WEBVTT - #124 Do you want to heal? 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:02.560 You can't see it on an X ray. You can't 0:00:02.560 --> 0:00:05.080 put a band aid or a cast on it, but 0:00:05.160 --> 0:00:09.080 it hurts like a broken bone. And you're in the valley. 0:00:09.080 --> 0:00:12.440 Anytime someone's in the valley, I always love to say, 0:00:13.200 --> 0:00:16.159 time will go by, the sun will come up, like 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:31.640 Chad said, and you will heal. Welcome back to the podcast. 0:00:31.920 --> 0:00:34.520 This is the first one I've done, and I don't 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:37.400 know how many that I've had a guest back, and 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:40.760 it's one of everyone's favorite. Faster Chad, you remember how 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:43.040 to do this? Somebody else here, I think, So I 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:46.240 got to look this way right, Okay, yeah, faster Chad 0:00:46.320 --> 0:00:49.280 sitting to my left and one of one of our 0:00:49.840 --> 0:00:54.600 our few multi repeat guests. And everyone loves you. I 0:00:55.040 --> 0:00:56.720 go to meet and greets and they're like, hey, tell 0:00:56.800 --> 0:01:01.080 pastor Chad, Hi really yeah, that's cool. Everyone loves you 0:01:01.120 --> 0:01:04.640 and Bernie so so welcome back. I had a fan experience. 0:01:04.640 --> 0:01:06.840 I've never had a half outside of my kids and 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.440 my wife. So I was in the coffee shop here 0:01:09.480 --> 0:01:12.080 in town and I was getting ready to meet with somebody, 0:01:12.080 --> 0:01:15.520 and I'm in this coffee shop affair amount and I'll 0:01:15.560 --> 0:01:18.399 have meetings or appointments or one on ones there and 0:01:18.440 --> 0:01:21.479 so I'm standing in line and this guy is kind 0:01:21.480 --> 0:01:24.720 of looking at me, and I figure he's probably looking 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:26.600 at somebody behind me. So I kind of looked behind 0:01:26.600 --> 0:01:29.560 me and I realized, no, he's he's locked on right, 0:01:29.600 --> 0:01:31.920 he's he sees me and I'm and so I kind 0:01:31.920 --> 0:01:33.480 of look away and I pretend like I'm looking at 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.240 the menu, although I know exactly what I'm going to go, 0:01:35.440 --> 0:01:38.600 what my order is. So I'm standing there and I 0:01:38.720 --> 0:01:41.200 noticed that on my peripheral. He gets up and he 0:01:41.240 --> 0:01:42.920 starts making his way towards me, and I was like, 0:01:42.959 --> 0:01:45.720 I wonder if he's waiting on somebody. And he comes 0:01:45.760 --> 0:01:48.440 up and he goes, are you pastor Chad? And so 0:01:48.600 --> 0:01:51.240 now I'm thinking, well, maybe maybe he's somebody that's new 0:01:51.280 --> 0:01:53.200 to the church and I just haven't met him yet. 0:01:53.720 --> 0:01:57.560 And he goes because I heard you on Granger Smith podcast, 0:01:57.640 --> 0:02:00.640 and I was like, really, And I thought about in 0:02:00.680 --> 0:02:03.000 the moment, well, not in the moment, but afterwards, I 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:06.440 should have got his autograph, To get the autograph of 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:10.600 my first like the first person that recognized me, Well, 0:02:10.639 --> 0:02:13.000 I could attest a lot of people feel that way. 0:02:13.360 --> 0:02:15.760 They're just not all of them are in Georgetown, Texas. 0:02:16.840 --> 0:02:19.840 They're all it was a neat experience. Well, everyone loves you. 