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Welcome back to part two. Here we continue to embark on a profound exploration of purpose

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through the lens of our special guest, Kendall Major, in our new series, Why Are You Here?

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She candidly shares personal struggles, highlighting her battle with mental health and her journey

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to discover purpose as a wife. Kendall, a powerhouse in her own right, continues to

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offer unique insights into finding purpose among life's challenges. Together, we unravel

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the transformative power of faith, intentional love, and an eternal mindset. It's a captivating

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journey that promises not only self-reflection, but also the inspiration to embrace a purpose-driven

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life. All right, guys, see in there, take some notes.

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We're kind of touching on it before, Kendall, and you talked a little bit about how you

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struggled with your purpose in the beginning. Yeah. So could you dive a little bit deeper

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into that? Yeah. I think for me, like you guys both kind of know, probably know a lot

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of my story and my testimony, but from a very young age, I just really struggled with mental

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health and had really bad anxiety and really bad depression and had attempted to take my

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life a couple of times and all of those things. And so when I say I really felt like I had

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no worth and no value, it's like that was my life from a very young age, just starting

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that off and really being like, what am I even supposed to do with my life? I constantly

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am nervous and terrified of everything, terrified of people, had such bad social anxiety, could

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not have conversations with people, could not go and introduce myself to people, always

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had to have somebody with me. And so I was terrified of everything, but also always just

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exhausted and down, just depressed. And so I had tried so many things, trying to just

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find my purpose, trying to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life and all

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of these things, nothing ever really seemed to work or make sense. It just always, I don't

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know. And so I just got to this point where I really was like, okay, I've tried so many

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of these things and nothing ever seems, like I said, fulfilling, nothing ever gives me

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peace. I'm still super anxious, still really depressed, all of these things. And I just

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didn't know what purpose was. And I think I really thought it was things I was supposed

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to do. And so as I got older, I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to college for and

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what is my purpose in life and all of these things, what am I going to do? All of them

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seeming really exhausting to me and really intimidating and really scary. And just kind

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of was like, I don't feel like I'm good at anything. I don't feel like, just kind of

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really, really confused. And I just got to the point where I was like, I've tried so

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many things. And so I kind of, growing up in church, but not really listening and not

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really living it out, I just got to this point where I was like, okay. And I just prayed

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and I was like, God, I have heard about you my whole life and you probably know what I'm

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going through right now and all these things. Cause at this point I was at the lowest point

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because I was like, I have no worth and I have no value and there's no point of my life.

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There's no point in me being here. And I kind of was just like, okay, God, if you actually

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have something for my life, then I just need you to show up and I just need you to change

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my life. And I basically for a hundred days was like every single day I'm going to get

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up and I'm going to pray and I'm going to read my Bible and I'm going to journal a prayer

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to you. And it was so quickly within those a hundred days. I can't even, I think I started

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that in March and I think by May or June, my anxiety was gone. My depression was gone.

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All those things, my life was completely changed and transformed. And so that's like this free

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thing. And it's like, I finally am like, I feel like I have some type of value, but it's

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still like these old thought processes that I'm like fighting through, like all these

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old habits and all old mindsets where it's kind of just like, that's just how my brain

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had wired itself. Or I'm like, I would find myself in moments where I would still be like,

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I have no value or like, oh, well now I'm a Christian and so I'm doing this thing, but

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that's like, that has to be like my purpose. And like, that has to be the thing I do. And

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it all became so like also focused on my feelings, but also focused on like what I'm doing and

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not really like just being centered on him. And so I think it was really hard, like just

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different discouragement and stuff like that, like from other people, me just being like,

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okay, well I kind of thought that maybe this was my purpose and you're telling me this

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and you're telling me this. And so it's all like so shakeable like for me, because it

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wasn't like, I wasn't really fully set on like that foundation yet. I was still really

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figuring it out. And I feel like that was in 2016 that I gave my life to Jesus and now

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it's 2024. And I feel like even within like the past two, three years, like the Lord has

