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Speaker 1: grangersmith dot com, kind of like Jet did and Jet says, Hey, Granger,

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Speaker 1: how's it going. I'm a big fan of your music

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Speaker 1: and your podcast. You need to make some more deer

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Speaker 1: hunting videos soon. Okay. I've been a Christian around six years.

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Speaker 1: I'm homeschooled and play sports through a local homeschool sports team.

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Speaker 1: I would love to hear about how we should play

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Speaker 1: for Oh excuse me. I always hear about how we

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Speaker 1: should play for an audience of one, give all the

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Speaker 1: glory to God and work as for the Lord. But

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Speaker 1: what are some practical ways I could actually do that.

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Speaker 1: I am not a boastful or cocky player, but I

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Speaker 1: would like to know what I could do so that

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Speaker 1: the field. Thanks God, blessed.

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Speaker 2: Yet, it's really sweet. How old is he doesn't say, okay,

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Speaker 1: think it's a great question, and it's a question that

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Speaker 1: should ask it. Should you should ask practically, what does

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Speaker 1: it mean to give all the glory to God? What

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Speaker 1: does it mean to play a sport for God? People say,

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Speaker 1: do you mean playing for God? Well? I think if

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Speaker 1: Because because then it doesn't matter if you play sports,

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Speaker 1: So that means this answer is now for everyone, not

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Speaker 2: Yes, And he seems to maybe look like he is

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Speaker 1: and the outflowing of that will go into everything you do,

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Speaker 1: what but I sure have missed these questions from Adam. Okay,

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Speaker 1: While I love these questions and it's actually been a while.

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Speaker 1: So hey, Adam, thank you, thank you for kind of

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Speaker 1: renewing the old tradition of the Granger Smith podcast, the

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Speaker 1: how do I meet someone after five years? Okay, let's

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Speaker 2: Well, that's what they said. That was the dating app

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Speaker 2: I don't get money. Well, that's one thing is I

432
00:23:58,880 --> 00:24:00,560
Speaker 2: just like to help people. I like to get codes away,

433
00:24:00,600 --> 00:24:03,280
Speaker 2: so I don't always ask for income. I'm trying to

434
00:24:03,280 --> 00:24:04,840
Speaker 2: think the last thing that I did were I actually

435
00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:08,160
Speaker 2: made money. I think vitamins. It was like some sort

436
00:24:08,160 --> 00:24:10,639
Speaker 2: of health vitamin that I was endorsed doorsing.

437
00:24:11,240 --> 00:24:13,959
Speaker 1: Would you mind telling us on would you tell us

438
00:24:13,960 --> 00:24:16,000
Speaker 1: on this podcast how much you made from those vitamins?

439
00:24:17,000 --> 00:24:21,560
Speaker 2: If I can remember it ranges. I mean maybe fifteen

440
00:24:21,640 --> 00:24:24,840
Speaker 2: hundred to three thousand for a post or something like that.

441
00:24:24,920 --> 00:24:27,680
Speaker 1: Okay, how many times have you done that this year?

442
00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:30,840
Speaker 1: I'm trying to make a point. Yeah, I don't know

443
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Speaker 1: My point My point is, Andrea is this, Amber has

444
00:24:35,440 --> 00:24:37,359
Speaker 1: been doing it for a long time. She does it

445
00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:41,840
Speaker 1: at a pretty high level, and she's not making enough

446
00:24:41,960 --> 00:24:45,840
Speaker 1: money to call it a full time job. Yeah, that

447
00:24:45,960 --> 00:24:47,560
Speaker 1: you do a lot of other things, right, I.

448
00:24:47,560 --> 00:24:49,800
Speaker 2: Do, like speaking engagements and things like that. Other I

449
00:24:49,880 --> 00:24:50,720
Speaker 2: make other income, but.

450
00:24:51,440 --> 00:24:56,040
Speaker 1: Just social media wouldn't be considered a full time job.

451
00:24:56,440 --> 00:25:00,000
Speaker 2: It's fun supplemental income from like fun days for the kids.

