and I'll see you guys next time.
Don't get down when you're seeing the worst
Cause the last will be the first
What a day I'm telling you
All things will be new
Living up in a down world
Yeah we're living, yeah we're living
Living up in a down world
Oh
Hey folks, it's Jimmy and Annette
We've got Chevy with us, he's hanging out
Chilling out. Where's Chevy by the way?
He did not want to sit in my lap
I don't know what's wrong with Chevy
I have no idea
He got super excited, I was setting the chairs up
and he just like loses his mind for a sec
but then he's staring at me
and then he's staring at you like
okay I would rather sit with you but
your chair's too little cause we had to switch chairs
I know, I've got the baby chair
That's what he wants, he wants me to switch back
so that you will have the big chair
and he can sit in your lap
You think he's mind melding with you
and telling you that?
He's acting depressed or something
I don't know what's wrong with him
I know, it's weird, I don't know what's going on
Who knows, who knows
Mr. Chevy is not in a mood today
to be on the broadcast
But we do have a picture
We do, we do, I'm going to put it up on the podcast cover
that'll be on there
and on our website
livingupinadownworld.com
I'm going to start adding some pictures
with our blog so those of you that maybe
you're interested in seeing a little bit about us
and what we look like and what life looks like
I know, I'm not a big picture person
Not this second
So anyway, welcome to the show
We're glad you're here
We are Jimmy and Annette Pruitt
We are living up in a down world
and this has been for us
So this is Monday
We were going to record on Sunday
and we hit the record button
and about what, 10 minutes into it
we both looked at each other and went
Dap, cut, cut it, cut it
Eject, eject
Well we sounded really tired
We were tired
It was a long day
Sundays, I want to do it on Sundays
I know, I do too
Yesterday was an extremely long way to potluck
after church
So we were with people constantly
That's pretty crazy when you've got 170 people
No, it was probably over 200
I mean, our church, we were at nearly close to 500
450, whatever we were yesterday
Close to 500
So close to 500 and then you've got
half of those staying for
old fashioned dinner on the grounds
potluck, which has turned into one of the
coolest things we do
because it's a chance for people to hang out
and get to know each other and eat a lot of good food
It is a lot of fun
And the food's great
Oh my gosh, it was amazing
However, we're tired
By the time we do two services
and hang out for another hour, two hours after
by the time we get home, we're wasted
And we both took a nap, which
An accidental nap
This is where I'm feeling like I'm turning into an old man
and I actually go to sleep in a chair
Both of us, with our glasses on
sitting up and we fall asleep in a chair
It's official
We never do that
We're not nap people
It's official, we're old
We're not nap people
So it's weird that the last two weeks
Is that saying anything about us?
I think it just says we're tired
We've been going, running and gunning for
weeks and weeks and weeks
I don't know about your lives, but
sometimes we have these, I call them convergence seasons
where it seems like
Oh, I didn't think about that
We scheduled that
Oh, we should have thought about
Oh, we should have looked at the calendar before we said yes
And you end up with just a bunch of things in a row
That's convergence
I will do better, it's my fault
You don't look at your calendar
I look at my calendar, I ask you
That's why you're my wife
And then when it comes up to you
You go, oh my gosh, I didn't know
Well, that's one of the reasons you're my wife
It doesn't matter if it's on my calendar
You're my calendar
You shouldn't even have a calendar
You're supposed to tell me
This is what?
Yes, let me tell you what to do from here on out
Great, why is that any different than the last 30 years of Wild?
Well, that's true
No, that's the life
I mean, really guys, we're not good about keeping up
Most of us, you've got those rare organized dudes
But most guys are, I mean, we do
Over time we become dependent on our wives
For some things
And our wives become dependent on us
Like, hey, can you put that thing up in the top of the pantry?
Hey, can you hang that ceiling fan?
Hey, don't bring it up
Which you still need to do
No, no, no, I shouldn't even
Why did I even bring that up?
I know, I know
It's been sitting in the garage
For how long?
