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[Ben Sasse @BenSasse]

Friends-

This is a tough note to write, but since a bunch of you have started to suspect something, I’ll cut to the chase: Last week I was diagnosed with metastasized, stage-four pancreatic cancer, and am gonna die.

Advanced pancreatic is nasty stuff; it’s a death sentence. But I already had a death sentence before last week too — we all do.

I’m blessed with amazing siblings and half-a-dozen buddies that are genuinely brothers. As one of them put it, “Sure, you’re on the clock, but we’re all on the clock.” Death is a wicked thief, and the bastard pursues us all.

Still, I’ve got less time than I’d prefer. This is hard for someone wired to work and build, but harder still as a husband and a dad. I can’t begin to describe how great my people are. During the past year, as we’d temporarily stepped back from public life and built new family rhythms, Melissa and I have grown even closer — and that on top of three decades of the best friend a man could ever have. Seven months ago, Corrie was commissioned into the Air Force and she’s off at instrument and multi-engine rounds of flight school. Last week, Alex kicked butt graduating from college a semester early even while teaching gen chem, organic, and physics (she’s a freak). This summer, 14-year-old Breck started learning to drive. (Okay, we’ve been driving off-book for six years — but now we’ve got paper to make it street-legal.) I couldn’t be more grateful to constantly get to bear-hug this motley crew of sinners and saints.

There’s not a good time to tell your peeps you’re now marching to the beat of a faster drummer — but the season of advent isn’t the worst. As a Christian, the weeks running up to Christmas are a time to orient our hearts toward the hope of what’s to come.

Not an abstract hope in fanciful human goodness; not hope in vague hallmark-sappy spirituality; not a bootstrapped hope in our own strength (what foolishness is the evaporating-muscle I once prided myself in). Nope — often we lazily say “hope” when what we mean is “optimism.” To be clear, optimism is great, and it’s absolutely necessary, but it’s insufficient. It’s not the kinda thing that holds up when you tell your daughters you’re not going to walk them down the aisle. Nor telling your mom and pops they’re gonna bury their son.

A well-lived life demands more reality — stiffer stuff. That’s why, during advent, even while still walking in darkness, we shout our hope — often properly with a gravelly voice soldiering through tears.

Such is the calling of the pilgrim. Those who know ourselves to need a Physician should dang well look forward to enduring beauty and eventual fulfillment. That is, we hope in a real Deliverer — a rescuing God, born at a real time, in a real place. But the eternal city — with foundations and without cancer — is not yet.

Remembering Isaiah’s prophecies of what’s to come doesn’t dull the pain of current sufferings. But it does put it in eternity’s perspective:
“When we've been there 10,000 years…We've no less days to sing God's praise.”

I’ll have more to say. I��m not going down without a fight. One sub-part of God’s grace is found in the jawdropping advances science has made the past few years in immunotherapy and more. Death and dying aren’t the same — the process of dying is still something to be lived. We’re zealously embracing a lot of gallows humor in our house, and I’ve pledged to do my part to run through the irreverent tape.

But for now, as our family faces the reality of treatments, but more importantly as we celebrate Christmas, we wish you peace: “The people walking in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of deep darkness a light has dawned….For to us a son is given” (Isaiah 9).

With great gratitude, and with gravelly-but-hopeful voices,
Ben — and the Sasses

[AXEL KAISER @AXELKAISER]

Izquierda: que terrible es EEUU e Israel pobres iraníes.
Iraníes en las calles:

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@GabrielBoric Jajajajajaja que lindo hablar de derechos humanos en un país donde se han asesinado más de 10,000 personas. Por qué no empiezas por criticar al régimen antes que nada! Hipócrita! 🤮

[Adriana Martinez @AdrianaVeterin]

La cara de Bukele cuando sabe que su respuesta a esta periodista zurda le producirá un aneurisma cerebral😎

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@GoldenAgeUnfold C!

[Charlie Kirk @charliekirk11]

Merry Christmas!

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@Buckingham_Show Just prayed for you! Know that God is good and he loves you dearly! More than we could ever imagine!

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@elonmusk Only 1.03 Million people voted for this clown! Out of almost 9 million people that live in NYC where 5.1 Million are registered voters! This is the real problem! People are not voting and are leaving their fates to just a few! This is a disgrace to our country!

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@ML3democrats Can you please ask you chat GPT which is the state with the most poverty rate considering cost of living? Then hopefully you’ll understand where California stands! Great job Newscum! ♥️

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@GavinNewsom So when Newsom posts things like this, it feels less like leadership and more like distraction. The data tells a different story, one that doesn’t fit his narrative.

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@GavinNewsom energy costs spiked, and middle-class savings dropped, none of that can be blamed solely on Trump now.
As for healthcare “tripling,” that’s not true. Premiums have risen steadily for over a decade under both parties but no reputable source shows any sign of them tripling.

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@GavinNewsom People really need to look beyond slogans and fact-check what politicians say. The louder they talk, the more they’re usually trying to cover up.

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@TheOnlyEsta Hell NO!

[Carla @Carlamun83]

@TheMightyMagnet @GavinNewsom We could if elections weren’t rigged! 😮‍💨

[Tim Allen @ofctimallen]

When Erika Kirk spoke the words on the man who killed her husband: “That man… that young man… I forgive him.”  That moment deeply affected me.  I have struggled for over 60 years to forgive the man who killed my Dad. I will say those words now as I type: “ I forgive the man who killed my father.”
Peace be with you all.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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[Carla @Carlamun83]

@TuckerCNews A all the way!