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Mom Made Me Do It!
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We discuss a wild Would You Rather, and trace how small habits from our moms built real courage. We talk baby plans, snack heists, pet chaos, and end with an encouragement about boldness.
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Cold Open And Would You Rather
SPEAKER_03Here's what to expect on this week's episode of the River Morning Show weekly podcast.
SPEAKER_04Would you rather always have a theme song that plays whenever you enter a room or have a laugh track that follows you around?
SPEAKER_02Who are these people? Mo.
SPEAKER_04My friends.
SPEAKER_02See, it works! No, it's it's it's your face and your desire to want this so badly that keeps making me laugh. You're laughing at my face. I cannot. I am done.
SPEAKER_06Thanks for listening in on this podcast. You can find more when you click on demand at riveradio.com.
Silly Debates And Grilled Cheese Logic
SPEAKER_06I feel like, Hannah, these two arguments are very similar and you're wrong on both.
SPEAKER_03Naturally, okay.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah, because how it goes. If you cut your grilled cheese diagonally, you get more sandwiches.
SPEAKER_03No, that is false. That's ridiculous.
SPEAKER_06If you put the toilet paper roll over top, it cleans better.
SPEAKER_03No, that's also false and super ridiculous. No, no matter which way you cut the grilled cheese.
SPEAKER_06You almost said cut the cheese, didn't you? And we've come full circle.
Moms’ Rules That Shaped Us
SPEAKER_06Hannah and her husband Chris are having a baby in August. A little boy. And so you've already mapped out a few things you know the child is going to do, which got me thinking of like, what is it that your mom made you do? And you're now, now you're so glad about it. You can call or text 800-609-1049.
SPEAKER_03I know some friends have already joined in. Uh Vicky says that her mom made her learn farm chores. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Which are artwork, sustenance for your family.
SPEAKER_03No, like muckin' out stalls. I can't imagine.
SPEAKER_06Don't ever say that muckin' out.
SPEAKER_03Don't ever muckin' stalls. I know my mom had to do that, but she did not pass that along. Uh Dawn said to cook, which I think is super handy. Yes, of course. And then uh Kathy said to go to church every Sunday. Yes, of course.
SPEAKER_06It is beautiful. It's okay to build a habit that is church because how else can you get in that community? Then you realize, well, I need this and I want this. I love it. As opposed to just being forced to do it. And I'll say this not everything in the moment so far that a mom is gonna make her child do is like super fun at that time.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_06For example, I am so thankful that my mom uh made me have the hard conversations. You know me, I am non-confrontational.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, at all. You don't
Parenting Plans For Hannah’s Baby
SPEAKER_03like it at all.
SPEAKER_06At all, at all. And that has been my whole life. But there was a time she made me tell the truth after I embellished a story about how our basketball coach was yelling at us. Oh no, uh-huh. Uh she made me talk to my brother after he ruined a shirt I liked, and I was just gonna be like, eh, it doesn't matter. She's like, no, go talk to him. Yes, it's important. She encouraged other tough talks I needed to have as a college kid and a young adult, and um, she helped me know confrontation would not kill me. Even though I felt like I was gonna die.
SPEAKER_03And they can lead to healthier relationships, right?
SPEAKER_06It was necessary, yeah. So I very much appreciate she was very gently but strongly led me down those roads, even though I still am kind of kicking and screaming about it. But as a grown man, I get the band-aid. And I'm thankful she did. How about you? What's something mom made you do? And now you're so thankful she did. Call or text 800-609-1049. In case you somehow have missed the news over the last week, Hannah and her husband Chris are having a baby.
SPEAKER_03A baby boy.
SPEAKER_06Baby boy coming in August. And so, Hannah, I want to know what are you gonna do about it? Meaning, what are the things that you're gonna have your son do? Like, what are the things you're gonna make sure they are involved in? Yeah, you know, this is this is not the you know dictatorial parent thing. You need these experiences and this is gonna be fun for you, so we're gonna do these things.
SPEAKER_03Well, yeah, there's definitely things we want him to be involved in. Like, you know, I played soccer and volleyball. I would love for him to try those things. My husband ran track and cross country. I think he loved for him to be involved in
Community Texts And Life Skills
SPEAKER_03that. Neither one of us are musically inclined, but uh, we do think it's good for kiddo to try an instrument.