The clean, organized garage
Very organized
And we're having guests this weekend
And I need you to put it up
It goes out in our back patio
It's easy
I'll help you
We were so busy today
Okay
Oh my gosh, no we weren't
So let me tell you
We want to tell you about our Mondays
Because what we do on Mondays
This is something that we learned
Well, we didn't learn it
We learned the principle
We never learned it
We learned the principle of Sabbath
And if you're a follower of Christ
You know that even one of the Ten Commandments is
You know, He's given us the Sabbath as a gift
And He wants to keep that day set apart and holy
So on Monday we have found
Over the years that Monday is the best day
The joke is
And I actually shared this with our church family on Sunday
That most pastors quit on Monday morning
Because they're just fried
They wake up and
And they get all these positive affirmation
And then one negative
And it just causes most pastors to say I'm done
And it doesn't even have to be an email or a text
It can be just a negative thought
It's just in their thought
Yeah, in their mind
Oh, I should have said this
Oh, I had this point and I forgot
Oh, I misquoted that
I mean, you know, just
A litany of things can run through your mind
Anytime you're a public speaker
You're always thinking
Oh, I could have done better
Or if you're a singer
A performer
You're always thinking I could have done better
And it's no different when we're preaching and teaching
And you think
Oh, I wish I would have said this
Then the enemy
By the way, we have a very real enemy
Called the devil
And he just starts to just
Assault your heart and assault your mind
And so anyway
Mondays are really rough for pastors
If you are in a church and you have a pastor
Pray for your pastor
Especially on Monday mornings
And don't contact them on Monday
About anything serious
Especially if you're quitting the church
If you're leaving or you're mad
Or you've got a complaint
Mondays are not the days
Keep it till Tuesday
That's why most pastors should not even go
In the office on Monday
Because that's
Very vulnerable
Mondays should be a Sabbath
Where you don't do any work
And here we are podcasting
This isn't work
This is joy
This is life
It's a little work
Well, we are after the Sabbath
It ended at 5 o'clock
Oh, is that right?
Is it?
Is there a time here?
Okay
Yeah, yeah
Usually it's
Sun down to sun down the next day
It's still bright outside
We're off on our days
Because of the time change
Sabbath
So what Sabbath is
We learned this when we went up to Sunscapes
And Sunscape retreat in Colorado
Fantastic
Seven days away with your spouse
And then with three other couples
Plus a leader couple
And they teach you about rest and restoration
And how to kind of get your life back
And take care of yourself
Exactly
Because you need to exercise
You need to eat properly
You need to rest
You need to turn off your phones and emails
And social media
Which you still have not been able to conquer
I did a lot better today
I did not spend all day
I had it away from me
I think I'm going to get to the point
Where I hide your phone
And I can't turn off your computers
You did good today
I want to help you
No, I'm helping myself actually
I took strides today to keep it out of sight
And keep it away
It's all right for me
I like at least talking to my friends
I do the same
As long as it's not work
Right, exactly
Not work related
Right
I had a dear
One of my elders who I love dearly
Reached out to me today
He said, hey, can you call me?
I know it's your day off
And I said, I'll talk to you manana
Talk to you tomorrow
And I just wrote Sabbath
So what the Sabbath is
It's a gift that God's given
We're to work six days
Not like it's your job job
It's life
For everybody
This isn't just pastors
No, for the human race
Everybody should have one full day off a week
Where you're not working
And you're not doing work related things
Which that's the hard thing to turn off
Especially for pastors
Because we are in this 24-7
But we've been taking more intentional steps to Sabbath
And it's life giving
I feel like today was a really good day
I feel rested in my mind
And refreshed in my heart and spirit
It's good
I had a really good time with the Lord this morning
I'm reading through a book devotionally
It's not a devotional book
We got in the hot tub
And we listened to No Agenda
I know
Adam Curry and John Devorak
We're tearing it up
From their broadcast yesterday
And their podcast
And they're on fire
So I would encourage you to go and find No Agenda
It's easy to find
Just Google No Agenda podcast
And you'll find it
And Adam Curry and John Devorak
Fantastic stuff
So we listened to that
So I guess that's going to be our new Monday ritual
Oh yeah, we could do that
Get in the hot tub
Or the swimming pool
I love it
Whenever it's warm enough
I like being informed
By people who tell the truth
And so yeah, Adam and John do a great job of that
And so yeah, again, a great day
You've been talking to your friends a little bit
I've talked to my friends a little bit
That was not work stuff, just friendship
And so we thought we would share this with you
It is a biblical principle
It's something that dawned on me
After many years of just work, work, work, work, work
That I didn't ever take the gift that God had given me
