Nobody tells you when you’re a kid that one random Sunday at Grandma’s house will eventually be the last time everyone is there at the same time.
The cousins are running in and out of the house.
Somebody’s yelling, “STOP SLAMMING THAT DOOR!”
The adults are sitting around the kitchen table talking about things you couldn’t care less about.
There’s food everywhere.
Someone is asleep in a recliner.
You can hear the TV from the other room.
You’re bored half the time and begging to go home.
And you have absolutely no idea that you are standing inside a memory you will spend the rest of your life wishing you could walk back into.
Then everybody grows up.
The cousins move away.
People get married.
Families get busy.
Grandparents get older.
The house gets sold.
Some people stop speaking.
Some people are no longer here.
And suddenly you’d give just about anything to sit at that kitchen table for ten more minutes and hear everybody’s voices coming from different rooms.
The older I get, the more I realize…
We weren’t “just going to Grandma’s house.”
We were going to the one place where our entire family still belonged to each other.
And somehow none of us realized it was temporary.
If you had a house like that growing up, you were richer than you knew. 🤍
Whose house was “the house” in your family?
Parents, hear this please. If you have to PAY for your kids to be on a team they aren’t elite, not even close. Just let them enjoy the game and save your money.
Lavonte David’s retirement speech is worth 2 mins of your time.
Having Parents who show you they believe in your dreams and will stop at nothing to help you achieve them is EVERYTHING.
Bill Maher fires back at Billie Eilish and leftist “kids” who “don’t know what the f*ck” America is about.
“I want to… say something about Western civilization. Kids, you don’t know what the f*ck it is.”
“They think Western means white—and white means bad. First of all, everything bad that white people did, people of color did it, too. The Japanese before World War II and during World War II. And Genghis Khan, and I could go on and on.”
“The left is very down on America, very down on the West. And it’s ironic because the West has also given us everything that makes your life good here. Don’t ask Billie Eilish or Chappell Roan about what the Western values are, because they’ll just say it’s about oppression.”
“But it’s not about oppression. It’s about rule of law. It’s about respect for minorities. It’s about democracy. It’s about scientific inquiry. These are all good things that came from the Western world. I wish that schools would teach that again.”
Trinidad Chambliss was a 0 star out of high school.
Had to go D2 and won a national championship at Ferris State.
Players, if you're legitimately willing to outwork the competition and compete like a maniac, believe in yourself.
🏈 STATE SEMIFINAL 🏈
⚓️ Lakeland vs PV ⚔️
Tonight… under the lights 🌙✨
7:00 PM • Bryant Stadium
📍 1125 N Florida Ave – Lakeland, FL
🎟️ A ticket to the SHIP on the line!
#Naughts#Lakeland#NulliSecundus
Your effort is a choice.
Your attitude is a choice.
Your actions are a choice.
Your communication is a choice.
Your leadership is a choice.
Your level of belief is a choice.
Your commitment is a choice.
Getting better starts with making better choices.
Take ownership.
If you believe free speech is for you but not your political opponents, you're illiberal.
If no contrary evidence could change your beliefs, you're a fundamentalist.
If you believe the state should punish those with contrary views, you're a totalitarian.
If you believe political opponents should be punished with violence or death, you're a terrorist.
Evil is real. There is no doubt, the enemy is hard at work.
These last few days, the weight of evil has been heavy across our nation.
But this I know: It will not have the final word. One day, God will make all things right.
Until then, we pray. We weep with those who weep. And we keep fighting, knowing the victory has already been won.