Vicki Hammond

Sometimes artist, writer, reader...always Jesus follower.

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

@ANNELAMOTT Congratulations! Well done good and faithful

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

This I declare about the Lord:
He alone is my refuge, my place of safety;
    he is my God, and I trust him.
Psalm 91:2

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@oelma__ Kraut

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@realjoshuareid @paulsperry_ If the elections were rigged then all the House and Senate winners (and anyone else on the ballot) in 2020 are llegitimate and that would make them illegitimate in 2024 as well. Where would this leave the GOP?

This man's thought process doesn't hold water. Either all or none.

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@BhattiLaib9960 The kitty loves you. Take it home. Keep it inside only for atleast 2 weeks. It may not want to go back outside after that.

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@collinsworth55 permanent standard time

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

America already made daylight saving time permanent once. In December 1973, 79% of Americans supported it and Nixon signed it into law. By February 1974, eight weeks into the experiment, support had collapsed to 42%. The policy never changed. Winter arrived.

Sunrise in Washington DC came at 8:27am. Kids left for school in total darkness, carrying flashlights and wearing reflective tape. When Congress moved to repeal, members cited the deaths of eight Florida schoolchildren in the first weeks of the change.

The energy case collapsed too. The whole point was the oil embargo, and the Department of Transportation concluded the fuel savings were too small to matter. Ten months after signing it, Congress repealed it and Ford put the country back on standard time.

There's a mechanism that makes this cycle repeat: permanent DST is only ever voted on when the sun is up. Polls run in the abstract, votes happen in warm months, and the benefit, a free hour of evening light, is easy to imagine year-round. The cost is concentrated in about 10 weeks of dark winter mornings and only becomes real after implementation. So the policy polls beautifully right up until January.

Today's vote happened in July. The 1974 law passed in December, right before the exact winter that killed it. If this clears the Senate, the first real test arrives in January 2027, when sunrise in Indianapolis comes after 9am.

Sleep researchers have watched this loop for 50 years, which is why the American Academy of Sleep Medicine, the AMA, and the National Sleep Foundation all back the opposite reform, permanent standard time. Congress just picked the one version of clock reform America has already tried, hated, and repealed.

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

@ANNELAMOTT My thoughts exactly. What happened to giving the family space and a time to grieve. I hope she tells them "No!"

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@JenniferEValent as if God needed a portal...
perhaps he'll smite Trump thru it

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

"I waited patiently for the LORD to help me, and he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along."
Psalm 40:1–2

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@renabaddie_ #3

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@Mikehomeseller Baba O'Riley - Who's Next

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@Mikehomeseller Huge U2 fan but REM comes out on top for me.
Gotta go with the Athens sound, I'm a Georgia girl.

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John 17:20-21

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

“I am praying not only for these disciples but also for all who will ever believe in me through their message. I pray that they will all be one, just as you and I are one—as you are in me, Father, and I am in you. & may they be in us so that the world will believe you sent me."

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"Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name. And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need. These are the sacrifices that please God."
Hebrews 13:15-16

[Royally Sage @sage1411]

My brother posts this every year in the family chat on the 4th. Still hilarious.

[Vicki Hammond @willowwrites]

"Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit he cannot enter into the kingdom of God."
John 3:5

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"Jesus said to the people who believed in him, “You are truly my disciples if you remain faithful to my teachings.  And you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
John 8:31-32

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"Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly.”
John 7:24