December 5, 2025 • 18 mins
What if the hardest seasons weren’t punishments but preparation? We open the door to a harder, truer kind of love—the father’s love that forges strength through friction, holds you accountable, and trains you to walk into storms without breaking. Instead of chasing quick wins, we explore why learning pays for life and how reframing pain as training turns setbacks into a path for growth.
Together we make the pivotal shift from victim to student, trading self‑pity for curiosity and discipline. We talk through practical tools for getting unstuck: anchoring attention in the present, interrupting fear loops, and living by power, love, and self‑control. Along the way, we unpack a surprising cultural mirror—the 2020 toilet paper panic—to show how narratives spread, why scarcity thinking hijacks judgment, and how leaders steady the room with calm, facts, and purpose.
This conversation also gets personal. Growth demands pruning, so we name the courage to release people who insist you are who you were. We ask better questions—Am I moving forward? Who am I taking with me? How is my action building good fruit?—and we draw a clean line between movement and real progress. If you’re carrying pressure, facing setbacks, or standing at a crossroads, you’ll leave with a grounded mindset and simple practices to turn pain into resilience and mistakes into mastery.
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SPEAKER_00 (01:06):
There's a reason God is called the Father.
And it's not because theuniverse needed a metaphor.
It's because this life runs onfather's love.
A mother's love brings you intothis world, nurtures you,
protects you, shelters you.
But a father's love, that's thelove that forges you.
It's the love that holds youaccountable, the love that gives
you consequences, but teachesyou how to walk into the storm
(01:29):
and not break.
In this world, we don't grow upwithout friction.
We don't mature withoutadversity.
And we don't gain wisdom withoutbeing humbled.
And that's why a father's lovedoesn't always feel great or
soft.
It feels like discipline.
It feels like reality.
It feels like getting your asskicked by life and realizing
that that was God training you,not torturing you.
(01:51):
At some point, every man has tomake the shift.
The shift from believing life ishappening to him to the
understanding that life ishappening for him.
When you stop seeing yourself asa victim and start seeing
yourself as a student,everything changes.
You lean in, you take the hitson the chin, you say, Teach me,
and the moment you do is themoment you step into the
(02:12):
father's love.
And in the father's love, you'renever losing.
You're either winning orlearning.
And yeah, winning feels good.
But winning only pays you once.
One victory, one moment.
One ring, one cell, oneachievement.
But learning?
Learning pays you for the restof your life.
Learning builds character,wisdom, resilience.
Learning turns boys into men,and men into fathers, and
(02:35):
fathers into leaders.
Look around.
Every fulfilled person you seeis someone who learned from
their mistakes.
Every miserable person you knowis someone who won't.
That's the divine fingerprint.
Everywhere you look in thisworld, that law holds true.
A man who avoids consequencesbecomes weak.
A man who embraces consequencesbecomes unstoppable.
Life is not punishing you, it'spreparing you.
(02:58):
So if you feel the weight rightnow, the pressure, the
adversity, the setbacks, don'trun from it.
Don't numb it.
You're in good company.
Lean into it.
Learn from it.
Go through it.
That's the father's love.
That's the love that builds men.
The love that shapes destinies.
The love that turns yoursuffering into strength and your
mistakes into mastery.
(03:19):
You are not here to escape thefight.
You are here to become the kindof man who can walk into the
arena with scars, wisdom, andpurpose, and say, God, thank you
for the lessons.
In a father's love, a man iseither winning or learning, and
both are divine.
SPEAKER_01 (03:35):
Discipline your thoughts.
Stop thinking too much.
Don't go into the past.
Don't go into the future.
Be in the present.
Why?
Because only then it's possiblethat the mind is free, pacity is
free, and now you're completelyimmersed into whatever you are
(03:55):
doing.
And this means you have arrived.
SPEAKER_04 (04:02):
It's the Food for Thought Faith Cast, and it is a
lovely day.
And I'm glad you are here withme on this line right now.
Where else would you be?
Pointlessly doing somethingelse.
Somewhere else with someoneelse.
(04:24):
Yes.
At least we're talking aboutgood stuff.
