Learning To Trust God When You Want To Control Everything

This week on Us Unveiled, we start with summer bugs, wedding season, dance floors, and some hilarious memories from our own wedding day, including one embarrassing moment we’ll never forget.

But the conversation turns deeper as we talk about faith, failure, risk, and learning to trust God through the storms of life. From taking risks on yourself to surrendering control, we reflect on what it means to have unwavering faith even when life feels uncertain.

Whether you’re walking through a hard season, feeling anxious about the future, or simply needing a reminder that God is still in control, this episode is an honest and encouraging conversation about marriage, growth, and keeping your eyes on Jesus.

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Hey y'all, welcome to another week of Us Unveiled. I have my wonderful husband here with me today. Hello, folks. I thought you were about to just say my beautiful husband. My beautiful husband. That would be concerning. Please don't ever call me beautiful. You are beautiful. As nice as the intent might be, let's not go there. You don't think you're beautiful? I just don't think that's a word for a guy. You have eyelashes for days. Anyways. Moving on. You're beautiful, not me. Oh no, I didn't do my hair today. Um you look fine. I'm a little not a fan of this. The frizz? Yeah, I just I didn't even put any product in it. I literally I met a friend for coffee this morning, so I just threw a headband in and said, let's get it out of the face and we'll do it when I get home. And did I do it when I get home? Got home? Sure didn't. So it's just a frizzy mane that I need to tame at some point. Sounds like a tomorrow problem. Yeah, thank you. I'm glad you support me in this. It's June here in the wonderful Texas heat. The land of June bugs. The land of the free noisy cicadas. And for all the people who have never been to Texas in like late spring summertime, these things are one of a kind and they're disgusting. I had never heard of them until I moved to Texas. And I was hearing this like rattlesnake noise. And I was like, whoa. Wait, which one are we talking about? Because they're different. Cicadas? Yes, that's the rattlesnake noise. That's what it but the thing is, is you can't you can never see them or find them. Oh. Somebody told me that when I moved here, I was like, what is this rattlesnake noise I'm hearing from the trees? I feel like a snake is gonna just fall out on it. I think we thought it was a bird at first, too, or something. Uh yeah, I didn't know what the heck it was. And then all of a sudden you hear about these things called cicadas and they're like giant flies. I think at first we called them cicadas or something. Yeah, I don't think we knew how to say the word. But they're like giant flies, and somebody told me that they stepped on one one time and it was like it's like a fly that's like like this big. I think it's like three inches long, too. Or two inches. This is disgusting. I've never we don't even have that many bugs in Texas, but like that many. Yeah, I feel like we don't have that many. There's a ton of bugs. More than California for sure, but I don't think I mean not like Florida level. That's what I'm talking. Like these things are nasty. They're they're more annoying than anything. Cicadas? Yeah. Okay, I just get grossed out. Like, if we're out at dinner and I'm hearing a cicada around the corner, I'm just disgusted. Like, I don't want to eat anymore. I'm like, ooh, it gives me the E BGB's. Like, I know that there is one around, and it freaks me out. And June bugs aren't any better. June bugs are everywhere. And they're just stupid. Like they they literally just run into the window multiple times. It's almost like they want to knock themselves out. Because what happens is they just hit the window, hit the window, and then bam, they're on their their back, and they just sit there like flailing around, and then they die like a day later. And then your whole porch is just covered in dead June bugs. Yeah, they're gross. Makes no sense. The other day I was sitting at the dining room table and I'm looking out the window, and there's like this black bird, like a crow or something, and it like comes on our patio and it starts picking up things and just like eating them. Like, what? I've generally eaten those June bugs. Like, I was like, fine, clear them out. Like well, maybe that's what their existence is for because I've really struggled to figure it out. Like, I don't know why God made those things. Yeah, it's like for four to six weeks, and then they're all dead. It is the grossest and weirdest thing. Yeah. And then they kind of get in your house, like right by the sliding glass door. I'm in your hair. Yesterday I was uh outside letting the dogs out here, just standing there, and then out of nowhere, I felt a June bug. And I'm like, they don't scare you either, because they're just they're dumb. They're gross. I don't know, they would scare me. They are gross. Oh yeah. Anyways, we have been going to a lot of