Life Beside Christ
Life Beside Christ
Heavenly Investments and Earthly Challenges
Ever wondered how life's unexpected turns can lead to blessings in disguise? Carter shares his roller-coaster journey with the testing process of a new and hopeful career, and offering a candid look at the ups and downs since leaving his previous job. As we banter about recent escapades, including Carter's Father's Day golfing adventure and Levi's packed summer of football camps from Minnesota to Dallas, we highlight the importance of staying busy and trusting in God's plan, even through the chaos.
Inspired by a recent sermon, we delve into the profound idea of storing treasures in heaven. We discuss the joy of performing unnoticed good deeds and the significance of filling our lives with light, as illustrated in Matthew 6:22-23. Carter and Levi share personal stories and biblical insights, emphasizing the battle between worldly desires and spiritual fulfillment. The conversation pivots to Matthew 6:24, underscoring the necessity of choosing God over material possessions and the peace that comes from walking in the light.
Overthinking and worrying can be paralyzing, but Jesus' teachings offer a powerful antidote. Reflecting on Matthew 6:25-34, we explore the futility of worry and the freedom found in trusting God's provision. Drawing wisdom from relevant Bible verses, we share practical advice on controlling what we can and leaving the rest to God. Comparing different approaches to stress, we highlight the importance of finding a balanced perspective, where thoughtful consideration and peace of mind coexist, trusting always in God's care. Tune in for an episode filled with heartfelt stories, spiritual insights, and practical wisdom.
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Welcome back to the Life Beside Christ podcast. We are one haze down, but it is not the same haze that was missing the last time. Carter has reappeared, and now Brady is the one skipping town yeah, I guess with better reason than carter's yeah, oh, I've got a job what's that? Like having a job.
Speaker 2:I have a family and a job two kids, a wife, a job what's his real excuse?
Speaker 1:yeah, what was yours last?
Speaker 2:time Father's Day golfing with Dad.
Speaker 1:No, yeah, yeah, I'll definitely be there tonight, don't worry guys.
Speaker 2:Well, I got the. I mean, they were just going to leave me and go golf. I was like I'll eat golf. So I went to Springfield and it was Father's Day, so we went to the rail, whooped up on them real quick, get a call mid-round Whooped up on the course yeah. Yeah, I was chunking everything, but it's all right, Get a call hole nine when you at. Oh yeah, I'm gone, yeah, but it wasn't like a spur-of-the-moment thing.
Speaker 1:That recording was the most planned one. We had?
Speaker 2:Yeah it, it wasn't like a spur of the moment thing. That recording was the most planned one we had. Yeah, it was definitely planned, it's also been two months since then. Yeah, I forgot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's me, that's me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but I want to clarify I'm not really a mouth breather. All right, maybe a little lazy, I'll take the lazy part, but come on now. I'm doing some talking. Look at me. I'm in brady's spot. I'm doing some more talking. I think it's the spot. Really. This is a power spot to be in. You have just control of the room view.
Speaker 1:Right, yeah, yeah. Well, now it was. He had a chance to just talk crap about you. So what do you need to get off your chest?
Speaker 2:well, I mean, it's just be better, you know, uh, take off of work if we're gonna have this podcast going. Yeah, um, just better time management really is what I was gonna get after him for uh I don't think that that should be here.
Speaker 1:I don't think that that's the angle you attack, that no he's got a big nose, so I'm just hating on him now.
Speaker 2:We miss Brady. Wish he was here. But a job is pretty important, I guess, if you have a family.
Speaker 1:He's just getting back into work from being home with the baby and Zoe. Now they're all home. We'll probably just let him give a better update next time he's back. Um on all that, but they're good. Um, any other updates that you can give us carter on your life?
Speaker 2:um, so I don't know exactly what I updated last time I was on the podcast, but I've been testing with jackville police department and that's a long process. I I knew it was going to be long. I didn't think it was going to be.
Speaker 1:It's a lot more drawn out than I thought it was.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I didn't know it was going to be a six to eight month drawn out thing yeah, because it's like what?
Speaker 1:a half a day of testing and then three months of nothing. Yeah, it's not like you're like doing stuff over that time yeah which is, but I don't know.
Speaker 2:They have their structure for everything yeah, I'd say my total time is like less than five hours, but it's been over I don't know four months, um. So that's been uh, testing my patience I guess, um, but it's going good so far. Uh, if you guys want to say a prayer for me, see what happens. I mean, whatever god's will is, I believe that will happen.
Speaker 1:It's funny, though, kind of talking about you and I had a conversation not to get too much into details, but with the kind of way your last job the plumbing stuff kind of ended and it was just not a good exit on that, but not what you wanted, not a good exit on that, but not what you wanted, but the timing of stuff that's kind of transpired since then, you being more available. I guess has almost been kind of like a blessing in disguise through some stuff, I guess.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's been I'll use the word fun. It's been a fun way to watch god work in my life. So I I was doing the plumbing apprenticeship and that didn't end too great I didn't want to end but and then dad got cancer. So I was then free to kind of help out there and do his field work and be his legs for a little bit. And he's just now getting back, getting better, starting to yell at me more. So that's good. But it's just funny how you think, oh, that's not ideal, and then six months later you just see how it works out and how god always has a plan.
Speaker 2:You just have to trust what's going on yeah, um but it's been good um working on the flip house as well as much as I can, but, yeah, definitely staying busy and trying to take advantage of each day.
Speaker 1:So yeah and um with me. Just we just are now getting back into school. Football's been going on since the last recording. I made a trip up to Minnesota, was there for a week for a football camp, went back, stayed a few days over the fourth with my parents in Indiana and then, without coming home, went down to Dallas for another camp with my dad to work a football camp down there, and then I was back and summer was basically over for me. So it was a good summer for me, but it was very, very quick. And now we're back into a full swing of football season and school and then next thing you know it'll be wrestling and baseball season for me.
Speaker 2:Busy busy.
Speaker 1:But it's fun, I enjoy it. Yeah, it keeps me busy, keeps me busy. I realized, though, over this summer this was the summer before football camp started the most downtime I had during the summer that I can remember. I didn't do like any odd job stuff, like I was trying to do pressure washing stuff like that that kept me busy.
Speaker 1:Last summer. I realized as much as I want to be lazy sometimes and just like sit around, do nothing. That's terrible for me. I sit there and I just me alone, like being lazy, not doing anything, not having the motivation to get up, and I had to force myself to walk a couple rounds of golf. So I'm not just sitting on my butt all summer, but also just I'm a world class overthinker. So that is not a good combination either. But other than that, I guess there's not a whole lot else for us to catch up on.
Speaker 1:Today we're going to talk a little bit about Matthew 6 and kind of like last episode's or not. Last episode, last episode was with the STG, but the one before that where we kind of pick a section or verse out of this chapter that kind of sticks out to us and then have a little conversation about that and then move on. So I'll say this before we get started Matthew 6 and I think I talked about it like the Sermon on the Mount. There's just so much in it and this is, and this is still the Sermon on the Mount here in Matthew 6. There's just so much and it's so good, like if this was the only sermon that jesus ever gave.
Speaker 1:It would cover everything still it's just it's, it's so complete and uh there's a lot in there, so don't take our wording for everything as the best. Uh, definitely go read it. Um, maybe follow along with us if you want to, but I would definitely recommend reading through matthew 6, if, uh, if it's not something you've done recently, it's just, there's just a lot there. And that was one thing. Like I kind of just hit on the sermon on the mount. I realized there there's all the topics that he covers, that jesus covers in this are so many things that one like are calling out people of that time, but it applies just as much now, um, whether he's talking to the Pharisees and Sadducees and how they they conduct themselves I guess in that time, how just the Jewish people of that time acted, did stuff. But all of it just applies now and it's just, it's crazy, obviously like God's all-knowing and all these things are like don't do this, don't do that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1:But it's weirdly, as I was reading through because I keep reading through the whole Sermon on the Mount, I go through every section I'm like, yep, that's me, yep, that's me, yep, that's me, that's me, that's me. And check marks through almost everyone Except I mean not everyone, okay, but a lot of them. There's murder in there I promise I've not murdered anybody, but there's just a lot in there that are just like yeah, that's stuff that I struggle with. But the fact that he talks about it is almost comforting because it's like he knew right, like everyone's going to struggle with stuff like this for all time, not just now. Everyone's going to struggle with stuff like this for all time, not just now. And it's comforting that he was able to give us kind of a way to think about and, through his words, try to kind of come to a better conclusion, solution to some of these things. So that'll be kind of what we get into.
Speaker 1:One thing before we started but I found I came across this tiktok and this guy he's. He makes like christian, like not parody, like too christian, but just like funny christian content stuff. And he, there's this, this video, and it was how to say like not rude stuff, but kind of stuff from the Bible and I'm going to play this. Hopefully this goes through. This is my first time playing a video through a recording, but we'll see how it goes.
Speaker 2:Hi there you little chicken nuggets. These are some Bible verses that you can use. If someone hurts their feelings, or if you just don't like them, or if they're a little fart sniffer, let's get started. If only you would shut up and let that be your wisdom. If you do so, again I will lay hands on you. You should mind your own business. You can leave you, son of a perverse and rebellious woman. Depart from me, you who are cursed. Yes, I know, be quiet. Me, you who are cursed. Yes, I know, be quiet. You're an evil. It's perfectly formed like a goblet. I know that's supposed to mean it's meant to be like a good thing in the context of that scripture, but I'm in it in the bad way. Hi there you little chicken.
Speaker 1:I thought it was funny and he put the verse that he was pulling that from and I went through it and looked at it. I was like, are these actually in there? And that translation? Some of them are loose translations, but some of them are exactly what it says and it's just funny. It's like I know Be quiet. I don't know, know, I thought it was funny, I find it funny.
Speaker 2:I hope the audience as well finds it funny.
Speaker 1:But right so there you go. Just a little funniness to start us off for this episode.
Speaker 2:That's how you fight them off there.
Speaker 1:All right, carter, you want to start us off? Sure.
Speaker 2:So before I get started in my little rambling, I heard a sermon two weeks ago and it was about the Bible, the Word, and if you love Jesus, you love the Word. If you love the Word, you love Jesus, and that's what God left us with you hit on it. Where it's relatable, you can relate to it. You can well, that's me. We're all sinners. We all find these things in here that are little.
Speaker 2:She, our pastor that was given the sermon, said that these are the little gems that are in here that people don't highlight as much. But as time goes on they'll be more and more relatable as as it gets worse and worse, um and worse in our earth, I guess. So it's kind of funny that just popped up that it is relatable. I mean, this is who we are. It gives you all the answers on how to fix it, how to find God and come out stronger in the end. So just amazing what the Word can do. Everything's in here. So just dig in and if you want to follow along, then try and keep up, I guess, amen brother.
Speaker 2:So I circled the prayer, obviously because that's pretty important, but I wanted to talk about the treasures in heaven, Okay, so I find it fun and exciting. I guess that if you do something good on this earth and you're just doing it, nobody sees you and you don't gain credit for it. I mean, you're storing stuff in heaven for yourself. You're doing exactly what you're supposed to be doing.
Speaker 2:It feels weird because I mean, um, I had great parents growing up and every little good thing I did, oh good job, good job. All this stuff, um, and I, I find more joy in being able to help people. Or if it's pick up a piece of trash, I, that's the smallest little thing, but I don't know. It just makes me feel like I'm doing the right thing, and that's what I want to do. I want to do the right thing, not to prove to other people that I'm a good person or I do good things.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Just to I don't know follow what God says and to do those little things behind closed doors. I guess the piece that I picked up in this is I'll read it it's verse 22 through, I guess, 23. So it is the eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light, but if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If, then, the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness? So what I see that is, I have a image in my head.
