Speaker 1: What's up, y'all. This is Dylan Marlowe. Yeah, it's definitely
Speaker 1: tough because you see, like a lot of other things
Speaker 1: get glorified in this industry where you're like, what the heck,
Speaker 1: Like that would be super easy for me to go
Speaker 1: do that. I want to headline arenas and stadiums, you know,
Speaker 1: that's like the goal. But I want to do it
Speaker 1: the way God wants me to do it and not
Speaker 1: the way I want to do it, like you know,
Speaker 1: the fruits that I carried by by when you look
Speaker 1: at it or when you meet me or when you
Speaker 1: talk to me, like, that's my goal. I want people
Speaker 1: to know like, Okay, this is what Dylan's about, and
Speaker 1: this is the upload. Man.
Speaker 2: How are you? How's everything?
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been great, probably slowing down for the year.
Speaker 2: Slowing down, Bro, you're expecting twins?
Speaker 1: Yeah, I know, well, the music slowing down. The parenting's
Speaker 1: about to pick up.
Speaker 3: Man, I'm so excited for you. That was one thing
Speaker 3: that I was so excited to talk to you about
Speaker 3: today because I just feel like the mindset of becoming
Speaker 3: a parent, Man, what a weight that just carries crazy.
Speaker 1: So excited. I'm ready, though I'm excited.
Speaker 3: Well, if you don't know, Dylan is on the upload
Speaker 3: today and I'm so excited to chat with you and
Speaker 3: dive into you about just lots of things. But I
Speaker 3: want to first start off our conversation with just talking
Speaker 3: about the word faith. It means such different things to
Speaker 3: so many different people, and I'm just curious what that
Speaker 3: word means to you specifically.
Speaker 1: I think it's like faith to me, is just like
Speaker 1: believing what you can't physically see with your eyes, but
Speaker 1: just like knowing in your heart, like believing what you
Speaker 1: believe in your heart.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: One of the things that I love about faith is
Speaker 3: just like you said, you can't see it, but you
Speaker 3: believe it. And my little brother actually was recently talking
Speaker 3: about just like Jesus and faith and that kind of stuff,
Speaker 3: and he's like, you do realize you guys sound crazy, right,
Speaker 3: And I was just like, yeah, we do.
Speaker 1: But yeah, No, it's either yeah I saw something yesterday butcher.
Speaker 1: But it's just like we either believe in something some
Speaker 1: lunatic dude who this whole thing's crazy, or we believe
Speaker 1: in like just the most perfect person that's ever walked
Speaker 1: on the earth.
Speaker 3: And I like to believe that one, Yeah, the one
Speaker 3: that's kind, the one I don't want to be wrong.
Speaker 2: Okay for sure.
Speaker 3: When it comes to faith specifically, we all have different
Speaker 3: walks as Christians and what we you know, how we
Speaker 3: go about things. When when did faith become like real
Speaker 3: for you where you got to choose faith, where it
Speaker 3: was your decision.
Speaker 1: Yeah? Probably, Uh maybe when I moved out of my parents' house,
Speaker 1: not that they like help me back or anything. I
Speaker 1: think you just get so many decisions you get to
Speaker 1: make on your own, you know.
Speaker 3: Uh.
Speaker 1: I was literally thinking about the story last night for
Speaker 1: some reason. I was trying to fall asleep the day
Speaker 1: that I like got saved because I had been like
Speaker 1: baptized as a kid, but didn't really think it was
Speaker 1: my decision, you know. And uh, I'll never forget. Her
Speaker 1: name's miss Kim. She was my roommate's mom, and she
Speaker 1: was always like kind of taking me to church and
Speaker 1: like always hinting like when are you going to give
Speaker 1: your life? You know? And then uh, one day I
Speaker 1: was like, all right, today I'm gonna do it, you know.
Speaker 1: As soon as at the end the preacher's like all right,
Speaker 1: whoever wants to put their hand up, I'm gonna do it,
Speaker 1: and then he didn't say it that day. So we're
Speaker 1: walking in the car in the parking lot and she
Speaker 1: was like, have you put any more thought into it?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I was going to today,
Speaker 1: but like, you know, he didn't ask, and she was
Speaker 1: like she grabbed my shirt and just ripped me right
Speaker 1: back into the church and ripped all the way back
Speaker 1: to the pastor's like office, you know where he's after serving.
Speaker 1: She was like, we got to do this right now,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 2: What a sweet friend.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is so special to have those kind of
Speaker 3: people in your life because I feel like so many
Speaker 3: people are are scared to ask those questions, and especially
Speaker 3: surrounding yourself with community of you know, a friend's mom
Speaker 3: that'll be like.
Speaker 1: Hey, no, it was really funny.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you think back just kind of growing up,
Speaker 3: is there someone in your life that just kind of
Speaker 3: models like what Jesus looks like for you growing up?
Speaker 1: I would say probably my pop, but like my dad's dad.
Speaker 2: Yeah, do you guys have a good relationship?
Speaker 1: It was yeah, I think so. We weren't too like
Speaker 1: ty as we lived always like an hour away, but
Speaker 1: that was always who I kind of like in my
Speaker 1: head imagery, like that's who represented Jesus the most of me.
Speaker 3: Do you ever think about that like going towards like,
Speaker 3: you know, the I guess the incline in your life
Speaker 3: and growing in Christ that you're going to be that
Speaker 3: for someone else?
Speaker 1: I hope. So, I hope I am. I feel like
Speaker 1: he was very patient and very uh just kind of
Speaker 1: like the role model for that. Yeah for me.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I was just thinking about your instagram bio and
Speaker 3: how I love when you you see people just declare
Speaker 3: it boldly and don't have any you know, second guess
Speaker 3: things about it. And I love that you have Proverbs
Speaker 3: sixteen three in your instagram bio commit your work to
Speaker 3: the Lord and your plans will be established.
Speaker 2: Yeah, why did you choose that one?
Speaker 1: Because I feel like, especially in this like industry, it's
Speaker 1: easy to like commit your work to yourself, you know,
Speaker 1: or to try to, And I still like struggle with
Speaker 1: that just given the given the work, like all this
Speaker 1: all the labor and stuff to God, you know, and
Speaker 1: I don't know, it's it's like with what we do.
Speaker 1: It's just there's two different ends of the spectrum, you know.
Speaker 1: So I feel like for me, whenever I can just
Speaker 1: commit my plans to him. He shows and it might
Speaker 1: not be like the answer you're looking for, you know,
Speaker 1: but he shows his presence everywhere, everywhere, every time for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 3: And being a musician, like you said, it's it's all
Speaker 3: about you, right, You're on stage, people are watching you,
Speaker 3: and you know, when you think about your purpose as
Speaker 3: a musician and trying to put yourself kind of to
Speaker 3: the side, what vision do you see for yourself? What
Speaker 3: purpose do you see for yourself?
