October 14, 2024 • 17 mins
Christian songwriter and worship leader Sean Curran describes his journey of discovering how to connect with God. From his encounter with God while riding his bike as a kid, to the moment someone first handed him a guitar, you’ll be inspired to hold on to child-like faith, and look for the fingerprints of God in your own life.
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S1 (00:00):
Welcome to the Snapshot Testimony podcast. I'm your host, Ali Domercant.
In this podcast, I ask my guests to share one
pivotal moment that helped shape their faith in Christ. Before
we get to this week's episode, I'd like to ask
you if you would take a minute to write a
podcast review for me. Particularly if you're a regular listener.
If I could get ten new reviews this week, it
(00:20):
would be huge for me and I'd be so grateful. Okay,
now to the episode. Worship leader and songwriter Sean Curran
is my guest this week. He describes his journey of
discovering how to connect with God, starting from the moment
a stranger in a park handed him a guitar. Now
there are many layers to his story, and a surprising
full circle moment that I promise you makes listening to
(00:42):
the end totally worth it. This episode will especially resonate
with creatives, music lovers, and anyone seeking a deeper connection
with God. Here's a snapshot testimony from Sean Curran.
S2 (00:59):
So I was in middle school and I was homeschooled
and we grew up in church. So church was our
our setting, you know, if that makes sense. This is
how I made friends, how I understood the world. We
spent all of our time there, and I'm so grateful
for that. Um, but we did this. There was this
(01:22):
thing called Park Day when we were in middle school. Okay. Yep.
It was a homeschool thing. We just went to the park. Okay. And, uh, like,
it was on Fridays. And I don't know why this.
I remember this so clearly, but. Yeah. So there was
this one time we were at Park Day, and I
was just enamored with this, uh, what ended up being
(01:44):
this older woman who was, like, giving guitar lessons to
a group of younger kids, and I, I just was like,
what is happening over there? You know? And I kept
getting closer and closer, and she. She noticed me. Um,
and so as they as she wrapped up her time, she, like,
(02:09):
called me over and put this guitar in my lap. Like,
she could tell that I was just very curious. Wow.
And and she put this acoustic guitar in my lap,
and I just, I don't know, I, I remember it
feeling so right to me. Like, somehow this was I
(02:29):
understood something about this, and it was going to be
important for me to be able to, uh, kind of
perceive the world like, you know, I was just a
little kid, but I sort of got lost in it,
just like touching it and kind of letting the sounds happen.
And I don't know how much time went by, because
when I eventually sort of came to, my mom was
(02:53):
talking to this woman, and, uh, you know, they did
their little adult thing. You never know what's going on. Like,
you're just. You're just in middle school, kid. And and
they wrapped up, and my mom said, you know, Sean,
come on, let's go. But, uh, very quickly after that,
(03:14):
my mom was just really encouraging to me of some
sort of pursuit here of of music. And, um, she
was so, uh, supportive. You know, so I, I spent
the next ten years of my life, I guess, you know,
(03:34):
really learning guitar. It it very quickly became this beautiful
vehicle for me to more or less learn how to pray,
you know, learn how to talk to the Lord, learn
how to commune with God, learn how to express my
feelings like I was always. I still am somebody who
(03:54):
can really get tangled in their in their head. You know? Um.
learning how to make sense of life and and eventually
writing songs and leading worship.
S1 (04:08):
And had you had any exposure to music prior to that?
S2 (04:12):
Only in a sense that, like we, we were a
family that enjoyed music, okay. But we didn't like no
one played music in the house like there were no
other musicians. So it did feel very, uh, I felt
like I was stepping into some sort of like, power
(04:34):
that I had never encountered before with when when you
pick up a guitar, it's just like, man, this somehow
the world is making a little bit more sense to me.
S1 (04:44):
With the guitar in your hands.
S2 (04:45):
Yeah.
S1 (04:46):
When did you come to genuine faith in Christ?
