As someone who’s been singing the National Anthem at rodeo events for over 20 years, I’ll just say….
There’s a way it was intended to be sung, without your own spin. This was 💯the way! Bravo!
As a Gen Xer, how many times have you started typing a reply to a post, gotten halfway through, and then realized you just don’t care enough to finish it?
These monuments tell the story of America.
They honor the men and women who sacrificed for our freedom and the leaders who helped shape this nation.
Their beauty, history, and meaning remind us why America remains the greatest country on Earth.
They stand as lasting symbols of courage, strength, sacrifice, and the American spirit.
God Bless America! 🇺🇸
FACT 🚨
@JDVance can walk into the chamber, take the presiding officers chair as Senate President & enforce the rules that would enable a "talking filibuster"
If you want JD Vance to use the powers we vested in him, to do what Thune refuses to do.. let him know, he's tagged
To you, it's just a Cracker Barrel parking lot. To me, it's where I gave my life to Jesus Christ.
I was 21 years old. I was working at the Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee after some of the worst years of my life. I'd made mistakes. Real ones.
I grew up in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, raised by a mom who worked hard and didn't accept excuses. But I made decisions that should have ended my story before it ever really started. By the grace of God, they didn't. But every day, I was carrying them.
One afternoon, a church group came into the restaurant, just back from a revival. I served them their meals like I served any other table. But something happened while I was serving them. I can't fully explain it to you. The Lord spoke to me. He said, “Stop running from Me.”
It knocked me back.
I went to find the table, and they were all gone. I could see through their windows that they were getting on their bus, and I knew deep down that if I let them drive away, I was going to keep running. So I went outside. The last woman, just as she was stepping onto the bus, turned to me and asked, “Are you okay?”
I told her, “No ma’am, I’m not okay.” I told her the Lord was telling me to stop running.
That whole bus emptied out, stood with me in the parking lot of a Cracker Barrel in Tallahassee, Florida, and prayed over me right there.
I gave my life to Christ that day. Right there.
I still get emotional about it. Because I know what I was before that moment, and I know what He's done since. He gave me a wife who shares my faith. He gave me three sons. He gave me a career, a community, a calling I never would have dared to ask for. He took a kid from Crown Heights who’d run out of chances and gave him a life that doesn't make sense apart from grace.
People ask me sometimes why I talk about it. Why I bring up the parking lot. Why I don't just keep that part private and let folks see the polished version.
I'll tell you why.
Because there's a young man out there right now — maybe in Tallahassee, maybe in Tampa, maybe in Miami, maybe in a small town in the Panhandle — who thinks his story is already over. Who thinks the mistakes he's made disqualify him from the life he could have had. Who thinks God doesn't want anything to do with somebody like him.
I'm here to tell him: that's a lie.
In life, you're not who you are at the lowest point. You're who you choose to become after.
The Lord met me in a Cracker Barrel parking lot. He'll meet you wherever you are.
You just have to stop running.
@SenThomTillis@SenatorCollins HEY DUMBASS!!!!!!
THEY FOUND 34,000 DEAD PEOPLE ON THE VOTER ROLLS OF NORTH CAROLINA…
…AND YOU COULDNT FIND THE BALLS TO VOTE FOR THE SAVE ACT!!!!!!!!!!
🚨 NOW: Anti-ICE rioters are now FULLY KETTLED between TWO WALLS of concrete and two walls of police here in Newark
A MASS ARREST bus has just rolled up.
And has prepared to take rioters into custody.
There is literally NO ESCAPE for them out here! 🔥
For the first time in my life I’m watching my government function as intended: the people want the SAVE Act passed, and the politicians refusing to do so are paying a heavy price.
It’s a beautiful thing to behold.