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:23.639 And the format of this podcast is we answer your 0:02:23.720 --> 0:02:27.680 questions the listener email Grangersmith podcast at gmail dot com 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.040 and we will. We'll jump right into it, Chad and 0:02:31.080 --> 0:02:32.800 are going to answer it like the three of us 0:02:32.840 --> 0:02:34.480 are sitting around a campfire and you walk up and 0:02:34.520 --> 0:02:37.240 you go, you know, something's been on my mind. Can 0:02:37.280 --> 0:02:39.239 I run this by you? And it could be about 0:02:39.240 --> 0:02:41.679 any subject. As you'll see today, we have a lot, 0:02:42.040 --> 0:02:45.160 so I have I have someone cue. I'm just going 0:02:45.160 --> 0:02:47.000 to randomly hit them, Okay, and then I'm going to 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.640 ask you to read some subject lines and see which one. Okay, 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.000 I'm gonna start with this one. Once again, we don't 0:02:54.000 --> 0:02:55.800 have notes in front of us. I don't know, I 0:02:55.800 --> 0:02:57.880 don't know what's about to hit us. But this one 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:01.639 subject line is is my chance ruined? Hey Grangeer, I'd 0:03:01.680 --> 0:03:04.520 like to stay anonymous. Sixteen years old. I love your 0:03:04.520 --> 0:03:06.480 podcast and your music. I'm born and raised in a 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.880 Christian home, basically memorized every verse in the Bible, and 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.960 I know every answer to every question. It's pretty much 0:03:12.960 --> 0:03:16.000 been ingrained in me. I have not been rebellious or 0:03:16.000 --> 0:03:19.280 anything like that, but I've fallen away from God during 0:03:19.320 --> 0:03:23.520 that I did not save myself for marriage. I know 0:03:23.600 --> 0:03:25.360 that I love God and I will love him for 0:03:25.400 --> 0:03:27.120 the rest of my life. But now my question is 0:03:27.120 --> 0:03:30.760 whether a godly, fantastic woman would want to be with me? 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:33.960 Will I have to be with someone who's already made 0:03:33.960 --> 0:03:41.920 the same mistakes as me? With gratitude, mister anonymous sixteen, 0:03:43.360 --> 0:03:46.920 Thanks for emailing. Thanks for emailing. It's a good question. 0:03:47.720 --> 0:03:49.160 I want to I want to first. I want to 0:03:49.160 --> 0:03:53.960 first address the way you asked it, because everyone is 0:03:54.040 --> 0:03:55.680 this is not me, this is not Chad, this is 0:03:55.720 --> 0:03:59.640 everyone that's listening is thinking to themselves. You're sixteen, and 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:03.640 you have every answer already figured out. You've already memorized 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:09.640 every verse in the Bible. Buddy, we got to start 0:04:09.640 --> 0:04:11.600 with air. We got we gotta start there before we 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:16.440 go into the main part of the question. But then, 0:04:16.440 --> 0:04:18.040 the reason, the reason I want to start there is 0:04:18.080 --> 0:04:21.120 because that could be the root of other problems. In fact, 0:04:21.120 --> 0:04:25.120 it probably is because when we when we read through 0:04:25.160 --> 0:04:29.320 the Bible, we see we see only a few themes 0:04:30.000 --> 0:04:34.479 that that resurface in all sixty six books over and over, 0:04:34.560 --> 0:04:37.919 and it's it's we're thankful that there's only a few 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:44.240 because it keeps the entire canon cohesive to each other, 0:04:44.480 --> 0:04:47.159 and and it pulls everything together so that we could 0:04:47.200 --> 0:04:51.640 read Matthew and there and then go back and read Exodus, 0:04:51.680 --> 0:04:54.800 and we could find similarities in that way. So there's 0:04:54.839 --> 0:04:57.280 a few things. And one of those very few things 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:02.760 is be humble. You gotta be humble, humble yourself to God. 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:08.640 Don't ever think about telling God in a prayer. I've 0:05:08.680 --> 0:05:10.440 got it all figured out. I've got all the answers, 0:05:10.480 --> 0:05:12.640 and I've memorized every verse. What else? What else do 0:05:12.640 --> 0:05:16.239 you have for me? God? You know? And and maybe 0:05:16.279 --> 0:05:19.920 you do. Maybe maybe you're just a just a complete 0:05:19.960 --> 0:05:24.320 prod prodigy. I don't think you are no offense. But 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:26.840 maybe you have every you have the whole Bible memorize, 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.520 like that movie a book of eli book. Maybe you 0:05:30.560 --> 0:05:33.719 