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$Despite being abandoned by my father as a child, if he were still alive, I would be open to starting a new relationship with him. The last time I spoke to him, I was 21 years old and a new father. I wanted to tell him about his grandson, but he didn’t seem interested in talking to me. I told myself that I wouldn’t attempt to call him anymore, but I would never ignore his calls if he tried to reach me. Unfortunately, he never did. ------------------------------------ I talk more about my relationship with my father in my new book "The Children We Left Behind" Purchase a copy from Amazon: or directly from Wrong Speak Publishing: ------------------------------------- As I’ve gotten older—and especially watching my son become an adult—I’ve thought a lot about mortality and the fragility of life. I often reflect on my mistakes as a young adult and my ambivalence toward my parents because I hadn’t yet learned to forgive. When you’re a child, you think adults have it all together, and you expect them to be more than they really are. That one time they screwed up sticks out in your head more than the hundreds of times they sacrificed for you. I’ve tried to be the best father I possibly can be, but I’m sure there were a time or two when I unintentionally let my son down. In an era where everyone thinks they’re always right yet holds higher expectations of behavior for others than they themselves can live up to, we are severely lacking in the area of giving grace and leaning on forgiveness. Instead, we tell people who are having relationship issues to excommunicate others forever, but running from your problems doesn’t resolve them. There are valid times to go no-contact with someone in your life, but the number of times I’ve heard poor reasoning for disconnecting completely from parents is shocking to me. Social media is rife with terrible advice, encouraging people to see a single flaw in someone they love as enough reason to shut them out of their life. I’m speaking from experience when I say this: You can’t resolve a relationship while simultaneously running from it. The only way to fix a fractured relationship is to confront it head-on with love and honesty. And if the person you’re having issues with isn’t hearing you, then you should give them the grace of patience until they lower their guard enough to receive your message. Recently, I was talking to a father who has been struggling to have a relationship with his children for years since his divorce. Every time he tries to get close to them, they push him away. Just as much as it hurts children to be rejected, it hurts parents when they’re pushed away too. What I explained to him was that he should never give up and that he needs to be 100% accountable for his actions. From a parent’s perspective, you might have a hard time understanding why they’re angry with you, and their reasoning might not make sense from your point of view. Parents can often get stuck in the mud of factual differences compared to their children’s emotional interpretations. If you’re in this situation and falling into the trap of debating their emotions, step away from it. It’s a losing battle to engage in this type of back-and-forth because, from the child’s perspective, it comes off as you disregarding their feelings. Is the point to be right or to re-establish a relationship? I’ll never tell someone to take ownership of something they didn’t do, but you can acknowledge their emotions and how they’re feeling. Everyone wants to be accepted, and if you’re a child who feels rejected, the last thing you want is to experience the rejection of your emotional interpretations. If you’re a parent striving to re-establish a relationship with your child, my suggestion is that you don’t give up on them. Work on their timeline and understand that if they’re rejecting your attempts, they just want you to feel the hurt they’re experiencing. However, I believe that repeated attempts of love will eventually break down that hardened wall. Acknowledge their pain, apologize for what you did or what you could have done better as a parent, and give them time to absorb your efforts. The reason I would give my father an opportunity to be in my life is that I understand we are all flawed, and many of us live with regrets—I know I do. The way my life has turned out, I’ve come to understand the importance of giving others grace for their shortcomings and embracing forgiveness. I don’t harbor any anger toward my father because I can’t fix the past, and he’s no longer alive to potentially mend our broken relationship. I forgave my father years ago because being angry at him never helped me grow as a man. I would give anything to have a chance to really get to know him, and it saddens me when I see people believing that tomorrow is guaranteed. That person you cut off from your life might be gone tomorrow, and you won’t have a chance to resolve your differences. Personally, I wouldn’t want to carry that on my conscience, knowing I was too scared or resentful to fix a relationship with someone I loved. Giving people grace is a blessing. It’s about time we bless the world.$

Despite being abandoned by my father as a child, if he were still alive, I would be open to starting a new relationship with him. The last time I spoke to him, I was 21 years old and a new father. I wanted to tell him about his grandson, but he didn’t seem interested in talking to me. I told myself that I wouldn’t attempt to call him anymore, but I would never ignore his calls if he tried to reach me. Unfortunately, he never did. ------------------------------------ I talk more about my relationship with my father in my new book "The Children We Left Behind" Purchase a copy from Amazon: or directly from Wrong Speak Publishing: ------------------------------------- As I’ve gotten older—and especially watching my son become an adult—I’ve thought a lot about mortality and the fragility of life. I often reflect on my mistakes as a young adult and my ambivalence toward my parents because I hadn’t yet learned to forgive. When you’re a child, you think adults have it all together, and you expect them to be more than they really are. That one time they screwed up sticks out in your head more than the hundreds of times they sacrificed for you. I’ve tried to be the best father I possibly can be, but I’m sure there were a time or two when I unintentionally let my son down. In an era where everyone thinks they’re always right yet holds higher expectations of behavior for others than they themselves can live up to, we are severely lacking in the area of giving grace and leaning on forgiveness. Instead, we tell people who are having relationship issues to excommunicate others forever, but running from your problems doesn’t resolve them. There are valid times to go no-contact with someone in your life, but the number of times I’ve heard poor reasoning for disconnecting completely from parents is shocking to me. Social media is rife with terrible advice, encouraging people to see a single flaw in someone they love as enough reason to shut them out of their life. I’m speaking from experience when I say this: You can’t resolve a relationship while simultaneously running from it. The only way to fix a fractured relationship is to confront it head-on with love and honesty. And if the person you’re having issues with isn’t hearing you, then you should give them the grace of patience until they lower their guard enough to receive your message. Recently, I was talking to a father who has been struggling to have a relationship with his children for years since his divorce. Every time he tries to get close to them, they push him away. Just as much as it hurts children to be rejected, it hurts parents when they’re pushed away too. What I explained to him was that he should never give up and that he needs to be 100% accountable for his actions. From a parent’s perspective, you might have a hard time understanding why they’re angry with you, and their reasoning might not make sense from your point of view. Parents can often get stuck in the mud of factual differences compared to their children’s emotional interpretations. If you’re in this situation and falling into the trap of debating their emotions, step away from it. It’s a losing battle to engage in this type of back-and-forth because, from the child’s perspective, it comes off as you disregarding their feelings. Is the point to be right or to re-establish a relationship? I’ll never tell someone to take ownership of something they didn’t do, but you can acknowledge their emotions and how they’re feeling. Everyone wants to be accepted, and if you’re a child who feels rejected, the last thing you want is to experience the rejection of your emotional interpretations. 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I forgave my father years ago because being angry at him never helped me grow as a man. I would give anything to have a chance to really get to know him, and it saddens me when I see people believing that tomorrow is guaranteed. That person you cut off from your life might be gone tomorrow, and you won’t have a chance to resolve your differences. Personally, I wouldn’t want to carry that on my conscience, knowing I was too scared or resentful to fix a relationship with someone I loved. Giving people grace is a blessing. It’s about time we bless the world.

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Quick update on the parallel [dot]gov website investigation: I want to say this professionally… but what in the federal Russian nesting doll is going on here?? I wish I could tell you this got clearer the more I dug, but every thread I pull leads to five new websites, a new acronym, and a weird string of code I now have beef with. It’s also led me to make some phone calls to different federal agencies to see how much the government actually knows about what’s happening at the executive-branch level and, well… my face in this outtake kind of says it all. So that’s why I haven’t posted the investigation yet this week. I’m taking a little extra time with this one to make sure I’m connecting the dots responsibly, being as thorough as possible, and turning a very dense, and honestly pretty alarming, set of findings into something clear enough for people to actually follow. I appreciate your patience (because Lord knows mine left the building about three phone calls ago). I’m also planning my first live next week as a companion piece to this investigation. A casual deeper dive on the deep dive, talking through some of the evidence that didn’t make it in the video. I’m still figuring out the best day and time; trying not to overlap with Candice, Baron, or other creators a lot of you also watch. So drop suggestions below if you have a preference! Regrettably, there is more. Part two coming soon.

