Mickey Pennington

Christ Follower, American Patriot, Freedom Fighter, Wrong Righter, USMC, Husband, Father, Papa. Bettering myself today to help others and improve our tomorrow.

[Mickey Pennington @mickpenn]

@GeorgesStPierre @GSPPodOfficial @LaurieBetitoPhD Well, that's just gay.

[Vince Langman @LangmanVince]

My feel good video of the week! ❤️❤️

[🇺🇸Lionel🇺🇸 @LionelMedia]

Can we please have this woman run for anything so that we can elect her and ultimately make her POTUS?

[Talk2veee @talk2veee]

Every Parent should watch this video.

Now I understand why that father followed his daughters to the toilet despite the backlash he faced.

We live in very dark times

[Mickey Pennington @mickpenn]

@RealCandaceO Stop. That's it.

[Mila Joy @Milajoy]

Josephine Harris was 59, a Port Authority bookkeeper with a bad leg, walking down from the 73rd floor of the North Tower on September 11.

By the time the firefighters of Ladder

Company 6 found her in the stairwell, she was exhausted and crying.

They had just been ordered out.

The other tower was already gone.

They did not leave her.

Firefighter Bill Butler put her arm over his shoulder.

“Josephine,” he said, “we’re going to get you out of here today.”

Their pace became hers.

Lower down she collapsed and told them to go on without her.

They refused.

Then the North Tower fell.

Stairwell B held.

The building peeled away around them.

Fourteen people survived in that pocket: firefighters, a Port Authority officer, and Josephine.

People who had passed them on the stairs did not.

The men of Ladder 6 called her their guardian angel.

They believed she slowed them just enough.

Without her they would have been lower when it came down.

Without them, she would not have made it out.

When she died years later, those firefighters carried her coffin.

One of them named a daughter after her.

She was not trying to save anyone.

She was a tired woman who could not walk any faster.

That was enough.

[Dr. Lee Warren @drleewarrenmd]

Today, I’m going to give you ten years of therapy in two minutes.

I'm a brain surgeon, and I'm gonna show you how to make rapid progress in healing the wounds you’ve been carrying; the ones from childhood, from broken relationships, from things said that can’t be unsaid, and from things done that can’t be undone. Let's scrub in and get it done.

Here's a Fact: Your Wound Lives in Your Brain, But Your Healing Lives in Your Mind

When something hurts you, your brain stores it. The sights, the sounds, the sting of the words, the shape of the moment. That storage is real and physical.

But here’s where the hope of healing lies: your brain doesn’t get the final vote on what that memory means to you. Your mind does. And your mind is not the same thing as your brain.

Neuroscience nugget: Emotional memories get encoded in circuits involving the amygdala and hippocampus, but each time you recall a memory, it becomes temporarily unstable and gets rewritten via a process called reconsolidation. That means every time you revisit a wound, you have a fresh chance to change how it’s stored.

Self-Brain Surgery Procedure: The next time an old wound surfaces, don’t just relive it. Instead, reframe it while it’s “open.” Ask: What is the truest, most redemptive way to understand this moment now? Speak that new understanding out loud before you let the memory close back up.

Scripture: “He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.” Psalm 147:3, NIV

This is self-brain surgery. Hard and holy work.

Follow me to connect neuroscience and scripture every day. Save this to help when you need to heal. Share it with a friend who's hurting.

Click the link in my bio to learn more about The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery, my NYT bestselling book.

#selfbrainsurgery #neuroscience #neuroplasticity #grief #healing

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

Professional racing driver Ollie Millroy thanks competitor Loek Hartog for saving his life after getting into a fiery crash over the weekend in China.

Millroy says he'd be dead if Hartog hadn't jumped out of his car to pull him out of his burning car.

"I am still alive tonight, entirely thanks to one man. Loek Hartog stopped instantly with no flag marshalls or fire crews in sight, and risked his own life to get me out of the car."

"I don’t remember anything between 30 seconds before the crash and 1 hour after it, but I will remember his incredible act of bravery for the rest of my life..."

"I’m laying here tonight with 5 broken ribs, broken collar bone, broken hand and finger and a bruised lung, but it could have been much worse."

"Thank you Loek. I owe you my life for your selfless act today."