452
00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:02,480
Speaker 1: But to make an extra ten k a year, fifteen

453
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:05,840
Speaker 1: k a year, even up to twenty k a year extra,

454
00:25:06,000 --> 00:25:11,160
Speaker 1: that's incredible and a huge blessing, but it's not. It's

455
00:25:11,200 --> 00:25:15,160
Speaker 1: not you full time working. Right And so if Xandria

456
00:25:15,240 --> 00:25:19,720
Speaker 1: thinks that she's going to do this and would that

457
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:24,520
Speaker 1: would be more than a regular job. You're looking at Amber,

458
00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:27,959
Speaker 1: who is one of the top at the game. You know,

459
00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:30,080
Speaker 1: learn about that, but yeah, I mean you're you do

460
00:25:30,160 --> 00:25:33,199
Speaker 1: it at a higher level. You're probably top two percent

461
00:25:33,720 --> 00:25:37,880
Speaker 1: of women that promote products. The one percent is making

462
00:25:37,920 --> 00:25:39,600
Speaker 1: one hundred grand two hundred grand a year.

463
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Speaker 2: I will say this also, Xandria, that the payment that

464
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Speaker 2: I was making a couple years ago has significantly gone down.

465
00:25:46,119 --> 00:25:48,080
Speaker 2: Like brands don't have the money that they used to have,

466
00:25:48,160 --> 00:25:50,240
Speaker 2: Like women used to make ten thy twenty thousand on

467
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,800
Speaker 2: one post and now it has significantly gone down. So

468
00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:54,560
Speaker 2: I think people think that you're going to go out

469
00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:56,520
Speaker 2: and make all this money and it's not quite what

470
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Speaker 2: it used to be.

471
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Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So so once again, don't hear me wrong

472
00:26:02,400 --> 00:26:05,400
Speaker 1: in anything. I'm saying. It's a huge blessing. Amber makes

473
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:09,080
Speaker 1: money doing post, I personally don't. I don't make any

474
00:26:09,080 --> 00:26:12,480
Speaker 1: money on social media at all. I have chosen to

475
00:26:12,520 --> 00:26:15,119
Speaker 1: not take that route because one you do it, and

476
00:26:15,160 --> 00:26:16,920
Speaker 1: I want both of us to do it. So I

477
00:26:17,920 --> 00:26:21,240
Speaker 1: use social media to build up my brand, so really

478
00:26:21,640 --> 00:26:24,920
Speaker 1: mainly for EEE. When it comes to money, we hope

479
00:26:24,960 --> 00:26:29,639
Speaker 1: that ee does well, which is another very difficult task.

480
00:26:29,880 --> 00:26:34,439
Speaker 1: Running an apparel company e commerce without a storefront is

481
00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:38,879
Speaker 1: very difficult to continue year after year after year keeping

482
00:26:38,960 --> 00:26:43,040
Speaker 1: it going. So I don't personally charge anything for social media,

483
00:26:43,359 --> 00:26:49,159
Speaker 1: and you do occasional things. And so that's my advice

484
00:26:49,200 --> 00:26:54,159
Speaker 1: to is Andrew. My encouragement is it's maybe not the

485
00:26:54,240 --> 00:26:57,200
Speaker 1: grass is maybe not as green as you think it is. Yeah,

486
00:26:57,760 --> 00:27:01,440
Speaker 1: the ceiling is maybe a lot smaller than you think

487
00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:02,600
Speaker 1: it is. You might hit your head a.

488
00:27:02,560 --> 00:27:04,600
Speaker 2: Little sooner, and like you said, if you love it

489
00:27:04,680 --> 00:27:06,480
Speaker 2: and you and you and you have a good like

490
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:09,440
Speaker 2: a platform that you could make money on, then you

491
00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,639
Speaker 2: could set aside a specific times of the day to

492
00:27:11,680 --> 00:27:13,200
Speaker 2: film your content and then you can be present with

493
00:27:13,240 --> 00:27:15,159
Speaker 2: your kids. Like there's ways to do it, but it

494
00:27:15,200 --> 00:27:16,920
Speaker 2: just doesn't feel like you have peace about it.

495
00:27:17,240 --> 00:27:21,600
Speaker 1: So we'll continue on the same question because I think

496
00:27:21,640 --> 00:27:25,760
Speaker 1: this is bringing up a bigger issue. If you're ables Andrea,

497
00:27:25,760 --> 00:27:30,280
Speaker 1: if you're able to to get in grow, because you

498
00:27:30,320 --> 00:27:35,040
Speaker 1: got to grow your platform before you could before you

499
00:27:35,080 --> 00:27:37,080
Speaker 1: could actually make money on it. How many followers do

500
00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:38,400
Speaker 1: you have on Instagram?

