This is Jimmy Nanette and we are Living Up in a Down World.
We are excited to be with you today. Of course Mr. Chevy is in his usual place sitting right in
Mama's lap. He is... He's sad. Well when it was going on he's sad. I wish we could get that on
mic. I wish the audience could hear that. He's hysterical because he does this thing where he just for no reason,
literally just goes, oh, life is good. I'm in the place of Zen. I don't know. He's hilarious. He's funny.
He loves it. Again, here he is. He gets excited. We put our chairs up and we start getting... So I have this desk.
It's a little studio thing we've set up here and Annette's on one side and I'm on the other and Chevy always
has to get in Mama's lap. It's cute. He's so cute. He's already out. I mean he's just like, this is where I'm
supposed to be. It's so natural for him. That's why we included him on the cover art of our podcast. Well, people were asking...
Yeah. I've heard about the Chevy. I can never hear him because you'll only hear him if he barks and that's rare.
Yeah, very rare. Only if someone comes to the door or if he sees someone through the window. But we had to shut the
shades so that he will not... Right. We do that on purpose. Anyway, welcome to the podcast today. We're glad that you're
here and we've got a lot to talk about. I've got a long list. You were asking me... We had a wonderful week. A busy week.
We had a great week. We're very busy but very fruitful. In fact, we had an event... Gosh, I don't want to get ahead of
ourselves. Let's go in order. Okay, go in order. I'm going to back up a little bit. I will say this as a preview. We had an
event that we hosted on Tuesday night that I would say in my 38 years of ministry, it ranks in the top 10. I would say...
Maybe even the five. One of the best things we have... So we'll tell you about it in a little bit and I will probably cry
once we start talking about it because... And what we're going to do in the future because of this. Oh, I am so excited.
So anyway, we'll save that for a little bit later in the show. We've got some show notes. I'm going to stay with those.
And first of all, we'll talk about... You turned into Tina Curry. What? She has to have show notes. Tina and I are a lot of
life. You are so much life. And I don't know. We really are. It's kind of crazy. Just go with it. Just tell me what you're doing. I like knowing
we're going. Like a little GPS, a little roadmap. Yes. Yeah. Well, I do too, but you really have it. By the way, you look stunning
this afternoon. We've had a great Sabbath day today, have we not? I have a little red on my face because... And I'm a little shiny too
because I didn't even put on sunscreen. We were out in the pool today, so it was such a beautiful day. Sabbath for us has become our
favorite day of the week. It is. Because we didn't do it well through the years because we didn't really have a conviction about it.
We just sort of thought, oh yeah, it's a great option. God gives us a day to rest, but we never took it. Nobody takes it. Very few people take it.
And we have learned the hard way that it's important that we take it and that we enjoy it and receive the gift. Even though it's work putting
this on, it's fun work. It's what we delight in. It's not something that we dread. Not at all. So to me, it's just part of our Sabbath. It really is.
Because this isn't our church side. This is our personal side. This is who we are. And that's why we wanted to do a podcast. I was very glad that you
brought it up to the church. I think it was a week ago. Or maybe you did it yesterday as well. I totally plugged it up. Oh yeah, you did.
I plugged it up. Plugging this saying that if you want to get to know us on a personal basis, separate from the church, especially me, I don't really speak in the church.
If God gives me something to say, I will say it. Girl, I would hand you the microphone in a nanosecond. But I haven't had that calling right now to do that.
And so I feel very strongly that the best way people can get to know you and me together as a couple and separately is through the podcast.
Totally agree. And I love doing this with you. In fact, when we started, we're on, by the way, this is episode 22. Can you believe? 22. That's blowing my mind.
Yeah, it doesn't even make sense. Time is flying by. It is. It really is. Yeah. Time goes fast. Crazy. You know, when you're having fun, right? It just flies by.
So we're on episode 22 and we're just we'll see what rolls out. We've got notes. We're going to run with it.
And we do try to do this sort of extemporaneous because we don't want to we don't want to script anything.
This is really this is very unscripted. Pastor Jimmy and Damon at unscripted. Totally.
And and Chevy, of course, he's going to contribute his little groan or sigh every once in a while.
Maybe he'll shift his weight. So let's talk about what we started with last week.
We we had been gone because we went to Nashville to the K Love Awards and we spent some time with our kids, our oldest kids, kids.
They're not kids anymore. They're grown ups. They're always going to be kids.
It's really bizarre, though. Always going to be having adult conversations with your kids is bizarre.
It is. It is. Sometimes I'm in the middle of a conversation going, this is so adult.
And yet they're kids. I know. Anyway, it's nuts as you get older.
But I'm telling you, we're aging like a fine wine. That's what I'm saying. Right. Right.
So so being gone, we didn't get to hang out with our besties. Right.
Our BFFs. And we have to every week. And now I am Adam and Tina Curry, who we're just so thankful how God has just brought our lives together for such a time as this.
And now her and our walking. So, oh, my gosh, our our beasts.
I kid you not. So what did I say for this morning when you all took off?
Do you remember? You know, she asked me what you said and I laughed out loud.
I'm impressed because at seven thirty in the morning, I said, I don't know.
It's like a hundred degrees. You say have fun.
I'm like, you call this time. I said, I'm impressed because at seven thirty, you all took off seven fifteen.
Tackled the seven fifteen. You all tackled the hills.
I'm like four miles, right? Four miles. And that's four miles. And we live.
Literally, they don't call the hill country the hill country for nothing.
We live in the hills. So I'm impressed that we can go four miles an hour on beyond impressed and depressed because I did it a few times with you.
Can't do it. Just I'm like, I can't do it.
And literally it was like, this is not bringing me joy.
So I'm like, I'm out. So sorry, I bailed on you. But I'm like, no, this is not.
I don't like to sweat when I work out or get tired.
So, you know, just go to the gym, lift some weights and call it a day.
But now I have walking thing is I have another friend who wants to walk with me to so on the base that I'm not walking with Jennifer.
Yes, I'll be walking with Jennifer according to our schedules.
I can work out. I think that's awesome. And I'm just like, wow.
First, I didn't have you may end up with a group.
Your phone. That's my phone.
Check out. This is my ringtone.
Check it out. That's great timing, honey.
Wow. Is it important?
No, it's probably a sales call from Tennessee.
OK, there you go. I have a Tennessee number.
Yes. Well, yes.
We lived in Nashville. We got a phone and we always moved.
And you know how it is. You just keep the dogs like, what was that?
Mr. Chevy, how you doing, buddy?