weddings lately. It has like we it is actually weekend. Wedding season, folks. Hey, it's the time of the year to spend lots of money, but also have a lot of fun. It is fun. I feel like all weddings are fun. I don't know if I can actually think of a wedding where I was like, I hated that or anything like that. Like every single time it's fun. Like the people are all happy, everything. And just and food is generally pretty good. And sitting there celebrating love. It's just such a beautiful thing. Yeah, I feel I'm pretty sure you've cried almost every time. I can't not cry. I don't know. Ever since I used to never be a crier until I got married, and then I got married and I became this crying woman. I have no idea. You know, that doesn't sound good. And now I go to weddings, and I don't know. Am I the only one? But every time I go to a wedding, like I start to get the like nerves that I had on my wedding day. Like they come back. That doesn't happen to you. No. Just tell me it happens to you, too. I guess it happens. Thank you. Because it actually happens to me, and I feel like it's my wedding day again, and then I see the bride walking down the aisle and I'm just bawling my ass up. Yeah, that's just weird. It's beautiful. I mean, weddings in general are beautiful, though. Yeah, it's like it rekindles love. Yeah, except our wedding, we didn't do vows, we didn't do anything very spectacular. So it was honest, honestly, like I mean the the ceremony I I feel like the ceremony was pretty good. Ours? Yeah. Like the the lady who did it. Oh, she was funny. She knew us pretty well. The only thing we ourselves didn't like do anything intimate though. Well, honestly, Well, aside from one funny thing. I know what you're talking about. There was a few funny things that happened that day. On the altar though? My um on my wedding day, my wedding was my very first wedding that I had ever been to. I'd never been to another wedding other than mine. So I had nothing to compare it to. So my wedding was the best of them all. Um it was. It was great. I mean, I had no expectations. I set my own standard, I had no expectations. I was not a bridezilla whatsoever. Hmm. Yeah. Well, I mean, you were pretty chill. I was real chill. I don't remember you being angry, so I guess that's positive. I don't know. I I don't think I knew how to plan anything. So I think I just said, yeah, whatever you think. Just went for it. But, anyways, um, yeah, so there wasn't like I wasn't a Pinterest or like I don't think that was really a thing when I got married, and I had no expectations, so it was just pure whatever it was. Yeah, the only thing you really did have control was or control for was uh the registry, which you probably shouldn't have had control of. Yeah, because Amanda just decided to pick everything everything sparkly in pink, yeah. And then two years down the road, we figure out, or Amanda figures out, because obviously I wasn't on board with this from the start. She figures out, oh, I don't like sparkles anymore. And so we had to reset. I was 20 years old. I did not know what I needed for my future. So did I get anything for my future? No. Literally, I I wish I would have gotten like pot like good pots and pigs. Well, we did. That was like the one thing. Oh, you're right. I think I picked that up. But I mean, like, I wish I would have got like you did. I was like, why do we need to? We had to have one responsible adult. No, I wish I would have gotten like, I don't know, like a coffee machine, like like something, things that like were cool, like the actually I could have like bed sheets and like actual things that I need in today's world. And I look at the other thing. I think someone surprised us with a pillow, which we did not have on the registry, and I actually just retired that pillow. Yeah, which means that it was almost 10 years old. I'm glad we got rid of that one. Yeah, you were on your like fifth by that by that time. Yeah, I like to buy pillows at hotels when I come across a good one. Yeah, not cheap. No, not cheap, but if you find a $200 pillow at a hotel that's real good, you'll buy it. You sure will. Amanda will. So what happened at the altar? What happened? Oh, like you forget. I'm trying to word this in the right way. Okay. The officiant asked me to give my hand to Amanda so she could put the ring on it. Well, Amanda had, I think she must have misheard, but she had the ring in her left hand. So I wanted to make it as simple as possible. So I slipped. That's a lie. I had it in my I wouldn't slip, hold the ring in my left hand. I had a ring in my right hand. Joseph hands me his right ring. Moral story, I she put the ring on my right hand. During the ceremony. So we are walking back down the aisle, and my dad's like, hey, you've got the ring on the wrong finger. You're not really married. And I was just like, oh. The minute I gave you my right hand too, I knew. I was like, oh why do you switch it? I'm not gonna switch it mid-ceremony. That ceremony, y'all. I just balled my eyes out the entire time. I I I wish I wasn't crying so much because Yeah, you