'While the Democratic leadership defends the status quo, the American people are angry and want change. And they're right'

A Texas truck driver is on his way to Laredo when he spots, what he believes at first, is a 'man' eating roadkill. When it stands, he then notices the size, and the body covered in hair."Hello, Sir. Years ago, in the late 90s, I was on my way from the house (Texas Hill Country) to Laredo to pick up a load. It was early morning, around 4 or 5. I had just come off a string of days at home, so I knew I wasn't tired.I am on one of those two-lane winding roads in the absolute middle of nowhere when I see something on the side of the road at the edge of my high beams. At first, I thought it was roadkill, as is usually the case. As I get closer, I see that it is roadkill AND someone is crouching over the deer carcass. I remember thinking either this guy's taking the antlers as a trophy, or he's sick. As I got closer, I could see this guy eating the deer. He's pulling chunks of meat from the stomach and bringing them up to his face. At this point, he stops mid-motion and looks up at me. Not at my truck, but at me. It stands up and that's when I see that it's huge, brown, and covered in hair.This thing is standing on the tiny shoulder looking at me. By this point, maybe 5 seconds have passed and I'm about to the point in the road he's standing at. I didn't even think of stopping, in fact, I'm starting to lay on it and get the hell out of there. As I'm passing, it's looking at me, again not at the truck. It's looking through the driver's side windshield at me. He obviously has the intelligence to know that there's a driver in here and knows where I'm sitting. As I start to pass him I can still see its head above the hood of an old needle nose Pete (Old truck design where the hood goes straight out from the windshield, known for being tall and difficult to see around.) This thing is a giant. I remember seeing what looked like human intelligence in its eyes. It scares the hell out of me. JBP**********BIGFOOT AGGRESSION! - CHILLING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EXCLUSIVE REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

The following report was submitted to me in December 2008. I conducted a follow-up, but have lost contact with the witness since then. Though the witness supplied her name, I chose not to disclose it. I am posting the original report, which described the experiencer's most recent abduction before contacting me:"I went to bed on Nov. 30th, 2008 at 2:10. Fell asleep and was woken by a bright light coming through the window which woke me up but I couldn't move or speak. The next thing I knew I was, as usual, on a stretcher lying on a hard table flat on my back. The Short Grey was there, which lets me know he wants to hurt me. Then the Tall Grey appears and dismisses the Short one with a wave of his hand. He then rubs my forehead and lets me know I'm ok. They communicate with me telepathically.I am scanned by a machine that looks like an upside-down "L", usually that is all they do, but this time the short one came in and gave me an injection in my inner right upper arm!! It hurt bad! Then I was taken to what I call the waiting room to go home, still on a stretcher. Then a Bright Red-haired Woman came in and took my hand in hers (but she only had four claws instead of a hand like we have) and said, "Come with me." I get up and go with her. I'm already scared to death because of the injection and the fact that I'd never see a woman there.This woman had bright red long hair, with what appeared to be a crown on her head. She had white skin with very beautiful dark deep blue slanted upward eyes. She has a small nose and a round mouth and talks like a human and her mouth moves! She is dressed in a shimmering silver gown with a dark purple hooded robe over it. She has on a dark deep blue diamond-shaped stone that glows brilliant and bright. She had a very kind and trusting voice. I was amazed at this lady. I don't know if she was a queen or princess or what. I'm still partly afraid though cause I don't know what she wants with me. I saw no feet but her gown did drag the floor.She leads me to a room with children of all ages in it. From small to what I would consider to be teenagers. They all came running up to me as if they knew me and all looked like two people I know and myself. All of them!! They were trying to touch me and most did. Then we went into another room which had embryos and fetuses. There were hundreds so it seemed, in containers with clear liquid around them. They had tubes and machines coming from them. They also had something over their eyes because of the bright lights. They looked human but had no visible sex organs. Then she says, "Come on" and we leave.We walk down the hall to what appears to be a large picture window in a house. She told me "to look through it" and I did. What I saw I believe was the future. There were bloody wars in the US and other countries. Just graphic, and I was crying. I didn't want to see anymore and turned away. She yelled "Look!" so I did. What I saw this time was death, how people were dying, some sickness some suicide, and others murdered. Some I knew, some I've seen before, and some I don't know. I finally told her I'd seen enough and refused to look back in the window. She kept saying "We're not through" over and over again. I kept saying "NO, NO"!Then I was back in my bed and, for a while, I could not move and speak, but as soon as I could I asked my husband where did the bright light go and where did the Greys and that woman go. He said he didn't see anything as usual. I got up at 6 am, tired and drained of energy. When I went to put my clothes on I noticed whelp marks on both sides of my abdomen. My husband took pictures of them and a red area on my inner right arm. As the day went on the whelp on my abdomen got redder and looked like some kind of scratches! By night they were red. Pictures were taken of all areas that day and at night I had one appear on each upper arm. Pictures were taken of them also. I had nightmares off and on that night and more pics were taken on 12-1-2008. I had nightmares that night also. I have never seen that woman before - or shown anything or walked on that craft!! Yes, I am scared to death, but I know my life has to go on!! Just pray they don't come back!! NOTE: This experiencer had two other abductions during the time of my investigation. She had kept records, which indicated that the encounters occurred every year. During that time and since I never had any reason to doubt her account. LonThe Alien Abduction Files: The Most Startling Cases of Human Alien Contact Ever ReportedUnidentified: The UFO Phenomenon: How World Governments Have Conspired to Conceal Humanity's Biggest SecretThe Custodians: Beyond AbductionClose Encounters of the Fatal Kind: Suspicious Deaths, Mysterious Murders, and Bizarre Disappearances in UFO History**********BIGFOOT AGGRESSION! - CHILLING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EXCLUSIVE REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

