Toby Boland

[BelannF @BelannF]

AT OUR 250 CELEBRATION - I WANT TO SEE THESE TWO PERFORM - WONDER IF THAT COULD BE ARRANGED

Carrie Underwood and Vince Gill - "HOW GREAT THOU ART" - Listen to the end and if you aren't tearing up - well you are much less emotional than I am.

https://t.co/HufMmAzCwk

[Captain Allen @CptAllenHistory]

On This Day — May 25, 1948

They put a bullet in the back of his head.

The man they executed that day was Witold Pilecki — the only person in history who voluntarily walked into Auschwitz.

In 1940, this Polish cavalry officer deliberately got himself arrested during a Nazi roundup in Warsaw. Using a false identity, he entered hell as prisoner #4859.

For two and a half years, Pilecki lived as a starving skeleton in striped rags while secretly building a resistance network inside the camp. He smuggled out the first detailed eyewitness reports of the Nazi death machine to the Allies — gas chambers, selections, medical experiments, and the systematic murder of Jews.

While he was there, more than 1,000 Jews per day were being gassed and burned. At its peak in 1944, the killing rate reached more than 6,000 per day.

He saw it all.
He documented it all.
He risked everything so the world would know.

In April 1943, Pilecki escaped by overpowering a guard at a bakery outside the wire. He rejoined the fight, battled in the Warsaw Uprising, and later resisted the Soviet occupation of Poland.

For his courage, the communist regime tortured him, staged a show trial, and executed him on May 25, 1948.

One of the great heroes of the 20th century.
Remember his name: Witold Pilecki.

[Bobby D🎙 @robertdunlap947]

Damn😳. I have to admit, I thought I knew what was going on, when in fact, I DID NOT KNOW 💩🫨! Hey London, YOU CAN KISS AMERICA’S ASS….AGAIN😲! 250 freaking years of their bull 💩 IS COMING TO AN END🇺🇸

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

What’s a 10/10 movie but hardly anyones heard of it?

[Adam | Faithful Messenger @Adam_FaithfulM]

Jesus' first miracle wasn't really about running out of wine.

It was about something theologians have argued over for 2,000 years.

The wedding at Cana contains one of the most layered symbols in all of Scripture.

Most people read right past it.

A thread on what it actually means.🧵

[☩ 𝕁𝕄𝕋 ☩ @SecretFire79]

At the Wedding at Cana, Jesus says to Mary: “Woman, what does this have to do with me? My hour has not yet come.” (John 2:4)🇻🇦

And from the Cross, in His final moments: “Woman, behold your son!” (John 19:26)

Why “Woman” and not “Mother”?

Because Jesus was intentionally pointing back to the very beginning, to Eve, the first woman.

In the Garden of Eden, Eve (the woman) listened to the serpent and brought sin and death into the world through disobedience.

But Mary, the New Eve, listened to the angel and said, “Let it be done to me according to your word” bringing the Savior into the world through perfect obedience.

When Jesus calls Mary “Woman,” He is declaring:

“Here is the New Eve. Through you, the woman, redemption begins.”

Just as Eve was the mother of all the living in the old creation, Mary becomes the spiritual mother of all the living in the new creation. At the Cross, Jesus gives her to us as our Mother when He says to the beloved disciple (and to all of us): “Behold your mother.”

This is why the Church has always honored Mary, not instead of Jesus, but because of Jesus. She is the perfect model of faith, the woman who crushed the serpent’s head by her “yes” to God.

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called children of God. – Matthew 5:9

[Bible 365 @Bible365_]

Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good. – Romans 12:21

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

“It’s all now you see. Yesterday won’t be over until tomorrow and tomorrow began ten thousand years ago. For every Southern boy fourteen years old, not once but whenever he wants it, there is the instant when it’s still not yet two o’clock on that July afternoon in 1863, the brigades are in position behind the rail fence, the guns are laid and ready in the woods and the furled flags are already loosened to break out and Pickett himself with his long oiled ringlets and his hat in one hand probably and his sword in the other looking up the hill waiting for Longstreet to give the word and it’s all in the balance, it hasn’t happened yet, it hasn’t even begun yet, it not only hasn’t begun yet but there is still time for it not to begin against that position and those circumstances which made more men than Garnett and Kemper and Armistead and Wilcox look grave yet it’s going to begin, we all know that, we have come too far with too much at stake and that moment doesn’t need even a fourteen-year-old boy to think This time. Maybe this time with all this much to lose and all this much to gain: Pennsylvania, Maryland, the world, the golden dome of Washington itself to crown with desperate and unbelievable victory the desperate gamble, the cast made two years ago; or to anyone who ever sailed a skiff under a quilt sail, the moment in 1492 when somebody thought This is it: the absolute edge of no return, to turn back now and make home or sail irrevocably on and either find land or plunge over the world’s roaring rim.”

-William Faulkner

[Southern Accents @AccentsSouthern]

If- Rudyard Kipling