January 26, 2024 • 48 mins
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As we edge into the new year, we confront the tradition of resolutions and the daunting task of staying true to them. Ever thought of choosing a 'word of the year' instead? We get personal, sharing successes and stumbles, and pondering if a single word can anchor our intentions. Finally, we muse on the rhythms of life and the notion that with every sunrise comes a chance for renewal, to shape our habits into the identities we aspire to.
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Speaker 1 (00:09):
Hey everyone, welcome to the Plugged In podcast.
Good to be back, guys, Ifyou're joining us for the first
time ever.
My name is Matt.
I'm the music director here inthe Massachusetts division and
I'm joined by my co-hosts,captains Nate Daniel and Larita
Heinzman.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thank you, matthew.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the show Nate First time in 2024.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, that's true, good joke, nate, it's not a joke.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This always happens to us.
We get over ambitious and wewere like, okay, we're going to
record two Christmas episodes,then we're going to do a New
Year's episode and then, yeah,life hits, and the holidays
busyness it all hit and now wehad no 2024 episodes.
So, Nate, now's your chance.
You can say happy New Year.
Happy New Year everybody.
(00:58):
He's been waiting.
He got it in Lots of stew, lotsof new stuff happening in 2024.
Bill Belichick no longer headcoach of the New England
Patriots.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's true.
Actually, you also have to.
Our listeners are dying to knowwhat you thought about
Oppenheimer that was.
Did you see those comments?
I know Allison was like.
I need to know Matt's thoughtson Oppenheimer.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oppenheimer Are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Maestro.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I was like wow.
I was like we're talking aboutthat.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Based on my research on atomic bombs and nuclear
energy.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, now I fully understand why you were staring
at me like what are you talking?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
about Maestro Bernstein.
I did not see those comments.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh wait, allison was writing yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I don't know.
If I you don't want to hear mycomments, it would be.
It would be a whole podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We'd have to take a whole episode to, and a lot of
tissues Tissues I'd have to getout my feelings.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
feeling.
What are you feeling I?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
don't know if I necessarily feel emotions or
feelings about the movie, thatwouldn't get me going.
I'm emotional about whoBernstein was, what he means to
musicians.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That's the emotional investment there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes, I could comment on the film and what I thought
about it, but you get me goingabout Bernstein and I will talk
for quite a long time.
But anyways, so that was almostan opening rant, but I do have
another opening rant.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Alright, let's go Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I just want to say it once and for all I am sick
and tired of my whatever.
It is inside of me that justfeels like on a wing and a
prayer.
You have to try to go to thenth degree to accomplish
something.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Your extraness.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So if you're watching on the YouTube feed, just know.
So this green screen arrivedthis afternoon like at like,
literally like noon.
We're recording.
It's 2.30 right now and I justlike there's something inside of
me that gets so excited.
I'm just like we got to do this, we got to try this.
So I throw it up, I'm trying tolight it.
This could look like the worstthing that we have ever put out
(03:04):
on the Internet.
So if you're watching onYouTube, I'm just going to we're
going to lean into how bad thiscould possibly be.
We might be at the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This might look phenomenal and we are talking
about how terrible it is.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We might be in an office.
Oh yeah, who knows where we are.
Maybe slap Justin Barter's facejust in the backdrop, like
that's like.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, absolutely, I think he should be here.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So we're trying to harness studio and green screen
technology.
This isn't the first try, butalso the first try was like like
two hours of panic work andthen, once you get into it,
you're like.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm so far down the rabbit hole you just can't stop,
and that's just a.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
that's just a problem of mine.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's our extra problem Matt.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's not a problem.
I do it with too many things,the standard is the standard.
And so I don't even know whatthat is you would aspire.
The standard is the standard.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's a Mike Tomlinism .
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It inspires oh my gosh, you inspire greatness.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh wow, this is becoming a motivational speech.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with whatever you
just said and going to say thatsometimes I swing and today
might be a giant miss.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So, like I think that's a personal character flaw
for me as well I like I likegrossly underestimate the amount
of time something will take.
I'll be like, oh, I'm going todo this real quick, it'll take
me an hour, six hours later, butI do it every time.
And then I'm like but then atthat point I'm too deep, I can't
stop, I have to continue.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You simply can't stop .
Yeah, all right.
Well, we're going to launchright into our podcast.
If you are listening, it'spossible that you are on your
way right now to the WalthamCorps to attend.
Friday night fellowship, that'sright.
Can you guys tell us a littlebit about what's happening at
Friday night fellowship?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So about a year ago we took a different approach to
what was at the time youthpraise.
We kind of put youth praise onpause and really wanted to focus
on the fellowship aspect ofwhat youth praise is.
And so we started doing likeice skating, we did some
bowling's, we did some otherlittle things.
So this is kind of, you know,walking back into that worship
(05:08):
atmosphere after really puttinga heavy emphasis on the
fellowship side.
So tonight at Waltham there'sgoing to be some worship and
devotional challenge and somesmall group components, some
games, some table games, somecreating some food, a lot of
good stuff, but really kind oftransitioning that strict
(05:29):
emphasis on fellowship tocombining the fellowship and the
worship focus and kind oftrying to re, you know, merge
the two after coming out ofcrazy COVID years and change.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If you're at Friday night fellowship tonight, I'm
sure it's going to be a greattime.
You have to encourage yourfriends from around the vision
to come, because I would love tosee a day when we have, you
know, the majority, if not all,of our core represented at a lot
of the events that we dobecause it's just, you know,
it's just good to see everyone,it's good to be together in
fellowship.
Outside of Friday nightfellowship.
(06:03):
We're already, you know, deepinto the youth arts ministry
season mass brass is rehearsing.
all this stuff is going on.
I'm just going to say one wordand then maybe, Captain Nate,
you can fill us in.
The word is collide, Oohcollide.
And go.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, so collide is actually the theme for our
upcoming youth councils thatwill be taking place six months
from today.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh my gosh, six months.
Sorry, sorry, five months, it'sactually a little bit less
Crazy panic attack.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Five months from today.
Math was never my thing, butcollide is our theme for youth
councils and really what we'refocusing on this year is all of
those collision points thosepoints of impact that have left
an imprint on our lives and havepointed us to the goodness of
who God is, and so we're goingto be talking about the people
who've left an imprint on ourlives.
We're going to be talking aboutwhen we've collided with Christ
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, when he's intersected andcrossed paths with us, how
that's transformed our lives andenables us to collide with
others for the good of, for ourgood, for their good and also
for the glory of God.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, so youth councils May 17th to the 19th
2024, Camp Wonderland.
And can I announce this?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean now's a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What's going on Tell us, since we have such a captive
audience.
That's right.
If you are a quarketette, ifyou are an active quarketette,
if your quarketette lessons areup to date leading up to youth
councils, you will get a reducedrate for the entire weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
All right Breaking news.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Say that one more time I am reporting breaking
news here that if you are anactive quarketette, and if you
have no idea what quarketettesis.
Talk to your core officer, sendus an email.
We'll make sure that you getset up with what the quarketette
program is.
It is a fantastic youthdiscipleship program.
You go deep in God's word.
You spend time discussingscripture, but also working
(08:02):
together as a core on serviceprojects and focusing on your
own personal information, yourdevotional in prayer life.
So, yeah, if you are an activequarketette and your lessons are
up to date, leading up to youthcouncils, you will have a
reduced rate for the weekendtogether at camp.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh yeah, awesome, lots of stuff going on.
I don't know if either one ofyou wants to drop the 100th
anniversary of Camp Wonderland.
We're having an entire weekendcelebration.
I know all the details arestill being formed, but maybe
you can just share with us thedate for that weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It is what is the date 24th through the 27th
Memorial.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Day weekend.
In fairness to Loretta, Itotally put her on the spot.
That was not in our show notes.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm just going for it , and Loretta's terrible with
dates, so say it again, nate.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
May 24th through the 27th, that is.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Memorial Day weekend, correct?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, I think 26, not the Monday, 24, 25, 26.
May 24th through 26.
Sorry, wonderland iscelebrating our 100th
anniversary, 100 years ofministry and life changing
summers at the Happy SummerPlace.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh look, we're sitting in front of the Rec Hall
.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh, my word.
So you love this Rec Hall?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's so beautiful.
We've been recording in thisfield the whole time.
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So red.
Sorry, I interrupted.
It was good.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean we have to draw attention to our green
screen as much as we can.
Are your allergies acting up?
Is that why?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
What?
No, I'm just sick.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm very congested with you Well played, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thanks anyway.
So it's just gonna be a greatweekend devoted to highlighting
the the ways that camp has beenimpactful and has really shaped
the lives of so many thousandsof individuals over the last
hundred years.
It's gonna be really Classic tocamp a skit night like a mini
(09:46):
banquet, church services,carnival, all the things that
make camp camp.
Yeah, I'm really focusing onthose things, celebrating those
things, and there's an awesomecommittee that's been formed
that we've met twice now andit's just fun hearing all the
stories, too, of all the peoplethat have come through camp and
and now play a vital role inmaking camp what it is today.
(10:07):
So yeah it's gonna be a greatweekend and details are coming
out Hopefully really really soonabout registration, all that
stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, yeah, and burying of a time capsule.
Oh yeah, I like that you know,50 hundred years from now,
whenever it's dug up again, ifyou are alive, if I'm alive it's
crazy, if the world is stillhere There'll be some great.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You'll have a bionic heart, so you'll be fine.
I fully expect you to bebouncing around 100 years from
now.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, we'll still be doing morning.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They're gonna welcome you back and say every dy s of
the past century.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh my gosh, you guys are gonna come back and my
electric hovercraft.
Yes, scooter hoverboard.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I think it's a hoverboard, I don't know I'm a
big back to the future, fans.
I like I like the hoverboard.
Thank you All right.
Well, I think that wraps up alot of stuff that we have going
on here in the MassachusettsDivision.
The whole point of the pluggedin podcast when we started a
year ago we are a year old,crazy was to keep people plugged
into what's happening aroundthe division, and that includes
events and programs and Thingsthat are going on.
(11:05):
Yeah, this is our 16th episode,so we've done 16 in one year.
I think someone else can do themath, but that's somewhere
around like three Epis or anepisode every three weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, I think that's that math.
Yeah, just Discluting all ofthe summer because we don't put
anything out in the summer, soit's not even a full year that
we've done.
16.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, it's been a fun ride, but a happy birthday to
the plugged in podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Cake green screen Horrible looking greens can put
a delicious cake on the greenscreen.
That'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh yeah, this is gonna be stupid.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's gonna say ever made this on the green screen.
All right, we have a game thatwe're going to play.
