1 00:00:05,800 --> 00:00:08,039 S1: Welcome to our first Chris Fabry live of the month 2 00:00:08,039 --> 00:00:10,920 S1: of May. And welcome May. Come on in May and 3 00:00:10,920 --> 00:00:13,400 S1: stay a while. Glad you're with us. I talk a 4 00:00:13,400 --> 00:00:15,680 S1: lot about this program, being from the heart to the 5 00:00:15,680 --> 00:00:18,560 S1: heart for the heart. And today at the Radio Backyard Fence, 6 00:00:18,920 --> 00:00:21,680 S1: we're going to take a walk down the pet memory lane. 7 00:00:21,680 --> 00:00:23,640 S1: And I have a current story, as well as one 8 00:00:23,640 --> 00:00:26,640 S1: from the distant past. I want to relate. And then 9 00:00:26,640 --> 00:00:29,560 S1: it's your turn. Tell me about that beloved pet who 10 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:31,840 S1: captured your heart so much that you had to put 11 00:00:31,840 --> 00:00:35,200 S1: up some kind of marker, some kind of Ebenezer, to 12 00:00:35,240 --> 00:00:38,640 S1: remember the deep connection you made. Tell me about the 13 00:00:38,640 --> 00:00:40,920 S1: pet and the place on the earth where you put 14 00:00:40,920 --> 00:00:43,200 S1: that marker. We're going to talk today about the power 15 00:00:43,200 --> 00:00:46,879 S1: of words, the power of loss, and the mercy of 16 00:00:46,880 --> 00:00:50,479 S1: God who gives good gifts to us. All that and 17 00:00:50,479 --> 00:00:52,760 S1: more straight ahead here on Chris Fabry Live. Let me 18 00:00:52,760 --> 00:00:55,920 S1: thank our team, Ryan McConaughey, doing all things technical. Trish 19 00:00:55,920 --> 00:00:58,200 S1: is our producer. Lisa is in the chair today. Josh 20 00:00:58,200 --> 00:01:01,770 S1: will be answering your calls And since it's Friday. That's right. 21 00:01:01,770 --> 00:01:05,209 S1: It's time for the fabulous fabric Friday. Sigh here's what 22 00:01:05,209 --> 00:01:07,929 S1: it does when we oxygenate your blood. Two. We get 23 00:01:07,930 --> 00:01:11,970 S1: your endorphins going. Three. We raise your serotonin. Level four. 24 00:01:12,010 --> 00:01:16,890 S1: We promote lymphatic drainage and five we stimulate your parasympathetic system. 25 00:01:16,890 --> 00:01:19,770 S1: That's why we call it the five lung languages. We 26 00:01:19,770 --> 00:01:23,330 S1: also stimulate your vagus nerve. We help you release acetylcholine. 27 00:01:23,330 --> 00:01:26,490 S1: And don't you dare forget what it does to cortisol dissipation. 28 00:01:26,850 --> 00:01:29,050 S1: Taking four seconds of air through your nose right now. 29 00:01:29,450 --> 00:01:32,250 S1: Hold it for four seconds. And then as you release 30 00:01:32,250 --> 00:01:34,690 S1: that air through your mouth, push on the left side 31 00:01:34,690 --> 00:01:36,410 S1: of your rib cage to get rid of all that 32 00:01:36,410 --> 00:01:40,170 S1: bad carbon dioxide. Give a sigh for the sacred spot 33 00:01:40,170 --> 00:01:42,970 S1: by the river where the red fern grows. Give a 34 00:01:42,970 --> 00:01:48,130 S1: sigh for old Dan. Little Anne for old Skip, for Shep, 35 00:01:48,330 --> 00:01:50,770 S1: for the tabby cat who stole your heart. For the 36 00:01:50,770 --> 00:01:54,210 S1: horse and hedgehog alike. For the pet you opened up 37 00:01:54,210 --> 00:01:57,010 S1: to that seemed to understand what was going on inside 38 00:01:57,010 --> 00:02:00,590 S1: when nobody else could. And for every adult who's ever 39 00:02:00,590 --> 00:02:02,870 S1: showed up on the front porch and said to the owner, 40 00:02:02,870 --> 00:02:05,430 S1: I bet you didn't know. Under that live oak, my 41 00:02:05,430 --> 00:02:09,030 S1: favorite dog is buried in the yard. The fabulous favorite 42 00:02:09,030 --> 00:02:11,430 S1: Friday size brought to you by this station, Moody Radio. 43 00:02:11,430 --> 00:02:13,790 S1: And all the memories stirred by a pet you loved 44 00:02:14,070 --> 00:02:18,870 S1: who loved you back. All rights reserved. I think the 45 00:02:18,870 --> 00:02:22,310 S1: power in the conversations we have and we've had through 46 00:02:22,310 --> 00:02:25,590 S1: the years, especially these kinds of programs where you are 47 00:02:25,750 --> 00:02:29,870 S1: my guest, your participation is kind of 90% of the 48 00:02:29,870 --> 00:02:33,109 S1: content on a program like this. The power is in 49 00:02:33,110 --> 00:02:37,350 S1: the connection we make over some tangible thing that stirs 50 00:02:37,350 --> 00:02:42,590 S1: us inside, that makes some kind of emotional connection. That, 51 00:02:42,590 --> 00:02:46,630 S1: first of all, brings us closer together. Even if we 52 00:02:46,630 --> 00:02:49,390 S1: have differences in one area or another. These kinds of 53 00:02:49,389 --> 00:02:53,270 S1: things can bring us closer together and we see how 54 00:02:53,270 --> 00:02:57,120 S1: similar we are. And that's what I hope happens today, 55 00:02:57,120 --> 00:02:59,080 S1: and I want to encourage you to write the number down, 56 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:01,320 S1: especially if you've never called. I want to hear from 57 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:04,320 S1: you today. This is the one that's going to get you. I, 58 00:03:04,360 --> 00:03:06,960 S1: and I want your answer to the question that I 59 00:03:06,960 --> 00:03:10,640 S1: will pose from my heart, from the little grave at 60 00:03:10,639 --> 00:03:12,680 S1: the base of the Palo Verde tree you will see 61 00:03:12,720 --> 00:03:15,800 S1: on my Facebook page. The question is, tell me about 62 00:03:15,800 --> 00:03:19,080 S1: a pet that died and how you mark the grave 63 00:03:19,360 --> 00:03:23,440 S1: or honored that pet. Here's a there's no wrong answer 64 00:03:23,440 --> 00:03:34,320 S1: to this. 87754836758775483675. I saw a video in the last 65 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:36,040 S1: couple of days and it was a man picking up 66 00:03:36,080 --> 00:03:38,520 S1: trash along a road or a trail. It might have 67 00:03:38,520 --> 00:03:42,000 S1: been a park. And he said that he had just 68 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:46,080 S1: lost his beloved Labrador and he was out picking up 69 00:03:46,120 --> 00:03:50,480 S1: trash without her. And and he said something like, this 70 00:03:50,480 --> 00:03:53,960 S1: is my first time. And his voice broke as he 71 00:03:53,960 --> 00:03:57,290 S1: said it. And I thought, what a human moment. I 72 00:03:57,290 --> 00:04:01,690 S1: was so glad that he risked recording that and then 73 00:04:01,730 --> 00:04:05,930 S1: posted it as well. And I wonder if there will 74 00:04:05,930 --> 00:04:09,610 S1: be more women than men responding today. I don't think 75 00:04:09,610 --> 00:04:13,410 S1: this is a topic that favors female or male. It 76 00:04:13,410 --> 00:04:17,849 S1: happens to all of us in some way. And I 77 00:04:17,850 --> 00:04:21,970 S1: will probably ponder why throughout the program, but call and 78 00:04:21,970 --> 00:04:24,250 S1: let me know your response to that question or what 79 00:04:24,250 --> 00:04:27,370 S1: I posted on the Chris Fabry Live Facebook page. Did 80 00:04:27,370 --> 00:04:29,930 S1: you ever commemorate a beloved pet with a marker of 81 00:04:29,930 --> 00:04:32,370 S1: some sort? Take me to that place of the heart, 82 00:04:32,370 --> 00:04:36,890 S1: past or present. I'll explain these pictures on the program today. 83 00:04:36,930 --> 00:04:39,730 S1: I hope you get to listen. The first picture is 84 00:04:39,730 --> 00:04:46,089 S1: from about 60 years ago. The second is from this morning. 85 00:04:47,170 --> 00:04:50,170 S1: I'll start with the river rock by the Palo Verde tree. 86 00:04:50,210 --> 00:04:53,050 S1: Two weeks ago, I was traveling. I got a text. 87 00:04:53,050 --> 00:04:56,270 S1: Are you back at the hotel, and the wife of 88 00:04:56,270 --> 00:05:00,870 S1: my youth called, and I could tell. Really torn up 89 00:05:00,870 --> 00:05:04,229 S1: because of what had happened to Toby the cat. There 90 00:05:04,230 --> 00:05:08,270 S1: was an unfortunate event, and my wife and one of 91 00:05:08,270 --> 00:05:12,310 S1: my sons managed to get him, take him to the vet, 92 00:05:12,830 --> 00:05:15,950 S1: and they said they could try surgery. But with the 93 00:05:15,950 --> 00:05:19,830 S1: extent of the injuries, they they really couldn't guarantee anything. 