Military Wellness Collective
Military Wellness Collective is made up of four friends — two retired Marines (Joshua and Brian) turned church planters and their wives (Brittany and Kelli)— who have lived life both in uniform and on the home front. Together, we share real stories, hard-earned wisdom, and practical, biblical encouragement to help military members, and their families thrive in every season. Whether you’re navigating deployments, adjusting to life in a new town, or simply seeking hope in the middle of your military journey, our mission is to equip you with truth from God’s Word and tools for a healthy, resilient life.
Military Wellness Collective
EP-12: Why reading the whole Bible and praying regularly reshapes your mind, your rhythms, and your resilience
Ever feel like you’re stepping into a new day without your gear? We walk through the simple, durable habits that actually hold under pressure—Bible reading that respects context and genre, and prayer that is honest, specific, and connected to people you love. The conversation starts with the “why”: Scripture is God-breathed and equips you for every good work. From there, we get practical about the “how”—building a time and place you can defend, choosing a paper Bible to cut noise, reading whole books instead of grazing on verses, and using a journal to capture thanksgiving, observations, and intercession without turning it into performance.
We share rhythms that flex with real life: short weekday time anchored in one chapter and a brief prayer, then a longer block on weekends; a “holy hour” goal that grows desire over time; and a simple prayer calendar that assigns real names to the days of the month. Reaching out as you pray becomes its own ministry, often arriving with uncanny timing and opening gentle conversations about faith. For beginners, we suggest starting in the New Testament to meet Jesus in the Gospels and follow the church through Acts before circling back to the Old Testament with clearer eyes for its patterns, prophecies, and promises. For those who struggle to read, we normalize learning styles, note which books work well on audio, and offer a steady prayer from Psalm 119: “Give me understanding.”
Threaded through is a sober reminder from Ephesians 6: you are in a spiritual battle, and the armor of God is not metaphoric comfort—it is a daily kit. The sword of the Spirit is the Word; prayer is your lifeline; consistency is the quiet force that compounds over months and years into wisdom, stability, and courage. If you’ve felt scattered, start small: pick a time, pick a place, pick a book, and read one chapter today. Subscribe for more practical, faith-forward conversations, share this with a friend who needs a nudge, and leave a review to help others find the show.
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Hey y'all, I'm Brittany. I'm gonna be your host for today's podcast. And of course, I'm joined. If you have not been with us before, I'm joined by Kelly and Brian O'Day. Who are awesome favorite friends?
SPEAKER_02:Wow, we got adjectives today.
SPEAKER_01:Seriousness.
SPEAKER_04:My husband that I love, Joshua. If you're just joining us, we're super excited that you're here. If you've been with us for the past few episodes, thanks for joining us and continuing to listen. We appreciate you guys. If you have questions, we'd love to answer them. You can message us through Instagram at the Military Wellness Collective or through our website at the Military Wellness Collective.com. And we'd love to hear from you and talk about some things that you feel are relevant to your lives. But today on this episode, we are going to be talking about a topic you might know it as Bible reading and prayer. Maybe you've heard it called devotion or quiet time or holy hour or any other Christianies name that we can give our time, that intentional time that we are developing and cultivating a relationship with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. And I'm just gonna ask Brian to start us off with can you tell me what your quiet time, what what do you call that, and maybe what that looks like and where you've developed that from the scripture? What are your habits on this topic?
SPEAKER_02:I'm gonna answer that question after I read a verse.
SPEAKER_04:Good, good, please.
SPEAKER_02:Second Timothy chapter three, verse 16. All scripture is breathed out by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for training in righteousness, that the man of God may be complete, equipped for every good work. We don't send military people out into battle without training them. If we do, we have failed miserably as a government and as a military. We do not do well to go into the spiritual battle of day after day, not equipped for the fight. And so the scriptures is where we go. So for me, in the morning, it's it's always been in the morning. I for lots of reasons, it's always in the morning, and so not always, sorry. My rhythm is it's in the morning, and I I start journaling a short prayer of Thanksgiving. Uh we talked about journaling a couple episodes ago, but short prayer of Thanksgiving, a few moments, and then I jump into a Bible reading plan where I am methodically reading through scripture, and that has changed over the years of what that looks like and how many chapters I'm reading or what I'm doing in that and how long that takes. But I'm just reading through the Bible, and then I'm spending time praying andor making observations and applications from the text. But this is not preparing to teach a Bible study, this is not preparing to lead a small group, this is not preparing to preach. That that is also has some devotional aspects, and I need to apply it to my own life first. But just as a Christian to start in Bible reading and prayer, Bible reading and prayer, those are the necessities of a daily, regular time with the Lord, quiet time, whatever you want to call it.
