The Gospel In The Game Sports Podcast
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Hosts Dan Dromarsky and Dave Dawson
The Gospel In The Game Sports Podcast
Rejection
How do you handle rejection—do you take your ball and go home, or stick it out? This week on Gospel in the Game, we explore how childhood reactions to frustration can shape our adult lives. We unpack the subtle yet powerful impact of daily routines and personal habits on our ability to cope with setbacks. From the dreaded Monday blues to humorous childhood memories and even titanium robots, our anecdotes will have you nodding in agreement and laughing out loud.
Ever felt the sting of rejection in the dating world? We dissect the psychological toll it takes, the temptation to mold ourselves to fit someone else's expectations, and the challenge of maintaining our self-worth. Insights from sports and faith help us understand the fine line between self-improvement and self-defeat. We also dive into the anxiety that often accompanies rejections and how the quest for control can make it worse.
Finally, we spotlight the virtues of humility, consistency, and persistence through the contrasting career paths of a CFL quarterback and a veteran NHL player. We discuss the need to cast our anxieties on Christ and the transformative power of a strong relationship with God. Drawing inspiration from biblical stories, we emphasize the importance of listening for divine guidance and the transformative power of prayer. As we gear up for our milestone episode, we encourage you to spread positivity and share these lessons with others who might benefit. Stay the course, and let's navigate rejection together.
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Speaker 2:I'm taking my ball and I'm going home uh, yeah, I've definitely done that before, for sure like recently or like as a child I think you probably metaphorically in a lot of senses, probably have done that recently.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the whole idea of like that's it, tossing up your arms, that's it, I'm done, I'm finished. I want nothing more of this.
Speaker 2:I'm done listening to political talk. I have nothing. I'm done watching commercials.
Speaker 1:I think maybe that's the grown up version of it. I'm like you know what, change the channel or I'm done having this conversation. I'm done with dating.
Speaker 2:Throw my arms up, forget it. I'm just going to focus on me, but have a deep desire down inside. Today I'm done. Dating is the equivalent of taking my ball and going yeah, literally many. There are many of us in society today for sure, okay, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1:Well, the premise of just being done, and sometimes I guess we're done because of something that's happening, but sometimes things don't go our way.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that has their. You know, taking your ball and going home. Metaphorically, is that spark of saying it's a way of unleashing the frustration or just showing your emotion from either it could be a rejection of something, maybe a job, or it might be a you know a sport team or dating specifically. But you just had enough of the constant pattern and saying, okay, forget this, I'm sick of it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and I think that it almost becomes ingrained into a week. For a lot of people was like the dreaded monday or the thank goodness it's friday and all, because they they dread the build-up of something. But yeah, you know, it goes back to the school days, the, the park, the playground, so to speak getting getting wedgied in the park.
Speaker 2:Is that what you're saying? Um, never happened, never. That's true. You're a fairly large man. No, but you know what?
Speaker 1:though I wasn't growing up. Okay, I wasn't, I was. Yeah, I'd probably say I was one of the taller kids.
Speaker 2:Sure, but yeah, so you're taller. You're tall enough to give other people wedgies then.
Speaker 1:Maybe if the angle was right. Oh boy, oh, boy, oh boy.
Speaker 2:No binoculars in this episode today.
Speaker 1:No, none whatsoever, you are certainly done.
Speaker 2:The topic of today is rejection. When the answer is no, the answer right now is hi, I'm Dave. That's Dan Gospel in the Game, episode number nine. Episode eight was care. Seven pride was a good one.
Speaker 1:I really enjoyed that, but amazing that you just like boom, boom, boom. You know what the episodes are about, you know what?
Speaker 2:Here's the funny thing. Number one I slept before the show today, which is great. Well, not before the show, but I actually slept coming into recording. So my mind is somewhat clear and I have coffee, oh, which I hadn't had in the last few episodes. So it makes a difference for my brain, and I'm not just done with mornings. I got up early and I'm brisk.