501
00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:40,840
Speaker 2: It's about two hundred and ninety, So.

502
00:27:41,560 --> 00:27:45,480
Speaker 1: IF's Andrea has seven hundred, no brand's going to touch her.

503
00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,399
Speaker 1: If she has fifteen hundred, they're still not really going

504
00:27:49,480 --> 00:27:51,879
Speaker 1: to touch her. So you got to build it first.

505
00:27:52,000 --> 00:27:55,399
Speaker 1: That takes years, and then once you build it, then

506
00:27:55,440 --> 00:28:00,760
Speaker 1: you got to work. So what the what the bigger

507
00:28:00,840 --> 00:28:04,159
Speaker 1: issue usually is you go on to build or to

508
00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:08,439
Speaker 1: grow it, to post content and you get stuck because

509
00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,960
Speaker 1: because of the algorithm pulled you in and there goes

510
00:28:12,000 --> 00:28:14,720
Speaker 1: thirty minutes of your time. You just got caught looking

511
00:28:15,080 --> 00:28:17,919
Speaker 1: at social media for thirty minutes, you know, going down

512
00:28:17,960 --> 00:28:22,520
Speaker 1: a rabbit hole. So this is this is a problem

513
00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:26,840
Speaker 1: with content creators. For instance, let me put it this way.

514
00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:32,080
Speaker 1: When I post a clip from this podcast, typically these days,

515
00:28:32,080 --> 00:28:34,399
Speaker 1: the most things I posted to either something about Maverick

516
00:28:34,480 --> 00:28:37,520
Speaker 1: or something from this podcast. And I'll do Paul who

517
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,280
Speaker 1: edits this, We'll give me a little clip and we'll

518
00:28:40,320 --> 00:28:43,200
Speaker 1: work on it together, and I'll add the captions to it,

519
00:28:43,600 --> 00:28:47,520
Speaker 1: and I'll go post it on the different platforms. When

520
00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:50,320
Speaker 1: you post on TikTok, this is a trick that they do.

521
00:28:51,120 --> 00:28:57,040
Speaker 1: When you post while it's uploading, it starts playing someone

522
00:28:57,120 --> 00:29:00,080
Speaker 1: else's as you watch video. It makes you watch it

523
00:29:00,440 --> 00:29:02,480
Speaker 1: and the little dial is posting your video so you

524
00:29:02,480 --> 00:29:04,840
Speaker 1: can't X out of it. I mean literally, the only

525
00:29:05,040 --> 00:29:06,440
Speaker 1: thing you could do if you don't want to get

526
00:29:06,440 --> 00:29:09,480
Speaker 1: hooked on TikTok is you hit post and put it

527
00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,520
Speaker 1: down and walk away and let it upload. But it's

528
00:29:13,320 --> 00:29:15,400
Speaker 1: going to show you a video. Not only is it

529
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:17,200
Speaker 1: going to show you a video, but it knows you,

530
00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:19,680
Speaker 1: and it's going to show you a video that you

531
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,480
Speaker 1: either love or that you despise. And if you despise it,

532
00:29:23,480 --> 00:29:26,600
Speaker 1: you're going to watch it because it's so despicable. It

533
00:29:26,680 --> 00:29:32,120
Speaker 1: knows you, The algorithm knows you. So that's really annoyed

534
00:29:32,160 --> 00:29:37,720
Speaker 1: me that I will hit post and I'll flip my

535
00:29:37,760 --> 00:29:39,720
Speaker 1: phone and put it face down on the table because

536
00:29:39,720 --> 00:29:43,959
Speaker 1: I don't want to spend ten minutes getting caught, you know,

537
00:29:44,040 --> 00:29:49,720
Speaker 1: by this mind game that TikTok got me. So that's

538
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:51,800
Speaker 1: a problem with content creators is getting suck down the

539
00:29:51,840 --> 00:29:55,200
Speaker 1: rabbit hole literally while we're posting. There are different apps

540
00:29:55,200 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: that could post for you, but that makes it difficult too,

541
00:29:58,560 --> 00:30:01,240
Speaker 1: because then you can't you can't see how the previous