were white as a ghost. I know I was pale. We've been over that. Thank you. I'm talking about crying. Really? I didn't know if you were just flush or nervous or I just I don't even know what to say to this man. Yes. Yeah, but anyways, the right right hand in I mean it was a good memory. Put it that way. Yeah. Yeah. It was a great memory. I I kind of We had owls, poop on guests, we had all sorts of stuff. All sorts of stuff. But the best part about us getting married so young and not having been to a wedding was I feel like we didn't have like a financial standard. We didn't have any of that stuff. So for us, it was just like, okay, we had X, Y, and Z saved up, and like that's just what our budget was. Like, there was no way to go around that. So we just had to make it work. I remember negotiating with like our DJ and stuff because I had we probably negotiated him down like 50 bucks too. Well, I had worked with him because I was high school presidente, so like I had worked with him in high school to plan like homecoming and stuff. So I was like, I've given you business in the past. Can you help assist out now? I think we prepaid too, and he gave us a little discount too. Thank gosh. He was great though. Yeah. Um, but yeah, the whole thing, I have no there's nothing about our wedding that that I would say that I would do different. And that that was almost like a good idea. I mean, if I was doing it today, I would do things very different. No. No. We I would definitely not have the same wedding I did 10 years ago. I think we nailed it right on the head. I mean, but I do looking back, like I'm so grateful that it was so low cost and it was so just casual and like what you're saying though, is if we got married today, that cost would quadruple. Absolutely, because now I have expectations. Thank God we didn't get married now. Well, Joseph, do you know how many how many weddings now have we been to? And they're all like Dallas Cowboys chillers who have gotten married in Italy. Yeah, they are beautiful, beautiful South Carolina, like these stunning places, and it's like, whoa, my wedding would be a lot different if we got married. Oh, and they're in People Magazine, international as well, and they're in People Magazine, so it's like they yeah, there's an expectation now. And the best part, you're on the dance floor with all dancers. Joseph on a the dance floor at a DCC wedding. Well, don't set the expectation, but I like to have fun out there, but these girls are so good, it's so fun. Like they're actually like they all have just the you know how if you go to a wedding and you see someone dancing and they just have like that natural like swag about them, you know? Uh-huh. It's literally all of the girls, so that you're out there with like 30 people that are just like have flow and you just flow with them, and then there's Joseph. Yeah, and Joseph's in the middle of the dance circle. No, I I think they're laughing at me because they like to have a good time, but I think they're laughing at me not with me. Yeah, no. It's so funny because when he when we go to non-DCC weddings, he's like insecure about his dancing. But then when it's reserved, okay, reserved with your dancing. I don't like the word insecure. Let's not use that again. You are reserved with your dancing at non-DCC weddings. At DCC weddings, Joseph's like, move it, people! I'm getting in the middle of the dance circle. No, it's ironically, I feel like uh when you're around people who are comfortable dancing, you feel more comfortable. Like even though they're like a million times better. I don't know what it is. There's nothing. But then when you yeah, exactly. But then I feel like if you go to a wedding where people don't really know how to dance, I feel like they're judging because the they don't know how to dance. Whereas like you guys don't like if you don't look at other people dancing, you just like have fun with your self. And like I feel like yeah, it makes the world of a difference on the dance floor. But I've kind of scaled it back to the last couple weddings and you have, you have. I haven't seen you out on the floor. The knees and the hips. I I need to start being careful. The knees and the hips, my back. Yeah, my back. Oh my gosh, I have been complaining so much. You realize you're not even 30, right? My back. You're 29. Dude, I don't know. My last year of DCC, I was like on the field and we had to like stand, you know, like this with our chest out, our arms on our hands on our hips, and like just super tall, and it's like the back is arched, and when you stand like that for four hours straight, your body feels broken afterwards. And ever since my last year of DCC, now that I'm off the team, my back just you can't even stand in church for like over 15 minutes. If worship is longer than 10 minutes, I gotta have a seat. Yeah, that doesn't make sense. I feel like that can't be right. I don't know. I I am my back just can't take it. It's it's like it hurts so bad. And you're just standing too. That's the weird thing. Just standing hurts my back so much. Hmm. But should