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really been revealing to me more of just like what that even looks like. And so it's not

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even like always like an immediate change. But I think for me, there was like this peace

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and this joy because I was like, okay, like I know he's changed my life and I know that

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he's real and I know that like he's doing something. I don't know what it is, but like

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I know that he's doing something. And I was able to see even in, even when I still didn't

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know like what I wanted to do with my life, I was able to see in moments of me just sharing

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my testimony of me sharing the things that I'd gone through with my anxiety and my depression

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and all those things, I was able to see how the Lord was using it and how I was able to

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love people differently because I had gone through things. And so it wasn't something

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anymore that I was so angry at the world, but it was stuff where I was like, like I

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was able to be like empathetic and put myself in other people's shoes and be like, this

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is what they're going through. And so because I've gone through that, like I can like go

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with it and like go with them, like through it, like help them through it and just be

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there like present with them. And so I feel like looking back, the Lord is really showing

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me like your purpose. Like it's really just like as long as you love me and I am your

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focus, like all of the other things are going to fall into place and I'm going to tell you

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when I want you to go and I'm going to tell you where I want you to speak and where I

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want you to move and where all of these things. But my purpose really just became like, okay,

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an overflow of like, man, like he really loves me. Like, like the decisions I made and the

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things that I did, like when I was a teenager and like growing up, like all of those things,

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I'm like, there is no reason as to why like this perfect God should love me. You know,

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like, I'm like, I was awful. I was not nice. I was not patient. I was not any of these

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things. Like I was like not, I just was awful and like just made really bad decisions that

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I knew weren't right, but I just continued to make them anyway. And I'm like, man, like

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the fact that God still loved me, I'm like, I want to live every single second of my life

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loving other people and like loving him back, you know, and seeing what can come from that.

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And so it took definitely a long time to rewire those old thought processes of what my purpose

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was thinking it was all me doing. And now I'm like, I get to do because I know like who

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he is and I know his love. And so I think that like for me is kind of how I figured

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out like my purpose and all that kind of stuff. And now I'm like, every day it can look different

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of different things that I like to do and like different people I like get to love and

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I get to take care of and all those things. And I'm like, that's great. And it's like,

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I'm not so focused on, well, I have to do it this way or in this exact setting or all

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that. But I'm like, I get to live out my purpose and in grocery store, I get to live out my

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purpose. Like when I'm changing my kids diapers, like I get to live out my purpose, like through

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all those things, because I just love him and I get to love people in the process, you

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know, so um, yeah, that's kind of like for me what that looked like of me figuring out

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like what my purpose even was and what it even meant for me. So yeah,

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That's so deep.

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I love Sean.

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So for our next question, how would you say did you live out your purpose as a godly woman

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bringing into a wife for the single ladies out there? You can take notes on this.

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Yeah. Um, well, I'm saying like my purpose in life is to love God and to love people.

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And that means that through my marriage, like I need to love God first and love Brandon

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as an overflow. And um, it's definitely like, I'm not perfect at it, you know, like there

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are definitely moments where I am, like, more quick to like, be argumentative or like not

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be as loving as I know that I should be. And so I definitely, I'm like, you know, still

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navigating and like figuring it out. And I think that's just more of like, I think that

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that is more of me just being like, okay, God, like even more like I need you. Like,

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like I know that some of my responses are not the way that I want to respond to like,

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God, I just need you in those moments then. And so just continuing to love God first and

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continuing to say like, in moments being like, okay, God, like, let me just see them as like

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somebody that you have created them to be. And even just like praying like through the

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process. And I think even just being like, okay, God, continue to shape me and mold me

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into who I'm supposed to be, you know, into looking more and more like you. And so because

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like marriage, it's like, you're like doing life together, you know, it's like, it's not

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just like, like the friendships that I've known where it's like, okay, like we hang

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out for a couple of hours and like, we'll go to church together and all that kind of

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stuff. And then we're like home and we're like separate. And it's like, we can text

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each other, but it's like different. It's like marriage is like you are like, like not