94 00:05:20,510 --> 00:05:22,789 S1: And so they had to make the really hard decision 95 00:05:23,350 --> 00:05:26,710 S1: and spent some time with Toby and were able to 96 00:05:26,750 --> 00:05:32,109 S1: bring his remains back home. And by the Palo Verde 97 00:05:32,510 --> 00:05:36,469 S1: a grave was dug, River rock was arranged. You'll see 98 00:05:36,470 --> 00:05:43,310 S1: the curled up cat, the. A rock carving there that's 99 00:05:43,310 --> 00:05:46,030 S1: by the grave, and I was away. It took me 100 00:05:46,029 --> 00:05:49,110 S1: some time to process it as we talked, but I 101 00:05:49,110 --> 00:05:52,190 S1: recalled the verse in Proverbs the righteous care for the 102 00:05:52,190 --> 00:05:56,120 S1: needs of their animals. From Proverbs 12. And after I 103 00:05:56,120 --> 00:05:57,960 S1: got home, I went up there and I did some 104 00:05:57,960 --> 00:06:01,920 S1: weeding around the little grave. And as I was doing that, 105 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:05,960 S1: I remembered something from my childhood. We had all kinds 106 00:06:05,960 --> 00:06:09,240 S1: of animals. And you learn on the farm that death 107 00:06:09,240 --> 00:06:12,560 S1: is kind of part of life. And Josh said this, Josh, 108 00:06:12,560 --> 00:06:14,840 S1: who was going to answer your calls? He said he 109 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,080 S1: grew up on a farm and there were three border 110 00:06:17,080 --> 00:06:22,120 S1: collies that, uh, died while he was there. You got 111 00:06:22,120 --> 00:06:24,320 S1: to get kind of got to get used to this. 112 00:06:24,680 --> 00:06:28,559 S1: And it can harden you if you don't deal with it. 113 00:06:29,240 --> 00:06:31,400 S1: And that's kind of the tough balance to have when 114 00:06:31,400 --> 00:06:33,880 S1: you when you grow up on a farm. But we 115 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:36,679 S1: had a lot of barn cats, all kinds of them. 116 00:06:37,160 --> 00:06:41,479 S1: But there was one kitten that I took as my own. And, uh, 117 00:06:41,480 --> 00:06:44,719 S1: in the second grade, there's a picture of me just somewhere, 118 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:47,600 S1: a picture of me in second grade. And I had 119 00:06:47,600 --> 00:06:50,480 S1: broken my arm. So my arm is in a sling 120 00:06:50,930 --> 00:06:56,529 S1: And I had two teeth missing from the front. I 121 00:06:56,610 --> 00:06:59,850 S1: just looked like a mess sitting there holding the cat 122 00:07:00,170 --> 00:07:03,930 S1: on the picnic table. But this must have happened when 123 00:07:03,930 --> 00:07:08,010 S1: I was in first grade. The accident with the kitten. 124 00:07:08,010 --> 00:07:10,450 S1: I don't think I had time to name it. That's 125 00:07:10,450 --> 00:07:14,450 S1: how young it was, especially given the vague epitaph that 126 00:07:14,450 --> 00:07:16,890 S1: I wrote. But it was in the summer, and we 127 00:07:16,890 --> 00:07:19,650 S1: were in the backyard, and my brother was moving a 128 00:07:19,650 --> 00:07:22,530 S1: car and he started it up. And when you start 129 00:07:22,530 --> 00:07:27,610 S1: a car up and the cats are underneath, they run away, right? Well, 130 00:07:27,610 --> 00:07:31,930 S1: except for one. And he didn't see it. And when 131 00:07:31,930 --> 00:07:36,850 S1: he backed up, tragedy ensued. And so I ran to 132 00:07:36,890 --> 00:07:40,170 S1: the kitten with all of, you know, the emotion of 133 00:07:40,210 --> 00:07:43,610 S1: a first grader. And my father grabbed me before I 134 00:07:43,610 --> 00:07:46,250 S1: got there and told me, no, no, no, no, you can't, 135 00:07:46,450 --> 00:07:50,910 S1: can't get any closer. And so from that perch a 136 00:07:50,910 --> 00:07:56,070 S1: few feet away we watched the life ebb from the 137 00:07:56,110 --> 00:08:00,310 S1: poor little thing, and my dad must have asked me 138 00:08:00,750 --> 00:08:03,750 S1: where I wanted to bury it. And we picked a 139 00:08:03,750 --> 00:08:08,190 S1: spot by the barn and the fence gate, where the 140 00:08:08,190 --> 00:08:10,870 S1: cows would come right out of the barn. And it 141 00:08:10,870 --> 00:08:14,870 S1: was this rich, loamy soil, so easy to dig in. 142 00:08:14,870 --> 00:08:18,790 S1: I live in Arizona now, and it's just rock hard 143 00:08:18,830 --> 00:08:21,110 S1: out here. But there it was just so rich and 144 00:08:21,110 --> 00:08:25,070 S1: so loamy. And we placed the the kitten there and 145 00:08:25,070 --> 00:08:27,790 S1: we covered it up. And I must have gone into 146 00:08:27,790 --> 00:08:31,830 S1: the house and to my room and sat down and 147 00:08:31,830 --> 00:08:36,630 S1: wrote what became my first published work. And I taped 148 00:08:36,630 --> 00:08:38,790 S1: it to whatever we put on the grave. I can't 149 00:08:38,790 --> 00:08:41,590 S1: remember if it was sticks or pieces of wood, you know, 150 00:08:41,630 --> 00:08:45,390 S1: wooden cross, I don't remember. But here is what I 151 00:08:45,429 --> 00:08:51,920 S1: wrote on that first grade lined green paper. Here lies 152 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:58,840 S1: a cat. A faithful cat. Shades of Hemingway. Right. Sparse. 153 00:08:59,280 --> 00:09:03,400 S1: There's no punctuation. And it looks like I was struggling 154 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:06,920 S1: at the time with. Whether it was. Whether it was 155 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,120 S1: lays or lies. I put an eye through an A 156 00:09:10,120 --> 00:09:14,600 S1: that I had written and it became here lies instead 157 00:09:14,600 --> 00:09:17,559 S1: of here lays. I'm still not sure what's right grammatically, 158 00:09:17,559 --> 00:09:20,839 S1: but it doesn't matter. The H, the L, and the 159 00:09:20,880 --> 00:09:24,840 S1: F in here. Lies and faithful are capitalized. The rest 160 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:28,839 S1: are regular small letters, and there is a yellow piece 161 00:09:28,840 --> 00:09:34,240 S1: of tape over the top of the first cat. My 162 00:09:34,240 --> 00:09:39,400 S1: mother retrieved this from that spot. She desecrated the marker, 163 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:43,000 S1: but I'm so glad she did. And somehow I have 164 00:09:43,000 --> 00:09:48,580 S1: kept it all these years. Almost 60 years now. And 165 00:09:48,900 --> 00:09:53,740 S1: what I find really interesting is with this, I'm holding 166 00:09:53,740 --> 00:09:56,340 S1: it here in front of me. Here lies a cat, 167 00:09:56,380 --> 00:09:59,300 S1: a faithful cat. There's no period after the last cat. 168 00:09:59,300 --> 00:10:03,900 S1: There's no comma, no semicolon. Because I hate semicolons. Well, 169 00:10:03,900 --> 00:10:06,699 S1: you couldn't put one in there and be true. True 170 00:10:06,700 --> 00:10:11,140 S1: to the language, here lies a cat, a faithful cat. 171 00:10:11,540 --> 00:10:14,140 S1: This is the first time I ever took my pain 172 00:10:14,140 --> 00:10:19,740 S1: to the page. And I put it down there in scrawling, uh, 173 00:10:20,740 --> 00:10:27,020 S1: not cursive, just scrawling words. Here is the pain. Here 174 00:10:27,059 --> 00:10:31,459 S1: lies a cat, a faithful cat. All right, what about you? 175 00:10:32,460 --> 00:10:35,220 S1: Do you have a story about maybe your childhood pet, 176 00:10:35,260 --> 00:10:37,900 S1: the marker you made? Or it might be that you 177 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:42,300 S1: helped your children process some loss like this in a 178 00:10:42,300 --> 00:10:45,420 S1: meaningful way. There's no wrong answer today. And again, it's 179 00:10:45,420 --> 00:10:52,630 S1: just you and me. Call me (877) 548-3675. You can also 180 00:10:52,630 --> 00:10:55,429 S1: answer on Facebook, but I'd love to hear your voice today. 181 00:10:55,910 --> 00:10:58,910 S1: Tell me about this marker in your life from long 182 00:10:58,910 --> 00:11:16,350 S1: ago or just last week. Eight. 7754836. Seven five. These 183 00:11:16,350 --> 00:11:19,590 S1: markers of the heart. That's what I look at them 184 00:11:20,110 --> 00:11:24,350 S1: on Facebook. Kathleen says. I paint my pets portrait on 185 00:11:24,350 --> 00:11:28,950 S1: a stone and coat it with weatherproof sealer. And she's 186 00:11:28,950 --> 00:11:32,270 S1: taken a picture of this black. It looks like a 187 00:11:32,270 --> 00:11:36,230 S1: Labrador to me, but this. This dog. What a creative 188 00:11:36,230 --> 00:11:42,350 S1: way to commemorate a pet. Not everybody can do that. Uh, creatively, 189 00:11:42,350 --> 00:11:47,000 S1: I used my words. What about you, Wanda's in Georgia. Wanda. 