The River Morning Show Weekly Podcast | EP 143 | OCT 25 2025

We trade pet stories, candy hot takes, and meme translations, then slow down for a grounded reflection on finding God when life feels unclear. 

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Cold Weather Banter And Coat Pockets

SPEAKER_07 0:00

Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show Weekly Podcast.

SPEAKER_02 0:04

I typically will choose chocolate every time, but if there are those sour skittles, no, why do you want your face to look all squeaked up?

SPEAKER_06 0:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 0:12

It's a puckery thing. If I'm at home, maybe my wife will get the hint.

SPEAKER_06 0:16

Cook it for smooch.

SPEAKER_02 0:18

I'm eating candy. You may not have known it, but you just pressed play on a podcast. I hope you know it. Anyway, thanks for doing that. You can find more riverpodcasts, riverradio.com. Click the on demand or the listen tabs. And you have to admit it. What? You're you're okay you're okay with getting your coat back out. You missed your coat. You missed your coat. Not at all. You like your coat.

SPEAKER_07 0:43

I do pick coats that I like on purpose, but I don't like that I have to wear them.

SPEAKER_02 0:47

No, but it's it's your style, it's your friend, and now you and your friend get to hang out for a long time.

SPEAKER_07 0:53

It was a fun surprise to see what was left in the pockets of the coat. Did you find any cash in there? Uh no. I found napkins, dog poop bags, and I think like a pen.

SPEAKER_02 1:03

Does the pen still work? Yeah. That's a win.

Pets And Their Odd Favorite Things

SPEAKER_07 1:10

There is something hilarious about what pets choose to love. Your dog might have premium toys galore. The best of the best, but he's obsessed with an empty water bottle instead.

SPEAKER_02 1:25

My dog really likes those uh red solo cups.

SPEAKER_07 1:27

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they crunch really well. So, what is that funny random thing your pet loves? You can call or text to share 800-609-1049. Bear is nine weeks old. Hello, Poppers. And so he hasn't quite figured that out for himself. The one thing I can say that he's already has an affection for is the glass storm door. Does he keep running into it? He just no he just has to be at it. He doesn't love going outside to go potty, and so he just wants to like tape himself to the door. His little paws are attached to it. The only thing that that comes close is how much he loves his kitty brother, fish.

SPEAKER_02 2:16

Oh yeah. I've seen some videos.

SPEAKER_07 2:19

It's mostly the glass door that he just has fallen in love with.

SPEAKER_02 2:22

That's really strange. You can't throw a glass door for him to fetch. No, no, no. It's gonna end well.

SPEAKER_07 2:26

Josh, you have little Ollie. Yeah. What does Ollie randomly love?

SPEAKER_02 2:30

He destroys all of his toys, uh, especially like the cloth ones. He just picks at the seams and then gets the stuffing out. So we found he does that with rubber ones too, but my daughter found a rubber pig that squeaks and it is indestructible. Oh. He's had this thing for like two and a half years. And I'll say something very specific so that he knows I'm gonna go get it and we're gonna play. Okay. I'll look at him and I'll say in this the stupid parent voice, you know, for a dog. I'll say, Dozems have ems peg.

SPEAKER_08 3:04

Wait, wait. It's not a pet voice, John. Dozem's have embs peg. You sound like the Lord of the Rings Gremlin dude. What's his name? Gollum. Gollum! Dozem's have hims. Prusses! You have the most terror point pet voice.

SPEAKER_02 3:21

Um, but Ollie will get right up and he'll go find it.

SPEAKER_08 3:24

Oh, he loves that pack.

SPEAKER_02 3:27

Chuck is peg.

SPEAKER_08 3:31

Wow.

SPEAKER_07 3:32

That was special. I enjoyed that. It is your turn to share what is that thing that your pet randomly loves. It's goofy as silly, but we love them so much. 800-609-1049. Pets have the strangest favorite things. And it just will crack you up every time. Your dog could have a million chew toys, but he's only interested in that old sock under the couch.

SPEAKER_02 3:56

Yeah, the one that's not washed.

unknown 3:58

No.

SPEAKER_07 3:59

It has all the dust bunnies on it. But they love it. They just bark at it the whole time.

SPEAKER_02 4:05

Really, they're barking at you to get it. Hell, help. Who's training who, really? I know, it's so true.

SPEAKER_07 4:11

My cat named Fish has a million and one toys. We've bought him everything under the sun. His absolute favorite is the drawstring that he pulled out of my pajama pants. He has to have it. He doesn't want to play with anything else that costs us a ton of money.

SPEAKER_02 4:30

I thought you were gonna say your ankles every morning. What's his favorite thing?

SPEAKER_07 4:35

He does love that. He is a vicious little thing. It's an Achilles tendon! That is his second favorite thing, for sure. Producer Mike, who is sharing through text? What are some of the things that uh these pets are loving?

SPEAKER_00 4:50

Courtney from Mount Victory says her dog had a thing for glass bottles and would drop them on the cement porch until they broke.

SPEAKER_07 4:59

That's dangerous.

SPEAKER_00 5:00

So sometimes she said that they could grab them in time before they broke. But there was one time when the dog brought home a full two-liter bottle of soda, and somehow they'd grabbed it off the neighbor's porch. We're still not sure where the dog got all of these bottles from. That's amazing.

SPEAKER_07 5:17

I feel like he's trying to be um the Coca-Cola uh polar bear. He's like, I can be the new mascot.

SPEAKER_02 5:25

Like reduce, reuse, recycle porch.

SPEAKER_07 5:29

What's that quirky thing your pet loves? You can call or text to share. 800-609-1049. Lynn, what's that for you?

SPEAKER_09 5:38

My pet will find the most important piece of paper and hew it up.

SPEAKER_02 5:44

They can tell. There's something about the scent or the flavor.

SPEAKER_07 5:47

Now, is this a puppy or a kitty cat?

SPEAKER_09 5:50

This was my dog since he was a puppy, and still to this day, that's what he goes for. Wow.

SPEAKER_02 5:57

What's his name?

SPEAKER_09 5:58

Colt C-O-L-P. Oh, Colt's cute!

SPEAKER_02 6:02

Maybe he's a business dog and he likes stuff in manila folders.

SPEAKER_09 6:06

I mean, that could be. I'm thinking it has to do, like you said, something with the set. He must know that that's like a bill that's due next week because we're trying to figure out where it went.

SPEAKER_07 6:16

Can you recall the most important thing he's ever chewed up? I'd say probably just like a random bill, something like that.

SPEAKER_09 6:23

Or forgotten a piece of paper into just that right spot that has a detail that you made it. Right. I guess that would probably be the answer right there.

Listeners Share Pet Quirks

SPEAKER_02 6:32

We need your account number. Sorry, it's in the doggy bag.

SPEAKER_09 6:36

Exactly.

SPEAKER_02 6:39

Producer Mike is here with us this morning as well because we're gonna need what he has to provide, which is a Gen Z view of the world. I don't know why kids are doing this, but they're doing it. They're doing it a lot. Would you translate that, please?

SPEAKER_00 6:55

What's with the 6-7, man? 6-7. What is that? So, really, it means nothing. The thing about 6-7 is now it's getting kind of old news.

SPEAKER_07 7:05

Right? There's like something new.

SPEAKER_02 7:06

Yeah, just trends come and go very quickly, and I'll be honest, I as uh get off my lawn, URP, I'm glad to see 6-7 go because I can't count how many times my 18-year-old will just look at me at the dinner table and just do the hand motion. The hand thing. Which, by the way, if you don't know the hand motion, if you watch football, it looks like when a guy juggles a pass and it's incomplete.

SPEAKER_07 7:27

Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a good comparison.

SPEAKER_02 7:29

Up and down, left and right. Okay, so 6'7 means nothing. Thanks for that, kids. What's new now? What's is something taking its place? Yeah, there's a new number now.

SPEAKER_05 7:39

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 7:40

41.

SPEAKER_07 7:42

Which is the same in that it means nothing. Exactly, yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:45

What's really just a replacement for 6'7, because people like you, Josh, are now knowing what 6'7 is. Oh, so it's not cool anymore. Exactly.

SPEAKER_07 7:53

But is there an origin story to 41?

SPEAKER_02 7:56

Honestly, there really isn't. 6'7 had something to do with a basketball player and a rap song and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Whatever. So for and there was there new hand motions with 41?

SPEAKER_00 8:06

Yeah, it's kind of like um you like stick your hands out. Like, what is this?

SPEAKER_07 8:12

I'm trying to like if you're telling someone they're the yay hi, yeah. Like put both of your hands up, like, oh yay hi. Yeah. And then just push them forward and back.

SPEAKER_00 8:21

Yeah, like you're too short for an amusement park ride.

