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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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Why, yes, I coordinate my towels with the weeks of Advent, why do you ask?

#Advent
#Advent3
#AdventJoy
#thecompanystore
White laundry basket on a hardwood floor, piled high with hot pink towels; pink or rose is the color of the third week of Advent, which comes to an end this evening.
December 20, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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December 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I went with the throng and led them in procession to the house of God,
with glad shouts and songs of thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
~Psalm 42:4
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove🩷
The bare top half of tree branches, with a background of a deep pink sky fading to lavender at the top of the frame.
December 20, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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“So then let us not sleep, as others do, but let us keep awake and be sober.”

Some say it’s bad to be “woke”. But the Bible tells us to keep awake. I listen to love over tyrants, every time. ⚓️
November 30, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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Yes.
December 20, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Justice Department • Friday Deadline

I don’t care what your political affiliation is, your social status, power or wealth.

Anyone that has participated in sex trafficking, abusing & raping children/women must be held accountable!

Release The Epstein Files!
#EpsteinClientList

Thread 1/3🧵
December 19, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Yes. Yes. Yes.
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s time to accept that the US supreme court is illegitimate and must be replaced | Ryan Doerfler and Samuel Moyn
We need to remake the US high court so Americans don’t suffer future decades of oligarchy-facilitating rule
www.theguardian.com
December 19, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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My tears have been my food day and night, while people say to me continually “Where is your God?”
~Psalm 42:3
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🩷
The left side of the bare branches of a honey locust tree; in the background are the leaked roofs with chimneys of two houses as the horizon. The sky is a deep pinky orange just above the roofs, fading to soft pink at the top half of the frame.
December 19, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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My soul thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?
~Psalm 42:2
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove🩷
Bare trees with pink sky in the background.
December 18, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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As a deer longs for flowing streams, so my soul longs for you, O God. My soul thirsts for God, for the living God.
~Psalm 42:1-2
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectindigenouspeople
#protectimmigrants
#GodIsLove🩷
A slim, grey, bare tree, on the left of the image, with branches jutting out to the right; background of white and grey horizontal lines, tire tracks in the snow.
December 16, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Yesterday a hundred people came to our little church to hear Christmas Jazz Vespers with Bill Carter and the Presbybop Quintet. It was JOY. My face hurt from smiling.
December 15, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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The LORD watches over the strangers; he upholds the orphan and the widow, but the way of the wicked he brings to ruin. The LORD will reign forever, your God, O Zion, for all generations. Praise the LORD!
~Psalm 146:9-10
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove🩷
Advent wreath: herb-shaped leaves with white berries (all artificial, but beautiful); four short pillar candles in the center, three lavender and one rose, but they all look rose because I took the picture with the flames as the only light. Three candles lit, 2 lavender and one rose.
December 15, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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The Lord sets the prisoners free; the Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down; the Lord loves the righteous.
~Psalm 146:7b-8
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove🩷
A post-sunset sky of undulating layers of pinks and blues, with a winter-bare tree in silhouette on the left side of the image. Rolling hills in the distance.
December 14, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Happy are those whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord their God, who made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them; who keeps faith forever; who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry.
~Psalm 146:5-7
#dailyverses
#Advent
#GodisLove💜
Bare tree branches on a background of deep pink, just before sunrise.
December 13, 2025 at 6:15 AM
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I will put in the wilderness the cedar, the acacia,the myrtle, and the olive; I will set in the desert the cypress, the plane and the pine together,so that all may see and know,all may consider and understand, that the hand of the Lord has done this
~Isaiah 41:19-20
#dailyverses
#Advent
#GodIsLove💜
December 12, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Photo of Lucy Dacus with text: “Lucy Dacus is your top artist. You spent 2,493 minutes with them, which makes you a top 0.2% global fan.” From my 2025 Spotify Wrapped.
December 11, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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What's ominous is all of the trusted women of color who know a lot about AI are saying that a crash is on the way and the white guys are pretending they are taking it to the moon. This means that a crash is definitely on its way.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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AI data centers are sucking up communities’ power & water.

AI is being used by corporations to shaft consumers and is threatening young workers’ job prospects.

So Trump wants to ram through a ban on state AI regulation — all to help out his Big Tech billionaire friends.

See how this works?
December 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I will open rivers on the bare heights and fountains in the midst of the valleys; I will make the wilderness a pool of water and the dry land springs of water.
~Isaiah 41:18
#dailyverses
#Advent
#protectimmigrants
#protectindigenouspeople
#GodIsLove💜
Winter sunset seen through a bare tree, bright golden sky fading to peach and pale blue.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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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💜
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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