DAILY PRAYER: Dear Lord, Help us to have perfect trust in Your tender care. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
AMERICAN HISTORY: On February 25, 1913, the 16th Amendment (income tax) took effect. Prior to this, most federal revenue came from tariffs rather than taxes.
ANGEL FAMILIES: President Donald J. Trump declared February 22, the anniversary of Laken Riley’s death, as National Angel Family Day. In this context. “angels” are the thousands of American lives stolen by illegal aliens. CLICK https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2025955110715531439 to see the “Angel Families Remembrance Ceremony” that President Trump hosted in the East Room on Monday. There are also short clips posted in the Not The Bee piece linked below.
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/02/national-angel-family-day-2026/
- https://notthebee.com/article/watch-trump-invites-mom-of-laken-riley-other-families-to-speak-at-the-white-house
BABY BOXES: [6:03] – I thought this was a new idea. I was wrong.
CHURCH INVASION: A federal grand jury in Minnesota indicted nine individuals on felony charges, including conspiracy against rights of religious freedom at a place of worship and injuring, intimidating, or interfering with the exercise of religious freedom (via force, threat, or obstruction). All nine have pleaded not guilty and the cases are proceeding to trial. [8:25] – Jonathan Parnell, the pastor of the church that Don Lemon et al. invaded on January 18, has spoken about his experience. He said he had been attempting to read aloud from the Bible when “several individuals scattered throughout the sanctuary rose together and, like a flash mob, converged with chants and clenched fists.” When the mob shouted, “Hands up! Don’t shoot!” that led worshipers to flee, “fearing it was an active shooter situation.”
“In that instant, I interpreted what was going on: this was about provocation, intimidation, and spectacle. They were here to incite violence. The spiritual dimension of it all came into focus. A malevolent darkness was behind this—the same darkness behind the murder of pre-born children, and the mutilation of children’s bodies, and the manipulation of children’s minds. Those were all evils our children had escaped, so now the weapon was terror.
“The agitators screamed in our faces and said we weren’t a real church. They harassed individuals for their ethnicity and ‘uttered all kinds of evil’ against us falsely. They spewed lies upon lies, and our refusal to retaliate seemed only to frustrate them.”
HOW JESUS DID IT: [16:28] – I wish I’d heard this 50 years ago. I grew up with bullies and vowed to never be one, because I knew first hand how much it hurt. But I believed my only other option was to suck it up and be a silent, smiling doormat. In therapy, I finally learned about boundaries, but it was not in a biblical context. However, what my therapist taught me amounted to what Kris says here – refusing retaliation while confronting rather than submitting to the abuse. One of the beauties of doing this has been that it quickly exposed which people were worth keeping in my life. The bullies and narcissists responded to boundary setting by icing me out. The genuinely lovely people responded with dialogue and relational growth.
JAMES THE LESS: [6:48] – Season 1, Episode 3 – The Medallion.
LENTEN MEDITATION: CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/ZchPxvSMjFY [2:00] to hear Father Chris tell about a miracle he experienced personally.
OH CANADA: In case you’re living under a rock, the U.S. men’s hockey team beat the Canada team at the Olympics! CLICK https://x.com/HarrisonKrank/status/2025740079319175508 [2:42] to hear Trump’s call to the team afterwards while FBI Director Patel holds the phone. POTUS invited the team to be his guests at the SOTU and they cheered.
PRAYER for OUR NATION: Dear Lord, Bless our country with leaders who are wise and just, and who seek to govern according to Your principles. In Jesus’ Name, we pray. Amen.
GRAMMY NOTES: The Mascots got dumped on by the blizzard. Mama said it was excellent play snow, so after lessons, they bundled up and enjoyed it.
SHORTS:
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/-EwDS11Ef4U to hear something that should make you go “hmmm.”
CLICK https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nWzU4Kp1DWE to hear which vegetable Dr. Berg says helps osteoarthritis. I need to learn more ways to prepare cabbage.
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