WEBVTT - My wife opens up to me 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:03.160 Happy Monday, everybody. Welcome to the Grangersmith Podcast. I am 0:00:03.240 --> 0:00:06.040 excited about this episode because I have Amber with me, 0:00:06.519 --> 0:00:10.840 and she is definitely the most requested guest I've ever had. 0:00:10.880 --> 0:00:13.480 She's been on here once. I'm going to bring her 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:17.400 on today, and she is so insightful and so eloquent 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:19.360 in her words. I think she's going to be perfect 0:00:19.840 --> 0:00:23.000 at helping me answer some of your questions that you've 0:00:23.079 --> 0:00:26.480 sent to me through Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:00:26.880 --> 0:00:29.440 I have all those emails, I have the questions ready. 0:00:29.800 --> 0:00:32.760 Amber's on her way. I'm also very blessed that this 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:36.680 podcast is sponsored by ship Station. 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I have been talking 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:49.880 to your agent trying to you know, a book of 0:03:49.960 --> 0:03:51.720 time for you to come to EU Farm and be 0:03:51.840 --> 0:03:54.000 on the podcast. And I finally got you today. How 0:03:54.080 --> 0:03:56.800 much am I getting paid? We'll talk about that. Your 0:03:56.840 --> 0:04:01.800 payment comes later. Different forms. Oh, take kisses and hugs 0:04:01.880 --> 0:04:05.400 and acts of service. Yeah, that's Amber's love language is 0:04:05.520 --> 0:04:10.440 acts of service. It didn't used to be. Yeah, it's changed. 0:04:11.520 --> 0:04:14.640 Do you know what mine is currently? Yeah, because it's 0:04:14.760 --> 0:04:19.160 changed too. Yes, quality time. Yeah, what did it used 0:04:19.160 --> 0:04:24.400 to be physical touch. Yeah, and words of affirmation affirmation 0:04:25.839 --> 0:04:30.160 you're so handsome. That's not you're so handsome. It's not 0:04:30.240 --> 0:04:34.000 words of and strong. No, that's not it either. That's 0:04:34.080 --> 0:04:37.680 just that's just flattery. Words of affirmation is like, man, 0:04:38.960 --> 0:04:41.839 your podcast is actually really reaching a lot of people, 0:04:42.800 --> 0:04:45.560 and I'm really proud of you for making the podcast 0:04:45.680 --> 0:04:49.520 that that people listen to. Noted yep, but that's not 0:04:49.640 --> 0:04:52.000 it's not as much as much anymore quality times. What 0:04:52.080 --> 0:04:55.760 it is that now and yours is acts of service. Yes, 0:04:56.480 --> 0:05:03.040 so funny. I think everyone's love language changes. So Amber Smith, Yeah, 0:05:04.520 --> 0:05:06.040 do I talk to you here? Or do I talk 0:05:06.080 --> 0:05:09.000 to the camera? You talk to me? Okay, you talk 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:13.320 to me because this is a podcast and a lot 0:05:13.400 --> 0:05:17.520 of people listen only and there are people that watch 0:05:17.600 --> 0:05:22.280 on YouTube. But it's also it's more listen doable. Got it. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:27.560 So let's talk real quick about Arise with Amber. That's 0:05:27.600 --> 0:05:30.239 your segment of our show. The Smiths Our Family blog 0:05:30.360 --> 0:05:32.720 comes out Tuesdays and Thursdays, but you're Arise with Amber 0:05:32.800 --> 0:05:36.599 comes out Sunday mornings. And I'm so proud of Arise 0:05:36.680 --> 0:05:40.000 with Amber. And if you guys have not seen that 0:05:41.480 --> 0:05:44.680 tune into the Smiths on Sunday mornings at what time 0:05:44.760 --> 0:05:48.599 eight thirty eight am, eight am Central, eight am Central, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:50.720 and you do your Arise with Amber, and I have 0:05:50.920 --> 0:05:53.680 encouraged you now to start a Facebook page. Yes, that's 0:05:53.760 --> 0:05:57.680 a You've always had a Facebook page, obviously everyone does, 0:05:57.760 --> 0:06:01.200 but you've just started for the first time. Cannot believe 0:06:01.240 --> 0:06:03.560 it took you this song to make your public figure 0:06:04.080 --> 0:06:09.359 Facebook page, and so you're gonna start uploading your Arise 0:06:09.440 --> 0:06:12.920 