August 23, 2024 • 47 mins
Ever wondered how life's unexpected turns can lead to blessings in disguise? Carter shares his roller-coaster journey with the testing process of a new and hopeful career, and offering a candid look at the ups and downs since leaving his previous job. As we banter about recent escapades, including Carter's Father's Day golfing adventure and Levi's packed summer of football camps from Minnesota to Dallas, we highlight the importance of staying busy and trusting in God's plan, even through the chaos.
Inspired by a recent sermon, we delve into the profound idea of storing treasures in heaven. We discuss the joy of performing unnoticed good deeds and the significance of filling our lives with light, as illustrated in Matthew 6:22-23. Carter and Levi share personal stories and biblical insights, emphasizing the battle between worldly desires and spiritual fulfillment. The conversation pivots to Matthew 6:24, underscoring the necessity of choosing God over material possessions and the peace that comes from walking in the light.
Overthinking and worrying can be paralyzing, but Jesus' teachings offer a powerful antidote. Reflecting on Matthew 6:25-34, we explore the futility of worry and the freedom found in trusting God's provision. Drawing wisdom from relevant Bible verses, we share practical advice on controlling what we can and leaving the rest to God. Comparing different approaches to stress, we highlight the importance of finding a balanced perspective, where thoughtful consideration and peace of mind coexist, trusting always in God's care. Tune in for an episode filled with heartfelt stories, spiritual insights, and practical wisdom.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Welcome back to the Life Beside Christ podcast.
We are one haze down, but it isnot the same haze that was
missing the last time.
Carter has reappeared, and nowBrady is the one skipping town
yeah, I guess with better reasonthan carter's yeah, oh, I've
(00:29):
got a job what's that?
Like having a job.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I have a family and a job two kids, a wife, a job
what's his real excuse?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
yeah, what was yours last?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
time Father's Day golfing with Dad.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely be there tonight,
don't worry guys.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, I got the.
I mean, they were just going toleave me and go golf.
I was like I'll eat golf.
So I went to Springfield and itwas Father's Day, so we went to
the rail, whooped up on themreal quick, get a call mid-round
Whooped up on the course yeah.
Yeah, I was chunking everything, but it's all right, Get a call
(01:14):
hole nine when you at.
Oh yeah, I'm gone, yeah, but itwasn't like a
spur-of-the-moment thing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That recording was the most planned one.
We had?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah it, it wasn't like a spur of the moment thing.
That recording was the mostplanned one we had.
Yeah, it was definitely planned, it's also been two months
since then.
Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, that's me, that's me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, but I want to clarify I'm not really a mouth
breather.
All right, maybe a little lazy,I'll take the lazy part, but
come on now.
I'm doing some talking.
Look at me.
I'm in brady's spot.
I'm doing some more talking.
I think it's the spot.
Really.
This is a power spot to be in.
You have just control of theroom view.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right, yeah, yeah.
Well, now it was.
He had a chance to just talkcrap about you.
So what do you need to get offyour chest?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
well, I mean, it's just be better, you know, uh,
take off of work if we're gonnahave this podcast going.
Yeah, um, just better timemanagement really is what I was
gonna get after him for uh Idon't think that that should be
here.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't think that that's the angle you attack,
that no he's got a big nose, soI'm just hating on him now.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We miss Brady.
Wish he was here.
But a job is pretty important,I guess, if you have a family.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's just getting back into work from being home
with the baby and Zoe.
Now they're all home.
We'll probably just let himgive a better update next time
he's back.
Um on all that, but they'regood.
Um, any other updates that youcan give us carter on your life?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
um, so I don't know exactly what I updated last time
I was on the podcast, but I'vebeen testing with jackville
police department and that's along process.
I I knew it was going to belong.
I didn't think it was going tobe.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's a lot more drawn out than I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be a six to
eight month drawn out thing yeah, because it's like what?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
a half a day of testing and then three months of
nothing.
Yeah, it's not like you're likedoing stuff over that time yeah
which is, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They have their structure for everything yeah,
I'd say my total time is likeless than five hours, but it's
been over I don't know fourmonths, um.
So that's been uh, testing mypatience I guess, um, but it's
(03:54):
going good so far.
Uh, if you guys want to say aprayer for me, see what happens.
I mean, whatever god's will is,I believe that will happen.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's funny, though, kind of talking about you and I
had a conversation not to gettoo much into details, but with
the kind of way your last jobthe plumbing stuff kind of ended
and it was just not a good exiton that, but not what you
wanted, not a good exit on that,but not what you wanted, but
(04:27):
the timing of stuff that's kindof transpired since then, you
being more available.
I guess has almost been kind oflike a blessing in disguise
through some stuff, I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, it's been I'll use the word fun.
It's been a fun way to watchgod work in my life.
So I I was doing the plumbingapprenticeship and that didn't
end too great I didn't want toend but and then dad got cancer.
(05:02):
So I was then free to kind ofhelp out there and do his field
work and be his legs for alittle bit.
And he's just now getting back,getting better, starting to
yell at me more.
So that's good.
But it's just funny how youthink, oh, that's not ideal, and
(05:28):
then six months later you justsee how it works out and how god
always has a plan.
You just have to trust what'sgoing on yeah, um but it's been
good um working on the fliphouse as well as much as I can,
but, yeah, definitely stayingbusy and trying to take
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advantage of each day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So yeah and um with me.
Just we just are now gettingback into school.
Football's been going on sincethe last recording.
I made a trip up to Minnesota,was there for a week for a
football camp, went back, stayeda few days over the fourth with
my parents in Indiana and then,without coming home, went down
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to Dallas for another camp withmy dad to work a football camp
down there, and then I was backand summer was basically over
for me.
So it was a good summer for me,but it was very, very quick.
And now we're back into a fullswing of football season and
school and then next thing youknow it'll be wrestling and
(06:37):
baseball season for me.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Busy busy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But it's fun, I enjoy it.
Yeah, it keeps me busy, keepsme busy.
I realized, though, over thissummer this was the summer
before football camp started themost downtime I had during the
summer that I can remember.
I didn't do like any odd jobstuff, like I was trying to do
pressure washing stuff like thatthat kept me busy.
(07:01):
Last summer.
I realized as much as I want tobe lazy sometimes and just like
sit around, do nothing.
That's terrible for me.
I sit there and I just me alone, like being lazy, not doing
anything, not having themotivation to get up, and I had
(07:22):
to force myself to walk a couplerounds of golf.
So I'm not just sitting on mybutt all summer, but also just
I'm a world class overthinker.
So that is not a goodcombination either.
But other than that, I guessthere's not a whole lot else for
us to catch up on.
(07:42):
Today we're going to talk alittle bit about Matthew 6 and
kind of like last episode's ornot.
Last episode, last episode waswith the STG, but the one before
that where we kind of pick asection or verse out of this
chapter that kind of sticks outto us and then have a little
(08:03):
conversation about that and thenmove on.
So I'll say this before we getstarted Matthew 6 and I think I
talked about it like the Sermonon the Mount.
There's just so much in it andthis is, and this is still the
Sermon on the Mount here inMatthew 6.
There's just so much and it'sso good, like if this was the
only sermon that jesus ever gave.
(08:26):
It would cover everything stillit's just it's, it's so complete
and uh there's a lot in there,so don't take our wording for
everything as the best.
Uh, definitely go read it.
Um, maybe follow along with usif you want to, but I would
definitely recommend readingthrough matthew 6, if, uh, if
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it's not something you've donerecently, it's just, there's
just a lot there.
And that was one thing.
Like I kind of just hit on thesermon on the mount.
I realized there there's allthe topics that he covers, that
jesus covers in this are so manythings that one like are
calling out people of that time,but it applies just as much now
(09:11):
, um, whether he's talking tothe Pharisees and Sadducees and
how they they conduct themselvesI guess in that time, how just
the Jewish people of that timeacted, did stuff.
But all of it just applies nowand it's just, it's crazy,
obviously like God's all-knowingand all these things are like
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don't do this, don't do thatkind of stuff.
But it's weirdly, as I wasreading through because I keep
reading through the whole Sermonon the Mount, I go through
every section I'm like, yep,that's me, yep, that's me, yep,
that's me, that's me, that's me.
And check marks through almosteveryone Except I mean not
(09:57):
everyone, okay, but a lot ofthem.
There's murder in there Ipromise I've not murdered
anybody, but there's just a lotin there that are just like yeah
, that's stuff that I strugglewith.