S2 (04:49):
I was eight years old, okay. When I had my
first real, um, transformative encounter with God. We, like. I said,
we had grown up in church, so I was very
familiar with church and God and honestly always very intrigued
by God. Even as a kid, like I loved, I
(05:13):
was curious about the Bible stories. I, I, I enjoyed them.
I found Jesus to be awesome, you know? Um, but yeah,
I just remember, oh, I'll get so emotional talking about this,
but I, I was just riding my bike and I
(05:34):
was just totally arrested by the presence of God, you know?
And I had to I, like, pulled over off the
sidewalk into some random dude's yard. I got off my
bike and I just got on the ground and started
confessing and wow, you know, telling the Lord that I
(05:54):
that I loved him and that, you know, it's just that,
that that moment where you can see clearly enough to say,
this is what I'm here for. Yeah. Um. And this
love is the thing that's animating my, my. I mean,
(06:18):
I didn't have this language back then, but. Sure. Um,
it was simultaneously doing what God's love does. Which is it?
It pulls you forward. Um, but it also humbles you.
Like you just want you you you you understand? Enough
of the weight of your condition. Yeah. To say, God,
(06:39):
I'm sorry. And I love you. And I want to,
like I want to follow you. Um, I was just
totally I still. Because a lot of what I do
these days is write music and lead worship, and, um,
when I have really, really intense encounters with God, Safeguard my.
I'll get like, this flat, like fleeting image of just
(07:02):
that moment because it was so defining.
S1 (07:05):
Yeah. Now, when you got the guitar in your hands
and you started to actually learn how to do something
with it, you mentioned that that's kind of how you
learned to pray. What do you mean by that? Was
it the writing of lyrics? What? How did the guitar
help your prayer life?
S2 (07:23):
Well, I'd say that I still feel like that's the
language I would use, um, that I'm. You know, I'm
just learning how to talk to God. I'm thinking anybody
who tells you that they understand how to do that perfectly,
I'd be a bit suspicious of.
S1 (07:42):
Maybe a little.
S2 (07:45):
You know, they might be trying to get something out
of you. Um, yeah. Just. Wow. What a beautiful idea
that the creator wants to commune with the creation And
there's there's certainly a bit of mystery involved there. Um,
it involves a lot of, of speaking and, and vulnerability
(08:08):
on my part, but I also think it involves a
lot of, um, listening and perceiving. And for some reason,
music was it just became such an important vehicle for
me that kind of opened up those pathways so that
I could receive what I needed to and I could.
(08:28):
It was also like truth serum for me. So it
helped me and still very much helps me maintain some
sort of essence, like vulnerable space with the Lord.
S1 (08:44):
Yeah. So you, you know, it's so cool because you
had these pivotal moments at, at a very young age
and the simplicity of it, you know, being in a park, uh,
riding your bike, like.
S3 (08:56):
Very being a kid.
S1 (08:57):
Talk about core memories, like really basic memories from childhood,
but yet the the significance and the meaning attached to
both of them. So then you get this guitar. You
you fall in love with music and your prayer life.
Your relationship with Jesus starts to develop. When did you
realize that, okay, this is not just my own kind
of personal expression. Um, this is actually what I'm going
(09:20):
to do with my with my life. With my career.
When did that happen?
S2 (09:24):
Yeah, that's kind of the the beautiful, like, resolve moment
of all this was I, I was in college and
I was pursuing engineering, um, which I loved, like my
dad was an engineer and I was about two years in, um,
but I just I couldn't shake this, this music part
(09:50):
of my life and how it intersected with my spiritual life. Yeah. Um,
and so by that point, I was a songwriter, and
I was giving so much. Any free time I had
to that, and I just got to a point where
I was like, I feel like this is what I'm
supposed to give my life to. Um, and it took
(10:12):
me a really long time to even recognize that I
was writing songs. Um, because they to me, they just
felt like sometimes you get these prayers that feel really pointed,
you know, and maybe a little bit more concrete. And
then other people started telling me, like, you, like, you
should sing that stuff, you know, I need to hear
(10:34):
that or that, that. And so I was it was
kind of coming. I mean, that's the beautiful thing about
the community of God is a lot of times there
were older and wiser people that can speak. Your can
pull your calling out of you or can see something
that you aren't ready to see yet. And they can
(10:54):
help light the path. But I had. I had gotten
to this resolve of feeling like this is what the
Lord wants me to do. I was and I went home.