Speaker 1:Now do you think that maybe there's things that we include in our I guess you'd say our everyday thing that help us get through the or give us a little more? I guess you say perseverance to push through rejection and other things. But you're having a bad day and you're like I had a bad day Cause I, if I would have had a coffee this morning, at least it would help me get through it.
Speaker 2:If I would have had a nap, definitely no, but like I find, I find for me, me I'm a big. If I'm lacking sleep, that turns everything upside down in my life, absolutely everything I like. I cannot describe the ways my life literally falls apart if I don't get a good night's sleep I I get hangry.
Speaker 1:So if I'm hungry and overly hungry, I can get grumpy and it's like, but then as soon as I get a little bit of food in me, I'm like okay, whole mood swing change.
Speaker 2:Interesting. Yeah, there's probably a lot of people close to both of us. And here's the funny thing. I have this one friend. We joke he's a robot because he only needs four hours sleep a night. He eats one meal a day, never gets sick. Yeah, he's, and it's unbelievable. But yeah, for me, if I don't get enough sleep and I, in working in broadcast, I have to work eight, 10 hours in a row without food and my body doesn't respond well. But I've trained my body now to just say you don't have time to eat. So it's like this isn't your problem, move out of the way and I will function. But if I haven't slept well, my body can't do that Cause then I'm not clearer than thought and I can't be quick on my feet and I'm making poor decisions. But if I get a good night's sleep, it changes. Everything Sounds robotic, yeah.
Speaker 1:When you mentioned to your friend that you swear as a robot, it made me think of my youngest son. When he was about three, he used to call himself a titanium robot at the dinner table and he'd be like we're like okay, you need to eat some more peas. And he'd be like no, my peas jug is full, but my dessert jug is empty. I'm a titanium robot.
Speaker 2:Unfortunately, you don't see Dan's arms moving back and forth.
Speaker 1:And this is why we do not have a video form of this podcast For a very good reason.
Speaker 2:The surrounding area of this table. That's a raise a lot of eyebrows, Absolutely.
Speaker 1:It's like every podcast and if we did, though, have a video form. It would go very well with today's theme of living in a world filled with rejection and breaking chairs.
Speaker 2:Yes, the first thing that would likely happen. But 1 Peter, 5, 7, cast all your anxieties on him, him, as in the Lord Jesus, because he cares for you. That is the verse for today on the topic of rejection.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and rejection is you know what? We find it inside sport. We find it outside sport, even though, like, we call this a sports podcast. We are obviously talking to athletes and the people around them and the church and just people everywhere. But rejection is a common thing and it's not just about athletes. But we can use athletic examples really well in order, I guess, spur on our conversation today well, and we're the topic of a sports podcast.
Speaker 2:There are enough sports podcasts out there talking about the intricacies of sport and the stats and the standings and tendencies and whatever. We want to address the side of humans yeah the human side of sport. So the athlete is a person how they live their day-to-day life, the principles around that, who they are as a person, their faith component to their life and how that intersects and bleeds in to both their performance on the field and on the ice and off.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the thought too it's you were an athlete before. Not, you were an athlete, you were a person before you ever were an athlete.
Speaker 2:Some people feel that, yeah, some people feel that they're an athlete first, but unless you help out, that person.
Speaker 1:you really you can't get through to that athlete. That's true, and it goes with many other professions in that way too.
Speaker 1:So rejection in sport. It's the time of the season where we have sport cuts and people making teams and a lot of people can even feel rejection. Even with sports teams at school, Not everyone gets to play on the soccer team or the baseball team or the football team. There's only a certain number of spots and so rejection can come with that, and sometimes rejection is the opportunity that we didn't have before. So maybe we feel like we're a wide receiver played wide receiver. I was on the team last year. I'm deserving that position. Some young buck comes up and takes my spot on wide receiver. Now I'm not able to make play that team and there's maybe there's not another team for me to play on Right, but then it steers you into an avenue or maybe even another sport where you might find success or you never thought that you were very good at hey, have you ever encountered that?