190 00:11:47,040 --> 00:11:48,160 S1: Why did you call today? 191 00:11:49,000 --> 00:11:53,079 S2: Hey, I wanted to tell you about bandit. Bandit was 192 00:11:53,080 --> 00:11:56,520 S2: a giant Great Pyrenees, and he was the sweetest thing. 193 00:11:56,559 --> 00:12:00,880 S2: He loved everybody, and he unfortunately got mast cell cancer. 194 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:04,719 S2: And the morning that he crossed the Rainbow Bridge, he 195 00:12:04,720 --> 00:12:07,440 S2: was laying on the front porch. And my daughter and 196 00:12:07,440 --> 00:12:10,320 S2: my brother and I were all laying there holding him. 197 00:12:10,679 --> 00:12:14,400 S2: And I said, bandit, I'm sorry. I said, bandit, run 198 00:12:14,400 --> 00:12:17,040 S2: to Jesus just as fast as you can. Run, run 199 00:12:17,040 --> 00:12:21,040 S2: to Jesus. And bandit stopped breathing. He breathed his last 200 00:12:21,040 --> 00:12:24,600 S2: breath out. And so we buried him over by our creek. 201 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:27,120 S2: We have a big trout stream. And we buried him 202 00:12:27,120 --> 00:12:30,839 S2: over there. And we planted wildflowers and in Amarillo, and 203 00:12:30,840 --> 00:12:33,719 S2: we took a big rock to mark it. And we're 204 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:35,600 S2: going to paint his name on the rock. 205 00:12:37,640 --> 00:12:41,880 S1: Well, Wanda, okay, everything that you said in there is 206 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:44,900 S1: exactly what I wanted to hear from you along with 207 00:12:44,900 --> 00:12:48,100 S1: the emotion, because you can't you can't talk about that 208 00:12:48,100 --> 00:12:50,460 S1: without getting a catch in your throat. But the the 209 00:12:50,620 --> 00:12:52,980 S1: one question, who was it that was there on the 210 00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:55,420 S1: front porch with you, your daughter, and who else? 211 00:12:55,460 --> 00:12:59,620 S2: My daughter and my brother. My brother. He actually belonged 212 00:12:59,620 --> 00:13:02,620 S2: as far as ownership to my brother. He had bought him, 213 00:13:02,660 --> 00:13:05,860 S2: you know, and everything. But he was our dog. He was, 214 00:13:05,900 --> 00:13:10,140 S2: you know, our little farm dog. And, um, my daughter 215 00:13:10,140 --> 00:13:12,620 S2: came and woke me up that morning and she was crying. 216 00:13:12,660 --> 00:13:15,820 S2: She said, Mama, come outside. Something something's wrong. And when 217 00:13:15,820 --> 00:13:19,780 S2: I walked out, I knew that it was time. And, um, 218 00:13:19,780 --> 00:13:21,980 S2: he was laying by the front door and we just 219 00:13:21,980 --> 00:13:24,180 S2: all got down there with him and held him and 220 00:13:24,179 --> 00:13:27,300 S2: patted him and kissed him and told him how much 221 00:13:27,300 --> 00:13:30,500 S2: we loved him. And I told him to run to Jesus. 222 00:13:31,620 --> 00:13:34,540 S1: Good old bandit. What a great dog. What a great. 223 00:13:34,580 --> 00:13:36,300 S1: How many years did you have him? 224 00:13:37,100 --> 00:13:41,420 S2: We only had him seven years. Um, unfortunately, because of 225 00:13:41,420 --> 00:13:45,870 S2: the cancer. But, um, he, he was just the most 226 00:13:45,870 --> 00:13:49,470 S2: fun thing in the whole world. And he still thought 227 00:13:49,470 --> 00:13:55,550 S2: he was a lapdog. And, um, he, he tried to 228 00:13:55,550 --> 00:13:59,189 S2: hug you and everything, but there, there will never be 229 00:13:59,190 --> 00:14:01,350 S2: another one like bandit, that's for sure. 230 00:14:02,190 --> 00:14:05,350 S1: I think, I think that is one of the things 231 00:14:05,350 --> 00:14:07,910 S1: that I, I'm picking up from different people who are 232 00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:11,510 S1: responding on, on Facebook and then calling here, it's like 233 00:14:11,870 --> 00:14:15,189 S1: there is one pet that kind of marked your life. 234 00:14:15,190 --> 00:14:19,110 S1: And why is that? Why? Why do we have that 235 00:14:19,110 --> 00:14:21,190 S1: happen to us? I want you to keep that question 236 00:14:21,190 --> 00:14:25,150 S1: in your mind. And the other question is, what are 237 00:14:25,150 --> 00:14:29,630 S1: the similarities in all of these stories of of the 238 00:14:29,630 --> 00:14:31,830 S1: pets that we're going to hear about here today? Think 239 00:14:31,830 --> 00:14:35,950 S1: about that as we talk with Don in Ohio. Hi, Don. 240 00:14:35,950 --> 00:14:36,750 S1: Go right ahead. 241 00:14:38,150 --> 00:14:43,239 S3: Hi. Um, thank you for taking my call. I just 242 00:14:43,360 --> 00:14:46,800 S3: wanted to share about our little Theodore. He was our 243 00:14:46,800 --> 00:14:51,960 S3: family dog for my, um, our four sons. Um, we 244 00:14:52,000 --> 00:14:53,720 S3: went to a pet store, and we were looking for 245 00:14:53,720 --> 00:14:56,520 S3: a pet, and he was in a litter and he, 246 00:14:56,960 --> 00:15:00,320 S3: he paddled over to, to one side and jumped up 247 00:15:00,320 --> 00:15:06,520 S3: and went straight to our youngest son. And um, our 248 00:15:06,520 --> 00:15:11,640 S3: youngest son really needed him and um, he, he bonded 249 00:15:11,640 --> 00:15:14,400 S3: with everyone in the family he wanted, he was just 250 00:15:14,400 --> 00:15:16,240 S3: a little dog. It was just a lot smaller than 251 00:15:16,240 --> 00:15:18,760 S3: we thought. We wanted a bigger dog, but we just 252 00:15:18,960 --> 00:15:21,720 S3: he was the one. And he shared a birthday with 253 00:15:21,720 --> 00:15:24,480 S3: our youngest son, which was special. And we felt like 254 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:26,240 S3: the Lord had just put him in our in our life. 255 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:29,200 S3: And he, he, if he. He was so sweet. If 256 00:15:29,240 --> 00:15:31,040 S3: he didn't, if he didn't have time to take him 257 00:15:31,040 --> 00:15:33,280 S3: for a walk, he would find his way out the door. Somehow. 258 00:15:33,560 --> 00:15:35,720 S3: He would take himself for a walk and come right back. 259 00:15:36,760 --> 00:15:39,280 S3: He has just had a heart of gold. And um, 260 00:15:39,380 --> 00:15:43,020 S3: just love. Loved our family so much. Now, my husband 261 00:15:43,020 --> 00:15:47,260 S3: was never one to love animals. And um, when when 262 00:15:47,260 --> 00:15:49,900 S3: it was time for when Teddy was passing away, he had, 263 00:15:50,340 --> 00:15:53,860 S3: he had a heart failure. And, um, we took him 264 00:15:53,860 --> 00:15:56,300 S3: to the vet and our youngest son, who was the 265 00:15:56,300 --> 00:15:59,220 S3: first one to see him, was also the last one. 266 00:15:59,580 --> 00:16:01,780 S3: He looked him right in the eye as he passed away, 267 00:16:01,780 --> 00:16:04,060 S3: which I thought was going to be too hard for 268 00:16:04,060 --> 00:16:09,180 S3: my son, but it was actually very meaningful after after that, um, 269 00:16:09,380 --> 00:16:12,260 S3: my husband was really broken up about it and, and 270 00:16:12,260 --> 00:16:15,460 S3: cried and didn't realize how much he loved him. And 271 00:16:15,500 --> 00:16:18,340 S3: I felt bad about that, but he had missed that 272 00:16:18,380 --> 00:16:23,380 S3: opportunity to really cherish him. And, um, we, um, my 273 00:16:23,380 --> 00:16:27,860 S3: youngest son has a friend who owns a company that makes, 274 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:30,220 S3: she's just a young, young adult and she has a 275 00:16:30,220 --> 00:16:32,900 S3: young company that makes nightlights. And you can take a 276 00:16:32,900 --> 00:16:35,660 S3: photo and she'll make a nightlight out of it. So 277 00:16:35,660 --> 00:16:40,990 S3: every night, um, In our dining room. The picture of 278 00:16:40,990 --> 00:16:45,110 S3: of Teddy, we call him Teddy bear. Um, lights up 279 00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:49,630 S3: and my husband every night tells him, you know, goodnight, Teddy. 280 00:16:49,630 --> 00:16:50,510 S3: You're a good boy. 281 00:16:50,750 --> 00:16:51,510 S1: And ah. 282 00:16:52,990 --> 00:16:55,830 S3: Which is so sweet because he just really wants to let. 283 00:16:57,750 --> 00:17:00,030 S1: What kind of dog? What kind of dog? What kind 284 00:17:00,030 --> 00:17:01,110 S1: of dog was Teddy? 285 00:17:02,070 --> 00:17:09,710 S3: Well, he was called a viewer, which is a viewer. And, uh, just. Absolutely. 