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🌈Rev. Pat Raube
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She/ her. PCUSA Pastor, singer, mother, adoptee, member of the family, sharing photos and opinions about politics, books, LGBTQ+, and, of course, religion.
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When the poor and needy seek water, and there is none, and their tongue is parched with thirst, I the Lord will answer them, I the God of Israel will not forsake them.
~Isaiah 41:17
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove💜
A cloudy night sky with the moon shining through the clouds on the left; the bare branches of trees in the lower right hand corner.
December 10, 2025 at 4:02 AM
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Then they will put their confidence in God, and not forget the works of God, but will keep her commandments… ⬇️
~Psalm 78:7-8
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove💜

Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church, Year A
An African Violet, blooming in whites (center) and pinks (rims), with robust leaves; background left: a ceramic chicken with flowers painted on its body, and traditional yellow beak and red comb and wattle; background right: a handblown bottle, green and blue glass sweeping upward with thin gold vertical stripes.
December 7, 2025 at 9:54 PM
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She gave her decrees for Rebekah’s descendants and placed teaching among Sarah’s offspring, which she commanded their mothers and fathers to make known to their daughters and sons.
~Psalm 78:5-6
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
(Continued in comments…)
December 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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I will open my mouth in a proverb; I will utter riddles from of old, which we have heard and known, and which our mothers and fathers have told us.
~Psalm 78:2-3
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
Photo of a front porch, with multicolored lights outlining the peaked roof, with a tree tightly wrapped with multicolored lights to the right.
December 5, 2025 at 4:01 AM
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Give ear, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the utterances of my mouth.
~Psalm 78:1
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove💙

Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
Stratocumulus clouds in a bright blue sky, over bare trees on hillsides.
December 3, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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WOMB OF LIFE, our Sovereign,
how exalted is your Name in all the earth!
~Psalm 8:9
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove💙

Translation: the Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney, A Women’s Lectionary for the Whole Church
Waxing moon in a blue sky, with bare branches in the lower left hand corner. The moon has a kind of halo around it.
December 2, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Casual
November 27, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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I taught composition and technical writing at OU for three years. This decision is a disgrace. If instructors are expected to treat personal beliefs as formal “evidence,” then why even bother offering courses?
kissphoria.bsky.social gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 9d
OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:
December 1, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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fredguttenberg.bsky.social
(3,3) My question for everyone who is looking into the National Guard shooting is simple. How did the killer get his guns and what is your plan to stop future killers (American citizens or not) from acquiring weapons in a country that currently makes that easy?
December 1, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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425suzanne.bsky.social
I was 8 months old.

The Adoptee Citizenship act should have passed.

Yes, the birth certificate issue is fraught for adoptees… but for those of us brought in from other countries? Our citizenship shouldn’t ever be in question. Ever.

🥚
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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On this day in 1955 Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. For 381 days people boycotted the buses. They walked, carpooled and organized every single day until segregation cracked. Nothing will change today without that same resolve. Freedom isn’t granted, it's taken one step at a time. #Resist
Rosa Parks sitting on the bus, refusing to give up her seat
December 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you have established, What are we that you should be mindful of us? the woman-born that you attend to them?
~Psalm 8:3-4
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
Early winter sunset: blue (lavender-tinged) sky with delicate pink-peach cumulus clouds, which that color intensifying as it gets nearer to the horizon. Some blue/grey/ lavender clouds at the horizon.
December 1, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Out of the mouths of children and nursing babes your majesty is praised above the heavens.
~Psalm 8:2
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove💜
Advent wreath: four pillar candles, 3 purple and 1 pink, in the middle of a (synthetic but lovely) wreath of green leaves with white berries. One purple candle is lit.
November 30, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Apparently, Open AI had Chat GPT craft its defense for the allegation that Chap GPT encouraged a teenager to take his own life.
November 29, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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Most of these fields are also woman-dominant. This is a Project 2025 effort towards diminishing women financially and professionally. It’s deliberate.
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
This regime regards anything that doesn’t make a big, quick, direct profit as a waste, but it includes many essential functions

Society needs talented people to work in these fields; discouraging them is myopic.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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#ResistanceUnited #ProudBlue #DV1
This regime regards anything that doesn’t make a big, quick, direct profit as a waste, but it includes many essential functions

Society needs talented people to work in these fields; discouraging them is myopic.
November 29, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Trump pardoning the Honduran president should be the end of this regime. Trump not only raped children but it seems he wants to get into the drug business as well.
IMPEACH
REMOVE
PROCECUTE
Everyone in his regime.
Democrats this is what you scream about every damn day. Start now.
November 29, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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The myth of that a bunch of young hackers can solve any problem was debunked by DOGE. But the larger moral stain is that this was a heist.

Cost saving was a cover story to shutdown investigations into Elon’s companies, steal government data and engage in genocide by proxy via killing USAID.
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...
Bong Joon Ho took a characteristically radical approach when questioned on his thoughts around the rise of Al technology at the jury press conference of the Marrakech Film Festival on Saturday. The Korean director, who is president of the jury, gave two responses, one measured, the other deeply personal. "My official answer is, Al is good because it's the very beginning of the human race finally seriously thinking about what only humans can do. But my personal answer is, I'm going to organize a military squad, and their mission is to destroy AI," he said.
November 29, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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WOMB OF LIFE,
our Sovereign,
how exalted is your Name
in all the earth!
~Psalm 8:1
#dailyverses
#Advent2025
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodisLove❤️

Tr.: Rev. Dr. Wilda Gafney
Red mum wearing the season’s first light snowfall.
November 29, 2025 at 1:10 PM
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On Native American Heritage Day, California celebrates the strength, survivance, and leadership of the first people of this land.

May today inspire us to embrace these values as we collectively face the challenges of our time.
November 28, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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For the LORD is good; God’s steadfast love endures forever and his faithfulness to all generations.
~Psalm 100:5
#dailyverses
#ordinarytime
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove❤️
Red leaves on a tangle of brown branches with red berries on them.
November 28, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A prayer for Thanksgiving, with love.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at UPC! 🧡 Rev. Pat offers this prayer of gratitude for today: Gracious God, we thank you for all the goodness you pour out into our lives. Today we thank you for the beauty of the world you have created, the joy of gathering around the table, and our connection with one another. We remember with reverence those whose land we now occupy: the Haudenosaunee, Onondaga, and Tuscarora peoples. We thank you for the gift of their presence here over the millennia, and pray that they might thrive. May the abundance we share this day be matched by the abundance we share with those in need, and the love we share in your holy name. Amen.
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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A beautiful, thoughtful Thanksgiving prayer/ meditation. Settle into it. Let it lead you to the deepest part of your thankful heart.
November 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Friends, enjoy your time with family and friends this Thanksgiving.
Take time for yourself and decompress. It’s important for your mental health.
Put politics aside and focus on what you can be thankful for.
Have a beautiful blessed Thanksgiving. ☮️
November 27, 2025 at 3:11 AM