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Speaker 1: you know, come to Fruition with all the music and

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Speaker 1: everything together. So I'm just excited for you guys to

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Speaker 1: consume this and let me know what you think of

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Speaker 1: the movie and the songs for the movie altogether. It's

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Speaker 1: just a really exciting time in our family's life. And ultimately,

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Speaker 1: I just hope it gives you enjoyment. I hope it

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Speaker 1: adds value to your life in some way as a distraction,

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Speaker 1: a much needed distraction, or a release in some way,

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Speaker 1: to something to lift you emotionally. As an artist, that's

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Speaker 1: all we could ever hope for. You know, this is

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Speaker 1: my eleventh album, and as I step away from all

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Speaker 1: of it, it's the things that were most meaningful to people,

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00:26:12,040 --> 00:26:14,880
Speaker 1: that added value to their lives. That's what's long lasting

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Speaker 1: for me over the last twenty years of making albums.

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Speaker 1: So I hope it becomes part of the thread of

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Speaker 1: your life and whatever you're doing this holiday season. I

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Speaker 1: hope that Moonrise, the album, and the movie is all

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Speaker 1: part of it. Back to the podcast. Welcome back to

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Speaker 1: the podcast. Let's get to another question here. Subject line

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Speaker 1: on this one says sex before marriage. Good morning, Grangeer.

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Speaker 1: My name is Andres from Mansfield, Texas. Loved you and

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00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,119
Speaker 1: your amazing family and your fire and your pursuit of

449
00:26:46,160 --> 00:26:49,280
Speaker 1: God has definitely helped me, and it's definitely helping me

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Speaker 1: in so many ways. My question is, is sex before

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Speaker 1: marriage okay if you know you want to marry the

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Speaker 1: woman you're with. My girlfriend and I are both followers

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Speaker 1: of Christ, and I've into and have intimate, faith filled

454
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:07,040
Speaker 1: talks about this subject, and we find ourselves starting up

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00:27:07,080 --> 00:27:11,880
Speaker 1: each other's engines and not stepping on the gas good analogy.

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00:27:12,359 --> 00:27:14,840
Speaker 1: I don't think it fair on my end to do

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Speaker 1: that to her, even though it's mutual. But I also

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00:27:17,840 --> 00:27:20,080
Speaker 1: don't want her to feel like I don't want her

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00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:22,520
Speaker 1: in that way and lose the fire we do fire.

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Speaker 1: I think I think I'm tracking with you here. I

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00:27:26,680 --> 00:27:30,679
Speaker 1: love and deeply respect her very much, but putting God

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Speaker 1: before my own needs is why I'm asking this question.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for listening, and sorry for not keeping it short.

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Speaker 1: Can't wait for your next sermon. Ye yee, all right

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Speaker 1: andres thanks for the question, buddy. So sometimes on these questions,

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Speaker 1: I just roll with an opinion, Like if you say,

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Speaker 1: I'm thinking about moving to Tennessee, or I'm thinking about

468
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Speaker 1: changing jobs, or we're trying to save some money, and

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00:27:58,440 --> 00:28:01,840
Speaker 1: how could we collect our finances, you know whatever, that's all.

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Speaker 1: I'm gonna give you my educated guests, my opinions. But

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Speaker 1: when it comes to something like this, I don't have

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Speaker 1: to guess. I don't have to give you an opinion.

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00:28:11,720 --> 00:28:15,440
Speaker 1: I just tell you straight out of the Bible. No,

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Speaker 1: you're not gonna have sex before marriage. Why what is

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Speaker 1: that your opinion, Granger, No, it's not my opinion, it's

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Speaker 1: just what the Bible says. Thank goodness, I don't have

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Speaker 1: to rely on opinion on something that's really sensitive like this.

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Speaker 1: So here's the deal, you say, I mean, I can

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00:28:33,280 --> 00:28:35,040
Speaker 1: make this super simple. I could talk for ten minutes

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Speaker 1: about this, or I could talk for twenty seconds. But

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Speaker 1: you say, is it okay to have sex before marriage?

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Speaker 1: If you know that you want to marry the woman

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Speaker 1: you're with. Let me flip that around for you and

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Speaker 1: rephrase the question, dear granger, if I know the woman

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Speaker 1: I'm going to marry, then why have I not married

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Speaker 1: her yet? That's it? Why have you not married Andre's?

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Speaker 1: If you know she's the one you're gonna be with

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Speaker 1: and you're struggling with desire and lust, what are you

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00:29:07,040 --> 00:29:11,160
Speaker 1: waiting on? It's as simple as that, I mean, is it?

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Speaker 1: Don't Please don't tell me you're waiting like on a

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Speaker 1: venue or they're trying to book the nice little whatever

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Speaker 1: venue to get married, or she's got to have the

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Speaker 1: perfect dress. I think that's so that's such a modern

494
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:29,360
Speaker 1: day thing as having this elaborate wedding. I'm just totally

495
00:29:29,360 --> 00:29:31,000
Speaker 1: throwing that out there. Maybe that's not it at all,

496
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Speaker 1: Maybe it's something totally different, but I'm just asking you, Andre's,

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Speaker 1: if she's the one, then get married and then that

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Speaker 1: intimate relationship gets so much more special when you give

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Speaker 1: her that gift. That's a gift that you're giving her

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Speaker 1: and she's giving you back. That's a gift of waiting,

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00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:55,600
Speaker 1: and it makes it so much more special. And if

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Speaker 1: you're having problems with that now, then you either rush

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Speaker 1: that date and get it here soon, or really you

504
00:30:00,720 --> 00:30:04,440
Speaker 1: need to restrict the time that you're around her. I

505
00:30:04,440 --> 00:30:08,240
Speaker 1: can go through every other podcast email I get with problems.