286 00:17:10,310 --> 00:17:13,389 S3: So such an adorable dog. He could hardly take him 287 00:17:13,390 --> 00:17:17,030 S3: for a walk because everyone wanted to stop and see him. Yeah. And, uh. 288 00:17:17,990 --> 00:17:21,230 S1: Okay, so you said at the beginning that your youngest 289 00:17:21,310 --> 00:17:24,070 S1: needed him. What do you mean by that? 290 00:17:27,710 --> 00:17:30,470 S3: I just could tell that our youngest needed. He was 291 00:17:30,470 --> 00:17:34,949 S3: the youngest of four sons, and he just. It was 292 00:17:34,950 --> 00:17:39,960 S3: a very soft heart. and, um, yeah, I can't say 293 00:17:39,960 --> 00:17:43,920 S3: anything specific, but he just. He needed to just say that. 294 00:17:44,320 --> 00:17:48,760 S1: Okay. No. And there's something you intuited. And isn't it 295 00:17:48,760 --> 00:17:51,320 S1: interesting that he was there at the. He was there 296 00:17:51,320 --> 00:17:53,680 S1: at the beginning. He's the first one that the dog 297 00:17:53,680 --> 00:17:55,960 S1: ran to that Teddy ran to. And and then the 298 00:17:55,960 --> 00:17:59,720 S1: last one who was there. And I wonder what your 299 00:17:59,720 --> 00:18:05,080 S1: last son would say about that and how how it was. 300 00:18:05,280 --> 00:18:06,000 S4: It was very. 301 00:18:06,000 --> 00:18:08,360 S3: Special to him, very meaningful to him. And he was 302 00:18:08,359 --> 00:18:12,680 S3: not afraid of that experience at all. And here's something 303 00:18:12,720 --> 00:18:16,320 S3: interesting is I grew up loving animals, but I as 304 00:18:16,320 --> 00:18:21,960 S3: a child, I was told that, um, you know, they 305 00:18:22,000 --> 00:18:26,280 S3: don't have, you know, they're not eternal. And, you know, 306 00:18:26,320 --> 00:18:29,520 S3: I really prayed about that after he passed away because 307 00:18:29,520 --> 00:18:34,920 S3: I was very much broken over losing him and allowed 308 00:18:34,920 --> 00:18:39,060 S3: myself three days to cry a lot and, um, I 309 00:18:39,180 --> 00:18:41,420 S3: God gave me, you know, a scripture about who knows 310 00:18:41,420 --> 00:18:45,500 S3: whether the spirit of animals. So, you know, go up 311 00:18:45,500 --> 00:18:49,179 S3: or down into the earth and a spirit is eternal. 312 00:18:49,180 --> 00:18:52,780 S3: So I realized that he was a unique, you know, 313 00:18:52,820 --> 00:18:56,260 S3: our pets are unique, uniquely created by God. And they, 314 00:18:56,260 --> 00:18:58,380 S3: they have they have a spirit, they have a heart 315 00:18:58,380 --> 00:19:01,300 S3: and a spirit. And, um, that's, I think that's really 316 00:19:01,300 --> 00:19:02,540 S3: important for us to know. 317 00:19:03,020 --> 00:19:07,340 S1: Yes. Well, and I've heard that Randy Alcorn writes about 318 00:19:07,340 --> 00:19:09,619 S1: that in his book on Heaven. And that's one of 319 00:19:09,619 --> 00:19:14,420 S1: the big questions that kids have. And also, um, parents 320 00:19:14,420 --> 00:19:20,500 S1: have as well. And that is what happens is little tippy, 321 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:24,660 S1: the toy poodle, going to be in heaven with me. And, uh, 322 00:19:24,660 --> 00:19:30,180 S1: my pal Diane, who is, was a pediatric oncologist, I believe, 323 00:19:30,859 --> 00:19:35,510 S1: said that, um, she, she talked with us. Yeah, here 324 00:19:35,510 --> 00:19:40,150 S1: it is. Henri Nouwen. She talked with Henri Nouwen about. 325 00:19:40,190 --> 00:19:42,550 S1: How do you handle that question? Do dogs go to heaven? 326 00:19:43,070 --> 00:19:46,590 S1: And she said he would respond that in heaven you 327 00:19:46,590 --> 00:19:50,430 S1: will have everything necessary for your happiness. And it was 328 00:19:50,430 --> 00:19:53,150 S1: the same thing that Dawn Cole used to say about, 329 00:19:53,190 --> 00:19:56,389 S1: you know, to kids, if you need to have Teddy 330 00:19:56,430 --> 00:19:59,030 S1: in heaven in order for you to be happy, he's 331 00:19:59,030 --> 00:20:02,350 S1: going to be there. And that's not saying categorically, yes, 332 00:20:02,670 --> 00:20:05,070 S1: he's going to Teddy's going to be there. But if 333 00:20:05,070 --> 00:20:08,750 S1: that's what you need, then you know, God, God will 334 00:20:08,750 --> 00:20:11,669 S1: provide that. And I think that provides a lot of 335 00:20:11,670 --> 00:20:16,990 S1: comfort for kids especially, but for adults as well. Thank 336 00:20:16,990 --> 00:20:20,190 S1: you for your call, Dawn. Uh, got some open lines 337 00:20:20,190 --> 00:20:22,629 S1: for you. And if you're just tuning in, you're saying, 338 00:20:22,630 --> 00:20:25,510 S1: are you talking about pets who have died? Yeah. I 339 00:20:25,510 --> 00:20:29,389 S1: want to know what the marker was that you gave 340 00:20:29,390 --> 00:20:32,110 S1: your pet. I explained what I did when I was 341 00:20:32,150 --> 00:20:34,400 S1: six years old or so. I think I was in 342 00:20:34,400 --> 00:20:37,040 S1: first grade when I wrote Here Lies a Cat, a 343 00:20:37,040 --> 00:20:38,879 S1: faithful Cat, and I put it there and my mom 344 00:20:39,280 --> 00:20:42,320 S1: kept it. That's how I dealt with the pain of 345 00:20:42,320 --> 00:20:46,919 S1: this little kitten. And there's people with 3D printers now 346 00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:51,080 S1: who who could do a lot more than that. What's 347 00:20:51,080 --> 00:20:57,560 S1: your story? (877) 548-3675. Ron's in Florida. Ron why did you 348 00:20:57,600 --> 00:20:58,280 S1: call today? 349 00:20:59,720 --> 00:21:02,000 S5: Well hey Chris, good to be on the air with you. 350 00:21:02,040 --> 00:21:05,520 S5: Listen to you quite frequently virtually every day. Thank you, 351 00:21:05,680 --> 00:21:11,719 S5: my friend. I have parakeet. Uh, the story goes like this. 352 00:21:11,760 --> 00:21:15,920 S5: Our children were very small, three and four. Uh, we 353 00:21:15,920 --> 00:21:21,080 S5: get a parakeet, uh, up in upstate New York, in Ithaca. Uh, 354 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:25,040 S5: he grows up with them. They grew up with him. Uh, 355 00:21:25,040 --> 00:21:30,320 S5: he was a real family pet. Uh, very talkative. Um, 356 00:21:31,000 --> 00:21:34,820 S5: and then, uh, he's so talkative that I treat him 357 00:21:34,859 --> 00:21:38,179 S5: treated because I came from a farm. Things were differently. 358 00:21:38,180 --> 00:21:42,900 S5: We were did beekeeping work years ago. And, uh, so 359 00:21:42,900 --> 00:21:48,580 S5: we named him honey, uh, for honey. And, uh, uh, 360 00:21:48,580 --> 00:21:52,180 S5: I taught him how to say, hey, big mama. Uh, 361 00:21:52,300 --> 00:21:56,780 S5: just because it was sort of a country thing to do. Anyway, 362 00:21:56,820 --> 00:21:59,420 S5: at that time, I was working overseas. I'd go back 363 00:21:59,420 --> 00:22:02,980 S5: and forth to Yemen, and on one of my trips 364 00:22:02,980 --> 00:22:09,300 S5: to Yemen, this was back in 1980. Um, my wife 365 00:22:09,340 --> 00:22:15,260 S5: taught him how to say mama, I mean, daddy, daddy. 366 00:22:15,660 --> 00:22:18,500 S5: And she told the kids, just go by him every 367 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:21,580 S5: day and tell him to say, daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy. 368 00:22:21,900 --> 00:22:24,460 S5: And he'll pick up and then he'll put that together 369 00:22:24,460 --> 00:22:28,379 S5: with hey big. So that when I came home, uh, 370 00:22:28,500 --> 00:22:31,590 S5: he would say, hey, Big Daddy, to which he did. 371 00:22:32,150 --> 00:22:37,190 S5: He was very entertaining. He also imitated our guinea pig. 372 00:22:37,390 --> 00:22:41,750 S5: We had a guinea pig for him, um, for them 373 00:22:41,750 --> 00:22:45,390 S5: to play with and all. And he would sit near that. 374 00:22:45,390 --> 00:22:49,630 S5: And then one day we're down there and we hear 375 00:22:49,630 --> 00:22:52,670 S5: the guinea pig. And that's kind of funny. And we 376 00:22:52,670 --> 00:22:54,830 S5: look over the guinea pig is sound asleep, but the 377 00:22:54,830 --> 00:22:59,230 S5: bird is talking. Um, so little things like that. Then 378 00:22:59,230 --> 00:23:05,190 S5: I was transferred from Cornell over to um, overseas, uh, 379 00:23:05,190 --> 00:23:07,830 S5: to Pakistan. I went because I worked with the State 380 00:23:07,830 --> 00:23:12,790 S5: Department and it was assigned to Pakistan. So we put 381 00:23:12,790 --> 00:23:15,990 S5: him in his little cage, special air