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Just a mom that travels to see her 3 children 👧 👦👦 and their children! 👧👦👧👧 👧Loving the gramma life😍

[Kevin Corke @kevincorke]

You tell ‘em Granny! 👏🏾☺️

[James Woods @RealJamesWoods]

This is literally mesmerizing…

[Dr. Lee Warren @drleewarrenmd]

This is probably the most controversial thing I discuss publicly: you already have what you need to heal, grow, and change.

I want you to say this out loud with me if you're somewhere you can: "I already have what I need to heal and grow and change."

I know it's true for you because Scripture says it. You already know you have a sound mind from 2 Timothy 1:7 ("God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind").

Then Peter adds this.
"His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness." (2 Peter 1:3, NIV)

Every time I teach this, somebody comes up and says, "But you don't know what I've been through. You don't know my personality. You don't know my diagnosis."

That's true, I don't. But I do know what Peter wrote, and he wrote "everything we need."

I say this with love, friend, but also as a doctor giving you the straight facts; I don't see an asterisk in that verse that says, "Unless I've been through trauma, or have ADHD, or a high ACE score, or my name is ________."

So are you ready to accept what he has already given you, and the way he designed you? Are you willing to learn how to operate your system so it stops operating you?

And ultimately the question is this: do you want to get better, or do you want to stay broken, bitter, or trying to figure out who to blame for what's keeping you stuck? Because neuroscience and scripture agree: you have what you need if you're willing to change your mind.

Share this with a friend who needs to know they are designed to heal, and save it for later when you need a friendly reminder that you have what you need.

And follow me for daily connections between neuroscience and faith that will help you in your quest for healing, hope, and higher performance in your life.

Click the link in my bio to learn more about my New York Times best selling book, The Life-Changing Art of Self-Brain Surgery.

#neuroscience #mentalhealth #hope
#anxiety #selfbrainsurgery

[Franklin Graham @Franklin_Graham]

Take a minute to listen to this classic by Paul Harvey…

[Greg Laurie @greglaurie]

Actor Matthew McConaughey was recently asked in an interview whether he believed he would go to Heaven when he died. Here’s his response—and my thoughts on how you can know for sure that Heaven will be your home.

[Brunell Donald-Kyei @brunelldonald]

An 11-year-old girl was kidnapped while walking home from her school bus and forced into the back seat of a blue Honda.

Hours later, Amanda Disley and Benny Correa were driving with their five children when they looked over and realized that exact car was right beside them.

Amanda called 911 while Benny followed the Honda through traffic as police tried to close in.

The driver started speeding through red lights and side streets, but Benny stayed with him while Amanda kept updating dispatch with their location.

Eventually, officers boxed the Honda in and found Charlotte inside.

She was pulled from the car alive and reunited with her family because Amanda and Benny refused to lose sight of the car carrying her.

The driver, 24-year-old Miguel Rodriguez, was arrested and charged with kidnapping, assault with a dangerous weapon and witness intimidation.

Amanda and Benny didn’t know Charlotte. They just knew a little girl needed help, and they stayed with that car until she got it. 💙

[Kayleigh McEnany @kayleighmcenany]

🚨 "I didn't originally see Him face-to-face because my face was down because I was so concerned that the list of my mistakes was going to be pulled up," @gabe_poirot told me, reflecting on his 18 days in a coma when he saw Jesus Christ.

"And I was done for. It was like black and white like I have no hope."

"But He picks up my face, He looks me in the eyes, and He says, 'Gabriel, why are you concerned about that which has been paid for?"

@SatAmericaFNC @FoxNews ⬇️

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

At Ground Zero, after the last living person was pulled out, the search dogs stopped eating.

So the police did something nobody had written down in any manual.

They climbed into the rubble, lay down, and pretended to be alive.

More than 300 dogs worked the World Trade Center site. They came from every corner of the country, on trucks and in cargo holds, with handlers who had been trained to do one thing. Find people who are still breathing under the ground.

That is what a search and rescue dog is built for. Not bodies. Life. They are trained on live human scent. When they find it, they bark, they dig, they light up, and the handler rewards them, and the whole thing means something.

The last living person recovered from Ground Zero was a woman named Genelle Guzman-McMillan. She had been buried for 27 hours. A dog found her.

She was the last.

After that, the dogs kept going out on twelve-hour shifts, across sixteen acres of smoldering steel, at temperatures that burned their paws, and they found nobody.