So we had so we had dinner with the Curry's on Monday.
You know, I was missing them when we were in Tennessee.
I was like, I miss my best friend.
Remember, we asked them to go last minute and they were going to go.
And then it was a time.
I just couldn't make it work.
And so it's hard on us when they're gone and we're away from or we're gone
and we're away from it. It's really just it's they're just fun to be like doing
life with our friends.
And when God only way I can connect with them is to listen to Curry and the keeper
or no agenda, know that, OK, I can at least hear their voice.
So while I was working out today, you stayed home because you did your walk,
your big walk, and we were waiting for.
And I worked out here. Yeah, that's right.
We worked out here on the tunnel.
So I drove over to Bernie to Planet Fitness, did a workout power workout.
And because Monday is kind of my day to just shake the cobwebs off.
So part of my Sabbath never heard anybody say that, but you're taking the cobwebs
on my whole life.
Is that a West Texas thing? I don't know.
Anyway, it's like, you know, just it's like shaking the whatever off.
You know, you're kind of coming back to life.
I know what it means. Oh, OK.
It's a funny, you know, if you need me to define it.
Yeah, no, you're funny.
So shook the cobwebs off by going to Planet Fitness.
And you listen to listen to no agenda the whole time I was there.
My buddy, Adam, and I love John Dvorak as well.
So there's such a good tag team.
By the way, if you've never listened to their podcast, check it out.
It's called No Agenda.
You can find it on any platform, but we prefer that you go to Fountain.
And he's a conspiracy. Therapist.
They basically deconstruct media misinformation.
All the media's fake news, which we talk about this almost every week
on our show. It's a joke. But he really deconstructs.
Yeah, great story.
And there's a lot of context behind Adam's life of why he feels
called to that.
And he is running that lane for over 15 years now.
And so anyway, yeah, check it out.
But another podcast you got to check out.
We're always going to plug our besties.
Curry and the Keeper.
We wouldn't be here if it weren't for them.
That's true. You're not hearing me right now.
This is just going to happen because we're just all for it.
We're very close.
I literally it's like get ready to laugh and get ready to enjoy
hearing two people do real life together.
And they had a real life moment on their last show.
But I so appreciate it.
They could have edited that out and made it real sweet and tight.
But instead, they said, no, this is us.
We have moments and human moments.
You told me about that is people have written in saying,
I love how perfect your marriage is.
And she said, Annette, I needed him to keep that in because we had
a little tiff on on air.
And she said, because people need to see we're not perfect.
And exactly don't try to live up to something that is not even real.
She said, we we want to show people that we're real people and that
we're going to have, you know, we have flaws and we have moments.
Moments call them feel fully human moments.
Yes, we all have them.
We're divinely human.
I think it was one of their best shows because they were so real.
Kudos to you guys for leaving that in and not, you know, you could have taken
the easy route and wiped that out and, you know, made it nice.
Like we do. No, we don't.
No, we don't. We never have.
Yeah, yeah, we're just going to keep it in because we're real.
We're just we're the real deal.
So so appreciated that.
It makes me love those guys even more that they allowed their realness
and their authenticity to shine through.
So, yeah, kudos to you guys.
So we had dinner with them on Monday night because they're like, OK,
we got to get together. This is crazy.
We've been gone. They were gone.
And they had some trips. We had some trips.
So it was like we got to get together.
So we hung out with them on Monday evening.
Such a great time.
Now, we had some amazing, amazing meat.
Do you know where meat lovers?
Well, it's from K and C out of Austin, which is amazing, amazing.
She call it Pekana.
I can't remember the name.
I don't know the name, but whatever it was, I want more.
It was that good. It was really good.
Well, everything to resist everything.
She and Adam makes just is really there's a real deal in terms of that.
So we had such a sweet time, but it is such a it's funny.
So I don't know if you all have couples like this in your life.
But when we all sit down, it's a net and Tina across from the table.
If we ever sit on opposite sides, it's going to get weird
because we'll be crossing over.
So it won't work, but they were sitting across from each other.
Adam and I are sitting and we're going 900 miles an hour.
They're going 900 miles an hour.
And at one moment, I just sort of pause and look and I thought, this is hysterical.
I mean, this these conversations are brilliant.
But Adam checked me up on something.
What did he say? This is what friends do.
Friends, friends see blind spots in your life and they call them out.
And he did it suddenly, but I knew what he was doing
because I do the same thing with people. I'm a people person.
And we were talking about screens and how our screens are dominating our life
and how so much junk.
So I've checked you up on it and nothing.
He checks you up on it. And here we go.
Isn't that real, though?
Well, that's true. Parents or wife, you know, or parents or husband.
I mean, it's like, oh, you're the rent.
So I don't know.
But oh, my gosh, this guy said this to me and I'm changing my life.
I know it's funny, but it's all of a sudden.
Oh, my goodness.
Well, because when you say it, I'm going, I know I should.
I know I need to back off.
I know I'm addicted to social media.
I'm on Twitter, I'm on Instagram, I'm on Facebook.
And yeah, ad nauseum.
So I'm on all those. And would you call me out?
I'm like, OK, I'll back off a little bit.
And I do. But he called you out.
I pump the brakes. He called me out.
And here's the way he did it. And that's why I appreciate it.
This is what friends do.
We were talking about it.
He has what's called a light phone.
It's a light phone, too, I think.
And it's like a it's old school.
It looks it looks like Minecraft.
It's like pixelated. It's super simple.
It's basically a phone.
What I know, it's a phone.
That's not a camera and a computer and an actual mobile phone.
What are those? Right.
So you can you can text on it, but you can't send pictures because it's not.
It's not a smartphone.
It actually is a smartphone.
We need to start calling our iPhones dumb phones
and call something like a light phone, a smartphone, because really it's the opposite.
So I've been kind of fascinated by I've been looking at it and kind of going,
this is really what I need.
And that means you don't get you will go in withdrawals.
I don't know if I can live with you for a little while.
You know what? I'm up for it.
Here's why two friends have called me out recently.
They did it in love. Eddie, Pastor Eddie. Oh, OK.
So they've done it in love.
And so Eddie didn't do it directly, but indirectly.
And I'll tell you, that's that little scenario.
So we're sitting at a table.
You and you and Tina are like at 110 miles an hour over there.
Like, I'm afraid to even try to enter in your conversation
for fear of getting run over.
So I'm over here with Adam and we're talking about world events, propaganda,
just what's going on, world scene.
And really, our conversations end up saying, hey, let's not get spun up.