Yes, yes, yes.
So how are you doing today?
You know, if you ever want tocall in, if you ever want to
talk, if you ever want to justpray, if you ever want to be put
(04:48):
on a prayer list, just give me atag, seven oh six, six nine one
ten forty-three.
I would love to hear from mylisteners.
It would be amazing.
Because I wouldn't be here withwithout none of you guys or
(05:13):
Jesus.
None of this would happen.
I wouldn't get these days.
(06:39):
Full of fear.
Um we all know that fear isfalse evidence appearing real
and that that is a feeling ofSatan.
But it still reminds us thatfear does not have to define us
because God already has given useverything we need.
(07:03):
Does that make sense?
For the spirit of not for thespirit of God gave us.
It doesn't make us timid, but itgives us power, love, and
self-discipline.
That's a different version, butit's the same exact thing.
It's basically Paul wrote thesewords to Timothy.
(07:28):
Timothy was a younger leader whostruggled with confidence.
Paul just wanted to remind himthat fear and timidity don't
come from God.
Those do not come from God.
Fear is false evidence appearingreal, and it does not come from
God.
(07:48):
Instead, God's Spirit fills uswith power, love and
self-discipline.
Let me say that one more time.
God's Spirit fills us withpower, love, and
self-discipline.
Fear is natural.
It's not a sin to feel afraid.
(08:13):
But just know that's this.
That's why this verse comes.
That's why this verse is here.
To remind Christians like youand myself to stop dwelling in
fear and stop letting it hold usback from God's calling.
(08:36):
Food for thought.
Be robbed.
I love you.
Jesus loves you.
SPEAKER_02 (08:48):
When God wants to make a man powerful, he always
shreds him into pieces first.
Never forget it's a process withGod.
Without pain, there would be nogrowth.
So accept the pain.
Embrace the pain.
Because God is there to ask you,do you really want to achieve
(09:08):
your goals?
And when you start walking withGod, people will stop walking
with you.
Not because they don't like you.
But because you're about tosacrifice things.
They're not willing tosacrifice.
And when God takes you to deepwaters, not everyone will be
able to swim with you.
(09:29):
However, do not confuse movementwith progress.
Because you can run in place,but not get anything done.
I want you to take a moment andthink.
Are you moving forward?
Who are you taking with?
And how are you making thingsbetter by God's given power?
SPEAKER_04 (09:55):
Yep, and it's another episode of Stupid
American History.
And if you didn't think it couldget any dumber than the toilet
paper thing in the 70s withJohnny Carson, then you were not
here for 2020, which was uh theyear COVID hit, and we lost a
(10:20):
lot of folks that year, 2021, 20to 22.
Um, most of them are stillalive.
If that makes sense to you.
Um hold on.
(10:44):
Alright, that's bad jokerecovery.
I don't know how you recoverfrom a bad joke, but that was a
bad joke, and we justrecovering, so we just gonna we
gonna roll forward um in 2020 wehad another toilet paper panic.
Um when COVID first hit thenews, which was uh I wanna say
(11:09):
early, it was late February,March, around that area.
People Americans didn't theydidn't hoard mask medicine or
canned food.
They lost their collective mindsover TP, man, over some Charmin,
(11:36):
over some tupli, over sometoilet paper.
They lost their ever-lovingcollective minds over some
toilet papers.
Grocery store shelves werestripped bare in hours.
And I I want to say it was asocial media thing.
I can't remember.
(11:57):
I mean, people fought in grocerystore aisles, actual fist
foughts caught on video onsocial media.
One guy in Australia pulled aknife over a 48-pack.
In the US, there were armedguards, yes, armed guards to
(12:18):
protect toilet paper deliveriesin places like schools and that
sort of thing.
Resale prices hit fifty dollarsplus per roll on Craigslist and
Facebook Marketplace.
Are you kidding me?
We done Black Friday to owntoilet paper.
(12:41):
I told you about that yesterdaywhen we were talking about the
70s, how that little trick isjust a just a little litmus test
for upcoming generations.
That's how they do it, you knowwhat I'm saying?
(13:01):
That's how they do it.