But the fact that he talksabout it is almost comforting
(10:17):
because it's like he knew right,like everyone's going to
struggle with stuff like thisfor all time, not just now.
Everyone's going to strugglewith stuff like this for all
time, not just now.
And it's comforting that he wasable to give us kind of a way
to think about and, through hiswords, try to kind of come to a
better conclusion, solution tosome of these things.
(10:40):
So that'll be kind of what weget into.
One thing before we started butI found I came across this
tiktok and this guy he's.
He makes like christian, likenot parody, like too christian,
but just like funny christiancontent stuff.
And he, there's this, thisvideo, and it was how to say
(11:04):
like not rude stuff, but kind ofstuff from the Bible and I'm
going to play this.
Hopefully this goes through.
This is my first time playing avideo through a recording, but
we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hi there you little chicken nuggets.
These are some Bible versesthat you can use.
If someone hurts their feelings, or if you just don't like them
, or if they're a little fartsniffer, let's get started.
If only you would shut up andlet that be your wisdom.
If you do so, again I will layhands on you.
(11:42):
You should mind your ownbusiness.
You can leave you, son of aperverse and rebellious woman.
Depart from me, you who arecursed.
(12:06):
Yes, I know, be quiet.
Me, you who are cursed.
Yes, I know, be quiet.
You're an evil.
It's perfectly formed like agoblet.
I know that's supposed to meanit's meant to be like a good
thing in the context of thatscripture, but I'm in it in the
bad way.
Hi there you little chicken.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I thought it was funny and he put the verse that
he was pulling that from and Iwent through it and looked at it
.
I was like, are these actuallyin there?
And that translation?
Some of them are loosetranslations, but some of them
are exactly what it says andit's just funny.
It's like I know Be quiet.
(12:47):
I don't know, know, I thoughtit was funny, I find it funny.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I hope the audience as well finds it funny.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But right so there you go.
Just a little funniness tostart us off for this episode.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's how you fight them off there.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, carter, you want to start us off?
Sure.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So before I get started in my little rambling, I
heard a sermon two weeks agoand it was about the Bible, the
Word, and if you love Jesus, youlove the Word.
If you love the Word, you loveJesus, and that's what God left
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us with you hit on it.
Where it's relatable, you canrelate to it.
You can well, that's me.
We're all sinners.
We all find these things inhere that are little.
She, our pastor that was giventhe sermon, said that these are
the little gems that are in herethat people don't highlight as
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much.
But as time goes on they'll bemore and more relatable as as it
gets worse and worse, um andworse in our earth, I guess.
So it's kind of funny that justpopped up that it is relatable.
I mean, this is who we are.
It gives you all the answers onhow to fix it, how to find God
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and come out stronger in the end.
So just amazing what the Wordcan do.
Everything's in here.
So just dig in and if you wantto follow along, then try and
keep up, I guess, amen brother.
So I circled the prayer,obviously because that's pretty
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important, but I wanted to talkabout the treasures in heaven,
Okay, so I find it fun andexciting.
I guess that if you dosomething good on this earth and
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you're just doing it, nobodysees you and you don't gain
credit for it.
I mean, you're storing stuff inheaven for yourself.
You're doing exactly whatyou're supposed to be doing.
It feels weird because I mean,um, I had great parents growing
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up and every little good thing Idid, oh good job, good job.
All this stuff, um, and I, Ifind more joy in being able to
help people.
Or if it's pick up a piece oftrash, I, that's the smallest
little thing, but I don't know.
It just makes me feel like I'mdoing the right thing, and
(15:49):
that's what I want to do.
I want to do the right thing,not to prove to other people
that I'm a good person or I dogood things.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Just to I don't know follow what God says and to do
those little things behindclosed doors.
I guess the piece that I pickedup in this is I'll read it it's
verse 22 through, I guess, 23.
So it is the eye is the lamp ofthe body.
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If your eyes are good, yourwhole body will be full of light
, but if your eyes are bad, yourwhole body will be full of
darkness.
If, then, the light within youis darkness, how great is that
darkness?
So what I see that is, I have aimage in my head.
I don't know where I got thisfrom, but I see, once I pray and
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I get forgiven, I'm back onthis trail of light, walking
with Jesus.
I don't know where I got thatfrom, but it's just.
Every time I pray I feel likeall right, you're back on the
path.
Tomorrow's a new day, let's go.
So I see this light.
If you fill up with the light,the Holy Spirit, you're walking
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with Jesus.
If your eyes are bad, you'vefallen into that darkness and
it's okay.
Just pray and you can beforgiven and right back on that
path.
So that goes a lot with how Ipray, I guess, and how I look at
my relationship with God.
(17:38):
So it was kind of cool.
I'd never really paid attentionto that verse before I know
I've read it in the Biblestudies, in the trailer in the
good old days.
But that one really stuck outto me and hope you guys can
relate to that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I think that verse gets brought up a lot when I
guess I've heard it a lot whenyou're talking about like desire
and even like lust yeah, Icould see that and not allowing
yourself to fall in the trap of.
You know how easy it isespecially on your phone like
phones, whatever to looking at,be looking at stuff.
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That's not good for yourself.
I guess, but that's kind of thecontext.
A lot of times I'll hear thatbrought up in, like when Jesus
talks about gouge out your owneyes.
Right, it's better to not haveyour eyes or gouge out your own
eyes than to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Mark 9, 47?
.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, who does that say I?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
don't know, it's on my cross.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh, I thought you were getting ready to say it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's something about gouging the eyes out and cutting
off your own hand.
That's better than sinning,yeah.
So with looking at this, youreyes can lead you to good, they
can lead you to bad and, yeah,stumbling blocks in your life,
um.
So it's all up to you, and Imean you can go either way with
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it um but just trying to stay inthe good and filling up with
light is the ideal thing to do,but we're all sinners and
struggle every day.
So yeah, that's kind of what Itook from that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I like that, so like even like we talked about,
there's just so much.
And looking at the passagesaround it, like even the one
after it's the Matthew six, 24.
It's so good.
It says no one can serve twomasters.
Either you will hate one andlove the other, or you will be
devoted to the one and despisethe other.
You cannot serve both God andmoney.
(19:48):
And it's like that alone, likejust the context of you either
love one and hate the other oryou know, you'll never see one
like kind of thing.
Yeah, even not even talkingabout money, I guess, just
worldly stuff and the desire to,I guess, because when I was
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listening to you I was kind ofthinking of like it's almost I
could be wrong like human natureto want to be greedy, I guess,
and want things and not, youknow, like you said, store up
earthly treasures.
But is it just same thing rightthere?
If I'm only worried aboutthings on this earth and this
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life, then I'm screwing myselfin the long run.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, you missed the message.
Yeah, in a way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I think your dad was talking about this and I think
it was a day we were golfing.
Maybe I'm wrong, but hementioned someone wanting their
name on a building or somethinglike that.
Yep, it's like okay, yeah, goahead, be happy with your name
on that building, whatever.
And donating is not a wrongthing.
That's what we're talking about.
We're talking about donatingand people wanting your name
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bigger than the contribution.
I guess, your name to be biggerthan what is being used for
that donation or whatever'shappening.
If that makes yeah, I bet poorwording by me, but it just goes
to that like, okay, if you'regonna go ahead, like, take your
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treasures here, but just knowthat you don't have that waiting
for you yeah, you're notstoring them up in heaven.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Um, if I knew the bible better, I would go to the
part where it talks about the.
I assume they were men in thestory, but they gave big checks
to the church and people wereknowing.
And then the lady put in hertwo nickels or whatever.
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It was two pieces of coin andthat's all she had.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
No, they definitely had nickels then in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
All right, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's what Ithought.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I didn't know if it was hoarders or no, they had US
currency before the US existed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, whatever little pieces of metal she put in
there she gave it all, but yeah,I can't think of.
When no one was looking was thepoint.
It's not.
Oh, I'm going to go up, whichgreat.
I'm not saying giving money isa bad thing, which you were just
talking about.
I'm just, I guess, saying thesame thing.
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You are.
Oh yeah, but whenever you readthat little verse there, I
thought of the story you told.
It might have been our secondpodcast where you were talking
about.
If you're on that fence andyou're not choosing God, you're
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not choosing the devil.
You're in the middle.
I don't know why I didn'treally fully think about it, but
I guess the devil is the money,the all the material stuff all
that, all that stuff.
So if you're choosing that andchoosing god, you're not, you're
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not, you can't do that.