freight, all that 382 00:23:15,990 --> 00:23:18,430 S5: kind of thing to get him over there. So he 383 00:23:18,430 --> 00:23:22,070 S5: journeys to Pakistan. He arrives, but while he's in London, 384 00:23:22,070 --> 00:23:27,429 S5: an international security, uh, impoundment and all that, uh, it 385 00:23:27,790 --> 00:23:34,040 S5: was so talkative that the security people. When we got him. 386 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:35,920 S5: I went to pick him up there and check on 387 00:23:35,920 --> 00:23:38,520 S5: him to get transferred to Pakistan. They said, if you 388 00:23:38,520 --> 00:23:41,320 S5: don't want him, we will buy him. He is very nice. 389 00:23:41,320 --> 00:23:46,119 S5: He talks to everybody. Okay, so anyway, he spent four 390 00:23:46,119 --> 00:23:50,360 S5: years in Pakistan with us, survived out there through the 391 00:23:50,359 --> 00:23:53,400 S5: Gulf War and all. And then I was transferred to 392 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:57,760 S5: the Philippines. And, uh, so all this time he's doing 393 00:23:57,760 --> 00:24:02,920 S5: his thing, and. But he very much liked me. For 394 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,680 S5: some reason, I played with him a lot, and, uh, 395 00:24:06,680 --> 00:24:09,800 S5: he would wait. He knew I was coming home from work, 396 00:24:09,800 --> 00:24:12,520 S5: and he would start chirping just before, you know, he 397 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:16,199 S5: would hear that. Quite friendly. But talk to anyone and 398 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:19,520 S5: you could pick him up and haul him around, and 399 00:24:19,560 --> 00:24:22,320 S5: we'd carry him in an oatmeal box sometimes just to 400 00:24:22,359 --> 00:24:26,960 S5: take him with us. Uh, anyway, during the Philippines, I 401 00:24:27,260 --> 00:24:31,140 S5: were there five years, and on our fourth year he 402 00:24:31,180 --> 00:24:38,620 S5: passed away. And, uh, little bird, little yellow parakeet that 403 00:24:38,619 --> 00:24:41,740 S5: was friendly to everyone and friendly to all our kids, 404 00:24:41,780 --> 00:24:45,500 S5: our two kids and my wife and myself. And so 405 00:24:45,540 --> 00:24:49,900 S5: I felt very I wanted to do something special. We 406 00:24:49,900 --> 00:24:52,659 S5: wanted something. I wanted something special for the children too. 407 00:24:52,740 --> 00:24:55,900 S5: Of course, they're grown up now, but I was involved 408 00:24:55,900 --> 00:24:58,980 S5: in natural resource work in the Philippines and fisheries. 409 00:24:59,619 --> 00:25:01,419 S1: Okay, let me stop you right there, Ron. Let me 410 00:25:01,420 --> 00:25:03,220 S1: stop you right there, because here's what we're going to do. 411 00:25:03,220 --> 00:25:05,300 S1: We're going to take a break. And when we come back, 412 00:25:05,300 --> 00:25:08,899 S1: I want you to tell me what happened to honey. 413 00:25:08,940 --> 00:25:11,900 S1: How many how old was he when he passed away? 414 00:25:13,260 --> 00:25:14,460 S5: 15 years old. 415 00:25:14,460 --> 00:25:18,940 S1: 15 years old and talking to everybody. I could listen 416 00:25:18,940 --> 00:25:21,659 S1: to you all day. Tell this story and thank you 417 00:25:21,660 --> 00:25:24,020 S1: for your service. If I don't say that when all 418 00:25:24,020 --> 00:25:25,980 S1: the things you did and all the travel that you 419 00:25:26,030 --> 00:25:28,190 S1: and your family that went through all of this with 420 00:25:28,190 --> 00:25:30,990 S1: you as well. That's Ron. You're going to hear the 421 00:25:30,990 --> 00:25:34,909 S1: rest of the parakeet story of Honey's story when we 422 00:25:34,950 --> 00:25:37,149 S1: come back, and I want to hear yours. Add a 423 00:25:37,150 --> 00:25:39,870 S1: couple lines open for you right now. How did you 424 00:25:39,910 --> 00:25:44,429 S1: mark and find out how honey was? His life was marked. 425 00:25:44,430 --> 00:25:51,190 S1: How did you mark the life of that beloved pet? Eight. 775. Four. Eight. Three. Six. Seven. Five. 426 00:26:04,430 --> 00:26:07,469 S1: Jerry says we have a pet cemetery in our area. 427 00:26:07,470 --> 00:26:11,270 S1: When our 20 year old kitty died, we buried her there. 428 00:26:11,270 --> 00:26:16,710 S1: Her tombstone reads Dinah the Good and Nice. And yes, 429 00:26:16,990 --> 00:26:20,750 S1: she was Margie. We had two very special dogs and 430 00:26:20,750 --> 00:26:22,710 S1: when they passed they got their own place in our 431 00:26:22,710 --> 00:26:27,889 S1: family Cemetery. Joyce says my squiggy is buried at the 432 00:26:27,890 --> 00:26:32,330 S1: pet cemetery. His grave is marked with a granite grave marker. Squiggy. 433 00:26:32,330 --> 00:26:35,690 S1: I wonder what what most of the people are calling 434 00:26:35,690 --> 00:26:38,370 S1: in about dogs. And there are some cats in here 435 00:26:38,369 --> 00:26:41,730 S1: as well. And we've got a parakeet on the line, 436 00:26:41,770 --> 00:26:46,490 S1: a parakeet named honey, who went almost as far around 437 00:26:46,490 --> 00:26:50,290 S1: the world as Ron did with the State Department. He's. 438 00:26:50,290 --> 00:26:55,050 S1: He's been everywhere. Johnny Cash could sing about him, but 439 00:26:55,050 --> 00:26:57,210 S1: we didn't get to the end of the story. And 440 00:26:57,210 --> 00:27:00,290 S1: what you did to commemorate honey. So, Ron, tell us 441 00:27:00,290 --> 00:27:01,410 S1: the rest of the story. 442 00:27:02,930 --> 00:27:06,170 S5: Okay. The rest of the story, pick it up in Pakistan. 443 00:27:06,210 --> 00:27:08,530 S5: We take him on, I, I take him on over 444 00:27:08,530 --> 00:27:16,290 S5: to the Philippines. He's riding in the aircraft between Manila and, um, 445 00:27:16,890 --> 00:27:21,210 S5: I mean, between Islamabad and Manila. And he's tweeting in 446 00:27:21,210 --> 00:27:25,500 S5: his little tiny cage underneath the sea. And the pilots 447 00:27:25,500 --> 00:27:28,260 S5: were sitting there, extra pilots sitting there. They wanted to 448 00:27:28,260 --> 00:27:30,940 S5: know what it was. And I said, oh, we must 449 00:27:30,940 --> 00:27:34,859 S5: see this. These are Filipino pilots. And, uh, so I 450 00:27:35,380 --> 00:27:38,260 S5: his wings are clipped and I knew exactly what he 451 00:27:38,260 --> 00:27:40,460 S5: would do. So I brought his little cage out and 452 00:27:40,460 --> 00:27:44,060 S5: uncovered it. And he looks out, I opened it, he 453 00:27:44,060 --> 00:27:46,740 S5: looks out, he jumps on top of the cage, walks 454 00:27:46,740 --> 00:27:49,300 S5: around the cage, tweets a few times. The pilot says, 455 00:27:49,300 --> 00:27:51,260 S5: does he talk? I said, oh yeah, he talks. He 456 00:27:51,260 --> 00:27:53,740 S5: does different things. He looks at them and then goes 457 00:27:53,740 --> 00:27:56,580 S5: back in his cage and continues to talk. And that 458 00:27:56,580 --> 00:28:01,340 S5: was that. Uh, they said he's good. Um, he was flying. 459 00:28:01,500 --> 00:28:04,580 S1: He was finally flying. You let him fly, didn't you? 460 00:28:05,859 --> 00:28:08,980 S5: Yeah, yeah, he was flying. He flew right with me 461 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:13,580 S5: and all the way. And, uh, so then in the Philippines, 462 00:28:13,580 --> 00:28:15,659 S5: we were there, and it was about four years into 463 00:28:15,700 --> 00:28:20,820 S5: my tour of duty, uh, with, with state. And he 464 00:28:20,820 --> 00:28:23,830 S5: passed away one. One day I was sitting below his 465 00:28:23,830 --> 00:28:26,909 S5: cage nearby and. And it got awful quiet and I 466 00:28:26,910 --> 00:28:30,430 S5: looked up and he had just fallen over and had died. 467 00:28:30,830 --> 00:28:33,390 S5: One of his interesting things is he loved to eat 468 00:28:33,390 --> 00:28:37,070 S5: different things. And one of them I said one day, 469 00:28:37,470 --> 00:28:40,790 S5: let's see if he likes peppers, because I know that 470 00:28:40,950 --> 00:28:45,230 S5: parrots like peppers, hot peppers. So I cut a couple 471 00:28:45,270 --> 00:28:47,590 S5: little pieces and I thought, well, it can't hurt him. 472 00:28:48,110 --> 00:28:50,710 S5: You know, we put it in there along with his lettuce, 473 00:28:50,990 --> 00:28:54,630 S5: and he immediately went to the pepper and he starts 474 00:28:54,670 --> 00:28:56,990 S5: chewing on it. And believe this or not, he starts 475 00:28:56,990 --> 00:29:01,870 S5: blinking and tears coming out of his eyes, watering up 476 00:29:01,870 --> 00:29:04,870 S5: from eating the pepper. But he didn't stop. He kept 477 00:29:04,870 --> 00:29:06,950 S5: eating it and eating. He ate it all up. He 478 00:29:06,950 --> 00:29:11,510 S5: loved it. Uh, went on to your question about how 479 00:29:11,510 --> 00:29:15,470 S5: he's marked. Uh, I traveled all over the Philippines and 480 00:29:15,470 --> 00:29:17,790 S5: I had to he passed away, so I had to 481 00:29:17,790 --> 00:29:21,610 S5: put him on ice for a couple weeks before I 482 00:29:21,610 --> 00:29:24,610 S5: was to go to another part in the southern Philippines, 483 00:29:24,610 --> 00:29:28,250 S5: where there's a national park that I was working with 484 00:29:28,250 --> 00:29:31,890 S5: on developing that. And I had a trip with the 485 00:29:31,890 --> 00:29:39,450 S5: ambassador to go down with me. Uh, Ambassador Negroponte in Manila. And, uh, 486 00:29:39,450 --> 00:29:42,890 S5: so on that date, I took him out and we 487 00:29:42,930 --> 00:29:47,330 S5: went on the trip while I was down there. I 488 00:29:47,370 --> 00:29:50,290 S5: knew there would be a spot. I knew exactly where 489 00:29:50,290 --> 00:29:53,330 S5: I could bury the park, where it would be under 490 00:29:53,330 --> 00:29:57,970 S5: the beautiful palm trees with white sea sand and the 491 00:29:58,290 --> 00:30:03,050 S5: view of the South China Sea. And, uh, I took 492 00:30:03,050 --> 00:30:07,930 S5: him there, and I made a nice little grave. And 493 00:30:07,970 --> 00:30:12,050 S5: I went along the beach and found a beautiful shell 494 00:30:12,650 --> 00:30:17,090 S5: from the ocean. And I dug the grave. He was 495 00:30:17,090 --> 00:30:20,180 S5: all wrapped up really nice in a little box and 496 00:30:20,180 --> 00:30:22,580 S5: put him down in there and down deep so the 497 00:30:22,580 --> 00:30:25,420 S5: crabs wouldn't get him or anything, and then humphed it 498 00:30:25,420 --> 00:30:29,020 S5: up and then put the shell over. And then as 499 00:30:29,180 --> 00:30:33,979 S5: a naval officer, I also carried a boatswain's pipe with me, 500 00:30:35,940 --> 00:30:38,260 S5: and I piped him over the side, which is the 501 00:30:38,260 --> 00:30:41,500 S5: highest honors that you can get, uh, with the navy 502 00:30:41,540 --> 00:30:44,900 S5: or piping something over the side. That's for dignitaries and 503 00:30:44,900 --> 00:30:49,420 S5: high level high ranking military officers, etc.. And that's how 504 00:30:49,420 --> 00:30:52,140 S5: he went and that's where he's at. But it was 505 00:30:52,140 --> 00:30:56,500 S5: a beautiful little animal for our family and caused a 506 00:30:56,500 --> 00:31:01,100 S5: lot of nice laughters from many different people that would 507 00:31:01,100 --> 00:31:04,180 S5: come by and see at the house and that kind 508 00:31:04,180 --> 00:31:04,660 S5: of thing. 509 00:31:05,180 --> 00:31:09,180 S1: So you can, you can close your eyes right now 510 00:31:09,820 --> 00:31:13,100 S1: and you can see that spot, right? 511 00:31:15,020 --> 00:31:17,900 S5: Oh, sure. I can see, I can see it with 512 00:31:17,990 --> 00:31:22,910 S5: the various foliages in the National Park, um, which we 513 00:31:22,950 --> 00:31:27,030 S5: were working to preserve with the Philippine government. Uh, beautiful 514 00:31:27,030 --> 00:31:30,870 S5: palm trees looking out over the waters on the west 515 00:31:30,870 --> 00:31:34,310 S5: side to South China Sea on the South China Sea, 516 00:31:34,590 --> 00:31:40,390 S5: and then the underbrush, as well as tracks from monitor lizards, 517 00:31:40,830 --> 00:31:44,950 S5: because there was monitor lizards that walked around all around there. 518 00:31:45,070 --> 00:31:48,110 S5: So that was one of the other wildlife that went by, 519 00:31:48,110 --> 00:31:50,990 S5: but he was down deep enough that no one would mess, 520 00:31:51,110 --> 00:31:52,510 S5: would deal with it. 521 00:31:53,110 --> 00:31:53,630 S1: And when you. 522 00:31:53,630 --> 00:31:54,910 S5: Say that nature. 523 00:31:55,550 --> 00:31:58,470 S1: When you say you piped him, do you mean that 524 00:31:58,470 --> 00:32:01,190 S1: you played you played a song for him. 525 00:32:02,790 --> 00:32:07,670 S5: The Navy, uh, there's a thing called the boatswain's pipe. 526 00:32:07,670 --> 00:32:11,270 S5: It's an interesting, uh, it's a little device that sounds 527 00:32:11,270 --> 00:32:14,030 S5: like a whistle, but the way you hold it in 528 00:32:14,030 --> 00:32:16,770 S5: your hand, you can make the sound go up and down, 529 00:32:17,010 --> 00:32:19,490 S5: and there are certain signals that are used by the 530 00:32:19,490 --> 00:32:23,410 S5: boatswain to. In the olden days the Royal Navy and 531 00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:27,810 S5: all to tell the sailors what's. What's happening, you know, 532 00:32:27,850 --> 00:32:30,010 S5: time to come to eat, time to do this, time 533 00:32:30,010 --> 00:32:32,930 S5: to do that, or then when there's a dignitary coming 534 00:32:32,930 --> 00:32:36,050 S5: on board and everybody's at attention, they will pipe a 535 00:32:36,050 --> 00:32:39,210 S5: certain sound for that as a dignitary comes or to 536 00:32:39,250 --> 00:32:43,170 S5: honor if there's a burial at sea, uh, they will 537 00:32:43,170 --> 00:32:47,210 S5: do it. Do the chief boatswain will play this little 538 00:32:47,250 --> 00:32:50,570 S5: pipe that he carries around. It's a mark of prestige 539 00:32:50,570 --> 00:32:55,650 S5: for the boatswain's mate. Uh, that's a position. And, uh, 540 00:32:55,650 --> 00:32:59,450 S5: so I did that. Um. I recently did it for 541 00:32:59,450 --> 00:33:03,050 S5: my wife. She passed away just a few months ago. Uh, 542 00:33:03,450 --> 00:33:07,650 S5: she's the one who bought him. Uh, and I piped 543 00:33:07,650 --> 00:33:10,450 S5: her over the sea, uh, over the side at the 544 00:33:10,450 --> 00:33:12,890 S5: national Cemetery in Florida. 545 00:33:14,010 --> 00:33:18,860 S1: Ron, I was to our listeners. I asked Ron in 546 00:33:18,860 --> 00:33:22,140 S1: the break. Have you ever called here before? And he said, no, 547 00:33:22,140 --> 00:33:24,820 S1: never called. I listened a lot, but I never called. 548 00:33:25,140 --> 00:33:27,780 S1: And if you ever wonder about some of the topics 549 00:33:27,780 --> 00:33:32,020 S1: that we choose to do here, this is why I. Ron, 550 00:33:32,020 --> 00:33:34,500 S1: I think this is why we did this program just 551 00:33:34,500 --> 00:33:36,820 S1: to hear about you and honey, as well as the 552 00:33:36,820 --> 00:33:40,300 S1: other stories that we're hearing today. But here's the other, 553 00:33:40,300 --> 00:33:44,300 S1: here's the other thing. It's the people. When Wanda talked 554 00:33:44,300 --> 00:33:47,740 S1: about bandit, it was her daughter and her brother that 555 00:33:47,740 --> 00:33:51,740 S1: were out there on the porch when bandit passed away. 556 00:33:51,740 --> 00:33:56,460 S1: And Dawn with Teddy, her four sons, and the youngest son. 557 00:33:56,460 --> 00:34:00,540 S1: And you with your wife and your kids and all 558 00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:04,540 S1: these travels and all the people and the pilots who 559 00:34:04,580 --> 00:34:09,700 S1: were traveling that flying that helicopter or the plane or whatever, uh, 560 00:34:10,460 --> 00:34:14,270 S1: made a connection. These, these are gifts from God that 561 00:34:14,270 --> 00:34:17,629 S1: connect our hearts together in ways that I don't think 562 00:34:17,630 --> 00:34:20,030 S1: we can understand. Do you believe that? 563 00:34:21,590 --> 00:34:25,110 S5: I certainly do. Oh, yes. Oh yes. I've had a 564 00:34:25,110 --> 00:34:28,629 S5: lot of pets over the years. As a boy, I 565 00:34:28,630 --> 00:34:33,070 S5: mean raccoons, possums, squirrel. I mean, I've raised these things 566 00:34:33,070 --> 00:34:36,390 S5: because I came from the country and raised a little 567 00:34:36,390 --> 00:34:39,030 S5: tiny possum. It was only an inch and a half long. 568 00:34:39,070 --> 00:34:43,070 S5: Fell out of his mother's pouch and raccoons and an owl. 569 00:34:43,110 --> 00:34:50,030 S5: And and, uh, I'm I'm a natural resource person. Anyway. Uh, 570 00:34:50,150 --> 00:34:55,390 S5: had two alligators for a pet when I was a kid. And, um, 571 00:34:56,150 --> 00:35:00,910 S5: all these pigeons, chickens, you know, farming and you get 572 00:35:00,910 --> 00:35:04,710 S5: into everything. Yeah, practically. Especially when you're in the country 573 00:35:04,710 --> 00:35:07,989 S5: and there's nothing else around you. Now, is it? How 574 00:35:07,989 --> 00:35:08,790 S5: long your life. 575 00:35:10,030 --> 00:35:11,950 S1: How long were you and your wife married? 