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You don't have to have it all together to grow in your faith, just the courage to start again today. This honest prayer will meet you right where you are.

When a beloved season becomes a painful reminder of loss, finding a new perspective and allowing yourself to grieve is a journey toward healing. Discover how embracing sorrow and trusting in a higher power can transform even the bleakest times into opportunities for growth and rediscovery.

In a season of high anxiety, global wars, and political uncertainty, it's easy to become overwhelmed, discouraged, and disillusioned. With daily individual demands and ongoing worldwide challenges, our minds are often overloaded with thoughts, to-do lists, and feelings of hopelessness. While we desire to remain hopeful, it is easy to become discouraged. Whenever my mind is on overload or I'm feeling out of control, I pause to connect with God to receive His peace. Journaling has always helped me share my unfiltered thoughts with God, and God always speaks. When I don't have the words to say verbally, writing has always lifted my spirit and soothed my soul. I have journals from years ago that I read and remember how God has answered prayers, gaining confirmation that God was always with me. When you feel discouraged with your circumstances or try to process the world's massive challenges, God's Word says don't lose heart. Be encouraged that God is with you and wants to strengthen and uplift your spirit. Here are six creative journaling prompts to encourage your spirit:Photo Credit: ©Getty Images/Milko

This personal essay explores the learned nature of inadequacy, tracing its roots in childhood experiences and societal comparisons to advocate for embracing emotional vulnerability and the healing power of grief. It offers a path toward self-acceptance and worth, emphasizing spiritual grounding as a powerful antidote to feelings of not being good enough.

In a radical departure from the reporting we usually see with regard to immigration, a legacy news outlet elected to report GOOD news related to the Trump administration’s efforts to enforce the southern border. NBC’s report on the border is a real eye-opener: Watch the report in its entirety, as aired on NBC Nightly News  on Tuesday, October 7th, 2025: TOM LLAMAS: Now to new numbers from the southern border showing illegal crossings have plummeted to record lows under President Trump. A dramatic change from the scenes we saw along the border just a year ago. Julia Ainsley has our new reporting. JULIA AINSLEY: Tonight, new numbers showing the dramatic change at the border. MIKE BANKS: We’ve got the most controlled border we’ve ever had in the history, and in my lifetime in the border patrol. AINSLEY: In Eagle Pass, Texas, during the Biden administration, more than 2,000 migrants crossed into the U.S. in a single day. But now, under President Trump's policies, officers encounter just 20 migrants a day here. Tonight, DHS touting the lowest number of illegal border crossings since 1970. And Border Patrol Chief Mike Banks tells us they’ll expand the one mile of defensive buoys on the Rio Grande. BANKS: We’ve got about 500 miles identified across the entire Texas border where we’re gonna place these in the river.  AINSLEY: Is this the new wall? BANKS: It's defense in-depth. AINSLEY: We were here two years ago where migrants used to carry children on their backs to get across this river and cut through this barbed wire to get to the United States. They would see hundreds, even thousands a day in this very spot. But today, it’s silent. North in Del Rio, border residents telling us they are thrilled the crossings are down. RESIDENT: We have our community back to normal. AINSLEY: Border security, a major factor in two majority-Latino districts, Eagle Pass and Del Rio, voting red last November. Business owner Lwo Martinez is a Democrat who voted for Trump, saying his once-eight-hour commute to his factories across the border now takes 20 minutes. LEO MARTINEZ: Now if you look at the border, it's super quiet. So whatever the current administration has done, it's working. AINSLEY: His daughter voted for Trump, too. Do you think what happened here with the surge led more people to vote for Trump? LEO MARTINEZ’ DAUGHTER: Yes. 100%. AINSLEY: But across the border, President Trump's policies blocking asylum claims also having an impact. Johanna Romero with her 6-month old son saying she's desperate, waiting in Mexico since December. Saying she's fleeing death threats from her baby's father. I was really afraid. It was a very strong threat, she said.  President Trump's policy banning asylum seekers at the border is now being challenged in court. Tom. LLAMAS: Julia Ainsley. Julia, we thank you. Normally, when you see immigration reporting, it is centered around building victimization narratives. And Julia Ainsley did serve that up, but at the END of the report. Almost as if to cleanse viewer palates of everything else they saw prior. And what did they see, exactly? There was the head of the Border Patrol talking about how numbers have come down dramatically. There was discussion of the defensive buoys placed in the Rio Grande, but no hyperventilating about them as murder devices. The report then featured Trump-voting Democrat Hispanics who are pleased with what they’ve seen in terms of border enforcement. Recall that places such as Eagle Pass and Del Rio bore the brunt of Biden’s open border. But no more. There were also no immigration advocacy groups present in the report to vilify Trump’s enforcement policy or to complain about everything. This report was a refreshing change of pace from the usual immigration fare on legacy media.  

