so odd I asked god to use me and that’s exactly what god did except for some reason god looked a lot like all the men in power in my church/home/life (@marlataviano, jaded) * Writing a book is hard. Promoting it is even harder. Even if I had some great ideas for big flashy things to do, it’s hard to get people’s attention. So sometimes I’ll just be scrolling through Twitter and I’ll see a tweet and think, “Hey, I have a poem about that.” And I’ll go to my Kindle app, find the poem, take a screenshot, add “@marlataviano, jaded” and tweet it in the thread. I shared this poem on Twitter yesterday in response to author Kat Armas tweeting: “Contrary to what many might assume, being ‘used’ by God isn’t common in the Bible (besides the verse about humans as vessels for good works, there’s not much) yet we’ve normalized this language, opening the door for rampant abuse of power and burnout.” The poem resonated with people and got a lot of good responses. If only slipping my poems into relevant Twitter threads could be my full-time job.
When I read this the first thing that popped in my head was the audio adrenaline song about hands & feet - I sang that song sooo earnestly “I’ll go where you send me” 💔💔 phew, haven’t thought about that in years
The begging part would be a HARD NO for me.😂I want to be helpful & walk in what I personally believe is my purpose so I am really not into being used by anyone, at least not at this late stage of the game😂I feel like I am helpful & purposeful every day of my life. I try to do what I believe I need to be doing & am really not all that concerned with other people’s opinions especially those that are designated as people of power.
I have asked god to use me and I have definitely felt used (in the most negative casting of that word). Thank you for your articulation of this
Haha yes actually I was just thinking today that my @ handle for a while used to be "vesselofgod" so glad that phase has passed by.
I feel like I'm still asking god to use me... *sigh* okay better go unpack that.
When I read this the first thing that popped in my head was the audio adrenaline song about hands & feet - I sang that song sooo earnestly “I’ll go where you send me” 💔💔 phew, haven’t thought about that in years
Plenty of worship songs ask God to use us, and they often mention our needing to be broken first - I've even written songs like that!
The begging part would be a HARD NO for me.😂I want to be helpful & walk in what I personally believe is my purpose so I am really not into being used by anyone, at least not at this late stage of the game😂I feel like I am helpful & purposeful every day of my life. I try to do what I believe I need to be doing & am really not all that concerned with other people’s opinions especially those that are designated as people of power.
If only book promotion was easy:/ and totally. Fear I wasn’t being used enough (oh boy!). No thanks.
This 💯 ❤️❤️