we self-diagnose you? No, let's not. I don't need diagnosis. I just know I'm in pain and it's fine. It's fine. Some some days it's worse than others, but you know, it's okay. Uh, but yesterday I was in the car though, and something fell out of the bag on the passenger seat, and I went to go lean over, and I was like, and I like pulled something in my neck. You have like a spasm? No, but that looks like a spasm, whatever you just did. It hurt, it like pulled my neck, and I was like, you know, when you oh, like a cramp? Yeah, and you like can't move, and then you like pulled your body, and then you come back and you're just like in so much pain. I mean, I did that, I can relate. I did that today to my eye. I literally scratched my retina. Boy. Isn't that what it's called? Your cornea? Is it cornea? Whatever. Yeah, in the right. What is a retina? I feel like I need to look this up now because now I'm confused which one's which. Alexa, what's a retina? Back of your eye. Oh, back. Still. I think your cornea is your friend. Cornea sounds like someone died. I didn't die. Yeah, anyways, the most embarrassing, I wasn't gonna tell you about this, but it keeps hurting. Oh the most embarrassing part about it, it was from the wrapper of a protein bar. I was literally eating, eating the protein bar, and it was full of chocolate, so I don't I usually like leave it in the wrapper, you know, as I eat, and the wrapper like flung and nailed them. Oh man. And I don't normally like have eye issues, but this this puppy hurts. And when did you do this? This morning. Oh, yeah. This is current event. We're just going through it lately. I know. My back, my I mean, if I don't have eyesight, like we're in real problems because why? I have clear 2020 vision. Yeah, but me, I can't work if I don't have eyesight. Oh. If there's there's two things that I would have serious problems with. It's my hands and my eyes. What? If I broke my hand or my fingers, I would have some serious issues because typing, well, I guess you could talk. Now you know Joseph is just this all day. Oh, yeah. I might actually be able to win an award for the fastest typer. That is one skill I don't think you are the fastest. But you are very fast. Like I walk into his office sometimes and he's like and I'm like, how are you doing that? It's a skill. But you have to have the right keyboard because if you get the a different keyboard, it jacks the whole thing up. And I know people can relate to it. He's not even using a Mac and he's like Yeah, no, I like the like actual like separate keyboard. Yeah, well, anyways. But not the ergonomic one. Those things are what the heck is ergonomic? What does that even mean? I did for many years. I'm over here. Clearly you didn't for long enough. What is ergonomic? Ergonomics? You've never it's the like the how the chair and the mouse and the keyboard are all shaped so that you have the perfect posture so you don't have back issues. You know, DCC, I would highly suggest you look into ergonomics because your folks have some serious problems. That's for sure. No, uh not only that, when I worked at the marketing agency that I used to work at, all the girls were walking on treadmills on their desks typing. And I was like, I was on DCC at the time and I was like, uh-uh, am I standing up while I work? There's no way I was the only person in that whole area that was sitting. There's probably some ergonomics with the standing. That's my I guess. I'm I'm really on board with this conversation. We're talking about work. Nobody here wants to talk about work. Alright, whatever. Joseph talks about work like all the time. And I'm But I've I'd I've been better about making it more relatable to you. What does that mean? What do you mean? Like if if I have a uh something that is kind of over your head, I I'll I feel like I've been getting better about dumbing it down, right? Not saying you're dumb, but I've been simplifying the conversation. About tax and accounting? Yeah, or just things. Okay, you're really making me sound dumb, right? No, no, I I don't want to make you sound or feel dumb, but uh it's just a different world. It's like if you wanted to talk about um farming. Again, not something that I would choose to talk about. Only you would choose to talk about that one. There's really only uh a few things I'm interested in. It's farming, uh accounting. That's it. I'm bored. Yeah. Taking a little pause to ask that if you like what we're doing, give us a like, a comment, a review, give us five-star rating. We want to see it. We want to know how we what your thoughts are, how we're doing, all the things. Um, drop us any comments if there's anything that you have on your mind that you would like us to talk about in future episodes, because we're always looking for new ideas. And I mean, my brain is at full capacity, but you know, Joseph's can just float into La La Land. So give us all the ratings. So excited to see where this goes, and thank you guys for all of your support. Let's continue. Okay, lum lashes. Should we talk, Faith? Let's do it. Let's do it. You sound like