Speaker 2:I don't know where I got this from, but I see, once I pray and I get forgiven, I'm back on this trail of light, walking with Jesus. I don't know where I got that from, but it's just. Every time I pray I feel like all right, you're back on the path. Tomorrow's a new day, let's go. So I see this light. If you fill up with the light, the Holy Spirit, you're walking with Jesus. If your eyes are bad, you've fallen into that darkness and it's okay. Just pray and you can be forgiven and right back on that path. So that goes a lot with how I pray, I guess, and how I look at my relationship with God. So it was kind of cool. I'd never really paid attention to that verse before I know I've read it in the Bible studies, in the trailer in the good old days. But that one really stuck out to me and hope you guys can relate to that as well.
Speaker 1:I think that verse gets brought up a lot when I guess I've heard it a lot when you're talking about like desire and even like lust yeah, I could see that and not allowing yourself to fall in the trap of. You know how easy it is especially on your phone like phones, whatever to looking at, be looking at stuff. That's not good for yourself.
Speaker 1:I guess, but that's kind of the context. A lot of times I'll hear that brought up in, like when Jesus talks about gouge out your own eyes. Right, it's better to not have your eyes or gouge out your own eyes than to.
Speaker 2:Mark 9, 47?.
Speaker 1:Yeah, who does that say I?
Speaker 2:don't know, it's on my cross.
Speaker 1:Oh, I thought you were getting ready to say it.
Speaker 2:It's something about gouging the eyes out and cutting off your own hand. That's better than sinning, yeah. So with looking at this, your eyes can lead you to good, they can lead you to bad and, yeah, stumbling blocks in your life, um. So it's all up to you, and I mean you can go either way with it um but just trying to stay in the good and filling up with light is the ideal thing to do, but we're all sinners and struggle every day. So yeah, that's kind of what I took from that, yeah.
Speaker 1:I like that, so like even like we talked about, there's just so much. And looking at the passages around it, like even the one after it's the Matthew six, 24. It's so good. It says no one can serve two masters. Either you will hate one and love the other, or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and money. And it's like that alone, like just the context of you either love one and hate the other or you know, you'll never see one like kind of thing. Yeah, even not even talking about money, I guess, just worldly stuff and the desire to, I guess, because when I was listening to you I was kind of thinking of like it's almost I could be wrong like human nature to want to be greedy, I guess, and want things and not, you know, like you said, store up earthly treasures. But is it just same thing right there? If I'm only worried about things on this earth and this life, then I'm screwing myself in the long run.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you missed the message. Yeah, in a way.
Speaker 1:I think your dad was talking about this and I think it was a day we were golfing. Maybe I'm wrong, but he mentioned someone wanting their name on a building or something like that. Yep, it's like okay, yeah, go ahead, be happy with your name on that building, whatever. And donating is not a wrong thing. That's what we're talking about. We're talking about donating and people wanting your name bigger than the contribution. I guess, your name to be bigger than what is being used for that donation or whatever's happening. If that makes yeah, I bet poor wording by me, but it just goes to that like, okay, if you're gonna go ahead, like, take your treasures here, but just know that you don't have that waiting for you yeah, you're not storing them up in heaven.
Speaker 2:Um, if I knew the bible better, I would go to the part where it talks about the. I assume they were men in the story, but they gave big checks to the church and people were knowing. And then the lady put in her two nickels or whatever. It was two pieces of coin and that's all she had.
Speaker 1:No, they definitely had nickels then in Jerusalem.
Speaker 2:All right, yeah. Yeah, I mean, that's what I thought.
Speaker 1:I didn't know if it was hoarders or no, they had US currency before the US existed.
Speaker 2:Yeah, whatever little pieces of metal she put in there she gave it all, but yeah, I can't think of. When no one was looking was the point. It's not. Oh, I'm going to go up, which great. I'm not saying giving money is a bad thing, which you were just talking about. I'm just, I guess, saying the same thing. You are. Oh yeah, but whenever you read that little verse there, I thought of the story you told. It might have been our second podcast where you were talking about.
Speaker 2:If you're on that fence and you're not choosing God, you're not choosing the devil. You're in the middle. I don't know why I didn't really fully think about it, but I guess the devil is the money, the all the material stuff all that, all that stuff. So if you're choosing that and choosing god, you're not, you're not, you can't do that. It says right here no one can serve two masters.
Speaker 1:You can't, it's not possible yeah, um so just to choose god over all is important um, so I found the parable that you were referring to. It's. I found it in luke 21, the widow's offering. As jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury. He also saw a poor widow put in two very small copper coins. Truly, I tell you he said, this poor widow has put more than all of the others. All these people gave their gifts out of their wealth but she, out of her poverty, put in all she had to live on.
Speaker 1:And yeah, like, like not being selfish, like not selfish, like overly greedy yeah you know wanting to do it for others and, like you said, not throwing up stuff here.
Speaker 2:I don't know if like flaunting is the right word. Yeah, like kind of like hey look what I'm doing here right but it's pennies, not nickels.
Speaker 1:I freaking, I was close yeah them, copper, copper pennies with abe lincoln on it, back in back in the day yeah, you know, jesus knew yeah, yeah, yeah, see relatability. Yeah, you had something else.
Speaker 2:Well, I was just. I mean, there's so much in just this one chapter, like I brought up the prayer just real quick. Yeah, and the fasting. I'm curious. I need to be more educated on that. I don't know if, like, we should be doing that, if that's a uh sacrifice to god, I guess, or a commitment to I don't, I don't know I could be wrong.
Speaker 1:I think it it was part of the old law. Um, I think there were certain times that you were supposed to do it, whether it's through mourning or trying to repent through repentance fasting to try to spiritually grow closer to God, in addition to fasting, I guess? Um, but go ahead Sorry.
Speaker 2:No, you're good, I I just. I just didn't know. I'm sure our audience is more educated on some of these things. Um, if you guys know more about this, I would love to hear from you and have that discussion, um, because growing up we didn't I mean, it wasn't really a conversation where, yeah, we would do that on purpose, but I'd heard other religions, um, they not eat a certain thing or go on a fast or whatever, yeah. So I didn't know if if I'm missing something, or if that was just the old law and now we don't have to do that, or what the case was yeah, and in the, in the kind of context that he's talking about here, the reason he's bringing up fasting is not saying to do it or not do it.
Speaker 1:I, I don't believe he's just saying here that, um, it's kind of the same thing with giving oh, look how much I'm giving. Look, look, um kind of the same thing. Like people were fasting and like almost making themselves look I don't know, sick, sicker than they were too, and trying to like be, like, look at me, look at how, look at how, like spiritual, not spiritual but were you here? Was that the conversation you had with Brady or Brady brought up that he hates the people?
Speaker 1:saying oh, I'm spiritual, but so it's not not spiritual not to make Brady mad but to say, oh, look at how good of a relationship I have with God. And they were doing the opposite of what they thought they were getting out of it. So it's like don't go out parading around saying, look at me look at me. So he's saying oil your face, make it look like you're not. Take a shower I think they had those too. They were just getting those things. Plumbing was really coming in there yeah.
Speaker 1:Do you have anything else on that?
Speaker 2:I don't think so. I think that kind of wraps up what I was wanting to get through and what popped out at me. I guess yeah.
Speaker 1:So the section that I had picked out and I kind of mentioned it at the beginning with my world-class overthinking In Matthew 6, the section titled Do Not Worry stuck out to me immediately. So I'm like do not worry, that's what I do all the time. I sit there worrying about everything, and so I'll just I guess I'll read the whole thing and try not to butcher it too much. So it's Matthew 6, 25 through 34.
Speaker 1:Therefore, I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink, or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air. They do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you, by worrying, add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon, in all his splendor, was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes, the grass of the field which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you.
Speaker 1:You have little faith. So do not worry saying what shall we eat or what shall we drink, or what shall we wear, for the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly father knows that you need them, but seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own, and that's obviously. There's a lot it's all saying the same thing. There's a lot, it's it's all saying the same thing. Um, but anyone, and I, uh, I'll sit there thinking about something that is completely out of my control and not maybe not even completely, but is largely out of my control, like day-to-day stuff, and it's something like even as as a player, as a coach now. That I say because I always heard it and I believe it.
Speaker 1:But it's like in games, you know, I always say, especially like in baseball, and say control what you can control. Like, if there's something I can't control, why am I worrying about it? Just move on and I, even though you know it's something I in games, will tell kids like kids, you know whatever, complaining about the strike zone or whatever else, it's like you can't make that umpire change his mind. You know, like it's not going to change. You just need to do what you need to do and if he calls it, he calls it.
Speaker 1:But Then there's times in my life where I'm like, okay, I sit there and I'm overthinking it, I'm whatever, like I'm driving and I'm just getting frustrated about this the more I think about it. Or up late at night thinking about stuff, and it's just like why it's completely out of my control what's happening here, like I just need to one have a better attitude about some of these things and not get so worked up about it. Um, but it's one of those things, like I said, that I definitely struggle with. It's not, it's not easy for me. I, I, everything and I. I sit there and I just like my mind doesn't stop. I only go one thing to another, to another, to another, and I just it's frustrating that I get frustrated so easily about some of these like very stupid things and, um, I don't know if I have an answer for myself other than just like it said, like trust God like that's all it is.
Speaker 1:And I heard someone a message on this and worrying as a Christian is basically almost saying that like I don't trust God enough right now, or about this. You know I may about something else, but oh, this, this I got to worry about. I got to make sure like it goes the way I want it to, and it's like that right now that's out of my control. I need to trust God. He's got a plan and I may not like it, I may not like the plan, but I have to trust him and worry about today and not worry but go through today and let God take care of the rest. Um, and maybe I'm just rambling, but it just stuck out pretty heavily to me when we came across this and I found a couple other verses. I'll just read a couple of them that go along with this kind of saying the same thing. I'll just try to read through a couple of these real quick in case there's someone else out there with the same problem and wants to have these verses available, I guess, to look at. So this first one Philippians 4, 6, do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, present your requests to God, and that one's pretty straightforward, like, if there's something that you are worrying about and you want, I guess, like don't sit there just worrying about it, go to God, talk to God about it in prayer, and that's and I've talked about it before that's something that I'm working on too 1 Peter, 5, 6, and 7. Humble yourselves, therefore, under God's mighty hand that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you. And then I'll just read this last one, isaiah 41.
Speaker 1:This one of these that I'm reading, this one is probably my favorite Isaiah 41.10. So, do not fear, for I am with you. Do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous hand, and it's just one of those things too. It's once I can kind of get myself to realize, all right, this is something not worth worrying about, and kind of be comforted by understanding and knowing that God's got a plan and I just need to trust him and let things play out the way they're going to play out. Um, and, like I said, I'm sure there are other people out there that may share similar struggles with that.
Speaker 2:But so what stuck out to me is it's not bad to want things, um, for things to happen in your life that you want at all, um, you go, you still go to God with it and have that conversation. Just know that he's all-knowing and he's got you. And maybe it's not what you want right now, but it's all part of this big plan that we can't comprehend. So just to trust in that yeah, we can't comprehend. So just to trust in that and not let it ruin your day or your week or your life. It's obviously easier said than done.
Speaker 1:Right, and I can imagine especially you parents out there that are listening are like well duh. But I imagine having kids. It's hard not to worry about them. Not that you shouldn't obviously take care of them, but every day I imagine worrying about your kid as they grow up and them being out of the house more stuff like that.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:That seems again, someone who's a parent and listening is probably just like, well, duh, yeah.
Speaker 1:And that's another thing that I kind of thought about is the things and I went two ways with it Because I work I'm 25, but I work with kids half my age and so I'm like, okay, 12 year olds, the stuff that a 12 year old worries about don't really matter, like in in large scheme stuff, right, oh so. And so said this to me, like you're not gonna remember what they said to you tomorrow, like let's move on, you know, and the stuff that they worry about and we did too, I'm sure, as a 12 year old, um, compared to now as a 25 year old, so someone like double my age, a 50 year old, the stuff that I worry about day to day, a 50 year old's like well, yeah that stuff means nothing as in the large scheme, like it's just kind of perspective and it's, I'm sure as you get older stuff like that um gets easier to not worry about, especially like the smaller things um, but it's part of learning and growing, I guess yeah, I mean you think of some in preschool.
Speaker 2:Oh, they were mean to me, oh, I'm never gonna be friends with them again, I mean she said she was not getting my friend.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean you think of some in preschool. Oh, they were mean to me. I'm never going to be friends with them again. She said she was not going to be my friend. It's ruined my day. I'm out of here, yeah. But I like what you said. I don't think you're going this way with the parent. Look, I think you were saying parents worrying about their children, but I think of the—I like the idea of God being our parent and you think of, I mean just watching Brady and Zoe be parents. It's like all right, you can't have chocolate milk every single time. I mean it's just like okay, no crap, like God's.
Speaker 2:I'm not saying parents are gods, but I'm just saying that that uh, look on things like hey yeah, you can't do that so yeah we're gonna change something here and you aren't gonna like it yeah, you're gonna drink water right it's, it's for the better.
Speaker 1:That's a funny picture to have, like the the stuff like like worrying about whatever.
Speaker 2:Not getting your dang chocolate milk.
Speaker 1:Well, that's what. So I was just trying to think of something that we struggle like, want to worry about or whatever, and that, just being related to God's eye, that's just chocolate milk. Like you're worried about chocolate milk, I'm stumbling over my words tonight.
Speaker 2:I kind of like it.
Speaker 1:That's a funny picture.
Speaker 2:I was going to say something and I forgot it. I guess I was just going to say I know how you and Brady and Dad, you guys are warriors. Me and Mom have the same attitude.
Speaker 1:Just kind of go with the flow.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think it's to a fault almost where I I don't know. It sounds weird in this context, but I don't wake up. I don't go to sleep worrying that often about things. I can just shut stuff off and not worry about it and um, then it turns into not thinking about how other people look at it or if it's hurting other people's feelings or whatever.
Speaker 1:I just I don't look at it like that.
Speaker 2:So it's I. I didn't have a lot to say with the worry thing yeah obviously I worry about stuff, but it's not as um day to day as it is for you guys. Um, that do overthink and obviously I overthink and I stress and I worry and all this stuff, but it's not a big thing to me. I get over stuff pretty easy. So I just hope you guys can get through that little time where you're not getting that chocolate milk or whatever. Whatever it is in your life, that is that chocolate milk.
Speaker 2:You just have to trust. I mean, it's easier said than done, obviously, but God's got you in his hands. I mean you're going to be all right and get through it. So that's all I pretty much had to say. I don't know. It's definitely not as big of a deal as you're making it in your head in the moment, I mean even if it's the next day you look back at it, or five years down the road and you're like well, that was kind of silly.
Speaker 1:That kind of goes in like it's easier when things come up for other people. It's easy to be the positive person for them, Cause especially like I I think Brady and I are similar in that sense where something goes wrong, or like we're told like you know something, you know for their situation. It was like it was bigger. But hey, like these are some possible issues or whatever, whatever it be big or small, I got I'm like all right, great, it's the worst case scenario. Like it's whatever they said is going to be the worst, that's what's going to happen. It's my mind doesn't go to think okay, well, maybe, maybe it's the, the better outcome like the better option, not option um.
