Micro Wrestling and Waiting on God: Season 3 - Episode 10

Melissa on micro wrestling and mini animals. Congrats Captain Scott! A staff conversation about waiting on God.

Transcript

SPEAKER_05 0:06

Well, hey, welcome in to this week's episode of Live at Liberty. We got a lot we're going to cover in this episode. We're going to talk about how not to get frustrated during a waiting season. All right. That's one of the prominent themes in scripture, and it is one of the common experiences of Christian life. You're going to wait on God, right? Yes. Yeah, so uh we had somebody send that in. Not really a trend. I don't know. I didn't, you know. But anyway, I thought it was a good thing. Something everybody does. We've had some heavy topics the last couple of weeks, so maybe this would be a good little break in the action. So, but uh we're gonna talk about waiting on God. Got some news and notes, and then we have Valerie with the birthdays, anniversaries, and announcements. But uh another busy weekend here at Liberty Man. Had D now weekend for the students. They were all kind of sitting up there in the front with their very bright white shirts.

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They look good, I like them.

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The shirts were brighter than their eyes. I'll tell you that. They look tired. Yes. Which always happens in a D now weekend.

SPEAKER_08 1:07

I told Levi, because they were they started filling in like the third row first, and I and I told Levi, I said, they look a little reluctant to sit in the spitting section. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 1:18

You know, when they were coming in, I was asking, you know, the different groups all, if you don't know what D now is, they go and they stay in homes around the church and then they converge with some other churches and have worship, and then they go back to these homes over the weekend and and do just really good discipleships of powerful weekend. But uh, as they were coming in, I was asking the different groups, is there, hey, how long did y'all sleep? And I got like two hours and three, you know, that kind of thing. And I joked with some of them, I said, Hey, you can make it up during my sermon, right? So, but I I will say this I didn't see one kid asleep during my sermon. There you go, there you go. That's really good. So they were hanging in there, and a bunch of them are taking notes, man. So that's uh that's encouraging. So very successful D Now weekend uh for the students. Man, we had a bunch of people here Sunday and Thursday night. Yeah. Um, I think between Thursday night and Sunday, we had over 600 people. That's incredible.

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In the preschool alone, I was just telling Jody we had 50 kiddos, just kiddos. Isn't that incredible? We were packed. That's a bunch of packed.

SPEAKER_05 2:20

That's a bunch of little little kids, man. Yeah. How'd y'all do that?

SPEAKER_04 2:24

Well, well, we had 11 in this room, 12 in this room. Like it was it was a little bit of chaos.

SPEAKER_02 2:30

So I think your walls are coming down next.

SPEAKER_05 2:33

Scott. Scott. Oh boy. We uh man, I was in a meeting uh last week and and the space issue came up of man, we are hitting a ceiling and some things. So we're gonna have to come up with some solutions in the near future. But anyway, uh we did have two baptisms, baptism number 42 and 43. Number 42, Kenny Bright. Congratulations to him. He's baptized on Thursday night in the Silver Recovery Service. And Easton Edwards was baptized on Sunday. Easton came out of the documentary.

SPEAKER_02 3:05

Yes, he is. So exciting.

SPEAKER_05 3:07

Good stuff going on there. Some congratulations in order. How about those Murray County Lady Indians? Yes. I'm telling you. State championship, man. That's awesome.

SPEAKER_02 3:17

It was really cool. That was really cool.

SPEAKER_08 3:19

That's a big achievement. That's a you you you put in a lot of work to get to that level. Oh.

SPEAKER_06 3:25

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 3:25

Man, and just to say you're a state champion. I mean, that's something very few people can say you know, to have a state championship. Shannon and Kylie took my mom to buy her dress for the wedding. And uh so I was kind of at the house alone. So man, turned it on the TV, got a chance to watch it. And man, you know, that was the same team they played last year. Yeah. Yeah. And that team really dominated them last year, man. Those girls are athletic, they are long, they are fast, and you could just tell it just really discombobulated Murray County, kind of took them out of their game because it was a game at a different speed. This year, it looked like the first half was gonna go that way again. And Murray County was down by three at the end of the half. Uh, but Coach Tipton, who I've known for a long time, taught uh uh two of his kids uh when I was over at Christian Heritage, um one of them is attending church here now, Tyler and Alyssa, who sang on Sunday. So uh, but Coach Tipton, man, he's just such a great coach, and you could tell he was constantly slowing down the team. And I think um I can't remember the name of the team they played. I think they only scored like 13 or 14 points the whole second half. Okay. And so, man, and one by three. I mean, it was a few.

SPEAKER_04 4:46

Yeah, I think I think it was it, 51-48.

SPEAKER_05 4:48

Yeah, yeah. So uh man, congratulations to the lady Indian. So I got an interesting question here for you. If you could be a state champion in something, well what would you be a state champion in? I and I I'll tell you, yeah, I'll give you, I'll I'll lead off with mine. You know, I so I've always played sports and worked out, done different things. God never made me to run. And I've tried the running thing. Yeah. And if y'all ever seen those people running down the road, it just looks so smooth and so easy. I wish I could do that. Because I feel like when I run, it's like a Clydesdale. You know what I'm saying? It's boom, boom. I I just wish for a moment. You know, they talk about runner's high. Never felt that.

SPEAKER_04 5:35

Never got it. Never felt like that. Running gives me a headache. Really?

SPEAKER_05 5:38

For real. That's it.

SPEAKER_04 5:38

I don't know if it's the pounding on the page. Yeah, running gives me a headache.

SPEAKER_08 5:42

There's a there's so you know, Keila ran track forever. Oh, she's fast. And and but there there is, there's like you can either be a Clydesdale or you can be graceful in your running, right? It's it's a it's about it's about the technique of of just being able to move with with the way you plant your feet and the way your body leans. And there's so much that goes into being a graceful runner and having speed. And the ability to breathe helps too. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 6:12

You gotta come back. Why'd you do Donnie Burguet? No matter how pretty you look, you gotta breathe, man.

SPEAKER_08 6:17

Maybe that's my hold your breath 100 yards. No.

unknown 6:20

Hilarious.

SPEAKER_05 6:22

Oh, all right. So, Scott, what would you be state champion in? Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_08 6:26

If I could be a state champion, I told him earlier, she she said, don't do the Christian. I'd be the state champion of baptism.

SPEAKER_01 6:33

He goes, I'm the baptism.

