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Yo antes era de derecha pero creces, te haces autónomo, estudias, lees, entiendes cómo funciona el mundo y ahora soy de extrema derecha
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It tells you they have no secured way of communicating. The on-going coup is still active.
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“How do you know Jesus is real? Have you ever seen him?”
Look man, literally all of the worst people I know choke on His name. Try it sometime. See if they can say “Jesus Christ is Lord”. They can’t.
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Yeah that's close; but it's even better. It's about understanding that God is loving you so deeply, that sin then loses it's appeal because you have him.
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Twelve hours before my son Mitch was killed, he called me.
It was the best conversation we'd had in over a year. He told me he wanted to come home, live with us again, and go back to college. Then he told me he loved me, and I told him I loved him too.
Twelve hours later, he was gone.
For a long time, that phone call felt like the cruelest part. It seemed like God let me believe everything was going to be OK, and then took my son the same day.
There's a name for what happened in my brain. It's called cognitive tunneling. After all these years, I recently learned the name of it from a post by Jim Kwik @jimkwik , author of the book Limitless.
Under trauma, your attention narrows to one terrible point, and you lose the rest of the picture. I've described it as a camera zooming in so far that it can only see a small part of the world. I've felt it and written about it, but now I have a name for it, and that's healing.
A while after Mitch died, a chaplain friend sat with me in the hospital chapel and told me to do the hard work of looking back at that day from a different angle. So I did.
On the very last day of Mitch's life, we were connected. He was looking forward to coming home. And that same day, he went to his eternal home.
That phone call was a gift God gave me to hold onto.
The third commandment of self-brain surgery is that I must believe that most of my automatic thoughts are untrue. Grief hands you a story fast. You're allowed to look at it again.
"The LORD is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit." Psalm 34:18, ESV.
If you're in that tunnel right now, I'm so sorry. Look again. It's hard and holy work, and you don't have to do it alone.
Save this for the next time hardship has you too zoomed in to see other things that are still true. Share with a friend who's in the tunnel.
And follow me to connect the dots between neuroscience and faith to help you navigate life and find flourishing.
Click the link in my bio to learn more about the Ten Commandments of Self-Brain Surgery.
#selfbrainsurgery #anxiety #mentalhealth #grief #neuroscience
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“Our leaders are a bunch of lowlife scum, who screw little girls, so the jews can screw America.”
Rick Wiles
American Pastor
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Ingratitude ruins more Christian homes than small budgets do.
A wife and children in a little house, a church to walk into on Sunday, bread on the table. If that doesn't make you give thanks, a bigger house won't either.
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On January 8, 1888, 19-year-old Kate Kampen gave birth to her son, Henry Royal Kampen, alone in a freezing sod cabin on the Dakota prairie. Her husband, Wilhelm, had left the previous day to travel 23 miles to Parker for coal and food, unaware that their baby would arrive while he was gone. With their supplies nearly exhausted, the coal bin empty, and no doctor or midwife nearby, Kate faced an unimaginable situation. She wrapped her newborn in every scrap of cloth she could find, climbed into bed, and held him against her bare skin, using her own body heat to keep him alive. She had no way of knowing that an even greater danger was approaching.
On January 12, the devastating Children’s Blizzard swept across the Great Plains, bringing ferocious winds, blinding snow, and temperatures plunging far below zero. Hundreds of people were caught in the storm, and 235 lives were lost. Wilhelm was stranded in the open prairie when the blizzard struck. After his horses collapsed, he stumbled toward shelter and eventually crawled into a barn, where he survived for three days by huddling among pigs for warmth. Meanwhile, Kate remained in the cabin, holding Henry close through the freezing nights, with no fire, no help, and no certainty that her husband would ever return. For days, her own warmth and determination became her newborn’s only protection against the deadly cold.
When the storm finally passed, Wilhelm made his way home, frostbitten and barely able to stand, but alive. He built a fire, and the cabin slowly warmed again. Kate and Henry had survived against extraordinary odds. The couple went on to raise seven children, build a life on the prairie, and Kate lived into her nineties. Her story is a powerful reminder that courage does not always announce itself with grand gestures. Sometimes, it is a frightened young mother lying in the darkness, refusing to let go of her child. The world may never know the names of countless ordinary heroes, but their extraordinary acts of love and survival deserve to be remembered.
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Dear GOD, restore the parts of me that disappeared while I was trying to survive. Bring back my laughter, hope, creativity, tenderness, and excitement about life. I don’t want to merely function anymore; I want to feel alive again. Amen.
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Marriage is not a battlefield where you fight to win against your spouse. It is a covenant where you fight to love your spouse, even when it is difficult.
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The proxy war we inherited from the Biden administration is working against vital U.S. interests, yet we continue to perpetuate it.
The flow of oil, LNG & diesel are vital interests—managing who controls the Donbas is not.
Cut off all assistance to Ukraine—including intelligence sharing. Un-sanction Russian energy.
End this foolish proxy war & put American interests first.
.@POTUS: We told Zelensky, 'You can do whatever you want to Russia, but don't hit the refineries because that's a world problem.' And what does he do? He goes and hits the diesel fuel. He better damn well stop.
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This is satanic
NEW BORN INFANTS CAN BE TERMINATED (INFANTICIDE) AFTER A LIVE BIRTH IN MINNESOTA
MN Governor Tim Walz signing to REPEAL the Minnesota “Born Alive Infants Protection Act.”
Now a botched abortion (an infant born alive after a botched abortion) or a healthy new born infant, Can Now Be LEGALLY TERMINATED after a live birth. This is defined as INFANTICIDE. Keeping the new born drugged until it's death is been labled as " COMFORT CARE"
Look how elated the women around Waltz are behaving…
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So let me get this straight...
Weapons that we paid for were used to blow up oil we paid for from the country we are currently paying for a war against?
Got it.
American foreign policy is such an unmitigated disaster.
BREAKING: Ukraine has just struck the NZNP Rostovsky oil products export terminal in Rostov-on-Don and set it ablaze, hours after the US-Russia diesel deal and Trump lifting sanctions on Russian fuel exports.
This is a products export terminal, exactly where the diesel would leave Russia under the deal.
Ukrainian military sources said earlier today that the Trump administration's attempt to use Russian diesel to lower US prices before the midterms "will bear no fruit."
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The problem is too many people are trying to sit at the tables God sent them to flip.
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The only problem with public executions is nobody from the government ever gets executed.
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Just to make you fully aware of our position as white Brits living in Britain:
250,000 armed Islamic men could wipe out most of the population of Britain within 48 hours.
Communism and Islam killed millions in the 20th century.
Our current Home Secretary is a revolutionary communist and Islamic fundamentalist. She is now engaged in importing weapons trained Palestinians and Afghans.
250k possible Afro-Islamic soldiers illegally crossed the channel over the last few years and now reside, at vast government expense, in military barracks and hotels strategically placed across the country.
The British government could easily arm these men, in pursuit of revolutionary ideals. All Labour Ministers are Fabians and as such ARE revolutionary communists.
I appreciate my view sounds insane, but here's the thing: the conditions DO exist for mass slaughter. Our governments have allowed these conditions to exist. In terms of national security, the conditions should never have been allowed to exist.
When conditions exist, and exist only because of massively expensive and and massively logistical government actions, then they exist for a reason.