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Speaker 1: start to shake things because they're going to go why

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Speaker 1: would he let this happen? Why is this going to happen?

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Speaker 1: And you know, there's a couple of things that I

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Speaker 1: think about that. First of all, one of the main

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Speaker 1: parts of the question is, well, who's responsible for the

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Speaker 1: bad thing that happened? Who's responsible for the evil that

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Speaker 1: we experience in this world? And we know the Bible

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Speaker 1: isn't it's not a mystery in the Bible, it's we

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Speaker 1: first apart of God designed this whole thing, and he

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Speaker 1: said it's good, it's perfect, it's going to run absolutely beautifully,

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Speaker 1: and he's the author of truth, of goodness, of beauty.

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Speaker 1: It's humanity that said, you know what, I think, I'd

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Speaker 1: like to give it a shot on my own. I'd

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Speaker 1: like to try things my way. So as soon as

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Speaker 1: we depart from God's design of the family, of the

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Speaker 1: way that we interact with other people in our community,

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Speaker 1: the way that we interact with money, the way that

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Speaker 1: we use technology. Anytime we say I'm going to try

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Speaker 1: it my way as opposed to God's way, it's always

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Speaker 1: going to lead to brokenness. And then we experience that

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Speaker 1: brokenness and we go, man, things aren't right, things don't work.

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Speaker 1: Why don't they work? And then we these man made

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Speaker 1: attempts to try to fix the brokenness only lead to

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Speaker 1: more brokenness. So God's solution is he shows up on

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Speaker 1: the scene and he demonstrates through the ministry the life

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Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, that this is the way out. We're

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Speaker 1: going to return to God's design and so rather than

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Speaker 1: human efforts that lead to more brokenness. So good, such

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Speaker 1: a good word. And it's what's awesome, Michael, is that

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Speaker 1: you say in here, I'm a believer in Christ. Christ

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Speaker 1: was a suffering Christ. He demonstrated coming to this earth,

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Speaker 1: being in the flesh and suffering, suffering just like your suffering.

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Speaker 1: And then he says, follow me, do what I do

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Speaker 1: through that suffering. So if I could up what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna say to you, I'm gonna say, dude, you're not alone.

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Speaker 1: Your question is valid. Here's how I can answer it

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Speaker 1: for you, because you did bring me involved in this question.

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Speaker 1: Let's say God is distant, you don't talk to him, Moore,

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Speaker 1: fix that. Talk to him, Get on your knees, crawl

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Speaker 1: to him. Then secondly, open your Bible. Open your Bible.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna find your story on every page. It's really

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Speaker 1: hard to not find your story in the pages right there.

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Speaker 1: In every page, You're gonna find stories of suffering and

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Speaker 1: glory and grace and redemption and restoration and love and wrath.

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Speaker 1: You're gonna find it all on almost every single page.

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Speaker 1: And you're gonna The Bible is one of these books

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Speaker 1: where you open most books and you think, what can

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Speaker 1: I what can I find out? What could I what

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Speaker 1: could I know? And what can I learn from this book?

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Speaker 1: The Bible. You open it up and you go, actually,

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Speaker 1: I think this book already knows me it's really weird, right,

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Speaker 1: it's really weird. This book knows me, Like, dude, Michael,

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Speaker 1: you're going to open this up and go, that's me,

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Speaker 1: that's me. That's that's what I That's the question of

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Speaker 1: the podcast, And there's my answer. Now, is it going

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Speaker 1: to talk about what you've seen on duty? Is it

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Speaker 1: going to talk about your dad in twenty sixteen? No,

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Speaker 1: it's going to have very similar stories for you and

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Speaker 1: an example on how to live and where to go

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Speaker 1: from here and the reality that in God's economy, as

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Speaker 1: we follow Christ, it's not going to be absent from suffering,

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Speaker 1: from trial, from struggle. It's promised. It's promised that when

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Speaker 1: this happens, consider it pure joy because it's testing the

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Speaker 1: genuineness of your faith. Do you really believe? And I

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Speaker 1: think of your story and even in the recent announcement

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Speaker 1: and the new adventure that you guy have, that there's

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Speaker 1: absolute pain and at the same time there's joy. And

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Speaker 1: I was thinking about that when you guys made that announcement,

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Speaker 1: and I was like, there is a word that we

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Speaker 1: can't capture in the English but exists in the Greek.

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Speaker 1: And so there's no mutual Look, there's no like equal

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Speaker 1: or equivalent word, so it takes two English words to

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Speaker 1: translate this. But there is this term in the Greek

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Speaker 1: called karma lupe and it means simultaneous deep sorrow and

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Speaker 1: at the same time happiness dude mutually like at the

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Speaker 1: same time. And in God's economy. What he says is

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Speaker 1: the things that you face in this life that are absolutely,

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Speaker 1: unquestionably painful, and you go, I would never want to

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Speaker 1: do that again, but I'm glad it happened. It's because

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Speaker 1: of God's economy. That's how he prunes, That's how he

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Speaker 1: gives us strength, That's how our roots go deeper and deeper.

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Speaker 1: Just I mean an agricultural analogy. We have these plum

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Speaker 1: trees in our backyard. We inherited them when we bought

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Speaker 1: the house, these trees, and they were not producing plums

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Speaker 1: and they were just growing everywhere. So my wife starts

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Speaker 1: stuff like that. We need to trim these things, prune them,

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Speaker 1: and apparently that's gonna And I'm thinking, so, you mean,

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Speaker 1: we're gonna cut the trees and we're gonna throw chewed

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Speaker 1: up dead trees, as in mulch around the base of them,

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Speaker 1: and somehow that's gonna work. And absolutely so she got

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Speaker 1: to half of them. So the next season came around

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Speaker 1: and the ones that she pruned and she put down

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Speaker 1: other ones were overgrown, still not producing. So there's even

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Speaker 1: within the creation the way that he's wired this whole thing,

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Speaker 1: that we're going to face adversity and that's going to

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Speaker 1: test the genuiness of our faith and it's going to

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Speaker 1: produce more life to come. Dude, so good. I love

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Speaker 1: like this all right. This question comes from Connor. It says,

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Speaker 1: take Granger, I want some advice about something. I want

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Speaker 1: to be a vet and air but that costs a

675
00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:03,359
Speaker 1: lot and it takes a lot of time, and at

676
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Speaker 1: the same time, it's my dream job. Can you help

677
00:40:05,600 --> 00:40:08,000
Speaker 1: me decide if I should become a veterinarian or not?