[Lila Rose @LilaGraceRose]

A culture of life is built through moments like this. 

Monique, a United flight attendant, saw an exhausted mother who desperately needed rest and had accidentally fallen asleep with her baby in her lap. Instead of criticizing her, she offered to care for her baby while she got some much-needed rest.

This is the kind of compassion our culture needs more of.

[Hosna ⚖️ בניטה @DOGEQEEN]

In 1995, inside a small Massachusetts hospital, a pair of newborn premature twins fought the hardest battle of their tiny lives. Born far too early, Kyrie and Brielle weighed barely enough to fill a nurse’s hands. Both fragile… but one fading faster than anyone expected.
Kyrie, the stronger twin, slowly gained strength.
But Brielle — so tiny, so exhausted — was slipping away. Her breathing stuttered. Her oxygen levels dipped again and again. Her skin turned a worrying shade of blue. Doctors prepared the family for the unthinkable: she may not make it through the night.

And then came a moment of quiet courage.

A nurse named Gayle Kasparian, guided not by procedure but by pure human instinct, made a decision that defied the rules of the time. Back then, premature babies were always kept in separate incubators.

But she believed something else.
She believed that love — even the smallest kind — had power.

Gently, she lifted Kyrie and placed her beside her struggling sister in the same incubator. Two tiny hearts, side by side. Two tiny bodies, skin to skin, just like they had been in the womb.

What happened next brought the entire neonatal unit to tears.

Within minutes, Brielle’s monitors changed.
Her oxygen levels rose… higher… higher.
Her heartbeat steadied — strong and sure.
Her frantic breathing calmed.
Color returned to her cheeks.

And then, in a moment that seemed almost like a whisper from heaven, Kyrie lifted her tiny arm and wrapped it around Brielle… as if she was holding her sister here on earth.

The nurses stood frozen.
Doctors rushed in.
No one could explain it — but no one could deny it.

That single embrace didn’t just save Brielle’s life…
It changed medical care forever.

Because of these twins — because of one nurse who simply followed her heart — “co-bedding” premature babies is now used in hospitals around the world.

All because two sisters reminded us of something simple and profound:

Sometimes the greatest medicine
is love in its purest form.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A Bronx pizzeria owner saw a woman eating out of his GARBAGE.

He walked outside, took her by the hand, led her in, and pulled a hot slice straight from the oven for her.

She sat down and cried. He said: "Don't cry. Eat. I don't want you eating out of a garbage." ❤️

His name is Daniel Romano.

He owns D'Romano's Pizza in the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx.

He didn't shoo her away.

"I grabbed her by the hand and I led her to the pizzeria and I went in the oven and I got her a fresh slice and gave it to her. Sat down and she started crying. I said, 'don't cry, eat. This is not a problem.'"

In that moment, he decided he'd never let it happen to anyone again.

So he grabbed a marker, wrote a sign by hand, and taped it in his window for the whole neighborhood to see:

"To the people eating out of my garbage, I have more love for you than you think. Please come in and tell me you're hungry. I will forever give you a slice and fresh water to drink."

When they asked him why, his answer was simple.

"Right now, I think this world is shot. There's too much hate. Too much negativity. Why not put a smile on someone's face?"

And it turns out this runs deep for Daniel.

It goes all the way back to his mother, Carmella.

"She had a saying in Italian. She used to say, 'a desperate person will always make a better decision on a full stomach than on an empty.'

"It always stuck with me. So I feed people."

A desperate person makes a better decision on a full stomach.

That handwritten sign has traveled way past the Bronx now.

Daniel says people are calling him from Texas, Arkansas, Hawaii, even Alaska, all wanting to chip in and buy slices for hungry strangers they'll NEVER MEET.

"Don't ask me, I didn't even know Alaska had a phone."

It all started with one slice.
One woman.
One man who did something kind.

GOD BLESS Daniel Romano. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Verma @VermaaaS7]

Watch: Innocent Little Boy Kisses Golden.

Living Statue, Making Both The Artist And Child Burst Into Laughter.

This is sooo Beautiful and Cute 🥰

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

An Ohio principal LOST HIS JOB after refusing to abandon a homeless 16-year-old student who was sleeping in a CAR.

He and his wife already had SIX KIDS… but they took him in anyway.

