DAILY PRAYER: Eternal Father, We offer You the Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity of Your dearly beloved Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, in atonement for our sins. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 20, 1937, Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first US president to be sworn in under the new rules of the 20th Amendment. Since then, every president has been sworn in on January 20.
LIFE AFTER LIFE: “If you seek Him, you will find Him.” [4:11] – I met someone once who had had one of these experiences. It was obvious it had had a PROFOUND impact on his life.
MINNESOTA: Gov. Walz has mobilized his state’s National Guard and is having them wear bright vests over their uniform so anti-ICE protesters can ‘distinguish them from other agencies.’
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, As we begin the second year of President Trump’s second term, we ask Your blessing on him, that he will be mindful of and in alignment with Your will in all things. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
GRAMMY NOTES: I am reposting the meditation about alignment that I posted yesterday, because it really hit me where I live. I have been thinking and praying about it a lot. I have wasted far too many of the hours God has given me brooding over the past and fearing for the future.
There are times and reasons to think about the past or to plan for the future, but as C.S. Lewis has pointed out, those times and reasons are only aligned with God’s will when they are the legitimate business of the present. Our lives only intersect with eternity in the now. The past is fixed; the futures we imagine may or may not happen. Our holy task is to focus on being aligned with God’s will in each present moment.
Somewhere in this pondering, it crossed my mind that it’s like magnetic lines of force. CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v5Jprglwua4 to watch a brief demonstration.
When I imagine each of us being one of those little iron filings, I have to laugh at how futile it is to think we can see God’s pattern and meaning for our lives from our perspective. Only He can see the whole pattern. Our entire job is merely to align ourselves with His will so that we take our proper places in that pattern.
U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon said her agency is investigating the incident for possible federal civil rights violations.
Surprisingly (to me), the most relevant federal statute may be The Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act (FACE). While it has primarily been used to prosecute peaceful anti-abortion protesters, it actually prohibits the use of force, threats, or physical obstruction to interfere with individuals seeking reproductive health services or exercising their religious rights at places of worship.
Cities Church could potentially also take this to a local court and sue for criminal trespass. Churches (including their buildings, grounds, parking lots, and related facilities) are typically considered private property, even when they are open to the public for services, events, or general visitation. This means the church leadership (or authorized representatives, like pastors, elders, or property managers) can control access, decide who is welcome, and revoke permission for anyone to be there.
These protesters engaged in criminal trespass by knowingly and intentionally entering to disrupt and then refusing to leave when asked. Penalties vary by state and severity and can include fines, jail time, probation, or community service. Our constitutional rights to gather and express ourselves are only guaranteed on government property. Private property owners get to choose when and how they happen.
CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/2013222406538543263 [:55] to watch Don Lemon hassle one of the ministers (not the ICE guy), trying to make a case that protesters’ right to freedom of speech somehow supersedes the congregation’s right to worship. They’re in the same amendment!
CLICK https://x.com/michaeljknowles/status/2013290671377887551 [:19] to hear Don Lemon protesting is about making people uncomfortable. The First Amendment actually guarantees “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” Traumatizing kids at church doesn’t qualify.
DAILY PRAYER: We adore You and we praise You, O Christ, Because by Your holy cross, You have redeemed the world. Amen. Alleluia!
2A: Here is another example of why liberals should not be allowed to make gun policy. This leftie cartoonist is so ignorant, he showed a revolver ejecting brass. Yeah, no.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 14, 1943, Allied leaders met in Casablanca, Morocco, for a high-stakes conference that set the direction of the war in Europe and beyond. What was decided would influence battles, alliances, and the meaning of victory itself.
HEALTH: [10:28] – Many years ago, our doctor told us to stop eating anything that had an ingredient in it we couldn’t pronounce or define. I have found that a useful tool for choosing which foods are “real” vs. which ones are “too processed.”
HUMAN HATERS: CLICK https://x.com/akafaceUS/status/2010475053964546253 to watch what happened when a crazy liberal woman refused to move aside for a man whose wife was in active labor. Blocking one car … which is still running … would not have benefit the planet one iota, but it could have had serious consequences for this mother and child. The climate whack job’s actions served to prove only one thing, which is that Dr. Patrick Moore is 100% correct. Climate activists are anti-human.
HYPOCRISY: Four years ago, Democrats supported incarcerating American citizens who refused to have an experimental drug injected into their bodies. Today, these same Democrats are screaming in protest at the idea of criminal illegal aliens being incarcerated.
ID: CLICK https://x.com/Milajoy/status/2010604349299589560 [:25] to hear a grown man wearing a playing card costume get a taste of the red pill over voter ID. I’m thinking that people who are too stupid and/or lazy to get a photo ID should not be allowed to vote.
