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We ask what changes when we treat every day as borrowed time from God and hold our work, marriage, and civic life to that standard. Scripture, history, and a Medal of Honor story guide a practical reset toward faith, fidelity, gratitude, and courage.

• daily accountability before God as a filter for time use
• marriage as first priority after God, honoring Hebrews 13:4
• 2 Peter 3 on patience, repentance, and holy living
• Psalm 119 for light under pressure and joy in obedience
• warnings against twisting Scripture and chasing greed
• Private Robert L. Blackwell’s sacrifice as a measure for values
• 1782 Congressional thanksgiving proclamation and public faith
• assimilation into founding faith and principles as moral clarity
• prayer for leaders, families, service members, and nations

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We reflect on aligning the last 24 hours with God’s will, then walk through Titus 2 and 2 Peter 2 to show how faith orders our homes and guards us from false teachers. We read the 1781 Congressional Thanksgiving proclamation to recover gratitude, repentance, and public dependence on God.

• setting priorities that match God’s will
• accepting suffering now with hope of eternal glory
• Titus 2 as a blueprint for multi‑generational discipleship
• 2 Peter 2 warnings against false teachers and greed
• Psalm 119 loyalty to God’s word over divided hearts
• Proverbs on steady work versus chasing fantasies
• Medal of Honor spotlight on Wilmon W. Blackmar
• 1781 Congress calling the nation to thanksgiving and prayer
• faith shaping leaders, schools, courts, and public life
• Christ alone as the only path to God

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Start with the hard question: are we using Scripture as a mirror or a weapon? We open by challenging lopsided marriage advice and the cultural habit of demanding obedience from one spouse while excusing the other. With Proverbs 5 as a vivid vision of covenant delight, we press into daily priorities—where our time, energy, and attention actually go—and why God and our spouse deserve the best of what we have, not the leftovers.

From there we read 2 Peter 1 and Psalm 119, letting the text set our pace. Peter’s ladder of growth—faith, moral excellence, knowledge, self-control, endurance, godliness, brotherly affection, and love—offers a practical framework for steady character in an unsteady age. His eyewitness testimony to Christ’s majesty and the Spirit-inspired nature of prophecy makes the case for Scripture as more than inspiration; it is illumination. Psalm 119 adds the lived angle: God’s words as a lamp, sweeter than honey, a guide when the path is crowded with traps and shortcuts. The theme is simple and demanding: clarity comes from the Word, not from the mood of the moment.

We then pivot to history with a brief Medal of Honor profile and launch our November tradition of reading American Thanksgiving proclamations, beginning with Congress in 1780. The language is bracing—public humility, repentance, petitions for wisdom in councils, blessing on labor and learning, and a desire for the gospel to spread. That tone exposes a vital distinction: the founders resisted a state-enforced denomination, yet they did not imagine public life without God. Courts, schools, and civic institutions need moral ballast, and Scripture has long served as that steadying force.

If you care about marriage that lasts, leadership that serves, and a nation that remembers where wisdom begins, you’ll find a path here: give your best hours to God and to your spouse, read the Bible as an owner’s manual, and recover a public posture of humility and gratitude. Enjoy the readings, sit with the questions, and share this with someone who needs clarity over noise. If this resonates, subscribe, leave a review, and pass it along so others can join the conversation.

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