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Drey

38,361 Aufrufe • vor 3 Monaten

My secret project that has been in the works is finally done!! Adopted 2 benches for Bin at Esplanade, Singapore! 💜🤍 Starting this project as a little secret of mine helped me cope with the grief I had in my heart, because it made me look forward to something, and I really wanted to give something back to Bin for all the times he brought light in my life~ it’s the last precious memory that Bin and I will share together so I’ll keep close to my heart! 🫶🏼 It all started since a few days after the news broke… It started as a thought of “what if I can adopt a bench in Singapore?” after finding out that the Seoul bench adoption will expire in a few years… then the thoughts sparked into an action and after so long it’s finally completed 🥹 23/4/23: the thought process started and the search for a project began 26/4/23: contacted Esplanade 28/4/23: first viewing of the available benches 3/5/23: second viewing of some selected benches, decision to adopt & donation made 29/5/23: Plaques on benches installed It was tough choosing the locations, but what finally got me to decide was the amazing view and breeze at the waterfront bench 🌃🌬️, and the sighting of some butterflies and the moon at the Forecourt garden bench 🦋🌙 Bin-ah I asked you multiple times to tell me what you wanted since I couldn’t decide, and it seems like you wanted both (hence the strong winds like you were giving me a hug at the first bench and the moon at night at the second bench)… so I got you both are you happy?🤭 You can choose to sit at the waterfront bench and enjoy the breeze and pretty waters which I know you’ll love, or you can go to the forecourt bench and lie down and sleep because it’s so big 😂 The waterfront bench has a 10 year renewal so I’ll renew every 10 years as I renew my promise to remember you and live well~ and the Forecourt garden bench is a lifetime adoption which means you’ll always be remembered~ But Bin-ah was it your doing? I wanted the plaques to be up on the 26th of May since 26 is a special number because of your birthday, but there was a delay so it couldn’t be done! Then I requested for 6th June as it’ll be the 49th day of you leaving to a happier place but… suddenly the admin staff told me they were installing it yesterday??? What were the odds? It was right after my exams… was that you delaying the project because you wanted me to focus on my exams?🥹🥲 I wrote in my letter that I wanted you to bless me for my exams and I guess you did by celebrating with me with such news after the exams 😌 I guess you also wanted to visit earlier 🤭 It’s a bittersweet feeling really… I’m really happy with what I’ve done yet it hurts thinking of the reason of why I even thought of this project to do… I’ll come often when I miss you so please visit often okay! You did mention that you wanted to come to Singapore for the fancon, so now I’ve made a place that’s specially for you so please visit often!! 😄 My favourite moon, you’ll always shine the brightest! I’m always thankful to have known you in my lifetime and I’m always so grateful for all our memories together! You’re a genuine, silly, lovable human being and I’m always filled with joy in your presence! I hope that you’ll continue to smile brightly, and I hope that you’re happier and healthier now! I’ll always love and remember you~ 💜🤍 With lots and lots of love, Debbie~ 31.05.23 01.26AM KST #문빈 #MOONBIN #ASTRO #아스트로ASTRO 아스트로

My secret project that has been in the works is finally done!! Adopted 2 benches for Bin at Esplanade, Singapore! 💜🤍 Starting this project as a little secret of mine helped me cope with the grief I had in my heart, because it made me look forward to something, and I really wanted to give something back to Bin for all the times he brought light in my life~ it’s the last precious memory that Bin and I will share together so I’ll keep close to my heart! 🫶🏼 It all started since a few days after the news broke… It started as a thought of “what if I can adopt a bench in Singapore?” after finding out that the Seoul bench adoption will expire in a few years… then the thoughts sparked into an action and after so long it’s finally completed 🥹 23/4/23: the thought process started and the search for a project began 26/4/23: contacted Esplanade 28/4/23: first viewing of the available benches 3/5/23: second viewing of some selected benches, decision to adopt & donation made 29/5/23: Plaques on benches installed It was tough choosing the locations, but what finally got me to decide was the amazing view and breeze at the waterfront bench 🌃🌬️, and the sighting of some butterflies and the moon at the Forecourt garden bench 🦋🌙 Bin-ah I asked you multiple times to tell me what you wanted since I couldn’t decide, and it seems like you wanted both (hence the strong winds like you were giving me a hug at the first bench and the moon at night at the second bench)… so I got you both are you happy?🤭 You can choose to sit at the waterfront bench and enjoy the breeze and pretty waters which I know you’ll love, or you can go to the forecourt bench and lie down and sleep because it’s so big 😂 The waterfront bench has a 10 year renewal so I’ll renew every 10 years as I renew my promise to remember you and live well~ and the Forecourt garden bench is a lifetime adoption which means you’ll always be remembered~ But Bin-ah was it your doing? I wanted the plaques to be up on the 26th of May since 26 is a special number because of your birthday, but there was a delay so it couldn’t be done! Then I requested for 6th June as it’ll be the 49th day of you leaving to a happier place but… suddenly the admin staff told me they were installing it yesterday??? What were the odds? It was right after my exams… was that you delaying the project because you wanted me to focus on my exams?🥹🥲 I wrote in my letter that I wanted you to bless me for my exams and I guess you did by celebrating with me with such news after the exams 😌 I guess you also wanted to visit earlier 🤭 It’s a bittersweet feeling really… I’m really happy with what I’ve done yet it hurts thinking of the reason of why I even thought of this project to do… I’ll come often when I miss you so please visit often okay! You did mention that you wanted to come to Singapore for the fancon, so now I’ve made a place that’s specially for you so please visit often!! 😄 My favourite moon, you’ll always shine the brightest! I’m always thankful to have known you in my lifetime and I’m always so grateful for all our memories together! You’re a genuine, silly, lovable human being and I’m always filled with joy in your presence! I hope that you’ll continue to smile brightly, and I hope that you’re happier and healthier now! I’ll always love and remember you~ 💜🤍 With lots and lots of love, Debbie~ 31.05.23 01.26AM KST #문빈 #MOONBIN #ASTRO #아스트로ASTRO 아스트로

flymetothemoon_bin🌙

215,752 Aufrufe • vor 3 Jahren

Happy Sunday! I wanted to sit down for a second to introduce myself and provide receipts for all of the people who are rightfully cautious in a moment like this! It’s ok if you haven’t seen me before this week, but I’m definitely not a new comer. I started my podcast in the 4th grade at 11 years old. Charlie and Candace were two of my first ever guests. They were speaking at a local campus together and for some reason took a chance on me. Charlie and I exchanged numbers afterwards and have stayed friends, texting just before the assassination because he took the time to congratulate me on an accomplishment when he definitely didn’t have to take the time to. He came on my podcast a second time just a few years ago. Last year, at the RNC we met up and had a conversation where he encouraged me to start speaking at TPUSA chapters. I had no experience and was nervous but he said they needed more students speaking to students and I would learn as I go but he believed in me. I did that tour last year, and that’s why I’m speaking at TPUSA chapters again. Because he inspired me. The TPUSA chapters are doing amazing, and TPUSA and their Tours team and local reps are impressing the world as they keep seamlessly pulling off adding more and more chapters. I went from podcasting to national politics a little more in 2023 because I called out the RINOS at the RNC at the time and begged that we not go back to the neocon Bush days but instead clean house and make it MAGA. I endorsed Harmeet for Chair. Sadly she lost but she and others helped me get to still be a part of that cleaning house conversation by building the first of its kind youth council for the 2024 election. I’m doing this tour now to try to motivate young people. I’m getting nothing but hate from it. No paycheck or speaking fee or anything like that. We’re not selling anything. I’m just walking in and talking and trying to show them if I can get involved in the 4th grade they can to! As for other concerns, for any nosey people I’m a Baptist, which is where I went to church this morning, like I have every Sunday for the past 19 years. Jesus is King - always has been always will be! And do a little research before believing anything random trolls claim. My family has only ever donated to local politicians. Just like every businessman in America. If you think supporting a city councilor gets me to where I am today, you’re sadly mistaken. Finally, I said this to the NY Post but everybody just read the headline and not the article. I’m not Charlie. I’ll never be Charlie, and I don’t want to be Charlie. I can’t! He was 1 of 1. I’m Brilyn, and if I seem eager it’s because I am. I watched the guy I looked up to get shot. And I’m determined to make sure he didn’t die in vain and inspire my peers to carry out his legacy. This is all God. I didn’t work hard enough for it. Nobody bought it for me. This is impossible in any other scenario without God. I’m legitimately making $0.00. TV hits don’t make money. Campus speeches don’t make money. This overseas money that’s “tied to me” hasn’t hit my account yet or I wouldn’t be at college working so hard on a degree! It’s ok to be cautious. I’m not even asking you to support me! I just wanted to share that we’re on the same side, and like Charlie always encouraged me I’m going to keep going “onward” and he always liked to sign texts. I hope you’re with me. If you’re not, it’s ok. But it’s certainly not gonna stop me.