SPEAKER_06 6:35

And I was like, Scott, WWE Virgin of Baptist. Yeah. Yeah, you're the WWE version of the baptism. Y'all have not seen that picture circulating. Bam.

SPEAKER_08 6:46

Brian, Brian literally had to, when I when when I first came on staff and I started baptizing people, Brian's like, hey, you're gonna have to have to take it easy on some people. You're gonna you're gonna hurt some old ladies.

SPEAKER_05 6:58

You were you were close to DDTing people into the well, I mean, I'm just excited about what I'm doing.

SPEAKER_08 7:05

It's like, man, bam.

SPEAKER_05 7:07

Oh man. Jody about you. What would you be state champion at?

SPEAKER_02 7:11

I think for me, I I wanted like tennis, maybe. And I say that because I never did sports. I never even attended a school that had a sports team. And so I I think tennis would be something, and maybe the spelling bee. Because like once yeah, because like once autocorrect happened, I'm finished. I don't know how to like I'm done. I can't finish or spell to save my life, even like simple stuff. And so I feel like maybe if I tried a little harder and turned off autocorrect, I would be a little bit better. Maybe, maybe, but tennis or spelling bee, those would be my two.

SPEAKER_04 7:44

I was I tried tennis once in middle school, but I was a softball player. Okay. So my first time, yeah. I play softball all the way through co-ed. Yeah, yeah. So um, but I tried tennis at when I was at Gliden in middle school, and my first swing, I knocked it across the four lane. So I never did tennis. I was not yet. Maybe not.

SPEAKER_05 8:08

That would be out.

SPEAKER_02 8:09

So would you sub if Bryson was like, hey, I need somebody to step in tonight? Would you go and play?

SPEAKER_04 8:14

Absolutely not. Okay. Well, I tried Bryson. I tried to see Sophie probably would. You know, Sophie, that was her thing too. She played all the way through high school. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 8:21

Yeah. It's the idea of like things being thrown at me really fast, I'm out. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 8:28

So I always like to see the like the last two words in the national spelling bee. They're crazy. Because, man, it's you know, it's tough. I I don't I can't remember if I've mentioned this before, but I feel like I have. So just go with it if I have. So I saw one of the last words on spelling B one time, tripped up a kid. The word was H.

SPEAKER_03 8:46

Like a letter?

SPEAKER_05 8:48

H. How would you spell H?

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A C A.

SPEAKER_05 8:57

I think it knocked like two or three kids out. I didn't even know that was a real word.

SPEAKER_03 9:00

I just thought it was like a couch.

SPEAKER_05 9:02

Yeah, it's it's a you talk about hey, the and what you know, those kids are so brilliant. They've got these huge words. And they gave them the word H, and they were looking just like you're looking at me right now. I messed up the word receipt today, so I'm not getting anywhere. H. E. H. H. E. Okay. E-I-T-C-H.

SPEAKER_02 9:23

Like now that you're saying I can see it, and it makes sense, but I would have never.

SPEAKER_05 9:27

Can you imagine being that kid? I won my spelling B in my class, I won my spelling B in my school, I won the spelling B in the district, I won the spelling B in the state. Here I am, national spelling B. I'm the last two kids up here, and you give me H.

SPEAKER_02 9:42

Yeah, that's the same thing.

SPEAKER_08 9:44

I just wonder how many times he got his lunch took from him. Tough word to get knocked out on.

SPEAKER_06 9:49

That's interesting. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 9:50

All right, Melissa, state championship. Don't worry about it.

SPEAKER_04 9:57

You know, we did we started this podcast this portion, this portion of the podcast is supposed to let you know to get to know us, right? I would totally be a champion of micro wrestling. Yeah. I hesitated. I hesitated. Austin told me I should just change altogether.

SPEAKER_08 10:19

I could see Melissa. I could see Melissa coming off the top rope when the Austin actually left the room just now.

SPEAKER_04 10:26

He was gonna be. If you've never been to watch micro wrestling, you should go totally wonderful.

SPEAKER_05 10:35

I will vouch for you that through the years that I've known you, you do y'all go to some micro wrestling a little bit.

SPEAKER_02 10:44

Yes, I can't. Can we take a break? Oh my gracious. Oh goodness.

SPEAKER_06 10:53

You are amazing and wonderful, and I love you.

SPEAKER_08 10:58

You are a state champion anyway, boys.

SPEAKER_02 11:10

Like, what's happening in preschool, y'all?

SPEAKER_05 11:14

Wrestling ring in the backyard. We might be uncovered. We might be uncovering something here that needs to. So you have animals at home. Not sure where this is going, but two of your prized animals are what?

SPEAKER_04 11:36

Minis.

SPEAKER_06 11:45

I'm no longer gonna name my farm. No.

SPEAKER_04 11:53

I know we're gonna have to take a break.

SPEAKER_01 11:57

And now that'll be with the bird.

SPEAKER_05 12:04

Okay, but the birthdays and verses we'll be right back.

