Roxy Bee

X junkie doing the face-melt online.

[Introvert Problems @IntrovertProbss]

The older I get, the more I understand why cats just walk away mid-conversation

[Hillbilly @JamesHu27192912]

There are moments when I sit with God and realize I don’t even have the words anymore.
No clear sentences.
No perfect prayers.
Just a tired heart that still turns toward Him.
I used to think I needed to say everything the right way. That I had to explain it all, organize it all, make sense of what I was feeling before I brought it to Him.
But I am learning He already understands.
He sees the weight I carry before I speak it.
He knows the thoughts that keep me awake.
He feels the quiet ache I try to hide behind strength.
And still, He welcomes me.
Not with expectation,
but with compassion.
So I come as I am.
With the worries I cannot fix.
With the questions that keep circling.
With the heaviness I am tired of holding.
And I place it all in His hands again.
Not because I suddenly feel strong,
but because I know He is.
I am learning that surrender is not losing control.
It is finally releasing what was never mine to carry alone.
And when I let go, even a little, something shifts.
My breathing slows.
My thoughts quiet.
My heart softens in His presence.
Because He is not overwhelmed by what overwhelms me.
He is steady.
He is near.
He is already holding what I keep trying to pick back up.
So tonight, I am choosing to trust Him again.
With the fear.
With the unknown.
With every part of me that feels worn.
I may not have the words.
But I have Him.
And that is enough.

[Roxy Bee @RoxyBee12]

@k_ovfefe2 Your puppy posts just make me happy! And I’m not even a dog person.

[Farm Girl Carrie 👩‍🌾 @FarmGirlCarrie]

I have been experimenting with homemade tortillas. I have found that store bought tortillas have many added ingredients that I’d rather not eat. I have found a very simple recipe that works well for me, and thought you might enjoy trying it 😋

[Flavorful Kitchen Adventures @ann_ann886]

Mediterranean Ground Beef Wrap with Lemon Honey Feta Cream

Ingredients
For the Beef
1 lb ground beef
1 tablespoon olive oil
2 garlic cloves, minced
1 teaspoon paprika
1 teaspoon cumin
1/2 teaspoon oregano
Salt and black pepper, to taste
For the Lemon Honey Feta Cream
1/2 cup feta cheese, crumbled
1/3 cup Greek yogurt or sour cream
1 tablespoon mayonnaise
1 teaspoon honey
1 tablespoon lemon juice
1 small garlic clove, minced
For the Wraps
4 large flour tortillas
1 cup shredded lettuce
1/2 cup cherry tomatoes, halved
1/3 cup cucumber, diced
1/4 cup red onion, sliced
1/2 cup shredded cheddar or mozzarella cheese
Fresh parsley, chopped

Instructions
Heat olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat.
Add ground beef and cook until browned.
Stir in garlic, paprika, cumin, oregano, salt, and pepper. Cook for 2–3 more minutes.
In a bowl, mix feta, Greek yogurt, mayonnaise, honey, lemon juice, and garlic until creamy.
Warm tortillas slightly to make them flexible.
Layer each tortilla with cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber, onion, seasoned beef, parsley, and a generous drizzle of lemon honey feta cream.
Fold tightly into wraps or burritos.
Heat a clean skillet over medium heat and toast wraps for 2–3 minutes per side until golden and crispy.
Slice and serve warm with extra feta cream on the side.

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

The health consciousness stuff has gone massively overboard. People walking around with bands tracking their vital signs every second of the day like they’re astronauts on the ISS. Treating alcohol or sugar like it’ll kill them if they look at it. Tracking their sleep. Counting their steps. It’s possible to live a healthy life without being an obsessive, paranoid lunatic. You’re gonna die either way. In a few decades you’ll be just as dead as the rest of us, if not sooner. Relax a little and live your life while you still can.

[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

Elon Musk's first wife once described what it's like to watch him fail.

She said he doesn't react the way normal people react. When a rocket explodes, most people in the room go silent. Some cry. Some start calculating the financial damage.

Musk pulls out his phone and starts making calls. Not emotional calls. Engineering calls. "What failed. When can we fix it. When's the next launch." His voice doesn't change. His face doesn't change. The rocket that just cost $60 million is already in the past. The next one is all that exists.

She said it was the most unsettling thing she'd ever witnessed. Not because he was cold. Because he genuinely wasn't affected. The failure didn't register as failure. It registered as data. An experiment that produced results. Results that inform the next experiment.

This is why he wins. Not because he doesn't fail. He fails more spectacularly than anyone in history. He wins because failure occupies zero psychological space. It enters as data and exits as action.

Most people lose not because they fail but because they spend weeks processing the failure before acting again. Musk spends zero seconds. The gap between failure and next attempt is a phone call.

- @multiplanet1

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Whenever I'm in the USA, I am shocked by how many 'churches' have giant rainbow flags hanging outside of them.

It's like a sign of conquered territory.

[PeachProof @PeachProof23]

When ant hills start cropping up all over the yard, the knee-jerk reaction for many is to sprint to the hardware store for a jug of heavy-duty, synthetic pesticide. But before flooding the lawn with harsh chemicals that can affect pets, helpful pollinators, and the local soil, it pays to look inside the kitchen pantry.

A remarkably effective, non-toxic hack for managing an ant problem requires nothing more than mixing equal parts baking soda and powdered sugar.
Here is exactly how it works and why it is so effective:

The Science Behind the Secret

The Bait: Ants have a massive sweet tooth, but they are incredibly smart foragers. They will easily sniff out and avoid pure baking soda. However, when it is meticulously mixed with finely ground powdered sugar (confectioners' sugar), they cannot separate the two. The sweetness masks the deterrent, drawing them in.