Speaker 1: I think just like being a light maybe in such
Speaker 1: like a dark industry, and uh, yeah, it's definitely tough
Speaker 1: because you see, like a lot of other things get
Speaker 1: glorified in this industry where you're like, what the heck,
Speaker 1: like that would be super easy for me to go
Speaker 1: do that, and you know it probably get super megaviral
Speaker 1: this this, you know. But I just, yeah, I feel like,
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, I want to make
Speaker 1: sure that with what I'm doing, it's just putting off
Speaker 1: what you like, you know, the fruits that I carry
Speaker 1: by by when you look at it or when you
Speaker 1: meet me or when you talk to me, Like, that's
Speaker 1: my goal. I want people to know like, Okay, this
Speaker 1: is what Dylan's about and if it takes me a
Speaker 1: little longer to get to where I want to be
Speaker 1: because of that, you know, same like committ your plains
Speaker 1: to the Lord, like he'll take care of it, you know.
Speaker 1: If if this isn't what I'm supposed to be doing
Speaker 1: one day, you'll tell me. Or if it is, I
Speaker 1: feel like it is. I feel like I have a
Speaker 1: calling in my life to do music, but I want
Speaker 1: to be like, uh, I've had kids ask me before,
Speaker 1: like I think I was doing like a photo shoot
Speaker 1: somewhere at my buddy's farm, and this little kid was like,
Speaker 1: mister Dylan, I have a question when when you wrote
Speaker 1: hung Over to deer Stand, were you drunk to night before?
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, those are questions I like
Speaker 1: don't think about, you know, and like I don't know
Speaker 1: if that's what I want to be known for, you know, yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to be known for other stuff that.
Speaker 3: But what a sweet realization too, where it's like, you know,
Speaker 3: you do get caught up in things and you're gonna
Speaker 3: say things, and we all say things that are sure
Speaker 3: and you look back like you said and you're like,
Speaker 3: wait a second, Yeah, I have a.
Speaker 1: Lot of hot takes. Yeah, yeah, it's it's I could
Speaker 1: get into it for sure, but yeah.
Speaker 3: Well I want to go into those hot tapes and
Speaker 3: things about those like what are some of those other
Speaker 3: things in your career where you're like, man, I really
Speaker 3: shouldn't have.
Speaker 1: Yeah, like I just I don't know, like we had
Speaker 1: we in between our last podcast and now, like there
Speaker 1: was a time when we got kicked out of this
Speaker 1: like festival. For while I was it was completely like
Speaker 1: on whatever, like we were watching from the uh oh the.
Speaker 2: Security change out.
Speaker 1: I remember that doing absolutely like nothing wrong, you know.
Speaker 1: But when I posted that video, I was so angry
Speaker 1: because I mean it was a pride. It was probably
Speaker 1: a lot of pride, like getting kicked out for all
Speaker 1: these people. You're like, what like I just played this,
Speaker 1: You're like, I'm doing Marlowe. Yeah yeah, yeah yeah. And
Speaker 1: I posted it and everybody thought it was hilarious and
Speaker 1: funny and cool and uh like gained so many followers
Speaker 1: from this one video of controversy, you know, And then
Speaker 1: I went to bed on it and I was just
Speaker 1: I had this uneasy feeling, like, man, I just that's
Speaker 1: like I don't know if I want to be known
Speaker 1: for that like, I don't know, I just in the
Speaker 1: back of my mind, it just didn't feel right, you know,
Speaker 1: even though I probably could have left it up and
Speaker 1: got like ten twenty thousand more followers from that that
Speaker 1: one video. And I hate that I even posted at first.
Speaker 1: It was in a moment of like probably anger and
Speaker 1: pride that kind of took over, you know, and most
Speaker 1: people will watch this, but I could stop that big
Speaker 1: of a deal, dude, But to me, I would rather
Speaker 1: be known for a song that comes out that just
Speaker 1: does great as a song than a dude who got
Speaker 1: controversy for getting kicked out of festival.
Speaker 2: Yeah, viral video.
Speaker 1: For so like, those are the things that are tough
Speaker 1: that you kind of look and you see it all
Speaker 1: over the place and you're like, I could easily just
Speaker 1: dive into that, and but I don't know if there's
Speaker 1: as much fulfillment from that, you know. I told Nat
Speaker 1: the other day, I've had more fulfillment for leading worship
Speaker 1: to like thirty people in a rehab center than I
Speaker 1: have any show or played.
Speaker 2: I believe it.
Speaker 1: You know. I'm still like navigating, I mean honestly, and
Speaker 1: it's been in a spot of weird, like just like
Speaker 1: how things kind of been shapen, like what do I want? Like,
Speaker 1: what do I want to do? Seriously, what do I
Speaker 1: what are my goals? Have they change? I think my
Speaker 1: goals are still the same to like I want to
Speaker 1: headline arenas and stadiums. You know, that's like the goal,
Speaker 1: but I want to do it the way God wants
Speaker 1: me to do it and not the way I want
Speaker 1: to do it.
Speaker 3: And I think there's something so special about something you
Speaker 3: said earlier where you said I don't care if it
Speaker 3: takes me longer than everybody else, yeah, and that that
Speaker 3: conviction of the Holy Spirit to just be like let
Speaker 3: me lead, yeah, and just follow me, and to completely
Speaker 3: put yourself back. I mean, it's it's such a hard
Speaker 3: thing to do. And I think that's one thing too
Speaker 3: that people don't realize, Like if you're not a Christian
Speaker 3: or you don't have any specific beliefs, it's hard to
Speaker 3: think about, like, well, why don't you want to get
Speaker 3: what you want? Or why don't you want to do
Speaker 3: what you want? And it's hard to explain. But when
Speaker 3: you have those convictions from the Holy Spirit, you're like, okay.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I'm not it's not about us or our
Speaker 1: time and for sure, and I feel like the world
Speaker 1: has just created this insanely just like it's all about you, like,
Speaker 1: go do it makes you happy? Go do this? Like, yeah,
Speaker 1: God wants us to be happy, you know, he wants
Speaker 1: us to do things that we joy. But yeah, I
Speaker 1: don't know. The older I get becoming a dad now,
Speaker 1: like I think, what do I want my kids to see?
Speaker 1: You know? And this isn't like a judgmental thing to
Speaker 1: anybody totally, you know, it's just like for me personally,
Speaker 1: what I've seen and grown in my faith in the
Speaker 1: last couple of months is just there's just more to it.
