Lori M. Fennie

Public relations practitioner, bookworm and history nerd

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

God’s plans are good even when they don’t feel good. This is solid truth we can cling to tonight. ❤️

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@AnneSerling He was an amazing writer! The Twilight Zone stories are still relevant today, although it's sad that some of the topics he covered are still relevant. It's like he could see the future. Glad he didn't listen to that person.

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

I can be a loving person in someone's life, but I cannot be their savior.

[Ken Burns @KenBurns]

I read the Declaration of Independence aloud to my family every Fourth of July.

Its words were written by imperfect men, but they remain central to understanding who we are and who we hope to become.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@Quiche4ever @drdina1 @WesternLensman @AwakenedOutlaw I’m celebrating too! Joy Reid can only speak for herself. I know history, but I have also seen, in my lifetime, what’s possible. I’m celebrating the country I was born and raised in. 🇺🇸

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@Quiche4ever @drdina1 @WesternLensman @AwakenedOutlaw I’m excited for you! I wanted to be in Philly for the 4th but it didn’t work out.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@dbowenjrAU This is one of my favorite hymns.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@CaptMarkKelly @GabbyGiffords Happy birthday, Gabby!🎉

[David Bowen @dbowenjrAU]

"I don't have to chase extraordinary moments to find happiness—it's right in front of me if I'm paying attention and practicing gratitude." - Brene Brown

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

We never know who’s watching, specially the children in our lives. We should try to live in such a way that makes them want to imitate us and learn from us.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

I love this young man, obviously influenced by who he is dressing up like.

We all make a difference in more ways than we know.

People are watching, and they take note of how we live, how we love, and how we give.

May we strive each day to lead by example, showing up as our best selves, extending grace, and offering mercy. May our lives help, heal, and serve others… and perhaps even inspire others to do the same.

op: @majicallynews

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

So sad

[soultracks @soultrackscom]

We are extremely sad to pass on the news of the death of the great Ronald LaPread, co-founding member of The Commodores https://t.co/qes4heJwVY

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

She was an amazing woman!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

She was just a child the night she learned what her life would be for.
A woman in her community was dying. She was in terrible pain. A messenger was sent — not once, not twice, but four times — to the government doctor, the man whose entire job was to care for the Omaha people. Four times, he said he was coming. He never came. Before the sun rose, the woman was gone.
When the reason filtered back to the reservation, it was delivered without shame: It was only an Indian. It did not matter.
The little girl who heard those words was named Susan La Flesche. She was the daughter of Iron Eye — Joseph La Flesche — the last recognized chief of the Omaha tribe, a man who had watched the world shift beneath his people's feet and told his children: Learn. Adapt. Or disappear. Susan took that lesson and turned it into something with a heartbeat.
She left the reservation at fourteen, traveled alone by train across the country to school in New Jersey — a world that had no word for what she was or what she intended to become. She enrolled at one of America's first medical schools open to women and, in 1889, at the age of twenty-four, graduated first in her class.
She became the first Native American woman to earn a medical degree in the United States.
And then she went home.
Not to a prestigious hospital. Not to a career on the East Coast where colleagues urged her to stay. She went home to a stretch of Nebraska plains covering 450 square miles, where she became the only doctor for more than 1,300 people. She rode on horseback through blizzards, answered calls in the middle of the night, treated everything from complicated births to tuberculosis — and earned a fraction of what white government doctors made for equivalent work.
She taught people to open windows. To cover their coughs. To use separate drinking cups — small instructions that saved lives in ways no official record ever captured.
She petitioned the government for a hospital on the reservation. Every commissioner she reached refused. Native Americans, in the government's calculation, simply did not merit the same investment.
So she raised the money herself.
In 1913, the Walthill Hospital opened — the first privately funded hospital ever built on a Native American reservation. It had a maternity ward, an operating room, private rooms, and general wards. It admitted everyone, Native and white alike. In its first year, it treated 448 patients.
By the time it opened, Susan was already living with degenerative bone cancer, the disease quietly working through her head, neck, and spine. She kept seeing patients. She kept advocating. She kept showing up.
She died on September 18, 1915. She was fifty years old.
She had been born in a tipi on the Nebraska plains. She had changed the landscape of American medicine. In between, she had ridden through storms to reach families who needed her, sat with people the world had decided didn't matter, and built — dollar by dollar, year by year — the proof that they did.
The doctor who never came taught her everything.
She spent her entire life being the answer to him.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@Mr_Husky1 @NancySinatra She was amazing! They should make a movie about her.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@CoryBooker “We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
George Bernard Shaw

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

If someone asked you today why you live differently — what would you say?

There's a reason you don't fall apart the way everyone else does.
A reason you can show up with peace in the middle of chaos.
Forgiveness when you've been wronged.
Hope when the situation says there's nothing to hope for.

That's not personality. That's not positivity. That's Jesus.
And the people in your life — at work, home, in your everyday, they're noticing something they can't quite explain.

One day they're going to ask you about it.

Be ready to tell them why.

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@blueskypinit I should have known this was clickbait when she put the egg crate on the cake. 😂

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@Kristinartz Marge
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Rosie
Bertha

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

@MaxineBergen @BeschlossDC I have wondered this for years!

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

Do not use your energy to worry. Life is too short to worry about stupid things. 

Have fun. Fall in love. Regret nothing and do not let people bring you down. 

Study, think, create and grow. Teach yourself and teach others. 

—Professor Richard Feynman

[Lori M. Fennie @LMoneyham]

Amen!

[Lysa TerKeurst @LysaTerKeurst]

God is working things out. He’s not far away. He is right here with us.

We need to cling to this hope. Believe this hope. Live out this hope.

Even if our prayers aren’t answered in the way and the timing we want. Even when this process feels messy. We will trust that God is good.