I don't know if you listeningout there have ever participated
in a blind ranking, but theidea behind it is we're going to
choose a category for anotherone of the podcasters and we're
going to list things off one ata time in a genre, and the
(12:04):
person that's picking has toassign them a ranking, one
through ten.
Now you don't get to see thewhole list, right, so you just
have to put a number to it basedon your gut, and the idea is
you could have somethinghorrible ending up at number one
, or you just you don't reallyknow so who wants to?
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I can start us off.
Okay, yeah okay, so I Made aranking list for Nate.
You can't see my screen rightNate.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No okay.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So Nate informed me a couple days ago that just a
couple days ago is NationalDairy Day.
Oh, happy National Dairy Day toyou.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And so I have put together a list of ice cream
flavors.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That Nate needs to rank.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In the dead of winter , we're literally recording on
like the coldest day of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Also, I think someone has the air conditioning on in
this building my toes are frozenand I'm never cold.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think the compressor keeps coming on in
this room, so I I'm sure theycan hear that over the broadcast
anyway, sorry, ice creamflavors.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, crescent Ridge is open year round, so this is
relevant.
That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
All right, nate, we're gonna.
I'm gonna start read them down.
You tell me one to ten alsohave to cough, so I'm sorry.
Boom and out of the way.
Here we go, number one rumraisin.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh, I've never had rum or raisins Together or
separate.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I will go with that is that has to be the worst.
That's ten.
Wow, he's that is old lady icecream, he's wow.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's a or old man, I don't know.
Apologies, I'm raising number10.
He takes up the worst spotright away off the bat.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Okay, mint chocolate chip.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, that's, you know, it's classic, but it's not over
the top, it's a little justmiddle of the road.
I'm gonna give it a five.
Okay, butter can Also an oldlady or old man ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And our listenership is dropping off.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, you realize, the majority of our listeners
are.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, I'm not gonna say old ladies, I just think of,
I just think of, like JimmyCarter sitting on his front
porch eating some butter.
What's the number?
Brah, I'm gonna say nine.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
All right, we're gonna flavor butter pecan okay
on Straight up vanilla straightup vanilla again.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Nothing special, nothing flashy middle of the
road, but very beloved by manypeople.
I'd say I'm gonna give it a six, six.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, I'm also want to remind you I don't need a
synopsis.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No, I need to Just need a number.
This is how I think it's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's how I work out each time that, by the time
you've gotten to the ranking,I've forgotten what the he
hasn't stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I don't even know what numbers are left.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's where we have we have one, two, three, four
and seven and eight.
Okay, is what's left.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay, I was being sure I had enough.
Okay, it's like becontroversial, but we're going
for it, sherbert.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh, sherbert, that's not ice cream.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, give me a number, it doesn't matter, it's
my list.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, well, it's not great either, so I guess, I
guess seven all right.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Seven for sherbert, for sherbert.
Okay, is it sherbet or?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
sherbert.
It's definitely sherbert andnot sherbet, so thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I don't, I don't know , I don't know.
Okay, I'm glad this is spelledlike sherbet next, next one,
neapolitan.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh, that is, that's great.
That's one of his favorites.
That is my weakness your jam.
Because I love variety, I'mgonna give that it's not the
best but it's good, I'll give ita three.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Okay neapolitan.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What is his one?
Is it even?
Is it gonna be here?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm just, I'm expecting something to just blow
me away, okay all right Vanillabean.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Definitely better than vanilla.
Why tell me the difference?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's just it's trying to go away from his synopsis.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So what did I rank vanilla?
You have vanilla at six and Ihave no chocolate chip at five
you have four open.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You have one, two, four and eight.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's better than vanilla but I don't think it's
as good as four, but I'm gonnamake it four.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, vanilla bean number four.
So you have one, two and eightavailable Okay cookie dough.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That is, that's a two cookie dough is two.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What's the top Peppermint?
Oh this is either one or eight.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh, it's not bad, but it's not one.
Yeah, I'd say eight, what's no?
Eight was still available.
No, I said.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I made sure.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I said like ten times he said it multiple times
what's number one played intomine, so fantastic pistachio.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Not terrible, but not number one.
Okay, nate, here's your list.
We're gonna recap.
Okay, I'm gonna go from the topof the bottom, go bottom up.
Okay, bottom up.
Last rum raisin number ninebutter pecan, eight peppermint,
seven sherbet.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Sherbet sure but sure bet number six vanilla.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Number five mint chocolate chip.
Number four vanilla bean.
Number three Neapolitan.
Number two Cookie dough andnumber one pistachio at least
number two is a solid yeah twoand three are solid.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Thank you over thought a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Two three and five are solid.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Okay, congratulations .
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Thank you.
Thank you, rum raisin is stilltrash.
All right, larita, I have alist for you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
No, but yes, go ahead .
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, so I went off of your world famous
Thanksgiving Draft that we'vetalked about in every in every
episode.
No, you said that you loveappetizers.
I do so.
My genre is appetizers and I'velisted these for you, so I'm
just gonna throw these out.
I'll make this hard.
The first one that I'm givingyou, I'm just saying dip, but
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that's including all of them.
So we're talking spinach,artichoke dip, queso dip,
buffalo chicken dip, salsa,guacamole this is just dip with,
like you know, chips.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I'm such a dip person .
Yeah, I'm going to go the solidthree.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Solid three she's going with dip.
Ok, mozzarella sticks.
Oh, oh, oh.
This is a good one, it's a goodcategory.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Thank you Four.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
OK, the way you introduced it.
I thought it was going to bejust potato dishes.
10 different.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The podcast will be over Like pause, I have to.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I sent Matt a video.
I got my.
I picked up my son from schoola couple days ago and he called
me Loretta Potatoe Heinzman andI said excuse me, what did you
just say?
He, he knows clearly, listenedto it in the car and had and
called me Loretta Potatoe.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You didn't have to play that portion.
That's a very like one secondsound bite, nate thought it was
hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, he's a friend of the show Jackson Heisman.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
OK, friend of the show, Top listeners Caleb and
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
OK, where you got jalapeno poppers.
Oh so far, you've used threeand four.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go like I don'tlike anything spicy.
I don't like jalapeno.
So I'm going to go eight OKpoppers at eight.
So I think there's still goingto be OK, keep going.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
OK, let's go with a charcuterie board.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh, I love a good charcuterie board.
I'm going to two with thesometimes first I have my snack
at night.
I just make myself a littlecheese, and that's very high.
I could reward.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
All right, so you've used two.
Dip is at three, Monterellassticks at four.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
We got a full middle at eight.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So you have one, five , six, seven, nine and ten
available.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm trying to keep my number one, but I don't want to
end up with something terrible,ok.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
OK, we're going to go with sliders, and this can be
like, it can be hamburger, itcan be chicken, but we're going
to go with sliders.
I'll go five, five.
How do you tell me how you likeyour sliders?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I like either.
I've had little mini likeburger sliders or like chicken
chicken sandwich.
Sliders are always a goodoption.
Those ones we had at the onebirdies hot chicken, those
little slider things are reallygood.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
White Castle.
No, anybody White Castle.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What movie is when they go searching for White
Castle?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's not a program to go to White Castle.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Harold and Kim are OK .
Never seen it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Where you got.
I don't know.
This is not a super popular one, I don't think, but I'm going
to call it cheesy pull apartbread.
Oh you've had that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yes, and now I'm wishing I had a little more
flexibility in here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because of course that's going to come with some
marinara sauce Cheese baked inthe middle.
The bread is fresh.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Cheese and bread, two of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I don't want to go one, but then my next high is
six, I'll go six.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
OK, all right.
Cheesy bread OK, let's go withthe classic giant plate of
nachos.
You have one, seven, nine orten.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh, this is so hard.
These are all so good.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I'm kind of wait.
Ok, let's go Nachos, let's goone.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Notchos, no, no, let's go seven.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But wait that's so different yeah wait, because I
don't have anything closer Isthis with the dip or without the
dip, because just a plate ofnachos without the dip.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No, it's not chose with like like I'm saying any
kind of nachos, so it could havechili.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It could have, it's definitely going to have cheese.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's going to have jalapenos like beef.
One to seven.
That's such a jump, and I haveleft 10.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, One, nine and 10 left.
Ok, we are going.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, ok, I'm fine, a seven Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
OK, we're going to go with bacon wrapped dates.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm glad I left 10.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, that's your 10.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Usually bacon makes anything good, but I don't know,
doesn't sound, doesn't soundlike it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
OK, next one.
So we have a quesadilla.
I feel like you're in troublehere.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Because if you if you pulled the move I left on Nate.
Then there's a rough one left,I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
One or nine.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Just to not end up in a situation, I'm going to put
it in one, because it's still adecent appetizer.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You can put some good stuff in it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Number one not as good as the stuff that I have
behind it OK, and then thatleaves number nine.
Oh, no, oh no Chicken wings.
Oh no, that would have been mynumber one.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm close to it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I had a couple others listed that were I had more
than 10.
But on here I also had calamari.
I love calamari, what else didI have?
Meatballs yeah, love meatballs,meatballs and a little
toothpick.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, yeah, I was also waiting for like a the
baked pretzel.
I love a good pretzel.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I thought about that.
I did have deviled eggs here onthe list.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh, thank goodness you didn't throw that one in
there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You don't like that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, I do, but that doesn't pales in comparison to
mozzarella sticks like OK allright.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So just a recap.
Loretta's list, so from thebottom up, number 10, she has
bacon wrapped dates.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm confident in that one.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Nine chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Bummer.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Number eight jalapeno poppers, seven nachos, six
cheesy pulled apart bread, fivesliders for mozzarella sticks.
I'm getting hungry Just like Iknow.
I know three Any kind of dipyou want.
Number two, charcuterie boardand number one quesadilla.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's an interesting list, Loretta.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right, we're going to take, I'm going to, I'm
going to play in just a second,we're going to take a quick
break on the plugged in podcastand then, when we come back,
we'll have my blanking as wellas our devotional topic for
today.
So we'll be right back.
Bye, all right, you welcomeback to the plugged in podcast.
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It's my turn to put together ablind ranking.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'm so excited for this, oh no, who say Loretta?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
are you taking notes for my list?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yes, yeah, let me get a I don't know OK who made my
list?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nate, I made your list.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Ok, I'm ready, so my list is why it's so funny Gosh.
My list is just.
It's like random invent, it'sinventions.
I guess let's just call itinventions.
It's a catch all category.
For what are these greatinventions rated in your mind?
Oh my gosh Right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Sounds like I'm a lot of wheezing laughter.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Number one K cups.
K cups, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Wow, it's a good invention.
Oh man, I you know, I love mycoffee.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
K cups.
I'm going to start the list.
I let's put that number seven,number seven.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Good K cups Got it the Chick-fil-A drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know what?