Speaker 1: You know, there's more to all this than just being
Speaker 1: an artist or you know, it gets to be a
Speaker 1: cool thing I get to do. I think it's my call.
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what I've been called to do.
Speaker 1: There's just more to it, though, And I think you're right.
Speaker 3: I think you do have this special calling on your
Speaker 3: life because specifically, just in the middle of a show,
Speaker 3: you're like, you know what, I feel like playing a
Speaker 3: worship song in a bar, or you know, people are drinking,
Speaker 3: people are having a good time, and you're like, you
Speaker 3: know what, let's spend a little bit of time with Jesus.
Speaker 3: And I think it's such a special thing because people
Speaker 3: are like, well, why would you do that? And it's
Speaker 3: like Jesus hung out with the sinners. Yeah, he wants
Speaker 3: to reach everybody. So I think that's such a cool
Speaker 3: thing for you to do. And I mean it really
Speaker 3: takes a lot of guts to do something like that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think one part of the calling is like
Speaker 1: going into those places. But and there also comes like
Speaker 1: you have to just be so like because it's so
Speaker 1: easy to go into these environments and then lose side
Speaker 1: of that. You just have to be so strongly like disciplined,
Speaker 1: and like I fall short of that sometimes, you know.
Speaker 1: Sometimes like me and Connor talked like, you know, it's
Speaker 1: not like we don't always do like a worship thing
Speaker 1: and they're just if the word throws it on our heart,
Speaker 1: you know, like the thing in Athens was a tragedy
Speaker 1: that week. It just felt heavy, but like it's it's
Speaker 1: a dark the road's a dark place. Yeah, So sometimes
Speaker 1: I'm like, God, why are you like thing me in
Speaker 1: these places? Like maybe you know, I feel like he
Speaker 1: wants me to be a light. But then it's it's
Speaker 1: tough to be a light sometimes because you're like, man,
Speaker 1: the last thing I want to do is play a
Speaker 1: worship song right now when everybody's getting hammered and drinking,
Speaker 1: and like, you know, you're like, is it going to
Speaker 1: ruin the thing? Like is it gonna be weird? You know?
Speaker 1: And then yeah, that's spiritual. It's it's it's warfaring. You're like,
Speaker 1: you're singing the three songs up to it, and you're
Speaker 1: like not even thinking about those, You're just thinking about that,
Speaker 1: you know.
Speaker 3: So Yeah, such a cool perspective to think about, because
Speaker 3: it's just like even daily stuff, right You're like, you
Speaker 3: have things to do, but there's that one thing that
Speaker 3: God keeps telling you to do, and you're not even
Speaker 3: thinking about those three things. You're just thinking about that
Speaker 3: one thing. Like what are people going to think of me?
Speaker 3: Is you're gonna think I'm weird?
Speaker 1: Yeah? I think that the one verse that has just
Speaker 1: got me through. And I can't I don't know exactly
Speaker 1: where what verse it is. I just know the scripture itself.
Speaker 1: It's it's I think it's in Matthew. Actually, I could
Speaker 1: probably open my Bible and point it's underlying highlight and everything.
Speaker 1: But it's just it's when Jesus just said, Hey, if
Speaker 1: the world hates you, I hated me first. You know.
Speaker 1: So people might get weird by things you do as
Speaker 1: a Christian, or they might look down on it or
Speaker 1: look different, but like they hated Jesus first, who literally
Speaker 1: threw his life on the line for us so or
Speaker 1: gave his life for us, you know. And there's just
Speaker 1: nothing that I think we're I think we're all going
Speaker 1: to get to heaven one day and not worry once
Speaker 1: about what somebody thought about us. We're probably gonna wish
Speaker 1: we would have done more.
Speaker 3: Isn't it so funny how this? I feel like it's
Speaker 3: called like the Instagram culture, right we all are looking
Speaker 3: to just all of these aph MEAs sense from other people,
Speaker 3: and how exhausting.
Speaker 1: It's exhausting. Yeah, yeah, we Uh I'm in this, like, uh,
Speaker 1: I do some counseling and uh it's actually a place
Speaker 1: in Nashville called Rock House. If anybody needs that, they're great.
Speaker 1: But we were talking about like what why as an
Speaker 1: artist or or really like a lot of influencers nowadays,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people, a lot of people in
Speaker 1: jobs that you receive a lot of glory from and
Speaker 1: so we were just kind of talking like how do
Speaker 1: you not receive that glory? And it's like, well, I
Speaker 1: think the only way to not receive glory from people
Speaker 1: and because what happens is you get glory from people
Speaker 1: and then that's all you look for, you know, you
Speaker 1: don't look for it. And uh, I saw like this,
Speaker 1: just like cup, this like tank, and I called it
Speaker 1: the glory tank, and I just wrote a note of it.
Speaker 1: And it's like if I go out there on stage,
Speaker 1: which I'm not saying I'm perfect by this by any means,
Speaker 1: like I'm guilty of it being half for or not
Speaker 1: even ful, But before I go out on stage or
Speaker 1: before you do anything where you're gonna receive glory, like
Speaker 1: if your glory tank isn't a hundred percent full from God,
Speaker 1: then people are gonna fiell whatever is left in that gap,
Speaker 1: even if it's ten percent, you know. So I just
Speaker 1: think before I go on stage, before I go do things,
Speaker 1: like I gotta spend time with the Lord, and I
Speaker 1: gotta feel like glory tank is evident and obvious. When
Speaker 1: I don't, you know, because then I start looking for
Speaker 1: like is this guy this guy looks like he's bored
Speaker 1: during the show. What the heck thing? It's a good show?
Speaker 1: Or like this guy's got his arms croused? Is he
Speaker 1: worried about me? And then you know the shows where
Speaker 1: the glory tank is full, I'm not looking for if
Speaker 1: Johnny down there doesn't think I'm country enough, or if
Speaker 1: Billy over there ain't ain't happy. But you know, it's
Speaker 1: like like we'd that's this is where I'm This is
Speaker 1: the connection here, not not here, and I get to
Speaker 1: entertain and like go out here and do this. So
Speaker 1: like I think part of that pressure is like making
Speaker 1: sure we do that for the fans, putting on a
Speaker 1: good show. But then you could I think you could
Speaker 1: tell when the glory is coming from the right place,
Speaker 1: from God, because then you're unable to accept that from
Speaker 1: anybody else.