SPEAKER_00 12:12

Okay, welcome to the most exciting part of the podcast, which is me reading for you birthdays and at times stumbling through names. I apologize in advance, and always when that happens, um, as well as our announcements. So let's get started. For birthdays, we have Josh Pilcher, March 18th, uh Bo Garner, also March 18th, Brandon Pelfrey, March 19th, Scott Young, March 19th, Kate Albertson, March 19th, Laura Long, March 20th, Rob Hofbauer, March 20th, Peggy Osmus on March 21st, Brandon Center, March 21st, Katie Shady, March 22nd, Jamie Hawkins, March 22nd, and Danny Brown on March 23rd. Now for our announcements. Uh memorial service for Joe Cooper will be held on Saturday, March 21st at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary. Following the service, a meal will be served in the fellowship hall. Please continue to keep Cecilia and the family in your prayers during this time. Social Sunday. Join us for Social Sunday on March 22nd in Life Groups. During the Life Group hour, each class is invited to bring breakfast food items and enjoy a special time of fellowship together. This is a great opportunity to connect, share a meal, and spend time building relationships within your life group. If you're not currently part of a life group, this is a wonderful opportunity to visit a class, get to know each other, and begin making meaningful connections. Easter Jam Run and Tell It Family Experience and Color Run is going to be on Sunday, March 29th, starting at 5 p.m. Easter Jam Run and Tell It is an Easter experience big enough for the whole family. Join us on Sunday, March 29th as we explore the colors of Easter through the Gospels. By the end of the night, you will quite literally be covered in Jesus. Get ready to go run and tell his story as we prepare our hearts for worship this Easter. We started our 90-day tithing challenge, but it's never too late to join in. The challenge is to cut 10% from your budget and give it through the offering from Sunday, February 1st to May 3rd. See what God will do. See our golf tournament. Register in the Liberty app for the upcoming Celebrate Recovery Golf Tournament to be held on April 25th with a rain date of May 2nd. With the link, you can sign up for uh I'm sorry, with the link in the app, you can sign up to play or donate and take part in supporting this important ministry in our church and community. Discipleship journals, just as a reminder, the new Liberty Discipleship Journals are still available in the FOIA. This is a great tool to help you learn to read the Bible and hear from God in the new year. The six by nine journal is $15 and the 8x10 size is $20. Um, again, you can visit the Liberty app for instructions and info and a reading plan. Spring Place Campus Egg Hunt and Candy Collection. We are now collecting peanut-free candy stuffed eggs for our upcoming Spring Place Campus Egg Hunt that will be held on Wednesday, April 1st. If you would like to help, please place your donated eggs in the wooden collection bin located in the foyer. We will be accepting donations through Sunday, March 29th. We will begin collecting our Annie Armstrong Easter offering starting this Sunday and will continue throughout the month of April. This offering supports North Georgian missionaries as they share the gospel and plant churches across the United States and Canada. Please prayerfully consider how God would lead you to give. And finally, cemetery cleanup day will be on Saturday, March 28th, beginning at 9 a.m. We invite anyone who is able to come out and help us care for the cemetery grounds. Please meet at the cemetery that morning and bring any lawn care tools or equipment you may have to help with the work. Cemetery address is 4410 Tibbs Bridge Road in Dalton, Georgia. And now for our sign-off, I am going to invite some special guests to hand it back over to Brian.

SPEAKER_08 17:07

Thanks for watching. Back to you, Brian.

SPEAKER_05 17:12

Well, thanks, Nora and Navy. You guys uh a welcome break to help us get refocused. There we go.

SPEAKER_07 17:23

Sorry, buddy. I had actually I had press recording. I stepped out to go listen to something really quick. So I I came back to uh interesting. You left the room. We know so much chaos and confusion. By the time you watch this, I will have known what it is, and it will all be edited together. So what a weird timeline. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 17:45

So because we lost control in that last segment, I didn't finish uh some of the news and notes ad. So real quickly, just a couple of things. So we also want to say congratulations to newly promoted Whitfield Fire Department, Captain Scott Brock.

SPEAKER_03 18:02

Let's go!

SPEAKER_05 18:03

I battled Scott Brock. That's pretty awesome right there. Yeah, I just saw that, right? Like I think that happened this morning. That's awesome. Right before we filmed this. So in the uh Liberty Sports uh report, softball begins next week.

SPEAKER_02 18:16

Yeah, they got canceled last night.

SPEAKER_05 18:18

Yeah, I drove, I went to my Bible study last night and uh I saw the lights on, and I because I thought they were supposed to start last night, and I thought, boy, that's it was cold. I thought that's a miserable game if they're out there playing. So I did find out they didn't play last night. So in bowling, how about old Liberty Two? Went three and one against Valley Baptist. Way to go, Liberty Two. Congratulations. Liberty One, rough night. Uh apparently they they lost uh a lot of close games. One to three versus Lifegate. Gary Abraham and James Pilcher led the scoring this week for Liberty Two. Liberty One has a record of eight and eight, and Liberty Two is six and ten. So uh and Jimmy's still looking for uh the offerings to increase so we can get some NIL money and get some better bowlers in here. There you go. So, Jimmy, you're just gonna have to wait. And that transitions us into our topic today. Jimmy is waiting on better bowlers, and uh so let's talk about waiting on God. This is something somebody send in. We invited everybody send in their trends that they're seeing. Please continue to do that. We've got a bunch of them to cover. But somewhere in the midst of that, somebody sent us one. I think it's a good changeup for this week. We've had a couple of heavy weeks here. But how not to get frustrated in a waiting season, uh waiting season. Waiting is a part of life, right? So let's let's find out how patient the staff is. And um I'm just gonna ask the questions. I'm gonna exclude myself because we all know where my patience is, right? I'm I'm about a one on a scale of one to ten, right? So one being the worst, right? Yeah, one being the worst. I'm I'm probably a 0.8 if you really want to be honest about it.

SPEAKER_04 20:01

So he fills his own cup.

SPEAKER_05 20:04

Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Man, I feel like I can't talk too laugh too hard. But uh anyway, uh you're you're starving, man. You're starving. All you've had is like one little thing to eat all day. You go to your favorite restaurant and there's wait. What's the cutoff? Well, you wait 45 minutes at your favorite restaurant. Jody's out. I'm out. You're out at 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 20:31

I would go to the gas station and get a bag of chips before I'd wait 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_05 20:34

Did you make it 45 minutes, Scott? I think I I think I could. Okay. I'll give it 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_08 20:40

I I I give it that because I know I know what's waiting on me, right?

SPEAKER_05 20:44

There you go.

SPEAKER_08 20:44

Melissa.

SPEAKER_04 20:45

No. You're out at 45 minutes. I'm out.

SPEAKER_05 20:49

Austin.

SPEAKER_07 20:50

Man, we've talked about Tremont Tavern on here one time before. And yeah, I'd I'd wait more than 45 minutes. I actually purposely starved myself all day for that meal when I was one. Yeah. Just so it's that much better.

SPEAKER_05 21:02

Hey, y'all be surprised. There is a restaurant in Pigeon Forge. We went to eat breakfast, and the wait was an hour. And I waited.

SPEAKER_02 21:10

That is pretty impressive.

SPEAKER_05 21:12

And and honestly, it's more from a practicality standpoint because when you're up there, you're not getting it. Every restaurant you go to is gonna be like that soon anyway.

SPEAKER_07 21:21

So, I mean, we grew up waiting what felt like an eternity every Sunday after church. Like we would always just go, like that was our one time we ate out is after church. And most Sundays we went somewhere, and I feel like we waited 45 minutes everywhere we went.

SPEAKER_05 21:35

Because that was just Yeah, back in the day it felt that way. I think Ryan's ruined all that. Remember Ryan's where you go and had a buffet, but you went through the little turn style things to get your trade.