SPEAKER_06Yep, that was one of the things we did. Every child had to play an instrument at least for a little while.
SPEAKER_03I'm thinking like piano lessons, because I know you can start that pretty early, something like that. Um, I grew up doing a wana, so I'd really love like a VBS is great too, but I loved I wana growing up. So that's something we wanted to get involved in young. And then I know the one that him and I have talked about off and on, and we probably need to circle back, but is a second language.
SPEAKER_07Oh wow.
SPEAKER_03I think that that's just so needed and like can really help the brain grow and be able to think in different ways.
SPEAKER_06So plus, then you know depending on the language, you'll know if they're talking about you.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I can't somebody speaking. I mean, Chris and I won't know.
SPEAKER_02We don't speak a second language.
SPEAKER_03If anything, this kid will be able to speak behind our back in a second language,
Laugh Track Vs Theme Song Showdown
SPEAKER_03but we do just love how much it pushes the mind to learn a second language. So those are all those are some things we're we're thinking about, but we gotta see how it goes.
SPEAKER_06Those are some really good things. Like, I I will say this it takes a village, so please share what your mom made you do, and now you're so glad she did. It could even be the tough stuff. Call or share, maybe give uh Hannah and Chris and anyone else with a child a really good idea. 800-609-1049. You could say it's your mom's fault, but you also could give her credit with something she made you do that now you're so glad. You can share it when you call or text, 800-609-1049. Hannah and her hobby are having a baby, and you're outlining a few things they will do.
SPEAKER_03Things that we we know we want to get started early with our kiddo. Um, I think uh piano lessons, I know a lot of kiddos start that at some point, but hopefully the earlier the better.
SPEAKER_06My wife was playing piano for church at the age of four.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, but and both of us just are not musically talented and wish that we were. So we figured we'd pass it on to the kiddo.
SPEAKER_06So we'll check with them in like 20 years. Yeah. Are you glad mom made you?
SPEAKER_03Josh, what about you?
SPEAKER_06Uh I was glad, uh, air quotes glad, but I know it's necessary. Mom made me have the tough conversations. Very like, I will go with the flow to avoid a confrontation. Yeah. And a lot of those flows don't need gone with. Yeah. So she helped me kind of stand up for myself. Uh, we've got folks texting in at 800-609-1049.
SPEAKER_04Julie said my mom made me pick an elderly person to help out every summer with their chores. Oh my word.
SPEAKER_05It's adorable. It's so sweet.
SPEAKER_04Yeah, it's great. She said it taught me humility and respect, and it was just a beautiful act of kindness. Yeah, it is. That's fantastic. Sandy in Zanesville said learning sign language. She said her mom was deaf, so it really helped her in adult years, communicating with people who, you know, had hearing impairment.
SPEAKER_03Oh, that's such a blessing in a community that's so tight-knit and beautiful. So that's so cool.
SPEAKER_06And that honestly, that it's not a foreign language, but it's another language. You know, and you had talked about making sure your son learns a foreign language.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I think that that can fit right up that alley. And she's right. Like I know she said that you can learn that starting super young as like an infant. So absolutely love that idea, friend.
SPEAKER_06The only way I know what more is is because I had a little cousin who learned that when he was done.
SPEAKER_03My nieces and nephews learned that and all done, and all yeah, it's so cute.
SPEAKER_06Uh thanks for thanks for calling. What is that thing your mom had you learn? And now you're so glad you did.
SPEAKER_01It was my dad, actually. Um, he was a mechanic. So, like, we got to learn how to change tires, how to uh check your oil, um, like all kinds of car maintenance. And perfect. That was like so helpful, especially today. Like my kids got taught all of that kind of stuff, and that was really helpful. And he was always like, oil changes we could do by ourselves and flip jobs, and you know, like it's all that kind of stuff, but that's something that kids don't learn today. I know it's like vehicle maintenance or you know, anything like that.
SPEAKER_06Well, the other thing too is you are saving cash.
SPEAKER_01I was thinking.
SPEAKER_00Would you rather?
SPEAKER_04Would you rather what is it today? Would you rather have theme music that plays every time that you enter a room or have a laugh track that follows you around?
SPEAKER_03Oh. These are this is awful.
