Hey there everybody welcome out to another episode
of redeemed through his blood. This is Scott
Durfey as always and as always also I'm joined
by my better half The lovely Debra Durfey.
Hi friends. Hi Deb. Hi Well Before we get too
far Going into this already. I just a couple
of things I want to mention We've received a
couple of emails recently really appreciate your
input there your questions, etc When they're
appropriate, we'll make them part of the podcast.
And of course, if you send an email, make sure
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But you can email us at he redeems us at gmail
.com. And another thing, Deb, I'm just going
to be transparent. We've been doing this thing
for a few years now, started with David and I,
and now you and I have been doing it for several
months now. And honestly, it's a lot of work.
And you know, honestly too we do all of our own
editing when I say we I mean me I do I do all
of the editing, you know and and and all of that
and I know that this would be a little more Readily
or easily received if we were to have video and
put it on YouTube, you know And all those other
things we just don't have the bandwidth to do
that Oftentimes, Deb. I find myself wondering
Do we even continue doing this? Do we even keep
doing what we're doing? Are we having an effect?
Are we making a difference? And I know I'm making
a difference in my own life and you are in yours
and all of that. And for that reason alone, it's
great. But I will tell you this, I've been thinking
that almost every week lately. Okay, when should
we wind it down? When should we be done? When
should, you know, we kind of cap this thing off?
Every time I do, I get an email. Every time I
do I get a text every time I do somebody I run
into or a friend or a cousin or a family member
Makes a comment about that. They are definitely
Being helped to establish and or reestablish
or continue in or maintain a relationship with
Heavenly Father his son and the Holy Ghost and
I know it's helping me do that. I don't think
our Institute students listen. It doesn't seem
to be a thing that college kids do these days
is listen to. It's too long for younger people.
It's got to be about seven minutes max, you know.
Anyway. So having said that, I'm not sure where
I'm going with that. Maybe a little encouragement
from y 'all's end wouldn't hurt. Maybe going
on to our social media accounts, which are not
super active, I admit it. I try and post once
or twice a week. And again, there again, bandwidth
is an issue. But if you'd like those and share
those, and if we could just continue to have
a good experience together, I guess that's kind
of our goal. Well, we're a little homegrown.
And I also feel like we're just sinners helping
sinners. And, you know, truly, anytime we get
feedback and people reach out individually and
share, I really do. It humbles me. I mean, I
think I'm just one of you. I listen to podcasts,
too, and I'm just seeking for inspiration and
revelation. and you know personal growth and
I want a relationship with my I want a stronger
relationship with my savior and my heavenly father
it's and it's you know very rewarding to study
to pray and to get vulnerable here has been a
gift for me. Scary gift, but it has been a gift.
As long as I don't know how many of you are listening.
Just tell Scott, I don't want to know. Well,
I look at the numbers of how many people are
listening and I've shared that with Deb a time
or two and she's like, ah, freaks me out. Yeah.
I'm not a stage girl. I don't like to be front
and center like Scott does So I'd rather be back
behind the curtain making sure the show runs
great. Yeah. Yeah, I For whatever that's worth.
I am used to being on stage last week in Texas
I spoke to almost a thousand people for two days,
right? Yeah, it's just a and it's a lot and that
contributes to I mean, there's just a big load
here anyway So, you know, last week we talked
about what we called the drift, right? And we
kind of turned that as how easy it is sometimes
for our focus to slide. You know, we talk a lot
about Doctrine and Covenants, Section 6, where
we're invited, look unto me in every thought,
doubt not, fear not. And then we read down and
we learn that when he's asking us to look unto
him in every thought, he's asking us to behold
the wounds, the prints of the nails in my hands
and feet, et cetera. So he's asking... is to
see him in his crucifixion or in his atonement,
the events of the atonement. And again, I think
that that's there to help us to know him better,
to feel his love deeper, et cetera. But, you
know, it kind of feels a little bit different.
You know, today, just a little bit different.
We don't necessarily want to talk about how to
necessarily to correct that drift. But what happens
what happens when life begins to feel more and
more unsettled? And that's gonna happen to all
of us. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because it's not subtle.
Sometimes things don't slowly move out of alignment.
Sometimes they just feel really unorganized.
Yeah, unorganized. I keep coming back to that
word unorganized. You know, this past week in
Gospel Doctrine, we talked about the creation.
