Julie Lady

@1CLEbaseballfan Much better graphics this year than last year

This graphic is 🔥

Watching the USA in the WBC. AS A #guardians fan it’s hard to cheer for Kyle Schwarber.

@gabbgoudy @shuddupmeg @CaughtLookinCLE I’m in

@shuddupmeg @CaughtLookinCLE i think we should do a guards trial run!!! i have so many ideas

content series idea: visit every ballpark but invite the twitter girls from each team to come with me we do a bar crawl + stadium food tour + make tiktoks + take cute pics + vlog it + maybe custom hats or jerseys or merch bags who’s to say

@SuperDanversEsq @BBGreatMoments It really was.

@jalady1 @BBGreatMoments 😱 No way! Just sharing an incredible moment in the sport. Sorry that it was the Guardians on the other side. That was really a great series.

Cubs fans outside of Wrigley Field react to the Cubs winning the World Series in 2016. Still one of the coolest videos ever.

@lizaboth Pirates, Reds (Ohio solidarity), orioles

What are the teams you like that aren’t your favorite team? I’ll go first: Mariners, Twins, and lowkey? Padres

@SeaTownExpert Me too!

Wow! #BaseballGirlies --so cool to connect with all y'all! Can't wait for the season to start. Bucket list is to visit all MLB stadiums.

@wrldseriesyanks Guards, Pirates, Reds, Tigers, jays, orioles, white Sox, brewers, old As, nationals, mariners, giants, Red Sox, Rockies, diamondbacks, royals. Trying to see them all. Hoping to get cardinals when I go to @wpbl_official games this year

@katwgws I’m mad bc I can’t the nine moving planets song I learned in school is no longer accurate

are people actually mad about this? it's still there

@emilynbanks Reach out if you do.

@jalady1 I may try to head that way for a Guardians game this season in late May, depending on how college baseball season ends up!

making some baseball girlies friendship bracelets to take on the road this season bc girlhood!! I’ll be posting where I’m heading a couple days in advance so if anyone wants one lmk

@lizaboth @lizaboth tell the girlies! #BaseballGirlies

@lizaboth Can we make #baseballgirlies a thing so we can follow the conversation even with those we aren’t mutuals with?

I’m actually losing my mind 😅😅

@lizaboth I love it. I want in on a group chat

@lizaboth Guards girlie here! And so pumped for all things @wpbl_official

It sure would be a shame if I found a bunch more baseball girlies to become mutuals with before Opening Day 😅

@IAmDavidSnyder I’m on my own journey of trying to understand early theology. I feel so betrayed by all the things I was taught were “what people always believed”that now I want to read for myself. Any resources you would suggest?

The local paper published an op-ed piece on the differences between views on siding with Israel in the church over the last 200 years. I took the opportunity and wrote the following Letter to the Editor and just submitted it... Dear Editor, I wanted to thank you for your op-ed last week on the theological stances shifting for christianity over the centuries, because it’s true… it absolutely has, in the context of Israel (which was what you spoke on), and in the context of what the Gospel says. Over the last 3 years, I have been on a spiritual journey, discovering what the beliefs and practices were of the early church (from 33 AD to 450 AD), and the differences are STAGGERING! In those early days, they spoke the language of the New and Old Testaments, and church Fathers like Origen and Clement of Alexandria actually studied with Hebrew speaking bishops to better grasp the teachings of our Savior who proclaimed to fulfill the Hebrew Scriptures. Words like “Judgment,” “Punishment,” “Hell,” “Eternal,” “Repentance” were words that meant completely different things in the minds of those early believers than they do in modern Evangelical circles. Even in those early days, there was disagreement between those who wanted to remain connected to Judaism (not in law/feasts, but in the sense that God, revealed in Christ, established their culture to give us reference), and those who wanted us completely separated from Judaism (Roman / Greek believers, political leaders).  This is why the early church had 6 schools that taught theology, most predated the formation of the Roman Church via the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD (a council that rejected all jewish influence and attempted, per the emperor’s orders, to completely sever all ties from Judaism - an order many church fathers took issue with, since the God of the old testament is the same as the God of the New Testament).  Latin overtook Greek and Hebrew in that moment, and Latin held a dim interpretation to the words I mentioned above.  Judgment was seen as a correction from a Loving Father, leading to our restoration. Latin turned it into a courtroom experience, where you are either accepted or condemned. Punishment was seen as pruning, something that will bring about maturity as when a parent punishes their child. Latin turned it into a courtroom experience, where you are being punished and labeled forever by your actions. Hell actually never shows up in Greek or Hebrew in the Latin’s eternal fire context, as the word Hell is a pagan word that replaced the words used for death/grave, and, in Jesus’ case, Gehenna (which is a physical place just outside the city gates in Jerusalem, a place where Isaiah prophesied would no longer burn and be filled with springs of water). Eternal was seen as a measure of quality or substance, in that Eternal Life didn’t mean “forever life,” but the abundance of Life, a life saturated with divine Love and relational connection with God and His creation. It also means “age lasting” in the context of our after-life state, meaning “Hell” was never taught as being a forever state, but a temporary state used for our restoration. Repentance never shows up in Greek and Hebrew in this sense, as this word is a Latin word that means Repeated Penance, or continually earning forgiveness. The early church fathers used the word “Metanoia,” which means to shift your perspective, to see the world as it truly is - that you are already forgiven, and we’re invited to walk / live as if we are completely accepted and forgiven by our Father - completely guiltless in His sight (because “Love keeps no record of wrongs” and says “sin no more” in the same breath as “neither do I condemn you” - correction without condemnation). You mentioned Jewish exports are lacking. Modern exports, I agree, are minimal. But the biggest export the Jewish nation has ever given the world is a gospel message that reveals Jesus not representing a God that so loved the world that He gave them a choice between serving Him or burning in Hell - but a gospel that says that God so loved the world that He came to save us from the Hell we’re now living in, the confusion that somehow believes God is angry and holding our sins against us. This Gospel message began shifting to the Latin perspective after Nicaea and took root in the 1500s with Martin Luther and, soon after, John Calvin, both of which were known to be antisemites and, in Luther’s case, quoted often by notable figures like Adolf Hitler to justify the Holocaust. After 3 years of encountering Jesus and learning history, I can no longer call myself Evangelical (protestant), as I can now see a God who condemns nobody, restores everybody, and Loves so completely that when He said “Love (agape) your enemies,” He was declaring in the same breath “I see nobody as my enemy.”

@MerriamWebster @MerriamWebster I’m nonplussed

‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart. ‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things. …what? A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’

@CaughtLookinCLE @jblefty46 @wundayyy I’m willing to put my money where my mouth is and help plan if you need help.

@jalady1 @jblefty46 @wundayyy We would absolutely love that! We’ve bounced around that idea in the past, so maybe we can plan a couple meetups for 2026! Would be lots of fun 😊

Nothing better than getting (almost) the whole Caught Lookin’ crew together for a little holiday hang 🎄⚾️ Grateful for these women and the community we’re building together. Missed you @jblefty46 and @wundayyy! We’ll see you in 2026!

@goodreads Mountains beyond mountains by Tracy Kidder

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