Let's just not get let's not let this trip us out,
which is shocking with what he does for a living, that he does not
let it spin him out. It's amazing to me.
That's one of the things that's a gift.
Very it is a gift. Impressed by is that he he's in the middle of it,
but he doesn't let it impact his thinking in terms or his behavior or his emotions.
So unbelievable skill. It definitely is school.
So we're talking we're having a good time.
And we're talking about phones and how they spin us up and all this junk
that comes in in our hands that our hearts were never intended to bear.
What's in our palm of our hands?
And he goes, he sits back and he goes, So what are we going to do about it?
And I'm thinking this just got to be a one sided conversation
because he already has a light phone.
He's already doing something about it.
What he's saying is, what are you going to do about it?
What are you going to do?
I'm already moving that way. I'm getting a light phone.
So what are you going to do with your smart or so?
Here's how it works.
So you take your you take your SIM card out.
So you're just going to put that up for a while.
Put it aside, especially since we're going to be doing a sabbatical.
Yes, we are doing a sabbatical.
We're stepping into that big time.
So I'm going to pull that out.
I'll use the light phone and all I'll get is a phone call.
I can I don't even get emails over it.
It'll say that you have an email, but you got to go.
It takes steps to get to your computer and actually pull up an email.
And so, yeah, it's going to be pretty bare bones.
And I actually it's a minimalist approach,
which I've always been fascinated, but afraid to embrace.
This is be real.
I mean, I love minimalism.
Remember, we saw the documentary with the guys.
We we we minimalists loved up our home and made it.
We've done a lot of things to declutter.
Yes, a lot easier to get around and we don't have as much.
But the one area that I haven't done that with is social media and screens.
And part of it is I'm a nerd.
And I did by going on your social media, which I appreciate.
Yes, I got enjoyed that.
I didn't get rid of my Facebook, although I'm considering just just deleting it.
But it's I guess it's on pause or whatever they do when you still have your account.
I think I do. But I went on yours, but I never go on it.
Right. But I went on yours.
I went on your Instagram. That's true.
I we merged in a sense.
I mean, that was really hard for me to doing that, though.
I like it. It was good for me, though.
That was part of my purging.
But I don't have the addiction that you do with social media.
And really, it's and here's why you do because people you write a lot of devotions.
You write a daily devotion for years.
20 years. OK, so you write devotions.
Yeah. And then you want to respond to everyone who writes in.
I do. No matter what you respond.
Because when people respond on social media, I don't see them as a number or a name.
I see them as people.
So, yeah, that's that's it.
It can take up a lot of brain space to do that.
That's true. And time.
And so to me, this is really good for you to and you'll be going off social media.
I'm going to say here's what I'm doing.
I'm doing a digital detox.
Tina's led the way on this as she's pushed back from social media.
And I've been kind of I'm going to have more deeper conversations with her because she
gets deeper into this. She's doing, I think, 30 days.
Is that right? I'm going to be doing two full months.
I'm doing eight weeks.
So I'm going to double that basically.
And so I'm just kind of going to go back to the to the way you used to do things.
What is the point?
To me, it means I mean, shouldn't you make a change?
It's just. OK, here's a weird thing.
And I know this won't this will sound like a cop out, but it's true.
I deeply care about people.
So I see people on the other end of the screen or the keyboard as a human being,
not a number or maybe get off Twitter.
Or I don't do Twitter.
Twitter is not a big deal to me.
Instagram is the boring.
I'm watching car crash cams.
Well, maybe that's what you should just crashes and lots of old classic rock.
Get off Instagram.
So do your do your devotions on Facebook or really?
You need to direct people to actually thinking about doing like once a week
once or twice a week kind of thing.
So that's what I'm thinking about or not.
I mean, I may just take a two month pause in book form and get it out.
To people or digital. Yeah.
So anyway, I am plowing through that.
I'm already thinking of how I can do that in the best way without cheating.
I don't want to set up an opportunity for a trap door. Right.
And so anyway, we'll talk a little bit more about the sabbatical in a minute.
So we had a great time.
All this was prompted, though, by him asking me a simple question, which I
will be forever grateful for, because this is what friends do.
They see their friends blind spots and in love, they call them out.
The Bible calls it in First Corinthians, Chapter third, Chapter 12.
Yeah. Ephesians, chapter.
Oh, my gosh, I've lost it because you're on social media so much.
You can't remember which script.
OK, that was kidding. I know I'm joking. I know I'm joking.
No. And Book of Ephesians talks about this.
It says speaking that Ephesians four. There it is.
I'm thinking about other things.
It literally says this speaking the truth in love.
And that's really that's what a friend does.
So I so appreciate it.
Iron sharpens sharpens. Absolutely.
And that's what you two do with each other, which is when the truth is.
I mean, at my age and my stage in life, I still want to learn.
I want to be teachable.
I don't ever want to get to the place where I'm cocky and arrogant
and think I've got it all figured out in you at all.
Jimmy, that is not in your DNA.
No one in your family is that way to ever be that guy.
I think she's married you because there's so many pastors out there,
especially pastors that that gain a lot, get a lot of momentum in their church
like you have, and they they let it get to their head.
And then, you know, you've kind of lost them because they're in another world.
And untouched. You have never, ever, ever.
I it's God, God, if it weren't for that.
And that's the thing. You recognize that.
Yeah. And so I think you have a good level.
Well, I'm saying this to all my friends.
I'm teachable. I mean, feel free to call me out if you see something
that's that's off or a skew, because we sometimes never learn
unless somebody calls it out.
And that's that's what's important.
You honestly need to have a good relationship with a friend to be able to do that.
You got to have you got to have a relationship that supports the way
that supports the way.
And so and it's always to bring good about.
Absolutely. So thank you, Adam Curry, for calling me out and saying,
what are we going to do about it after you've already done something about it?
So I saw that coming.
It was the right train.
It was a slow train coming. It was the right train coming.
And then I got called out again this week.
I mean, I've been called out twice this week by care.
Wow. After Eddie. Yeah.
Eddie Freeman, Pastor Eddie.
So Pastor Eddie Freeman, we invited Pastor Eddie and his wife, Jessica.
They're part of our gateway connect.
So Gateway has a network, Gateway Church in South Lake, Texas.
We're we're connected to them.
We're part of the network.
And as a part of that, we get the blessing of having a pastor
from Gateway be our connect pastor.
And so Eddie Freeman, Pastor Eddie and I've got to be buds.
And we have a ton in common.
First of all, we're both rebels.
Secondly, we both pump iron and work out.