with Ambers to that. I am. So that's the next step, 0:06:13.240 --> 0:06:17.760 and just kind of differentiating from the Smith's channel because 0:06:17.760 --> 0:06:19.520 I don't want it to get lost. I don't want 0:06:19.560 --> 0:06:23.120 people to remember I remember Amber said that on an 0:06:23.120 --> 0:06:26.800 Arise with Amber she talked about this exact subject, and 0:06:27.320 --> 0:06:29.160 then you can't find it because it gets lost in 0:06:29.240 --> 0:06:31.839 the Smith's flog. So I want it to live somewhere 0:06:32.520 --> 0:06:34.920 on this Facebook and there might even be another place 0:06:34.960 --> 0:06:38.040 that lives. Maybe one day it'll get its own YouTube channel. Well, 0:06:38.080 --> 0:06:40.520 I'm also coming out with my Arise with Amber website, 0:06:40.560 --> 0:06:43.520 so all the videos will be embedded there too, so 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:47.760 perfect if anyone. I don't think anyone listened to this podcast. 0:06:47.839 --> 0:06:50.960 Everyone that knows me knows Amber. I think so. There's 0:06:51.000 --> 0:06:54.600 not very many people that don't know. But you're an 0:06:54.680 --> 0:07:05.520 amazing personality, speaker, motivational woman, teacher, servant, study your thank 0:07:05.640 --> 0:07:08.120 you so thank you, babe. That's why I got you 0:07:08.200 --> 0:07:12.800 on today. I appreciate those words of affirmation. Yeah, I'm 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.000 happy to be here. I watch it every week and 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.160 I'm happy to be sitting beside you. Well, thank you. Wow, 0:07:18.440 --> 0:07:21.840 let's get to so. I have set up an email 0:07:21.880 --> 0:07:26.360 for this podcast, Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com. Email 0:07:26.480 --> 0:07:32.160 me your questions and I'm going I always answered these questions. 0:07:32.200 --> 0:07:34.440 I would like to no matter who's on the podcast, 0:07:34.520 --> 0:07:38.920 start incorporating your questions. It could be anything that you 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:41.520 want to know about. And I just went through a 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:44.120 couple of these and grabbed I didn't really screen them. 0:07:44.160 --> 0:07:47.200 I just I got some girls, and I got some 0:07:47.280 --> 0:07:49.080 people that mentioned your name, so I just threw it 0:07:49.120 --> 0:07:53.160 into a folder called podcast Amber. I have not seen 0:07:53.320 --> 0:07:55.840 or heard any of these nuestions. I haven't really either. 0:07:55.920 --> 0:07:58.280 I'm not prepared. I haven't either. And that's kind of 0:07:58.320 --> 0:08:02.480 the fun of all these is answering off the cuff 0:08:02.840 --> 0:08:07.160 so that it feels like we're just you called me 0:08:07.320 --> 0:08:11.000 with something and I'm answering it in the truck or 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.000 the living room or whatever. So do you want to 0:08:14.200 --> 0:08:18.720 dive into this? Yeah? Okay, this one said. I'm glad 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:21.000 I didn't say the name because it says the first sentences, 0:08:21.000 --> 0:08:24.600 I would like to stay anonymous. I'm from northern Minnesota. 0:08:25.040 --> 0:08:26.960 I want to start off with thanking you for your 0:08:27.040 --> 0:08:29.560 music and all the content that you put out. It's 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.319 really changed my life. Thank you, says I have a 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:35.319 question for you. How do you get over the loss 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:38.400 of a loved one. I've recently gone through the loss 0:08:38.480 --> 0:08:41.480 of my dog that I handled in my eighth month 0:08:41.559 --> 0:08:45.480 deployment in Afghanistan. I suffer from really bad PTSD and 0:08:45.600 --> 0:08:48.839 my dog did too, but when we were together, we 0:08:48.920 --> 0:08:51.959 were fine. I can't sleep some nights. Any tips on 0:08:52.080 --> 0:08:55.360 falling asleep without having to take meds. I'm trying to 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.719 stay away from that kind of stuff. Once again, thank 0:08:57.720 --> 