SPEAKER_03:Really good. Yeah. Kelly, do you want to? Yep. As well, as a young adult, mine started in the evenings. I think I used to stay up later, you know, back when I was young. Wow, that's where my before bed I would do it. And and a lot of times it was because you were not around, because you were deployed or yeah, just not there. So it was just it became a habit. Then we adopted kids. We'd adopted three kids at one time. So that was a crazy time. Yeah. In our life. So I remember that my rhythm with that changed and that kind of did something in me, kind of bothered me. I don't know. So, but I had women speak, you know, just wisdom to me that like it doesn't have to be at night what you were used to or whatever. So I would just when they were napping or whenever I had a quiet time, I would just open my Bible and read. Nowadays it's morning. I have, you know, I over the years I've grown even desperate for my time in the Word and writing in my journal, praying. So it's in the morning before I start my day. I feel desperate for it in a way because I've seen the Lord even doing it out of just a rhythm and a habit or discipline, I guess, what he's done in that where I've just grown to love it and need it.
SPEAKER_02:What a cool thing. Like you're finding, so you were evening and then you were like middle of the day, kids, nap time, and then now morning.
SPEAKER_03:So yeah, it's it's moved.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Yeah, I'm in the morning as well. And so same Z ditto. I don't know what you want to say. So that I'm not like saying the same things over and over again. But I do want to uh read a passage as well. So John 1 says, In the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God. And then if you jump down to verse 14, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory, glory as of only the Son, only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth, speaking of the Word as Jesus becoming flesh. And so if if we are Christ followers, Christians, knowing Jesus by diving into his word is the way we do that so directly from God, for us to learn his character, who he is, and how to apply that in our life. And I just I just want to say that not just the time frames of reading or the regular rhythm of reading, but also how we read our Bibles has really affected my understanding and growth in who God is. And that comes down to translations, that comes down to types you're using, and then also, I mean, we could probably get into a little bit later, but like the how we how we understand different genres and uh how to ask good questions of the text and what it actually means when we apply it to ourselves, some of those basic like hermeneutical interpretations of scripture has remote. What is hermeneutical?
SPEAKER_04:That's a big worry.
SPEAKER_00:So just you're you're so just diving into the word and actually interpreting it appropriately and using these different tools in order to do so. Because if you don't use proper tools in interpreting scripture, you can make it say all sorts of crazy things. And so we have to be careful about that.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah. I think that's good. I think that's why it's important to read through the entire Bible too, instead of just pull it out. So my oh, go ahead. Did you have something you want to say, Brian?
SPEAKER_02:I'm not gonna ask yours.
SPEAKER_04:Oh, my personal, I like to call it holy hour when I started reading my Bible. I was really compelled by when Jesus was asking in the gospels for his disciples to just watch and wait and pray for an hour and they kept falling asleep. And, you know, you can look it up and read it if you want. And I realized that was me. Like I was distracted or tired. And so my goal was, Lord, I just want to be able to sit here with you for an hour. Like I want to watch and wait for this day for an hour. So that's that's why I like to call it that. But it's I'm a morning girl, so I get up, I get my cup of coffee, I have my chair, and I go there with my journal. Like Brian mentioned, we did a whole episode on that. But and I have a Bible reading plan that I'm reading through the entirety of scripture in a year just to read through, see the Bible in context. I journal through anything that stands out to me. I pray through things maybe I'm convicted of over the passage. I ask questions of the text. I ask a lot of questions when I'm reading through scripture and I write them down and I pray through those questions. I have a prayer calendar that I use. So I'm praying through specific things on specific days. And then I also have a ton of sticky notes with me at all times during my quiet time. So things, maybe a passage that God wants me to memorize. I'll jot that down and stick it in the front of my Bible. Sticky notes, or things I'm praying for specifically, or things that I'm being led to pray for from the passage that I just read. And so I'm my main Bible is filled with sticky notes in the front of things I'm praying for, or passages I'm memorizing, or truths or promises from God's word. And that's just kind of developed over the years.