I received the following account:"Hi, Lon. Black-Eyed Kid stories have been my favorite to read about since I first discovered them last year. I've always thought of them as just that, stories. Until now. On September 8, my friend who lives in The Philippines told me about an experience she had the previous night.Around 6 PM, she and her cousin cleaned and trimmed the excess leaves and branches along the path to their laundry area. At 9 PM, a thunderstorm occurred and she ran outside to make sure the front gate was locked and that there was no laundry on the line. As she was heading to the front gate, she glanced over at the laundry area to check it and that's when she saw him.She was about 4 or 5 feet away from a boy that was about 14 or 15 years old. He was wearing a long baggy shirt and shorts that were dark grey in color. He was just standing at the end of the small gate leading to the laundry area (I'm providing a picture of the area) with his hands at his sides staring at her. This took a few seconds until she made it to the front gate and checked that it was locked. She immediately turned around and headed back, but the boy was gone. She got goosebumps then and quickly ran into the house.I thought at first she had just seen a neighborhood kid up to mischief and jokingly asked if his eyes were black and she said yes. Thinking she thought I had just meant the pupil and iris, I looked up pictures of BEKs that have been created for articles. I showed her one and she said "Yes. Like that!" She then said maybe it was just her imagination, but she had never heard of BEKs until I mentioned it after sending the picture.The skeptical part of me wants to say it was just her imagination, but she didn't know the description of a BEK until after I mentioned them, which was after she described what she saw. So, maybe it was just a neighbor kid out trying to scare someone. Full black eye contacts are available for sale, but are they easily accessible to a teenager in The Philippines? Was it really a BEK, or was it just a ghost that was checking out the freshly cleaned and trimmed path? Whatever it was, it has made me greatly overcome my skepticism." M**********BIGFOOT AGGRESSION! - CHILLING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EXCLUSIVE REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