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The 2nd century grave marker of a Roman sailor has been discovered in the back yard of a Tulane University anthropologist in New Orleans. The stone slab with a Latin inscription was uncovered by anthropologist Daniella Santoro and her husband Aaron Lorenz when they were clearing out some underbrush at their historic shotgun house in the Carrolton neighborhood of New Orleans. Concerned that they might have stumbled on a grave from an old built-over cemetery (there are several know in the city, and doubtless more that are still unknown), they reached out to University of New Orleans archaeologist Dr. D. Ryan Gray who has worked to map these lost cemeteries. He was able to exclude the possibility of it being a historic burial. Ryan and Santoro shared the photos with Latin experts who read and translated the inscription. The inscription reads: “D(is) M(anibus)/S(e)x(to) Congenio Vero/mi(liti) cl(assis) p(raetoriae) Mi(senensis) natio(ne) Bes(so)/vixit an(nis) XLII mi(litavit) an(nis)/XXII, Tutela ((triere)) Asc(l)epio/fece(runt) Atilius Carus/et Vettius Longi/nus heredes/b(ene) m(erenti)” (“To the spirits of the dead for Sextus Congenius Verus, soldier of the praetorian fleet Misenensis, from the tribe (natio) of the Bessi, (who) lived 42 years (and) served 22 in the military, on the trireme Asclepius. Atilius Carus and Vettius Longinus, his heirs, made (this) for him well deserving.”) As Sextus Congenius Verus was not buried in New Orleans, this confirmed that it was an artifact deracinated from the ancient grave it was marked. In fact, a stone matching the description was listed as missing from the National Archaeological Museum of Civitavecchia, an ancient port on the Tyrrhenian sea 35 miles northwest of Rome. Trajan’s favorite architect, Apollodorus of Damascus, built the rectangular port in 106-108 A.D. as a secure and convenient resupply station for the ships of the imperial fleet. It became known as Centumcellae and was an important strategic base for the Roman navy in the 2nd and 3rd centuries A.D. Many sailors were buried in a cemetery near the harbour there. Numerous funerary inscriptions from the cemetery were discovered in 1864 during construction of a prison, the majority of them belonging to the classiari of the fleet. Not only do the inscriptions give us the names of sailors, but also the types of vessels, names and whether they were attached to the fleets of Ravenna or Misenum. The Centumcellae funerary inscriptions record the quadriremes Fortuna and Po, the triremes Danae, Nereis and Augusta, the Liburna Diana of the Ravenna fleet, and the quadrireme Dacia, triremes Castor, Aesculapio, Salamina and Partica and the bireme Clementia of the detachment of the fleet of Misenum. Sailors were generally drawn from the lowest social classes. In the imperial era, they were recruited from less urbanized and Romanized areas of the empire, including Moesia Inferior, located between the Danube and the Black Sea. The Bessi are believed to have came from the lands south of the Danube. They are a significant presence on the funerary epitaphs of sailors in the Roman Imperial navy, with at least 50 documented. The ancient port was expanded by the Popes but was still in active commercial and military use in the first half of the 20th century. That unfortunately made it a target for Allied bombing raids in 1943 and 1944 and the port was completely destroyed. The museum that housed the funerary inscriptions was also destroyed, and many of its contents were lost. Inventories compiled after the war used older inventories rather than starting from scratch, so there are artifacts on the list that have not actually been seen since before the devastation of the war. Sextus Congenius Verus’ could have been taken by an Allied soldier during the war or sold after the war when there was no effective oversight of the antiquities trade and ended up in New Orleans. Attempts to trace the background of the stone have been thus far unsuccessful. Getting the stone back to its rightful owner was a priority, but international repatriation of antiquities is a complex process. Thankfully, research and scholarship are truly a cooperative effort, and soon enough, Santoro assembled what she would eventually call her “Team Tombstone,” with Lusnia taking the lead on contacting the museum in Civitavecchia with this unlikely story. After consulting with Tess Davis, executive director of the Antiquities Coalition, which specializes in the repatriation of stolen and looted items of cultural heritage, we concluded that the case needed to proceed through the FBI’s Art Crime Team. They helpfully agreed to pick up the stone and keep it in custody while the repatriation process began. […] The staff at Civitavecchia are excited to welcome it back, and they are hoping to throw a celebration when that happens.