542
00:30:01,240 --> 00:30:04,640
Speaker 1: engagement was, and so you don't really know what the

543
00:30:04,680 --> 00:30:08,560
Speaker 1: posts in the future. Here's my point. Amber and I

544
00:30:08,600 --> 00:30:12,160
Speaker 1: found this thing called the Brick and some friends told

545
00:30:12,200 --> 00:30:14,120
Speaker 1: me about it when I was in Saint Louis on

546
00:30:14,160 --> 00:30:17,520
Speaker 1: a speaking engagement, and I ended up buying it. It's

547
00:30:18,200 --> 00:30:21,920
Speaker 1: for forty nine bucks and it's a little three D

548
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,760
Speaker 1: printed plastic brick and then with a magnet on the back,

549
00:30:26,760 --> 00:30:29,720
Speaker 1: and you put it on the fridge and you download

550
00:30:29,760 --> 00:30:36,280
Speaker 1: an app and the app can block all the distracting

551
00:30:36,320 --> 00:30:39,280
Speaker 1: social media. You tell it what the block, and so

552
00:30:41,120 --> 00:30:43,080
Speaker 1: you do all social media. You could do YouTube. You

553
00:30:43,080 --> 00:30:47,040
Speaker 1: could do not the podcast app. You want to keep

554
00:30:47,080 --> 00:30:50,120
Speaker 1: that one always on, but you could block anything that

555
00:30:50,160 --> 00:30:51,840
Speaker 1: might be distracting to you. And then you go and

556
00:30:51,880 --> 00:30:54,360
Speaker 1: you touch your phone to the brick and it turns

557
00:30:54,360 --> 00:30:59,520
Speaker 1: it on, and you can't unbrick it unless you touch

558
00:30:59,640 --> 00:31:03,440
Speaker 1: that that little plastic device on your refrigerator or wherever

559
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:07,040
Speaker 1: you put it. And it's really cool. So I'll come

560
00:31:07,040 --> 00:31:09,360
Speaker 1: in here to my for instance, my podcast room in here.

561
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,880
Speaker 1: We're upstairs in my house, and I'll come up here

562
00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,640
Speaker 1: and be working or be studying for seminary or reading

563
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:20,960
Speaker 1: or doing our recording after midnight, and I'll upload a

564
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:24,120
Speaker 1: I'll upload a video to a man, my producer, and

565
00:31:24,160 --> 00:31:26,440
Speaker 1: while it's uploading, I'll pull up my phone to see

566
00:31:26,440 --> 00:31:28,760
Speaker 1: if there's any news on Texas A and M football

567
00:31:28,880 --> 00:31:31,280
Speaker 1: or something, and I'll be like, oh, I'm bricked. Yeah,

568
00:31:31,320 --> 00:31:34,880
Speaker 1: I can't see it. And so it just keeps me accountable.

569
00:31:35,520 --> 00:31:37,640
Speaker 1: And how you liked it.

570
00:31:37,640 --> 00:31:39,760
Speaker 2: It's really eye opening too. I was bricked out the

571
00:31:39,800 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 2: other day, and how many times I grabbed for my

572
00:31:42,480 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 2: phone to look And you realize how often you're doing

573
00:31:45,560 --> 00:31:48,640
Speaker 2: it just mindlessly, you know, And I would try to

574
00:31:48,640 --> 00:31:50,080
Speaker 2: pick it up and look at Instagram and it's like, oh,

575
00:31:50,080 --> 00:31:51,920
Speaker 2: I'm bricked out. But it was so nice. I think

576
00:31:51,920 --> 00:31:54,600
Speaker 2: we were bricked for seven something hours the other day.

577
00:31:54,680 --> 00:31:58,280
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really awesome. So we'll I'll keep you updated

578
00:31:58,280 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: on that. We're only one weekend to this bricking thing,

579
00:32:02,240 --> 00:32:04,840
Speaker 1: so yeah, I think it's really cool. I'll keep everybody updated.

580
00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,960
Speaker 1: But I think Jandre, I I think that.

581
00:32:07,960 --> 00:32:10,320
Speaker 2: Was a good Just storry about it and talk to

582
00:32:10,360 --> 00:32:10,840
Speaker 2: your husband.