Well, and another thing that we did
That wasn't the best thing for our marriage
Was we never took vacations
Oh yeah, those early years
We would go on a ministry trip
And we would add on two or three days
Just for personal rest
Or fun or whatever
But that was not enough
We were still working the whole time
Still felt like we were on the clock
No matter what
And so we had committed
And our board of directors had said
Hey, we want to gift you guys with a sabbatical this year
It's not going to happen
No, not going to happen
We're going to do some vacation time
And then we'll do some Sunday stuff in the meantime
So we're going to try to make it work for us this year
And then revisit it next year
Anyway, we'll be smart with our Sabbath days
And then a sabbatical down the road
It's a little bit hard for me to rest
Because my daughter is getting married
Excuse me, not my daughter, our daughter
Ours, thank you very much
Our daughter is getting married this weekend
So it's been a whirlwind kind of day
Trying to figure out all the wedding stuff
That has to be done at the last minute
And then we're going to move to another apartment
She lives in a small apartment
And then her and Brandon are going to move to a larger apartment
We just got word today that it will be ready on Wednesday
I'm like, oh no
Perfect, good timing
I need to have off on Wednesday and Thursday to help her
I'll talk to the boss and see
Actually, my boss needs to be off today
You need some manpower there
We didn't really plan to be off
No, we did not
It is what it is
We're happy for Brandon and Faith
They're both 22 years old
And here they go
Starting a new chapter of their life together
I'm honored to actually officiate the wedding
We did some pre-merito counseling at the house
That was interesting
It was very interesting because we use a tool called Prepare and Enrich
Which is a great tool
We use that
I forgot to hit the timer
I'm going to make sure we're not two hours in
We're 12 minutes in
This Prepare and Enrich tool is like a test or an assessment
You send it in and they spit back all this information
About your trauma related issues, conflict resolution
How you relate to people
All those different indicators, family of origin, all that stuff
Very interesting
We went through it with them
There's a whole section on sexuality
That was weird talking to our kids about that
That was awkward, wasn't it?
I tried to keep a straight face
Inside I was laughing
We didn't go too deep on that
We'll talk about that later
If you need any help call us or call somebody else
It was like the rents were going
Did you recommend a book?
No, you didn't recommend that
We didn't recommend that book
That's big news
We're going to do rehearsal on Friday night
Our last one to get married on
This is our youngest
I know, it's pretty awesome actually
Brandon's a great guy
We're really proud of him
We just need to pray that he gets a job
He moved here
He wants to get on with the Fredericksburg Police Department
He wants to be a policeman
He's working on that
We're praying that door will open up
Join us in prayer
We're talking about Adam Curry
Adam had major dental surgery
I thought he had seven posts put in his mouth
He said eight today
I can't even imagine
His whole face swelled up
It looked like the elephant man
Remember that show?
It was huge
Did he send you a picture?
Not this time
We saw the first picture
It had to be worse this time
It was rough for him
He wouldn't know it
Pray for Adam
He's doing much better
He's still only able to eat soup
He has this voracious appetite
He can't really take care of
Be lifting up Adam
The Podfather
We love Adam and Tina
They're dear friends
We can't do a show without giving a shout out to them
The reason we're doing a podcast
Is because of our relationship with them
Even more important than the podcasting piece
Is the fact that we're walking together
In our spiritual journey
In our growth
They're fairly new to Christ
We've been in this a while
We've been walking together
Doing life together
It's a powerful dynamic
We're super proud of them
They've been sharing their faith journey
On their show
Curry and the Keeper
Several people have been saying
They're going to be great
Several people have been sending them Bibles
They got a new Bible
I told him I should start streaming those
I'm trying to think of who it was who sent it to them
I'm going to look it up
I know it was
What was it? The Spirit-Filled Life Bible
Something like that
I know Adam loves his Life Application Bible
Which is a really good one
If you're listening and you're wanting a Bible
Maybe you're new to faith
Or you're coming back
I know the Life Application Study Bibles
This is Spirit-Filled Life Bible
New King James Version
That's the one we have
Roger McGuinn from the Birds
Sent it to them
The guitar player from the Birds
Roger McGuinn sent that to them
That is very cool
We don't get cool stuff like that
Something fun happened to us yesterday
At church
That never happens at church
It made me very happy
We have a new couple in our church
They own
Chuck and Diana
Charles and Diana
That's right
That's how I'm going to remember them
According to her husband
A famous winemaker in Sonoma
They're building a winery
Here in
Fredericksburg
They said it will take about 60 days
I'm like 60 days?
