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Running on Coffee and Christ
Episode 13: What if God's "Strict Rules" Were Actually Protection All Along?
We explore how God's seemingly strict laws in the Old Testament were actually protective measures designed with loving intention and divine foresight, not arbitrary rules meant to control or burden His people.
• Understanding Biblical quarantine laws as protective measures, not punishment or shame
• Recognizing God's intentionality in creating laws that protected ancient Israelites before modern scientific understanding
• Seeing how Biblical separation laws during illness parallel modern quarantine practices
• Finding God's character throughout Scripture instead of focusing on ourselves
• Discovering how God prepares us through everyday experiences for unexpected challenges
• Viewing physical fitness as preparation that enables us to protect and serve others
• Recognizing the Bible as the story of Jesus: coming, arriving, and returning again
• Learning to trust God's perfect intentions even when we don't understand His methods
Join us this summer for our running group! Whether you want to start running with intention or join our Bible reading journey, it's never too late to begin. God doesn't care if you're on day one or day 105—He simply wants you to seek Him intentionally.
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Hey everybody and welcome back. We took a week break during Easter week. That's always such a busy week and honestly it's just kind of a hallowed week, I would say. So we are back at it today, with starting with episode 13.
Speaker 2:Episode 13. So, yeah, we had a lot of good time with family on both of our sides. We have a lot of traditions that we try to keep up with different sides of the family and a few things that were unique here and there thrown in fun stuff. And obviously things change as you get older. I think it was different definitely with younger kids versus older. We only have a couple more younger kids in the family right now.
Speaker 2:Elle being one of them, elle's one of the youngest of them all, but yeah. So Easter weekend, easter week, more younger kids in the family right now l l's one of the youngest of them all, but, um, but yeah. So easter weekend, uh, easter week, there's always a lot, a lot going on in the in the build-up to that, and then the week of it um, we, we did some, some, you, some unique running this week.
Speaker 1:I would say my booty still hurts from some hill work so I I'm getting ready to do a hill uh race in next weekend, not this coming up weekend, but the next weekend so we started last week doing uh training for that and calvin has been along for the ride on some of that and he went on my long hilly run.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that was actually like easter morning we woke up really early and ran in the sunrise.
Speaker 1:It was really fun we decided that we might make this a tradition to have an early easter morning run, and we actually ran in the sunrise. It was really fun. We decided that we might make this a tradition to have an early easter morning run, and we actually were in the graveyard too, so that was kind of cool it was.
Speaker 2:It was really neat. I mean, it's kind of somber, you know but, also, it gives you a sense of uh, of joy, thinking about how, um you know, our lord and savior, jesus christ, did come out of the grave he's not in the the grave.
Speaker 1:He's not in the grave anymore.
Speaker 2:So we're so thankful for that and we're on the road to recovery from that. I think I'm going to try to squeeze in a run tomorrow maybe, but I don't know. Right now our evenings are just so busy. I don't know if that's probably going to happen, but yeah, so we've had a lot of thoughts going on with where we're at in our Bible reading.
Speaker 1:We've had a lot of thoughts going on with our business and our running. If you're doing the Bible recap, I want to encourage you to keep on keeping on, and if you've fallen off the wagon you can get back in there. But hey, just all in all, read your Bible. You will not regret it, that is for sure.
Speaker 2:You will not.
Speaker 1:But today's topic I'm really excited to talk about and I don't know how long this episode will be uh, this is one of those topics that you could really start getting into maybe rabbit holes um but I think we're going to talk about it more broadly and that is really about how, about god's laws and how they apply today and how they applied then and a lot of times like, especially if you were reading the Bible recap we came out of all of those books from the Torah, which is Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, numbers in Deuteronomy.
Speaker 1:And when you get to the Leviticus numbers in Deuteronomy, you're going to get into the hardcore law, like he was saying. This is how you need to live, and the thing I love about reading the Bible is that you really do get to see God's character if you're looking for it. You know, one of the great things about the Bible recap is she is always focusing on finding God in the scriptures and not yourself in the scriptures. Focusing on finding God in the scriptures and not yourself in the scriptures, and you can see his character and the reason that he did the things that he did and I think that's what we're going to talk about today is that sometimes it might not make sense or it might seem mean, but everything God does has a purpose.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so when we first really started getting heavier in on our running and with Jude's actual training for running and we've never really processed that in our life and our any kind of fitness that we've ever done um, what it actually takes and a lot of it didn't quite make sense. Sometimes I think you know, like, why are we doing it this way? Or why, what do we need to do for this? Why do, why do I feel this pain? You know, here and there, you know and you learn so much, and not just with running, like the pains of business, the pains of just growing Um, why, why does it? You know hindsight's, 2020, right.