Happy Sunday! I wanted to sit down for a second to introduce myself and provide receipts for all of the people who are rightfully cautious in a moment like this! It’s ok if you haven’t seen me before this week, but I’m definitely not a new comer. I started my podcast in the 4th grade at 11 years old. Charlie and Candace were two of my first ever guests. They were speaking at a local campus together and for some reason took a chance on me. Charlie and I exchanged numbers afterwards and have stayed friends, texting just before the assassination because he took the time to congratulate me on an accomplishment when he definitely didn’t have to take the time to. He came on my podcast a second time just a few years ago. Last year, at the RNC we met up and had a conversation where he encouraged me to start speaking at TPUSA chapters. I had no experience and was nervous but he said they needed more students speaking to students and I would learn as I go but he believed in me. I did that tour last year, and that’s why I’m speaking at TPUSA chapters again. Because he inspired me. The TPUSA chapters are doing amazing, and TPUSA and their Tours team and local reps are impressing the world as they keep seamlessly pulling off adding more and more chapters. I went from podcasting to national politics a little more in 2023 because I called out the RINOS at the RNC at the time and begged that we not go back to the neocon Bush days but instead clean house and make it MAGA. I endorsed Harmeet for Chair. Sadly she lost but she and others helped me get to still be a part of that cleaning house conversation by building the first of its kind youth council for the 2024 election. I’m doing this tour now to try to motivate young people. I’m getting nothing but hate from it. No paycheck or speaking fee or anything like that. We’re not selling anything. I’m just walking in and talking and trying to show them if I can get involved in the 4th grade they can to! As for other concerns, for any nosey people I’m a Baptist, which is where I went to church this morning, like I have every Sunday for the past 19 years. Jesus is King - always has been always will be! And do a little research before believing anything random trolls claim. My family has only ever donated to local politicians. Just like every businessman in America. If you think supporting a city councilor gets me to where I am today, you’re sadly mistaken. Finally, I said this to the NY Post but everybody just read the headline and not the article. I’m not Charlie. I’ll never be Charlie, and I don’t want to be Charlie. I can’t! He was 1 of 1. I’m Brilyn, and if I seem eager it’s because I am. I watched the guy I looked up to get shot. And I’m determined to make sure he didn’t die in vain and inspire my peers to carry out his legacy. This is all God. I didn’t work hard enough for it. Nobody bought it for me. This is impossible in any other scenario without God. I’m legitimately making $0.00. TV hits don’t make money. Campus speeches don’t make money. This overseas money that’s “tied to me” hasn’t hit my account yet or I wouldn’t be at college working so hard on a degree! It’s ok to be cautious. I’m not even asking you to support me! I just wanted to share that we’re on the same side, and like Charlie always encouraged me I’m going to keep going “onward” and he always liked to sign texts. I hope you’re with me. If you’re not, it’s ok. But it’s certainly not gonna stop me.

Brilyn Hollyhand

1,327,349 Aufrufe • vor 11 Monaten

As most of you know, my daughter Taryn moved back in with me after about 15 years with her grandparents. They took great care of her, but she was ready to come home to Mom, and I’m at a place in my life where I can provide the best care and resources for her, but it’s a process filled with lots of hoops and red tape. I took Taryn to the movies the other day and it started out great. We walked there, and she was so excited and happy. Throughout the movie she was holding my hand, giving me hugs, leaning her head on me, and I remember thinking, “wow, I am so happy and grateful. My life is perfect in this moment.” Then disaster struck out of nowhere. We were in the front left row, and a Dad with his little girl were in the right front row. The movie went quiet, and Taryn could hear the little girl chewing her popcorn. Taryn developed severe Misophonia, and it’s gotten progressively worse over the last couple years. The sound of chewing sets off her fight or flight instincts, and although she tries, she has the communication and emotional regulation capabilities of a two year old. I could see her getting visibly agitated, and tried to get her to leave, even offered to take her to Mc. Donald’s if we left, and told her we could come back and finish the movie another time. She said no, that she wanted to stay. She had been looking forward to the movie for weeks, and didn’t want to leave. The movie got quiet again, and out of nowhere she jumped up and ran over to the little girl and her Dad. She tried to attack them, but the dad stopped her and I was right behind her and grabbed her. She tried to go after them again, and I grabbed her and pulled her down to the floor. I was mortified, and the fact that we were in the front row in a theater full of people made it even worse. I apologized, helped Taryn up, and started pushing her up the aisle, toward the door. All the while, she’s screaming at the top of her lungs. When I walked out, the employee behind the counter gave me a sympathetic look and whispered “it’s ok.” Of course, we had walked… Taryn screamed the whole way home. When we got home, she lost her tablet and printing privileges, leading to her punching me and then hitting herself and biting herself repeatedly, and screaming for hours but the consequences stuck. I was overwhelmed, embarrassed, and generally overstimulated, but I kept calm and stayed even throughout the entire process, somehow. The next day, I woke up to someone sending me a screenshot from a post the father made. I instantly started crying. I am so grateful to live in a community with such amazing and understanding people. All of the comments passed the vibe check. I’m also so grateful they were so understanding and am happy to report that the little girl was unfazed. Taryn had a mental health assessment last week, and meets with a licensed clinician on Monday and a case manager the following week. The clinician will be able to help make a plan to get Taryn the best care she needs, and the Case Manager will help us put it into action. This is a hard transition for all of us, but I’m so grateful to have her home and to be able to get her the help and services she needs. She isn’t a bad kid. She’s actually really funny, really smart, and super talented. She just struggles with a lot of things we take for granted. I’m grateful for the support of my guy, my friends and coworkers, and my community in general. #autisminclusion #AutismAwareness #misophonia #OCD #autism #tarynisabella #level3autism #severeautism

As most of you know, my daughter Taryn moved back in with me after about 15 years with her grandparents. They took great care of her, but she was ready to come home to Mom, and I’m at a place in my life where I can provide the best care and resources for her, but it’s a process filled with lots of hoops and red tape. I took Taryn to the movies the other day and it started out great. We walked there, and she was so excited and happy. Throughout the movie she was holding my hand, giving me hugs, leaning her head on me, and I remember thinking, “wow, I am so happy and grateful. My life is perfect in this moment.” Then disaster struck out of nowhere. We were in the front left row, and a Dad with his little girl were in the right front row. The movie went quiet, and Taryn could hear the little girl chewing her popcorn. Taryn developed severe Misophonia, and it’s gotten progressively worse over the last couple years. The sound of chewing sets off her fight or flight instincts, and although she tries, she has the communication and emotional regulation capabilities of a two year old. I could see her getting visibly agitated, and tried to get her to leave, even offered to take her to Mc. Donald’s if we left, and told her we could come back and finish the movie another time. She said no, that she wanted to stay. She had been looking forward to the movie for weeks, and didn’t want to leave. The movie got quiet again, and out of nowhere she jumped up and ran over to the little girl and her Dad. She tried to attack them, but the dad stopped her and I was right behind her and grabbed her. She tried to go after them again, and I grabbed her and pulled her down to the floor. I was mortified, and the fact that we were in the front row in a theater full of people made it even worse. I apologized, helped Taryn up, and started pushing her up the aisle, toward the door. All the while, she’s screaming at the top of her lungs. When I walked out, the employee behind the counter gave me a sympathetic look and whispered “it’s ok.” Of course, we had walked… Taryn screamed the whole way home. When we got home, she lost her tablet and printing privileges, leading to her punching me and then hitting herself and biting herself repeatedly, and screaming for hours but the consequences stuck. I was overwhelmed, embarrassed, and generally overstimulated, but I kept calm and stayed even throughout the entire process, somehow. The next day, I woke up to someone sending me a screenshot from a post the father made. I instantly started crying. I am so grateful to live in a community with such amazing and understanding people. All of the comments passed the vibe check. I’m also so grateful they were so understanding and am happy to report that the little girl was unfazed. Taryn had a mental health assessment last week, and meets with a licensed clinician on Monday and a case manager the following week. The clinician will be able to help make a plan to get Taryn the best care she needs, and the Case Manager will help us put it into action. This is a hard transition for all of us, but I’m so grateful to have her home and to be able to get her the help and services she needs. She isn’t a bad kid. She’s actually really funny, really smart, and super talented. She just struggles with a lot of things we take for granted. I’m grateful for the support of my guy, my friends and coworkers, and my community in general. #autisminclusion #AutismAwareness #misophonia #OCD #autism #tarynisabella #level3autism #severeautism

