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In Advent, we cry out “when, God, when!” God replies “the kingdom of God is among you.”
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🔍 Took another kayak on the creek. Can’t get too far in either direction with the current water level, but confirmed we have tons of crawdads and mussels. Saw a cool huge turtle shell.
Also figured out the sneks (common watersnakes) like to hang out on the beech & sycamore roots.
Reflecting on this today. 🕊
📑 Sunday Quote 🕊
This game is gonna be up there with the Snow Clasico in terms of memorable and surreal #USMNT games ⚽️
Explainer: this was a CONCACAF Nations League game, where USA are defending champs. They were playing El Salvador, who had not beat the USA since 1992. It was a messy and clumsy and chaotic game due to the field being terribly muddy. El Salvador scored first and was up. USA got a bad red card. Then El Salvador got one for at attack that ended in a long muddy slip’n’slide. USA drew the game in overtime.
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