He played college ball. I didn't.
I was invited to, but I turned it down.
And so we both have a lot in common with sports and pumping iron.
And we're dudes. We're just dudes.
And so really appreciate him.
But so we brought Eddie and and Jessica in.
And we had a big blowout evening with our elders and our staff.
Tommy and Patty Watson cooked this amazing meal, which they always do.
They have the gift of hospitality.
So anytime we do anything with them, it's always fun.
And it's their house is wonderful.
And they're the most they're the kind of people that just come in.
The doors unlocked, just come into the house.
And they're that they're that couple.
So they hosted us. We had a great time.
It's the first time that Pastor Eddie and Jessica
have been able to be here with us on sites.
They call it a site visit.
So we've been with them a year.
And Pastor and I do monthly phone calls.
And then we've gone up for several events at Gateway Church,
which he's always there at the door waiting to give a big bear hug
because he's a big guy, the ex college football player.
Yeah. So so we hang out.
So it's been really cool building a relationship with him.
But the first time they've hung out with us here.
So what did he say to you? What was his car?
All right. So here it goes back.
OK, goes back to the yoga. Oh, yeah.
So so one of the things he challenged me in love on a while back,
our board of directors had said to Annette and I,
you know, you guys have been there seven years that's at Oak Hill
slash the Bridge Church.
You all need to take you guys need to take a sabbatical.
And when they first said it, part of me goes, yay.
The other part goes, oh, I don't know if I want to let go of that.
You know, I mean, I love what I do.
I really love what I do, which is a miracle.
Around everybody every Sunday, every day.
They're my church family, but they're also my spiritual family.
So I don't see our church as I'm the boss and leader.
I see them as this is my church, too.
And we're all in this together.
So that's my heart in it.
So I was like, wow, thanks.
I appreciate my board of directors saying you guys.
And they weren't saying it in you need it because you're in crisis.
They're saying you need it before there's a crisis.
That's what I love about the heart of our elders, who have great elders.
Pastor Rick McClure, Pastor Brian Bush, Pastor Richard Brown.
Amazing men of God who love us and love our church
and have our best interests in heart.
And so they were like, no, you need to do this.
So we were like, what does that look like?
We were trying to plan it.
And that means you have to have it's typically this sabbatical is about eight weeks.
So you need eight, eight weeks.
People to come fill the pulpit.
Speaking. Yes.
And that is very difficult.
But then you got to have your whole staff and team all set up, ready to go,
ready to cover all the bases.
So so it really is a trust thing where are we going to trust God and trust our team,
our leaders, our staff.
We have an amazing staff and our elders.
We have amazing elders.
Are we ready to let go and literally rest, move into the posture of rest?
And I've never done that in 38 years.
We never have.
Doing Sabbath every week is really a big move for us this last year since COVID.
COVID was because we had to tell our staff we're not going to you can text us,
you can email us, but we're not going to respond on Mondays.
We're incognito, so to speak.
But Eddie came in.
So here's where the calling a friend calling out a friend, pastor to pastor, friend to friend.
So we had a great time.
And the first thing we kicked off the weekend, they flew in from Dallas, we hung out with
us and we they're in a B&B here in town because we have tons of B&Bs here in Fredericksburg.
And literally, we do this big dinner, big hangout, but it's super casual.
It's just good food, good drink, good fellowship.
And then I just turned it over to him and the first thing he does, and he didn't even
tell me he's going to do this.
He talks about sabbatical.
Why what the importance?
Pastor Jimmy and Annette, the importance of having them.
And I'm sitting there, I'm going, he's calling me out.
He's literally this is forcing me to have one and I'm not pressing me into something
that we had said, you know what, it may not be a good time.
We've got so much going on.
The church is growing and healthy and vibrant.
What did he say?
There's never a good time ever.
You know what?
That's really true.
Nailed it.
It's like new people who just get married and they're like, well, we're going to have
kids but we're going to wait for the right time.
Well, there's never a good time.
We're going to wait, wait till we have more money.
That never happens.
We won't buy a house until it's the right time.
You'll never buy a house.
So he called me out.
It was good though, but it was so right.
And that's the thing is I always want to be pliable and teachable and coachable.
I want to keep learning, ever learning, ever growing.
So I'm thankful that two dear friends called me out this week and I am better for it.
I'm encouraged, I'm inspired, and I'm motivated because of it.
Think about what they called you out on.
What the end result is, is you're pulling away from the things that you love the most
so God can speak to you.
Exactly.
I mean, think about it.
It's things that will better me.
They called me out on things that will help.
But it's things you love so much that you're holding on to and God's saying, let go, let
go.
Exactly.
Think about the ramifications of that.
So all in with it and so thankful.
And I'm grateful for good friends.
I'm grateful for good people in my life.
So we went home, looked at our calendar and said July 3rd for eight weeks.
It's scary.
What?
It's scary.
Because we're used to pedal to the metal.
We've been doing this.
I've been doing this for 38 years.
You joined me.
You've been doing it for 28, 30 years with me.
And so we've been in this together and it's been pedal to the metal.
And so to suddenly back off the accelerator, not even back off, it's like park the car.
Well, and I love that he said the same thing our board of directors said.
And he told this to all the staff and elders on Friday night.
You want them to do this now while they're healthy.
You do not want them to have to do that, to be forced to take a sabbatical.
That will not end well.
And it's true.
We're in such a good place right now.
This is the time to actually do that.
And we're in our seventh year and scripturally the seventh year, God would have the Israelites
let the land rest for one full year.
We're only doing eight weeks and we're freaking out.
They did a whole year every seven years, they would let the land rest for one year.
It's unbelievable.
What?
I know.
So what are we whining about?
Actually, it's a gift.
It is.
We had to really come to grips with that, come to terms with, okay, this is a gift
that we've been handed.
We asked for a sabbatical when we were in Abilene and it didn't go over very well at
that point.
Yeah, we were not afforded that luxury back in the day.
So that was a hard thing.
It actually was a heartbreaker for us.
So yeah.
So anyway, I'm so thankful for good friends.
And just as an encouragement to you, praise God for the good people in your life who are
willing to call things out.
I've got lots of people that say, you're doing great.
Keep running the race.
You're amazing.
And I need that.
You do.
Part of my love language is words of affirmations, five love languages.
One of mine is love, words of affirmation.
But I also, I was an athlete growing up.
I need a coach too.
I need somebody to come alongside and say, here's a blind spot.
They don't have to say it like that.
They just say, I love you so much.
I see that this will help you.