Speaker 2:Well, I think you know what and what often rejection does too is like I think where you're going with that is it helps you to reevaluate, right. It gives you an opportunity to look in the mirror and go, okay, so maybe I was not riding the coattails, but I was comfortable doing something and a rejection was a course correction to go okay, well, that window was closing. Maybe I got apathetic to that a little bit, which we'll get to that topic, I think, later in the show here today but has that ever happened to me before that I doing something? Um, I think, yeah, probably somewhere in my career that you know I was pretty good at something and then they found somebody better to do something to do it, or somebody they felt was more geared for that position. Yeah, for whatever reason that might be, I think there are many of us that probably can experience that, especially in sport.
Speaker 2:You know you could be a goalie that you thought was pretty good, and then someone else comes in and has a little bit more momentum. The team responds better the way they play rather than the way they. You know they play with you in that. So they're getting most of the starts, or starting quarterback is, you know quicker feet, better arm, so they're the one that comes in. There's a number of cases baseball we don't talk about baseball, but no, I'm just kidding.
Speaker 1:We don't talk about darts either.
Speaker 2:Darts is a sport? No, it is not. Well you know what you can.
Speaker 1:You're can give so many different examples inside sport, but I think it tie. It goes along so much with so much without. That's outside of sport. So we can talk about rejection, whether it's like relationships, friendships. Um, maybe you're in high school or university or even junior high and because you've chosen a specific friend, now you're outed at a friend group right, or vice versa now that you're part of a friend group, you're outed as a friend, or or vice versa, now that you're part of a friend group, you're outed as a friend.
Speaker 1:Or maybe you have an interest and I know there's lots of different clicks and stuff in regards to whether it's arts or culture or other things but we really live in that world, young and old, of rejection. Even you think of people that are maybe older and retired or older. I found out this past week that someone who had coached many, many, many years had applied for the position that I got this year coaching and I kind of said to myself I said, whoa, okay, interesting. Here we are talking about this subject and I'm on the other side of rejection, where someone else was rejected because someone chose me and so it's like I had nothing to do with it. I just tried for a spot and I got that spot, but because of that someone else had to face not being picked.
Speaker 2:Sure.
Speaker 1:And so there's a cause and effect all the time, and we might even be the person that's rejecting someone else. That's another part of it.
Speaker 2:I think when, honestly, when I think of rejection, you know the first place my mind goes, and many of us, many of you listening to this as well, probably think of dating in relationships. Right, that's the common topic I can. That comes to mind, for me at least, and maybe for you too. Um, in that world of rejection, you've rejected somebody else, or you've been rejected by somebody in a way that makes you think, okay, well, you know, I thought I was suited for that relationship, and then they pick someone else. Or, you know, you're maybe in a marriage situation and you know, things kind of fell apart and now that person has left and gone to someone else. Or maybe a child who was looking for a reconciliation with a parent and it didn't go the way they thought to maybe try to reconnect with a long lost parent and didn't go the way they thought, right.
Speaker 1:I got a, I got a question for you on that subject. Sure, okay, and I hope I'm not hitting too much of a nerve or anything like that, I think we're pretty good.
Speaker 2:I think I've spent enough hundreds of thousands of dollars on therapy to be able to handle any questions.
Speaker 1:Okay, very good. Then here comes one. I've been out at the dating game for a long time.
Speaker 2:And it is way different now than it was Big time, big time Years ago when you met your sister.
Speaker 1:But at the same time as part of marriage. You're still dating your spouse, You're still spending time with spouse and and doing that. So, on the single dating game, if you either faced rejection or non-compatible with someone, do you automatically go for a change or do you say, well, okay, I guess I'm not that person's type, I'm just going to run the course.
Speaker 2:I think that there are different people in the way they they attack that different personalities. I think that there are different people in the way they they attack that different personalities. You know there are those. Um, I have a friend who was trying to fit into one like this one girl, really trying to fit her mold. So they would. He would change himself constantly to be like okay, well, maybe, maybe now I'm good enough. Okay, Maybe now I'm good enough. I'm going to work out more, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this, I'm going to do this and then this, and then this, and then this and then this, and then eventually, hopefully, maybe I'll be good enough for her. That's one way to do it. You know, another way to do it is maybe to, overall, just look at yourself and go okay, regardless. Good habits I can adopt into my life that make me more compatible man or woman?