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Speaker 1: Connor shout out, buddy. You don't say where you're from,

679
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Speaker 1: but I do know that your email comes from a

680
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Speaker 1: school district website, so you're still in school. And I'm

681
00:40:23,480 --> 00:40:26,759
Speaker 1: assuming that you want to be a vet. Let me

682
00:40:26,880 --> 00:40:28,839
Speaker 1: just assume you don't say, but I'm assuming you want

683
00:40:28,880 --> 00:40:30,680
Speaker 1: to be a vet because you love animals, you love

684
00:40:30,760 --> 00:40:36,680
Speaker 1: helping animals, and it's your dreamed of because you genuinely

685
00:40:37,960 --> 00:40:41,280
Speaker 1: want to go into that field and make a difference.

686
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Speaker 1: And I want to tell you that you don't have

687
00:40:45,360 --> 00:40:50,279
Speaker 1: to be a vet to do that. So it's not

688
00:40:51,560 --> 00:40:54,960
Speaker 1: just so you know, it's not just about helping animals.

689
00:40:55,000 --> 00:40:56,279
Speaker 1: There's a lot more to be in a vet. I've

690
00:40:56,280 --> 00:41:00,080
Speaker 1: actually talked to friends that went into vet school and

691
00:41:00,160 --> 00:41:04,040
Speaker 1: then realized later how difficult it is when they went

692
00:41:04,080 --> 00:41:06,080
Speaker 1: in with the mentality if they just want to help animals,

693
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Speaker 1: they find out that you go, say you're a small

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Speaker 1: animal vet. Someone brings their dog in and it has

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Speaker 1: really bad hip displays and you say, Okay, well we're

696
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Speaker 1: gonna have to perform surgery. It's gonna be about fifteen

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00:41:16,680 --> 00:41:19,839
Speaker 1: hundred bucks. And the person goes, I just put them down.

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00:41:20,920 --> 00:41:23,960
Speaker 1: It happens, and the vet goes, well, No, I could

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Speaker 1: do the surgery. I could make this flawless. I could

700
00:41:26,480 --> 00:41:29,799
Speaker 1: make this dog great. I just can't afford fifteen hundred bucks.

701
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:31,879
Speaker 1: Just go ahead, And what's the next step. Put them down?

702
00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,040
Speaker 1: And guess what you have to do? Put them down?

703
00:41:36,080 --> 00:41:38,040
Speaker 1: And that's hard. If you love animals, yeah, and you

704
00:41:38,160 --> 00:41:40,160
Speaker 1: know you can help them. You have the tools. Yes,

705
00:41:40,680 --> 00:41:43,399
Speaker 1: So Connor, are you aware of that that's a little

706
00:41:43,440 --> 00:41:48,040
Speaker 1: wrinkle in this dream. Maybe that's maybe you're totally fine.

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Speaker 1: Maybe you know exactly what you're getting into. This is

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Speaker 1: what you want to do. So first step, coming from

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00:41:53,400 --> 00:41:56,160
Speaker 1: a student email, dude, I would work on your grades.

710
00:41:57,120 --> 00:42:04,200
Speaker 1: I would concentrate on your biology and your math. And

711
00:42:05,080 --> 00:42:10,320
Speaker 1: if that's truly your dream, then study harder and longer

712
00:42:10,800 --> 00:42:15,920
Speaker 1: than your friends, and you could offset that cost of

713
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Speaker 1: a VET school with forms of scholarships. But none of

714
00:42:21,160 --> 00:42:25,080
Speaker 1: that's going to happen unless you make that effort right

715
00:42:25,160 --> 00:42:28,359
Speaker 1: now in your grades. And it's a sacrifice. So much

716
00:42:28,360 --> 00:42:31,320
Speaker 1: of life as a sacrifice, and it sounds like working

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Speaker 1: on math biology grades. And your why, right, we're assuming

718
00:42:39,320 --> 00:42:42,399
Speaker 1: it's because you love animals. What's your why? And that's

719
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:44,360
Speaker 1: going to help you figure out is it worth it?

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00:42:44,760 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: The cost benefit of Okay, my why is pretty strong.

721
00:42:48,000 --> 00:42:51,840
Speaker 1: I'm dialed in, and then maybe you need help figuring

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00:42:51,880 --> 00:42:54,360
Speaker 1: out your why. So maybe a part time job is

723
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Speaker 1: you go to the local vet and say, hey, I'll

724
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Speaker 1: empty the trash cans. I'll do it whatever it takes,

725
00:42:59,520 --> 00:43:01,560
Speaker 1: just to be a round it and you can learn

726
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,680
Speaker 1: within that field maybe being a vet isn't the thing.

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Speaker 1: Maybe there's something else within veterinary medicine that is a

728
00:43:08,840 --> 00:43:11,279
Speaker 1: better fit for your personality is similar to medicine. So

729
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Speaker 1: I've learned of people that they thought they wanted to

730
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Speaker 1: be doctors, but then they realized, no, nursing is where

731
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Speaker 1: because I want to be doing direct patient care. Seek

732
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Speaker 1: wise counsel. That's that's great, So go to go. I

733
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Speaker 1: mean there's plenty of vents. Go to the go to

734
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Speaker 1: the local vet, and go till till someone tells you, yes,

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Speaker 1: you want to empty the trash until someone goes, yeah,

736
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Speaker 1: we need a guy to empty the trash and soak

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Speaker 1: up one or two hours every weekday, watching learning, talking

738
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Speaker 1: to the actual vet that's there, and and part of

739
00:43:47,160 --> 00:43:49,759
Speaker 1: that discussion will be how do you how do you

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Speaker 1: afford for school? How do you what? What do I

741
00:43:52,200 --> 00:43:54,200
Speaker 1: need to be working on right now where I am

742
00:43:54,280 --> 00:43:56,480
Speaker 1: in my life in high school? And you're going to

743
00:43:56,520 --> 00:43:59,480
Speaker 1: get a lot of those answers. So good question, Connor,

744
00:43:59,760 --> 00:44:07,120
Speaker 1: and good luck to you. That's a good one. Yeah. Okay,

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Speaker 1: this question comes from Justin. He says, Hey, my name

746
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Speaker 1: is Justin Taylor, and I saw your last podcast. I

747
00:44:13,120 --> 00:44:14,880
Speaker 1: have so many questions. I've been wanting to ask you

748
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Speaker 1: for a long time and just never got the courage

749
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Speaker 1: to ask anybody. But let me give you a little

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Speaker 1: short story my life. I live in Cliff, New Mexico.

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Speaker 1: I'm nineteen years old. I live on a cattle ranch.

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00:44:25,760 --> 00:44:29,480
Speaker 1: I'm hurting over a broken up relationship. It lasted for

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Speaker 1: eight years. I can't stop thinking about her. It's a

754
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:36,320
Speaker 1: constant pain. She's moved on, but I guess I haven't.