It says right here no one canserve two masters.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You can't, it's not possible yeah, um so just to
choose god over all is importantum, so I found the parable that
you were referring to.
It's.
I found it in luke 21, thewidow's offering.
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As jesus looked up, he saw therich putting their gifts into
the temple treasury.
He also saw a poor widow put intwo very small copper coins.
Truly, I tell you he said, thispoor widow has put more than
all of the others.
All these people gave theirgifts out of their wealth but
she, out of her poverty, put inall she had to live on.
(24:05):
And yeah, like, like not beingselfish, like not selfish, like
overly greedy yeah you knowwanting to do it for others and,
like you said, not throwing upstuff here.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I don't know if like flaunting is the right word.
Yeah, like kind of like heylook what I'm doing here right
but it's pennies, not nickels.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I freaking, I was close yeah them, copper, copper
pennies with abe lincoln on it,back in back in the day yeah,
you know, jesus knew yeah, yeah,yeah, see relatability.
Yeah, you had something else.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, I was just.
I mean, there's so much in justthis one chapter, like I
brought up the prayer just realquick.
Yeah, and the fasting.
I'm curious.
I need to be more educated onthat.
I don't know if, like, weshould be doing that, if that's
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a uh sacrifice to god, I guess,or a commitment to I don't, I
don't know I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I think it it was part of the old law.
Um, I think there were certaintimes that you were supposed to
do it, whether it's throughmourning or trying to repent
through repentance fasting totry to spiritually grow closer
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to God, in addition to fasting,I guess?
Um, but go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
No, you're good, I I just.
I just didn't know.
I'm sure our audience is moreeducated on some of these things
.
Um, if you guys know more aboutthis, I would love to hear from
you and have that discussion,um, because growing up we didn't
I mean, it wasn't really aconversation where, yeah, we
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would do that on purpose, butI'd heard other religions, um,
they not eat a certain thing orgo on a fast or whatever, yeah.
So I didn't know if if I'mmissing something, or if that
was just the old law and now wedon't have to do that, or what
the case was yeah, and in the,in the kind of context that he's
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talking about here, the reasonhe's bringing up fasting is not
saying to do it or not do it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I, I don't believe he's just saying here that, um,
it's kind of the same thing withgiving oh, look how much I'm
giving.
Look, look, um kind of the samething.
Like people were fasting andlike almost making themselves
look I don't know, sick, sickerthan they were too, and trying
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to like be, like, look at me,look at how, look at how, like
spiritual, not spiritual butwere you here?
Was that the conversation youhad with Brady or Brady brought
up that he hates the people?
saying oh, I'm spiritual, but soit's not not spiritual not to
make Brady mad but to say, oh,look at how good of a
relationship I have with God.
And they were doing theopposite of what they thought
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they were getting out of it.
So it's like don't go outparading around saying, look at
me look at me.
So he's saying oil your face,make it look like you're not.
Take a shower I think they hadthose too.
They were just getting thosethings.
Plumbing was really coming inthere yeah.
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Do you have anything else onthat?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I don't think so.
I think that kind of wraps upwhat I was wanting to get
through and what popped out atme.
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So the section that I had picked out and I kind of
mentioned it at the beginningwith my world-class overthinking
In Matthew 6, the sectiontitled Do Not Worry stuck out to
me immediately.
So I'm like do not worry,that's what I do all the time.
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I sit there worrying abouteverything, and so I'll just I
guess I'll read the whole thingand try not to butcher it too
much.
So it's Matthew 6, 25 through34.
Therefore, I tell you, do notworry about your life, what you
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will eat or drink, or about yourbody, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food andthe body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air.
They do not sow or reap orstore away in barns, and yet
your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuablethan they?
Can any one of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life
?
And why do you worry aboutclothes?
See how the flowers of thefield grow.
They do not labor or spin.
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Yet I tell you that not evenSolomon, in all his splendor,
was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes, thegrass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow isthrown into the fire, will he
not much more clothe you.
You have little faith.
So do not worry saying whatshall we eat or what shall we
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drink, or what shall we wear,for the pagans run after all
these things, and your heavenlyfather knows that you need them,
but seek first his kingdom andhis righteousness, and all these
things will be given to you aswell.
Therefore, do not worry abouttomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble ofits own, and that's obviously.
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There's a lot it's all sayingthe same thing.
There's a lot, it's it's allsaying the same thing.
Um, but anyone, and I, uh, I'llsit there thinking about
something that is completely outof my control and not maybe not
even completely, but is largelyout of my control, like
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day-to-day stuff, and it'ssomething like even as as a
player, as a coach now.
That I say because I alwaysheard it and I believe it.
But it's like in games, you know, I always say, especially like
in baseball, and say controlwhat you can control.
Like, if there's something Ican't control, why am I worrying
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about it?
Just move on and I, even thoughyou know it's something I in
games, will tell kids like kids,you know whatever, complaining
about the strike zone orwhatever else, it's like you
can't make that umpire changehis mind.
You know, like it's not goingto change.
You just need to do what youneed to do and if he calls it,
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he calls it.
But Then there's times in mylife where I'm like, okay, I sit
there and I'm overthinking it,I'm whatever, like I'm driving
and I'm just getting frustratedabout this the more I think
about it.
Or up late at night thinkingabout stuff, and it's just like
why it's completely out of mycontrol what's happening here,
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like I just need to one have abetter attitude about some of
these things and not get soworked up about it.
Um, but it's one of thosethings, like I said, that I
definitely struggle with.
It's not, it's not easy for me.
I, I, everything and I.
I sit there and I just like mymind doesn't stop.
I only go one thing to another,to another, to another, and I
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just it's frustrating that I getfrustrated so easily about some
of these like very stupidthings and, um, I don't know if
I have an answer for myselfother than just like it said,
like trust God like that's allit is.
And I heard someone a message onthis and worrying as a
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Christian is basically almostsaying that like I don't trust
God enough right now, or aboutthis.
You know I may about somethingelse, but oh, this, this I got
to worry about.
I got to make sure like it goesthe way I want it to, and it's
like that right now that's outof my control.
I need to trust God.
He's got a plan and I may notlike it, I may not like the plan
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, but I have to trust him andworry about today and not worry
but go through today and let Godtake care of the rest.
Um, and maybe I'm just rambling, but it just stuck out pretty
heavily to me when we cameacross this and I found a couple
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other verses.
I'll just read a couple of themthat go along with this kind of
saying the same thing.
I'll just try to read through acouple of these real quick in
case there's someone else outthere with the same problem and
wants to have these versesavailable, I guess, to look at.
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So this first one Philippians 4, 6, do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition,
present your requests to God,and that one's pretty
straightforward, like, ifthere's something that you are
worrying about and you want, Iguess, like don't sit there just
worrying about it, go to God,talk to God about it in prayer,
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and that's and I've talked aboutit before that's something that
I'm working on too 1 Peter, 5,6, and 7.
Humble yourselves, therefore,under God's mighty hand that he
may lift you up in due time.
Cast all your anxiety on him,because he cares for you.
And then I'll just read thislast one, isaiah 41.
(34:15):
This one of these that I'mreading, this one is probably my
favorite Isaiah 41.10.
So, do not fear, for I am withyou.
Do not be dismayed, for I amyour God.
I will strengthen you and helpyou.
I will uphold you with myrighteous hand, and it's just
one of those things too.
It's once I can kind of getmyself to realize, all right,
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this is something not worthworrying about, and kind of be
comforted by understanding andknowing that God's got a plan
and I just need to trust him andlet things play out the way
they're going to play out.
Um, and, like I said, I'm surethere are other people out there
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that may share similarstruggles with that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But so what stuck out to me is it's not bad to want
things, um, for things to happenin your life that you want at
all, um, you go, you still go toGod with it and have that
conversation.
Just know that he's all-knowingand he's got you.
(35:25):
And maybe it's not what youwant right now, but it's all
part of this big plan that wecan't comprehend.
So just to trust in that yeah,we can't comprehend.
So just to trust in that andnot let it ruin your day or your
week or your life.
It's obviously easier said thandone.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Right, and I can imagine especially you parents
out there that are listening arelike well duh.
But I imagine having kids.
It's hard not to worry aboutthem.
Not that you shouldn'tobviously take care of them, but
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every day I imagine worryingabout your kid as they grow up
and them being out of the housemore stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That seems again, someone who's a parent and
listening is probably just like,well, duh, yeah.
