1 00:00:06,040 --> 00:00:09,160 S1: It's road trip day across America and you are our 2 00:00:09,160 --> 00:00:12,280 S1: tour guide. Here is the premise for the program America 3 00:00:12,280 --> 00:00:14,760 S1: the Beautiful. If I were to get in my car 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,640 S1: today and call you up and say, hey, I'm coming 5 00:00:16,640 --> 00:00:19,120 S1: over to your house tomorrow and I want you to 6 00:00:19,160 --> 00:00:22,200 S1: show me something beautiful about where you live. Where would 7 00:00:22,200 --> 00:00:25,520 S1: you take me? What would you point out in creation? 8 00:00:25,720 --> 00:00:28,120 S1: And this goes for city dwellers as well as country 9 00:00:28,120 --> 00:00:34,760 S1: folk like me. Call me now answer that question. (877) 548-3675. 10 00:00:34,760 --> 00:00:37,479 S1: I'm coming over. Show me the beauty of the earth 11 00:00:37,479 --> 00:00:44,360 S1: near you. Tell me about it. (877) 548-3675. Straight ahead on 12 00:00:44,360 --> 00:00:47,720 S1: the program. From the heart to the heart for the heart. 13 00:00:47,720 --> 00:00:51,760 S1: Celebrating 250 years of America the beautiful. And we thank 14 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:54,840 S1: our team behind the scenes where I'm doing all things technical. 15 00:00:55,120 --> 00:00:57,440 S1: Chris is our producer. Lisa is helping out. Josh will 16 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:01,180 S1: be answering your calls today And since it's Friday. That's right, 17 00:01:01,180 --> 00:01:04,740 S1: it's time for the fabulous favorite Friday site. What's it do? Chris? 18 00:01:04,740 --> 00:01:07,539 S1: I'll tell you one we oxygenate your blood. Two, we 19 00:01:07,540 --> 00:01:11,419 S1: get your endorphins going. Three, we raise your serotonin. Level four, 20 00:01:11,459 --> 00:01:16,380 S1: we promote lymphatic drainage. Five, we stimulate your parasympathetic system. 21 00:01:16,380 --> 00:01:18,420 S1: That's why we call it the five love languages. We 22 00:01:18,420 --> 00:01:22,060 S1: also stimulate your vagus nerve. We help you release acetylcholine. 23 00:01:22,060 --> 00:01:25,140 S1: And don't you dare forget what it does to cortisol dissipation. 24 00:01:25,459 --> 00:01:27,860 S1: Taking four seconds of air through your nose right now. 25 00:01:28,220 --> 00:01:30,780 S1: Hold it four seconds. And then as you release that 26 00:01:30,780 --> 00:01:32,860 S1: air through your mouth, push on the left side of 27 00:01:32,860 --> 00:01:34,459 S1: your rib cage to get rid of all that bad 28 00:01:34,459 --> 00:01:37,500 S1: carbon dioxide. Give a sigh today for the beauty of 29 00:01:37,500 --> 00:01:40,020 S1: the earth, which over and around us lies for the 30 00:01:40,020 --> 00:01:43,780 S1: purple mountains. The amber waves of grain for soaring eagles 31 00:01:43,780 --> 00:01:47,980 S1: and landlocked turkeys give a sigh for Lake Okoboji and 32 00:01:47,980 --> 00:01:52,340 S1: Lake Okeechobee, for the Kissimmee River, for the Atlantic and 33 00:01:52,340 --> 00:01:55,740 S1: the Pacific, which are not shining seas. Their oceans but 34 00:01:55,780 --> 00:01:58,680 S1: sea to shining sea just sounds better. Give a sigh 35 00:01:58,680 --> 00:02:01,240 S1: for the Blue Ridge Mountains, the Shenandoah Valley, the San 36 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:04,680 S1: Fernando Valley, and Rudy Vallee. Give a sigh for America 37 00:02:04,680 --> 00:02:08,200 S1: the beautiful. Thine alabaster cities gleam. And don't forget the 38 00:02:08,200 --> 00:02:11,240 S1: fruited plain. The fabulous favorite Friday sigh is brought to 39 00:02:11,240 --> 00:02:14,560 S1: you by Pilgrim feet. Who beat a thoroughfare for freedom 40 00:02:14,560 --> 00:02:20,000 S1: across the wilderness. All rights reserved. Not that that it 41 00:02:20,000 --> 00:02:23,160 S1: wasn't there before the pilgrim feet went there. But you 42 00:02:23,160 --> 00:02:25,040 S1: know what I'm talking about. So I have a full 43 00:02:25,040 --> 00:02:28,120 S1: tank of gas. I've. I have all the gas that 44 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:31,239 S1: I need to come to your house, and I want 45 00:02:31,280 --> 00:02:34,520 S1: to see the beauty of Merca. What are you going 46 00:02:34,520 --> 00:02:36,800 S1: to show me when I get there? Where are you 47 00:02:36,800 --> 00:02:39,040 S1: going to take me? And and I want to know, 48 00:02:39,080 --> 00:02:41,200 S1: you know, the summer. We're in the middle of summer. 49 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,360 S1: So now's a good time to, you know, to go 50 00:02:44,360 --> 00:02:46,880 S1: to the beach and a lot of different places, the 51 00:02:46,880 --> 00:02:50,840 S1: mountains as well. But also I want to know what 52 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:52,839 S1: time of year. Because if you were, if I were 53 00:02:52,840 --> 00:02:56,169 S1: in West Virginia, it's the fall that I would say, oh, 54 00:02:56,169 --> 00:02:58,730 S1: you gotta, you gotta come the leaves in the fall. 55 00:02:58,889 --> 00:03:01,010 S1: There's about a week and a half, two weeks that 56 00:03:01,050 --> 00:03:05,089 S1: it's just amazing. Call me now. I got a line 57 00:03:05,090 --> 00:03:10,570 S1: open for you at 8775, 483675. On Facebook I said 58 00:03:10,570 --> 00:03:15,010 S1: America the Beautiful. What beautiful site do you live near 59 00:03:15,010 --> 00:03:19,810 S1: in America? And Tammy, a lot of you posted pictures, 60 00:03:19,810 --> 00:03:23,609 S1: so thank you for doing that. The Cascades to my east, 61 00:03:23,650 --> 00:03:27,930 S1: the Olympic Mountains to my west, Mount Rainier to my southeast, 62 00:03:28,250 --> 00:03:33,250 S1: and the Salish Sea, Puget Sound in between them both. Oh, 63 00:03:33,290 --> 00:03:37,290 S1: and orcas from time to time. And she's got this picture. 64 00:03:37,330 --> 00:03:41,930 S1: You just see the lush green foliage of the trees 65 00:03:41,930 --> 00:03:46,170 S1: and the vibrant green growth there. And then the water 66 00:03:46,450 --> 00:03:50,730 S1: and a and an orca whale sticking out right there. Oh, 67 00:03:50,730 --> 00:03:56,150 S1: it's a wonderful thing, Deb says, near to Delaware water 68 00:03:56,190 --> 00:04:00,830 S1: Gap in New Jersey when you're not there. We're in beautiful, rugged, 69 00:04:00,830 --> 00:04:05,030 S1: rocky coast of Maine, and there are sandy beaches, too. 70 00:04:05,070 --> 00:04:08,510 S1: So that's what Deb says and what Tammy says. I'm 71 00:04:08,550 --> 00:04:13,390 S1: getting in my car. I'm going to go visit. Is it? Uh. 72 00:04:13,750 --> 00:04:17,070 S1: I can't see my eyes. It's Jane. Okay. Thank you. 73 00:04:17,390 --> 00:04:21,430 S1: Jane is in Park Forest, Illinois. Jane, what am I 74 00:04:21,470 --> 00:04:23,870 S1: going to see when I get near Park Forest? 75 00:04:24,550 --> 00:04:27,910 S2: Oh, you're going to go to the forest preserves. You're 76 00:04:27,910 --> 00:04:31,830 S2: going to see a river running underneath a bridge. You're 77 00:04:31,830 --> 00:04:36,230 S2: going to be surrounded by shady trees, squirrels, birds chirping, 78 00:04:36,589 --> 00:04:41,909 S2: and you're going to be walking a trail around this 79 00:04:41,910 --> 00:04:42,910 S2: small lake. 80 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:45,950 S1: How did you find this place? 81 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:48,070 S2: I grew up in Park Forest. 82 00:04:48,230 --> 00:04:53,529 S1: Okay, that's a good reason. And but but here's the thing. 83 00:04:53,810 --> 00:04:57,490 S1: Sometimes when you live close to something really beautiful and 84 00:04:57,490 --> 00:05:01,010 S1: and vibrant and pretty like that, you take it for granted. 