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Speaker 1: And since this has been since June of twenty nineteen,

756
00:44:40,880 --> 00:44:43,360
Speaker 1: I'm still in feeling like I'm about to have a

757
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:46,200
Speaker 1: heart attack. Basically every day. The only time I don't

758
00:44:46,239 --> 00:44:48,719
Speaker 1: feel anything is when I'm in a twelve pack of

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Speaker 1: beer or whiskey or whatever other alcohol I can get

760
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Speaker 1: my hands on. And because of that, I've lost my

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Speaker 1: best friend and some other really good friends. I've lost

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00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:02,319
Speaker 1: family and using important people in my life. And it's

763
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:05,319
Speaker 1: all over the alcohol. And the thing is it's making

764
00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:08,840
Speaker 1: me worse and I don't know how to handle that anymore.

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00:45:11,719 --> 00:45:17,560
Speaker 1: And his signature on his email says Fire and Rescue,

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Speaker 1: Silver City, New Mexico. So shout out to Justin and

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Speaker 1: New Mexico and Silver City Fire and Rescue. Thank you

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00:45:26,760 --> 00:45:32,720
Speaker 1: for your service once again. And I'm gonna say this again,

769
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Speaker 1: Like I said earlier, this is a common question. It's

770
00:45:39,520 --> 00:45:44,200
Speaker 1: not to diminish at all what you're going through. It's

771
00:45:44,480 --> 00:45:48,400
Speaker 1: it's very very heavy what you're going through. But I

772
00:45:48,440 --> 00:45:52,320
Speaker 1: would say the good news is it's common. This is

773
00:45:52,560 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: this is something that a lot of people are dealing

774
00:45:55,600 --> 00:45:57,320
Speaker 1: with or have dealt with, or have a friend or

775
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Speaker 1: have a family member or a neighbor. You mentioned one

776
00:46:01,160 --> 00:46:05,080
Speaker 1: today you're barbered that is dealing with this or has

777
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Speaker 1: dealt with it, or it's very human of you, And

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Speaker 1: thank you for trusting us with the question. Nineteen is young.

779
00:46:18,080 --> 00:46:20,600
Speaker 1: It's young. My first question is, dude, eight years a

780
00:46:20,719 --> 00:46:24,359
Speaker 1: relationship eight years old and you're nineteen, but started when

781
00:46:24,360 --> 00:46:29,879
Speaker 1: you're eleven. I mean that's the formative years, man, that's

782
00:46:29,960 --> 00:46:35,320
Speaker 1: your entire teenage life was with this girl. Yeah and

783
00:46:35,440 --> 00:46:38,680
Speaker 1: so yeah, understandable how you're you're really broken up about it,

784
00:46:39,719 --> 00:46:43,439
Speaker 1: and I wish, man, it's so hard. It's so hard

785
00:46:43,520 --> 00:46:48,799
Speaker 1: to listen to someone else tell you that this too

786
00:46:48,920 --> 00:46:51,279
Speaker 1: shall pass. It's so hard to hear that. And I'm

787
00:46:51,320 --> 00:46:53,880
Speaker 1: just speaking about the relationship part of it, not the

788
00:46:53,960 --> 00:46:59,680
Speaker 1: alcohol part, just the relationship part. Man as a as

789
00:46:59,719 --> 00:47:02,480
Speaker 1: a as a brother is sitting around a campfire, I

790
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:06,160
Speaker 1: would I would say, dude, you're going to find another girl.

791
00:47:06,480 --> 00:47:09,000
Speaker 1: There's going to be another another love of your life,

792
00:47:10,080 --> 00:47:14,719
Speaker 1: and one that's a lot better. There's three billion women

793
00:47:14,800 --> 00:47:18,600
Speaker 1: on this planet. Yeah, three billion. With a bee, there's

794
00:47:18,600 --> 00:47:21,040
Speaker 1: another one out there. And I know in your mind

795
00:47:21,080 --> 00:47:23,200
Speaker 1: you hear that your first thought is not like her,

796
00:47:24,000 --> 00:47:29,200
Speaker 1: Not like her, Dude, she's one and three billion. Brother. Well,

797
00:47:30,000 --> 00:47:33,839
Speaker 1: I can tell you, and everyone can tell you if

798
00:47:33,880 --> 00:47:37,719
Speaker 1: you listen to any country music song this you're going

799
00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:42,239
Speaker 1: to find another one. But but you have to you

800
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:44,960
Speaker 1: have to have the self discipline first of all, to

801
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:50,200
Speaker 1: to continue your life and move take the next step forward,

802
00:47:51,239 --> 00:47:55,600
Speaker 1: and that has really hung you up, and you're you

803
00:47:56,080 --> 00:48:02,600
Speaker 1: fell into the the best sinister snare, and that's that

804
00:48:02,760 --> 00:48:06,879
Speaker 1: alcohol could numb you from your current reality. So you're

805
00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:10,959
Speaker 1: escaping reality. You're escaping the fact that all you really

806
00:48:11,040 --> 00:48:14,560
Speaker 1: need to do is take the next step forward in

807
00:48:14,680 --> 00:48:18,960
Speaker 1: your life, in your job, in your front with your friends,

808
00:48:19,680 --> 00:48:27,560
Speaker 1: and you're escaping that responsibility and retreating into something that's

809
00:48:27,680 --> 00:48:32,399
Speaker 1: numbing you and only prolonging the pain. That's a good point.

810
00:48:32,880 --> 00:48:36,480
Speaker 1: It doesn't it doesn't. It mutes pain, but it doesn't

811
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Speaker 1: dissolve or resolve the pain. And so when that mute stops,

812
00:48:44,960 --> 00:48:47,719
Speaker 1: then you're still left right there where you were, and

813
00:48:47,840 --> 00:48:51,840
Speaker 1: sometimes in an even worse position. And I think sometimes

814
00:48:52,400 --> 00:48:57,279
Speaker 1: I can remember heartbreak in high school. And one of

815
00:48:57,360 --> 00:49:02,320
Speaker 1: the challenges in moving forward was coming to grips with

816
00:49:02,440 --> 00:49:06,440
Speaker 1: the fact that I had identified as a as a

817
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Speaker 1: person in a relationship. I was the boyfriend of so

818
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Speaker 1: and so. We had history, we had memories, we had experiences,

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Speaker 1: and all of a sudden coming to grips with the

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Speaker 1: fact that although that was the case, that that identity

821
00:49:21,719 --> 00:49:27,279
Speaker 1: no longer exists, and so the path forward is realizing

822
00:49:27,719 --> 00:49:33,840
Speaker 1: your identity apart from anybody, who are you, and starting

823
00:49:33,920 --> 00:49:38,640
Speaker 1: to create some experiences and recognize what you like, what

824
00:49:38,840 --> 00:49:41,920
Speaker 1: you want to do, who you are apart from anybody,

825
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Speaker 1: so that when the next relationship comes, because there is

826
00:49:45,239 --> 00:49:48,040
Speaker 1: a win, there is another, there is a next one,

827
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Speaker 1: and when you get there, you're going to have a

828
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:54,480
Speaker 1: better understanding of what makes you tick and you're probably

829
00:49:54,560 --> 00:49:58,279
Speaker 1: going to have a better opportunity to identify who do

830
00:49:58,360 --> 00:50:02,520
Speaker 1: you pay you know, who's the right? Yeah. What's awesome, man,

831
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Speaker 1: is that what this girl has done for you is

832
00:50:05,840 --> 00:50:08,600
Speaker 1: narrow down your scope of who is right for you.