0:08:59.959 you for your music and all your content. You'r Podta 0:09:00.080 --> 0:09:03.000 cast has changed me as a person and has changed 0:09:03.040 --> 0:09:07.160 others around me. From that way that I am now 0:09:08.000 --> 0:09:15.079 much love so our anonymous writer. First of all, thank 0:09:15.120 --> 0:09:21.360 you for your service. I can't imagine and I shouldn't 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:25.040 even get into why you suffer from really bad PTSD 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.439 and why your dog did as well. But thank you 0:09:30.600 --> 0:09:35.400 for your your deployment in Afghanistan. And I'm I can 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:37.880 only imagine the things that you've seen and the and 0:09:37.960 --> 0:09:41.320 I can only imagine the reasons why your dog became 0:09:42.520 --> 0:09:47.360 a crutch for you. And we all, I mean, we're 0:09:47.440 --> 0:09:51.760 dog lovers huge doy F three, So I get I 0:09:51.920 --> 0:09:56.680 totally have empathy for the attachment that a dog could 0:09:57.280 --> 0:10:02.600 could bring to you, and and I totally have empathy 0:10:03.120 --> 0:10:05.400 for the loss of a dog. I've had dogs my 0:10:05.600 --> 0:10:10.280 entire life, and I've lost some amazing best friends of mine. 0:10:12.640 --> 0:10:14.719 Do you want to get into this? Yeah? Do you 0:10:14.720 --> 0:10:16.360 want me to just answer a little bit first in 0:10:16.400 --> 0:10:18.560 the yeah? Yeah, we could both just kind of play 0:10:18.600 --> 0:10:20.680 off of it. Okay, So the first thing I saw 0:10:21.040 --> 0:10:24.400 was how do you get over the loss of a 0:10:24.440 --> 0:10:26.640 loved one? And I just want to say, whether it's 0:10:26.679 --> 0:10:29.800 a pet or a person, you're never going to be 0:10:30.000 --> 0:10:33.040 over it, at least in my opinion. I don't feel like, 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.920 you know, we've lost your dad, we've lost riv. I 0:10:35.960 --> 0:10:38.400 don't feel like we're ever going to be over those losses. 0:10:38.480 --> 0:10:40.280 They are pieces of our heart. They are pieces of 0:10:40.360 --> 0:10:43.439 our history and our love, and our family and our blood. 0:10:43.880 --> 0:10:45.280 And I don't think you ever get over that. I 0:10:45.360 --> 0:10:48.599 think you learn, as we've said, you learned to carry it. 0:10:49.080 --> 0:10:51.760 You absorb that, You absorb it, and you learn a 0:10:51.880 --> 0:10:55.960 new way of walking kind of with that limp. Now 0:10:56.280 --> 0:10:57.679 you know, we have what did we say in one 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:00.199 we kind of have a little a disability nowah, yeah, 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:03.679 nothing against true, you know, true physical or mental disabilities. 0:11:03.720 --> 0:11:05.520 But you you learn to live with the disability in 0:11:05.600 --> 0:11:07.559 your life and and you have to just try to 0:11:07.600 --> 0:11:09.480 do the best that you can moving forward. You're never 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:13.160 gonna You're never gonna forget. You just have to do 0:11:13.320 --> 0:11:15.640 the work of grief, which is a lot of work. 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.720 Do you want to go from Yeah, I was going 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:25.840 to say, I think, yeah, you did a great setup 0:11:25.880 --> 0:11:33.040 for this and you lost you lost your dog, and 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:37.520 it probably I'm imagining that that loss is a lot 0:11:37.880 --> 0:11:40.800 tougher for you because of what you went through with 0:11:41.080 --> 0:11:46.040 the dog during your eight month deployment. I'm imagining you 0:11:46.200 --> 0:11:50.000 saw some really bad things that that people see in war, 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:53.320 and with your dog by your side, when you came 0:11:53.440 --> 0:11:56.800 back off of deployment and you had that dog that 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:01.040 dog was the one good, positive thing that you brought 0:12:01.080 --> 0:12:03.959 home from the war, and then when you lost your dog, 0:12:04.320 --> 0:12:07.719 