Glorify God In Your Efforts

Professional basketball player Parker Van Dyke talks about how, as athletes, we can glorify God in our everyday efforts. We may not get the opportunity on the field or court but we can always do our best when we are away from the game. We do not always know where we are going or what path we are supposed to take but trust God and do not give up on him. 

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SPEAKER_01 0:00

All right. Welcome back everyone to another episode of On the Path. Thanks everyone for tuning in last week. And I hope you're able to share that with someone that's struggling, someone that you love and care for. And remember to continue to share this with those that you believe could use it, or anyone that really is looking for a time throughout their day to listen and understand athletes who are striving to uh keep Christ uh at the center of their lives. Uh this week I have another special guest with us. I'll take a little minute to introduce him real quick. Um this week I have Parker Van Dyke with me. Parker is born and raised uh in Salt Lake City, Utah. Parker growing up, he played high school basketball at East High School, where he can he then continued to play college basketball at the University of Utah. He started there in 2013, played there for one season, and then went to serve a two-year LDS mission. Uh he served his mission in the he served in the Alabama Birmingham Birmingham mission from 2014 to 2016. After coming home from his mission, he returned to Utah and played the next three seasons with the University of Utah. After he finished up his college career, he decided to go play professionally. He has played professionally in Mexico, Estonia, Germany, and Spain. He also played in the NBA G League for the Austin Spurs, and he is currently playing for the Salt Lake City Stars in the G League. So there's a little bit about Parker, where he's been, where he's come from, and um I hope you're able to kind of learn a little bit about his path there. But we're happy to have you here today, Parker. Thanks for joining me.

SPEAKER_00 1:49

Thanks for having me on, Ben. It's an honor to be here and fan of the show and fan of the program. So appreciate you uh inviting me on.

SPEAKER_01 1:56

Yeah. Um, let's get started with our first our first question here today. Uh, what does it practically look like to play for God's glory?

SPEAKER_00 2:09

That's a great question. And as I was pondering this question, I thought, you know, when you are in the act of playing a sport, um and to be good at that sport and to play at a high level, you have to be competitive. You have to be fierce, you have to be intense. And so it's not necessarily a time where you are necessarily uh reverent, I should say, but you can still compete in a way that brings a good representation to yourself, to your church, and to your faith. Um and so even though you can be competitive, you can be intense, um, you can play hard, you can play physical, you can still be, you can still practice good sportsmanship. Um, you can demonstrate hard work, you can demonstrate discipline, good teamwork, being a good teammate. And those are things that show on the floor um things that I think God would like us all to do. And so I think on the court, you can still demonstrate good things and being a good representative of a follower of Christ. Um, but really where you can really, I think, glorify God in your own life is off the court. Um, how you handle defeat, how you handle failure, um, how you treat people around you, um, how you treat your teammates again off the floor, how do you treat the fans? Those are way, those through those actions, those are way can you can really glorify God and really kind of be a good example of what you claim to believe in is through your actions off the floor.

SPEAKER_01 3:52

Yeah. Um, do you think that you are what are some examples in your career in your life that you've been able to play for God's glory or show that in a way?

SPEAKER_00 4:06

Well, I've been blessed to play all over the world. And, you know, in my professional career, you mentioned the places I played, you know, Mexico, Estonia, Germany, and Spain. And in a lot of those places I was playing, I was playing with guys that had never played with a member of the church before. Um, they had a lot of them, a lot of my teammates in the in the past have had religious backgrounds, um, but they had never played with someone from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. And so it was it was fun to be in those situations where I was able to be their first encounter with someone of our faith. And not only was I able to open the door kind of to conversations about our beliefs, um, but also try to be a light to help them with their own path in following God as well. And so I love this idea of glorifying God. We read, you know, in Matthew 5, we'll read about you know letting your light so shine that you may, that your fellow men may see your good works and it will glorify your God in heaven. And I think by throughout my so many experiences with my basketball life and living all over the world and playing in so many different places where I am a minority, um, I've been able to shine a light on our own faith, but also have conversations that help people on their own faith journeys as well. Um and so that's something that's been really special to me. And all it all it is is just trying my best to live the commandments, trying my best to live a Christ-centered life. And that is contagious. As you do that, other people want to do that as well. And the beautiful thing is, you know, we're not perfect, we're not gonna be perfect at doing it, but it's the effort that matters. And as you put forth that effort, other people recognize that and uh they strive to do the same.