833
00:50:09,360 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: And as soon as you realize that that, it wasn't

834
00:50:12,320 --> 00:50:15,480
Speaker 1: a wasted eight years, which is really long, by the way,

835
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Speaker 1: it's a long time, but it wasn't a wasted eight years.

836
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Speaker 1: It was a learning experience to get you that much

837
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Speaker 1: closer to the right one. If any of your friends,

838
00:50:28,280 --> 00:50:32,080
Speaker 1: your best friends sat down and told you your story

839
00:50:32,239 --> 00:50:34,920
Speaker 1: back to you, that that was their story, what advice

840
00:50:34,960 --> 00:50:39,319
Speaker 1: would you give them, Because it's like I said, it's

841
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:41,319
Speaker 1: so much easier to give that advice. But what would

842
00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,640
Speaker 1: you tell them? You'd say you're ruining your friendships, you're

843
00:50:44,719 --> 00:50:49,279
Speaker 1: ruining your family that you do have. You're walking on

844
00:50:49,400 --> 00:50:53,040
Speaker 1: a dangerous tightrope right now with alcohol that could lead

845
00:50:53,080 --> 00:50:56,320
Speaker 1: to alcoholism, and then you could never touch the stuff

846
00:50:56,440 --> 00:51:00,479
Speaker 1: ever again. And that's a whole different story to ruin

847
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Speaker 1: your your opportunity to ever have a cold beer with

848
00:51:05,000 --> 00:51:08,720
Speaker 1: one of your friends with it without it being a problem.

849
00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,400
Speaker 1: And that could start now. If you continue this numbing,

850
00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,680
Speaker 1: you could always keep digging down. If you think it's bad,

851
00:51:16,080 --> 00:51:21,399
Speaker 1: it could always get worse. Yeah, And yet, like you said,

852
00:51:22,440 --> 00:51:27,799
Speaker 1: you're you're messing with the now and the future as

853
00:51:27,880 --> 00:51:30,879
Speaker 1: you dwell in the past, in the past eight years,

854
00:51:30,920 --> 00:51:33,160
Speaker 1: and you're hanging on to stuff that man, you want

855
00:51:33,200 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: to learn from that, and maybe you need to identify

856
00:51:35,520 --> 00:51:37,680
Speaker 1: some things you could have done differently, or the way

857
00:51:37,760 --> 00:51:41,200
Speaker 1: you interacted or treated or things you said. And there's

858
00:51:41,360 --> 00:51:43,600
Speaker 1: there's a role that that should play. But it's not

859
00:51:43,719 --> 00:51:45,640
Speaker 1: where you live. You don't camp out there, you don't

860
00:51:45,640 --> 00:51:47,879
Speaker 1: hang out there. You learn from the lesson and then

861
00:51:47,920 --> 00:51:50,200
Speaker 1: you move and you keep going because there is a

862
00:51:50,280 --> 00:51:52,600
Speaker 1: next day and the sun will come up tomorrow and

863
00:51:52,719 --> 00:51:54,279
Speaker 1: you got to be you got to be ready to

864
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:56,839
Speaker 1: face that day when the sun does come up. Dude,

865
00:51:57,239 --> 00:52:03,040
Speaker 1: I would I would encourage you man to There's nothing

866
00:52:03,120 --> 00:52:08,320
Speaker 1: in your email that mentions God. I would encourage you

867
00:52:08,480 --> 00:52:14,080
Speaker 1: explore that. What do I mean? I mean, Hey, God,

868
00:52:14,480 --> 00:52:18,759
Speaker 1: it's justin. I've never really talked to you before. I'm

869
00:52:18,800 --> 00:52:23,880
Speaker 1: really hurting. I've hurt some people on this podcast that

870
00:52:24,000 --> 00:52:25,960
Speaker 1: talk about you. I don't really know what to think.

871
00:52:26,320 --> 00:52:30,640
Speaker 1: I don't really know if I believe it. But right

872
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:34,840
Speaker 1: now I need you because I can't fix this myself.

873
00:52:35,000 --> 00:52:39,279
Speaker 1: I'm going down a dark tunnel. God, can you fix this?

874
00:52:39,440 --> 00:52:42,600
Speaker 1: Can you show me what to do, where to put

875
00:52:42,640 --> 00:52:45,279
Speaker 1: the one foot after the other? Can you show me that?

876
00:52:47,560 --> 00:52:51,120
Speaker 1: If you say that with sincerity, I would be really

877
00:52:51,160 --> 00:52:53,960
Speaker 1: curious for you to email back to this podcast if

878
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:57,920
Speaker 1: you give that kind of true sincerity. I'm talking about

879
00:52:58,040 --> 00:53:02,759
Speaker 1: in your bathroom, on your knees. What else do you

880
00:53:02,880 --> 00:53:06,480
Speaker 1: have right now? Justin what do you have to lose? Then?

881
00:53:06,560 --> 00:53:10,160
Speaker 1: Dropping straight down to your knees, and that is not

882
00:53:10,280 --> 00:53:13,040
Speaker 1: a bad place to be. It's not a bad place

883
00:53:13,120 --> 00:53:17,480
Speaker 1: to be. Nothing else to lose. All I got is this, God,

884
00:53:17,600 --> 00:53:23,240
Speaker 1: what do I have here? That's that's a common story,

885
00:53:24,120 --> 00:53:29,120
Speaker 1: and I'm I'll just be curious to see what would happen.

