Priorities

The satirical Babylon Bee reports,

CHICAGO, IL—Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot protected the citizens of Chicago yesterday by arresting a 7-year-old having a birthday party.

The mayor reportedly jumped in her car and drove over toward the boy's house, waving at looters, rioters, and murderers as she passed. Bricks, Molotov cocktails, and hand grenades flew over her car as she hurtled down the streets of Chicago, careening down alleyways and ripping through parking lots to get to the illegal party.

"Drop the cake and put your hands behind your head," Lightfoot said. "Nice and easy -- you're coming with me."

"The streets are now safe," Lightfoot said as she led the boy to a Chicago PD squad car. "The citizens of Chicago can rest easy knowing that unlawful gatherings like this party are being broken up."

"We feel much safer now that this maniac is behind bars," said one Chicagoan as he hid in his house from looters. "I was really worried when I heard that a few people were gathering for a party. Now I know we're safe."

"We were concerned she was coming to take us down," said one looter as he threw a brick into the window of a Target. "But she just passed us right on by. She definitely has her priorities in the right place."

On her way back from arresting the youngster, Lightfoot pulled over to lecture a rioter who wasn't wearing a mask. Once he had put his mask back on, she told him to go about his business.

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“In 2015 #Democrats overwhelmingly voted for President Obama’s Iran Nuclear Deal, which gave that nation -the world’s most foremost sponsor of terrorism - $150 billion.” Yet they refuse to protect our southern border at a price of just $5 billion... https://t.co/DwyAoQNcF7

— James Woods (@RealJamesWoods) January 2, 2019

"Love is always inconvenient and inefficient and indestructible. Stay in love."

Here are some thoughts from Ann Voskamp on a forty-something bithday.

Live backward from your 90th birthday cake.

Only the people you make priorities now will make you one of their priorities in the end.

Love is always inconvenient and inefficient and indestructible.
Stay in love.

Risk it all. Risk large, risk now, risk your heart, risk for what ultimately matters.

Life doesn’t have to get easier to be good. All you have to do is just get closer to a good God.

Commit to more than a prayer life.
Make your life a prayer.

What you focus on — is what you become like.
Focus on good — and you’ll see more good everywhere to focus on.

Throw more lifelines than stones.
Give more grace than advice.
Hunger for integrity more than popularity, celebrity, or prosperity, — because your integrity is your only legacy.

Being broken keeps you soft —- and it’s exactly where there is broken and soft soil that there is growth.

These three are really all you can control everyday:

Your grittiness, your gratefulness, and your givenness.

Every day you can choose how much grit you bring to the table.
Every day you can choose how much gratefulness you’ll offer up at the table.
Every day you can choose how much you’ll live given so more people know they belong at the table.

Read more here.

Priorities

At Town Hall, Larry Elder writes,

...Charles Barkley, the ex-basketball star turned television analyst, said he's "always ignored" Confederate statues. He said: "I'm 54 years old. I've never thought about those statues a day in my life. I think if you ask most black people, to be honest, they ain't thought a day in their life about those stupid statues. ... What we as black people need to do ... we need to worry about getting our education. We need to stop killing each other. We need to try to find a way to have more economic opportunity. Those things are important and significant."

Barkley makes more sense than many of our so-called leaders. Why don't we first tackle issues like the breakdown of the nuclear family, non-competitive urban public schools and gang-related violence before we move on to Confederate monuments?

Read more here.

Keep trying, Katie

Important? Do it first thing in the morning!

I think Ace of Spades is right when he gives us this advice:

If you have something important to your life you want to do, do it first thing in the morning.

Two reasons: 1, you are more creative and fresh in the morning; 2, in the morning, you have not yet been overcome by the demands of the day, which will cause you to not do that very important thing, should you wait to do it.

...If something's important, you'll only skip it if you have a really good reason for doing so. But guess what? The longer you wait, the more the odds climb that your day will deliver that Really Good Reason not to do it.

Read more here.

He'll just save up and get it later

Thanks to Ann Voskamp for linking to this video.