SPEAKER_01 6:00

Yeah, for sure. I think I think that's something that's super important. That um it really is important. It's kind of that lead by example thing that we hear a lot from people, whether it's in sports or the gospel, what it whatever it is, it's it's showing what we're willing to do, the way we're willing to live, the things that we're trying our best to follow. And then other people see that and they're like, oh wait, this person's living a good life. Like they're healthy, they're strong, they're in shape, they're doing what God wants them to do. Maybe, maybe I should try that. And I think especially in sports, that's a great way that we can kind of show that because we kind of see people, maybe we see athletes that go out and maybe on the weekend they're out drinking, partying, doing all these things, but they come back on Monday and it's like, oh, they're kind of tired, dead, rather than when there's the athletes that aren't doing that or following to doing what's good for their bodies, following what God wants them to do. It's like they're going out, or every single day they come back Monday and they're just as good as they were last week. Like there's just no sluggishness happening, and it's just it's definitely a blessing to live the commandments and show that example to other people too. So I think those are great things that you've been able to do and show um throughout your career, especially being um an athlete that not very many people, like you said, you're a minority to most, is being a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It's like there's not a whole lot of us, especially playing overseas and um professional sports and um other things like that. But it's it's definitely an opportunity, and um it's really awesome how you've been able to do that and glorify God in doing that as well. Um let's move on now to the next question. I kind of uh I really like this one, um, and I'm curious as to what you think about it. Uh, what did losing teach you spiritually?

SPEAKER_00 7:58

You definitely learn a lot in general through losing. And um and I think if I try to relate, let's talk about losing just in general, really quick. So um losing will teach you perseverance, it'll teach you um discipline, like I've mentioned before, um, and it'll also test the way that you respond. So every time you lose, you have a chance to let it kind of beat you down, which will then uh inevitably lead to more losses. Or you have a chance to kind of look yourself in the mirror, ask yourself, what can I do better to help my team win? What can I do better to help us achieve our goals? And then you go back to work and you just try to be better, you try to improve. Um, and so you don't experience that way, that you know, that same loss again. And you know, losing is always very hard. It never gets easy, but without losing, um winning wouldn't be as sweet as it is. And so we read in the Book of Mormon about there's opposition in all things. And that's you know, if we just won all the time, there wouldn't be much growth. There wouldn't be much retros, you know, there wouldn't be much uh self-reflection. Um, we wouldn't enjoy it as much. It's because of the losses that we experience and those challenges is what makes winning so good. And we're able to experience that level of growth. And it's the same, it's the same in the in the gospel is that as we go through hard times, um, as we go through down, you know, times of d despair or anything like that, um, it's um as we go through the hard times, you know, it's it what it's what makes the good times so much better. And I think one thing that you learn, you know, in the gospel is it's beautiful, is that there's always hope. There's always a light at the end of the tunnel. And so you just have to kind of keep going and keep pushing and uh keeping faithful. And good days are ahead, brighter days are ahead. And that's kind of the thing that you learn through losing, um, is that you got to just you know come back the next day and just keep on trying, keep going. I love what President Nelson said before he, you know, he said a lot before he passed away, but the Lord loves effort. And so you can't allow losing to hurt your efforts where you so much where you just give up and stop trying. If you just keep going, if you keep trying, you keep repenting, you keep seeking the Lord, you keep seeking his gospel, um things will only get better. Things will eventually, things will eventually get better, and you will be on the winning side of life um in in in due time.

SPEAKER_01 10:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 10:58

So there's so many lessons to be taught when it comes to when it comes to losing. And that's I think, you know, as I work with a lot of kids and a lot of younger kids um and help helping them reach their goals in sports, that's such a valuable lesson that you can learn from sports that will instantly apply in real life is how do you deal with failure? How do you deal with loss? How do you come back from it? Um, and those are those are those are values and lessons that uh yeah, you you you gotta you gotta be able to learn, and those will help you throughout your whole life.