And I love that you know we took a little bit
different perspective this year in gospel doctrine
as I'm trying to I've been called to teach it
again, and as I'm teaching gospel doctrine this
year I'm really trying to refocus on and look
for where Jesus Christ is in the Old Testament
wherever we can find him You know we talked about
creation last week And this is something you
know as we know God didn't create ex nihilo which
means create everything from nothing. What he
did is he and he organized it. He shaped from
what was already there. A lot of times we'll
call that chaos, you know, shaped from what was
already there. Yeah, which honestly feels familiar.
In fact, too familiar. There are seasons when
life just doesn't feel wrong. It just feels really
scattered. Yeah. Reminds me of that 52 card pick
up we played as played as kids. you know asking
your younger sibling have you ever played the
52 card pick up and then you just flip all 52
cards in the air and they fall all over the ground
that's kind of how did you say you did that with
a younger sibling Oh yeah, and maybe my older
sibling too. You just arch the card and just
put them up in the air and let them all fall
down. That sounds like a great plan for a younger
sibling. Sounds like the older siblings, what
they would do, they'd make you pick it up. Oh,
I picked plenty of 52 cards up. Yeah. Yeah. Well,
and that's how it goes. That's how it goes. This
week we don't necessarily want to talk about
the drift not being in the drift, but we're gonna
talk we want to talk about Kind of why it happens,
you know rather than Fixing our environment or
the things that we're in maybe if we could just
understand it better maybe if we could just understand
that sometimes even the drift as we call it and
Not necessarily overt or even covert sin, you
know, maybe not outward rebellion, but just a
drift, you know, and that drift is going to happen.
We talked about it last week, but why does it
happen? And I think that's important for us to
know. You felt a little drift. I felt derailed.
I mean, I felt more than drift. I felt derailed.
Tell us what happens. So I on Friday, I got called
into my boss's office with the corporate attorney
and got laid off That was my last day and I packed
up my office and I left Didn't say goodbye to
my team didn't it was just very sudden and very
And I you know, I was at peace with all of it
when it was being explained to me. I was like,
okay All right, whatever. Where do I sign? What
do I do? and When I left You know, I'm I'm one
of those to be honest with you. I'm calm in crisis.
I really am It's one of the things that I don't
know if I've just been in so much crisis that
I know how to stay calm and then later I will
go into Like after I feel like supported then
I have my breakdown, but I just I just felt like
Okay Next, I'll go on to the next thing, but
it has been, you know, now that it's been a few
days and reorganizing my time and my schedule
and not getting up and going to work and not
running a team and not, not, you know, in my
normal comfort zone. What do I always say? Here
I am practicing what I preach. No comfort in
the growing zone, no growing in the comfort zone.
So clearly I get to experience growth. And so
there's definitely something I get to learn from
this derailed experience that I felt. And it's
not just that, because within the last couple
of months, I got released from primary president.
We just got released from being in institute.
We're teaching our last semester of institute,
which we've done for the last five years. Even
my yoga studio is like uncertain. Like it's like
they're trying to sell it. And so I'm feeling
like I think there's all kinds of things just
changing right now. I could, if I really thought
about it, I could think of it. So I'm, I'm just
trying to look for the opportunity for growth
right now and just sitting in the chaos. And
I'm, I literally, you know, I'm trying to be
still. Which is a little bit easier when I'm
not working because I feel like I when I'm working
I'm on the run So it's interesting. It's an interesting
place to sit From the from the drift to the derailment
Yeah These are things, you know last week again
when we were talking about the drift we were
talking about how sometimes kind of happens slowly
And we find ourselves and we take a look around
and we say wow I've drifted. How did I get here?
You know, and then all of a sudden suddenly sometimes
We just get nailed with it like you did Friday.
Yeah, that came out of the blue. You weren't
expecting it You know, there were some clues
and obvious things when a company is in a certain
Posture etc. Then there are certain clues that
come along etc. But you were still pretty much
Sideways with and I think there's that emotion
between I'm okay and I'm settled. Yeah. Yes.
So where's your clarity today? I'm okay. Yeah,
you're okay, but where's your clarity? Do you
know what's gonna happen tomorrow? Absolutely
not. And that's the point. The uncertainty, I
think, is the part that I have to talk my, like,
to calm my angst. I literally tell myself out
loud, you guys are gonna think I'm absolutely
cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs, but I literally have
to tell myself, okay, just breathe. And then
just slow down and it's like everything's gonna
be okay. I have air to breathe. I have food to
eat. I have a roof over my head. Everything's
fine. But the angst inside of me, I have to like
consciously and intentionally calm it down. Because
the uncertainty is what brings me fear. Like
not knowing. Okay. I'm gonna kind of go a little
bit sideways on that one for just a minute. So
uncertainty brings fear and not knowing. And
I think that's true for all of us right, but
but we can still be okay in our fear Right for
sure. We can still feel settled in our fear.