85 00:05:01,010 --> 00:05:03,290 S1: You don't you don't see, you don't hear the crickets 86 00:05:03,290 --> 00:05:05,969 S1: or the frogs croaking at night. And, and you just 87 00:05:05,970 --> 00:05:07,730 S1: kind of take it for granted. It sounds like you 88 00:05:07,730 --> 00:05:08,770 S1: haven't done that. 89 00:05:09,810 --> 00:05:12,969 S2: That is very true. When I lived in Southern California, 90 00:05:13,210 --> 00:05:15,770 S2: I could go to the beach every day if I wanted. 91 00:05:15,810 --> 00:05:18,969 S2: I probably went three times a year, so I totally. 92 00:05:19,970 --> 00:05:24,330 S1: Yeah, exactly. But there's something about when you started describing 93 00:05:24,330 --> 00:05:27,810 S1: that you saw the wildlife and the water and the 94 00:05:27,810 --> 00:05:32,810 S1: trail and all of that, something inside you came alive. Why? 95 00:05:33,050 --> 00:05:34,210 S1: Why did that happen? 96 00:05:35,050 --> 00:05:40,850 S2: I, it just takes me out of a stressful situation. 97 00:05:40,850 --> 00:05:45,450 S2: I know I can hit the trail anytime, and it 98 00:05:45,450 --> 00:05:51,070 S2: just takes me away from studying books and, um, Uh, cooking. 99 00:05:51,110 --> 00:05:56,789 S2: And it just takes me out of my normal everyday 100 00:05:56,790 --> 00:06:01,230 S2: routine and I get to hear God's creation. Yes. 101 00:06:01,470 --> 00:06:05,750 S1: So there is a sense of of peace, of rest, 102 00:06:05,990 --> 00:06:10,789 S1: of relaxation, something that is different, something that is real. 103 00:06:10,830 --> 00:06:13,590 S1: You know, I love these pictures that I'm seeing on Facebook, 104 00:06:13,589 --> 00:06:16,350 S1: but the pictures aren't the real thing. I can imagine 105 00:06:16,350 --> 00:06:18,910 S1: what it would feel like, you know, there. What's the 106 00:06:18,910 --> 00:06:21,630 S1: best time of year to go to the trails that 107 00:06:21,630 --> 00:06:24,110 S1: you're talking about right now? 108 00:06:24,310 --> 00:06:28,190 S2: It is 89 degrees. It doesn't feel like it, but 109 00:06:28,230 --> 00:06:32,469 S2: you go out on that trail and you would forget 110 00:06:32,470 --> 00:06:33,590 S2: that it's hot out. 111 00:06:33,710 --> 00:06:38,510 S1: Yeah. Ah! That's great. Oh, it's so exciting. Thank you 112 00:06:38,510 --> 00:06:41,070 S1: so much for calling here, Jane. God bless you, friend. 113 00:06:41,190 --> 00:06:45,469 S1: So here's as I went to Park Forest, Illinois. I 114 00:06:45,470 --> 00:06:47,750 S1: won't come to your house. I won't come to where 115 00:06:47,750 --> 00:06:50,960 S1: you live. I got a full tank of gas. I 116 00:06:50,960 --> 00:06:55,080 S1: can drive anywhere in the contiguous United States. In fact, 117 00:06:55,080 --> 00:06:57,880 S1: I can. I can even drive to Hawaii, if you 118 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:04,560 S1: want to call in my mind. Eight. 775483675. Tell me 119 00:07:04,560 --> 00:07:08,680 S1: about America, the beautiful 250 years the United States of 120 00:07:08,680 --> 00:07:12,280 S1: America is. It was around before then, of course, but 121 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:15,160 S1: we're looking for the beauty of the earth, the beauty 122 00:07:15,160 --> 00:07:19,440 S1: around you. Something you say here might help somebody else 123 00:07:19,440 --> 00:07:25,120 S1: to see the beauty around them. Eight. Seven. Seven. Five. Four. Eight. Three. Six. Seven. Five. 124 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:36,600 S1: I want you to invite me to your house. I'm 125 00:07:36,600 --> 00:07:40,560 S1: in Park Forest, Illinois. I'm driving west. I'm headed to Colorado. 126 00:07:40,920 --> 00:07:44,000 S1: And then I want to come to your where you live. 127 00:07:44,000 --> 00:07:47,860 S1: And I want you to tell me something beautiful about 128 00:07:47,860 --> 00:07:52,100 S1: where you live and explain that to me. I've got 129 00:07:52,140 --> 00:07:57,580 S1: several lines still open at eight, seven, 75483675. This is 130 00:07:57,580 --> 00:08:01,500 S1: going to be good. So now I'm I'm passing through Kansas. 131 00:08:01,540 --> 00:08:05,860 S1: I've into Colorado. I'm in Denver. Uh, Mark where do 132 00:08:05,860 --> 00:08:07,060 S1: you live in Colorado? 133 00:08:07,980 --> 00:08:10,220 S3: Paonia. South of Denver. 134 00:08:10,580 --> 00:08:13,739 S1: Okay. South of Denver. Okay, we turn south. I'm getting 135 00:08:13,740 --> 00:08:15,980 S1: close to Mark's house, and I want you to tell 136 00:08:15,980 --> 00:08:19,460 S1: me what's the beautiful thing. There's a lot of beautiful 137 00:08:19,460 --> 00:08:21,460 S1: things in Colorado. Where do you want to take me? 138 00:08:21,500 --> 00:08:22,460 S4: Oh, my goodness. 139 00:08:22,460 --> 00:08:27,100 S3: There sure is. Uh, the thing that I that struck 140 00:08:27,100 --> 00:08:31,340 S3: me and amazed me and I just was stunned. It 141 00:08:31,340 --> 00:08:34,180 S3: was the Black Canyon. Now I've seen the I've seen 142 00:08:34,179 --> 00:08:38,020 S3: the Grand Canyon. And that's great too. Uh, it's so wide, 143 00:08:38,020 --> 00:08:41,900 S3: but the, the Black Canyon is narrow. And you get 144 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:44,780 S3: to the edge and you look straight down the cliff. 145 00:08:44,820 --> 00:08:47,360 S3: It's like a. It goes right to the bottom and 146 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:50,200 S3: there's a river down at the bottom. And I was 147 00:08:50,200 --> 00:08:52,480 S3: just flabbergasted. 148 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:58,280 S1: I love that word. Oh, you used a really good word. Flabbergasted. 149 00:08:58,280 --> 00:09:01,440 S1: That's it. It takes your breath away. It's like, wow, 150 00:09:01,480 --> 00:09:04,920 S1: how in the world this is so it just it 151 00:09:04,960 --> 00:09:08,440 S1: it makes you. Does it make you feel small to 152 00:09:08,480 --> 00:09:10,600 S1: be on the edge and looking down? 153 00:09:12,120 --> 00:09:16,640 S3: Um, no, but it was exciting. I mean, you're looking 154 00:09:16,640 --> 00:09:19,640 S3: straight down. The cliffs are like right at your feet. 155 00:09:20,160 --> 00:09:20,640 S1: Yeah. 156 00:09:20,679 --> 00:09:26,160 S3: And you're there's a railing there, thank God, because. How 157 00:09:26,160 --> 00:09:29,480 S3: am I, I, it was I was just amazed at 158 00:09:29,920 --> 00:09:31,520 S3: what God has created. 159 00:09:31,840 --> 00:09:33,400 S1: So were you born in Colorado? 160 00:09:34,160 --> 00:09:37,760 S3: No, I was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, moved to New 161 00:09:37,800 --> 00:09:42,320 S3: York because I was had, um, a scholarship to Juilliard. 162 00:09:42,679 --> 00:09:46,820 S3: But then I lived in new Jersey, and then my sister, uh, 163 00:09:47,900 --> 00:09:51,340 S3: my wife died. And then, uh, my sister invited, you know, 164 00:09:51,380 --> 00:09:54,700 S3: I wanted to be near family. And so my sister 165 00:09:54,700 --> 00:10:01,260 S3: is in, um, Paonia, Colorado. So she, you know, I'm 166 00:10:01,260 --> 00:10:04,660 S3: renting a place from her in this beautiful area. I 167 00:10:04,700 --> 00:10:08,300 S3: just love the mountains and the rivers and the wildlife. 168 00:10:09,740 --> 00:10:12,540 S1: Does something to the inside. Okay. So what did you 169 00:10:12,580 --> 00:10:15,740 S1: what did you study in Julliard? Did you. What instrument. 170 00:10:15,780 --> 00:10:16,220 S4: I studied. 171 00:10:16,260 --> 00:10:18,980 S3: I was studying dance, uh, modern and ballet. 172 00:10:19,220 --> 00:10:19,700 S1: Really? 173 00:10:19,740 --> 00:10:23,860 S3: And I, yeah, and I did, uh, I did a 174 00:10:23,860 --> 00:10:26,700 S3: tour with the Jose Limon Dance Company, which is a 175 00:10:26,700 --> 00:10:31,340 S3: modern company. But then I got saved and all that went. 176 00:10:31,780 --> 00:10:33,940 S3: I didn't want to do that anymore. 177 00:10:34,420 --> 00:10:34,900 S1: Really? 178 00:10:34,940 --> 00:10:39,780 S3: Uh, I finished, I finished Juilliard four years, and then 179 00:10:39,780 --> 00:10:43,000 S3: I just wanted to serve the Lord. I went to 180 00:10:43,240 --> 00:10:44,600 S3: every service I could. 