576 00:35:13,850 --> 00:35:14,930 S5: 55 years. 577 00:35:15,250 --> 00:35:18,290 S1: Only 55. And how long has it been since she 578 00:35:18,290 --> 00:35:19,010 S1: passed away? 579 00:35:20,610 --> 00:35:22,330 S5: Last since last August. 580 00:35:22,489 --> 00:35:23,450 S1: August. Okay. 581 00:35:23,610 --> 00:35:26,610 S5: It was a tragedy. On top of tragedy. Yeah. 582 00:35:27,170 --> 00:35:28,850 S1: How are you? How are you doing now? 583 00:35:31,170 --> 00:35:34,570 S5: I'm doing pretty good, I think. But I will always 584 00:35:34,570 --> 00:35:39,810 S5: say to everyone, if you have faith in God and 585 00:35:39,810 --> 00:35:45,130 S5: Jesus Christ as your personal Savior, you will do better. 586 00:35:46,650 --> 00:35:51,330 S5: You will. You can go. My wife went, I would say, 587 00:35:51,890 --> 00:35:56,090 S5: in a very dignified manner. She had cancer. She lost 588 00:35:56,090 --> 00:35:59,649 S5: all her. They didn't discover it till stage four and 589 00:35:59,650 --> 00:36:03,730 S5: she passed away within eight weeks. But she went with honor. 590 00:36:03,730 --> 00:36:08,009 S5: She went with dignity. She went with faith. And she 591 00:36:08,010 --> 00:36:10,330 S5: was holding a little cross that I gave her for 592 00:36:10,330 --> 00:36:14,380 S5: three days before as she passed to the tune of 593 00:36:14,380 --> 00:36:17,660 S5: amazing Grace. And there is power in the blood. 594 00:36:18,500 --> 00:36:19,820 S6: Oh, yeah. 595 00:36:20,940 --> 00:36:23,940 S1: Oh, Ron. I could talk with you. I could talk 596 00:36:23,940 --> 00:36:25,860 S1: with you. All week long. We just do a whole 597 00:36:25,900 --> 00:36:29,020 S1: run program and go back through all of these things 598 00:36:29,020 --> 00:36:33,060 S1: that you shared with us today, but especially in this, uh, 599 00:36:33,420 --> 00:36:36,940 S1: praying for mercy for you, for peace to your heart. 600 00:36:37,180 --> 00:36:40,620 S1: August to now is, is a blink of an eye. 601 00:36:40,660 --> 00:36:44,740 S1: So it's been, it feels like it's, it's been just yesterday. 602 00:36:44,739 --> 00:36:47,259 S1: And yet it feels like a long time too. At 603 00:36:47,260 --> 00:36:51,140 S1: the same time. So I, I pray that God would 604 00:36:51,500 --> 00:36:54,259 S1: be walking with you through all of this. Thank you 605 00:36:54,260 --> 00:36:57,980 S1: so much for sharing your heart about this little parakeet 606 00:36:58,140 --> 00:37:01,859 S1: who made so many connections between you and your family, 607 00:37:01,860 --> 00:37:06,820 S1: and then those other others around the world. Wow. There's 608 00:37:06,820 --> 00:37:10,190 S1: Ron's story. There's more coming up straight ahead. If you 609 00:37:10,190 --> 00:37:13,510 S1: go to kris.org, you can get to our Facebook page. 610 00:37:13,510 --> 00:37:16,310 S1: I'd love to hear your story. Just go to Chris 611 00:37:16,350 --> 00:37:32,910 S1: Fabry live.org. There's more straight ahead on Moody Radio. We 612 00:37:32,910 --> 00:37:35,750 S1: have a new month. It's May 1st. And with that 613 00:37:35,790 --> 00:37:38,310 S1: it means we have a new thank you gift. If 614 00:37:38,350 --> 00:37:41,510 S1: you support the program so that we can have conversations 615 00:37:41,510 --> 00:37:43,750 S1: so that I get to reach and make a connection 616 00:37:43,750 --> 00:37:48,069 S1: with Ron and you. The book that I've chosen to 617 00:37:48,150 --> 00:37:51,629 S1: send all through May is by a pal of mine, 618 00:37:51,630 --> 00:37:53,870 S1: John Gager, who works with us here at Moody Radio. 619 00:37:53,870 --> 00:37:57,189 S1: He's written a book called Powerful Self-Talk from the Psalms. 620 00:37:57,630 --> 00:37:59,430 S1: We talked about this a couple of months ago, I 621 00:37:59,430 --> 00:38:03,029 S1: think it was published by harvest House. And listen to 622 00:38:03,030 --> 00:38:05,270 S1: what Janet Partial says. I was going to read you 623 00:38:05,310 --> 00:38:09,130 S1: what I said about it, but Janet's even better. Too 624 00:38:09,130 --> 00:38:12,410 S1: often that voice in your head, the one that sounds 625 00:38:12,410 --> 00:38:17,370 S1: like you, is condemning and belittling. John Gager wants us 626 00:38:17,370 --> 00:38:20,009 S1: to know that self-talk from the Psalms is how we 627 00:38:20,010 --> 00:38:27,210 S1: replace condemnation with comfort, loathing with loving, and pain with peace. 628 00:38:27,690 --> 00:38:30,650 S1: I didn't know Janet could do alliteration, and she did 629 00:38:30,650 --> 00:38:33,770 S1: join him on the journey of discovering how to replace 630 00:38:33,770 --> 00:38:39,770 S1: that troublesome self-talk with God's perfect voice. There are 40 631 00:38:39,810 --> 00:38:43,969 S1: chapters in here, 40 basic devotions that will take you 632 00:38:43,969 --> 00:38:47,650 S1: through different parts of the Psalms that will change that 633 00:38:47,650 --> 00:38:51,810 S1: conversation you might be having with yourself. That's condemning. I'd 634 00:38:51,810 --> 00:38:55,170 S1: love to send you a copy. Powerful self-talk from the Psalms. 635 00:38:55,410 --> 00:38:58,010 S1: Just give a gift of any size. Go to Chris 636 00:38:58,010 --> 00:39:01,650 S1: Fabry live.org. Scroll down. You'll see it right there. Chris 637 00:39:01,690 --> 00:39:09,379 S1: Fabry live.org. Or you can call 95. Fabry and give 638 00:39:09,380 --> 00:39:20,860 S1: a gift today. (866) 953-2279. My daughter had a hedgehog named Loki. Robert. Robert. 639 00:39:20,860 --> 00:39:23,859 S1: Thank you. She loved it and it loved her. It 640 00:39:23,860 --> 00:39:28,100 S1: didn't really like anybody else. But what mattered matters is 641 00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:32,739 S1: it loved her. Little Loki. And I thought my first 642 00:39:32,739 --> 00:39:35,300 S1: question was, what's the difference between is there a difference 643 00:39:35,300 --> 00:39:38,180 S1: between a hedgehog and a groundhog? Because we had groundhogs 644 00:39:38,180 --> 00:39:41,100 S1: and they weren't real lovable. The ones that I saw. 645 00:39:41,380 --> 00:39:44,740 S1: And the hedgehog is much smaller than a groundhog in 646 00:39:44,739 --> 00:39:49,819 S1: length and weight. Groundhogs build burrows. Complicated burrows. Live underground. 647 00:39:49,860 --> 00:39:53,580 S1: Hedgehogs build nests above ground. The average hedgehog lives a 648 00:39:53,580 --> 00:39:58,580 S1: shorter life than the average groundhog. So if you were wondering, Robert, 649 00:39:58,580 --> 00:40:02,460 S1: thank you for reaching out. John is in Indiana. John, 650 00:40:02,460 --> 00:40:03,660 S1: why did you call today? 651 00:40:04,780 --> 00:40:07,720 S7: Well, I wanted to call about our pet dog named 652 00:40:07,719 --> 00:40:13,720 S7: Schroeder when we were growing up. Um, my. We wanted 653 00:40:13,719 --> 00:40:17,160 S7: a dog and I'm the youngest of nine and and 654 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:19,600 S7: so my dad, we actually got the dog from the 655 00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:24,080 S7: Humane Society and kind of rescued it. And it was 656 00:40:24,080 --> 00:40:27,719 S7: the best dog ever. He, he was, uh, I guess 657 00:40:27,719 --> 00:40:31,359 S7: part shepherd, part collie or whatever he was. He was 658 00:40:31,360 --> 00:40:35,160 S7: brown and white, but he was just the most lovable dog. 659 00:40:35,160 --> 00:40:38,000 S7: And we, I had a paper route when I was 660 00:40:38,000 --> 00:40:41,920 S7: on Fort Benjamin Harrison, and we would take our dog 661 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:43,879 S7: with us on the paper route, and he would just 662 00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:45,960 S7: stay with us. And then every once in a while 663 00:40:46,000 --> 00:40:49,720 S7: he'd go chase a squirrel or something. And then, um, 664 00:40:50,920 --> 00:40:55,040 S7: you know, there was one time where the dog, there 665 00:40:55,040 --> 00:40:58,279 S7: was a dog about ten houses down from us that 666 00:40:58,280 --> 00:41:02,840 S7: was in heat. And Schroeder had a doghouse that we 667 00:41:02,840 --> 00:41:05,730 S7: made out of plywood and wouldn't stop. And he ripped 668 00:41:05,730 --> 00:41:10,010 S7: off a 4x4 sheet of plywood and drug it ten 669 00:41:10,050 --> 00:41:13,529 S7: houses down. And we got a call from Colonel Baranowski 670 00:41:13,570 --> 00:41:17,410 S7: that our dog was down there harassing their dog. So 671 00:41:17,410 --> 00:41:20,010 S7: we had to go get Schroeder. But he really wanted 672 00:41:20,010 --> 00:41:21,170 S7: to get with that other dog. 673 00:41:21,170 --> 00:41:24,690 S1: But the Colonel, when the colonel calls, you got to 674 00:41:24,690 --> 00:41:26,169 S1: go get the plywood, don't you? 675 00:41:26,730 --> 00:41:27,890 S7: Yeah. So. 676 00:41:27,930 --> 00:41:29,210 S1: Okay, wait a minute, wait a minute. Why did you 677 00:41:29,250 --> 00:41:32,330 S1: name him Schroeder? Was this from, like, the peanuts cartoon? 