Speaker 2:So, I've done this a time or a few times before where you just open your Bible to a random scripture and you read it and you try to make it make sense to whatever's going on and you make something up. And a lot of times it can be kind of fun for your youth group. You just find a scripture and be like whatever it's about, make it up into something. So it kind of really shows how we as humans can make anything apply to our life in any weird random way you can manipulate the scriptures.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it can be very manipulative.
Speaker 2:Any written word can be manipulated if you have ill intent, and I think that's what's so important about the laws in Leviticus, numbers, deuteronomy and everything is that you don't try to find yourself in it and how you need to run outside and sacrifice your goat. You need to try to find what was God's purpose behind it.
Speaker 1:What was?
Speaker 2:the intention behind why he had this, and you know we've talked about this already that we've learned so much nowadays, as far as just our society it's so much more advanced. We're able to see so much more about how the world works that some of these laws they really make a lot of sense now. Whereas they might not have made a lot of sense back then. It was just obedience.
Speaker 1:And when you're reading it you can think, good grief, like they can't do this, they can't do that. But I don't know, it's like all of a sudden.
Speaker 2:I'm just seeing it through different lenses, if that makes sense yeah, so we had, we had a few different like thoughts of certain laws that that were back then, that really make a lot of sense nowadays and and it's really important that we understand that God's God has an intention. He has intention, he has a design to this. There's a purpose for the laws and and we're trying to understand what that purpose is in our life. For for, for why? We would you know? For simple things, honoring our mother and our father, that our days may be long.
Speaker 1:Right.
Speaker 2:Yes, your mother and father, unless there is something that is off, generally have what's best for your interest in your life. So you know, don't touch that eye on the stove. It's hot. They say that because there is a hope that you won't get damaged.
Speaker 1:Not because you're trying to be a boss and tell them what to do and what not to do. It really is for your protection. And I think about when God, when he was creating everything, it was intentional. God is not a God that is flying by the seat of his pants. Everything he does has a purpose. He knows what is good. And now, if you are up today on the bible recap, we're in the life of david right now. And, um, you see so many things like that. God was so intentional, even about, like, when you went from the judges into them having a king. And he's even telling them he was like, okay, you say you a king, so I'm going to give you a king, but I just want you to know that having a king can be not a good thing.
Speaker 2:Yeah, he laid out what would happen if they had a king. And then, when they chose a king, or when a king was anointed and they had a king, guess what happened?
Speaker 1:Yes, those things he warned them about the reason he didn't want them to have a king is because he is their king, Like Jesus was the king of kings. You know he wanted to be the Lord of them and you know they constantly rejected him. And they wanted to have a king, like the other countries, you know, so that they could be like everyone else.
Speaker 2:Yeah, but he already laid out in, like you know, the Mosaic laws and things like that. He already laid out a hierarchy of how to handle situations. He already laid out of who you go to with your grievances and, if there's a concern for one of the laws being broken, how to handle it. He'd already laid all the legalistic side, yes, and for a while.
Speaker 1:There, moses was the one that was having to handle it all, and you read those scriptures where it's like, okay, moses can't handle all of this on his own. There was the delegation of the other people I think there was 70 or and it splits off into more than that and it's like you go to them with, like, I guess, smaller grievances or whatever. If there was something like really huge, then that would be brought up the chain to Moses.
Speaker 2:But, um, yeah, so which I mean who doesn't struggle with delegation when you think that, when you think that the concept or idea that you have about your life is the best, or the way of doing something is the best, and you're like I got to do this if it's going to be perfect, right, and delegating things is really a difficult thing sometimes for a lot of personalities.
