I realize choosing isnβt as easy as it sounds, but praying we can choose some of the following during this time of crisis.
Choose joy over fear. Choose faith over uncertainty. Choose to love rather than run. Choose your neighbor over yourself. Choose Jesus over this world.
New research from the University of Chicago found that marriage is the βthe most important differentiatorβ of who is happy in America, and that falling marriage rates are a chief reason why happiness has declined nationally. @BradWilcoxIFS@unherd@davidnbass@FamStudies
It is another great day to tune out the noise, make our heart happy in Christ, meet needs around us, and remember that the struggle of this life is not meaningless. God bless you all.
Frodo leaving the Shire is one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking endings in all of literature. He won. The Ring was destroyed. The Shire was saved. And he couldn't stay.
Not because he didn't want to. But because the journey cost him more than anyone around him could see. He carried the weight of the world's evil on his body and soul, and even though the Ring was gone, the scars weren't.
That's Tolkien writing the truest thing he ever wrote: some suffering in this life cannot be healed in this life. There are wounds - spiritual, physical, emotional - that only eternity can restore.
Frodoβs departure isnβt a sad ending, itβs the hope of heaven for someone who gave everything and was broken by it. It's about the promise that what was broken will be made whole. Just not here. And not yet.
"I am a man. See me as a human beingβnot a birth defect, not a syndrome. I donβt need to be eradicated."
Frank Stephens pleads for the humanization of people with Down syndrome, studies suggest 67-90% are aborted in the United States due to faulty prenatal screenings.
Austin Peayβs Collin Parker has been on a TEAR the last four games.
At EKU: 25p, 6r, 9/14
At UWG: 30p, 12r, 3a
Vs Lipscomb: 30p, 9r, 6a, 13/22
Today in @GovsMBB win over UNA: 27p, 4a, 11/17.
6 wins in a row!
David French, Albert Mohler, and Andrew Walker are right. A mob's invading a church, synagogue, mosque or other house of worship to disrupt a peaceful service is an abomination. The religion or denomination doesn't matter. Nor does the mob's ideology or cause. It's simply wrong.