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00:32:11,000 --> 00:32:14,080
Speaker 1: Yeah. Nice question from anonymous Hey Granger, came across your

584
00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:17,120
Speaker 1: podcast from my friend's post. I'm in a very dark

585
00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:19,720
Speaker 1: place and I don't know how to fix it. Found

586
00:32:19,760 --> 00:32:23,200
Speaker 1: out my daughters were molested by their uncle, and my

587
00:32:23,280 --> 00:32:26,400
Speaker 1: youngest daughter was molested not just by her uncle, but

588
00:32:26,760 --> 00:32:30,680
Speaker 1: two older cousins as well. For three years. I put

589
00:32:30,720 --> 00:32:34,080
Speaker 1: an app on their phone because she was getting so

590
00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,440
Speaker 1: cold and mean to us, and I was trying to

591
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,120
Speaker 1: figure out what was wrong. Well, that's when I found

592
00:32:39,120 --> 00:32:43,200
Speaker 1: out about the abuse. In twenty nineteen, my sister refused

593
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:49,960
Speaker 1: to believe my daughters and advocated to extended family to

594
00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:53,880
Speaker 1: convince them that my daughters were lying. My whole world

595
00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,200
Speaker 1: has turned upside down with our family. I was so

596
00:32:56,280 --> 00:32:59,440
Speaker 1: angry with God. How could he bless me with these

597
00:32:59,480 --> 00:33:03,040
Speaker 1: beautiful babies and then let such horrific things happen to them?

598
00:33:03,680 --> 00:33:07,160
Speaker 1: My mom was as far My mom went as far

599
00:33:07,200 --> 00:33:10,120
Speaker 1: as selling the family cabin, which is where the abuse

600
00:33:10,240 --> 00:33:13,360
Speaker 1: was happening. How do I ask God to help me?

601
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:15,800
Speaker 1: I'm so angry and hurt and feel lost.

602
00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:21,960
Speaker 2: Oh Like, I just feel like you just have to

603
00:33:22,000 --> 00:33:24,640
Speaker 2: sit in that for a minute and just say how

604
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:28,480
Speaker 2: like that is terrible and I'm so sorry that you

605
00:33:28,560 --> 00:33:31,280
Speaker 2: and your family are going through that, that your daughters

606
00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,640
Speaker 2: were subjected to that, that they have had to hold

607
00:33:34,640 --> 00:33:37,560
Speaker 2: that or felt, you know, scared or angry or shame

608
00:33:37,640 --> 00:33:39,320
Speaker 2: or anything that they might feel from that. I'm so

609
00:33:39,360 --> 00:33:41,120
Speaker 2: sorry that you're having to go through that, and also

610
00:33:41,160 --> 00:33:44,840
Speaker 2: that they're not being believed. You know. That's that's so

611
00:33:44,960 --> 00:33:48,760
Speaker 2: hard in a family, and it's so common that sadly,

612
00:33:48,800 --> 00:33:51,320
Speaker 2: it's so common. I mean so many of my friends

613
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:53,560
Speaker 2: and family things things have happened to me. I mean

614
00:33:53,600 --> 00:33:56,960
Speaker 2: so many, so many things have happened to people, and

615
00:33:57,080 --> 00:34:00,640
Speaker 2: I am it's you are right to be angry. You're

616
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:04,960
Speaker 2: right to be angry in that. I just feel like

617
00:34:04,960 --> 00:34:06,840
Speaker 2: I just had to sit there for a minute in.

618
00:34:06,760 --> 00:34:10,800
Speaker 1: That Yeah, And I think part of why you're saying

619
00:34:10,840 --> 00:34:13,600
Speaker 1: we should sit there for a second is the fact

620
00:34:13,640 --> 00:34:20,200
Speaker 1: that it is just common, horrifically common in this world.

621
00:34:20,280 --> 00:34:22,400
Speaker 2: And you want to that is your question, like, Lord,

622
00:34:22,520 --> 00:34:25,120
Speaker 2: where are you in that? How is this? Like why

623
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,960
Speaker 2: would you allow something like this to happen?

624
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:29,920
Speaker 1: How could you bless me with these two beautiful babies

625
00:34:29,960 --> 00:34:32,360
Speaker 1: and let such horrific things happen to them?