Speaker 1:Yes, it is. But you know, I think that when it came to the law, you know there was so much. There were some really tough and hard consequences when they broke those laws. But it needed to be that way because we know what's coming Like Jesus was coming. Jesus was going to make the way. These people had no way except through habitually making sacrifices and doing this and doing that. But there were certain things that they would have to do. I know that growing up, when I read the Bible like when it talked about somebody being cast out of the camp or whatever I immediately would think it's like you're casting them out. Punishment yeah, it's a punishment. You want everybody. It's kind of like the kid sitting in the corner with the dunce cap on. You always saw cartoons like that. I've never in my life seen that actually happen to anybody I'll have a dunce cap on in the corner, but to me.
Speaker 1:That's what I equated as is to me. I thought that they were being shamed shamed, thrown out but a lot of the times when they were cast out of the camp, it wasn't for that reason at all. It wasn't even for sin. It was for some kind of bodily discharge like blood or sickness. It was things like that of why they were basically quarantined.
Speaker 2:Yeah, so if you just think about the concept of leprosy right, and it's a contagion right.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:It's contagious. So if they don't understand the concept of contagious diseases, that are microscopic Germs yeah, germs, we have the ability to see.
Speaker 1:We know so much.
Speaker 2:Germs, yeah, we know so much more as a society as a whole, as humans, with what we've learned and done through scientific process. So it has its benefits. It's not all smoke and waters, smoke and mirrors, but we know so much. So now we look back and we're like, well, there's a reason why God wanted them to be separate. And I think back also, someone who had leprosy I'm with you also. I felt like earlier on they're being shamed or they're embarrassed about it, but really they are going through something and if you understand that this is a protection of the other people, you're probably really going to want to go along with it if you love the people that you are around you are going to want to go along with it If you love the people that
Speaker 2:you are around, you are going to want to separate yourself from them and, you know, not without getting any in any shape or form political on this. But society reverted very quickly to separation when we experienced COVID and there was a lot of confusion about how serious it was, how contagious it was, how deadly it was, what are the conditions for this to actually affect people's lives. And there was a lot of every family kind of had to just go with their own gut instinct, with what they knew and what they could figure out as best as they possibly could and handle it how they could. And a lot of people reverted to extreme separation because of a fear, and some of it because of underlying health issues, legitimate fears.
Speaker 1:Yes, you know, there was so much unknown, yeah.
Speaker 2:But it's very unknown and it's the same situation probably with a lot of these people, like it was unknown how contagious leprosy was. But God said you need to be separate. If you are able to be healed of this or if you become clean of this, then you represent yourself Right and there's a process for that.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you know there's a time too in the scriptures, while they're in the wilderness, that Miriam and Aaron both question Moses' authority. They're like who are you to say that God is the person who made you the leader? Well, god took heavy offense to that, because to him that was them challenging him or them questioning him. It was doubt. It was them doubting God and that he had sent Moses. So one of the things he does is he immediately I guess the word is curse curses Miriam with leprosy.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 1:remember this part. Yes, yes, okay, and she's immediately leprous. Well, like moses is horrified, okay, because it's his sister, and like this was a disease that you didn't really heal from. Rarely were did anybody come back from this, especially if it's like covered head to toe yeah okay, and then you would have. There was those laws in there where it was like, if it's like, if it's white or if it's it's really gross.
Speaker 1:It's gross things, it's oozing, then you're separate, or if it's if it's scabbed, then you're okay, but see all those things make sense now because it's like, yeah, if it was like an open wound, then you don't need to have that around somebody. But if it has scabbed over, probably okay, you're not going to spread that to somebody. But getting back to what I was saying about Miriam, he pleads with God like, please, no, don't let this happen to my sister. And God is going to allow Miriam to live. But because she was leprous, what did she have to do?
Speaker 1:She had to separate herself live, but because she was leprous. What did she have to do? She had to separate herself. She had to separate herself now, guys think about this when the israelites were traveling okay, this is not some little family camping trip. Okay, we're talking about millions of people, okay, so even to go outside of the camp. I don't even really know how far someone would have to go yeah, like.
Speaker 2:To get outside the camp yeah, I mean, even if you had a crowd of a thousand people's homes, you know, like their tents set up on a campground, um, you would be separated and you'd have to travel a good ways if just for a thousand people on a campground. Yes, you know you'd have to, but you wouldn't see anyone in knowing and knowing this she, she probably had to go far.
Speaker 1:But I always thought like, yeah, she got leprosy and she had to get out of the camp. And so I was thinking as a child, or even like yesterday Miriam was, I thought she's cast out because, you know, they're having to really show her who's boss, like she needs to be shamed, like she's. That's not why she was thrown out. She was thrown out, she got leprosy because of her sin. God was like boom, a consequence Now she's outside the camp because she has leprosy.
Speaker 1:Because of the law, yes, and that law was there to protect her and to protect everyone else in that camp from getting leprosy yeah, and it wasn't to protect them from her.
Speaker 2:You know like we're exposed to people constantly that god allows us to to be separated from, because he's trying to protect us. Yes, you know not necessarily that he's trying to punish other people, but he's trying to protect you from bad situations, or?
Speaker 1:bad environments.
Speaker 2:You know, I remember you know as a young man, thinking in high school, and things. When you know, you get your driver's license and you're like I'm an experienced life and you're going to go to go to these people's houses.
Speaker 2:Go to go to these people's houses, like there was such a culture that that when we started getting some independence and started experiencing what other people were doing with their, their wild lives, you know it's like, okay, there's, there's a reason why god was keeping me from this, because it has no appeal to me. You know, like like he was protecting me from that environment, from being friends with those people, even though there might have been situations that I've been like, oh man, I'm not with the in crowd or something like that, you know but I look back on it.
Speaker 1:I'm like you know, thank you, lord, because I had a great group of friends, um, you know, in school and it's not because you're special no you know, it's not like he looked at calvin was like I'm gonna keep him grounded by making him not in the in crowd, you know, or whatever. Yeah, um, I think god uses our situations, you know, to our benefit. You know, um, he knows what he's doing. He, uh, he is the, he's the master, you know. And so I think about, like, in our life, he has just as much as he had intentionality when he was creating everything. He had intentionality when he was creating everything. He had intentionality when he was making all those laws, because Moses did not write those laws. God wrote those laws and Moses wrote them down Correct, thank you Moses. The amount of pressure that Moses had on him and then he didn't even get to go in the promised land because he still messed up. This is a man that was so stinking close to God that he saw him face to face.
Speaker 1:Yeah yeah, and he still messed up. There's hope for us all guys. Okay, that was a little sidebar.
Speaker 2:We already said that there probably should be some sidebars, just as much as he had intentionality in creating everything and in making all those laws.
Speaker 1:He has intentionality in our life as well. How many times are we thwarting his intentions?
Speaker 2:And it can be something simple. Yeah, something as simple as you know, the, the nervous energy that we get in a new environment where there's a conversation that God is in, is inspiring you to have with someone or to talk about something or to live your life in a certain way, and it might seem small, but there's an intended purpose behind it.
Speaker 2:You know, like are you? Are you serving the purpose that God has for you right now in your life, with your activities that you're participating in, Um, as simple and monotonous as they might be, even if, even if you work, you know 16 hours a day and you and you go home, eat with your family and sleep for four hours, wake up and drive another hour to work and work another 16 hours, Even if your life is consumed by the demands of your career and you're like I've got to push through this, Even in that monotony of work, work, work, work, work, there's an intended purpose behind it and you've got to find it. You've got to recognize that God is using it for one reason or the other. Are you supposed to be a minister at that place, and what is God using it for your future with your family?
Speaker 2:Like we had many nights, many days early on in our marriage where those 16-hour doubles and triples and quadruples.
Speaker 1:They were very abundant early on in our marriage and, and it was hard it was tough and we didn't have children during that time. We were married a whole seven years before we had children. Um, and there may have been intentionality behind that there was definitely purpose behind them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there was I.
Speaker 1:It would have definitely been difficult having a child involved with the schedules that that you were on yeah um, there would have been no way for you to have been present to be honestly the way that you, that you wanted to, but everything in our life should have intentionality, and this is something.
Speaker 1:This is a quote that I saw the other day, and so you know that we're always going to go back to coffee and running and jesus, but um. So this one in particular is about fitness. But, uh, fitness isn't everything, but everything is harder if you aren't fit. It has just that has stuck with me, and it says there is more to life than fitness. However, there is more to life with fitness. How much more can we do, calvin? Because we can maintain a high heart rate.
Speaker 2:True.
Speaker 1:You know I was thinking about this and I've said this before.
Speaker 2:Okay, Like first line of defense, I can run yeah, yeah, if you're under attack, you can get away from it.
Speaker 1:We have always talked about this. In this situation, you know like we're not going to talk about guns and and weapons and all that stuff, um, second amendment rights and all of that. But even in our talks about you know me carrying or things like that, it's still the first thing that you want to do is get away from the situation period, and so a lot of times when I'm running I think about this.
Speaker 1:I think, okay, I could sprint. How long could I sprint to get away from them? First of all, because they might get sprint faster than me, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:But I might can sprint longer than they, they could sprint, and so y'all may think I'm crazy, okay. So like when I'm out there and I'm doing these like intervals, it's like I'm not just training for a race at nakalula or for a half marathon, it's for my life yeah you know, um, and I hope that I never have to. I'm never in a situation where I'm having to run from somebody, or, you know, or even if I was needing to run to something like to help someone.
Speaker 2:That's where my mind goes with it, Because the last thing I would want to be is to be a father who doesn't have the ability to run to his kids and to run to his spouse and do everything I can to protect them. Like could I grapple with someone you know, two minutes solid, tensing every muscle in my body, trying to give you the chance to run away. You know, am I going to be able to lock up two or three guys to give you a chance at survival?
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:You know, even if it costs me my life, can I survive long enough for you to last? You know and and that's where my mind goes with it, and so I was just thinking about this when I was talking there was a situation I had at um, on the on a plant floor the other day, where a guy was uh cutting something and and a razor blade, um, he was cutting.
Speaker 2:He, always he I know this guy. He always cuts away from himself, but for some reason he was frustrated and he cut towards himself and he cut right into the meat of his thumb. Oh, I mean, it laid it open about a I think it was about an inch and a half, and blood just automatically was like shooting out, right, and and I went into, um, you know bloodborne pathogen training, right, like worried about, I don't know, this person.
Speaker 2:I don't know, if they've got something, I automatically. I ran to my box, got my med kit, came back out there, threw on gloves, put on pressure, designated people to do cleanup and bleach and everything and headed off with him to the bathroom, started doing cold washes and antiseptics and pressure, and I got it by the time I was done with him.
Speaker 2:It was all wrapped up, it was clean, everything was perfectly fine. And I look back on that, and that was just and that was just a small gaping wound, but I look back on it, I was like if I hadn't have had the walkthroughs in my mind with my training to be able to be able to, it was second nature. It felt like this was just natural. This was the next step to take. This was the next thing I needed to do to protect this wound, to sanitize it, to make sure he didn't have infection, to make sure it stopped bleeding. You know, I was looking for I'd, even like I'd even when I opened it up to really assess it, when he got a good look at it underwater, I was like, is this something that I'm going to have to literally hold his hand for the next two hours to make?
Speaker 2:sure he doesn't bleed out. You know, like I don't know, do I need a tourniquet, you know? So all those things are going through my head and when it was all said and done, I stepped back and I was like if I hadn't have prepared for this in my mind of what I would have needed to have done in that situation, would I have been able to handle this correctly? And I wouldn't have. So there's a whole level of preparedness that God is building up for us in our lives by saying these are the way that you handle things.
Speaker 2:This is the most efficient way for you to protect your family, to provide for your kids spiritually and nourishment. Wise, to be the wise aunt. You know and do the things that you need to do and act the way that you're. That I'm calling you to act Because when life hits you, you'll have the resources to be able to handle it. You will be prepared.
Speaker 1:You can run if you need to run. You can stay if you need to stay. You know because you're ready, because there was already so much intention put in behind it and we talked about this knowing our why we do things. It's funny how a lot of these podcast topics they fold into one another, right, but they really do Like, why are you doing the things that you do? It should make sense and God knew exactly why he was doing what he was doing and the fact is that we can trust him when we're reading that and you're reading about the fuzzy, leprous, creepy spot.
Speaker 2:The pus.
Speaker 1:Yes, and you're like, oh my gosh, I see so much of him in that now, and it is so amazing to me that you can read that. And maybe the first time you read it you're like I hate reading this, this is so gross or it's so boring. And now I'm like, oh my gosh, I love this. Let's see all these little, what I deemed crazy little laws at first, you know, but it was his protection. It's his love. His love is throughout the whole Bible. It truly is a love story. Yeah, truly Yep.
