Saint Michael the Archangel, defend us in battle. Be our defense against the wickedness and snares of the Devil. May God rebuke him, we humbly pray, and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly hosts, by the power of God, cast into hell Satan, and all the evil spirits, who prowl about the world seeking the ruin of souls. Amen.
@Johnny_Joey We make our own luck. In our house, we are big fans of yours for the odds you've beaten and because we share your views and beliefs. May God guide and protect you! ❤️🙏❤️
To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
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📌 7 THINGS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH TEACHES ABOUT HEAVEN THAT MOST CATHOLICS HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD
1. YOU WILL STILL BE YOU
The Church teaches that in heaven you retain your personal identity, your memories, your personality, your relationships. The resurrection of the body means YOU, not a generic soul mist, will be there. (CCC 1023)
2. YOU WILL KNOW AND BE KNOWN
The Beatific Vision is not the erasure of self, it is the perfection of it. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that in heaven we know God directly, face to face. And in knowing God, we know everything truly. Including those we love.
3. THERE ARE DEGREES OF GLORY
Not everyone experiences heaven identically. St. Paul writes: “Star differs from star in glory.” (1 Cor 15:41). How we loved, served, and suffered on earth shapes the depth of our eternal joy.
4. THE SAINTS IN HEAVEN ARE ACTIVE
They are not asleep. They intercede for us. They worship. They rejoice when sinners repent (Luke 15:7). Heaven is alive with communion and love in motion.
5. TIME AS WE KNOW IT ENDS
Heaven is not “a very long time.” It is outside of time altogether, eternal in the fullest sense. Every moment is the fullness of joy, complete and inexhaustible.
St. Augustine: “Our heart is restless until it rests in Thee.”
6. YOUR RESURRECTED BODY WILL BE GLORIFIED
Four gifts: impassibility (no suffering), subtlety (not bound by matter), agility (movement without limit), clarity (radiant with divine light).
This is not mythology. This is the Scholastic theology of resurrection.
7. HEAVEN IS RELATIONSHIP, NOT REWARD
The essence of heaven is not “getting something,” it is being in perfect, unobstructed union with God and with all those who love Him.
It is love without limits.
Joy without end.
Home without exile.
This is what you are living toward.
Never forget it.
“Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered the human heart what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 CORINTHIANS 2:9
He’s the President of the United States — not your ex, not your personal villain, and not the cause of your misery. You don’t have to support him. That’s America.
But if someone is simply backing the sitting President and it makes you rage, cut people off, attack families, or act like garbage — you are the problem.
You’ve turned politics into a personality disorder: nonstop outrage and toddler meltdowns online. Grow up. He won. The sky didn’t fall. Pay your bills, care for your family, touch grass, and move on.