181 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:49,840 S1: But I bet there comes a moment when you're walking 182 00:10:49,840 --> 00:10:53,720 S1: down the street and you in the streets of Denver 183 00:10:53,760 --> 00:10:57,079 S1: or wherever it is, and you start to have a 184 00:10:57,080 --> 00:10:59,079 S1: skip in your step. And you remember some of those 185 00:10:59,080 --> 00:11:02,120 S1: steps you did long ago. AM I right? 186 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:04,079 S4: Yeah. Yeah. 187 00:11:05,960 --> 00:11:09,200 S1: That is great, Mark. I'm glad to know you. From 188 00:11:09,200 --> 00:11:14,120 S1: Oklahoma to New York and now all the way to Colorado. 189 00:11:14,679 --> 00:11:17,400 S1: I was just spending a little time with you here 190 00:11:17,400 --> 00:11:20,800 S1: today at the back fence. There's Mark in Colorado. Now 191 00:11:20,800 --> 00:11:24,080 S1: let's see. Uh, going back to Illinois. I should have 192 00:11:24,080 --> 00:11:26,320 S1: gone to Cheryl's house before I went out to Colorado. 193 00:11:26,360 --> 00:11:29,079 S1: It'd take less time and less. Less gas. But you 194 00:11:29,080 --> 00:11:32,319 S1: know what? This is the theater of the mind. Cheryl. 195 00:11:32,360 --> 00:11:35,080 S1: You are in Winchester, Illinois. Where's that? 196 00:11:36,200 --> 00:11:38,959 S5: That is south of Springfield. 197 00:11:39,280 --> 00:11:40,449 S1: Oh, okay. Yeah. 198 00:11:40,929 --> 00:11:45,209 S5: Okay. And Jacksonville is near us. And and yeah, I 199 00:11:45,250 --> 00:11:47,530 S5: we live in the Winchester Whitehall area. 200 00:11:47,770 --> 00:11:50,770 S1: Okay. And where if I'm coming to your house and 201 00:11:50,770 --> 00:11:53,450 S1: I am. I'm just driving up the driveway. Now, where 202 00:11:53,450 --> 00:11:54,370 S1: do you want to take me? 203 00:11:55,530 --> 00:11:59,410 S5: Okay, we're going to, um, my husband and I bought 204 00:11:59,410 --> 00:12:05,570 S5: our home and this land back in 1978. I'm soon 205 00:12:05,570 --> 00:12:09,890 S5: going to be 78 years old, so I don't walk 206 00:12:09,890 --> 00:12:12,890 S5: like I used to. But here's what I used to do. 207 00:12:12,890 --> 00:12:15,290 S5: I would go out the front door. I would go 208 00:12:15,290 --> 00:12:18,570 S5: up the road to the highway, and then I would 209 00:12:18,570 --> 00:12:21,850 S5: turn right and go across a levee, which was part 210 00:12:21,850 --> 00:12:24,890 S5: of our land. And I would walk until I came 211 00:12:24,890 --> 00:12:28,050 S5: to a creek. And then I would walk up the 212 00:12:28,050 --> 00:12:32,570 S5: side of the creek and, and go up a hill. 213 00:12:32,570 --> 00:12:35,330 S5: And we have 80 some acres of land over there. 214 00:12:36,170 --> 00:12:38,949 S5: So I would walk through the trees. I would walk 215 00:12:38,950 --> 00:12:43,150 S5: through the edges of the field. I had a prayer 216 00:12:43,190 --> 00:12:47,510 S5: stump where I would stop and sit and pray, and 217 00:12:47,510 --> 00:12:52,750 S5: it was just a beautiful experience for me. And then when, uh, 218 00:12:52,750 --> 00:12:56,470 S5: we started having grandchildren, we started having Mimi Papa Camp, 219 00:12:56,870 --> 00:12:59,270 S5: and we would take the children down to the creek 220 00:12:59,270 --> 00:13:03,150 S5: to hunt for geodes. And they loved getting on the 221 00:13:03,150 --> 00:13:06,790 S5: four Wheeler and going across the creek. It has been 222 00:13:06,790 --> 00:13:10,270 S5: a joy to our family to just be able to 223 00:13:10,309 --> 00:13:13,710 S5: get out in the timber. And you never know. I 224 00:13:13,710 --> 00:13:16,270 S5: was walking through the timber one day and two huge 225 00:13:16,270 --> 00:13:21,910 S5: turkeys came down to visit. And so you've got experience 226 00:13:21,910 --> 00:13:26,910 S5: after experience besides the exercise and and just the beauty 227 00:13:27,110 --> 00:13:28,190 S5: all around you. 228 00:13:28,550 --> 00:13:32,189 S1: Okay, so two questions. Geode. What is a geode? For 229 00:13:32,190 --> 00:13:33,150 S1: those who don't know. 230 00:13:34,309 --> 00:13:38,250 S5: Well, it's it's a hard rock that when you bring 231 00:13:38,290 --> 00:13:40,490 S5: it good size and when you bring it back to 232 00:13:40,490 --> 00:13:42,730 S5: the house, you chip away at it. You find these 233 00:13:42,730 --> 00:13:46,770 S5: little gems and different colors in it, and then they 234 00:13:46,770 --> 00:13:50,490 S5: can be part of your garden, at your home. Or 235 00:13:50,929 --> 00:13:53,370 S5: some of the children, uh, took them home to put 236 00:13:53,370 --> 00:13:58,090 S5: in their bedrooms. You know, it was just, it was 237 00:13:58,090 --> 00:13:59,250 S5: just such fun. 238 00:13:59,530 --> 00:14:01,809 S1: So much better than lightning bugs as a kid, we 239 00:14:01,809 --> 00:14:03,890 S1: get the ball jar out and put, you know, punch 240 00:14:03,890 --> 00:14:06,010 S1: the holes in the top of it, get the lightning bugs. 241 00:14:06,210 --> 00:14:10,130 S1: But is that, you know, oxygen and, and sleep deprivation 242 00:14:10,130 --> 00:14:12,689 S1: or whatever did them in. So the g I like 243 00:14:12,730 --> 00:14:15,490 S1: Gio is better the levy though. I know what a 244 00:14:15,530 --> 00:14:18,090 S1: levy you bring. You drive the Chevy to the levee. 245 00:14:18,290 --> 00:14:22,730 S1: But the levee was this a man made levee that 246 00:14:22,730 --> 00:14:23,890 S1: you walked across. 247 00:14:24,850 --> 00:14:28,210 S5: Well it wasn't it wasn't huge. But yes, it was 248 00:14:28,210 --> 00:14:31,650 S5: a man made levee. That was between the field and 249 00:14:31,650 --> 00:14:32,450 S5: the highway. 250 00:14:33,010 --> 00:14:33,490 S1: Okay. 251 00:14:33,570 --> 00:14:36,990 S5: And my husband used to keep it mowed, and we've 252 00:14:36,990 --> 00:14:39,830 S5: sold that land down there now a portion of it, 253 00:14:39,830 --> 00:14:42,190 S5: and it's not mold. So I couldn't get through it 254 00:14:42,190 --> 00:14:45,110 S5: if I tried. But it was it was just a 255 00:14:45,110 --> 00:14:48,190 S5: good path to have because I'd just be walking along 256 00:14:48,190 --> 00:14:50,790 S5: and I knew where I was going. And I looked 257 00:14:50,790 --> 00:14:54,510 S5: forward to that prayer stump. I looked forward to whatever 258 00:14:54,510 --> 00:14:57,830 S5: I saw because there was beauty all around me. 259 00:14:58,150 --> 00:15:00,990 S1: That's the second time you mentioned this prayer stump. There 260 00:15:00,990 --> 00:15:04,470 S1: must be. That is really special. It's a holy place 261 00:15:04,470 --> 00:15:07,430 S1: for you. And my guess is there were some things 262 00:15:07,430 --> 00:15:10,550 S1: that were going on in your life that you kind 263 00:15:10,590 --> 00:15:15,390 S1: of poured out at that prayer stump of long ago, 264 00:15:15,390 --> 00:15:17,750 S1: and maybe not that long ago. Is that true? 265 00:15:18,670 --> 00:15:22,790 S5: That's so true. We have four children. They're all married. 266 00:15:23,070 --> 00:15:28,910 S5: We have 14 grandchildren, and we have 13, I'm sorry, 267 00:15:28,910 --> 00:15:32,670 S5: the other way around. 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren. 268 00:15:32,830 --> 00:15:33,110 S6: Wow. 269 00:15:33,160 --> 00:15:36,360 S5: So this this grandma's got a list. I tell. 270 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:36,680 S6: You. 271 00:15:38,000 --> 00:15:40,280 S1: Hey, you can spend a whole week at that prayer 272 00:15:40,280 --> 00:15:42,880 S1: stump and not run out of material, that's for sure. 273 00:15:42,920 --> 00:15:46,680 S5: Oh, absolutely. And since I've gotten older, we have some 274 00:15:46,720 --> 00:15:49,160 S5: timber to the right of our house that is up 275 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:53,560 S5: level with our house. And there's a prayer stump there. Well, actually, 276 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,800 S5: one of our sons made me a bench. 