Um, the news ran nonstopsegments about toilet paper and
supply chains.
Yep.
Straight face palms, straightface palms.
Because reality check is the USproduces plenty of toilet paper
(13:23):
domestically.
There was never ever 100, noteven one percent actual
shortage.
It was 100% panic buying, fueledby social media, which fueled
panic buying, which fueled moresocial media, which made empty
(13:44):
shelves, which created morepanic buying.
So it's basically a perfectlydumb little loop.
The Surgeon General had to go onTV and literally beg people to
stop ordering toilet paper.
That's how bad it was.
Dum dum dum dumb.
(14:08):
It's uh straight up peak stupidAmerican history, peak American
cultural, it's irrational,viral, over-the-top, a little
bit of violence, little bitmildly, and somehow centered
(14:31):
around a product literallycalled Charmin that we are
literally wiping our butts withinto basically a dystopian Black
Friday event.
How about that?
(14:52):
How about that food for thought?
How about that food for thought,stupid American history for ya?
Yeah.
It's the food for thought faithcast, and we doing stupid
American history, and that'sthat that one about takes the
cake.
It pretty much showed youeverything in history that they
(15:13):
tried to plan was ready to rockand roll.
So just better hope that stillain't the plan.
You better hope everything I sayabout Trump and the white hats
and they taking over and theevil people ain't in charge no
(15:35):
more.
Y'all better hope that's thefacts.
Y'all better hope it.
Cause it's either that or it'seither not good.
But I have faith in God.
My God is a big God, and that'sthe way that works.
SPEAKER_03 (15:54):
There's a specific person that you've got to get
out of your life right now.
It's the person that wants toremind you of who you were.
It's the person who wants toremind you of how you used to
be, what you used to do, how youused to do it.
That used to person's dead.
Anyone who wants to resurrectthat person cannot be in your
life.
There is nothing more importantthan getting people out of your
(16:17):
life that want to pretend you'rethe person you were yesterday.
They want to act like you're theperson you were yesterday.
You're evolving, you're growing,you're advancing.
You need to be focused on youright now and anybody that wants
to bring you back, anybody thatwants to pretend you are the
same person that they knew one,two, six, seven years ago, get
them the hell out of your life.
SPEAKER_04 (16:38):
Hey guys, it's B Rob, it's the Food for the Faith
Cast.
Real quick, why do smartphonesneed glasses?
Apparently because it lost allits contacts.
(17:06):
We got time for one more.
We got to the Disney one righthere.
It says, uh, why can't you giveElsa a balloon anymore?
Because apparently she'll justlet it go.
SPEAKER_05 (17:24):
Let it go, let it go.
There's a reason God is called the Father.
And it's not because theuniverse needed a metaphor.
It's because this life runs onfather's love.
A mother's love brings you intothis world, nurtures you,
protects you, shelters you.
But a father's love, that's thelove that forges you.
It's the love that holds youaccountable, the love that gives
you consequences, but teachesyou how to walk into the storm
(01:29):
and not break.
In this world, we don't grow upwithout friction.
We don't mature withoutadversity.
And we don't gain wisdom withoutbeing humbled.
And that's why a father's lovedoesn't always feel great or
soft.
It feels like discipline.
It feels like reality.
It feels like getting your asskicked by life and realizing
that that was God training you,not torturing you.
(01:51):
At some point, every man has tomake the shift.
The shift from believing life ishappening to him to the
understanding that life ishappening for him.
When you stop seeing yourself asa victim and start seeing
yourself as a student,everything changes.
You lean in, you take the hitson the chin, you say, Teach me,
and the moment you do is themoment you step into the
(02:12):
father's love.
And in the father's love, you'renever losing.
You're either winning orlearning.
And yeah, winning feels good.
But winning only pays you once.
One victory, one moment.
One ring, one cell, oneachievement.
But learning?
Learning pays you for the restof your life.
Learning builds character,wisdom, resilience.
Learning turns boys into men,and men into fathers, and
(02:35):
fathers into leaders.
Look around.
Every fulfilled person you seeis someone who learned from
their mistakes.