Nobody.

Day after day.

The handlers noticed it first. The dogs were changing. Their tails were down. They were not eating. They would come off the pile and lie flat and not look at anyone.

A veterinarian named Cindy Otto, who spent ten days there working night shifts to care for the animals, put it plainly. The dogs had been sent to find life, and every day they were finding the opposite.

It was breaking them.

An NYPD officer named Famiglietti described what happened next.

They pulled everybody off the rubble. Then they asked for volunteers.

The volunteers, police officers, went out into the debris and hid themselves. Under beams. In voids. Curled up in pockets of concrete. They were told to lie down like they were hurt. Then the handlers sent the dogs in.

Picture that.

A grown man with a badge, a man who had spent the last week pulling friends out of that same pile, lying down in it on purpose. Face down. Holding still. Waiting for a dog.

And the dog comes over the top of the wreckage, and catches the scent, and barks, and digs, and finds a person who is warm and moving and alive.

And the handler says good girl, good boy, and the whole team celebrates.

They called them mock finds.

They did it for the dogs.

They did it so the dogs would remember what they were for.

One of those dogs was a two-year-old golden retriever named Bretagne. She came from Texas with her handler, Denise Corliss. It was her first deployment. They worked ten days at Ground Zero. They found no survivors.

But firefighters would come off the pile, stone-faced, not speaking, and see the dog, and something would break open in them. They would kneel down. They would put their face in her fur.

One day a man walked up to Bretagne and started petting her. He told Corliss his best friend loved golden retrievers.

Corliss asked where his friend was.

The man pointed at the pile.

"He's in there somewhere."

He kept petting the dog.

Bretagne went on to work Hurricane Katrina and Rita. She retired at 10. She was the last known surviving search dog of 9/11.

On June 6, 2016, at age 16, she was carried into a veterinary office in Texas to be put to sleep.

Outside, a dozen firefighters from her fire department stood in a line in their dress uniforms, in the heat, and saluted as she went past.

They draped her in an American flag on the way out.

Three hundred dogs went into that pile looking for the living.

They found one.

And when they could not find any more, the men they worked beside laid down in the rubble and let themselves be found, so the dogs would not lose heart.

That is the whole story of Ground Zero, really.

Nobody could save the dead.

So they saved each other. 🇺🇸

[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

[Larry Thompson @cltwulf]

From Karl Streed -

I BET YOU DIDN'Y KNOW ABOUT THIS: AFTER FLIGHT 77 HIT THE PENTAGON ON 9/11, THE FOLLOWING HAPPENED.

A daycare facility inside the Pentagon had many children, including infants who were in heavy cribs. The daycare supervisor, looking at all the children they needed to evacuate, was in a panic over what they could do.

There were many children, mostly toddlers, as well as the infants who would need to be taken out with the cribs. There was no time to try to bundle them into carriers and strollers.

Just then a young Marine came running into the center and asked what they needed. After hearing what the center director was trying to do, he ran back out into the hallway and disappeared. The director thought, "Well, here we are, on our own."

About 2 minutes later, that Marine returned with 40 other Marines in tow.

Each of them grabbed a crib with a child, and the rest started gathering up toddlers.

The director and her staff then helped them take all the children out of the center and down toward the park near the Potomac .

Once they got about 3/4 of a mile outside the building, the Marines stopped in the park, and then did a fabulous thing - they formed a circle with the cribs, which were quite sturdy and heavy, like the covered wagons in the Old West.

Inside this circle of cribs, they put the toddlers, to keep them from wandering off.

Outside this circle were the 40 Marines, forming a perimeter around the children and waiting for instructions. There they remained until the parents could be notified and come get their children.

The chaplain then said, "I don't think any of us saw nor heard of this on any of the news stories of the day. It was an incredible story of our men there.” There wasn't a dry eye in the room.

The thought of those Marines and what they did and how fast they reacted; could we expect any less from them? It was one of the most touching stories from the Pentagon.

It's the military, not the politicians that ensures our right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

It's the military who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag.

If you care to offer the smallest token of recognition and appreciation for the military, please pass this on and pray for our men and women, who have served and are currently serving our country, and honor the memory of those who have given the ultimate sacrifice!

God Bless The USA!

Never forget!!!

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

🚨 California grocery prices are about to go up $1,300 A YEAR thanks to a new packaging law.