You know, in college you go home for the summer
or whenever the semester is over. And, and I was
ready to kind of tell my parents that I want
to I just want to change my major. I want
(11:15):
to make a pretty big life shift. And when I
told them, my mom just started instantly crying, like, and
I didn't because I was a little not concerned, but I, um,
I didn't totally know what to expect because we, I
(11:36):
had such a a very practical path laid out, you know,
and we had these things ingrained in us. You know,
I had, I had we'd worked for this and I
had maintained really great grades and not to like, throw
around all the clichés of just becoming a musician or something,
but like, I just didn't know what to expect and I,
(11:57):
I told them and my mom just started crying instantly
and she she went and got this like, oh, I
was so emotional about it. She went, she went and
got this, um, this like this piece of art. And
she said, she's like, you. Do you remember that day
(12:21):
in the park? And she said, you know that woman?
She pulled me aside and she told me she sort
of spoke something prophetic over. Over you. Wow. Like, depending
on the kind of tradition of faith that you come from,
that can mean a lot of different things. But, um,
(12:41):
she it's like this mysterious moment where, uh, you know,
the body of Christ is such a beautiful thing. And
so apparently this, you know, this woman had felt from
the Lord that Something on over me, you know? And
had something to do with music. And she pulled my
mom aside and she just said, hey, for what it's worth,
(13:04):
I really think that your son needs to play guitar,
and I think it's going to unlock a lot of
things for him in his life and his walk with
the Lord. And the Lord wants to use that as
like a center of gravity in his life. Wow.
S3 (13:19):
Um, had she.
S1 (13:20):
Ever told you that.
S3 (13:21):
Before?
S2 (13:21):
And so this was the first time that she told me,
and she said, you know. So ever since that day,
I've been praying this over your life. And like she
told me about how, like, she, you know, when I'm
she'd come into my room when I was at school
and like, pray over my instruments and like, just, just
(13:43):
she was a prayer warrior in the in the clearest
sense and, and she gave me this piece of art
that was this guitar that she had bought so many
years ago and wrote this, wrote this like, like prophetic
prayer on it. Wow. And when I told her that
I wanted to do this in my life, she gave
me this thing. And she's like, I've been. I've been
(14:05):
waiting for you to say this for a decade.
S3 (14:07):
You know, it's like, that's.
S2 (14:10):
That's a mom, that's a mom, that's mom stuff right.
S3 (14:13):
There. That's incredible.
S1 (14:15):
And she just carried that, you.
S3 (14:17):
Know, she just. Yeah.
S1 (14:18):
She tucked it away. You know, I you think about, like,
the things that Mary, the mother of Jesus was told
and how when it says that, like, she just she
hid it away like. Yeah. You know, and and showing like,
like that's such a mom thing to do, you know,
that you there's these little things that you just hide
(14:41):
in your heart and you, you don't necessarily fully know
what it will look like, but what a moment for.
S3 (14:48):
That's what I think.
S2 (14:49):
That's what faith looks like.
S3 (14:51):
Yes, yes. It's real.
S2 (14:53):
Trust. Yeah. Um. Real Patience. Um. The Lord's timing. Um,
I mean, to trust those things is profound, and it
rarely happens. And then my mom just. And I had
no idea. And, you know, all of a sudden, there's this, like,
undercurrent of my whole existence that my mom was studious for,
(15:21):
but also, like, wise enough and mature enough to let
it come to the surface. Yeah, let it reveal itself
when it was supposed to.
S3 (15:32):
Yeah.
S1 (15:33):
Because that's the other thing of it, is that she waited,
that she didn't kind of put that on you early, which,
you know, wouldn't have been wrong by any means, but
the fact that she let it the Lord really reveal
that to you without any outside influence. And then that
(15:53):
came was like the.
