Beth Kilgore

Bereaved wife, mom, Special Education teacher, believer in Jesus, advocate for a cure for Duchenne muscular dystrophy, Rams/OSU Beavs fan

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Edan Alexander is the last living American hostage in Gaza.

He's been tortured, starved, and tormented for 524 days by Hamas.

We must say his name every single day because the mainstream media won’t.

Don’t let him be forgotten. He’s only 20 years old.

[Beth Kilgore @BethKilgore63]

@MalcangiSarah Of course!

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@SpillTheMemes

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@WarriorZoltar I joined for my job as an educator, but then I found tons of spiritual encouragement and decided to hang around.

[Tommy Hogan @tommyprints]

I denounced atheism 1 month and 14 days ago and every day since I have thought back to the realizations i made on 2/12/24 that led me do so:

-God exists
-He has agency and his will is the reason for everything
-Our purpose is to understand and exercise his will

What led me to these realizations?

Well to put it simply, I realized I was being stupid.

Stupid for thinking about creation and tracing it back to the big bang and then just thinking like “science can explain it so i’ll just leave it there”

Stupid for thinking that there was little basis for moral claims even though I felt deep within me a strong sense of morality and acted according to that feeling all my life

Stupid for not realizing those special moments in time, when time itself seemed to stop, and I could feel things in a way that I knew a clump of atoms (which is basically all I thought i was) should not be able to feel.

All this led me to simply give God a chance, by taking a small but genuine step towards him…

I simply opened the bible, with a truly open mind for once, i flipped to a random page, and i started to read…

I remember thinking to myself… 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘰 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘴𝘦𝘯𝘴𝘦?

It was almost like I didn’t want to accept it at first. For so long I held bad views of those who did. But i couldn’t help but agree with the messages I was reading.

And while I’m still working out the details of what I take from the Bible to be true, in a literal sense (it might be the whole thing, idk yet), I can not express enough that the messages and principles i’ve found in this book are invaluable and that they filled a literal void in my life that was missing for so long.

I know it has the power to do that for anyone else who like me just gives it a chance with an open mind.

Blessings to you all, thank you for being a part of my journey.

[Beth Kilgore @BethKilgore63]

@Dalbodog Cam short for camo

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@Be_Believing As long as I have my Bible and books, I'm good!

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@JenniferEValent

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@jbienterprises I am heartbroken for you, but it is beautiful that Angela hung on to see her son. A good mama 😇 ❤️

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@DawnsMission This happened to my dad. He didn't get to say goodbye to mom, and my heart still breaks for him 2 years later.

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[Bobby Don Welch @Bobby_Don_Welch]

What a great story! ❤️❤️❤️

From a friend.

-- My dad has bees. Today I went to his house and he showed me all of the honey he had gotten from the hives. He took the lid off of a 5-gallon bucket full of honey and on top of the honey there were 3 little bees, struggling. They were covered in sticky honey and drowning. I asked him if we could help them and he said he was sure they wouldn't survive. Casualties of honey collection I suppose.
I asked him again if we could at least get them out and kill them quickly, after all he was the one who taught me to put a suffering animal (or bug) out of its misery. He finally conceded and scooped the bees out of the bucket. He put them in an empty Chobani yogurt container and put the plastic container outside.
Because he had disrupted the hive with the earlier honey collection, there were bees flying all over outside.
We put the 3 little bees in the container on a bench and left them to their fate. My dad called me out a little while later to show me what was happening. These three little bees were surrounded by all of their sisters (all of the bees are females) and they were cleaning the sticky nearly dead bees, helping them to get all of the honey off of their bodies. We came back a short time later and there was only one little bee left in the container. She was still being tended to by her sisters.
When it was time for me to leave we checked one last time and all three of the bees had been cleaned off enough to fly away and the container was empty.
Those three little bees lived because they were surrounded by family and friends who would not give up on them, family and friends who refused to let them drown in their own stickiness and resolved to help until the last little bee could be set free.
Bee Sisters. Bee Peers. Bee Teammates.
We could all learn a thing or two from these bees.
Bee kind always.

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@BetsyRi66304373 I don't believe this story.

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@NoContextHumans -99

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@AndrewJAPrue I have no doubt your dad is proud of the husband and father you are😇

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@TheCancerSutra You got this, Mike! Caffeine was also how I coped while my husband was having treatment, and we both deserved that treat! You've inspired me to go back to black coffee at home☕️

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@officialDannyT Congratulations, sir! 🎉And go Rams!!!💙💛

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@GrievingBloke I am pre-grieving about the first Christmas in 37 years without my husband. I'm making a plan to surround myself with the people I love and letting them know what I need.

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@payne_mrs I focus on the physical environment first and make sure it looks inviting and comfortable for my students and I. Next, I make sure my projector and smart board are working properly. Lesson planning comes last because learning will not happen if the first two are not in place.

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@mikejwhelan I couldn't agree more. Watching my husband fight for 5 years and die on hospice 3 months ago has wrecked me, but I won't give up the fight either.