I've become suspicious of anything that requires me to constantly ignore my own discomfort just to keep it working. If peace only exists when I'm silent, that's not really peace.
Hear me clearly:
You are allowed to experience joy while things in your life are unresolved. If you postpone happiness until everything is perfect, you’ll be postponing it forever.
acabei de ler a frase: “eu sou uma pessoa muito tolerante e vou te perdoar mil vezes se necessário, mas um dia eu vou te deixar pra trás por não ter gostado da cor da sua camisa, e você vai achar que foi por conta da sua camisa, mas nunca foi.” e eu nunca me identifiquei tanto
I heard someone say, satan got adam and eve to fix their eyes on one tree when god had already given them an entire garden, think about that. The enemy didn't have to convince them that they had nothing. He just had to make them forget everything that they already had. And he still, till this day, uses the same strategy. He gets us to focus on relationships we don't have, the job that we don't have, the opportunity we don't have, the healing we haven't seen yet. Meanwhile, we are blind to the countless prayers god has already answered. Gratitude isn't pretending you don't want more, it's refusing to let what you don't have make you forget the goodness of god that's already surrounding you.
the hottest form of dominance is honestly just competence. knowing where we’re going. making the reservation. ordering when i can’t decide. moving me to the inside of the sidewalk. “come with me.” “eat.” “sleep.” “i’ll sort it.” yeah… i’m listening.
There was a time when raising the Ukrainian flag over the ring was my proudest moment — a way to give my country a victory of its own. I never imagined how much more that flag would come to symbolize.
Today it flies over front-line positions. It rises over cities that refuse to fall. It hangs in the windows of buildings russia has destroyed.
Independence is a choice Ukrainians make daily. And this year, as russia tries especially hard to make this day painful, that choice matters more than ever.
No missile has ever taken the values of freedom away. But every russian missile that gets through takes a life that didn’t have to be lost.
Give Ukraine the air defense to protect the choice of the free world.
Happy Independence Day, Ukraine 🇺🇦 ❤️
Glory to Ukraine, glory to the heroes!
Слава Україні та її героям!