I'm not sure about you, but with these movies, I am planning on staying indoors on Halloween and filling myself with popcorn and fright! Oh and with all my doors locked, of course :)
WARNING! These movies are not appropriate for children.
Make your halloween thrilling and exciting!
I'm not sure about you, but with these movies, I am planning on staying indoors on Halloween and filling myself with popcorn and fright! Oh and with all my doors locked, of course :)
WARNING! These movies are not appropriate for children.
We all are scared of something. Some people are scared of the ocean, others of spiders or snakes. For me, it's the unknown. I don't like uncertainty nor do I like being blindsided. Due to this, my biggest fear in life was death.
I had a pretty good life growing up. I grew up in a home with two parents, siblings, food on my plate and a roof over my head. That all changed at the age of 12. My life itself didn't change, but the innocence in my life was gone. For the first time in my life, I lost somebody I loved. In June of 2010, my great-grandma passed away. I remember that the idea of never seeing her again seemed foreign to me. It didn't seem real, that she had really left us and gone to be with the Lord.
Since then, I have lost 12 loved ones. It seemed as though they were all falling like dominos. I'd like to say with each one it got easier, but it didn't. It just hurt differently every time. They were all hard in their own way, but the one that shook me the most spiritually was my great-aunt in January of 2015.
She was only 53 years old, and I just wasn't ready. I know the truth is that you're never ready, but with this one I can genuinely say that I was not ready physically, emotionally or spiritually. Physically I was exhausted; the newness of college as well as everything that came along with that wore me out. Emotionally, I was trying to find myself. I had just figured out what I wanted to do in life, and I was trying to understand what that meant for me. I was making a bunch of new friends and wondering about the impact that they would all make on my life. Spiritually, I was doubting the God more than I had ever before in my life.
I knew I couldn't survive like this. I was lost and I knew what I had to do in order to be found. I knew I needed the Lord now more than ever, but I didn't now where exactly to find him. On January 24, 2015 I rededicated my life to him. I was scrolling through Twitter and I saw a link to Pastor Brian Houston's message at the Hillsong Church that Sunday in Australia. I had the urge to sit and watch the live stream, and at the end he made an announcement that those who were lost and didn't know how to be found had the answer was right in front of them. I said the prayer and suddenly realized that I wasn't alone. I knew the days ahead weren't going to be easy, but I knew I wasn't alone.
Fast forward a year and some months, and here we are. Physically, spiritually, and emotionally I felt as though I was as strong as ever. Last year in September, I picked up a copy of Levi Lusko's "Through the Eyes of a Lion" after hearing his story at a large evangelical event called the Harvest Crusade in Anaheim, California. The school year came and went and I didn't have a chance to read it. Last Sunday, as I was unpacking the things from my dorm I picked up the book and began reading.
As I read, I realized that I had never thought about death again. I took the out of sight, out of mind route. In the book, Lusko shares about his experience of losing his daughter and the way in which that changed his view on eternity. Eternity is something that exists and as believers we know we will be there someday, but we are never really striving for it. Life on earth is only a snippet of the time that we will be in heaven.
Through his story and the tale of his fearless, loving, compassionate daughter, I found the way to excite in death here on earth. What a beauty it is that there is hope beyond this broken world, and that God loved all of us enough to send his Son to give us the hope of Sunday!
I have committed to living the life of a fearless lion, anchored in God. Knowing that anything that I go through, my God has already overcome.
If you're feeling lost, just know you're not alone. If you have just lost a loved one, know that the days do get easier. And if you're feeling restless, know that a beautiful Sunday is on its way.
Exploring how much the org would probably have to pay for the season of wifi passes on plane
It was recently in the news that the NY Yankees do not provide free wifi for their players on away game flights!!! That's earth shattering news because teams usually charter flights for their players, coaches, and support staff. These flights are typically equipped with amenities such as Wi-Fi, comfortable seating, and in-flight entertainment.
To estimate the cost of Wi-Fi for a baseball team during their charter flights throughout an entire season, we need to consider several factors:
In a regular MLB season, each team plays 162 games, with half of those being away games. So, a team would have 81 away games. However, not all away games require flights. Some games are played against nearby teams, and the team might travel by bus or train. To account for this, let's assume that 70% of the away games require flights. That's approximately 57 flights (rounding up). Since teams often play multiple games in a series against the same opponent, they don't need to travel between every away game. To factor this in, let's assume that they take a flight for every 3 away games. This results in 19 flights (57 away games / 3). Now let's estimate the average flight duration. Flight times can vary greatly depending on the distance between cities. In the United States, an average flight time can range from 1 to 6 hours. For this calculation, we'll assume an average flight duration of 3 hours.
As for the cost of Wi-Fi, it can also vary depending on the provider and the specific package the team has. For this estimation, we'll assume a cost of $25 per hour per person. Assuming a traveling party of 40 people (including players, coaches, and support staff), the cost of Wi-Fi per flight hour would be $1,000 (40 people x $25). Now, we can calculate the total cost of Wi-Fi for the entire season:
Total cost = (Number of flights) x (Average flight duration) x (Cost of Wi-Fi per flight hour) Total cost = 19 flights x 3 hours x $1,000 Total cost = $57,000
The Yankees are a franchise worth 6 Billion, but they make their players pay $9 for wifi. To which the fans said: "we could care less, those millionaires have to pay $9 and that hurts?"