Let me tell you it isimpressive, it is, it is
beautiful, it is art.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It is literally they should run our government.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yes, chick-fil-a, no, I like man, that's got to be
All right.
I don't let's say number four.
Ok, chick-fil-a, drive through,ok.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Camera, the camera.
Where does that rank on yourlist of inventions?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Like starting back in like the 1800s, with like the
flame and well charcoal?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, I mean the camera be able to photograph the
iteration of of cameraphotography, videography
photography.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh man, being able to capture stories moments in time
, it's pretty awesome.
Is it better than theChick-fil-A drive through,
though?
No, so number five.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Five.
All right, ok, ok, pizza.
Hmm, I consider that aninvention.
Thank you, italians.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Number three Bread and cheese.
I love some pizza.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What's my?
What do I use so far?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You use seven, four, five and three.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
OK, ok, here we go, amazon Prime.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh, number two.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Amazon Prime Number two.
Oh no, I'm worried for the restof this list OK, the polio
vaccine.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I mean, I don't know what is wrong with my husband?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mean it doesn't, I could say it has no present
bearing on me but because it wasinvented right Number 10.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Number 10?
.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, wow, okay, yeah .
Our ancestors are like what.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, we're rolling over.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You've lived a really privileged life, matt.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yes, it is a privileged life I live.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay, the automobile.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh wow, I already said number two, right.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Do I have three open?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No three is pizza.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh, yeah, nice Five Photography.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Chick-fil-A drive-thru is four, so you only
have one.
Six, eight, nine.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Six.
So what comes first, theChick-fil-A drive-thru or the
automobile?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
The question the way to trap me Nate.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I put auto-bile Automobile.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh yeah, nothing to do with bile.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
All right, the iPhone .
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh man, I don't know what this is so hard.
What do you slot at number one?
I know, you know Well what'sthe next one.
I have seven.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yep, no, you have seven.
Seven is your cake up, Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I guess eight yeah, okay.
Cake up over iPhone Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
So there's two more left.
Cake up was terrible.
What a first one to start with.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You have one and nine .
Okay, great, great, I'm ready,All right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Indoor plumbing oh my gosh, this is so stupid.
The ability to poop inside.
I'm going with number one, Topof my list indoor plumbing.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, which leaves only one more Yep, the
trombone.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh, all right, I'm okay.
The trombone I think we talkedabout this off the air, but it
evolved from the sack butt.
Yeah, was the Renaissance eraversion of the trombone.
Okay, so that's my number nine.
That's my whole list.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
What would I add Bottom up, bottom up, the polio
vaccine Nice, what I got to callit Polio vaccine.
At number 10, number nine atthe trombone.
Number eight with the iPhonecake ups at seven.
The automobile at number six.
Camera and photography atnumber five.
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The Chick-fil-A drive-thru atfour.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That should be higher .
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This is quite an array.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, this is Nate's fault.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It is.
He came into my office lastweek.
I need some other things.
That's it Amazon Prime atnumber two and indoor plumbing
at number one.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Very nice solid.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
The list is called Matt's Inventions.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm glad that indoor plumbing was number one I am
thankful for that?
Oh, that's good More so thanthe polio vaccine.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah thankful for both.
But yeah, Quite a differencebetween your one and 10.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
All right.
Well, that's our blind ranking.
I don't know if we're puttingthat on socials.
I don't, we haven't reallytalked about that.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, I also didn't.
I've not done a great job atfollowing up with the winners of
all of these things.
Oh, that's fine, I'll putsomething together to put on
social.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, we're going to transition this over to
.
Lorena has a devotional thoughtfor us today.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I do, and I apologize for my raspy voice as a cold is
just going through our house,but I have a question for both
of you.
Do you slash?
Have you ever made a New Year'sresolution?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yes, yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And well, what were they?
What were some of your NewYear's resolutions, and how long
did you keep it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Want me to go?
Go for it.
I made a resolution that a fewyears ago that I wanted to learn
another language and I stayedconsistent with DuLingo for like
a week.
And I do not.
I'm not fluent in anotherlanguage, I'm barely fluent in
English.
And then I also made aresolution to learn the guitar.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And that didn't happen either.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I remember that one.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, I'll give you one that I have succeeded at and
one that I failed.
The one that I continually failis I feel like every year I try
to imagine myself like oh, Ireally want to like better
myself.
I want to like.
I want to read more.
I want to be in the classics, Iwant to read more leadership.
I want to like just read a lot,I want to become smarter yeah.
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And I feel like that alwayslasts through, like February,
and then I get swallowed up bywhatever I'm involved you know
with.
So I feel like I always fallshort of my reading goals.
Last year I did make aresolution to get healthier, so
I went on that weight lossprogram and, yeah, did a good
job of it.
I think probably going in theother direction now, but at
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least last year it was a success.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think at some point for myself, I
realized like I suck at stickingto resolutions.
You know, it's like you go inheadstrong but then life happens
and you taper away fromwhatever you may have
implemented or thought aboutimplementing in the new year.
I'm terrible at coming up withthings.
Odds are, if I failed at aresolution the year before, I'll
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just redo it, you know, thenext year.
I think of how many times Itold myself I'm going to, you
know, eat healthier.
And then you know Valentine'sDay comes and chocolate, and
then it's just, it's a downwardspiral.
So then the next year I'm like,oh well, you know what I'm
going to be eat healthier again.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And somehow they build like a taco bill next to
your house.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh my gosh, what are you supposed to do, like in
walking to say, or a?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
physical age drive through.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But it's hard for me to stick it out, and I think I'm
I speak for the majority ofpeople too.
But resolutions are oftenrooted in our resolve to do
better and let's be honest, weoften fail at better doing
better being better.
No matter how many times I Itry to read the Bible more
consistently, drink water moreconsistently, say no to sweets
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and limit the amount of time Ispend on Instagram and increase
the amount of time I spend on atreadmill, I rarely make it past
January in consistency.
I can go headstrong full ofmotivation, but it all just
tapers away.
So I started something new acouple of years ago.
I now come up with a word and Igive myself a word for the year
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, and that word can be a focalpoint for me in different things
.
That word is a motivator for me.
That word is something that Iwrite on the beginning of my
planner.
I write it on a sticky note.
I have it on a on my Applestickies.
I have my word for this year,so that when I open my computer,
when I'm doing something, Iminimize a window, I see that
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word and it's just kind of areminder to me.
One year my word was intentional.
I wanted everything that I didto be more intentional, not
thrown together.
I wanted there to be a whybehind what I was doing, what I
was, why I was doing what I wasdoing.
Last year my word was simplify.
I wanted to take on less stuffbetween work and personal and in
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total honesty, I wasn't great,I didn't stick to it really well
, but I wanted to downsize theclutter in my house.
I wanted to spend less and savemore.
But when I would contradict myown goal of simplifying, I would
remember and I'd feel convictedand I'd see that word and I
think to myself okay, next,tomorrow, do better.
You know, next, whatever, dobetter.
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And it felt easier for me toremember a goal word as opposed
to like an entire resolution.
It was, it was simpler to me tostrive towards that word.
Ironically, back in 2020, myword was rhythm.
I wanted to have some betterrhythm.
That I mean thanks to the worldin early February that one went
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out the window, but I havedecided for this year to
reinstate that word.
I'm going to pull in the rhythmagain, and what I mean by that
is I want to set better rhythmsin my life.
I want to consistently eathealthier.
I want to consistently go tothe gym.
I want to consistently bedeeper in my personal spiritual
life and be more of a positiveperson.
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I have to think of my son, who'ssuch a routine kid.
Right, I think we've talkedabout this with our kids.
When Jackson's routine shifts,we all pay the price.
When he is off his rhythm, whenhe's off his routine, we all
pay the price.
He has a rhythm to his day andit's that rhythm that brings him
structure, and that structureis what brings him peace, and
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that rhythm is a steadiness tothe way we live our lives, our
day to day.
Sorry, but I was scrollingFacebook the other day and I saw
this on my mom's page and mymom is always posting these
little encouraging things fromher page and I saw this and it
was just a confirmation to meabout my word for this year.
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It said in this second week ofJanuary, what you need more than
splashy resolutions is steadyrhythms.
That was confirmation for me.
I've developed some really poorrhythms in my life.
Back in the summer I was on avideo call with my doctor and I
was telling her what our job islike in the summer and what
we're responsible for what ourday to day is.
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And so she's asking well, whatare some ways you cope with
stress?
What are some ways?
And I was totally honest.
I was like well, usually I seekout some chocolate or like a
Diet Coke.
And so, hearing our day to dayand knowing the stress that's on
our plate in the summer, Ithink she panicked because she
was like, oh my gosh, she'sgoing to go off the chocolate
deep end, like she was in totalpanic mode.
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She's like okay, can we thinkof some healthier ways to deal
with stress?
But that conversation, eventhere, started this confirmation
within me about the rhythms andour routines and our day to day
.
The better potential, thebetter our routines and the
stronger the rhythms, the goodrhythms in our lives, the better
potential there is for us tohandle those unexpected things
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in a healthy way.
Ian Voskamp, who's a writer,she wrote this our rhythms
become our everyday liturgy, thesacred everyday cadence of the
hours that reorient our tiredsouls.
There was a study and I think itwas done by the Barna group
that said 45% of what we doeveryday is habitual, performed
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almost without thinking in thatsame location or the same time
each day, usually because ofsubtle cues.
And I know for myself, whenthinking of my routines and my
rhythms, I think each morning,when I reach over to turn my
alarm off, the first thing I dois look at either emails or
social media notifications,because it's the first thing in
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my face.
It's right there.
The more I give it space in mymind, the more I discover just
how poor some of my habits andmy rhythms are like, even if
there are any at all.
But when we were in Californiafor GYL, jennifer Dake, she led
a session on self-care and shehad all of us take out our
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phones and write down the first20 things that we did each
morning.
I mean as specific as open youreyes, turn off your alarm, pet
the dog, get out of bed, go tothe bathroom, like really
detailed.
And then she said after everyfive or so actions, draw a line.
And each line was supposed torepresent a pause or, like in
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the Psalms, a sella, like just apause.
And that pause is supposed tobe a moment to stop and thank
the Lord and to make it andthank the Lord and to make that
part of our routine.
And she said something thatwill stick with me for probably
forever.
She said our hearts follow ourhabits, and I think about that
in my my word this year my heartfollows my rhythms and so is my
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heart following the heartbeatof my rhythms, or am I following
the heartbeat, you know?
Is that what's driving me?
Yeah, if we are consistentlykeeping the same rhythms every
day, we keep our soul fromgrowing, from becoming run down.
It's the rhythm of our own goodhabits that can make a way
through the rhythm of our day today, how we work through the
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good, the bad, the tough partsof our day.