Speaker 3: Right then it just doesn't matter. Yeah, I think that's
Speaker 3: so good. What an illustration the glory tank. Keep your
Speaker 3: glory tank full, keep all the other you know stuff out,
Speaker 3: the fake fuel. We don't get any of the fake
Speaker 3: fuel in there. I want to go back to what
Speaker 3: you were talking about a second ago about how you know,
Speaker 3: being on the road and how there's temptations on the road.
Speaker 3: There's it's easy to fall, you know, fall short and
Speaker 3: to give into those temptations. But keeping yourself grounded in
Speaker 3: your relationship with God, in your marriage, all of those things,
Speaker 3: when you're out on the road, when you're dealing with
Speaker 3: all of those things, how do you keep yourself anchored
Speaker 3: while you're going through all of that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, Nat is a huge part of it.
Speaker 2: That's his wife.
Speaker 1: By the way, my life, Nat, we started praying out
Speaker 1: loud before we go to bed. Yeah, I started praying
Speaker 1: out loud over us. There's like occasional nights where I'm
Speaker 1: just exhausted and can't even hold my eyes open. Then
Speaker 1: she'll pray for us. But I pray nine I am
Speaker 1: percent of the time out loud for us every night.
Speaker 1: Because we also read the stat that couples that pray
Speaker 1: out loud for each other have like a one person divorce.
Speaker 2: Right, come on, somebody, we only need to start praying.
Speaker 1: Yeah, no, so I mean we pray. I pray out
Speaker 1: loud over us every night, which also praying out loud.
Speaker 1: Somebody also told me one time, like the devil hears
Speaker 1: that the enemy here is that you know that not
Speaker 1: that praying inside of your head is bad. But when
Speaker 1: you pray out loud and make it known like there's nothing,
Speaker 1: they hear it, you know, right, So, uh, probably praying
Speaker 1: out loud over our marriage, trying to surround ourselves with
Speaker 1: other like minded married couples, because it's very easy to
Speaker 1: not to just to let your kind of circle get broken.
Speaker 1: And uh, the fact, when you really feel with people
Speaker 1: who will hold you accountable, they don't care that you're
Speaker 1: out here doing this or doing this like and they say, hey,
Speaker 1: this is where I see you falling short. So I
Speaker 1: have a tight group of people who will call me
Speaker 1: out on my bs. That's what I call it. They
Speaker 1: got me, you know, they got me tight and covered,
Speaker 1: which has been helpful. And then uh, I've just the
Speaker 1: band that we have, like the road family we have
Speaker 1: has been just very carefully hand picked because it's a
Speaker 1: dark place and and I don't want to be out
Speaker 1: there with somebody who's I probably spend more time with
Speaker 1: the guys I do not time. So I don't want
Speaker 1: to be out there with guys that aren't like minded
Speaker 1: on the same wavelength. I'm not saying like you got
Speaker 1: to be a saint to come on the road with us.
Speaker 1: I'm just saying, like it just wouldn't be smart to
Speaker 1: go on a dark place and just have kind of dark,
Speaker 1: negative people all around all the time. I think there's
Speaker 1: a place to hang out with those people and like
Speaker 1: try to show the word and give the word. But
Speaker 1: I don't know if like surrounding it one hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the time, you know. Yeah, So I think probably
Speaker 1: like just surrounding myself with good people on the road,
Speaker 1: Like everybody in my band is just solid dudes, solid dudes,
Speaker 1: and they would call me out or they would have
Speaker 1: my back in a heartbeat. Yeah, And then just trying
Speaker 1: to stay in the word at least once a time,
Speaker 1: once a weekend on the road. I try to stay
Speaker 1: in it every day, but sometimes on the road is tough.
Speaker 1: But we try to get like a little Bible study
Speaker 1: going once a month on the road with the guys
Speaker 1: in the band. And I think between all those things
Speaker 1: combined just kind of keeps me grounded to the fullest,
Speaker 1: you know, for sure. And it's still tough.
Speaker 3: And I think what you're saying kind of just about
Speaker 3: surrounding yourself with people. I feel like there's somebody listening
Speaker 3: or watching this that that's a word for them, because
Speaker 3: it's just like sometimes when you're surrounded by and it
Speaker 3: could be a childhood friend that you've known.
Speaker 1: Forever, yeah you don't. Yeah, and for sure.
Speaker 3: God is trying to pluck them out of your life.
Speaker 3: And it's hard and it's difficult, and it's just like
Speaker 3: sometimes leaning into new community and leaning into people who
Speaker 3: are good for you.
Speaker 1: For sure, gosh differ. It's tough because you kind of
Speaker 1: feel weird, like you know, I'm loyal to a fault too,
Speaker 1: so but uh yeah, if you're listening to this and
Speaker 1: you're like a new artist and you're looking for a band,
Speaker 1: like take them to coffee. That's why I did. I
Speaker 1: took these guys a coffee and I was like, what
Speaker 1: are your You can tell? You know, if there's Jesus
Speaker 1: and somebody when from an hour of coffee, you know
Speaker 1: you could tell. Yeah, I mean even even if people
Speaker 1: can put like a thing on, like, you could tell.
Speaker 1: So take take your guys a coffee and get to
Speaker 1: know them because I feel like I learned so much
Speaker 1: about my guys in that hour of coffee or just
Speaker 1: hanging And also like NAT's the sermon's crazy. Nat can
Speaker 1: pick people out of mile aways. She's like, I don't
Speaker 1: ever need to be hanging out.
Speaker 2: It's crazy. I feel like a woman's deir serment period.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. And I could be like, no, it's fine,
Speaker 1: and she always is right.
Speaker 3: You know, listen, I'm just going to say this right now,
Speaker 3: Wait till she becomes a mom, because they just like magnified.
Speaker 3: But you're just like, oh, I think she's feeling sick.
Speaker 3: And then the mom's like, yeah, she has this, this, this,
Speaker 3: and this, and then we need to do this to
Speaker 3: make it better.
Speaker 1: It's crazy. I bet. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I want to talk sort of about you and not
Speaker 3: in marriage and kids coming, but first I want to
Speaker 3: talk about just since we're on the topic of being
Speaker 3: out on the road, I feel like we all have
Speaker 3: moments where God just like meets us in our mess
Speaker 3: and there's just moments in our life where you know
Speaker 3: you can't do it without anybody but Him. Yeah, can
Speaker 3: you remember specifically, just like maybe a moment out on
Speaker 3: the road or just end life specifically where you just
Speaker 3: you're like, man, I can't handle this on my own,
Speaker 3: Like this is just going to be something God helps
Speaker 3: me out of.
