Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞

And now after some thinking
I'd say I'd rather be
A functioning cog in some great machinery
Serving something beyond me

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

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[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

If my grandmother were still alive she would be pleased about this. I can hear her asking me before buying any clothing, “is this 100% cotton?”

[Secretary Brooke Rollins @SecRollins]

The MAHA movement doesn't stop with what we EAT — It's also about what we WEAR.

For decades, America offshored textile jobs and allowed foreign synthetic, plastic-based materials to take over the clothing market.

Together with @SecKennedy, the Great American Cotton Plan puts American-grown cotton FIRST again: supporting our farmers, strengthening U.S. manufacturing, and giving families a natural choice.

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@TheCinesthetic “Forks” - The Bear

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@NashSevereWx The tornado of 2020 passed us a mile away, but the derecho took some of our roof and caused our power to be out for a day. Lucky it wasn’t worse. What a weird year that was.

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@KentuckyDerby Winning Victory

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@NashSevereWx Wilco is Wilson county. You got my hopes up dang it!

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@TheCinesthetic

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

At the cross, at the cross
Where I first saw the light,
And the burden of my heart rolled away,
It was there by faith I received my sight,
And now I am happy all the day!

[David 'JoelKatz' Schwartz @JoelKatz]

I went to see Project Hail Mary. Great movie, I highly recommend it. The less you know about it going in, the better. Trust me.

The guy in front of me in the theater brought his dog in to see the movie with him. I think it was a service animal. But the dog really seemed to be enjoying the movie, it was strange.

So I said to the guy afterwards, "I know this is going to sound strange, but it seemed like your dog really enjoyed the movie." He said, "It is strange. He hated the book."

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

I don’t know this guy other than he’s the king of Vol Twitter/X, but now he’s friends with the King of Kings, and that makes him my brother 🧡

[🍊🍊Capt'n Cornjuice🥃🥃 @BoCamaro]

If someone told me what I am about to tell you a year ago, I would have called it a fairytale.

I went to church this morning with my friend Joe. He had invited me months ago and I called him last night to ask if Holly and I could attend with him today. He said he would be honored. He said Bible Study was at 10 and service was at 11 and he sent me the address to Victory Baptist Church in Bristol.

When we arrived this morning, we were greeted by so many people and everyone was asking if we were "Joe's friends". We felt welcomed immediately.

They led us to the Bible Study group and the leader said, "We have studying Psalms". The same Psalms that led me through the doors of a church for the first time in nearly 3 decades, a week ago.

I felt that was a sign I was in the right place.

Through the rest of the service, I felt like it was time. Time to commit. Time to turn my life over to him. But when the alter call came, I couldn't go. I just didn't feel worthy, as I have wrestled with for forever. All those people. So pretty and neat. So I didn't go.

After the service, Joe asked me to speak with his Pastor, who wanted to thank us for coming, and I said I was happy to meet him.

And then it happened. He thanked me for coming and he asked if I knew that Jesus died for my sins. I responded that I have been working on understanding, and then he shook me to my core.

You see, I know 1 verse from the Bible by heart. Only 1. I remembered it from my youth because of a song.

Romans 10:9 - "That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." That's it. That's the 1 verse I know. I know what others say, but I can't quote it. I don't know where it is at. But I know that one.

His next words to me? He asked me if I knew Romans and he recited that verse. The only verse I knew by heart, word for word.

That was my proof. That was my evidence that today was the day.

I stopped him mid verse as I broke down in tears and asked him to pray with me and he led me to the Alter with Joe and several others that I'm not yet sure of their name.

Today, I confessed with my mouth, the Lord Jesus.... and I came up a saved man.

Today was the day. Today. It happened.

I have no idea what to do next or where it goes.... but today, I can say that thank God, I am not where I once was..... but I am NOW where I am.

To everyone that has worked on me for years now. Thank you. Thank you for not giving up even when my words were hateful. I didn't know what I didn't know. I still don't, honestly....

But I am not that man today.

Today was a great day.

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

“Spiritual disciplines don’t change us; they place us before God so He can change us” - Richard Foster

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@WilsonSevereWX You just made the Kroger panic syndrome start early

[WilsonSevereWX @WilsonSevereWX]

The current conditions are Sunny and 31F.

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@NashSevereWx

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@DudespostingWs O. Henry vibes

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

@max_spero_ @ewarren9 how quickly I thought of you

[meghan @deloisivete]

December: finally, a break so I can get things done

January: finally, a routine so I can get things done

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

Walked into @Whataburger and they’re playing @jarsofclay ! Gonna be a good day 😊

[Audrey Shelander 😎☀️🌞 @sheaudrey]

Meal Train for The Wood Family
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