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A Reset Week | Cozy Life Reset – Day 21


We’ve had a very full September. Caroline and I have been well into homeschooling after starting the last week of August. We did a lot of home updating, fall cleaning, and preparing for Caroline’s birthday. She wanted to invite friends over for lunch on her birthday after church so we did that on Sunday. A good time was had by all. But this was a long, busy month. Even a month full of good and desirable busy things is still tiring. 

Caroline and I decided after five weeks of school and everything else, we were ready for a reset. We decided to take our floating fall break week this week. Many families hit a wall about six weeks into the homeschooling year. Ours came a bit early (five weeks) given everything else we had going on. 

(If you remember this very popular post and the accompanying PDF, you probably already understand what I’m saying: The Real Phases of the Homeschool Year.) 

So this is our reset week. We had a couple of errands to do so we did them yesterday. Hopefully we can spend most of the rest of the week decompressing and resetting life for the time between now and Thanksgiving. 

Do you ever take a reset week? A week when you focus on getting on top of things? Re-prioritizing life? Resetting your short term and medium term goals? 

Or if you can’t take a week, can you take a day? A long weekend? 

The cozy life doesn’t happen by accident. It takes deliberate choices made over and over again. Week after week. Month after month. Year after year. 

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Netanyahu Desires to Control Free Speech in the USA


This is an interesting video of just under 14 minutes by Ray of the Evangelical Dark Web. The topic is Benjamin Netanyahu openly discussing waging fifth generation warfare against Americans. I encourage you to watch all of it. (I’ve covered Psychological Warfare extensively.)

Here is a link to Ray’s book that he references and reads from: Winning Not Winsome: 10 Commandments of Spiritual Warfare.

My comments continue below the video. 

Note that if you aren’t an ardent supporter of Israel in the way Netanyahu thinks you should be, you are basically a Nazi. He laughingly calls it the “Woke Reich.” This is a play on the idea of the “Woke Right” which people on X, in particular, have been trying to label anyone who isn’t an ardent Zionist. (The very term Woke Right was probably seeded into the conversation by Israel.) Netanyahu is trying to scare people from going “too far to the Right” by making it sound like you are becoming another version of the Woke Left but on the other end. 

Just my sharing this video and discussing this probably would get me labeled by him as part of the Woke Reich. 

Think about that. 

I also thought Ray’s point about Zionistic versus Nationalistic was important. 

Bottom line for me?

Christians are free to adhere to their own theological convictions. Foreign governments are not free to control the citizens of other countries. We have a moral obligation as Americans to resist our country being controlled by other heads of state and their supporters. 

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John 15


John 15

“I am the true vine, and My Father is the keeper of the vineyard. He cuts off every branch in Me that bears no fruit, and every branch that does bear fruit, He prunes to make it even more fruitful. You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. Remain in Me, and I will remain in you. Just as no branch can bear fruit by itself unless it remains in the vine, neither can you bear fruit unless you remain in Me.

I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing. If anyone does not remain in Me, he is like a branch that is thrown away and withers. Such branches are gathered up, thrown into the fire, and burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. This is to My Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, proving yourselves to be My disciples.

As the Father has loved Me, so have I loved you. Remain in My love. If you keep My commandments, you will remain in My love, just as I have kept My Father’s commandments and remain in His love. I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.

You are My friends if you do what I command you. No longer do I call you servants, for a servant does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because everything I have learned from My Father I have made known to you. You did not choose Me, but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will remain—so that whatever you ask the Father in My name, He will give you. This is My command to you: Love one another.

If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world.

Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. But they will treat you like this because of My name, since they do not know the One who sent Me. If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. Now, however, they have no excuse for their sin.

Whoever hates Me hates My Father as well. If I had not done among them the works that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin; but now they have seen and hated both Me and My Father. But this is to fulfill what is written in their Law: ‘They hated Me without reason.’

When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father—the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father—He will testify about Me. And you also must testify, because you have been with Me from the beginning.

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I’m Just Not Buying the Official Charlie Kirk Story


I can’t explain why. I can’t tell you what I think because I still can’t put my finger on it.

I just know I’m not buying the Charlie Kirk thing.

The entire thing is off in so many ways.

Is anyone else feeling this way?

I haven’t had time to dig into it. I’ve seen different videos here and there in my feeds, but haven’t had time to look at any and analyze them.

This was a 9/11-like mass trauma event inflicted on Christians and conservative Americans.

There is one person, in particular, involved with the entire thing who makes me uncomfortable. But I don’t want to name this person because I can’t explain why.

The whole thing is just weird to me. Something’s really off.

We’ve not been told the real story.

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