A year ago today, my best good buddy Choca died in my arms. Many of you were part of my community here at the time and remember it. It kicked off a year of loss: our dog, our unborn baby, my job. This is why I was convinced Sassy wouldn't make it to 2022. Choca was my hiking partner for many years, and because she never said anything, I came to enjoy silence rather than the adrenaline and distractions of my life off the mountains. I think my career in TV news eventually ended because of that - as the silence allowed me self-relfection, which brought self-awareness, and with it, awareness of the world around me. Choca's death was a violent one in the sense that natural death, I've heard, isn't always how movies depict it. This was the first time I'd ever been there for a last breath and for months after it, I woke up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and had other unexplained health problems. This may seem an odd reaction, but as a child I accompanied my doctor parents to hospitals and witnessed sickness and dying at a very young age. Avoiding death, while trying to understand it, became a driving motivation for me. Perhaps it is, in part, why I went to seminary and eventually became a reporter. I sought distraction from my own mortality while also seeking to control it through knowledge. A losing combination. In the book he wrote about his wife's death, CS Lewis said, "No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid." That was my experience. And I had no choice but to sit through it. Then to confront it again and again throughout the rest of the year. But as I sat quietly, I realized something. I had believed that if I could unlock the secrets of death and finally come to peace with it- the ultimate question of existence that has eluded philosophers for centuries - I would finally come to know God. Instead, after last year, I now believe that I had gotten it backwards. Instead, it is coming to know God that brings one peace about death (and all other things for that matter). And thus begins a new journey, not of the head but of the heart. I'll end with another quote from a favorite Lewis book, the last lines of Til We Have Faces, “I ended my first book with the words 'no answer.' I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice? Only words, words; to be led out to battle against other words. Long did I hate you, long did I fear you.” Blessings to all of you on your journey. Thank you for being a part of mine.
ICYMI: Deborah Birx recently made statements on Piers Morgan's show that are completely opposite of what she said during Covid about the vaccine. Jenin Younes and Zhonette Brown are attorneys with the New Civil Liberties Alliance.
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I was literally screaming at my phone when I watched your clip of Birx saying "this was never a vaccine...it doesn't stop transmission...only old people should have taken it .." I almost lost my job, dealt with harassment from co-workers, and was unceremoniously kicked out of a conference at which I was supposed to run the AV table.... because I didn't get vaccinated. They made us live in fear, petrified we'd be asked about our vaccine status. There were restaurants I couldn't go into. I couldn't visit my dying sister in the hospital. I want restitution!!!! I cannot believe that arrogant bitch who proudly worked behind Trump's back has the nerve to NOW say 'it was never a vaccine.' I don't know if my blood pressure can ever be normal again I am so angry. I will never read her book, so I hope to hell she perjured herself.
Attorneys with the New Civil Liberties Alliance are on tomorrow at 3P ET. The non-profit has argued some of the most famous cases of recent years related to free speech, such as Missouri v Biden. One case we will definitely discuss is Dressen v. Flaherty, linked below. Any questions for them?
https://nclalegal.org/case/dressen-et-al-v-flaherty-et-al/
"LONG LIVE THE KING!" TRUMP REMINDS US THAT THE END OF THE REPUBLIC IS OFFICIALLY HERE! - YouTube
1 Samuel 8:10-18 (LITV)
1Sa 8:10 And Samuel spoke all Jehovah's Words to the people who were asking a king from him.
1Sa 8:11 And he said, This is the privilege of the king who shall reign over you. He shall take your sons and shall appoint them for himself among his chariots, and among his horsemen. And they shall run before his chariots.
1Sa 8:12 And he will appoint for himself heads of thousands, and heads of fifties; and to plow his plowing, and to reap his reaping; and to make weapons for war for him, and weapons for his charioteer.
1Sa 8:13 And he will take your daughters for perfumers, and for cooks, and for bakers.
1Sa 8:14 And he will take your fields, and your vineyards, and your olive-yards, the best, and give them to his servants.
1Sa 8:15 And he will tithe your seed and your vineyards, and will give them to his eunuchs and to his servants.
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