678 00:41:33,530 --> 00:41:38,129 S7: I think maybe, yeah, we were peanuts fans. But anyway, 679 00:41:38,770 --> 00:41:42,210 S7: we moved. My dad retired when he got back from Vietnam, 680 00:41:42,210 --> 00:41:44,689 S7: and we. We moved to a place on the east 681 00:41:44,690 --> 00:41:49,450 S7: side of Indianapolis. And I'll never forget how obedient Schroeder was. 682 00:41:49,450 --> 00:41:53,170 S7: My dad loved to garden, but he had a lawn 683 00:41:53,170 --> 00:41:56,610 S7: that Schroeder wasn't supposed to cross. And he said, hey, 684 00:41:56,730 --> 00:41:59,529 S7: you're not coming into the garden. You lay down here 685 00:41:59,530 --> 00:42:03,540 S7: and he would lay there until until my dad said, okay, 686 00:42:03,540 --> 00:42:07,700 S7: let's go in the house or whatever. But, um, when 687 00:42:07,739 --> 00:42:10,660 S7: Schroeder died, we were all devastated. I, you know, I 688 00:42:10,700 --> 00:42:13,820 S7: hardly ever seen my dad cry, but he was upset. 689 00:42:13,820 --> 00:42:17,300 S7: We were all upset. And my brother Rocky, who was 690 00:42:17,300 --> 00:42:23,140 S7: an English major, um, wrote a song, Ode to Schroeder, 691 00:42:23,540 --> 00:42:26,660 S7: and we buried him out back and we carved his 692 00:42:26,660 --> 00:42:30,060 S7: name on a big rock, a kind of a reddish rock. 693 00:42:30,580 --> 00:42:35,180 S7: Carved his name. And he sang this song, Ode to Schroeder. 694 00:42:35,180 --> 00:42:39,900 S7: And he was a great dog. And how have you 695 00:42:39,940 --> 00:42:43,380 S7: chased any squirrels lately? How are all the fleas? And 696 00:42:43,420 --> 00:42:45,339 S7: it's just, you know. 697 00:42:45,620 --> 00:42:49,020 S1: You can still remember the lyrics. That's the power of music. 698 00:42:49,060 --> 00:42:51,500 S1: You can still remember the lyrics and the power of 699 00:42:51,500 --> 00:42:55,740 S1: words too. There it comes again. It's like the pain your. 700 00:42:55,739 --> 00:43:00,540 S1: Your brother used that pain to put words down in, 701 00:43:00,860 --> 00:43:04,399 S1: in rhyme. and then the. And then the music to 702 00:43:04,440 --> 00:43:07,919 S1: deal with the love that you had as well as 703 00:43:07,920 --> 00:43:09,120 S1: the pain. Right? 704 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:14,240 S7: Right, right. And so for us, it was a closure 705 00:43:14,239 --> 00:43:18,000 S7: thing where we had a funeral for him, you know, 706 00:43:18,040 --> 00:43:21,280 S7: and we sang to him and, and it was just, 707 00:43:21,960 --> 00:43:24,800 S7: you know, we couldn't just, you know, when a dog dies, 708 00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:28,359 S7: you can't just walk away. You know, I got to 709 00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:29,680 S7: give him a proper burial. 710 00:43:30,080 --> 00:43:30,560 S6: Yeah. 711 00:43:31,600 --> 00:43:34,040 S1: I can hear that coming through. Schroeder. And there it 712 00:43:34,040 --> 00:43:38,279 S1: is again, this connection that we have, that it's not 713 00:43:38,280 --> 00:43:43,680 S1: just you and the animal, it's everybody in between and 714 00:43:43,680 --> 00:43:46,319 S1: and the emotion that comes up. I didn't see my 715 00:43:46,320 --> 00:43:51,840 S1: dad cry very often, but there it unlocks a place 716 00:43:51,840 --> 00:43:54,759 S1: of the heart. And I think it's of it's a 717 00:43:54,760 --> 00:43:56,959 S1: lot like fiction is for me. You know, I read 718 00:43:56,960 --> 00:43:59,520 S1: fiction and it'll come around the back door of your 719 00:43:59,520 --> 00:44:02,330 S1: heart and it will knock in a different way. And 720 00:44:02,330 --> 00:44:06,730 S1: a pet can do that. This gift of God. Psalm 104. 721 00:44:06,770 --> 00:44:10,169 S1: I was looking at Psalm 104 today and it and 722 00:44:10,170 --> 00:44:14,890 S1: it brings out this, uh, you know, God's creativity and 723 00:44:14,890 --> 00:44:18,129 S1: what he does with the, the water and the mountains 724 00:44:18,130 --> 00:44:20,890 S1: and the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. 725 00:44:20,890 --> 00:44:23,690 S1: And then you cause the grass to grow for the 726 00:44:23,690 --> 00:44:26,609 S1: livestock and plants for man to cultivate, that he may 727 00:44:26,610 --> 00:44:30,009 S1: bring forth food on the earth. And then verse 16, 728 00:44:30,050 --> 00:44:32,850 S1: the trees of the Lord are watered abundantly. The cedars 729 00:44:32,850 --> 00:44:36,090 S1: of Lebanon that he planted in them. The birds build 730 00:44:36,090 --> 00:44:40,370 S1: their nests. The stork has her home in the fir trees. 731 00:44:40,370 --> 00:44:44,290 S1: The high mountains are for the wild goats and rocks 732 00:44:44,290 --> 00:44:47,770 S1: are a refuge for the rock badgers. You read the Psalms. 733 00:44:47,770 --> 00:44:51,489 S1: There's animals all over the place in there because they're 734 00:44:51,489 --> 00:44:56,450 S1: part of God's good creation. And this is one of 735 00:44:56,450 --> 00:45:00,020 S1: the quotes that I give probably most often here at 736 00:45:00,020 --> 00:45:02,020 S1: the back fence. I will come back to this. There 737 00:45:02,060 --> 00:45:03,899 S1: are 2 or 3 that I come back to, but 738 00:45:03,900 --> 00:45:07,860 S1: this is one from C.S. Lewis in the Four Loves. 739 00:45:07,860 --> 00:45:11,700 S1: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love. Anything 740 00:45:11,700 --> 00:45:15,620 S1: in your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If 741 00:45:15,620 --> 00:45:17,660 S1: you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you 742 00:45:17,660 --> 00:45:20,739 S1: must give it to no one, not even an animal. 743 00:45:21,219 --> 00:45:25,140 S1: Wrap it carefully around with hobbies and little luxuries. Avoid 744 00:45:25,140 --> 00:45:28,819 S1: all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or 745 00:45:28,820 --> 00:45:35,939 S1: coffin of your own selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, 746 00:45:36,460 --> 00:45:39,819 S1: it will change. It will not be broken. It will 747 00:45:39,860 --> 00:45:49,420 S1: become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable. 748 00:45:50,140 --> 00:45:52,780 S1: And I'm so glad that we got to hear just 749 00:45:52,780 --> 00:45:56,460 S1: a few stories today about bandit and about Teddy and 750 00:45:56,460 --> 00:46:00,239 S1: about honey and about Schroeder. And there were others we 751 00:46:00,239 --> 00:46:02,279 S1: didn't get to, and I'm sorry we weren't able to 752 00:46:02,280 --> 00:46:04,839 S1: do that today, but I think it's a great way 753 00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:07,759 S1: to start. May. And if you didn't get on and 754 00:46:07,760 --> 00:46:12,160 S1: this touched something in your own heart, talk with those 755 00:46:12,160 --> 00:46:15,120 S1: around you. Talk with your parents about a memory that 756 00:46:15,120 --> 00:46:19,240 S1: you've had, talk with your kids or your grandkids about this, 757 00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,439 S1: and see what it stirs up inside of you. And 758 00:46:23,440 --> 00:46:26,080 S1: then have a great weekend and come on back next week. 759 00:46:26,120 --> 00:46:29,239 S1: A full lineup of some really, really great programs. We 760 00:46:29,239 --> 00:46:32,040 S1: have the National Day of Prayer coming up next week. 761 00:46:32,040 --> 00:46:34,880 S1: Dana Gresh, a pal, Dana Bash is going to be 762 00:46:34,880 --> 00:46:38,000 S1: with us and a whole lot more. Thank you for 763 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:42,520 S1: your support. Thank you for listening. And remember, Chris Fabry 764 00:46:42,520 --> 00:46:45,399 S1: Live is a production of Moody Radio, a Ministry of 765 00:46:45,400 --> 00:46:48,360 S1: Moody Bible Institute. Have a great weekend.