Zola In Recovery

109,722 Aufrufe • vor 5 Monaten

kim seungmin….💔 this is his honest feelingㅠㅠ 🐶 Anyway the 2-week promotion period has already come to an end. Honestly, ever since the concert, I had this vague feeling like… “Can I really do this?” I kept thinking about whether I could stay right next to the members, without missing a single beat and manage to do all of this. It was a very vague, uncertain feeling. But at the same time, this is obviously something I have to do. I’m a member of the group, it’s my job and there are so many STAYs who are watching and supporting us so there are things that I naturally have to do. And because of that, I also wondered if I should even feel proud of myself for having gotten through this somehow differently from usual. Like, “Is it okay for me to feel proud of myself for this?” Anyway, I still haven’t really been able to let this promotion go yet, that’s because, with these music show promotions, I was the one who said that I would somehow join in. I felt like if I was going to be separated from the members even on stage ans if I just stayed by myself doing rehab and resting alone… Of course, I know that I was supposed to rest, but if I did, somehow, both emotionally and mentally, I just couldn’t accept it for myself. Everyone carries some degree of pain with them and still works and goes on living their lives. That’s just how you learn to live, I think. So even in those moments, I really hated showing it or letting it show that I was in pain. But at the same time, I couldn’t cause any problems for the others either, because you never know what might happen. What if I was performing on stage and a situation came up where I genuinely couldn’t keep going? Then, if I had to leave the stage in the middle of a performance again, someone would have to fill in for my position in the choreography. It’s easy to say but when one person is missing, someone else inevitably has to fill that space and there’s still going to be an empty spot somewhere. So, for the formations this time, since I wasn’t able to participate in the group choreography during the MV, I thought, “Let’s just focus on the meaning of me being able to stand on stage together with them while keeping the members’ original formations.”That’s what I told the company and the choreographers as well. Because you never know, I could have ended up having to leave again in the middle of a performance. So even if I was mostly hidden a little, I thought I’d just put meaning into being there together with them in the back and then come forward during my parts and do my best to make sure my face was seen. That was how I tried my best, in my own way, to get through it. Those were honestly my feelings about it. This is all really true. So I guess I feel a little bittersweet about it. In my own position, I’m genuinely doing my best. I truly mean that.

kim seungmin….💔 this is his honest feelingㅠㅠ 🐶 Anyway the 2-week promotion period has already come to an end. Honestly, ever since the concert, I had this vague feeling like… “Can I really do this?” I kept thinking about whether I could stay right next to the members, without missing a single beat and manage to do all of this. It was a very vague, uncertain feeling. But at the same time, this is obviously something I have to do. I’m a member of the group, it’s my job and there are so many STAYs who are watching and supporting us so there are things that I naturally have to do. And because of that, I also wondered if I should even feel proud of myself for having gotten through this somehow differently from usual. Like, “Is it okay for me to feel proud of myself for this?” Anyway, I still haven’t really been able to let this promotion go yet, that’s because, with these music show promotions, I was the one who said that I would somehow join in. I felt like if I was going to be separated from the members even on stage ans if I just stayed by myself doing rehab and resting alone… Of course, I know that I was supposed to rest, but if I did, somehow, both emotionally and mentally, I just couldn’t accept it for myself. Everyone carries some degree of pain with them and still works and goes on living their lives. That’s just how you learn to live, I think. So even in those moments, I really hated showing it or letting it show that I was in pain. But at the same time, I couldn’t cause any problems for the others either, because you never know what might happen. What if I was performing on stage and a situation came up where I genuinely couldn’t keep going? Then, if I had to leave the stage in the middle of a performance again, someone would have to fill in for my position in the choreography. It’s easy to say but when one person is missing, someone else inevitably has to fill that space and there’s still going to be an empty spot somewhere. So, for the formations this time, since I wasn’t able to participate in the group choreography during the MV, I thought, “Let’s just focus on the meaning of me being able to stand on stage together with them while keeping the members’ original formations.”That’s what I told the company and the choreographers as well. Because you never know, I could have ended up having to leave again in the middle of a performance. So even if I was mostly hidden a little, I thought I’d just put meaning into being there together with them in the back and then come forward during my parts and do my best to make sure my face was seen. That was how I tried my best, in my own way, to get through it. Those were honestly my feelings about it. This is all really true. So I guess I feel a little bittersweet about it. In my own position, I’m genuinely doing my best. I truly mean that.

댕꾸 ◡̈

254,811 Aufrufe • vor 1 Monat

Riley Reid says she was put in an UNCOMFORTABLE situation on a David Dobrik YouTube video where she had to play up her persona and nearly ended up in a room with a guy, but she shut it down over STD TESTING Adam22 (host): Never gonna be like, “Hey, let’s do anal. Hey, let’s do bondage. Let me, let’s, let’s whip each other, you know?” Riley Reid: “sometimes I get put on in situations like when I did David Dobrik’s YouTube video. He’s, has a camera on me and he goes, he’s like, ‘Oh, do you think, my friend Dom is hot?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, he’s cute.’ He’s like, ‘Would you kiss him?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’d kiss him.’ He Yeah, he’s hot.” Adam22: Because that was the one where you acted like you were gonna bang him, right? And then you didn’t do it, right? Riley Reid: “I didn’t, I didn’t even want to.” Adam22: But is it presented like you did in the video? Riley Reid: “Yeah. Well, so the whole video is presented, and it was like under so much pressure ‘cause I’m, I also, I’m in a room of like twelve people, playing up this Riley Reid persona, filming this David Dobrik video, and he’s, and he’s like this, like, icon person. So much that I don’t fucking care. So I kiss him, and then he’s like, ‘Would you fuck him?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, again,’ playing up Riley Reid persona. And then he’s like, ‘Would you fuck him right now?’ And I was like, ‘Uh…’ And then they’re like, ‘Okay, like, let’s go into the room.’ And they like, they basically like pushed me into a room with him, and- He starts like talking to me about wanting to do stuff and everything, and I was like, ‘Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck,’ and I asked him, ‘I was like, when’s the last time you were tested?’ And they were also talking about how he just had a threesome like the night before or something. And he was like, ‘I haven’t been tested in like three weeks or something.’ And I was like, ........’” “And so like, and I felt so lucky that he didn’t get tested, ‘cause then I got to end the video on such a beautiful, positive note, because I was like, ‘Guess what? He could have fucked me if he was tested, but he’s not, so make sure you get your STD tests. Ding, you know, like Riley Reid for the win.’ Like my Riley Reid persona that I was like, I felt so uncomfortable, but like I, I tried to find a way around it and it, I ended up making it work for me, but like, even not on porn, I was put in this uncomfortable situation because I do porn.....” “it’s like when I show up onto set, I know who I’m fucking, yeah, and like who’s the camera guy, like I know everything that’s fucking going on, so it’s like, whoa, like you’re throwing me into something like you, you don’t know what porn’s like, and I know everything I’m, like, before we shoot a scene, I sit down with my guy and I’m like, okay, like, what positions are we doing I want it to flow.”