that uh that song. Let's do it. Let's do it. You know what I'm talking about? Not really, no. I feel like you're ready to do it. It's me always thinking about dancing. But you're in a chair right now. You can't dance. Oh, I can dance. You know it too. You've known me too long. Maybe that's why you're literally constantly moving. Like even when we're sitting on the couch, you're always moving. My foot's like twitching, like just shaking back and forth, and he just can't take it. He literally sits there and he will he'll like he'll go crazy because I just have the itch to move. Yeah, and after like how many years we've been together, I actually have to now, rather than say anything, I just have to full blown look the other way. Like and block it out. I Like lay facing the other direction. Oh, lay facing well, because can you imagine trying to watch a movie and then just it's almost like a gnat. It's just like wiggling over here, and I can't get it out of it. Because once you see it too, it's hard to unsee it. Yeah. I think that's the real issue. I'm very sorry. I like to move. Yeah, you definitely do. I'm a mover. And I'm like the complete opposite. When I I can sit there and be completely still. Just sits and I almost like meditate. It's weird. It's pretty good. And he doesn't like cuddling. He's like, get away from me. Yeah. And then you lay in bed, and the second his head touches the pillow, it's like done. He's out. We prayed a few weeks ago. A month ago now, we were praying. And I have to watch out for this now. And now my eyes are. I was praying, we're holding hands, and I was praying to him while we were laying in bed. Not praying to him, I was praying to Jesus for him. And Joseph, I feel this whole body twitch. You're exaggerating. It was an arm twitch. No, you know, when you're about to fall asleep and you're like falling all of a sudden and you like scare yourself and it wakes you up. That's exactly what happened. He was in his REM state, and while I'm praying, you just brought me to heaven. I just brought you to heaven and then right back to earth. It was uh something. I I just I was like, are you sleeping while I'm praying for you? It was a long prayer. I like to pray for a long time. I after that I figured like I cannot lay on a pillow and pray. No. Now I have to sit up. And now I just keep my eyes peeled. Not really my eyes, because my eyes are closed, but I I keep my my sounds like you're a little bit more focused on me. That's the problem. You you make my yeah. I need to be focused on my time with God and you're just distracting. Focus on God and less on me. I would love that. Maybe if you weren't sleeping while I'm praying. But I I now sit up, so I don't have that problem anymore. Thank you. But I do feel like I'm being watched and not by God, but you. You know what I'm not watching. You my eyes are closed. I can feel it. You know what I want to start doing? What? Praying on my knees. Ah. I actually do. I feel like that is such a sign of respect and just surrender to God, and I would love to start doing that. Yeah, no, I agree. We actually talked about that in my men's Bible study last week. Really? Yeah. And someone, well, there's this gentleman, he was kind of explaining, like, you know, I'm just having a hard time because I I feel like I haven't felt the presence of God for a little while now. And um, and one of the other gentlemen suggested, well, hey, why don't you um he's like, you can take this or leave it, but why don't you try praying on your knees? And um, and I was like, huh, maybe I should try that. So went home and did it actually. You did? Uh last week, yeah. Which had a music. I I think that's good. Yeah, I've done it a few times. I I don't do that regularly though, and I think I would like to because I just I would like a uh pillow next time. Our our floors rock hard. Our floor is like concrete. Yeah, my knees were like trembling, literally. And you're more focused on the knees than getting in God's presence. I mean, I still had a nice prayer, but okay. Okay, nice God time. Oh my gosh. Hope you get through the storms. The storms, yes, tell us about the storms. Well, we learned all about storms, and um yeah, we just learned about like when you're going through storms at at our last service, which ironically for me was like exactly what I needed to hear. I have I haven't been going through like a life crisis or anything, but like I feel like every day kind of is a life crisis for you. It's by the hour. Joseph, literally by the hour. Joseph's like high on the world, like just living his best life, and then the next hour, the whole world is crashing down, AI is taking over, we're gonna die. Blah blah blah. Now you know. Now I know what it's like to be in Joseph's brain. There's a storm, and then all of a sudden there's rainbows. But and that was part of my, and people are gonna think I'm bipolar after this. That was part of my like thing though, was I was trying to um be less reactive to everything. Like, and I I think that's harder said than done, but it's like I f because I kept finding myself like I would