SPEAKER_00:So it's very colorful with all those sticky notes.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, I am color-coded type A. It's fine. Thanks, babe.
SPEAKER_02:So yeah, I started doing the prayer calendar several months ago as well. And that's a really practical way to be praying for people andor things. And that's been really helpful to add that in. Yeah.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, I have loved that. Since we just mentioned prayer calendar, can you tell me, Brian, how a prayer calendar works?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. So I can we could link to the one we're using. It's but it's not complicated. It's literally a calendar one through 31, like a month. And you take a pencil and you write in people that you want to be praying for. And so maybe it's members of your family. That's probably a great place to start. But your spouse, your kids, people you want to be praying for, maybe extended family, maybe people in your church, whoever you want to be praying for, neighbors, whatever the case is. And so you fill that in. And on that day of the month, then you are praying for that person. And the process that we've been using is you're encouraged to actually reach out to that person and let them know that I'm praying for you. And ask them, how can I be praying with you andor for you? And so just going through that, and it just builds that connectivity as well, is you're praying for one another and you are reaching out to them, and you're not asking them to reciprocate, you're just doing it. You're just praying for them and telling them you're praying for them and asking how you can pray for them. And that has just been really cool to see the effects of that over time. And just the timing of it is always not always, but a lot of times it's very interesting. They're like, whoa, what a timely day for you to be praying for me.
SPEAKER_04:I would also recommend maybe keep a couple slots open for some unbelieving people that you know. I have seen great connectivity with a few lost people that I've been reaching out to. I have not received any negative feedback. It actually has opened some doors. So just don't hesitate to ask. And then, of course, pray for their salvation. You know, I want to read a scripture passage. I think it's really important that we understand why we need to be reading our Bibles every day. Obviously, Brian read about scripture, its authority, what it means. Joshua read how Jesus is the word. And in Ephesians, we see the whole armor of God. And so I'm just gonna read it. Ephesians chapter six, starting verse 13. Therefore, take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all to stand firm, stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace. In all circumstances, take up the shield of faith, which sorry, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one, and take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God, praying at all times in the spirit, with all with all prayer and supplication to that end, keep alert with all perseverance, making supplication for all the saints and also for me, that words may be given to me in opening my mouth boldly to proclaim the mystery of the gospel for which I am an ambassador in chains, that I may declare it boldly as I ought to speak. This passage always comes to mind when I'm thinking about why do I need to be in the Word of God every day? Why do I need to be praying every day? I think all of us here could attest. Sometimes we don't feel like it. And I had a friend tell me one time, that's why it's called devotion. You do it even when you don't feel like it. When you think you're not getting anything from it, you are pressing in. And Brian mentioned, I think you mentioned at the beginning about you prepare for a physical battle. We are in a spiritual battle, and we desperately need to put on the armor of God. Have any of you seen the effects of taking up the armor and being able to withstand and persevere in any maybe one significant instance in your life?
SPEAKER_02:So the this has a compounding effect. And so I think if we're not careful, we think, oh, did I have my quiet time this morning? I'm gonna have a good day. Did I not have my quiet time this morning, I'm gonna have a bad day? And so we we forget this compounding effect. Like you said, we don't always feel like it. It is a discipline. Honestly, if you go through a Bible reading plan where you're reading the entire Bible, all scripture is breathed out by God, but all scripture is not immediately, obviously relevant in your life today. And so if you find yourself working through Leviticus or Numbers or just, you know, some of the passages, you you just may find it not readily applicable to your life in that moment. Sometimes you'll be surprised, even in some of those passages. But it has this compounding effect where more and more the Lord is renewing my mind according to his word. More and more my mind and my words and my mouth and my heart are just oozing out scripture. And so when life hits me, the more I'm in the scriptures and the more I'm in tune with the Lord in prayer, the more that's overflowing into all of life's circumstances. And I can't remember precisely when this happened in my life, but I remember being in a conversation with a non-believer many years ago, and I started to describe scripture. I wasn't quoting it verbatim because I I hadn't been memorizing, but I was describing, you know, this is actually in the Bible. In Romans, it talks about this, and I remember just like, whoa, where'd that come from? And that was after probably years of spending time in the scripture where I was able to just like, oh, you need like this, this is the thing to apply to that situation. And yeah, it's just been cool to see that grow over the years.