it felt like it amplified all the bad things that 0:12:07.800 --> 0:12:10.319 happened in the war, and you lost your dog, it's 0:12:10.360 --> 0:12:13.600 like you lost what you lost in the war all 0:12:13.679 --> 0:12:19.120 over again. And that is a detachment that's going to 0:12:19.160 --> 0:12:23.079 be really hard to break away from because normally I 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:26.000 would say, and I still am going to say this, 0:12:26.800 --> 0:12:28.720 but normally I would say, at the loss of a dog, 0:12:29.600 --> 0:12:32.679 the best solution for after the loss of a dog 0:12:32.880 --> 0:12:36.839 is a puppy. And not quickly, you know, like not 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:40.000 like the day after or anything, but once you feel 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.679 like you've stabilized a little bit of that loss. I 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:48.120 feel like a puppy changes the dynamic of the household 0:12:48.200 --> 0:12:51.400 because we're dealing with it right now. They're just they're 0:12:51.440 --> 0:12:53.760 so energetic, they're crazy. There are a lot of work, 0:12:54.200 --> 0:12:57.600 there are a lot of responsibility. And while you're working 0:12:57.720 --> 0:13:02.120 and frustrated and crazy and teaching and laughing and you 0:13:02.720 --> 0:13:05.560 are at the same time you're starting a new love 0:13:06.640 --> 0:13:09.080 for this creature. And then all of a sudden years 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:12.599 go by and because of that, the adversity that you 0:13:12.679 --> 0:13:16.080 went through with the crazy puppy years. Eventually you go, wow, 0:13:16.160 --> 0:13:18.520 I actually I love this dog. Now, this is gonna 0:13:18.520 --> 0:13:22.520 be hard for you, the anonymous writer, because you're gonna think, 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.199 if you get a puppy, you don't know what I've 0:13:25.280 --> 0:13:27.200 been through, and you don't know what my dog's been through. Yeah, 0:13:27.720 --> 0:13:29.599 but here's what I would say. This is how I 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:33.839 can't counter that if you get a new puppy now, 0:13:34.720 --> 0:13:39.599 it's going to be dealing with your PTSD and the 0:13:39.800 --> 0:13:42.199 changed person that you are, not only from what you 0:13:42.320 --> 0:13:44.600 saw in war, but because of the loss of your 0:13:44.760 --> 0:13:48.360 last dog. And so you could argue that this dog 0:13:48.480 --> 0:13:50.600 is going to war for you as well. This new 0:13:50.679 --> 0:13:53.120 puppy will be going to war for you and going 0:13:53.200 --> 0:13:58.200 through something now that your other dog didn't as a soldier. Yeah, 0:13:59.320 --> 0:14:02.199 and it's never it's never going to replace your other puppy, 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:04.040 Like it's not. It's never going to replace that. But 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:06.640 in a kind of a good way, it's going to 0:14:06.760 --> 0:14:08.920 keep you busy, and it's going to keep your mind occupied. 0:14:08.920 --> 0:14:11.839 And for me, I know, if my mind is idle, 0:14:12.120 --> 0:14:14.000 it goes to bad places and I but if I'm 0:14:14.000 --> 0:14:17.599 busy and I keep my mind occupied, I'm good and 0:14:17.760 --> 0:14:21.520 so so here's my mission for you. Take your time, 0:14:21.960 --> 0:14:23.560 do what you got to do. You don't move on, 0:14:23.720 --> 0:14:26.880 you move forward, Get that new puppy, take a picture, 0:14:27.200 --> 0:14:30.400 and then send it to this podcast email Grangersmith Podcast 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.120 at gmail. It's just I won't have to share it 0:14:33.200 --> 0:14:34.880 on the air or anything. I just want to see. 0:14:35.120 --> 0:14:36.880 I want to see your smile with your new puppy. 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.320 And forgive me if this is If this answer is 0:14:40.680 --> 0:14:43.840 insensitive at all to you and your situation, I hope 0:14:43.840 --> 0:14:46.680 it's not. But it's the truth of what I think. Yeah, 0:14:46.760 --> 0:14:48.480 I mean, well we Luna's brought us so much joy. 