S3 (15:55):
Hammer.
S1 (15:55):
Of a confirmation. I mean, wow.
S3 (15:58):
Yeah.
S2 (15:58):
Those are the things that, you know. Yeah, I just
I don't know if you I don't know if if
your body and mind and soul can even handle those
types of things all that often because they're just they're beautiful.
S3 (16:12):
Did you ever get to.
S1 (16:13):
Hear or talk to that woman again? Did you ever
have any.
S2 (16:17):
That was it. I mean, for all I know, like,
that was like, yeah, she she was a messenger of
the Lord that day. Uh, I just I want to
be that, you know.
S3 (16:31):
Right.
S2 (16:32):
I'd, I'd like to be that. I'd like to be
available to to be used by the Lord because she
doesn't even know how that seed was going to grow or,
you know, it's just like to be to be aware,
to be present, to be faithful and to be bold,
to just act and say, okay, Like I'm gonna tell
(16:57):
his mom something and.
S1 (16:59):
And then just leave it up to God. And now. Yeah.
You know, you've been at this now for how many
years as a.
S2 (17:07):
Yeah. I'm a, I'm 30 something.
S3 (17:11):
36, I know.
S2 (17:12):
35 or 36.
S3 (17:13):
Once we get up there it's time you do it. Yes.
S2 (17:16):
It does get harder. And then once we had a
couple kids.
S3 (17:19):
Even harder to.
S2 (17:20):
Remember, man, I just don't know. But yeah, it's been.
I've been doing this ever since I, um, ever since
I graduated college, you know? Wow. Uh, that's just in the.
I guess it's. Yeah, it's in the DNA. Yeah. I
didn't realize it.
S1 (17:34):
Wow. I mean, what a cool. Or, like, it was, like,
3 or 4 moments kind of wrapped up in that one,
which is awesome. I love it when it works like that.
Thank you so much for hanging with me for this
week's Snapshot Testimony podcast. I hope my conversation with Sean
was as encouraging to you as it was to me.
I'm your host, Ali Hassan, and together we're sharing the
moments that shape a life of faith in Christ. Thanks
(17:55):
for listening.
Welcome to the Snapshot Testimony podcast. I'm your host, Ali Domercant.
In this podcast, I ask my guests to share one
pivotal moment that helped shape their faith in Christ. Before
we get to this week's episode, I'd like to ask
you if you would take a minute to write a
podcast review for me. Particularly if you're a regular listener.
If I could get ten new reviews this week, it
(00:20):
would be huge for me and I'd be so grateful. Okay,
now to the episode. Worship leader and songwriter Sean Curran
is my guest this week. He describes his journey of
discovering how to connect with God, starting from the moment
a stranger in a park handed him a guitar. Now
there are many layers to his story, and a surprising
full circle moment that I promise you makes listening to
(00:42):
the end totally worth it. This episode will especially resonate
with creatives, music lovers, and anyone seeking a deeper connection
with God. Here's a snapshot testimony from Sean Curran.
S2 (00:59):
So I was in middle school and I was homeschooled
and we grew up in church. So church was our
our setting, you know, if that makes sense. This is
how I made friends, how I understood the world. We
spent all of our time there, and I'm so grateful
for that. Um, but we did this. There was this
(01:22):
thing called Park Day when we were in middle school. Okay. Yep.
It was a homeschool thing. We just went to the park. Okay. And, uh, like,
it was on Fridays. And I don't know why this.
I remember this so clearly, but. Yeah. So there was
this one time we were at Park Day, and I
was just enamored with this, uh, what ended up being
(01:44):
this older woman who was, like, giving guitar lessons to
a group of younger kids, and I, I just was like,
what is happening over there? You know? And I kept
getting closer and closer, and she. She noticed me. Um,
and so as they as she wrapped up her time, she, like,
(02:09):
called me over and put this guitar in my lap. Like,
she could tell that I was just very curious. Wow.
