WEBVTT - Whiskey is his new girlfriend 0:00:11.160 --> 0:00:14.280 We've all had that experience in life where either from 0:00:14.400 --> 0:00:17.160 us or from a friend, where you got you get 0:00:17.160 --> 0:00:21.520 into a relationship, usually when you're younger, sometimes when you're older, 0:00:22.440 --> 0:00:26.440 and the relationship starts taking over your life or your 0:00:26.480 --> 0:00:31.200 buddy's life, and then they slowly start fading away from 0:00:31.400 --> 0:00:34.479 you as a friend, and then you see them slowly 0:00:34.560 --> 0:00:36.640 start fading away from their family and they become more 0:00:36.720 --> 0:00:41.239 and more isolated in that relationship to the to the 0:00:41.280 --> 0:00:46.120 worst extent, they break up, and then that person or 0:00:46.159 --> 0:00:50.400 you starts turning to some kind of supplement like alcohol 0:00:50.479 --> 0:00:55.280 to make them forget about it. And then they convince 0:00:55.360 --> 0:00:58.800 themselves that there's never going to be a relationship after that, 0:00:58.840 --> 0:01:01.800 and that was the only one that was worth anything. 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:03.920 For the rest of their life, they're gonna be just 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:08.760 trying to get recreate that perfect relationship back when on 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:12.800 the reality from the outside looking in, you just think 0:01:13.480 --> 0:01:17.039 this is a terrible situation. This was never gonna be good. 0:01:17.440 --> 0:01:20.520 There's so many people left in the world, there's so 0:01:20.640 --> 0:01:25.280 many other opportunities for another relationship, and you're stuck on 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:27.640 this one. Like I said, I keep I'm speaking in 0:01:27.680 --> 0:01:29.920 third person because it could be you. It could be me. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:33.080 It could be it was me at one time, and 0:01:33.560 --> 0:01:35.640 I've known many friends that have done this and you 0:01:35.760 --> 0:01:37.959 just get completely blinded. That was one of the questions 0:01:37.959 --> 0:01:41.200 on the podcast today. And so we're gonna dig through that. 0:01:41.319 --> 0:01:45.640 We're gonna dig through people seeing God and the clouds, 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.120 which I don't know how I feel about that. I'm 0:01:49.120 --> 0:01:51.200 gonna talk about that. I'm gonna kind of dig into 0:01:51.240 --> 0:01:53.200 all different kinds of questions. If you have anything for me, 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.520 anything at all, music related, relationship related, God in the 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:02.640 Clouds related, email Granger Smith Podcast at gmail dot com. 0:02:03.000 --> 0:02:05.520 I have my good friend Chad Warren. It's going to 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:08.680 help me answer some of these questions today. Really smart dude. 0:02:09.600 --> 0:02:12.919 I've met him recently because of a crazy I storm 0:02:12.960 --> 0:02:15.239 in Texas and we became friends in a strange way, 0:02:15.280 --> 0:02:20.040 which I'll talk about it. Chad is a cancer survivor 0:02:21.000 --> 0:02:24.360 that has gone through unbelievable experience with that. He is 0:02:24.400 --> 0:02:28.120 a CrossFit addict. I won't hold that against him. And 0:02:28.160 --> 0:02:32.160 he's also the connections pastor at First Baptist Church in Georgetown, Texas. 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:36.480 He's a really good candidate to He's also from Montana 0:02:37.160 --> 0:02:39.800 and Colorado and currently lives in Texas. So he's a 0:02:39.840 --> 0:02:43.799 well rounded speaker for this podcast, and he's going to 0:02:43.880 --> 0:02:47.800 have a good opinion on a lot of these questions 0:02:48.400 --> 0:02:50.120 and you guys are going to like him a lot. 0:02:50.240 --> 0:03:27.480 So I'm excited. Welcome to the podcast. Ye yee did 0:03:30.560 --> 0:03:46.880 Muir's longline five? Fool of Husband down? Going Back's Rangy Coage. Yeah, 0:03:47.320 --> 0:03:57.080 you'reation chat. I was talking just before we started this podcast. 0:03:57.720 --> 0:04:00.960 You asked me if I'm a cross fitter. Yeah, I said, no, 0:04:01.960 --> 0:04:04.160 I do strength training. I mean, you look like you 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:07.400 can handle yourself so well, so do you. It's like 0:04:08.200 --> 0:04:11.680 and sometimes you think of maybe it's the strength training guys, 0:04:11.720 --> 0:04:13.840 think of the crossfitting guys as like have a series 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.040 like those those guys they do all kinds of crazy stuff. 0:04:17.640 --> 0:04:21.080 It is definitely a subculture. It is. Yeah, there's words 0:04:21.160 --> 0:04:25.960 and acronyms and like right now we're in the open season, 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.320 so the CrossFit Open so everyone's kind of tuned in. 0:04:30.520 --> 0:04:33.800 So you've got this. It's they claim it's the largest 0:04:34.640 --> 0:04:38.640 fitness competition globally. So you can do it in your garage. 0:04:38.720 --> 0:04:42.360 You can go to a CrossFit affiliate and you compete 0:04:42.440 --> 0:04:46.840 against everybody in the world and then they'll take, so 0:04:46.960 --> 0:04:49.240 you do. They'll post one workout a week, so this 0:04:49.400 --> 0:04:52.279 morning or last night was the first workout, and they'll 0:04:52.320 --> 0:04:56.680 do three over the next three weeks. And you just 0:04:56.760 --> 0:04:59.120 get after it and you see how you rank against 0:04:59.360 --> 0:05:02.039 everybody in your age, demographic, all that kind of stuff. 0:05:02.160 --> 0:05:04.040 So comment below if you're a crossfitter and you and 0:05:04.120 --> 0:05:08.240 you're participating in CrossFit open season right now? What you 0:05:08.240 --> 0:05:10.840 said open season? It's open, but it's the season of 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.880 the open. It's not like I mean, some people might 0:05:13.960 --> 0:05:16.640 think it's like hunting. Yeah, if you see a crossfitter 0:05:17.000 --> 0:05:21.760 taking yeah, tikes. So the closest connection I have to 0:05:21.839 --> 0:05:25.719 CrossFit is my my drummer, Dusty, and I don't think 0:05:25.960 --> 0:05:27.600 I think he actually is a little bit into it. 0:05:27.680 --> 0:05:30.200 But he was all into it at one point. This 0:05:30.320 --> 0:05:34.360 is about two years ago. Yeah, and he got rabdo myialysis. 0:05:36.520 --> 0:05:40.160 I've heard of that. It was crazy, so bad. It 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:41.640 was a day of a show and he was going 0:05:41.680 --> 0:05:44.760 to try to make the show and his his muscles 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:49.400 were swelling. I mean he looked like he was he 0:05:49.520 --> 0:05:54.039 got bitten by the most deadliest scorpion in South Africa. 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:57.160 I mean it was crazy. His face was puffy. His 0:05:57.400 --> 0:06:00.480 arm was all puffed up and he had to go 0:06:00.560 --> 0:06:04.640 into I mean pretty much an emergency situation at the 0:06:04.680 --> 0:06:07.599 hospital where they had to fix him up and do whatever. 0:06:08.040 --> 0:06:11.719 It's like overhydration or what. I don't even, I can't even. Yeah, 0:06:11.760 --> 0:06:17.120 it's something blood, blood and muscle tissue and breakdown. It's 0:06:17.440 --> 0:06:21.040 actually pretty rare, but it's it's gruesome enough that when 0:06:21.520 --> 0:06:24.320 when it happens, lots of people take notice and they're like, Okay, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.640 that's it. I'm out. Yeah, So, yeah, it's rare. I've 0:06:27.680 --> 0:06:30.360 been coaching for over two years. I coach CrossFit, and 0:06:30.480 --> 0:06:33.920 I've never seen it, So, okay, well that's something. And 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.720 then my personal connection with it is and you probably 0:06:38.800 --> 0:06:42.880 know David Goggins as you're you used to actually really 0:06:42.920 --> 0:06:45.920 want to be a Navy seal. Yeah, and we could 0:06:45.960 --> 0:06:50.440 talk about that. But but David Goggins cray absolute crazy 0:06:51.240 --> 0:06:55.600 ex Navy seal now author and speaker. But I was 0:06:55.640 --> 0:06:57.440 reading his book and he was talking about this pull 0:06:57.520 --> 0:06:59.840 up challenge and how many pull ups can you do? 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.000 And he was like, yeah, he was walking it through 0:07:04.279 --> 0:07:06.520 like mathematically, like I could do so many pull ups 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:08.400 in a minute, and then if I could just keep 0:07:08.520 --> 0:07:11.880 going and have thirty seconds of rest and then do 0:07:12.000 --> 0:07:14.240 twenty more and then rest for ten seconds. Then I 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:17.320 could pretty much do pull ups all day long. So 0:07:17.400 --> 0:07:18.640 I was reading the book and I was like, man, 0:07:18.840 --> 0:07:21.120 I could do a lot of pull ups. I can 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:23.320 pretty good at pull ups. I wonder if I could 0:07:23.360 --> 0:07:26.240 follow this pattern and do you know, do ten and 0:07:26.280 --> 0:07:28.520 then rest for twenty seconds and then do ten, do 0:07:28.640 --> 0:07:30.960 rest for twenty seconds, And how long could I go? 0:07:31.360 --> 0:07:33.080 And how many pullups could I do? So I started 0:07:33.080 --> 0:07:38.120 it on day one. I got tennis elbow from it, 0:07:39.520 --> 0:07:43.200 and it was dude, it was so painful. It was 0:07:43.280 --> 0:07:45.680 so painful to have that ten to nineus that I 0:07:45.680 --> 0:07:48.240 couldn't even close the car door and just in the 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:51.320 one arm, Yeah, just in one arm. And I learned 0:07:51.400 --> 0:07:54.760 later that what happens is and David Goggins he just 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:57.080 tore up his hands during pull ups. But what happens 0:07:57.200 --> 