Sure. How do we do that? For me personally, I
have to be still I have to be still and know
that God's in charge. Okay, and I think it's
a space of surrender. I think it's a space of
that scripture that comes to me is be still and
know that I am God because I have had numerous
experiences where I have been in the same situation
where there's been fear, where there has been
uncertainty, and I just have to keep my focus
on God has a plan and I'm part of that plan and
I trust Him. So, I guess flipping my fear to
faith and knowing that realistically I'm not
in charge, but I feel like I want to be in charge.
You know why I want to I want to be a little
bit in control here. That's my heart. I love
that. And this is another thing. I wasn't going
to do this, but because it just popped into my
mind and we've been talking a lot about this.
But in the big book of Alcoholics Anonymous,
there's a story in the back. And this is in the
I'm reading from the third edition in the third
edition. It's on page 449. And in the fourth
edition, it's on page 417. And I'm not going
to read the whole story, but just one. paragraph
or just one part of a paragraph here it says
acceptance is the answer to all my problems today
and when I'm disturbed it's because I find some
person place thing or situation some fact of
my life unacceptable to me and I can find no
serenity until I can accept that person place
thing or situation as being exactly the way it's
supposed to be at this moment nothing absolutely
nothing happens in God's world by mistake Bingo.
Yep. I love that. I love that so much. Let me
just read the next sentence or two, too, because
it pulls it into and makes it relatable to alcoholism.
But we can relate this to any ism, any of our
isms, any of our fears, any of our challenges.
Employment ism. Unemployment ism. So until I
could accept my alcoholism, I could not stay
sober. Unless I accept life completely on life's
terms, I cannot be happy. I need to concentrate
not so much on what needs to be changed in the
world as on what needs to be changed in me and
my attitudes. And I would add, and who am I allowing
to change those things in me, including and maybe
especially my attitudes. Yeah. Well, and it's,
you know, like sometimes it... It doesn't necessarily
feel wrong. It just doesn't feel finished. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And that's the thing,
you know, so often, I mean, what is finished?
I mean, truly, I guess we don't know. I mean,
right. It'll all be good in the end. But if it's
not good, it's not the end. Right. Right. Yeah.
I don't know. You know, you just don't feel finished.
I think that that's accurate because, you know,
as I've seen this, I was at the gym. Work it
out would when I get this text from Deb the other
day. I just got laid off I'll call you in a couple
hours or something. I think you said I said I
call I'll call you when I leave I call you when
I leave. Yeah, I didn't say a couple hours Even
more ambiguous I might add So I'm at the gym
I'm thinking oh my goodness, what do I do? Obviously,
I shouldn't call her. Otherwise she would have
said call me obviously I shouldn't go down there
because I have another issue that could come
into play and get us both in trouble and all
these other things, and so I'm left with acceptance
too, right? I didn't think of that. I mean, how
many of us, when our spouse or our kid or somebody
that we love or just somebody that we have some
sort of empathetic pull towards, when they're
going through these things, how many, we go through
it too sometimes. And there are our own things
that we have to reconcile, our own things that
we have to come to grips with, et cetera, because
there's a problem here. It creates, when things
are unorganized, I'm gonna go back to that from
Genesis, right? When things are unorganized,
it feels like I've lost my rhythm. When I've
lost my rhythm, I can't dance anyway, but when
I've lost my rhythm, I'm a mess. Right? Yeah,
you're just a spaghetti boy. Pretty much. You
know, when things get unorganized like this,
and this is a big one for me, I want answers
and I want them now. That's because we live in
a really fast world. And I'm a, you know, if
it is to be it's up to me kind of guy, I was
raised that way, and that's not a bad thing,
but it's not all up to me. And that's where sometimes
I have to remember. Right. So and then the other
thing is in depth, I don't think you've done
this, but a lot of times when we run into situations
that challenge us, that maybe make life a little
less predictable than we had planned for it to
be, et cetera, we sometimes jump into self blame.
Oh, I do that. Don't don't say I don't do that.
That's I think that's human. And not only self
-blame, but blame others. You know, it's like,
not only do I want to point the finger at myself,
but I also want to point it to others too, which
reminding that, you know, there's fingers pointing
back to myself. So yeah, blame is an interesting
dynamic. That's one of the first ones. What I
should have done, what you should have done,
what they should have done. I mean, it's, you
know. Blame is a big one. How do you sit with
this uncertainty then? Well, I'm really uncomfortable.
