This was posted by Princess Ade (@cessadelove1) on Twitter/X. I like the ideas and thought it was worth sharing. Thank you Princess Ade.

1. Start your mornings with prayer. Invite God into every day.
2. Open your Bible before touching your phone.
3. Talk to God about what’s heavy on your heart.
4. Practice gratitude daily.
5. Stop stressing about what you can’t change.
6. Thank God for small blessings throughout the day.
7. Let go of the bitterness you’ve been holding onto.
8. Talk to God about everything.
9. Fast from what feeds your flesh more than your faith.
10. Spend more time in His Word, not just in your thoughts.
11. Stop giving time to things that pull you away from Him.
12. Spend time with people who push you closer to Jesus.
13. Don’t isolate; you need community to grow.
14. Be kind to yourself, grace is part of growth.
15. End the day in prayer: reflect, repent, and thank Him.

Jani Ortlund wrote a wonderful Daily Devotional (Dec. 11, 2025, which I receive via email) for Crossway. In it she lifts up the wonderful message of Psalm 34. It inspired me to study it further and break it down.

Here is the Google doc I prepared.

This video on X/Twitter describes the things kids who grew up in the 70 learned (and how they were psychologically enhanced).

Here are the main points:

1. Self-Directed Problem Solving – 70s kids learned to create their own purpose and entertainment, strengthening creativity and executive function.
2. Adaptive Risk Calibration – Regular exposure to physical risk trained better danger assessment and reduced adult anxiety.
3. Comfort with Solitude – Time alone without screens built emotional stability and tolerance for boredom.
4. Analog Patience – Waiting for shows, photos, phone calls, and results built impulse control and delayed gratification.
5. Unsupervised Autonomy – Freedom to roam without tracking developed internal motivation, judgment, and responsibility.
6. Lasting Adult Traits – Calm in crisis, independence, discipline, comfort with silence, and critical thinking.
7. Cultural Contrast – These traits are framed as increasingly rare in the digital, highly supervised modern childhood.
8. Overall Claim – 1970s childhood formed psychologically resilient adults during a unique historical “window.”

Here is a narrative synopsis:

The passage argues that children who grew up in the 1970s developed rare psychological strengths due to an unusual mix of freedom, responsibility, and unsupervised play. With little structured scheduling, kids learned self-directed problem solving, creativity, and independence by inventing their own activities. Regular exposure to physical risk—without constant adult intervention—trained their brains to assess real danger, resulting in lower adult anxiety and stronger crisis management.

Pre-digital solitude also shaped emotional resilience. Without constant stimulation, 70s kids learned to tolerate boredom and became comfortable being alone with their thoughts. Their analog world required patience: waiting for weekly TV shows, developed photos, and phone calls trained impulse control and delayed gratification. Finally, broad freedom of movement built internal motivation and decision-making skills.

The author concludes that these traits—independence, calmness, patience, depth, and competence—are fading in modern culture. Rather than being outdated, 70s kids are portrayed as carrying forward psychological strengths shaped by a uniquely formative era of childhood.

Leonid Afremov developed a wonderful painting style using a palette knife and oil paint. Demonstrating an excellent use of (often bright) colors, he has a huge range of themes from rainy city streets to serene landscapes to actual locations and recognizable cathedrals. He passed away in 2019.

On Twitter it was posted: “Artist Leonid Afremov passed away on August 19, 2019. Now the Afremov family is liquidating the remaining oil painting collection. Prices start at $129. Free fast shipping.”

Website is: https://afremov.com/

The world has an inconsolable longing. It tries to satisfy the longing with scenic vacations, accomplishments of creativity, stunning cinematic productions, sexual exploits, sports extravaganzas, hallucinogenic drugs, ascetic rigors, managerial excellence, and so on. But the longing remains. What does this mean? Lewis says, “If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.”² And he adds, “It was when I was happiest that I longed most. . . . The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing . . . to find the place where all the beauty came from.” (from Lewis, Mere Christianity)

The tragedy of the world is that the echo is mistaken for the Original Shout.

Here is a very good devotional on the idea of longing for God, the authentic article: link