0:08:00.400 is when you start getting tired, you lose, you start 0:08:00.440 --> 0:08:03.280 losing your grip yep, and your your hands starts kind 0:08:03.280 --> 0:08:05.840 of rolling on the bar exactly, and it's rolling back 0:08:05.840 --> 0:08:08.400 and forth. That's where you tear things. Yeah, So now 0:08:08.440 --> 0:08:10.000 anytime I do a pull up, now I make sure 0:08:10.080 --> 0:08:12.480 that bar is all the way into the bed of 0:08:12.560 --> 0:08:14.600 my thumb, you know, as tired as it can go 0:08:14.720 --> 0:08:17.400 inside there, and my my wrists are straight down. Yeah, 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.040 that's good. We should do some pull ups sometimes, all right, 0:08:20.160 --> 0:08:22.679 all right, I mean I yeah, See, that's my problem 0:08:22.800 --> 0:08:26.080 is my brain will always keep going. It's like I 0:08:26.160 --> 0:08:29.320 just keep going, just keep going, keep going, and then 0:08:29.360 --> 0:08:33.680 I hurting myself. Well we can't. Yeah, we're at an 0:08:33.720 --> 0:08:37.720 age now where things don't recover quite as fast. Absolutely, 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.839 but we think we're still like in our twenties and 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:44.240 we're good to go, I know anyway, And I remember 0:08:44.280 --> 0:08:46.079 our dads, you know, or at least my dad's saying that, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.200 and I just thought, here's such an old man, yeah, 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:55.840 saying the same thing. So Chad, you're Montana native. Yeah, 0:08:56.320 --> 0:09:00.800 born and raised northwestern Montana. Yeah, it's your mountain guy. 0:09:01.160 --> 0:09:04.520 You've also spent time in Colorado. Yeah, we did a 0:09:04.559 --> 0:09:08.239 little stint in the east, but yeah, the Pacific Northwest, 0:09:09.040 --> 0:09:13.880 basically the Rocky Mountains. Somehow you ended up in Texas. Yeah, well, 0:09:14.640 --> 0:09:17.640 I my wife is from here. So some argue that 0:09:17.800 --> 0:09:20.199 I got wise, and I I realized I need to 0:09:20.240 --> 0:09:22.880 go find a good woman so go to Texas. Yeah, 0:09:23.360 --> 0:09:25.760 and she's an Aggie too. Yeah, so there you go. 0:09:25.840 --> 0:09:28.240 I'm married into all that. I love it. But you're 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:31.360 an aggie too, now, okay, try to say that is 0:09:32.000 --> 0:09:34.800 you know, people say, oh, I wasn't you know, I 0:09:35.120 --> 0:09:37.280 don't have the opportunity to become an aggie. And I 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:41.240 was like, well, and aggie technically is the parent of 0:09:41.360 --> 0:09:45.200 someone that goes there. They're technically the spouse of someone 0:09:45.240 --> 0:09:47.160 that went there. And then there's a lot of people 0:09:47.240 --> 0:09:49.920 that could just they could claim it through some other 0:09:51.040 --> 0:09:54.160 one degree of separation from the school itself. And there's 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.560 a lot of noises you got to learn, and yeah, 0:09:57.640 --> 0:10:02.800 there's things that happen when when you join that noises. 0:10:03.360 --> 0:10:07.679 I like it whooping and it's good. Yeah, although I 0:10:07.760 --> 0:10:09.760 get I get pretty into it. My wife says I'm 0:10:09.760 --> 0:10:12.160 more eggy than she is sometimes because I get pretty 0:10:12.160 --> 0:10:17.080 fired up. Good. Yeah, So how long have you been married? Fifteen? 0:10:17.320 --> 0:10:19.199 Well we're in our fifteenth year marriage, so you know, 0:10:19.360 --> 0:10:22.440 you know you know about that, yeah, fifteen years. Yeah, 0:10:23.280 --> 0:10:27.640 So Chad, we met just a little bit more backstory 0:10:27.640 --> 0:10:30.959 before we get into some questions here, but we met 0:10:31.040 --> 0:10:33.240 a very unique way. It was the what people are 0:10:33.280 --> 0:10:38.079 calling the snow apocalypse now in Texas. And we have 0:10:38.200 --> 0:10:41.559 a mutual friend and it was they there was a 0:10:41.720 --> 0:10:49.559 day in Texas, midweek, mid storm when the ice finally 0:10:49.679 --> 0:10:52.680 subsided enough for people to actually get on the roads. 0:10:53.080 --> 0:10:56.319 And the day that that happened, kind of everyone in 0:10:56.400 --> 0:10:58.959 central Texas knew that there's going to be people in 0:10:59.080 --> 0:11:03.360 need of food and water, and so me and my 0:11:03.440 --> 0:11:07.040 brothers here we decided to go and the first step was, 0:11:07.120 --> 0:11:10.800 let's go get a bunch of pizzas and then through 0:11:10.880 --> 0:11:12.400 and I put it on Instagram that were going to 0:11:12.400 --> 0:11:13.679 get a bunch of pizzas and give them out to 0:11:13.720 --> 0:11:16.520 people that are hungry that day, need a hot meal. 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:20.280 And then that mutual friend connected you who was actually 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:23.559 you were doing the same thing and you didn't need 0:11:23.640 --> 0:11:26.920 so much the pizzas as the able bodies to turn 0:11:27.000 --> 0:11:30.559 the pizzas out. Yep, and people willing to drive yes 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:37.040 in conditions that were unfavorable. Yeah. So yeah, in my 0:11:37.200 --> 0:11:41.000 role at the church, I got a call from somebody 0:11:41.040 --> 0:11:44.679 at the county and they said, hey, now that the 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:48.079 roads are becoming driveable, is there a way that you 0:11:48.280 --> 0:11:51.160 would be willing to open your doors at the church 0:11:51.840 --> 0:11:54.760 and start to receive donations and then find a way 0:11:54.800 --> 0:11:58.480 to distribute those. So that's what we did. We just 0:11:58.600 --> 0:12:03.079 opened up. And then just as things were developing, that 0:12:03.240 --> 0:12:06.959 mutual friend of ours said, Hey, I have a buddy 0:12:07.280 --> 0:12:09.720 who's wanting to hand out pizzas. Can he sync up 0:12:09.760 --> 0:12:11.680 with you guys? And what you're doing? I'm like sure. 0:12:12.240 --> 0:12:15.000 So there were we had been learning about several neighborhoods 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:17.360 where there were quite a few people that were in need, 0:12:17.520 --> 0:12:21.959 and so yeah, you and I linked up at the 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.880 corner and grabbed our pizzas and we just started handing 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:27.680 him out and groceries and Sonic Burgers and all kinds 0:12:27.679 --> 0:12:30.280 of stuff. So we spent a couple hours that day 0:12:30.320 --> 0:12:34.800 together doing that, and then later we texted and I 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:36.360 don't know who said it first, but it's like, man, 0:12:37.080 --> 0:12:39.680 let's grab some lunch, you know, let's grab some tacos tacos. 0:12:39.960 --> 0:12:42.240 So we did that and then I was like, Hey, 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:45.040 you're a cool guy, and I hope that you maybe 0:12:45.080 --> 0:12:47.160 thought that. Well, I just thought you were a dude. 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.959 I just thought you were a really cool guy, and 0:12:50.200 --> 0:12:52.560 you are a really cool guy. But then I thought 0:12:52.640 --> 0:12:55.199 you were the yeee guy. Uh huh, I didn't know that. 0:12:55.559 --> 0:12:57.559 That's actually what your text said. The first text was 0:12:57.600 --> 0:13:01.720 are you the YEEE guy? Like yes, because I've seen 0:13:02.160 --> 0:13:04.520 hats and shirts, I'm like, oh, those are cool. And 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:08.880 then I didn't know like you're a thing, and I 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.560 didn't know that. Well. Then we had lunch again, had 0:13:11.600 --> 0:13:14.719 tacos again, had some deep conversations, and I was like, man, 0:13:15.040 --> 0:13:18.400 I have this podcast. I answered these questions people, all 0:13:18.559 --> 0:13:22.000 kinds of questions, they'll send them in, and you want 0:13:22.040 --> 0:13:25.400 to help me out on it. Well, you said, so 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:28.000 it's gonna be it would be like us sitting around 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:31.040 a campfire and Colorado. And I thought we were gonna 0:13:31.040 --> 0:13:34.120 be sitting around a campfire in Colorado. So when you 0:13:34.240 --> 0:13:36.680 were like, hey, it's just about fifteen minutes outside of town, 0:13:36.720 --> 0:13:39.760 I thought, that's that's interesting. Maybe we're gonna, you know, 0:13:39.920 --> 0:13:42.880 road trip or something here we are, Yeah, we're not. 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.920 We're not at all in Colorado with the EU Farm. 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:48.319 And I do have some cause you're the ee guy. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:50.839 I'm the EEG guy at the EU Farm answered some 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.480 eue questions. That's right, And if anyone listening has a 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:59.600 question of any kind, email Granger Smith podcast at gmail 0:13:59.679 --> 0:14:01.960 dot com. Could be about in It could be about music, 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:04.400 It could be about life, could be about relationship, could 0:14:04.400 --> 0:14:09.559 be about job, could be advice, could be anything that 0:14:09.720 --> 0:14:13.199 you would talk about sitting around a campfire. And so 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:15.960 neither one of us have notes. Chad has no idea 0:14:16.000 --> 0:14:18.839 what I'm about to say. And I looked at these 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:20.520 just a little bit just to make sure we were 0:14:20.800 --> 0:14:22.440 kind of in the ballpark at what I wanted to do. 0:14:23.640 --> 0:14:27.360 And I'm gonna start out. I'm gonna start up with 0:14:27.440 --> 0:14:30.480 you kind of light chat here, but then I have 0:14:30.560 --> 0:14:33.280 to remember which ones. Oh, here we go. Have you 0:14:33.320 --> 0:14:38.440 ever driven a combined? And I have not driven a combined. 