Dale 🙋‍♂️✝️🙏🎸☕️🦋🏌️‍♂️

@Ramona64946744 @MichelleGe29381 Good Night Ramona, pleasant dreams! 😊🙏

. Good Evening Lovely Friends 🦋🩵🦋 Wishing you a wonderful & cozy evening!

@Ramona64946744 Wood stove !

. Would you rather have a fireplace or a wood stove in your bedroom? ( I have to say I find this bedroom incredibly charming )

Memorial Day will always mean more to our family than cookouts or a long weekend. It’s the sound of boots on concrete. The weight of a folded flag in shaking hands. Three children growing up with memories instead of a father. A headstone in Section 60 with a date that changed the course of all our lives forever. SSG Alan W. Shaw, was killed in Iraq on February 9, 2007. He was 31 years old. He didn’t get the chance to come home, grow old, meet grandchildren, or live the quiet life so many of us take for granted. That’s what Memorial Day means to us. It’s not abstract. It’s not political. It’s personal. But over the years, I’ve also realized something else. The men we honor today did not give everything so America would sit in mourning forever. They believed in life. In freedom. In family. In backyard barbecues, ballgames, loud laughter, and the simple privilege of being home. So yes, remember them. Speak their names. Teach your children who they were. Fly the flag. Visit the cemetery. And then live. Live in a way worthy of what they gave up for the rest of us. Because they are never truly gone as long as somebody is still speaking about them. 🇺🇸

Last night, I made a simple request on X. I asked if anybody visiting Arlington National Cemetery for Memorial Day would stop by Alan’s grave and leave a photo for our family. What happened next honestly caught me off guard. By this afternoon, dozens of Americans from all walks of life had made the walk to Section 60 to visit SSG Alan W. Shaw. Veterans. Families. Complete strangers. People who had never met Alan, but chose to honor him anyway. For one day on social media, people put aside the constant noise and negativity and came together for something bigger than themselves. My notifications filled with photos, kind messages, prayers, and stories from people honoring not just Alan, but so many of our fallen heroes. I don’t think people fully understand what moments like this mean to Gold Star families. The fear is never just losing them. It’s losing them slowly over time as the world moves on and fewer people remember their name. But today showed me that Alan will never be forgotten. After years of watching social media reward some of the worst parts of humanity, today gave me a reminder that the good is still out there too. Thank you to every single person who stopped by to visit Alan today, said his name, shared his story, or took a moment to honor the fallen. This right here is the America Alan knew and loved enough to fight and die for. And today, y’all showed us all that it’s still here and it’s still worth fighting for. 🇺🇸

Seek the Lord and his strength, seek his face continually. ✝ 1 Chronicles 16:11 KJV ✝

“Because of the tender mercy of our God, with which the Sunrise from on high will visit us, to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.” ~Luke 1:78-79🕊

“Rescue those being led away to death; hold back those staggering toward slaughter.” ~Proverbs 24:11🕊

Wonderful Baby youtube.com/watch?v=EJJYVJ…

“…It was a cold sky above But for the girl on the ground in the dark It was a labor of love Noble Joseph at her side So he held her and he prayed For the baby in her womb He was the maker of the moon…” youtube.com/watch?v=5D9HHK…

“The greatest gift of all came that first Christmas...wrapped in the flesh of baby Jesus and laid in the rough wood of a manger. Our perfect gift would later be rewrapped in the scars of our sin and nailed to the rugged wood of a cross on Calvary, all because of love.” #Advent

Jesus is alive. And that changes everything about today.

Eternity is not floating on clouds in a timeless void. Scripture describes a literal kingdom, literal cities, literal nations, literal inheritance, literal reigning, and an endless universe created by an infinite God. The New Creation is not smaller than this world. It is greater.

@Ramona64946744 BBQ at home! 💯🔥😎

. On Memorial Day Would you rather Go Out to eat or BBQ at home?

@Ramona64946744 Good Morning Ramona! (Afternoon here) I agree with your post my friend! 🙏❤️🇺🇸

. Good Morning Lovely Friends ♥🤍💙 May we never forget Freedom isn't free. It is paid for with Courage, Sacrifice and Love of Country~ God Bless our Men & Women 🇺🇸

@AngelWa33017557 Good Morning Angel! 😊🇺🇸🙏

@DMFMinnesota Good morning Dale 😊☀️🇺🇸‼️

A “GOOD MORNING” Promise from God! 🙋‍♂️🙏✝️❤️🙌🔥🕊️☕️

@englishrose0512 Good Morning Joanne! God Bless You! 🙋‍♂️🙏🕊️

@DMFMinnesota Good morning Dale, amen 🙏🏻 God bless you, have a great day 🕊️🤍

@BeachcatTt Good Morning Michelle! Happy Memorial Day to you too! 🙏🇺🇸

@DMFMinnesota Good morning🇺🇸Happy Memorial Day