SPEAKER_07 21:45

The only time I ever went to a Ryan's was on the a school trip, and my stomach was just like not having a great day that day. So I didn't eat at Ryan's.

SPEAKER_05 21:55

But that was the thing. Ryan's is almost like never a wait, except you just had the wait through line. Once you're in there, dude, it's not a good thing.

SPEAKER_07 22:01

But isn't that kind of a bad sign when there's not a wait? Well, it's a huge restaurant.

SPEAKER_05 22:05

I know, but you always got ice cream at the end as much as you want it.

SPEAKER_07 22:10

That's what I liked about it. I think the good things are worth waiting for.

SPEAKER_05 22:13

Ryan's was like the precursor to what's the big buffet everybody does now? Golden Corral. Golden Corral. Yeah, like Ryan's. Sorry, also gross. Yeah, there you go.

SPEAKER_07 22:22

I can't do it. Anyway. I'll just watch everybody.

SPEAKER_05 22:25

All right. We all know the old phone, man, wants to update, right? And it says it's going to take two hours. Are you hitting delay?

SPEAKER_07 22:33

Yeah, because it always messes your phone up. It's not, it's not a matter of it taking two hours or needing to do it overnight. It's just like your phone's always worse. Yeah, that's true. So that's why I don't do it.

SPEAKER_05 22:43

Just let it do it. You don't care. I'd put on auto update. And it and then it'll still ask me. And I'm like, why are you asking me this? Yeah. I've already made the decision. Every computer. Every computer in the church wants to update every Sunday morning.

SPEAKER_06 22:56

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 22:57

Man, that's a bad time to update. Disney World. What is the you the one ride you will wait for?

SPEAKER_02 23:04

As your honorary Florida girl.

SPEAKER_05 23:06

Disney expert.

SPEAKER_02 23:08

Listen, I will wait for the carousel of progress because it's delightful. Uh if you don't know what that is, carousel. It's my favorite ride at Disney.

SPEAKER_05 23:16

Who waits for the carousel of progress? It literally is like the duke's a hazard. You jump through the window while it's moving.

SPEAKER_02 23:22

It's so fun. Okay, but that's my favorite. And Maverick likes the big like golf ball at Epcot. That's where we're at, people. I will wait for Pirates of the Caribbean, but what we do is we go get like turkey on a stick or whatever. Like we get lunch and then we just eat in line, and then we have a little flip, like heads up game that we'll play and we'll get everybody involved. So like we have to wait. We're having people participate in the waiting with us. And so we try to use our time wisely.

SPEAKER_05 23:46

I gotcha.

SPEAKER_02 23:46

But Pirates of the Caribbean, I will wait for.

SPEAKER_05 23:48

That's a good one.

SPEAKER_02 23:49

Yeah, it's fun.

SPEAKER_05 23:50

That's a good one. It smells weird in there. I just think it smells my girls were the first ones to alert me to that. It's it's just strange.

SPEAKER_02 23:56

It's like a like the chlorine or the like the I don't know. It's not like chlorine.

SPEAKER_05 24:01

It's smoke going off from the sweet, weird, almost like they flavor the water with maple syrup kind of. It's the fog machine. They do the air, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_02 24:09

Disney does the air with baked cookies. Like the smell. Yeah. It's an essence. So when you're going down Main Street, it's fresh baked cookies.

SPEAKER_05 24:18

Dangerous for your lungs. Little insight for you, Scotty. Smells into the You've never been to Disney Scott?

SPEAKER_02 24:28

Can we do that on our next staff outing?

SPEAKER_05 24:30

CR the CR innovation. We need to give Scott a trip to Disney.

SPEAKER_08 24:37

I have never been to Disney. You're not missing anything.

SPEAKER_05 24:40

I'm sorry.

SPEAKER_04 24:40

I've been once and it was it was enough.

SPEAKER_05 24:43

I'll tell you this you're not a a person who likes to wait. It's gonna be a bad day.

SPEAKER_08 24:48

Well, and not only that, like the my first airplane ride just did me in. So I'm not one to like, I don't want to get on something and go round and round in a circle. Yeah, no.

SPEAKER_07 25:00

No, I'm good. I've been to Disney twice, unfortunately, both against my will. Um but the one silver lining, which it's like hardly even a silver lining, was we went to is I think it's at Hollywood Studios, the Rise of the Resistance Star Wars ride. Yeah, yeah. So I waited with my brother-in-law, my niece, and and Nora in line, half of it in the pouring rain for two hours because there was nothing else to do. It's like you can wait in in line for this ride, or you can stand around and do nothing all day. Yeah.

SPEAKER_08 25:34

So that was kind of I think the only reason that I would go to Disney was if you dressed me up as John the Baptist and I got to preach the kingdom of heaven is at hand. Yeah right in the middle of Star Wars.

SPEAKER_06 25:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 25:50

Oh man. Right over there. I tell you what, we the we took Kylie. That's what she wanted to do for her college graduation gift this past summer. And the new uh Guardians of the Galaxy ride, worth the wait, man. That was that one was incredible. This is an awesome question, then we'll move on to our topic, right? Okay. You walk into your favorite coffee shop, which is uh my house right now. Oh my god. Outside of your house. All right. Well, you're go you got one in Cleveland, you told me about 15.

SPEAKER_07 26:20

I'm never I'm never really in Nashville to go to this place, but Crema Coffee in Nashville is all right.

SPEAKER_05 26:28

You walk in there, how many people have to be in line before you walk out? You you would wait for three. Yeah. Five?

SPEAKER_07 26:36

Yeah. Eight? Yeah. Ten? Yeah. It would have to be like twenty to not. Twenty people in line. It's so fast. It's there's never been a long line when I go in there, but there's always a bunch of people, so it's just really efficient and it's really good. But yeah, I mean, I would I'd be like, uh, 20 to 25 people probably want to go somewhere.

SPEAKER_05 26:53

Well, I tell you the one everybody's going crazy for right now is that seven brew thing over in Dalton. People don't people don't mind causing a wreck for that one.

SPEAKER_04 27:00

So I waited in a line of about 25 at the Chatsworth Bakehouse this past weekend. I did, I did. One thing that helped was we had several church families in there too, so it was like people to talk to. I did. I did wait. They were out of like the scones and uh the cinnamon rolls. But yeah. So what did you get? Got cookies, biscuit, and a brownie.

SPEAKER_05 27:27

Like a biscuit, like a biscuit.

SPEAKER_04 27:31

Oh, yeah, and they had the homemade jam. It was very good. It was very good. Very, very good. They don't open back up till tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_02 27:38

I say tomorrow morning.

SPEAKER_05 27:39

So, okay, go ahead.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

No, I was in my head, I was like, oh, we have staff tomorrow. We could bring it in, but we have staff today. Just kidding.

SPEAKER_05 27:44

Yeah, staff today.

SPEAKER_02 27:45

I got very excited, and then it was all right.

SPEAKER_05 27:47

So you know, it is amazing things that we will wait for. We'll wait for food, we'll wait for rides, we'll wait for all kinds of things. That's part of life. But when you wait for God, that's part of the experience. Some of the emotions. When you have to wait for God, what would be two or three words you'd use for emotions? I wrote uh the first book I wrote was called The Walk, and in there I talk about how God is frustratingly slow, right? He's just the frustration of waiting on God sometimes. What would be a word you would use to describe the emotions of waiting?

SPEAKER_07 28:18

I think waiting can be dreadful sometimes. I mean, just to be honest.

SPEAKER_05 28:22

Why am I waiting? Yeah. Is it ever going to end? Yeah, the mystery of the whole thing. Yeah. It's a good one. Dreadful.

SPEAKER_04 28:30

I think we all think about frustration, but I have even experienced anxiety in the waiting.

SPEAKER_08 28:38

I think confusion is a good one. Because you really don't like you're you're like you're doing everything that you know to do, right? And and then God is silent. And you and you're just like confused with what's going on. What are you doing? Why am I having to experience this?

SPEAKER_05 28:54

You think one of the reasons maybe for that confusion sometimes is because we compare our experience to other people. They got an issue. God didn't, you know.

SPEAKER_07 29:03

Well, and like with social media too, you just see things constantly happening, or at least like the appearance of things happening all the time. And so it just feels like you're the only one waiting sometimes. That's I had lonely.

SPEAKER_02 29:14

That was mine. Because I like you feel like you're waiting on God, and so He's deserted you. That's your own interpretation of what's happening. Or, like you said, everybody else seems to have it all together. So then you just keep isolating yourself and pulling yourself into your own little bubble or your own narrative that's not necessarily true, but it does isolate you. And so I just I think waiting can make you lonely sometimes.

SPEAKER_05 29:39

Yeah, here's the amazing thing: all things that we just mentioned, the isolation, the confusion, the dread, all those, the frustration. If you read the book of Psalms, all those emotions are in there when you're waiting on God. Yep. So you're, I mean, it's incredible how these emotions, even though that's so much a part of the experience, is inspired scripture to let us know he knows our sorrows, he knows our weaknesses, he knows our frailty in all this.

SPEAKER_07 30:07

My intrusive thoughts almost cause me to sing a Michael Jackson song just then. The you were not at all. So I guess it won after all. That just tells you where my head's at. But that's the first thing that I thought of.

SPEAKER_05 30:24

That song is not in the Bible, right? But it is good. All right, it is good. So that's one, it's not up there for me. So here we go. You know, one of the one of the things that when you are in that season of waiting, and this person talked about the frustration in their question, is you know, I say it all the time. You can't let your emotions become a theologian. You can't let your emotions inform your faith. Bible, Bible verses that talk about waiting. What are some of your go-to places in scripture? You go, man, I'm gonna peg this verse, I'm gonna meditate on this verse, I'm gonna put it on my mirror, and I'm gonna wait on God. What what do y'all what do y'all have?

SPEAKER_07 31:00

I want to jump in before anybody else steals mine because it's very likely that someone else has this. Probably. Uh, but Isaiah 40, 31. And I'll tell you why. See, I knew. Oh, was that yours? No, it is not mine.

SPEAKER_04 31:13

That is one of them. Okay.

SPEAKER_07 31:15

Uh says, but they who wait for the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not be faint. And I just think it's, you know, in light of what you uh like as we went went around the table talking about what emotions and feelings come to mind, like when we think about waiting, it's like saying that that we'll we'll be strengthened, and that we really need to learn how to wait, and that waiting is like a crucial part of the Christian walk if we're really gonna walk it right. And so it's just you know, there's so many examples in scripture that just show us that God's ways are not our ways. It's good.

SPEAKER_04 31:53

So piggybacking off of because you're talking about strength. So um I'm going through the book of Psalms in the discipleship uh journal group now. So I've got Psalms 27, 14, wait for the Lord, be strong and take heart and wait. So that just reminds me that in the whole time, like waiting requires strength, and strength that I don't I don't have. Like I have to even lean on him in a time of waiting just for the strength to wait.

SPEAKER_05 32:21

So Man, you know, the verse 13. So I wrote a list of verses in here, but verse 13 right before that one says, I believe that I shall look upon the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. It's almost like when you talk about in that restaurant. I'm gonna I just worth the wait because I know it's gonna be good, right? Sometimes you I I love the I love the increased faith of that verse. I believe that I shall look upon the goodness. He's gonna do something good, and that'll that'll sustain you through that. So that's good. Who else? Bible verse.

SPEAKER_08 32:52

So Philippians 1, 6, he says, I am sure of this that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. And so uh when I'm in a waiting moment, I I look at I look at man the hope of like the restaurant, I'm looking at the end process, right? And I know that it's God who began the work and he won't leave me where he found me. Yeah, right. He he will he will see the work through. I just have to be patient and wait on him and not get ahead of what he wants because if I begin to look around and look at everybody else at how things are going for them, and I'm not patient waiting on, okay, God, what do you have for me today? Like the work that you've already begun, let me continue in that until you give me something new.

SPEAKER_05 33:43

It's good. Jody, what about you?

SPEAKER_02 33:45

One verse I find myself going to a lot is Isaiah 43, one. But now this is what the Lord says He who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel, do not fear, for I have redeemed you, I've summoned you by name, you are mine. And I love it because I feel like he's addressing Jacob and his humanness, knowing, like, hey, this is gonna be hard. This is not gonna be fun. But then he also says, But I've created you to be Israel and I've created you for this. And so I just I love the part where he says, do not fear because that's where I usually am in waiting. I'm fearful of time, fearful of circumstance, fearful of anxiety. Like I just I create all of this in my own head. And so I love that he's like, I know you're gonna do this, but I'm gonna summon you and remind you who you are anyway. And I feel like that summoning is God just saying, Hey, this is my time. This is what I'm calling you to do. And so trust that I have called you and I'm gonna do it again. And so I just keep clinging to that, going, okay, are you in your flesh or are you in your identity in Christ right now? Because it is so easy to go back to who you were and not be and then be reminded of who you actually are.

SPEAKER_05 34:49

Man, powerful verse on waiting. The book of Lamentations, and you and you put this into context because uh Jerusalem has just fallen. Jeremiah is about to be carried off into captivity. This this is about to set off years of the promises of God being put on pause, right? And Jeremiah knows kind of the rest of his life it's not going to be realized. And so, in that smoldering heap of disappointment, God gives Jeremiah a word. He says, The Lord is good to those who wait for him, the soul who seeks him. Man, just in the midst of that, he's like, Man, you still to wait on the Lord. And then Proverbs 3, 5 and 6, trust in the Lord with all your heart. Do not lean on your own understanding. That's the don't let your emotions be your theologian. In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will straighten out your path. So, man, that's uh that's good. We got to realize when we're waiting on God, God is still working. He's refining our faith, he works in his timing. He sometimes God, when you wait, he's refining what you're asking for. He's kind of of guiding your heart in prayer. I think a lot of people think that that idea of God will give you the desires of your heart, which is what the book of Psalms says. I think they think that that means God will give you whatever your heart desires. But I it really means God will give you what your heart should desire. And sometimes as you pray, it's getting in sequence with the will of God and what he wants to do. Then you also got to realize sometimes when you wait, God's working on other people. There's a lot of other pieces of the puzzle in light of this. So let's go to a Bible story, man. Abraham is a story of both consequence and reward for a guy who would not wait in line.

SPEAKER_02 36:39

So that's a very nice way of putting it.

SPEAKER_05 36:42

We have both the birth of Ishmael and the birth of Isaac, right? We also have the sacrifice of Isaac. Um, that story, man. What what how's that inform your faith of when you do get ahead of God, you're not willing to wait, what could happen?

SPEAKER_04 36:56

Well, the promise was Isaac because of the impatience. Here come Ishmael. Well, then the result of trying to do everything on their own was what generations of conflict then. So I think when uh Abraham got to the point of um tr he the Lord had brought him to this place of where he could trust him enough that he could take Isaac up for that sacrifice, but but that was a long process. So anytime that we try to do it, like there's all the time gonna be problems that God didn't intend to be in the picture, but we brought into the picture because we couldn't wait.

SPEAKER_05 37:43

Yeah. And those those problems can last a while.

SPEAKER_04 37:46

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_05 37:47

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_08 37:48

I think one thing, like in that moment where when God comes and says, Hey, this is what I'm gonna do, um, instead of focusing on the outcome, focus on obedience to what? Um because if I focus on the outcome, then I'm gonna want to do what I can do to make that outcome come to fruition without God, right? But man, if I if I practice obedience, the Lord's molding me and shaping me to the outcome so that so that I am I'm exactly where God wants me to be when I get there. Um and man, but so many times our path looks like a it's like we we God says it's a straight line if you do this, and we're like, ooh, yeah. And and man, just just practicing obedience of what God said already, right? And you reach the desired outcome that He has for your life. But so many times we complicated them.

SPEAKER_07 38:47

I know you said you're like a 0.08 out of 10. I'm probably maybe even lower because I I've always been horrible at waiting. Um but you know, I I think a lot of times when we get in that place where we're frustrated about waiting for whatever it is, whether it's something short term or or long term, I mean it's like especially when we look at it um from a spiritual standpoint, is that frustration really comes from being fixated on the wrong thing. You know, it's like a lot of times we we look at the destination or the promise or and like and those things matter because you really don't have a journey unless there's a destination. And so, you know, you hear people say all the time, well, it's not about the destination, it's about the journey. I think it's about both, really. Yeah. They're both important um parts of the story. But really where we find that peace and we find that uh that joy and that ability to wait and wait well and gather strength and uh really see the point of the whole thing is is when we realize that the Lord is really the prize and that we already have the main thing if we have Christ. And so that I mean, it doesn't make the pain of the physical, you know, uh elapsation of time. Is that even a word? I don't know. Go look it up. It is now elapsing of time, I don't know, uh any easier. Or I mean, because like we're still human and we still struggle with that. But um I I feel like that's what the Lord has really taught me in a lot of my waiting, which in some ways felt like my whole life. You know, I mean you're always waiting on something, but it's just to get my eyes off of where I'm going and just look at him. And it just makes things a whole lot more enjoyable. Yeah, you know.

SPEAKER_02 40:32

I think we get confused sometimes because we think that we should be comfortable in the waiting. Like in waiting rooms we complain about the chairs or we complain, like we just want to be comfortable, and God never promised us to be comfortable. He called us to be sheep, and sheep um are obedient and they listen and they seek after the Father. And I found that waiting is a lot easier when I'm listening and not maybe moving or doing too much. But I know this might just be my my own problem, but I tend to put a period where God wants a comma because that comma is really hard to wait for then what's gonna happen next. And so I'm like, oh, we're done. Okay, because I do get uncomfortable. And so I kind of stop the narrative and don't let God continue what he's doing because I'm uncomfortable, I'm impatient, I'm getting nervous, and so I take the reins back and it's like, no, you're a sheep. You're a sheep. Um but I've I've just come to realize he's so much more patient with me than I ever am with him. And so how much have I missed out on because I stop the work, I stop what he's trying to do because I'm starting to get really restless and uncomfortable.

SPEAKER_05 41:46

So Man, I'll uh um, you know, while we wait, you know, I I don't think waiting means doing nothing. Um I give you a great, really powerful Bible passage here, but man, I do want to kind of end, everybody just kind of give a story of a short story of a time you had to wait on God. But one of the most insightful passages for me, who does not enjoy waiting, is when uh I was going through the book of Daniel and came across a passage where um Daniel prays, God gives him a vision, tells him what to do, and then it's delayed for three weeks. And the Bible says that Daniel fasted and prayed for three weeks. And then here's here's the amazing thing about what what when this happens. He says, Oh Daniel, man greatly loved, understand the words I speak to you, and stand upright, for now I've been sent to you. And when he had spoken this word to me, I stood up trembling. Then he said to me, Fear not, Daniel. From from from the first day that you set your heart to understand and humbled yourself before your God, your words have been heard. So he says, From day one, God was working that you started praying about this. But listen to this. He said, I have become I have come because of your words. The prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me 21 days. And so he talks about like a battle that he went into in the spiritual world that delayed the answer, which is mind-blowing to me. That how does that work? I don't know. Maybe that's a podcast for another day. But it I'm just telling you, that's what it says. It says, But Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me, for I was left there with the kings of Persia and came to make you understand uh what is to happen to your people in the latter days, for the vision is for days yet to come. And so, man, just the application of that verse to realize sometimes when you pray for something, God sends the word out. He's going to do it. But maybe there are some even spiritual things that the Bible sometimes calls us to persevere in prayer. Luke 18 talks about praying and persevering. 1 Thessalonians 5 17, pray without ceasing. So don't give up, and man. And you don't do nothing, but man, we we do persevere in prayer. So let's end on this. Uh just maybe some short stories around the table, the time in which you waited on God. What were the spiritual disciplines you used during that season? What did God teach you in the waiting? Who wants to go first?

SPEAKER_04 44:17

So I kind of feel like I'm in a waiting period now. Um like I've been I've been seeking, I've just been seeking some things just spiritually, just for myself. So, but in the waiting period, there's been a couple of things that the Lord has already started revealing to me is um one is my what my relationship with control looks like. Like, I mean, that's been a real conviction for me, and it's been a real eye-opener for me. But in that waiting time, like Scott had said earlier, like it's to continue to do the things I know to do, praying, worshiping, like just the obedience of just what the walk looks like every day, like seeking his will instead of trying to make him fit mine. But you know, we started this discipleship journal group, and um and I I'm seeing the Lord really move in it. Like I'm seeing like truths to be revealed where, but like just even that has really helped me in my waiting period because it's taken the focus off of me. Because, you know, we didn't talk about anger has been one of the emotions that you associate in the waiting period. But you know, if you think about it, anger is the most dominant emotion that we have, it takes over everything. And when like when you think about it, what comes what it comes back to is that I didn't get the expected result. Like I am, and it's really about like because everyone's not doing what the idolizing of me is about. And so it's been really good for me to to work through these things, but to keep doing the things I already know to do because it has changed my focus. It has changed like I'm I'm focused now on the Lord and not me. And and in that I've seen fruit from the group that I'm in of just how he's working in their lives, which is revealing more to me probably than it is to them.

SPEAKER_08 46:22

So for me, it was man, when COVID hit, I wasn't on I wasn't on staff, I wasn't on staff yet. And and man, celebrate recovery is going good. We're we're running about 150 people, and then all of a sudden everything stops to a dead halt. I I we're having to to to do live streams from home, we're having to teach lessons from home, like we're having to jump through all of these hoops just to keep people connected. And man, when we when we first had our first parking lot service back here at the church, there's like three people showed up in the leaders. And man, it was like that sucked the life out of me. But do you remember texting me? You you said you text me after you left because you were there, and you said, Scott, I'll contact I text you and say, make sure you turn the heat off. Yeah, you text me and said, Scott, all God has called you to do is be faithful. And and man, I I held on to that. And man, I just like you said, I just continued to be faithful with what I knew to do and leave the rest up to God. And and man, it's just been it it was in those moments though that God was preparing me for coming on staff, that I was learning new things, that I was having to having to take on more that I didn't really know anything about, and having to grow into this process of okay, it's not always gonna look the way you want it to. It's not always gonna be this beautiful, grandiose thing where there's all kinds of people, and so God was preparing me for some some rough patches.

SPEAKER_05 48:05

Um, you know, Shannon and I were talking the other day about celebrate recovery and about that very story of of how large and robust it appeared to be and had so much momentum and then gone, yeah, and then seven people, you know, in the parking lot and all that kind of stuff. And and you know, uh I think we were talking about just from what happened last Thursday night and last couple weeks and just what God's doing in celebrate recovery. And I and I was telling her, I said, you know, nobody nobody would have asked for that. And we did we sure didn't understand it when it was happening, but man, now you look back and you see this this kill switch and a reboot that that has become so fruitful now in that season, you know, and at that time you're man, you think this it's been destroyed, but waiting on God and being faithful, look look where we are now. So it's just incredible. Somebody else, story.

SPEAKER_07 49:01

Man, so many come to mind. Um, you know, a lot of people in our church are familiar with the Walk to Remember event. That it's funny how like the Lord sort of put these two things together, but um the the lady that heads that event up um had asked me a couple years before it started happening at Liberty every November um to be part of the music and just kind of like you know, be part of the candlelight ceremony, things like that. And so I I did it a couple years before it came here, and then the event moved to Liberty, and I remember I was just kind of like taking a 15-minute coffee break, as I probably would have in the year 2022, and as I have every year since eight years old. Um, but I was just taking a little rest in between song sets, and I remember sitting back in like at a little card table behind the stage, and um, and I remember I just felt this sense that the Lord was gonna lead me here. And I was just like, okay. You know, I you're talking about the the delay in in the book of Daniel. It's like I didn't really talk to you till another year or two after that. And even there was a you know, just a strung together sort of events that led to us even meeting. And so um I remember coming away from that moment thinking, like, am I insane? You know, and a lot of I think a lot of times we feel that way, especially when the Lord makes us a promise or prompts something in our spirit, like a lot of time can pass and a lot of life just happens, and we're like, what was that? You know? It was it was just such a a cool thing. I mean, a lot of details that don't really have time to go into about how all that came to fruition. But it's it's pretty wild to look back and think, you know, just kind of like y'all were saying, um, as much as I really was excited about that notion and and felt like the Lord was saying something really specific to me, I looked back and I think had it happened right then, I probably wouldn't have been prepared for it, probably wouldn't have had the character, the uh, you know, maybe emotional maturity. I don't know what it only the Lord knows why it took so many days and and years and moments and seasons, all that kind of stuff to bring the present circumstances about.

SPEAKER_05 51:16

And you mentioned the word seasons right there, and I I'm sitting there thinking while you were telling that story, you know, every every vision God gives you and leading that he has in your life, we want to go immediately to the harvest of that vision, right? And if you go back to uh when Mike Blackaby was here, and if you haven't watched that message, I would encourage everybody to go back and watch the message on seasons. Every leading of God in your life has a progression of seasons. Once he leads you to do something, which is really exciting, man, things are gonna change. There's also a season of dormancy when the old begins to there's still something to finish out, right? There's there's a time to to till the soil in hard places because things don't grow in hard soil. So you got some work to do, man. You got that spring and the sun, you know, every ever even God's leading will take you through all the different seasons. Seasons are unavoidable. Something we talked about in Man Church, Ecclesiastes 3. There are certain things that don't happen in certain seasons. So even when God's leading you, there's still some things that you have to wait through. So, Jody, about you, the story.

SPEAKER_02 52:25

Um, you know, kind of like you with the waiting even for here, but if you rewind our story a little bit more, Danny and I were in Kentucky and we loved Kentucky, and Mav was born in Kentucky, but Kentucky was hard um physically for me. We had a really um difficult pregnancy and different things. And so out of that, we just we needed to go heal. We needed to heal physically, mentally, just reconnect with God. And so we made the decision to move back to Florida and step out of ministry. And um, and so when we did that, we were seeing these waves just crash everywhere on us, not literally in Florida, but just in the world around us, and we couldn't get a footing. So we were like, we need to go back kind of just back to the beginning, back to where we feel um like ourselves. So we went back to Florida and we started visiting a beach in Anna Maria called uh Still Waters. And it was really interesting. Like now that I'm just back thinking, I was like, oh my goodness. Um and so to leave Kentucky where we just felt the storm of everything going on around us to go to Florida and Still Waters. Um, but it was a season of waiting because the best way I can compare it is, and I'm not a sports person, so just follow me. But like it felt like we kind of got put on the bench, we got taken out of the game. Um, and our initial reaction was to get really mad at God. Why would you take me out? We were doing your work, we were doing so well. It's the other person's fault. And I feel like when the coach benches players sometimes they start yelling and screaming at the coach and not thinking, okay, well, what what did you do? What do you need to be taken away from? What are you needing to recognize? And the parents are you, yes. Are you hurt? Is it, you know, is this a compassionate move? Is this a, you know, and so in Florida, we really had to heal physically and reconnect with God and and get back to those things. And when that started happening, we started realizing, like, oh, wait, the coach took us out because he needed us to still ourselves. He needed us to watch the game. Um, he needed us to reconnect and listen to him. We were not being obedient. We just at that point said, we're mad at you, so we're not listening anymore. Even being in ministry, we said, we're mad, so you know, you let us down, you disappointed us. And so we took ourselves out. Um, and Florida was a really good season to heal, but it was the hardest season of my life because we were benched. Um, and after about three years, y'all, it was not, it was not a quick season. After about three years, Danny and I started talking again. And um, and that's how, you know, even here came into place. But in that season, my aunt bought a cabin in Ellijay. Well, it was that cabin that opened the door for us to even start looking in Georgia. And so it was like God knew, hey, I need you to rest so I can put the next step into place. And if you're not gonna listen to me, I'm gonna take you out anyway. Um, and so when we were in Florida, all that took place. But then, you know, okay, great. Now we're hired in January. I'm under contract as a teacher, can't get to y'all until June. Great, they're not gonna take me anymore once I tell them that I'm out. And we had, you know, you asked us, we had to seek after other people to come in the waiting period with us to pray on our behalf when we felt frustrated, but to also remind us that God's not here for a list of what we need. We need to be listening to what he wants. And we kept going, okay, but it's for our good, right? That's what it says. And it's gonna no, it's it's for my good. And so then Shane and them stepped in and that provided that time period. Okay, well, now we get here and we don't have a house. And so then we had to wait and figure that out. Well, then Satan was like, Great, I'm gonna make you really annoyed and really frustrated and make you feel alone. No, he needed we needed to wait for the other people, and that was a year process, but God was moving in their life. So, like you said, God was moving and answering prayers before we even knew to ask. He already had it set in motion, and we were terrible at waiting. We were really bad. And so he he ignited a verse in my heart that I'd never known. We were going through, Danny and I were going through Exodus and we were going through Moses' story, and I've told you guys this before, but I never picked up on it when they got out of um being slaves and got to the Red Sea to cross it. It was a huge miracle, and we kind of skipped the in-between, uh, we skipped the comma, um, and we get to the big finale, and they had to camp. They had to wait there. And he said, I need your heart in this, but I also need to put other things in motion. And so they camped, and I never picked up on that word. And so I'll say it every week because I keep saying it. Y'all, the Bible is alive, and just keep reading it because everything is new and refreshed. And so we never picked up on that word camp before because we were like, okay, we don't have a house, we're going back home. Okay, we can't get a community, we're going back home. Like anything we had a foot back, and that's what they were doing. They're like, we know what to expect back here, and we don't trust that our God is big enough to part this sea. And he goes, Good, then you're gonna camp until you make me bigger than your circumstance. And that's and so I just encourage you, get in their word, get with people who will get there with you, um, who are gonna remind you. Scott had to remind me this morning. Uh, just who's gonna tell you the truth and not just tell you what you want to hear to make you feel better? Um because you need truth more than you need lip service. Yeah, and you need to be reminded who you are and who God is. But anyway, um I will say from Kentucky to now, that was seven years. That was seven years. And so it's unsettling. The waiting is unsettling, and you're gonna want control and you're gonna be frustrated. So you need to surround yourself with people who are stable and who are going to keep pointing you back to you.

SPEAKER_04 58:16

So it's so cool listening to these stories because, like, you know, you made the reference to a waiting room earlier. I've never been in a waiting room where I was by myself, yeah. Ever, ever. Like, so so many people are in that season of waiting. But look at every one of these stories, though. Like how the waiting turned into now a witness. Yeah, yep. Like, I mean, that's cool.

SPEAKER_05 58:40

Man, so is it bad if I'm in a waiting room and people start coughing, I go stand outside. You're a germophobe, so I we expect that. That messes up the metaphor, doesn't it?

SPEAKER_07 58:50

You can camp, but you're just gonna camp over there.

SPEAKER_08 58:55

Yes, he's gonna camp outside the camp.

SPEAKER_05 58:59

There's always that mentally ill person that messes up the whole thing. Uh that is me, man. That's good stuff. Well, hey, good place to end right here. So I hope that helps you in your waiting. Some good things uh to give you some instruction there. We'll see you right here next week, uh, live at Liberty.