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together all the time, but it's like you're like living together and you're like molding

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your lives together and like figuring out all of the things like navigating like the

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highs and the lows and, and work stuff and family stuff and all those things. And so

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I think it really is just like, I feel like my prayer just more and more so lately is

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like, God, like I need you, like I need more of you in order to like love him more. But

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then also, like I said, like our marriage, like with like, we want our marriage to have

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a purpose. And so we want there to be a purpose in like, like we're loving God first and loving

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each other out of an overflow, but also it's not just ending there, but we're having that

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eternal mindset where it's like, okay, like we're not just always hanging out together.

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Like we're not just always just about us, but it's like, we are serving in church, like

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Brandon's on staff at church, like he's a pastor. And so like, like we're, we're serving

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at church because we know that there are other people that need to encounter Jesus and we're

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being intentional with relationships and discipling and pouring into people and all of those things,

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because it's not just about at the end of our lives, we got to be married for however

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long before we are going to heaven, you know? But it's like, man, like what can come from

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that? Like there is so much time, like we can have so much time here that like can mean

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a difference if we really just say, God, I love you. And so help me to love people better.

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And so our marriage cannot just be about us because then really, I think for me, I'm just

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like, I don't want to say like a waste, but also I'm like, man, like we, like as a single

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person, like I believe that when I was single, that I was able to do what I needed to do

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as a single person. And now as a married woman, I'm like, I, there are more things that I'm

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able to do now that like there were things when I was single that I'm like, okay, I'm

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able to do more things now because I'm not married and now I'm married and I'm like,

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there are, there are things that I'm able to do more now because I am. And so it's just

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the ministry just looks different, you know? But it's like, there is, there has to be like

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a reason for it and not just the, okay, we're just going to make it all about us and like

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us having fun and going and traveling and all those things. But it's like, man, like

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we can be a part of like the world looking different and people's lives being different.

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And so it can't just be about us. So that's purpose with marriage in my thoughts.

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That's good. And say one thing, well maybe more than one, but that's not just for the

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woman. That's where the guys do for sure. Guys take notes. Go back and take notes.

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But I think like it also doesn't just go for like, there's, you know, you can think of

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every single aspect of, of that single dating. Like there's a, this awesome sermon series

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by a pastor Ben Stewart. Ben Stewart. Ben Stewart. Ben Stewart. He has a book on it.

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Oh does it? It's a book too. So yeah, it's so good. He has the like sermon series. So

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he's like, I'm like, he's like a relationship pro, you know, like he's phenomenal. Brandon

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and I like went through like a relationship series like of his before we got married.

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And I feel like it created so many like really great conversations. So yeah, big fan of Ben

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Stewart. Yeah. Yeah. And like, the reason I want to bring that up is because there's

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purpose and you had a purposely date as well. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't have, I mean, I also

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don't have too much experience, but uh, but like with, but I do the wrong ways and the

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wrong ways. Terrible. But like search, but search, but having like the purposeful, um,

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searching for a guy or searching for the woman with purposefully in my mind, it's like searching

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for the woman that you believe like that you, that will compliment you and you will compliment

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back. Yeah. Yeah, absolutely. And if Christian says like, well, who's going to like, if you

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chase God together, if you don't believe the same thing about eternity, then it's going

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to be kind of weird. But, um, I think I like that point. Um, I think for all the listeners

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out there, especially the Christians, but even the people who are not Christians, you

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should definitely date for a purpose and your purpose should be to marry that person. You

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should not date to just date. I think that's the worst thing society has. I think that

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teaches people that there is divorces. Okay. Really quickly, like without like issues,

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obviously there's a reason for divorce for some reasons, but it shouldn't be like, Oh,

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we don't like we're mad at each other. Say it's over. Like, you know, I mean, it has

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to be more deeper than that for divorce, but I think dating without a purpose is what led

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society to a high rate of divorce.

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But, uh, cause I was thinking about actually thinking about, um, this, the way I think

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God constructed my purpose and I think it's still happening. Um, to see if I can formulate

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this question. Um, I feel like I know at least a short answer to this, what you're going

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to say, but like, I like, I wonder what the longer answer is. Do you think even before,

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or even if you don't believe in God, that God is still working, God is still working

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to work that purpose out in your life? Um, I think that God's not going to like force

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anything, you know, but I, um, like McKayla and I are talking about, um, like this one

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person that we know that we're like, we can like see like the way that they like love

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people and welcome people that I'm like, I feel like, like, even though like they're

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not a Christian, I'm like, I feel like there is so much like love that comes from them,

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you know? And so I think that there is, I think that there are purpose, like there's

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a purpose for like every single person that is in the world. And I think that, um, I think,

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I think for me, like, I want to say like, there is a purpose for everyone. I think that

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me like stepping into like just whatever God had for me, I think that there is more fulfillment

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and a totally different understanding of what my purpose is because of me following Jesus.

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Um, but I do think that like, I do think that like God can still use people that like may

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not have like given their lives to Jesus. And I think that he can still like, because

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I think I can like look back at even my life and I'm like, even when I didn't know Jesus,

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I do feel like the Lord was like using me and I can look back and be like, oh, that

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was so God like working in like that was so God like, because he can do anything, you

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know? And so the conversations that like we can have, like even if somebody doesn't follow

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Jesus and doesn't know Jesus, like it can still leave other people being like, oh, I've

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felt so loved, like just talking to them and felt so like seen like cared for. And so I

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definitely think that like God, I think that there are still is a purpose for each of our

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lives. And I think that God can still like use things that, um, we say or that we, um,

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maybe do or go through. Um, and so I think it's, I think he's not going to like force

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like, we are good at this, so you have to use it for me. And like, you have to do this.

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But I definitely think that he can still work through like so many different things and

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so many people like beyond just Christians. Yeah. So that's really good. I'm gonna have

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to touch upon this. There was this story by one of my favorite pastors, um, forget his

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name right now. Sorry, I follow you. Um, but anyways, it was like a woman who was hungry,

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right? Her house, she had no food and she prayed to God very loudly that she would have

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food. So her neighbor bought food who he's an atheist. He did it just be spiteful. He

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bought food and then put everything that she asked for, um, on her porch. And then he rang

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the buzzer. And then when she opened it, she said, thank you, God, you answered my prayer.

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And then the atheist popped out the bushes and he said, see, there is no God. And I did

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this for you. That would be a prime example of how God could use anybody to think, to,

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um, do your, I would say to accomplish whatever goal he had. She needed that food. He thought

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he just did it on his own will to be spiteful. Yeah. But God used it for the good. So that

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lady got food. Yeah. Yeah. I think the Lord can use anything. Yeah. Like, because he's

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so, we can't just like limit him to just what we can even imagine or like what we have seen.

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But I think that he can use anything and work through anything or any situation or conversation.

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So that's just who he is. It's just everywhere all the time doing all the things. So yeah.

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So there's a more thing I could dive into, but I might save it for a Sean and I solo

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episode because we can dive into our own purposes in there and a little bit more. But, um, uh,

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yeah, I think it's a good time to wrap it up around about close to the 50 minute mark.

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So yeah. Yeah. Um, so Kendall asked, uh, same couple questions to everyone just to wrap

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things up. Um, what are some, like when it comes to either personal growth or in this

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case purpose, um, what are some resources that you would recommend to people? Books,

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podcasts, whatever. Um, so I really, when it comes to podcasts, I really just listen

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to you guys and then I listened to my sister, Micaela, and then I listened to Josh and Brandon's

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podcast. Um, so I can't be like, oh my goodness, this podcast, this podcast. Um, no, you absolutely

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could. You can tell them. Yeah. I'm like, those are like the podcasts I like really

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gotten like listened to. And as far as reading, I'm really not a great reader or I don't like

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read as much nearly as I want to. Um, but I think as far as like, I think just even guidance

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and sometimes like direction from like other like pastors and stuff like that, like I'll

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like read from like Levi Lesko. Like I love his books. Like I love Ben Stewart's books.