And and she put this acoustic guitar in my lap,
and I just, I don't know, I, I remember it
feeling so right to me. Like, somehow this was I
(02:29):
understood something about this, and it was going to be
important for me to be able to, uh, kind of
perceive the world like, you know, I was just a
little kid, but I sort of got lost in it,
just like touching it and kind of letting the sounds happen.
And I don't know how much time went by, because
when I eventually sort of came to, my mom was
(02:53):
talking to this woman, and, uh, you know, they did
their little adult thing. You never know what's going on. Like,
you're just. You're just in middle school, kid. And and
they wrapped up, and my mom said, you know, Sean,
come on, let's go. But, uh, very quickly after that,
(03:14):
my mom was just really encouraging to me of some
sort of pursuit here of of music. And, um, she
was so, uh, supportive. You know, so I, I spent
the next ten years of my life, I guess, you know,
(03:34):
really learning guitar. It it very quickly became this beautiful
vehicle for me to more or less learn how to pray,
you know, learn how to talk to the Lord, learn
how to commune with God, learn how to express my
feelings like I was always. I still am somebody who
(03:54):
can really get tangled in their in their head. You know? Um.
learning how to make sense of life and and eventually
writing songs and leading worship.
S1 (04:08):
And had you had any exposure to music prior to that?
S2 (04:12):
Only in a sense that, like we, we were a
family that enjoyed music, okay. But we didn't like no
one played music in the house like there were no
other musicians. So it did feel very, uh, I felt
like I was stepping into some sort of like, power
(04:34):
that I had never encountered before with when when you
pick up a guitar, it's just like, man, this somehow
the world is making a little bit more sense to me.
S1 (04:44):
With the guitar in your hands.
S2 (04:45):
Yeah.
S1 (04:46):
When did you come to genuine faith in Christ?
S2 (04:49):
I was eight years old, okay. When I had my
first real, um, transformative encounter with God. We, like. I said,
we had grown up in church, so I was very
familiar with church and God and honestly always very intrigued
by God. Even as a kid, like I loved, I
(05:13):
was curious about the Bible stories. I, I, I enjoyed them.
I found Jesus to be awesome, you know? Um, but yeah,
I just remember, oh, I'll get so emotional talking about this,
but I, I was just riding my bike and I
(05:34):
was just totally arrested by the presence of God, you know?
And I had to I, like, pulled over off the
sidewalk into some random dude's yard. I got off my
bike and I just got on the ground and started
confessing and wow, you know, telling the Lord that I
(05:54):
that I loved him and that, you know, it's just that,
that that moment where you can see clearly enough to say,
this is what I'm here for. Yeah. Um. And this
love is the thing that's animating my, my. I mean,
(06:18):
I didn't have this language back then, but. Sure. Um,
it was simultaneously doing what God's love does. Which is it?
It pulls you forward. Um, but it also humbles you.
Like you just want you you you you understand? Enough
of the weight of your condition. Yeah. To say, God,
(06:39):
I'm sorry. And I love you. And I want to,
like I want to follow you. Um, I was just
totally I still. Because a lot of what I do
these days is write music and lead worship, and, um,
when I have really, really intense encounters with God, Safeguard my.
I'll get like, this flat, like fleeting image of just
(07:02):
that moment because it was so defining.
S1 (07:05):
Yeah. Now, when you got the guitar in your hands
and you started to actually learn how to do something
with it, you mentioned that that's kind of how you
learned to pray. What do you mean by that? Was
it the writing of lyrics? What? How did the guitar
help your prayer life?
S2 (07:23):
Well, I'd say that I still feel like that's the
language I would use, um, that I'm. You know, I'm
just learning how to talk to God. I'm thinking anybody
who tells you that they understand how to do that perfectly,
I'd be a bit suspicious of.
S1 (07:42):
Maybe a little.
S2 (07:45):
You know, they might be trying to get something out
of you. Um, yeah. Just. Wow. What a beautiful idea
that the creator wants to commune with the creation And
there's there's certainly a bit of mystery involved there. Um,
it involves a lot of, of speaking and, and vulnerability
(08:08):
on my part, but I also think it involves a
lot of, um, listening and perceiving. And for some reason,
music was it just became such an important vehicle for
me that kind of opened up those pathways so that
I could receive what I needed to and I could.
