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This is Ruby. My reason for being. In a few weeks I will give a small piece of me for a whole lot of her.
She was born with a rare metabolic disorder that, amongst other things, has caused her liver to slowly fail, and now she needs a new one via transplant.
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I just had someone respond to a post of mine about loving our neighbors by saying, “It’s people like you who distort who our neighbors are! Illegal immigrants are not my neighbors and I’m not called to love them!”
This person had “Christ is king” in their bio and many posts advocating Christianity.
Unfortunately, this is an all too common sentiment these days. It is as untrue as it is callous and dangerous.
As a pastor, let me explain why:
First, every human being is created in God’s image and is t…
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What God asks is almost disappointingly simple: faithful attendance at ordinary Masses, small kindnesses to difficult people, and the courage to sit in silence with your own heart. 💙
The saints aren’t spiritual overachievers. They are ordinary people who consistently say yes in unremarkable moments.
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Years ago, at a booksellers event, I sat at a desk and signed books for at least 100 fans waiting in a line created by crowd control barriers. Awesome. Next to me was a new author who signed maybe 5 books. I’d been in that same situation many times earlier in my career. I shook that new author’s hand and whispered, “It’s all unpredictable and you’re gonna get your feelings hurt on a regular basis.” And, oh, by the way, at that same booksellers event, sitting on the other side of me, was George …
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Last night, my daughter asked if we could pause bedtime “just to sit.” No book, no show, no distraction. Just her little head on my shoulder and her tiny hand holding mine.
Someday, she won’t ask to sit.
So I sat. And I didn’t move.
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Update: I’m pleased to see that Bishop Thomas Paprocki of the Diocese of Springfield, Illinois has frankly addressed this insult to Catholics and called on the president to apologize.
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I suppose these fucking morons think we could have negotiated with Hitler too. They really think we can negotiate with Putin??? Who happens to have an arrest warrant for War Crimes?? And continues to slaughter innocent civilians. And he won’t stop with Ukraine. Have they been eating the ice cream too fast resulting in severe brain freeze? Culminating in relentless stupidity?
I love your picture, Karen. tell me a bunch of stuff about YOUR beautiful companion and why've you been holding out on us? I'm never altogether sure what these guys mean when they talk about "negotiation." the supporters of what is pretty laughably referred to as "realists" (the Mearsheimer/Kissinger types) might have some points to make on a theoretical level about how we might have mishandled relations with Russia since the USSR collapsed, but even a bunch of them were shocked and horrified at the invasion occurring when, where and how it did. some of them have been honest enough to acknowledge those feelings. I get the whole "peacenik" deal. on a purely theoretical level, it's hard to argue against the position that war is bad and is always a really shitty approach to "problem-solving." when the problem is being invaded by a genuinely bad actor like Putin who doesn't even have the impulse to invent some convincing lies, solutions diminish pretty radically. I remember an anti-Vietnam demonstration here in '67 that ended up in front of the UN, where Stokely Carmichael ended a brilliant speech with "if you're getting raped, do you call for negotiation or withdrawal?"
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Hi David, My beautiful, Siberian Husky companion is Natalie. She was my best friend for almost 15 years. She died several years ago and of course my heart was broken. She was so sweet and loved everyone. She went everywhere with me except work of course, although she would have been a great therapy dog. I miss her still and wanted to honor her by posting this picture. We were at the coast in March and she so happy. Aside from playing and tunneling in the snow, running on the beach was her favor…
Rescue a senior dog if you have room in your heart/mind! If you do not, well, no judgment from me. I know how much losing a canine friend hurts.
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My name is Viktor. I’ve been writing from a war zone for three years.
I don't exactly know for how much longer.
But please know that whatever it takes, I'm deeply grateful to share my message here on Substack, as well as to have met so many fantastic and kind people like so many of you.
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Is It Time to Surrender?
War takes everything it touches.
Time. Safety. Sleep.
The people you thought you’d never lose.
But it can’t take the gratitude for simply being here.
Some days I’m not so sure, but I’m here.
Thank you for being here too.
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American politicians just created a new Canadian Snowbird Visa Act to try and bring back the missing Canadian tourism. They don’t get it.
Sorry, we’re still not coming.
~Signed, Canada