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, that's good. That's good. Brian also mentioned how he reads through the Bible, and I think all of you kind of did all mention that, but then how we study at different times, and so studying the word is different than just reading the word. And I used to just open it up and pick a passage and study it, and it was probably five years ago I started reading through the word, and that like Brian just mentioned, really helped transform my heart and life because the whole counsel of God we desperately need. And so I think that's important.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, can I yeah, can I highlight that? Like, read it like you would read any other book in some ways. It it is different and we need to have a different mindset. However, if I handed you a letter, what would you do? Where would you start reading that letter, Joshua? You would start at the top and say, okay, this is from who and to who. You start at the beginning and you read it all the way through in order. You wouldn't like, oh, thank you for this letter. Let me go eight paragraphs down in the third sentence and grab that sentence and apply my own idea to it. This kind of gets into some of your hermeneutics.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_02:But if it's a letter, just read the whole, like start at the beginning and read all the way through to the end. If it's a story, read the story and keep reading the story. And you know, so step one of understanding the passage is to read through it. And so my goal in reading and my goal in study is a little bit different. Like, I'm just trying to immerse myself in scripture, I'm trying to generally understand it and apply it in my life. And so just read the Bible. I want to go ahead and push against the verse of the day thing.
SPEAKER_04:Yes, oh yeah, Instagram verse.
SPEAKER_02:Oh, yeah. Like just read the Bible. I I am convinced that every literate adult and I might even go every literate person over the age of like eight, like once you get to third grade, you can read a chapter of the Bible a day. A chapter a day. I think that's doable for every literate person. Are you gonna miss days? Absolutely. Absolutely. But I think we can do this. I think we can read a chapter a day.
SPEAKER_00:And if I can throw out a recommendation, and I don't know if everybody will agree with this, so I'm gonna put myself out there. Recently, I've been recommending to people that have never really read the whole Bible before, but want to. I've I've started them off in the New Testament on a Bible reading plan and just said, hey, look, if you if you start reading in Genesis, there are many accounts of people who start in Genesis and then they start walking through. And by the time they get to like Numbers or Leviticus they or Deuteronomy, they start to fall by the wayside and and they really just like, okay, I don't get this, I don't understand what this means, I don't know what this what the purpose of it is. Like it's talking about some things that are very specific and also very repetitive and weird. And some of that stuff they just don't fully grasp. So what I've been recommending is starting in the New Testament, that way they hear the story of Jesus in the in the gospels, and then the understanding of it through acts of it being spread, and then these letters that confirm all of those teachings. And then when they go back and start reading the Old Testament, and they are reading some of these prophecies and some of these things that are different and seemingly weird, they're looking forward and they're going, Oh, so this was this was what it was in the Old Testament, and it's looking forward to Jesus. And here's all of these images, images, and these types and these shadows of Christ in the Old Testament that I can see in the future. And then they get excited about the Old Testament rather than just reading it like I don't understand this. So maybe you guys agree or disagree. I think that's I just think it's for someone reading it for the first time, it has been really helpful for people to start in the New Testament.
SPEAKER_04:So I have a question for you guys. So obviously you're both pastors now, Joshua and Brian, and you have these robust times with the Lord and your relationships grown. When y'all were younger.
SPEAKER_02:You made that assumption. I hope that's true of every pastor, but I fear that it's not.
SPEAKER_04:But both of you, and I believe that about you. But what about your young military days? Like on an earlier episode, Brian had shared how he struggled during his first deployment, Joshua similar. What are some things you put into place when you were younger in order to grow to where you are now? Like, what did that look like when y'all were younger and just starting this process of your journey with the Lord?
SPEAKER_02:Yes. So early, like in my entry-level training, I was reading the Bible at night. Like I remember Officer Candidate School, I was reading the Bible after taps, like after it was time to go to bed with my red lens flashlight. I would read the Bible. And uh, I had a red letter Bible at the time, and I found out that you can't read the red letters with a red lens flashlight. Crazy, crazy things you learn in the military. And so that honestly, the Lord used that to draw me into the epistles, the letters in the rest of the New Testament, and then also into the Old Testament. But anyway, so that was there, and then my early deployment, my first duty station, my first two deployments, Bible reading was sporadic at best, probably even more non-existent. The first time I remembered being consistent was during my second duty station, and it was after my second deployment, and I really just started being consistent, and consistent on weekdays was like 10, 15 minutes. I would read one chapter, maybe journal out of prayer, and then get dressed and go to work very early in the morning. That's what I did, and then sometimes I would listen to like a sermon or something on the way to or from work, and so that would get me into spiritual thoughts as well. But it was it was very short during the week, and then on the weekends, what I started to do was I would wake up at the same time as I woke up during the week, and that had me up before the rest of the family, and so I could have a longer time with the Lord on the weekends on Saturday and Sunday or holidays. And so that was what it looked like. Like when I first really got into the rhythm while I was on active duty, it was very short, one chapter, one short prayer, close the Bible, go to work during the week, and then longer during the weekends.
SPEAKER_04:I just want to hit on a couple words. You said consistency. Yes, so you were consistent, yes, and even if it was short time, you still took time. So just starting, find a starting place, it doesn't have to be an hour, right?
SPEAKER_02:Just God read it. Drastically use that to change my life in a three-year period. So that three years, God used that. I started teaching because if you start reading the Bible in the American church these days, you're gonna you're gonna know more about the Bible than the average person pretty quickly over a few years. And so God can really use that and He really transformed my life through that and some other circumstances that were happening, but just that consistent time in the Word, God really use that.
SPEAKER_04:One thing I love about that, it reminds me of my own personal journey is if if it's short, that's fine. You start somewhere. I promise you, you will hunger for more. Babe, did you have anything to add to that?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, for me, it was it it depended on where I was at the time of what I was doing. So being being consistent in your reading, no matter where you're at, what your schedule looks like, just get get a little I mean, you can find time. We all have 24 hours in a day. That's the way God set it up for us. So you can you can find a period of time somewhere. First deployment for me, very sporadic. The deployment was very sporadic, so it was just chaos. So it was just whenever I could. And then second deployment, it was very, it was a little more regular, but we were doing all night ops. So my time of reading was after we got back, and because I was still all hyped up from the mission and no one could sleep yet, so we would go to breakfast, and then that's when I would do my Bible reading time when everybody else was just kind of winding down for the night or for the day, depending on how you look at it. And then we would go to sleep during the day in the hooch, and and it was just it was just a little bit at a time, but it was something. But then when getting home and being more in a training setting, then it was mornings. Sometimes my mornings were super early. I don't know if you remember this, honey, but we when we lived in Richlands and we were drive, I was driving about 45 minutes to work each day, and traffic was horrible. They hadn't built certain roads in Jacksonville yet, certain gates weren't open yet. And so it was it was really bad. So I was leaving to work really, really early. So I would listen to scripture on the way to work. And then when I got to work, I would go back and look through it, have my prayer time in my office on Camp Lejeune before the day started, and we would go out to PT or whatever, because I wanted to get ahead of the traffic. So depending on where you're at, it that time frame can be different. The the important thing is that you have a time frame that you're actually doing it. So no matter where you're at, just find that space.
SPEAKER_02:Can I highlight just a couple things to make sure we're clear? So if you're looking to start this type of a discipline, you're going to need a time and space to do it. Be consistent season by season. It may change as you go from different seasons, right? Different billets, different duty stations, different stages of life, like Kelly talking about toddlers versus no kids versus whatever. And so, but you need a time and a place, and you need to fight for that time and place. And so you've got to find the time and place, and then you've got to have a Bible. So quiet time, devotional, whatever the case is. You know, people write devotional books, people have an endless, like there is an endless array of devotional books, but let's get in the word first, foremost, and primarily. So you need a time, you need a place, you need a Bible. Let's go ahead and get a paper Bible. I know, call me old school, call me old. I got called old this week by a 19-year-old that wasn't my kid. And he tried to make an old joke, and I asked him, I was like, was that your attempt at an old joke? He's like, Yeah, and I was like, sorry. But anyway, yeah, let's get a paper Bible. It's good. Take it old school.
SPEAKER_00:I would be like remiss if I didn't say this, but pick up the Bible, start reading it. We've been kind of beating that drum this this episode. But when you do know what you're reading, there's so many people out there that start reading in a certain genre, and they're they're just they don't get it because they don't realize they're reading poetry. Or they don't get it because they don't realize they're reading a prophetic literature, or they don't get it because they're or they do get it because they're like, oh, this is a narrative. This I've heard of these stories of Jesus all the way up to his death, burial, and resurrection. And if you're reading a letter, realize it's a letter that's written originally to somebody from somebody, know who those two people are so that when you read it, you actually understand. Because just bringing your eyes across the words aren't going to, you know, do anything miraculous. You have to actually have to understand it.
SPEAKER_03:So and one thing I want to speak to is just I well, I'll just say I don't love reading. It's not my favorite thing. And I think in the Christian world, a lot of Christianese is like you're quiet. You know, like there's this expectation that it should look like this or whatever. And so I've struggled with comparing mine to my husband who I live with. You know, he loves reading, he has really good reading comprehension. Mine's not, that's something that I always score low on, you know, is reading comprehension. I mean, I'm not trying to, you know, self-deprecate, but just like that's not my a huge thing. So I think once I really like grew this desire out of being consistent to grow in knowing God's word more, I learned to just pray before. I mean, one prayer that I pray a lot, especially when I'm going through something that I don't understand, is from Psalm 119, 34. Give me understanding that I may keep your law and observe it with my whole heart. Like, I'm constantly asking God to just help me with His Holy Spirit, understand his word, because it doesn't come easy for me. I have an even a desire to go. Deeper doesn't come easy for me. And that's one thing I've been encouraged by my husband because he gets so excited and he he loves to dig deep. And I want that, you know. So I I would just say, like, allow the Lord, the Holy Spirit to, you know, help you in understanding and having that discipline and that consistency to just and I I've seen myself grow in that and and the desire for, I mean, God's word is never changing. And in this world where everything changes, it's just been such an anchor in my life that yeah, there's hope, even if it feels overwhelming or intimidating at first. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I'm with you, Kelly, because I'm not a natural reader either. So I've had to like force myself to do it sometimes. But I also have gotten over that with some listening to things because I can retain better by listening sometimes than I do reading. And so knowing though, as I've as I've played with this for a long time, listening to certain books doesn't work well. Listening to other books, it does. So like if I'm listening to a podcast, it works out great. If I'm listening to a a book that is entertaining to read, that tells a lot of stories, it's easy to listen to. If I'm listening to like a textbook style book, I'm not retaining anything because it's just droning on about information, right? So reading scriptures the same way. If you're listening to like a gospel or listening to Acts, it r or like listening to Genesis, it really, you know, you can follow along with the storyline, the narrative. But if you're listening to the psalms and it's just going from one psalm to the next, you it's really hard to follow along for me. So understanding that about yourself and how you learn is is helpful.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I also want to say though, we can grow. Oh, yeah. I don't think I read a book, like a real book, cover to cover, until I had a bachelor's degree. And now Kelly's sitting here explaining that I'm a reader.
SPEAKER_03:But I will say too, and I I mean, even though I'm going to talk about a movie, but it's similar with reading. Like you can watch a movie and quote a line right after you watch it. I don't have that ability. Just like I can read something and be like, wait, what did I read? I need to read it again. And maybe I need to write down what I read. That's just, but it's different types of learning. So it's okay. We're all different and we're all our goal is to grow. I love that.
SPEAKER_04:I did not read a book either until cover to cover, probably till my early 20s, mid-20s. And now I love to read. Yeah. Well, friends, it is about that time to wrap it up. And we just want to thank you guys for taking time out of your day to sit in on this conversation, to chat with us. I just want to leave you with this note you are in a spiritual battle. You must armor up. And by armoring up, you reading your Bible, praying, cultivating that discipline. We just want to encourage you guys to do that. We'd love to hear from you. So send us a message at the Military Wellness Collective on Instagram or an email at the Military Wellness Collective.com. We look forward to hearing your questions and talking with you all soon.