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00:30:08,640 --> 00:30:12,520
Speaker 1: If you don't listen to my advice, their problems come. Okay,

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00:30:13,040 --> 00:30:16,320
Speaker 1: problems in some way, shape or form happen if you

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Speaker 1: don't take this advice. There's a million problems that could

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Speaker 1: happen if you don't take this advice. Thank goodness, I'm

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Speaker 1: not the one giving it. The Bible does. The Bible

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Speaker 1: doesn't do it because it's handcuffing, restricting us, giving us

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Speaker 1: these awkward rules that just go against our flesh. It's

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Speaker 1: doing it. It's giving us these rules for our own good,

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Speaker 1: so that we could thrive, so that we could prosper,

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Speaker 1: so we could benefit from it. Why because the creator

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Speaker 1: made the rules that also made us so. It's like

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Speaker 1: the instruction manual that comes with us. It's like if

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Speaker 1: I get a if I get a Ford truck from

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Speaker 1: the factory, and I drive the Ford around and I go, man,

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00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:00,840
Speaker 1: this is a gas truck. But I wonder if I

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Speaker 1: could put diesel in it. I wonder, I mean, it

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00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:07,000
Speaker 1: would be so much more convenient just to put diesel

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Speaker 1: in it. Because my tractor's diesel and my wife's car

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Speaker 1: is diesel. So if I could just put diesel in

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Speaker 1: this truck, it would really solve some problems. And I

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Speaker 1: could only I can only get gas cans that have

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00:31:19,080 --> 00:31:21,280
Speaker 1: diesel in it. That would make it my life easier.

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00:31:21,480 --> 00:31:24,640
Speaker 1: So I'm just gonna do diesel. So you email Ford

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Speaker 1: and Ford's like, no, put gasoline in it. So at

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Speaker 1: what point do you go? All right? Ford? I know

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Speaker 1: that you said I need to put gas in it,

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00:31:34,760 --> 00:31:37,240
Speaker 1: and you made me, and you made the vehicle, you

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Speaker 1: know whatever. So I'm just gonna go against what you said.

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00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:42,400
Speaker 1: I'm gonna go ahead and put diesel in it, and

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00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:45,560
Speaker 1: then the whole engine ruins. You get my point. I

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Speaker 1: mean that's elaborate, but that's my point. Andre's just wait

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Speaker 1: for a thousand reasons. Just wait. Next question, subject line

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Speaker 1: A Timeline advice question. Hey Grangeur, I'd like to remain anonymous.

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Speaker 1: I've been listening for a while now, just wanted to

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Speaker 1: get your advice on something. My brother is currently going

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Speaker 1: through a miscarriage and I was wondering what is your

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Speaker 1: advice to help him and his wife get through this.

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Speaker 1: They have two kids right now. By the way, I'm

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Speaker 1: a huge fan, have been following you since you were

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Speaker 1: since about twenty eleven. I think my question for you

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Speaker 1: is this, Thank you very much. I hope to meet

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Speaker 1: you very soon. Waned up up here in Buffalo, New York. Well,

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00:32:26,480 --> 00:32:29,000
Speaker 1: thank you anonymous, and I hope to meet you too

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00:32:29,040 --> 00:32:31,320
Speaker 1: in Buffalo. Thanks for the question, Thanks for listening. And

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Speaker 1: miscarriages are tough. Amber and I had one right before math,

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00:32:35,240 --> 00:32:40,719
Speaker 1: after riv and before math. And if your question you

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00:32:40,760 --> 00:32:46,200
Speaker 1: said your brother, the question is for the brother, and

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Speaker 1: so from that perspective, from the male perspective, I could understand,

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00:32:51,760 --> 00:32:54,000
Speaker 1: and I would say this to him if I were you,

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00:32:54,960 --> 00:32:59,640
Speaker 1: Just be there for her whatever she needs. As guys,

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Speaker 1: we can't possibly understand what a miscarriage means emotionally, physically, spiritually,

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00:33:10,400 --> 00:33:15,520
Speaker 1: we don't. We can't possibly understand as a dad, as

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Speaker 1: a husband, and so the best thing we could do

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00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,520
Speaker 1: is just be whatever they need. I'm here for you.

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Speaker 1: I'm not going to ignore the situation. They might take

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Speaker 1: it pretty bad, like a lot of women take this

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Speaker 1: very bad. And so with the two other kids I

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Speaker 1: was in that situation. We had two other kids, and

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Speaker 1: our kids our kids knew that we were pregnant, so

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Speaker 1: we knew that we were going to try again after

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Speaker 1: the miscarriage, and we didn't want to tell them at

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Speaker 1: the time that we weren't pregnant because we didn't want

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Speaker 1: to break their heart again. Because of that, we hid

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Speaker 1: the miscarriage from them, which was difficult because it's very

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00:33:59,360 --> 00:34:03,000
Speaker 1: painful and was spending long amounts of time just cramping

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Speaker 1: in the bathroom, just laying on the floor. You're basically

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Speaker 1: having a pregnancy. And so my job in that situation

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00:34:10,920 --> 00:34:15,720
Speaker 1: was distract the kids, keep them away, keep their spirits lifted.