And that's another thing that Ikind of thought about is the
things and I went two ways withit Because I work I'm 25, but I
work with kids half my age andso I'm like, okay, 12 year olds,
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the stuff that a 12 year oldworries about don't really
matter, like in in large schemestuff, right, oh so.
And so said this to me, likeyou're not gonna remember what
they said to you tomorrow, likelet's move on, you know, and the
stuff that they worry about andwe did too, I'm sure, as a 12
year old, um, compared to now asa 25 year old, so someone like
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double my age, a 50 year old,the stuff that I worry about day
to day, a 50 year old's likewell, yeah that stuff means
nothing as in the large scheme,like it's just kind of
perspective and it's, I'm sureas you get older stuff like that
um gets easier to not worryabout, especially like the
smaller things um, but it's partof learning and growing, I
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guess yeah, I mean you think ofsome in preschool.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Oh, they were mean to me, oh, I'm never gonna be
friends with them again, I meanshe said she was not getting my
friend.
Yeah, I mean you think of somein preschool.
Oh, they were mean to me.
I'm never going to be friendswith them again.
She said she was not going tobe my friend.
It's ruined my day.
I'm out of here, yeah.
But I like what you said.
I don't think you're going thisway with the parent.
Look, I think you were sayingparents worrying about their
children, but I think of the—Ilike the idea of God being our
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parent and you think of, I meanjust watching Brady and Zoe be
parents.
It's like all right, you can'thave chocolate milk every single
time.
I mean it's just like okay, nocrap, like God's.
I'm not saying parents are gods,but I'm just saying that that
uh, look on things like hey yeah, you can't do that so yeah
(38:23):
we're gonna change somethinghere and you aren't gonna like
it yeah, you're gonna drinkwater right it's, it's for the
better.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's a funny picture to have, like the the
stuff like like worrying aboutwhatever.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Not getting your dang chocolate milk.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, that's what.
So I was just trying to thinkof something that we struggle
like, want to worry about orwhatever, and that, just being
related to God's eye, that'sjust chocolate milk.
Like you're worried aboutchocolate milk, I'm stumbling
(39:03):
over my words tonight.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
That's a funny picture.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I was going to say something and I forgot it.
I guess I was just going to sayI know how you and Brady and
Dad, you guys are warriors.
Me and Mom have the sameattitude.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Just kind of go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, I think it's to a fault almost where I I don't
know.
It sounds weird in this context, but I don't wake up.
I don't go to sleep worryingthat often about things.
I can just shut stuff off andnot worry about it and um, then
it turns into not thinking abouthow other people look at it or
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if it's hurting other people'sfeelings or whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I just I don't look at it like that.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
So it's I.
I didn't have a lot to say withthe worry thing yeah obviously
I worry about stuff, but it'snot as um day to day as it is
for you guys.
Um, that do overthink andobviously I overthink and I
stress and I worry and all thisstuff, but it's not a big thing
(40:26):
to me.
I get over stuff pretty easy.
So I just hope you guys can getthrough that little time where
you're not getting thatchocolate milk or whatever.
Whatever it is in your life,that is that chocolate milk.
(40:49):
You just have to trust.
I mean, it's easier said thandone, obviously, but God's got
you in his hands.
I mean you're going to be allright and get through it.
So that's all I pretty much hadto say.
I don't know.
It's definitely not as big of adeal as you're making it in
(41:11):
your head in the moment, I meaneven if it's the next day you
look back at it, or five yearsdown the road and you're like
well, that was kind of silly.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
That kind of goes in like it's easier when things
come up for other people.
It's easy to be the positiveperson for them, Cause
especially like I I think Bradyand I are similar in that sense
(41:43):
where something goes wrong, orlike we're told like you know
something, you know for theirsituation.
It was like it was bigger.
But hey, like these are somepossible issues or whatever,
whatever it be big or small, Igot I'm like all right, great,
it's the worst case scenario.
Like it's whatever they said isgoing to be the worst, that's
(42:03):
what's going to happen.
It's my mind doesn't go tothink okay, well, maybe, maybe
it's the, the better outcomelike the better option, not
option um.
I guess outcome yeah um, I gostraight to that.
The worst case scenario isgonna happen in this situation
and it's gonna.
And I sit there and it's funnybecause I keep thinking about it
(42:26):
, but my car radio has not beenon in months like I.
When I'm driving I it's justsilent and it's again probably
not something that's good for me, like when I'm taking a
four-hour road trip to Iowa togo see my sister and I'm like
four hours of almost deadsilence and I'm like how do I do
that?
I've got to put a podcast on orsomething, Because I just sit
(42:47):
there and I just start thinkingabout stuff and then I'm sitting
there driving, frustrated forno reason.
I'm like, dude, put some musicon or something and stop being
so negative.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
But I just like, I, just I what I do, I guess, and I
need to stop.
But yeah, and I'm probably thecomplete opposite and I would
give you crap sometimes for,like, dude, just stick a little
bit.
Yeah, yeah just think a littlebit yeah, like, yeah, but like
(43:22):
and not in a bad way, because Iwish I did have that outlook
sometimes just like thought Iguess, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
It's like perspective I play the radio all the time.
I don't want to listen to apodcast necessarily I will
sometimes, but I think there's amiddle there where you should
have thoughts and time to think.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
But also don't get too caught up in it.
So I think us being completeopposites, I think there's a
middle there that is correct.
I don't think my way is correct.
I don't think your way iscorrect.
I think, there's a healthybalance where you are thinking
through stuff, yeah, but notdriving down the road for four
hours frustrated.
(44:02):
It's not like that I just sitthere.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I, I think you know like, oh, like I went back, I
went up to see my sister a weekbefore school started and I'm
just driving and I'm two and ahalf hours into this drive and
I'm like, dude, I haven't turnedthe volume up at all, I haven't
put like the unashamed podcaston or anything, which is what I
would normally do.
I get tired of music sometimes.
I guess like, if I don't havelike the music, I want to hear
(44:30):
that second.
Yeah.
But, um, I'm like I just beenthinking about like, okay, I got
, I got baseball tryouts onMonday and Tuesday.
I got to be there for footballthe rest of all week, or we're
off this week, whatever it is.
We have lifting this, that I gotschool, I need to plan, I need
to do this, and I'm just likerunning through everything in my
head.
I know it would probably helpif I was maybe more organized
(44:53):
about how I plan stuff, andthat's probably part of it.
But I'm just sitting there like, okay, I got this.
Um, and then I'm like, ah, crap, I, I gotta deal with this or
that along with it.
And you know, like I, whateverit is, and I'm just like, and
then I'm like crap, it's beenthree hours camping trip.
(45:17):
On the way back from the secondcamping trip, going through
hannibal thinking I ran a redlight or something and the
whatever, the, the flash goesoff and I just sit there for the
next hour just oh yeah deadsilent, not talking, so I'm like
this is stupid, this is whatthe heck like.
This is the worst case scenarioyeah um and nothing happened
(45:42):
nothing happened.
I'm like I didn't, whatever.
Yeah, I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
You know, no, um yeah I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
We rambled a lot on.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
It's already been, yeah, almost 50 minutes, and I
mean, hopefully you guys canrelate to that I'm sure there's
people out there that have donethe same exact thing or it's
like all right, that was silly.
I mean just yeah, but I meanit's, it's all learning and,
like we've said, we've wantedthis to be.
It's a young yeah, outlook yeah,on stuff it's I'm sure as we
(46:15):
mature it'll get better.
Yeah, um, that's our hope andhope you guys can either teach
us or learn from whatevermistakes we're making, um, but I
think that's the point so yeahand uh, probably schedule.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Hopefully.
We say this every time yepevery time.
Oh yeah, we'll definitely geton a good schedule here two
months later.
I think this break was a littlebit more warranted but, like
Brady said before, doing thisalso helps us stay in it and
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study ourselves and not justrely on a Sunday sermon or an
occasional thought throughoutthe week.
That makes us open the Biblewhere it gets us to open it more
and hopefully it gets otherpeople to think about things and
want to open up their Biblemore.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Well, we would appreciate if you share the
podcast with any friends.
Thank you for listening andhopefully be back with Brady
next time.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yes, sir, thank you for listening.
Welcome back to the Life Beside Christ podcast.
We are one haze down, but it isnot the same haze that was
missing the last time.
Carter has reappeared, and nowBrady is the one skipping town
yeah, I guess with better reasonthan carter's yeah, oh, I've
(00:29):
got a job what's that?