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.040 Our new puppies brought us so much joy. Can I 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:51.800 just answer one more thing? It because they said how 0:14:51.880 --> 0:14:53.520 do how can I sleep? And I know you're having 0:14:53.520 --> 0:14:59.200 trouble sleeping? Quiet your mind before before bed, you do 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:02.000 a lot of meditation, you know, listening to maybe soft music, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:04.720 or read a book, or do a lot of prayer. 0:15:05.120 --> 0:15:07.080 I felt the same way as you. People kept saying, 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:09.320 you know, after our situation, well just take some sanax 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.360 and you can sleep. I didn't want to take medication either, 0:15:11.760 --> 0:15:15.240 So stick with that. If you fill againsto that, stick 0:15:15.320 --> 0:15:17.520 with it and do a lot of pray and do 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.040 a lot of praying before you go to sleep, and 0:15:19.080 --> 0:15:21.040 hopefully that can can rest your mind a little bit 0:15:21.560 --> 0:15:26.000 if anyone has never prayed before. Sometimes you could hear 0:15:26.040 --> 0:15:29.520 people faith based people talking about prayer and it sounds 0:15:30.360 --> 0:15:32.840 it sounds like something you got to learn, or you 0:15:32.960 --> 0:15:36.080 have to say specific words, or you have to read 0:15:36.120 --> 0:15:40.200 about how to pray. But I promise you there's a 0:15:40.240 --> 0:15:43.640 lot of prayers that have started like this. Hey God, 0:15:44.760 --> 0:15:49.000 it's me. I know you know me, even though I 0:15:49.080 --> 0:15:52.560 feel like I don't know you, I don't know how 0:15:52.600 --> 0:15:57.080 to pray, but I'm learning here and I just want 0:15:57.160 --> 0:16:00.440 to say that I'm kind of scared and I could 0:16:00.520 --> 0:16:03.880 use your help. Yeah, I need you. Boom. That's it. 0:16:04.080 --> 0:16:08.240 That's first prayer. Yeah, see what happens and take it 0:16:08.280 --> 0:16:12.840 from there. You ready for another one? Sure? Okay? The 0:16:12.880 --> 0:16:15.280 subject line on this one is Amber so oh okay, 0:16:16.360 --> 0:16:18.360 since hey Granger, and my name is Dee. I live 0:16:18.440 --> 0:16:23.000 in Sugartown, Louisiana. The Smith Channel is how I found 0:16:23.080 --> 0:16:26.120 her music. I've watched every episode of y'all's channel. Thank 0:16:26.200 --> 0:16:28.880 y'all for all that you do. After y'all lost riv 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:31.000 I know Amber had a hard time filming the Smiths. 0:16:31.120 --> 0:16:33.120 I'm sure you did too. A lot of her parts 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:36.720 were filmed in the closet of y'all's bedroom, and once 0:16:36.800 --> 0:16:39.400 she said she was unsure if she wanted to continue 0:16:39.440 --> 0:16:42.560 doing videos, but you told her just to try. My 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:47.960 question is, how has it been for you watching Beauty 0:16:48.040 --> 0:16:51.680 from the Ashes as she does arise every week? Her 0:16:51.760 --> 0:16:56.120 honesty and openness and heart make me cry every week. 0:16:56.840 --> 0:16:59.520 I feel like your mom. When you asked her in 0:16:59.560 --> 0:17:03.360 the smith video about Amber, your mom teared up and said, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.399 I just love her, and that's how I feel. She 0:17:05.560 --> 0:17:07.960 brings me a little bit closer to Christ every week. 0:17:08.480 --> 0:17:12.040 Thank y'all for making Faith and Family videos. They're the 0:17:12.119 --> 0:17:15.320 best thing I watch every week. God bless D. Thank 0:17:15.400 --> 0:17:20.960 you D so much. Shout out to Louisiana. I appreciate 0:17:21.000 --> 0:17:24.399 you writing this podcast. And I bet you didn't know 0:17:24.440 --> 0:17:26.280 when you wrote this that she would be sitting next 0:17:26.359 --> 0:17:28.280 to me. Amber would be sitting next to me. I 0:17:28.320 --> 0:17:30.320 bet you didn't know you were going to make me cry. Yeah, 0:17:31.000 --> 0:17:34.400 and let me be honest with you, D. You said, 0:17:35.160 --> 0:17:37.080 how's it been watching Beauty from the Ashes If she 0:17:37.119 --> 0:17:42.520 does arise every week? Her honesty and openness. It's been 0:17:44.000 --> 0:17:47.760 it's been very difficult for me to watch her. It 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:50.040 was really difficult for me to watch her in the closet. 