277 00:15:56,120 --> 00:15:57,640 S6: Did he? And, uh. 278 00:15:57,880 --> 00:15:59,160 S5: Uh huh. Yeah. 279 00:15:59,600 --> 00:16:02,960 S1: Well, okay, so I was talking with John Kessler yesterday, 280 00:16:02,960 --> 00:16:05,960 S1: and he's turning 73, and here you are at 78. 281 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:09,280 S1: And he he was talking about the struggle inside of, 282 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:14,200 S1: you know, not feeling like he's kind of invisible, that 283 00:16:14,240 --> 00:16:18,120 S1: his life, the whole purpose and the whole idea of 284 00:16:18,120 --> 00:16:21,880 S1: life and retirement. And these years, you know, he's struggling 285 00:16:21,880 --> 00:16:23,920 S1: with that. And I was just really glad that he 286 00:16:23,920 --> 00:16:26,920 S1: was honest with us. Do you feel any of that? 287 00:16:26,960 --> 00:16:29,960 S1: It sounds like you have a lot of verve. Vim, vigor. 288 00:16:31,500 --> 00:16:37,860 S5: Well, I. I have had such a blessed life. Uh, 289 00:16:37,860 --> 00:16:42,180 S5: Chris and I have so much to be grateful for. Um, 290 00:16:43,220 --> 00:16:46,100 S5: the Lord has saved me from, uh, a lot that 291 00:16:46,100 --> 00:16:49,540 S5: could have been. And put me on another path. And 292 00:16:49,540 --> 00:16:55,020 S5: I cannot be any more grateful than I am. You know, 293 00:16:55,060 --> 00:17:00,820 S5: there's just such Thanksgiving in me that, um, it hasn't 294 00:17:00,820 --> 00:17:05,180 S5: hit me yet. You know, if I'm gonna start dreading anything, 295 00:17:05,180 --> 00:17:10,340 S5: but I, I don't know, I just am. I'm very blessed. 296 00:17:10,340 --> 00:17:14,100 S5: I'm just so blessed because I wasn't raised under the 297 00:17:14,100 --> 00:17:20,060 S5: best situation. And the Lord said, come on, girl, let's go. 298 00:17:20,460 --> 00:17:25,340 S5: And it's just been, uh, a journey that I, I 299 00:17:25,500 --> 00:17:26,780 S5: can't thank him enough. 300 00:17:27,460 --> 00:17:30,359 S1: Somebody needed to hear that today. Cheryl, I'm so glad 301 00:17:30,359 --> 00:17:34,560 S1: that I pointed my car toward Winchester. And what you 302 00:17:34,560 --> 00:17:38,040 S1: just said, you gave me an idea and we could 303 00:17:38,040 --> 00:17:40,440 S1: keep talking with you about it. You said, the Lord 304 00:17:40,440 --> 00:17:44,240 S1: save me from a lot that could have been. And 305 00:17:44,240 --> 00:17:48,760 S1: I want I just want to process that and choices 306 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:52,680 S1: that you made that, you know, mistakes that you made 307 00:17:52,680 --> 00:17:56,960 S1: and what happened and what could have happened or choices 308 00:17:56,960 --> 00:18:00,720 S1: that you didn't make and you kept were kept from 309 00:18:00,720 --> 00:18:05,600 S1: them a lot that could have been, but isn't. And 310 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:06,840 S1: you're grateful for that. 311 00:18:07,680 --> 00:18:08,800 S5: Thank you for. 312 00:18:08,800 --> 00:18:10,960 S1: Sharing your prayer stump with us today. 313 00:18:11,880 --> 00:18:14,800 S5: Oh thank you. Thank you for your program. 314 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:19,159 S1: God bless you, friend. There's Cheryl in Winchester, Illinois, taking 315 00:18:19,160 --> 00:18:22,360 S1: a road trip today. We've, uh, we've been a couple 316 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:25,120 S1: of times to Illinois. We've gone to Colorado. It's time 317 00:18:25,119 --> 00:18:31,820 S1: to go to Florida. And, uh, I mentioned. I just 318 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:37,540 S1: want to say Kissimmee and it's not. Say it again. Kissimmee. Kissimmee. Yeah, Kissimmee. 319 00:18:37,580 --> 00:18:39,979 S1: But Rosemary is in Fort Myers has nothing to do 320 00:18:39,980 --> 00:18:43,140 S1: with Kissimmee. Hey, Rosemary, how are you today? 321 00:18:43,820 --> 00:18:48,180 S7: Hey, Chris. I am really good today. Thank you for asking. Oh, 322 00:18:48,260 --> 00:18:50,100 S7: I enjoy your show so much. 323 00:18:50,500 --> 00:18:54,100 S1: Ah, well, aren't you kind? I'm glad you're here. What 324 00:18:54,140 --> 00:18:56,060 S1: brought you to Fort Myers? How long have you lived 325 00:18:56,060 --> 00:18:57,020 S1: in Fort Myers? 326 00:18:57,420 --> 00:19:01,740 S7: I've been in Fort Myers for since 2010, and it's 327 00:19:01,740 --> 00:19:03,419 S7: my early retirement. 328 00:19:03,940 --> 00:19:06,100 S1: Well, good for you. Do you like Fort Myers? 329 00:19:06,820 --> 00:19:10,060 S7: Oh, my gosh, I love it. And I love the sunshine. 330 00:19:10,060 --> 00:19:13,580 S7: I love the city. Um, it's getting a little bit busy. 331 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:16,740 S7: I'm on the Gulf. I'm on the Gulf side. So 332 00:19:16,740 --> 00:19:20,420 S7: I came down here for more quiet than we actually 333 00:19:20,420 --> 00:19:23,380 S7: have now, but it seems to be building up. But 334 00:19:23,380 --> 00:19:25,220 S7: that's all right. We build with it. 335 00:19:25,380 --> 00:19:28,560 S1: Yeah. There you go. You got to deal with change. 336 00:19:28,600 --> 00:19:31,480 S1: You got a lot of change going on. Yeah, absolutely. Okay. 337 00:19:31,520 --> 00:19:34,720 S1: So where I'm pointing my car, I'm pulling up to 338 00:19:34,760 --> 00:19:37,800 S1: your driveway there. The parking lot. Where do you want 339 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:38,359 S1: to take me? 340 00:19:38,760 --> 00:19:43,320 S7: Oh, back it out crispy because we're going to Sanibel Island. 341 00:19:44,960 --> 00:19:47,320 S1: I got it in reverse. Now I got it. We're 342 00:19:47,320 --> 00:19:49,840 S1: going to Sanibel. Okay. How far away is that from 343 00:19:49,840 --> 00:19:50,600 S1: Fort Myers? 344 00:19:51,040 --> 00:19:55,040 S7: It's about seven miles. But we'll go over a bridge 345 00:19:55,040 --> 00:19:58,679 S7: that will transform you as you're going over that bridge. 346 00:19:58,680 --> 00:20:02,640 S7: You have water on both sides, naturally. Um, very often 347 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:07,159 S7: you'll see dolphins jumping and it will just transform you 348 00:20:07,320 --> 00:20:10,480 S7: to another world when you get on the other side 349 00:20:10,480 --> 00:20:14,399 S7: of that bridge. Absolutely. And listen, you have to come 350 00:20:14,400 --> 00:20:18,560 S7: with me because my it's just my husband and myself, 351 00:20:18,720 --> 00:20:22,679 S7: and he doesn't like the beach. And I don't want 352 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:26,050 S7: to be there alone. So you have to come with me. 353 00:20:26,330 --> 00:20:27,210 S7: There's no choice. 354 00:20:27,250 --> 00:20:28,970 S1: So what are we going to take? Are you going to. 355 00:20:29,010 --> 00:20:31,090 S1: Are you going to bring a picnic lunch or do 356 00:20:31,090 --> 00:20:32,530 S1: I need to bring that with me? 357 00:20:33,650 --> 00:20:38,330 S7: Well, yeah, we can do picnic. That's probably the best picnic. 358 00:20:38,609 --> 00:20:41,689 S7: I'll pack it. Just like my mama used to. But 359 00:20:41,690 --> 00:20:44,930 S7: that that would be the best. But. Oh, we'll we'll 360 00:20:44,930 --> 00:20:47,929 S7: pick up shells. It's a beach that has so many 361 00:20:47,930 --> 00:20:50,770 S7: shells on it that you can't take a step or 362 00:20:50,770 --> 00:20:54,530 S7: two without collecting something. And that that part of it 363 00:20:54,530 --> 00:20:56,490 S7: is wonderful. Wonderful. 364 00:20:57,369 --> 00:21:00,130 S1: Where did you grow up, Rosemary? 365 00:21:00,530 --> 00:21:02,010 S7: I grew up in Boston. 366 00:21:02,170 --> 00:21:06,129 S1: Boston? Of course you did. Yeah, I heard that leaking through. 