Kings of The Road
We are two friends who went on a road trip around the United States 20 years ago to serve churches. We kept a journal as we traveled and are reading through the journal and remembering our adventures. Listen and laugh with us as we go back in time and inspire others to go on an adventure.
Kings of The Road
44: Savannah: From Roadside Naps to Riverfront Walks
What makes a motorhome nap so irresistibly serene? Join us on a whimsical journey through the joys of napping on the open road, as we traverse the picturesque states of South Dakota, Iowa, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Georgia. We revel in the gentle rocking of the motorhome, the refreshing breeze from a fan, and the perfect tranquility of a shaded nap. Along the way, we share our personal sleep quirks and preferences, all while building anticipation for the next installment of Mrs. Wilk's boarding house saga, comparing the excitement to the build-up before Christmas.
Switching gears, we recount a memorable road trip to Skidaway, Georgia, where a youth-led church service brought us some hearty laughs with a sports-analogy-heavy sermon. We share hilarious stories from our first Sunday at a new church in Alabama, where a guest preacher and a last-minute organist illness led to unexpected challenges. Join us as we explore the cultural contrasts in church services and attire between the South and Southern California, topped off with a nostalgic tale of a golf cart misadventure during a youth event.
Our adventure continues with a lively recount of a day in Savannah, starting with a riverfront walk that included a comical episode of losing and finding one of the kids. We then head to Savannah's Christ Church for a fun youth event, complete with quirky encounters and a Mad Libs song that eventually won over some tough audience members. Finally, we delve into the historic sanctuary, the oldest in Georgia, and hint at an unforgettable meal at Mrs. Wilkes Boarding House. Wrapping up, we draw an analogy between physical and spiritual nourishment, humorously stressing the importance of consistent spiritual engagement to maintain spiritual health. Join us for a blend of humor, nostalgia, and thoughtful reflections in this engaging episode.
Thank you for coming along in the ride, plopping yourself down in the Lazy Days Motorhome, driving down the road, looking out at the beautiful views. We've seen South Dakota, we've seen Iowa, we have seen New I was going to say New Connecticut, which is not a state New Hampshire, connecticut all out the window, and we are currently seeing Georgia. One of the greatest joys in life is to be napping in the motorhome while someone else is driving. You just have this beautiful little rocking and we had this little fan that was there, so it had a little bit of cool breeze coming down on you. Boy, those are some good naps.
Speaker 2:Oh, take me back. I want one of those naps.
Speaker 1:That's a solid nap.
Speaker 2:That's a solid nap, that's a solid nap.
Speaker 1:I don't nap anymore. Um, if I nap, I don't sleep that well. So, oh happens, not really a thing that I do, but that's okay. Are you still a napper?
Speaker 2:I uh occasionally I don't like napping because I don't like wasting daylight on days off you are so so, such a good American.
Speaker 1:Well, I'm proud to be a hard work, ethic Well yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I think, there's some more like psychological damage that causes me to, but sometimes I'm like I I'm going for it. But you know what's a great nap, tell me, is an outside in the shade nap. It's almost as good as the going down the road in a motorhome nap.
Speaker 1:That's good. That's a good nap. That's a good nap. Yeah, and the like. Are you in a hammock in this nap?
Speaker 2:I've got like patio furniture, Okay. Or like a cushioned seat cushioned couch kind of thing.
Speaker 1:That's nice, but you need a little bit of breeze, right? You don't want static like heat. Yeah, or okay, depends it, depends, okay, okay, yeah, I, I personally am a constant um like moving air guy. So when I sleep I don't really I can't imagine sleeping in, just like stagnant hair oh yeah to me is like how do people do it?
Speaker 2:I don't know like. Sometimes I'll see like my kids will be sleeping or whatever, and it's like hot and stagnant if we're just I don't know where and somewhere, and then they're like under blankets on top of that. I'm like, oh, are you?
Speaker 1:are you dead? What's your default sleep? I met some people who, like their family, they all PJ up, they have sleep masks. I'm like, wow, oh, you guys are committed to sleeping. Oh, no, yeah, my big thing is moving air, and recently I've definitely added a white noise component to my sleep, and it's pretty glorious when that all happens. What about for you?
Speaker 2:You're painting vibes of like soon you've got the what is that? That machine? And like all sorts of gadgetry surrounding your bed and cough drops and tissues and humidifiers. And yeah, I'm just getting very like. Three pillows, the proper pillows that you travel with, and yeah, do you have a sleep number bed as well, with the like tilt up?
Speaker 1:sort of that. That would be a glorious thing. Then you just tilt yourself oh, I'm at a 34, 23, yeah no, I'm just uh you're about to sleep around that well, yeah, I've been.
Speaker 2:I've kind of become. I do like to sleep on my belly I'm a bit of a rotisserie hot dog these days okay, just like constantly rolling, but but I really struggle with sleeping on my back, which is problematic when you have a cold, because that's like the only way you could.
Speaker 1:Anyways, this is neither here nor there yeah, guys, we have some bad news for you and I know this is going to break most of your hearts.
Speaker 1:While you frame that right out of the gate. I did. I want you to think of this episode as like a character building episode. We left you on it. We left you on a cliffhanger last week and the cliffhanger was Mrs Will's boarding house, which is an incredible cliffhanger to be left on, mrs Gould's boarding house, which is an incredible cliffhanger to be left on.
Speaker 1:And you're probably all jumping in this episode thinking, okay, they're talking about sleep. I can't wait to get to the food part of the episode. Totally understandable, but there's one more day before then, so you're going to have to, just like you know how you watch a show and they leave you on a cliffhanger and you just can't wait for the next week or, in today's world, for the net of 15 seconds To go by. His little circle Spins in the corner and you're like, yes, oh, but the episode Doesn't answer the questions. The episode does some Character building over here and you're like, wait, wait, wait, wait. I need to know the resolution to that. But the storytellers intentionally Give you a space, so you have to wait another week. That's what's happening to you right now. Listener, feel in that moment you're not tracking.
Speaker 2:I think this is true. No, I'm tracking. I'm just feeling like you're telling them all to like get ready. We're intentionally going to disappoint you today, oh well this is a good day.
Speaker 1:It was a great day. Yeah, I said. I should just say those are good episodes. We're prolonging.
Speaker 2:Listen, here's what we're doing we're prolonging the future joy by the anticipation, the hope. By stretching out the anticipation. The best part about Christmas is the season leading up to it. We are giving you December today, Okay, as opposed to boom Christmas morning. All the presents are open and now we're done.
Speaker 1:Do you think children would agree that the best part of Christmas morning is the anticipation?
Speaker 2:Listen, I'm trying to recover from what you just said I brought us to a dark place. I realized that as I was saying it, I'm like I don't know if a lot of people are going to buy into this, but if I say it quick enough and move on, then they'll be like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, I get it. What a nice thing these guys are doing for us.
Speaker 1:It's like when you're kids, you say something and you're like, okay, hopefully they'll just believe that and go on to Just move on quickly. They no longer make Sinter's bars. That's why we're not having Sinter's bars today.
Speaker 2:Yeah, oh, they weren't selling well, so now you got to just eat 100 grand because we know that's the best 120 years of Sinter's bars, but now, nope, nope, nope.
Speaker 1:They stopped Just today.
Speaker 2:Just today. People's favor towards caramel, peanuts and nougat is really waned and therefore you know and your kids are like I don't think that's true.
Speaker 1:It's all junior mints. Yeah, we're still, we're still driving, we're not stopping, we're not stopping. Disneyland is closed. Oh, what was the? What was the um? Oh, the end of snl was the deep thoughts with jack candy. Oh, those were the best I love sometimes I just drive my kids to a burned out, abandoned building and I say, oh no, disneyland burned down, and they cry, they cry and cry, oh, oh, deep thoughts.
Speaker 2:Some of those were dark.
Speaker 1:Some of those were dark, but boy they were funny, they were great. Okay, all right, all right, not to disappoint you, but here we are.
Speaker 2:This is a full day, an exciting day, a fun day, hip-hop parade day.
Speaker 1:It's day 55.
Speaker 2:Sunday, november 21st 2004.
Speaker 1:Are you ready? I'm ready. Where do we church today? I'll tell you. I know that's what I'm saying. I was leaving you, don't get ahead of yourself. I was tossing you a softball. I feel like today may be a feisty day. I like softball.
Speaker 2:Anyhow, it rained last night and the Jeep got wet. Oh well, Okay.
Speaker 1:Yeah, oh well.
Speaker 2:We attended church at Skidaway, where we were parked outside there anyways, and the youth ushered nice, okay, you sunday, yeah, youth sunday. Other than them being the youth and us, everybody was 75 years old or older.
Speaker 2:Granted this is my estimates as a 21 year old, two year old or whatever, so they were probably all like in their 40s, but I was like, wow, that's so old, so old. Look at that little bit of gray hair. Yeah, they had a guest preacher from Atlanta and his sermon revolved completely around sports. It was super funny to me, not like he told jokes and people laughed, but like every analogy he used had to do with football or golfing at augusta or something like that.
Speaker 1:And y'all we are in georgia. We are in georgia. That's what you're thinking yeah so I was like you know, I have my alabama time and they just told me they said don't plan anything on saturdays in the fall for the church people won't come. It is it's alabama or auburn day. That's the day sundays we'll give to the church, but the rest of the time it's that saturday's football. Okay, so like those, those probably play. Well, he knows his audience he knows his audience.
Speaker 2:Yeah, from from atlanta. So, uh, I also note, note, noticed and noted here that I called him a preacher, which, in the South, is it always preachers or are there pastors? Yeah, there's pastors, but I think preacher's good, preacher's good.
Speaker 1:Preacher's good. Yeah, reverend Preacher's good. I want to just pause and tell this story, because I've never told this story before on this podcast.
Speaker 2:We don't have time, just keep it to yourself.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right, fine, we'll school before.
Speaker 1:We don't have time podcast. Just keep it to yourself. Okay, all right, this is well. This is so the very first you said guest preacher the very first sunday I'm at christian um lutheran church in alabama. We had a guest preacher and the major pastor who I was working with he had had back surgery that week. So my very first sunday he's not there. Okay, oh man, okay, so it's me and the guest preacher night before church organist gets sick. Now we have a different organist.
Speaker 1:I start my very first Sunday at this new church. I'm going to be there. I say Hi, I'm Pastor Scott. This guy who's going to preach to you, his name is Ken. The person in the back, that's Bobby. You may be questioning whether you're at the right church. You are. This be questioning whether you're at the right church. You are. This is your right church, although none of the people are familiar to you. Oh my gosh, brand new. And so the very so. He, we're sitting up front me and the desk creature, and he says I need some volunteers for the children's message. And I say I don't know anybody right, cause this is I say I know my wife of what?
Speaker 1:two months at that point, and the two people she's sitting with were currently sleeping at their house. So choose them Right? So those are the three. Oh, my, gosh Okay. So it gets up front Do, do, do, do, do and it goes. Tom Judy, emily, come on up Now. You know Emily and most of your listeners know Emily. I'm the upfront person in the relationship. She's not the upfront person in the relationship. So she comes on up and she's like what is going on First Sunday as a pastor's wife.
Speaker 2:First.
Speaker 1:Sunday in Birmingham. All of these things. Here we are. He goes. Okay, guys, you four are a family. Tom and Judy are an older couple. They're like our parents. You guys are in a car and you're driving along. Oh no, you get in a car accident and all four of you die. Oh Wow, Meanwhile he's cutting. He's cutting something. Here you go to the dates of St Peter and here he's doing you at the dates, and whether you get into heaven or not, here are your tickets. Okay, Tom, let me see your ticket. Oh, nope, not right, You're going to hell.