Speaker 1: I feel like there's been times though, where I've just
Speaker 1: been like, sometimes you can spend a lot of time
Speaker 1: on your phone out there, and I think on our
Speaker 1: first headline tour, I just got so consumed by you
Speaker 1: have like eight hours free day. I think my screen
Speaker 1: time was like ten or eleven hours a day, and
Speaker 1: I was just falling. I was like crashing hard, and
Speaker 1: I was like, God, I don't think you've called me
Speaker 1: to come out here and do this and sit on
Speaker 1: my phone all day and just scroll and compare myself
Speaker 1: and do this and this. And I remember like specifically
Speaker 1: just praying right there and then immediately just calm the storm. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, And there's plenty other times in my life
Speaker 1: where it's done that, but I feel like keeping him
Speaker 1: close out there is has been pretty that's beneficial.
Speaker 2: The only way to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: I think there was some statistic or study that was
Speaker 3: done that it's like twelve minutes of prayer a day
Speaker 3: can completely change your entire the way your brain like fires,
Speaker 3: like how the nerdons and things fire in your brain.
Speaker 3: And I think it's to a testament to what you're saying,
Speaker 3: like a little bit of prayer goes so so far.
Speaker 1: Yeah, he hears you. Yeah, especially in the valleys for sure.
Speaker 3: Okay, so let's dive into marriage. Yeah, relationship, kids coming,
Speaker 3: because this is exciting, not.
Speaker 2: Just one we're getting twins.
Speaker 3: I feel like when it comes to marriage, specifically, praying
Speaker 3: out loud, I think is such a great thing for
Speaker 3: people to do. Has there been other ways in your
Speaker 3: marriage where you're just like, this is how God keeps
Speaker 3: us on track, because you know, in marriage, we all fight,
Speaker 3: y'all have things that we don't agree with, and navigating
Speaker 3: those things, especially as a young couple, I think it's
Speaker 3: it's great to get those perspectives for those listening who
Speaker 3: maybe are new to marriage to or need a little
Speaker 3: bit of guidance on how to seek God together as
Speaker 3: a married couple.
Speaker 1: I think it started for me when I realized, like
Speaker 1: I wanted to be the spiritual leader of our household
Speaker 1: because Nat was always when me and Nat met, like,
Speaker 1: NAT's always been light years ahead of me because her mom,
Speaker 1: like miss Nancy just awesome. Yeah, and she just was
Speaker 1: raised so right, And so I think there was a
Speaker 1: little bit of catch up for us when we got
Speaker 1: married because I just wasn't probably where I should have
Speaker 1: been or needed to be. Spiritually when we first got married.
Speaker 1: So it's kind of been a fun like seeing how
Speaker 1: I can lead our family. It's been that's been a
Speaker 1: journey in a process of just like learning, Okay, I
Speaker 1: don't have to be no more Bible versus than that,
Speaker 1: you know, but I need to do this to lead
Speaker 1: her because at first I thought, like, you know, but
Speaker 1: I would say Natt is also very good about asking
Speaker 1: intentional questions, and I'm like, I could sit on a
Speaker 1: couch for four hours with her and watch a movie
Speaker 1: and that's cool with me, you know, but twenty minutes
Speaker 1: of just intentional conversation goes way longer further with her.
Speaker 1: You know, she wants intentionality. So I've learned intentionality. And
Speaker 1: then the biggest piece of advice I guess that I
Speaker 1: have is whenever you just feel so frustrated in marriage,
Speaker 1: like the immediate killer to that to like whether it's
Speaker 1: like anger, frustration or whatever, is just like serving you know,
Speaker 1: like even like I can't remember maybe a week or
Speaker 1: two ago, we just weren't like arguing, but we're just
Speaker 1: you know, you have days you're just not on the.
Speaker 2: Same It's like I don't want to be around you
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 1: It's on the same page, you know. And I was like, like,
Speaker 1: we have a gate at our house and we opened
Speaker 1: the clothes for the dogs in the front yard. So
Speaker 1: I was like, I'm just she was leaving. She just
Speaker 1: got to get I was like, I'm gonna go just
Speaker 1: shut the gate or open the gate for and shut
Speaker 1: it so she have to get out. And then that
Speaker 1: immediately just like takes away any whatever. You're like, Okay,
Speaker 1: I see I was wrong in the situation. I need
Speaker 1: to like apologize or you know. So I think serving
Speaker 1: like your your spouse is probably like an immediate like
Speaker 1: it's like an immediate advil for a headache. It just
Speaker 1: takes it away.
Speaker 2: That is so so good.
Speaker 3: Yeah, that is one thing I feel like when you're
Speaker 3: in the moment, when you're in the heat of everything, Yeah,
Speaker 3: the last thing on your mind is what can I
Speaker 3: do to serve my spouse, you know, and what a
Speaker 3: what a good tool to use.
Speaker 1: To Yeah, and I'm still learning, you know, so like
Speaker 1: just if you're watching this, don't think that I've got
Speaker 1: to figure it out. I'm just figuring it out along
Speaker 1: the way.
Speaker 2: How long have you guys been married?
Speaker 1: Uh, two and a half years, okay, yeah, running on that.
Speaker 2: We're right in the honeymoon phase, crushing it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been it's been so good and yeah we
Speaker 1: yeah so excited to be a dad. That that was
Speaker 1: a process. That's a whole story in itself, but yeah,
Speaker 1: it was so thankful.
Speaker 3: Yeah did you did you guys have trouble getting pregnant.
Speaker 1: Yeah, we tried for I want to say, we tried
Speaker 1: for like eleven months, couldn't get pregnant. And Nat went
Speaker 1: to this like, I guess it's a holistic doctor, which
Speaker 1: sounds like a weird word. It wasn't like, yeah, it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not like a weird It's not like
Speaker 1: I thought that was like a weird juju thing or something.
Speaker 1: It's like, no, it's just natural somebody. So they just
Speaker 1: I'm sure and I wouldn't care if I said this,
Speaker 1: but she like they were just like he could do
Speaker 1: these like amino acid testing and look at her fingernails
Speaker 1: and say like, okay, from all my thing, I think
Speaker 1: you just have like flow this high this and then
Speaker 1: you might have like a candida infection, so let's tackle that,
Speaker 1: you know, And so put her on like a candy
Speaker 1: to diet and six weeks after that, like we got pregnant.