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Speaker 1: Also being there for Amber. What she needs. She needed ice, water,

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00:34:19,760 --> 00:34:23,760
Speaker 1: she needs another towel, you know, whatever she needed, just there,

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00:34:24,719 --> 00:34:27,880
Speaker 1: just there to talk, just there emotionally for her. So

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Speaker 1: I will say the healer in this that I've seen

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Speaker 1: is time, just time. Just gotta let some time go by.

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Speaker 1: And it's never going to go away for her completely,

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00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,320
Speaker 1: but you just got to let some time go by.

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Speaker 1: It's never gonna be easy right now. You're not gonna

582
00:34:46,239 --> 00:34:51,200
Speaker 1: get a quick fix out of this. Be there for her.

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Speaker 1: Let's hit another one here, subject line, how to be

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Speaker 1: more outgoing? Hey Gradumin Kyle I'm twenty two, two years old.

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Speaker 1: I'm a farmer from northwest Iowa. I love the podcast.

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00:35:04,560 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: I listen to it on the tractor a lot. I'm

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00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:09,640
Speaker 1: a pretty shy person around people I don't know very well,

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00:35:09,760 --> 00:35:11,879
Speaker 1: and I'm pretty sure that's why I've only ever been

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00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:14,439
Speaker 1: in one relationship. I don't get out a whole lot,

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00:35:14,480 --> 00:35:17,720
Speaker 1: and that worries me because I know a woman isn't

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00:35:17,760 --> 00:35:19,880
Speaker 1: just going to walk onto the farm one day and

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00:35:19,960 --> 00:35:22,839
Speaker 1: want to get married. When I do go out, I

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00:35:22,920 --> 00:35:25,040
Speaker 1: never work up the courage to go and talk to

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Speaker 1: a girl that I find good looking. I don't know

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Speaker 1: what to say without being weird, and I get too

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Speaker 1: nervous and just watch it slip through my fingers. Any

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Speaker 1: advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Kyle, Kyle, thanks for

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Speaker 1: the email, Buddy, appreciate you. I hear you. I'm listening

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00:35:42,600 --> 00:35:45,960
Speaker 1: shout out to Iowa. And let me say before I

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Speaker 1: start answering your question, Kyle, let me say, girls, listen up. Girls.

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Speaker 1: You know how many times we have girls that say

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00:35:57,400 --> 00:36:01,400
Speaker 1: there's no good guys out there, There's only bad guys.

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00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:05,680
Speaker 1: There's only bad boys, and everyone wants to just party

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00:36:05,719 --> 00:36:09,000
Speaker 1: and hit on me and say say bad pickup lines

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00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:12,760
Speaker 1: to me. But the good guys never, they never aren't

606
00:36:12,880 --> 00:36:15,640
Speaker 1: they never are attracted to me. Good guys never come

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00:36:15,640 --> 00:36:17,879
Speaker 1: and talk to me. It must be me. I must

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00:36:17,920 --> 00:36:23,800
Speaker 1: be unattractive. So are you here and Kyle, because this happens.

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00:36:24,560 --> 00:36:27,160
Speaker 1: And for every guy that you don't like, or for

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00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,360
Speaker 1: every guy that you don't think talks to you, girl,

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00:36:29,800 --> 00:36:33,640
Speaker 1: there's a Kyle out there that's shy, that's a farmer

612
00:36:34,280 --> 00:36:36,680
Speaker 1: that doesn't get socialized too much because he's on the tractor.

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00:36:36,719 --> 00:36:38,560
Speaker 1: And by the way, Kyle, thank you for your service

614
00:36:38,719 --> 00:36:41,160
Speaker 1: providing food on our table so that we could have

615
00:36:41,239 --> 00:36:45,920
Speaker 1: great food. But girls, there's a guy like Kyle out

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00:36:45,920 --> 00:36:50,760
Speaker 1: there that's in the corner and he's too shy because

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00:36:50,760 --> 00:36:52,400
Speaker 1: he's been on the tractor all day and it doesn't

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00:36:52,400 --> 00:36:55,000
Speaker 1: really know and he doesn't know what to say that

619
00:36:55,120 --> 00:36:57,760
Speaker 1: you might like. Maybe he grew up like me with brothers.

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00:36:57,880 --> 00:37:00,360
Speaker 1: I have no idea. I had no ideas as a

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00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:03,040
Speaker 1: teenager in my young twenties. I had no idea what

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00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,680
Speaker 1: a girl wanted to hear or what a girl liked.

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00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,920
Speaker 1: I grew up with brothers. I had no clue. So

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Speaker 1: I just wanted to show here girls that there's guys

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00:37:14,360 --> 00:37:16,560
Speaker 1: like Kyle that every once in a while you might

626
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:22,160
Speaker 1: have to go and be like, Hey, I'm Amanda, what's

627
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,680
Speaker 1: your name. I've seen you in here a couple of times.

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00:37:24,680 --> 00:37:27,640
Speaker 1: What's your name? Can I buy you a drink? If

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00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:31,400
Speaker 1: that's what you do? And then that helps take the

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00:37:31,440 --> 00:37:35,920
Speaker 1: pressure off Kyle. So there's that, and then Kyle back

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Speaker 1: to you, buddy, I just want to say, first of all,

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00:37:40,680 --> 00:37:45,719
Speaker 1: there's no rush, there's no urgency, there's no problem. But

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Speaker 1: that being said, I recognize that you see it as

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00:37:49,480 --> 00:37:52,160
Speaker 1: a problem, and I don't think it's bad that you do.

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00:37:53,280 --> 00:37:54,920
Speaker 1: You know, I'm gonna sit with you for a second

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00:37:55,000 --> 00:37:58,200
Speaker 1: with and acknowledge that that's a legitimate idea that you have.

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00:37:58,360 --> 00:38:00,719
Speaker 1: That maybe I'm just gonna be an old man on

638
00:38:00,760 --> 00:38:02,719
Speaker 1: this farm and never meet a girl, because what's it

639
00:38:02,760 --> 00:38:04,799
Speaker 1: gonna take for a girl to walk up on this farm?

640
00:38:04,840 --> 00:38:06,840
Speaker 1: Like am I gonna be literally on the tractor and

641
00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,560
Speaker 1: a girl just comes walking through the field and I

642
00:38:08,719 --> 00:38:11,479
Speaker 1: love her and we get married. These are the thoughts

643
00:38:11,520 --> 00:38:13,239
Speaker 1: that you're having. These are the thoughts that keep you

644
00:38:13,320 --> 00:38:18,080
Speaker 1: up at night. But we look back in humanity for

645
00:38:18,200 --> 00:38:23,759
Speaker 1: thousands of years it has just worked out Somehow do

646
00:38:23,840 --> 00:38:28,320
Speaker 1: you ever think about whenever you hear like a story

647
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:32,279
Speaker 1: about like a crazy snow leopard or something, and there's

648
00:38:32,360 --> 00:38:36,520
Speaker 1: only a few snow leopards in the whole region, and

649
00:38:36,680 --> 00:38:39,880
Speaker 1: somehow these snow leopards find each other. You know, It's like,

650
00:38:41,400 --> 00:38:44,680
Speaker 1: how does this female snow leopard find this male snow

651
00:38:44,719 --> 00:38:48,440
Speaker 1: leopard over the course of two hundred square miles and

652
00:38:48,520 --> 00:38:51,399
Speaker 1: somehow they just walk up on each other one day

653
00:38:51,480 --> 00:38:53,920
Speaker 1: or smell each other from a couple miles away. How

654
00:38:53,960 --> 00:38:56,880
Speaker 1: does that work? Humans are the same thing. We somehow

655
00:38:57,760 --> 00:39:01,520
Speaker 1: just find each other. How do you do it? Well?

656
00:39:01,920 --> 00:39:05,880
Speaker 1: You keep your eyes open, which they are. And the

657
00:39:05,920 --> 00:39:09,239
Speaker 1: good thing to do is just be asking friends, Like

658
00:39:09,360 --> 00:39:13,440
Speaker 1: friends could recommend girls to you. Friends have sisters, and

659
00:39:13,480 --> 00:39:18,480
Speaker 1: sisters have friends, and bridesmaids have friends, and this big

660
00:39:18,560 --> 00:39:21,280
Speaker 1: circuit goes out, and hey, man, I've been to Iowa

661
00:39:21,320 --> 00:39:23,640
Speaker 1: many times. There's a lot of pretty girls in Iowa.

662
00:39:23,840 --> 00:39:27,400
Speaker 1: So you're in a great place for that. I love Iowa.

663
00:39:27,520 --> 00:39:29,160
Speaker 1: By the way. I think me and Amber, if we

664
00:39:29,160 --> 00:39:32,040
Speaker 1: weren't living in Texas and we didn't have family in Texas,

665
00:39:32,040 --> 00:39:33,640
Speaker 1: maybe we'd go get us a white house with a

666
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:36,960
Speaker 1: red barn and farms some corn in Iowa or something

667
00:39:37,000 --> 00:39:39,799
Speaker 1: like that. But man, I'm here just to reinforce that.

668
00:39:40,080 --> 00:39:42,320
Speaker 1: First of all, I understand what you're feeling. And second

669
00:39:42,320 --> 00:39:47,120
Speaker 1: of all, you're twenty two. Man, You're totally good. Be single, content,

670
00:39:47,800 --> 00:39:50,799
Speaker 1: don't be looking for it. Go to church, sing a hymn,

671
00:39:51,239 --> 00:39:55,200
Speaker 1: sing your heart out, praise God, and somebody will walk

672
00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,120
Speaker 1: up in your life. Maybe not physically on the farm,

673
00:39:58,560 --> 00:40:03,640
Speaker 1: but they will. I guarantee you, Kyle, I will bet anything.

674
00:40:04,000 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: Then in ten years you email me back. In ten years,

675
00:40:06,680 --> 00:40:08,760
Speaker 1: you're going to have a baby mama with two kids

676
00:40:08,760 --> 00:40:10,719
Speaker 1: and a big old gold ring on your finger, and

677
00:40:10,760 --> 00:40:14,439
Speaker 1: you're gonna be happily married. Let's jump into another one.

678
00:40:15,600 --> 00:40:18,720
Speaker 1: This one subject line says leaving home behind. Hey, Grangdred

679
00:40:18,760 --> 00:40:21,719
Speaker 1: like to stay anonymous. I moved to Texas about six

680
00:40:21,840 --> 00:40:23,919
Speaker 1: years ago. I love Texas, but I have the feeling

681
00:40:24,000 --> 00:40:26,840
Speaker 1: that God is leading me to a different state. Recently,

682
00:40:26,920 --> 00:40:29,359
Speaker 1: after having that feeling, a bunch of my old friends

683
00:40:29,360 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: in Alabama messaged me that I haven't talked to in years.

684
00:40:32,840 --> 00:40:36,399
Speaker 1: We all started talking as if we never left, and

685
00:40:36,440 --> 00:40:39,840
Speaker 1: I also began thinking about moving back. The thing is

686
00:40:39,880 --> 00:40:41,880
Speaker 1: that the majority of my family is here in Texas,

687
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:44,480
Speaker 1: and I know I'll miss him, but I want to

688
00:40:44,480 --> 00:40:46,920
Speaker 1: start my own life and see where God leaves me.

689
00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:49,439
Speaker 1: But I'm scared of leaving my family. Love your music

690
00:40:49,440 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 1: and your podcast. Thanks Anonymous, Appreciate you. Brother. I want

691
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:54,840
Speaker 1: to say, I don't think this is God talking to

692
00:40:54,880 --> 00:40:58,479
Speaker 1: you here. I think you just have a little wild hair,

693
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,440
Speaker 1: you have a little gypsy soul, little bit. It sounds

694
00:41:01,520 --> 00:41:04,919
Speaker 1: like you moved to Texas six years ago from Alabama. Right,

695
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,040
Speaker 1: I'm filling in the blanks here. You probably moved from

696
00:41:08,160 --> 00:41:12,080
Speaker 1: Alabama and you just miss it and you haven't really

697
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:16,759
Speaker 1: made friends in Texas that have the deep bond that

698
00:41:16,800 --> 00:41:20,160
Speaker 1: you had with your friends in Alabama. Totally understandable. Nothing

699
00:41:20,200 --> 00:41:22,440
Speaker 1: wrong with that, nothing out of the ordinary. Now you

700
00:41:22,520 --> 00:41:25,279
Speaker 1: have family here in Texas and that's holding you back.

701
00:41:25,560 --> 00:41:28,200
Speaker 1: Nothing out of the ordinary for that either. I don't

702
00:41:28,200 --> 00:41:30,360
Speaker 1: think God has anything well, God has everything to do

703
00:41:30,440 --> 00:41:33,080
Speaker 1: with everything, but in this specific situation, I think you're

704
00:41:33,080 --> 00:41:37,080
Speaker 1: putting pressure on this like God is mysteriously leading you

705
00:41:37,160 --> 00:41:40,359
Speaker 1: on this mysterious path back to Alabama, and I think

706
00:41:40,360 --> 00:41:46,040
Speaker 1: it's just not that spiritual. I think this is like well,

707
00:41:46,080 --> 00:41:48,680
Speaker 1: I just miss my friends. So here's the thing I

708
00:41:48,680 --> 00:41:53,640
Speaker 1: would say. Here's what I would say. You could just

709
00:41:53,680 --> 00:41:58,680
Speaker 1: go and visit Alabama and spend spend a week there

710
00:41:58,719 --> 00:42:01,520
Speaker 1: with your friends. And when you're there, I don't know

711
00:42:01,520 --> 00:42:03,200
Speaker 1: how old you are, I don't know what you've got

712
00:42:03,200 --> 00:42:05,719
Speaker 1: going on. I'd so you spend a week there, and

713
00:42:05,760 --> 00:42:08,640
Speaker 1: you talk to some people about jobs. You talk to

714
00:42:08,680 --> 00:42:12,320
Speaker 1: some people about a living situation, check out the town.

715
00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:14,560
Speaker 1: You talk to your friends about what it would be

716
00:42:14,600 --> 00:42:18,640
Speaker 1: like to move back there. You weigh your options, do

717
00:42:18,800 --> 00:42:22,480
Speaker 1: some math, see what it would cost, see how hard

718
00:42:22,480 --> 00:42:25,479
Speaker 1: it would be to move, Talk to your family, see

719
00:42:25,480 --> 00:42:28,480
Speaker 1: what they say. Okay, so then say, some of this

720
00:42:28,480 --> 00:42:31,400
Speaker 1: stuff lines up right, What if you did this? What

721
00:42:31,440 --> 00:42:33,239
Speaker 1: if you went for a summer and so, I'm going

722
00:42:33,280 --> 00:42:35,600
Speaker 1: to go for two months and stay with my buddies

723
00:42:35,640 --> 00:42:39,120
Speaker 1: in Alabama. One of them's got a part time job

724
00:42:39,160 --> 00:42:41,439
Speaker 1: I can jump on, make a little cash. I'm gonna