0:14:38.960 --> 0:14:42.160 I have not driven a combine. And I have droned 0:14:42.360 --> 0:14:47.240 many combines for YouTube. And I have some family and 0:14:47.520 --> 0:14:50.600 plain View, so I used to grow up and go 0:14:50.680 --> 0:14:53.560 to their farm out in plain View, Texas and see 0:14:53.600 --> 0:14:58.080 them run the combine. But I've and I've played plenty 0:14:58.120 --> 0:15:01.600 of shows where they're you know, they're prayer, they're the 0:15:01.640 --> 0:15:04.880 backdrop of the stage, but I've never actually been in 0:15:04.960 --> 0:15:08.000 the seat and driven one. You I've driven a combine. 0:15:08.360 --> 0:15:11.560 So I have family in North Dakota, and so we 0:15:11.640 --> 0:15:13.360 went and visited them one time, and as a kid, 0:15:13.840 --> 0:15:15.680 I don't know that you could call it driving it 0:15:16.080 --> 0:15:18.600 or piloting it or whatever. But then in high school 0:15:18.600 --> 0:15:21.760 I worked for a farmer in Colorado and I ran 0:15:21.840 --> 0:15:25.120 the swather, which is similar to a combine. Combine is 0:15:25.160 --> 0:15:28.120 taking you know, corn and stuff, but a swather is 0:15:28.160 --> 0:15:31.120 cutting hay. And it wasn't. I mean, it was a 0:15:31.120 --> 0:15:34.520 pretty sweet gig air conditioned cab and had a CD 0:15:34.680 --> 0:15:38.520 player and I would put in every morning when I 0:15:38.560 --> 0:15:41.000 go out there, I put in the soundtrack to top Gun, Yeah, 0:15:41.080 --> 0:15:43.240 and act like I was firing up the jet. Love it. 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:46.800 Just get things rolling and just dial it in. Yeah. 0:15:46.960 --> 0:15:48.760 Me and Chattah say mate. So top Gun is like, 0:15:48.960 --> 0:15:51.480 you know, right down a ra alley, which there's another 0:15:51.520 --> 0:15:54.040 one coming out. I know. It was actually supposed to 0:15:54.080 --> 0:15:57.000 be twenty twenty, and then the pandemic pushed it back. 0:15:57.520 --> 0:16:02.280 Which on YouTube, now I could say coronavirus. Now, there 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:04.480 was a time and they just released that. But there 0:16:04.600 --> 0:16:09.160 was a time when YouTube was demonetizing anything and hiding 0:16:09.280 --> 0:16:13.040 the analytics or the algorithm of anything that said coronavirus. 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:15.200 So what would you call it? The rona? I was 0:16:15.280 --> 0:16:17.960 just say the virus or virus. You know what we're 0:16:17.960 --> 0:16:22.360 talking about. Virus. So yeah, shout out to Braiden. Doesn't 0:16:22.360 --> 0:16:25.160 say where you're from, Braiden, but I have not, Chad has. 0:16:25.520 --> 0:16:28.520 I'm assuming you have, and I hope that you listen 0:16:28.600 --> 0:16:30.800 to the podcast in your combine. I know it's not 0:16:30.920 --> 0:16:32.960 season right now, but I hope you listen to it 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:39.920 in your tractor. That'd be really cool. Hey Granger, I'm 0:16:39.960 --> 0:16:43.680 from Garnet, Kansas. This is this guy's name is Trevor, 0:16:43.760 --> 0:16:45.760 and I was wondering what is your favorite kind of 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:50.560 rifle to use when you deer hunt? And what is 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:54.320 your choice? God bless Thanks Trevor. Shout out to Kansas 0:16:54.480 --> 0:17:02.040 everyone in Kansas another combine state. I I'm not a 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:08.240 big I'm not a big fancy rifle guy, and that's 0:17:08.280 --> 0:17:10.880 because my dad never was. It was never all about 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.359 the best rifle in town. I've shot a lot of 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:19.280 seven milimeter eight and two seventy, and then lately I've 0:17:19.320 --> 0:17:22.440 gotten into the six fight creed More and I have 0:17:22.840 --> 0:17:28.280 a Recently I got a Savage Arms six y five 0:17:28.359 --> 0:17:32.600 creed More, which is an ultra light rifle which is awesome, 0:17:32.840 --> 0:17:35.240 which would work great in Montana if you're in the 0:17:35.280 --> 0:17:40.680 mountains and I don't even have a hunt planned where 0:17:40.680 --> 0:17:43.320 I would actually need an ultra ultra light rifle, but 0:17:44.200 --> 0:17:46.200 I love it. And it's on the bottom end, like 0:17:46.240 --> 0:17:49.359 the Savage Arms. This one is on the bottom end 0:17:50.840 --> 0:17:55.600 money wise of the ultra light world. And I think 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:59.760 it's awesome. It feels great. And how about you, Chevvy. 0:18:00.119 --> 0:18:02.679 That's a big deal ultra light rifles and collar out 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:07.320 of Montana because you are trekking, you are stalking animals. 0:18:07.400 --> 0:18:10.040 You are putting in miles and miles a day just 0:18:10.160 --> 0:18:13.960 to see traces of something. When I came to Texas 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:17.159 and a buddy asked me to go deer hunting, I 0:18:17.280 --> 0:18:18.840 wasn't sure what that would entail, like if we'd be 0:18:18.880 --> 0:18:22.840 walking across wide open planes and or army crawling or something. 0:18:23.080 --> 0:18:25.000 But then he puts me in what he calls the 0:18:25.119 --> 0:18:28.760 executive blind. I'm like, okay, what's that mean. It literally 0:18:28.920 --> 0:18:33.520 had like a swivel leather reclining chair and we were 0:18:33.600 --> 0:18:35.080 just going to wait, And I was like, well, what 0:18:35.160 --> 0:18:36.560 are we waiting for? Is there a certain time of 0:18:36.600 --> 0:18:37.840 day where they come out? And he goes, yeah, when 0:18:37.840 --> 0:18:42.800 the feeder goes off, I was like, so basically, we're 0:18:42.880 --> 0:18:48.399 shopping today, and so yeah, when I shopping, I like it. 0:18:48.600 --> 0:18:51.560 When I shop in Texas for deer, I use a 0:18:51.840 --> 0:18:54.959 my grandpa's I inherited a lever Action thirty thirty kind 0:18:54.960 --> 0:18:59.200 of an old cowboy gun. And then I use a 0:18:59.280 --> 0:19:03.720 three hundred wind mag it's a Model seventy Winchester for 0:19:04.480 --> 0:19:06.760 elk hunting is which I primarily do, or a mule 0:19:06.840 --> 0:19:09.879 deer yeh. In Colorado or Montana, Dude, people are losing 0:19:09.920 --> 0:19:12.439 their mind agreeing with you when you're talking about shopping 0:19:12.480 --> 0:19:17.159 for deer and and it. You know, I love I 0:19:17.200 --> 0:19:20.600 love deer hunting and I always have. And in Texas 0:19:21.040 --> 0:19:23.879 it's typically sitting in a blind and you're you're hunting 0:19:23.880 --> 0:19:28.080 a food plot, could be hunting a feeder. And when 0:19:28.119 --> 0:19:31.080 I started touring and getting outside of Texas and noticed 0:19:31.119 --> 0:19:33.359 that that's like really bad to talk about that for 0:19:33.600 --> 0:19:36.560 people outside of Texas, they're like, what, that's not hunting, 0:19:36.960 --> 0:19:39.680 that's not hunting as as Chad from Montana would say, 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:44.159 that's shopping actually, And I thought, man, I agree, I 0:19:44.520 --> 0:19:47.040 do like to. You know, I love to go and 0:19:47.160 --> 0:19:49.159 shoot a dough and put a bunch of meat in 0:19:49.200 --> 0:19:51.920 the freezing. Yeah, if you're for me, it's great because 0:19:51.960 --> 0:19:54.560 it's a it's a given you're gonna walk away that day. 0:19:55.119 --> 0:19:58.560 And I was in a situation where he I think 0:19:58.600 --> 0:20:02.680 he calls him cold. He needed me to kind of 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.840 take out some of the bad genetics or something like that. 0:20:06.920 --> 0:20:09.679 He's like, yeah, come here, you know, shoot. So then 0:20:09.720 --> 0:20:12.520 he said, before you shoot, send me a picture of 0:20:12.600 --> 0:20:14.240 what you're about to shoot, and then I'll let you 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:17.119 know if it's okay. So, I mean, such a different 0:20:17.240 --> 0:20:20.200 world where you would sit there, I'd have cell coverage, 0:20:20.440 --> 0:20:22.600 I would be able to snap a photo. He's in 0:20:22.680 --> 0:20:24.760 a blind somewhere else and he goes, yeah, take the 0:20:24.840 --> 0:20:30.360 one on the right. It's like, okay, we're hunting in Texas. 0:20:30.600 --> 0:20:34.400 This is awesome. Yeah, yeah, cool buck. It's yeah, that's 0:20:34.520 --> 0:20:37.680 that's and and the idea behind it is good management. 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:42.040 Hunting is good because you are you know, the the 0:20:42.200 --> 0:20:44.840 number one way to get big antlers out of a 0:20:44.880 --> 0:20:51.440 buck is refining the genetics. So and people look past 0:20:51.480 --> 0:20:53.320 that a lot and they think, oh, it's all about feed, 0:20:53.560 --> 0:20:57.840 and which is feed is the second, But but genetics 0:20:57.880 --> 0:20:59.600 is number one and the only way to really get 0:20:59.640 --> 0:21:04.439 thoseics is to cull out the inferior genetics, take out 0:21:04.520 --> 0:21:07.920 the other suitors. Yeah for sure. Yeah, so well, cool, 0:21:11.160 --> 0:21:13.200 you got another. I'm gonna spread this out. I'm gonna 0:21:13.200 --> 0:21:15.000 spread out the easy ones because I have another one. 0:21:16.480 --> 0:21:20.960 We'll see time eighteen. Cool. So let's get into some 0:21:21.119 --> 0:21:24.760 meat here, Chad. Let's start with this one that the 0:21:26.119 --> 0:21:30.680 subject is wavering faith question. Dear Grangeer, I just want 0:21:30.680 --> 0:21:31.879 to say I'm a huge fan of the show and 0:21:31.920 --> 0:21:35.879 I've listened to every episode. Dude, Thank you, Michael. It 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.880 says it gets me through my long shifts at patrolling. 