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And just like that heavens won again Fly high mshua masta❤️🙏🏽

@ofmmusi Why too recent. Try the 1997 LS Lexus

a lady on tiktok said the biggest change in her prayer life was moving from desperation to authority. she said God isn’t asking us to beg, he’s asking us to believe.

Stay consistent, show up. God will make it happen

Michael Jordan explains why you need ego to win in life

You know that famous Denzel quote “if you pray for rain, you have to deal with the mud too” ? I’ve been thinking about it lately. Sometimes the things we want the most in life bring us the most problems. Have to be ready for all of it. I hope whoever is reading this can relate.

“If you see your friend with your enemy, be sure that both are your enemy. One openly, the other secretly.” — Niccolò Machiavelli

“You will lose friends, you will lose lovers, you will lose comfort. But if in losing them you find yourself, you have gained more than a king.” — Marcus Aurelius

"Study the Greats & become GREATER" - Michael Jackson

Cobham content this week. 🎥

& deliver us from all L

me before i see my babe:

Gen Z wa Kenya wanasema kumpenda Rais si jukumu lao, ni jukumu la mke wake. Na heshima si kitu "unaomba" bali una I earn.

For example Romans 8:18 “The pain you’ve been feeling can’t compare to the joy that’s coming”

“Grief is perhaps the last and final translation of love”

“The early morning hour should be dedicated to praise: do not the birds set us the example?” — Charles Spurgeon

Your time is limited. Satisfy your soul not society.

“The thinker dies many times before his body does” — Friedrich Nietzsche

You’ve seen the meme of the guy eating soup in pouring rain. It’s a joke about acceptance. The joke is real. Scientists at Harvard and MIT proved it on a brain scan in 2017. A Roman philosopher who started life as a slave figured it out in 125 AD. In the study, 21 women with severe anxiety went into a brain scanner. Researchers read out their personal worries and gave three different instructions: keep worrying, push it away, or just accept it. Worrying lit up the brain’s panic button, the same area that flashes when a snake crosses your path. Acceptance was the surprise. The panic button quieted. A different region took over, the part that handles tough choices, with a much stronger line of communication to the alarm system. The brain stopped wrestling with itself. A Roman philosopher named Epictetus, who started life as a slave, opens his handbook around 125 AD with the same point. Some things are up to you, he writes. Most are not. Your judgments belong on the first list. Your body, your reputation, the weather, what other people do, all go on the second. Mix the two up and you suffer. Sort them out and almost nothing can hurt you. Not accepting has real costs. When you can’t stop replaying a worry, a specific brain region fires harder than it should. A study combining 14 brain scans of 286 people found this pattern is one of the most reliable markers of depression. The body pays too. A 2026 study tracked more than 205,000 UK adults and found those with the most long-term stress damage were over twice as likely to develop heart disease. Stress hormones also chew away at the part of your brain you need to manage stress in the first place. In 1967, Martin Seligman and Steven Maier shocked dogs that couldn’t escape. Later, in a box where escape was easy, the dogs didn’t try. The textbook called this “learned helplessness.” In 2016, Seligman and Maier published a paper saying they’d had it backward. Giving up is the default, hardwired by an old deep brain region. What animals learn, when they learn anything, is the opposite. They learn that what they do can change things. Helplessness is the starting state. Agency is the achievement. Now look at the guy with the soup. He’s seen the rain, worked out he can’t argue with it, and decided to keep eating. This is the scarce skill. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, developed by Steven Hayes in the 1980s, has been tested in more than 325 randomized clinical trials. It teaches people to act on what they can change and stop wrestling with what they can’t. The American Psychological Association lists it as a well-supported treatment for chronic pain. Two thousand years apart, a Roman handbook and a Boston brain scanner are finding the same answer. The rain keeps doing what rain does. You keep eating.

Hazard lil broing salah, that’s my winger dawg 💙