SPEAKER_07 8:24

Yeah, yeah, that's a good one too.

SPEAKER_00 8:26

I hate this.

SPEAKER_07 8:28

I know. We my husband, Chris, and I were driving around my six-year-old nephew Luca, and from the back seat, he first of all, he goes, Bruh. And I was like, shot it. Get out of here. And then he knew that he had annoyed Auntie Hannah. And so then he goes, six, seven. No. And so he's doing this. And so Chris, my husband goes, Luca, didn't you know there's a new one? Your husband knew about 41? No. He decided to troll our six-year-old nephew and go, you need to go tell all your elementary school friends that it's 22.

SPEAKER_05 9:03

22? Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 9:06

Okay. And that is completely made up. All right.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

If that trend starts, Mike, let's producer Mike, let's keep track of this. Okay. It went from 6'7 to 41 with this ridiculous hand motion. And if 22? 22 becomes a thing, we'll know it started in a ridgeline in Ohio. News that'll make you go.

SPEAKER_07 9:29

Wait, wait, wait. What? Josh, what in this wild world did you find today? Well, first, you're not very crafty, right? No.

SPEAKER_02 9:35

You have said so. No, it's awful. Not great at drawing pictures? Absolutely not. No, neither is this dude in California. Officers, officers pulled over a driver with a license plate that was hand-drawn. The homemade plate.

SPEAKER_08 9:50

Oh no.

SPEAKER_02 9:51

Air quotes looked like a California plate, including the lettering, the coloring, the registration sticker, the California heading, but it was obviously issued at the kitchen table.

SPEAKER_07 10:02

Tell me it was with crayon.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

I don't know. The driver said they had lost their original plate, and the police said, no, actually, you just broke the law.

SPEAKER_07 10:09

So Wow.

SPEAKER_02 10:11

Yeah, uh, they said the correct procedure for any state is to contact your BMV to get a replacement.

SPEAKER_07 10:17

And they'll get back to you in, I don't know, 60 to 90 years.

SPEAKER_02 10:21

Yeah, that's fine, but you still can't go out on the streets with a hand-drawn license plate.

SPEAKER_07 10:25

Pay for effort.

Decoding Gen Z: From 6-7 To 41

SPEAKER_02 10:26

The fine for driving without a proper plate can be almost$200. Which you could spend on a whole lot more. Crayons, markers, maybe some coloring lessons. So this could be a little more accurate, maybe you'd get away with it. And it has been a week. Let's think back on those surprising moments.

SPEAKER_05 10:48

Bingo!

SPEAKER_02 10:49

What wasn't on your bingo card this week? Oh boy. Call or text 800-609-1049. Producer Mike, your eyes lit up. What wasn't on your bingo card this week?

SPEAKER_00 11:29

So I was just sitting on the couch one day and I'm just chilling. All of a sudden I get a text from one of my friends. She asked me, Are you home? And I said, Yeah. And then the next text I get is just help. Wow. That's all. Oh no. I'm scared. Do I need to like call the police? Is there an intruder? Like, what is going on? The next text comes in. She said, There is a massive spider in my house, and my husband will not pick up the phone.

unknown 11:55

Nope.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

I need you to come and kill it right now.

SPEAKER_02 11:59

That is an emergency. It really is. Limitations to friendships, and that's it. Right there. I am no.

SPEAKER_08 12:05

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_00 12:07

So I did end up grabbing my fly swatter, running out the door, driving over, and becoming an honorary exterminator for the day. Congratulations.

SPEAKER_08 12:18

Is Jord Hero right here?

SPEAKER_02 12:21

I don't know. Because I'm thinking of that fleyswater. If it's a massive spider, you need a new fly swatter because that is all gunked up as the guts were still anymore. Too much. What wasn't on your bingo card? Call or text 800-609-1049. I did not have on my bingo card talking about spider guts today. Everybody's playing the game. You just don't know it most of the time.

SPEAKER_05 12:49

Bingo!

SPEAKER_02 12:49

What was not on your bingo card this week? Something you didn't expect. It could be good.

SPEAKER_07 12:55

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 12:56

Bad?

SPEAKER_07 12:57

Somewhere in between.

SPEAKER_02 12:59

Be spooky. Anyway, uh 800-609-1049 call or text. Jesse, what was not on your bingo card?