SPEAKER_01 11:29

Yeah, for sure. I think um for me, failure is definitely like, I mean, obviously for any athlete, anyone competing or anything, failure is super important. Like you said, that's where we learn the most, that's where we're gonna grow. And like you said in the book, Mormon, the opposition and all things. And I think that seeing an athlete fail is obviously really hard because an athlete's out there working every single day to be the best that they can be. But when they fail, it's like, oh like what what did I work for? Like, did I even did I put enough effort in? Should I even keep trying? It's it's kind of like it all wraps in with the gospel, everything. It's like, should I keep trying? Do I keep going, or do I just give up, throwing the top? But we really see that uh the athletes that keep striving to overcome that failure, to get better, to be the best that they can be, are are the ones that are gonna come out on top, they're gonna be able to keep succeeding and they're they're gonna keep learning, obviously. And it's definitely super important. But um kind of looking back into your life, your career, when did you realize that failure was such an important part of growing as an athlete? And how were you able to understand that and change your mindset towards that?

SPEAKER_00 12:50

Well, from a very, very young age, I grew up playing sports my whole life. You know, as as far as I can remember, I was a three-sport athlete all growing up. So I played basketball, baseball, football. Um, baseball, you learned a lot. Baseball is the ultimate game of failure because strikeouts, I mean, you're every about every third or fourth time you're gonna get up there and strike out.

SPEAKER_01 13:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 13:13

Um, and you have to be able to overcome that really quickly. You know, if you strike out, you can't let that affect you in the field defensively. And it's the same thing with basketball is just because I have a bad offensive game, that doesn't automatically mean I need to have a good defensive game. And so you learn this idea that you can't let one mistake in a game turn into multiple, two, three, four mistakes. So we have a thing called in basketball, we call it next play mentality, where okay, we make a mistake one play. Well, let's just move on to the next play. And, you know, don't let that one mistake turn into multiple. Correct it in the very next play. You miss a shot or you make an offensive mistake, go get it back on defense. Like go, go play, make a good defensive play. And those things apply to the gospel so well. Um as because we're not perfect as we make mistakes in our discipleship and things like that. The beautiful thing is that just this next play mentality, like, okay, you you didn't do you didn't make the right decisions throughout the week. We'll still show up to church on Sunday. You know, still still try to like keep your calling and to serve, still pray, still read your scriptures. You're always worthy to keep on trying, you know. And yeah, that failure component is something that in sports from a mental side that I have learned, I learned from a very young age. And it's been a challenge my whole life. As I look back in my whole like career from high school to college to pro, it's something I'm continually working on. It's and I think every athlete would say that it's that mental, it's the mental side of things that you're constantly working on. It's part of, it's kind of the battle of being an athlete. You are constantly dealing with staying confident through mistakes and failures because they're going to happen, they're inevitable.

SPEAKER_01 15:00

Yeah, for sure. I think that's that's great insights. Thank you for for that. And I I really think athletes, like anyone listening, needs to understand that through failure, keep going. Don't give up, whether it's in sports, whether it's in the gospel, whatever it is, keep going because, like you said, God loves effort. Like President Nelson said, God loves effort. And he uh he notices that. Like he's not gonna he's not gonna just let everything go because we're putting in our effort. He's gonna see that we're putting in our effort and he's gonna bless us. Maybe it's with failure at first, but from that failure, we're gonna learn and he's gonna help us to grow and be the best that we can be. Um okay, moving on to the next question. If basketball were taken away tomorrow, how would your faith anchor you?

SPEAKER_00 15:54

Well, I'm in kind of a rare situation because about a few months ago, basketball was kind of taken away from me. I actually started this season with the Salt Lake City Stars. Um, they let me go. And so for there was a period of time where I actually wasn't playing basketball professionally. I was still working out and doing some other things, um, but it was taken away from me. And then they just recently brought me back on the team, um, hoping to finish the season with them. And what I've what I've learned from that, and what I've learned through my whole time, and a lot of this credit goes through goes to my parents and the community I was raised in. Um, I I was raised, I was so blessed with so many great role models and people in my neighborhood and my ward and my community, coaches of all kinds. Um and what I learned throughout all of those experiences is that I I have never identified my player, myself solely as a basketball player. Um, and that's not where I felt like I was worthwhile. That's not where my worth came from. Um, I've experienced so many great successes and joys and happiness through playing basketball, but that's not the ultimate source of who I am and the ultimate source of joy in my life. So, which I think is very important is for all athletes, never lose sight of who of your true identity. Because the sports is something you do. It's not who you you always, it's not who you completely are. And so if the game were to be completely taken away from me where I wouldn't have it at all, I wouldn't be playing it or coaching or anything like that, I still would be confident that I would find joy and peace and hope in the world because I know what really identifies me. And President Nelson taught this recently is, you know, we should always identify ourselves first as a child of God, as a disciple of Jesus Christ, and as a child of the covenant. And if those are three of your top identifiers, you are you will always have a purpose. You will always find um you will always find peace in life, and you will be on a path towards hope and peace and joy and happiness. And so even if basketball was gone from my life, I would have hope because of those things because I strive to identify my myself those ways first, um, that life would move on. I I would still be able to live a fruitful and abundant life because of those identifiers and ultimately because of the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is the source of true purpose and and true joy um in this life.