0:21:38.920 --> 0:21:41.680 I'm a police officer here here in Arkansas, shout out 0:21:41.680 --> 0:21:44.320 to Arkansas, and I've seen the worst that life has 0:21:44.400 --> 0:21:47.080 to offer through my job and also in my personal life. 0:21:47.119 --> 0:21:50.119 In twenty sixteen, I lost my father to cancer. He 0:21:50.240 --> 0:21:52.359 was one of the nicest guys you could ever meet. 0:21:52.880 --> 0:21:55.520 In July of this year, I lost my mother. She 0:21:55.720 --> 0:21:59.320 was shot in her home. My mother was a recovered 0:21:59.359 --> 0:22:05.160 drug addict who had gone to prison and got out 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:08.200 and it changed her completely changed her life. She tried 0:22:08.240 --> 0:22:10.280 to help anyone in need that she could and do 0:22:10.480 --> 0:22:14.280 to this, I've found my faith wavering. I'm a believer 0:22:14.359 --> 0:22:16.159 in Christ. But due to the things I've seen at 0:22:16.160 --> 0:22:18.400 work and the tragedies I've faced in my life, I've 0:22:18.440 --> 0:22:22.720 found my relationship to God is getting more distant. I 0:22:22.800 --> 0:22:25.119 don't go to church as much anymore or talk to 0:22:25.200 --> 0:22:27.639 God as much as I used to. My wife has 0:22:27.800 --> 0:22:29.920 noticed this and it kind of put a strain on 0:22:30.000 --> 0:22:33.640 our marriage. My wife loves going to church and it's 0:22:33.720 --> 0:22:36.480 a chore for her to get me to go. Did 0:22:36.520 --> 0:22:38.960 you go through anything like that with what happened with River? 0:22:39.600 --> 0:22:41.800 And what advice could you give someone to try and 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:46.520 get the relationship back with God? And that's from Michael. 0:22:49.520 --> 0:22:52.160 First of all, thank you for your service. Michael, you're 0:22:52.200 --> 0:22:58.680 out there protecting the community in Arkansas. Thank you for 0:22:58.760 --> 0:23:02.359 your service, and thank you for being able to endure 0:23:03.440 --> 0:23:08.480 what you see for the sake of protecting so many 0:23:08.760 --> 0:23:12.639 lives and keeping so many people safe. And I'm not 0:23:12.760 --> 0:23:15.440 going to pretend like I even know what you have 0:23:15.560 --> 0:23:17.639 seen or what you've gone through. And I know that 0:23:17.880 --> 0:23:20.080 there's a lot of law enforcement that listen to this podcast, 0:23:20.160 --> 0:23:22.719 So thank you for everyone, and I'm sure a lot 0:23:22.720 --> 0:23:25.680 of people can relate. Other than that. That being said, 0:23:26.720 --> 0:23:30.920 it is still a common question that you're asking that 0:23:31.040 --> 0:23:34.000 you don't have to see what you see, or be 0:23:34.119 --> 0:23:36.840 in your line of duty to have your faith wavering, 0:23:37.520 --> 0:23:42.720 or to do to loss in the family, strain in 0:23:42.760 --> 0:23:45.640 the marriage. Your wife wants to go to church, you don't. 0:23:46.840 --> 0:23:48.840 I would think this is pretty common. It was a 0:23:48.880 --> 0:23:55.239 pretty common American man wavering. That could be just as 0:23:55.280 --> 0:24:06.320 equally women. Well, the danger here, first of all, is 0:24:08.200 --> 0:24:14.000 being angry and blaming God for any of this. And 0:24:15.560 --> 0:24:20.560 what has happened is when these events, these events have 0:24:20.720 --> 0:24:24.240 changed you in some way, and your first reaction was 0:24:24.320 --> 0:24:28.000 to move away from God and to talk less to God. 0:24:28.040 --> 0:24:30.920 And these are your words. God's getting more distant. I 0:24:30.960 --> 0:24:32.639 don't go to church, I don't talk to God as 0:24:32.680 --> 0:24:40.280 much as I used to. And in fact, you're almost 0:24:40.320 --> 0:24:43.920 answering your own question when you say, how do I 0:24:43.960 --> 0:24:47.119 get closer to God? I'm not talking to him as much. Right. 0:24:47.760 --> 0:24:50.200 The first kind of thing that I think of this, Yeah, 0:24:50.320 --> 0:24:55.040 I mean we can certainly distance ourselves from Him as 0:24:55.119 --> 0:24:57.159 we pull away. And I think you're right, it is. 0:24:59.000 --> 0:25:02.880 It is one the most common things that people will 0:25:02.920 --> 0:25:06.560 wrestle with within the faith and outside of the faith 0:25:07.200 --> 0:25:10.440 is if there is a good and all powerful God 0:25:11.640 --> 0:25:16.800 that created everything, and why is there Why did bad 0:25:16.880 --> 0:25:19.520 things happen? Why is there evil? Why is there so 0:25:19.680 --> 0:25:24.520 much brokenness in a world that he created? And if 0:25:24.560 --> 0:25:27.200 he's all powerful and all good and all loving and 0:25:27.320 --> 0:25:29.239 has the power to make that all go away, why 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:31.720 doesn't he do that? I mean that that's the probably 0:25:31.800 --> 0:25:36.400 the most common question I could think of. And those 0:25:36.720 --> 0:25:41.040 that do have a faith in Christ, that's going to 0:25:41.119 --> 0:25:44.040 be one of those things when they encounter situations where 0:25:44.080 --> 0:25:47.240 they are up, you know, right in the midst of 0:25:47.440 --> 0:25:53.120 pain and personal tragedy, evil, They're gonna that's what's gonna 0:25:53.119 --> 0:25:54.840 start to shake things because they're going to go why 0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:57.760 would he let this happen? Why is this going to happen? 0:25:59.160 --> 0:26:01.920 And you know, there's a couple of things that I 0:26:01.960 --> 0:26:06.320 think about that. First of all, one of the main 0:26:06.400 --> 0:26:10.080 parts of the question is, well, who's responsible for the 0:26:10.160 --> 0:26:13.320 bad thing that happened? Who's responsible for the evil that 0:26:13.480 --> 0:26:18.359 we experience in this world? And we know the Bible 0:26:18.560 --> 0:26:21.639 isn't it's not a mystery in the Bible, it's we 0:26:22.359 --> 0:26:24.960 first apart of God designed this whole thing, and he 0:26:25.040 --> 0:26:30.439 said it's good, it's perfect, it's going to run absolutely beautifully, 0:26:31.240 --> 0:26:34.240 and he's the author of truth, of goodness, of beauty. 0:26:35.040 --> 0:26:38.440 It's humanity that said, you know what, I think, I'd 0:26:38.560 --> 0:26:40.280 like to give it a shot on my own. I'd 0:26:40.359 --> 0:26:42.080 like to try things my way. So as soon as 0:26:42.160 --> 0:26:45.920 we depart from God's design of the family, of the 0:26:46.000 --> 0:26:48.760 way that we interact with other people in our community, 0:26:49.080 --> 0:26:51.440 the way that we interact with money, the way that 0:26:51.520 --> 0:26:54.560 we use technology. Anytime we say I'm going to try 0:26:54.560 --> 0:26:57.919 it my way as opposed to God's way, it's always 0:26:58.000 --> 0:27:01.680 going to lead to brokenness. And then we experience that 0:27:01.800 --> 0:27:05.560 brokenness and we go, man, things aren't right, things don't work. 0:27:06.160 --> 0:27:09.640 Why don't they work? And then we these man made 0:27:09.640 --> 0:27:12.200 attempts to try to fix the brokenness only lead to 0:27:12.280 --> 0:27:17.359 more brokenness. So God's solution is he shows up on 0:27:17.440 --> 0:27:22.119 the scene and he demonstrates through the ministry the life 0:27:22.400 --> 0:27:25.400 of Jesus Christ, that this is the way out. We're 0:27:25.400 --> 0:27:28.560 going to return to God's design and so rather than 0:27:28.680 --> 0:27:32.480 human efforts that lead to more brokenness. So good, such 0:27:32.520 --> 0:27:35.840 a good word. And it's what's awesome, Michael, is that 0:27:35.960 --> 0:27:39.439 you say in here, I'm a believer in Christ. Christ 0:27:40.160 --> 0:27:46.080 was a suffering Christ. He demonstrated coming to this earth, 0:27:46.480 --> 0:27:52.080 being in the flesh and suffering, suffering just like your suffering. 0:27:52.800 --> 0:27:55.600 And then he says, follow me, do what I do 0:27:56.160 --> 0:28:00.600 through that suffering. So if I could up what I'm 0:28:00.640 --> 0:28:04.320 gonna say to you, I'm gonna say, dude, you're not alone. 0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:08.720 Your question is valid. Here's how I can answer it 0:28:08.800 --> 0:28:11.200 for you, because you did bring me involved in this question. 0:28:12.040 --> 0:28:15.880 Let's say God is distant, you don't talk to him, Moore, 0:28:15.960 --> 0:28:20.000 fix that. Talk to him, Get on your knees, crawl 0:28:20.080 --> 0:28:25.399 to him. Then secondly, open your Bible. Open your Bible. 0:28:25.400 --> 0:28:29.639 You're gonna find your story on every page. It's really 0:28:29.760 --> 0:28:33.840 hard to not find your story in the pages right there. 0:28:34.040 --> 0:28:38.040 In every page, You're gonna find stories of suffering and 0:28:38.760 --> 0:28:44.560 glory and grace and redemption and restoration and love and wrath. 0:28:45.000 --> 0:28:47.600 You're gonna find it all on almost every single page. 0:28:47.640 --> 0:28:49.680 And you're gonna The Bible is one of these books 0:28:49.680 --> 0:28:52.720 where you open most books and you think, what can 0:28:52.800 --> 0:28:55.640 I what can I find out? What could I what 0:28:55.720 --> 0:28:57.520 could I know? And what can I learn from this book? 0:28:58.120 --> 0:29:00.960 The Bible. You open it up and you go, actually, 0:29:01.000 --> 0:29:03.920 I think this book already knows me it's really weird, right, 0:29:04.480 --> 0:29:07.760 it's really weird. This book knows me, Like, dude, Michael, 0:29:07.800 --> 0:29:11.120 you're going to open this up and go, that's me, 0:29:11.600 --> 0:29:14.080 that's me. That's that's what I That's the question of 0:29:14.120 --> 0:29:17.440 the podcast, And there's my answer. Now, is it going 0:29:17.520 --> 0:29:19.560 to talk about what you've seen on duty? Is it 0:29:19.640 --> 0:29:22.080 going to talk about your dad in twenty sixteen? No, 0:29:22.720 --> 0:29:27.240 it's going to have very similar stories for you and 0:29:27.520 --> 0:29:31.200 an example on how to live and where to go 0:29:31.320 --> 0:29:36.640 from here and the reality that in God's economy, as 0:29:36.720 --> 0:29:41.720 we follow Christ, it's not going to be absent from suffering, 0:29:41.880 --> 0:29:45.840 from trial, from struggle. It's promised. It's promised that when 0:29:45.960 --> 0:29:49.720 this happens, consider it pure joy because it's testing the 0:29:49.880 --> 0:29:53.520 genuineness of your faith. Do you really believe? And I 0:29:53.560 --> 0:29:57.680 think of your story and even in the recent announcement 0:29:58.320 --> 0:30:02.080 and the new adventure that you guy have, that there's 0:30:02.280 --> 0:30:07.080 absolute pain and at the same time there's joy. And 0:30:07.200 --> 0:30:09.360 I was thinking about that when you guys made that announcement, 0:30:09.400 --> 0:30:12.480 and I was like, there is a word that we 0:30:12.640 --> 0:30:15.640 can't capture in the English but exists in the Greek. 