SPEAKER_06I kind of like both. No, they're so cringy. No, like, so every time you enter a room, you like set the aura, or every time you make a joke, but a laugh track. The laugh track helps other people laugh. That's why they have them in shows. Clarifying question.
SPEAKER_03Would the rest of the world also have these things, or is this like just you?
SPEAKER_06They would hear it, yeah.
SPEAKER_03No, but I mean like would they have a laugh track?
Living The Dream And Pet Chaos
SPEAKER_03It's just you. Oh you're the only one. No, that's so weird. I don't know. Okay, so would you rather have theme music when you walk into a room or have a laugh track go with you everywhere you go?
SPEAKER_06You have to pick one.
SPEAKER_03And he's first. I guess theme music?
unknownOkay.
SPEAKER_03Because a laugh track just seems like nobody around you naturally laughs at you, so you have to force it.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, but I with the theme music, I just have you like sacheting into the room every time.
SPEAKER_03What happened to that thing? What song would you pick? Oh goodness. Well, something like sweet or fun. Um, okay, hold on. Maybe um maybe uh this one. Oh you know? Are you sure? You would want this? I don't. I mean, on the spot, like people would know, hey, come hang out, like I'll be your friend.
SPEAKER_06I don't know if this leaves like enough impact.
SPEAKER_03Like enough impact? What do you think?
SPEAKER_06Wouldn't you want like old school skillet, maybe?
SPEAKER_02Like every time you walk in the room, it's like, I have arrived!
SPEAKER_03No, that's what I don't want.
SPEAKER_06You don't want this?
SPEAKER_03I don't really want the attention. I just want people to know they can come hang out with me.
SPEAKER_06You don't want that, you want this instead.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's gentle. But what I'm what I'm getting from this, Josh, is not your answer. No, because So where do you sit with this? Would you rather have a theme song that comes into a room with you or have a laugh track wherever you go?
SPEAKER_061000% the laugh track. Yes, I would, because I've always been a bit of a goofball and I've always enjoyed making people laugh. And the laugh track helps people laugh. No.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, it's they look at him and go, he's a tryhard.
SPEAKER_06No, I don't think it's that. And also, I love kids. Maybe we could do like a baby laugh. Maybe we could.
SPEAKER_03No, that would be concerning. No. Like every time I make a I'd be looking around going, where is this child? Where is he?
SPEAKER_06It was a weird laugh. How about like kids laughing? Like you have nieces and nephews, you like kids laughing. Everywhere I go.
SPEAKER_03Like they're just trying to appease you.
SPEAKER_06Okay, well, that was that was fine, Hannah. I mean, I don't feel appreciated here. I'm just gonna take my ball and go home.
SPEAKER_05See? It works! You're laughing, aren't you?
SPEAKER_03I'd walk away and be like, that guy can't get anyone to laugh at him. He has to bring his own laugh track.
SPEAKER_06Well, you don't have a laugh track, I've got a laugh track. See?
SPEAKER_03This is going to come down to you because we are at a complete stalemate here. Would you rather? See, this is so nice and welcoming. Isn't it?
Listener Stories Of Hard Days
SPEAKER_03Have a theme song when you walk into every room or have a laugh track wherever you go.
SPEAKER_06You know, I think our two can actually fit together, Hannah.
SPEAKER_03I don't know. That was a lot. Call or text 800-609-1049.
SPEAKER_06Producer Mike has outdone himself today.
SPEAKER_00Would you rather?
SPEAKER_04Would you rather always have a theme song that plays whenever you enter a room or have a laugh track that follows you around?
SPEAKER_03Look, both are bad.
SPEAKER_04The laugh track does it, man.
SPEAKER_03No, you are so strange that you want that. Okay. Both just make me uncomfortable because it's like, look at me, but I know I have to pick. You have to pick. I know. So I I said I'd go with a theme song. As long, yeah, it's like this one would be great because then people would know when I'm walking in a room, like, hey, come be my pal. I'll be your friend.
SPEAKER_06That's fine, but the other thing that friends do is make you laugh. Right?
SPEAKER_03Yes. However, if you have this laugh track going, it makes it look like you can't get people to laugh. And so you're you need the support of a laugh track.
SPEAKER_06Are you saying sitcoms across time have not been funny? Because they've all they've all got a laugh track, Hannah.