And Aristotle said we are whatwe repeatedly do.
What we do repeatedly is ouractual identity.
And so this year I'm focusing onthat course correction, trying
to break down the areas of mylife where I've developed poor
rhythms and create moreconsistency in doing and being
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better.
And so when I faced that curveball in my day and that was
something that as core officersevery Sunday, we would say
something is going to go wrong,but I'm ready for it.
And so when I face the day withthat kind of mentality, I'm
better equipped, both mentallyand emotionally, even physically
, to handle it.
And so the scripture that I'mkind of linking with this rhythm
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, this desire to be in a betterrhythm, comes from 2 Corinthians
.
It says my grace is sufficientfor you.
My power is made perfect inweakness.
Therefore, I will boast all themore gladly about my weakness
so that Christ's power may reston me, and that's kind of what
steering my thought is that hispower is made perfect in my
weakness, because that kind ofcourse correction can really
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start to reveal my ownweaknesses and can reveal where
I've gone astray.
And so spending more timedepending on him and setting
that as a rhythm instead ofdepending on myself, and that's
the rhythm and the heartbeatthat I want in my year and in my
day to day to have moreconsistency, to have more rhythm
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, good rhythms than bad rhythms.
And so I wonder just today ifyou've set a New Year's
resolution and you're you'vealready gone away from it and
you're thinking you're already,you've already thrown the year
away.
First of all, any day is a newday, right?
So start over.
And also, maybe there's a wordor a phrase or something that
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the Lord is putting on yourheart.
That's a little lessintimidating than a full
resolution.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Because what we need.
What we need are better rhythmsand less resolution.
We need more consistency, moretime devoted to the things that
matter.
We need to be rhythm to peopleso that when we go off rhythm,
it doesn't take us so far offcourse.
Yeah, so I don't know if anyoneelse is feeling that today,
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feeling the failure of aresolution.
A get back on track.
Tomorrow's a new day.
You know everything can startover.
And B how does that, whateveryou're resolving to do, how does
that tie into your going deeperin your relationship with the
Lord?
Yeah so that was just kind of mythought, for that's good.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I love the idea of a word and all encompassing word.
I haven't really thought ofthat before, but I feel like
it's important for people tocelebrate your successes as you
go.
Yeah, and even having somethingas wide as a word, like a lot
of things, can fall under theumbrella of that word, right?
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So I think, as you keep trackof your successes, it's
encouragement to keep goingforward, to try harder.
So I love that.
And rhythm yeah, it's such arelatable thing to all of us.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
You know we generally all wake up at the same time.
We have our routines in theevening, Like you kind of know
what you're doing throughout theweek.
It's never like, it's never aseries of like, such randomness.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Exactly that.
You can't predict your Exactly.
You know your existence.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, Random things do happen and unexpected that.
You know curveballs come, butfor the most part.
You know we're pretty routineoriented people.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
At least in this society, this culture, and it's
so easy to create bad habits.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, you know, yeah, I think of like, when you've
worked hard to overcome a habit,it doesn't take much to no Bam
yeah.
It's broken yeah.
You get discouraged you like,solidify the bad habit, then you
keep going down that road.
Yeah, I struggle with, I meanmy, my.
The struggle of my life is with, with food and like my
relationship with food.
And at this point it's likeit's either a mental issue or
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emotional issue.
It could be a spiritual issue.
I mean there's a lot of stuffgoing on to solidify those
habits.
But I just love that word, thatword rhythm, yeah, and that's,
that's good.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
And I think that goes right along with like also for
me, the need for consistency,because, just a specific example
, even in going to like the gym,I'd go to the gym for a couple
weeks straight not see muchchange and I'm like why am I
doing this?
But it's the consistency.
My goodness, my, my throat'sgetting dry.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
We're almost there.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
But just the consistency and and knowing that
you may not see results rightaway.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
But the rhythm is what is going to ultimately
bring about that change and that, that growth, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
I love the verse you used.
My grace is sufficient for youbecause my power is made perfect
in your weakness Right.
And I'm thinking how often I tryto set the rhythm my own,
without relying on the one whoactually keeps the time and
keeps the rhythm, and justrelating that to you know, like
a band setting where you know Ican, I can be sitting in mass
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brass and doing my own thing,but if I'm not looking at you,
Matt, as you're conducting andsetting the time and setting the
pace, will it really come intothis beautiful, you know,
harmony with everybody?
else, with everything elsethat's going on, and so just you
know our own human stubbornness.
If we can humble ourselves andsay, god, I I may not be great
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at this, I desire this, but Ineed to.
I need to just sit back and letyou do it, let you take the
lead so that I can, you know, bein step with the rhythm that
you desire for my life, and whatjust humility and and release
and freedom that demands of us,but how freeing it can truly be.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I know I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but
just like some of the greatestexamples of my life have been my
parents, and just like when Iwoke up for school you know, I
mean back then it was like thebus would pick us up at 630 am.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
So I mean, we were waking up at 545.
It was insane, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
So I was waking up at 545, but there was my dad,
there was my mom.
They're like doing theirmorning devotions, like the
first part of their rhythm wasto spend the day with God, and
what a discipline Like that'ssomething that I will be the
first to admit that I have notmastered that.
That is a very I feel like avery difficult thing to solidify
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in your life, but it iscertainly a one to emulate.
Yeah, and but.
Thank you, loretta.
Thank you for that word today.
Captain Nate, would you mindclosing us in prayer?
Of course.
Yeah, let's pray.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Father, god, we're thankful that, even in the midst
of our lack of rhythm, you werethe God who brings order to the
chaos.
God, if we look at your word,you spoke into the void of
nothingness and you brought life, and you desire to do the same
thing for each and every one ofus.
And so, lord, I pray right nowthat, as that passage says, god,
that we would recognize thatgrace is available.
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And so, lord, may we have gracefor ourselves, but ultimately,
a grace that flows from thegrace that you offer, lord.
You have grace for us.
And so, god, I pray that wewould receive that, lord.
But it's not a cheap grace, god.
It's a very, it's a veryprofitable grace, lord.
It's a very costly grace.
(45:45):
And so, as we receive that,lord, I pray that we would
desire to seek you more andallow you to really lead the way
, have your way in us.
God, I thank you for thischallenge, I thank you for this
word, I thank you for this newyear.
And how, lord.
The start of a new year isreally, god, just an opportunity
for newness and freshness.
And so, lord, we truly believethat you desire to do new things
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in each of us and that you aredoing a new thing in us and so,
god, we pray that, as we seekthose, seek your will and your
way, lord, that you'll revealthat and you'll make it possible
, god, with you setting thatrhythm in our hearts and in our
minds.
Lord, we just pray.
Blessings over those who arelistening today.
Lord, you know each one of us,where we are, what we struggle
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with, lord, and you are able tomeet us in the midst of that.
So, thank you that your graceis sufficient for us.
We just thank you and we loveyou and give you all the praise.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Amen.
Well, thank you guys.
We're going to call that a wrapon the plugged in podcast,
episode number 16.
We are well into season two.
Crazy, it was fun, as always.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
We'll take one last look at our green screen, green
screen, it's going to be theworst video in the history of
YouTube, do you?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
remember that we filmed from our, our living room
.
One time Like this is not goingto be the worst.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No, no, that's going to look way better than this.
Remember it was snowing.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
It was beautiful, oh yeah, like a snow globe.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
No, we've come a long ways, but today, today may be a
step backwards.
So, All right, everyone it was.
It was good to be with youagain today.
Today's drop date is January26th.
We'll have an episode for youin a couple of weeks.
I'm sure we'll be talking aboutValentine's Day and what's
coming up in the MassachusettsDivision.
Until then, we'll see you nexttime.
Hey everyone, welcome to the Plugged In podcast.
Good to be back, guys, Ifyou're joining us for the first
time ever.
My name is Matt.
I'm the music director here inthe Massachusetts division and
I'm joined by my co-hosts,captains Nate Daniel and Larita
Heinzman.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
Thank you, matthew.
Speaker 1 (00:28):
Welcome to the show Nate First time in 2024.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Oh, that's true, good joke, nate, it's not a joke.
Speaker 1 (00:36):
This always happens to us.
We get over ambitious and wewere like, okay, we're going to
record two Christmas episodes,then we're going to do a New
Year's episode and then, yeah,life hits, and the holidays
busyness it all hit and now wehad no 2024 episodes.
So, Nate, now's your chance.
You can say happy New Year.
Happy New Year everybody.
(00:58):
He's been waiting.
He got it in Lots of stew, lotsof new stuff happening in 2024.
Bill Belichick no longer headcoach of the New England
Patriots.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
That's true.
Actually, you also have to.
Our listeners are dying to knowwhat you thought about
Oppenheimer that was.
Did you see those comments?
I know Allison was like.
I need to know Matt's thoughtson Oppenheimer.
Speaker 1 (01:23):
Oppenheimer Are we talking about?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Maestro.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
I was like wow.
I was like we're talking aboutthat.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Based on my research on atomic bombs and nuclear
energy.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
Well, now I fully understand why you were staring
at me like what are you talking?
Speaker 2 (01:41):
about Maestro Bernstein.
I did not see those comments.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Oh wait, allison was writing yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:47):
I don't know.
If I you don't want to hear mycomments, it would be.
It would be a whole podcast.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
We'd have to take a whole episode to, and a lot of
tissues Tissues I'd have to getout my feelings.
Speaker 1 (01:55):
What are you?
Speaker 3 (01:56):
feeling.
What are you feeling I?
Speaker 1 (01:57):
don't know if I necessarily feel emotions or
feelings about the movie, thatwouldn't get me going.
I'm emotional about whoBernstein was, what he means to
musicians.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
That's the emotional investment there.
Speaker 1 (02:12):
Yes, I could comment on the film and what I thought
about it, but you get me goingabout Bernstein and I will talk
for quite a long time.
But anyways, so that was almostan opening rant, but I do have
another opening rant.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Alright, let's go Okay.
Speaker 1 (02:27):
So I just want to say it once and for all I am sick
and tired of my whatever.
It is inside of me that justfeels like on a wing and a
prayer.
You have to try to go to thenth degree to accomplish
something.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Your extraness.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
So if you're watching on the YouTube feed, just know.
So this green screen arrivedthis afternoon like at like,
literally like noon.
We're recording.
It's 2.30 right now and I justlike there's something inside of
me that gets so excited.
I'm just like we got to do this, we got to try this.
So I throw it up, I'm trying tolight it.
This could look like the worstthing that we have ever put out
(03:04):
on the Internet.
So if you're watching onYouTube, I'm just going to we're
going to lean into how bad thiscould possibly be.
We might be at the beach.
