Mental Health Monday

Quiet Time

This morning during my quiet time I prayed LSB #756, "Why Should Cross & Trial Grieve Me." I was especially taken with stanza 3:  "God give me my days of gladness, And I will Trust Him still When He sends me sadness. God is good; His love attends me Day by Day, Come what may, Guides me & defends me."

G.O.M.E.R. *

* Grumpy Old Men & Their Elucidating Rants

Those who accuse DT of fascism have no idea what fascism means.

Highlights from Drudge *

* Courtesy of the Drudge Report 7/22

• Seagull snatches chihuahua from garden"

Trending *

* Courtesy of the Babylon Bee (babylonbee.com) 7/22

• Millennial Horrified As old Age Filter Shows Him Living On . His Own, Working Steady Job
• Man drowns As Politically Correct Passengers Struggle to Describe What Just Went Overboard
• Ocasio-Cortez Appears On 'The Price Is Right, Guesses Everything Is Free
• NASA Announces All-Female Remake Of Staged Moon Landings

Human Differences

Many can look at the world around them and despair over human differences that feel insurmountable. There is so much that can engender cynicism and a sense of futility. Yet, for those who would seek a different story, there is a house in which tearing down dividing walls that segregate human beings from each other and from God is the only appropriate response. Built upon the foundation that is Christ Jesus, this house has walls of restoration and renewal, forgiveness and reconciliation, generosity and grace, identity and belonging. No one is shut out and all may come in.

--Margaret Manning Shull, Slice of Infinity

Reparations

Reparations are an ethical disaster. Proceeding from a doctrine of collective guilt, they are the penalty for slavery and Jim Crow, sins of which few living Americans stand accused. An offense against common sense as well as morality, reparations would take from Bubba and give to Barack, never mind if the former is an insolvent methamphetamine addict or the latter a dweller in near-pharaonic splendor. That reparations are a hopeless cause, supported by only a quarter of Americans, makes them more of an affront to reason rather than less, for it illustrates the enthusiasm with which Democratic politicians will bang their heads against the wall in an attempt to purchase votes.

--Graham Hillard, National Review Online 7/22

Citizenship

America is not an idea or a collection of documents, but neither is it a closed ethnolinguistic set. It is a nation in which relations among the people and between the individual and the state are defined by the terms of citizenship.

--Kevin Williamson, ditto

Planned Parenthood

Planned Parenthood has long sought to downplay its commitment to abortion, calling itself a health-care organization and spreading the lie that abortion is only 3 percent of its business, even as its clinics perform between one-third and half of all abortions in the U.S. annually.

--Alexandria DeSanctis, ditto

Violence Against the Unborn

I can remember, in my lefty days, thinking of myself as someone on the side of the weak against the strong, on the side of the oppressed and voiceless (an identity that has some self-valorizing in it, obviously). How can people who embrace that ideal so emphatically not see the violence against the unborn?

--Kathryn Jean Lopez, ditto