Speaker 2:He, just he shows up and sends Tom to hell.
Speaker 1:Judy let me see your ticket.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Not right. You're going to hell, Judy or Emily, my current wife Right of two months my first day of pastor life, oh, my gosh. You're going to hell too. All three of them are going to hell. I, because of his fancy cutting trick, have a cross that. Oh look, he knows Jesus, he's going to heaven. Okay, great children's message guys. Go and sit down and they're like this is 10 minutes into Emily being a pastor's wife she's already told to go to hell by the desk preacher and I um, I go home.
Speaker 1:My favorite part of the story is I go home and we're with tom and judy, met their house and I say look, guys, I I'm really sorry. I had no idea what was going to happen, but you're the only people who I know. And and judy, judy looks at me and she says I'm not mad about being sent to hell. She's like here's, here's what upsets me. She said we got into this car and then we went in car accident. She says my husband, he works in um like severe brain trauma injury. We do not leave our parking lot unless we have our seatbelts on. We would not have died in that car accident.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, that's what she. I love it. That's what she.
Speaker 1:We're alive, come on, come on, we're buckled. We're buckled.
Speaker 2:We may have some injuries, but we didn't die. Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:It was a great moment. I'm like this is yeah, this is 10 minutes in 10 minutes into Emily being a pastor's wife at the eight 30 service and a new church.
Speaker 2:What's going on?
Speaker 1:It was the like what a great way for her just to launch into public ministry.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm so intrigued. I want to hear the rest of the sermon, Cause I'm like where do you go from here?
Speaker 1:That was a children's message. That was the whole thing. That was the whole sermon for the kids Go to kids' church now.
Speaker 2:It was just like. Some of you are going to go to hell, some of you are going to go to heaven.
Speaker 1:Because I had the cross, I had Jesus. So if you don't know Jesus, you're going to hell.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh, I mean not wrong, Does it get more?
Speaker 1:Southern than that, though? I mean, does it get more like turn and burn Southern? I'm going to send people to hell, I guess. Straight to the point, I'll give you two guesses from which Southern state that preacher was from?
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I'm gonna say, guess one is georgia yeah, you're wrong, I know I knew you were gonna do that, but guess. Two is where I would preach. Like that comes from not very, not very tall state, maybe southern, maybe not southern, not very high, not a lot of elevation florida he's from florida oh yeah, as you said, not a lot of elevation. I was, oh no but I just desperate, sure? Sorry, it's just one of my, it's a classic I don't know where else I was gonna get it in yeah, that's funny.
Speaker 2:I never heard that, or I did, but I don't pay attention to you a lot, so it might have just been one of those in one ear, not the other, oh scott's telling a story again. Well, I I'm going to go poop.
Speaker 1:I'm going to go, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2:Okay, well, let's see here yeah.
Speaker 1:Y'all would have laughed.
Speaker 2:I haven't used y'all in there. The service on the whole was very traditional. We were the only ones there not wearing jackets and ties. Yeah that is the South.
Speaker 1:I would assume that is not how we go to church here in.
Speaker 2:Southern California. It's like flip-flops, t-shirts Irreverent. Maybe that's not okay. After the service, scott gave his talk to the youth, in which I have heard numerous times went great Kids loved it, let's eat. We all Hold on a second. Did we ever figure out if you still had that talk somewhere written down?
Speaker 1:oh, I definitely didn't have it written down. Do you remember it? I, I, yes, I remember enough of it. I could do some of it at some point. We should do it. Yeah, but the the part that you don't remember is remember we had t-shirts and we would hold up t-shirts and we would tell stories as the opening, so you and I would go back and forth and tell some funny stories and then I would close with a big boom closing. Do you remember that?
Speaker 2:It saddens me that I don't remember that very well. Yeah, I.
Speaker 1:Especially having heard it so many times. Yeah well, kevin, but you probably were like, yeah, probably I. The the only story that I remember telling regularly and this was part of the talk was the one where I was in the golf cart with steve and we were um backing down the hill and I looked to him and I said you want to see a fancy maneuver.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:So, listener, I was golfing with Steve and Steve Burns, our youth pastor, and we're in Palm Springs and we're going backwards on this hill and we're just going to back down to turn. And I looked over to Steve and I're just going to back down to turn. And I looked over to Steve and I said, steve, you want to see a fancy maneuver? And he's like, yeah, I do. So I put the thing in reverse. I'm going straight down this hill, golf carts have governors going forwards, but it turns out they don't have governors going backwards, which is interesting.
Speaker 2:But it kind of made sense right, because you don't think about that.
Speaker 1:So at the engine in reverse transmission, just like game on. And in my mind I'm thinking that turn you see people do on the movies where they spin 180, and they flip it and drive and they go forward. I'm thinking this is what we're going to do.
Speaker 2:Oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:Straight down this hill. I cranked the wheel Golf carts are not sports cars, they are not meant for that move and cranked the wheel Golf carts are not sports cars, they are not meant for that move and I turned the wheel.
Speaker 2:I will say one could argue that a golf cart is exactly a sports car.
Speaker 1:Well, okay, true, right, I like that. I turned and about halfway, you know we're going, I'm like oh, this is just not, we're going way fast. Oh boy, you know we're going.
Speaker 1:I'm like oh, this is just not. We're going way fast. Oh boy, we're sideways and boom and we just flip. We don't flip, but we tilt on our side and there's no chance. And I just look up and I just see Steve coming down on me because we're going to fall and we just tuck up and just kind of slide golf court, golf clubs, everywhere, steve on top of me. I looked at him, I'm like you good. And he's like, yeah, you good. I'm like I think so let's get up, get this golf cart up and get everything in. It was. It was such a bad like decision, but also led to again one of our things those little moments where what?
Speaker 2:about the dolphin trip.
Speaker 1:do I remember Nothing else except me looking over to him? Want to do a fancy maneuver? Yeah, I do. Yeah I do.
Speaker 2:That should be a red flag.
Speaker 1:You know what's funny? It should be a red flag.
Speaker 2:I do's funny, it's just I do remember that story because you tell it so well, and the part that I love the most about it is your golf club sound the tink, tink, tink, tink. I was looking forward to that. As you were telling this, I'm like I haven't heard you do. It's coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a good sound and it's also like that. Oh man, can you imagine if you saw that like on the course, 120 degrees outside? And we're just like, although we were not the first person to tilt a golf cart on horses?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they're like.
Speaker 1:this happens pretty much every day, but gosh, yeah, oh man, just that backing down the hill and here we go, jeez.
Speaker 2:That's what you get when already you guys are out there in calm springs in the summer and it's 120 degrees playing golf. Why? Because you can play those courses for cheap in the summer.
Speaker 1:Because nobody wants to play at 120.
Speaker 2:This is not this is not the clientele that's going to respect?
Speaker 1:no, exactly, it's not exactly. It's not your normal clientele. We're playing 60 holes a day, we're exhausted, we're hot, but man, oh my gosh, yeah, those were fun. Those were fun, oh man.
Speaker 2:All right. So let's see. Okay, we all piled into the church van and headed to downtown to eat at a pizza restaurant called the Mellow Mushroom.
Speaker 2:Anybody who's been to the South knows the Mellow Mushroom. Those are good. You must understand there are tons of art students in this city. Scad, savannah College of Art and Design, is here and responsible for the great shape Savannah is in today. I guess they all. I'm going to call it SCAD, scad, yeah, so I think we must have heard from somebody that they've pumped a lot of money in and kept buildings nice and whatnot.
Speaker 1:So yeah, I think also, like just the fact that students were coming probably renting out houses, right, like, yeah, that whole thing of having a successful stool, yeah, would be really helpful for a size of a town, that size, right, that really makes a difference yeah, and a similar thing has happened here in the City of Orange.
Speaker 2:Shout out or plug, but the City of Orange has, I think, one of the best sort of old town areas in certainly all of Southern California, maybe top three in California. It's great.
Speaker 1:And it's coming up to the street. Fair guys, Top three in California.
Speaker 2:It's great. It's great and it's coming up to the street. Fair guys, yeah, and one of the best parts about it is, well, not one of the best parts about it, but one of the reasons that it's so great now is because Chapman University is right there, yep, and they've really expanded the university and brought in a lot of students. They've pumped a lot of money.
Speaker 2:I have heard that some people who live in old town and it's like this whole, it's a national historic district and it's all these 100 plus year old craftsman homes. I know some residents aren't super thrilled because you know students live down there and parties and whatnot, but all the restaurants that are now there and the shops and everything. It is a super cool big traffic circle with a fountain in the middle of the park.
Speaker 1:If you have a Savannah, it's great.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah and you're listening in Southern California and you're like where should we go for dinner some weekend? Go to the great, go to orange.
Speaker 1:I worked at a church that was just right outside the corner there, and so you and I spent a lot of time in that area and it's it's so much fun, and the orange street fair was so much fun and we had good parking so we could just park at the church. So we can just walk in the air conditioning, use the bathroom, walk back out, get a year old some. Luca mods listen to the American wake. Is that the name of the band? Oh, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:It's like Irish rock band. It's great. Good times, good times, uh, good times. So anyway, as.
Speaker 1:I came home on Monday night, as drunk, as drunk can be Remember that song.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, oh yeah, it's a good one, a lot of fun. So after lunch we went down to the riverfront and walked through the shops with the kids. We got back to the van and realized we'd lost a kid.
Speaker 1:Oops, Now, this wouldn't be the last time Scott has has lost a kid.
Speaker 2:Maybe that's a story for another time yeah, we'll do that story.
Speaker 1:I've already done two. Oh was it before.
Speaker 2:It was before that. Yeah, yeah, that was a good one. Uh, don't worry, we found her and got back to yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, both kids made their way home, so All is well.
Speaker 2:Don't worry, that's the moral of the story. You leave your kids with Scott. They might get lost, but they'll get found again.
Speaker 1:They will Let your kids wander. It's the spirit of the world.
Speaker 2:That's right. Scott and I didn't have much time before we had to go back into Savannah to Christ Church to do their youth. We rolled up early for something to set up music and stuff. We finished that and went down from the fourth floor youth room to the first floor for a quote covered dish dinner, which is a very fancy way to say potluck.
Speaker 1:It's a very fancy way to say potluck. That was a very fancy way to say potluck. Right, it was such a cool church. It was all stacked up, remember, and like it was in that one of the squares and it was all like, yes, it was on the fourth floor and then there was like a social hall on the second floor. It was right off of one of those squares.
Speaker 2:Yes, it was a cool church. Yes, it was. So we got there a bit late, but there was still food to eat. We piled some food in and then we went back up to the youth room with the kids. We did our super creative Mad Libs song and of course, they loved it. That's another thing we need to see, if we can find the Mad Libs. So we made a song that was basically based on Mad Libs and they could all fill in the words and then we would sing the song. Yeah, that was fun, it was great. We did a few more songs and then we did the talk again, a double header. We were really funny tonight, maybe the funniest we have ever been. But man, some of the kids were rocks. Yeah, they just didn't get it. They didn't know, they didn't know what they were experiencing.
Speaker 2:The, the. What lay in front of them was one of the greatest things in the world. One girl in particular would not budge, but then Scott tripped over something and made some comment, and that was it for her. She got silly.
Speaker 1:My, my basic youth ministry philosophy in case you can't tell listener is if I'm having a good time and I'm being silly and people are laughing at me, then they're not laughing at each other. And that's what I think middle schoolers and high schoolers want.
