures burning in their desire to express their power through rape and sexual abuse. Something that continues today. Release the files

My son’s football 🏈 team in France.

Some highlights of my son’s football 🏈 team in France.

10 ans. La douleur demeure. En fraternité, pour les vies fauchées, les blessés, les familles et les proches, la France se souvient.

@AaronPogue Ooof. Too real! I will keep you on my prayer list and near to my heart. 💛

@RuffledByGrace Thank you for your prayers. God has always been good to me, but I don't always enjoy it.

I'm 2016, when Draft2Digital really started taking off, I was getting paid $20k a month for feature design, business development, and strategic planning. We settled a lifetime of debts and problems in six months with that kind of money, and then upgraded to a beautiful house. I named it Eleison when we moved in. I want to tell you about that house. It's 4,700 square feet. Like all the expensive houses they make these days, it has huge rooms with high ceilings, but the thing I loved about this one (out of all the houses we looked at) is that there are many rooms. So you'll ooh and aah at how big the kitchen is. It is. And the open floorplan goes into a massive living room with surround sound speakers in the ceiling. But then there's the solarium that connects the living room and master suite. It's a small office with huge windows on two walls. We wanted to use it as a nursery, but when we lost the baby, it became my wife's crafting room and office. There's a game room that would be perfect for a pool table. We don't really play pool, so we added several card tables and fully outfitted the wet bar. We hosted so many parties in there, especially when we first moved in. Off the game room is the theater. We built a raised platform for a little bit of stadium seating, and I filled the media closet with sound equipment and game consoles. Our kids spent their teenage years here. All their friends did, too. It was such a cool and versatile place to hang out. There's a huge, beautiful dining room that we never used, but it makes for an impressive entrance. There's also a huge office by the front door with built-in shelves and work station. I dragged in five 6' bookshelves to line the walls until I could commission someone to install wrap-around floor-to-ceiling shelves with the rolling ladder. (I have the book collection, but I never got around to hiring the carpenter.) It's still an incredible library. You can see it in the pictures. There's a pair of double doors off the entryway (opposite the living room) that isolates a section we called "the kids' wing." There's a small living area in there (the Play Room) with its own closet, full bath, and access to two bedrooms. Our kids could play back there, make messes or as much noise as they wanted, and we could just close those doors when we had guests. I liked the freedom it gave them. They're artists—we're all artists—and one of my biggest frustrations as a parent was trying to keep the house presentable without constantly forcing everyone to interrupt their projects to sort and tidy and put away (and then spend the first part of their next working session getting everything out again). With this house, my wife could keep her watercolor project or scrapbooking or cardmaking going on in her office. The kids could have Legos or paints or cardboard constructs half-finished in their playroom. None of the working areas interfered with the entertaining areas. And on the front of the house, right off the entry, there's a short hall that leads to a spacious and secluded mother-in-law suite. That's a big guest room with its own full bath and walk-in closet. The back porch is huge and the yard is even bigger. I always wanted to put in a pool. We could have done it justice and still had a soccer field of open grass inside the fence. It's a huge yard. But I lost my job before we got around to that. It's an ugly story, and I'm not the good guy. I crashed hard. My life fell apart. I spent three months in the summer of 2019 in a hammock on the back porch, reading the Bible and figuring out how to be a man. Then my dad died suddenly. Then COVID hit. I shepherded my family through the hard times in that house. And now it's over. My wife gave up on me this year. My daughter's ready for college. My money's all run out. It's someone else's turn to enjoy Eleison.

You don’t need Amazon to buy my book!

@transvangelical Yes! I always say something about the person “embracing the whole of who you are” which I like and it allows for freedom, progression, change, evolution. I also very much separate the “I do” as a declaration of intent from the vows. I would love to discuss & have your take.

@RuffledByGrace I mean, I say this, but I also still perform weddings. When it gets to the "I do" part, the vows I give are about equality and allowing change. I didn't have anything in it about monogamy even if they are monogamous, because that could change for them later too.

First, a fact: Jesus never once said anything positive about marriage. In fact, every time he talks about it, he condemns men for using it to oppress women. Second, an opinion from evidence: Jesus viewed marriage as an oppressive institute.

Overwhelmed with love and joy on an evening complete with pink bouquets and a champagne toast. How else would I launch my book baby into the world?! Welcome to the world: Ruffled By Grace Thank you to everyone who made this night and this book possible.

@andy35o Ooof. I hear this and please know you are not alone. Sending you abundant light as you journey.