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Riley Reid says she was put in an UNCOMFORTABLE situation on a David Dobrik YouTube video where she had to play up her persona and nearly ended up in a room with a guy, but she shut it down over STD TESTING Adam22 (host): Never gonna be like, “Hey, let’s do anal. Hey, let’s do bondage. Let me, let’s, let’s whip each other, you know?” Riley Reid: “sometimes I get put on in situations like when I did David Dobrik’s YouTube video. He’s, has a camera on me and he goes, he’s like, ‘Oh, do you think, my friend Dom is hot?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, he’s cute.’ He’s like, ‘Would you kiss him?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, I’d kiss him.’ He Yeah, he’s hot.” Adam22: Because that was the one where you acted like you were gonna bang him, right? And then you didn’t do it, right? Riley Reid: “I didn’t, I didn’t even want to.” Adam22: But is it presented like you did in the video? Riley Reid: “Yeah. Well, so the whole video is presented, and it was like under so much pressure ‘cause I’m, I also, I’m in a room of like twelve people, playing up this Riley Reid persona, filming this David Dobrik video, and he’s, and he’s like this, like, icon person. So much that I don’t fucking care. So I kiss him, and then he’s like, ‘Would you fuck him?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, again,’ playing up Riley Reid persona. And then he’s like, ‘Would you fuck him right now?’ And I was like, ‘Uh…’ And then they’re like, ‘Okay, like, let’s go into the room.’ And they like, they basically like pushed me into a room with him, and- He starts like talking to me about wanting to do stuff and everything, and I was like, ‘Oh, fuck, fuck, fuck,’ and I asked him, ‘I was like, when’s the last time you were tested?’ And they were also talking about how he just had a threesome like the night before or something. And he was like, ‘I haven’t been tested in like three weeks or something.’ And I was like, ........’” “And so like, and I felt so lucky that he didn’t get tested, ‘cause then I got to end the video on such a beautiful, positive note, because I was like, ‘Guess what? He could have fucked me if he was tested, but he’s not, so make sure you get your STD tests. Ding, you know, like Riley Reid for the win.’ Like my Riley Reid persona that I was like, I felt so uncomfortable, but like I, I tried to find a way around it and it, I ended up making it work for me, but like, even not on porn, I was put in this uncomfortable situation because I do porn.....” “it’s like when I show up onto set, I know who I’m fucking, yeah, and like who’s the camera guy, like I know everything that’s fucking going on, so it’s like, whoa, like you’re throwing me into something like you, you don’t know what porn’s like, and I know everything I’m, like, before we shoot a scene, I sit down with my guy and I’m like, okay, like, what positions are we doing I want it to flow.”

Dunmola♋

253,193 Aufrufe • vor 10 Tagen

A story I’d like to share and hope you “play” the end: Back in the 1960s my dad was the lead singer of a band named “Johnny and the Fires” (he was Johnny). They mostly played in Buffalo and surrounding-area nightclubs and also got some play on local radio. They made a record (78 RPM) of their “hit” song “Stop, Look, and Listen!” It was actually recorded at 24 Northampton Street in Buffalo. I know because it’s printed on the record (you’ll see later). That’s across the street from the Delta Sonic and old post office on Main Street, near the NFTA station. Apparently there was a music studio there?! I have no idea. At my high school graduation party, we had a live band. My brother was the drummer (you may already know I also play the drums). They learned Stop, Look, and Listen and my father went up and sang it with them. My dad died two years later of a heart attack, at 48 years old. In 2011, I moved back to Buffalo to work at WGR. A couple years later, I got a Facebook message from a guy who said he recognized my name (and voice!) and wondered if I was John Capaccio‘s son, because he played saxophone with him in the band Johnny and the Fires. We connected. His name is Sam Guarino and he is in the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (inducted in 2011)! Amazing. 🤯 Sam and I became friends. He told me about the other band members. One was the drummer, Vito Camilleri, who (at the time) owned Vito’s Cut and Style on Hertel Ave. I went into visit Vito one time to say hello. I’ve also connected recently with one of their guitarists, Salvatore Sciolino, who told me “your dad and me got into a lot of trouble together.” (Not a surprise to me! 😂) Sam had Stop, Look, and Listen converted into a CD. I then recorded it into an MP4. I wanted to share it for all of them and you to hear. Sam has been trying to help me figure out some of the lyrics since they are a little tough to make out. But that’s part of the fun, too! Here it is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! 🎙️⏯️

A story I’d like to share and hope you “play” the end: Back in the 1960s my dad was the lead singer of a band named “Johnny and the Fires” (he was Johnny). They mostly played in Buffalo and surrounding-area nightclubs and also got some play on local radio. They made a record (78 RPM) of their “hit” song “Stop, Look, and Listen!” It was actually recorded at 24 Northampton Street in Buffalo. I know because it’s printed on the record (you’ll see later). That’s across the street from the Delta Sonic and old post office on Main Street, near the NFTA station. Apparently there was a music studio there?! I have no idea. At my high school graduation party, we had a live band. My brother was the drummer (you may already know I also play the drums). They learned Stop, Look, and Listen and my father went up and sang it with them. My dad died two years later of a heart attack, at 48 years old. In 2011, I moved back to Buffalo to work at WGR. A couple years later, I got a Facebook message from a guy who said he recognized my name (and voice!) and wondered if I was John Capaccio‘s son, because he played saxophone with him in the band Johnny and the Fires. We connected. His name is Sam Guarino and he is in the Buffalo Music Hall of Fame (inducted in 2011)! Amazing. 🤯 Sam and I became friends. He told me about the other band members. One was the drummer, Vito Camilleri, who (at the time) owned Vito’s Cut and Style on Hertel Ave. I went into visit Vito one time to say hello. I’ve also connected recently with one of their guitarists, Salvatore Sciolino, who told me “your dad and me got into a lot of trouble together.” (Not a surprise to me! 😂) Sam had Stop, Look, and Listen converted into a CD. I then recorded it into an MP4. I wanted to share it for all of them and you to hear. Sam has been trying to help me figure out some of the lyrics since they are a little tough to make out. But that’s part of the fun, too! Here it is. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do! 🎙️⏯️

Sal Capaccio 🏈

344,779 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Ever notice how you start something with fire, and two weeks later you’re already flirting with a new idea? Yeah. That’s not lack of discipline. That’s dopamine doing its thing. I used to think I had focus problems. Turns out, I had novelty addiction. Every project started like a romance. Intense energy. Big promises. Late nights filled with vision boards and caffeine. Then somewhere around week three, I’d mysteriously "lose interest." The spark was gone. The spreadsheets looked boring. Suddenly reorganizing my Notion templates felt urgent. If you know, you know. We tell ourselves stories to stay sane: "It’s not the right time." "I just need to pivot." "I’m giving it space to breathe." Translation: the dopamine high crashed, and now our brain wants a new hit. And it’s wild because this cycle doesn’t make you lazy. It makes you incredibly creative at avoiding repetition. Your brain would rather work on ten unfinished projects than fully finish one. Most high performers live like this for years. Running on sparks. Burning out on starts. Building momentum, then ghosting their own potential. I call this being a "Dopamine Dave". Brilliant. Driven. Restless. Always chasing the next thing that feels alive, even when it costs long-term progress. And the truth is, willpower has nothing to do with it. Your brain is wired to crave novelty more than completion. I’m diving deep into this in my upcoming Dopamine Mastery 2.0 Workshop on November 30th. We’ll explore what this loop really is, why high performers get trapped in it, and what happens when you finally break the cycle. Early access will be through my newsletter (Link in Bio and Below). That’s where sign-ups open first. And yes, prices increase as we get closer to the event. If this post hit a nerve (or felt a little too accurate), join the newsletter now. Let’s make sure Dopamine Dave doesn’t keep running the show.