They brought us
Some wine
From their
Winery in Sonoma
She's also from the former
Soviet Union
Lovely accent
I'm fascinated
They're both interesting people
He's from Texas, she's from the Soviet Union
I just can't believe
I'm just thinking about
How all these people
In our church
That work and own wineries
That someone
Given to us
Are you casting a line out?
I am
I see you
Tina and Adam always have
Wines
Their whole show is about wine
We need to change our show
We've copied them on everything else
We're different
We like white better than red
It doesn't mean I won't drink a red
I'm doing a whitening on my teeth
I get the whole bottle
Which means I have not had coffee
In weeks
Shock and awe
Before you got off of coffee
You would walk by my
I'd be in my office in the morning
I get up early
I always do my devotional time really early
I write a devotional every day
I do that in the morning
Usually you just walk by
Don't talk to me
You haven't had my coffee yet
I had coffee in
3 weeks
I can't believe you broke that habit
I love coffee
We used to have a coffee house
We did
We have several coffee makers
We have a Nespresso
It's awesome on steroids
It's so good
Then we've got a typical Keurig type deal
Then we've got the pour over stuff
We've got all kinds of apparatus
Now I'm the only guy
Drinking coffee around here
It's just weird
It says not to drink coffee
I understand why you did it
Your teeth are so white
Smile at me
Close your mouth
It's too bright
This is the best thing I've ever done
Although my mouth is so sensitive right now
It's not as bad as it was yesterday
Yesterday I was in pain
I could have used some painkillers
But today I'm better
I've only had two ibuprofen today
Yesterday I had about
A bottle
Tina gets on to me
Don't take that
I had to
I'm hoping this subsides
It works
Dentist approved
It's actually something I had to do
A prescription from the dentist
It's not that big light
They stick in your mouth
I heard that's not good
It worked in three days
I was like
Girl, you're back
It better work
$1500 to do this
You're sharing that on
Somebody may want to try this
With their doctor
It's a real deal
It worked
I took a medication
That literally stained
My teeth recently
We were like, oh my gosh
I went to the dentist
Here we are
Crazy
You're doing good
Do I go back to coffee?
Oh yeah
Why wouldn't you?
It's permanent
This is going to last forever
You have to do maintenance
One treatment a month
You'll be 90 years old
All your teeth will fall out
The three that are left
How do you do that?
I have a weird imagination
You really do
Very active
I deserve an applause
That's why I'm not drinking red wine
I'm drinking white wine
White wine?
How do you say that?
White wine
I haven't had any today
What are you drinking?
Aloe vera juice
Cheers to Adam and Tina Curry
I'm going to
She's volunteering at the office
I'm going to take her some
I'm going to make her try this
If aloe vera is good for a cut
On the outside, it's got to be great
For your inside
She loves healthy drinks
Food
She's so into health food
I'm going to do that
Thanks for reminding me of that
We have a blessing for you, Tina
She gives us a bottle of champagne
You get aloe vera juice
It was really cool
We were talking about meeting this amazing couple
Who we're excited about
We have
We have like 79
Wineries
In Gillespie County
That's just between
Johnson City
And Frederick'sburg
We have more in the county
On that one stretch
There's like 79
What did you do? Count?
No, an attorney told me that
When?