0:30:16.160 --> 0:30:18.960 And so there's no mutual Look, there's no like equal 0:30:19.440 --> 0:30:22.240 or equivalent word, so it takes two English words to 0:30:22.320 --> 0:30:24.480 translate this. But there is this term in the Greek 0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:30.720 called karma lupe and it means simultaneous deep sorrow and 0:30:31.320 --> 0:30:35.600 at the same time happiness dude mutually like at the 0:30:35.680 --> 0:30:38.680 same time. And in God's economy. What he says is 0:30:38.800 --> 0:30:42.240 the things that you face in this life that are absolutely, 0:30:42.440 --> 0:30:45.840 unquestionably painful, and you go, I would never want to 0:30:45.880 --> 0:30:49.200 do that again, but I'm glad it happened. It's because 0:30:49.240 --> 0:30:52.400 of God's economy. That's how he prunes, That's how he 0:30:53.480 --> 0:30:56.560 gives us strength, That's how our roots go deeper and deeper. 0:30:56.920 --> 0:31:00.200 Just I mean an agricultural analogy. We have these plum 0:31:00.280 --> 0:31:03.280 trees in our backyard. We inherited them when we bought 0:31:03.320 --> 0:31:05.960 the house, these trees, and they were not producing plums 0:31:06.520 --> 0:31:10.280 and they were just growing everywhere. So my wife starts 0:31:10.320 --> 0:31:12.200 reading and she's like, you know, I think we're supposed 0:31:12.240 --> 0:31:15.479 to put uh, you know, mulch down and some other 0:31:15.520 --> 0:31:17.560 stuff like that. We need to trim these things, prune them, 0:31:17.600 --> 0:31:20.160 and apparently that's gonna And I'm thinking, so, you mean, 0:31:20.200 --> 0:31:24.120 we're gonna cut the trees and we're gonna throw chewed 0:31:24.200 --> 0:31:27.280 up dead trees, as in mulch around the base of them, 0:31:28.080 --> 0:31:31.120 and somehow that's gonna work. And absolutely so she got 0:31:31.160 --> 0:31:33.440 to half of them. So the next season came around 0:31:33.520 --> 0:31:36.400 and the ones that she pruned and she put down 0:31:36.440 --> 0:31:39.520 the mulch, they were vibrant, they were producing plums. The 0:31:39.600 --> 0:31:43.600 other ones were overgrown, still not producing. So there's even 0:31:43.680 --> 0:31:46.160 within the creation the way that he's wired this whole thing, 0:31:47.040 --> 0:31:49.240 that we're going to face adversity and that's going to 0:31:49.360 --> 0:31:51.360 test the genuiness of our faith and it's going to 0:31:51.400 --> 0:31:55.200 produce more life to come. Dude, so good. I love 0:31:55.280 --> 0:32:04.240 tree analogies, right be right back. This podcast is free 0:32:04.400 --> 0:32:06.840 for anyone that wants to watch it or listen to 0:32:06.960 --> 0:32:10.800 it on whatever app or whatever platform you want. Unfortunately, 0:32:10.880 --> 0:32:14.040 it's not free for me to make. I'm very blessed 0:32:14.040 --> 0:32:16.840 to have sponsors for this today's episode, and the first 0:32:16.880 --> 0:32:19.080 one is features. You guys have probably heard me talk 0:32:19.120 --> 0:32:20.960 if you've listened to the show before, you've heard me 0:32:21.000 --> 0:32:23.920 talk about features. 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Can you help 0:40:05.600 --> 0:40:08.000 me decide if I should become a veterinarian or not? 0:40:10.680 --> 0:40:13.600 Connor shout out, buddy. You don't say where you're from, 0:40:13.680 --> 0:40:17.200 but I do know that your email comes from a 0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:23.440 school district website, so you're still in school. And I'm 0:40:23.480 --> 0:40:26.759 assuming that you want to be a vet. Let me 0:40:26.880 --> 0:40:28.839 just assume you don't say, but I'm assuming you want 0:40:28.880 --> 0:40:30.680 to be a vet because you love animals, you love 0:40:30.760 --> 0:40:36.680 helping animals, and it's your dreamed of because you genuinely 0:40:37.960 --> 0:40:41.280 want to go into that field and make a difference. 0:40:43.160 --> 0:40:45.279 And I want to tell you that you don't have 0:40:45.360 --> 0:40:50.279 to be a vet to do that. So it's not 0:40:51.560 --> 0:40:54.960 just so you know, it's not just about helping animals. 0:40:55.000 --> 0:40:56.279 There's a lot more to be in a vet. I've 0:40:56.280 --> 0:41:00.080 actually talked to friends that went into vet school and 0:41:00.160 --> 0:41:04.040 then realized later how difficult it is when they went 0:41:04.080 --> 0:41:06.080 in with the mentality if they just want to help animals, 0:41:06.520 --> 0:41:09.120 they find out that you go, say you're a small 0:41:09.120 --> 0:41:12.200 animal vet. Someone brings their dog in and it has 0:41:12.480 --> 0:41:14.600 really bad hip displays and you say, Okay, well we're 0:41:14.640 --> 0:41:16.640 gonna have to perform surgery. It's gonna be about fifteen 0:41:16.680 --> 0:41:19.839 hundred bucks. And the person goes, I just put them down. 0:41:20.920 --> 0:41:23.960 It happens, and the vet goes, well, No, I could 0:41:24.000 --> 0:41:26.439 do the surgery. I could make this flawless. I could 0:41:26.480 --> 0:41:29.799 make this dog great. I just can't afford fifteen hundred bucks. 0:41:29.880 --> 0:41:31.879 Just go ahead, And what's the next step. Put them down? 0:41:33.200 --> 0:41:35.040 And guess what you have to do? Put them down? 0:41:36.080 --> 0:41:38.040 And that's hard. If you love animals, yeah, and you 0:41:38.160 --> 0:41:40.160 know you can help them. You have the tools. Yes, 0:41:40.680 --> 0:41:43.399 So Connor, are you aware of that that's a little 0:41:43.440 --> 0:41:48.040 wrinkle in this dream. Maybe that's maybe you're totally fine. 0:41:48.120 --> 0:41:50.120 Maybe you know exactly what you're getting into. This is 0:41:50.160 --> 0:41:53.319 what you want to do. So first step, coming from 0:41:53.400 --> 0:41:56.160 a student email, dude, I would work on your grades. 0:41:57.120 --> 0:42:04.200 I would concentrate on your biology and your math. And 0:42:05.080 --> 0:42:10.320 if that's truly your dream, then study harder and longer 0:42:10.800 --> 0:42:15.920 than your friends, and you could offset that cost of 0:42:16.840 --> 0:42:21.080 a VET school with forms of scholarships. But none of 0:42:21.160 --> 0:42:25.080 that's going to happen unless you make that effort right 0:42:25.160 --> 0:42:28.359 now in your grades. And it's a sacrifice. So much 0:42:28.360 --> 0:42:31.320 of life as a sacrifice, and it sounds like working 0:42:31.400 --> 0:42:39.080 on math biology grades. And your why, right, we're assuming 0:42:39.320 --> 0:42:42.399 it's because you love animals. What's your why? And that's 0:42:42.440 --> 0:42:44.360 going to help you figure out is it worth it? 0:42:44.760 --> 0:42:47.919 The cost benefit of Okay, my why is pretty strong. 0:42:48.000 --> 0:42:51.840 I'm dialed in, and then maybe you need help figuring 0:42:51.880 --> 0:42:54.360 out your why. So maybe a part time job is 0:42:54.880 --> 0:42:56.799 you go to the local vet and say, hey, I'll 0:42:56.840 --> 0:42:58.920 empty the trash cans. I'll do it whatever it takes, 0:42:59.520 --> 0:43:01.560 just to be a round it and you can learn 0:43:02.040 --> 0:43:04.680 within that field maybe being a vet isn't the thing. 0:43:04.760 --> 0:43:08.759 Maybe there's something else within veterinary medicine that is a 0:43:08.840 --> 0:43:11.279 better fit for your personality is similar to medicine. So 0:43:11.840 --> 0:43:14.320 I've learned of people that they thought they wanted to 0:43:14.400 --> 0:43:17.600 be doctors, but then they realized, no, nursing is where 0:43:17.680 --> 0:43:20.959 because I want to be doing direct patient care. Seek 0:43:21.040 --> 0:43:24.960 wise counsel. That's that's great, So go to go. I 0:43:25.000 --> 0:43:26.480 mean there's plenty of vents. Go to the go to 0:43:26.560 --> 0:43:30.239 the local vet, and go till till someone tells you, yes, 0:43:30.560 --> 0:43:33.640 you want to empty the trash until someone goes, yeah, 0:43:33.719 --> 0:43:37.640 we need a guy to empty the trash and soak 0:43:37.719 --> 0:43:42.680 up one or two hours every weekday, watching learning, talking 0:43:42.760 --> 0:43:47.120 to the actual vet that's there, and and part of 0:43:47.160 --> 0:43:49.759 that discussion will be how do you how do you 0:43:49.800 --> 0:43:52.120 afford for school? How do you what? What do I 0:43:52.200 --> 0:43:54.200 need to be working on right now where I am 0:43:54.280 --> 0:43:56.480 in my life in high school? And you're going to 0:43:56.520 --> 0:43:59.480 get a lot of those answers. So good question, Connor, 0:43:59.760 --> 0:44:07.120 and good luck to you. That's a good one. Yeah. Okay, 0:44:07.239 --> 0:44:09.719 this question comes from Justin. He says, Hey, my name 0:44:09.800 --> 0:44:13.040 is Justin Taylor, and I saw your last podcast. I 0:44:13.120 --> 0:44:14.880 have so many questions. I've been wanting to ask you 0:44:14.960 --> 0:44:17.160 for a long time and just never got the courage 0:44:17.200 --> 0:44:19.839 to ask anybody. But let me give you a little 0:44:19.840 --> 0:44:22.320 short story my life. I live in Cliff, New Mexico. 0:44:22.600 --> 0:44:24.919 I'm nineteen years old. I live on a cattle ranch. 0:44:25.760 --> 0:44:29.480 I'm hurting over a broken up relationship. It lasted for 0:44:29.600 --> 0:44:32.560 eight years. I can't stop thinking about her. It's a 0:44:32.680 --> 0:44:36.320 constant pain. She's moved on, but I guess I haven't. 0:44:37.000 --> 0:44:39.880 And since this has been since June of twenty nineteen, 0:44:40.880 --> 0:44:43.360 I'm still in feeling like I'm about to have a 0:44:43.400 --> 0:44:46.200 heart attack. Basically every day. The only time I don't 0:44:46.239 --> 0:44:48.719 feel anything is when I'm in a twelve pack of 0:44:48.760 --> 0:44:51.960 beer or whiskey or whatever other alcohol I can get 0:44:52.000 --> 0:44:55.200 my hands on. And because of that, I've lost my 0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:59.000 best friend and some other really good friends. I've lost 0:44:59.120 --> 0:45:02.319 family and using important people in my life. And it's 0:45:02.320 --> 0:45:05.319 all over the alcohol. And the thing is it's making 0:45:05.440 --> 0:45:08.840 me worse and I don't know how to handle that anymore. 