886
00:53:29,160 --> 00:53:31,600
Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about some weird writing in the

887
00:53:31,640 --> 00:53:37,560
Speaker 1: sky or something. I would be interested to see if

888
00:53:37,600 --> 00:53:40,680
Speaker 1: you feel peace from that, and what that would lead to,

889
00:53:40,920 --> 00:53:47,160
Speaker 1: what the next step would be with you and losing

890
00:53:47,200 --> 00:53:49,600
Speaker 1: your friends, losing your family. Like you said in this email,

891
00:53:49,680 --> 00:53:57,279
Speaker 1: that's all you got. Your support network is gone. And yeah,

892
00:53:57,360 --> 00:54:00,920
Speaker 1: the pain and loneliness you feel now is probably minimal

893
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:04,200
Speaker 1: compared to what it will feel like in a couple

894
00:54:04,239 --> 00:54:07,680
Speaker 1: of months if you keep going this way. Yep, yep, dude,

895
00:54:07,880 --> 00:54:09,840
Speaker 1: you are. I know you're a good guy. I know

896
00:54:09,960 --> 00:54:13,279
Speaker 1: that you're you're you work for fire and rescue. Do

897
00:54:13,320 --> 00:54:20,200
Speaker 1: you understand self discipline? You understand priorities? And I would,

898
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:23,480
Speaker 1: I would. I would wake up tomorrow morning and go today.

899
00:54:23,840 --> 00:54:27,160
Speaker 1: I'm starting fresh. I'm starting fresh. I'm gonna brush my teeth,

900
00:54:27,200 --> 00:54:29,320
Speaker 1: comb my hair, put on my shoes, I'm gonna go

901
00:54:29,400 --> 00:54:32,880
Speaker 1: to work and I'm not gonna feel sorry for myself.

902
00:54:33,239 --> 00:54:36,920
Speaker 1: I'm gonna move forward. I'm gonna I'm gonna take that

903
00:54:37,040 --> 00:54:39,360
Speaker 1: relationship and I'm gonna say this is this is what

904
00:54:39,440 --> 00:54:41,960
Speaker 1: I learned, and I'm going I'm going on I'm moving

905
00:54:42,040 --> 00:54:45,279
Speaker 1: forward with what I've learned. I'm a wiser, smarter man.

906
00:54:46,600 --> 00:54:48,320
Speaker 1: And I would get underneath in the in the bathroom

907
00:54:48,360 --> 00:54:51,480
Speaker 1: and say that prayer too. That's me, that's my camp

908
00:54:51,520 --> 00:54:55,200
Speaker 1: fire thought. And it's interesting that in fire and rescue

909
00:54:55,320 --> 00:54:59,239
Speaker 1: you you exist to help other people. Yep. And a

910
00:54:59,280 --> 00:55:02,759
Speaker 1: lot of times when we're and pain, we focus on

911
00:55:02,880 --> 00:55:07,120
Speaker 1: ourself and we just hang out there. It's amazing when

912
00:55:07,160 --> 00:55:10,080
Speaker 1: you turn your focus away from self in the midst

913
00:55:10,120 --> 00:55:12,040
Speaker 1: of your pain and just look for that, who's the

914
00:55:12,160 --> 00:55:15,000
Speaker 1: next person I can help? Who can I serve? Who

915
00:55:15,040 --> 00:55:17,239
Speaker 1: can I engage with? And all of a sudden we

916
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:20,000
Speaker 1: start to forget about our pain or our situation and

917
00:55:20,080 --> 00:55:23,879
Speaker 1: we start to invest in other people. So man cut

918
00:55:23,960 --> 00:55:26,880
Speaker 1: with the grain on this one. He's clearly wired to

919
00:55:27,000 --> 00:55:30,839
Speaker 1: help and serve people. Do that. Just do the next

920
00:55:30,960 --> 00:55:35,759
Speaker 1: right thing. Right as you wake up, email back, email back,

921
00:55:36,480 --> 00:55:39,040
Speaker 1: go through a twenty four hour day like this and

922
00:55:39,160 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: email back and I want to see what you say. Amen, Yeah, thanks,

923
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:47,239
Speaker 1: thanks for the email, and do another one. Chet sure,

924
00:55:48,480 --> 00:55:51,719
Speaker 1: let me see was that one of the softball questions? No,

925
00:55:53,840 --> 00:55:55,520
Speaker 1: they get heavier than that. But I'm going to go

926
00:55:55,719 --> 00:56:00,719
Speaker 1: this is not this is not too heavy. But I

927
00:56:00,840 --> 00:56:03,960
Speaker 1: did find the question interesting, and I do. I think

928
00:56:04,000 --> 00:56:06,160
Speaker 1: if I address it the way I want to address it,

929
00:56:06,280 --> 00:56:09,640
Speaker 1: I'm gonna make a lot of people mad. Oh right, okay,

930
00:56:09,880 --> 00:56:11,920
Speaker 1: all right, here we go. Sorry, yeah, there we go.

931
00:56:13,520 --> 00:56:15,120
Speaker 1: They actually don't know how you feel about it either,

932
00:56:15,160 --> 00:56:17,800
Speaker 1: but I kind of know. I feel like I know you,

933
00:56:18,360 --> 00:56:22,440
Speaker 1: all right. So the subject godly advice says, Hey, Grangeream,

934
00:56:22,520 --> 00:56:25,480
Speaker 1: writing you from North Carolina. My husband and I are

935
00:56:25,520 --> 00:56:29,799
Speaker 1: at a crossroads and need some Godly perspective. We are

936
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:32,160
Speaker 1: both born and raised in North Carolina, and all of

937
00:56:32,200 --> 00:56:35,600
Speaker 1: our family is here. However, we don't have the closest

938
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:38,960
Speaker 1: relationships with our families. We visited Texas twice this year.

939
00:56:39,080 --> 00:56:41,480
Speaker 1: Long story short. It's been my dream to move out west,

940
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:46,000
Speaker 1: and since actually visiting in June, the desire has become stronger.

941
00:56:46,520 --> 00:56:48,840
Speaker 1: I always pray for God's will to lead us in

942
00:56:48,880 --> 00:56:52,040
Speaker 1: the right direction in all things, and specifically ask for

943
00:56:52,160 --> 00:56:55,879
Speaker 1: his confirmation on this move. And shortly after our visit

944
00:56:55,960 --> 00:56:58,840
Speaker 1: in June, I began to see cowboy hats in the clouds.

945
00:56:59,520 --> 00:57:02,359
Speaker 1: A few days after that, my husband saw what looked

946
00:57:02,480 --> 00:57:08,440
Speaker 1: like a hand holding the state of Texas. We have

947
00:57:08,640 --> 00:57:12,279
Speaker 1: our jobs sorted. We have two kids, eight and four,

948
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:15,880
Speaker 1: and we would like to make a concrete decision before

949
00:57:15,880 --> 00:57:19,480
Speaker 1: our four year old begins kindergarten, which will be in

950
00:57:19,520 --> 00:57:22,200
Speaker 1: the fall. My question is what do we do? How

951
00:57:22,320 --> 00:57:26,280
Speaker 1: do I explain that if this is God's call, which

952
00:57:26,320 --> 00:57:29,400
Speaker 1: I strongly believe it is, then how do we obey.

