La importancia de la oración de los creyentes para que cambien las cosas que están ocurriendo a nuestro alrededor. No importa en donde vivas, ni cuando leas esto.
These guys are literally nearly falling out of the nest they’re so huge.
These swallows were late hatching compared to many others here. So I’m quite sure we shall probably have a second batch of swallows raised here on the farm this summer.
Me dieron esto en el tráfico, pensé que sería una promoción de algo como es lo cotidiano pero desafortunadamente la cotidianidad es desgarradora, el volante pide ayuda para encontrar a una muchacha que desapareció el 21 de junio.
Les ruego que me ayuden a compartir, una muchacha y su familia están viviendo un infierno y no podemos ser indiferentes a esta realidad.
Fifty years ago today, Air France Captain Michel Bacos showed the world what true moral courage looks like.
When Flight 139 was hijacked by Palestinian and German terrorists and flown to Entebbe, the non-Jewish passengers were eventually released. Bacos and his crew were also offered their freedom.
However, Bacos, who also served in the French army under DeGaulle, refused to leave his Jewish passengers. All his crew also refused, without exception.
Instead, they chose to remain alongside the 94 Jewish hostages, fully aware of the danger they faced. As Bacos later said, abandoning his passengers was simply "unimaginable."
Days later, they were freed in the legendary Israeli rescue mission, Operation Entebbe, led by Yoni Netanyahu, who would die in the battle.
For his extraordinary courage, Bacos was honoured by both France and Israel. Yet his greatest legacy was not the medals he received, but the example he set: that decency, duty and humanity must never yield to terror or antisemitism.
Michel Bacos was a true hero. May his life, his courage and his memory forever be a blessing and an inspiration.
January 1995. Emma Thompson had no idea.
She and Kenneth Branagh had been one of the most admired couples in British theater and film for nearly a decade. They had met in 1987 on the BBC drama Fortunes of War. They had married in 1989. They had built careers and a life together that seemed, from the outside, like something from a film.
From the outside.
While Emma was working, while she was being exactly the devoted and trusting partner she believed she was, Kenneth had grown close to actress Helena Bonham Carter on the set of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the previous year. Emma did not know. She did not even suspect.
""I was utterly, utterly blind,"" she later told The New Yorker. ""What I learned was how easy it is to be blinded by your own desire to deceive yourself.""
When the truth arrived, it broke her. She described herself as feeling half alive. Any sense of being lovable or worthy had gone completely. Her heart, in her own words, felt like a pile of shattered dishes.
Here is what she did next.
She did not give angry interviews. She did not cry on chat shows. She did not seek public revenge. She gathered the broken pieces of her heart, put them in a drawer, her own words, and went back to work.
The work was a screenplay she had been writing for five years: an adaptation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. She was also going to star in it, playing Elinor Dashwood, a young woman who must hide her heartbreak from everyone around her. A woman who stays composed in public while her world falls apart inside. A woman who cries only when completely alone.
There was something almost unbearably precise about this. Emma Thompson, in the worst year of her life, was writing and then performing a woman whose entire struggle was the dignified suppression of grief.
She was not acting that character. She was living her.
Filming began in April 1995. By September, she and Kenneth officially announced their separation. The tabloids tore what remained of the fairy tale apart. She was depressed, alone, and the press was watching. She kept showing up to set.
On that set, something gentle happened. A kind actor named Greg Wise was in a smaller role. He and Emma slowly grew close. In her own words, he was the man who picked up the pieces and put them back together.
Sense and Sensibility was released in December 1995. On March 25, 1996, less than a year after her marriage had publicly ended, Emma Thompson walked onto the stage of the Academy Awards and won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.
She stood at the podium and said she was accepting it on behalf of Jane Austen, who had been dead for 180 years and deserved one.
That win made her something no one has been before or since: the only person to win Oscars for both acting, for Howards End in 1992, and writing. She had written a masterpiece in the worst year of her life.
She married Greg Wise in 2003. They have a daughter, Gaia, born through IVF, and a son, Tindyebwa, a Rwandan refugee they adopted as a teenager. In 2018, she was made a Dame.
Then came Love Actually, and the scene where her character slips away to the bedroom, puts on a CD, sits on the bed, and cries quietly, completely, for just a few moments, before composing herself and going back downstairs.
Emma Thompson has said those tears were real. ""I had my heart very badly broken by Ken. So I knew what it felt like to find the necklace that wasn't meant for me.""
She has spent her career giving her grief somewhere useful to go.