What is WRONG with Becerra and the Democrat machine, endlessly gouging us while pretending to care about "affordability"?

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Life here has become impossible for anyone who isn’t already rich.

Enough Is Enough. Let’s Fix California.

WATCH our new campaign ad👇

[Vote Michael E. Gates for California Attorney Gen. @MichaelGatesESQ]

🚨Thank you, KTLA @KTLA

[Mike Lindell @realMikeLindell]

Thank you, Mr. President! I truly appreciate your confidence in me as I run to become the next Governor of Minnesota.

Support the campaign today: https://t.co/8zZVI7H3qz

Let's Make Minnesota Great Again! 🇺🇸

[Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh]

🚨 JUST IN: Donald Trump endorses MIKE LINDELL for Governor of Minnesota

"He can do it! Nobody has sacrificed more than Mike Lindell in fighting for our country, especially when it comes to Election Integrity. He truly deserves everything he gets - He will MAKE MINNESOTA GREAT AGAIN!!! MIKE LINDELL HAS MY COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT - HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN. Good Luck Mike!!!"

"Mike Lindell, the “Pillow Man,” and one of America’s greatest and most hard working Patriots, is running to be GOVERNOR OF MINNESOTA, replacing one of the worst and most incompetent governors in the history of the U.S.A."

"Early Primary Voting has begun and, if given the chance, Mike will be SPECTACULAR!!! He truly loves Minnesota, as do I, and wants to bring it back from oblivion and embarrassment."

[Nei Giglio🇧🇷🍀🇧🇷 @neideboaski]

Clint Eastwood !!!! ❤️

Aos 96 anos, Clint Eastwood quebrou nossas ilusões sobre envelhecimento. Não ofereceu consolo sobre anos dourados cheios de serenidade. Pintou a verdade: "A luz machuca os olhos. Respirar pode ser um trabalho duro. O teu corpo já não está a cooperar. Cada passo requer estratégia."
Mas o verdadeiro peso da velhice não é físico. É emocional. Ao cruzar os anos 90, seu círculo social diminui. A maioria das pessoas que te conheceram quando eras jovem desapareceram. O telefone parou de tocar. O ritmo dos dias abranda. A pílula mais amarga não é a dor. É a ausência de alguém que queira te ouvir.
Eastwood explicou por que os idosos repetem histórias. Não é para me gabar. É para se ancorar a uma realidade onde eles eram ativos, amados e relevantes. "Você se encontra repetindo histórias, adicionando detalhes, não para convencer ninguém, mas para sentir que você ainda está conectado a algo", disse. "Você tenta transmitir coisas aos jovens, mesmo quando vê o tédio nos olhos deles".
Vivemos em uma cultura que trata a longevidade como um troféu, mas ignora a solidão que a acompanha. Louvamos o rápido e o brilhante. Não deixamos espaço para o ritmo lento dos idosos.
Clint Eastwood é um gigante do cinema, mas suas palavras falam por cada idoso de 90 anos. São bibliotecas vivas da nossa história. Quando os ouvimos, algo mágico acontece. Fechamos o fosso entre gerações. Rugas não são sinais de envelhecimento. São mapas de uma vida plenamente vivida. E é um privilégio ouvir sua viagem.

[John Rich🇺🇸 @johnrich]

Arizona State University @ASU is in court fighting 89 year old Robert Young to take the home he's owned since 1975 for their "green space." I'm calling on ASU's President, @michaelcrow to reach out to me ASAP. This is not ok. We must defend this man.
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[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

We are in Texas. Just filled up for $3.59. In L.A. on Monday it was $8.59.

Californians: It's not the Iran war. It's not "Trump." It's Democrat policies that have given us the highest gas prices in America.

You can have $3.00 gas but you have to VOTE for it in November.

[Bo Loudon @BoLoudon]

🚨HUGE: Dominion has DISMISSED their $1.3 BILLION dollar defamation lawsuit against Mike Lindell and MyPillow.

Congratulations, @realMikeLindell!

Follow: @BoLoudon

[Steve Hilton @SteveHiltonx]

Californians are struggling to pay for groceries and gas because of YOUR policies. Californians are getting "shafted" by YOU. The system is "rigged" by YOU.

Instead of posting divisive nonsense why don't you try and do something to cut people's costs? Oh wait, because you're incapable of doing anything useful. That will have to wait until I'm governor.

Change is Coming! ☀️