Tiny but mighty! Proud mama, business owner, complete sasshole with touch of sweetness. God, family and loyalty over everything. Think 4 yourself ❤ FREEDOM 🇺🇲
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This is a difficult conversation, but it's also an important one to have out in the open.
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Psalm 119:105 and John 15:5 paired together unlocked something I’d been missing my entire life.
“Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
Most people quote this verse and move on, but there is a depth here that changes everything once you see it. Notice it doesn’t say that God will give you a blueprint, a roadmap, or a ten-year plan with every detail mapped out. It says God’s word is a lamp.
In ancient times, a small oil lamp lit maybe three or four feet in front of you. You couldn’t see the destination, you couldn’t see around the corner, you had just enough light for the next step.
This is how God operates. Not with floodlights. Not with spotlights. Just enough for each step, forcing you to depend on Him every moment. You can’t run ahead. You can’t figure it all out on your own. You have to stay close to the light source.
Then Jesus comes along in John 15:5 and makes one of the boldest claims in all of Scripture. “I am the vine, you are the branches. Whoever abides in me and I in him bears much fruit. Apart from me you can do NOTHING.”
When I first read this, it shocked me. Nothing??? I looked around and saw people clearly doing things without Him. That’s when it clicked, He doesn’t mean nothing in the strict sense. You can build businesses, write books, gain influence, accomplish things. What He means is that real, lasting fruit, the kind that actually matters for eternity comes only when you abide in Him. You can spend your whole life doing things that feed your ego but starve your soul, or you can stay connected to the source of life and bear fruit that truly matters.
The lamp doesn’t just show you where to go. It forces you to stay close to who is guiding you. No lamp and you stumble in darkness. No vine and you wither and die. Both images shout the same truth: abide, depend, stay connected.
We live in a culture obsessed with independence, self-sufficiency, and figuring it all out on our own. God designed us for the opposite. He gives you just enough light for today because He wants you coming back tomorrow. The lamp to your feet isn’t a limitation, it’s an invitation to intimacy, a daily reminder that you don’t walk alone.
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We wept bitterly putting this together...
Charlie Kirk did not fear death. Charlie told us what his legacy would be. Charlie's greatest passion was his faith in Jesus Christ.
Just hours before he was assassinated, Charlie stood on stage, openly proclaiming his love for Jesus Christ. Unafraid, unwavering, and full of conviction. He lived every moment guided by that faith, and in the end, he was taken home by his Savior.
Charlie is a true Christian martyr.
His example is not just inspiring, it is a call to all of us. To stand firm in our beliefs, to shine light into darkness, speak truth and to live boldly in our faith. Charlie showed us what it means to live, and die, with purpose.
This is the legacy he leaves...
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Daily Devotion
Why Today Matters
Today, as you celebrate the resurrection of Christ, rejoice in the certainty of an eternal home with Him.
1 Corinthians 15:13-23
Many people look at Easter as an occasion for buying new clothes and going to church. But it’s not just a day to celebrate the empty tomb and move on as if nothing has changed. We didn’t witness the risen Christ after His burial, so imagining the first Easter morning is difficult. Not only that, but our familiarity with the story can make it easy to overlook the stunning magnitude of what transpired.
In today’s passage, Paul gives us a glimpse of the resurrection’s importance by describing what would have happened if Jesus hadn’t been raised. Our celebrations would be a lie, and our faith would be worthless. We’d still bear the guilt of our sin—with no hope of forgiveness, salvation, or eternal life. If Jesus hadn’t been raised, His death would have accomplished nothing.
That’s why Easter is an awesome reason for celebration. Jesus died in our place to satisfy the requirement for our atonement—a price too high for us to pay. The resurrection proves that God was satisfied with the Savior’s sacrifice (Romans 3:25) and counted it sufficient for the forgiveness of all our sins (1 Cor. 15:20-23). And because of Christ’s victory over death, we too will be resurrected and receive an imperishable inheritance reserved for us in heaven. This hope enables us to rejoice every day.
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American cattle rancher exposing that they’ve all been sold out, they’re at risk of being run out of business and your meat is being imported
- 4 large mega corporations now own 85% of the entire industry
- 2 of them are foreign owned
- 1 of them is Chinese
“50% or more of the beef processing be controlled by countries outside of the US. It comes down to our own food source security.”
“We used to make fair amount of return on my cattle, but the industry has changed dramatically with the government allowing the consolidation of the meat processing business.
4 companies, giant companies got together and decided to roll that up, consolidate it, and that's just business. But when we get on the other side of it and we take into account the ramifications on our national economic health. It has a very detrimental effect.
Our government allowed 2 giant companies controlled by foreign governments to come in and acquire.
One of them is controlled by the Chinese, and they bought Smithville out of North Carolina. And the other one was a Brazilian company that came in and bought up one of the other major players.
So now we have an industry, 85% of it actually has been consolidated and rolled up and controlled by 4 companies. Four companies now are dictating who gets what, where, and when. Do you see?
But nobody thought our government would let 50% or more of the beef processing be controlled by countries outside of the US. It comes down to our own food source security.
The geopolitical situation we find ourselves in, why would we want to have an antagonist on 25% of our meat processing? It makes no sense at all.”
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Robbed of Big 12 POTY.
Robbed of his first and only NCAA tournament appearance.
Thank you for leading our team and going all out for this University every night.
Go do great things Von💙💛