953
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:34,680
Speaker 1: I appreciate the time, love you guys. And they make

954
00:57:34,760 --> 00:57:38,800
Speaker 1: bumper stickers that say I wasn't born here, but I

955
00:57:38,920 --> 00:57:41,160
Speaker 1: got here as soon as I could, right. I mean,

956
00:57:41,240 --> 00:57:45,080
Speaker 1: maybe that's the situation here. You you came to Texas,

957
00:57:45,120 --> 00:57:49,040
Speaker 1: as we said, from another state. Yeah, And I will say,

958
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:54,680
Speaker 1: if you end up making this transition, you probably won't

959
00:57:54,720 --> 00:57:58,760
Speaker 1: regret it in regard to the people receiving you. Yeah,

960
00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:02,360
Speaker 1: and the friendships that will welcome you, and the way

961
00:58:02,480 --> 00:58:09,040
Speaker 1: that Texans man, they're just warm, welcoming people and yeah,

962
00:58:09,360 --> 00:58:15,600
Speaker 1: good people. The challenge, I think, and it sounds like

963
00:58:15,920 --> 00:58:18,400
Speaker 1: you don't necessarily talk about the tension, but it sounds

964
00:58:18,400 --> 00:58:21,640
Speaker 1: like the tension is you've got a huge family, or

965
00:58:21,720 --> 00:58:25,440
Speaker 1: you've got family in North Carolina that that you feel

966
00:58:25,600 --> 00:58:28,160
Speaker 1: this obligation or this kind of this tie like I

967
00:58:28,240 --> 00:58:29,880
Speaker 1: need to we need to stay here and do this,

968
00:58:30,960 --> 00:58:33,680
Speaker 1: but at the same time, you feel this poll to Texas,

969
00:58:34,480 --> 00:58:37,640
Speaker 1: and so you know, the thought is, make sure you're

970
00:58:37,680 --> 00:58:41,120
Speaker 1: not you're not running from something, but you're you're going

971
00:58:41,200 --> 00:58:43,840
Speaker 1: to something. I think is an important component when you're

972
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:47,640
Speaker 1: making a transition. And also make decisions that are the

973
00:58:47,760 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 1: best for your immediate family, Think about your kiddos, think

974
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:54,360
Speaker 1: about you and your husband and your marriage, Like, ultimately,

975
00:58:54,680 --> 00:59:00,440
Speaker 1: is this what is best for that immediate family and anything.

976
00:59:00,560 --> 00:59:02,320
Speaker 1: It would be a blessing for your family in North

977
00:59:02,320 --> 00:59:05,320
Speaker 1: Carolina to have someplace cool like Texas to visit. So yeah,

978
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:08,919
Speaker 1: so yeah, to answer your question, and let me say,

979
00:59:09,400 --> 00:59:14,760
Speaker 1: I haven't said your name yet because it's Cecily. Is

980
00:59:14,800 --> 00:59:23,400
Speaker 1: that how you say that? Cecily, Cali, Cecily, Cecily. That

981
00:59:23,480 --> 00:59:29,560
Speaker 1: sounds better Cecily. So I'm so sorry for saying that. So, yeah,

982
00:59:29,680 --> 00:59:32,480
Speaker 1: the reasons to move to Texas are strong. You got

983
00:59:32,560 --> 00:59:37,200
Speaker 1: good reasons. Your your job is flexible, the schools in

984
00:59:37,280 --> 00:59:41,240
Speaker 1: Texas are great. North Carolina is awesome too, So you're

985
00:59:41,280 --> 00:59:45,200
Speaker 1: actually going there tomorrow today this afternoon, leaving there today.

986
00:59:46,040 --> 00:59:50,560
Speaker 1: But the reasons for moving seems strong. We've talked about

987
00:59:50,600 --> 00:59:54,320
Speaker 1: moving many times on this podcast. You are asking for

988
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:58,560
Speaker 1: godly advice, and that's the title of your email, and

989
00:59:58,720 --> 01:00:01,880
Speaker 1: that you're wanting godly perspective from us. You ask for it,

990
01:00:01,960 --> 01:00:05,680
Speaker 1: you're going to get it, and and so all the

991
01:00:05,920 --> 01:00:08,480
Speaker 1: all the other things, you know, if we're just going

992
01:00:08,560 --> 01:00:12,520
Speaker 1: to talk about the material reasons, uh components. To me,

993
01:00:12,640 --> 01:00:15,800
Speaker 1: I think it's great, you're you're good. This is where

994
01:00:15,840 --> 01:00:18,000
Speaker 1: I have a problem, and this is where people are

995
01:00:18,000 --> 01:00:20,640
Speaker 1: going to get mad at me. But when you start

996
01:00:20,680 --> 01:00:26,200
Speaker 1: seeing cowboy hats in the clouds, it becomes pagan wishes,

997
01:00:26,760 --> 01:00:29,640
Speaker 1: that becomes fortune telling in a way. Well, I think

998
01:00:29,760 --> 01:00:32,680
Speaker 1: what it is is you're you're seeing what you want. Yeah, right,

999
01:00:32,760 --> 01:00:35,720
Speaker 1: you're the longings of your heart. You're looking for something

1000
01:00:35,920 --> 01:00:41,320
Speaker 1: external that that will fulfill that desire. And then rat like, okay,

1001
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:45,120
Speaker 1: we've got reason to do it. Oh we're getting that.

1002
01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:48,320
Speaker 1: We're getting the good typically do this, but you you

1003
01:00:48,560 --> 01:00:50,240
Speaker 1: I don't typically do this. But you can't always take

1004
01:00:50,280 --> 01:00:53,680
Speaker 1: my word for it. You have to take the word

1005
01:00:53,760 --> 01:00:56,440
Speaker 1: for it. And so what I think of when I

1006
01:00:56,520 --> 01:01:02,960
Speaker 1: think of because you're asking here, where did you say it?