Speaker 1: But the funniest thing was is my biggest thing was
Speaker 1: if we're gonna use somebody like a doctor like that,
Speaker 1: because I wanted to. I was like, hey, let's just
Speaker 1: trust God in our time, you know. And then I
Speaker 1: got to thinking, well, some tis like you know, God
Speaker 1: places people down here as long as the credit's not
Speaker 1: just going to this, you know, we're not saying like
Speaker 1: this doctor is the reason we got pregnant, like, you know,
Speaker 1: God led us to this doctor, and God also gave
Speaker 1: this doctor a discernment and the knowledge that to help
Speaker 1: us in our situation. I think about that story where
Speaker 1: the the guy's like stuck on his roof you know,
Speaker 1: have you ever heard this? Yep? And he's like I
Speaker 1: sent you a boat, a helicopter and a thing like
Speaker 1: you know, sometimes God is not just gonna come down
Speaker 1: and exactly. So I think our biggest thing was like, hey,
Speaker 1: when we tell the story, like we want people to
Speaker 1: know like this was just fully God. You know, we
Speaker 1: just he helped us out with some pieces along the
Speaker 1: way that Yeah, so we got pregnant. But the funny
Speaker 1: thing is this whole pregnancy, are trying to get pregnant. Thing.
Speaker 1: Like I later realized that I was just praying for
Speaker 1: fertility every night and I wasn't like, Hey, God, give
Speaker 1: us a kid, a boy, girl, you know. And so
Speaker 1: I asked for fertility and God said, there you go,
Speaker 1: two of them we got. We got the Bible and
Speaker 1: get one free deal. You know. I love it, man.
Speaker 3: I gotta say though, because I my husband and I
Speaker 3: we struggled with infertility for like it was like a
Speaker 3: little over a year, yeah, after we had our first
Speaker 3: and those thoughts that start putting in especially I'm sure
Speaker 3: Nat went through that where you're just thinking, is there
Speaker 3: something wrong with me?
Speaker 1: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Are we going to be able to do this? And
Speaker 2: that's that's a tough walk with God too.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it was a tough season for sure, especially because
Speaker 1: I've never seen Nat really like constantly upset about something
Speaker 1: and like I'm a fixture, Like I'm a like like
Speaker 1: if me and you were beefing, like I'm gonna try
Speaker 1: to fix it within five minutes, Like, Hey, what can
Speaker 1: I do to do this? You know, And there's nothing
Speaker 1: I can do in that situation except just pray that God,
Speaker 1: you know, God's timing and pray for patients, and yeah,
Speaker 1: when we found out we were in well, we were
Speaker 1: in Alaska and we went on this like excruciating hike,
Speaker 1: you know, and Nat crushed it. She was fine, and
Speaker 1: she's like, I don't really feel good, and she started
Speaker 1: like she's never not She's just the healthiest person. I know.
Speaker 1: That was why we also was were pretty confused about
Speaker 1: getting pregnant because now it's like insanely healthy, you know.
Speaker 1: But turned out it was like a lot of the
Speaker 1: fruit she was eating had like tons of sugars and
Speaker 1: the fruit itself. So that ended up yeah exactly, yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: things I don't know knowledge enough about. But yeah, So
Speaker 1: we get home and it's like probably three am, four am,
Speaker 1: and we were like, you know, expecting to not to
Speaker 1: like not even need to do a pregnancy test. But
Speaker 1: then obviously, you know, we're all like she was late.
Speaker 1: So we're like, okay, well maybe the span is just
Speaker 1: different this month, and you know, maybe this is it.
Speaker 1: I was pretty I feel like I was pretty optimistic
Speaker 1: the whole time. But we got home it was like
Speaker 1: four am, and I'm eating like air fried chicken logans
Speaker 1: or chicken tenders in the kitchen, and we found out
Speaker 1: and we only had one pregnancy test and I was like,
Speaker 1: we're going to get more, and we're like, nowhere's open,
Speaker 1: so we like, I mean, we just like and jumped
Speaker 1: in joy. And Yeah. It was crazy. Ysh.
Speaker 3: It's such a crazy thing, that first pregnancy test where
Speaker 3: you're like, oh, I need like three more to confirm.
Speaker 1: Oh. I was like, babe, we're going right now. She's
Speaker 1: like doing it's four am, nowhere's open. Yeah.
Speaker 2: All had to sit with that one all night.
Speaker 1: I think when I fell asleep, she probably did for
Speaker 1: a minute, but she went at the head to be
Speaker 1: six am or seven am, and she went and got
Speaker 1: like three or four more and she was like, they're
Speaker 1: all pregnant.
Speaker 3: It is so sweet, and I just I love that
Speaker 3: story because it really is one of those things, especially
Speaker 3: as I mean as a married couple, as a unit,
Speaker 3: you're trying to lead and trying to diffuse. She's seeing
Speaker 3: a negative pregnancy test and her emotions are crazy and
Speaker 3: there's doubt and there's all of these things, and man,
Speaker 3: what a roller coaster.
Speaker 1: Onna It definitely was. And I know so many people
Speaker 1: that I've even gone through more than that, and it
Speaker 1: feels like going through more than that would I can't imagine.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really think is your whole life.
Speaker 1: You're just taught rightfully, so before you're married, like you know,
Speaker 1: don't get pregant, don't get pregnant. So when you start
Speaker 1: trying to get preyed almost feels weird, weird, right yeah, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: but you spend your whole life like trying not to
Speaker 1: and then yeah, it's crazy. I don't know. God, it's
Speaker 1: such a blessing, I mean, and then to have like
Speaker 1: a double busting is just like, holy cow.
Speaker 3: Yeah, invite us into that room really quick when you
Speaker 3: guys are getting the ultrasound there.
Speaker 1: So we went into the to get the ultrasound, you know,
Speaker 1: and I mean I think we were so we were
Speaker 1: just like, please, dear God, just be a heartbeat, Just
Speaker 1: be a healthy heartbeat. That's all we care about, you know.
Speaker 1: And uh, I've never seen an ultrasound. I've seen them
Speaker 1: on movies.
Speaker 2: They're not nice and pretty.
Speaker 1: No, so they start like doing it, you know, and
Speaker 1: I look at the screen and I think like probably
Speaker 1: a split second before the nurse said anything, like I
Speaker 1: saw two little jellybean looking things and I was like,
Speaker 1: I like put my hand over my mouth and I
Speaker 1: was about to stand up and I was and she
Speaker 1: was like, oh, uh well, y'all knew there was two, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: we just felt it and Natalie was like no. So
Speaker 1: I like jumped with joy, and I was very like nervous,
Speaker 1: but I was like, this is awesome. We tried so
Speaker 1: long for one and we got two. Like, let's go.