be on a client call and like something might not go as planned, and like you know, X, Y, and Z didn't go right, and like I would come away from that call and feeling like, oh man, like I failed, or you know, something of that nature. And then on the flip side, I'd be on another call, and the client would be like, We're so happy, and like all this stuff, and I would be like on top of the world, you know. You're very reactive to the city. Yeah, it's like and so finally after um a little while that I like took a step back and was like, Whoa, like I need to stop being so reactive of like just this day-to-day and let stop letting those sort of things dictate my everyday life. Like, I think they do matter, and and I think it it means a lot, especially when your work means a lot to you. But I do think you I or I I don't think it should you should bring that into your everyday life, and I think a lot of that is learning how to weather storms and being more Christ-like and just being unwavered no matter what happens. Yeah, like if you know your company goes under, you're still believing in God and trusting in that He, you know, He is an ultimate control, or if your company does phenomenal, it's like you're still trusting in God and you're staying humble. Like, I I've my prayer is that I stay the same, or at least like, you know, somewhat in line. I think you can be happy when things happen and you can be upset or like you know, nervous when things don't go as planned, because that's normal too. We're human, we're going to feel that way. But but it's crazy that our church service literally hit exactly how you were feeling. It's and it in it it literally taught and again it wasn't like I was going through some like something real major, but I feel like it was you know something that I noticed, and they hit on storms. And one of the biggest takeaways from it was um like you really don't learn anything unless you go through storms, which I was like, huh. Thinking back, like you definitely have only really learned things from or mostly from when you didn't do something right. Honestly, every single like or like quote unquote failure. I was gonna say, every moment of my life where I have failed or have gone through tragedy of some sort, like that's been the one pillar of my life that has actually made me grow as a person. And I feel like if you don't take risks and you're not a risk taker because you're afraid of failure, we need to snap you out of that one because you need to take risks because failure is the ultimate like lesson of being able to grow, or risk on yourself, like yeah, believe in yourself and yeah, take a risk on yourself. Yeah, and anything good that's come, I feel like it's always risks that like good risks for sure. If it yeah, I mean if you don't take the risk, and what's the ultimate risk? Somebody says no, yeah. Most things you can fix, like yeah, you'll lose a few. You know, it's not like the end of the world, even if you lost a job or something, like you can still generally go get another and I think this world is very there's so many earthly desires that we have, which is really cool, but also like very dangerous. And when you know that Jesus loves you and that he is the ultimate thing that's we're winning with, like I feel like you're not as afraid to take risks because you trust that Jesus has you and He's if He puts that desire on your heart, he's doing that for a reason, like you opening up your own business. Like that desire was not just coming from nothing. Like Jesus definitely placed that on your heart for a reason. Oh, for sure. Like the timing of that is is was nuts. I I ironically was looking to start a business in every other industry that I did not know. He was about ready to manufacture a dog trays, a pet tray, yeah, a dog tray that held the dog bowls so that the dogs wouldn't get water from their mouth everywhere. Which honestly still works as a pretty good idea. He built one of the bits and around. I had some like I had a skill that I actually knew, and for some stupid reason I was looking at every other thing except for what I knew, and then finally it like clicked one day. I'm like, huh, maybe I should just do what I know. I feel like a lot of times we don't see the value in ourselves as much as like God does. So God's like, here, let me place this one on your heart, because this is actually what you should be doing. Yeah. Yeah. But I do think storms bring so much value in and they suck in the moment, and going through a storm or a tragedy in life, it's always terrible. But I think, like you said, handling it with straight, unwavering faith and just trusting God, that's the ultimate thing. I think God tests our faith in order to see how we handle it in those situations. You know, this actually, this conversation just remind I'm reading the book of Job and it reminds me of the book of Job. Because Job is all about how Satan wanted to test Job's faith. Basically, uh God it was like he allowed him to test his faith. So Satan didn't he lose almost everything too? Yeah, so he lost like everything. All of his