1007
01:01:03,960 --> 01:01:05,960
Speaker 1: If this is God's call? How do I explain? If

1008
01:01:05,960 --> 01:01:08,880
Speaker 1: this is God's call. In other words, God's will. And

1009
01:01:08,960 --> 01:01:10,680
Speaker 1: I think you did say will another point in this

1010
01:01:11,280 --> 01:01:15,680
Speaker 1: this email. So let's go to Romans twelfth two hor

1011
01:01:15,680 --> 01:01:18,720
Speaker 1: It says, do not be conformed to this world, but

1012
01:01:18,920 --> 01:01:22,840
Speaker 1: be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by

1013
01:01:22,880 --> 01:01:25,880
Speaker 1: testing you may discern what is the will of God,

1014
01:01:26,000 --> 01:01:31,160
Speaker 1: what is good and acceptable and perfect. So the danger

1015
01:01:31,240 --> 01:01:34,000
Speaker 1: here is following your heart. Follow your heart. A world

1016
01:01:34,160 --> 01:01:37,200
Speaker 1: always wants to say follow your heart, but the Bible

1017
01:01:37,240 --> 01:01:39,840
Speaker 1: says the heart is evil, and you need to conform

1018
01:01:39,920 --> 01:01:42,920
Speaker 1: your mind the renewal of your mind. Don't conform to

1019
01:01:43,000 --> 01:01:45,880
Speaker 1: this world, excuse me, but be transformed by the renewal

1020
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:52,240
Speaker 1: of your mind. And so I wouldn't follow like symbols

1021
01:01:52,320 --> 01:01:56,600
Speaker 1: in the clouds and you and your husband seeing the

1022
01:01:57,720 --> 01:02:01,200
Speaker 1: state of Texas in their hands. I could go out

1023
01:02:01,240 --> 01:02:03,040
Speaker 1: here right now, Chad, and look at the clouds and

1024
01:02:03,200 --> 01:02:07,640
Speaker 1: find enough shapes to make me feel like whatever I'm

1025
01:02:07,720 --> 01:02:10,720
Speaker 1: thinking is reality. People have done that since the beginning

1026
01:02:10,760 --> 01:02:14,040
Speaker 1: of the time. They have found constellations in the sky

1027
01:02:14,400 --> 01:02:18,240
Speaker 1: to pretty much match any symbol or shape that they

1028
01:02:18,440 --> 01:02:23,280
Speaker 1: want it to be. And that is paganism. It's a

1029
01:02:23,360 --> 01:02:27,360
Speaker 1: different question. That's fortune telling that's looking to the stars,

1030
01:02:27,400 --> 01:02:32,600
Speaker 1: that's astrology, instead of when you're looking for God's will.

1031
01:02:32,840 --> 01:02:39,280
Speaker 1: He says, transform the renewal of your mind. So that's

1032
01:02:39,440 --> 01:02:42,520
Speaker 1: very different than should I just lay here on the

1033
01:02:42,760 --> 01:02:44,760
Speaker 1: screen grass and look at the sky long enough for

1034
01:02:44,880 --> 01:02:47,200
Speaker 1: God to just tell me that Texas is the right place?

1035
01:02:49,280 --> 01:02:50,959
Speaker 1: I say it when I think I don't want people

1036
01:02:51,000 --> 01:02:54,160
Speaker 1: to get mad at me, because because can God do that? Yeah?

1037
01:02:54,440 --> 01:02:58,040
Speaker 1: Of course he could shape a cloud. He could absolutely

1038
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,480
Speaker 1: do that. Right. Yeah. When I interact with people in

1039
01:03:02,800 --> 01:03:07,600
Speaker 1: a pastoral role, they this is a very frequent question, right,

1040
01:03:08,040 --> 01:03:11,560
Speaker 1: I want to know God's desire for me? Is God

1041
01:03:11,720 --> 01:03:15,720
Speaker 1: calling me to this or that? Is this a sign?

1042
01:03:16,080 --> 01:03:19,960
Speaker 1: Or is that a sign? And there oftentimes we're waiting

1043
01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:23,840
Speaker 1: for something that is external to the word of God

1044
01:03:23,920 --> 01:03:27,200
Speaker 1: and what He's clearly prescribed for us to do, and

1045
01:03:27,960 --> 01:03:30,960
Speaker 1: we want to find some external thing that's going to

1046
01:03:31,160 --> 01:03:33,840
Speaker 1: kind of give that affirmation. But you know, you talk

1047
01:03:33,880 --> 01:03:36,000
Speaker 1: about the heart is one of those things that man,

1048
01:03:36,080 --> 01:03:38,360
Speaker 1: we have to renew our mind. In Psal I'm thirty seven,

1049
01:03:38,400 --> 01:03:40,600
Speaker 1: it says, delight yourself in the Lord, and He will

1050
01:03:40,680 --> 01:03:43,720
Speaker 1: give you the desires of your heart. And we oftentimes

1051
01:03:43,760 --> 01:03:46,120
Speaker 1: read that and go Okay, So if I just kind

1052
01:03:46,160 --> 01:03:47,600
Speaker 1: of do it God wants me to do, then I

1053
01:03:47,680 --> 01:03:52,680
Speaker 1: can get that brand new Ford f one whatever where

1054
01:03:52,720 --> 01:03:55,040
Speaker 1: I can get the thing that I really want. What

1055
01:03:55,240 --> 01:03:59,320
Speaker 1: that Saull means is if I delight myself in the Lord, well,

1056
01:03:59,520 --> 01:04:02,200
Speaker 1: the seed of delight is in the heart. So if

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Speaker 1: I'm actually delighting in the Lord, then he is the

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Speaker 1: desire of my heart, and I've aligned myself with him

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Speaker 1: because he is what is good, true and beautiful, and

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Speaker 1: so as I seek him, as I press into him,

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Speaker 1: and he is my delight, then man, it doesn't matter

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01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:20,800
Speaker 1: where I go or what I do, because he's my delight.

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Speaker 1: And so my encouragement is always, are you delighting in

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Speaker 1: the Lord? Are you truly seeking the Lord in this decision?

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01:04:27,880 --> 01:04:31,200
Speaker 1: And the doors will open, the doors will close, opportunities

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01:04:31,240 --> 01:04:34,040
Speaker 1: will present themselves, and as long as it's not just

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Speaker 1: overtly sinful or contrary to God, you can probably go

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Speaker 1: do it. Yeah, absolutely, And to that I would say

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Speaker 1: your point of action would be exactly what Chad said.

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Speaker 1: If there's nothing constricting you in any kind of way,

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Speaker 1: then say, all right, God, it feels like the doors

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Speaker 1: are opening to Texas. So we're gonna go ahead. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna put the house on the market. We're gonna start

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Speaker 1: looking at real estate. Like, just take one step. You

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01:05:03,000 --> 01:05:05,600
Speaker 1: don't have to think should we or should we not?