It was a Saturday night. We had nothing else to do besides be with one another. We were normally always in your bedroom watching television and talking about random topics that popped into our little brains. The only difference was, that Saturday night was nothing like the rest.
We were laying in your comfy bed as you were singing to me in one thousand different passions and singing from your spirit. You were kissing me, hugging me, and showed a bunch of compassion that night. We didn't sleep for even a second. It was snowing outside our house.
Eventually, we made our way to the side of the bed, suddenly sitting there watching the snowflakes come down onto the window seal. A bright thought came to your beautiful mind and you opened the window. You grabbed my hand and stuck it out the opening of the window and said to me, "Open your palm, every snowflake you catch is a reminder of every reason I love you."
I opened my palm and thought to myself, "I want to catch each one." Of course I couldn't, but I most certainly tried as hard as it was physically possible. After a few minutes, you pulled my hand inside and rubbed the performance that the snowflake had given. I asked, "Why would you do that?" Your response was, "Look outside baby, there isn't enough snowflakes in the world for me to explain how much I love you, there isn't enough rain or sunshine or even seconds to explain how much I love you, and every reason of why I do."
I closed my eyes and smiled at you. I didn't know what to say. I was astonished, and filled with joy. All I could do was continue to hold your hand, so I laid my head on your shoulders and we looked out the opening of the window in silence. After 20 minutes or so, I lifted my head and pulled yours to the side so it was facing mine. I told you to look into my eyes, you did of course. "I'm deeply in love with you, and my only desire in this universe is to marry you," I told you.
I want you to know that since the day we met, I have fallen deeply in love with you. There are no words to express the feeling I feel in my heart that day you came into my life, and how you make every day so special. You are my life, my heart, my soul. You are my best friend, my one true love, my one and only. I love you more today than I did yesterday, and I’ll love you more tomorrow than I do today. Loving you is the only thing that makes life worth living.
Day by day, my love for you becomes overwhelming, and I can’t handle it when I don’t see or even talk to you every day. A day without you in my life is like a day without sunshine, a day without food, or a day without air. I need you when I’m cold to keep me warm; I need you in the rain to keep me dry; I need you in my life to keep me happy. You make me feel wonderful. You give me strength when I just can’t carry on and I truly treasure that. Every moment spent together is another one of my dreams coming true.
Dear Grandpa,
The first thing I want to say is that I miss you with all my heart, forever and always. I never stop thinking about you or the memories we had made.
They say that the loss of a loved one often changes someone's life. I'd like to agree.
I hate that I had to lose you at such a young age. I am old enough to remember your smell, and remember how contagious your laugh was; that always made us think you were up to something suspicious. But I was too young for you to get to know the real me. I'm still trying to figure that out who that is.
I wish you could have been at my college graduation. I know that you would be cheering louder than anyone when they called my name to walk across the stage and receive my diploma. But I know you'll be watching from up above with all of my other past relatives cheering me on, as I continue on this journey.
I wish that you would be there when I say "I Do" at my wedding ceremony some day. I wish that you could meet my future husband and approve of him (it would mean a lot coming from you because you were so protective of me) and then maybe scare him a little. I wish you could be sitting in the church as I give my vows and promise to love my future husband as deeply as you loved me and our entire family.
I wish that you were around to hear that we still talk about you. We all still laugh about stories from vacations and how you would get mad if someone took your seat at the dinner table on Christmas.I wish you could hear us all trying to impersonate the way you laugh or how sarcastic you liked to be. I wish I could hug you one last time because you gave the warmest hugs every time I every need a pick-me-up or just because hugs are better than words.
I wish I took more pictures with you. I wish smartphones were a thing when you were still here, so I could have had videos of your voice with me always. I barely have any pictures with you and now it's too late and i regret it. But i will always cherish the one that we have together.
I want you to know that I miss you so much and I wish you could be around to see the woman I became. Not a day goes by that I don't think about you. I wish heaven had visiting hours. I miss you so much, but I know you would be proud of me.
If Heaven wasn't so far away I'd be there everyday.
I love you so much, Grandpa.
Love,
Your Granddaughter
Baseball's Opening Day has inspired countless writers, fans, and players throughout the years. Some notable quotes we remember about this special day are:
And it did not disappoint. Aaron Judge hit a home run in first at bat
AARON JUDGE HOME RUN IN HIS FIRST AT BAT OF THE SEASON pic.twitter.com/IJQ391g4ia
— Talkin' Yanks (@TalkinYanks) March 30, 2023
Baseball is back, let's go !
Songs About Being 17
Grey's Anatomy Quotes
Vine Quotes
4 Leaf Clover
Self Respect
1. Brittany Morgan, National Writer's Society
2. Radhi, SUNY Stony Brook
3. Kristen Haddox, Penn State University
4. Jennifer Kustanovich, SUNY Stony Brook
5. Clare Regelbrugge, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign