Well, welcome back everyone to Rising 365.
I'm Mike Pena and this podcast is committed to inspiring
and supporting others to embrace the opportunity
to rise with each new day.
You know, rising daily can be a challenge
for many including myself.
And it is my hope that what you hear in these episodes
will assist you in rising every day of the year.
You know, just a special note, I am no professional,
no PhD, no counselor.
I'm just a normal guy, a veteran,
a prior law enforcement officer, a father, a husband,
someone who spent some time really struggling to rise
and taking some tangible steps
have been able to meet the new day.
And I hope what you hear in these episodes
on Rising 365 help you as well.
I just wanted to let you, I'm no professional,
just someone who cares.
Well, we're continuing in our series of the Atticus Effect.
This is part three and it's entitled,
Trusted, episode 28.
Well, this weekend was filled with me being in a show
called The Kill a Mockingbird.
And if you haven't read this book, seen the play,
seen the movie, press pause right now and go do that.
Go do yourself a favor and experience something
that has transcended time in its literary masterpiece
and in the lessons to be learned
in both the book, play and the movie.
Well, this weekend, something is always different
each night you participate in a live theater production.
You know, you can come to the play as an actor
and show up and just do your part and leave.
But then you're missing the whole concept
of what it is to be a part of live theater.
There's always something new to learn.
Something new pops out and just affects you as the actor,
as someone who does this day in and day out.
And today, Monday and tomorrow,
we still have one more show.
We have one more show these next two days today
and tomorrow are for students,
high school, middle school, college students
who are coming to learn and from what's to be learned
and to Kill a Mockingbird.
But this weekend and where this episode is
of this part three, The Atticus Effect,
that stuck out to me was towards the closing scene
of the play.
Trial has already commenced.
Tom Robinson has been found guilty
and everyone leaves disheartened.
I think the only people who are happy with the outcome
is Bob Ewell.
I don't even think his daughter, Mayelo,
is happy with the outcome.
So people are really sad and they leave the courthouse
and they cut to outside of the courthouse
of Atticus' kids and Dill and some other people
are wondering how could the jury do that?
And why did the result of Tom Robinson being found guilty
despite the evidence that he was innocent?
And they start struggling with the outcome.
Can anything really matter anymore?
When it takes Miss Maudy, one of the kind characters
in the show of this community,
to speak into the lives of the children
so they see what Atticus did for the community.
Again, he's referred to as being the one
that the community trusted in to handle something
that was true.
The one that the community trusted in to handle something
that was so divisive.
He said he was the only person in the community
who could withstand this kind of pressure.
And Miss Maudy says, we trusted in Atticus.
The judge, when he appointed Atticus to be Tom's lawyer,
trusted in Atticus.
And as Dill was departing for his final words, he said,
we trust in Atticus.
They trusted in him.
And that's so important when it comes to the aspect
of us as individuals to be able to rise 365.
When it was the last time somebody trusted in you.
Maybe the reason you're in your predicament
of struggling each and every day
is because you broke the trust of somebody.
When rebuilding trust is no easy matter,
but it's paramount when we're looking for encouragement,
looking for that spark to get us to rise each new day.
And have people out there who are trusting us
to do our part, to do what we're called to do.
I'm a big fan of Jordan B. Peterson.
He's got two books, 12 rules for life and maps of meaning.
And in both of these books, it says that a person needs
really three things in life to get them going.
They need a relationship, they need a relationship,
they need a relationship, they need a job,
and then they need to be a part of something
that's morally bigger than who they are.
When they have a job, it may not be your ideal job,
but when someone hires you to come work for them,
they're trusting that you will show up
and do your part of the job that they hired you to do.
And then when you become a part of something
that's morally bigger than you,
and you start volunteering out in the community,
people trust that you'll come and you'll help.
But maybe those two things are bigger
than what you are capable of doing right now.
Jordan goes on and says,
maybe all you have to do is get yourself a pet
or even a house plant.
Something where someone's life is trusting in you
to take care of them.
You know, when you have a pet in your house,
they entrust in you that you're gonna feed them,
you're gonna take them out for walks,
and you're gonna make sure they get the health care
that they need.
Even if you have a plant, the plant needs water,
it needs sunlight, it needs that soil to be changed
if you see the soil is, the plant is getting unhealthy.
There's always something out there
that is looking to you and trusting in you.
And that's probably the encouragement
that you need to hear.
When was the last time you were a part of something
where people entrusted in you?
And it's a big thing.
And if we allow it to overwhelm us,
that's exactly what can happen.
It can overwhelm us, but it's a good thing.
To have people depending on you,
to realize that this world is bigger than just yourself.
And all of a sudden you're encouraged,
you have a fire within you,
you have a reason to get up,
to rise each and every day because you know that
someone's life depends on you.
Again, it could be as little as a house plant to a pet,
to your very own family.
You know, and crust is something
you don't take lightly.
When people trust in you, when they say you apply to a job
and they say, yeah, you're hired,
you're trusting that you will do
what you said you could do
and were willing to do during the interview.
When you get married, your spouse is entrusting in you,
saying that you will love them and take care of them
in sickness and in health, through good times and bad.
Not just when things are easy.
It's easy to put trust into people
and people put trust in you when they're not around.
You're not asked to do hard things,
but it's when you're asked, like Atticus did,
he was asked to do something extremely hard
that was back in 1935.
And that was to challenge a code within a community
based solely on race.
But when you can stand in the midst of hard times
and still be trusted, you're gonna find yourself
walking with your head up a little higher.
Your shoulders won't be so droopy,
you'll be walking tall and feel a sense of pride.
Now you have a reason for rising and getting up and going.
That's what this episode is all about.
Work to be the person you trust
and work to be the person where people are looking to you
and trusting in you.
You can be trusted.
It can be a hard endeavor, but it's definitely worth it.
There's more in episode four,
this is kind of similar to that episode
about living and rising for others.
It's really similar to that.
People are gonna look to you, they're trusting in you,
for you to rise each new day that you are given.
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Until we meet again, this is Mike Pinier
reminding you to rise and seize the gift of a new day.
You are destined for this moment.