And I'm like, I respond to that very well, by the way.
And so I'm so thankful.
This has been a week of calling Pastor Jimmy out.
It sure has.
And it's been good.
It's kind of, I wouldn't even say it hurts so good.
It's just good.
And I'm responding and I'm motivated and inspired.
So so thankful for these kind of guys.
So Tuesday night, let's go there.
Widows there, tell that story because this was your heart.
And I mentioned this in a podcast last week, but God had put it on my heart that we need
to really acknowledge the widows in our church, widows and widowers.
And we didn't know how many we had.
I really thought we had about six or seven because we've had so many recent funerals.
And then when I went through the database and I found that we had 29, I was pretty shocked.
And so we, I put together myself and Lori, my operations director, I had her help me
put together a nice dinner and we, there was no agenda, but just to acknowledge that they
are being heard, seen and known.
Let me just, can I interrupt?
Yes.
It wasn't just a nice dinner.
It was an amazing dinner.
It was, but it was a chef's level.
I didn't realize it was going to be as impactful as it was.
For one thing, every, we had about 15, 16 show up, acknowledge that they could come.
And then our staff was involved.
And our staff served, we sat at the tables with them and we would serve them, go get
their drinks, whatever they need, if they needed refills of anything.
But the great thing about it, or what the thing that surprised me is when people were
walking in, they were literally scared.
They said, we didn't know what to expect.
And we were really scared to come.
Every single one of them that I've talked to.
And I said, wow, that took a lot of courage then to come.
What are you going to say?
I just want to interject just one thing is that almost every person I've visited with,
because we, the whole staff was wonderful watching our staff just go sit with people,
talk with people.
Oh my gosh.
They were amazing.
And they were just sitting there and graciously listening to people and engaging.
And almost every person said to me, I almost didn't come.
Almost everyone of them said that.
I know.
And to me, I was just thinking, oh, well, they'll just think this is a nice gesture.
First of all, they didn't know what to expect.
They didn't know what was this really about.
There was no agenda other than to love them well.
And so we both got up and shared our heart for what they've gone through and why we're
doing this.
Beautiful.
And every single one of them that we talked to personally said, we have never heard, never
been to a church that has done this.
Well, you know what?
As I look back, we've never done it.
We've never been in a church that participated in something like this.
Can I say something?
Now, I'm talking as a husband who's proud of his wife.
I'm not talking as Pastor Jimmy.
I'm so proud of you because it was so obvious to me that the Lord put this on your heart
because when you brought it up to me, I didn't hesitate.
I said, absolutely.
Is this not the heart of God to bring together widows and widowers to say, we want to bless
you?
All we want to do.
Now, I had four things and this has stuck with me.
Normally, I can't memorize four of anything, four names for anything, but this stuck with
me and I sat with each of them as I talked and went around the tables and just fisted
with people.
And then this is what came to me.
You're seen, you are heard, you are loved, and now you're known because one of the products
or what was produced out, again, no agenda.
You felt led of the Lord.
All of our staff, including me, said, yes, we agree.
No one hesitated, which is unusual because we had so many things going to add another
add an evening to our place.
From their families, it's a big gap.
None of them even flinched.
They were like, yes, of course we're supposed to do this as if we've done it all along.
So what I realized was during the evening, you're seen, you're heard, you're loved,
but now you're known.
We didn't know we had 15 widows and widowers in our church until we dove in, did the work
to mine out who's lost someone.
And the fact that they showed up and even one who was young walked in late.
An hour late.
She came late because she didn't know what to expect.
She sat down and immediately started weeping because to look at a room full of people,
because including our staff, the room was full.
And then it was just beautifully done.
Then tell them what happened when you invited Ken Beester to step up.
Oh my goodness.
When I first- I said his name on purpose because this
is a man I have high respect for.
I went to a Connect group a few months ago and I brought up to Ken and another person,
Karen Roberts, who is in that group.
And I said, God's put it on my heart to have a widower dinner.
Would you too, because they're widowers and widowers, would you come?
Is this something that you would come to?
They both without hesitation said, of course.
Well, I didn't think Ken would because, you know, male-
He's a dude.
He's a rugged guy too.
He owns a big farm.
I thought he would say, no, you know, I kind of count me out.
He said, absolutely.
And one of the things that struck me that he said was, and you know what?
I'll even stand up and talk about what happened with my wife.
That blew me away.
And he said, and maybe it'll open up for others to do the same.
So a couple of months have passed.
I think he had forgotten because when they all came and I asked him to stand up and share,
he kind of was bumfuddled.
Yeah, a little bit.
What do you say that?
Bumfuddled a little bit.
Yeah.
And it was, but I think he had just totally forgotten, but also I think it was hard.
It's hard to talk about.
I think it was harder than he thought it would be when he made this comment to you.
Because his wife committed suicide.
She took her life.
So this wasn't a sickness or a car accident.
This was a deliberate tragedy.
It was tragic.
And they'd been married 40 something years.
He still says, I'm in love with her still to this day.
Even though it's been three years, he'll never marry again.
I mean, he is, it impacted him.
I have to say, I was thankful that someone had the forethought to put boxes of Kleenex
on each table.
Because at my table, which was a total all ladies, the tissues were in front of me.
You needed them.
You were crying so much.
I was so moved at watching people get up and share.
So what happened?
He shared first and then what happened?
He shared and then others started getting up.
It was like the first domino that tips.
We used to play dominoes back in the day.
It was beautiful.
They just started to fall and people began to share.
And that was part of our hope that if Ken would share first, it would open the door.
It was literally like the flood gates open.
Oh my gosh.
People begin to talk and tell their stories.
It was the most beautiful evening I've ever had in ministry because to me, it took so
much courage to do what they did.
So let me tell you the outcome of this.
First of all, we got to meet people we've never met before.
And we even had some new people there.
The attorney, Allison, Billy, who's an LVN nurse.
And we had all these new people show up.
Anita was another new one.
They all showed up, like I said, they're seen, they're heard, they're loved, but the beautiful
pieces now they're known.
So what happened was I issued an invitation at the end.
Do you remember?
I said this, there was a book written many years ago by a famous pastor and the book
was titled, Just Walk Across the Room.
Which you never read.
You just love the title.
And what the premise of the book was.
The title was an evangelistic book, but the title blew me away.
It stuck with me.
And all these years I was like, man, just walk across the room.
Just take a step.
So I challenged in great love and with many tears at that point.
As you and I got up and closed the meeting, closed the dinner, I said, on Sunday, when
you show up, you're seen, you're heard, you're loved, but now you're known.
