Music can often speak to us in ways other things can’t. It’s a beautiful gift from God. Even if you aren’t gifted in creating music yourself, you’re sure to have experienced a song that moved you.

Psalm 37:5 with Rhonda Stoppe

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Sunlight streams through the canopy of tall trees, illuminating the lush green foliage that lines the forest floor. Lying on a blanket, soaking up the ambiance of a perfect day, makes you wonder, “Does life ever get better than this?” Then you hear a rustle at the edge of the small clearing you are in. Your eyes focus on the sound and spot it. A small, curious fox has entered your enchanted forest, and you realize it does get better. @sew.fae the forest blessed us with the most magical guest at our picnic today ♬ Birds Sound – Calming Bird Sounds The original poster, Sewfae, seems to live an enchanted life in Northern Ireland. They returned to the same area a few days later. Describing the entire setting in more detail, she narrates a second video. The clearing appears to be a sacred place cherished by worshippers of nature. The visitors left an offering, as is customary, and shortly after that, the enchanted forest fox appeared. Image from TikTok. This is not the last encounter with this enchanted forest fox. The animal is a recurrent guest in many of Sewfae’s forest videos. With her toddler and friends, she has been exploring the beauty of Northern Ireland. Her bag usually has the most recent crochet or knitting project, which she completes in small bursts while relaxing in nature. Image from TikTok. They have been swimming under picturesque waterfalls and watched as a majestic swan led her cygnets across a calm pond. Raising her toddler daughter surrounded by an enchanted forest is magical. They visit forests, coasts, and lighthouses, exploring the territory with the wonder of children seeing something for the first time. If you enjoy beautiful scenery and magical encounters with nature, follow Sewfae on TikTok. She welcomes you to live vicariously through her camera lens. Please share. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here and here. The post Real-Life Enchanted Forest? Picnickers Greeted By Unreal Scene When Special Guest Shows Up appeared first on InspireMore.

While visiting a bird sanctuary, a TikTok user got a surprise when she happened upon a nesting pelican with two hatchlings. The first surprise was the noise level. Then the visitor noted the nest was in a tree. Most commenters stated that they would have expected the large birds to nest in rocky areas or on beaches away from animals. But there they were, two baby pelicans looking very much like gray, non-descript muppets. @pink19791 I came back to the bird sanctuary and got a surprise! baby pelicans! they were loud #pelicans #pelican #babyanimals #babybird #nature #gulf #birdsoftiktok ♬ original sound – Pink1979 There are seven species of pelicans in the world. Except for one, they are primarily white. The odd one is brown with a gray head and a reddish-brown neck. The main characteristic of pelicans is their large beak and bill pouch. Contrary to popular belief, the birds eat their catch immediately and do not carry it in the throat pouch. The pelican is an expert fisher. They fly above the surface of the water, filling their bill pouch with water and fish. They drain off the water and maneuver the fish to swallow it head first. The white baby pelicans don’t stay in the muppet phase long. They all seem to go through a period where they resemble tiny little pterodactyls before their feathers start to come in. When they first hatch, the babies are entirely dependent on the mother. They remain in the nest about a month before they are big enough to venture out. As they grow, the video shows how the mother teaches them to survive. She gives them swimming and fishing lessons. Once they fledge, she begins teaching them to fish in flight. Please share if you thought they looked like Muppets. You can find the source of this story’s featured image here. The post If You’ve Never Seen Baby Pelicans, We Bet You’d Never Guess Just How Much They Look Like Muppets! appeared first on InspireMore.

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If just a few more feet of loose soil fell from the tunnel ceiling, 27 Los Angeles digging contractors would have been trapped. As it happened, tragic headlines were denied those last few feet, and with the help of their comrades on the other side, all 27 men escaped from last Thursday’s partial tunnel collapse […] The post All 31 Workers Escape Unharmed from Recent LA Tunnel Collapse appeared first on Good News Network.

Much of the debate about the military threat from China revolves around the enormity of its capabilities and its determination to expand its armed forces even further. This has prompted debates within U.S. policy circles of both how best to grow American military assets and ensure that our enduring weapons platforms are more capable than those of our Chinese counterparts. Even as the U.S. begins to expand its military, it is also revising its military doctrines and warfighting concepts to adapt to the size of the China threat. In a series of war games over the past few years, several things have become evident: Disaggregating some forces will prevent their destruction, utilizing military deception enables successful operations, and centralizing combat effects is essential even as operational control is decentralized. In many respects, the U.S. military is beginning to adopt the characteristics of a strategic insurgent force in the face of significant Chinese military strength. However, there are additional lessons from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and from operations by Ukraine against Russia that can provide further insights. One of the central characteristics of the U.S. method of warfighting is embracing advanced technological solutions in place of low-tech efforts. This often entails complex and expensive platforms that frequently take years to complete and field. Additionally, China has advanced abilities to interfere with U.S. weapons and communications systems, and it has undue influence over them through the control or influence of aspects of their production. Embracing low-technology solutions may allow U.S. military forces to expand their abilities at great scale in place of larger, more expensive systems with longer periods of development. A low-tech approach may also prove more difficult for China to interfere with, be harder to detect, and possibly have greater survivability rates. A second insurgent approach would be to focus on the Chinese people and their frustrations with their leaders. The greatest threat China fears is its own population, which is why the government has throttled dissent, freedom of expression, and freedom of assembly in the past few years. This has been done, in part, as preparation for domestic unrest in the event a Taiwan invasion were to go awry—and as a means of solidifying and extending the control of Chinese leader Xi Jinping. There is serious discontent with the Chinese people against their communist form of government and its leaders, who are unaccountable to their people. Many of these frustrations may also exist among Chinese military personnel, which could be exploited. As part of an information operations effort, the U.S. should explore what a postcommunist and post-Xi China would look like. A think tank dedicated to such an effort could possibly be created to highlight corruption and abuse within the regime, explore areas for reform, coalesce opposition elements, draw attention to poor governance, and facilitate a peaceful transfer of power from the Communist Party to a more pluralistic system. The goal of these efforts would be to leverage the strength of ideas to weaken the communist regime. A final concept that should be embraced even more in military planning is the use of military deception to protect operations, mislead senior Chinese leaders and obscure critical capabilities. During World War II the U.S. used deception to mislead Nazi Germany’s leaders into thinking that coalition forces were going to invade Calais instead of Normandy, giving the U.S. and its allies more time to create a beachhead in France. This produced significant strategic effects that helped win the war. Similar efforts must be adopted against the pervasive Chinese surveillance state, which uses not just intelligence assets but commercial capabilities—including those that are part of its overseas companies—to collect information on U.S. personnel and operations. While the U.S. military must expand its forces to be better prepared to face China’s aggressive military actions, it must do so not just by adding troops and other capabilities, but also by thinking asymmetrically. It must do a better job of leveraging low-technology solutions to solve challenging operational problems, utilize the revolutionary heritage of our republic as an ideological tool to weaken China, and use military deception more comprehensively in military planning and operations. While the U.S. military is looking to better enable resiliency for its forces in a wartime situation by promoting concepts that increase survivability, it must do a better job of operating as a strategic insurgent to improve its chances of success against China. Originally published by The Washington Times The post America Must Fight Like an Insurgent to Defeat Communist China appeared first on The Daily Signal.

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