367 00:21:06,130 --> 00:21:10,050 S1: I heard fast and leaking through there. Okay. So so 368 00:21:10,210 --> 00:21:13,770 S1: so did you know that Sanibel Island was this transformational 369 00:21:13,770 --> 00:21:15,570 S1: place when you moved to Fort Myers? 370 00:21:15,930 --> 00:21:19,810 S7: I did not, I did not I hadn't been there before. 371 00:21:19,810 --> 00:21:23,070 S7: I had only been on the east coast of Florida, 372 00:21:23,550 --> 00:21:28,470 S7: and I took an early retirement and I had well, 373 00:21:28,470 --> 00:21:30,510 S7: I had a time in my life when I made 374 00:21:30,510 --> 00:21:33,910 S7: some pretty bad choices. And like I said, I was 375 00:21:33,910 --> 00:21:38,230 S7: alone and I divorced, and I picked myself up and 376 00:21:38,230 --> 00:21:42,310 S7: I said, I need to take my retirement now, um, 377 00:21:42,350 --> 00:21:45,350 S7: because I need a new life. And I came down 378 00:21:45,350 --> 00:21:49,830 S7: to here to Florida, but, uh, not getting knowing that 379 00:21:49,830 --> 00:21:54,109 S7: I couldn't have a new life by myself. Um, I 380 00:21:54,109 --> 00:22:00,390 S7: became a Christian through a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful Alzheimer patient 381 00:22:00,390 --> 00:22:03,630 S7: that I was taking care of him and instead he 382 00:22:03,630 --> 00:22:04,629 S7: took care of me. 383 00:22:05,030 --> 00:22:05,430 S2: Wow. 384 00:22:06,030 --> 00:22:09,189 S1: Um, that's a story I got to call a time out. 385 00:22:09,470 --> 00:22:12,389 S1: I've heard about the prayer stump. And then you were. 386 00:22:12,550 --> 00:22:17,230 S1: You were ministering to an Alzheimer's patient, meaning, uh, like 387 00:22:17,270 --> 00:22:18,990 S1: in home care type of thing. 388 00:22:19,430 --> 00:22:22,889 S7: In home care. So we had nothing to do but 389 00:22:22,890 --> 00:22:25,889 S7: talk to each other while he was able to talk. 390 00:22:26,330 --> 00:22:31,209 S7: And several key things he said to me. But Chris, um, 391 00:22:31,490 --> 00:22:35,129 S7: he used to say to me, Jesus loves you. And 392 00:22:35,130 --> 00:22:38,330 S7: I would say to him, Barry, I don't even think 393 00:22:38,330 --> 00:22:41,889 S7: Jesus knows who I am anymore. And he'd say, yes, 394 00:22:41,890 --> 00:22:45,129 S7: he does, and he loves you. But he used to 395 00:22:45,170 --> 00:22:50,330 S7: go on a six mile walk every single day, and 396 00:22:50,330 --> 00:22:53,770 S7: he would come home and say, I talked to Jesus 397 00:22:53,770 --> 00:22:59,370 S7: about you. Uh, and I, I, I, I'm, I'm ashamed 398 00:22:59,369 --> 00:23:03,730 S7: to say, I mockingly said to him, really? And does 399 00:23:03,730 --> 00:23:05,290 S7: Jesus talk back to you? 400 00:23:05,770 --> 00:23:06,129 S1: MM. 401 00:23:06,250 --> 00:23:08,690 S7: And he just looked at me, Chris, and he said, 402 00:23:08,690 --> 00:23:12,969 S7: he keeps telling me, don't give up on her. Don't 403 00:23:12,970 --> 00:23:16,610 S7: give up on her. And it was just, it just 404 00:23:16,609 --> 00:23:21,310 S7: has been so, so, so, so wonderful. And he sends 405 00:23:21,310 --> 00:23:24,790 S7: his past. And I told him all along that he 406 00:23:24,790 --> 00:23:28,270 S7: walked me to Christ and that I would walk him 407 00:23:28,270 --> 00:23:32,030 S7: back to Christ one day. And I was fortunate enough 408 00:23:32,030 --> 00:23:35,190 S7: to sit by his bedside and hold his hand and 409 00:23:35,190 --> 00:23:38,190 S7: walk him right back to Christ, just the way he 410 00:23:38,190 --> 00:23:41,990 S7: walked me to him. It's been wonderful. It's been wonderful. 411 00:23:42,830 --> 00:23:45,790 S7: And none of that could have happened if I didn't 412 00:23:45,790 --> 00:23:46,830 S7: come down here. 413 00:23:48,950 --> 00:23:52,669 S1: And the transformation that you talked about, you're talking about 414 00:23:52,670 --> 00:23:57,670 S1: Sanibel Island and. But your life has been a transformation 415 00:23:57,869 --> 00:24:02,270 S1: because of of what Barry did. It's almost like Barry 416 00:24:02,630 --> 00:24:07,230 S1: softened your heart toward the truth about God and his 417 00:24:07,230 --> 00:24:10,830 S1: love and and his mercy and his grace. Is that right? 418 00:24:10,910 --> 00:24:16,510 S7: Absolutely, absolutely. And I would walk through my house. I 419 00:24:16,510 --> 00:24:21,359 S7: was a Catholic believer at the time, um, but not practicing. 420 00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,560 S7: And I would walk through my house and say, Jesus, 421 00:24:24,560 --> 00:24:28,040 S7: I must know you're there because I'm talking to you. 422 00:24:28,920 --> 00:24:31,920 S7: So in my heart of heart, I have to know 423 00:24:31,920 --> 00:24:34,280 S7: that you're here. I have to know that you're listening 424 00:24:34,320 --> 00:24:38,639 S7: to me because I'm talking to you. But that that 425 00:24:38,640 --> 00:24:43,040 S7: coming down. I mean, in getting back onto the Sanibel 426 00:24:43,080 --> 00:24:48,200 S7: beach I had joined, um, with, with taking care of Barry, 427 00:24:48,240 --> 00:24:53,280 S7: I had joined a celebrate recovery person, um, uh, group 428 00:24:53,480 --> 00:24:59,639 S7: celebrate recovery program. And my sponsor came from Sanibel Island. 429 00:24:59,920 --> 00:25:02,639 S7: So that's how I got introduced to it. So it's 430 00:25:02,640 --> 00:25:08,800 S7: been nothing, nothing, nothing but wonderful memories going over that bridge. Um, 431 00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:12,960 S7: to Sanibel. It has been such a transformation for me 432 00:25:13,000 --> 00:25:15,699 S7: with my, with my sponsor and with the play. place. 433 00:25:15,740 --> 00:25:18,580 S7: It's a magical place. It's magical. 434 00:25:18,859 --> 00:25:21,900 S1: You know what? I'm glad. Rosemary. I'm glad that you 435 00:25:21,940 --> 00:25:24,820 S1: are honest with us about what you said to him 436 00:25:24,820 --> 00:25:27,300 S1: when he said, I'm very sad. I'm talking to Jesus 437 00:25:27,300 --> 00:25:31,020 S1: and how you're kind of cutting, biting the response because 438 00:25:31,020 --> 00:25:34,619 S1: there may be somebody who's listening today who's saying the 439 00:25:34,619 --> 00:25:37,300 S1: same thing. And I don't think God talks to you. 440 00:25:37,300 --> 00:25:39,380 S1: You could go ahead and talk to him. Does he 441 00:25:39,380 --> 00:25:44,420 S1: really talk to you? Does he really care about me? 442 00:25:44,940 --> 00:25:48,220 S1: And the answer to that is yes. And I'm glad 443 00:25:48,220 --> 00:25:51,060 S1: that you were able to share your story. Rosemary. God 444 00:25:51,060 --> 00:25:54,300 S1: bless you, friend. This is Chris Fabry live on Moody Radio. 445 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:55,460 S1: More straight ahead. 446 00:26:04,420 --> 00:26:05,459 S8: So here's the premise. 447 00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:07,419 S1: For the program today, and there's still time for you 448 00:26:07,420 --> 00:26:10,340 S1: to get in. We've got about 20 minutes left here, 449 00:26:10,820 --> 00:26:13,219 S1: and the premise is I've got a full tank of 450 00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:16,959 S1: gas Or we could go with Ryan. Ryan and I 451 00:26:16,960 --> 00:26:19,440 S1: could go in his electric car. We got enough electricity 452 00:26:19,440 --> 00:26:21,600 S1: to get from where we are to where you are. 453 00:26:22,560 --> 00:26:25,320 S1: If we were to drive over there and pull up 454 00:26:25,320 --> 00:26:29,640 S1: in your driveway, where would you take us? Near you. 455 00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:34,879 S1: That shows America the beautiful for the beauty of the earth. 