Two weeks ago
Because another one's probably popped up
Since then
I've never seen anything like it
Every time we drive to Grape Creek
To pick up our wine
Oh my goodness, there's another one
The Texas Hill Country is a
$2 billion wine industry
And it's massive out here
A lot of California wineries are moving
And we have a lot of wineries
And we grow really good grapes
Up in the Texas Panhandle
North Texas, north of Lubbock
Amarillo, Plainview, all that area up there
But nobody wants to go up there to a winery
They want to grow the grapes there
It used to be cotton fields
It's great farming up there
So they found that they could grow grapes very well
And so they have lots of
Fields and vineyards up there
And then they buy them
And do all the production down here
It's actually the second largest wine industry
In America right now
Just behind Napa Valley
And I heard that we're fast
We're catching up with Napa
And we'll pass them in production
We did pass Sonoma like several years ago
So we're number two and I have a feeling we'll be number one
Because it's just blown up out here
But it's fun
We love living here
We love the fact that people love to come to Fredericksburg
Because our town is a resort town
B&B's, bed and breakfasts
And our town grows from
13,000 to 50,000
On the weekends
Because of tourists and all
We love it
Even during the week though it's getting more crowded
Typically after spring break all into the summer
We get tons of people
It just stays busy after that point
Which is great for economy
We're very thankful
By the way if you have never
I'm jumping all over
But if you've never listened to
Our church services we're online
Annette and I pastor a church called Bridge Church
Fredericksburg, Texas
You can find us on Facebook
If you'll just go into
Find us on YouTube
That's better, go to YouTube
Do the YouTube, all you do is do the search feature
Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas
There is a Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Virginia
Wrong church
It's Texas
So be sure you find our channel
Or you can go straight to our website at
www.BridgeChurchFBG.com
And we're on the front page there
And you can just scroll down and there's all of our services
We've been doing a series
I just started a series called
No Perfect People Allowed
That's right, so I talk a lot about Mr. and Ms. Dumpty
Y'all remember them?
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall
Humpty Dumpty had a great fall
All the king's horses and all the king's men
Couldn't put Humpty together again
But God can
And that's we are Mr. and Ms. Dumpty
So you have the church repeat
A fairy tale, yes
Yes, a fable, it's beautiful
It's fun hearing the church say it actually
Because you like a church that talks back
I do, I like churches that
Talk smack, yeah, I do
I like feedback
It depends on what kind of smack
Well, when we were in Abilene we were multicultural
And I got all kinds of talk back going on
That was fun actually, I loved it
But anyway, so that's our
Church and we'd love, just come check out
Our website, richchurchfedericsburg.com
And you can find us
We're also on social media, I'm on Twitter
We're on Instagram
What does no perfect people
Allowed mean? Yeah, well the idea is
That first of all, if only
Perfect people are allowed in church, there would
Be no churches because there are no perfect
People, and that's where we
Learn to have grace for one another
And what we're doing, we're going through and we're looking
At people from the Bible
Particularly in the Old Testament, because
It's been a while since I've gone much into the Old Testament
You're more of a New Testament kind of preacher
But I love you preaching on the
Old Testament Oh me too, I'm having a blast
Doing it, so we started with Elijah
This last week, the week
Before I just did an overview of talking
About why this is important
But it's important because God wants you to know
That He can use you right where you
Are, no matter
The hot mess that you are, God can use you
And you don't have to be fixed
You don't have to be all put together
You don't have to be a Bible scholar
A theologian, I mean
Yeah, Bible professor
Just be you and let God
Work in you and through you
And let Him do
The cleaning up, let Him do the fixing
A lot of people have said to me through the years
And they'll say things like
You know, when I get my act together
I'm going to start going to church, I'm like
Then you'll never go to church
I still haven't got my act together, I've been a pastor
For 38 years
So hey, here's me
And my messed up self
But this is the reality that we live
We're saved and we're being saved
Is the way the Bible puts the word
Salvation, it means that
You're there and you're getting there
It's a strange concept but that's more of
Eastern mindset, so it's the same way
So we're
Fixed and we're getting fixed
We're free and we're getting free
All those things work that way
In the meantime
Between now and heaven, we've got work to do
We've got stuff to do, we can make a difference
Are you looking at my shirt? Yes, I'm just reading
Your shirt, that's okay That was distracting me
I'm like, why are you looking at my chest?