Ever notice how you start something with fire, and two weeks later you’re already flirting with a new idea? Yeah. That’s not lack of discipline. That’s dopamine doing its thing. I used to think I had focus problems. Turns out, I had novelty addiction. Every project started like a romance. Intense energy. Big promises. Late nights filled with vision boards and caffeine. Then somewhere around week three, I’d mysteriously "lose interest." The spark was gone. The spreadsheets looked boring. Suddenly reorganizing my Notion templates felt urgent. If you know, you know. We tell ourselves stories to stay sane: "It’s not the right time." "I just need to pivot." "I’m giving it space to breathe." Translation: the dopamine high crashed, and now our brain wants a new hit. And it’s wild because this cycle doesn’t make you lazy. It makes you incredibly creative at avoiding repetition. Your brain would rather work on ten unfinished projects than fully finish one. Most high performers live like this for years. Running on sparks. Burning out on starts. Building momentum, then ghosting their own potential. I call this being a "Dopamine Dave". Brilliant. Driven. Restless. Always chasing the next thing that feels alive, even when it costs long-term progress. And the truth is, willpower has nothing to do with it. Your brain is wired to crave novelty more than completion. I’m diving deep into this in my upcoming Dopamine Mastery 2.0 Workshop on November 30th. We’ll explore what this loop really is, why high performers get trapped in it, and what happens when you finally break the cycle. Early access will be through my newsletter (Link in Bio and Below). That’s where sign-ups open first. And yes, prices increase as we get closer to the event. If this post hit a nerve (or felt a little too accurate), join the newsletter now. Let’s make sure Dopamine Dave doesn’t keep running the show.

Jacob Eagles

16,193 Aufrufe • vor 10 Monaten

“There were four entities.” “They had a large head, small body, and dark eyes.” This Air Force veteran just alleged that he was taken aboard a UFO from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1964. And the entities revealed shocking things about the universe to him: First, they told him that they abducted him because they needed to access the nuclear weapons on the base. Why? Because they would never let humanity launch nukes. They told him that if humanity ever started a nuclear war, they would intervene. And they told him there are many other civilizations out there, some of which aren’t as “benevolent.” This is Richard Barth’s shocking testimony: It was 2 AM in September 1964. “I just saw a wall of fog … ” Barth was guarding a Minuteman missile launch site. “Next thing I know, I see this shadow in the fog … which appeared to be a man or a humanoid figure.” “And I could feel it in my mind.” “It was like it started grabbing hold of me.” “As it approached me, I tried to pull my pistol … and my right arm was paralyzed.” “It was terrifying.” “The next thing I know—I don’t know if I passed out, it’s just blank at that point—I’m inside this circular room.” “I’m on my knees, and there’s a 2.5-3 foot circle that’s clear.” “I could see through it.” “There’s this figure to my right, and it’s communicating with me: ‘don’t look at me, just look through the circle.’” “It’s weird, because it’s not words.” “So I’m looking at the circle, and what you see initially is just this gray fog.” “All of a sudden, this kind of clears away—like clouds splitting.” “It’s just getting light, and I can see this truck pull up to the gate.” “A guard came over to the right side of a truck and was … checking whoever was driving, opened the gate, let the truck in, and then the clouds closed up.” “I’m still looking through this hole, and … I kind of raised my eyes to look around.” “There were, opposite me, about 6-10 feet away, these four figures sitting on a bench.” “The wall of the—I’ll call it a craft—I could see that the bench was just a continuation of the material of whatever the wall was.” “The figures were silhouetted, like the light source was from the wall, but very consistent.” “They had a large head and smaller body, disproportionate.” “The eyes were discernible because they were darker than the skin.” Next thing he knew, Barth was back in his guard shack, lying on the floor. “There’s a little porch right in front of the door to the guard shack … and this being is sitting on the porch and has my head in its lap.” “It’s communicating: ‘I’m sorry, we didn’t mean to scare you … but we had to have access to the site.’” “The other thing was … it did not want me to see it.” “He says: ‘now I’m gonna leave, and I want you to just keep your eyes shut.’” “He left, and … I laid there for maybe fifteen minutes with my eyes shut.” “I finally got up and looked around, and … there’s a ridge of mountains … and the sun was coming up over that ridge.” “It was a beautiful sight.” “There was a little chipmunk on the ground, and I just felt so much love for that little chipmunk.” “I felt like I was joined with that chipmunk, one living creature to another, and it kind of just looked back at me and scurried away.” What is your reaction to Richard Barth’s testimony? Jesse Michels

“There were four entities.” “They had a large head, small body, and dark eyes.” This Air Force veteran just alleged that he was taken aboard a UFO from Vandenberg Air Force Base in 1964. And the entities revealed shocking things about the universe to him: First, they told him that they abducted him because they needed to access the nuclear weapons on the base. Why? Because they would never let humanity launch nukes. They told him that if humanity ever started a nuclear war, they would intervene. And they told him there are many other civilizations out there, some of which aren’t as “benevolent.” This is Richard Barth’s shocking testimony: It was 2 AM in September 1964. “I just saw a wall of fog … ” Barth was guarding a Minuteman missile launch site. “Next thing I know, I see this shadow in the fog … which appeared to be a man or a humanoid figure.” “And I could feel it in my mind.” “It was like it started grabbing hold of me.” “As it approached me, I tried to pull my pistol … and my right arm was paralyzed.” “It was terrifying.” “The next thing I know—I don’t know if I passed out, it’s just blank at that point—I’m inside this circular room.” “I’m on my knees, and there’s a 2.5-3 foot circle that’s clear.” “I could see through it.” “There’s this figure to my right, and it’s communicating with me: ‘don’t look at me, just look through the circle.’” “It’s weird, because it’s not words.” “So I’m looking at the circle, and what you see initially is just this gray fog.” “All of a sudden, this kind of clears away—like clouds splitting.” “It’s just getting light, and I can see this truck pull up to the gate.” “A guard came over to the right side of a truck and was … checking whoever was driving, opened the gate, let the truck in, and then the clouds closed up.” “I’m still looking through this hole, and … I kind of raised my eyes to look around.” “There were, opposite me, about 6-10 feet away, these four figures sitting on a bench.” “The wall of the—I’ll call it a craft—I could see that the bench was just a continuation of the material of whatever the wall was.” “The figures were silhouetted, like the light source was from the wall, but very consistent.” “They had a large head and smaller body, disproportionate.” “The eyes were discernible because they were darker than the skin.” Next thing he knew, Barth was back in his guard shack, lying on the floor. “There’s a little porch right in front of the door to the guard shack … and this being is sitting on the porch and has my head in its lap.” “It’s communicating: ‘I’m sorry, we didn’t mean to scare you … but we had to have access to the site.’” “The other thing was … it did not want me to see it.” “He says: ‘now I’m gonna leave, and I want you to just keep your eyes shut.’” “He left, and … I laid there for maybe fifteen minutes with my eyes shut.” “I finally got up and looked around, and … there’s a ridge of mountains … and the sun was coming up over that ridge.” “It was a beautiful sight.” “There was a little chipmunk on the ground, and I just felt so much love for that little chipmunk.” “I felt like I was joined with that chipmunk, one living creature to another, and it kind of just looked back at me and scurried away.” What is your reaction to Richard Barth’s testimony? Jesse Michels

