@VincentOshana To me, this isn’t only about the forces behind other human beings. It’s also about what we battle amongst ourselves. To think that we are immune to being misled or manipulated as Christians ourselves is very dangerous. Pray to love people like Jesus does, pray for discernment.
This Bible series is something I’ve felt called to do for a long time, and in a lot of ways, I feel like everything I’ve done up to this point has prepared me for it. I’m not a theologian or a scholar, I’m just someone trying to understand the Bible for myself, ask the questions I’ve always had, and hopefully bring some of you along with me on that journey. This one is deeply personal to me, and I’m excited to finally share it with you. @ShawnRyanShow
We tell young people in our society that end of the rainbow is retirement at 65.
We ought to tell them that "there is going to be this short but beautiful golden window from roughly age 3 to roughly age 12 where your kids are not only easy (comparatively to bottles & diapers), but are going to be these beautiful little creatures and it will pain your heart to be away from them for too long. So, prepare in your 20's, financially and career wise, to build that flexibility into that chapter of your life".
You don't get another shot at living the "golden window". And, for me, leaning hard into that golden window has made everything else in my life feel fairly insignificant in comparison. I have made plenty of mistakes as a father, but what I won't have is the regret of having been distracted and absent from these formative years. In some cases, that has required financial sacrifices (declining a particular career opportunity that would have required relocation), but I personally have zero regrets.
I also hear from some ambitious & successful people with a 4 year old that say "I've lost my ambition, I am so immersed in fatherhood". At least for me, and a number of my friends, it comes back. You can't keep an ambitious person down and if you have the fire, hanging at a playground on too many Tuesday afternoons is going to feel like torture after too long.
My three boys are approaching 13, 11 & 9, and it's much different than 7, 5 & 3. This summer, for example, they slept until 11am and I hard an unencumbered 6am-12pm to work (being on PT helps), then got another great window 7-11pm, but was able to be present in the heart of the day, then weeks when they were at basketball camp, etc. It gets easier, your time frees up again (there's a sadness to that too), but I'm back to working as intensely as I did pre-kids just because my day to day presence requires fewer hours than it did before (also, my wife is just superbly wonderful). And that is the beautiful gift of entrepreneurship (or at least my sort of business), the ability to deliver still a high level of output but work that around your life rather than the opposite.
TLDR, grind before, and grind after. Prepare for the golden window.
@BrianEntin People, this is what jury duty is like. For anyone who has done it for anything halfway serious knows this.There are many legal tasks in the process that have to get done without the jury able to watch.Just like there are a lot of tasks that happen before jury even gets selected.
@MaxVelocityWX I’m praying Northwest Arkansas will truly get some rain tomorrow. It seems that we’ve had “Dolby Digital” (all around you) weather all season. Literally able to watch the greatest lightning shows to our north and south, rarely getting a drop of rain.
@ProsecutorsPod I believe the narrative blaming Patrick stems from a coordinated effort by those who fear the psychiatric field will be highly scrutinized, investigated and potentially undergo major reforms.
@paleochristcon And yet you’re doing nothing but trying to waste time. “Beyond reasonable doubt” means something. If the govt is sentencing a man to death, you better not have reasonable doubt of his crime.
🚨 THE SENATE JUST GAVE THE SWAMP A MASSIVE WIN.
The Senate Appropriations Committee reportedly advanced another CR—and Republicans surrendered a Trump administration rule requiring top political appointees to review agency grants.
Why does that matter?
Because once federal grant money passes through states and other intermediaries, the public often loses the trail.
A Project On Government Oversight investigation reviewed nearly $959 BILLION in federal grants and found:
• Only 20.7% could be traced through prime-award data to a county, city, or ZIP code
• Broken subaward reporting accounted for only another 5%
• Approximately $712.6 BILLION could not be publicly traced below the state level
That does not necessarily mean the money vanished.
It means taxpayers cannot reliably see where enormous portions of it ultimately went, who received it, or what it accomplished.
And Congress’s response?
Less senior-level scrutiny.
Less accountability.
More power for unelected bureaucrats.
The Uni-Party wins.
The Establishment wins.
The administrative state wins.
The DEEP STATE wins.
Taxpayers lose.
The system isn’t merely broken.
It is designed to keep you from following the money.