i was so focused on a game of enlisted yesterday i did not notice my dad secretly planted one of our police walkie talkies in my room until he started playing random military chatter through it lmao
“There are three traps of Satan that steal joy and peace: Regretting about the past, fear for the future, and ingratitude for the present.”
St. Anthony the Great 🕊️
Police actually went to her killer’s home but did not enter it despite him being a registered sex offender with an outstanding record warrant AND police dogs were leading them in the direction of his trailer because they detected her scent. They instead focused on her father assuming he was responsible when he was completely innocent and ignored the outstanding warrant. She was in that man’s trailer in the closet the entire time they were speaking to him. They left and then the next day he buried her alive after raping her.
Had police entered they very likely would have found her and she would be alive today. Her father a wrongful death and negligence lawsuit against the department after her body was found. He also got a law passed in her honor that requires sex offenders to be heavily monitored. It’s called the Jessica Lunsford Act.
“You must not become tired of this war. It is impossible to avoid this fight. If anyone flees, he is exposed to being wounded and even destroyed...Consider yourself as on the field of battle facing the enemy and bound by the iron-clad law—either fight or die.”
– Lorenzo Scupoli
Fourteenth Sunday After Pentecost
"Be not solicitous for your life."
Say often with Job: The Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away: as it pleased the Lord, so it is done: blessed be the name of the Lord. Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither.
"No one would complain about hardships coming seemingly by chance upon him, if he realized in what balance they are weighed before being distributed to men." - St. Rose of Lima