"This occurred approximately 3 years ago and it still haunts me regularly to this day. I thought perhaps I was alone in this encounter, but recently saw a story while surfing the web and thought that this may have been a similar experience.My encounter happened in late June in the middle of the night shortly after I had fallen asleep. I had spent the day earlier gardening and had sprayed around the house to control mosquitoes that day, which I thought might have caused me to hallucinate this experience. I also lived alone at the time.Anyway, I went to bed and at some point was woken up by the sound of children giggling and playing outside my house in the middle of the night. I lived in a one-story rancher and could hear them playing and tapping on the windows in the front of the house. I peeked out the blinds to see these kids and they appeared to be three Asian kids under the age of ten. I don't remember what the boy was wearing but the girls were in black dresses like they had come from some event. They had ear-length jet-black hair with bangs. I was in my pajamas so decided to ignore them and pretend they were not there; hoping they would realize they were in the wrong place and go away. Then they started knocking on the door, persistently. I figured they must have seen me and were not going to go away, so I answered the door. The three kids were there and an adult facing away on the sidewalk. They insisted that they lived at my house and that they needed to come in. I told them that they had the wrong house. Then they asked if I knew some person and said they were coming to meet him and again insisted that they come in. Again, I replied that they must be confused, that it was just me here and I didn't know them and they didn't belong in my house. There are many Asian families in my neighborhood so I thought they might be arriving in town late to visit someone and have the wrong address.I then shut the door. Again, there was a knock. I opened it and this time it was the adult standing in front of the kids. There were also a few additional "family" members now gathered on the sidewalk of my house. He looked to me like a Chinese/Japanese older man with a long mustache, and goatee, and wore sunglasses (at night) and a black suit. Again he said that they lived there and were meeting someone else and insisted that I let them in because they had traveled a long way. At this point, something clicked in my brain, and I stared back at the man and very firmly told him I knew who he was, and that he did not belong there and went to shut the door.At the instant that I said this, this man showed his true form, which was that of some sort of demon or beast. He/It screamed or roared in my face grabbed me by the neck and pinned me up against the wall, enough to knock the wind out of me.I wish I could give a better description of what it looked like, but the second I saw it change, I closed my eyes and began to pray as hard as I could and focus only on praying and blocking out this thing that had pinned me against the wall. It was the only thing I could do because I was sure it was going to kill me at that moment. Not sure what happened next, but I woke up in the morning in my bed; however, my neck was stiff like I had whiplash for days and my front door was ajar.Every single night after this incident I could not go to bed without putting a chair with a twenty-pound weight on it in front of the door. I also had to push the recliner in front of the patio door. Luckily, I moved from that place earlier this year.I have not had an encounter since this experience. The vivid experience was a one-time event. Before this I had classic reoccurring sleep paralysis with feelings of evil spirits being in the room and pressing on my chest, but never anything like what was at my door. After this encounter thought I hadn't had nightmares/sleep paralysis like I had had in the past.I have a feeling that maybe they had been scoping me out before actually visiting and making a move, but were confronted and rejected and so have not come back." M**********BIGFOOT AGGRESSION! - CHILLING EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS | LIVE CHAT | Q & A (EXCLUSIVE REPORTS!)PHANTOMS & MONSTERS VIDEO LIBRARYPOLL: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Vote & comment on paranormal, cryptid & unexplained mysteries!LISTEN TO NARRATIONS OF PHANTOMS & MONSTERS REPORTS & CASES - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE, LIKE & SHAREPHANTOMS & MONSTERS RADIO Podcasts on SpotifyPHANTOMS & MONSTERS READING LISTCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistHave you had a sighting or encounter?Contact me by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. LonOUR SOCIAL MEDIA LINKSBigfoot and Other Cryptid Videos on YouTubeLYCANS! - PENNSYLVANIA'S CRYPTID CANINES UPDATE'KILLER BIGFOOT' HUNTED BY U.S. SPECIAL FORCES / GLIMMER MAN / MANTIS HUMANOIDSCRAWLER HUMANOIDS - GRUESOME INVADERS! (REAL EYEWITNESS ENCOUNTERS!)WEREWOLVES: DO THEY EXIST?'DOGMAN IN OUR YARD!' - AN OHIO FAMILY'S 12-YEAR SAGA WITH CRYPTID CANINESHey, folks. Thanks for the congrats on 'The Mothman Revisited' episode on Unsolved Mysteries. As a result, we are receiving more sighting reports and are very excited and grateful for the new information!I sincerely thank the Unsolved Mysteries team and Netflix for allowing us to tell the world about this phenomenon.If you have information about this or any other cryptid or unexplained sighting or encounter, please feel free to contact me by email or at 410-241-5974. Thanks again! LonCHICAGO MOTHMAN / O'HARE BATMAN YouTube PlaylistChicago / Lake Michigan Winged Humanoid Regional Interactive MapHey, folks. Please feel free to share your thoughts & comments on the recently uploaded video of the CHICAGO MOTHMAN. I'm interested in what you have to say. Thanks. LonEXCLUSIVE VIDEO of CHICAGO MOTHMAN RECORDED----------Become a Phantoms & Monsters Radio Insider - just $2.99 monthly, and receive these perks. Thanks for your support!-Members-only live chats-Exclusive members-only videos-Priority reply to members' commentsHave perks suggestions? LMK-----YOUR SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED! THANKS-----Have you had a sighting or encounter?Contact us by email or call the hotline at 410-241-5974Thanks. Lon Noted UFOlogist Dr. Raymond Keller believes the idea of extraterrestrials and even ultra-dimensional beings from many different planets and alternate realms living and working among us clandestinely is more than just another conspiracy theory.Available on Amazon.comSan Francisco Book Festival Honorable MentionNew York Book Festival Honorable MentionAlso available with audiobooknarration by Terry Springs,CBS-TV Las Vegas affiliate.This blog and newsletter are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Work 3.0 United States License.Registered trademark PHANTOMS AND MONSTERS ® / PHANTOMS & MONSTERS ® - USPTO #90902480 - Lon D. Strickler© 2005-2024 Phantoms & Monsters - All Rights Reserved