Speaker 3 (03:13):
This might look phenomenal and we are talking
about how terrible it is.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
We might be in an office.
Oh yeah, who knows where we are.
Maybe slap Justin Barter's facejust in the backdrop, like
that's like.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yeah, absolutely, I think he should be here.
Speaker 1 (03:26):
So we're trying to harness studio and green screen
technology.
This isn't the first try, butalso the first try was like like
two hours of panic work andthen, once you get into it,
you're like.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
I'm so far down the rabbit hole you just can't stop,
and that's just a.
Speaker 1 (03:44):
that's just a problem of mine.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
It's our extra problem Matt.
Speaker 1 (03:47):
It's not a problem.
I do it with too many things,the standard is the standard.
And so I don't even know whatthat is you would aspire.
The standard is the standard.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
It's a Mike Tomlinism .
Speaker 2 (03:55):
It inspires oh my gosh, you inspire greatness.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
Oh wow, this is becoming a motivational speech.
Speaker 1 (04:01):
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with whatever you
just said and going to say thatsometimes I swing and today
might be a giant miss.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
So, like I think that's a personal character flaw
for me as well I like I likegrossly underestimate the amount
of time something will take.
I'll be like, oh, I'm going todo this real quick, it'll take
me an hour, six hours later, butI do it every time.
And then I'm like but then atthat point I'm too deep, I can't
stop, I have to continue.
Speaker 1 (04:30):
You simply can't stop .
Yeah, all right.
Well, we're going to launchright into our podcast.
If you are listening, it'spossible that you are on your
way right now to the WalthamCorps to attend.
Friday night fellowship, that'sright.
Can you guys tell us a littlebit about what's happening at
Friday night fellowship?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
So about a year ago we took a different approach to
what was at the time youthpraise.
We kind of put youth praise onpause and really wanted to focus
on the fellowship aspect ofwhat youth praise is.
And so we started doing likeice skating, we did some
bowling's, we did some otherlittle things.
So this is kind of, you know,walking back into that worship
(05:08):
atmosphere after really puttinga heavy emphasis on the
fellowship side.
So tonight at Waltham there'sgoing to be some worship and
devotional challenge and somesmall group components, some
games, some table games, somecreating some food, a lot of
good stuff, but really kind oftransitioning that strict
(05:29):
emphasis on fellowship tocombining the fellowship and the
worship focus and kind oftrying to re, you know, merge
the two after coming out ofcrazy COVID years and change.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
If you're at Friday night fellowship tonight, I'm
sure it's going to be a greattime.
You have to encourage yourfriends from around the vision
to come, because I would love tosee a day when we have, you
know, the majority, if not all,of our core represented at a lot
of the events that we dobecause it's just, you know,
it's just good to see everyone,it's good to be together in
fellowship.
Outside of Friday nightfellowship.
(06:03):
We're already, you know, deepinto the youth arts ministry
season mass brass is rehearsing.
all this stuff is going on.
I'm just going to say one wordand then maybe, Captain Nate,
you can fill us in.
The word is collide, Oohcollide.
And go.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
Yeah, so collide is actually the theme for our
upcoming youth councils thatwill be taking place six months
from today.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Oh my gosh, six months.
Sorry, sorry, five months, it'sactually a little bit less
Crazy panic attack.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Five months from today.
Math was never my thing, butcollide is our theme for youth
councils and really what we'refocusing on this year is all of
those collision points thosepoints of impact that have left
an imprint on our lives and havepointed us to the goodness of
who God is, and so we're goingto be talking about the people
who've left an imprint on ourlives.
We're going to be talking aboutwhen we've collided with Christ
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, when he's intersected andcrossed paths with us, how
that's transformed our lives andenables us to collide with
others for the good of, for ourgood, for their good and also
for the glory of God.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Got it.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah, so youth councils May 17th to the 19th
2024, Camp Wonderland.
And can I announce this?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
I mean now's a good time.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
What's going on Tell us, since we have such a captive
audience.
That's right.
If you are a quarketette, ifyou are an active quarketette,
if your quarketette lessons areup to date leading up to youth
councils, you will get a reducedrate for the entire weekend.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
All right Breaking news.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Say that one more time I am reporting breaking
news here that if you are anactive quarketette, and if you
have no idea what quarketettesis.
Talk to your core officer, sendus an email.
We'll make sure that you getset up with what the quarketette
program is.
It is a fantastic youthdiscipleship program.
You go deep in God's word.
You spend time discussingscripture, but also working
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together as a core on serviceprojects and focusing on your
own personal information, yourdevotional in prayer life.
So, yeah, if you are an activequarketette and your lessons are
up to date, leading up to youthcouncils, you will have a
reduced rate for the weekendtogether at camp.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
Oh yeah, awesome, lots of stuff going on.
I don't know if either one ofyou wants to drop the 100th
anniversary of Camp Wonderland.
We're having an entire weekendcelebration.
I know all the details arestill being formed, but maybe
you can just share with us thedate for that weekend.
Speaker 3 (08:33):
I would love to.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
It is what is the date 24th through the 27th
Memorial.
Speaker 1 (08:39):
Day weekend.
In fairness to Loretta, Itotally put her on the spot.
That was not in our show notes.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
I'm just going for it , and Loretta's terrible with
dates, so say it again, nate.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
May 24th through the 27th, that is.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
Memorial Day weekend, correct?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Yes, I think 26, not the Monday, 24, 25, 26.
May 24th through 26.
Sorry, wonderland iscelebrating our 100th
anniversary, 100 years ofministry and life changing
summers at the Happy SummerPlace.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
Oh look, we're sitting in front of the Rec Hall
.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Oh, my word.
So you love this Rec Hall?
Speaker 1 (09:11):
It's so beautiful.
We've been recording in thisfield the whole time.
It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
So red.
Sorry, I interrupted.
It was good.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I mean we have to draw attention to our green
screen as much as we can.
Are your allergies acting up?
Is that why?
Speaker 3 (09:22):
What?
No, I'm just sick.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
I'm very congested with you Well played, sir.
Speaker 3 (09:26):
Thanks anyway.
So it's just gonna be a greatweekend devoted to highlighting
the the ways that camp has beenimpactful and has really shaped
the lives of so many thousandsof individuals over the last
hundred years.
It's gonna be really Classic tocamp a skit night like a mini
(09:46):
banquet, church services,carnival, all the things that
make camp camp.
Yeah, I'm really focusing onthose things, celebrating those
things, and there's an awesomecommittee that's been formed
that we've met twice now andit's just fun hearing all the
stories, too, of all the peoplethat have come through camp and
and now play a vital role inmaking camp what it is today.
(10:07):
So yeah it's gonna be a greatweekend and details are coming
out Hopefully really really soonabout registration, all that
stuff.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Yeah, yeah, and burying of a time capsule.
Oh yeah, I like that you know,50 hundred years from now,
whenever it's dug up again, ifyou are alive, if I'm alive it's
crazy, if the world is stillhere There'll be some great.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
You'll have a bionic heart, so you'll be fine.
I fully expect you to bebouncing around 100 years from
now.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Yeah, we'll still be doing morning.
Speaker 1 (10:34):
They're gonna welcome you back and say every dy s of
the past century.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Oh my gosh, you guys are gonna come back and my
electric hovercraft.
Yes, scooter hoverboard.
Speaker 1 (10:43):
I think it's a hoverboard, I don't know I'm a
big back to the future, fans.
I like I like the hoverboard.
Thank you All right.
Well, I think that wraps up alot of stuff that we have going
on here in the MassachusettsDivision.
The whole point of the pluggedin podcast when we started a
year ago we are a year old,crazy was to keep people plugged
into what's happening aroundthe division, and that includes
events and programs and Thingsthat are going on.
(11:05):
Yeah, this is our 16th episode,so we've done 16 in one year.
I think someone else can do themath, but that's somewhere
around like three Epis or anepisode every three weeks.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
Yeah, I think that's that math.
Yeah, just Discluting all ofthe summer because we don't put
anything out in the summer, soit's not even a full year that
we've done.
16.
Speaker 1 (11:24):
Yeah, it's been a fun ride, but a happy birthday to
the plugged in podcast.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Cake green screen Horrible looking greens can put
a delicious cake on the greenscreen.
That'd be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Oh yeah, this is gonna be stupid.
Speaker 1 (11:41):
It's gonna say ever made this on the green screen.
All right, we have a game thatwe're going to play.
I don't know if you listeningout there have ever participated
in a blind ranking, but theidea behind it is we're going to
choose a category for anotherone of the podcasters and we're
going to list things off one ata time in a genre, and the
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person that's picking has toassign them a ranking, one
through ten.
Now you don't get to see thewhole list, right, so you just
have to put a number to it basedon your gut, and the idea is
you could have somethinghorrible ending up at number one
, or you just you don't reallyknow so who wants to?
Who wants to go first?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
I can start us off.
Okay, yeah okay, so I Made aranking list for Nate.
You can't see my screen rightNate.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
No okay.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
So Nate informed me a couple days ago that just a
couple days ago is NationalDairy Day.
Oh, happy National Dairy Day toyou.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (12:41):
And so I have put together a list of ice cream
flavors.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
That Nate needs to rank.
Speaker 1 (12:47):
In the dead of winter , we're literally recording on
like the coldest day of the year.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
Also, I think someone has the air conditioning on in
this building my toes are frozenand I'm never cold.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
I think the compressor keeps coming on in
this room, so I I'm sure theycan hear that over the broadcast
anyway, sorry, ice creamflavors.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
Yeah, crescent Ridge is open year round, so this is
relevant.
That's impressive.
Speaker 3 (13:09):
All right, nate, we're gonna.
I'm gonna start read them down.
You tell me one to ten alsohave to cough, so I'm sorry.
Boom and out of the way.
Here we go, number one rumraisin.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Oh, I've never had rum or raisins Together or
separate.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
I will go with that is that has to be the worst.
That's ten.
Wow, he's that is old lady icecream, he's wow.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
He's a or old man, I don't know.
Apologies, I'm raising number10.
He takes up the worst spotright away off the bat.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Okay, mint chocolate chip.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Oh, that's, you know, it's classic, but it's not over
the top, it's a little justmiddle of the road.
I'm gonna give it a five.
Okay, butter can Also an oldlady or old man ice cream.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
And our listenership is dropping off.
Speaker 1 (14:10):
Well, you realize, the majority of our listeners
are.
Speaker 2 (14:13):
Yeah, I'm not gonna say old ladies, I just think of,
I just think of, like JimmyCarter sitting on his front
porch eating some butter.
What's the number?
Brah, I'm gonna say nine.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
All right, we're gonna flavor butter pecan okay
on Straight up vanilla straightup vanilla again.
