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JennX
@jenniferaglayte.substack.com
Spiritual director, pastor, author, artist. Founder of the-pilgrimage.org. Follower: How Getting Close to Jesus Brings You to Yourself released spring 2025!
Happily married.
This was so much fun! If you want to buy the book even though you couldn't make it to the conversation, you can grab yourself a copy here: forms.gle/Ru3wzSm1JQEg...
November 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Reposted by JennX
If you believe November is the time to get into the Christmas spirit you should join @jenniferaglayte.substack.com
to talk about her book Favored One tonight on Zoom at 7 eastern. Not too late to request a link from me. If you are on the fence about you can read reviews here.
November 3, 2025 at 2:54 PM
When you never asked for patience but God apparently thought you needed it anyway... 🫠
September 25, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Which is your preferred insomnia?
a. Can't fall asleep
b. Can't stay asleep

I'm becoming pretty adept at both and I'm still deciding.
September 23, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Since stepping down from the pastorate, Monday has become Admin Day. I was on a roll this morning, and then lunch happened, and now all I can seem to do is scroll...
September 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I've taught live cohorts online for 10 years. But now I'm in this DMin cohort and we don't even have asynchronous posting assignments. So I started an email thread & intro'd myself. Only one person has followed suit.

I'm an introvert, but my Enneagram 2 is taking this personally.
September 18, 2025 at 8:45 PM
@schlazor.bsky.social You'd better not get anymore followers. You're at the perfect number.
September 17, 2025 at 9:47 PM
New spam text strategy:
September 17, 2025 at 3:33 PM
September 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Today's Dog-Ditty during the Morning Constitutional:

What's going on?
I thought you were pooping.
If you're not pooping,
Why are we stopping?

(Actually it was yesterday's but it's sounds better to say it was today's for some reason.)
September 17, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Friends, I made four phone calls today. Please clap.
September 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
There's so much extra time when you have insomnia.
And yet I fear there will still not be less to do tomorrow...
September 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Rarely have mother-daughter AND platonic friend dynamics been so well illustrated (let alone in the same show) as in Wednesday.
a girl in a black dress says fascinating on the screen
ALT: a girl in a black dress says fascinating on the screen
media.tenor.com
August 23, 2025 at 12:36 AM
My dad, the most mild-mannered, hoping-the-best-of-people, enneagram 2, actually-godly human I’ve ever known, posted a mild critique of Tr*mp on FB yesterday and got verbally flayed by people he used to pastor, and so today he took it down and now they’re doing it again and I’m 🤬🤬🤬
August 13, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Supposedly reading to wind down before bed. Opened phone to look up something. Have been scrolling and reading @thisone0verhere.bsky.social posts for 20 minutes. No longer ANY recollection what I was planning to look up.
August 13, 2025 at 1:53 AM
These guys. ❤️
August 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Last day at Central Baptist…

#bittersweet
August 10, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I'm really not sure why I imagined that the week in which:

1. I conclude my pastorate and
2. prep the-pilgrimage.org to become a full-time work instead of ~14 hours a week, heading into
3. 2 weeks of vacation

...would be quiet and peaceful. But I did imagine it.

I imagined super wrong.
The Pilgrimage
On the road to spiritual growth and formation
the-pilgrimage.org
August 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
What's The Pilgrimage?
Well, here's a start. Thanks to all the lovely people here who provided endorsements!
youtu.be/pkgLt8cxpZw
Ten Years on Pilgrimage
YouTube video by The Pilgrimage
youtu.be
August 7, 2025 at 1:46 AM
August 4, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Crying doesn’t make the car go.

—what I just said to my dog who whines pitifully and relentlessly every time he has to wait for us to finish getting ready for the ride we’re about to take him on.
August 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Is it me or have the 3-minute hack-type videos become more insane with the advent of AI? I just watched someone creepily rub pollen on the stamen of a calla lily and a zucchini magically grew out of it.
July 31, 2025 at 2:02 PM
It's been a while since a Keanu Reeves account followed me on Instagram. I'm so glad he's back.
July 31, 2025 at 12:23 PM
*singing*

The air is aliiiiive
With the smell of microplastics…
July 26, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Second to last sermon as pastor of Central Baptist Church...written.
July 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM