WEBVTT - They Told Us Our Son Would Never Wake Up! 0:00:00.400 --> 0:00:03.760 All right, we've got a very special guest on today's podcast. 0:00:04.160 --> 0:00:07.000 When's the last time you were on December? 0:00:07.600 --> 0:00:08.719 Because I think it was a year before. 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.360 Yeah, yeah, that's right, Yeah, that was the show spell 0:00:12.400 --> 0:00:12.800 It c. 0:00:16.280 --> 0:00:19.920 Oh yeah, okay, yeah, we're on because your mom. Your 0:00:19.960 --> 0:00:21.680 mom was worried about COVID. 0:00:21.640 --> 0:00:25.000 Uh vaccinations, things like that. 0:00:24.920 --> 0:00:26.119 And what's the result of that. 0:00:26.760 --> 0:00:28.800 She seems fine, she seems good. She has high blood pressure, 0:00:28.840 --> 0:00:31.360 she has to take medication, but other than that, she's good. 0:00:32.680 --> 0:00:35.720 Okay, Amber Smith, my wife, I should say that for 0:00:35.800 --> 0:00:36.400 people listening. 0:00:36.520 --> 0:00:38.200 Oh yeah, oh yeah, I just agree. 0:00:38.280 --> 0:00:39.360 That sounds familiar. 0:00:39.440 --> 0:00:45.400 Yeah, yeah, well, welcome back. Uh, we've we've been changing. 0:00:45.479 --> 0:00:48.960 We had an episode that we released last week. We 0:00:49.000 --> 0:00:51.600 had the brothers, Tyler and Parker, and we've been changing 0:00:51.640 --> 0:00:52.240 the room around. 0:00:52.720 --> 0:00:52.839 Then. 0:00:52.880 --> 0:00:55.800 We weren't quite happy with how that one looked, so 0:00:56.080 --> 0:00:58.480 it was just very typical advancement and I so we 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:00.840 move things around again and here we are. Now you're 0:01:00.840 --> 0:01:03.320 in this seat, which I think it's a good seat. Okay, good, 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:06.520 there's reason, there's a specific reason why you're there instead 0:01:06.560 --> 0:01:08.160 of here. Okay, So we're going to be the main 0:01:08.160 --> 0:01:09.160 guest in your chair. 0:01:09.560 --> 0:01:09.880 Okay. 0:01:11.680 --> 0:01:14.200 It's interesting because if you look at the how long 0:01:14.240 --> 0:01:19.319 this this podcast is easily twice as much time went 0:01:19.360 --> 0:01:21.720 into the setup of the podcast today. 0:01:21.800 --> 0:01:22.960 Yeah, easily. Yeah. 0:01:23.120 --> 0:01:24.840 I told her Andrew, I'm gonna get here. I'm gonna 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:26.440 get there a little bit early, and I'll walked in 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:29.319 and he goes, wow, you you did mean early, like 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:31.520 two hours before the podcast. Yeah. 0:01:31.560 --> 0:01:33.480 If people knew how many times this room has been 0:01:33.760 --> 0:01:36.479 rearranged with different tables and chairs and couches, and. 0:01:36.640 --> 0:01:39.200 They do, oh geez, yeah, oh g's people that have 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:40.440 watched this podcast long enough. 0:01:40.520 --> 0:01:43.360 Yeah, yeah, real ones know what it looked like in 0:01:43.360 --> 0:01:49.160 the very beginning. Yeah, after you. Speaking of channels, brand 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.640 new channel launches July twenty first, I see launches. That's when. 0:01:53.160 --> 0:01:55.640 That's the only place you'll be able to get the 0:01:55.840 --> 0:02:00.000 video podcast. It's on the brand new Granger Smith podcas 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:03.120 Past YouTube channel. It's linked in the description right here. 0:02:03.240 --> 0:02:05.760 To go there, click that and hit subscribe. Everything you 0:02:05.800 --> 0:02:08.799 watch on the normal Granger Smith channel will be available there, 0:02:08.840 --> 0:02:11.000 but after episode three oh one, which will come out 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.680 in July twenty first, that will only be on the 0:02:14.680 --> 0:02:18.600 brand new channel. Yeah, if you're listening everything stays the 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.640 same for you. Everything stays the same exactly like it 0:02:21.680 --> 0:02:23.799 is right now. But if you watch, that'll be the 0:02:23.800 --> 0:02:24.520 place you need to go. 0:02:24.919 --> 0:02:27.840 Yeah. Yeah, which is which is exciting. Did I tell 0:02:27.840 --> 0:02:28.360 you we're doing that? 0:02:28.480 --> 0:02:32.280 No news to you all the time? You learn them 0:02:32.320 --> 0:02:34.880 on the podcast if you listen to the podcast, what's 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:35.200 going on? 0:02:35.280 --> 0:02:38.040 Right? Yeah, so we're doing that. And then the big 0:02:38.080 --> 0:02:41.480 news going on tour with the podcast, right. 0:02:41.840 --> 0:02:45.359 Big big announcement last week taking the podcast on tour. 0:02:46.200 --> 0:02:46.680 Did know that? 0:02:46.760 --> 0:02:47.040 Yes? 0:02:47.080 --> 0:02:48.800 You did? You did tell you that. 0:02:48.880 --> 0:02:49.800 I'm excited about that. 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:53.920 Yeah, And it really it's kind of revolving around your 0:02:53.919 --> 0:02:56.720 book release October What to me? 0:02:56.840 --> 0:02:57.320 Fourteenth? 0:02:57.360 --> 0:02:59.920 Fourteenth? Is that date even released? 0:03:01.800 --> 0:03:03.239 Not publicly? Is no? 0:03:04.000 --> 0:03:05.119 Do I to bleep that out? 0:03:05.800 --> 0:03:08.200 I don't know? Actually let me I'll let you know 0:03:08.280 --> 0:03:10.760 after this email, my email, my editor. 0:03:10.800 --> 0:03:11.640 I don't know any edits. 0:03:11.639 --> 0:03:14.000 And then may we release things. That's what we do 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:16.040 on this podcast. We get new information. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.800 Oh yeah, I knew a long time ago. I heard 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:18.560 it on the podcast. 0:03:18.600 --> 0:03:23.280 Yeah, we we did that with ee Fest released on 0:03:23.320 --> 0:03:27.720 the podcast. That's way before. And I'm going to say 0:03:27.720 --> 0:03:31.160 the title of your book it is, No, you're not shot. 0:03:31.200 --> 0:03:33.720 We can't. They won't let me say it until I 0:03:33.720 --> 0:03:35.720 believe around mid July. 0:03:36.520 --> 0:03:42.320 Really would mid July be the should we should be 0:03:42.560 --> 0:03:44.640 back on the podcast. The very first podcast on the 0:03:44.680 --> 0:03:48.120 new channel could be the release of the title of 0:03:48.120 --> 0:03:48.400 the book. 0:03:48.480 --> 0:03:49.200 Yeah, we could do that. 0:03:49.360 --> 0:03:51.960 Yeah, for sure. It's a good title. It's a good cover. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.000 I left a hint somewhere recently, but I can't say where, 0:03:57.000 --> 0:03:57.680 and I can't say what. 0:04:00.440 --> 0:04:03.280 Publishers just search search everything. 0:04:03.680 --> 0:04:07.720 Yeah, it's a it's a great book. So I'm I'm 0:04:07.880 --> 0:04:11.440 very excited about this book because I get to kind 0:04:11.480 --> 0:04:14.720 of take a passenger seat to all of this. And 0:04:14.960 --> 0:04:16.919 you know, with like a river she was with me 0:04:17.000 --> 0:04:20.000 and you were doing the passenger seat thing. But so 0:04:20.080 --> 0:04:22.360 now I'll get to go, for instance, go to New 0:04:22.440 --> 0:04:27.800 York do the shows, and I'll take Lincoln to go 0:04:27.880 --> 0:04:31.920 see tourist things. That's what she did with London last time. 0:04:32.680 --> 0:04:34.600 Because there might be like a thing that like a 0:04:34.880 --> 0:04:37.960 Fox and Friends that I'm needed for and then she'll 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.279 go do all the other things podcasts and dateline and 0:04:42.279 --> 0:04:44.720 all that, and I won't be there. So we'll go 0:04:44.760 --> 0:04:47.080 see you know, the sites and get some good food 0:04:47.080 --> 0:04:49.040 in New York City. I've never gotten to do that. 0:04:49.440 --> 0:04:51.360 Have you forgot? You've you've you've been on a late 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:53.320 night show though, like you've been Kimmel. 0:04:53.040 --> 0:04:57.120 Right, Yes, I've just anytime I go to LA or 0:04:57.200 --> 0:05:01.120 New York, it's usually wrapped around on the release of something, 0:05:01.320 --> 0:05:03.800 and everyone gets to kind of see things, and you 0:05:03.880 --> 0:05:06.880 have your work the whole time, and I work, you know, 0:05:06.960 --> 0:05:09.000 the main things and everything in between, and then I 0:05:09.040 --> 0:05:10.960 go back to a hotel and take a phone call. 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.240 So I don't think. I don't know if I've ever 0:05:15.240 --> 0:05:16.600 been in New York and not. 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:17.640 Just as a tourist. 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.800 Really yeah, yeah, I've definitely never been a tourist, and 0:05:22.080 --> 0:05:23.640 so and I don't honestly, I don't know how much 0:05:23.640 --> 0:05:27.160 time I'll get, but I'm assuming that I'm going to 0:05:27.240 --> 0:05:30.880 get a kind of a sideline gig and take Lincoln 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:32.159 And because he's never been. 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:34.200 Yeah, what's he want to do? What's he want to see? 0:05:34.880 --> 0:05:39.200 He just really wants to Yeah, so you going to 0:05:39.240 --> 0:05:42.640 New Jersey? Yeah, London got to go twice. So he's like, 0:05:42.760 --> 0:05:44.320 you guys, haven't taken me one time? And then we 0:05:44.360 --> 0:05:46.080 said it in the car the other day and London 0:05:46.160 --> 0:05:48.320 was upset that she wasn't going to get to go 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:48.719 this time. 0:05:49.080 --> 0:05:51.600 Yeah, he'll want to go see like Yankee Stadium. 0:05:51.279 --> 0:05:54.359 And oh yeah, yeah, the New York is really nice. 0:05:54.440 --> 0:05:57.520 Yeah yeah, hell everything sports related. 0:05:57.680 --> 0:05:59.160 You got to see an event, though, if you're going 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:00.840 to msg true, like you know. 0:06:01.080 --> 0:06:02.840 True, you can't. What are you supposed to see? 0:06:02.839 --> 0:06:05.640 The outside is just yeah, a building around building. Yeah, 0:06:05.839 --> 0:06:09.159 it's weird because it's to me, at least, it's deceiving 0:06:09.240 --> 0:06:12.240 of how big it actually is on the inside just 0:06:12.240 --> 0:06:14.200 by looking at the outside. I mean, outside looks big, 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:17.000 but you don't realize that there there's a like a 0:06:17.080 --> 0:06:20.040 ten thousand seat venue inside on the side of it. 0:06:20.480 --> 0:06:24.880 There's then obviously it's like twenty five thousand seat on 0:06:24.960 --> 0:06:28.159 the inside of the main Madison Square garden. Crazy. Yeah, 0:06:28.520 --> 0:06:31.200 it's it's much bigger than it looks like it is 0:06:31.240 --> 0:06:33.560 on the outside, in the middle of round of buildings. 0:06:33.560 --> 0:06:34.320 Maybe that's part of it. 0:06:34.440 --> 0:06:36.839 Yeah, so many giant buildings around there. 0:06:36.960 --> 0:06:39.480 Yeah, so who Well, we'll go around and we'll see 0:06:39.480 --> 0:06:43.839 that stuff. But I'm really excited. I've just I've never 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:49.840 really been the sidekick, so I can't wait to do that. 0:06:50.520 --> 0:06:52.200 Take him to the mPire State Building and let him 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:53.360 push every button in the elevation. 0:06:54.440 --> 0:07:00.960 That's right, yeah, a little elf. Well all right, so 0:07:01.040 --> 0:07:03.880 you like the format of this, Yeah I do. Yeah. 0:07:04.360 --> 0:07:06.360 I did forget one thing and I realized right when 0:07:06.360 --> 0:07:09.040 we started. So I'm going to jump up and go 0:07:09.040 --> 0:07:10.720 got time, right, I didn't bring my Bible. 0:07:10.960 --> 0:07:13.120 Oh do you mind. 0:07:13.200 --> 0:07:16.440 I'll just go grat it. Okay, So you guys talk, okay, 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:18.960 talk so about your book. 0:07:20.960 --> 0:07:23.880 No, I'm just excited because I feel like you asked 0:07:23.920 --> 0:07:25.080 me when we came in it, does it feel like 0:07:25.080 --> 0:07:26.520 this time is crawling? Or does it feel like it's 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.280 going fast? And I feel like it's crawling. Now. I'm 0:07:29.320 --> 0:07:31.760 just so ready to release it and tell everybody. And 0:07:31.880 --> 0:07:34.400 I've just been working on it so hard, and I've 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:37.480 been meeting with other families who are going through grief 0:07:37.520 --> 0:07:39.600 and loss and I just want to hand it to them, 0:07:39.640 --> 0:07:41.120 and I don't have it to hand to them yet. 0:07:41.560 --> 0:07:42.880 So I'm just excited about that. 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.480 From day one, from the time you first started writing 0:07:48.040 --> 0:07:49.960 until right now, how long has that been? 0:07:50.400 --> 0:07:53.840 I had four months to complete the manuscript, so I 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.360 don't know how long that's been till now. 0:07:55.520 --> 0:07:57.440 Did you have thoughts before that? You wrote down. Just 0:07:57.520 --> 0:07:58.000 keep notes. 0:07:58.080 --> 0:08:00.600 Yeah, oh yeah, tons of notes. Yeah. That's what took 0:08:00.600 --> 0:08:02.480 me so long to edit, because I kept realizing I 0:08:02.520 --> 0:08:04.440 needed to add other things that I didn't add in 0:08:04.480 --> 0:08:05.160 there the first time. 0:08:05.640 --> 0:08:10.080 Not that they're the same, but I'm performing the ceremony 0:08:10.160 --> 0:08:13.320 for my oldest daughter's getting married next May, so I 0:08:13.360 --> 0:08:16.160 already have notes that I found, scripture that I go, oh, 0:08:16.200 --> 0:08:17.640 I need that, Oh, I need that, and then at 0:08:17.680 --> 0:08:20.520 some point I'll go rearrange and put it together in 0:08:20.560 --> 0:08:22.520 a in a wedding format. 0:08:22.640 --> 0:08:27.680 Oh gosh, it's happening, it's exciting. Should we say what 0:08:27.840 --> 0:08:32.200 you know? Kind of today? We're talking? Amen and I 0:08:32.240 --> 0:08:33.920 were target earlier. He was like, well, you know, what 0:08:33.960 --> 0:08:35.720 are we going to discuss? I was like, well, we 0:08:35.760 --> 0:08:38.240 could talk about that. It's as we record this June 0:08:38.440 --> 0:08:42.800 the fifth, which is an interesting day for us because 0:08:43.280 --> 0:08:45.160 you know, we get a lot of text on June 0:08:45.160 --> 0:08:47.160 the fourth, and we get a lot of text on 0:08:47.720 --> 0:08:51.640 June the sixth, and and some people actually don't know 0:08:51.920 --> 0:08:56.320 the difference, like some people aren't quite sure or I 0:08:56.360 --> 0:08:57.320 can't remember. 0:08:56.960 --> 0:08:59.120 Which day, and my eternal clock is the sixth. 0:08:59.760 --> 0:09:02.200 Yeah, yeah, so that you're either the sixth or the 0:09:02.240 --> 0:09:04.800 fourth when when you're one of our friends. And then 0:09:05.080 --> 0:09:08.400 the fifth is a very an interesting day because this 0:09:08.480 --> 0:09:12.000 is the day we look back six years ago today. 0:09:12.800 --> 0:09:15.520 We hadn't slept last night. We were in the hospital. 0:09:16.679 --> 0:09:19.239 A doctor had come in and told us there's no activity. 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:21.320 Now was the first that was a shock when we 0:09:21.360 --> 0:09:24.120 heard that, because I guess this is all relevant to 0:09:24.160 --> 0:09:30.120 your book coming out, but because we thought he was 0:09:30.160 --> 0:09:33.520 going to be okay, but just going to be really sick. 0:09:33.600 --> 0:09:36.280 That's actually what the nurses told us and the EMTs 0:09:36.320 --> 0:09:38.880 told us. He's going to make it, but he's going 0:09:38.960 --> 0:09:41.720 to be it's going to be a long road to recover. Yeah. 0:09:41.720 --> 0:09:44.160 We thought he would have some brain injuries and disabilities 0:09:44.200 --> 0:09:45.920 and learning things that we would have to work through, 0:09:45.960 --> 0:09:48.439 but we never thought that he would not open his eyes. 0:09:48.679 --> 0:09:48.959 Yeah. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.839 Yeah, And so today is that day, the day in 0:09:51.880 --> 0:09:54.160 the middle where we were just all of our families 0:09:54.160 --> 0:09:57.480 are in the hospital. There's bags and blankets everywhere, everybody's crying, 0:09:57.520 --> 0:10:00.199 everybody's praying. We're told we have to say our goodbyes. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.400 And then that's when the thought of organ donation came up. 0:10:03.440 --> 0:10:06.200 Was today, And then so we're doing all the paperwork 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:09.360 for that, praying over that, crying over that, and then 0:10:09.640 --> 0:10:14.520 they're searching for recipients over the next twenty four hours. 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:18.360 Basically one of the reasons I want to have I 0:10:18.400 --> 0:10:20.920 think I've had the digital Bible for so long in 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:25.880 the podcast, but I think, you know, especially with the 0:10:26.640 --> 0:10:31.840 recent passing of Phil Robertson, who always had a paper Bible, did. 0:10:31.760 --> 0:10:33.720 The same thing I brought, like, I put it back 0:10:33.720 --> 0:10:35.360 in my bag, my paper Bible. 0:10:35.480 --> 0:10:39.760 Yeah, by no means of my advocating, one is better 0:10:39.760 --> 0:10:41.160 than the other, because as long as you have the 0:10:41.200 --> 0:10:45.120 Word of God, let's not start talking about you know, 0:10:45.160 --> 0:10:47.040 because are we gonna say, do you have paprus or 0:10:47.160 --> 0:10:50.560 do you have a scroll or But anyway, that's why 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:54.400 I think if I have this on the table it 0:10:54.800 --> 0:10:56.840 I might go to it quicker than pulling out my 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.120 phone anyway. And so yesterday when people were texting, a 0:11:01.240 --> 0:11:04.360 verse that was coming to my mind yesterday was some 0:11:04.720 --> 0:11:08.360 one to eighteen twenty four that says, this is the 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.800 day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and 0:11:11.880 --> 0:11:17.679 be glad in it. So that's that's what was coming 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.760 to my mind. Because every that's every day, that's not 0:11:21.640 --> 0:11:24.360 a Friday. That's not a good day. That's not a 0:11:24.440 --> 0:11:26.920 day when everything seems to be okay, or the day 0:11:26.960 --> 0:11:30.080 where you actually feel peace or rest or hope, you 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:34.280 feel those human feelings. But it's every day. This is 0:11:34.320 --> 0:11:36.240 the day that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice 0:11:36.280 --> 0:11:38.240 and be glad. But guess what, Guess what. Verse twenty 0:11:38.240 --> 0:11:40.600 three says, let me look at let me go back 0:11:40.640 --> 0:11:43.760 to twenty two just to see. Well, yeah, twenty two. 0:11:43.840 --> 0:11:48.080 So what this is talking about is this is the 0:11:48.880 --> 0:11:53.240 eighteen twenty two is the famous verse that Jesus uses. 0:11:53.800 --> 0:11:58.240 It says the stone that the builders rejected has become 0:11:58.320 --> 0:12:04.680 the cornerstone, right, And then verse twenty three, this is 0:12:04.720 --> 0:12:09.360 the Lord's doing. It is marvelous in our eyes. This 0:12:09.440 --> 0:12:11.480 is the day that the Lord has made. Let us 0:12:11.520 --> 0:12:15.400 rejoice and be glad in it. Wow, that's today. That's 0:12:15.400 --> 0:12:19.240 today for us, that's today for whoever's listening. That is today, 0:12:19.440 --> 0:12:21.839 That was yesterday, that is tomorrow. As long as we're 0:12:21.880 --> 0:12:25.320 breathing oxygen in this fallen world, and we are not 0:12:25.400 --> 0:12:28.200 yet redeemed, we don't yet have our art or not 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:30.560 redeem they're not yet glorified, and we don't yet have 0:12:30.640 --> 0:12:35.960 our our glorified bodies. Then we know that we are 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.320 redeemed because of this stone that the builders rejected, which 0:12:40.320 --> 0:12:43.040 has become the cornerstone in our lives and our foundation. 0:12:43.520 --> 0:12:46.280 And this is the Lord's doing, and that is marvelous 0:12:46.320 --> 0:12:49.960 in our eyes. And so therefore this is the day 0:12:50.000 --> 0:12:52.400 that the Lord has made. Let us rejoice and be 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:57.600 glad in it. Through sorrows, through suffering, through loss, through cancer, 0:12:58.040 --> 0:13:03.880 through sickness, through through marriages, through through divorces, through babies 0:13:03.920 --> 0:13:06.920 being born and babies being lost, this is the day 0:13:07.040 --> 0:13:09.440 that the Lord has made. Let us be glad or 0:13:09.440 --> 0:13:12.760 rejoice in it. Not because of those circumstances, but because 0:13:12.760 --> 0:13:16.400 of the stone that the builders rejected. That the Lord 0:13:16.520 --> 0:13:19.000 has done this, and it is marvelous at her eyes. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:23.319 So good. Yeah, when you said it was the day 0:13:23.320 --> 0:13:28.360 in the middle, I thought of Jesus too. There was 0:13:28.400 --> 0:13:31.560 a day in the middle when everybody thought hope was gone. 0:13:32.760 --> 0:13:38.960 But but God, that's our tune. Fifth, it was really dark. 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:42.680 So it's also the day that when I've told the 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.440 story so many times and interviews and podcasts of this 0:13:45.640 --> 0:13:46.960 was the day when you and I went to that 0:13:47.120 --> 0:13:50.960 Surindy garden, you know, in the hospital, which which, by 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:53.199 the way, you've been back many times. I went back 0:13:53.240 --> 0:13:59.360 one time, but You've been back many times to Children's Hospital. 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.079 I've walked out floor that we were in, the room, 0:14:02.160 --> 0:14:07.640 I've passed it, walked out in that garden many times. Yeah, 0:14:07.679 --> 0:14:09.800 and it gets a little easier. Like the first time, 0:14:09.800 --> 0:14:12.480 I started almost hyperventilating. You can smell everything, you know, 0:14:12.600 --> 0:14:14.920 the alcohol and everything that you just had. Those smells 0:14:14.920 --> 0:14:16.720 and the sounds and the beeps, and it's like everything 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:20.640 comes rushing back to you. Yeah. Yeah, we went out 0:14:20.640 --> 0:14:21.120 in that garden. 0:14:21.200 --> 0:14:24.960 That garden. Tell me the story about the the the 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:25.640 orange tree, you. 0:14:25.640 --> 0:14:28.600 Remember that, yes, which is no longer there. Yeah, but 0:14:29.360 --> 0:14:33.320 they had given us a little placard for river and 0:14:34.000 --> 0:14:35.400 they put it. We went and kind of walked the 0:14:35.400 --> 0:14:37.160 property and picked a spot and there was an orange 0:14:37.200 --> 0:14:38.840 tree there. And when we went there was all these 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:41.520 oranges in the little river. They were like floating down, 0:14:42.040 --> 0:14:44.520 and so we picked that spot and then I went 0:14:44.600 --> 0:14:45.720 back to look at it and I think it was 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.400 like December or something sometime when that when that tree 0:14:48.400 --> 0:14:50.880 should not have had fruit and it was just full 0:14:51.680 --> 0:14:53.360 and maybe it was around that, I don't know when 0:14:53.400 --> 0:14:55.120 it was it was something significant. Either it was in 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.200 the winter I should remember this, but or it was 0:14:57.200 --> 0:14:58.880 like on a special one of these special days of 0:14:58.960 --> 0:15:01.240 riv but it was some time where it shouldn't have 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.200 had fruit and it did. And so I don't think 0:15:04.200 --> 0:15:06.680 that tree is there anymore, though I need to go back. 0:15:06.840 --> 0:15:09.080 But his little plaque is still there in the ground. 0:15:09.760 --> 0:15:12.000 It's kind of like when Jesus rebuked the fig tree 0:15:12.000 --> 0:15:14.560 for not having figs when it should have, and you 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:17.040 saw an orange tree that did have fruit when it 0:15:17.080 --> 0:15:22.480 shouldn't have. Yes, Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, So that's our 0:15:22.560 --> 0:15:25.200 that's our six five, six five twenty five the day 0:15:25.440 --> 0:15:28.800 as we record this, And and honestly, I don't I 0:15:28.800 --> 0:15:33.760 don't feel that sting. I don't. I had lunch with 0:15:33.560 --> 0:15:35.720 a with a brother the other day. 0:15:35.920 --> 0:15:36.720 I'm just finding a b. 0:15:37.080 --> 0:15:39.440 That hasn't been closed. He's not close to our story. 0:15:39.600 --> 0:15:41.400 It's not close to me. It's not he's not in 0:15:41.440 --> 0:15:44.440 our church. And we had coffee and he goes. So 0:15:44.600 --> 0:15:48.280 is this time of year just really hard? I was like, 0:15:48.280 --> 0:15:50.360 what do you mean? He goes, you know, like first 0:15:50.360 --> 0:15:53.080 week of June? Is that just you just feel that 0:15:53.160 --> 0:15:58.600 weight coming up? And I was like, no, I don't. Actually, yeah, 0:15:58.640 --> 0:16:03.720 there's a certain way I feel every day. But but 0:16:03.720 --> 0:16:07.320 but I guess the first week of June opens, well, 0:16:07.320 --> 0:16:10.360 it's still a beautiful time of year. It always has been. 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:13.120 It's a beautiful time in Texas, and it opens up 0:16:13.160 --> 0:16:16.080 new conversations with people that text. I had some people 0:16:16.080 --> 0:16:18.200 text me yesterday on June fourth, the day we lost Riv, 0:16:19.360 --> 0:16:22.840 that we're choking up, and they were like, just thinking 0:16:22.880 --> 0:16:26.360 about you and Amber and just pray for you every day, 0:16:26.400 --> 0:16:29.080 and it's just today is so heavy for me and 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:31.680 I just can't imagine. And I just want to let 0:16:31.680 --> 0:16:34.040 you know, you know that with that day, that what 0:16:34.120 --> 0:16:38.400 it has meant to so many since then, and oh 0:16:38.480 --> 0:16:40.360 my brother, thank you, love you. 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:41.960 But we're good. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:45.760 Yeah, today is the day that the Lord has made 0:16:45.880 --> 0:16:46.120 you know. 0:16:46.640 --> 0:16:48.440 I understand what people are saying about it, but I 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:50.600 get it that wait, you know, because for the first 0:16:51.320 --> 0:16:53.800 couple of years, your body keeps the score. Your body. 0:16:54.120 --> 0:16:57.240 I would remember, Mike, even though I didn't might not 0:16:57.280 --> 0:16:59.120 know the exact day, I could just feel it in 0:16:59.160 --> 0:17:02.880 my body like sadness, you know, over through June sixth. 0:17:03.520 --> 0:17:08.040 But now Psalm forty, which has been on my heart 0:17:08.040 --> 0:17:10.560 this week is. I waited patiently for the Lord. He 0:17:10.680 --> 0:17:13.320 inclined to me and heard my cry. He drew me 0:17:13.400 --> 0:17:15.480 up from the pit of destruction. I'm gonna start crying 0:17:15.680 --> 0:17:18.160 out of the miriy bog and set my feet upon 0:17:18.160 --> 0:17:21.560 a rock, making my steps secure. He put a new 0:17:21.640 --> 0:17:24.600 song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. 0:17:25.119 --> 0:17:27.320 Many will see and fear and put their trust in 0:17:27.359 --> 0:17:30.679 the Lord. And so June fifth was really dark, and 0:17:30.720 --> 0:17:32.520 I did not have a song of praise in my mouth. 0:17:33.080 --> 0:17:36.040 But by going to him and reading his word and 0:17:36.680 --> 0:17:38.920 learning who he reveals himself to be, the god of 0:17:38.960 --> 0:17:41.200 all the day, all of our days, he will put 0:17:41.200 --> 0:17:43.160 a new song in your mouth. 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