@JonRothstein Jon my friend (whom I’ve never met:)), enjoy every day till then. Don’t rush through this. We only get college basketball for what seems like a few glorious months.
Best part of former-Ravens HC John Harbaugh’s farewell, is his Christ-centered message in the last paragraph:
“Finally, to the author and finisher of our faith, Gratitude for a Journey beyond anything I could have dreamed of on my own - All is well with my soul because of the Good God who guides and sustains me.”
Amen, coach 👏
Kelly: When Trump was driving the Taj Mahal Casino into bankruptcy, I was being shot at over Iraq…. When Trump was writing birthday greetings to Epstein, I was the first on the scene to recover the bodies of my fellow astronauts… When Trump was peddling conspiracy theories against President Obama, I was sitting next to my wife’s hospital bed… I’ve been through a lot worse in service to my country. The President and Pete Hegseth are not going to silence me.
If Ukraine acquired the offensive weapons needed to hammer Russia, it would force Russia to the table and Putin would eventually be overthrown. Putin is a disastrous, failed military leader and ruthless ex-KGB assassin.
And what of the tens of thousands of children Putin has kidnapped and turned over to Russian families? Stalin did the same. What of their fate?
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Walt Disney once told Charles Schulz he wasn't good enough to draw background art.
Form letter. Very polite.
"We only hire the very finest artists."
Sparky wasn't one of them.
His yearbook rejected his cartoons. His school gave him a zero in physics. He failed every subject in eighth grade.
Every. Single. One.
The other kids called him "Sparky" — after a horse in a comic strip.
They were calling him an animal.
Paul Harvey said it best:
"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."
So this invisible boy did something strange.
He didn't try to prove Disney wrong.
He wrote his autobiography in cartoons instead.
Named the main character after himself.
Charlie Brown.
A kid whose kite never flies. Whose team never wins. Whose crush never notices him.
Then Schulz did something the network executives hated.
He put Luke 2 at the center of his Christmas special.
"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."
They told him to cut it.
Too religious.
He refused.
Christmas Eve, millions of families will watch that scene.
A loser became the messenger.
Disney said he wasn't good enough.
God said otherwise.
@Rajatsoni It’s not asset based, it’s based on your earnings. I imagine there are millions of people in this situation, except they also live on assets
Every once in a while I return to this evergreen quote from John Piper:
"Occasionally, weep deeply over the life that you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Feel the pain. Then wash your face, trust God, and embrace the life that he’s given you."