The truest lesson of her life is not about dramatic resilience. It is quieter than that. It is about what you do in the year when everything breaks, when you feel unlovable and half alive.
Emma Thompson wrote Sense and Sensibility in that year. She showed up to set every day. She let the pain shape the work instead of stop it.
What breaks you is not the same as what defines you.
Those are two entirely different things.
Oremos...
Padre Celestial, al acercarnos a Ti en esta mañana de domingo en oración, te damos gloria, honra y alabanza, porque Tú eres nuestra esperanza eterna. Nos das la seguridad en Tu Palabra de que todos nuestros días están en Tus manos, y al estar seguros de esto, tenemos verdadera paz. Hoy te pido que aumentes la fe de Tu pueblo en estos tiempos difíciles que estamos viviendo. Muchas personas están luchando, y a veces tendemos a olvidar que Tú te preocupas por nosotros en medio de nuestros problemas. Olvidamos que nos has ayudado a atravesar muchos de los desafíos de la vida. Olvidamos que nos sostienes en la palma de Tu mano para mantenernos a salvo. Y a veces olvidamos cuánto nos amas y lo importantes que somos para Ti. Ayúdanos a todos a alegrarnos hoy al saber cuánto te importamos, mientras el Espíritu Santo continúa guiando nuestro camino. Al adorarte hoy y comenzar esta nueva semana, llena nuestros corazones con Tu paz, fortalece nuestra fe y recuérdanos que Tus misericordias son nuevas cada mañana. En el nombre de Jesús oramos, Amén.
She said no in a hotel room. He destroyed her career with a phone call. When she finally spoke out, she sparked a revolution.
In 1997, Ashley Judd was one of Hollywood's brightest rising stars. She was invited to what she believed would be a breakfast business meeting with producer Harvey Weinstein at a hotel.
It wasn't a business meeting.
Instead, Weinstein made inappropriate advances toward her, placing her in an uncomfortable and intimidating situation. Ashley rejected him and walked out.
She believed that would be the end of it.
It wasn't.
Over the years, something strange began happening. Promising roles quietly disappeared. Parts she seemed perfect for suddenly went to someone else. Directors who had once shown strong interest stopped calling.
She couldn't understand why her career had suddenly lost momentum.
The answer finally came two decades later.
In 2017, director Peter Jackson revealed that Ashley Judd had been excluded from casting for *The Lord of the Rings*. According to Jackson, Miramax, Harvey Weinstein's company, had warned him that Judd was supposedly "a nightmare to work with."
He believed the claim at the time.
Years later, Jackson admitted publicly that it had almost certainly been false. He said he now believed Miramax had deliberately spread damaging misinformation about Ashley and other talented actresses.
Weinstein hadn't simply accepted her rejection.
He allegedly used his influence behind the scenes, damaging her reputation with private conversations and false claims. One phone call after another quietly closed doors that Ashley never even knew had been opened.
For nearly twenty years, she lived with the consequences without fully understanding why.
Then came October 2017.
Investigations published by *The New York Times* and *The New Yorker* exposed decades of sexual harassment and abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Ashley Judd became one of the first actresses willing to attach her real name to her story.
Not anonymously.
Not through someone else.
She stood before the world and said, "This happened to me."
That moment changed everything.
Her courage encouraged countless other women to speak publicly about experiences they had hidden for years. Within days, more voices emerged. Within weeks, the #MeToo movement had become a worldwide reckoning.
The scandal exposed far more than one powerful producer.
It revealed how influence, fear, and silence had protected abuse for decades while destroying careers behind closed doors.
Ashley knew speaking out could cost her even more.
She spoke anyway.
Because she understood that silence only protected the system that had harmed so many others.
In 2020, Harvey Weinstein was convicted of rape and sexual assault and sentenced to 23 years in prison. More legal cases followed.
Ashley Judd could never recover every opportunity she lost.
But by telling the truth, she helped change something far greater than a single career.
That hotel room in 1997 was meant to remain a secret forever.
Twenty years later, Ashley Judd said his name out loud.
And the silence finally began to break.
This is one of my favorite memories of my mom, dancing to the Bee Gees at 91 years old, with her portable oxygen and her beautiful smile. Graceful, joyful, strong, and full of life until the very end. I miss her🥹 every single day. Happy Heavenly Birthday Mom!❤️
Why do people act like fun only counts if it’s parties, trips, or busy plans? I can stay in bed with snacks, binge random shows, scroll through playlists, stare at the ceiling for hours, and still feel like I’m living my best life
At 12 years old, his parents sent him to a psychiatrist.