Speaker 1:They don't want to have to be worried about, but I think everyone wants to be silly or have fun but they don't want to have to worry about it and it's like, hey, he's having fun, he's okay, I'm able to, now I can do it a little bit, yeah. So yeah, that's that won't be directed towards me. That's a basic like overall. Philosophy is just like let the room, let the room lighten up a little bit yeah, that's good.
Speaker 2:We had a lot of fun but we ran over time. I guess some kids oh boy had to had to bowl. We never actually got to talk to the kids or hang out with them afterwards because some of the adults came up and started talking to us bummer right adults. This one couple we talked to decided to take us into their sanctuary and show us the oldest church in georgia oh, we thought cool, that is cool.
Speaker 1:It is cool, right? Yeah, I didn't know that I'm glad you saw that.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize it was the oldest church in georgia. Hey, did you know that Savannah was designed by King?
Speaker 1:George George.
Speaker 2:III, I think, george. Yeah, is that why it's called?
Speaker 1:Georgia Probably, probably, but I'm guessing that that's true. Yeah, very slow, aren't we? They didn't call it George.
Speaker 2:These people were odd in that cultish, over-involved sort of way. Don't get me wrong. They were nice and we even got the church's folk group CD in which the lady sang for, but they were odd.
Speaker 1:Well, we've talked about this before. You have an ability to suck up all the like. Hey, you strange person who really enjoys playing Dungeons Dragons while dressed like a warlord and wearing that to church. You hang out with Andrew, yeah they seem to be attracted to my energy.
Speaker 2:For some reason they do Interesting. Like you're too polite to walk away. Oh no, the church was really magnificent and that's about all I can say. Enormous organ, beautiful chandeliers and other great church building things that I don't know correct names for. So trust me it was really breathtaking. Love it, that's good Love it. So that was a busy Sunday. Two talks, lots of kids, lots of food, lots of fun, lots of Savannah Again like.
Speaker 2:Tomorrow, next week. I mean yes, mean yes. Tomorrow in the story, but next week mrs wilkes boarding house street lights the most magnificent meal in the whole country.
Speaker 1:Oh, it is my entire life. It's one that I remember what could be so good. It's one that I remember, don't you? I mean, how many meals do you remember, like probably 15, 20.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't know where I could like describe details about it. This is for sure one.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, exactly so. People go and you remember that. And so one more little little little aside there's this great preaching illustration that talks about you know, this guy's calling to a radio show and says oh, I hear these sermons every Sunday. I don't remember the sermon, I don't remember what it said. By the next Sunday, why do I go and do this?
Speaker 1:And then a little while later, another person calls in and he says man, I eat all these meals every day and I don't remember most of them, but I keep eating them. Why do I keep doing this? I think I'd be a much different person if I've only had had half number of meals that I have, and I think that's a really good illustration for, like, there are things that just like out of that talk right, things got connected, things got brought together and you're not now going. Oh yeah, because of that, I think this way, I act this way, I do this thing Because of that regular behavior. I think that that all kind of makes those pathways there and so, yes, but this is the boarding house. That is one of the meals that I remember.
Speaker 2:So I'm hearing two things from this. That illustration, the person who's saying if I had just had half the meals, you probably would be in better shape, thinner, feeling good. So I guess the parallel there is don't go to church every Sunday, right, just skip, like yeah, just half the time. That could be one takeaway for me, yeah, and correct me if I'm wrong. And then the other thing is um, if you well, maybe this is related if you, if you just go to church and you get in the habit of eating the meal and you consume and consume and consume, then pretty soon you'll just be like fat.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so you actually went the wrong direction with that illustration. So yeah, I know Surprising, but think of it more like starvation versus healthy, as opposed to overeating. I didn't consider that. No, you really didn't, but that's because you're a wee little man. You probably can survive on just one or two meals a week.
Speaker 2:Just a left Twix and a pomegranate.
Speaker 1:Pomegranatesate. I like that choice. Everybody next week. This is what's boarding house bye. Thank you.