Speaker 1: So I'm like five inches from the TV screen standing
Speaker 1: up and I'm like, nat this is great. Like she's
Speaker 1: behind me, like this is great, this is awesome. I'm
Speaker 1: so excited we got two, you know. And I turn
Speaker 1: around and she's just like freaking out. I've never seen
Speaker 1: anybody actually hyperventilate before, man. So I facetimeed her mom
Speaker 1: and I was like, it's gonna be okay. Like there's
Speaker 1: two though, Like we're okay, and uh so we had
Speaker 1: just told all of our family our red Rocks were pregnant,
Speaker 1: so then we had to go back and call everybody
Speaker 1: and be like, hey, we're also having twins. And I
Speaker 1: wish we were a video in that moment, but yeah,
Speaker 1: she was like freaking out.
Speaker 3: Have you ever seen those videos where it's like the
Speaker 3: couple has a baby and then they surprised with the twin.
Speaker 1: They never said, I'm like, that's great, that's crazy because
Speaker 1: on NAT's seventeen weeks and she's already showing a ton
Speaker 1: like I don't know how you would hide having twins totally,
Speaker 1: which is sick. I think she's finally starting to feel them,
Speaker 1: like kick around and stuff like I can't feel them
Speaker 1: like feeling from the outside, but that she can feel him.
Speaker 3: Like, you know, I feel like pregnancy is such a
Speaker 3: gift from God where it's like if you go through
Speaker 3: out a pregnancy and then when you see childbirth like
Speaker 3: in the room, Yeah, I don't know how you can't
Speaker 3: believe in God. It's such a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1: I bet I'm excited. I feel like there's so many
Speaker 1: things I've said recently where you're like, how do you
Speaker 1: not see God in this? You know?
Speaker 3: And what a miracle to where He's like, I'm gonna
Speaker 3: give you a double portion. Don't even worry about it.
Speaker 1: Now. What we're worried about is like, Okay, if we
Speaker 1: go for another one, which we want, you know, probably
Speaker 1: four kids another said twins could be I don't know,
Speaker 1: let's see, man, I'm excited for you guys have you
Speaker 1: guys talked about sort of just leading kids.
Speaker 3: I know that seventeen weeks, you guys got a little
Speaker 3: bit of time left.
Speaker 1: But and that's all we've been talking about because I
Speaker 1: feel like we've been going through just some stuff in
Speaker 1: our marriage where we're like and we're constantly learning, like
Speaker 1: what do we want to teach our kids? What do
Speaker 1: like I want my kids specifically to see like vulnerability
Speaker 1: through me. Like I want them to see like, Okay,
Speaker 1: mom and dad like just had an argument, but they're
Speaker 1: they're talking about it and they're open, and they're like
Speaker 1: there's forgiveness and there's I want them to see like
Speaker 1: that cycle because sometimes it can be you can be
Speaker 1: like numb to it or you can just be like
Speaker 1: you don't see that all the time. So I want,
Speaker 1: I think I just want our kids to see like
Speaker 1: us being vulnerable and and feel like they can come
Speaker 1: to us. And Yeah, there's definitely things that we've already
Speaker 1: talked about, like what how do we want to lead
Speaker 1: our kids? How do we want what do they we
Speaker 1: want them to see? Because I know they pick everything up,
Speaker 1: you know, Yeah, so there's a lot of that already
Speaker 1: for sure.
Speaker 3: Well, if I can encourage you guys at all. I
Speaker 3: can say that having those conversations now is so huge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: and watching the fruit of seeing Jesus and your kids.
Speaker 3: I have a four year old and a one year old,
Speaker 3: and it's just so special when it's just like you're
Speaker 3: sitting down for dinner, yeah, and your four year old goes.
Speaker 2: Mommy, you forgot to pray. It's just like, you know
Speaker 2: what I did, thank you for the reminder, or.
Speaker 3: Just singing worship songs and just we have people in
Speaker 3: our family that are unbelievers. And to see my daughter
Speaker 3: like crawl up and be like, hey, did you know
Speaker 3: that God lives in my heart? And you're just like
Speaker 3: tearing up in the background and you're like, man, just
Speaker 3: that childlike faith. Yeah, And just having those conversations now,
Speaker 3: like that is so encouraging because it just it just
Speaker 3: gets better.
Speaker 2: It's so cool.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I feel like you have to prepare that. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know for sure. Man.
Speaker 3: Well, I'm very excited for you guys. Congratulations. I always
Speaker 3: love hearing what God is teaching people lately, and I
Speaker 3: know you guys are walking into a complete new season.
Speaker 3: Is there something that God has been maybe teaching you recently?
Speaker 3: That's changing you guys, or changing your.
Speaker 1: Heart probably, Like my word for the year has been obedience,
Speaker 1: and so are obey. And that's been a thing itself,
Speaker 1: just because like you always hear, like the Holy Spirit,
Speaker 1: you have this discernment, like thankfully just at a spot
Speaker 1: in my faith where I do hear from the Lord,
Speaker 1: like I hear whenever it's time to make a decision,
Speaker 1: like I feel this thing, and typically whenever you obey
Speaker 1: like what the Lord's saying, or like when you just
Speaker 1: say yes to whatever the spear's saying or not to
Speaker 1: whatever it's saying, like you can. Really it's pretty it's
Speaker 1: probably the closest thing to immediate. Like it's not all
Speaker 1: the time immediate, but the last couple of things that
Speaker 1: I've seen have been pretty immediate. The Lord said this,
Speaker 1: I've done this, and this has happened. I know it's
Speaker 1: not always going to be like that, and there's probably
Speaker 1: seasons where you wait years to see the answer, you know.
Speaker 1: But I've just been learning to listen and like being
Speaker 1: in the words so much more, and journaling and like
Speaker 1: really not just reading but reading to like get something
Speaker 1: out of what I'm reading, and like look for what
Speaker 1: the Bible's saying when it says this, it's so easy
Speaker 1: to skip over so much good stuff. And I feel
Speaker 1: like you could read something so many times and not
Speaker 1: see it or get something different from it every time.
Speaker 1: But staying in the word. Started my day with the word.
Speaker 1: Because I'm not a morning person, but I've slowly I
Speaker 1: think the Lord has slowly started to prepare me because
Speaker 1: I've just been getting up a little earlier. And that
Speaker 1: might not would say the same because she's like an
Speaker 1: early earlier riser, like eight thirty for me's early.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's earlier. Yeah, but then when you have kids.
Speaker 1: Oh, I sleep it in. But it's it's crazy the
Speaker 1: trajectory of my days once I start in the word,
Speaker 1: and then when I don't, I'll get like halfway through
Speaker 1: my day and be like, why do I just feel
Speaker 1: like this? You know?
Speaker 3: Why?