(08:28):
It was also like truth serum for me. So it
helped me and still very much helps me maintain some
sort of essence, like vulnerable space with the Lord.
S1 (08:44):
Yeah. So you, you know, it's so cool because you
had these pivotal moments at, at a very young age
and the simplicity of it, you know, being in a park, uh,
riding your bike, like.
S3 (08:56):
Very being a kid.
S1 (08:57):
Talk about core memories, like really basic memories from childhood,
but yet the the significance and the meaning attached to
both of them. So then you get this guitar. You
you fall in love with music and your prayer life.
Your relationship with Jesus starts to develop. When did you
realize that, okay, this is not just my own kind
of personal expression. Um, this is actually what I'm going
(09:20):
to do with my with my life. With my career.
When did that happen?
S2 (09:24):
Yeah, that's kind of the the beautiful, like, resolve moment
of all this was I, I was in college and
I was pursuing engineering, um, which I loved, like my
dad was an engineer and I was about two years in, um,
but I just I couldn't shake this, this music part
(09:50):
of my life and how it intersected with my spiritual life. Yeah. Um,
and so by that point, I was a songwriter, and
I was giving so much. Any free time I had
to that, and I just got to a point where
I was like, I feel like this is what I'm
supposed to give my life to. Um, and it took
(10:12):
me a really long time to even recognize that I
was writing songs. Um, because they to me, they just
felt like sometimes you get these prayers that feel really pointed,
you know, and maybe a little bit more concrete. And
then other people started telling me, like, you, like, you
should sing that stuff, you know, I need to hear
(10:34):
that or that, that. And so I was it was
kind of coming. I mean, that's the beautiful thing about
the community of God is a lot of times there
were older and wiser people that can speak. Your can
pull your calling out of you or can see something
that you aren't ready to see yet. And they can
(10:54):
help light the path. But I had. I had gotten
to this resolve of feeling like this is what the
Lord wants me to do. I was and I went home.
You know, in college you go home for the summer
or whenever the semester is over. And, and I was
ready to kind of tell my parents that I want
to I just want to change my major. I want
(11:15):
to make a pretty big life shift. And when I
told them, my mom just started instantly crying, like, and
I didn't because I was a little not concerned, but I, um,
I didn't totally know what to expect because we, I
(11:36):
had such a a very practical path laid out, you know,
and we had these things ingrained in us. You know,
I had, I had we'd worked for this and I
had maintained really great grades and not to like, throw
around all the clichés of just becoming a musician or something,
but like, I just didn't know what to expect and I,
(11:57):
I told them and my mom just started crying instantly
and she she went and got this like, oh, I
was so emotional about it. She went, she went and
got this, um, this like this piece of art. And
she said, she's like, you. Do you remember that day
(12:21):
in the park? And she said, you know that woman?
She pulled me aside and she told me she sort
of spoke something prophetic over. Over you. Wow. Like, depending
on the kind of tradition of faith that you come from,
that can mean a lot of different things. But, um,
(12:41):
she it's like this mysterious moment where, uh, you know,
the body of Christ is such a beautiful thing. And
so apparently this, you know, this woman had felt from
the Lord that Something on over me, you know? And
had something to do with music. And she pulled my
mom aside and she just said, hey, for what it's worth,
(13:04):
I really think that your son needs to play guitar,
and I think it's going to unlock a lot of
things for him in his life and his walk with
the Lord. And the Lord wants to use that as
like a center of gravity in his life. Wow.
S3 (13:19):
Um, had she.
S1 (13:20):
Ever told you that.
S3 (13:21):
Before?