Holden Culotta

93,834 Aufrufe • vor 7 Monaten

Several weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, I had a heart-wrenching conversation with a manager of one of the restaurants in the World Trade Centers. He told me, “I can’t get over the grief that I never saw the 250 people who worked for me as people. They were waiters, chefs, busboys, hosts, event planners—but they weren’t people to me. And over the last three weeks, I’ve gone to funeral after funeral and sat with their moms and dads, husbands and wives, and children and heard the stories of their lives. Now they are people to me, but now they’re gone.” He wept as he told me that story. I wept as I listened. It’s hard not to get emotional thinking back to that story today, 22 years later. And it’s hard not to feel guilt. I think this attitude is typical of many of us. I know it’s true for me. I often don’t see people as people. It’s the barista whose job it is to create my perfect coffee order. It’s the supermarket assistant who is there to speed up my process on the self-checkout scanner. It’s the waiter who exists to get me my delicious meal without any delays or mistakes. Do you see people as people? Or are they functions to assist you in creating a day that is as stress-free and enjoyable as possible? If you want to shine as a light in this world, pray that God will give you the eyes to see people as people. Slow down, look into their eyes, and remember that this is a human being created in the image of God, who has a heart, an eternal destiny, a story, a desire to be loved, with legitimate fears and concerns, and hopes and dreams. Then, adjust your schedule or make sacrifices to bump into these people more frequently. That could mean going to the same place at the same time so you can interact with the same person on their regular shift pattern. Maybe that means shopping differently to build relationships with people who live or work in your neighborhood. Sadly, too many of us are chasing an ever-growing to-do list as we try to build a kingdom of created delights, which causes us to rush past people, or worse, use them to make life as efficient, convenient, and pleasurable as possible. Lastly, ask questions. Simple questions are a great starting point: How are you doing today? How has your week been? What do you have going on this weekend? What are you most excited about? How are your kids doing in school? I was at a restaurant once, and the man dining with me said to the waiter, “We’re a group of people who like to pray before we eat. Is there anything we can pray for you?” The waiter was taken off guard, stumbled, and said, “Uh, I don’t think I really need anything right now.” But then he came back five minutes later. “Actually, I think I could use your prayer. I just found out my girlfriend is pregnant, and I’m terrified. I have no idea how to be a father. Would you pray for me?” What a fantastic opportunity! And it was so simple. My friend saw the waiter as a person, not a function, and he asked a simple question. Then, go back again and again to develop a relationship and wait for the opportunities that God gives you as a result. “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:36–38). 𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: God, would you help me to see people as people and not as cogs in the machine of my day to make my life more comfortable and easy? Would you provide me with opportunities to engage with the people you have placed in my life and when those opportunities arise, would you give me the courage to lean in and ask questions of them? Would you help to make my heart sensitive and caring to others that you might use me in whatever way you want. Thank you, Lord. Amen.

Several weeks after the September 11th terrorist attacks, I had a heart-wrenching conversation with a manager of one of the restaurants in the World Trade Centers. He told me, “I can’t get over the grief that I never saw the 250 people who worked for me as people. They were waiters, chefs, busboys, hosts, event planners—but they weren’t people to me. And over the last three weeks, I’ve gone to funeral after funeral and sat with their moms and dads, husbands and wives, and children and heard the stories of their lives. Now they are people to me, but now they’re gone.” He wept as he told me that story. I wept as I listened. It’s hard not to get emotional thinking back to that story today, 22 years later. And it’s hard not to feel guilt. I think this attitude is typical of many of us. I know it’s true for me. I often don’t see people as people. It’s the barista whose job it is to create my perfect coffee order. It’s the supermarket assistant who is there to speed up my process on the self-checkout scanner. It’s the waiter who exists to get me my delicious meal without any delays or mistakes. Do you see people as people? Or are they functions to assist you in creating a day that is as stress-free and enjoyable as possible? If you want to shine as a light in this world, pray that God will give you the eyes to see people as people. Slow down, look into their eyes, and remember that this is a human being created in the image of God, who has a heart, an eternal destiny, a story, a desire to be loved, with legitimate fears and concerns, and hopes and dreams. Then, adjust your schedule or make sacrifices to bump into these people more frequently. That could mean going to the same place at the same time so you can interact with the same person on their regular shift pattern. Maybe that means shopping differently to build relationships with people who live or work in your neighborhood. Sadly, too many of us are chasing an ever-growing to-do list as we try to build a kingdom of created delights, which causes us to rush past people, or worse, use them to make life as efficient, convenient, and pleasurable as possible. Lastly, ask questions. Simple questions are a great starting point: How are you doing today? How has your week been? What do you have going on this weekend? What are you most excited about? How are your kids doing in school? I was at a restaurant once, and the man dining with me said to the waiter, “We’re a group of people who like to pray before we eat. Is there anything we can pray for you?” The waiter was taken off guard, stumbled, and said, “Uh, I don’t think I really need anything right now.” But then he came back five minutes later. “Actually, I think I could use your prayer. I just found out my girlfriend is pregnant, and I’m terrified. I have no idea how to be a father. Would you pray for me?” What a fantastic opportunity! And it was so simple. My friend saw the waiter as a person, not a function, and he asked a simple question. Then, go back again and again to develop a relationship and wait for the opportunities that God gives you as a result. “When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest” (Matthew 9:36–38). 𝗔 𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: God, would you help me to see people as people and not as cogs in the machine of my day to make my life more comfortable and easy? Would you provide me with opportunities to engage with the people you have placed in my life and when those opportunities arise, would you give me the courage to lean in and ask questions of them? Would you help to make my heart sensitive and caring to others that you might use me in whatever way you want. Thank you, Lord. Amen.

Paul David Tripp

41,218 Aufrufe • vor 2 Jahren

Pastor John MacArthur’s final sermon at Grace Community Church was excellent! He was thankful in all his trials by trusting in God’s word and His providence. The Unfailing Promises of God — John MacArthur // November 24, 2024 It’s been since July that I’ve preached here on a Sunday. That wouldn’t have been my choice; but I think, as Grace just sung, sometimes our trials are blessings in disguise, and God has purposes that we would never have been able to fulfill if we weren’t put into some kind of stress. I can tell you, I’ve had three heart surgeries and surgery on my lungs in those last few months, and I’m still here, so I’m thankful to the Lord for that. And I have so much to be thankful for. In fact, when people ask me how I feel, I say I’m thankful. I’m just thankful I see the good and gracious and kind and providential hand of God in every vicissitude in my life. Every hard experience, every challenge, whatever that challenge may be, I see the good hand of divine providence operating in ways that would never have been possible were it not for the trials. So I genuinely and truly am grateful, and I can be grateful because I know the outcome of everything. The outcome of everything is to the glory of God and the benefit of His children, right? So I want to make sure that I allow my own heart to rejoice in the fact that God will perfect me and will bring glory to Himself through my trials, probably more than any other way. And one thing that I have found is that my thanksgiving has increased, because it’s in the trials when you’re face-to-face with things that could easily overpower you, and you have no particular control over them at all, that you find your faith is tested. And out of that testing has come an immense amount of gratitude to the Lord. He has revealed Himself in all these issues, all these trials, in so many ways that I can’t even begin to count. And I think when you’re in a situation like this, for a true believer, thankfulness should be the first reaction, because the Lord is doing His work on the one hand; and on the second hand, you’re getting close to heaven, and we rejoice in that reality. In Colossians 3, if you want to look at it for a moment, Colossians 3:15, just a reminder: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.” And here’s a very brief command: “Be thankful.” “Be thankful.” Down in verse 17 it says, “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” That’s a New Testament counterpart to, say, Psalm 103:2, which says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits.”So as I was thinking about how we might be thankful together tonight, I wanted to find a location in the Scripture where we could pull together some amazing realities for which we must be thankful, and that drew me to John 13, the gospel of John in chapter 13. And I want to do kind of a flyover of John 13 through 16 with some landings along the way. Now, when you come to John 13, just a little bit of background. This is the upper room. This is the night of the Last Supper. This is Jesus with the twelve. This is the unmasking of Judas. This is the bewilderment, the chaos, the confusion, the discouragement, the fear, the doubts, the brokenhearted response of the apostles to things going in a direction they never, ever expected. Rather than Jesus setting up a kingdom, He keeps talking about dying. In fact, He even is explicit about the fact that He will be killed. In the twelfth chapter of John, in verse 23, Jesus said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” Well, that sounds good. Maybe this is the coming of the kingdom. But then immediately He says in verse 24, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

