happy thursday!

I used to think

gay people can't take the rainbow and
Buddhists can't take white elephants

those are God's

[insert eye roll emoji + 
facepalm emoji + omg]

well how about evangelical 
Christians can't take God?

God is everyone's

#bonusbackstory: It was 2010. I was in my front yard, wearing a t-shirt I had bought in Cambodia. It was brown with a white elephant on it.

My Lithuanian neighbor saw me, raised her eyebrows, and said, “I’m surprised you’re wearing a Buddhist symbol on your shirt.”

I frowned and mumbled something like, “That’s not what this means,” went inside, googled “white elephant Buddhism.” Crap. I asked a fellow Christian if they thought it was okay to still wear it.

“Marla, God made elephants,” they said (very authoritatively). “Buddhists cannot claim them.” Whew. Good. Because I really loved that t-shirt.