S2 (13:21):
And so this was the first time that she told me,
and she said, you know. So ever since that day,
I've been praying this over your life. And like she
told me about how, like, she, you know, when I'm
she'd come into my room when I was at school
and like, pray over my instruments and like, just, just
(13:43):
she was a prayer warrior in the in the clearest
sense and, and she gave me this piece of art
that was this guitar that she had bought so many
years ago and wrote this, wrote this like, like prophetic
prayer on it. Wow. And when I told her that
I wanted to do this in my life, she gave
me this thing. And she's like, I've been. I've been
(14:05):
waiting for you to say this for a decade.
S3 (14:07):
You know, it's like, that's.
S2 (14:10):
That's a mom, that's a mom, that's mom stuff right.
S3 (14:13):
There. That's incredible.
S1 (14:15):
And she just carried that, you.
S3 (14:17):
Know, she just. Yeah.
S1 (14:18):
She tucked it away. You know, I you think about, like,
the things that Mary, the mother of Jesus was told
and how when it says that, like, she just she
hid it away like. Yeah. You know, and and showing like,
like that's such a mom thing to do, you know,
that you there's these little things that you just hide
(14:41):
in your heart and you, you don't necessarily fully know
what it will look like, but what a moment for.
S3 (14:48):
That's what I think.
S2 (14:49):
That's what faith looks like.
S3 (14:51):
Yes, yes. It's real.
S2 (14:53):
Trust. Yeah. Um. Real Patience. Um. The Lord's timing. Um,
I mean, to trust those things is profound, and it
rarely happens. And then my mom just. And I had
no idea. And, you know, all of a sudden, there's this, like,
undercurrent of my whole existence that my mom was studious for,
(15:21):
but also, like, wise enough and mature enough to let
it come to the surface. Yeah, let it reveal itself
when it was supposed to.
S3 (15:32):
Yeah.
S1 (15:33):
Because that's the other thing of it, is that she waited,
that she didn't kind of put that on you early, which,
you know, wouldn't have been wrong by any means, but
the fact that she let it the Lord really reveal
that to you without any outside influence. And then that
(15:53):
came was like the.
S3 (15:55):
Hammer.
S1 (15:55):
Of a confirmation. I mean, wow.
S3 (15:58):
Yeah.
S2 (15:58):
Those are the things that, you know. Yeah, I just
I don't know if you I don't know if if
your body and mind and soul can even handle those
types of things all that often because they're just they're beautiful.
S3 (16:12):
Did you ever get to.
S1 (16:13):
Hear or talk to that woman again? Did you ever
have any.
S2 (16:17):
That was it. I mean, for all I know, like,
that was like, yeah, she she was a messenger of
the Lord that day. Uh, I just I want to
be that, you know.
S3 (16:31):
Right.
S2 (16:32):
I'd, I'd like to be that. I'd like to be
available to to be used by the Lord because she
doesn't even know how that seed was going to grow or,
you know, it's just like to be to be aware,
to be present, to be faithful and to be bold,
to just act and say, okay, Like I'm gonna tell
(16:57):
his mom something and.
S1 (16:59):
And then just leave it up to God. And now. Yeah.
You know, you've been at this now for how many
years as a.
S2 (17:07):
Yeah. I'm a, I'm 30 something.
S3 (17:11):
36, I know.
S2 (17:12):
35 or 36.
S3 (17:13):
Once we get up there it's time you do it. Yes.
S2 (17:16):
It does get harder. And then once we had a
couple kids.
S3 (17:19):
Even harder to.
S2 (17:20):
Remember, man, I just don't know. But yeah, it's been.
I've been doing this ever since I, um, ever since
I graduated college, you know? Wow. Uh, that's just in the.
I guess it's. Yeah, it's in the DNA. Yeah. I
didn't realize it.
S1 (17:34):
Wow. I mean, what a cool. Or, like, it was, like,
3 or 4 moments kind of wrapped up in that one,
which is awesome. I love it when it works like that.
Thank you so much for hanging with me for this
week's Snapshot Testimony podcast. I hope my conversation with Sean
was as encouraging to you as it was to me.
I'm your host, Ali Hassan, and together we're sharing the
moments that shape a life of faith in Christ. Thanks
(17:55):
for listening.
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