Because you've got a woman on there playing a guitar
My pecs are huge
No, it's a Fender shirt
Fender guitars, it's a ukulele
With a woman
With a ukulele
Don't say anything else, I know what you're thinking
I've never noticed, you've had this shirt for years
It's like Hawaii
I know, it's just funny
By the way, I was really
Waxing eloquent there for a minute
I just got distracted by your shirt
This is weird
So we're sitting at a desk
Where we can table in our studio
Where you can look across
And see each other
When I see you, I'm like, what are you looking at?
I'm slobbering
I'm just reading that
No, you're fine
Keep talking
Well, anyway, so God wants to use you right where you are
Because He loves you
He loves you radically
So that's where we're going with this
And I'm taking different people from the Bible
Elijah, I'm going to talk about King David
He's a great study in contradictions
He was a bundle of contradictions
Just like we are, he had high highs
And low lows
Moses, Abram, I mean
You just go down the list
So many great stories, Job, Joseph
So many great stories
And we're going to talk about some of them
Scripture, and these aren't just stories
We call them stories, but they're actually events
These are people's lives
I'm also trying to humanize
These people so that you don't just read it
And think about a Bible character
I don't like the word character
I wouldn't want to be called a character
A character sounds like it's a cartoon
Like a play or a theater
Or something fake
But these are real people who were dealing with
Really extreme circumstances
And God used them in the middle
Of their brokenness
And we talk a lot about leaky buckets
Around here, well buckets don't leak
Unless they're cracked
And what the idea is, is that we get filled up
With him and then those buckets leak out
Through the cracks, and he just keeps filling them up
And maybe someday
Those cracks will heal, maybe they'll
Close up and then at that point
They just overflow
So it's both, it's either going to leak out
Or overflow and spill out
And then your mind is going to come out
Whatever you put inside
So to me it's important
That we put the right things in
So agree
And if you're listening
This might be helpful for you
If you've never had what
I remember, I was a youth minister for years
We talked about, hey you need to have your quiet time
That was just a way of saying
You need to pick a time of the day
Where you can sit down and maybe get in the Bible
Use a devotional
If you're listening and you want me to
Feel free to write us
Go to livingupandadoworld.com
And you can write
You can just write us directly
I'll get right back with you
And if you want maybe some resources
I can tell you what to get
That would really help you in your walk with Christ
And maybe just give you some direction
In that, but I do want to encourage
Everyone, first of all
We talked about Sabbath, I mean that's something
That's a gift to us
That we can be rested and restored
And it's a gift
And boy, receive the gift
And you've got to make that work for you
And then quiet time is something that you do
Just on a daily basis
It's like when you get up in the morning
You've got to say breakfast is the most important meal of the day
So you want to get up and eat
Because you've got to feel your body
Well you also need to get up and eat spiritually
So you can feel your spirit
Feel your heart
It sure helps you have a much better day
And if you have things that go
You know, awrah
At least you've been filled up and you can handle them better
That's right, yeah, you've been equipped
And prepared for the day
And what it does, it sets the mood
And sets the tone of your day
I'm going through a book that was gifted to me
By one of my spiritual mentors
Dr. Jack Taylor
It's called The Unshakeable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
By E. Stanley Jones
It is not light reading
He was a professor, he was a theologian
He was a missionary
He wrote this book when he was 87 years of age
It's kind of a
It's not a memoir, but it's like
Everything he ever wanted to say
But didn't get a chance to write a book about
He wrote a lot of books
So it's quite deep
And man, I'm just reading it devotionally
So I like to just take a regular book
And then take my time
And man, I've been marking it
I already had a lot of marks in it from previous owners
But I've been marking it up
And it's so helpful to me
And for me, I like the You version
Yeah, You version Bible, the app
And they have devotional plans
And I go through those
I go through different ones every
Some of them last a month
Some of them are five days
And I'll just go five days and then I'll pick another one
So we want to highly recommend that
The You version Bible app
And you can get that on Android or IOS
It is fantastic
And you can just find devotionals you want to do
All by topic
So I highly recommend that
And it's free
It's a great resource
Greg Rochelle's church has put all that stuff together
Life Church in Oklahoma
And they're all over the place now
Well, the one I'm doing is called The God I Never Knew
Robert Morris
You started it with me
And then you just said, ah
Because you got involved in it
Well, I've read that book, done the study
I have too, but I enjoy it
I wanted something fresh
It was time to do
I've had this book for years
It was given to me years ago
But I felt like the Lord was leading me to do it
So I've been doing it and it is rocking my world
Man, I'm having a good time
So we want to encourage you
Start having a devotional time
A quiet time
Also, if it would help you, I write a daily devotional
And you can read it every day
I usually post about 7 a.m.