FYI: Every U.S. state offers non-driver photo ID cards (also commonly called state ID cards, non-driver’s licenses, or identification cards). These are government-issued photo IDs provided by each state’s department of motor vehicles (DMV) or equivalent agency, designed for residents who do not drive or need an alternative to a driver’s license.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Have mercy on the soul of Your servant Scott and grant him Your salvation. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
SCOTT ADAMS: RIP. [12:05] – On a personal note, after years in business, one of my brothers went back to college and got a PhD, then taught at Cornell. He often used Dilbert cartoons to illustrate points.
GRAMMY NOTES: My quilter’s heart approves this message.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Be in our minds, in our hearts, in our ears, in all that we do and in all that we are. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On January 5, 1972, President Richard Nixon signed legislation authorizing the creation of America’s first space shuttle, the “world’s first reusable spacecraft.”
CHARLIE KIRK: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1376232216773825 [2:26] to hear him predict the battle is between us and an amalgamation of Wokeism, Marxism, and Islamism. The only thing those three ideologies have in common is a passionate hatred for the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
EVERYDAY HEROES: When Flash Shelton’s father passed away in 2019, he was aiding his mother in cleaning out and selling their home when seven individuals moved into the place with their own belongings and refused to move out. They had a terrible time getting rid of them, because California has insane “Squatters Rights Laws.”
This experience led to Shelton’s new career as the Squatter Hunter. He has homeowners plagued by squatters write up a lease agreement so he can move into the property and effectively, squat with the squatters. He sets up his cameras, eats their food, blasts music and becomes the worst roommate imaginable. It’s been shockingly effective and you can enjoy his successes and support his work @ https://www.youtube.com/@FlashShelton.
MADURO: [10:42] – A really clear and helpful explanation of the legality of Trump’s actions.
MAMDANI: Zohran Mamdani, New York City’s first Muslim mayor, is under fire for immediately revoking all late-term executive orders issued by his predecessor, Eric Adams, including protections for the city’s Jewish community.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Grant our nation’s teachers the graces they need to inspire their students to seek truth and justice in all things. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
GRAMMY NOTES: Oops! I’ve been calling 2026 our “sesquicentennial” but just learned that is 150th anniversary. This year is our semiquincentennial. Oy! That is a mouthful!!
CHRISTIANITY: The Twelve Days of Christmas, also known as Twelvetide, is a festive Christian season celebrating the Birth of Jesus. Established in 567 at the Council of Tours, it is a time for rededication to and renewal of the faith.
Each day of the famous song by the same name celebrates one of the superb gifts of our faith. Today, the “six geese a’laying” symbolize the six days of creation when God “hatched” or formed the world.
EVERYDAY HEROES: For her science fair project, Eniola Shokunbi built a remarkably effective DIY air purifiers using readily available materials: a box fan, a furnace filter, and tape. They eliminate over 99% of airborne viruses. With $11.5 million in state funding, she was able to get her filters into schools throughout Connecticut, providing thousands of students with healthier and safer air.
FAFO: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/reel/1167472112188411 [2:00] to watch a routine traffic stop. ::smh:: In all 50 states, drivers are required to produce their driver’s license (and often registration and proof of insurance) upon request during a lawful traffic stop.
JOHNS HOPKINS: [1:47] – Prayers for Jasmine’s recovery!
LIFE: The video they watched is @ https://www.liveaction.org/what-is-abortion. [8:17] – GOOD NEWS! On December 21, 2025, Puerto Rico’s governor, Jenniffer González Colón, signed Proyecto del Senado 504 (Senate Bill 504) into law, declaring, “El ser humano en gestación o nasciturus es persona natural, incluyendo al concebido en cualquier etapa de gestación dentro del útero materno.”
Translation: “The human being in gestation or nasciturus is a natural person, including the conceived at any stage of gestation within the maternal uterus.“
This establishes civil personhood from conception, allowing the unborn to potentially benefit from rights like inheritance, donations, or other protections afford born human beings.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Pour forth into our hearts a fraternal spirit that we may recognize You in each other. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
On the left is a shot from The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian novel/television series/movie/opera/graphic novel about a repressive, patriarchal, theocratic society. The red cloaks and white winged bonnets are routinely worn at anti-Christian protests.
On the right is a photo of Democrat Minnesota Lieutenant Governor Peggy Flanagan, a non-Muslim, dressing to impress her Somali Muslim constituents.
SCIENCE: [3:44] – Engineers have to point out the science errors in movies. Moms have to critique every labor and delivery scene and end with, “That’s not a newborn.”
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us the graces we need to worship You with all of our hearts and minds. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BORDER: Between Jan. 20 and Dec. 11, 2025, ICE arrested about 595,000 illegals; roughly 70% of these individuals had been either been charged with or actually convicted of criminal offenses.