725
00:42:41,440 --> 00:42:43,799
Speaker 1: sleep on my buddy's couch, and I'm gonna see how

726
00:42:43,840 --> 00:42:46,880
Speaker 1: it is. You're not married to the idea. You're not

727
00:42:46,920 --> 00:42:50,120
Speaker 1: signing a five month mortgage or something crazy. You're just

728
00:42:50,239 --> 00:42:52,720
Speaker 1: going and sleeping on a couch and hanging out seeing

729
00:42:52,719 --> 00:42:55,520
Speaker 1: If Alabama suits you again, that's what you do. Take

730
00:42:55,560 --> 00:42:58,880
Speaker 1: it in small steps. Then in sixty days one or

731
00:42:58,880 --> 00:43:01,279
Speaker 1: two things are gonna happen. You're gonna go. I love

732
00:43:01,280 --> 00:43:04,200
Speaker 1: it here. I could visit my family anytime. But I

733
00:43:04,239 --> 00:43:07,200
Speaker 1: love my friends, I love Alabama. I've got a good

734
00:43:07,600 --> 00:43:09,600
Speaker 1: lined up, a really good job, and a good place

735
00:43:09,600 --> 00:43:13,640
Speaker 1: to stay. Or two. The other option is man I

736
00:43:13,680 --> 00:43:16,680
Speaker 1: stayed in sixty days in Alabama. I just missed my

737
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:19,640
Speaker 1: family too much. I got to be back around him again.

738
00:43:20,320 --> 00:43:25,600
Speaker 1: I can't be away this long and then you know done.

739
00:43:25,840 --> 00:43:29,800
Speaker 1: You don't have to over spiritualize. It's just trial and error.

740
00:43:31,080 --> 00:43:32,640
Speaker 1: There's nothing wrong. You don't have to make a full

741
00:43:32,680 --> 00:43:43,680
Speaker 1: time commitment. Let's grab another one here, subject line lost child,

742
00:43:43,880 --> 00:43:47,040
Speaker 1: Could you help. My name is Brett Senyored. My wife

743
00:43:47,080 --> 00:43:49,000
Speaker 1: and I lost our six year old son in an

744
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:51,960
Speaker 1: ATV accident about a month ago. My wife and I

745
00:43:52,000 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: are both God fearing Christians that love the Lord. We

746
00:43:54,520 --> 00:43:57,879
Speaker 1: have trusted God to carry us through and guide our

747
00:43:58,000 --> 00:44:01,279
Speaker 1: path to align with His will. I love that, by

748
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:05,160
Speaker 1: the way, good wording. After a month, it is still

749
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,799
Speaker 1: so hard every day with reminders everywhere of our son,

750
00:44:09,640 --> 00:44:11,959
Speaker 1: we know that we must remain strong for our son,

751
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,120
Speaker 1: who is two years old. How did you guys cope

752
00:44:16,239 --> 00:44:20,080
Speaker 1: in the months after y'all's loss. Any insight would be helpful.

753
00:44:20,160 --> 00:44:27,640
Speaker 1: Thanks Brett, Brett, I am so so sorry about this.

754
00:44:31,160 --> 00:44:35,160
Speaker 1: There's only there's only one thing I loved how you

755
00:44:35,200 --> 00:44:38,080
Speaker 1: worded your email. There's only one word I don't like,

756
00:44:39,640 --> 00:44:42,080
Speaker 1: and I want to encourage you with a word. Okay,

757
00:44:42,200 --> 00:44:48,080
Speaker 1: you use the word accident. But if you say you

758
00:44:48,160 --> 00:44:50,160
Speaker 1: and your wife are both God freeing Christians and love

759
00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:52,680
Speaker 1: the Lord, which I believe that you do, and you

760
00:44:53,000 --> 00:44:58,400
Speaker 1: trust God to carry through and align your past to

761
00:44:58,440 --> 00:45:01,880
Speaker 1: his will, which I believe. Your sin saying that if

762
00:45:01,960 --> 00:45:06,000
Speaker 1: you believe all that, then there is no accidents. There

763
00:45:06,120 --> 00:45:11,799
Speaker 1: is no accidents, There is only God's purpose. I want

764
00:45:11,800 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: you to chew on that. That's hard, it's hard to digest.

765
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:17,799
Speaker 1: But I want you to chew on that, meditate on

766
00:45:17,840 --> 00:45:21,400
Speaker 1: that idea that there are no accidents, because that helps

767
00:45:21,520 --> 00:45:24,239
Speaker 1: open things up for you a little bit. Because if

768
00:45:24,280 --> 00:45:27,279
Speaker 1: you think accident, you think like spilled milk, Like, oh no,

769
00:45:27,440 --> 00:45:30,440
Speaker 1: I just spilled the milk, then it's everywhere. I got

770
00:45:30,480 --> 00:45:34,120
Speaker 1: to clean it up. It's a wreckin here. I want

771
00:45:34,160 --> 00:45:36,080
Speaker 1: you to think more in terms of this was a

772
00:45:36,160 --> 00:45:42,279
Speaker 1: calculated purpose. It first, that idea stings because you go,

773
00:45:42,640 --> 00:45:46,680
Speaker 1: what purpose is this? This is a terrible purpose. And

