Welcome to the new mercies podcast. I'm your host Anthony Caldwell. This is episode number
143 and I know you are tuning in today to hear part two of my conversation with my daughter
Britton, my 12 year old little girl who God is using in incredible ways right now. He is teaching
her things and honestly as a father I am beginning to learn from her faith journey. I believe we can
all learn together. I believe when we accept Jesus as our Savior and we put our faith and trust in
Him, I believe we get the Holy Spirit of God and I don't believe there's a junior version of the
Holy Spirit. I believe my daughter when she accepted Christ and began her faith journey got
just as much of the Holy Spirit as I did, the same Holy Spirit. So I can learn from her as she
learns from me and this season has been one of those seasons that I've learned so much from her,
just from her explaining the book that she read in the last podcast episode and in this conversation
you're gonna hear she wrote a song in the middle of a very difficult time. I didn't even know she
was writing songs. I had no idea and she just wrote this song in a very difficult season. So
without any more delay I want to turn it over to my conversation with Britton. All right,
welcome back to part two of our interview with my lovely 12 year old daughter Britton. How are you
today Britton? I'm doing great. Awesome, awesome. We wanted to break this episode up into two
different parts because the first part yesterday if you didn't hear part one it was all about the
book that she read Little Pilgrim's Progress and she did a little recap for us and kind of explained
why she liked the book and why we would recommend it to anybody and by the way these are not
sponsored podcast episodes. We are not sponsored by this. This is just something we love so much
we want to share with other people and so today I want to focus in on during the season that you
were reading this book God was doing a lot of things in your life. He was taking you through
different situations and different things so you actually wrote a song during this little season,
is that correct? Yes I did. What is the title of your song called? So the title of my song is
called Battlefield. Battlefield. That would tell me that there's something that was a battle for
you during this season so tell me some inspiration behind this song. Why did you write this song? So
some inspiration for the song like I talked about in the last episode was the book that I read Little
Pilgrim's Progress because I wrote this song as I was reading this book so I hadn't finished it yet
but I was kind of in the middle of it and in the book Little Pilgrim's Progress little Christian
went through so many battles and I loved how he always said that he was like I won because the
king was with me it wasn't me it was just that I was brave to know the king would get me through
it and the king he got him through those battles and so if the king can help little Christian through
his battles I know he can help me through mine and everyone through everyone's battles and just
all the battles that people have. Another thing that inspired me to write my song was I really at
this time I really loved a song by Torrin Wells called Trenches and I still love it now but it was
one of my favorite songs at the time. Both of those combined just kind of came out my song that I
wrote. Okay and I've got one more question for you before I have you read out your song for us. The
other question is so what were you dealing with anything was anything going on in your life during
the season that you were reading this book and you this Torrin Wells song meant a lot to you was
there anything you were going through? There actually was I was going through my own battle
at this time and I had just this like mystery sickness and I was just I was sick for a while
and so I was just kind of struggling with that. And I will say to our listeners we typically as
a family I don't share a lot of things going on because we're kind of private as a family but
during this season yes she was going through a little bit of a battle this mystery sickness
she's talking about she had a fever and the fever you know we took her to the doctor when she first
started this fever and it was the doctor said it's just some virus you know some fever virus or
something and the doctor said if she's not better in you know five days or four days or whatever it
was to give us a call so four or five days go by and we thought well okay she's still got a fever
this is weird and so she was out of school for that those four or five days because you can't go
to school with a fever and so she was having to do remote learning and having to do virtual stuff
and try to catch up and wasn't able to go to school and didn't didn't like that did you like
that? No I did not like that at all. And so going through that process it was about a week and we go back to the doctor and he said okay this
is a you know it's a fever virus still it's just lingering she got a secondary virus and didn't
really have an a response so said kind of you know check back in a few days and her fever went on
for almost a hundred straight days we went to doctors we went to hospitals we went to specialists
we were in Nashville we went kind of everywhere and never really had an answer it was really
tough we saw some specials we did finally get an answer but before we get to that part of the story
why don't you in the middle of your mystery sickness you were at home one afternoon or actually one
morning it was during the school season so I was having to go pick your sister up for from school
and you were at home and kind of a quiet space and so you sat down and wrote this this song right? Yes I did. Okay why don't you
read this song for us and let us hear the lyrics. Okay I was standing in the center I didn't know
what to do I had my armor around me but I still couldn't move I looked really confident but I
was scared as could be I lost all of my faith and I didn't believe and you came to the battlefield
when I needed you the most I was still filled with fear but I was safe because you were close and you
came to the battlefield like you always do now my fear is all gone and it's all because of you I
couldn't see as tears came through my eyes you know when I'm beat down and broken inside because
when I'm in the battle I'm weak and I'm alone I can trust in you forever because I know you'll
always show and you came to the battlefield when I needed you the most I was still filled with fear
but I was safe because you were close and you came to the battlefield like you always do now my fear
is all gone and it's all because of you you are the God that helps me through the fight you are the
God that helps me sleep at night and when you showed up at the battlefield next to me you helped
me get through it so I defeated the enemy and you came to the battlefield when I needed you the most
I was still filled with fear but I was safe because you were close and you came to the battlefield
like you always do now my fear is all gone and it's all because of you. That is a very well-written
song when you wrote that you were 11 years old right? Yes I was. And you were in the middle of a
battle and that shows that there's faith in those words right? You said that you defeated the enemy
with him and yet you were still in the middle of the battlefield yourself. What do you want anyone
that's listening to this today what do you want them to know? Well when I was writing this song
like I like you said I was in the middle of a battle and when I was when I was sick when I was
writing the song it felt like it was never going to end it felt like I was just gonna stay sick
forever and it felt just miserable and so I wrote this saying that I was gonna get out of it thinking
I was never gonna get out of this and now today I'm all better and I got out of it so that just
when I look back at this song it reminds me like he came through like I knew he would but I didn't
know it at the same time I was kind of struggling like he's gonna come through but is he is he
really is he not you know what's gonna happen to me and well it all turned out great. Yeah and for
the last and so one of the things that we did as we celebrated when you had a fever for those
hundred days I think it was actually a hundred and six days actually now that I think about it
for those hundred and six days of fever you were weak and you were tired you were struggling and
it was just really hard and so one of the things that we decided after your fever was gone that
day we celebrated right we were like yes this is we're good yeah finally this is this is the way
we're we're through this part one of the things that I did was I challenged you right and I said
hey what if we take the next hundred days and we build your strength back up because you have
strength now so for the last hundred days correct me if I'm wrong but you have done over 10,000
push-ups. Yes I have. Over a hundred day period we set a challenge before you and your mom and I said
you know what I believe she can do it she can do 10,000 that's a hundred push-ups or more a day
and I am so proud that you have done that and we're going to treat you to a nice little surprise
here but as we as we've gone through that one of the things to remember today is that your faith
even whenever you didn't understand how God was going to deliver you through it right he you said
you were sick you just didn't know when it was ever going to end but you trusted that God was
going to do that and honestly I didn't even know you were writing a song I had no idea this was
going on I mean we knew we were praying every night and every day and talking about how you were
going to get through things and how God was going to deliver you and what he was going to do and
how he was going to do it and the truth is we didn't know right we didn't we just we had to
believe we had to trust and so thank you so much for your encouragement Britton sometimes
encouragement comes from the kid and not the parent and thank you for that I'm very proud of
you and I love you very much and I know that this will encourage the many people that will hear this
episode today so I love you and I am very proud of you I love you too