I too am 37. One of the biggest things I’ve discovered is that the path to peace is not intense introspection, it’s activity. One full, productive day results in better emotions than hours of self-exploration

Last night I learned a new song on the piano and then listened to the Two Towers audio book by candlelight while eating brownies. I think this is what they call winning at life. It at least beats doom scrolling.

This. It's like a glimpse into God's storyboard for all of history. Original intent, where we've been, where we're going.

Same with studying geography. Just had that experience today with my kiddos in the car. As we were listening to a world history story we stopped with each place named and tried to see if they could picture it on the map. Makes everything come together. History - Geography -

I do this twice a week, very early in the morning and it is some of my favorite time. Honestly, I could sit there for hours and ponder things. But I'll take the couple hours I get. It orders and clarifies so many things.

"What must be done is best done cheerfully." - Pa Ingalls (On the Banks of Plum Creek)

"The words of this wizard stand on their heads. In the language of Orthanc help means ruin, and saving means slaying." (Tolkien, Two Towers) Could have just as easily said... Reproductive justice = ending a human life Gender affirmation = child mutilation Loving your neighbor

Nothing beats getting books in the mail. It's my favorite thing. Like Christmas morning.

Come, Lord Jesus.

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The fact that so many full grown adults went along with this madness (some continuing to do so) is really the stuff of nightmares. It's amazing how quickly an ideology can detach you from reality. Been thankful for Rowling's voice, along with others, who have consistently sounded

Whoever said “money can’t buy happiness” really knew what they were talking about 😔

Francis Schaeffer's pithy summary of the French Revolution: "They looked across the Channel to a Reformation England, tried to build without the Christian base, and ended with a massacre and Napoleon as authoritarian ruler."

Thank you, but no. I don’t want to write faster. I want to write slowly, very slowly. I want to rummage around in the murky caverns of my unformed thoughts and wrench each word out with my own grimy fingers, crack it painfully open like a geode dripping with primordial slime. I

Lewis Carroll: "There is, I verily Believe, a sensation of pain in the realization of our highest pleasures, knowing that now they must soon be over, we had rather prolong anticipation by postponing them. In truth, we are not intended to rest content in any pleasure on earth,

Also a plug for the power of fiction to give you new eyes to see.