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The Miracle Dreams

That night when in the Judean skies

the mystic star dispensed its light,

a blind man moved in his sleep –

and dreamed that he had sight.

That night when shepherds heard the song

of hosts angelic choiring near,

a deaf man stirred in slumber’s spell –

and dreamed that he could hear!

That night when in the cattle stall

slept Child and mother cheek by jowl,

a cripple turned his twisted limbs –

and dreamed that he was whole.

That night when o’er the newborn Babe

the tender Mary rose to lean,

a loathsome leper smiled in sleep –

and dreamed that he was clean.

That night when to the mother’s breast

the little King was held secure,

a harlot slept a happy sleep –

and dreamed that she was pure!

That night when in the manger lay

the Sanctified who came to save,

a man moved in the sleep of death –

and dreamed there was no grave.

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I used chat GPT to come up with these prompts, but as I had to sift through like 50 for these, I'm taking credit for them.

"I have a confession to make."

"Uh oh."

"I...ate an entire box of cookies."

"I can't believe I locked myself out of the house again!"

"Well, at least it's a beautiful day to be stuck outside."

"I just finished reading a book that changed my life."

"Really? What was it about?"

"It was a cookbook, and now I can finally make toast without burning it!"

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Here's some prayer quotes because I've been thinking about this a lot lately. I need more prayer in my life.

"'I guess all we can do is pray' is a terrible thought process. Prayer is enough. Prayer is powerful. Prayer changes things. What better solution to your problems than talking to God about them? It should be your first response, not a last resort." -unknown

"We don’t believe in the power of prayer, we believe in the power of God who answers prayer, and that’s precisely why we pray." -Burk Parsons

"The beauty of asking God for help isn't to receive immediate relief. It's remembering our need for Him. It's acknowledging we can't do it all on our own." -unknown

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"If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it." -C. S. Lewis

"To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it in tact, you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries, avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable." -C. S. Lewis

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"The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it is the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the noblest of all goals." -Charles Ryrie

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"God has set eternity in our hearts. The longing to be beautiful is set there as well."

"Some of you have learned that possessing beauty can be dangerous. And yet--and this is just astounding--in spite of all the pain and distress that beauty has caused us as women, the desire remains...And it's not just the desire for an outward Beaty, but more--a desire to be captivating in the depths of who you are."

"We desire to possess a beauty that is worth pursuing, worth fighting for, a beauty that is core to who we truly are."

"On the surface, we are busy and efficient, professional, even. We are getting by. On the inside, women lose themselves in a fantasy world or in cheap novels, or we give ourselves over to food or some other addiction to numb the ache in our hearts. But your heart is still there, crying out to be set free, to find the life your desires tell you of. You can find that life--if you are willing to embark on a great adventure."

"Much of what we call our 'personalities' is actually the mosaic of our choices for self-protection plus our plan to get something of the love we are created for. The problem is our plan has nothing to do with God."

"There is an ache in Eve now that she tries to get Adam to fill. There is an emptiness given to her to drive her back to God, but she takes it to Adam instead. It makes a mess of many good relationships. You know all about this. No matter how much Adam pours into your aching soul, it's never enough. He cannot fill you. Every woman has to reckon with this--this ache she tries to get her man to full. In order to learn how to love him, you must first stop insisting that he fill you."

"Eve possesses a bottomless well of longing. Jesus alone is the never-ending fountain, which can slake her thirst. No other source, no other relationship will fully satisfy. God made us that way. On purpose."

-John and Stasi Eldredge, Captivating

Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul.

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America's Founding Documents: Part 2

The Constitution of the United States of America, 1787 Article 1

We don't really know what these documents say, so I'll post the highlights here. But really, please go educate yourselves and read them yourself.

This one mostly addressed Congress, the President, and States.

Representatives and members of the senate are actually not supposed to be "an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen."

The senate alone impeaches people. A 2/3 vote is required.

The houses in congress may not meet for more than three days without permission of the other house.

When a president vetoes a bill, it is sent through both houses. There is a voiced vote. The bill must be passed in both houses by a 2/3 majority.

Congress has most of the power in the country, not the president. It's the job of congress to do most things like declare war, provide and maintain military, etc.

"No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the consent of the congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State." Every citizen is equal (see the beginning of the Declaration of Independence, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal..."). Nobility says some people are better (when they are, in fact, just human like the rest of us).

States are not allowed to make alliances with each other or foreign political powers.

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America's Founding Documents: Part 1

The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America

We don't really know what these documents say, so I'll post the highlights here. But really, please go educate yourselves and read them yourself.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. That they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness."

"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."

"...when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."

There are many offenses listed that the King of England did. And unfortunately, the government has done/is doing many of them. "A Prince, whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free People."

(emphasis added)

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Facts. That and a little bit of books

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For all my contemporaries who are trying to get rid of guns

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Thomas Jefferson had some really great quotes that are unfortunately all too true.

-"He who knows best knows how little he knows."

-"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."

-"I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just; that His justice cannot sleep forever."

-"The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers."

-"If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy."

-"Truth is certainly a branch of morality and a very important one to society."

-"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

-"It is error alone that needs the support of the government. Truth can stand by itself."

-"Mankind is more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed."

-"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."

-"Power is not alluring to pure minds."

-"Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper."

-"Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories."

-"Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by the consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence."

-"No government ought to be without censors, and where the press is free no one ever will."

-"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent."

-"When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty."

-"The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the constitution so the second will not become a legalized version of the first."

-"There is no justification for taking away individuals' freedom in the guise of public safety."

-"The beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to take it."

"If a law is unjust, a man is not only right to disobey it, he is obligated to do so."

-"A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have."

And finally,

-"The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not."

Maybe we should listen to the guys who kinda founded this once great nation instead of the media? All these quotes basically sum up what's going on right now. Even though newspapers are not so important as they were then, we now have the media. And they're basically the same thing.