Pam Hatley

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@LittleNickyBBQ @MrWhiplash_ And the only president who works 7 days a week without pay. For you. Even knowing your attitude. He never quits. Even knowing you hate him, he still works for you and your benefit. Try to find truth. It will make you happier.

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@MarcBTheTruth @WWG1WGA_QQ Thank you. Well said!

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@DorothyStangle Quitters never win and winners never quit!

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@Siddall1Vikki Love this! Not long. Perfectly timed with passion and accuracy. Thank you for saying what needs to be said👍

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@hbrink357 @warDaniel47 Isn’t this a strategic alliance? That supports both countries? Seems he’s looking for strategic ways to keep us protected. Not an expert here, just what I see.

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@SusieWiles47 Praise God! Thank you for sharing this wonderful testimony, Susie. I’m so happy for you!💕

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@Tironianae @elonmusk Than you, Elon!

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@RickyFlipz @mattvanswol I agree there needs to be another answer. I think people with the concerns may be the ones to create a solution. He surely is not safe on the streets tho. So what’s next?

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@BobMcClainbass @John_F_kJr He is sharing God’s love. That’s truth, not religion. And we all want you blessed and enjoying the same love and peace and joy and total fulfillment in this life. Without Jesus, we truly are lost.

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@Nealspence94018 @QuantumGuard17 One step at a time. Be patient

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@Carus08690945 @MrWhiplash_ Because it begins with the family.

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@JamesLucasIT So beautiful. Norman Rockwell - what a loving thing he did.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is one of the most romantic paintings in American history, but the artist hid a second story in it, one that only reveals itself once you know who the tired old man in the corner really was...

The painting is Marriage License, made by Norman Rockwell for the cover of the Saturday Evening Post in 1955. It is late on a Saturday afternoon in a small-town clerk's office. A young couple leans over the desk to fill out the paperwork for their marriage license, the man's arm around her, the woman up on tiptoe in a yellow dress to sign her name. The whole room is dim and brown, and a shaft of golden light falls through the window and lands on just the two of them, as if the day itself knows what is happening here.

Rockwell built it out of contrast: the couple glow with the beginning of everything, and, slumped in the corner, the old clerk waits, ready to go home, because for him, couples in love are just the ordinary traffic of an ordinary day.

But here is what almost no one knows: the clerk was a real man, a local shopkeeper named Jason Braman, and Rockwell chose him for a reason. Braman had recently lost his wife. Rockwell knew it, and he asked him to pose, in his own words, "as a way to give him something else to think about."

So the tired old man watching two young people promise themselves to each other is not acting. He is a widower placed by Rockwell right beside the very thing he has just lost.

Once you know that, the whole painting deepens because it is no longer only about young love. It is about the full arc of it, the beginning and the end in one room, the couple who have everything ahead and the man who had it and lost it, sitting a few feet apart in the same afternoon light.

And here's the best part: the young couple were real too, engaged in life, Joan and Francis Mahoney, and Rockwell gave them the oil sketch as a wedding present. They married. And they stayed married for the rest of their lives...

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@RachelBracha @MrWhiplash_ And God loves you.

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@RHBBING @MrWhiplash_ I don’t play chess, but I believe this is a strategic move because the time is right.

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@Ashley_22ky Incredible drawing. You surely captured his strength and determination. Bravo!

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@sterlingkoonce Wow. So disturbing. How did we miss this years ago??!

[Pam Hatley @PamHatley]

@_Gibsonmel_ God is good all the time!!