774
00:45:46,719 --> 00:45:49,520
Speaker 1: I get it. I would hear you and say, yeah,

775
00:45:49,840 --> 00:45:54,000
Speaker 1: I get it. I get it. But at the end

776
00:45:54,040 --> 00:45:56,560
Speaker 1: of the day, it's a lot more comforting knowing I

777
00:45:56,600 --> 00:45:59,040
Speaker 1: have a God that has everything in his hands and

778
00:45:59,120 --> 00:46:03,400
Speaker 1: nothing slips asked him. There are no accidents, there's nothing

779
00:46:03,440 --> 00:46:06,560
Speaker 1: that he couldn't stop, there's nothing that he just Oh,

780
00:46:06,680 --> 00:46:10,320
Speaker 1: I loved your son, but I just I couldn't stop him,

781
00:46:10,880 --> 00:46:14,359
Speaker 1: or I didn't know it was coming. That's just that

782
00:46:14,360 --> 00:46:19,240
Speaker 1: that that is way more haunting of an idea instead

783
00:46:19,239 --> 00:46:23,280
Speaker 1: of wrestling with the thought that God had everything under

784
00:46:23,320 --> 00:46:27,200
Speaker 1: control in this situation, and if he did, what does

785
00:46:27,239 --> 00:46:30,719
Speaker 1: that mean for me? Because it's great news for my son.

786
00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,000
Speaker 1: Because we don't think about, oh, he could have been

787
00:46:34,000 --> 00:46:38,080
Speaker 1: a senior prompt. Remember the question I read earlier about

788
00:46:38,080 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: this the girl that died, and I read that question

789
00:46:42,200 --> 00:46:45,440
Speaker 1: in the same episode, right, So it's the same idea

790
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,000
Speaker 1: that we don't mourn for the girl, we don't mourn

791
00:46:48,120 --> 00:46:52,480
Speaker 1: for your son. It's in terms of, oh, he could

792
00:46:52,520 --> 00:46:55,880
Speaker 1: have been running track or he could. This would have

793
00:46:55,920 --> 00:46:58,120
Speaker 1: been his eighteenth birthday. He would have loved it. He

794
00:46:58,239 --> 00:47:04,239
Speaker 1: deserved to have an eighteenth birthday party. No, no, he's

795
00:47:04,280 --> 00:47:07,720
Speaker 1: with it. He's with his creator. He's in the glory

796
00:47:07,840 --> 00:47:12,439
Speaker 1: right now. So he's good. He doesn't deserve anything else

797
00:47:12,480 --> 00:47:16,840
Speaker 1: because he has it all. He's got everything fulfilled perfectly

798
00:47:16,920 --> 00:47:20,839
Speaker 1: right now. It's us. We're the problem. We're the ones

799
00:47:20,840 --> 00:47:22,960
Speaker 1: that have to deal with the pain. So we need

800
00:47:22,960 --> 00:47:25,239
Speaker 1: to look at ourselves right in this situation, not him.

801
00:47:25,480 --> 00:47:27,640
Speaker 1: We don't mourn because he's missing out. We don't mourn

802
00:47:27,640 --> 00:47:31,760
Speaker 1: because the girl didn't get her family that she deserved.

803
00:47:31,880 --> 00:47:33,759
Speaker 1: We don't think of it in that way. We think

804
00:47:33,800 --> 00:47:36,920
Speaker 1: about it. Okay, what do we need to do. If

805
00:47:36,920 --> 00:47:39,520
Speaker 1: this was a purpose, then what is our role in

806
00:47:39,560 --> 00:47:42,960
Speaker 1: this purpose? What is this showing me? What does this

807
00:47:43,040 --> 00:47:45,640
Speaker 1: mean for your two year old son that's still here?

808
00:47:47,440 --> 00:47:49,799
Speaker 1: What purpose does he have? And God, what are you

809
00:47:49,880 --> 00:47:52,399
Speaker 1: showing us in this so that we could be better,

810
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,560
Speaker 1: so that our family could be closer? Okay, that's fixing

811
00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,600
Speaker 1: the word accident. I don't like the word accident. Now

812
00:47:59,640 --> 00:48:03,640
Speaker 1: here's the thing directly answering your question. You said after

813
00:48:03,680 --> 00:48:06,400
Speaker 1: a month. That's still so hard, every day with reminders

814
00:48:06,440 --> 00:48:10,000
Speaker 1: everywhere of our son. How did you guys cope in

815
00:48:10,040 --> 00:48:17,440
Speaker 1: the months after y'all's loss. Let me be blunt, badly, badly.