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01:05:05,960 --> 01:05:09,520
Speaker 1: Just start with a house, start with a city, take

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Speaker 1: a town, and go okay, all right, God, I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: start looking at real estate in Houston, Texas. And if

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Speaker 1: you're not supposed to, if that's not part of God's will,

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Speaker 1: He's not going to open anything up to you. Yeah,

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01:05:21,520 --> 01:05:24,400
Speaker 1: He's gonna make that very difficult for you. So instead

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Speaker 1: of looking at the clouds, use your brain, use your brain,

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01:05:27,680 --> 01:05:30,920
Speaker 1: use your mind, and go all right, here we go.

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Speaker 1: I'm sober minded. I'm looking at the world. I'm looking

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Speaker 1: at real estate apps, and I'm gonna go all right,

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01:05:36,680 --> 01:05:41,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna I'm gonna move forward, and God continue to

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Speaker 1: open the doors that I need to walk through and

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Speaker 1: close the ones that I don't. And before you know it,

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Speaker 1: you're gonna get your answer. And I have done this thing.

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Speaker 1: I have done this. I have said all right, God,

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Speaker 1: I feel like this, this house, this happened a year ago.

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01:05:57,280 --> 01:06:00,520
Speaker 1: Guys got this house. It feels like this is right.

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01:06:00,600 --> 01:06:02,840
Speaker 1: So I'm gonna go ahead and start getting the loan

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01:06:02,920 --> 01:06:05,600
Speaker 1: together and start moving on this house and get the

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01:06:05,680 --> 01:06:09,840
Speaker 1: contract on the house. Okay, we're contingent on selling our house.

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01:06:10,360 --> 01:06:12,800
Speaker 1: All right, we're you know, God, I'm not looking at

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01:06:12,840 --> 01:06:15,919
Speaker 1: the clouds. I'm not looking at tarot cards. I'm saying,

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01:06:15,920 --> 01:06:17,760
Speaker 1: all right, we're gonna go ahead and move forward. And

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01:06:17,880 --> 01:06:22,800
Speaker 1: then coronavirus hit. Our house wasn't gonna sell. We fell

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Speaker 1: out of contingency, I fell out of the contract. And

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01:06:25,520 --> 01:06:28,680
Speaker 1: it's like, okay, there it is. There's the closed door. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know, it's not as hard as tarot cards. That's easy.

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01:06:31,760 --> 01:06:34,760
Speaker 1: There it is. And sometimes the door remains open. We

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01:06:34,880 --> 01:06:37,480
Speaker 1: walk through it and we fall on our face and

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01:06:37,640 --> 01:06:39,360
Speaker 1: it doesn't work out, and we go, oh, man, I

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01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:42,200
Speaker 1: blew it? Am I outside of God's will because we

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01:06:42,320 --> 01:06:45,720
Speaker 1: decided to do this? But realize, no, we as we

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01:06:45,920 --> 01:06:50,160
Speaker 1: walk with the Lord, even if it doesn't work out

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01:06:50,480 --> 01:06:55,400
Speaker 1: in human standards, God uses everything for his glory, for

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Speaker 1: his good and to shape us into the image of

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01:06:57,640 --> 01:07:00,120
Speaker 1: his son. So it's gonna work. If you move to

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Speaker 1: Texas and man, it's not what you thought it was.

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01:07:03,000 --> 01:07:05,840
Speaker 1: It's exactly what God knew was gonna happen, and he's

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Speaker 1: going to use that in your life. And guess what,

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01:07:07,760 --> 01:07:10,960
Speaker 1: North Carolina's not going anywhere, right, it's not going anywhere.

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01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:13,680
Speaker 1: You go right back to North Carolina and don't worry

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Speaker 1: about kindergarten. Right. I don't think like it's a legitimate

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01:07:16,720 --> 01:07:20,400
Speaker 1: concern on your part, emailing and saying you're you want

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Speaker 1: to do this before you're four. Man, kids are so resilient.

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Speaker 1: You could start your kid, your kids could go to

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01:07:26,760 --> 01:07:29,720
Speaker 1: could go to school. And my kids have done this.

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01:07:29,840 --> 01:07:34,040
Speaker 1: We've we've changed schools twice and you could move to

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Speaker 1: another one. They might your four your eight year old

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01:07:37,080 --> 01:07:39,160
Speaker 1: might kick and stream a little bit, but they're gonna

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Speaker 1: make new friends and they're gonna be resilient and they're

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01:07:41,480 --> 01:07:44,000
Speaker 1: gonna fall into a new place. Sometimes as parents, you

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01:07:44,160 --> 01:07:47,200
Speaker 1: just have to be flexible. And although we want to

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Speaker 1: be concrete before the four year old starts kinder that's

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01:07:51,840 --> 01:07:54,600
Speaker 1: a good that's a good map, But you don't have

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01:07:54,760 --> 01:07:56,760
Speaker 1: to hold that as gospel. You don't have to hold

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01:07:56,840 --> 01:08:00,640
Speaker 1: that as what's best is the long jevity of your

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01:08:00,680 --> 01:08:03,200
Speaker 1: family and where you're going to be for a long time.

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Speaker 1: And there's kindergartens and there's great teachers everywhere. Great question. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: thank you for emailing and dude, Chad, it's been it's

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01:08:14,800 --> 01:08:16,960
Speaker 1: been fun. This is a blast. Yeah, we're gonna go

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01:08:16,960 --> 01:08:18,960
Speaker 1: get tacos again one of these days and then we're

1137
01:08:18,960 --> 01:08:20,439
Speaker 1: gonna go on this podcast again. If you want to

1138
01:08:20,439 --> 01:08:24,040
Speaker 1: see more Chad, say more Chad. And if anybody has

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01:08:24,080 --> 01:08:26,280
Speaker 1: any any more questions or if you have a Chad

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01:08:26,400 --> 01:08:29,360
Speaker 1: specific question that could happen. Maybe you're from Montana, I

1141
01:08:29,400 --> 01:08:32,080
Speaker 1: have a Chad specific Montana question. Maybe you're mad at

1142
01:08:32,160 --> 01:08:37,120
Speaker 1: him for calling hunting shopping in Texas. Email Grangersmith Podcast

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01:08:37,439 --> 01:08:40,200
Speaker 1: at gmail dot com and tell me what Chad and

1144
01:08:40,720 --> 01:08:43,400
Speaker 1: we'll definitely have you back. Cool. This has been fun. Yeah,

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01:08:43,560 --> 01:08:46,160
Speaker 1: it's a blast. See your brother. Yeah, thanks for joining

1146
01:08:46,200 --> 01:08:49,040
Speaker 1: me on the granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of

1147
01:08:49,120 --> 01:08:51,200
Speaker 1: you guys. You could help me out by rating this

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Speaker 1: you never miss any time I upload a video. If

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Speaker 1: you have a question for me that you would like

1152
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Speaker 1: me to answer, email Grangersmith Podcast at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 1: Ye