Every miserable person you knowis someone who won't.
That's the divine fingerprint.
Everywhere you look in thisworld, that law holds true.
A man who avoids consequencesbecomes weak.
A man who embraces consequencesbecomes unstoppable.
Life is not punishing you, it'spreparing you.
(02:58):
So if you feel the weight rightnow, the pressure, the
adversity, the setbacks, don'trun from it.
Don't numb it.
You're in good company.
Lean into it.
Learn from it.
Go through it.
That's the father's love.
That's the love that builds men.
The love that shapes destinies.
The love that turns yoursuffering into strength and your
mistakes into mastery.
(03:19):
You are not here to escape thefight.
You are here to become the kindof man who can walk into the
arena with scars, wisdom, andpurpose, and say, God, thank you
for the lessons.
In a father's love, a man iseither winning or learning, and
both are divine.
SPEAKER_01 (03:35):
Discipline your thoughts.
Stop thinking too much.
Don't go into the past.
Don't go into the future.
Be in the present.
Why?
Because only then it's possiblethat the mind is free, pacity is
free, and now you're completelyimmersed into whatever you are
(03:55):
doing.
And this means you have arrived.
SPEAKER_04 (04:02):
It's the Food for Thought Faith Cast, and it is a
lovely day.
And I'm glad you are here withme on this line right now.
Where else would you be?
Pointlessly doing somethingelse.
Somewhere else with someoneelse.
(04:24):
Yes.
At least we're talking aboutgood stuff.
Yes, yes, yes.
So how are you doing today?
You know, if you ever want tocall in, if you ever want to
talk, if you ever want to justpray, if you ever want to be put
(04:48):
on a prayer list, just give me atag, seven oh six, six nine one
ten forty-three.
I would love to hear from mylisteners.
It would be amazing.
Because I wouldn't be here withwithout none of you guys or
(05:13):
Jesus.
None of this would happen.
I wouldn't get these days.
(06:39):
Full of fear.
Um we all know that fear isfalse evidence appearing real
and that that is a feeling ofSatan.
But it still reminds us thatfear does not have to define us
because God already has given useverything we need.
(07:03):
Does that make sense?
For the spirit of not for thespirit of God gave us.
It doesn't make us timid, but itgives us power, love, and
self-discipline.
That's a different version, butit's the same exact thing.
It's basically Paul wrote thesewords to Timothy.
(07:28):
Timothy was a younger leader whostruggled with confidence.
Paul just wanted to remind himthat fear and timidity don't
come from God.
Those do not come from God.
Fear is false evidence appearingreal, and it does not come from
God.
(07:48):
Instead, God's Spirit fills uswith power, love and
self-discipline.
Let me say that one more time.
God's Spirit fills us withpower, love, and
self-discipline.
Fear is natural.
It's not a sin to feel afraid.
(08:13):
But just know that's this.
That's why this verse comes.
That's why this verse is here.
To remind Christians like youand myself to stop dwelling in
fear and stop letting it hold usback from God's calling.
(08:36):
Food for thought.
Be robbed.
I love you.
Jesus loves you.
SPEAKER_02 (08:48):
When God wants to make a man powerful, he always
shreds him into pieces first.
Never forget it's a process withGod.
Without pain, there would be nogrowth.
So accept the pain.
Embrace the pain.
Because God is there to ask you,do you really want to achieve
(09:08):
your goals?
And when you start walking withGod, people will stop walking
with you.
Not because they don't like you.
But because you're about tosacrifice things.
They're not willing tosacrifice.
And when God takes you to deepwaters, not everyone will be
able to swim with you.
(09:29):
However, do not confuse movementwith progress.
Because you can run in place,but not get anything done.
I want you to take a moment andthink.
Are you moving forward?
Who are you taking with?
And how are you making thingsbetter by God's given power?
SPEAKER_04 (09:55):
Yep, and it's another episode of Stupid
American History.
And if you didn't think it couldget any dumber than the toilet
paper thing in the 70s withJohnny Carson, then you were not
here for 2020, which was uh theyear COVID hit, and we lost a
(10:20):
lot of folks that year, 2021, 20to 22.
Um, most of them are stillalive.
If that makes sense to you.
Um hold on.
(10:44):
Alright, that's bad jokerecovery.
I don't know how you recoverfrom a bad joke, but that was a
bad joke, and we justrecovering, so we just gonna we
gonna roll forward um in 2020 wehad another toilet paper panic.
Um when COVID first hit thenews, which was uh I wanna say
(11:09):
early, it was late February,March, around that area.
People Americans didn't theydidn't hoard mask medicine or
canned food.
They lost their collective mindsover TP, man, over some Charmin,
(11:36):
over some tupli, over sometoilet paper.
They lost their ever-lovingcollective minds over some
toilet papers.
Grocery store shelves werestripped bare in hours.
And I I want to say it was asocial media thing.
I can't remember.
(11:57):
I mean, people fought in grocerystore aisles, actual fist
foughts caught on video onsocial media.
One guy in Australia pulled aknife over a 48-pack.
In the US, there were armedguards, yes, armed guards to
(12:18):
protect toilet paper deliveriesin places like schools and that
sort of thing.
Resale prices hit fifty dollarsplus per roll on Craigslist and
Facebook Marketplace.
Are you kidding me?
We done Black Friday to owntoilet paper.
(12:41):
I told you about that yesterdaywhen we were talking about the
70s, how that little trick isjust a just a little litmus test
for upcoming generations.
That's how they do it, you knowwhat I'm saying?
(13:01):
That's how they do it.
Um, the news ran nonstopsegments about toilet paper and
supply chains.
Yep.
Straight face palms, straightface palms.
Because reality check is the USproduces plenty of toilet paper
(13:23):
domestically.
There was never ever 100, noteven one percent actual
shortage.
It was 100% panic buying, fueledby social media, which fueled
panic buying, which fueled moresocial media, which made empty
(13:44):
shelves, which created morepanic buying.
So it's basically a perfectlydumb little loop.
The Surgeon General had to go onTV and literally beg people to
stop ordering toilet paper.
That's how bad it was.
Dum dum dum dumb.
(14:08):
It's uh straight up peak stupidAmerican history, peak American
cultural, it's irrational,viral, over-the-top, a little
bit of violence, little bitmildly, and somehow centered
(14:31):
around a product literallycalled Charmin that we are
literally wiping our butts withinto basically a dystopian Black
Friday event.
How about that?
(14:52):
How about that food for thought?
How about that food for thought,stupid American history for ya?
Yeah.
It's the food for thought faithcast, and we doing stupid
American history, and that'sthat that one about takes the
cake.
It pretty much showed youeverything in history that they
(15:13):
tried to plan was ready to rockand roll.
So just better hope that stillain't the plan.
You better hope everything I sayabout Trump and the white hats
and they taking over and theevil people ain't in charge no
(15:35):
more.
Y'all better hope that's thefacts.
Y'all better hope it.
Cause it's either that or it'seither not good.
But I have faith in God.
My God is a big God, and that'sthe way that works.
SPEAKER_03 (15:54):
There's a specific person that you've got to get
out of your life right now.
It's the person that wants toremind you of who you were.
It's the person who wants toremind you of how you used to
be, what you used to do, how youused to do it.
That used to person's dead.
Anyone who wants to resurrectthat person cannot be in your
life.
There is nothing more importantthan getting people out of your
(16:17):
life that want to pretend you'rethe person you were yesterday.
They want to act like you're theperson you were yesterday.
You're evolving, you're growing,you're advancing.
You need to be focused on youright now and anybody that wants
to bring you back, anybody thatwants to pretend you are the
same person that they knew one,two, six, seven years ago, get
them the hell out of your life.
SPEAKER_04 (16:38):
Hey guys, it's B Rob, it's the Food for the Faith
Cast.
Real quick, why do smartphonesneed glasses?
Apparently because it lost allits contacts.
(17:06):
We got time for one more.
We got to the Disney one righthere.
It says, uh, why can't you giveElsa a balloon anymore?
Because apparently she'll justlet it go.
SPEAKER_05 (17:24):
Let it go, let it go.
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