I’m going to say something that shouldn’t be controversial but will be. If you are a Christian, you can support border control and immigration being legal vs illegal. You CANNOT celebrate deportations and get off on the cruelty, and be a real Christ follower. Period
I refuse to be the kind of person who loses their mind over a delayed train or lets a spilled coffee set the tone for the whole day.
I want to be the one who stays composed, who sees the good even when things don’t go as planned. The kind of person who breathes through the little chaos and still finds beauty in how the day unfolds.
I want to be soft. I want to be steady.
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My "celebratory" feeling is somewhat lacking after someone in this neighborhood played with fireworks for close to THREE hours last night - from before 10PM to about 12:30. Unsure if there is still a burn ban here presently - its still dry. I'm surrounded by trees & woods up back. So not feeling all that sharp today. I hope & pray they used all that crap up last night, but afraid it was only the FIRST of July. Do I sound like a bitchy old woman?
there are worse things than being a "bitchy old man." I say this after having been one last week when I told some kids who were chinning on a low-hanging branch of the tree outside my window and it was obvious a slightly bigger kid could have torn it off the tree. it reminded of a lady in my apartment complex when I was about four or five sticking her head out the window and yelling "hey! that tree has feelings too!"