When the boy offered to LEAVE so the principal could save his career, he refused. ❤️

His name is Rob Burnside. He had spent 31 YEARS in education and was the principal of Lakota East High School outside Cincinnati.

The boy’s name is Landerius “DeDe” Hayes.

During DeDe’s junior year, his home life fell apart.

He says living with his mother wasn’t safe, his father was dealing with problems of his own, and there were nights when DeDe was sleeping in a car with the heater running because the mobile home where his father was staying was too cold.

...and yet, every morning, he kept showing up to school.

Eventually the school learned DeDe’s mother had moved outside the district. Without a qualifying address, DeDe was withdrawn from Lakota East.

That’s when Principal Burnside realized this wasn’t just an enrollment problem.

This kid didn’t have a freaking HOME.

Rob went home and told his wife, Angel, what was happening. Her response was basically: if he needs somewhere to live, he can live with us.

Rob and Angel already had SIX CHILDREN, including two they had adopted, but there was a 16-year-old boy out there without a stable place to sleep, and they couldn’t ignore it.

The couple prayed about whether they should take DeDe in. Rob has said that just minutes later, his phone buzzed.

It was DeDe.

“Hey, Mr. Burnside.”

Rob looked at his wife and knew they had their answer.

DeDe moved in with the Burnsides and suddenly had something he desperately needed: a warm house, food, stability and people who were going to show up for him.

While DeDe’s custody and residency situation was being worked out, Burnside allowed him to continue attending classes even though he’d already been withdrawn.

The district investigated Burnside for insubordination and raised concerns about enrollment, lunches and liability.

He was eventually placed on administrative leave.

After 31 YEARS in education, Rob says he was given a choice: step down or go through the termination process.

The 16 year old, DeDe, realized Rob’s career was on the line and offered to LEAVE THEIR HOME so Burnside could keep his job.

Rob wouldn’t allow it.

He hugged DeDe and told him: "You’re part of this family. We’re not gonna turn our back on you.”

So Burnside stepped away from the career he’d spent three decades building... and DeDe stayed.

The Burnsides eventually became his legal family. DeDe started calling Rob and Angel “Pops and Ma.”

Then this past May, Rob Burnside sat in the stands at DeDe’s high school graduation.

Not as the principal, just sitting there as a dad, watching the kid he refused to abandon walk across the stage.

DeDe is 18 now and is pursuing a career in aviation mechanics.

When asked he regretted what happened, Rob simple said:

“What value can we put on the life of a young person?”

When Rob Burnside had to choose between protecting that career and protecting a homeless kid who needed somebody…

He chose the kid.

And when that kid offered to sacrifice his own home to repay him…

Rob chose him AGAIN.

THIS IS THE AMERICA I KNOW!!!! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Sassafrass84 @Sassafrass_84]

Interesting history I read on fb. 👇

August 21, 1883. Just after six in the evening, the sky over Rochester, Minnesota turns the color of a bruise. Twenty minutes later, a third of the town is gone. Thirty seven people are dead. More than two hundred are bleeding in the streets.

Rochester had no hospital. Not one.

So a convent school on the edge of town emptied out. The nuns walked into the wreckage in full habits, and a woman named Mother Alfred Moes, an immigrant from Luxembourg who had come to America with almost nothing, sent word to the only doctor in town who could handle that many wounded.

His name was William Worrall Mayo. He was 64, an English country doctor, a hard skeptic on the subject of religion.

The sisters took over Rommel's dance hall and turned it into a hospital overnight. None of them had ever been trained in nursing. They learned it standing up, with Mayo giving orders and the injured laid out on the floorboards.

When the last patient was gone, Mother Alfred went to see him.

She told him Rochester needed a real hospital. A permanent one. She said she had seen it, a great hospital rising out of the cornfields on the west edge of town, and that she wanted him to run it.

Mayo told her the truth. A building like that would cost $40,000. Well over a million in today's money. He said no congregation of schoolteaching nuns could possibly raise it.

She did not argue with him. She simply told him that if he would take charge of the hospital, the sisters would take charge of paying for it.

Then she went out and did it.

For six years, her sisters taught school and handed over their wages. Every dollar. She bought nine acres of farmland. She hired the builders. She oversaw the plans herself, and when the money ran short, she found more.