Speaker 1:And I guess, like when you can, by the time you get to the New Testament and Jesus has actually come and he has fulfilled all that, and he says it is finished. We, we, one of our girls that comes on our bible recap nights she talked about that. How profound that was to her when she read. When he said it is finished because after you've read the law and the prophets, you know. You know what he was talking about. Yeah, he wasn't talking about just his physical life dying. He was saying everything that I came here to do has just now been fulfilled and I can and.
Speaker 1:I can die.
Speaker 2:So you know, I can't remember if I told you this, but did I tell you the thing about the Jace Um, what's his name? From duck dynasty Um?
Speaker 1:what's their names?
Speaker 2:Uh, goodness Phil and Roberson's yeah. But Jace was um doing a message one time in front of a church and I can't remember where it was, but it was like a big conference, whatever and he says I'm gonna sum the bible up in 30 seconds and and he said genesis to malachi, jesus is coming you know, and it's like you, I'm thinking about it as we're going, really going through it and deep, diving deep into it.
Speaker 2:You know, like yes, yes, this is paving the way for jesus to come. And then he said he said matthew, mark, luke and john, jesus is here. Yes, you know, and it's just the story of jesus, you know and and and, what happened, what he did here and how he fulfilled the law. And then he says, from acts to revelations, he's coming again. You know, and I was like yes, yes, like like the fulfillment of the law isn't um, like saying that, like this person who is separated because of something, it's not saying that that person is separated, but're we're setting the stage to help everyone survive and thrive and grow. And if this disease was to take their life, they followed the law right.
Speaker 2:They weren't separated because of necessarily. I know the mariam thing was different, but yes but they weren't separated because of, necessarily, sin. They could have just caught a disease yeah and god was protecting everyone, but they weren't separated because of, necessarily, sin. They could have just caught a disease and God was protecting everyone, but they were still within the law by obeying it and putting themselves apart from the camp.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:So it's really important for us to just really truly understand that God has a purpose in our life. God has planned it out For us to just really truly understand that.
Speaker 1:God has a purpose in our life. God has planned it out. He's not just trying to control us. No, here's the thing, though. I want him to control it, because I'm terrible at this. I don't want to control it. I'm like God control me Because I've read his word. I have full trust in him that it's only going to be good, right, so why would I not want him to control me?
Speaker 2:When God bakes something in the oven, you don't have to worry about it being over full and setting off the smoke alarm because he burnt it.
Speaker 1:He's talking about me right now. He's saying that he has to worry about that with me, I do Um.
Speaker 2:The smoke alarm has been jerked off the wall many times in our household or the alarm company is calling us. Is your house on fire?
Speaker 1:It's not, and I promise y'all I'm not a bad cook. Okay, no, just a few spells here and there. I'm very busy and I'm usually doing a thousand things while I'm cooking.
Speaker 2:But God's recipe and His design, and when he's baking it it's all going to come out just the way. That was a cheesy little analogy. It's all going to come out of the oven, just perfect it really is no flatbread no, like we can trust him.
Speaker 1:That's all he wants. And when we obey him and we trust him, we're showing him that we love him, and I do love him, I, and I want everything in my life to be honoring to him. And I know that everything in my life isn't, but I'm striving for it to be, you know, I'm striving for it to be. I want my life to be a life of intention, that the intentions are for him.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm. So, yeah, there we go.
Speaker 1:Thank y'all for listening to us. It's really super late right now, and so I'm probably going to go to bed after we get done with this, we'll crash and upload this tomorrow. Yes. So thank you for hanging out with us for episode 13. We're going to have some guests soon. We're moving into a new season of you know. Summer's coming up. I always love summer because my kids are home. I'm one of those moms that doesn't, that really doesn't like my kids being at school, because I like having them around.
Speaker 1:I really do enjoy my kids, but I could I also could not do the homeschool thing unless I had to, but, um, yeah. So anyway, I think we're going to be having some guests on here and we're going to have some fun things coming up with running and starting our run group. We are going to be doing that this summer. So stay tuned. And if you want to start running and you want to start with some new intentions and actually fulfill them, see them through with running, then you can join us. And through the Bible as well, like reading your Bible. If you didn't start with the Bible recap when we started, it doesn't matter. Pick up where we're at right now or just start from the beginning, it doesn't matter. God is not saying, oh, she's not on day 105. You know, then, none of this is any count. No, he doesn't care. He just wants you to seek him out, be intentional with your relationship with him, so we will see you next time. The Lord bless you, keep you and make his face shine upon you.