have the whole book memorized. So then you still go 0:05:33.760 --> 0:05:35.960 to God with a humble heart, and you go, I've 0:05:36.000 --> 0:05:38.960 memorized these words, but show me the wisdom behind them. 0:05:38.960 --> 0:05:41.600 Show it to me so that it's revealed deeper to 0:05:41.640 --> 0:05:44.080 me as I get older, as I as I learned 0:05:44.120 --> 0:05:48.960 to as I crave to understand you more. So I'm 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.279 gonna start with just just that humbleness of coming to 0:05:52.360 --> 0:05:54.719 comingto this and come into this problem and coming to 0:05:54.760 --> 0:05:57.840 you and just going for you just to say I 0:05:57.880 --> 0:06:02.760 am broken, I'm a sinner. God, I have nothing without you, 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:07.200 humble me before you enlarge my heart so that so 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:12.400 I could better understand my depravity, my brokenness. And you'll 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.679 see that if you go through the Psalms. You see 0:06:14.680 --> 0:06:19.359 this over and over with King David. King David was 0:06:19.480 --> 0:06:23.640 so humble in the heart, and he was he was 0:06:23.680 --> 0:06:28.279 such a servant of God that God so many times 0:06:28.320 --> 0:06:31.520 rewarded him with so many, so many blessings, and his 0:06:31.640 --> 0:06:35.520 son Solomon with so many blessings because of that humbleness. 0:06:35.560 --> 0:06:38.479 When when when God asked Solomon, what do you want, 0:06:39.040 --> 0:06:40.719 I'll give you anything, and he said, I just want 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:44.200 wisdom to understand you. And God said, because of because 0:06:44.240 --> 0:06:46.320 you asked for wisdom, I'm going to give you much 0:06:46.360 --> 0:06:50.200 more than that. We see that theme reoccurring all the 0:06:50.240 --> 0:06:54.039 way through Jesus, in the New Testament and through the Epistles. 0:06:54.200 --> 0:06:57.559 So I want to start there and just make sure 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.480 and I don't Buddy, I don't think you meant it 0:07:00.560 --> 0:07:03.760 in any arrogant way. I think you're trying to tell 0:07:03.760 --> 0:07:08.599 me and Chad that you understand the different doctrines and 0:07:08.640 --> 0:07:12.160 you understand the different concepts. But now we're going to 0:07:12.200 --> 0:07:16.520 dig into what your question is, which reveals that maybe 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:22.000 you don't totally understand the doctrines, especially that of total 0:07:22.040 --> 0:07:27.160 depravity and forgiveness, and the fact that we are all fallen. 0:07:27.600 --> 0:07:31.880 And it doesn't take your email for you to tell 0:07:31.960 --> 0:07:34.400 us what you did. It doesn't take that for us 0:07:34.400 --> 0:07:37.680 to already know that you're already a sinner and that 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.000 you already have plenty of things that you will be 0:07:40.120 --> 0:07:42.440 doing that you will mess up as you go on 0:07:42.480 --> 0:07:47.120 your journey from sixteen forward. But Chad, do you want 0:07:47.160 --> 0:07:49.600 to jump in? Yeah? I think I mean to highlight 0:07:49.680 --> 0:07:54.720 what you've said Granger, that humility is a theme and 0:07:54.720 --> 0:07:59.480 the proper response of any human before a mighty God. 0:07:59.840 --> 0:08:02.960 And so humility is where it begins Micah six 's eight. 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.800 If you've got that verse memorized, then you know it 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:10.560 well right. The idea of and priority of seeking kindness, 0:08:10.960 --> 0:08:16.080 loving justice, and walking humbly with your God. That's what 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:19.920 he requires of us, and that's what He desires for us. 0:08:19.920 --> 0:08:23.800 And so beginning with that humility and that humility is 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:26.120 a right understanding of who I am. I am a 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:31.080 broken sinner in need of grace, and grace implies that 0:08:31.160 --> 0:08:34.040 it's not a gift that I deserve. And so that's 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:39.280 what you're wondering. If God can be gracious about my situation? 