456 00:26:34,880 --> 00:26:38,800 S1: What would you want to show us? And I was 457 00:26:38,800 --> 00:26:43,320 S1: thinking about this. People came from miles around the States, 458 00:26:43,320 --> 00:26:46,440 S1: away to our little town where I grew up in 459 00:26:46,440 --> 00:26:52,320 S1: West Virginia, because there was this famous glass blowing place 460 00:26:52,359 --> 00:26:55,920 S1: near us. There's a few miles away. Blanco. Anybody ever 461 00:26:55,920 --> 00:27:00,280 S1: heard of Blanco Glass? I grew up with Blanco glass 462 00:27:00,560 --> 00:27:03,840 S1: right in the backyard, and I had no idea. And 463 00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,600 S1: I see people all over the country who say, oh yeah, 464 00:27:06,600 --> 00:27:09,359 S1: we've got this and that. And the other thing from 465 00:27:09,359 --> 00:27:12,980 S1: Blanco Glass. And that's not, you know, it's a it's 466 00:27:13,020 --> 00:27:15,300 S1: a business and the glass blowing and you can watch 467 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:19,419 S1: them do that. So that's, that might be I'd probably 468 00:27:19,420 --> 00:27:22,020 S1: take you to the, the covered bridge over the mud 469 00:27:22,020 --> 00:27:25,740 S1: River because that had a big impact on my life. 470 00:27:26,060 --> 00:27:29,620 S1: Larry says, I grew up near here and he has 471 00:27:29,619 --> 00:27:33,419 S1: a picture of it. My mom's family came in 1885. 472 00:27:33,460 --> 00:27:36,140 S1: I lived on some of the original property from my 473 00:27:36,420 --> 00:27:39,440 S1: from my birth to around 23. I live about 20 474 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:45,820 S1: minutes away. It's near Sedona, Arizona and he has a 475 00:27:45,820 --> 00:27:54,460 S1: family photo. This is. This is amazing. From around 1891 of. 476 00:27:54,580 --> 00:27:56,260 S1: So go to our Facebook page if you want to 477 00:27:56,260 --> 00:28:00,139 S1: see what that's all about from Larry. But call me. 478 00:28:00,140 --> 00:28:06,340 S1: Tell me, where do you want to take me? (877) 548-3675. 479 00:28:06,700 --> 00:28:11,360 S1: Let's talk with Tenley in Naples, Florida. I've been to Naples. 480 00:28:11,520 --> 00:28:14,160 S1: That's the place where they have the little gnats, the 481 00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:18,120 S1: noseeums that come out in the evening. Right, Henley? 482 00:28:18,160 --> 00:28:18,760 S4: Oh, yeah. 483 00:28:19,080 --> 00:28:21,920 S9: Oh, yeah, they do. And you don't see them, but 484 00:28:21,920 --> 00:28:25,640 S9: they can wreak havoc on you. I would not want 485 00:28:25,640 --> 00:28:27,240 S9: to show you those, Chris. 486 00:28:28,000 --> 00:28:30,480 S1: Well, we'll we'll go in a different time of the 487 00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,080 S1: day before they come out. Right. 488 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,160 S9: Right. 489 00:28:34,960 --> 00:28:35,919 S1: Where do you want to take you? 490 00:28:35,960 --> 00:28:38,600 S9: Came here. I want to take you. I want to 491 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:42,040 S9: take you down to the city of Naples, which is 492 00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:45,080 S9: very interesting. A lot of wealth there. But that's not 493 00:28:45,080 --> 00:28:49,200 S9: the beauty part. There's a warehouse that used to be 494 00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,000 S9: a fishery warehouse, and they've turned it into a little 495 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,880 S9: place called Ten City. And lots of cute little shops 496 00:28:55,880 --> 00:28:59,000 S9: in there. And one Christian shop that I just love 497 00:28:59,000 --> 00:29:01,840 S9: to go to. But then they have what they call 498 00:29:01,880 --> 00:29:06,440 S9: pure Naples, and it is a little, um, cruise that 499 00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,410 S9: takes you out in, uh, through the bay and shows 500 00:29:09,410 --> 00:29:12,370 S9: you a lot of wealthy people's homes, but then they 501 00:29:12,370 --> 00:29:14,490 S9: take you right out to the edge of the Gulf, 502 00:29:14,970 --> 00:29:18,730 S9: and you sit there and watch the sunset. And there 503 00:29:18,730 --> 00:29:20,970 S9: hasn't been a time that I have not been out there, 504 00:29:21,010 --> 00:29:25,050 S9: that dolphins haven't followed the boat, you know, in the wake. 505 00:29:25,050 --> 00:29:29,530 S9: And it's just so beautiful. Um, and then I always 506 00:29:29,530 --> 00:29:32,690 S9: take people, I always take them to the Everglades because 507 00:29:32,690 --> 00:29:36,770 S9: that is just if you've never seen the Everglades, it's 508 00:29:36,770 --> 00:29:41,170 S9: it's amazing. It's flat land. It looks like tall grass, 509 00:29:41,370 --> 00:29:44,370 S9: but it's not, it's water. And you can get on 510 00:29:44,370 --> 00:29:50,290 S9: airboats and go through the mango, uh, mangrove tunnels, like 511 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:54,330 S9: there's trees growing that kind of make tunnels. And they 512 00:29:54,330 --> 00:29:56,290 S9: take you on these airboats and you see all kinds 513 00:29:56,290 --> 00:30:02,490 S9: of wildlife, um, alligators particularly. Um, but it's yeah, it's 514 00:30:02,490 --> 00:30:08,630 S9: just you could possibly see a bear or um, a cougar, um, 515 00:30:09,390 --> 00:30:13,030 S9: you know, a panther, I should say. Um, but those 516 00:30:13,030 --> 00:30:16,190 S9: aren't as readily available, but they're here. They're a lot 517 00:30:16,190 --> 00:30:18,710 S9: of people do see them. Not so much me but 518 00:30:18,750 --> 00:30:21,830 S9: the beaches are just beautiful too. It's just white sand, 519 00:30:21,830 --> 00:30:25,830 S9: gorgeous beaches. And the water is clear. Um, you can 520 00:30:25,830 --> 00:30:28,670 S9: see down, you know, to your feet sometimes. Not always, 521 00:30:28,670 --> 00:30:31,990 S9: but a lot of times. And it's just a very 522 00:30:31,990 --> 00:30:36,750 S9: beautiful area. Okay, tell me all year, I love it. 523 00:30:36,790 --> 00:30:39,270 S1: I want you to tell me what happens then when 524 00:30:39,270 --> 00:30:41,430 S1: you go out there and the dolphins are swimming and 525 00:30:41,430 --> 00:30:44,110 S1: the sun goes down because we here in Arizona, we 526 00:30:44,110 --> 00:30:48,510 S1: have just gorgeous sunsets. It's an every day. It's like 527 00:30:48,510 --> 00:30:51,830 S1: how in the world and the creativity of God and 528 00:30:51,830 --> 00:30:54,350 S1: all of the colors that you see, you know that 529 00:30:54,390 --> 00:30:56,910 S1: coming through. But I want you to tell me what 530 00:30:56,910 --> 00:30:59,790 S1: happens when you're on that boat and you see that water, 531 00:30:59,790 --> 00:31:03,430 S1: and then you see the sun sinking down there, what 532 00:31:03,470 --> 00:31:06,170 S1: goes on inside of you and you see that. 533 00:31:08,090 --> 00:31:13,970 S9: It's actually pretty amazing. You're sitting out there and it 534 00:31:13,970 --> 00:31:17,370 S9: goes it goes fast. It really does. Everybody tries to 535 00:31:17,370 --> 00:31:20,330 S9: look for the green flash, which I've never seen, but 536 00:31:20,330 --> 00:31:23,930 S9: they tell me it's a real thing. Um, but you 537 00:31:23,930 --> 00:31:27,010 S9: just see water and it's just as flat as it 538 00:31:27,010 --> 00:31:29,410 S9: can be. You know, it's as far as your eye 539 00:31:29,450 --> 00:31:33,250 S9: can see. And then the horizon and you on a 540 00:31:33,250 --> 00:31:35,489 S9: clear day when the sun is setting, you know, it 541 00:31:35,490 --> 00:31:38,210 S9: goes from bright yellow and then it dips down and 542 00:31:38,210 --> 00:31:42,250 S9: goes orange. And then a little further down it's red 543 00:31:42,650 --> 00:31:45,610 S9: and then a deep red. You know, as it sinks 544 00:31:45,610 --> 00:31:51,050 S9: below the horizon. But once it starts sinking below the horizon, 545 00:31:51,890 --> 00:31:56,090 S9: that goes really fast. It's like, whoa. You didn't you know, 546 00:31:56,130 --> 00:31:57,810 S9: it takes a