DAILY PRAYER: God, we ask for your blessing on the emotional and spiritual connections in our families. We ask for your help in building the trust and mutual respect that are integral to love and commitment. In Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
FAUXTUS: [6:47] – Old puddin’ brain recently told MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell, “Red states really screwed up in terms of the way they handled their economy, the way they handle manufacturing and the way they handle supply chains.”
Labor Department data shows that, on average, Republican-led states have recovered 143% of the jobs lost during the pandemic vs. just 118% in Democrat-run states.
Meanwhile, Moody’s Analytics, which uses 13 metrics, including the value of goods and services produced, employment, retail sales and new-home listings, to assess each state’s economic health shows 11 of top 15 are red vs. 8 of the bottom 10 which are blue.
FEDERAL RESERVE: in December 2020, the U.S. Federal Reserve joined the Network of Central Banks and Supervisors for Greening the Financial System (NGFS). On Friday, the Federal Reserve announced its withdrawal from the 143-member coalition saying, “The work of the NGFS has increasingly broadened in scope, covering a wider range of issues that are outside of the Board’s statutory mandate.”
HOMELAND SECURITY: During Kristi Noem’s first confirmation hearing, she addressed border security, FEMA, terrorism, cyber security, and the Secret Service.
J6: Trump surprised Dan Bongino’s listeners by phoning in. CLICK https://rumble.com/v6a57kd-massive-trump-tells-bongino-hes-about-to-blow-the-lid-off-jan-6-cover-ups.html [:51] to hear him pledge to blow the lid off the whole ugly thing.
OHIO: Gov. DeWine (left) has named his Lieutenant Governor, Jon Husted (right), as his choice to fill Vance’s U.S. Senate seat. Husted will occupy Vance’s Senate seat until a special election is held in November 2026 to decide who will serve the rest of Vance’s term, which ends in 2028. The winner of the 2026 special election will have to run again in 2028 for a new six-year term.
S&G: The “non-binary” town councilor of Worcester, Massachusetts announced his/her/their/its intention to take an unsanctioned, month-long, paid “mental health” leave of absence. During a Zoom call last week, Thu Ngyuen, who was wearing a Keffiyeh, said, “For the record, I will not be taking on the responsibility of proving my experience of transphobia and the discrimination and toxicity of council culture.”
WHITE HOUSE: [13:31] – They will have just six hours to move the Bidens out and the Trumps in.
WILDLIFE: In what appears to be yet another leftie boondoggle, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) wants to spend more than a billion dollars of our money hiring hunters to slaughter hundreds of thousands of barred owls. The idea is to protect the northern spotted owls, which apparently occupies the same niche in the environment, from possible extinction. Critics who say the plan is ridiculous have asked DOGE to get it slaughtered.
GRAMMY NOTES: A close friend Mama’s was born with cerebral palsy and has always walked with a limp because one leg was shorter than the other. Her pain has been worse than usual lately and she has needed her walker constantly. Last night, she went to a healing and deliverance service at a Catholic Church near where they live and received personal prayer with a priest who has a special ministry in this area. One thing he prayed for was leg lengthening and they saw it happen. She hasn’t limped or needed her walker since!
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Thanks for the White House prep video. That was interesting, and what a lot of fast work they do!
Miracle healing — always nice to read about. That’s a good one. In the past couple of years, I’ve had to trust in the medical folks, but there are some things they can’t fix. I give some thought to Heaven’s healing hands, and the seemingly capricious nature of such grace, but all I can do is pray and trust, and accept what is. There’s so much healing of all kinds needed! (ps you’re in my prayers all the time, too, chrissy. 😊)
Sad kitty at the end is cute. But sad.😿
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I struggled a lot with miraculous healing stories before I learned about and internalized the tremendous power of redemptive suffering.
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