SPEAKER_01 18:30

Yeah, for sure. I think that's super important. I think I talked about this a couple of weeks ago, but um remembering our true identity is super important, remembering that we are children of God before anything, because he's the one who created us, he's the one who gave us these bodies, he's the one who gave us our skills and abilities. Obviously, we worked for him, but they were naturally given to us at first. And uh it's important to remember where all of that comes from, where all that originates from, to remember that yes, God created me and I'm his son or his daughter. And I need to remember that. Whether I'm playing a sport, whether I'm in the classroom, I'm at work, whatever it is, we need to remember who we are before anything else, because that's what's important. That's what the purpose is, that's where true joy comes from. And um, it's just it's a super super important truth that everyone, uh all athletes, everyone needs to remember is that first we're a child of God. Um, and then kind of tying that question in with this question because we kind of see that um everyone's paths are different, right? Trials happen, and sometimes we kind of question it. But with you going from the University of Utah to Mexico, to Estonia, to Germany, to Spain, to the Spurs, to the Austin Spurs, to the Salt Lake City Stars, have you ever questioned why God has you on this path? And even adding in the the fact that the stars they let you go at uh the beginning of the season, but now they picked you up. Have you ever questioned why God has you on this path and what he was trying to get you to learn through all of this?

SPEAKER_00 20:18

Definitely. I I don't I don't think I ever question um God and his plan and his purpose per se, but I have asked the question like, why am I not getting the certain opportunities that I feel like I deserve? Um, and throughout so, and I've really asked myself that a lot throughout my professional career, um because I had a really good ending to my college career. And I always my plan growing up and playing in college, I always was I always wanted to play for as long as I could. And the beautiful thing about basketball is there's so many professional opportunities. Even if you don't make the NBA, there's basketball leagues all over the world where you can play. And I was playing at a high level in college, you know, at the Pac-12 level, which was one of the highest levels in the country. I was a starter, I was a captain. I had my best end of the season that I played, you know, during my time in the University of Utah. And the beginning of my professional career, I thought would be seamless. You know, I'd get a good contract over in Europe, I'd go play on a great team, and you know, the rest is would be history. I would just, you know, move on from there. But my first two years professionally were really rough. Um, I didn't get the offers that I thought I was, that I thought I deserved. I didn't get the opportunities. And there were other players around me, my peers, that were getting these amazing opportunities and great experiences to go play in these great places. And I was just kind of stuck at home, um, waiting on opportunities. And, you know, then COVID hit, and there was all of that, and there was, you know, a lot of rough experiences there. And so there was a lot of times where I would ask, you know, why am I not getting it? Why am I not getting these opportunities? And there were times when I almost quit, when I almost just turned, turned around and said, you know what, maybe I Great college career, maybe that's all that was meant for me. Maybe I wasn't meant to be an international professional basketball player or anything like that. Um, but at every moment when I was about to quit, something would come, like a blessing and an opportunity would present itself. Um, my first offer to go to Germany, that that's something that saved my career. Um, I went that I that came out of nowhere when I wasn't expecting it. I went there and it resuscitated my career and had an unbelievable experience there. Played for the same team for two seasons. That then led me to Spain. Then that Spain opportunity led me to the G League. And then this year, yeah, I thought I was done. Same thing. And um and I, you know, the stars came back again. And that was something that it the timing of it and um the opportunity of it was better than I could have ever hoped for. And so during those moments when I was necessarily when I was questioning, one thing I think that I did that was important is I kept working. Like I kept going to the gym and working out, I kept improving my skin, improving my game. Um, even though the opportunities and the doors weren't there, I kept working and I kept going with hope and with faith that something would present itself, that my hard work would be rewarded. And I just think that's how the world works, that's how God works. And so every time in my life, as I've just focused on, do you know what? I'm gonna control what I can control. I can't control the opportunities that are given to me. I can't control the doors that will be open for me. But I'm just gonna go in and control what I can control. I'm gonna go work, get better, improve. I'm gonna, you know, seek to keep my covenants and to follow God. And whatever will come from that, I will be content with, whatever that is. And I I have belief and faith in that. And that's a beautiful thing that the gospel teaches us. And every time I've done that, an opportunity has presented itself that I have been more than more than happy with, whether that's a basketball opportunity or else or something else. And so I'm I'm so grateful for um the support system I've I've had that has helped me continue to persevere through those moments. I'm so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father that I felt like was always aware of me and has provided me with so many things. I've got so much to be grateful for that uh I always I think about, you know, why am I ever down on myself? Why do I ever doubt? Why, why am I ever, you know, sad, honestly, because I I've been blessed so with so much. And um I'm grateful for my journey in every in every way. And I look back and I'm grateful for those hard times and those times when I've questioned because those have set me up for those, those will set me up great for the future moments in my life where I'll probably have those same situations.