long time for the sun to move 547 00:31:57,810 --> 00:32:01,770 S9: through the sky, but when you see it setting, it 548 00:32:01,770 --> 00:32:02,850 S9: goes very fast. 549 00:32:02,890 --> 00:32:03,410 S4: Yes. 550 00:32:03,750 --> 00:32:07,229 S1: I've had the same thing happen. There's a mountain near us. 551 00:32:07,630 --> 00:32:11,030 S1: And when the moon. About this time of year. It 552 00:32:11,030 --> 00:32:14,150 S1: happened a couple of weeks ago. When the moon comes 553 00:32:14,150 --> 00:32:18,510 S1: up over this mountain, it is just this huge thing 554 00:32:18,510 --> 00:32:21,670 S1: because it's right near the horizon. I know there's some 555 00:32:21,670 --> 00:32:26,830 S1: scientific explanation for that, but it's just huge. And then 556 00:32:27,150 --> 00:32:30,830 S1: two minutes later, it's not, you know, it rises up 557 00:32:30,830 --> 00:32:33,270 S1: and it becomes the normal size that it is. But 558 00:32:33,270 --> 00:32:35,670 S1: when it's right there, it's like you're calling people to 559 00:32:35,670 --> 00:32:38,550 S1: come out. Oh, you missed it. You know, you were 560 00:32:38,550 --> 00:32:41,510 S1: feeding the dog or doing whatever. But it's like if 561 00:32:41,550 --> 00:32:45,510 S1: you capture it, it captures you. That's what I hear 562 00:32:45,510 --> 00:32:49,750 S1: you say. You're captured by that sunset, by the colors, 563 00:32:50,070 --> 00:32:54,270 S1: by what it. And your response to it? That's gold. 564 00:32:55,230 --> 00:32:56,750 S9: Oh, yeah. Yeah. Come on. 565 00:32:58,230 --> 00:32:59,070 S1: I'm coming. 566 00:32:59,110 --> 00:33:00,590 S9: I've got the you here tomorrow. 567 00:33:00,750 --> 00:33:02,960 S1: Okay. I got the gas in the car. We'll get 568 00:33:02,960 --> 00:33:04,480 S1: down there. God bless you. 569 00:33:04,880 --> 00:33:07,520 S9: Thank you. I'm sitting in the. You're welcome. Have a 570 00:33:07,520 --> 00:33:07,840 S9: good day. 571 00:33:08,160 --> 00:33:09,320 S1: Right now, you're sitting where. 572 00:33:10,880 --> 00:33:14,560 S9: I'm in a parking lot of a church because there 573 00:33:14,560 --> 00:33:18,080 S9: is a hellacious storm going through right now. And they 574 00:33:18,320 --> 00:33:20,200 S9: told me not to even drive because there will be 575 00:33:20,240 --> 00:33:23,600 S9: hail coming shortly. So we have really good storms too, 576 00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:24,960 S9: if you like that sort of thing. 577 00:33:25,000 --> 00:33:27,640 S1: I love it, I love it because this is the 578 00:33:27,640 --> 00:33:31,560 S1: time of monsoons where I live. And you know, there's 579 00:33:31,560 --> 00:33:34,320 S1: a lot of flooding and everything, but the clouds that 580 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,760 S1: come through and it's like same time every day, you 581 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:41,000 S1: see this wispy little cloud coming over the horizon, and 582 00:33:41,000 --> 00:33:43,240 S1: then you see bigger clouds, and then it gets all 583 00:33:43,240 --> 00:33:47,280 S1: dark and comes and it's so foreboding. And then the 584 00:33:47,280 --> 00:33:50,920 S1: wind whips up. Yeah, no, I like storms. I don't 585 00:33:50,920 --> 00:33:53,560 S1: like the hurricanes. And I'm sure you don't either. Right. 586 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:58,560 S9: Oh no. No. Yeah. But well here comes the hail. Okay, Chris, 587 00:33:58,560 --> 00:34:00,380 S9: you have a wonderful day. I'm going to ride this 588 00:34:00,380 --> 00:34:01,860 S9: out in my car here in the parking lot. 589 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:04,820 S1: God bless you, friend. Thank you for calling in here today. See, 590 00:34:04,820 --> 00:34:08,219 S1: we got we we drove into a hailstorm. Look at that. 591 00:34:08,660 --> 00:34:15,020 S1: We went through Sedona, Arizona, where Larry is down to Naples, Florida. 592 00:34:15,900 --> 00:34:18,299 S1: And the, uh, I kind of like to go to 593 00:34:18,300 --> 00:34:20,580 S1: those shops that she was talking about as well. That 594 00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:23,859 S1: sounds like a lot of fun. We've got monsoons, we've 595 00:34:23,900 --> 00:34:28,419 S1: got hail, we've got Sanibel Island. How about we haven't 596 00:34:28,420 --> 00:34:32,779 S1: heard from anybody in in the land of no left turn. Holland, Michigan. 597 00:34:32,780 --> 00:34:35,660 S1: I thought we'd get somebody from Holland, Michigan who would 598 00:34:35,660 --> 00:34:39,700 S1: call us here today. And if you've ever been to Holland, 599 00:34:39,700 --> 00:34:42,060 S1: you know exactly what I'm talking about. You cannot make 600 00:34:42,060 --> 00:34:45,540 S1: a left turn. I've still making right turns there to 601 00:34:45,580 --> 00:34:50,020 S1: try to get home. Uh, okay. One segment left and 602 00:34:50,020 --> 00:34:51,859 S1: I got a couple of folks online. Let me take 603 00:34:51,860 --> 00:34:54,460 S1: our last break, and we'll continue here at the Radio 604 00:34:54,460 --> 00:34:57,859 S1: Backyard fence. Oh, and by the way, have you heard 605 00:34:57,860 --> 00:35:01,200 S1: about what our thank you is? This month we are 606 00:35:01,200 --> 00:35:05,479 S1: going back 100 years. We have a pictorial history of 607 00:35:05,480 --> 00:35:08,719 S1: what has happened, what God has done in and through 608 00:35:08,760 --> 00:35:17,480 S1: Moody Radio. Find out more about it@kris.org. Before we get 609 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:20,080 S1: back to the program, a quick note for you. 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We stand on the shoulders there. 630 00:36:38,540 --> 00:36:42,820 S1: I just opened this book and my heart enlivens because 631 00:36:42,820 --> 00:36:45,700 S1: I see Walter Carlson and I see there's Ruth Dinwiddie, 632 00:36:45,700 --> 00:36:51,180 S1: and there's, uh, Chuck Wagner and, uh, Mike Kellogg and 633 00:36:51,180 --> 00:36:53,980 S1: other names that you've heard and some that you haven't. 634 00:36:54,020 --> 00:36:56,920 S1: Radio Pastor Donald Cole. There's a picture of Pastor Cole 635 00:36:56,920 --> 00:37:00,359 S1: and me together in the same studio. So I want 636 00:37:00,360 --> 00:37:04,000 S1: to send this to you as our. Thank you. It is, uh, 637 00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,239 S1: be as generous as you can. I'll just say it 638 00:37:06,239 --> 00:37:08,520 S1: that we have been saying that and you have been. 639 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:12,720 S1: So thank you for your support. Eight. Six. Six. Nine. Five. 640 00:37:12,760 --> 00:37:18,239 S1: Fabry is the number (866) 953-2279. Give a gift of any 641 00:37:18,280 --> 00:37:20,600 S1: size will send it to you or you can go 642 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:23,680 S1: to Chris Fabry live.org. Scroll down. You'll see the book 643 00:37:23,680 --> 00:37:28,800 S1: right there. This is Moody radio. Chris Fabry live dot ORG. 644 00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:33,080 S1: So let's go from Naples all the way up north 645 00:37:33,080 --> 00:37:37,560 S1: to New Hampshire. Bethlehem, Mindy is on the line. Mindy, 646 00:37:37,600 --> 00:37:38,640 S1: how are you doing today? 647 00:37:39,320 --> 00:37:41,280 S10: Good. Chris, how are you doing? 648 00:37:41,280 --> 00:37:44,800 S1: Great. I'm just really enjoying all these different places around 649 00:37:44,800 --> 00:37:46,520 S1: the country. Where do you want to take me? 650 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:49,839 S10: Um, well, you're headed up to the White Mountains of 651 00:37:49,840 --> 00:37:51,640 S10: New Hampshire. And by the way, you and I have 652 00:37:51,640 --> 00:37:55,450 S10: spoken before When I first moved back, I was born 653 00:37:55,450 --> 00:37:58,250 S10: and raised in Lancaster, New Hampshire, 45 minutes from the 654 00:37:58,250 --> 00:38:01,689 S10: Canadian border, which is all considered part of the White 655 00:38:01,690 --> 00:38:06,610 S10: Mountains in the North Country in New Hampshire. And, um, 656 00:38:07,210 --> 00:38:14,850 S10: we have the tallest peak, which is Mount Washington's 1288ft. 657 00:38:14,890 --> 00:38:19,290 S10: And we have the, um, record for the worst weather 658 00:38:19,850 --> 00:38:22,970 S10: on a mountain top. Yeah. That's hard to believe, right. 