This liturgy is designed for any time you step into the kitchen to make bread. You will notice the sections marked for a breath prayer and a collect — these are the places you can insert prayers specific to the season or the occasion you are baking for, or you can insert prayers of your own. Mise en place Begin by gathering your supplies: 3 cups all-purpose or bread flour and 1/2 cup whole-wheat flour; 1½ teaspoons kosher salt; 1/4 teaspoon instant yeast; 1½ cups room-temperature water; a three-quart mixing bowl; measuring cups and spoons; a bowl scraper; plastic wrap or a tea towel; a baking sheet, loaf pan, or Dutch oven; and, if you’d like, your Bible. As you prepare your workspace, also prepare your heart and mind. Ask God to join you in this process of baking bread. Slowly breathe and meditate on these words: Inhale: My soul finds rest Exhale: in God alone. Psalm 62:1 Mix As you measure your ingredients, continue this meditative breathing. Feel the texture and temperature of each element between your fingers as you combine the dry ingredients together. Give thanks for the community of farmers, millers, and grocers who have brought these ingredients to your kitchen today. Give thanks for the bakers across generations who have passed down these traditions. And give thanks for the Christians who have clung to the closeness of Jesus in the baking and breaking of bread. When the time comes to mix your dough, inhale and exhale with each line of the breath prayer of your choosing. Pour the water into the center of the well. With your fingers, slowly pull the flour bit by bit into the watery center. Thicken the water slowly, rubbing out dry clumps of flour that form. Contemplate how the substances transform within your hands. Continue mixing until all the flour has been hydrated. Cover your mixture with plastic wrap or a damp tea towel and step away to a silent place for half an hour to read, pray, or be still in God’s presence. As you do, pray: God, may I trust that transformation takes place, even when my hands and heart are at rest. Stretch and fold Uncover your mixture once again and grip one side firmly in your hand. Stretch and fold and contemplate the change that has occurred: water flooding and softening the grain, bursting open its tightly wound but untapped strength. Stretch the side and fold it over the dough; rotate the bowl 90 degrees and repeat. As you build both elasticity and strength, pray in this way: Inhale: Oh God (stretch) who comes (fold) Exhale: to us (stretch) in bread (fold), Inhale: do not (stretch) let us (fold) Exhale: go (stretch and fold). Repeat four or more times, as needed, then cover your dough and let it rest for its long fermentation (8-18 hours). If you need to wait 24 hours or more before shaping, let the dough rest for four hours, then place it in the fridge until you’re ready to bake the loaf. Shape When your dough is ready for shaping, turn it onto the counter. Marvel at the beauty and strength of your dough, at the bubbles that signal new and growing life. Smell the scent of fermentation, tangy and a little bit sweet. As you divide, stretch, round, or fold, pray the words of the collect of your choosing. When the dough enters its final 30-60 minute proof, relaxing into its newfound strength, repeat these words: God just as I step away from this dough, asking the proteins to rest and the yeast to prove that it is still alive, I ask you to prove your continual steadfast love for me. Bake Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 425° (450° if using a sandwich pan or baking tray). When your loaf is ready for baking, slide it into the preheated oven. If your oven door allows you to see inside, watch the dough rise, burp, then fall into shape. Pay attention to the smell that fills your kitchen in the minutes ahead. Find joy in the creativity of God, who made ingredients with the ability to change in this way and who gave humans the idea to combine them. While the dough bakes, ask the Lord: Creative God, where are you leading me in the minutes, days, and months ahead? Equip me for whatever changes are to come. Eat After your bread has cooled enough for you to eat, pick it up, breathe in its scent, and take in its beauty and nourishment. Let a smile form as you thank God for the ability to make something so delicious. Let your eating be a prayer of its own, a sign of your gratitude to God as well as God’s good gift to you. Adapted from "Bake & Pray" by Kendall Vanderslice. Copyright © 2024. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, a division of Tyndale House Ministries. All rights reserved.

Sen. JD Vance: 'Happy Birthday to My Fellow Marines! 249 Years and Counting!'

That's ADORABLE: People Ask If the New York Times Will Correct Reporting on FEMA Discrimination

All Politics Is Local: Salon Owner ARRESTED for Keeping Doors Open During COVID Wins TX Legislature Seat

Making the 2024 presidential election a referendum on President-elect Donald Trump and the Democrats' failed "threat to democracy" narrative was ultimately "political malpractice," according to liberal media pollster Frank Luntz.