Saint Marys Hospital opened on September 30, 1889. Twenty seven beds. Thirteen sisters, none of them nurses by training. Dr. Mayo, now 70, walked in as chief of staff with his two sons, Will and Charlie, beside him.

Those two boys built their surgical practice inside her building. Patients started arriving from Chicago, then from every state, then from overseas. The brothers formalized the partnership in 1919 and gave it their family name.

Mayo Clinic. Today it treats more than a million patients a year and is ranked the best hospital in the United States.

Mother Alfred Moes died on December 18, 1899, ten years after the doors opened. She never saw what it became.

The Mayo brothers always said it plainly. Their father did not want the hospital. The nun did. She built it, and then she handed them the keys.

Millions of Americans have made the drive to Rochester with someone they love in the passenger seat. Almost none of them know that the whole thing started with a 54-year-old woman standing in tornado wreckage, refusing to accept a no.

Pc: Dutch Valkema.

My father in law got the best treatment for colon cancer at the Mayo Clinic. Amazing hospital.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

In 1988 Dolly Parton pulled every 7th and 8th grader in Sevier County into a room and told them to pick a buddy.

She made them sign a contract.. if BOTH graduate, she hands you both $500. One fails, nobody gets paid.

The county dropout rate went from 35% to 6%.

She handed out the checks herself.

In 1989 she offered $500 to every kid in the county who wanted to go to the local college.

When Gatlinburg burned in 2016, she sent 900 families $1,000 a month for six months.

You've probably heard that part.

Here's the part you haven't:

The fund raised more than expected, so she showed up in May and handed every one of those families another $5,000 on top.

Then she quietly put $3 million into the recovery group that handles the years after the news trucks leave.

She built her county an entire hospital.

She played a benefit concert in 2007, Dollywood and the Stampede matched it, and LeConte Medical Center opened in 2010 with a birthing unit and a women's center in it.

In 2022 she started covering 100% of tuition, books, and fees for Dollywood employees.

Full-time, part-time, AND seasonal.

In 1991 she paid for a bald eagle sanctuary because the birds couldn't be released back into the wild, no press release.

And when Hurricane Helene came through here in Western North Carolina, she wrote a personal check for $1 million and her companies matched it.

She didn't owe North Carolina anything, but she helped us anyway.

She started the Imagination Library because her daddy couldn't read or write. Before he passed, he told her it was the most important thing she ever did.

Rest in Peace, Dolly 🇺🇸

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

And now... the rest of the story.

Every year, families across America gather around the television.

They watch a bald kid try to kick a football. A beagle dance on a dog house. Charlie Brown get a rock instead of candy.

They laugh.

They don't know they're watching a man's autobiography.

When Charles Schulz was a boy, the other children called him Sparky. The name of a horse in a comic strip. A joke horse.

He failed every single subject in eighth grade.

Not one or two.

Every. Single. Subject.

But the grades weren't the worst part.

Paul Harvey told this story, and his voice cracked on this line:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

He wasn't hated. He was nothing.

The one thing he had was his drawings. He submitted cartoons to the school yearbook.

Rejected.

He wrote to Walt Disney. Poured everything into the drawings.

The reply was a form letter. Disney only hired the very finest artists. Sparky was not among the very finest.

Harvey paused there. Then: "I think deep down, Sparky expected to be rejected."

This is where the motivational speakers lie to you.

The rest of the story isn't about winning.

Sparky didn't try to prove them wrong. He wrote his autobiography in cartoons.

He drew himself. The loser. The kid who failed everything.

He named him after himself.

Charlie Brown.

You know what Charlie Brown never does?

Win.

His kite crashes. Lucy pulls the football. The Little Red-Haired Girl doesn't notice him.

And sixty years later, we still watch.

Not because Charlie Brown succeeds.

Because Charlie Brown keeps showing up.

Here's the part even Paul Harvey didn't tell.

Schulz taught Sunday school. He read the Bible so constantly his strips are filled with scripture.

When network executives tried to cut Linus reciting Luke 2 from the Christmas special, Schulz refused.

Either the Gospel stays, or there's no special.

It stayed.

A boy called a horse.

A student who failed everything.

An artist Disney rejected.

