Kelly Knapp

Dreamer. Writer. Friend. Lover of courage, laughter, Jeff & our children. Follower of Jesus. Peonies, chai, & good​ conversation​ make me happy.

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Be encouraged:

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness HAS NOT overcome it. - John 1:5

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@TheRightMelissa @VanityFair The "only" time in the interview. Reading comprehension skills are a lost art!

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@ago0606 @TheRightMelissa @VanityFair The "only" time in the interview. Reading comprehension skills are a lost art!

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@howertonjosh This makes me cry. Glory to God for His saving grace!!!!

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Just a reminder that while the U.S. Senate remains incapable of getting Voter ID passed in America, all of these countries have it:

- Iceland
- Sweden
- New Zealand
- Denmark
- Canada
- Ireland
- Switzerland
- Finland
- Australia
- Luxembourg
- Netherlands
- Germany
- Austria
- Malta
- U.K.
- Spain
- Mauritius
- Uruguay
- Japan
- Italy
- France
- South Korea
- Costa Rica
- Botswana
- Portugal
- Estonia
- Israel
- Czech Republic
- India
- Taiwan
- Chile
- Belgium
- Cyprus
- Slovenia
- Lithuania
- South Africa
- Jamaica
- Latvia
- Slovakia
- Greece
- Panama
- Bulgaria
- Indonesia
- Argentina
- Poland
- Brazil
- Ghana
- Croatia
- Hungary
- Colombia
- Peru
- El Salvador
- Romania
- Serbia
- Hong Kong
- Singapore
- Georgia
- Honduras
- Ecuador
- Bangladesh
- Ukraine
- Bolivia
- Turkey
- Kenya
- Thailand
- Lebanon
- Nicaragua
- Venezuela
- Palestine
- Pakistan
- Iraq
- Haiti

America’s elections are worse than third world…

[Sahil Bloom @SahilBloom]

Powerful rule for life: Never make a permanent decision based on a temporary feeling. Bad days pass. Anger fades. Fear settles. Just learn to pause. Take a walk. Sleep on it. Give it a minute. You can always act tomorrow. You can't always undo a rushed decision made today.

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[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Four hundred million people have this image on their phone, a mug, or a T-shirt.

Almost none of them have noticed what's wrong with Adam's hand.

Look at the two arms.

God is horizontal. Launched. Every tendon in His arm at full stretch, hair and mantle blown back by His own speed, angels straining under the weight of carrying Him because He is the one moving. He has crossed the entire sky to get to this moment. His finger is extended as far as a finger goes.

Now Adam.

Draped on a hillside. Propped on one elbow. Leaning back. His arm isn't reaching; it's resting on his own knee. The wrist is slack. The finger droops.

The Creator of the universe is straining like a man reaching for someone going over a cliff.

And the man can't be bothered to straighten one finger.

Michelangelo painted that on purpose. And he painted it in agony, four years on scaffolding under that ceiling, head cranked back, paint dripping into his beard. He hated it enough to write a poem about it, complaining that his spine had bent like a bow and he could no longer read a letter without holding it above his head.

Four years of that. To say one thing:

You did not climb to God. God dove to you.

Every religion on earth is a ladder. Purify yourself, discipline yourself, ascend. Michelangelo put the opposite on the ceiling of the most important church in the world: man reclining, barely participating, and God closing the distance at speed.

Genesis 2:7. And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

God breathed. Adam received. That's the whole transaction. Adam contributed the dust.

Now look under God's left arm.

There's a woman tucked against His side. His arm is wrapped around her. And she isn't watching the miracle; she's looking past God's shoulder, straight at Adam.

The oldest reading says that's Eve.

Not yet created. Not yet formed. Already held. Already watching the man she'll be given to, from inside the embrace of God, because she existed in His mind before she existed in the world.

Jeremiah 1:5. Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee.

Ephesians 1:4. He hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world.

You were in that mantle once before your parents met, before anything.

And about that mantle, in 1990, a physician named Frank Meshberger was studying the fresco and published something that made art historians sit down. Trace the outline of the crimson cloak, the angels, the whole swirling mass around God.

It matches a cross-section of the human brain. The fissures. The lobes. The stem.

Michelangelo dissected corpses. He knew human anatomy better than most surgeons of his century. Whether he hid it there deliberately is argued to this day, but if he did, the sermon is staggering: God isn't just handing Adam a heartbeat. He's giving him a mind. The image of God. The capacity to know his Maker.

So God has crossed the sky. Arm at full extension. Nothing left to give. He has closed all the distance that can be closed from His side.

And the fingers don't touch.

Michelangelo froze them apart forever. A half-inch of empty plaster carrying more weight than the rest of the ceiling combined.

Because look whose finger has slack left in it.

Not God's.

Adam could close that gap by straightening one knuckle. One. The remaining distance is his, the smallest movement in the painting, and the only one God will not make for him.

That half-inch is free will. God will cross a universe. He will not cross your consent.

But here's what the ceiling can't show you, because it happened fifteen centuries after Genesis and Michelangelo painted the before.

The touch happens.

God's hand and human flesh finally meet not above the clouds, but in Bethlehem, when the hand that flung the stars became a hand small enough to grab Mary's finger. God stopped reaching across the gap and stepped into it. Took a body. Took a hand.

And when that hand was finally stretched out as far as human arms go, extended like the arm on the ceiling, full reach, nothing held back.

We nailed it there.

That's where the two fingers meet. At the cross. God at full stretch and man at his worst, touching at last through an iron spike.

And three days later that hand was moving again. Folding grave clothes. Cooking breakfast. Offering its scars to a doubter.

It's still extended. The ceiling is still true. He has done all the reaching, crossed all the sky, closed all the distance that love can close without your permission.

The last half-inch has always been yours.

Lift your hand.

[Julie_married_to_Thomas_but_not_a_Thomist @gmk_julie]

I've been trying to ignore all the clips of crazy women on-line crying and hailing admitted murderers as victims, be it a deranged mom or a sexually deviant leftist. But there are too many commonalities with moms within my own sphere who have fallen for the flat earth or other conspiracies currently en vogue. So when @conservmillen posted that women shouldn't be on TikTok I had to agree. And while I can't tell from the context of her tweet why she would come to that conclusion, my current deep dive into the second pastoral epistle to Timothy is what drove me to mine.

Consider the following list Paul makes describing the kind of people that were going to make for difficult times in the last days. They were going to be:
Lovers of self
Lovers of money
Boastful
Arrogant
Blasphemers
Disobedient to parents
Ungrateful
Unholy
Unloving
Irreconsilable
Malicious gossips
Without self control
Without gentleness
Without love for good
Treacherous
Reckless
Conceited
Lovers of pleasure, not God
Holding to a powerless form of godliness.

Paul says to keep away from people matching this description. Why? Because they target weak women. They take them captive in their own homes. They don't have to capture and abduct them. They are literally invited in through the front door, or in our day, through a handheld device carried in their pockets.

What makes these women easy prey? They are weakened by sin, unconfessed, unrepentant sin that has weighed them down. They are weakened by their own emotions and desires which they allow themselves to be led by. Even while doing "all the research," these women are continually learning and yet NEVER ABLE TO COME TO A FULL KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUTH.

In a word, they are perfect candidates for deception, for cult participation, even for demon possession. So in an age when social media gives deceivers instant, unfettered 24/7 access to weak women, I have to agree with Allie Beth. Simply avoiding those that match Paul's thorough description and the platforms where they congregate would go along way toward protecting weak, vulnerable women from social, psychological, and spiritual predators.

Ladies, if you are emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually weakened due to hormones, physical exhaustion, anxiety, trauma, unrepentant or unconfessed sin, whatever, STAY AWAY FROM SOCIAL MEDIA. Find an older women in your church and tell her what you are going through and that you need the real life companionship and help of other godly women.

And for heaven's sake if you're going to have a break down or crash out or whatever, ask her to be the audience, not your phone and millions of internet strangers. How is the filming of such tantrums even considered within the realms of healthy normality?!?!

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@MattWalshBlog Yes. It's awful.

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@Bigsplif13 @RobSchneider Water. Improved sanitation. All of this is documented, go read for yourself to see.

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@SusiePMB When did DR post about that? I'd like to read it. Thanks!

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@AlexBerenson Don't forget Unbreakable.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

What the World Cup has brought to the United States could not have been more providentially perfect for our 250th anniversary. The rest of the world is coming here and reminding us what makes America so great.

Oh say does that star spangled banner yet wave o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave?

Yes. Yes it does.

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@jacqui683 @McJuggerNuggets Nah, I'll stay right here and keep doing what I'm doing, thank you very much.

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@aakashgupta What's not being talked about is the increase of the MTHFR mutation and how that affects many "normal" things that previous generations had no issue with. It's an important conversation to have.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

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@mattvanswol HOMESCHOOL.

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@Pontifex Yes. Woe to those who do this! (Maybe hold up a mirror, Leo.)

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@RealCandaceO Pretty sure it's safe to say Charlie didn't speak about people like this. Even if he did, and that's a BIG if, you posting his texts is just absolutely despicable.