Speaker 2 (14:30):
Nothing special, nothing flashy middle of the
road, but very beloved by manypeople.
I'd say I'm gonna give it a six, six.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Okay, I'm also want to remind you I don't need a
synopsis.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
No, I need to Just need a number.
This is how I think it's.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
It's how I work out each time that, by the time
you've gotten to the ranking,I've forgotten what the he
hasn't stopped.
Speaker 2 (14:51):
I don't even know what numbers are left.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
That's where we have we have one, two, three, four
and seven and eight.
Okay, is what's left.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
Okay, I was being sure I had enough.
Okay, it's like becontroversial, but we're going
for it, sherbert.
Speaker 2 (15:05):
Oh, sherbert, that's not ice cream.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Well, give me a number, it doesn't matter, it's
my list.
Speaker 2 (15:10):
Okay, well, it's not great either, so I guess, I
guess seven all right.
Speaker 1 (15:17):
Seven for sherbert, for sherbert.
Okay, is it sherbet or?
Speaker 3 (15:20):
sherbert.
It's definitely sherbert andnot sherbet, so thank you.
Speaker 1 (15:24):
I don't, I don't know , I don't know.
Okay, I'm glad this is spelledlike sherbet next, next one,
neapolitan.
Speaker 2 (15:31):
Oh, that is, that's great.
That's one of his favorites.
That is my weakness your jam.
Because I love variety, I'mgonna give that it's not the
best but it's good, I'll give ita three.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Okay neapolitan.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
What is his one?
Is it even?
Is it gonna be here?
Speaker 2 (15:46):
I'm just, I'm expecting something to just blow
me away, okay all right Vanillabean.
Speaker 1 (15:53):
Definitely better than vanilla.
Why tell me the difference?
Speaker 2 (15:56):
It's just it's trying to go away from his synopsis.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Oh yeah, sorry.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
So what did I rank vanilla?
You have vanilla at six and Ihave no chocolate chip at five
you have four open.
Speaker 1 (16:05):
You have one, two, four and eight.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It's better than vanilla but I don't think it's
as good as four, but I'm gonnamake it four.
Speaker 1 (16:12):
Okay, vanilla bean number four.
So you have one, two and eightavailable Okay cookie dough.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That is, that's a two cookie dough is two.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
What's the top Peppermint?
Oh this is either one or eight.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
Oh, it's not bad, but it's not one.
Yeah, I'd say eight, what's no?
Eight was still available.
No, I said.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
I made sure.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
I said like ten times he said it multiple times
what's number one played intomine, so fantastic pistachio.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Not terrible, but not number one.
Okay, nate, here's your list.
We're gonna recap.
Okay, I'm gonna go from the topof the bottom, go bottom up.
Okay, bottom up.
Last rum raisin number ninebutter pecan, eight peppermint,
seven sherbet.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Sherbet sure but sure bet number six vanilla.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
Number five mint chocolate chip.
Number four vanilla bean.
Number three Neapolitan.
Number two Cookie dough andnumber one pistachio at least
number two is a solid yeah twoand three are solid.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
Thank you over thought a little bit.
Speaker 2 (17:19):
Two three and five are solid.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
Okay, congratulations .
Speaker 2 (17:22):
Thank you.
Thank you, rum raisin is stilltrash.
All right, larita, I have alist for you.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Okay.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
Are you ready?
Speaker 3 (17:27):
No, but yes, go ahead .
Speaker 1 (17:29):
Okay, so I went off of your world famous
Thanksgiving Draft that we'vetalked about in every in every
episode.
No, you said that you loveappetizers.
I do so.
My genre is appetizers and I'velisted these for you, so I'm
just gonna throw these out.
I'll make this hard.
The first one that I'm givingyou, I'm just saying dip, but
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that's including all of them.
So we're talking spinach,artichoke dip, queso dip,
buffalo chicken dip, salsa,guacamole this is just dip with,
like you know, chips.
Speaker 3 (18:02):
I'm such a dip person .
Yeah, I'm going to go the solidthree.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Solid three she's going with dip.
Ok, mozzarella sticks.
Oh, oh, oh.
This is a good one, it's a goodcategory.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Thank you Four.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
OK, the way you introduced it.
I thought it was going to bejust potato dishes.
10 different.
Speaker 1 (18:22):
The podcast will be over Like pause, I have to.
Speaker 3 (18:25):
I sent Matt a video.
I got my.
I picked up my son from schoola couple days ago and he called
me Loretta Potatoe Heinzman andI said excuse me, what did you
just say?
He, he knows clearly, listenedto it in the car and had and
called me Loretta Potatoe.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You didn't have to play that portion.
That's a very like one secondsound bite, nate thought it was
hilarious.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Sorry, he's a friend of the show Jackson Heisman.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
OK, friend of the show, Top listeners Caleb and
Jackson.
Speaker 1 (18:54):
OK, where you got jalapeno poppers.
Oh so far, you've used threeand four.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
I'm going to go.
I'm going to go like I don'tlike anything spicy.
I don't like jalapeno.
So I'm going to go eight OKpoppers at eight.
So I think there's still goingto be OK, keep going.
Speaker 1 (19:10):
OK, let's go with a charcuterie board.
Speaker 3 (19:13):
Oh, I love a good charcuterie board.
I'm going to two with thesometimes first I have my snack
at night.
I just make myself a littlecheese, and that's very high.
I could reward.
I love it.
Speaker 1 (19:25):
All right, so you've used two.
Dip is at three, Monterellassticks at four.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
We got a full middle at eight.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
So you have one, five , six, seven, nine and ten
available.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I'm trying to keep my number one, but I don't want to
end up with something terrible,ok.
Speaker 1 (19:37):
OK, we're going to go with sliders, and this can be
like, it can be hamburger, itcan be chicken, but we're going
to go with sliders.
I'll go five, five.
How do you tell me how you likeyour sliders?
Speaker 3 (19:49):
I like either.
I've had little mini likeburger sliders or like chicken
chicken sandwich.
Sliders are always a goodoption.
Those ones we had at the onebirdies hot chicken, those
little slider things are reallygood.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
White Castle.
No, anybody White Castle.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
No.
Speaker 1 (20:05):
What movie is when they go searching for White
Castle?
Speaker 2 (20:08):
It's not a program to go to White Castle.
Speaker 3 (20:11):
Harold and Kim are OK .
Never seen it.
Speaker 1 (20:13):
Where you got.
I don't know.
This is not a super popular one, I don't think, but I'm going
to call it cheesy pull apartbread.
Oh you've had that.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yes, and now I'm wishing I had a little more
flexibility in here.
Speaker 1 (20:26):
Because of course that's going to come with some
marinara sauce Cheese baked inthe middle.
The bread is fresh.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Cheese and bread, two of my favorite things.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
I don't want to go one, but then my next high is
six, I'll go six.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
OK, all right.
Cheesy bread OK, let's go withthe classic giant plate of
nachos.
You have one, seven, nine orten.
Speaker 3 (20:52):
Oh, this is so hard.
These are all so good.
Speaker 1 (20:55):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (20:55):
I'm kind of wait.
Ok, let's go Nachos, let's goone.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Notchos, no, no, let's go seven.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
But wait that's so different yeah wait, because I
don't have anything closer Isthis with the dip or without the
dip, because just a plate ofnachos without the dip.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
No, it's not chose with like like I'm saying any
kind of nachos, so it could havechili.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
It could have, it's definitely going to have cheese.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
It's going to have jalapenos like beef.
One to seven.
That's such a jump, and I haveleft 10.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Oh yeah, One, nine and 10 left.
Ok, we are going.
Speaker 3 (21:26):
Yeah, ok, I'm fine, a seven Go ahead.
Speaker 1 (21:28):
OK, we're going to go with bacon wrapped dates.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
I'm glad I left 10.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
Yeah, that's your 10.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Usually bacon makes anything good, but I don't know,
doesn't sound, doesn't soundlike it.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
OK, next one.
So we have a quesadilla.
I feel like you're in troublehere.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
Because if you if you pulled the move I left on Nate.
Then there's a rough one left,I don't know.
Speaker 1 (21:58):
One or nine.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Just to not end up in a situation, I'm going to put
it in one, because it's still adecent appetizer.
Speaker 1 (22:06):
You can put some good stuff in it.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Number one not as good as the stuff that I have
behind it OK, and then thatleaves number nine.
Oh, no, oh no Chicken wings.
Oh no, that would have been mynumber one.
Speaker 1 (22:22):
Number one.
Speaker 3 (22:23):
I'm close to it.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
I had a couple others listed that were I had more
than 10.
But on here I also had calamari.
I love calamari, what else didI have?
Meatballs yeah, love meatballs,meatballs and a little
toothpick.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
Yeah, yeah, I was also waiting for like a the
baked pretzel.
I love a good pretzel.
Speaker 1 (22:41):
I thought about that.
I did have deviled eggs here onthe list.
Speaker 3 (22:43):
Oh, thank goodness you didn't throw that one in
there.
Speaker 1 (22:45):
You don't like that.
Speaker 3 (22:46):
No, I do, but that doesn't pales in comparison to
mozzarella sticks like OK allright.
Speaker 1 (22:52):
So just a recap.
Loretta's list, so from thebottom up, number 10, she has
bacon wrapped dates.
Speaker 3 (22:58):
I'm confident in that one.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Nine chicken wings.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
Bummer.
Speaker 1 (23:01):
Number eight jalapeno poppers, seven nachos, six
cheesy pulled apart bread, fivesliders for mozzarella sticks.
I'm getting hungry Just like Iknow.
I know three Any kind of dipyou want.
Number two, charcuterie boardand number one quesadilla.
Speaker 3 (23:19):
It's an interesting list, Loretta.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
All right, we're going to take, I'm going to, I'm
going to play in just a second,we're going to take a quick
break on the plugged in podcastand then, when we come back,
we'll have my blanking as wellas our devotional topic for
today.
So we'll be right back.
Bye, all right, you welcomeback to the plugged in podcast.
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It's my turn to put together ablind ranking.
Speaker 2 (23:57):
I'm so excited for this, oh no, who say Loretta?
Speaker 1 (24:00):
are you taking notes for my list?
Speaker 3 (24:01):
Yes, yeah, let me get a I don't know OK who made my
list?
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Nate, I made your list.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Ok, I'm ready, so my list is why it's so funny Gosh.
My list is just.
It's like random invent, it'sinventions.
I guess let's just call itinventions.
It's a catch all category.
For what are these greatinventions rated in your mind?
Oh my gosh Right.
Speaker 3 (24:25):
Sounds like I'm a lot of wheezing laughter.
Speaker 2 (24:27):
Number one K cups.
K cups, yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:30):
Wow, it's a good invention.