Planted the Gospel of Luke in front of sixty million homes.

The loser became the messenger.

God has a history of using the rejected ones.

Moses had a stutter. David was the forgotten son. Peter denied Him three times.

The kite never flew.

But the Gospel did.

Still falling?

Good company, brother.

Get up.

He's not done with you yet.

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

🚨WOW!!!

A man spent 19 YEARS in a German orphanage watching other kids get picked up by their parents…

…and every single day he prayed on a rosary to meet the father he'd never met.

Today, more than 50 years later, he put that same rosary around his DAD'S NECK.

His name is Joshua Schneeloch.

He was left at a Catholic convent in Germany as a baby and never adopted. Not once. Nineteen years of watching other children go home.

"When you see other kids be picked up by parents, you start realizing: Hey, why is nobody picking me up?"

So he prayed. Every day. Same prayer, over and over:

Please. One day, I want to meet my father.

A year ago his wife, Nicole, handed him an Ancestry DNA kit.

She knew it might break his heart. She gave it to him anyway, because she believed he belonged to somebody.

A genealogist found a couple of cousins. Then a phone call: I think I found your father.

His name is Arthur Colbert. U.S. military, stationed in Europe in the late 60s. He came home to America in 1970 and had NO IDEA he'd left a son behind.

"I did not know that I had left a baby over there in Germany."

Now here's where it gets crazy…

Joshua didn't say who he was. He called Arthur pretending it was an insurance call, just fishing for answers.

And Arthur opened the door himself: I hear an accent. Where are you from?

Germany.

Were you ever in Germany?

Yes.

When?

Were you ever in Kaiserslautern?

Yes.

And Joshua went completely silent. Because he had just heard his father's voice for the first time in his LIFE.

The DNA came back 99.99%.

They met days later.

"Walking towards my dad was probably the longest walk I've ever done in my life."

Both of them cried.

And then Joshua took the rosary... the one he'd prayed on as a little boy in that orphanage, asking God for this exact moment... and he put it around his father's neck.

He carried it for 50 years so he could hand it to him.

It gets better.

Last Saturday in Joshua walked into a room with more than SIXTY relatives waiting for him.

His uncle met him at the door: "You're home, baby! You're home."

Sixty family members. For a man who grew up with none.

Joshua never gave up. He never stopped praying.

And God answered every word of it.

GOD IS SO GOOD!!!!!!!!

[Mickey Pennington @mickpenn]

@OwenBenjamin At this point, what difference does it make?

[David J Harris Jr @DavidJHarrisJr]

🚨INCREDIBLE: A baby was taken out of the womb at 23 weeks, had a life-threatening tumor removed, and was put BACK INSIDE so she could keep growing.

In one of the most remarkable surgeries ever performed, doctors at Texas Children’s Hospital opened the mother’s uterus at just 23 weeks, partially delivered the tiny baby, cut away a massive tumor that was crushing her heart, then gently placed her back into the womb and sewed everything shut.

The baby, LynLee Hope, continued developing for another 13 weeks and was born healthy near full term.

This is open fetal surgery — one of the most advanced and delicate procedures in modern medicine. Surgeons literally operate on a child who is still supposed to be inside her mother, then return her to finish growing.

A living miracle of skill, courage, and science.

[The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox]

Stephen A. Smith publicly APOLOGIZES to Kyrie Irving after calling him "selfish" for refusing the COVID jab.

"Hindsight-wise, it didn’t make him stubborn or selfish. It made him BRAVE."

"I watched Dr. Fauci on Capitol Hill yesterday, and the person I thought about most was Kyrie Irving."

“Kyrie Irving stood out in my mind because of the heat that he was taking... He refused the vaccine. New York City's mandate made him ineligible for home games, and he linked his stance to people losing jobs over vaccine mandates."

“In my opinion, particularly hindsight-wise, it didn't make him stubborn or selfish. It made him brave. His willingness to stand up and say, ‘Nah, I'm not doing that.’

“It's just a time for reflection — to look at things differently.”

Kyrie gave up $11,400,000 in game checks during the 21-22 NBA season and a $100,000,000 extension with the Nets to be unvaccinated.

That cements his holdout as the largest financial sacrifice any athlete has ever made over an issue in history.