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I urge you to study Ezekiel 37:1-14. You will understand the importance of speaking into your life. You can literally recreate your future with the words you speak, especially when you declare the Word of God over any circumstances. I charge you to start speaking to your finances, your marriage, your job, and declare your expectations over all that concerns you. Watch what will happen!

Day 146

Day 146

Write down everything that you are trusting God for, those situations that seem impossible. Next to each request write, “Nothing will be impossible with God”(Luke 1:37). Pray over each one, surrender them to God and then engage in thanksgiving!

Major cheat code for life: Be fully where your feet are. When you're at work, work. When you're with family, be with family. When you're resting, rest. Most people are physically present and mentally everywhere else.

On Memorial Day, we pay tribute to the brave men and women in uniform who gave their lives for this country that we love. It is a debt we can never fully repay, but we must never stop trying. I’ll always be grateful to our fallen heroes and their families, whose sacrifice reminds us of what it means to live for something greater than ourselves.

I fell in love with this scripture: “There will come a time when your tears will fall, not because of your troubles, but because God has answered your prayers.” — 𝖧𝖠𝖡𝖠𝖪𝖪𝖴𝖪 𝟤:𝟥

Day 145

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Day 144

All elephants celebrate a new baby with great fanfare, but our ex-orphans take it to the next level. Perhaps it is because they didn’t grow up in the wild, witnessing births within their natal herd. It has become a time-honoured tradition for ex-orphans to return ‘home’ to our stockades within days or even hours of giving birth, bursting with pride and eager to show off their new addition to the people who raised them. But, when an ex-orphan brings their new calf home, do they let our Keepers near? Some do, the choice is always theirs. Emily was the first of our Nursery-reared orphans to return with a wild-born calf, and she was confident enough to share her baby with the Keepers who had raised her. The most trusting examples are the ex-orphans who've returned to give birth at the Stockades - a miracle we've seen unfold twice. Emily is one of them. Melia is the other: sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/news/updates/m…

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Meet Laikipia.He's one of our ex-orphans – rescued years ago as a calf, raised at our Voi Reintegration Unit in Tsavo, and now living wild in the bush around it. He comes home from time to time, the way ex-orphans tend to. In 2024, our Keepers watched him court an ex-orphan called Sagala in full view of the stockades. The pair mated, then went their separate ways. Almost a year later, on Boxing Day, Laikipia turned up at the Voi stockades after months away. He stayed in the area.His daughter Sia was born to Sagala four weeks later. We pioneered the rescue and reintegration of orphaned elephants, and this is what it builds toward. Rescued lives, going on to make new ones. Follow us for more stories of blossoming elephant families @SheldrickTrust

In 1998, I was fired from my corporate job while 9 months pregnant because and I quote, “my priorities would be elsewhere after the baby is born.” The lawyer I hired told me I didn’t have a case because discrimination like “that” was almost impossible to prove. So I got pissed. Took the LSAT. Went to law school. Passed the bar. Had 3 more kids. Twelve years later, another woman from that same company was fired for the same reason. She sued them for a million dollars, and won, partly because I had kept every piece of evidence from what happened to me years prior demonstrating a systemic pattern of discrimination against women. That company no longer exists. My law practice is thriving. And that baby they said would derail my priorities? She’s a brilliant attorney now working at my firm. Turns out my priorities were indeed, elsewhere.

Yara turned one in March. She's the fourth calf of Yatta – the very first orphan we raised to full independence at our Ithumba Reintegration Unit in northern Tsavo. Yara was born in the bush on 29 March 2025. Hours later, Yatta walked Yara up to the stockades alone, no entourage, to show her to the Keepers who'd raised her. It's since become a tradition among nearly all the orphans we raise when they start a family! Yatta was rescued in 1999 from the Yatta Plateau, weeks old, after her mother was killed by poachers for her ivory. She is now a matriarch in her own right – four calves, a granddaughter, and a herd around her. All living wild. Follow us @SheldrickTrust for more videos of elephants enjoying life to the fullest.

This is exactly the part of the AOS debate getting missed. This isn't only about immigrants' rights. It's about US citizens too. Roughly 1 in 5 married couples in the US includes a spouse born abroad. That's not a fringe group, it's 21% of married couple households. When an American marries someone here lawfully on a visa, adjustment of status is how their spouse gets a green card without leaving the country. Take that away and you are telling US citizens their husband or wife has to leave the US to process a visa abroad. They spend months (and often years) apart, and there is no guarantee they are allowed back in. If there are US citizen kids, you are now separating them from a parent too. That's not just an immigrant problem. That's a US citizen losing the right to live in their own country with the family they built here, even though their spouse followed every rule.

Time reveals everything

Tell us, @amuta_ann, what’s the current approval rate for EB-1 (and perhaps EB-2), compared to the past administration’s figures? Madam “he is only against illegal immigration”