Like having a job.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I have a family and a job two kids, a wife, a job
what's his real excuse?
Speaker 1 (00:42):
yeah, what was yours last?
Speaker 2 (00:42):
time Father's Day golfing with Dad.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
No, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely be there tonight,
don't worry guys.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Well, I got the.
I mean, they were just going toleave me and go golf.
I was like I'll eat golf.
So I went to Springfield and itwas Father's Day, so we went to
the rail, whooped up on themreal quick, get a call mid-round
Whooped up on the course yeah.
Yeah, I was chunking everything, but it's all right, Get a call
(01:14):
hole nine when you at.
Oh yeah, I'm gone, yeah, but itwasn't like a
spur-of-the-moment thing.
Speaker 1 (01:22):
That recording was the most planned one.
We had?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yeah it, it wasn't like a spur of the moment thing.
That recording was the mostplanned one we had.
Yeah, it was definitely planned, it's also been two months
since then.
Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 1 (01:31):
Yeah, that's me, that's me.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, but I want to clarify I'm not really a mouth
breather.
All right, maybe a little lazy,I'll take the lazy part, but
come on now.
I'm doing some talking.
Look at me.
I'm in brady's spot.
I'm doing some more talking.
I think it's the spot.
Really.
This is a power spot to be in.
You have just control of theroom view.
Speaker 1 (01:54):
Right, yeah, yeah.
Well, now it was.
He had a chance to just talkcrap about you.
So what do you need to get offyour chest?
Speaker 2 (02:01):
well, I mean, it's just be better, you know, uh,
take off of work if we're gonnahave this podcast going.
Yeah, um, just better timemanagement really is what I was
gonna get after him for uh Idon't think that that should be
here.
Speaker 1 (02:17):
I don't think that that's the angle you attack,
that no he's got a big nose, soI'm just hating on him now.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
We miss Brady.
Wish he was here.
But a job is pretty important,I guess, if you have a family.
Speaker 1 (02:34):
He's just getting back into work from being home
with the baby and Zoe.
Now they're all home.
We'll probably just let himgive a better update next time
he's back.
Um on all that, but they'regood.
Um, any other updates that youcan give us carter on your life?
Speaker 2 (02:58):
um, so I don't know exactly what I updated last time
I was on the podcast, but I'vebeen testing with jackville
police department and that's along process.
I I knew it was going to belong.
I didn't think it was going tobe.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's a lot more drawn out than I thought it was.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be a six to
eight month drawn out thing yeah, because it's like what?
Speaker 1 (03:24):
a half a day of testing and then three months of
nothing.
Yeah, it's not like you're likedoing stuff over that time yeah
which is, but I don't know.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
They have their structure for everything yeah,
I'd say my total time is likeless than five hours, but it's
been over I don't know fourmonths, um.
So that's been uh, testing mypatience I guess, um, but it's
(03:54):
going good so far.
Uh, if you guys want to say aprayer for me, see what happens.
I mean, whatever god's will is,I believe that will happen.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
It's funny, though, kind of talking about you and I
had a conversation not to gettoo much into details, but with
the kind of way your last jobthe plumbing stuff kind of ended
and it was just not a good exiton that, but not what you
wanted, not a good exit on that,but not what you wanted, but
(04:27):
the timing of stuff that's kindof transpired since then, you
being more available.
I guess has almost been kind oflike a blessing in disguise
through some stuff, I guess.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Yeah, it's been I'll use the word fun.
It's been a fun way to watchgod work in my life.
So I I was doing the plumbingapprenticeship and that didn't
end too great I didn't want toend but and then dad got cancer.
(05:02):
So I was then free to kind ofhelp out there and do his field
work and be his legs for alittle bit.
And he's just now getting back,getting better, starting to
yell at me more.
So that's good.
But it's just funny how youthink, oh, that's not ideal, and
(05:28):
then six months later you justsee how it works out and how god
always has a plan.
You just have to trust what'sgoing on yeah, um but it's been
good um working on the fliphouse as well as much as I can,
but, yeah, definitely stayingbusy and trying to take
(05:50):
advantage of each day.
Speaker 1 (05:51):
So yeah and um with me.
Just we just are now gettingback into school.
Football's been going on sincethe last recording.
I made a trip up to Minnesota,was there for a week for a
football camp, went back, stayeda few days over the fourth with
my parents in Indiana and then,without coming home, went down
(06:15):
to Dallas for another camp withmy dad to work a football camp
down there, and then I was backand summer was basically over
for me.
So it was a good summer for me,but it was very, very quick.
And now we're back into a fullswing of football season and
school and then next thing youknow it'll be wrestling and
(06:37):
baseball season for me.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
Busy busy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
But it's fun, I enjoy it.
Yeah, it keeps me busy, keepsme busy.
I realized, though, over thissummer this was the summer
before football camp started themost downtime I had during the
summer that I can remember.
I didn't do like any odd jobstuff, like I was trying to do
pressure washing stuff like thatthat kept me busy.
(07:01):
Last summer.
I realized as much as I want tobe lazy sometimes and just like
sit around, do nothing.
That's terrible for me.
I sit there and I just me alone, like being lazy, not doing
anything, not having themotivation to get up, and I had
(07:22):
to force myself to walk a couplerounds of golf.
So I'm not just sitting on mybutt all summer, but also just
I'm a world class overthinker.
So that is not a goodcombination either.
But other than that, I guessthere's not a whole lot else for
us to catch up on.
(07:42):
Today we're going to talk alittle bit about Matthew 6 and
kind of like last episode's ornot.
Last episode, last episode waswith the STG, but the one before
that where we kind of pick asection or verse out of this
chapter that kind of sticks outto us and then have a little
(08:03):
conversation about that and thenmove on.
So I'll say this before we getstarted Matthew 6 and I think I
talked about it like the Sermonon the Mount.
There's just so much in it andthis is, and this is still the
Sermon on the Mount here inMatthew 6.
There's just so much and it'sso good, like if this was the
only sermon that jesus ever gave.
(08:26):
It would cover everything stillit's just it's, it's so complete
and uh there's a lot in there,so don't take our wording for
everything as the best.
Uh, definitely go read it.
Um, maybe follow along with usif you want to, but I would
definitely recommend readingthrough matthew 6, if, uh, if
(08:47):
it's not something you've donerecently, it's just, there's
just a lot there.
And that was one thing.
Like I kind of just hit on thesermon on the mount.
I realized there there's allthe topics that he covers, that
jesus covers in this are so manythings that one like are
calling out people of that time,but it applies just as much now
(09:11):
, um, whether he's talking tothe Pharisees and Sadducees and
how they they conduct themselvesI guess in that time, how just
the Jewish people of that timeacted, did stuff.
But all of it just applies nowand it's just, it's crazy,
obviously like God's all-knowingand all these things are like
(09:37):
don't do this, don't do thatkind of stuff.
But it's weirdly, as I wasreading through because I keep
reading through the whole Sermonon the Mount, I go through
every section I'm like, yep,that's me, yep, that's me, yep,
that's me, that's me, that's me.
And check marks through almosteveryone Except I mean not
(09:57):
everyone, okay, but a lot ofthem.
There's murder in there Ipromise I've not murdered
anybody, but there's just a lotin there that are just like yeah
, that's stuff that I strugglewith.
But the fact that he talksabout it is almost comforting
(10:17):
because it's like he knew right,like everyone's going to
struggle with stuff like thisfor all time, not just now.
Everyone's going to strugglewith stuff like this for all
time, not just now.
And it's comforting that he wasable to give us kind of a way
to think about and, through hiswords, try to kind of come to a
better conclusion, solution tosome of these things.
(10:40):
So that'll be kind of what weget into.
One thing before we started butI found I came across this
tiktok and this guy he's.
He makes like christian, likenot parody, like too christian,
but just like funny christiancontent stuff.
And he, there's this, thisvideo, and it was how to say
(11:04):
like not rude stuff, but kind ofstuff from the Bible and I'm
going to play this.
Hopefully this goes through.
This is my first time playing avideo through a recording, but
we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
Hi there you little chicken nuggets.
These are some Bible versesthat you can use.
If someone hurts their feelings, or if you just don't like them
, or if they're a little fartsniffer, let's get started.
If only you would shut up andlet that be your wisdom.
If you do so, again I will layhands on you.
(11:42):
You should mind your ownbusiness.