Oh man, I you know, I love mycoffee.
Speaker 2 (24:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (24:37):
K cups.
I'm going to start the list.
I let's put that number seven,number seven.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Good K cups Got it the Chick-fil-A drive through.
Speaker 1 (24:47):
You know what?
Let me tell you it isimpressive, it is, it is
beautiful, it is art.
Speaker 2 (24:53):
It is literally they should run our government.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yes, chick-fil-a, no, I like man, that's got to be
All right.
I don't let's say number four.
Ok, chick-fil-a, drive through,ok.
Speaker 2 (25:03):
Camera, the camera.
Where does that rank on yourlist of inventions?
Speaker 1 (25:08):
Like starting back in like the 1800s, with like the
flame and well charcoal?
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Yeah, I mean the camera be able to photograph the
iteration of of cameraphotography, videography
photography.
Speaker 1 (25:22):
Oh man, being able to capture stories moments in time
, it's pretty awesome.
Is it better than theChick-fil-A drive through,
though?
No, so number five.
Speaker 2 (25:33):
Five.
All right, ok, ok, pizza.
Hmm, I consider that aninvention.
Thank you, italians.
Speaker 3 (25:42):
Number three Bread and cheese.
I love some pizza.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
What's my?
What do I use so far?
Speaker 3 (25:46):
You use seven, four, five and three.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
OK, ok, here we go, amazon Prime.
Speaker 1 (25:54):
Oh, number two.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Number two.
Speaker 1 (25:57):
Amazon Prime Number two.
Oh no, I'm worried for the restof this list OK, the polio
vaccine.
Speaker 3 (26:06):
I mean, I don't know what is wrong with my husband?
Speaker 1 (26:09):
I mean it doesn't, I could say it has no present
bearing on me but because it wasinvented right Number 10.
Speaker 2 (26:17):
Number 10?
.
Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, wow, okay, yeah .
Our ancestors are like what.
Speaker 3 (26:22):
Yeah, we're rolling over.
Speaker 2 (26:25):
You've lived a really privileged life, matt.
Speaker 1 (26:27):
Yes, it is a privileged life I live.
Speaker 2 (26:30):
Okay, the automobile.
Speaker 1 (26:31):
Oh wow, I already said number two, right.
Speaker 3 (26:35):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (26:37):
Do I have three open?
Speaker 3 (26:38):
No three is pizza.
Speaker 1 (26:39):
Oh, yeah, nice Five Photography.
Speaker 3 (26:44):
Chick-fil-A drive-thru is four, so you only
have one.
Six, eight, nine.
Speaker 2 (26:51):
Six.
So what comes first, theChick-fil-A drive-thru or the
automobile?
Speaker 1 (26:55):
The question the way to trap me Nate.
Speaker 3 (26:59):
I put auto-bile Automobile.
Speaker 1 (27:01):
Oh yeah, nothing to do with bile.
Speaker 2 (27:04):
All right, the iPhone .
Speaker 1 (27:07):
Oh man, I don't know what this is so hard.
What do you slot at number one?
I know, you know Well what'sthe next one.
I have seven.
Speaker 3 (27:18):
Yep, no, you have seven.
Seven is your cake up, Okay?
Speaker 2 (27:23):
I guess eight yeah, okay.
Cake up over iPhone Wow.
Speaker 1 (27:26):
So there's two more left.
Cake up was terrible.
What a first one to start with.
Speaker 3 (27:33):
You have one and nine .
Okay, great, great, I'm ready,All right.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
Indoor plumbing oh my gosh, this is so stupid.
The ability to poop inside.
I'm going with number one, Topof my list indoor plumbing.
Speaker 2 (27:49):
All right, which leaves only one more Yep, the
trombone.
Speaker 1 (27:52):
Oh, all right, I'm okay.
The trombone I think we talkedabout this off the air, but it
evolved from the sack butt.
Yeah, was the Renaissance eraversion of the trombone.
Okay, so that's my number nine.
That's my whole list.
Speaker 3 (28:04):
What would I add Bottom up, bottom up, the polio
vaccine Nice, what I got to callit Polio vaccine.
At number 10, number nine atthe trombone.
Number eight with the iPhonecake ups at seven.
The automobile at number six.
Camera and photography atnumber five.
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The Chick-fil-A drive-thru atfour.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
That should be higher .
Speaker 3 (28:30):
This is quite an array.
Speaker 1 (28:32):
Yeah, this is Nate's fault.
Speaker 3 (28:33):
It is.
He came into my office lastweek.
I need some other things.
That's it Amazon Prime atnumber two and indoor plumbing
at number one.
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Very nice solid.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
The list is called Matt's Inventions.
Speaker 1 (28:49):
I'm glad that indoor plumbing was number one I am
thankful for that?
Oh, that's good More so thanthe polio vaccine.
Speaker 3 (28:55):
Yeah thankful for both.
But yeah, Quite a differencebetween your one and 10.
Speaker 1 (28:59):
All right.
Well, that's our blind ranking.
I don't know if we're puttingthat on socials.
I don't, we haven't reallytalked about that.
Speaker 3 (29:04):
Yeah, I also didn't.
I've not done a great job atfollowing up with the winners of
all of these things.
Oh, that's fine, I'll putsomething together to put on
social.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
All right, we're going to transition this over to
.
Lorena has a devotional thoughtfor us today.
Speaker 3 (29:18):
I do, and I apologize for my raspy voice as a cold is
just going through our house,but I have a question for both
of you.
Do you slash?
Have you ever made a New Year'sresolution?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Yes, yes, definitely.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And well, what were they?
What were some of your NewYear's resolutions, and how long
did you keep it?
Speaker 2 (29:41):
Want me to go?
Go for it.
I made a resolution that a fewyears ago that I wanted to learn
another language and I stayedconsistent with DuLingo for like
a week.
And I do not.
I'm not fluent in anotherlanguage, I'm barely fluent in
English.
And then I also made aresolution to learn the guitar.
Speaker 3 (29:59):
And that didn't happen either.
Speaker 1 (30:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (30:01):
I remember that one.
Speaker 1 (30:02):
Yeah, I'll give you one that I have succeeded at and
one that I failed.
The one that I continually failis I feel like every year I try
to imagine myself like oh, Ireally want to like better
myself.
I want to like.
I want to read more.
I want to be in the classics, Iwant to read more leadership.
I want to like just read a lot,I want to become smarter yeah.
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And I feel like that alwayslasts through, like February,
and then I get swallowed up bywhatever I'm involved you know
with.
So I feel like I always fallshort of my reading goals.
Last year I did make aresolution to get healthier, so
I went on that weight lossprogram and, yeah, did a good
job of it.
I think probably going in theother direction now, but at
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least last year it was a success.
Speaker 3 (30:47):
Yeah, yeah, I think at some point for myself, I
realized like I suck at stickingto resolutions.
You know, it's like you go inheadstrong but then life happens
and you taper away fromwhatever you may have
implemented or thought aboutimplementing in the new year.
I'm terrible at coming up withthings.
Odds are, if I failed at aresolution the year before, I'll
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just redo it, you know, thenext year.
I think of how many times Itold myself I'm going to, you
know, eat healthier.
And then you know Valentine'sDay comes and chocolate, and
then it's just, it's a downwardspiral.
So then the next year I'm like,oh well, you know what I'm
going to be eat healthier again.
Speaker 1 (31:24):
And somehow they build like a taco bill next to
your house.
Speaker 2 (31:27):
Oh my gosh, what are you supposed to do, like in
walking to say, or a?
Speaker 3 (31:30):
physical age drive through.
Speaker 1 (31:31):
Yes, exactly.
Speaker 3 (31:32):
But it's hard for me to stick it out, and I think I'm
I speak for the majority ofpeople too.
But resolutions are oftenrooted in our resolve to do
better and let's be honest, weoften fail at better doing
better being better.
No matter how many times I Itry to read the Bible more
consistently, drink water moreconsistently, say no to sweets
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and limit the amount of time Ispend on Instagram and increase
the amount of time I spend on atreadmill, I rarely make it past
January in consistency.
I can go headstrong full ofmotivation, but it all just
tapers away.
So I started something new acouple of years ago.
I now come up with a word and Igive myself a word for the year
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, and that word can be a focalpoint for me in different things
.
That word is a motivator for me.
That word is something that Iwrite on the beginning of my
planner.
I write it on a sticky note.
I have it on a on my Applestickies.
I have my word for this year,so that when I open my computer,
when I'm doing something, Iminimize a window, I see that
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word and it's just kind of areminder to me.
One year my word was intentional.
I wanted everything that I didto be more intentional, not
thrown together.
I wanted there to be a whybehind what I was doing, what I
was, why I was doing what I wasdoing.
Last year my word was simplify.
I wanted to take on less stuffbetween work and personal and in
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total honesty, I wasn't great,I didn't stick to it really well
, but I wanted to downsize theclutter in my house.
I wanted to spend less and savemore.
But when I would contradict myown goal of simplifying, I would
remember and I'd feel convictedand I'd see that word and I
think to myself okay, next,tomorrow, do better.
You know, next, whatever, dobetter.
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And it felt easier for me toremember a goal word as opposed
to like an entire resolution.
It was, it was simpler to me tostrive towards that word.
Ironically, back in 2020, myword was rhythm.
I wanted to have some betterrhythm.
That I mean thanks to the worldin early February that one went
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out the window, but I havedecided for this year to
reinstate that word.
I'm going to pull in the rhythmagain, and what I mean by that
is I want to set better rhythmsin my life.
I want to consistently eathealthier.
I want to consistently go tothe gym.
I want to consistently bedeeper in my personal spiritual
life and be more of a positiveperson.
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I have to think of my son, who'ssuch a routine kid.
Right, I think we've talkedabout this with our kids.
When Jackson's routine shifts,we all pay the price.
When he is off his rhythm, whenhe's off his routine, we all
pay the price.
He has a rhythm to his day andit's that rhythm that brings him
structure, and that structureis what brings him peace, and
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that rhythm is a steadiness tothe way we live our lives, our
day to day.
Sorry, but I was scrollingFacebook the other day and I saw
this on my mom's page and mymom is always posting these
little encouraging things fromher page and I saw this and it
was just a confirmation to meabout my word for this year.
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It said in this second week ofJanuary, what you need more than
splashy resolutions is steadyrhythms.
That was confirmation for me.
I've developed some really poorrhythms in my life.
Back in the summer I was on avideo call with my doctor and I
was telling her what our job islike in the summer and what
we're responsible for what ourday to day is.
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And so she's asking well, whatare some ways you cope with
stress?
What are some ways?
And I was totally honest.
I was like well, usually I seekout some chocolate or like a
Diet Coke.