SPEAKER_03But
Choosing Joy In The Mess
SPEAKER_03that's not the real world, Josh. Yes, it is. I watched it.
SPEAKER_06It was real in my living room, and I felt more real that day than I ever had before.
SPEAKER_03If it's not normal to have a laugh track, which we decided when we first started talking about this, that it wasn't like everyone would get a laugh track or everyone would get a thing. It's just you. It's just you. And you're sitting in a meeting and you crack a joke and nobody starts laughing, but you press this button and all of a sudden a laugh track goes. Everyone's laugh. It's weird.
SPEAKER_05Listen, if you try hard, everyone's laughing.
SPEAKER_02Who are these people? No.
SPEAKER_05My friends.
SPEAKER_02See, it works! No, it's it's it's your face and your desire to want this so badly that keeps making me laugh. Are you laughing at my face? I cannot.
SPEAKER_06Remember, you're my friend.
SPEAKER_02You are though. Oh nice! All right, so good reminder.
SPEAKER_06Uh, we have the text lines open. That is a thing. Um call the text 800-609-1049. Uh, producer Mike, who's who's saying what on this would you rather?
SPEAKER_04Bryce from Worcester said, with the laugh track and my type of sarcasm/slash humor, at least now people will get when I'm joking.
SPEAKER_03Oh, I I could see that being useful. Yeah. That's a decent argument. If you're a really sarcastic person and I'm not panicked over, like, did he mean it or was it just funny? That would be helpful. But Josh, you're not a sarcastic person.
SPEAKER_06Uh-huh. What's that mean?
SPEAKER_02Not stuck yet.
SPEAKER_04Okay, what else? Well, Dean. One vote for me. Dean said that he'd like a theme song and he went with Awake and Alive by Skillet.
SPEAKER_02Oh.
SPEAKER_04Okay.
SPEAKER_02Here's my old school skillet guy.
SPEAKER_06Here we go. Absolutely. Can you imagine? Do we get pyrotechnics when he walks into this the room each time?
SPEAKER_03What if like your kid is napping and you walk in with this?
SPEAKER_06Hey, it didn't say you couldn't have the volume way down.
SPEAKER_03Now we're adding a bunch of asterisk, but you know what? That's
Where Boldness Truly Comes From
SPEAKER_03it's fine.
SPEAKER_06That was a funny joke, Hannah.
SPEAKER_03Good job. It's uh regardless, that was actually for Team Hannah, so I'm okay.
SPEAKER_06So it's one, it's one to one. Uh this is Would You Rather have a theme song every time you walked in a room or have a laugh track with you every time you needed it.
SPEAKER_04So Phil from Columbus is also on Team Hannah with the theme song. Come on. He said his theme song would be To Hell with the Devil.
SPEAKER_06If you wonder, did we just swear? No, it's the title of a song from the 80s from a Christian from a Christian hairband, and they are telling the devil to go home.
SPEAKER_07Basically.
SPEAKER_06What they're doing. Okay. I could get behind this, but that's two votes for Hannah, one vote for me, and I don't like it anymore.
SPEAKER_04Well, don't worry, because Courtney from Mount Victory is on your side. She said, I'm going to go with a laugh track on this. Yeah. Because as long as you can manage to not crack a joke during a funeral, you're good.
SPEAKER_03No! Courtney. That's such a good point. Like, what if, what if, like the worst case scenario, or like I remember at school you lean over and make a joke to somebody, and the teacher's watching, and you can stay all hush-hush, but then there's a laugh track.
SPEAKER_06Dearly beloved, we are gathered here today.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Oh
How To Listen Live And Farewell
SPEAKER_03no.
SPEAKER_02Both are rough. Both are rough.
SPEAKER_06I suppose if we had to do only one, I think this is the best fitting of everything we've heard.
SPEAKER_07Thank you.
SPEAKER_06Because you will make everyone feel as though they have a friend every time you walk in the room.
SPEAKER_03Just by saying that, I feel like you're you're my friend, Josh. Okay. Well. It was a good joke. It was a joke, yeah. This is a serious question, and your advice is genuinely needed. Okay. Do you hide your snacks? Do you have to hide your snacks? I love my husband so much.
SPEAKER_06I was gonna say, you don't have teenage boys. I don't. Like I do. So we hide our snacks from them.
SPEAKER_03I believe it. My husband does a ridiculous amount of things for our little family. He's finishing the basement on his own. He just insert all these closet organizers and all the rooms. Nice job. Anything with the yard, he does it. He cleans, he shares in cooking, dinner responsibilities, and so much more. However, this man keeps eating my snacks. And not just any snacks. If it were any ordinary day, I probably wouldn't be talking about this. But he eats the last of my pregnancy craving treats. Oh no!
SPEAKER_06Listen, listen, you're only you're only allowed to have I've been down this road four times, man. Listen to me and any other soon-to-be dad. You only can have like the the pains. You can't have the craving.
SPEAKER_03He can have some, but don't take the last of it, you know? Like, don't take I'll get there. The bagels. He'll eat the last one. He ate your bagels? Yes. The honey nut cereals.
SPEAKER_06He ate your cereal.
SPEAKER_03The vitamin water that I have with me all the time because for some reason normal water doesn't taste good, so I have to drink vitamin water.
SPEAKER_06He drank your vitamin water?
SPEAKER_03He drank the last one. The final bottle. The Panera bread that a river friend dropped off. He ate your dropped off bread! I had one slice! He had four. My snacks are under attack. And I don't know how I feel about it, but I just need to breathe. Cool, keep it cool, keep it cool. Because he does so much. He's lucky he does so much.
SPEAKER_06And it's one of those phrases that can mean good things or bad things. It it just it depends on how you say it. Just live in the dream.
SPEAKER_03Oh yeah, because there's just live in the dream.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, and then it's just like just live in the well, Hannah, you said it a certain way.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, just just live in live in the dream. So what's going on, friends? I am so tired this morning because as you probably know, not every night when you go to bed goes as planned.
SPEAKER_06Right, yeah. Your mind can keep on a spinning and all these different things.
SPEAKER_03Definitely if you have family or if you have pets. So I go to lay down last night and I'm exhausted. It had been a long day. And you know, my cat named Fish, he is a cuddle bug. He loves attention. Definitely at night he wants to sleep on top of you. Oh well, he's not he's not laying still. He's just pouncing and screaming and losing his mind. He's rubbing up against me at bedtime. You're trying to sleep. Yeah. And usually he just he'll he'll do a few, like he likes to make biscuits, you know that thing. He loves making biscuits.
SPEAKER_06He's kneading with his uh paws, yeah.
SPEAKER_03But he was freaking out, and I was like, buddy, I don't know how to help you. Like, what do you need? But we just we left it at that. He just was going chaos mode. Then Bear is my dog, and halfway through the night, he starts gagging, like making these throw-up noises, but no throw up. And this has happened before. It's almost just like a reflux thing.
SPEAKER_06He was doing one of those, yeah.
SPEAKER_03That don't remind me of it. Is that good? Okay, that was too good. He's gagging in the middle of the night, so the cat's losing his mind, the dog's trying not to vomit. Something out of nowhere in the middle of the night comes crashing down somewhere in our house. Both my husband and I sit up and try to figure out what it was, and we're looking at the ring doorbells and all the cameras, trying to be like, are we good? and couldn't find anything wrong.
SPEAKER_06Uh-huh. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03So just living the dream. And then I wake up this morning and I'm like trying to see in the dark because you know, Chris is still sleeping, and I see this mysterious dark shadow on the floor.
SPEAKER_07Oh no.
SPEAKER_03And I turn on my phone flashlight. And Bear wasn't just gagging. Oh there was a mushy pile of dog vomit. He's like, okay, okay, well, that one, I would have to get the like handheld the carpet cleaner. Right. So, uh oh, Chris, Husby, that one's on you when you wake up.
SPEAKER_02That one's you. You're the worst slash I get.
SPEAKER_03I would have had to wake him up.
SPEAKER_06Yeah, I understand.
SPEAKER_03So then I go out to our kitchen and fish the cat's food. Is in the pantry and he has an automatic feeder that goes off at 9 p.m. every night. Well, the pantry door was closed. All of this is happening in a 12-hour time span. So, fish, the reason he was losing his mind, he was going bonkers, was because he couldn't get to his food. Poor buddy. But the biggest issue is we still have no idea what crashed in the house. So I'm gonna go home today and have to walk every corner.