659 00:38:23,010 --> 00:38:26,050 S10: The highest winds, I guess maybe they haven't recorded the winds, 660 00:38:26,090 --> 00:38:30,569 S10: you know, K2 or those other ones. But here in America, 661 00:38:30,570 --> 00:38:39,210 S10: we here in North America we actually the worst weather record. Wow. But, um, 662 00:38:39,250 --> 00:38:44,890 S10: it's absolutely gorgeous. Um, at the end of Covid, we 663 00:38:44,890 --> 00:38:50,129 S10: first moved back, um, three sisters, I spoke to you 664 00:38:50,130 --> 00:38:54,149 S10: on the phone Father's day a tribute to our dad 665 00:38:54,150 --> 00:38:59,830 S10: who is not doing well and he has since passed. But, um, 666 00:39:00,510 --> 00:39:03,830 S10: we all came back. All of this, all three of 667 00:39:03,830 --> 00:39:06,750 S10: us children, girls moved back and we got to spend 668 00:39:06,750 --> 00:39:11,550 S10: those last four years with him and being him and 669 00:39:11,550 --> 00:39:14,029 S10: driving him around to his favorite places here in the 670 00:39:14,030 --> 00:39:18,950 S10: North Country. So, um, I think the first thing we 671 00:39:18,950 --> 00:39:21,310 S10: do is take you up the cog railway, which was 672 00:39:21,310 --> 00:39:25,910 S10: the oldest and first built cog railroad in the world, 673 00:39:25,910 --> 00:39:28,750 S10: not just here in the US, in the world. Wow. 674 00:39:28,870 --> 00:39:32,310 S10: And it's still running today. And it went from coal 675 00:39:32,350 --> 00:39:37,469 S10: to steam to gas. And both still have the coal engines. 676 00:39:39,070 --> 00:39:41,870 S1: Just like Petticoat Junction, right? Yes. 677 00:39:42,469 --> 00:39:42,910 S10: Oh it's. 678 00:39:42,910 --> 00:39:43,270 S1: Much. 679 00:39:43,670 --> 00:39:47,430 S10: It's much steeper. But yes, you have to click, click, 680 00:39:47,430 --> 00:39:48,430 S10: click the whole way. 681 00:39:48,870 --> 00:39:52,450 S1: Well about your about your dad though. You are. You 682 00:39:52,450 --> 00:39:56,690 S1: and your sisters are never going to regret those. Those years, 683 00:39:56,690 --> 00:39:58,969 S1: those days that you had with him, right? 684 00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:05,169 S10: No, they are in fact the best. Um, everything was 685 00:40:05,170 --> 00:40:11,569 S10: sweeter and kinder and um, in fact, um, in that time, 686 00:40:11,570 --> 00:40:13,330 S10: my younger sister came to Christ. 687 00:40:13,410 --> 00:40:14,170 S1: Really? 688 00:40:14,770 --> 00:40:19,969 S10: Yeah. And we're still waiting on my older sister, but, um, yeah, 689 00:40:20,010 --> 00:40:25,450 S10: our family was, had been, um, estranged and we were 690 00:40:25,450 --> 00:40:30,370 S10: completely reconciled. And so the story of God's love is 691 00:40:31,210 --> 00:40:34,569 S10: very great in our family. And, um. 692 00:40:34,570 --> 00:40:38,450 S1: Well, like, like Rosemary was saying, uh, that Barry who 693 00:40:38,450 --> 00:40:42,370 S1: had Alzheimer's and was telling her about Jesus, uh, Barry 694 00:40:42,410 --> 00:40:44,770 S1: said that God kept telling her not to give up, 695 00:40:44,810 --> 00:40:47,730 S1: you know, to keep, to keep praying. And I'll say 696 00:40:47,790 --> 00:40:50,590 S1: the same thing to you. Don't. Don't give up. You 697 00:40:50,630 --> 00:40:54,990 S1: don't know how far away or how close or what 698 00:40:54,989 --> 00:40:58,430 S1: is going to draw her to the heart of of 699 00:40:58,430 --> 00:41:01,830 S1: God and soften her toward the heart of God. Right? 700 00:41:02,630 --> 00:41:05,310 S10: That's true because my dad actually came to Christ me 701 00:41:05,310 --> 00:41:06,310 S10: before he died. 702 00:41:06,670 --> 00:41:07,270 S1: Really. 703 00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:12,189 S10: And he was a devout Catholic. Yep. So, um, but 704 00:41:12,190 --> 00:41:15,350 S10: he called this God's country every time we went out 705 00:41:15,350 --> 00:41:20,190 S10: for a ride. Uh, and the summers are perfect. We 706 00:41:20,190 --> 00:41:24,029 S10: are like something out of Romeo and Juliet. Just brilliant 707 00:41:24,030 --> 00:41:30,430 S10: green and gorgeous winds, you know, just firs and beautiful 708 00:41:30,550 --> 00:41:33,670 S10: small lakes that you can get out and kayak. So 709 00:41:33,710 --> 00:41:36,310 S10: I would take you kayaking so we could go watch 710 00:41:36,310 --> 00:41:41,629 S10: the the loons and their nests. And, um, we would 711 00:41:41,630 --> 00:41:44,390 S10: take you to the town circle for the Wednesday concert 712 00:41:44,510 --> 00:41:46,799 S10: when the old timers get together and play their old 713 00:41:46,840 --> 00:41:50,720 S10: time songs, and then the younger generations come forward and sing, 714 00:41:50,719 --> 00:41:53,840 S10: and all the town comes out and the food trucks 715 00:41:53,840 --> 00:41:57,120 S10: are there and people grill out and old cars are 716 00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:02,719 S10: there and everybody knows everybody who knows everybody, the dogs, 717 00:42:02,719 --> 00:42:06,840 S10: the children. And, um, that's what our towns are like. 718 00:42:07,040 --> 00:42:12,200 S10: It's still the old, old New England where our buildings are. 719 00:42:12,840 --> 00:42:15,759 S1: Okay. You mentioned something that I wanted to get to 720 00:42:15,800 --> 00:42:18,560 S1: before we got to the end of the program here today. 721 00:42:19,120 --> 00:42:22,120 S1: And that is I saw the World Cup was going 722 00:42:22,120 --> 00:42:26,799 S1: on five. FIFA. FIFA soccer, you know, the big. And 723 00:42:26,800 --> 00:42:31,839 S1: there was a fellow from Germany who was interviewed and, uh, 724 00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:34,399 S1: his English was a lot better than my German is, 725 00:42:34,400 --> 00:42:36,400 S1: but it was still, you know, he was struggling to 726 00:42:36,440 --> 00:42:39,200 S1: find the words. But even more than that, he was 727 00:42:39,200 --> 00:42:42,040 S1: struggling to get over the emotion because they asked him, 728 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:46,419 S1: what do you think of America, basically? And he he started, 729 00:42:46,460 --> 00:42:51,020 S1: he apologized. I'm sorry. I'm sorry because he said, I've, 730 00:42:51,020 --> 00:42:55,420 S1: I've seen all the news reports about shootings and the 731 00:42:55,420 --> 00:42:58,380 S1: violence and all of this. This is all that we heard. 732 00:42:58,380 --> 00:43:02,900 S1: And I get here and the people are so welcoming. 733 00:43:03,300 --> 00:43:06,779 S1: And he was in Boston, he was in Boston, and 734 00:43:06,780 --> 00:43:09,779 S1: he didn't have a ride. And some stranger comes up 735 00:43:09,780 --> 00:43:11,940 S1: and says, oh, we'll give you a ride back, hop 736 00:43:11,940 --> 00:43:16,180 S1: in the car. And he just broke down saying, these people, 737 00:43:16,500 --> 00:43:21,739 S1: these people are so kind. And I didn't expect that. 738 00:43:22,380 --> 00:43:25,340 S1: And I wanted to say all the beauty of the earth, 739 00:43:25,340 --> 00:43:28,060 S1: all the beauty that we see around us in America 740 00:43:28,060 --> 00:43:31,700 S1: is a wonderful thing. But the real beauty we've heard 741 00:43:31,700 --> 00:43:36,620 S1: it today in different ways from different people, is the people. 742 00:43:36,980 --> 00:43:41,700 S1: The real beauty is God's creation, you and me. Let's 743 00:43:41,700 --> 00:43:42,820 S1: be that today.