SPEAKER_01 24:43

Yeah, I think that's great. I think that um those are, I mean, obviously there's there's hard times in sports, hard times in everything, but those are what like we talked about earlier, that's what's gonna help us grow, that's what's gonna help us to become better than we were before. Um kind of sticking to that, what has um trying to think how to word this, but what is or who has been uh a big motivating factor? Like you said, you have a great support system, but who has really motivated you to to keep going, to be the best you can and to keep going back when you thought things were over?

SPEAKER_00 25:22

It's hard to name one person. Um, I've had I've come from a great family of great, great parents. Um, I'm the middle of three boys, I have great brothers, and I've had just great coaches and teammates that uh whenever I felt like I should stop, um, I've had great coaches and teammates tell me, you know, you're you're too good to stop. You gotta you gotta keep going. And like opportunities will come. And people that have been in my shoes before, they're like, hey, I've been where you are. I've been in a situation where I wasn't feeling like I was getting what I deserved in terms of opportunities to play and things like that. And but I just kept going. And so I was able to rely on the experiences of those who've come before me um to uh to push me forward and keep me going. And and I I always felt like too, I there was just so much more that I had to give to the game of basketball. Like during these times when I was like not playing and I was deciding whether to not play or not or to you know retire, I just what kept me going is like I knew I had so much more to give. I had so much more to give to the game. I still hadn't reached my potential, I still hadn't reached my ceiling, and I wanted to get to that point before I ever stopped. And trying to tie this into the gospel and trying to tie this into membership in our church and all of that, and just people trying to follow Christ is there's always something that we can, you know, we can't Christ has laid the path, like the way to God has already been set. He has He has died for us, and so there's nothing we can do to repay that. But He still needs us, He still needs us to follow Him, to serve, to help others come unto Him. And so there's always ways for you to help build the kingdom of God and to help be a good representative of Him. There's always ways to serve, and there's always ways to help, as long as you make yourself available. And um these the parallels between the sports world and the gospel world, I used to view them as two separate worlds, but in reality, they're the same. They're the same world. And uh sports is just a great platform for us to learn these things to then apply in the rest of our life, uh, you know, and the and in the gospel as well.

SPEAKER_01 27:32

Yeah, for sure. I love that. Um, we're gonna kind of tie in this last question in with kind of wrapping things up here. So the last question is what Bible verses carried you through a tough season? So kind of share um what verse that is just that keeps motivating, that keeps pushing you when you're struggling and when you're down, and then we'll kind of get to the point where we're wrapping things up after that.