Yeah. I am really uncomfortable. Yeah. Yeah.
And I've been uncomfortable before. We've all
been uncomfortable before. We'll all have. And
you'll get another opportunity at some point
in the future to be uncomfortable. Oh, there's
nothing more consistent than discomfort, AKA
change. Right. Yeah. Right. But, but, but, you
know, I got to remember. So when I'm feeling
this discomfort, when I'm feeling this change,
when I'm feeling things that are just out of
whack or out of the ordinary or however you want
to term it in my life, I need to remember what
we taught or what we learned last week in gospel
doctrine. And that is God creates from chaos.
He'll take what's unorganized. He'll take what's
Chaotic he'll take what doesn't make sense or
seem reasonable or beautiful or any of that to
us But if we allow him to do it and he does it
through his son Jesus Christ and through his
atonement Christ's atonement But but but if we'll
allow him to Create from the chaos in our lives
then when it's done and that season ends It will
be as like he said in Genesis 2 it is good. Yeah,
it is good and I like when he says at the end
of one of those, and if I had my scriptures in
front of me, I could tell you, when he was completely
done and he said, it is very good. That's the
piece that it's like, you know, because not only
does he like chaos, he likes mess. And I think
for me, oftentimes, it's important for me to
be okay in the chaos and the mess. And to get
comfortable in that is hard. I do a lot of yoga.
I'm gonna go five, six, seven, eight. Well, okay,
so now that you bring that up, I mean, let's
talk about that. How do we get comfortable in
the chaos and in the mess? So you just talked
about something that maybe in a Sunday school
class or in a gospel doctrine setting or something
like that, you know, if you asked, okay, how
do you get comfortable in the chaos? How do you
get comfortable in the uncertainty? And maybe
comfortable is not the right word. Maybe just
settled. Yeah, it's not comfortable. Whatever
vernacular feels comfortable or suits you then
use it but because we're not we're not saying
this is a you know lollipops and and bubble gum
and butterflies and jumping jacks and rainbows
and all of that you know this we're talking about
really having Challenges and you know and and
let's be honest. Let's put it in perspective
your job Situation changes not the end of our
world, right? It's not we weren't diagnosed with
a Neither one of us were diagnosed with a terminal
disease neither one of us had an accident that's
dismembering or disfiguring neither one of us
lost our life or one of you know, I mean there's
so many other things if we put it in the grand
scheme of things and keep it in perspective it's
it's not it's it's not a a situation that should
wreck our mortality. It just happens. For sure,
for sure. Stuff like this just happens. And it's
supposed to happen. These kinds of things are
supposed to happen. And diagnosis and other things
like that. Death. I mean, we've had a lot of
that around us lately. Yeah. That is part of
this mess. That is part of this chaos. It's part
of, you know, the fall is part of what we're
experiencing here. Yeah, so and again getting
back to the creation story. He didn't get rid
of the chaos He didn't get rid of the unorganized
right? He didn't wait for everything to come
into order. He worked with what was already there
and through his power Right through his power.
He was able to organize this and began to work
in disorder And you know, so when I think of
that, I often think Actually, I don't often think
so I haven't often thought about this but today
I think when I think of that today I think well
You know if God begins his work in disorder in
the creation maybe disorder is not necessarily
a disqualification for his love for me or his
willingness to work with me or his Ability to
be with me. He's a creator, you know I think
he just likes to put things in order and I think
he I think for me I think of that the primary
song, I'm a child of God, because I think my
plea right now is, okay God, I'm willing to do
whatever, but lead me and guide me and walk beside
me. You just show me, and you know, to exercise
my personal revelation, to hear Him, and to know
what His will is for me, is definitely, you know,
that space of surrender. I do know one thing,
that this is the world that we were sent to.
Oh, for sure. No accidents. This is intended
for our experience here. I know, and I'm among
you, that we want to have life just be easy breezy
all the time. And I would love that too. What
would we learn, for real? And for that reason,
when I really come to myself and have a spiritual
experience with that statement, then I realize,
yeah, I really don't want to learn that way.
