Michael B. Erickson

Older happily married man in Kent, WA, with a wonderful granddaughter and successful children, could not ask for more.

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Washington Governor PANICS As An Iconic Seattle Casino OFFICIALLY Shuts ... https://t.co/57dg1kezSz via @YouTube

[Byron Donalds @ByronDonalds]

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.

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Nana is the most refreshing reporter I have seen in a long time.

[GB News @GBNEWS]

Imarn Ayton and Nana Akua debate and discuss Henry Nowak's murder.

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[Tamara Lich 🇨🇦 @LichTamara]

If you are concerned about the Canadian MAID program, give this woman a follow. @Kelsisheren has been working tirelessly to expose this program for what it is….medical m*rd*r.

[SONS OF LIBERTY -MAGA MOVEMENT !!! @eagameover]

GOD BLESS YOU SIR 🫵🏻🫡
My respect 96 years .
🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
AMERICAN MADE .

The GOAT !!

Clint Eastwood Said Something About Getting Old That Stopped Me Cold.
Aging is not gentle.
You are still here. Still present. Still watching the world move. But the body that carried you through everything - the wars, the work, the wildness of youth - begins to ask for more than you can give it. Joints that never complained now speak up in the morning. Eyes that once took in everything now flinch at the light. Breathing, which never required a single thought, starts needing little pauses.
But none of that is the hardest part.
The hardest part is the quiet.
At a certain age, you reach for the phone and remember there is no one left to call.
The people who knew you when you were young - who remembered the same summers, the same streets, the same faces
- are gone. One by one, then all at once, until the memories you carry have no one left to share them with.
So you tell the stories anyway.
To whoever will listen. With a little more color than perhaps the truth deserves. With a touch of pride you've earned and a grief you don't always name. You know the person across from you wasn't there. You know they can't quite feel it the way you do.
But you tell them. Because the telling is the holding on.
Those stories are not just memories. They are the proof that a life was lived. That people were loved. That things mattered.
And if no one asks for them - you offer them anyway, quietly, like setting something down on a table and hoping someone picks it up.
Old age is not simply what happens to a face or a body.
It is memory looking for a place to rest.
And what an older person needs - more than advice, more than solutions, more than someone telling them how to feel - is simply someone willing to sit down, be still, and listen.
Not to fix anything.
Just to be there.
That is the whole gift. And it costs nothing.
~Wild Whispers .

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Farage Speaks Out on GB News. https://t.co/tVZSeANSWe via @YouTube

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Finally someone notices, lot of good it will do.

[Commentary 🇺🇸 Tom Homan @HomanNews]

💥 KABOOM 💥🚨

Marco Rubio just said something that’s blowing up online.

He pointed to Americans who worked their entire lives, only to retire on $800–$1,000 a month in Social Security.

Then compared it to claims that some new arrivals receive higher monthly benefits.

Read that again.

Worked your whole life…
Less support.

Just arrived…
More support?

🇺🇸🔥

This is why the debate over benefits, fairness, and government priorities is EXPLODING right now.

People are asking:

Who comes first?

America First — that’s the message.

Watch closely.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Well said

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Farage Exposes Two-Tier Policing in Britain. https://t.co/NNpMGLbWSn via @YouTube

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Farage Addresses the Nation on Henry Nowak's Murder. https://t.co/l9LlK2GmUg via @YouTube

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 WOW! Argentina President Javier Milei, a Trump ally, confirms he lifted 10 MILLION+ out of poverty by returning 100 BILLION DOLLARS to the people

"Having pushed the FILTHY PARASITE of the state out of the way!"

"We returned 15 points of GDP to good Argentines, we lowered the tax burden by 2.7 points of GDP."

Milei meeting Trump back in 2024, MAJOR SUCCESS continued into Milei's 2025 midterm elections 👏🏻

Keep crushing it, @jmilei_english 🇺🇸🇦🇷

[kevin smith @kevin_smith45]

Spencer Pratt is going to win tonight!!!

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

I died laughing at this one.

[Clay Travis @ClayTravis]

These Spencer Pratt videos by @dsonoiki are better than 99.9% of political consultant ads. He does it again.

[✨Red✨ @mcucolo57]

Bill Maher FINALLY DESTROYS
Zohran Mamdani and AOC On
Live TV & It's BRUTAL

[The Atlas Society @TheAtlasSociety]

Collectivism begins with promises of equality and ends with coercion.

[Blue Lives Matter @bluelivesmtr]

REPORTER: I just want to make sure I understand. You're alleging that the Southern Poverty Law Center was paying the leaders of KKK and other groups?

BLANCHE: I'm not alleging it. The grand jury returned an indictment that says that.

The media can't even handle the truth.... so let's do their jobs for them and make sure EVERYONE sees it.

#thinblueline #lawenforcement

[Jason Bartlett @Jason2bartlett]

When I arrive at the @WhiteHouse I will tell the Trump administration the whole truth about South Africa!

[Seattle Police Officers Guild @SPOG1952]

After a brief review of the First Amendment, the Mayor’s Office has retracted its request that SPOG remove our post.

They also said they “Look forward to working with the police union in the future.”

Freedom of Speech: 1
Mayor’s Office: 0

@MayorofSeattle

[John F Kennedy Jr @John_F_kJr]

SENATOR JOHN KENNEDY: "It strikes me as breathtakingly ironic that that the people who are screaming so loudly about President Trump's decision to audit federal spending, are the very same people who wanted to hire 80,000 new IRS agents with guns to audit the American people."

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING

[Michael B. Erickson @MBErickson54]

Ron Paul is sooooo short sighted, but well intention.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Rand Paul: “We violated the Constitution, removed an elected official.”

Marco Rubio: “We did not remove an elected official. We removed an unelected, indicted drug trafficker.”