The Mechanism: Baking soda is highly alkaline. When ants consume it, it reacts with the acidic fluids in their digestive systems. Because ants cannot expel internal gas the way mammals can, the sudden chemical reaction is fatal to them.

The Delivery: Foragers won't just eat it on the spot; they will carry this sweet, lethal mixture back to the heart of the colony, effectively taking care of the root of the problem.

How to Apply It

Simply blend a 50/50 mix of the two ingredients in a container and shake well. Sprinkle it directly around the perimeter of active mounds or along known ant trails.

Other All-Natural Alternatives

If baking soda isn’t on hand, a few other household staples can disrupt pest patterns naturally:

White Vinegar: Spraying a simple solution of vinegar and water along entry points dissolves the scent trails ants use to navigate, leaving them completely disoriented.

Diatomaceous Earth (Food Grade): A completely natural powder made from fossilized algae. It is harmless to humans and pets but breaks down the exoskeletons of crawling insects on contact.

Essential Oils: Peppermint, tea tree, and citrus oils act as powerful natural repellents. A few drops near windows and doors keep unwanted visitors at bay.

Relying on massive chemical interventions isn't always necessary to keep a property balanced. Sometimes, the safest, cheapest, and most elegant solutions are already sitting right next to the baking supplies.

[Sam Brown @SamBrownUSA]

Tomorrow we gather in DC to Rededicate the USA as “One Nation, Under God.”

As the sun sets tonight, I pray that we will seek to honor and follow God’s Word as individuals and a country.

Matthew 22:36-39:
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”

What verse are you praying for our country? 🙏🏼 @Freedom250

[Sam Brown @SamBrownUSA]

I survived… but I lost it all.

The life I once knew was gone. Dreams shattered. Identity crushed. The pain was relentless — physical, emotional, spiritual.

For months I wrestled with the darkness. Until one truth broke through:

“The life I live is not my own.”

That single sentence became my foundation. My recovery wasn’t about getting back what I lost. It was about discovering what could never be taken.

[Tamir & Tadilat @TamirveTadilat]

Faydalı bir bilgi.

[Tim Tebow @TimTebow]

Hard days reveal what easy days hide.

Nobody's attitude gets tested on a good day.
Nobody's faith gets proven when everything is working. Nobody's character shows up when the meeting goes well and the boss is happy and the project lands perfectly.
That's just a good day.

The hard day is where everything real lives.
How you treat people when you're tired.
How you respond when you're wronged.
How you show up when showing up costs you something.
That's the version of you that matters.

[Anıl Doğan @browserpplub]

40 yıl düşünsem aklıma gelmez

[Ramblings @ramblingsloa]

People are not beautiful for how they look or speak.
They're beautiful for how they love, care and treat others.

[ZUBY: @ZubyMusic]

Some people are just unhappy regardless of their situation.

Trying to make someone who is fundamentally unhappy happy is a fool's errand. They have to consciously make the decision and change for themselves.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Winston Churchill fought his depression with bricks. He'd lay them for hours at his country home in Kent. He joined the bricklayers' union. And in 1921 he wrote about why it worked. It took psychology another 75 years to catch up.

He called his depression the "Black Dog." It followed him for decades. His method for fighting it back was as basic as it sounds: laying brick after brick, hour after hour.

Churchill spelled out his theory in a long essay for The Strand Magazine. People who think for a living, he wrote, can't fix a tired brain just by resting it. They have to use a different part of themselves. The part that moves the eyes and the hands. Woodworking, chemistry, bookbinding, bricklaying, painting. Anything that drags the body into a problem the mind can't solve by itself.

Modern psychology now calls this behavioral activation. It's one of the most-studied depression treatments out there. Depression sets a behavior trap. You feel bad, so you stop doing things, and doing less means less to feel good about. Feeling worse makes you do even less. The loop tightens until you can't breathe inside it.

Behavioral activation breaks the loop from the action side. You schedule the activity first, even when every part of you doesn't want to. Doing it produces small rewards: a wall gets straighter, a painting fills in, a messy room gets clean. Those small rewards slowly rewire the brain. Action comes first, and the feeling follows.

Researchers at the University of Washington put this to the test in 2006. They studied 241 adults with major depression and compared three treatments: behavioral activation, regular talk therapy, and antidepressants. For the people who were most severely depressed, behavioral activation matched the drugs. It beat the talk therapy. A 2014 review of more than 1,500 patients across 26 trials backed up the result.

Physical work like bricklaying does something extra on top of this. It crowds out rumination, the looping bad thoughts that grind people down during the worst stretches of depression. Bricklaying needs both hands and gives feedback brick by brick: each one is straight or crooked. After an hour you can see exactly how much wall you built. No room left for the mental chewing.

The line George Mack used in his post, "depression hates a moving target," is good poetry. The science behind it is sharper. Depression hates a brain that has somewhere else to be.

[Reformed1563 @Heidel_bro1563]

"Today you will be with me in paradise” is the whisper of Christ to every dying saint.

-Charles Spurgeon

[Clint Brown @DissidentClint]

One really uncomfortable truth behind the assassins:

Of course, they’re brainwashed. They’re brainwashed into thinking that opposition to the right makes them MORAL. They are seeking moral justification via their beliefs. BUT, like every false god, it does not make them FEEL better. Each act in furtherance of their leftist religion is a temporary high of moral superiority combined with the sugary high of hate. Yes, hate and anger feel good, especially when one can feel moral and justified in their hate.

But, like every drug, it never satisfies, so they want more. Until they become a martyr for their cause.

Their own pursuit of moral justification drives them to do more and more evil. Until finally, in their moral superiority they pursue an ultimate act of evil.

You already know the only real solution to this is Jesus. Pray for your enemies. Pray that they turn to Jesus and we don’t have to crush them.