0:45:11.719 --> 0:45:17.560 And his signature on his email says Fire and Rescue, 0:45:18.680 --> 0:45:21.960 Silver City, New Mexico. So shout out to Justin and 0:45:22.080 --> 0:45:26.640 New Mexico and Silver City Fire and Rescue. Thank you 0:45:26.760 --> 0:45:32.720 for your service once again. And I'm gonna say this again, 0:45:33.800 --> 0:45:39.480 Like I said earlier, this is a common question. It's 0:45:39.520 --> 0:45:44.200 not to diminish at all what you're going through. It's 0:45:44.480 --> 0:45:48.400 it's very very heavy what you're going through. But I 0:45:48.440 --> 0:45:52.320 would say the good news is it's common. This is 0:45:52.560 --> 0:45:55.560 this is something that a lot of people are dealing 0:45:55.600 --> 0:45:57.320 with or have dealt with, or have a friend or 0:45:57.400 --> 0:46:00.560 have a family member or a neighbor. You mentioned one 0:46:01.160 --> 0:46:05.080 today you're barbered that is dealing with this or has 0:46:05.200 --> 0:46:12.120 dealt with it, or it's very human of you, And 0:46:12.360 --> 0:46:17.000 thank you for trusting us with the question. Nineteen is young. 0:46:18.080 --> 0:46:20.600 It's young. My first question is, dude, eight years a 0:46:20.719 --> 0:46:24.359 relationship eight years old and you're nineteen, but started when 0:46:24.360 --> 0:46:29.879 you're eleven. I mean that's the formative years, man, that's 0:46:29.960 --> 0:46:35.320 your entire teenage life was with this girl. Yeah and 0:46:35.440 --> 0:46:38.680 so yeah, understandable how you're you're really broken up about it, 0:46:39.719 --> 0:46:43.439 and I wish, man, it's so hard. It's so hard 0:46:43.520 --> 0:46:48.799 to listen to someone else tell you that this too 0:46:48.920 --> 0:46:51.279 shall pass. It's so hard to hear that. And I'm 0:46:51.320 --> 0:46:53.880 just speaking about the relationship part of it, not the 0:46:53.960 --> 0:46:59.680 alcohol part, just the relationship part. Man as a as 0:46:59.719 --> 0:47:02.480 a as a brother is sitting around a campfire, I 0:47:02.520 --> 0:47:06.160 would I would say, dude, you're going to find another girl. 0:47:06.480 --> 0:47:09.000 There's going to be another another love of your life, 0:47:10.080 --> 0:47:14.719 and one that's a lot better. There's three billion women 0:47:14.800 --> 0:47:18.600 on this planet. Yeah, three billion. With a bee, there's 0:47:18.600 --> 0:47:21.040 another one out there. And I know in your mind 0:47:21.080 --> 0:47:23.200 you hear that your first thought is not like her, 0:47:24.000 --> 0:47:29.200 Not like her, Dude, she's one and three billion. Brother. Well, 0:47:30.000 --> 0:47:33.839 I can tell you, and everyone can tell you if 0:47:33.880 --> 0:47:37.719 you listen to any country music song this you're going 0:47:37.800 --> 0:47:42.239 to find another one. But but you have to you 0:47:42.400 --> 0:47:44.960 have to have the self discipline first of all, to 0:47:46.000 --> 0:47:50.200 to continue your life and move take the next step forward, 0:47:51.239 --> 0:47:55.600 and that has really hung you up, and you're you 0:47:56.080 --> 0:48:02.600 fell into the the best sinister snare, and that's that 0:48:02.760 --> 0:48:06.879 alcohol could numb you from your current reality. So you're 0:48:07.000 --> 0:48:10.959 escaping reality. You're escaping the fact that all you really 0:48:11.040 --> 0:48:14.560 need to do is take the next step forward in 0:48:14.680 --> 0:48:18.960 your life, in your job, in your front with your friends, 0:48:19.680 --> 0:48:27.560 and you're escaping that responsibility and retreating into something that's 0:48:27.680 --> 0:48:32.399 numbing you and only prolonging the pain. That's a good point. 0:48:32.880 --> 0:48:36.480 It doesn't it doesn't. It mutes pain, but it doesn't 0:48:38.239 --> 0:48:43.960 dissolve or resolve the pain. And so when that mute stops, 0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:47.719 then you're still left right there where you were, and 0:48:47.840 --> 0:48:51.840 sometimes in an even worse position. And I think sometimes 0:48:52.400 --> 0:48:57.279 I can remember heartbreak in high school. And one of 0:48:57.360 --> 0:49:02.320 the challenges in moving forward was coming to grips with 0:49:02.440 --> 0:49:06.440 the fact that I had identified as a as a 0:49:06.520 --> 0:49:09.360 person in a relationship. I was the boyfriend of so 0:49:09.520 --> 0:49:14.319 and so. We had history, we had memories, we had experiences, 0:49:14.960 --> 0:49:17.440 and all of a sudden coming to grips with the 0:49:17.480 --> 0:49:21.640 fact that although that was the case, that that identity 0:49:21.719 --> 0:49:27.279 no longer exists, and so the path forward is realizing 0:49:27.719 --> 0:49:33.840 your identity apart from anybody, who are you, and starting 0:49:33.920 --> 0:49:38.640 to create some experiences and recognize what you like, what 0:49:38.840 --> 0:49:41.920 you want to do, who you are apart from anybody, 0:49:42.440 --> 0:49:45.200 so that when the next relationship comes, because there is 0:49:45.239 --> 0:49:48.040 a win, there is another, there is a next one, 0:49:48.719 --> 0:49:50.200 and when you get there, you're going to have a 0:49:50.280 --> 0:49:54.480 better understanding of what makes you tick and you're probably 0:49:54.560 --> 0:49:58.279 going to have a better opportunity to identify who do 0:49:58.360 --> 0:50:02.520 you pay you know, who's the right? Yeah. What's awesome, man, 0:50:02.800 --> 0:50:05.600 is that what this girl has done for you is 0:50:05.840 --> 0:50:08.600 narrow down your scope of who is right for you. 0:50:09.360 --> 0:50:12.160 And as soon as you realize that that, it wasn't 0:50:12.320 --> 0:50:15.480 a wasted eight years, which is really long, by the way, 0:50:15.560 --> 0:50:19.160 it's a long time, but it wasn't a wasted eight years. 0:50:19.800 --> 0:50:23.520 It was a learning experience to get you that much 0:50:23.640 --> 0:50:27.480 closer to the right one. If any of your friends, 0:50:28.280 --> 0:50:32.080 your best friends sat down and told you your story 0:50:32.239 --> 0:50:34.920 back to you, that that was their story, what advice 0:50:34.960 --> 0:50:39.319 would you give them, Because it's like I said, it's 0:50:39.320 --> 0:50:41.319 so much easier to give that advice. But what would 0:50:41.320 --> 0:50:44.640 you tell them? You'd say you're ruining your friendships, you're 0:50:44.719 --> 0:50:49.279 ruining your family that you do have. You're walking on 0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:53.040 a dangerous tightrope right now with alcohol that could lead 0:50:53.080 --> 0:50:56.320 to alcoholism, and then you could never touch the stuff 0:50:56.440 --> 0:51:00.479 ever again. And that's a whole different story to ruin 0:51:01.120 --> 0:51:04.920 your your opportunity to ever have a cold beer with 0:51:05.000 --> 0:51:08.720 one of your friends with it without it being a problem. 0:51:09.520 --> 0:51:12.400 And that could start now. If you continue this numbing, 0:51:12.440 --> 0:51:15.680 you could always keep digging down. If you think it's bad, 0:51:16.080 --> 0:51:21.399 it could always get worse. Yeah, And yet, like you said, 0:51:22.440 --> 0:51:27.799 you're you're messing with the now and the future as 0:51:27.880 --> 0:51:30.879 you dwell in the past, in the past eight years, 0:51:30.920 --> 0:51:33.160 and you're hanging on to stuff that man, you want 0:51:33.200 --> 0:51:35.400 to learn from that, and maybe you need to identify 0:51:35.520 --> 0:51:37.680 some things you could have done differently, or the way 0:51:37.760 --> 0:51:41.200 you interacted or treated or things you said. And there's 0:51:41.360 --> 0:51:43.600 there's a role that that should play. But it's not 0:51:43.719 --> 0:51:45.640 where you live. You don't camp out there, you don't 0:51:45.640 --> 0:51:47.879 hang out there. You learn from the lesson and then 0:51:47.920 --> 0:51:50.200 you move and you keep going because there is a 0:51:50.280 --> 0:51:52.600 next day and the sun will come up tomorrow and 0:51:52.719 --> 0:51:54.279 you got to be you got to be ready to 0:51:54.600 --> 0:51:56.839 face that day when the sun does come up. Dude, 0:51:57.239 --> 0:52:03.040 I would I would encourage you man to There's nothing 0:52:03.120 --> 0:52:08.320 in your email that mentions God. I would encourage you 0:52:08.480 --> 0:52:14.080 explore that. What do I mean? I mean, Hey, God, 0:52:14.480 --> 0:52:18.759 it's justin. I've never really talked to you before. I'm 0:52:18.800 --> 0:52:23.880 really hurting. I've hurt some people on this podcast that 0:52:24.000 --> 0:52:25.960 talk about you. I don't really know what to think. 0:52:26.320 --> 0:52:30.640 I don't really know if I believe it. But right 0:52:30.760 --> 0:52:34.840 now I need you because I can't fix this myself. 0:52:35.000 --> 0:52:39.279 I'm going down a dark tunnel. God, can you fix this? 0:52:39.440 --> 0:52:42.600 Can you show me what to do, where to put 0:52:42.640 --> 0:52:45.279 the one foot after the other? Can you show me that? 0:52:47.560 --> 0:52:51.120 If you say that with sincerity, I would be really 0:52:51.160 --> 0:52:53.960 curious for you to email back to this podcast if 0:52:54.000 --> 0:52:57.920 you give that kind of true sincerity. I'm talking about 0:52:58.040 --> 0:53:02.759 in your bathroom, on your knees. What else do you 0:53:02.880 --> 0:53:06.480 have right now? Justin what do you have to lose? Then? 0:53:06.560 --> 0:53:10.160 Dropping straight down to your knees, and that is not 0:53:10.280 --> 0:53:13.040 a bad place to be. It's not a bad place 0:53:13.120 --> 0:53:17.480 to be. Nothing else to lose. All I got is this, God, 0:53:17.600 --> 0:53:23.240 what do I have here? That's that's a common story, 0:53:24.120 --> 0:53:29.120 and I'm I'll just be curious to see what would happen. 