Speaker 2:right, you didn't work out, okay. Well, what generally do women or men in this age demographic look for and are attracted to? Is it this, this or this? What would I do? There have been times, for sure, that I would play the comparison game. All right, okay. Well, sure, this person rejects me, but I've seen this a lot of my life and this has probably been getting personal here. This has probably been one of the biggest mountains to overcome in my life that I would look at, you know, I'd be rejected by a person and then I would see them go for someone who looks and sounds and acts exactly like me. Oh, but then they didn't want me and then it happened I can't. I think at least six or seven times in my life that they like, they look and they they're the exact same, but they're not me. Yeah, so I look at the mirror and go okay, so like this.
Speaker 1:Why not me yeah?
Speaker 2:This has happened over and over and over again. So what's the difference? So you can stay in that dangerous spot, yeah, and go, okay, well, there's obviously something wrong with me. Or you can start to unpack the pieces of that and go, okay, well, what, ultimately, can I change? Cause I can't change that.
Speaker 1:Okay, so we we've talked a little bit about that same thing Today?
Speaker 2:it's psychology with Dan, no, but you know what, though?
Speaker 1:This is good, this is good, yeah, we're talking about the same thing with an athlete too. So say, if a young athlete all of a sudden is starting to face rejection and they say, well, okay, obviously, what I'm doing, is it working? Is it not working? Am I doing things in the right way? Training over the summer Maybe I didn't train enough over the summertime. If I would have trained more than what I would have had made it had I started training earlier. Okay, what do I have to do to move forward, cause you're wanting to plan to move forward? Now, let's even take it in a walk of faith, because I think often we can beat ourselves up when all of a sudden we're like, okay, boy, I guess I didn't tell the truth there when I when I talked about that um boy.
Speaker 1:That would be a lie okay, oh man, am I a liar, liar?
Speaker 2:now, okay now we start.
Speaker 1:then we start like going deeper and agreeing so we can beat ourselves up really fast. Or all of a sudden maybe we're like, okay, listen, I really have a heart to do this and to serve there and be part of this, and then all of a sudden that door doesn't swing open and then we think, well, maybe i't, maybe I'm not gifted at doing that because no one wants me to do it. So I think lots of times we can actually reject ourselves as much as others are rejecting us, and I think this causes that anxiety and we talked before this episode about that, the word anxiety and how often it's used in the world differently.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so the verse, the translation from the ESV, the English standard version, it's also the.
Speaker 2:NIV apparently did my Bible op, cast all your anxieties on him and you and I in our pre recording chat here.
Speaker 2:At a conversation about that word anxiety, I said I don't like that word and I would like to discuss it today because I think the word anxiety in as you're smelling the microphone, it gives me anxiety. But, um, we, I feel like as a society and I wanted to explain this in the most respectful way possible because there are, I know, a number of people out there who have well as what the world now is diagnosed as anxiety. Right, you're having panic attacks, you, you know, difficulty maybe sleeping because of it, and different things, and I'm not downplaying that. That's a serious, yeah yeah, situation and then my heart breaks for those and I actually have had a really good friend of mine who's had that throughout the years. So, but when I think of the word anxiety, if you really start to unpack it, what it really is is the absence of control. You don't have control over something. So you're starting to get really nervous and you're starting to not foresee the future.
Speaker 1:Well, and we can have tendencies, and it goes along with whether personality, how we're molded, how we're shaped, where we can have a tendency to stress or worry. Our shape, where we can have a tendency to stress or worry, or we have a tendency to want to be in control or not, or don't want to be in control.
Speaker 1:And we have certain tendencies and also, where we're human, we have emotions. Okay, and so, because we have emotions, sometimes we label our emotions into something to allow us to have them, or or or to script them, so we don't have them Right.