And so, hearing our day to dayand knowing the stress that's on
our plate in the summer, Ithink she panicked because she
was like, oh my gosh, she'sgoing to go off the chocolate
deep end, like she was in totalpanic mode.
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She's like okay, can we thinkof some healthier ways to deal
with stress?
But that conversation, eventhere, started this confirmation
within me about the rhythms andour routines and our day to day
.
The better potential, thebetter our routines and the
stronger the rhythms, the goodrhythms in our lives, the better
potential there is for us tohandle those unexpected things
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in a healthy way.
Ian Voskamp, who's a writer,she wrote this our rhythms
become our everyday liturgy, thesacred everyday cadence of the
hours that reorient our tiredsouls.
There was a study and I think itwas done by the Barna group
that said 45% of what we doeveryday is habitual, performed
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almost without thinking in thatsame location or the same time
each day, usually because ofsubtle cues.
And I know for myself, whenthinking of my routines and my
rhythms, I think each morning,when I reach over to turn my
alarm off, the first thing I dois look at either emails or
social media notifications,because it's the first thing in
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my face.
It's right there.
The more I give it space in mymind, the more I discover just
how poor some of my habits andmy rhythms are like, even if
there are any at all.
But when we were in Californiafor GYL, jennifer Dake, she led
a session on self-care and shehad all of us take out our
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phones and write down the first20 things that we did each
morning.
I mean as specific as open youreyes, turn off your alarm, pet
the dog, get out of bed, go tothe bathroom, like really
detailed.
And then she said after everyfive or so actions, draw a line.
And each line was supposed torepresent a pause or, like in
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the Psalms, a sella, like just apause.
And that pause is supposed tobe a moment to stop and thank
the Lord and to make it andthank the Lord and to make that
part of our routine.
And she said something thatwill stick with me for probably
forever.
She said our hearts follow ourhabits, and I think about that
in my my word this year my heartfollows my rhythms and so is my
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heart following the heartbeatof my rhythms, or am I following
the heartbeat, you know?
Is that what's driving me?
Yeah, if we are consistentlykeeping the same rhythms every
day, we keep our soul fromgrowing, from becoming run down.
It's the rhythm of our own goodhabits that can make a way
through the rhythm of our day today, how we work through the
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good, the bad, the tough partsof our day.
And Aristotle said we are whatwe repeatedly do.
What we do repeatedly is ouractual identity.
And so this year I'm focusing onthat course correction, trying
to break down the areas of mylife where I've developed poor
rhythms and create moreconsistency in doing and being
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better.
And so when I faced that curveball in my day and that was
something that as core officersevery Sunday, we would say
something is going to go wrong,but I'm ready for it.
And so when I face the day withthat kind of mentality, I'm
better equipped, both mentallyand emotionally, even physically
, to handle it.
And so the scripture that I'mkind of linking with this rhythm
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, this desire to be in a betterrhythm, comes from 2 Corinthians
.
It says my grace is sufficientfor you.
My power is made perfect inweakness.
Therefore, I will boast all themore gladly about my weakness
so that Christ's power may reston me, and that's kind of what
steering my thought is that hispower is made perfect in my
weakness, because that kind ofcourse correction can really
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start to reveal my ownweaknesses and can reveal where
I've gone astray.
And so spending more timedepending on him and setting
that as a rhythm instead ofdepending on myself, and that's
the rhythm and the heartbeatthat I want in my year and in my
day to day to have moreconsistency, to have more rhythm
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, good rhythms than bad rhythms.
And so I wonder just today ifyou've set a New Year's
resolution and you're you'vealready gone away from it and
you're thinking you're already,you've already thrown the year
away.
First of all, any day is a newday, right?
So start over.
And also, maybe there's a wordor a phrase or something that
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the Lord is putting on yourheart.
That's a little lessintimidating than a full
resolution.
Speaker 1 (40:06):
Sure.
Speaker 3 (40:07):
Because what we need.
What we need are better rhythmsand less resolution.
We need more consistency, moretime devoted to the things that
matter.
We need to be rhythm to peopleso that when we go off rhythm,
it doesn't take us so far offcourse.
Yeah, so I don't know if anyoneelse is feeling that today,
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feeling the failure of aresolution.
A get back on track.
Tomorrow's a new day.
You know everything can startover.
And B how does that, whateveryou're resolving to do, how does
that tie into your going deeperin your relationship with the
Lord?
Yeah so that was just kind of mythought, for that's good.
Speaker 1 (40:52):
I love the idea of a word and all encompassing word.
I haven't really thought ofthat before, but I feel like
it's important for people tocelebrate your successes as you
go.
Yeah, and even having somethingas wide as a word, like a lot
of things, can fall under theumbrella of that word, right?
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So I think, as you keep trackof your successes, it's
encouragement to keep goingforward, to try harder.
So I love that.
And rhythm yeah, it's such arelatable thing to all of us.
Speaker 3 (41:26):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:27):
You know we generally all wake up at the same time.
We have our routines in theevening, Like you kind of know
what you're doing throughout theweek.
It's never like, it's never aseries of like, such randomness.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
Exactly that.
You can't predict your Exactly.
You know your existence.
Speaker 1 (41:40):
Yeah, Random things do happen and unexpected that.
You know curveballs come, butfor the most part.
You know we're pretty routineoriented people.
Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:50):
At least in this society, this culture, and it's
so easy to create bad habits.
Speaker 3 (41:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (41:57):
Yeah, you know, yeah, I think of like, when you've
worked hard to overcome a habit,it doesn't take much to no Bam
yeah.
It's broken yeah.
You get discouraged you like,solidify the bad habit, then you
keep going down that road.
Yeah, I struggle with, I meanmy, my.
The struggle of my life is with, with food and like my
relationship with food.
And at this point it's likeit's either a mental issue or
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emotional issue.
It could be a spiritual issue.
I mean there's a lot of stuffgoing on to solidify those
habits.
But I just love that word, thatword rhythm, yeah, and that's,
that's good.
Speaker 3 (42:32):
And I think that goes right along with like also for
me, the need for consistency,because, just a specific example
, even in going to like the gym,I'd go to the gym for a couple
weeks straight not see muchchange and I'm like why am I
doing this?
But it's the consistency.
My goodness, my, my throat'sgetting dry.
Speaker 1 (42:50):
We're almost there.
Speaker 3 (42:52):
But just the consistency and and knowing that
you may not see results rightaway.
Speaker 2 (42:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (42:59):
But the rhythm is what is going to ultimately
bring about that change and that, that growth, yeah, maybe.
Speaker 2 (43:05):
I love the verse you used.
My grace is sufficient for youbecause my power is made perfect
in your weakness Right.
And I'm thinking how often I tryto set the rhythm my own,
without relying on the one whoactually keeps the time and
keeps the rhythm, and justrelating that to you know, like
a band setting where you know Ican, I can be sitting in mass
(43:28):
brass and doing my own thing,but if I'm not looking at you,
Matt, as you're conducting andsetting the time and setting the
pace, will it really come intothis beautiful, you know,
harmony with everybody?
else, with everything elsethat's going on, and so just you
know our own human stubbornness.
If we can humble ourselves andsay, god, I I may not be great
(43:49):
at this, I desire this, but Ineed to.
I need to just sit back and letyou do it, let you take the
lead so that I can, you know, bein step with the rhythm that
you desire for my life, and whatjust humility and and release
and freedom that demands of us,but how freeing it can truly be.
Speaker 1 (44:08):
I know I've mentioned this on the podcast before, but
just like some of the greatestexamples of my life have been my
parents, and just like when Iwoke up for school you know, I
mean back then it was like thebus would pick us up at 630 am.
Speaker 3 (44:23):
So I mean, we were waking up at 545.
It was insane, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (44:28):
So I was waking up at 545, but there was my dad,
there was my mom.
They're like doing theirmorning devotions, like the
first part of their rhythm wasto spend the day with God, and
what a discipline Like that'ssomething that I will be the
first to admit that I have notmastered that.
That is a very I feel like avery difficult thing to solidify
(44:49):
in your life, but it iscertainly a one to emulate.
Yeah, and but.
Thank you, loretta.
Thank you for that word today.
Captain Nate, would you mindclosing us in prayer?
Of course.
Yeah, let's pray.
Speaker 2 (45:01):
Father, god, we're thankful that, even in the midst
of our lack of rhythm, you werethe God who brings order to the
chaos.
God, if we look at your word,you spoke into the void of
nothingness and you brought life, and you desire to do the same
thing for each and every one ofus.
And so, lord, I pray right nowthat, as that passage says, god,
that we would recognize thatgrace is available.
(45:24):
And so, lord, may we have gracefor ourselves, but ultimately,
a grace that flows from thegrace that you offer, lord.
You have grace for us.
And so, god, I pray that wewould receive that, lord.
But it's not a cheap grace, god.
It's a very, it's a veryprofitable grace, lord.
It's a very costly grace.
(45:45):
And so, as we receive that,lord, I pray that we would
desire to seek you more andallow you to really lead the way
, have your way in us.
God, I thank you for thischallenge, I thank you for this
word, I thank you for this newyear.
And how, lord.
The start of a new year isreally, god, just an opportunity
for newness and freshness.
And so, lord, we truly believethat you desire to do new things
(46:09):
in each of us and that you aredoing a new thing in us and so,
god, we pray that, as we seekthose, seek your will and your
way, lord, that you'll revealthat and you'll make it possible
, god, with you setting thatrhythm in our hearts and in our
minds.
Lord, we just pray.
Blessings over those who arelistening today.
Lord, you know each one of us,where we are, what we struggle
(46:30):
with, lord, and you are able tomeet us in the midst of that.
So, thank you that your graceis sufficient for us.
We just thank you and we loveyou and give you all the praise.
Amen.
Speaker 1 (46:42):
Amen.
Well, thank you guys.
We're going to call that a wrapon the plugged in podcast,
episode number 16.
We are well into season two.
Crazy, it was fun, as always.
Speaker 3 (46:55):
We'll take one last look at our green screen, green
screen, it's going to be theworst video in the history of
YouTube, do you?
Speaker 2 (47:04):
remember that we filmed from our, our living room
.
One time Like this is not goingto be the worst.
Speaker 1 (47:10):
No, no, that's going to look way better than this.
Remember it was snowing.
Speaker 3 (47:13):
It was beautiful, oh yeah, like a snow globe.
Speaker 1 (47:16):
No, we've come a long ways, but today, today may be a
step backwards.
So, All right, everyone it was.
It was good to be with youagain today.
Today's drop date is January26th.
We'll have an episode for youin a couple of weeks.
I'm sure we'll be talking aboutValentine's Day and what's
coming up in the MassachusettsDivision.
Until then, we'll see you nexttime.
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