816
00:48:17,680 --> 00:48:23,240
Speaker 1: That's how we coped. We stumbled, we fell, We mourned,

817
00:48:24,000 --> 00:48:32,040
Speaker 1: we cried, We soaked our pillows with tears. We fumbled

818
00:48:32,040 --> 00:48:35,360
Speaker 1: words and mumbled through conversations and daydreamed and got woken

819
00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 1: up with nightmares in the middle of the night. But

820
00:48:39,400 --> 00:48:44,840
Speaker 1: we relied on every breath, the next one and the

821
00:48:44,880 --> 00:48:47,759
Speaker 1: next one, and a minute would go by, and then

822
00:48:47,800 --> 00:48:50,520
Speaker 1: an hour would go by, and then I would string

823
00:48:50,560 --> 00:48:55,680
Speaker 1: together five hours and that was an accomplishment. And then

824
00:48:55,719 --> 00:48:58,480
Speaker 1: the sun would go down and would come back up

825
00:48:58,520 --> 00:49:02,600
Speaker 1: the next morning, another day come and god, and then

826
00:49:02,640 --> 00:49:04,360
Speaker 1: it did that thirty times, and it was a month,

827
00:49:05,600 --> 00:49:09,759
Speaker 1: and then two months. And if those intervals got too hard,

828
00:49:09,840 --> 00:49:13,359
Speaker 1: we went breath by breath, And if a breath by

829
00:49:13,400 --> 00:49:16,560
Speaker 1: breath was too hard, then we went heartbeat by heartbeat.

830
00:49:17,239 --> 00:49:19,560
Speaker 1: It's like, I can't, I can't do it. I can't.

831
00:49:19,880 --> 00:49:25,000
Speaker 1: I can't even survive one more breath, So I'll survive

832
00:49:25,040 --> 00:49:30,560
Speaker 1: a heartbeat. Aim Low, No, you don't have to be

833
00:49:30,600 --> 00:49:33,040
Speaker 1: the hero here. You don't have to. You know, you're

834
00:49:33,040 --> 00:49:36,200
Speaker 1: not trying to accomplish anything. There's no merits or trophies

835
00:49:36,239 --> 00:49:39,640
Speaker 1: given for how quickly can you get over grief? How

836
00:49:39,680 --> 00:49:42,080
Speaker 1: good can you how fast can you get to good?

837
00:49:44,040 --> 00:49:46,600
Speaker 1: There's no trophy for that, There's there's no time frame.

838
00:49:47,680 --> 00:49:53,600
Speaker 1: So how did we cope? We relied on God? How

839
00:49:53,640 --> 00:49:57,800
Speaker 1: do you do that? We stayed on our knees, prayed,

840
00:49:58,440 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: read our Bibles together, cry it together. Sometimes Amber would

841
00:50:04,200 --> 00:50:06,399
Speaker 1: be good and I was bad. Sometimes I'd be good,

842
00:50:06,560 --> 00:50:10,319
Speaker 1: Amber was bad, and that could change like the wind.

843
00:50:10,600 --> 00:50:13,960
Speaker 1: But here's the thing. My first month is going to

844
00:50:14,000 --> 00:50:17,719
Speaker 1: be awful. So is the second. You get a little

845
00:50:17,719 --> 00:50:22,160
Speaker 1: breathing room on month six, maybe month seven, Hey, it's

846
00:50:22,200 --> 00:50:24,920
Speaker 1: not too bad. Month eight, back at square one, it's

847
00:50:25,040 --> 00:50:30,560
Speaker 1: terrible again. Month nine seeing some light, and then all

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Speaker 1: terrible day. It's a roller coaster. Grief comes in waves.

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Speaker 1: You're in the trough, you're in the crest. You're in

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Speaker 1: I'm going back up, I'm going back to the crest.

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Speaker 1: And then when you're on the crest. You know, hey,

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Speaker 1: last five minutes or five days, but I'm going to

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Speaker 1: there's nothing I could do. The world is ending, the

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Speaker 1: walls are closing in the sky is falling. But then

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Speaker 1: you know, because you've done it, and you've been in

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Speaker 1: the wave before, you know when you're in the trough,

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Speaker 1: you know eventually I'm going back up to the crest,

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Speaker 1: because that's what the wave does. So you ride it

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Speaker 1: and then you hit that one year mark boom. You've

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Speaker 1: been looking at it so long, and you go through

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Speaker 1: the holidays and Thanksgiving, Christmas, you do things like Easter,

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Speaker 1: and you're missing your little boy. But then you string

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Speaker 1: together another year. Then you put together another year and

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Speaker 1: it does get easier. The grief doesn't go away, the

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Speaker 1: sadness doesn't go away, but you just learn how to

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Speaker 1: get used to it. It becomes a part of you

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Speaker 1: and it doesn't wear you down. Instead, you use it

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Speaker 1: as your power. What do you think I'm doing right now?

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Speaker 1: It's what I'm exactly what I'm doing. I'm talking. I'm

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Speaker 1: using that pain that has lived with me for almost

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Speaker 1: four years now and then losing my dad add another

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Speaker 1: eight years to that. I'm using that pain for you.

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Speaker 1: That's why I'm sitting here doing this podcast. It's why

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Speaker 1: I could smell. I could literally smell Amber's dinner that

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Speaker 1: she made downstairs. I'm so excited to eat dinner. But

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Speaker 1: I'm finishing this question with you because I'm using this

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Speaker 1: pain for you. And one day you will do that.

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Speaker 1: That's what you'll do one day and you'll stop asking God, why, why?

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Speaker 1: Why the accident, and you'll say, what in your purpose

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Speaker 1: do I need to see in your glory? Love you guys,

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Speaker 1: love your questions. We'll see you next Monday. Ye. Thanks

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Speaker 1: for joining me on the Grangersmith Podcast. I appreciate all

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Speaker 1: of you. Guys. You could help me out by rating

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