Speaker 2:But I think it's more important Go to the doctor and ask for a bottle, because that's right exactly. What do you have that can cure this?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and so we start treating the response instead of finding the cause. And I think this verse really touches on the cause, because it's like you take those anxieties, you take those worries, you take those stresses and you turn them over to God and you turn them over to Christ. And why do you do that?
Speaker 2:Because he's To give up control.
Speaker 1:Why do you, yeah, why do you completely give up control? Yeah, and how many boy, how many testimonies will we hear of people that are? It was like it wasn't until I gave up control and I tried to stop steering the ship myself that I realized I needed help.
Speaker 2:Same thing, honestly, in a lot of ways in my life, especially in the past year, with how some of the things have gone, that there are circumstances that have come up that maybe have been a pattern, and I think, okay, well, I can't navigate this on my if I continue to obsess about this every day, if I wake up in the morning and I'm thinking about it, and even on the drive, here, you know, on the road, and I'm just praying okay, god, here are the things that I want to give you today and here's, you know what's on my heart and my mind.
Speaker 2:Not five minutes later I'm driving further down the road and some of these negative thoughts about this situation start to come up and I'm like I just just prayed about that, right? So I mean, that's obviously. You know, those that are unfamiliar with the podcast, you know, maybe, if the unfamiliar with the faith overall, the battle between good and evil, you know the holy spirit and the enemy. The enemy wants territory for your soul. The holy spirit you invite him in, takes domain and is able to take control of of your mind if you give it to him, right? You want to get clear your thoughts, so I just invited the holy spirit in it's like no, I just prayed about this.
Speaker 1:like these, I don't need these thoughts in my mind because they're making me stress, yeah, yeah, and I love the thought that you just shared, because I think a lot of people don't understand that. They think of the devil on your shoulder and really that it's. It's not my, it's not a mind control game. No, because you want. You do have free will, which we will be talking about in episode 10 in episode.
Speaker 2:Stay tuned for that one.
Speaker 1:But at the same time it's like, okay, so often those negative thoughts can be implanted by the enemy into our heads to give us doubt, to give us worry, to give us stress, and instead it's like, okay, well, okay, you have those thoughts. Now what are you going to do about it? And where often we can dwell? And we can just build that up, build that up, build that up, and what the scripture is telling us right now is like no, listen, don't worry about it. Give it to God. Give it to God and let him figure this out.
Speaker 1:One of my teenagers who plays sports said something really I think that was important. This spring we were talking a little bit about dealing with kids that have been cut from higher levels that would move into my level of sport where I'm coaching and I said how? What's the best way to deal with these kids? And he said when someone gets cut and they come to your team, the best thing you can do is provide them with humility. And if you out of the mouth of a 16 year old, and if you provide them with humility, and if you do that with them and for them and help humble them, they will perform better, more quickly. They'll get back into their groove, they'll play better for you, they'll do things.
Speaker 1:Because he said in his own experience years ago. He said I would dwell too much on the rejection. And because I dwelled too much on the rejection and because I dwelled too much on the rejection, I would carry it forward into my next couple of months and it would affect my performance. So instead I had to take that rejection, I had to give it over to God and help God, work me through it and say, okay, no, I need humility, I need to humble myself. I'm not as good as I think I am.
Speaker 2:I want to go back to a point you made, because that's a really, really great concept. I want to go back to a point you made about maybe you know you're an athlete that's been used to performing at a high level and then you're not anymore. So there's a few examples that pop to my mind. I think of, in the nhl, a guy who might have used to be what a 20, 30, 40 goal scorer you know. Now he's 37, 38 years old, 39 years old, just wants to win a stanley cup. He's got to take a role as a fourth liner now on a team. Right, maybe he's only playing 9, 10, 11 minutes in a game, but he still has the ability to make an impact based on his wisdom. He's not going to be the guy anymore. Right, I can think of it.
Speaker 2:I'm having a really difficult time not mentioning this quarterback's name, but I remember in the CFL a number of years ago, there was a quarterback that was one of the best quarterbacks in the league and he was constantly leading this one team to great cups throughout. Towards the end of his career, he was offered backup positions to mentor other quarterbacks, but he refused to. He's like no, I'm a starting quarterback, I'm good. Yet when you put him in the game he would throw interception after interception, after interception. So I don't know what was maybe happening in his life or more with that story, but I think there's such a contrast between the two situations there.
Speaker 2:There's one situation where you have this veteran NHL player, maybe a 20-year-old, on a major junior hockey team, a Western Hockey League team, who's you're just there to be support. Maybe now you've got to go down and play junior A because no Western League team wants you anymore. Now you're finishing your career playing junior A that's one side is humility, like you talked about. Or the other side, this quarterback who was used to being at the top but he couldn't take the dose of humility. He said no, well, I'm not a backup quarterback, I'm a starter. No, you're not, you're not good anymore, you're a backup now. Well, I quit, I retire.
Speaker 1:Take my ball and go home.
Speaker 2:Yeah, take my ball and go home. I just couldn't take the dose of humility. So what you said about that dose of humility, I think is powerful in the situation of rejection, because rejection forces us to look in the mirror and go. Maybe I need to reevaluate this.
Speaker 1:Yep. Well, and we have to realize too, as men, as people in general, men, women, we, we are men. We don't know what it's like to be a woman, so we're speaking as men. No, that's right, but I'm just saying in population, in period, sure people will fail, yeah, they will.
Speaker 2:Yeah, mankind as in mankind, yeah absolutely, or people kind of some other people want to call them. But mankind, are you speaking voicely?
Speaker 1:yeah, my mankind will fail. I heard a really good saying that I actually I read this to my wife this morning and talking about how leaders that end up can fail, and the quote that was written down by someone said the best of men are men at best and I thought that was really powerful, because it it makes you not only realize but acknowledge the fact that we really do need to cast our cares on Christ. Yeah, because without him, this whole thing's going off the rails. That's true, it really is.
Speaker 2:And I think, and again, getting back to that, cast your anxieties on him because he cares for you. Again, that anxiety to me is a powerful word because that's worry, anxiety. All it is is the absence of control. And I'm not downplaying your situation of anxiety. But I want to encourage you. If anxiety is something you've been battling with for a long time, maybe don't be afraid of that anymore. Look at it differently. Be afraid of that anymore. Look at it differently. Maybe for you it's self-diagnosing that word, in a way that you're not putting it up on a pedestal. Oh okay, maybe I, maybe my anxiety really is. I'm just, I'm just afraid to move away from home, to go play a sport, or maybe I'm just afraid to where my finances are going. I don't. I don't know if I can pay rent next month. So therefore I've I've kind of given it a term of anxiety.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:Maybe I'm just afraid to be alone. Yep, absolutely Now. So giving that up, giving the control up? Yeah To the Lord.
Speaker 1:And really that's what it is Like you had mentioned already, is about that control, and as my, my, as mankind, we desire to have that control. Here's something from the other side of the coin, now. What happens if we're that person that's causing anxiety or stress to others? Right, and really that's also a form of control. Okay, we're trying. Oh, you know what? Oh, you know what you're really worried about that. Dave, let me tell you what to do. Yeah, and if you do it, then you'll be fine. And it's like well, wait a second, I'm doing the exact same thing. I'm the one now putting on that on someone.
Speaker 2:And that's not right either.
Speaker 1:No, and sometimes we can get into that even with athletes and sports. Well, if you just did this or that, well, no, maybe not. There's no magic pill, as the saying goes, where it's like, all of a sudden that changes everything. But what there is is consistency, and that consistency is found in Christ and that consistency is found in God. Your relationship is only as strong as the one who you have that relationship with.
Speaker 2:Right. I just heard the verse. The other day I was listening to a sermon and it talked about prayer. It said pray in all situations, not in some situations. Pray for everything, right? So if you are daily giving those things to the Lord, casting your cares upon him, you will find less stress in certain situations. And maybe if you're that person I think another part of the ledger if you're the person that's been hurt so much now your shell is hardened that you are intentionally the boss, you are in control, but you're kind of the jerk, so you are literally causing anxiety in others because you are broken and hurting. You know you can let go of that control, give that to the Lord and you're able to see more of the hurt in others.
Speaker 2:Maybe you're you're not aware of the hurt that you're causing because you're so hurt yourself.
Speaker 1:And as I think, as we get older, as we mature, as we not just age wise, but as we age in our relationship with God, we're going to discover something. When we're younger, we have softer skin and harder hearts, and as our walk progresses with God, our hearts become softer and our skin becomes harder, and I think it's important for us to go through these experiences and humble ourselves and give control over more often, because what that really will do is work on our heart.
Speaker 2:Consistency and humility, I think, are probably the two big pills to prescribe. So I would say theoretically, to fight this anxiety, rejection, whatever that difficulty is that looking at yourself in the mirror and go, okay, what is this situation? Did I lose my starting spot? Did I get cut? Do I got to go down a level? And maybe it's. I'm playing junior b for the rest of my career, but that's fine. How can I make the best of that situation? Right? So some humility and consistency and habits you know we talked about in dating. Okay, so you got rejected by this person, that person. Okay, what are some consistent habits I can start creating in my life that'll make me more attractive to someone else, for sure a different coach and you know what.
Speaker 1:It even goes with some of the stuff we're doing right now where we could say, well, it's funny, I got excited the other day.
Speaker 2:I'm oh we had a listener in Germany, isn't that?
Speaker 1:neat Wait. A second we had one listener in Germany.
Speaker 2:Yeah, granted, it was my mom traveling to Germany.
Speaker 1:Again. She travels all over the world. Good thing we're paying for her to travel everywhere and listen to the podcast.
Speaker 2:Just a hit play on Spotify, then fly back.
Speaker 1:But the point I'm making? Well, hey, listen, we did our dozen episodes, that's it. We're just going to take our ball, pack this in, not worth doing. But I think, since the Lord and his infinite wisdom had us so long in order to come to this place, even though we both had it on our hearts to do this for the longest period of time, I think what that's done is now. I think maybe it's for me at least it's given me this thought and drive of okay, no, no, no, no, no. We're playing this, we're playing this game. Okay, we prepared for so long to be called to come here and now we're playing in this. We're not going until the sun goes down until the streetlights go on and it's time to pack it in.
Speaker 1:We're going.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I can't think of the characters involved in this Bible story, but I remember the context of it, of the drought of rain and then the small cloud that was emerging from the ocean, and then, as big as a fist right. So he was looking for, wanted to give a message to the king to say this rain is coming. This rain is coming.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Elijah.
Speaker 2:Elijah, right. So then suddenly a cloud as small as a fist rose up and then he said okay, get prepared, rain is coming, right. So when you think of habits, maybe even doing something consistently over and over again and it hasn't yielded fruit, don't give up. Yeah, in the verse that go back. Yeah, go back again, go back again, keep checking Is rain coming?
Speaker 1:Well, in hiding in the cave and like the big storm arrives, god's not in the storm, right, okay, the big event happens, the the earthquake. God's not in that, but the still small voice, right. And when the time is right and God calls you to do it, be ready. Yeah, because it's coming.
Speaker 2:Yeah, don't take your ball and go home. Continue to fight through it and continue to listen to this. You can find us on all spots that, uh, podcasts are downloaded Spotify, and I'm a big Spotify fan all other places, yeah, and uh, yeah, keep. If you've got a friend in Germany or Sweden, get our listenership up.
Speaker 1:Yeah, Well, and the thing is, it's we all, people always say on on different things like this, like and share, like and share. But you know what, though? I think the premise behind it is if you know someone or think of someone that comes to mind as you're listening to this, don't just tell them about it of mind as you're listening to this, don't just tell them about it, share it with them, share it with them, share it with them about it. And just in order to help them. Yeah, the listener count whatever, yeah.
Speaker 2:The heart of this show is to bring encouragement to others. We hope that something touched you today. Looking forward to episode 10, free. Well, it should be fun, that's right. Please don't reject us, you.