Well, and right now, being in the unsettled,
I don't want to be here, but because of my past
experience, I know that it will all work out,
that God's in charge. So that's what... gives
me hope right now in this unsettled feeling,
in this piece of, I don't like this. I mean,
I'm not gonna lie, I don't like it. And I can
future trip. I can start thinking about, oh crap,
what about this? What about that? Oh, what am
I gonna do about this? I mean, there's future
tripping that goes on. And then I just go, Deb,
you're not in charge. It is not for, I mean,
I need to listen. I need to be still. I need
to remember that my will and his will, when aligned,
will have peace, even in the chaos. Yeah. Even
in the chaos. And sometimes when I see peace
in the chaos, that's when it's even more pronounced
to me. Oh, that's the miracles, the daily miracles.
Right. One hundred percent, the daily miracles.
I love, and I mentioned this earlier in the episode,
but I'm going to talk about it. This is in Doctrine
and Covenants chapter. We don't have chapters
in the Doctrine and Covenants. There are sections.
This is his Doctrine and Covenants chapter there
again section 6 We're gonna start in verse 36.
This is the Savior. He says look unto me in every
thought doubt not fear not so Deb Maybe just
push pause right there. Would you say that potentially
there could be fear in your situation? Oh 100
% could there be doubt in your situation? Yes.
So what is the anecdote according to the scripture
for fear and doubt? To look unto him into every
in every thought now now David used to say practice
for me Yeah, but I I have so I have some thoughts
around that and then I'll read this the whole
scripture again But when when we're invited to
look unto him and every thought I don't think
that that for me let me put it this way because
for me gospel by Scott Well, it's not even gospel,
it's just logic and it's just a technique that
I try to use. But when I think of doubt or when
I think of look unto me in every thought, for
me that doesn't necessarily mean that I am thinking
Jesus in every moment. I mean, hopefully I am
in my background apps. I don't know how else
to put that. Hopefully in my background, you
know, my life is aligned with him and it is influencing
my every thought. So, you know, for me, when
I think of look unto me in every thought, it's
look to him, looking to him, and when do I look
to him? In everything. And so not just my thinking,
but my actions, my behaviors, my attitudes, everything.
So look unto me in every thought, doubt not,
fear not. And then he tells us how to do that.
Behold the wounds which pierced my side and also
the prints of the nails in my hands and feet.
Be faithful and keep my commandments and you
shall inherit the kingdom of heaven. Well, there's
my answer. Well, that's the answer to all of
us. Exactly. Exactly. You know what I just thought
of when you were reading that is, you know, when
the scripture about how he suffered afflictions.
pains and afflictions of all kinds. And I just
think, he knows what this feels like. He knows
what this feels like. And I'm not alone. When
he invites us to look unto him in every thought,
it's literally every thought. It's literally
every situation in our life. And so when we feel
drift, We need to know that the drift is not
sin necessarily. We need to know that the drift
is part of being part of mortality, is part of
the plan. We know that it came about because
we talked a little bit about the fall of Adam
and Eve last week and it came about because of
the fall. We know that it again creates a loss
of rhythm. It creates a lot of potential self
-blame. It creates a lot of potential uncertainty
and all of those kinds of things. But if we remember
a couple of things. If we remember that as we
look unto Him in every thought that we also remember
He's aware of all of this. You know, I think
it's important also to remember Because I was
having a conversation the other day with a friend
about this About I'm doing everything right.
Why is this happening to me? I've been faithful.
I've been doing all this thing and I had that
belief system at one time that You know, I was
feeling like I was having a job experience with,
I go to church, I pay my tithing, I go to the
checkbox mentality of I'm doing everything right.
Why do bad things happen to good people? And
I think it's important to remember for me that
this isn't, God trusts me with this chaos. God
trusts me with this unsettlement. He trusts that
I will come to Him in every thought. I'm not
gonna do a perfect, but He trusts, you know what
I mean? It's like we get these challenges, we
get these experiences for our good. It's not
for our bad. It's not punishing us. And I think
it's important to remember that, that it's for
our growth and for our experience. This is going
to make me stronger. Yeah, I agree with that
another thing though. I think is sometimes When
we fill these seasons change in our lives And
this is just a seizing season that you're going
through that we're going through It's just a
season the season will end and we'll be in a
new season yet again And there are all these
overlapping seasons in our lives at the same
time, you know, we're in the season of gram grandparenthood
well, we still are in a little bit of the season
of raising kids to you know, cuz You never quit
raising your adult kids apparently. They don't
like it. It just feels like lifetimes. It feels
like that was my first lifetime as a child. That
was my second lifetime raising my children. That
was the third lifetime, you know, being a grandparent
and, you know, and I feel like we live lifetimes.