0:17:51.119 --> 0:17:57.280 And I'm I love seeing what Arise with Amber is 0:17:57.480 --> 0:17:59.600 now and I feel like it's just the very very 0:17:59.640 --> 0:18:01.520 beginning of a rise with Amber. I feel like it 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:04.480 has it has so many more people that it's going 0:18:04.560 --> 0:18:10.680 to reach one day. But but it's been hard. It's 0:18:10.800 --> 0:18:13.920 it's always was hard to watch, you know, your wife 0:18:14.240 --> 0:18:19.280 broken on a video because you didn't hold anything back. 0:18:19.400 --> 0:18:23.240 You still don't, and so I would I would have 0:18:23.359 --> 0:18:26.000 to those early Smith days when she was in the closet, 0:18:26.000 --> 0:18:28.680 I would have to just skip forward because I can't 0:18:28.680 --> 0:18:31.000 sit there and watch her, you know, cross legging on 0:18:31.040 --> 0:18:35.879 the carpet, just letting her heart out. I couldn't do it. 0:18:36.760 --> 0:18:41.879 So but that's okay that I couldn't do it. I 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:48.640 knew that you being able to reach other people would 0:18:48.640 --> 0:18:51.600 be not only part of your healing, but healing to 0:18:51.720 --> 0:18:56.280 so many others. And that was a responsibility that you accepted. 0:18:56.640 --> 0:19:00.840 And it's been incredible to watch. I remember that day, 0:19:01.200 --> 0:19:03.040 I think you were going on tour. You were on tour, 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.399 and it was and I hadn't filmed anything for the 0:19:05.440 --> 0:19:07.760 Smith since and you said, why don't you just try 0:19:07.800 --> 0:19:10.040 to film something today? And I remember that moment, I 0:19:10.080 --> 0:19:11.600 remember what I was wearing, I remember where I was, 0:19:12.160 --> 0:19:14.359 and I just thought, I don't think I can. I 0:19:14.359 --> 0:19:16.000 don't think I have anything, and you just said, just 0:19:16.200 --> 0:19:18.760 turn it on and see where it goes. And thinking 0:19:18.880 --> 0:19:21.360 back now, that has been such a catalyst that's led 0:19:21.400 --> 0:19:24.200 to a rise with Amber, because that was the first step, 0:19:24.320 --> 0:19:26.359 was just turning that camera on and just letting my 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:30.040 emotions out. And then so that turned into talking about 0:19:30.080 --> 0:19:32.119 my feelings, talking about my faith, which turned into the 0:19:32.200 --> 0:19:34.600 arise with Amber. And so just for just to for 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:37.639 people to say she brings me a little bit closer 0:19:37.680 --> 0:19:40.119 to Christ each week, like that makes me cry because 0:19:41.000 --> 0:19:43.560 I've said it on my arise. If you would have 0:19:43.600 --> 0:19:45.440 told me fifteen years ago that I would be sharing 0:19:45.480 --> 0:19:47.840 the love of Christ, I wouldn't have believed you because 0:19:48.280 --> 0:19:51.760 I didn't know it in my heart. And so for 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:54.080 me for people to tell me that I'm bringing them 0:19:54.119 --> 0:19:57.960 to Christ just makes me so happy. And it's not 0:19:58.280 --> 0:20:00.359 by my doing of any way. 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Okay, 0:23:12.240 --> 0:23:14.280 let's see, before you got a big name in country music, 0:23:14.280 --> 0:23:16.399 how did you neighbor stay faithful during the rough patches 0:23:16.440 --> 0:23:20.119 in your marriage? I mean, I think you've answered this before. 0:23:20.240 --> 0:23:24.399 We we haven't really had rough patches in our coupleship. 0:23:24.880 --> 0:23:30.400 We've we've gone through rough rough times, but we haven't 0:23:30.440 --> 0:23:34.760 had really rough patches where we had to stay I mean, well, 0:23:35.200 --> 0:23:38.960 part of this. Part of this question is before you 0:23:39.040 --> 0:23:41.200