0:08:40.480 --> 0:08:42.480 Is there any woman out there that can be gracious 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:46.040 about my situation? And so you've got to understand and 0:08:46.080 --> 0:08:48.679 believe that. Man, if you go to God with humility 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.319 and brokenness and say I messed up big time, please, 0:08:51.440 --> 0:08:55.040 please Lord help me. We know that the blood of 0:08:55.120 --> 0:08:58.480 Christ washes you clean and that you stand as a 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.200 new creation in Christ. There anything that we learn about 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.400 the Gospel, it's that God is a god of second 0:09:04.520 --> 0:09:09.239 chances and third and fourth and fifth, and that repentance 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:13.840 is the regular normal activity of a Christian to say, yep, 0:09:13.880 --> 0:09:15.640 I see the sin in my life. I see that 0:09:15.679 --> 0:09:17.640 as sin, I call it sin, I repent, I turn 0:09:17.720 --> 0:09:21.000 from it to Christ and follow him. And so, yes, 0:09:21.960 --> 0:09:24.679 this is what's going on. But what your fear is 0:09:24.679 --> 0:09:28.840 is that there's no godly woman out there that will 0:09:28.840 --> 0:09:32.680 exercise the same kind of grace. And my question is, 0:09:33.640 --> 0:09:37.000 what if the roles were reversed. What if you had 0:09:37.000 --> 0:09:42.520 saved yourself and you met an amazing, amazing girl and 0:09:42.559 --> 0:09:45.520 you guys started dating, and you find out although she 0:09:45.559 --> 0:09:49.040 loves the Lord, this thing in her past that she 0:09:49.160 --> 0:09:52.520 did not wait. How would you respond? Because that's a 0:09:52.559 --> 0:09:57.199 heart check. Have you do you truly accept and receive 0:09:57.320 --> 0:09:59.680 the grace of God? And are you truly humbled about 0:09:59.679 --> 0:10:02.679 your own brokenness? Because I guarantee there are women out 0:10:02.720 --> 0:10:07.600 there that are that gracious, that do enjoy the gift 0:10:07.640 --> 0:10:10.560 of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and are giving grace 0:10:10.679 --> 0:10:14.840 and forgiveness. But I wonder if you wrestle with that yourself. 0:10:15.600 --> 0:10:20.520 That's so good that you you've kind of categorized, mister anonymous. 0:10:20.520 --> 0:10:25.120 You've kind of categorized women into two categories, A godly 0:10:25.240 --> 0:10:29.280 fantastic woman and someone who's already made mistakes like you, 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:34.640 And and hey, I want you to I want you 0:10:34.760 --> 0:10:39.720 to consider that you could have both, that there are both, 0:10:40.559 --> 0:10:43.520 and and there's many there's many people listening right now, 0:10:43.600 --> 0:10:47.240 raising their hand. Hopefully everyone is raising their hand. Going me, 0:10:47.520 --> 0:10:50.679 I've made mistakes, but I could still be a godly, 0:10:50.800 --> 0:10:56.920 fantastic person. And I think Pastor Chad, you know, he 0:10:57.040 --> 0:10:59.520 just nailed it that that either you you could find 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:01.920 a fantastic to godly woman that has waited, or you 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:04.480 can find a fantastic, godly woman that has made mistakes 0:11:04.480 --> 0:11:08.839 but it's now repented. And I want you to I 0:11:08.920 --> 0:11:10.280 want you to open your mind. I think I think 0:11:10.360 --> 0:11:12.679 Chad and I both kind of think that there's probably 0:11:12.720 --> 0:11:15.480 other things going on underlying. And I don't blame you 0:11:15.520 --> 0:11:19.360 at all because you're sixteen. You know, I walked through 0:11:19.800 --> 0:11:22.280 the age sixteen like I had horse blinders on it. 0:11:22.280 --> 0:11:24.240 I couldn't see anything around me. I was just walking, 0:11:24.360 --> 0:11:26.960 you know, like this, like I only thought about football 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:32.120 and guitar. And that's okay, because those blinders are going 0:11:32.200 --> 0:11:35.280 to start peeling away, and you're going to start seeing 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:37.000 more and more of the world, and you're gonna start 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:40.400 understanding more of the world. And that's just a good thing. 