After listening to the boy, the doctor reportedly told his parents that their son wasn't the problem.
The adults were.
That boy was Bryan Adams.
His father, Conrad Adams, was a Sandhurst-trained military officer who later served as a diplomat and UN peacekeeping observer.
Because of his career, the family moved constantly—from Canada to England, Portugal, Austria, and Israel.
Home rarely felt permanent.
Neither did peace.
Bryan later spoke about retreating into music, locking himself in his room with records and a guitar while his parents argued outside.
When his parents divorced, the split turned bitter.
Court filings included serious allegations about family life, though Bryan later said some claims had been exaggerated during the custody battle.
Whatever the full truth, one fact is certain:
His father left.
For the next 12 years, they barely spoke.
While other teenagers hung out with friends, Bryan worked.
Dishwasher.
Paperboy.
Pet food delivery.
Every dollar went toward music.
At 15, he left school and bought a second-hand piano with money that had originally been saved for college.
To many people, it looked reckless.
To Bryan, it felt like survival.
The early years weren't glamorous.
He slept on couches.
Played in struggling bands.
Heard "no" from record labels over and over again.
Then, in 1978, he met songwriter Jim Vallance in a Vancouver music store.
They started writing together almost immediately.
That partnership changed everything.
By the mid-1980s, Bryan Adams was one of the biggest rock stars in the world.
Reckless produced classics like:
• "Run to You"
• "Heaven"
• "Summer of '69"
In 1991, "Everything I Do (I Do It for You)" spent a record-breaking 16 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart.
But the achievement that mattered most wasn't measured in record sales.
Years later, while watching a father-and-son reunion on television, Bryan decided to find the man he hadn't spoken to in over a decade.
After tracking him through diplomatic postings, he finally reached him in Japan.
When they met, the years of silence gave way to conversation.
There wasn't a dramatic confrontation.
Just two men beginning again.
Bryan Adams went on to sell more than 100 million records worldwide.
Yet one of the biggest victories of his life never appeared on a chart.
Sometimes the hardest journey isn't to the top.
It's back to the people you thought you'd lost forever.
Eagle kept showing up at one soldier’s grave. The reason why will leave you stunned.
For months, workers at a military cemetery noticed the same bald eagle landing near one white cross. It never seemed to be hunting. It would just stand there quietly, sometimes resting its head against the marker, then disappear before anyone got too close. At first, people thought it was a strange coincidence, until a groundskeeper finally looked up the name on the grave and discovered the soldier buried there had once been part of a special operations unit overseas.
That’s when the story came out. Years earlier, the soldier had found an abandoned eagle egg near a military camp and refused to leave it behind. He raised the bird, trained it to respond to his voice, and eventually the eagle became part of the unit, helping spot movement from above during patrols. What started as a rescued egg became a bond that followed them through war. After the soldier passed away, the eagle vanished for months, until it somehow found him again, standing watch at the only place left to return to.
Difundamos por favor 🙏
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Se busca a Fátima Ozoara Cid Vázquez, 20 años.
Vista por última vez hace 27 horas al salir de su trabajo en Olivar de los Padres, Álvaro Obregón, Ciudad de México.
Cualquier dato ayuda. Si fue vista o existe información sobre su paradero, favor de comunicarse de inmediato al número del boletín oficial o con las autoridades correspondientes.
Ayudar a difundir es vital para que Fátima regrese a casa.
✍️ Ivara Skye
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Gracias, Señor, por permitir que tantas personas puedan ayudar.
No dejemos de orar para que el Señor conceda sabiduría, fortaleza y consuelo a todas las familias afectadas. Que también guíe a los rescatistas, les dé intuición, fuerzas y protección en cada momento de su labor.
Sigamos unidos en oración. Dios escucha cada súplica. 🇻🇪❤️🙏🏻 :::
✝️ JESÚS ES MI...
❤️ Mi Rey.
❤️ Mi Salvador.
❤️ Mi Protector.
❤️ Mi Dios.
❤️ Mi Señor.
❤️ Mi Redentor.
❤️ Mi Sanador.
❤️ Mi Pastor.
❤️ Mi Luz.
❤️ Mi Fortaleza.
❤️ Mi Paz.
❤️ Mi Esperanza.
❤️ Mi Camino.
❤️ Mi Verdad.
❤️ Mi Vida.
¡Sí! Creo que Jesucristo murió y resucitó por nosotros, y vive para siempre.