All of you know each other.
You've seen your faces.
You've heard your stories.
Now, just walk across the room.
You'll never have to be alone again in a room full of people.
We had what, 400 and something people at church this week.
It's summer.
Our numbers will be down a little bit.
Usually over 500, but that's typical of summer.
But in a room full of 430 people, just walk across the room.
And what happened?
Five women.
Well, first of all, two of them came up to me between services and said, hey, we called
each other.
We traded numbers on Tuesday night.
We called each other and we're here together.
And I hugged them both.
We did a group hug, a try hug.
And I said, I'm so proud of you.
Because now they have someone that has something in common.
Oh, and you know, and I said this on Tuesday night.
I said, this is the club that you didn't sign up for and you never wanted to be a member
of.
You never filled out an application.
You never went through the process.
You were inducted into this club against your will.
Exactly.
However, there's a powerful support system that happens when you have common pain and
common things.
So anyway, so we ended up having a whole group of five of them got together and said, we're
going to all sit together in church.
And then another person came up and they said, this is the widow group.
I mean, already they've already identified it's so funny.
You might not want to sit here because it was a married woman.
It's a joke.
I adore, I'm kidding you not.
I adore each of these people.
And what I love is Martha, who I've been trying to get into a connect group where she can
connect with some people that are of like age.
And there are several widows and widowers in that group.
She finally had the confidence to go by herself.
She didn't even tell me on Thursday.
And I was like, because I had asked her to go and I actually went hoping she would show
up a couple of weeks ago.
She never did.
Beautiful.
And then she goes and I don't, I'm not even there.
And I thought, okay, this is what, this is what church is about.
This is what Christianity is about.
There you go.
It's about connection.
I always say connection is protection because when you're disconnected, the enemy will pick
you off.
I mean, if you ever watch anything from Discovery Channel or any of those, you know, those wildlife
movies, it's the predators always pick the ones, the stragglers.
The ones that are off of the herd.
It's the ones that are in the herd and in the middle of the herd that are the safest.
And so we just encourage people to connect.
That's what the whole evening was that.
Now what did that spawn off?
What's the next thing coming?
Well, you and I, you know, we were praying about it.
So what's next is single again.
Yes.
For those who have been through a divorce, they haven't remarried, they're single again
and they feel alone.
It's brutal.
Some, some say it's like being, having a death, but unless you talk to someone who's had a
death, it's not anything like that.
But in other words, you, you don't know what they feel.
Yes.
You can say, Oh, I understand what you're going through.
No, you don't unless you've gone through it.
Loneliness sets in when you're single again.
And you and I had a single again.
We did connect group when we were serving in Abilene.
And we've been there.
It's brutal.
It is.
And so we want to have a dinner for those.
And then the third group we want to have a dinner for are our parents who have lost children
because we have many of those in our congregation.
For those of you who don't know, we pastor a church called Bridge Church and we are multicultural,
but we're actually multi-generational.
We have young families, young people, but we also have an older congregation, beautiful
people, beautifully, but some of them are beautifully broken because they've lost children
and there is no pain greater than that.
That is, I can't even fathom that.
So, so yes, so we're, that's on the.
So when we get back to work tomorrow, we're going to talk, we've got to, we need to plan
those two dinners.
And there's no agenda on these dinners.
This is not like we're trying to spawn off a connect group or spawn off a ministry.
I think it'll organically happen.
If that happens, it's because it happens.
It happened.
But we're just here to love people well.
And I feel like I've never, I've been in this thing 38 years and typically this is be real.
Sometimes a ministry has a, there's a goal in sight.
There's an end game to it.
Not selfish or bad, but you know, okay, we're going to, we want groups to spawn out of this.
We want, we want a ministry to happen, but we're only doing this under the leadership
of the Holy Spirit.
Totally.
And we're just saying, we don't want anything from you.
We're here to simply say you're seen, you're heard, you're known, you're loved.
Yes, and it helps us know those so that when we see what's, but that's not the goal.
No, but the best way to get to know anyone in your church is to know their story, see
their face.
We call it seeing people in 3D.
Dinner with them.
I want to know those that are hurting.
When I saw those women in church yesterday that were all sitting together and they came
to our membership class afterwards, I recognized them.
I knew who they were.
I was a, I, I, they were lit up.
Yes, because now I know them and now I know how to respond to the, I know I can, I can
feel their pain.
I know that they have pain, right?
Instead of thinking, oh, they've got it all together because they look beautiful and they
smell good and they're in church.
No, there's a pain underneath that.
That is so, it's so real.
And now I can feel it.
That grief and that loss.
So my grandmother lost her daughter, which happened to be my mom.
My mother was 45 years old when she passed.
Way too young.
And my grandmother, I'll never forget, and I was insensitive because I'm a young dude.
I'm a young guy.
I'm like, Granny, you need to get over it.
And she said, she said, Jimmy Dale.
She's the only one that can call you that.
That's the only one, she's the only one that's legal for it.
She'd say Dale with two syllables.
Jimmy Dale, she would, because of the West Texas thing, she'd say, I will never get over
this.
There is a hole in my heart that will never be filled.
And you know what?
I didn't understand when I was in my twenties, but I get it now.
I just still, a loss of a child or a spouse, both to me, it's, I just, I don't, I don't
want to go there, but I definitely want to be there for those people who have those losses.
I want them to know that we're a church that actually cares.
Not that there aren't, but we care.
And we're not just a church that cares, we're people.
People that care.
Human beings.
And pastors.
Care about what they're going through.
Right.
Oh, can't even, can't even.
That was the highlight of our week, really, Tuesday night.
That was the highlight of this year.
It was that beautiful.
Really was.
You know, when I came away from Nashville, the Lord gave me a simple two word thing that
has stuck with me.
Beautifully broken.
People are beautifully broken in this world because we live in a fallen world.
And because of that, we've got to not judge and assume things.
Maybe judge is harsh, but we don't, I do, I tend to make assumptions.
You know, I people watch and then I'll make assumptions on what I see.
But the Lord's been really dealing with me about assuming things.
Don't make assumptions.
You just don't know their story and you've got to learn to see them in 3D.
Exactly.
That means seeing someone from every angle and get to know their story.
Then you can say, oh, I don't even have to assume anymore because now that I know your
story, I have context.
Don't judge people.
I mean, there are evil things that are happening in the world, but there's also, there's a
root behind it.
There is something that has happened in people's life that has caused them to go off the rail.
Pray for them.
Straight up.