0:11:40.720 --> 0:11:44.360 So I appreciate your brother, and thanks thanks for kicking 0:11:44.400 --> 0:11:51.400 off this podcast. Yeah, good question. Let me let me 0:11:51.440 --> 0:11:54.079 throw out a couple to you. What's the right path 0:11:55.160 --> 0:11:59.000 ideas on how to propose our country life. We propose 0:11:59.200 --> 0:12:04.000 propose fun right into it. Huh yeah, okay, says Granger. 0:12:04.760 --> 0:12:06.240 I love your music and I love you take you 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:08.400 use your platform to spread the gospel. I've been lucky 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:10.959 enough to attend your last concert of twenty twenty one 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.360 and Lincoln, Nebraska, and your first concert in twenty twenty 0:12:13.360 --> 0:12:18.480 two in Columbus, Ohio. Even I even able to attend 0:12:18.520 --> 0:12:21.200 Adventure Church and listen to your sermon. Your message was 0:12:21.200 --> 0:12:23.520 actually something I needed to hear at that time. I 0:12:23.559 --> 0:12:27.320 hope that I could be an encouragement when I say 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:29.640 that it's evident that you're being used by God to 0:12:29.679 --> 0:12:33.720 continue on. Thank you very much, brother, he says. So 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:36.240 I'm looking to propose and wondering if you and your 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.520 guest have any ideas on how to do so. I 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.920 have several ideas in mind, but just not sure. One 0:12:40.920 --> 0:12:43.559 of them is to do it at your concert whenever 0:12:43.640 --> 0:12:47.320 you come to Nebraska. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. 0:12:48.120 --> 0:12:51.680 This is Jerry. Okay, Well, you've got the idea of 0:12:51.760 --> 0:12:54.760 going to Paris. I mean kind of like Parker, just 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:59.920 rock and roll, Eiffel Tower romance. But if that's not 0:13:00.040 --> 0:13:04.800 in your budget, man, Jerry, this to me, this is 0:13:04.800 --> 0:13:07.520 a this comes down to the personality of the girl 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.680 in a lot of ways, yes, and you'll you know her, 0:13:12.280 --> 0:13:15.640 does she like is she the kind of girl that 0:13:15.679 --> 0:13:19.520 would love her parents to be there? And it's like 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:22.720 at you know, Christmas Eve and everyone's having dinner and 0:13:23.040 --> 0:13:26.280 the cousins are in town and your grandmother's there. Is 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:29.800 maybe she's that kind of girl. Or maybe she's a 0:13:29.840 --> 0:13:32.600 girl that doesn't really like a lot of attention brought 0:13:32.600 --> 0:13:35.800 on her that makes her uncomfortable and she she would 0:13:35.920 --> 0:13:40.160 rather a nice stroll in the park and you get 0:13:40.200 --> 0:13:42.679 down on a knee. That's actually what I did. Amber 0:13:42.679 --> 0:13:45.000 and I were taking a walk and got in front 0:13:45.000 --> 0:13:48.319 of a church and I took a knee And that's 0:13:48.360 --> 0:13:50.600 Amber's personality. Like, Amber is not the kind of girl 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:54.000 that like that wants a surprise birthday party. She would 0:13:54.120 --> 0:13:56.520 she would not like that. She would get mad at 0:13:56.520 --> 0:13:58.199 me afterwards, like why did you put me through that 0:13:58.240 --> 0:14:03.960 awkward situation surprise birthday party? So some girls like, you know, 0:14:04.040 --> 0:14:05.720 to be at the football game and you do it 0:14:05.760 --> 0:14:07.959 on the jumbo tron, They just love it. They will 0:14:07.960 --> 0:14:11.280 remember that the rest of their lives. But it really 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.640 it really comes down to her and what you're willing 0:14:13.679 --> 0:14:17.800 to sacrifice with her personality. I think that's spot on 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:23.280 because the either you're going to prioritize yourself and is 0:14:23.320 --> 0:14:26.440 this proposal about you and how that makes you look 0:14:26.480 --> 0:14:29.240 and kind of as the as you imagine retelling this 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:32.640 story in years to come, and you know, is it 0:14:32.840 --> 0:14:36.600 is it about kind of you? Or does it prioritize her? 