Hat-trick hero ๐ฅ
@ManUtd's Bruno Fernandes is your Player of the Matchweek for his match-winning performance vs Ipswich ๐
Watch his highlights here ๐ https://t.co/kRcoQJeEGp
โThe first generation earns wealth/power, the second maintains it, the third [raised in comfort, never having earned anything] presides over its decline; squanders it.โ
Dolly Parton is dead, and the church never knew what to do with her.
Half my feed is posting rhinestones today. The other half never trusted her, because she would not wear the uniform.
She never preached a sermon.
She just did the works.
One man. Fifty-eight years. In an industry that eats marriages. No scandal reel, no reality show, no trading up. Just Carl, and a promise kept until death did them part.
She could have built towers in Nashville. Instead she built in the mountains she came from, so the people she came from could work.
Two hundred million books. Given away to children, free, no strings, while the rest of us argued about what to read.
A million dollars for a vaccine in the middle of a plague, and she called it what it was: helping.
She was a feminist who never used the word, a superstar who never left home, and a believer who never made you watch her pray.
"Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works." James 2:18.
We spent years asking whether she was one of ours.
She never asked whether we were one of hers. She was too busy feeding children.
I do not know her heart. That was never my job. I know her works, because the whole county she came from lives on them.
"Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them." Matthew 7:20.
You want to honor her today? Put down the tribute post. Put a book in a kid's hands. Stay married. Do the works.
That was the whole sermon. She just never said it out loud.
Dolly Partonโs Imagination Library was the best contribution to child literacy ever made by a celebrity. Our paths crossed once, in the 90s, backstage at a talk show, and I was completely tongue-tied and starstruck. RIP Dolly. You were a complete, irreplaceable one-off.
In summary,
On the 5Ms of Masculinity,
โข Mindset will give you direction.
โข Muscle will give you mental and physical strength.
โข Men, mentors, and brotherhood will give you wisdom.
โข Material will give you options and security.
โข Money will sum up the value of your usefulness in this world.
Build your 5Ms patiently, protect them fiercely and pass them to the next generation.
#ManDay