Speaker 1:I guess outcome yeah um, I go straight to that. The worst case scenario is gonna happen in this situation and it's gonna. And I sit there and it's funny because I keep thinking about it, but my car radio has not been on in months like I. When I'm driving I it's just silent and it's again probably not something that's good for me, like when I'm taking a four-hour road trip to Iowa to go see my sister and I'm like four hours of almost dead silence and I'm like how do I do that? I've got to put a podcast on or something, Because I just sit there and I just start thinking about stuff and then I'm sitting there driving, frustrated for no reason. I'm like, dude, put some music on or something and stop being so negative.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I just like, I, just I what I do, I guess, and I need to stop. But yeah, and I'm probably the complete opposite and I would give you crap sometimes for, like, dude, just stick a little bit. Yeah, yeah just think a little bit yeah, like, yeah, but like and not in a bad way, because I wish I did have that outlook sometimes just like thought I guess, yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:It's like perspective I play the radio all the time. I don't want to listen to a podcast necessarily I will sometimes, but I think there's a middle there where you should have thoughts and time to think.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:But also don't get too caught up in it. So I think us being complete opposites, I think there's a middle there that is correct. I don't think my way is correct. I don't think your way is correct. I think, there's a healthy balance where you are thinking through stuff, yeah, but not driving down the road for four hours frustrated. It's not like that I just sit there.
Speaker 1:I, I think you know like, oh, like I went back, I went up to see my sister a week before school started and I'm just driving and I'm two and a half hours into this drive and I'm like, dude, I haven't turned the volume up at all, I haven't put like the unashamed podcast on or anything, which is what I would normally do. I get tired of music sometimes. I guess like, if I don't have like the music, I want to hear that second. Yeah. But, um, I'm like I just been thinking about like, okay, I got, I got baseball tryouts on Monday and Tuesday. I got to be there for football the rest of all week, or we're off this week, whatever it is.
Speaker 1:We have lifting this, that I got school, I need to plan, I need to do this, and I'm just like running through everything in my head. I know it would probably help if I was maybe more organized about how I plan stuff, and that's probably part of it. But I'm just sitting there like, okay, I got this. Um, and then I'm like, ah, crap, I, I gotta deal with this or that along with it.
Speaker 1:And you know, like I, whatever it is, and I'm just like, and then I'm like crap, it's been three hours camping trip. On the way back from the second camping trip, going through hannibal thinking I ran a red light or something and the whatever, the, the flash goes off and I just sit there for the next hour just oh yeah dead silent, not talking, so I'm like this is stupid, this is what the heck like. This is the worst case scenario yeah um and nothing happened nothing happened.
Speaker 1:I'm like I didn't, whatever. Yeah, I'm not mad about it.
Speaker 2:You know, no, um yeah I don't know.
Speaker 1:We rambled a lot on.
Speaker 2:It's already been, yeah, almost 50 minutes, and I mean, hopefully you guys can relate to that I'm sure there's people out there that have done the same exact thing or it's like all right, that was silly. I mean just yeah, but I mean it's, it's all learning and, like we've said, we've wanted this to be.
Speaker 2:It's a young yeah, outlook yeah, on stuff it's I'm sure as we mature it'll get better. Yeah, um, that's our hope and hope you guys can either teach us or learn from whatever mistakes we're making, um, but I think that's the point so yeah and uh, probably schedule.
Speaker 1:Hopefully. We say this every time yep every time. Oh yeah, we'll definitely get on a good schedule here two months later. I think this break was a little bit more warranted but, like Brady said before, doing this also helps us stay in it and study ourselves and not just rely on a Sunday sermon or an occasional thought throughout the week. That makes us open the Bible where it gets us to open it more and hopefully it gets other people to think about things and want to open up their Bible more.
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 1:Well, we would appreciate if you share the podcast with any friends. Thank you for listening and hopefully be back with Brady next time.
Speaker 2:Yes, sir, thank you for listening.