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.680 And what would be the biggest win for her? How 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:43.280 would she feel in that moment? How would she retell 0:14:43.320 --> 0:14:47.400 this story? How do you want this toy story to 0:14:47.440 --> 0:14:51.680 be retold? And who's the biggest priority? Is you think 0:14:51.720 --> 0:14:55.200 about that and it should be her. She's the priority. 0:14:55.320 --> 0:14:59.080 She's the princess. And so think in terms of man, 0:14:59.200 --> 0:15:02.320 how do you want her to retell the story? Or 0:15:02.360 --> 0:15:06.160 how would she be most excited about retelling this story 0:15:06.200 --> 0:15:08.880 to other people? And what makes her most feel most 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:13.560 loved and understood in that moment? Love it? That's good, 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:17.840 just saying, Jerry. I have hosted probably hundreds of engagements 0:15:17.840 --> 0:15:21.080 on our stage. Email Chris at grangersmith dot com. If 0:15:21.120 --> 0:15:25.320 that's something you're interested in. It is so like free 0:15:25.320 --> 0:15:27.880 of charge you do that. Yeah, we've done it many times. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:30.280 When we had a single called happens like that. And 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:33.640 during the life of that single, Yeah, during the life 0:15:33.640 --> 0:15:37.480 of that single, it was literally every night, sometimes twice 0:15:37.480 --> 0:15:39.920 a night. But would they coordinate with you. They would 0:15:39.920 --> 0:15:41.720 coordinate with Chris, and they would go on the side 0:15:41.720 --> 0:15:44.240 of the stage and and they would tell they would 0:15:44.240 --> 0:15:48.440 tell their girlfriend, Oh, hey, we've been we won these tickets. 0:15:48.440 --> 0:15:50.600 We've been invited to watch from the side of the stage. 0:15:51.240 --> 0:15:52.880 But then they didn't know that I was about to 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:55.560 call them on during the middle of the song and 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.280 I'll just hand him the microphone. Just let him do 0:15:58.320 --> 0:16:02.480 what he needs to do. That's awesome. So that Jerry, 0:16:02.600 --> 0:16:06.640 that's that's still there. But make sure that that's something 0:16:06.680 --> 0:16:09.000 that she's into, like that she's not just going to 0:16:09.040 --> 0:16:11.520 be petrified by standing in front of all these people 0:16:11.560 --> 0:16:15.240 and you're on one knee, right, But it's possible. That's cool. 0:16:15.400 --> 0:16:20.520 I didn't know that was a thing. Congratulations, buddy, that's awesome. Yeah, 0:16:20.920 --> 0:16:22.680 do you want to hit up you wanna hit up 0:16:22.680 --> 0:16:25.240 country life? Yeah? Hey, grand your My name is Sam. 0:16:25.280 --> 0:16:28.200 I'm from Illinois. My family is from the city and 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:31.000 has no experience living in the country. I love hunting 0:16:31.600 --> 0:16:34.560 and fishing and the idea of living off the land 0:16:34.640 --> 0:16:37.280 and having a farm or a ranch. How could I 0:16:37.280 --> 0:16:42.040 start getting into farm and living in the country. Did 0:16:42.040 --> 0:16:46.920 he say what city he's in from Illinois from? When 0:16:46.960 --> 0:16:49.920 whenever you're from Illinois you say the city you mean Chicago, Chicago. 0:16:51.240 --> 0:16:59.160 So I mean there's urban farming for sure. That seems challenging. Yeah, 0:16:59.360 --> 0:17:03.720 I mean this is difficult unless we're sitting. We're sitting, 0:17:03.760 --> 0:17:06.000 you know, at the campfire together, me and you, Sam. 0:17:06.480 --> 0:17:10.359 But I would say you could always rent, rent a 0:17:10.359 --> 0:17:13.160 farmhouse and work for somebody. You can always rent a room. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:14.919 I don't know if you have a family or not. 0:17:15.880 --> 0:17:20.600 But you know something my dad did. My dad, you know, 0:17:20.880 --> 0:17:23.840 he was he lived in the city, but he was 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:25.680 a country boy at heart, and so he went out 0:17:25.680 --> 0:17:27.720 on the weekends and he took me and my brothers 0:17:28.480 --> 0:17:31.399 and we would go to and we leased some land 0:17:31.440 --> 0:17:34.760 for deer honey, and we would go out, you know, 0:17:34.800 --> 0:17:36.560 on Friday, and he'd get off work and we'd we 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:41.080 would get together and drive out somewhere. So that sometimes 0:17:41.119 --> 0:17:42.880 you just got to do it. Sometimes your work, that's 0:17:42.920 --> 0:17:45.480 what your work, you know, only allows you to do. 0:17:46.280 --> 0:17:49.520 Not everybody could be a farmer or a rancher unless 0:17:49.520 --> 0:17:51.560 you're born into that. That costs a lot of money 0:17:51.560 --> 0:17:54.760 to start ranching. Yeah, and if you were here, I 0:17:54.760 --> 0:17:56.840 would ask, so what did it? What is it that 0:17:56.920 --> 0:18:00.800 appeals to you about your perception of this life? Like 0:18:00.880 --> 0:18:03.679 he's he says he likes to live outdoors, wants to 0:18:03.720 --> 0:18:08.760 live off the land, hunting, fishing, like outdoor recreation and sports. 0:18:09.320 --> 0:18:13.000 And it sounds like unless I want to grow crops 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.360 and I want to raise animals, and so there's if 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:18.960 that's you know, you can go a couple of different 0:18:19.000 --> 0:18:21.840 roads on that. So yeah, I would just I would 0:18:21.840 --> 0:18:23.919 get out every weekend you can and get out and 0:18:23.920 --> 0:18:26.440 do some hunt and fishing and meet people and meet 0:18:26.480 --> 0:18:30.080 guides and meet different people, like minded people. And eventually 0:18:30.400 --> 0:18:34.159 years after doing that, you're going to go then that 0:18:34.240 --> 0:18:37.240 property is for sale. Yeah, I kind of think I 0:18:37.320 --> 0:18:40.760 want to do this. Yeah, and just yeah, like find 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.840 public land if there is some, and throw up a 0:18:43.880 --> 0:18:46.720 tent and just stay the night out there and just 0:18:46.840 --> 0:18:50.080 be out there, listening to the sights and sounds and 0:18:50.080 --> 0:18:52.679 engage it. And then yeah, take more and more trips, 0:18:52.760 --> 0:18:56.840 or plan an outdoor adventure to Colorado and road trip 0:18:56.880 --> 0:19:00.560 it because Nebraska or Illinois is not too I mean 0:19:00.600 --> 0:19:03.600 you can find wilderness, yeah, whether you go north or 0:19:03.680 --> 0:19:06.800 south or west. But yeah, I get out there and 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.040 plan like maybe a week long trip and go and 0:19:09.080 --> 0:19:13.520 just adventure in public land. Yeah. Absolutely, let's hit Let's 0:19:13.560 --> 0:19:17.520 hit one more and take a break. What's the right path, 0:19:18.720 --> 0:19:22.520 it says, Good morning, Granger. My name is Channel. I'm 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:26.000 twenty three years old, single mom from Auburn, Nebraska. I 0:19:26.040 --> 0:19:28.760 first want to say absolutely love everything you do. Thank 0:19:28.800 --> 0:19:33.080 you very much, she says. So I'm at a crossroads 0:19:33.080 --> 0:19:35.240 in my life right now. I'll do my best to 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.320 keep this short but also include the details. Last year, 0:19:38.400 --> 0:19:42.000 I got into a PTA program and I was injured 0:19:42.280 --> 0:19:44.879 and said program. I ended up having surgery at the 0:19:45.440 --> 0:19:48.240 end of November, and I was forced to take medical 0:19:48.320 --> 0:19:50.640 leave from the program and I'm unable to return until 0:19:50.720 --> 0:19:54.600 January twenty twenty three. At first, I was putting all 0:19:54.600 --> 0:19:58.240 the bad things that happened aside because I wanted so 0:19:58.320 --> 0:20:01.760 bad to be a PTA. But I'm also feeling now 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:03.920 a huge pull of my heart to not go back. 