0:53:29.160 --> 0:53:31.600 And I'm not talking about some weird writing in the 0:53:31.640 --> 0:53:37.560 sky or something. I would be interested to see if 0:53:37.600 --> 0:53:40.680 you feel peace from that, and what that would lead to, 0:53:40.920 --> 0:53:47.160 what the next step would be with you and losing 0:53:47.200 --> 0:53:49.600 your friends, losing your family. Like you said in this email, 0:53:49.680 --> 0:53:57.279 that's all you got. Your support network is gone. And yeah, 0:53:57.360 --> 0:54:00.920 the pain and loneliness you feel now is probably minimal 0:54:01.000 --> 0:54:04.200 compared to what it will feel like in a couple 0:54:04.239 --> 0:54:07.680 of months if you keep going this way. Yep, yep, dude, 0:54:07.880 --> 0:54:09.840 you are. I know you're a good guy. I know 0:54:09.960 --> 0:54:13.279 that you're you're you work for fire and rescue. Do 0:54:13.320 --> 0:54:20.200 you understand self discipline? You understand priorities? And I would, 0:54:20.320 --> 0:54:23.480 I would. I would wake up tomorrow morning and go today. 0:54:23.840 --> 0:54:27.160 I'm starting fresh. I'm starting fresh. I'm gonna brush my teeth, 0:54:27.200 --> 0:54:29.320 comb my hair, put on my shoes, I'm gonna go 0:54:29.400 --> 0:54:32.880 to work and I'm not gonna feel sorry for myself. 0:54:33.239 --> 0:54:36.920 I'm gonna move forward. I'm gonna I'm gonna take that 0:54:37.040 --> 0:54:39.360 relationship and I'm gonna say this is this is what 0:54:39.440 --> 0:54:41.960 I learned, and I'm going I'm going on I'm moving 0:54:42.040 --> 0:54:45.279 forward with what I've learned. I'm a wiser, smarter man. 0:54:46.600 --> 0:54:48.320 And I would get underneath in the in the bathroom 0:54:48.360 --> 0:54:51.480 and say that prayer too. That's me, that's my camp 0:54:51.520 --> 0:54:55.200 fire thought. And it's interesting that in fire and rescue 0:54:55.320 --> 0:54:59.239 you you exist to help other people. Yep. And a 0:54:59.280 --> 0:55:02.759 lot of times when we're and pain, we focus on 0:55:02.880 --> 0:55:07.120 ourself and we just hang out there. It's amazing when 0:55:07.160 --> 0:55:10.080 you turn your focus away from self in the midst 0:55:10.120 --> 0:55:12.040 of your pain and just look for that, who's the 0:55:12.160 --> 0:55:15.000 next person I can help? Who can I serve? Who 0:55:15.040 --> 0:55:17.239 can I engage with? And all of a sudden we 0:55:17.280 --> 0:55:20.000 start to forget about our pain or our situation and 0:55:20.080 --> 0:55:23.879 we start to invest in other people. So man cut 0:55:23.960 --> 0:55:26.880 with the grain on this one. He's clearly wired to 0:55:27.000 --> 0:55:30.839 help and serve people. Do that. Just do the next 0:55:30.960 --> 0:55:35.759 right thing. Right as you wake up, email back, email back, 0:55:36.480 --> 0:55:39.040 go through a twenty four hour day like this and 0:55:39.160 --> 0:55:44.160 email back and I want to see what you say. Amen, Yeah, thanks, 0:55:44.440 --> 0:55:47.239 thanks for the email, and do another one. Chet sure, 0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:51.719 let me see was that one of the softball questions? No, 0:55:53.840 --> 0:55:55.520 they get heavier than that. But I'm going to go 0:55:55.719 --> 0:56:00.719 this is not this is not too heavy. But I 0:56:00.840 --> 0:56:03.960 did find the question interesting, and I do. I think 0:56:04.000 --> 0:56:06.160 if I address it the way I want to address it, 0:56:06.280 --> 0:56:09.640 I'm gonna make a lot of people mad. Oh right, okay, 0:56:09.880 --> 0:56:11.920 all right, here we go. Sorry, yeah, there we go. 0:56:13.520 --> 0:56:15.120 They actually don't know how you feel about it either, 0:56:15.160 --> 0:56:17.800 but I kind of know. I feel like I know you, 0:56:18.360 --> 0:56:22.440 all right. So the subject godly advice says, Hey, Grangeream, 0:56:22.520 --> 0:56:25.480 writing you from North Carolina. My husband and I are 0:56:25.520 --> 0:56:29.799 at a crossroads and need some Godly perspective. We are 0:56:29.880 --> 0:56:32.160 both born and raised in North Carolina, and all of 0:56:32.200 --> 0:56:35.600 our family is here. However, we don't have the closest 0:56:35.600 --> 0:56:38.960 relationships with our families. We visited Texas twice this year. 0:56:39.080 --> 0:56:41.480 Long story short. It's been my dream to move out west, 0:56:42.000 --> 0:56:46.000 and since actually visiting in June, the desire has become stronger. 0:56:46.520 --> 0:56:48.840 I always pray for God's will to lead us in 0:56:48.880 --> 0:56:52.040 the right direction in all things, and specifically ask for 0:56:52.160 --> 0:56:55.879 his confirmation on this move. And shortly after our visit 0:56:55.960 --> 0:56:58.840 in June, I began to see cowboy hats in the clouds. 0:56:59.520 --> 0:57:02.359 A few days after that, my husband saw what looked 0:57:02.480 --> 0:57:08.440 like a hand holding the state of Texas. We have 0:57:08.640 --> 0:57:12.279 our jobs sorted. We have two kids, eight and four, 0:57:12.840 --> 0:57:15.880 and we would like to make a concrete decision before 0:57:15.880 --> 0:57:19.480 our four year old begins kindergarten, which will be in 0:57:19.520 --> 0:57:22.200 the fall. My question is what do we do? How 0:57:22.320 --> 0:57:26.280 do I explain that if this is God's call, which 0:57:26.320 --> 0:57:29.400 I strongly believe it is, then how do we obey. 0:57:29.760 --> 0:57:34.680 I appreciate the time, love you guys. And they make 0:57:34.760 --> 0:57:38.800 bumper stickers that say I wasn't born here, but I 0:57:38.920 --> 0:57:41.160 got here as soon as I could, right. I mean, 0:57:41.240 --> 0:57:45.080 maybe that's the situation here. You you came to Texas, 0:57:45.120 --> 0:57:49.040 as we said, from another state. Yeah, And I will say, 0:57:50.480 --> 0:57:54.680 if you end up making this transition, you probably won't 0:57:54.720 --> 0:57:58.760 regret it in regard to the people receiving you. Yeah, 0:57:58.880 --> 0:58:02.360 and the friendships that will welcome you, and the way 0:58:02.480 --> 0:58:09.040 that Texans man, they're just warm, welcoming people and yeah, 0:58:09.360 --> 0:58:15.600 good people. The challenge, I think, and it sounds like 0:58:15.920 --> 0:58:18.400 you don't necessarily talk about the tension, but it sounds 0:58:18.400 --> 0:58:21.640 like the tension is you've got a huge family, or 0:58:21.720 --> 0:58:25.440 you've got family in North Carolina that that you feel 0:58:25.600 --> 0:58:28.160 this obligation or this kind of this tie like I 0:58:28.240 --> 0:58:29.880 need to we need to stay here and do this, 0:58:30.960 --> 0:58:33.680 but at the same time, you feel this poll to Texas, 0:58:34.480 --> 0:58:37.640 and so you know, the thought is, make sure you're 0:58:37.680 --> 0:58:41.120 not you're not running from something, but you're you're going 0:58:41.200 --> 0:58:43.840 to something. I think is an important component when you're 0:58:43.840 --> 0:58:47.640 making a transition. And also make decisions that are the 0:58:47.760 --> 0:58:51.160 best for your immediate family, Think about your kiddos, think 0:58:51.200 --> 0:58:54.360 about you and your husband and your marriage, Like, ultimately, 0:58:54.680 --> 0:59:00.440 is this what is best for that immediate family and anything. 0:59:00.560 --> 0:59:02.320 It would be a blessing for your family in North 0:59:02.320 --> 0:59:05.320 Carolina to have someplace cool like Texas to visit. So yeah, 0:59:05.480 --> 0:59:08.919 so yeah, to answer your question, and let me say, 0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:14.760 I haven't said your name yet because it's Cecily. Is 0:59:14.800 --> 0:59:23.400 that how you say that? Cecily, Cali, Cecily, Cecily. That 0:59:23.480 --> 0:59:29.560 sounds better Cecily. So I'm so sorry for saying that. So, yeah, 0:59:29.680 --> 0:59:32.480 the reasons to move to Texas are strong. You got 0:59:32.560 --> 0:59:37.200 good reasons. Your your job is flexible, the schools in 0:59:37.280 --> 0:59:41.240 Texas are great. North Carolina is awesome too, So you're 0:59:41.280 --> 0:59:45.200 actually going there tomorrow today this afternoon, leaving there today. 0:59:46.040 --> 0:59:50.560 But the reasons for moving seems strong. We've talked about 0:59:50.600 --> 0:59:54.320 moving many times on this podcast. You are asking for 0:59:54.440 --> 0:59:58.560 godly advice, and that's the title of your email, and 0:59:58.720 --> 1:00:01.880 that you're wanting godly perspective from us. You ask for it, 1:00:01.960 --> 1:00:05.680 you're going to get it, and and so all the 1:00:05.920 --> 1:00:08.480 all the other things, you know, if we're just going 1:00:08.560 --> 1:00:12.520 to talk about the material reasons, uh components. To me, 1:00:12.640 --> 1:00:15.800 I think it's great, you're you're good. This is where 1:00:15.840 --> 1:00:18.000 I have a problem, and this is where people are 1:00:18.000 --> 1:00:20.640 going to get mad at me. But when you start 1:00:20.680 --> 1:00:26.200 seeing cowboy hats in the clouds, it becomes pagan wishes, 1:00:26.760 --> 1:00:29.640 that becomes fortune telling in a way. Well, I think 1:00:29.760 --> 1:00:32.680 what it is is you're you're seeing what you want. Yeah, right, 1:00:32.760 --> 1:00:35.720 you're the longings of your heart. You're looking for something 1:00:35.920 --> 1:00:41.320 external that that will fulfill that desire. And then rat like, okay, 1:00:41.560 --> 1:00:45.120 we've got reason to do it. Oh we're getting that. 1:00:45.440 --> 1:00:48.320 We're getting the good typically do this, but you you 1:00:48.560 --> 1:00:50.240 I don't typically do this. But you can't always take 1:00:50.280 --> 1:00:53.680 my word for it. You have to take the word 1:00:53.760 --> 1:00:56.440 for it. And so what I think of when I 1:00:56.520 --> 1:01:02.960 think of because you're asking here, where did you say it? 1:01:03.960 --> 1:01:05.960 If this is God's call? How do I explain? If 1:01:05.960 --> 1:01:08.880 this is God's call. In other words, God's will. And 1:01:08.960 --> 1:01:10.680 I think you did say will another point in this 1:01:11.280 --> 1:01:15.680 this email. So let's go to Romans twelfth two hor 1:01:15.680 --> 1:01:18.720 It says, do not be conformed to this world, but 1:01:18.920 --> 1:01:22.840 be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by 1:01:22.880 --> 1:01:25.880 testing you may discern what is the will of God, 1:01:26.000 --> 1:01:31.160 what is good and acceptable and perfect. So the danger 1:01:31.240 --> 1:01:34.000 here is following your heart. Follow your heart. A world 1:01:34.160 --> 1:01:37.200 always wants to say follow your heart, but the Bible 1:01:37.240 --> 1:01:39.840 says the heart is evil, and you need to conform 1:01:39.920 --> 1:01:42.920 your mind the renewal of your mind. Don't conform to 1:01:43.000 --> 1:01:45.880 this world, excuse me, but be transformed by the renewal 1:01:45.960 --> 1:01:52.240 of your mind. And so I wouldn't follow like symbols 1:01:52.320 --> 1:01:56.600 in the clouds and you and your husband seeing the 1:01:57.720 --> 1:02:01.200 state of Texas in their hands. I could go out 1:02:01.240 --> 1:02:03.040 here right now, Chad, and look at the clouds and 1:02:03.200 --> 1:02:07.640 find enough shapes to make me feel like whatever I'm 1:02:07.720 --> 1:02:10.720 thinking is reality. People have done that since the beginning 1:02:10.760 --> 1:02:14.040 of the time. They have found constellations in the sky 1:02:14.400 --> 1:02:18.240 to pretty much match any symbol or shape that they 1:02:18.440 --> 1:02:23.280 want it to be. And that is paganism. It's a 1:02:23.360 --> 1:02:27.360 different question. That's fortune telling that's looking to the stars, 1:02:27.400 --> 1:02:32.600 that's astrology, instead of when you're looking for God's will. 1:02:32.840 --> 1:02:39.280 He says, transform the renewal of your mind. So that's 1:02:39.440 --> 1:02:42.520 very different than should I just lay here on the 1:02:42.760 --> 1:02:44.760 screen grass and look at the sky long enough for 1:02:44.880 --> 1:02:47.200 God to just tell me that Texas is the right place? 