626
00:34:32,640 --> 00:34:36,000
Speaker 2: And I will say there are three main reasons that

627
00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:37,799
Speaker 2: things like this happen. And one is that we just

628
00:34:37,840 --> 00:34:41,239
Speaker 2: live in a fall and broken world and it's not

629
00:34:41,360 --> 00:34:43,479
Speaker 2: the way that the world is supposed to be. Two

630
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:48,120
Speaker 2: is that we are subjected by other people's sin, like

631
00:34:48,160 --> 00:34:51,320
Speaker 2: other people are sinful. What happened is sin and wrong.

632
00:34:52,040 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 2: And three is that we have a real enemy who

633
00:34:54,200 --> 00:34:56,760
Speaker 2: is out to destroy everything about the family and everything

634
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:02,200
Speaker 2: about us. And we don't understand why that type of

635
00:35:02,239 --> 00:35:04,560
Speaker 2: horrific stuff happens the side of heaven, but we can

636
00:35:04,680 --> 00:35:06,560
Speaker 2: know that God will make it right in the end,

637
00:35:07,360 --> 00:35:10,399
Speaker 2: and that there are hopefully things that you can get

638
00:35:10,440 --> 00:35:13,840
Speaker 2: in place to get your girls help, to work on

639
00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,440
Speaker 2: familial issues, to work on forgiveness, because that's going to

640
00:35:17,440 --> 00:35:22,200
Speaker 2: be a big one for you to work on forgiving them,

641
00:35:22,200 --> 00:35:23,719
Speaker 2: but also you want them to be safe, Like you

642
00:35:23,760 --> 00:35:25,480
Speaker 2: want justice to be done, but you don't want to

643
00:35:25,480 --> 00:35:28,120
Speaker 2: take out. You don't want to be vengeful yourself. You know,

644
00:35:28,239 --> 00:35:30,440
Speaker 2: the Bible says vengeance is the Lord's So this is

645
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:32,359
Speaker 2: going to take a lot of prayer, probably a lot

646
00:35:32,360 --> 00:35:34,920
Speaker 2: of counseling. You know, a lot of work is going

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Speaker 2: to go through unpacking all of this as you move forward.

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Speaker 2: But as in our first question, I mean, you be

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Speaker 2: rooted in the word of God and pray to the Lord. Lord,

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Speaker 2: show me how to walk through this, Show me how

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Speaker 2: to help my girls, Show me how to forgive when

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Speaker 2: all I want to do is rage. God. I need

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Speaker 2: you in this moment because I can't do it on

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Speaker 2: my own.

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Speaker 1: Absolutely looking something else, Yeah, I think it's it's always

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Speaker 1: good to go to the Psalms. Yeah, with with with

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Speaker 1: things like that, or the Book of Limitations, because we

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Speaker 1: have lost in this in our culture. We've lost the

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Speaker 1: ability and the the technique of lamenting. We we live

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Speaker 1: somehow in a world probably because of social media and

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Speaker 1: and and dumb media that has kind of conditioned us

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Speaker 1: that things things need to always be good. And if

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Speaker 1: they're good, they're from God. And if they're not, let's

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Speaker 1: let's freak out. Yeah, and we we have forgotten that

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Speaker 1: for thousands of years the people of God have lamented

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Speaker 1: their suffering back to Him through through song, prayer, crying out,

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Speaker 1: and through the lamenting, we know there is healing. Healing

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Speaker 1: in many ways you could say cannot happen without fully lamenting.

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Speaker 1: And it's the same thing that what I just said

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Speaker 1: in modern day philosophy is, Yeah, I don't think you've

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Speaker 1: worked it out yet. I don't think he's worked out

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Speaker 1: his grief yet. If people say that, you wouldn't have

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Speaker 1: said that in the ancient times, you would have said

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Speaker 1: they have not fully lamented. Like Psalm thirteen, How long,

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Speaker 1: o Lord, will you forget me forever? How long would

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Speaker 1: you hide your face from me? How long must I

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Speaker 1: take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my

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Speaker 1: heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be

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Speaker 1: exalted over me? That's you consider and answer me. Oh God,

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Speaker 1: light up my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death.