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:06.399 In the last year I have I've dove into my 0:20:06.440 --> 0:20:09.800 faith and believe in God's plan, but it's almost like 0:20:09.840 --> 0:20:12.280 I'm waiting for a huge flashing sign to tell me 0:20:12.359 --> 0:20:14.520 what to do. You always give the best advice, so 0:20:14.520 --> 0:20:17.520 I'd love to hear your thoughts. This comes from Channel 0:20:18.560 --> 0:20:25.760 and Chad, what is PTA? I'm guessing physical therapy associate. Okay, yeah, 0:20:25.760 --> 0:20:29.159 I would think like a she was training to be 0:20:29.160 --> 0:20:32.560 a physical therapist, which would be a physical kind of 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.439 job or occupation, so that an injury would kind of 0:20:35.440 --> 0:20:40.119 derail that. Okay, So you're you're you're asking, let me 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.399 summarize this. Channel. You're you're in a job and you 0:20:44.720 --> 0:20:47.280 have a chance to go back, and you're now doubting 0:20:48.560 --> 0:20:52.399 your interest in going back and wanting to trust God. 0:20:52.480 --> 0:20:55.520 But you don't see a huge flashing sign, and so 0:20:55.680 --> 0:20:58.119 now you're confused. And this is it's a good question, 0:20:58.200 --> 0:21:01.640 and it's it's very calm, and especially if I summarize 0:21:01.640 --> 0:21:04.200 it like that, a lot of people could could say 0:21:04.280 --> 0:21:07.360 that's me. I'm in that. And we've talked about this 0:21:08.080 --> 0:21:11.359 because it seems like a lot on this podcast. God's Will, 0:21:11.520 --> 0:21:14.800 God's plan? What is it? Do I need to wait 0:21:14.880 --> 0:21:18.960 for the clouds to start creating letters? Do I need 0:21:19.000 --> 0:21:22.320 a cardinal to fly up to my window with a 0:21:22.359 --> 0:21:26.920 little yellow string in its mouth, and I realize, oh, yeah, yell, 0:21:27.119 --> 0:21:29.679 I remember that podcast where people were seeing things in 0:21:29.720 --> 0:21:34.080 the clouds like they were shaped like words. Yeah, that's right. Yeah. 0:21:34.119 --> 0:21:37.680 And whenever I get to talk to somebody who's at 0:21:37.680 --> 0:21:40.280 a crossroads or is considering whether it's a change in 0:21:40.320 --> 0:21:42.679 occupation or maybe it's the same occupation but they have 0:21:42.720 --> 0:21:46.760 a new opportunity within that field, you know, some things 0:21:46.760 --> 0:21:50.440 to consider would be are you are you considering this 0:21:50.560 --> 0:21:55.040 because you're you're wanting to escape something else, So there's 0:21:55.080 --> 0:21:57.119 something bad that you want to get out of, and 0:21:57.160 --> 0:21:59.399 so you're not necessarily drawn to something else you just 0:21:59.440 --> 0:22:02.640 want to escape, Or are you going towards something else 0:22:02.680 --> 0:22:06.840 because there's some clear indication that that's a desire you 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:10.000 want to go to that there's nothing necessarily bad about 0:22:10.000 --> 0:22:12.960 what you're in, but there's something great about the potential 0:22:13.000 --> 0:22:17.000 of something else. And so it sounds like there's maybe 0:22:17.040 --> 0:22:20.199 not something bad about returning to what she had, but 0:22:20.880 --> 0:22:23.399 she's just like, maybe that ship is sailed, maybe I 0:22:23.400 --> 0:22:26.000 don't want to do that anymore. And so I think, 0:22:26.160 --> 0:22:29.240 sifting through some of those things, what's the true motivation 0:22:29.400 --> 0:22:31.679 for any kind of movement on this is it running 0:22:31.720 --> 0:22:35.119 from something or running to something. I think is always 0:22:35.160 --> 0:22:39.320 something to consider. I love that twenty twenty thirty January. 0:22:39.320 --> 0:22:43.840 That's a long time. So that's good for you. You You 0:22:43.920 --> 0:22:47.399 don't have to make this decision before spring, you know. 0:22:47.600 --> 0:22:52.240 So it sounds like she's probably getting insurance money, right, 0:22:52.320 --> 0:22:54.720 it sounds like it. Yeah, for a year, you're in 0:22:54.760 --> 0:22:57.359