I watched it, you know, on Sabbath, I go to the gym to work out.
It's therapy for me.
And they have put up at Planet Fitness a pride thing that says, you know, this is a no judgment
zone.
And I paused as I walked, as I saw those colors.
And there was two things that happened to me.
One was anger.
It just rose up and like, you know, why is this?
I just want to work out.
Why do we have to have an agenda?
I don't want your agenda in my face.
And so I was, I actually, I was kind of, I was like, I just paused.
I actually took a picture of it.
Yeah, you sent it to me.
I sent it to you.
You're like, look at what our gym put up.
All I said was, I just wanted to work out.
That's all I said.
I didn't even say that.
I just said all I just wanted to work out.
And so it frustrated me and a guy was coming out and we had a little exchange there because
he saw me looking at it.
And he goes, you know what that is, right?
And I said, yeah.
I said, I just came here to work out.
He said, me too.
And there's this sense of the flip side of that coin is behind those colors of pride.
Interesting that it's called pride, which is the original sin.
But anyway, it really interesting correlation there.
But the sad, the track, so there's a tragic side to this while there's people that are
trying to drive an agenda, trying to, it's very ugly and dark.
There's also people who are so hurting and so broken.
Adam Curry and I've had, Adam and I've had lots of conversations about, let's not go
after people.
Let's go after the systemic issues that are causing this.
And it does go back to sin.
It goes back to brokenness.
It goes back to a fallen world and it's shaping.
It's shaping how I preach.
It's shaping how he does his show, No Agenda, and we're trying to find, find the middle
of the road in this thing to say, how can we speak in the truth and love so that we're
not calling out people, but we're calling out issues.
So anyway, all that to say is that, man, just trying to see people that there's a story
behind everything.
There's a story behind everything that is thrown in your face.
There's a story behind everything.
So trying to see people in 3D and love well, you know?
And so let's move forward, man.
My gosh, great week.
So blown away.
I've taken like three naps this week because I, it has been tiring.
I mean, they'll be like late and then I'm still get to bed at 10 o'clock and I'm out
all night.
Look at Chevy.
He's completely, I mean, he's like basically snoring.
This was me today.
He's gone.
I've had, it was.
I've worked out twice a day.
And then we've had all these activities and meeting with people and I'm, I know it's exhausting.
So you sleep, I rebuild guitars.
So I rebuild the strat today.
So for fun.
I'm looking at different, we already talked about this, but sabbatical, what is a sabbatical?
So I announced it about a month ago.
It's been a while since you've announced it because people came to me.
I made a comment that we're going to do a sabbatical for the first time and people came
to us from our church and said, fantastic, great.
Good on you guys.
You deserve it.
That kind of thing.
And then we backed off of it out of fear.
But really what is the heart of a sabbatical?
What do you see?
Well, I mean, it's to give us rest to, so that, and refreshment.
A lot of the pastors that do take sabbaticals when they get back, they're more refreshed.
They're more empowered.
They're more in tune because they've had a good amount of rest.
And what people don't know pastors, our job is not eight to five.
We laugh.
It's 24 seven.
Even though we, we have opportunity to go to the gym, we have opportunity to write,
meet with people for dinner.
It's still, we could get a call at 11 o'clock at night and you're out the door.
You just never, never know.
And there's just a lot of prayer needs.
The bigger your church, the more needs.
So there's a psychological and physiological thing that happens that most people don't
know about.
And that's that you live at a state of hypervigilance.
That's what it's called.
Where you're always on alert.
It's like when you walk into a restaurant and you sit with your, your back to the back
walk cause you want to see what's going on.
You live in hypervigilance.
So you do that as someone, as a guy who walks in the restaurant, I always sit where I could
see the door to protect you.
It's to protect my family and to be wise and have a situational awareness.
Well as a pastor, you live that way 24 seven, which means I'll wake up at two, three in
the morning.
And it's not to go to the bathroom, sometimes it is, but mostly it's like I'm thinking about
people.
I'm praying for people.
Well, you have a sermon to, or I'm preparing a sermon.
I've got things percolating in my heart, my mind.
I don't think people understand what it takes to even preach every week.
I wish you could turn it off, but you can't.
And most, I'd say 99.8% of people don't understand that cause they see us at our best.
Every morning we're smiling, we got good cologne on, we smell good, we're wearing nice clothes.
But the truth of it is, is that there's just so much that goes on that people never see.
Well, I love that Eddie, when he was talking to our staff and elders, Pastor Eddie, excuse
me, he said, nobody will ever understand the duties and what goes on, what pastors do,
because if you've never been there, you will never understand.
We always show our best.
And it's not a show, it's not fake, but it is, there's a sense where we present well.
We try to present well because we're trying to help people live up in a down world, right?
So people often, they don't see the negative emails you get or the person that stood in
your face and cussed you out or the person that doesn't believe, that believes your motives
are off or that you're just trying to get something out of them.
They just don't see that or the drunk that you dealt with or the drug addict that you
took to a clinic.
I mean, they just don't understand or see those things.
So we present well, we look well, but most pastors are in massive crisis.
Exactly.
Thank God we're not because we have good people around us.
We've learned the hard lessons.
We're not in that place, but I know a lot that are.
And so when someone comes and presents this opportunity for a sabbatical, it's a mixed
emotion.
It's like a prevention though.
It really is, preventive medicine.
It is.
And it's a gift from God.
It is.
Well, and one of the things that, you know, I mean, when we took Pastor Eddie and Jessica
out to lunch on Saturday and Adam and Tina came with us and he had a talk with them on,
okay, this is your role in this.
As friends.
As their best friends.
As your best friends, this is your role.
And at first.
Here's how you can help them.
I know.
And at first Tina was like, you mean we can't see them for eight weeks?
And he's like, no, no, no, just hear me out.
I saw the look on her face.
I know, I did too.
And I knew what he was going to say though.
Right.
But he said, you can see each other.
You can go do anything you want, but you can't talk about church.
And what we say about church, because there's two things here, church for pastors and us
as a pastor couple is work, but it's also our life.
So it's both.
It's a weird dynamic that you can't, you cannot describe it unless you've walked in those
shoes and a lot of people like, oh gosh, you guys have it so easy.
Y'all just pray all day.
You drink coffee.
You're liable and take people out to coffee, but you have no idea what happens behind the
curtain.
This week was so busy.
I didn't even, I'm doing a Bible study with Tina and both her and I were so busy with
other, with her, with her things and me with our things.
We didn't even have a chance to do our Bible study.
I had to do it while you were gone to the gym.