You can leave you, son of aperverse and rebellious woman.
Depart from me, you who arecursed.
(12:06):
Yes, I know, be quiet.
Me, you who are cursed.
Yes, I know, be quiet.
You're an evil.
It's perfectly formed like agoblet.
I know that's supposed to meanit's meant to be like a good
thing in the context of thatscripture, but I'm in it in the
bad way.
Hi there you little chicken.
Speaker 1 (12:23):
I thought it was funny and he put the verse that
he was pulling that from and Iwent through it and looked at it
.
I was like, are these actuallyin there?
And that translation?
Some of them are loosetranslations, but some of them
are exactly what it says andit's just funny.
It's like I know Be quiet.
(12:47):
I don't know, know, I thoughtit was funny, I find it funny.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
I hope the audience as well finds it funny.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
But right so there you go.
Just a little funniness tostart us off for this episode.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
That's how you fight them off there.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
All right, carter, you want to start us off?
Sure.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So before I get started in my little rambling, I
heard a sermon two weeks agoand it was about the Bible, the
Word, and if you love Jesus, youlove the Word.
If you love the Word, you loveJesus, and that's what God left
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us with you hit on it.
Where it's relatable, you canrelate to it.
You can well, that's me.
We're all sinners.
We all find these things inhere that are little.
She, our pastor that was giventhe sermon, said that these are
the little gems that are in herethat people don't highlight as
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much.
But as time goes on they'll bemore and more relatable as as it
gets worse and worse, um andworse in our earth, I guess.
So it's kind of funny that justpopped up that it is relatable.
I mean, this is who we are.
It gives you all the answers onhow to fix it, how to find God
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and come out stronger in the end.
So just amazing what the Wordcan do.
Everything's in here.
So just dig in and if you wantto follow along, then try and
keep up, I guess, amen brother.
So I circled the prayer,obviously because that's pretty
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important, but I wanted to talkabout the treasures in heaven,
Okay, so I find it fun andexciting.
I guess that if you dosomething good on this earth and
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you're just doing it, nobodysees you and you don't gain
credit for it.
I mean, you're storing stuff inheaven for yourself.
You're doing exactly whatyou're supposed to be doing.
It feels weird because I mean,um, I had great parents growing
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up and every little good thing Idid, oh good job, good job.
All this stuff, um, and I, Ifind more joy in being able to
help people.
Or if it's pick up a piece oftrash, I, that's the smallest
little thing, but I don't know.
It just makes me feel like I'mdoing the right thing, and
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that's what I want to do.
I want to do the right thing,not to prove to other people
that I'm a good person or I dogood things.
Speaker 1 (15:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Just to I don't know follow what God says and to do
those little things behindclosed doors.
I guess the piece that I pickedup in this is I'll read it it's
verse 22 through, I guess, 23.
So it is the eye is the lamp ofthe body.
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If your eyes are good, yourwhole body will be full of light
, but if your eyes are bad, yourwhole body will be full of
darkness.
If, then, the light within youis darkness, how great is that
darkness?
So what I see that is, I have aimage in my head.
I don't know where I got thisfrom, but I see, once I pray and
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I get forgiven, I'm back onthis trail of light, walking
with Jesus.
I don't know where I got thatfrom, but it's just.
Every time I pray I feel likeall right, you're back on the
path.
Tomorrow's a new day, let's go.
So I see this light.
If you fill up with the light,the Holy Spirit, you're walking
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with Jesus.
If your eyes are bad, you'vefallen into that darkness and
it's okay.
Just pray and you can beforgiven and right back on that
path.
So that goes a lot with how Ipray, I guess, and how I look at
my relationship with God.
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So it was kind of cool.
I'd never really paid attentionto that verse before I know
I've read it in the Biblestudies, in the trailer in the
good old days.
But that one really stuck outto me and hope you guys can
relate to that as well.
Speaker 1 (17:58):
I think that verse gets brought up a lot when I
guess I've heard it a lot whenyou're talking about like desire
and even like lust yeah, Icould see that and not allowing
yourself to fall in the trap of.
You know how easy it isespecially on your phone like
phones, whatever to looking at,be looking at stuff.
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That's not good for yourself.
I guess, but that's kind of thecontext.
A lot of times I'll hear thatbrought up in, like when Jesus
talks about gouge out your owneyes.
Right, it's better to not haveyour eyes or gouge out your own
eyes than to.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Mark 9, 47?
.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
Yeah, who does that say I?
Speaker 2 (18:45):
don't know, it's on my cross.
Speaker 1 (18:46):
Oh, I thought you were getting ready to say it.
Speaker 2 (18:47):
It's something about gouging the eyes out and cutting
off your own hand.
That's better than sinning,yeah.
So with looking at this, youreyes can lead you to good, they
can lead you to bad and, yeah,stumbling blocks in your life,
um.
So it's all up to you, and Imean you can go either way with
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it um but just trying to stay inthe good and filling up with
light is the ideal thing to do,but we're all sinners and
struggle every day.
So yeah, that's kind of what Itook from that, yeah.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
I like that, so like even like we talked about,
there's just so much.
And looking at the passagesaround it, like even the one
after it's the Matthew six, 24.
It's so good.
It says no one can serve twomasters.
Either you will hate one andlove the other, or you will be
devoted to the one and despisethe other.
You cannot serve both God andmoney.
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And it's like that alone, likejust the context of you either
love one and hate the other oryou know, you'll never see one
like kind of thing.
Yeah, even not even talkingabout money, I guess, just
worldly stuff and the desire to,I guess, because when I was
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listening to you I was kind ofthinking of like it's almost I
could be wrong like human natureto want to be greedy, I guess,
and want things and not, youknow, like you said, store up
earthly treasures.
But is it just same thing rightthere?
If I'm only worried aboutthings on this earth and this
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life, then I'm screwing myselfin the long run.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
Yeah, you missed the message.
Yeah, in a way.
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I think your dad was talking about this and I think
it was a day we were golfing.
Maybe I'm wrong, but hementioned someone wanting their
name on a building or somethinglike that.
Yep, it's like okay, yeah, goahead, be happy with your name
on that building, whatever.
And donating is not a wrongthing.
That's what we're talking about.
We're talking about donatingand people wanting your name
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bigger than the contribution.
I guess, your name to be biggerthan what is being used for
that donation or whatever'shappening.
If that makes yeah, I bet poorwording by me, but it just goes
to that like, okay, if you'regonna go ahead, like, take your
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treasures here, but just knowthat you don't have that waiting
for you yeah, you're notstoring them up in heaven.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Um, if I knew the bible better, I would go to the
part where it talks about the.
I assume they were men in thestory, but they gave big checks
to the church and people wereknowing.
And then the lady put in hertwo nickels or whatever.
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It was two pieces of coin andthat's all she had.
Speaker 1 (22:03):
No, they definitely had nickels then in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
All right, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, that's what Ithought.
Speaker 1 (22:08):
I didn't know if it was hoarders or no, they had US
currency before the US existed.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Yeah, whatever little pieces of metal she put in
there she gave it all, but yeah,I can't think of.
When no one was looking was thepoint.
It's not.
Oh, I'm going to go up, whichgreat.
I'm not saying giving money isa bad thing, which you were just
talking about.
I'm just, I guess, saying thesame thing.
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You are.
Oh yeah, but whenever you readthat little verse there, I
thought of the story you told.
It might have been our secondpodcast where you were talking
about.
If you're on that fence andyou're not choosing God, you're
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not choosing the devil.
You're in the middle.
I don't know why I didn'treally fully think about it, but
I guess the devil is the money,the all the material stuff all
that, all that stuff.
So if you're choosing that andchoosing god, you're not, you're
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not, you can't do that.
It says right here no one canserve two masters.
Speaker 1 (23:22):
You can't, it's not possible yeah, um so just to
choose god over all is importantum, so I found the parable that
you were referring to.
It's.
I found it in luke 21, thewidow's offering.
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As jesus looked up, he saw therich putting their gifts into
the temple treasury.
He also saw a poor widow put intwo very small copper coins.
Truly, I tell you he said, thispoor widow has put more than
all of the others.
All these people gave theirgifts out of their wealth but
she, out of her poverty, put inall she had to live on.
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And yeah, like, like not beingselfish, like not selfish, like
overly greedy yeah you knowwanting to do it for others and,
like you said, not throwing upstuff here.
Speaker 2 (24:21):
I don't know if like flaunting is the right word.