Pastor John MacArthur’s final sermon at Grace Community Church was excellent! He was thankful in all his trials by trusting in God’s word and His providence. The Unfailing Promises of God — John MacArthur // November 24, 2024 It’s been since July that I’ve preached here on a Sunday. That wouldn’t have been my choice; but I think, as Grace just sung, sometimes our trials are blessings in disguise, and God has purposes that we would never have been able to fulfill if we weren’t put into some kind of stress. I can tell you, I’ve had three heart surgeries and surgery on my lungs in those last few months, and I’m still here, so I’m thankful to the Lord for that. And I have so much to be thankful for. In fact, when people ask me how I feel, I say I’m thankful. I’m just thankful I see the good and gracious and kind and providential hand of God in every vicissitude in my life. Every hard experience, every challenge, whatever that challenge may be, I see the good hand of divine providence operating in ways that would never have been possible were it not for the trials. So I genuinely and truly am grateful, and I can be grateful because I know the outcome of everything. The outcome of everything is to the glory of God and the benefit of His children, right? So I want to make sure that I allow my own heart to rejoice in the fact that God will perfect me and will bring glory to Himself through my trials, probably more than any other way. And one thing that I have found is that my thanksgiving has increased, because it’s in the trials when you’re face-to-face with things that could easily overpower you, and you have no particular control over them at all, that you find your faith is tested. And out of that testing has come an immense amount of gratitude to the Lord. He has revealed Himself in all these issues, all these trials, in so many ways that I can’t even begin to count. And I think when you’re in a situation like this, for a true believer, thankfulness should be the first reaction, because the Lord is doing His work on the one hand; and on the second hand, you’re getting close to heaven, and we rejoice in that reality. In Colossians 3, if you want to look at it for a moment, Colossians 3:15, just a reminder: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body.” And here’s a very brief command: “Be thankful.” “Be thankful.” Down in verse 17 it says, “Whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through Him to God the Father.” That’s a New Testament counterpart to, say, Psalm 103:2, which says, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget none of His benefits.”So as I was thinking about how we might be thankful together tonight, I wanted to find a location in the Scripture where we could pull together some amazing realities for which we must be thankful, and that drew me to John 13, the gospel of John in chapter 13. And I want to do kind of a flyover of John 13 through 16 with some landings along the way. Now, when you come to John 13, just a little bit of background. This is the upper room. This is the night of the Last Supper. This is Jesus with the twelve. This is the unmasking of Judas. This is the bewilderment, the chaos, the confusion, the discouragement, the fear, the doubts, the brokenhearted response of the apostles to things going in a direction they never, ever expected. Rather than Jesus setting up a kingdom, He keeps talking about dying. In fact, He even is explicit about the fact that He will be killed. In the twelfth chapter of John, in verse 23, Jesus said, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.” Well, that sounds good. Maybe this is the coming of the kingdom. But then immediately He says in verse 24, “Truly, truly I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.”

Terri Green

19,221 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

If you scroll through this thread without reading, I don't think you can ever learn anything meaningful in this Life again , so don't be in a haste to scroll. MR LIGHT 🌊 asked me a question yesterday regarding my post which says "Keep Learning until the L becomes silent ". He first asked me is it true that the L can be silent, I told him Yes. Then he proceed to say but some says learning never ends meaning he was asking when do we then start earning since learning never ends. At first I was baffled then I became happy. This question made me remember what my go-to-person told me 5 months ago and I'll explain it to you all. I just wanted to enter the web3 space then and I was confused and you all know this newbies chaos like being confused as to which niche to specialise in, what you're good at etc, and you see I was really confused. I even believed this Space wasn't my space. You might want to read that again. For me, I love Forex Trading so much and at the same time, I also wanted to learn programming, but Sapa was literally living with me, no equipment, no money. It seemed as if life was just altering all my plans but my go-to-person came through for me and he told me this story about a Rocket 🚀. He said the rocket has 4 compartments( Not for modern Rockets). The first Stage: This is the stage that propels it from the ground with so much heat, moving it against gravity, against all odds. Similarly, in a human case, it the first skill a person learnt. For me it was Affiliate Marketing, there's no work without stress and Affiliate marketing was not exception. It was really stressful but I went ahead to buy the course myself. I mean I wouldn't want my money to waste away. They say 'pain has a way of driving you', this was my drive then and I gave it my best shot, I learnt the skill to nearly perfection 😀 and it was printing for me. However, I saw myself doing much more than that and don't forget my love for this other skills–Forex Trading and Programming but I was still a kid then. There's a saying that if you have a skill before and you want to change to another one, don't put that skill aside meaning do not ever start from Zero. I stopped my Affiliate marketing to focus on the forex trading course I bought 😂. Silly me right? As expected, after I reached half of the course, I realised I had screwd up big time . Without money you can always work as an affiliate marketer but not for Forex Trading. That guy without funds is like fetching water into a basket. No funds, no Forex. So I had to put down my forex trading course and looked around for what I could do next and I didn't want to go back to Affiliate marketing 🙃. And then came Web3. I got into web3 through my Boss Crystals, he's the one who onboarded me into web3 and I'm really grateful for that. Still on the story... The second stage: my second stage is web3 which I have been trying to build in. you all know web3 is not easy, right now, I'm changing my niches, upgrading my skills. The third stage: Don't have one yet but coming soon... And lastly the payload( this is where people stay when they're on Rockets) and this is where everybody wants to be. The first, second and third stages are filled with propellant(fuels and oxidizers). My go-to-person said when a rocket takes off and reaches a certain level and all the fuel in the first stage is gone, it discards the first stage(just as how i discarded my Affiliate marketing jobs but still got the skills), it starts moving upward without waiting with the fuel in the second stage and the same process of discarding goes for the second stage and also the third stage until it reaches its destination. Meaning, you can't stay put on one skill, you have to keep upgrading your skills, if not you'll be left behind like Nokia, it doesn't matter the amount you put into acquiring that skill, you got to keep moving.

If you scroll through this thread without reading, I don't think you can ever learn anything meaningful in this Life again , so don't be in a haste to scroll. MR LIGHT 🌊 asked me a question yesterday regarding my post which says "Keep Learning until the L becomes silent ". He first asked me is it true that the L can be silent, I told him Yes. Then he proceed to say but some says learning never ends meaning he was asking when do we then start earning since learning never ends. At first I was baffled then I became happy. This question made me remember what my go-to-person told me 5 months ago and I'll explain it to you all. I just wanted to enter the web3 space then and I was confused and you all know this newbies chaos like being confused as to which niche to specialise in, what you're good at etc, and you see I was really confused. I even believed this Space wasn't my space. You might want to read that again. For me, I love Forex Trading so much and at the same time, I also wanted to learn programming, but Sapa was literally living with me, no equipment, no money. It seemed as if life was just altering all my plans but my go-to-person came through for me and he told me this story about a Rocket 🚀. He said the rocket has 4 compartments( Not for modern Rockets). The first Stage: This is the stage that propels it from the ground with so much heat, moving it against gravity, against all odds. Similarly, in a human case, it the first skill a person learnt. For me it was Affiliate Marketing, there's no work without stress and Affiliate marketing was not exception. It was really stressful but I went ahead to buy the course myself. I mean I wouldn't want my money to waste away. They say 'pain has a way of driving you', this was my drive then and I gave it my best shot, I learnt the skill to nearly perfection 😀 and it was printing for me. However, I saw myself doing much more than that and don't forget my love for this other skills–Forex Trading and Programming but I was still a kid then. There's a saying that if you have a skill before and you want to change to another one, don't put that skill aside meaning do not ever start from Zero. I stopped my Affiliate marketing to focus on the forex trading course I bought 😂. Silly me right? As expected, after I reached half of the course, I realised I had screwd up big time . Without money you can always work as an affiliate marketer but not for Forex Trading. That guy without funds is like fetching water into a basket. No funds, no Forex. So I had to put down my forex trading course and looked around for what I could do next and I didn't want to go back to Affiliate marketing 🙃. And then came Web3. I got into web3 through my Boss Crystals, he's the one who onboarded me into web3 and I'm really grateful for that. Still on the story... The second stage: my second stage is web3 which I have been trying to build in. you all know web3 is not easy, right now, I'm changing my niches, upgrading my skills. The third stage: Don't have one yet but coming soon... And lastly the payload( this is where people stay when they're on Rockets) and this is where everybody wants to be. The first, second and third stages are filled with propellant(fuels and oxidizers). My go-to-person said when a rocket takes off and reaches a certain level and all the fuel in the first stage is gone, it discards the first stage(just as how i discarded my Affiliate marketing jobs but still got the skills), it starts moving upward without waiting with the fuel in the second stage and the same process of discarding goes for the second stage and also the third stage until it reaches its destination. Meaning, you can't stay put on one skill, you have to keep upgrading your skills, if not you'll be left behind like Nokia, it doesn't matter the amount you put into acquiring that skill, you got to keep moving.

Opulence_crypto1

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