Lasting Advice to the world, Learn to not to look past indifference but through it. Viewing the possibilities of reaching our goals despite intolerant behavior
@stoolpresidente Happy Hanukkah Dave. You and your family stay safe with all the tyranny violence tagging your ethnicity. Don’t be a target. Be the bullseye
Paying people who work hard is another one of the best things you can do for your family but that doesn’t seem to be something any one wants to talk to me about. Especially when the cops are going to be here to evict me from a house that has been illegally stolen by government
Getting in shape is one of the best things you can do for your family.
You'll have more energy, live longer, be more capable, less moody, and set an excellent example for everyone who loves you and looks up to you. 💪🏾
@adamscochran Is there something wrong with you life and the recourses you benefit off of? Let me be polite here. Check yourself now!! Why are you fixing to have aim taken at you with every thing I can do to push you out of finance and back into the hole you climbed out of?
A report by Pavlo Palisa. We are preparing for the meetings with national security advisors who will come to Ukraine, as well as for the work at the leaders’ level within the Coalition of the Willing. The military component is key to truly guaranteeing security. Pavlo is also working on the necessary changes within the Defense Forces of Ukraine and, in the coming weeks, will engage with brigades and military command to identify solutions that will be effective. We are also preparing the modernization of military education, taking into account the experience of defending our state during the full-scale war. The educational process and officer training must be based on Ukraine’s real defense experience. I have also signed new decrees honoring our warriors with state awards. Glory to Ukraine!
Not a lot touches my heart when reading something that lines up with my understanding of life. And my life as God governed a deposit that changed the lives of millions all the while I never left a room where presence and love and vision and spirit collided with the world.
Friends-
This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.
Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.
I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.
Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.
There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.
Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.
A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.
Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.
Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”
I’ll have more to say. I’m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.
But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).
With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses
Global finance doesn’t fail from lack of innovation—it falters due to regulatory friction and inconsistent rules across borders.
But what if compliance could adapt dynamically instead? 🤔
On #Unshielded, @W3i_CEO explores a future where transactions are regulation-aware by design, revealing only what’s needed, where it’s needed.
Full episode 👇
https://t.co/b1AQud4ITV
@elonmuskelry Yeah but it’s not for this app. Freedom and diversity I don’t believe fit it something so elegant. Now if in the wings and body of the bird you could fit war scenes of what it took to build X from when you acquired it. Now that would be a bad ass logo. !!!