IMMIGRATION: CLICK https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=888502826964424 to hear Nick Freitas make an interesting counterargument to Democrats’ claim that deporting illegals is denying them due process.
MINNESOTA: [43;35] – A YouTuber and his crew visited “day care” and “health care” sites listed at the state’s website as receiving millions of taxpayer dollars.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, May our hearts be united in the pursuit of peace, justice, and truth for the good of all. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
Comments on X …
“WAPO is actually frothy that Jesus Christ was mentioned on *checks notes* the day Jesus Christ’s birthday is celebrated.”
“This story edited by Ebenezer Scrooge.”
“It’s called CHRISTmas for a reason.”
“They celebrated a Christian holiday with Christian messaging?? The audacity.”
GRAMMY NOTES: My sophomore roomie worked breakfast in the cafeteria. I remember her standing in our very small dorm room, asking my advice about a new hiding place for her second alarm clock.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us each to focus on the significance of Christ’s birth and the hope He brings to the world. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
CALIFORNICATION: [14:09] – Major companies are moving elsewhere. The Nevada Globe called it “a brutal indictment of California’s hostile business climate.”
FILM HISTORY: [24:18] – Philip Van Doren Stern said he got the idea for the story in a dream. I can’t help thinking it was God’s gift to future America, because hardly anybody in the 1940s wanted it.
HOLIDAY SHOPPING: Also, pill organizers and adult coloring books.
HYPOCRISY: For the record, I am not posting this to excuse Trump’s bad attitude. I think we should be better than this! CLICK https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2001094249702367258 [2:40] if you can stand to listen to an overpaid bigot dump on a dead man for having a message that appealed to [dripping with disdain] “people sitting in their TRUCKS.” I stopped listening at that point.
MAR-A-LAGO RAID: Newly declassified emails may give Trump grounds to sue for civil liberty violations or prompt prosecutors to pursue a criminal investigation. They show that, before the 2022 raid on Trump’s home in Florida, the FBI expressed doubt that Trump had done anything wrong. FBI agents repeatedly recommended talking to Trump’s lawyers rather than raiding or, failing that, limiting the warrant to avoid private areas of the estate.
The Biden DOJ blew them off. On June 1, 2022, the Assistant Special Agent in Charge wrote, “DOJ has been adamant that no accommodation would be given and that they would not reach out to the attorney.” Nevertheless, the FBI continued to push for “a reasonable conversation with the former president’s attorney.”
When it became obvious the raid would happen regardless, the FBI advocated for a “professional, low key” search that respected “the optics.” As we all know, the August 8, 2022 raid, which was authorized by then-Attorney General Merrick Garland, was anything but.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Turn our hearts and minds to the reason for the season. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
VOTER FRAUD: The DOJ’s Civil Rights Division is suing 18 states for refusing to provide complete state voting registration lists. The Trump administration says it wants the information to verify the states are following federal election law in an effort to strengthen voting security. The 18 states, all of which Trump lost in 2020, call it intimidation in an effort to influence elections.
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/RoMUXRZAO-I and count how many of these you’ve heard of before. I’m fascinated by working dogs, so I figured I’d know them all. I was wrong.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Grant us peace in our homes, in our churches, and in our hearts. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
EVERYDAY HEROES: [4:29] – I’m going to be thinking about this one for a long while.
FAFO: On Monday, Hunter Biden admitted to engaging in conduct “involving dishonesty, fraud, deceit or misrepresentation” and consented to being disbarred in Connecticut. Last May, he was disbarred in D.C. for the same reasons.
FAKE NEWS: CJ Pearson posted the graphic above, but I added the ‘FAKE NEWS’. I said in his comment section, “CJ, I have followed you for a long time, but that ends today. I read every word of the linked story. Key point: ICE agents stopped her son. As soon as he produced his U.S. passport, they let him go. IOW, there was no nabbing, no showing up anywhere by Mommy Dearest, and no doing of anything ‘unthinkable.’ Bye, bye, CJ. My tolerance for fake news is ZERO, regardless of whose narrative it promotes.”
I’m not posting this here to pat myself on the back, but to let all y’all know that I want you to call me out if I fail to thoroughly vet a story. From Day #1, my goal as a blogger has been to uplift, entertain, and inform. If I get something wrong, I want to know about it, so I can fix it.
HISTORY: Families divided by MAGA will relate to this story. Benjamin Franklin’s only surviving son, William Franklin, was not merely a Loyalist; he was the royally appointed governor of New Jersey who believed deeply in the stability of the British Empire and saw the colonial rebellion as reckless and dangerous. When the Revolution erupted, he refused to abandon his oath to the Crown; arrested by Patriot forces and imprisoned for years, he was eventually released in a prisoner exchange and spent the rest of his life in Great Britain. He and his father never reconciled.