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Speaker 1: Lest my enemy say I have prevailed over him, Lest

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Speaker 1: my foes rejoice because I am shaken. But Verse five

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Speaker 1: I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart shall

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Speaker 1: rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord

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Speaker 1: because he has dealt bountifully with me. We have to

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Speaker 1: remember how to lament. Jesus said on the Cross Psalm

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Speaker 1: twenty two. He literally quoted Psalm twenty two. My God,

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Speaker 1: my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you

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Speaker 1: so far from saving me from the words of my groaning? Oh?

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Speaker 1: My God? I cry by day but you do not answer,

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Speaker 1: And by night but I find no rest. What you

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Speaker 1: asked me, Anonymous, was how could he bless me with

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Speaker 1: these beautiful babies and then let these horrible things happen.

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Speaker 1: I would encourage you, Anonymous, to ask him. Don't forget

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Speaker 1: to ask him. I know you ask other people. I

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Speaker 1: know you've asked this podcast, But don't forget to ask him,

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Speaker 1: because he could take it. He wants you to be

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Speaker 1: in communion with him. And it's not only in the

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Speaker 1: happy times. In fact, that would be horrible to only

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Speaker 1: go to God in the happy times. In fact, I'll say,

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Speaker 1: on top of that, hardly anybody does. People that go

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Speaker 1: to Him in the happy times are people that have

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Speaker 1: lamented to him in the sorrowful times, because that's usually

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Speaker 1: when people go, where is God? So go to him,

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Speaker 1: Go to your knees and go, God, how could you

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Speaker 1: bless me with these beautiful babies and let such horrific

707
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Speaker 1: things happen? Where are you? God? Have you forgotten this?

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Speaker 1: Do you not hear me? God? But the key to

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Speaker 1: all this is address him.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you go to the Lord. I was going to say,

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Speaker 2: don't allow this to harden your heart and make you

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Speaker 2: angry and jaded at God. Run to him because he's

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Speaker 2: the only one that's going to be able to heal you,

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Speaker 2: heal your girls. He is the only one that will

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Speaker 2: make it right. Even if it's not right here this

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Speaker 2: side of heaven, he will make it right in eternity.

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Speaker 2: But they do need to be safe, you know, like

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Speaker 2: you do.

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Speaker 1: That's a different Okay, got a different part of the conversation.

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to her right now. I'm speaking to her question,

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Speaker 1: and her question.

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Speaker 2: Is was this a woman? I feel it was a man.

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Speaker 1: It's anonymous.

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. I thought I thought it was

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Speaker 2: coming from a dad for some reason.

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Speaker 1: I don't know.

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Speaker 2: Maybe I just went there in my mind.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, I went to the mother. You went to the Father.

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Speaker 1: I don't know who it is, but the question is,

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Speaker 1: at the very end, how do I ask God to

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Speaker 1: help me? I'm so angry and hurt and feel lost.

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Speaker 1: You go to him with.

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Speaker 2: That, You get on your knees and you beg the

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Speaker 2: Lord to help.

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Speaker 1: You, and you understand that he has spoken. He's not

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Speaker 1: speaking to you. I don't know how many times I've

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Speaker 1: said this, through the clouds or through the wind. He's

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Speaker 1: going to speak to you, like he has spoken to

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Speaker 1: everyone through his word. And so you go to his

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Speaker 1: word and you see what he says, including the laments,

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Speaker 1: and then you go back to him and you repeat

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Speaker 1: what the laments say back to him. How could you

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Speaker 1: bless me with these beautiful babies? Where are you? God?

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Speaker 1: Will you ever save me? Do you even hear me?

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Speaker 1: And continue to lament to him? And through that, I

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Speaker 1: promise you, coming from experience, coming from experience, you will

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Speaker 1: find healing in that. God is merciful to those who

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Speaker 1: are crying out to him.

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Speaker 2: And there are terrible, tragic things that happen all the time,

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Speaker 2: all the time, every day, and I'm so sorry that

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Speaker 2: your family is enduring that right now. But you said,

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Speaker 2: go to him, that is the only place that you

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Speaker 2: will find healing and hope and peace in the evil

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Speaker 2: things of this world.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll end with alle but thank you all for

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Speaker 1: emailing and I love It's an honor to walk through

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Speaker 1: these with you, and to rejoice with you, and wrestle

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Speaker 1: with you and sometimes lament with you. Love you'all, See

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Speaker 1: you next Monday. Thanks for joining me on the Granger

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Speaker 1: Smith podcast. I appreciate all of you guys. You could

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