That's my goal
Central Standard Time
Here in Central Texas Time
And so I write it every day
I put it on Instagram
I put it on Twitter
I put it on our website, livingupandadownworld.com
Under blogs
I put it on Facebook
Have I left anything out?
Oh, I put it on LinkedIn
I'm on all those platforms
You probably spend an hour just cutting and pasting
And posting it
It does take a while
I have a misspell
And then I see it
I have to go back to
I go back to every platform and have to fix it
That does turn into a longer ordeal
You just need to let me read it
You're not always up when I do it
Pretty much I am, you just don't know it
I just don't want to wake you up
No, send it to me
A lot of times I'm doing my devotion in bed
And you don't even know it because you're in your office
So anyway, that's available to you every day
You can go right to our livingupandadownworld.com
And it's right there
Under blogs
Every day, so it's there for you
We want to help you, we want to encourage you
And want you to find life in this thing
The name of the podcast is
Living Up in a Down World for a Reason
By the way, let me tell you where that name came from
When I was a college student
You always get assignments for papers
Professors are always like
I need you to write 5000 words
On this topic
We had an assignment
We had several thousand words
On a topic, it was in an English class
Actually, so this was a little bit different
Than my Bible stuff
And I was like
We were all saying, what do you want us to write on?
The professor said
Write it on anything you want
I'm like, whoa, okay, that's broad
Can you narrow that down a little bit?
Nope, I want you to write something that's in you
In your heart, anything you want
Which is not always easy
It's kind of a harder assignment
Because it's too broad
You spend five days just trying to nail it down
But this came to me
Because I've always been
A very positive person
I'm kind of that
I'm living up in a down world
I'm a positive guy
We just did the strength finders
Gallup strength finders
Thing by Tom Roth
And sure enough, one of my top
Five strengths, positivity
There you go
And it was that way 20 years when I took the test
So anyway, that's me
So I thought, well, I'm going to write on something
About positivity
And then it dawned on me
Because I'm a follower of Christ too
And when I was in school, I was going there to study
To get a Bible degree
But it was college, it was university
And this phrase came to me
Living up in a down world
And I wrote it down on the paper
And I remember thinking, I'm going to use that in something someday
Wow
Yeah, I did because I liked it
40 years later
Are we that old?
So I liked it, I saw it
When I wrote it down, it just worked for me
We were trying to come up with something
We talked about it
For quite a while
I met with Adam
To just get a flyover
And do some brainstorming about it
And he said, yeah, we want a real short title
To the point, and I said, is living up in a down world
Too long?
And he said, well, he kind of pondered it
And then later he wrote me back like a day or two later
He said, I love the title, go with that
I think it because
Even though it's a little bit longer than your typical
No Agenda podcast, Curry and the Keeper
You know, really short to the point
Joe Rogan Experience
It's memorable
It's easy to remember, living up in a down world
And it kind of has a cadence to it
So I think it worked
So that's where the name came from
40 years ago, I wrote a paper
On that topic
But what's interesting
Is that I've tried to live that out for 40 years
I mean, that's the heart of who I am
Partly because
And just to encourage all of you
When you live a grateful life
You can live up in a down world
Absolutely
Gratitude is the key
Attitude and gratitude, right?
See you at the top
Remember that book, Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top?
I remember growing up
In my childhood, my dad
He never lived a grateful life
He was always negative
And always upset
And down on everything
And
Then coming into a marriage with you
Who's positive
It took me a while to get up to that point
To where I could be positive
With you
Because that's all I had
And even with my former marriage
Same thing, negative, everything
Everybody, the people I was around
Look at the world
And they just, it's doomsday
Every day
And who can live like that?