SPEAKER_03 13:06

Well, we went to the library yesterday and saw Abraham Lincoln. What? So he was just um an impersonator, and he was able to recite like so much of the Gettysburg Address and asked for volunteers, and we got a picture with him, and I actually love presidents and history, and so that was just a nice surprise. It's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 13:34

Jesse, thank you. It reminds me of that meme I've seen. It's a quote attributed to Abraham Lincoln. It says, Don't trust everything you read on the internet.

SPEAKER_07 13:42

Yeah. Yes. Abraham Lincoln.

SPEAKER_02 13:46

What was not on my bingo card this week, I mean, obviously today is the day you need coats, but I had to put a coat on my dog.

SPEAKER_07 13:52

Oh, little Ollie. Yeah, we got no shivering.

SPEAKER_02 13:55

We got him groomed. Yep. And just about the time we got him groomed, the temperature plummets.

SPEAKER_07 14:00

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:01

He was up several times last night shivering.

SPEAKER_07 14:03

You took his coat off, so you had to put one back on.

SPEAKER_02 14:06

We have a hoodie and we have a Christmas sweater that he's been wearing. Aww, he's so cute. Wasn't on my bingo card for October for sure. The locusts have come and gone. They've stripped away all the years of hard work and the harvests of plenty.

SPEAKER_09 14:24

Josh.

SPEAKER_02 14:25

Said another way, uh, the trick-or-treaters have come and gone, and all that's left in the bowl is the candy you don't like. We'll call that the candy of last resort. You're gonna eat it, but you're not gonna have a smile on your face. Now, I understand there are some candies that people just will not eat. I'm not talking about that. Like you'll throw them away before you eat them, but there are others that you'll eat it if it's the last thing there.

SPEAKER_07 14:49

If you want something sweet, it's there.

SPEAKER_02 14:51

You're just gonna have to do. For me, it's the three musketeers.

SPEAKER_07 14:56

Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 14:57

It's kind of a chocolate cloud. There's really a whole lot going on there.

SPEAKER_07 15:03

Well, it's because the chocolate outside is so deceiving. You think you're gonna get a good crunch or a caramel pole.

SPEAKER_02 15:09

It just kind of poofs. Oh, yeah. No, I agree. That's a that's a rough one. It's the bite of the three musketeers. It's all but you'll eat it. Yeah, oh sure. I'll eat it. I'll eat three of them. Yeah, that's fine.

SPEAKER_07 15:21

Yeah, see, I don't even think I'd eat that one.

SPEAKER_02 15:22

If that's what's uh left, you can share yours, call or text your candy of last resort, because it's happening to you in the next week. 800-609-1049. Hannah, what is your candy of last resort?

Hand-Drawn License Plate News

SPEAKER_07 15:33

So I will always I'll consume chocolate and hordes. So for the most part, if it's chocolate, I'm gonna eat it. The thing that gets left behind, or that I eat just because it's there, are like Skittles. Oh, you don't like Skittles? But I don't go for them. Like if they're I was just at my niece's house and she was force feeding me Skittles. And I was like, oh, this is worth the calories, it's fine, I guess.

SPEAKER_02 15:56

I typically will choose chocolate every time, but if there are those sour Skittles. No!

SPEAKER_06 16:01

Why do you want your face to look all squeezed up?

SPEAKER_02 16:04

Yeah, it's a puckery thing. If I'm at home, maybe my wife will get the hint. Go me up for a smooch. I'm eating candy.

SPEAKER_07 16:11

No, Skittles are definitely at the bottom of the totem pole for me, but but I'll eat them if they are there. If that's all that's left. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 16:19

It's your candy of last resort. What is yours? Call or text 800-609-1049. It's a sweet treat that you won't eat with a smile on your face. It's the candy of last resort.

SPEAKER_01 16:31

But you're still eating it.

SPEAKER_02 16:32

You're still eating it.

SPEAKER_01 16:34

Because there's some candy that you're not gonna eat and you're just gonna throw it in the trash.

SPEAKER_02 16:37

But others that you're like, well, it's there. Might as well. I want something. Yeah. So you can call or text 800-609-1049. What is your candy of last resort?

SPEAKER_00 16:47

Marvin from Potascala said that it's mounds and almond joy because he's not a fan of coconut.

SPEAKER_07 16:53

Both of those. You know what, Marvin? Just send them my way. I will take care of them for you.

SPEAKER_02 17:00

Will you share?

SPEAKER_07 17:02

We'll see how many he sends.

SPEAKER_02 17:03

Send a lot, Marvin. Send a lot. Uh, producer Mike, do you have a candy of last resort?

SPEAKER_00 17:08

I'm not a huge Tootsie roll guy. Really? Like just the plate ones? I don't know. There's just something about it. Maybe it's because my mom was always like, we're not keeping those whenever we got them from.

SPEAKER_02 17:18

Have you had the orange flavored ones?

SPEAKER_07 17:21

I do like the flavored ones. No, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_00 17:23

I love the vanilla one and the cherry one. That's what I'm talking about right now.

SPEAKER_07 17:26

You gotta go traditional chocolate. It's gotta be a little stale, so you chew for about four hours and you're satisfied that entire time.

SPEAKER_02 17:33

Get some built-in chewing gum there. Exactly. Interesting. Uh candy of last resort. Beth, what's yours?

SPEAKER_09 17:39

Definitely the dots. The little box of dots. Oh, I forgot about the kind of love those. Oh, those are nasty.

What Was Not On Your Bingo Card

SPEAKER_02 17:47

I'm with you, Beth. Well, hang on. Let me make sure we're talking about the right things. Describe them for me.

SPEAKER_09 17:52

They're in a little box and they're kind of um roundish oblong shape. Yeah. They're gummy, kind of gummy.

SPEAKER_02 18:00

Oh, I'm thinking of the wrong thing. Yeah, I'm off the bus too.

SPEAKER_07 18:03

They kind of look like treble pieces, that game board in the auto train colors. Yeah. They're like the original Swedish fish, and worse, because it's like wax slash like hard candy. Those are the ones.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

See, what I was what I thought you meant were like the snowballs. They were almost like uh chocolate chips with white crispies on them.

SPEAKER_07 18:24

Oh no, those are fine, but not crazy.

SPEAKER_02 18:26

I like to crunch. But anyway.

SPEAKER_07 18:27

But Beth, you're right. And that's like a like blast from the past. I haven't seen those in a minute because I think the world caught on that they're trash. Right.

SPEAKER_02 18:40

How old are you? I'm not telling. You can tell. Fill in the blank. How did you know you were getting old? Call or text 800-609-1049. It's happened to me over several days here.

SPEAKER_08 18:52

Oh boy.

SPEAKER_02 18:53

And visiting colleges with my senior son. Can I petition to do college again? Because when I'm on no no no no. When I'm on these campuses, I'm like, when I all I had to do was read and study.

SPEAKER_08 19:09

Are you doing it back in my day?

SPEAKER_02 19:11

No. I have too many responsibilities right now. It sounds dreamy to take a to take a class. Yeah. And that's all. Yeah. It just, it's amazing. Like, but can we do it with adults so I'm not dealing with teens? Okay. And can it be like super quiet? And then I had this thought. That's the little library at the assisted living facility, isn't it? I want the nursing home. Oh no. I want the nursing home. Give me my tapioca and meatloaf.

SPEAKER_07 19:44

That sounds delicious. Delivered to my room. That sounds so nice and cozy. And I'm pretty sure they keep the temperature a little higher in most places. That sounds nice and warm.

SPEAKER_02 19:57

How'd you know you were getting old? Call or text, 800-609-1049. I forget what verse it is where it talks about like gray hair being a crown of wisdom or something like that. Uh maybe in Daniel or something. In Proverbs, Daniel's. I am leaning into it today.

SPEAKER_00 20:15

How old are you?

SPEAKER_02 20:17

I'm not telling. And you can too. Fill in the blank. You know you're getting old when. How did you know you were getting old? Call or text 800-609-1049. Amy, how did you know you were getting old?

SPEAKER_04 20:29

So one of the things my church does circle launches, which are a small group. Yeah. And they had books set out on a table, and I went to pick up a book just to look at it. And one of my friends came over and said, You don't want that. Put that back down because they only take up to 35 year olds.

SPEAKER_07 21:00

Like, look, you don't have to say the number, like, but you basically just told me I don't even look 35. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 21:06

Here's the question: how many times do you have to do the scrolly wheel when you're selecting your age? That's the thing.

SPEAKER_07 21:13

Oh yeah, clear back. It's depressing when you have to do that. I wish they'd come up with a different method. Right.

SPEAKER_02 21:20

Well, they did. They just put books out and they look at you and you go, no.

SPEAKER_08 21:24

That's true.

SPEAKER_02 21:24

It's not for you.

SPEAKER_04 21:25

Right.

SPEAKER_02 21:27

Other people are texting in. Thanks, Amy, for your call. Uh, producer Mike, what do we got?

SPEAKER_00 21:32

Chelsea from Reynoldsburg said, I work in campus ministry, and now that I'm almost 30, which not that old. Right. But she said, I have to ask my students what all of this generation's slang needs.

SPEAKER_02 21:44

Every day. We talked about it already today. 6, 7, 41. 22, which isn't a thing, but we can make it a thing.

SPEAKER_07 21:54

I know.

SPEAKER_02 21:55

That would be a lot of fun.

Candy Of Last Resort Debate

SPEAKER_07 21:58

Fall may have gone too far, and I'm curious if you agree. The other day I was walking through Kroger, and sitting on the shelf were pigs in a blanket flavored potato chips.

SPEAKER_02 22:15

I don't know about the flavored potato chips.

SPEAKER_07 22:18

It's, I mean, it's just a little chaotic. And then I decided to dig in and dive into some more research. There's also stuffing flavored potato chips. Wow. So Was someone bored? Somebody would I'd have been like I'm just curious, would you try it?

SPEAKER_02 22:39

I I would. I don't know that I would like it, but I'm I'm here for uh potato chips. Like of course. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 22:47

But have we gone too far in theory?

SPEAKER_02 22:49

The pigs in a blanket is weird.

SPEAKER_07 22:51

I know. So Haley and I, Haley from the afternoon show, and I decided to try the pigs in a blanket, potato chips. She loved them. She thought they were great. She would have taken the whole bag home with her. I think they tasted like mustard-flavored cardboard. Mustard? Mustard. Which we were talking about that. With pigs in a blanket, I have put like a honey mustard or like a Dijon mustard in or on pigs in a blanket before. Have you not?

SPEAKER_02 23:19

No, I'm typically it's ketchup only.

SPEAKER_07 23:21

No, it's so good.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

Now I gotta go home and make them.

SPEAKER_07 23:24

But I want to know, would you try it? Pigs in a blanket flavored potato chips or stuffing flavored potato chips. I need to get my hands on them.

SPEAKER_02 23:33

I the stuffing flavored potato chips, I would try for the novelty.

SPEAKER_07 23:37

Of course. Or what if you could bring it to Thanksgiving as your side item?

SPEAKER_02 23:42

No, I like my family and I want them to like me.

SPEAKER_07 23:45

Call or text to share. Would you try them? 800-609-1049.

SPEAKER_02 23:52

I'll bet you're still waiting, waiting and wondering, hoping, losing hope all at once. I'm still waiting too. I'm waiting for that email that God's supposed to send me, like telling me everything.

SPEAKER_05 24:04

Oh.

SPEAKER_02 24:04

You know, I've asked, I've been praying for that for a long time. It's like, hey, just tell me what to do here. Tell me, like, in five years I'll be doing XYZ, and so this is how we're gonna get there. You know, very specific bullet points. 1000%. Because all I want to do is what he wants. And I don't feel like I do that nearly enough. Uh, but maybe you need the encouragement. I know I need the encouragement. I was reminded of this. I hope this helps you breathe a little bit better if you feel the same way. Like, God, like, where are you? What am I supposed to be doing? God is not trying to keep the wool over your eyes. He's not trying to be sneaky or super suspicious. We have a God whose greatest secret is actually no secret at all. And it's this verse If you seek me, you will find me when you seek me with all your heart. All we have to do is go looking for God, and he's like, Hi, right here!

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Been here the whole time.

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And he doesn't say that in a scolding way. He's not like tapping his foot going, I've been here the whole time. No, it's like it's reassuring. Like when you're lost at the store as a child and you didn't realize your mom or your dad was literally right beside you. Yeah. But you're looking around, it's like, all these knees look the same. I did this with with my dad at a store, and it put his hand on my shoulder, you know, and it's like I realize he's he's right here. It's been okay this whole time, and I didn't know it. He's right here. Do you want to know God's will for you? Just ask him. If you want to know what God is like, he seems far off and mysterious. He's not. He came to us. Read about Jesus. Jesus is God. When you see what Jesus is like, you see who God is. If you want to find God in whatever's going on in your life today, seek him. You will find him there. And listen, I'm not saying it's easy. I'm in the middle of this asking God, where are you in a situation? I'm gonna keep seeking him. And you keep seeking him today, too, because he is ready and excited to be found.

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