I worked out here and then I got in my Bible study because I didn't have time with everything
that we were faced with this week.
It's been a long week.
That is our week.
What I do love, what, that were one of the things, I don't know if I should say I love
it, but I was a little taken aback by it, but we can't even go to church.
We can't go, obviously we're not going to go to our church, but he doesn't want us to
go to any church because he said, what will happen is you'll walk in and go, oh, I like
the way they do that and take note of that to bring it to, and he's like, no.
You shift back in, you get sucked back into it.
How am I going to do that?
I thought, well, I'll listen online.
Then someone said when I was telling them I'll just watch it online, well, isn't that
the same thing as you walking in?
No, because I'm just going to listen to the preaching.
I'm not going to see any of the things that are going on behind the scenes.
I'm just going to listen to the preaching.
Of our church?
No.
You're going to do that?
No.
No, no, no.
I'll just listen.
I'm going to feed on the word of God, probably from Pastor Robert and their team.
Which I do every week anyway.
I'm just going to do it on Sunday.
That's what God, yeah.
The thing is, that was kind of weird because I didn't think about that.
I thought, okay, we can't go to restaurants in Fredericksburg or grocery shopping.
The whole idea of sabbatical is a complete cutoff.
Yes.
It's really odd.
But I see it.
I do too, but it's going to be hard for us at first.
It's going to be hard.
In fact, Pastor Eddie said when he did it, he said the first two weeks were miserable.
They were torture.
I don't want it to be that.
Because he wanted to know what's going on.
He's so used to being in the mix.
That's going to be us.
Anyway, pray for us.
We're excited, but we're also nervous.
What's funny is our daughter's on staff there too.
That's true.
I had to say.
She comes out to hang out with us.
She can't talk about church.
Her husband, Nathan Brandon.
I can't even ask her.
We have to go, don't even tell us.
We don't need to know anything that's going on.
All of this is about, let me just give the bottom line though.
The whole point is complete rest, restoration, recuperation, and impartation.
God is going to download things to us because it will be the first time we've pulled away
in decades.
This is going to be good.
100% pulling away.
It's going to be good for us.
Even when we had a forced sabbatical years ago.
We went to church and every time the door opened, we went to every connect group.
We were so immersed with people and now we need to be...
This is an intentional...
Totally.
Jesus would get away, go off.
Scripture says he withdrew often into desolate places to get away.
He could minister to the Lord and the Lord could minister to him, which is what we're
going to have to do.
I'm excited and nervous, but I'm mostly excited, but I'm a little nervous.
I'm more excited now than I was.
I thank God that Pastor Eddie Raymond called us out, called me out specifically, but he
did it in such kind...
It was crazy because...
It was all for our good.
He called you out and then that night you didn't sleep at all because you were like,
oh my gosh, I have to do this.
It was good because I wasn't wrestling in a negative way.
It was a positive thing, a good thing, even though sleep deprivation isn't always good.
Apparently, I'm doing fine.
I keep taking all these naps.
Yeah, you were like, oh, all good.
I'm like, okay, I'll keep you abreast apparently.
I'm snoring over here and I'm like, hey, I'm awake at 2.30 a.m.
But anyway, all good, all good.
Hey, I've got to give some shout outs.
We have so many... We are so blessed with people that are supporting the program, that
are watching the show and involved, so I've got to give some shout outs.
First of all, I always want to promote Curry and the Keeper.
That is our favorite podcast and really what led us into podcasting was Adam and Deena
Curry with Curry and the Keeper, so be sure and check them out in their podcast.
Also just some notes from people that we love.
Renee Sechrist.
We love Renee.
Renee is in our church.
Her husband is a bass player in our band, our worship team, slash band.
He could probably play anything.
Oh, he's an amazing musician, but they're just a wonderful couple, great kids.
She said, you're going to need a tissue for this one.
This was last week's.
So sweet.
Then Jennifer Marshall.
She just said, love it with a big heart.
Can't wait to hear how the dinner went.
So Jennifer, by the way, the dinner went amazing as you heard us talk about.
We were gushing over it.
Donna Strickland, beautiful comment.
She said, enjoying every week.
Thank you for sharing your journey.
Sometimes we wonder, does anybody care about what we're doing?
We're just sort of leaking out our life, but thank you, Donna, for saying that.
How sweet.
And also just to help people understand that what we're doing, this is not our church.
This is not a ministry of the church.
This is totally separate.
This is Annette and I saying, this is our human side, the real us, and we're doing this
outside of that.
This is in addition to, so this isn't our work.
This is our joy and our, it's our heart.
I thought I was going to write books.
I really did.
And I may still do something.
Because you have had many people say that you need to write a book.
We have such stories.
We do.
We have crazy stories.
We could be lifetime every week for a month.
Every time I walk with Tina, she's like, what?
Yeah, that's amazing.
I love that too.
That's another book.
Crazy stories.
I know.
However, the Lord has given us this platform, this option.
So we've leaned into this.
And so one of the things that helps us is value for value, which I love.
I love the whole idea of that.
If you value something, then you support something.
If something means something to you and helps you, then you want to give value toward that.
And so one of the ways you can do that is to listen to our podcast on Fountain, the
app Fountain.
Get it on your phone, iOS, Android, either way.
And really it's just, if you can do boost, you can do boost of grams where you actually
write a note and say, Hey, love what you're doing.
Here's a boost of grams.
I'm going to give some examples of that and how that works.
So we have 77,777 sats from the pod father, Adam Curry.
Of course he's saying one of your best episodes.
That was last week.
I loved last week.
Oh, we had so much.
There was so much there.
And then from Todd from Texas, which is code for sir Brian with an I, oh, we know Brian,
Brian, we know you, we see you.
And he 7,777 satoshis just to say, love you guys.
He gave a kind of a funny symbol.
One sats from Scott ZC bless you both.
God's grace and love are enough.
Isn't that beautiful?
Here's another one from Nick Z 0003.
Also we had boost from AZUZ also Eric PP drew Scott absurdian.
I'm just reading all these off.
Circus media, the keeper.
Who would that be?
Keeper.
And that we know the keeper.
See dubs and sir Doug all given satoshis toward us and supporting us with boostograms.
Basically to say, hey, we like what you're doing.
We like what you said.
Thanks for doing what you do.
It's awesome.
It's such a pleasure and a blessing to be with you.
And we're thrilled to be a part of your life.
Thank you for listening.
And today we want to encourage you to live up in a down world.
Have an amazing week on purpose.
We'll see you next week.