You only had a 2.7% chance of being born an American.
If you were lucky enough to be a native born American, you already won at life.
🇺🇸🇺🇸 Happy 250th Birthday, USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸
Today is the quietest day of the Christian calendar. No triumphant entry. No resurrection announcement. Just a sealed tomb, a grieving handful of followers, and a silence that must have felt like the end of everything.
But heaven was not silent.
The cross was not an accident. It was not a tragedy God scrambled to redeem. It was love — deliberate, costly, personal. He gave His Son knowing exactly what it would require. And He did it anyway.
For you.
"But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." — Romans 5:8
In the silence of this day between Friday and Sunday, there is an invitation — not to rush ahead to the empty tomb, but to let the weight of the cross settle in. To sit with the question: do you actually believe He did this for you?
Not for humanity in the abstract. For you, by name, in full knowledge of your story.
Maybe today is the day that finally lands.
"He that beareth a torch shadoweth himself that he may give light to others."
Congratulations to @jthomUT on receiving the Torchbearer Award - the highest honor for an undergraduate student at @UTKnoxville recognizing service, leadership & the Volunteer Spirit.
“I wish at [my player’s] age, I would’ve gone much deeper into a relationship with Jesus Christ… To me, the most important thing is to God with all my heart, soul, & mind.”
- Tennessee HC Rick Barnes
(via @TreyWallace)