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Um, and so I think any of those, like I love that. I'm like Louie Giglio. I think it has

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so much wisdom. Um, and so I think being able to like read from like other Christians, like

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those are like probably like top, I think I said three, um, top three, like pastors,

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like authors. Um, I think that they, like they, all three of them have covered so many

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different things as far as like relationships or even just like grief and um, like figuring

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out like, like I think even like Louie Giglio has one that's like not forsaken. And I feel

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like that one really helps you to kind of like sort out like, okay, like my identity,

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like stuff like that. And so I think that those have all been like really like influential

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like books, um, for me. Um, and then as far as purpose, I'm like, this is going to be

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such the cheesy, like stereotypical Christian answer, but I'm like, I really cannot find

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my purpose in anything other than like the word, the Bible, you know? And so I'm like,

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I feel like when it comes to purpose, it's like, I don't want to find it like through

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a book. I think that there are quotes, like we read like John Maxwell and um, I think

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that there are quotes and things that they can like say that like brings a lot of wisdom

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to purpose, but I don't want to even find my purpose just in what they're saying, but

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I want to all come back to the word and compare to the word. And so, um, just letting that

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be how the Lord is speaking to me of what he has for my life and how he wants to continue

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to use me. Um, but also just what my identity is in him. So I feel like that wasn't a great

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answer to that question, but, um, not like the Bible, the Bible is the best answer, you

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know? Um, but I like, don't really feel like podcasts or like book wise that I really answered

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that like, I'm not going to use all these things, but, um, I think you did good. You

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did, um, we'll do a shout out for who needs a name. Okay. Bible bros. And um, paradox

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and pre-perceptive. There we go. Yeah. And sorry, Michaela messed up. And we have, uh,

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any book specifically you would like recommend besides our Lord and savior, the Bible. Um,

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I really do think I mentioned this one, not forsaken by Louie Giglio. I think, um, he

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even starts off the book by saying like the, like the most important thing about you is

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what you think when you think of the Lord. And so I feel like that one was really like

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life changing for me of just figuring out more of like my identity and like figuring

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out like who God is to me as like a father and sorting through like all of those things

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and all of life and events and all the things. So, um, I think that that one, I would definitely

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recommend. I think it's a phenomenal book. And I think that it really, I think that Louie

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Giglio did a really great job of just reflecting like the father's heart for his kids through

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that book. So yeah, I definitely recommend. That's good. Yeah. All right. So Kendall,

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who would you like to have on that next episode of our podcasts? Hmm. I had three earlier

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and now I can't, okay. I remember all of them. Um, I don't remember if we mentioned this

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one the last time we were here. I think Silas would be great. Come on, Silas get on here.

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Silas has so much good sound. He's insane. Um, I also think David. Yes, David Callahan.

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He's insane too. Um, anytime that he would lead rally, we would, I would always be like

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screaming after. Um, so I think that he would be a really good person to have on here. And

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I also think Meg Croyle. Meg is a powerhouse. And so I feel like any of those three, if

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we got any of those three on here, I feel like they would all be really solid. We're

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going to do our best and fight all three of them. We will. That sounds amazing. We'll

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have to reach out to Silas again because he said no the first time. Silas. Come on. David

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also said no at one point. Whenever I asked him, I did for sure. I never, I don't know.

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I didn't know that. Well, now there's a little bit more pressure because I've said it in

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the podcast. Yes. So now they'll be listening. And I didn't know that you asked either of

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them, but I, when I was thinking about that question today, that was that in the intro,

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I was really thinking through and I'm like David and Silas and Meg, I think all three

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of them have a lot to bring to the podcast. So awesome actually. This season just get

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better. Because you bring people on because you know they have something to say. Yep.

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And all three of them. Wow. Here we go. That's so powerful. Well, all right guys. Thank you

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for listening to this episode of Technically Short. If you listen, thank you for listening

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