Speaker 1: Why does this feel off? It's like, Oh, I didn't
Speaker 1: I didn't start this way this morning, or not even
Speaker 1: if you know, if you don't even read, if you
Speaker 1: just spend some time with God in the morning. Doesn't
Speaker 1: even have to be in the Bible, can be on
Speaker 1: the front porch with coffee, just talking to him or
Speaker 1: anything I can tell whenever I don't do that.
Speaker 3: It's it is that like tangible feeling of like equipping
Speaker 3: yourself for the day. Yeah, And I always think it's
Speaker 3: cool how God will use like say a devotional or
Speaker 3: just you open your Bible, you read something, and then
Speaker 3: something happens later that day and you go immediately back
Speaker 3: to that You're like, oh, that's why I read that today.
Speaker 1: Yeah. It just he's it's there, you know, like when
Speaker 1: you look forward, it's there. And you also can't listen
Speaker 1: if you're not trying to hear too, Like I've been
Speaker 1: learning that too, Like if I'm not listening to God,
Speaker 1: I'm not going to hear him, you know.
Speaker 2: Yeah, You're like God, where are you? And it's just
Speaker 2: like are your ears even open?
Speaker 1: Yeah? What are you doing at? Yeah? Right for sure.
Speaker 3: And I feel like there's just been this such move
Speaker 3: in the world lately, like over the last like six months,
Speaker 3: specifically for myself, I'm like, I want to memorize scripture,
Speaker 3: like I want to know Bible versus you know, because
Speaker 3: I always have been like, well, I'm just not equipped,
Speaker 3: like I don't have Bible like biblical knowledge, like I
Speaker 3: know stories and I know different verses and things like that.
Speaker 3: But I want to go to like Matthew and be
Speaker 3: like like, this is what you know.
Speaker 1: What I mean? Yeah, I have people like that in
Speaker 1: my life. I'm pretty jealous of You're like, how do
Speaker 1: you know that?
Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's Mark. He's not here because he's not
Speaker 3: feeling well. But he's kind of like that biblical sword.
Speaker 3: I feel like sometimes or I'm like, remember that scripture?
Speaker 3: What does that say? And he can like fire it
Speaker 3: off and I'm like, that's the kind of knowledge that
Speaker 3: I desire from God. And I don't know that's what
Speaker 3: God's been teaching me is He's just like you can't.
Speaker 2: You just have to, You just have to do it.
Speaker 1: Yeah. I feel like the more you read, like you
Speaker 1: might read like a whole passage and then just remember
Speaker 1: I was one verse. But then there's a conversation in
Speaker 1: two months where you're like, oh, thank god I read
Speaker 1: that two months ago. Oddly remember that Matthew five says this, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I feel like it comes It's like learning guitar,
Speaker 1: like you learn wagon wheel and then you're like, oh,
Speaker 1: well this song also has a version of wagon wheel.
Speaker 1: Let me just twist it to that, Like, Okay, these
Speaker 1: chords work here and then this verse works here.
Speaker 3: Yeah, It's like I saw a wagon wheel and Joe like,
Speaker 3: let me go to Matthew.
Speaker 2: Wagon wheel's there too, exactly.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Oh man, Well, I always like to kind of wrap
Speaker 3: things up with is seeing how you are, how your
Speaker 3: heart is, and how we can pray for you. Are
Speaker 3: there specific things that we can pray for you?
Speaker 1: Probably just I'm about to go into a season of
Speaker 1: like probably a slower season than I've been in the
Speaker 1: last four years, not well just just from the roads
Speaker 1: kind of tailing off, and then with the kids coming, like,
Speaker 1: we'll definitely take probably a couple of months off of that.
Speaker 1: I think they're doing uh March, but they'll probably come
Speaker 1: early with them being twins. So probably just for like
Speaker 1: in this season of like slowness, that I take advantage
Speaker 1: of that and really spend time with the Lord and
Speaker 1: really try to like deepen my faith because I feel
Speaker 1: like it'd be easy, Like I don't know the last
Speaker 1: time I had this much time off, So I definitely
Speaker 1: don't want it to be like a, oh, we're falling
Speaker 1: off or that ship's going down. It's like, no, I
Speaker 1: think we just need a little time with you. Know,
Speaker 1: to get ready to be parents and then to be
Speaker 1: parents for the first couple of months. So maybe I'll
Speaker 1: just take a lot of advantage of the next couple
Speaker 1: months coming up, and yeah, I can just be a
Speaker 1: good dad.
Speaker 3: Well, And I feel like too, like just knowing the
Speaker 3: crazy and chaos that ensues, and I feel like the
Speaker 3: world just specifically makes childbirth and parenthood look like this
Speaker 3: crazy chaotic thing we're ever gonna sleep again and blah
Speaker 3: blah blah. It is the most amazing journey. Yeah, I
Speaker 3: love being a mom, I love you know, our family,
Speaker 3: and I just I think that if I can encourage
Speaker 3: you guys in that take advantage of this slowness right
Speaker 3: before kids, because it does get chaotic. It's just like
Speaker 3: this organized chaos that you won't even know what the
Speaker 3: slowness was before. But just take advantage of this slow
Speaker 3: season because God will teach you so many things in it.
Speaker 3: But also like kind of like what a crazy blessing
Speaker 3: from God to give you this insanely slow season where.
Speaker 2: You can just be with your wife.
Speaker 3: You know, it's perfect, So excited for you. Yes, all right,
Speaker 3: Well I'm going to pray us out. Yeah, and we'll
Speaker 3: let you get out of here. Dear heavenly father. Lord,
Speaker 3: just thank you for this platform, thank you for speaking
Speaker 3: through us today and just glorifying your word. And we
Speaker 3: just we pray over this next season with Dylan and
Speaker 3: not that you would just allow them to take advantage
Speaker 3: of the slowness, that you would use this season to
Speaker 3: equip them to just be a unit together as husband
Speaker 3: and wife, but also to be a unit as parents. Lord,
Speaker 3: and that you would just give them discernment and wiz
Speaker 3: them and equip them with all of the knowledge that
Speaker 3: they need to get through childbirth and get to just
Speaker 3: one of the most amazing blessings that you could ever
Speaker 3: bless them with, these these beautiful little babies, Lord.
Speaker 2: And we just say thank you for them.
Speaker 3: We say thank you for the answered prayer, fertility, and
Speaker 3: we just we just glorify you in this season and
Speaker 3: just say we just ask that you bless Dylan and
Speaker 3: Natalie as they go into this next season and you
Speaker 3: just give them supernatural wisdom.
Speaker 2: Lord. We love you. Amen.
Speaker 3: Amen, Amen, thank you for coming again and redoing this
Speaker 3: episode that got deleted last time.
Speaker 1: We got it. I know