1:02:49.280 --> 1:02:50.959 I say it when I think I don't want people 1:02:51.000 --> 1:02:54.160 to get mad at me, because because can God do that? Yeah? 1:02:54.440 --> 1:02:58.040 Of course he could shape a cloud. He could absolutely 1:02:58.080 --> 1:03:02.480 do that. Right. Yeah. When I interact with people in 1:03:02.800 --> 1:03:07.600 a pastoral role, they this is a very frequent question, right, 1:03:08.040 --> 1:03:11.560 I want to know God's desire for me? Is God 1:03:11.720 --> 1:03:15.720 calling me to this or that? Is this a sign? 1:03:16.080 --> 1:03:19.960 Or is that a sign? And there oftentimes we're waiting 1:03:20.080 --> 1:03:23.840 for something that is external to the word of God 1:03:23.920 --> 1:03:27.200 and what He's clearly prescribed for us to do, and 1:03:27.960 --> 1:03:30.960 we want to find some external thing that's going to 1:03:31.160 --> 1:03:33.840 kind of give that affirmation. But you know, you talk 1:03:33.880 --> 1:03:36.000 about the heart is one of those things that man, 1:03:36.080 --> 1:03:38.360 we have to renew our mind. In Psal I'm thirty seven, 1:03:38.400 --> 1:03:40.600 it says, delight yourself in the Lord, and He will 1:03:40.680 --> 1:03:43.720 give you the desires of your heart. And we oftentimes 1:03:43.760 --> 1:03:46.120 read that and go Okay, So if I just kind 1:03:46.160 --> 1:03:47.600 of do it God wants me to do, then I 1:03:47.680 --> 1:03:52.680 can get that brand new Ford f one whatever where 1:03:52.720 --> 1:03:55.040 I can get the thing that I really want. What 1:03:55.240 --> 1:03:59.320 that Saull means is if I delight myself in the Lord, well, 1:03:59.520 --> 1:04:02.200 the seed of delight is in the heart. So if 1:04:02.280 --> 1:04:06.360 I'm actually delighting in the Lord, then he is the 1:04:06.480 --> 1:04:09.440 desire of my heart, and I've aligned myself with him 1:04:09.520 --> 1:04:12.640 because he is what is good, true and beautiful, and 1:04:12.760 --> 1:04:14.880 so as I seek him, as I press into him, 1:04:15.480 --> 1:04:18.080 and he is my delight, then man, it doesn't matter 1:04:18.120 --> 1:04:20.800 where I go or what I do, because he's my delight. 1:04:21.240 --> 1:04:23.880 And so my encouragement is always, are you delighting in 1:04:23.960 --> 1:04:27.360 the Lord? Are you truly seeking the Lord in this decision? 1:04:27.880 --> 1:04:31.200 And the doors will open, the doors will close, opportunities 1:04:31.240 --> 1:04:34.040 will present themselves, and as long as it's not just 1:04:34.200 --> 1:04:37.840 overtly sinful or contrary to God, you can probably go 1:04:37.960 --> 1:04:40.840 do it. Yeah, absolutely, And to that I would say 1:04:42.280 --> 1:04:45.240 your point of action would be exactly what Chad said. 1:04:45.320 --> 1:04:49.520 If there's nothing constricting you in any kind of way, 1:04:50.560 --> 1:04:53.479 then say, all right, God, it feels like the doors 1:04:53.480 --> 1:04:56.960 are opening to Texas. So we're gonna go ahead. We're 1:04:56.960 --> 1:05:00.320 gonna put the house on the market. We're gonna start 1:05:00.400 --> 1:05:02.960 looking at real estate. Like, just take one step. You 1:05:03.000 --> 1:05:05.600 don't have to think should we or should we not? 1:05:05.960 --> 1:05:09.520 Just start with a house, start with a city, take 1:05:09.560 --> 1:05:11.800 a town, and go okay, all right, God, I'm gonna 1:05:11.800 --> 1:05:17.360 start looking at real estate in Houston, Texas. And if 1:05:17.400 --> 1:05:19.280 you're not supposed to, if that's not part of God's will, 1:05:19.320 --> 1:05:21.400 He's not going to open anything up to you. Yeah, 1:05:21.520 --> 1:05:24.400 He's gonna make that very difficult for you. So instead 1:05:24.400 --> 1:05:27.240 of looking at the clouds, use your brain, use your brain, 1:05:27.680 --> 1:05:30.920 use your mind, and go all right, here we go. 1:05:31.800 --> 1:05:34.760 I'm sober minded. I'm looking at the world. I'm looking 1:05:34.840 --> 1:05:36.680 at real estate apps, and I'm gonna go all right, 1:05:36.680 --> 1:05:41.400 I'm gonna I'm gonna move forward, and God continue to 1:05:41.400 --> 1:05:42.760 open the doors that I need to walk through and 1:05:42.800 --> 1:05:47.760 close the ones that I don't. And before you know it, 1:05:47.800 --> 1:05:50.200 you're gonna get your answer. And I have done this thing. 1:05:50.320 --> 1:05:53.000 I have done this. I have said all right, God, 1:05:53.000 --> 1:05:57.200 I feel like this, this house, this happened a year ago. 1:05:57.280 --> 1:06:00.520 Guys got this house. It feels like this is right. 1:06:00.600 --> 1:06:02.840 So I'm gonna go ahead and start getting the loan 1:06:02.920 --> 1:06:05.600 together and start moving on this house and get the 1:06:05.680 --> 1:06:09.840 contract on the house. Okay, we're contingent on selling our house. 1:06:10.360 --> 1:06:12.800 All right, we're you know, God, I'm not looking at 1:06:12.840 --> 1:06:15.919 the clouds. I'm not looking at tarot cards. I'm saying, 1:06:15.920 --> 1:06:17.760 all right, we're gonna go ahead and move forward. And 1:06:17.880 --> 1:06:22.800 then coronavirus hit. Our house wasn't gonna sell. We fell 1:06:22.840 --> 1:06:25.440 out of contingency, I fell out of the contract. And 1:06:25.520 --> 1:06:28.680 it's like, okay, there it is. There's the closed door. Yeah, 1:06:29.200 --> 1:06:31.520 you know, it's not as hard as tarot cards. That's easy. 1:06:31.760 --> 1:06:34.760 There it is. And sometimes the door remains open. We 1:06:34.880 --> 1:06:37.480 walk through it and we fall on our face and 1:06:37.640 --> 1:06:39.360 it doesn't work out, and we go, oh, man, I 1:06:39.440 --> 1:06:42.200 blew it? Am I outside of God's will because we 1:06:42.320 --> 1:06:45.720 decided to do this? But realize, no, we as we 1:06:45.920 --> 1:06:50.160 walk with the Lord, even if it doesn't work out 1:06:50.480 --> 1:06:55.400 in human standards, God uses everything for his glory, for 1:06:55.520 --> 1:06:57.600 his good and to shape us into the image of 1:06:57.640 --> 1:07:00.120 his son. So it's gonna work. If you move to 1:07:00.240 --> 1:07:02.600 Texas and man, it's not what you thought it was. 1:07:03.000 --> 1:07:05.840 It's exactly what God knew was gonna happen, and he's 1:07:05.840 --> 1:07:07.440 going to use that in your life. And guess what, 1:07:07.760 --> 1:07:10.960 North Carolina's not going anywhere, right, it's not going anywhere. 1:07:11.360 --> 1:07:13.680 You go right back to North Carolina and don't worry 1:07:13.680 --> 1:07:16.600 about kindergarten. Right. I don't think like it's a legitimate 1:07:16.720 --> 1:07:20.400 concern on your part, emailing and saying you're you want 1:07:20.440 --> 1:07:23.240 to do this before you're four. Man, kids are so resilient. 1:07:23.840 --> 1:07:25.920 You could start your kid, your kids could go to 1:07:26.760 --> 1:07:29.720 could go to school. And my kids have done this. 1:07:29.840 --> 1:07:34.040 We've we've changed schools twice and you could move to 1:07:34.040 --> 1:07:37.040 another one. They might your four your eight year old 1:07:37.080 --> 1:07:39.160 might kick and stream a little bit, but they're gonna 1:07:39.200 --> 1:07:41.480 make new friends and they're gonna be resilient and they're 1:07:41.480 --> 1:07:44.000 gonna fall into a new place. Sometimes as parents, you 1:07:44.160 --> 1:07:47.200 just have to be flexible. And although we want to 1:07:47.440 --> 1:07:51.800 be concrete before the four year old starts kinder that's 1:07:51.840 --> 1:07:54.600 a good that's a good map, But you don't have 1:07:54.760 --> 1:07:56.760 to hold that as gospel. You don't have to hold 1:07:56.840 --> 1:08:00.640 that as what's best is the long jevity of your 1:08:00.680 --> 1:08:03.200 family and where you're going to be for a long time. 1:08:03.680 --> 1:08:09.760 And there's kindergartens and there's great teachers everywhere. Great question. Yeah, 1:08:09.960 --> 1:08:14.800 thank you for emailing and dude, Chad, it's been it's 1:08:14.800 --> 1:08:16.960 been fun. This is a blast. Yeah, we're gonna go 1:08:16.960 --> 1:08:18.960 get tacos again one of these days and then we're 1:08:18.960 --> 1:08:20.439 gonna go on this podcast again. If you want to 1:08:20.439 --> 1:08:24.040 see more Chad, say more Chad. And if anybody has 1:08:24.080 --> 1:08:26.280 any any more questions or if you have a Chad 1:08:26.400 --> 1:08:29.360 specific question that could happen. Maybe you're from Montana, I 1:08:29.400 --> 1:08:32.080 have a Chad specific Montana question. Maybe you're mad at 1:08:32.160 --> 1:08:37.120 him for calling hunting shopping in Texas. Email Grangersmith Podcast 1:08:37.439 --> 1:08:40.200 at gmail dot com and tell me what Chad and 1:08:40.720 --> 1:08:43.400 we'll definitely have you back. Cool. This has been fun. Yeah, 1:08:43.560 --> 1:08:46.160 it's a blast. See your brother. Yeah, thanks for joining 1:08:46.200 --> 1:08:49.040 me on the granger Smith Podcast. I appreciate all of 1:08:49.120 --> 1:08:51.200 you guys. 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