Lydia Madsen’s Reviews > Bird by Bird > Status Update

Lots of feelings in the top of my scalp, the base of my stomach, and the smoky spot between nose/ear/tongue. She is so very honest about all the *bleh!* in her brain; it’s refreshing to feel so seen.

But also the feeling between the back of throat and ribs - when casually I get told a lie. God revealed himself as male. If he isn’t in control of anything enough to preserve his own testimony, he wouldn’t be God.

… “although when I mention this to my priest friend Tom, he says, ‘You can safely assume you’ve created God in your own image when it turns out God hates all the same people you do’.”….