SPEAKER_07Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_03As long as I don't find a gremlin in one of them, I guess we're good. All right. Just living the dream.
SPEAKER_06I know Hannah's not alone. You can share how you're living the dream too, if you want. And it's not a competition, so maybe you're Come on in.
SPEAKER_03The lot is fine. Maybe your dream living is good.
SPEAKER_06800 609-1049. We're living the dream. Actually, well, Hannah's living the dream, and it's a sarcastic dream she's living.
SPEAKER_03I know. Last night it was just like a pure chaos tornado of an evening. Because we try to go to bed, and my catfish is losing his mind. Usually he's a cuddle cuddle bug. He was jumping off the walls, he was screaming at us. The dog, his name's Bear, he was gagging all through the night. Come to find out in the morning there's vomit all over the floor.
SPEAKER_07Not good.
SPEAKER_03And sometime in the middle of all that, something comes crashing down in our house, and we still have no idea what it is.
SPEAKER_06You are living the dream of home and pet ownership.
SPEAKER_03I have stuttered through so much this morning because my eye is twitching and I'm exhausted.
SPEAKER_06Well, that explains that. I wasn't gonna ask, but anyway.
SPEAKER_04Uh producer Mike, who's texting in? Chris in Worcester said that his son's car was told in an accident just after Christmas. He was okay. Okay, well, that's good. But then, four days later, a big branch fell out of a tree and landed on his wife's car.
SPEAKER_03Oh my goodness. That's two cars. Oh, I'm so sorry.
SPEAKER_04And then the day before his wife's car went to the body shop, the alternator died. Dude! And they're still waiting to get it back.
SPEAKER_03Good grief. Okay, you are living the dream, friend. I'm so sorry. Josh, I have to I have to imagine. Are you living the dream? I have dreams. You have four kids, a dog. Like, are you living the dream?
SPEAKER_06If you are living the dream, you can share it. Um, 800-609-1049. But yes, like it. Picture with me, if you will. It's almost 9 a.m. Do you know where your kids are? Uh because I don't.
SPEAKER_07What?
SPEAKER_06Uh I don't have pet vomit everywhere. I have kids all over creation. This is living the dream of parenting four kids. One moved out and has two jobs and is never around anymore, and we have to spend money to see her at her salon or restaurant. Oh, yeah. One is either running or working at the ski resort or at Walmart or at Orchestra or doing homework. Another is either running or working at the pizza shop or listening to vinyls or playing Fortnite or doing homework. The third boy is either running or practicing soccer or doing homework or playing Brawl Stars. I don't even know what that is. I don't even it's on his phone. It's a phone game. And on any given night, I don't know who's doing what when. I expected this when they all moved out. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not when they're still siphoning off of me at my house.
SPEAKER_03Siphoning. Yeah, that's that's a good word. That's a good way to I have a good word picture in my head. The good news is whether you are quote unquote living the dream today or not, and we say that so sarcastically, that you are in it with a community and a family. We are in it together, and we're gonna keep fighting for joy and seeing the silver linings. Keep living that dream, friend!
SPEAKER_06Hannah, where does boldness come from? Oh, the Lord. Oh, yeah, okay. You went right for the Jesus Jude. That's perfect. It might be for you a personality type. Maybe you think boldness comes from confidence fed by the encouragement of others. Sure. And that's a true thing. Maybe it is an irrational self-belief. I've been around those people.
SPEAKER_03That does exist.
SPEAKER_06Like uh in God's economy, Hannah, so to speak, none of that is the source of boldness. But I'm also not talking about I believe in God, so I'm bold. Sweet! Okay. You know, it's not like junior asperity.
SPEAKER_03God, yeah. I'm bigger. Fear's big or God's bigger way. God's bigger than the boogeyman. Is that what you're trying to do? That's the one.
SPEAKER_06So what I am talking about, though, what I am talking about. I put it in this journal I'm keeping for my kids. I call it Thoughts, prayers, and observations. This is entry number 17. The world loves a person with boldness. But get this the best boldness doesn't come from you, it comes because of what Jesus has done. By ourselves, we can't come to God. But because he died for you and me, we can do what the writer of the book of Hebrews in the Bible says. It's in chapter 4, verse 16. So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. These are just some thoughts, prayers, and observations.
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