SPEAKER_00 27:59

Yeah, this sounds great. I um I'm kind of I was just deciding between a couple different verses. Um, but this passage that I was thinking of um earlier actually ties into, I think, great what we've been talking about, this idea of persistence and keeping the faith. Um, and it's kind of a section of scriptures. It's at the end of John chapter six. And in this part of uh of John, Jesus is teaching a hard saying, is what he says. He's teaching something that's hard to understand, hard to embrace. And as as after he's done teaching this concept, it it says in John chapter 6, verse 66, From that time many of his disciples went back and walked no more with him. Then said Jesus unto the twelve, so Jesus turns into the twelve, will ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal life. And we believe and are sure that thou art the Christ, the Son of the living God. And so I have lived this moment, I think, in my professional life and in my spiritual life. There comes a time when it's no longer easy, maybe it's no longer fun, it's no longer the cool thing or the popular thing to do what you're doing in the professional world or to follow Christ and to continue your membership in the church. It becomes hard. There's sometimes these hard sayings that we don't quite understand yet. And we're we're faced with this choice. We can either turn our back on the savior and walk away like many of his followers did at that time, or we can choose to stand like Peter in this moment and have the faith and the courage and the persistence of and the perseverance of Peter and say, No, there we're not going anywhere. There's nowhere else to go because we know that thou hast the words of eternal life. We know thou is the son of God. And I have thought back on that in my life so many times that when the going gets rough, I want to I want to be like Peter. I want to stand strong with him and be faithful with him and not leave. And in fact, you know what? I'm actually gonna dig in. Um, I'm gonna continue to work, I'm gonna continue to be faithful, I'm gonna continue to follow thee. And every time I've done that, my life has only been enhanced. And so I'm grateful for the ending of John chapter six because it shows it's not always easy. It's not always easy to keep your covenants, it's not always easy to keep the commandments, it's not always easy to follow Christ to stay a member, active member of the church. But it is always worth it. And I'm grateful for that example Peter shows by showing the courage, defying the odds, you know, being in the minority at that moment and deciding to, you know, we're no, we're not going anywhere. We're we're staying here. And that's that's been my hope and my prayer in my life is that I I stick with Christ through it all, through thick and thin, um, just like Peter in John chapter six.

SPEAKER_01 31:21

Yeah, I love that. Thank you. Um, and then just to kind of wrap things up here, I'm gonna share, I'm gonna have you share the best piece of advice that you have for an athlete who's trying striving to stay on the path and to follow Christ.

SPEAKER_00 31:37

It's a great question. Um I've said a lot that I would I would recommend. I would say remember who you are, remember your identity, your identity and your destiny. Um, as we've talked about, children of God, disciple of Christ, children of the covenant. Remember, make that your driving force um moving forward. And then, and then I would say, don't let's I'm gonna share actually a really good quote that I really like. So Tony Dungey, I think, is the first is is claimed to say this quote first, and he's a Super Bowl-winning coach, famous NFL coach. And it's one of my favorite quotes. And he said, extraordinary people do ordinary things extraordinarily well. And so that applies to athletics. You look at the best players that you associate with, your best teammates, best coaches, anyone like that, they just are really good at doing the little simple things really well. And to stay on the covenant path, to stay a faithful member of the church, and to stay a faithful disciple of Christ, do those ordinary things really well. Make sure you're saying your prayers daily. Make sure you're having meaningful gospel study, um, where you are taking as much time, you know, take as much time as you are, you know, learning other things. Make sure you are taking time to learn about the gospel and to nourish yourself spiritually. Um, attend church consistently. These are ordinary things that if you just do these things in your life, if you do them extraordinarily well, you will you will be a happier and more consistent disciple of Jesus Christ. And that's my biggest advice is just do those simple primary answers that we talk about all the time in church. Just do them extraordinarily well. Those are the ordinary things, but do them extraordinarily well. And you will find that you will ass you will you will put yourself in a company of extraordinary people because you're doing those little things um very well. Because not they seem like basic things, but not everyone does them. Um but if you do them, that'll help you stay on the path, that'll help you uh live a faithful life and find joy throughout your journey as well.

SPEAKER_01 33:56

Yeah, for sure. Thank you so much for that advice. And thank you again for being able to get on and talk with us today, Parker. I was happy having you here.

SPEAKER_00 34:06

Um thanks for having me on, Ben. Appreciate it.

SPEAKER_01 34:09

And thank you, everyone, to for tuning in to another episode of On the Path. Make sure to um share with your friends and family and send it to to someone you know, an athlete or anyone that's struggling, that needs a constant reminder that Christ is there and that he will help you no matter what you're going through. So thank you again, everyone, for hot uh for listening and always remember to stay on the path.