INTELLIGENT DESIGN: [8:29] – Neo-Darwinians predicted most of our DNA would be “junk” left over from failed evolutionary modifications. They were wrong.
MEXICO: Under the 1944 Water Treaty, Mexico is obligated to deliver 1.75 million acre-feet over five years to the United States from the Rio Grande River. The United States in turn delivers 1.5 million acre-feet of water to Mexico from the Colorado River.
While Biden was in office, Mexico did not keep up their end of the bargain. So Trump threatened Mexico with higher tariffs. Problem solved.
PRAYERS FOR THE PRESIDENT: The Donald let his feelings get the best of him when he posted this and he is getting taken to task by his own people for doing so. The majority of comments echo some variation of this one – “As a MAGA I have tried my best to support you every step of the way but not this time. EVERY human. I repeat EVERY human deserves respect during something like this. I am ashamed that you posted that. You must humble yourself and ask for forgiveness in what was a very HUGE lapse in judgment.”
GRAMMY NOTES: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Wpni3o79I-s [1:23] to watch an interesting baby psychology study. When Mama Buzz was a wee one, she participated in a similar study, one aimed at discerning at what age and stage of language development kids understand the difference between the object and the subject in a sentence.
After answering questions about her language development, the researcher hooked her up to a device of some kind. While she sat on my lap, she watched a video showing made up characters with made up names perform a series of action that were described with simple sentences. E.g., puppet A gives something to puppet B.
The video played on a loop until the device showed my child had lost interest, at which point, the researcher brought the puppets into the room and asked her which puppet was which. Since the puppets were goofy looking and had made up names, she could only use the object and subject of each action she had seen to identify which puppet was which.
The main thing I remember (and still laugh about) is that my daughter beat every previous record for number of times she watched the video loop before losing interest. When I told the researcher, “Maybe that’s because we don’t have a television,” she looked thoughtful and suggested that might make an interesting thing to study.
DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Please send a special blessing on all those service members who are deployed far from their loved ones this year. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
BIDEN’S BORDER: [8:39] – They knew.
CABINET WIVES: [8:54] – Faith, family, humor, beauty, brains. This group has it all.
HEALING FAMILY WOUNDS: [6:09] – I needed this one.
ISLAM: CLICK https://x.com/realMaalouf/status/1999960908723093722 [1:59] to hear a Palestinian doctor from Gaza says men have the right and duty to beat their wives. “When you’re beating your wife, just make sure not to seriously injure her, break her bones, or damage vital organs.”
KENTUCKY: CLICK https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1998853703470907768 [1:00] to hear a legislator support teaching white kids to feel badly about the color of their skin. Feeling badly about something you didn’t cause and can’t change is called SHAME. It’s demonic. The Left is demonic.
LEFTIES: CLICK https://x.com/DefiantLs/status/1999596793512808838 [1:51] to hear a liberal white woman explain why she refuses to have a relationship with her only sister. Cutting off ties with family … cult much?
MEDIA: CLICK https://x.com/Rightanglenews/status/1999916710237991096 [:22] to hear MS NOW’s Ana Cabrera report on a photo from the recently released Epstein files. She states that the blocks on the faces suggests the women could have been “minors and/or survivors” of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
The photo has since been identified as an older, previously public image from an event at Mar-a-Lago where Trump posed with adult models who were there promoting Hawaiian Tropic suntan lotion. Sooooo … not Epstein’s creepy island and not minors. ::smh::
Comment from X: “I wonder how Epstein’s victims feel watching Democrats go after Trump instead of the women who really raped them?”
SLIPPERY SLOPE: CLICK below to hear Lord Charles Leslie Falconer, a Labour party politician and member of the British House of Lords, state his support for state-sponsored euthanasia for …
GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascots had their first snowfall yesterday. Buzz said, “Jesus must’ve wanted us to have snow for Gaudete Sunday, because it brings so much JOY!!!” ❤
MEDIA: Last week, the Washington Post published an article in which two unnamed sources claimed Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a Joint Special Operations commander to “kill everybody” during an anti-drug-terrorist operation in the Caribbean Sea. That was a lie.
MINNESOTA: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/e-iFmNmjVyM to hear Nick Freitas respond to an arrogant Somalian providing yet more evidence that these people are not immigrants, but invaders.
TEXAS: [9:42] – I’m guessing the Biden DOJ went after him as a warning to all the other Democrats, “Toe the line or else.” Now he’s been pardoned by a Republican president.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Please continue to shower Your graces on this couple. Draw them ever closer to You and keep them safe from all temptations to sin. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
Comment by Dr. Dawn Michael: “Listening to the hearing on removing the Hep B vaccine from the newborn schedule. The single most shocking moment presenters cited in studies showed that every SIDS death occurred in infants who received the Hep B shot at birth. There were Zero SIDS deaths in the unvaccinated healthy infants.”
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