Nobody can live happy like that
And I love what you said today
When we were listening to Adam Curry
And we were talking about
How he
He's not
How he
Has to filter all this information
That comes to him
And he can't let it overwhelm him
And it doesn't take him down
I love that, I think it's why he and I hit it off
Is because we're both living up in a down world
He's got that mentality
I love that about Adam
I love the purity of that
I do have to confess
I have an allergy
And no, Zyrtec does not work
I'm allergic to negative people
I mean
It's just something in my life
Through the years that
When I encounter someone who's just
Has that negative mindset
That I just avoid
I just take a wide
Swath around them, a wide path around
And I don't do it
To be mean or exclusive
Or anything, it's just
I don't have time to hear negativity
I mean, I am choosing
To live life to the fullest
I mean, Jesus said this in John
Chapter 10, verse 10
He said, I came that you might have life
And have it to the full
Have it more abundantly
In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul says
It is for freedom that Christ has set you free
So don't go back to a yoke of bondage
Embrace your freedom
The fruit of the Spirit is love
Joy, hello
Joy, peace, patience
How can you have peace
If you're always negative
Or putting negative
Critical, judgmental, condemning
I do not do life with people like that
I love them from a distance
And it's not a put down for anybody
It's just, I can't
Garbage in, garbage out
And we usually regurgitate
And I'll be honest
I'm just going to say this out loud
It's my opinion
But when you're taking in
Constant negativity from the world
Like news services
You're reading all the Facebook posts
From critical, negative, judgmental
People, you're reading all the comments
When somebody says something online
And social media, and it's all negative
And bashing
When you live on a steady diet of that
You leak out what you're full of
We talk about leaky buckets
If you put negative stuff in there
Constantly
You cannot help but leak that out
Which is why we decided not to
Watch TV like we were
And oh my God, still we haven't
I have to say something
This is an interesting thing about getting older
There's some things about getting older
That aren't great, like
My knee's snapping, cracking
I know, snap, crackle, pop
Or just the stuff
The aches and whatever
And you begin to realize
Okay, things are changing here
But there's a flip side to that coin
Which is really good
And is that as we've gotten older
We can be a lot more
Picky's not the right word
No, no, no, I mean in a good way
We can make better choices
On the people that we choose
To surround ourselves with
So we pick our friends
A lot more carefully and intentionally
And man, if you're negative
You're not going to make the cut
I'm just saying
Unless they're dealing with something
That you can help them with
Of course
But if it's, you know
Debbie Downer, as we call it
Is around all the time
Karen, yes, Karen
Karen is always running and complaining
Definitely don't want to be around
Clerks and stuff
I just, I can't handle it
And I always see it the most at airports
Have you ever noticed that? You go to airport
Everybody's ticked off, everybody's in a hurry
Everybody's freaking out over there
That's why Adam has his own plane
He rents so that he can just fly
I know, it's funny
It is funny, because he wants to avoid TSA
So you know what?
He's taking them up on us
That's where I notice people get really
Edgy and upset
Demanding, I can't even imagine
Being a steward
The stuff they put up with
Living up in a down world
It's such a powerful thing
We're at 41 minutes
I think that's good
Hey, we love you guys
I do want to give some shout outs
I want to say thank you to all of you
That have been giving us feedback on the show
It really means a lot to us
We want to hear from you
Don't ever feel like, I don't want to write these guys
I don't want to be a nuisance
Write us, we want to hear from you
I made a comment about the podcast on Sunday
And several people came to the center
We listen to it every time
You've never told us that
We don't know
If we don't know, we don't know
Because you don't know what you don't know
We would love to hear from you
Not just so we can be encouraged
But we want to be encouraged
We want to be a part
That's who we are
We want to be a blessing to you
We want to encourage you
And help you along the path
It is a good path
Get on the journey with us
The journey of faith
The journey of following Jesus
We want you to live up in a down world
We love you, we appreciate you
We want you to have an amazing week
I'll just let you know
We're going to have a few more
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You guys have an amazing week
Thank you for listening!