Yeah, like kind of like heylook what I'm doing here right
but it's pennies, not nickels.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
I freaking, I was close yeah them, copper, copper
pennies with abe lincoln on it,back in back in the day yeah,
you know, jesus knew yeah, yeah,yeah, see relatability.
Yeah, you had something else.
Speaker 2 (24:50):
Well, I was just.
I mean, there's so much in justthis one chapter, like I
brought up the prayer just realquick.
Yeah, and the fasting.
I'm curious.
I need to be more educated onthat.
I don't know if, like, weshould be doing that, if that's
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a uh sacrifice to god, I guess,or a commitment to I don't, I
don't know I could be wrong.
Speaker 1 (25:21):
I think it it was part of the old law.
Um, I think there were certaintimes that you were supposed to
do it, whether it's throughmourning or trying to repent
through repentance fasting totry to spiritually grow closer
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to God, in addition to fasting,I guess?
Um, but go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 2 (25:51):
No, you're good, I I just.
I just didn't know.
I'm sure our audience is moreeducated on some of these things
.
Um, if you guys know more aboutthis, I would love to hear from
you and have that discussion,um, because growing up we didn't
I mean, it wasn't really aconversation where, yeah, we
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would do that on purpose, butI'd heard other religions, um,
they not eat a certain thing orgo on a fast or whatever, yeah.
So I didn't know if if I'mmissing something, or if that
was just the old law and now wedon't have to do that, or what
the case was yeah, and in the,in the kind of context that he's
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talking about here, the reasonhe's bringing up fasting is not
saying to do it or not do it.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I, I don't believe he's just saying here that, um,
it's kind of the same thing withgiving oh, look how much I'm
giving.
Look, look, um kind of the samething.
Like people were fasting andlike almost making themselves
look I don't know, sick, sickerthan they were too, and trying
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to like be, like, look at me,look at how, look at how, like
spiritual, not spiritual butwere you here?
Was that the conversation youhad with Brady or Brady brought
up that he hates the people?
saying oh, I'm spiritual, but soit's not not spiritual not to
make Brady mad but to say, oh,look at how good of a
relationship I have with God.
And they were doing theopposite of what they thought
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they were getting out of it.
So it's like don't go outparading around saying, look at
me look at me.
So he's saying oil your face,make it look like you're not.
Take a shower I think they hadthose too.
They were just getting thosethings.
Plumbing was really coming inthere yeah.
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Do you have anything else onthat?
Speaker 2 (28:00):
I don't think so.
I think that kind of wraps upwhat I was wanting to get
through and what popped out atme.
I guess yeah.
Speaker 1 (28:10):
So the section that I had picked out and I kind of
mentioned it at the beginningwith my world-class overthinking
In Matthew 6, the sectiontitled Do Not Worry stuck out to
me immediately.
So I'm like do not worry,that's what I do all the time.
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I sit there worrying abouteverything, and so I'll just I
guess I'll read the whole thingand try not to butcher it too
much.
So it's Matthew 6, 25 through34.
Therefore, I tell you, do notworry about your life, what you
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will eat or drink, or about yourbody, what you will wear.
Is not life more than food andthe body more than clothes?
Look at the birds of the air.
They do not sow or reap orstore away in barns, and yet
your heavenly Father feeds them.
Are you not much more valuablethan they?
Can any one of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life
?
And why do you worry aboutclothes?
See how the flowers of thefield grow.
They do not labor or spin.
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Yet I tell you that not evenSolomon, in all his splendor,
was dressed like one of these.
If that is how God clothes, thegrass of the field which is
here today and tomorrow isthrown into the fire, will he
not much more clothe you.
You have little faith.
So do not worry saying whatshall we eat or what shall we
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drink, or what shall we wear,for the pagans run after all
these things, and your heavenlyfather knows that you need them,
but seek first his kingdom andhis righteousness, and all these
things will be given to you aswell.
Therefore, do not worry abouttomorrow, for tomorrow will
worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble ofits own, and that's obviously.
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There's a lot it's all sayingthe same thing.
There's a lot, it's it's allsaying the same thing.
Um, but anyone, and I, uh, I'llsit there thinking about
something that is completely outof my control and not maybe not
even completely, but is largelyout of my control, like
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day-to-day stuff, and it'ssomething like even as as a
player, as a coach now.
That I say because I alwaysheard it and I believe it.
But it's like in games, you know, I always say, especially like
in baseball, and say controlwhat you can control.
Like, if there's something Ican't control, why am I worrying
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about it?
Just move on and I, even thoughyou know it's something I in
games, will tell kids like kids,you know whatever, complaining
about the strike zone orwhatever else, it's like you
can't make that umpire changehis mind.
You know, like it's not goingto change.
You just need to do what youneed to do and if he calls it,
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he calls it.
But Then there's times in mylife where I'm like, okay, I sit
there and I'm overthinking it,I'm whatever, like I'm driving
and I'm just getting frustratedabout this the more I think
about it.
Or up late at night thinkingabout stuff, and it's just like
why it's completely out of mycontrol what's happening here,
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like I just need to one have abetter attitude about some of
these things and not get soworked up about it.
Um, but it's one of thosethings, like I said, that I
definitely struggle with.
It's not, it's not easy for me.
I, I, everything and I.
I sit there and I just like mymind doesn't stop.
I only go one thing to another,to another, to another, and I
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just it's frustrating that I getfrustrated so easily about some
of these like very stupidthings and, um, I don't know if
I have an answer for myselfother than just like it said,
like trust God like that's allit is.
And I heard someone a message onthis and worrying as a
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Christian is basically almostsaying that like I don't trust
God enough right now, or aboutthis.
You know I may about somethingelse, but oh, this, this I got
to worry about.
I got to make sure like it goesthe way I want it to, and it's
like that right now that's outof my control.
I need to trust God.
He's got a plan and I may notlike it, I may not like the plan
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, but I have to trust him andworry about today and not worry
but go through today and let Godtake care of the rest.
Um, and maybe I'm just rambling, but it just stuck out pretty
heavily to me when we cameacross this and I found a couple
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other verses.
I'll just read a couple of themthat go along with this kind of
saying the same thing.
I'll just try to read through acouple of these real quick in
case there's someone else outthere with the same problem and
wants to have these versesavailable, I guess, to look at.
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So this first one Philippians 4, 6, do not be anxious about
anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition,
present your requests to God,and that one's pretty
straightforward, like, ifthere's something that you are
worrying about and you want, Iguess, like don't sit there just
worrying about it, go to God,talk to God about it in prayer,
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and that's and I've talked aboutit before that's something that
I'm working on too 1 Peter, 5,6, and 7.
Humble yourselves, therefore,under God's mighty hand that he
may lift you up in due time.
Cast all your anxiety on him,because he cares for you.
And then I'll just read thislast one, isaiah 41.
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This one of these that I'mreading, this one is probably my
favorite Isaiah 41.10.
So, do not fear, for I am withyou.
Do not be dismayed, for I amyour God.
I will strengthen you and helpyou.
I will uphold you with myrighteous hand, and it's just
one of those things too.
It's once I can kind of getmyself to realize, all right,
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this is something not worthworrying about, and kind of be
comforted by understanding andknowing that God's got a plan
and I just need to trust him andlet things play out the way
they're going to play out.
Um, and, like I said, I'm surethere are other people out there
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that may share similarstruggles with that.
Speaker 2 (35:02):
But so what stuck out to me is it's not bad to want
things, um, for things to happenin your life that you want at
all, um, you go, you still go toGod with it and have that
conversation.
Just know that he's all-knowingand he's got you.
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And maybe it's not what youwant right now, but it's all
part of this big plan that wecan't comprehend.
So just to trust in that yeah,we can't comprehend.
So just to trust in that andnot let it ruin your day or your
week or your life.
It's obviously easier said thandone.
Speaker 1 (35:46):
Right, and I can imagine especially you parents
out there that are listening arelike well duh.
But I imagine having kids.
It's hard not to worry aboutthem.
Not that you shouldn'tobviously take care of them, but
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every day I imagine worryingabout your kid as they grow up
and them being out of the housemore stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (36:19):
That seems again, someone who's a parent and
listening is probably just like,well, duh, yeah.
And that's another thing that Ikind of thought about is the
things and I went two ways withit Because I work I'm 25, but I
work with kids half my age andso I'm like, okay, 12 year olds,
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the stuff that a 12 year oldworries about don't really
matter, like in in large schemestuff, right, oh so.
