I can’t get over the irony of choosing to terminate, a 100% chance the baby doesn’t see the light of day (which carries its own risks to the mother, btw), because of a 50% chance they won’t see the light of day.
@McJuggerNuggets How far we have fallen. We went from the late 80’s having a show (Life Goes On) highlighting a family navigating life with a DS child to “eh, better to get rid of them just in case”. Despicable. No doubt the diagnosis was hard. The decision should not have been.
• Most Wins for a Senior Class in Purdue History
• 2 Regular Season Big Ten Championships
• 2 Big Ten Tournament Championships
• 3 Sweet 16s
• 2 Elite 8s
• 1 Final 4 win
• National Championship Runner-Up
Braden Smith - Greatest PG in Purdue History. A laundry list of accolades including the Most Assists in CBB History. (1,103)
Fletcher Loyer - One of the best wings to ever come through this program. Most 3s in Purdue History. 1st to ever have 300 3's for the Boilers.
TKR - The epitome of Purdue. Leader. Loyal. One the best bigs to come through West Lafayette.
TKR redshirted for a year when he didn't have to. Waited his turn for 2 more years behind Edey when he didn't have to. Braden and Fletcher started Day 1 and never missed a game. A special group.
The End of an amazing Era.
Thank you for putting your blood, sweat and tears into this. It was an honor and a privilege to watch you guys play.
🚂🆙️ForLife.
✔️ @BoilerBall assist record
✔️ @bigten assist record
Braden Smith's now chasing Duke legend Bobby Hurley's NCAA assist record.
The Journey features the star PG 👇
It’s how God designed marriage and straight out of Ephesians 5. Husbands are to be the head of the family, just as Christ is the head of the church. And btw, husbands are not let off the hook. They are instructed to love their wives as Christ loved the church.
I’ve been searching for the right words to explain it. These are them. Evil did its thing, and we all felt it. But our hope is in Jesus Christ, just like Charlie’s
“In this world you will have trouble. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33
Good morning.
The reason you feel Charlie’s death so deeply is because grief doesn’t measure itself by proximity. It measures itself by meaning. You didn’t have to know him personally to feel the sting of his absence, because when a voice like his goes silent, something in the atmosphere shifts.
The reason it feels heavier than so many other tragedies is because your spirit recognizes that this is not just about a man, it is about a battle. Scripture says eternity is written on our hearts, and when someone who carried truth with boldness is suddenly gone, eternity aches within us. It’s like our souls know instinctively that the darkness celebrated, and that strikes us at the core.
The reason you can’t shake it is because psychologically, we don’t only attach ourselves to people…we attach ourselves to symbols. Charlie became a symbol of conviction in a time of compromise, courage in a time of fear. And when a symbol is struck down, it rattles something primal and eternal inside us.
That’s why even those who never met him feel it. There is a strange thread pulling at us, and it is not imagined. It is real. We are bound together by shared purpose, by shared longing for truth, by the Spirit of God Himself weaving us into a fabric that cannot be torn apart. This loss pulled at that fabric, and every one of us felt the tug.
So if you’ve wondered why this hits so hard, it’s because your soul knows. This is bigger than news. This is bigger than politics. This is about eternity, about truth, and about the weight of a man whose life carried both.
Love y’all.
I am told that as a state representative this is the moment where I'm supposed to express my heartfelt condolences and then stand in solidarity with those on the other side of the aisle as we condemn political violence and stand unified as one people.
But we aren't "one people" are we?
The truth is we haven't been for some time now, and there is really no point in pretending anymore, if there ever was.
We are two very different peoples. We may occupy the same piece of geography, but that is where the similarities seem to abruptly end.
I convinced myself for a long time that whenever the left called me a racist, a bigot, a sexist, a fascist, a "threat to democracy" for even the most innocent of disagreements, that it was simply hyperbolic rhetoric done for effect.
And now the "effect" is a widow and two orphaned children, because the left couldn’t bear the thought of a peaceful man debating them and winning.
I don’t think they realize it yet, but murdering Charlie is going to be remembered as the day where we finally woke up to what this fight really is.
It’s not a civil dispute among fellow countrymen. It’s a war between diametrically opposed worldviews which cannot peacefully coexist with one another. One side will win, and one side will lose.
Charlie tried to win that fight through argumentation, through discussion, through peaceful resolution of differences.
And the other side murdered him.
Not because he was “extreme” or “inciting violence” or any other hyperbolic slur they hurled at him. They murdered him because he was effective. Because he was unafraid. Because he inspired others and made them feel like they had a voice, that they were not alone. And he did it at the very institutions which have fomented so much hatred toward conservatives.
I don’t want to “stand in solidarity” with the other side of the aisle. I want to defeat you. I want to defeat the godless ideology that kills babies in the womb, sterilizes confused children, turns our cities into cesspools of degeneracy and lawlessness…and that murdered Charlie Kirk.
Social media is aflame right now with leftist celebration of Charlie’s death.
I wonder if any among them understand what has just happened. If there is a Yamamoto somewhere in their midst warning, that all they have done is awoken a sleeping giant.
I doubt it. I think they gave up such introspection and self-awareness long ago.
I don’t know exactly what will happen next. I just know that it won’t be the same as what has happened in the past.
There will be thoughts and prayers…Charlie would have wanted prayers. Not for himself but for those left behind and for the country that he loved.
But then there will be a reckoning.
My Christian faith requires me to love my enemies and pray for those who curse me. It does not require me to stand idly by in the midst of savagery and barbarism...quite the opposite.
So every time I feel tired, every time I feel discouraged or overwhelmed, I am going to watch the video of a good man being murdered in Utah…I will force myself to watch it…and then I will return to the work of destroying the evil ideology responsible for that and so much more.
Rest with God Charlie, your fight is over.
Ours is just beginning.
Regardless of your feelings about @PastorMark, this is what duly appointed righteous anger looks like. This isn’t about what people are making it out to be in reality. It’s about good vs. evil. What happened on that train- including not helping a young woman in distress- is evil.
God is love. The very essence of God is love. Therefore, during times of hardship, sadness, pain and suffering, we naturally and spontaneously take refuge in Him — in love itself — because we know in the core of our hearts that it is only the power and light of God’s love that can drive away the darkness of evil and hatred, which was manifested so tragically and violently upon the children praying in Minneapolis on Wednesday.
So why is it that people like Jen Psaki and others have such a spontaneous visceral negative reaction to those who are praying to God for refuge, strength, and for the wellbeing of the victims of this heinous attack? Because they do not believe in God or His love. Their response is rooted in their hatred of God. They want to be God, so they view Him as their competitor. They are agents of darkness and hatred, and the light of God’s love is a threat to their dark ambitions.
One manifestation of their darkness and desire to be God is their belief that any man can become a woman, and any woman can become a man. This is the insanity and darkness that has unfortunately perpetuated today’s Democrat Party, and is one of the reasons why I could no longer associate myself with them.
It is especially during times like this, when the darkness of hate descends upon us, that we take shelter in and manifest the light of God, which is love.
Rev Martin Luther King spoke the truth beautifully when he said, “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”
After more than 20 years of delay, I’m proud to finally deliver on a long-overdue promise: protecting our most vulnerable from unnecessary mercury exposure.