And I think my point is, is sometimes it's really
difficult for us to make sense of it. Initially,
especially. And so he doesn't wait for things
to make sense before he comes close. He comes
close at our invitation. He comes close because
of our relationship. He doesn't wait. And just
because we're going through a hard time, I think
that you mentioned this. I have a little bit
of a difficulty with the scripture in the Doctrine
and Covenants. And it's Doctrine and Covenants
8210 where it says, I the Lord am bound when
you do what I say, but when you do not what I
say, you have no promise. And so sometimes when
that season comes to me, and I'm feeling difficulty
in my life, it's easy for me to be self -indicted
again because of things like that. Now I need
to remember and take things in context, not out
of context, and remember that it is my relationship
through Him that qualifies me for the blessings,
and alignment means doing what He says, and He
never told me that it was gonna be easy, and
I need to remember that. Yeah. I just remember...
years ago when my challenges felt like punishments.
And I think it's important. I feel like I know
now that it's not that punishment, but I don't
want God to think I'm that tough. Sometimes I
don't feel strong. And it's like, okay, I guess
I get to rely on Him who is strong. Yeah. That's
the whole point. I know. It's really the whole
point. That's the whole point of mortality is
for us to go through the events of the fall,
to fill the effects of the fall. It's the second
pillar of eternity. We went through the creation
where chaos was organized. Now we go through
the fall and we feel the effects of the fall
of Adam and Eve in our everyday lives. And it
doesn't just mean sin, it means drift. It means
intense. Chaos. Chaos. It means surprises. It
means all of that. And when we are in that, it
doesn't mean that he has stepped away from us.
It means that there's a deeper invitation in
that experience for us to come yet even closer.
to him however sometimes we get confused because
we hear the accuser in our lives telling us start
the blame game exactly this is all your fault
if you would have this or if you would have been
more of this or if you were better at that and
and on and on so you know what if what if what
if we were in a season Like we are at any given
time in our lives, and we don't really quite
understand it. What if that doesn't necessarily
need interpretation yet? What if we just need
to just be in it and let him reveal to us rather
than just take the bull by the horns boat, so
to speak, and then be a bull in the china closet,
so to speak, and just take it into art, which
I tend to do. But what if, what if it just needs
Christ in it? Oh, 100 % needs Christ in it. Every
thought. come unto me in every thought. And there's
nothing, you know, excluded. And I think again,
it's that, for me, it's that be still. Because
when I'm still, when I commune with Him, back
to my favourite hymn, O may my soul commune with
thee and find thy holy peace, I'm just so grateful
because... Thank heavens I've had some experience
with this in the past. I have some examples of
where my life has become chaos, and I'm afraid,
and I have seen where God has stepped in and
blessed me abundantly. And I know He will do
that. I know He's there. I know He will hear
and answer my prayers. There's no doubt. I don't
have doubt of that today. Thank heavens. because
I have in the past but today I don't have that
doubt and I'm grateful that in the stillness
that I can find peace that I really can find
joy in the chaos in the derailment and I know
that as I welcome him into my heart and into
my life that I will feel him that he will be
with me and I know he will lead and guide me
to the next best thing for my highest and greatest
good. No doubt. In fact, I testify of that. Well
here we are another season another of life another
opportunity for growth And we know that many
of you our listeners are in very similar situations
And we also know that many of you are in much
dire much more challenging situations than the
one that we find ourselves in. Our life's not
gonna change much. We'll be fine. Heavenly Father's
blessed us and continues to bless us and will
continue to bless us, I know. But we know that
many of you are like, I wish that was my biggest
problem. was just getting laid off. I wish that
my biggest problem was just that, you know? And
so we get that. Our hope here today is not to
draw comparisons, not to create situations where
we measure our challenges against each other
or anything along those lines. I think... Our
real effort and our real are what we really want
to have us all Understand today is that this
is the world that we were sent to it's not a
surprise He's not surprised by any of the challenges
that we're going through. He's seen him already
He knows how they're gonna end he sees the beginning
from the end and he's felt them, right? And and
he didn't avoid it. He entered it He entered
into that feeling and he did that for me. He
did that for you. He did that for each one of
our individual listeners individually, and he
did it for all of us also collectively. And I
think as we go through this week and think about
and contemplate the things that potentially we've
talked about here today and just create an invitation,
a place where he can be there, where he can come
in and be in our challenges. And I think the
first step to doing that is invite him in to
ask him in. Thanks for being with us everybody.
We look forward to being with you again next
week and until then, be well.