And so said this to me, likeyou're not gonna remember what
they said to you tomorrow, likelet's move on, you know, and the
stuff that they worry about andwe did too, I'm sure, as a 12
year old, um, compared to now asa 25 year old, so someone like
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double my age, a 50 year old,the stuff that I worry about day
to day, a 50 year old's likewell, yeah that stuff means
nothing as in the large scheme,like it's just kind of
perspective and it's, I'm sureas you get older stuff like that
um gets easier to not worryabout, especially like the
smaller things um, but it's partof learning and growing, I
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guess yeah, I mean you think ofsome in preschool.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
Oh, they were mean to me, oh, I'm never gonna be
friends with them again, I meanshe said she was not getting my
friend.
Yeah, I mean you think of somein preschool.
Oh, they were mean to me.
I'm never going to be friendswith them again.
She said she was not going tobe my friend.
It's ruined my day.
I'm out of here, yeah.
But I like what you said.
I don't think you're going thisway with the parent.
Look, I think you were sayingparents worrying about their
children, but I think of the—Ilike the idea of God being our
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parent and you think of, I meanjust watching Brady and Zoe be
parents.
It's like all right, you can'thave chocolate milk every single
time.
I mean it's just like okay, nocrap, like God's.
I'm not saying parents are gods,but I'm just saying that that
uh, look on things like hey yeah, you can't do that so yeah
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we're gonna change somethinghere and you aren't gonna like
it yeah, you're gonna drinkwater right it's, it's for the
better.
Speaker 1 (38:30):
That's a funny picture to have, like the the
stuff like like worrying aboutwhatever.
Speaker 2 (38:40):
Not getting your dang chocolate milk.
Speaker 1 (38:42):
Well, that's what.
So I was just trying to thinkof something that we struggle
like, want to worry about orwhatever, and that, just being
related to God's eye, that'sjust chocolate milk.
Like you're worried aboutchocolate milk, I'm stumbling
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over my words tonight.
Speaker 2 (39:04):
I kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (39:07):
That's a funny picture.
Speaker 2 (39:09):
I was going to say something and I forgot it.
I guess I was just going to sayI know how you and Brady and
Dad, you guys are warriors.
Me and Mom have the sameattitude.
Speaker 1 (39:28):
Just kind of go with the flow.
Speaker 2 (39:29):
Yeah, I think it's to a fault almost where I I don't
know.
It sounds weird in this context, but I don't wake up.
I don't go to sleep worryingthat often about things.
I can just shut stuff off andnot worry about it and um, then
it turns into not thinking abouthow other people look at it or
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if it's hurting other people'sfeelings or whatever.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
I just I don't look at it like that.
Speaker 2 (40:01):
So it's I.
I didn't have a lot to say withthe worry thing yeah obviously
I worry about stuff, but it'snot as um day to day as it is
for you guys.
Um, that do overthink andobviously I overthink and I
stress and I worry and all thisstuff, but it's not a big thing
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to me.
I get over stuff pretty easy.
So I just hope you guys can getthrough that little time where
you're not getting thatchocolate milk or whatever.
Whatever it is in your life,that is that chocolate milk.
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You just have to trust.
I mean, it's easier said thandone, obviously, but God's got
you in his hands.
I mean you're going to be allright and get through it.
So that's all I pretty much hadto say.
I don't know.
It's definitely not as big of adeal as you're making it in
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your head in the moment, I meaneven if it's the next day you
look back at it, or five yearsdown the road and you're like
well, that was kind of silly.
Speaker 1 (41:20):
That kind of goes in like it's easier when things
come up for other people.
It's easy to be the positiveperson for them, Cause
especially like I I think Bradyand I are similar in that sense
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where something goes wrong, orlike we're told like you know
something, you know for theirsituation.
It was like it was bigger.
But hey, like these are somepossible issues or whatever,
whatever it be big or small, Igot I'm like all right, great,
it's the worst case scenario.
Like it's whatever they said isgoing to be the worst, that's
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what's going to happen.
It's my mind doesn't go tothink okay, well, maybe, maybe
it's the, the better outcomelike the better option, not
option um.
I guess outcome yeah um, I gostraight to that.
The worst case scenario isgonna happen in this situation
and it's gonna.
And I sit there and it's funnybecause I keep thinking about it
(42:26):
, but my car radio has not beenon in months like I.
When I'm driving I it's justsilent and it's again probably
not something that's good for me, like when I'm taking a
four-hour road trip to Iowa togo see my sister and I'm like
four hours of almost deadsilence and I'm like how do I do
that?
I've got to put a podcast on orsomething, Because I just sit
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there and I just start thinkingabout stuff and then I'm sitting
there driving, frustrated forno reason.
I'm like, dude, put some musicon or something and stop being
so negative.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (42:58):
But I just like, I, just I what I do, I guess, and I
need to stop.
But yeah, and I'm probably thecomplete opposite and I would
give you crap sometimes for,like, dude, just stick a little
bit.
Yeah, yeah just think a littlebit yeah, like, yeah, but like
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and not in a bad way, because Iwish I did have that outlook
sometimes just like thought Iguess, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (43:25):
It's like perspective I play the radio all the time.
I don't want to listen to apodcast necessarily I will
sometimes, but I think there's amiddle there where you should
have thoughts and time to think.
Speaker 1 (43:41):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (43:41):
But also don't get too caught up in it.
So I think us being completeopposites, I think there's a
middle there that is correct.
I don't think my way is correct.
I don't think your way iscorrect.
I think, there's a healthybalance where you are thinking
through stuff, yeah, but notdriving down the road for four
hours frustrated.
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It's not like that I just sitthere.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I, I think you know like, oh, like I went back, I
went up to see my sister a weekbefore school started and I'm
just driving and I'm two and ahalf hours into this drive and
I'm like, dude, I haven't turnedthe volume up at all, I haven't
put like the unashamed podcaston or anything, which is what I
would normally do.
I get tired of music sometimes.
I guess like, if I don't havelike the music, I want to hear
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that second.
Yeah.
But, um, I'm like I just beenthinking about like, okay, I got
, I got baseball tryouts onMonday and Tuesday.
I got to be there for footballthe rest of all week, or we're
off this week, whatever it is.
We have lifting this, that I gotschool, I need to plan, I need
to do this, and I'm just likerunning through everything in my
head.
I know it would probably helpif I was maybe more organized
(44:53):
about how I plan stuff, andthat's probably part of it.
But I'm just sitting there like, okay, I got this.
Um, and then I'm like, ah, crap, I, I gotta deal with this or
that along with it.
And you know, like I, whateverit is, and I'm just like, and
then I'm like crap, it's beenthree hours camping trip.
(45:17):
On the way back from the secondcamping trip, going through
hannibal thinking I ran a redlight or something and the
whatever, the, the flash goesoff and I just sit there for the
next hour just oh yeah deadsilent, not talking, so I'm like
this is stupid, this is whatthe heck like.
This is the worst case scenarioyeah um and nothing happened
(45:42):
nothing happened.
I'm like I didn't, whatever.
Yeah, I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 2 (45:46):
You know, no, um yeah I don't know.
Speaker 1 (45:52):
We rambled a lot on.
Speaker 2 (45:53):
It's already been, yeah, almost 50 minutes, and I
mean, hopefully you guys canrelate to that I'm sure there's
people out there that have donethe same exact thing or it's
like all right, that was silly.
I mean just yeah, but I meanit's, it's all learning and,
like we've said, we've wantedthis to be.
It's a young yeah, outlook yeah,on stuff it's I'm sure as we
(46:15):
mature it'll get better.
Yeah, um, that's our hope andhope you guys can either teach
us or learn from whatevermistakes we're making, um, but I
think that's the point so yeahand uh, probably schedule.
Speaker 1 (46:34):
Hopefully.
We say this every time yepevery time.
Oh yeah, we'll definitely geton a good schedule here two
months later.
I think this break was a littlebit more warranted but, like
Brady said before, doing thisalso helps us stay in it and
(46:57):
study ourselves and not justrely on a Sunday sermon or an
occasional thought throughoutthe week.
That makes us open the Biblewhere it gets us to open it more
and hopefully it gets otherpeople to think about things and
want to open up their Biblemore.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1 (47:21):
Well, we would appreciate if you share the
podcast with any friends.
Thank you for listening andhopefully be back with Brady
next time.
Speaker 2 (47:31):
Yes, sir, thank you for listening.
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