children died, he got like some disease or something. Like all this stuff went wrong. Like everything that could go wrong went wrong in Job's life. And the whole thing, it was all about how Job didn't never accuse God of doing this to him. Never once did he blame God. Yeah, and I think that that's that's a testimony of true faith. Like when we are going through things that we don't like and we don't expect, and things that are so hard on this earth, it's like, are we going to blame God or are we going to stay true to who we are and trust that God has a plan? And although we may not even understand what's going on or why this is happening, we may never understand. Still having faith in God and His plan. Definitely reminds you who's actually in control. Who's actually in control? And it's kind of like that. I just learned this week as well that um one of my actually probably my favorite Christian song, it is well. It's almost I didn't know, but that's kind of an older song, and it's apparently the same with my soul. There's your audio for today. My debut. But uh that apparently is about a um, I think that it was an attorney from Chicago, like back in the early 1900s or something, and there was a fire that wiped out everything that he owned. He eventually lost his family, everything. And he it's kind of like the story of Job. Yeah, I was gonna say that something. And he never blamed God. That's amazing. See, and I look up to people like that and I'm like, wow, because that's a hard thing to do to go through all of that. And I understand like the people who get so upset by like a loss of a child or a family member or whoever, and like I would be really upset with God too. Like, I don't blame people for being upset with God, and I think you can come to God with questions and come to God not understanding and come to God for um assistance throughout the time, and just like, but those people who really trust in him and be like, you know, it's it it is what it is, like, and it sucks, and I'm unhappy, and that's but like God has a plan, and it's funny because I think of like us all as like characters in a storybook, like we're all just these people living on earth, and like the ultimate story is not about us, we're just like the what do you call it? Uh the on what is what am I thinking of? Not encore. We're the it's like the extra members. The extras? I'm not a theater girl. I'm trying to think of a theater term. I need to ask my theater friends. Dominions? No. No. I can't think of ensemble. I have no idea what that means. We're just the ensemble, anyways. What I'm saying is we're just a bunch of characters in like this story that is not our story. It's not about us, it's about God. God is this is he's writing all of our stories for the ultimate purpose of his. And I think it's amazing to see just the way he works in each of our lives in order to fulfill his purposes and his will ultimately. I agree. That is pretty neat. It's a beautiful thing in hindsight. Yeah. You know the happiest book in the Bible? We kind of talked about this the other day. Yeah. The happiest book in the Bible is was is Philippians, and it was written by Paul when he was in prison. Ah. And I think Oh, that's right. Yes, sorry. I was gonna say I thought you knew that. Yeah, I I do remember that now. I think that's incredible because it's like he was in prison. Yeah, and he's still praising God, and he is still worshiping the Lord, he is writing, writing the Bible, yeah, like the happiest book of the Bible. Yeah, that's amazing. Well, and if he hadn't done that, like we'd be missing a book in the Bible. A very good one. And it's it's I think that's that's a true testimony of of unwavering faith. And that's my goal in life is to have unwavering faith. And I think that we're tested at times, and it's gonna be challenging, but I just feel like you have to, in order to get there, you need to keep reading the Bible and understanding God and Jesus and just deepening that relationship. Yeah, and the Bible never says that like as Christians, we won't suffer, we're going to suffer. We actually might suffer more than people who aren't Christians. Somebody uh told us that suffering makes you more like Christ. And for me, I thought that like changed my perspective on all of suffering because when you go through hard times, it can be so hard and it can feel like the end of the world, and you can feel so consumed in this tragedy that you're going through. But that tragedy that you're going through makes you more like Christ because it tests your faith and it makes you rely on God, it sets aside your pride, so you completely have to like set your eyes on God instead of yourself and your and what you can control, and you just give it to God who's actually in control. But James 1, 2 through 3 says, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. And that's one of my favorite Bible verses because it just kind of sets me back in reminder in reminding myself who's actually in control. Like we trust pilots on planes to fly the plane like no other, and we don't need to take control of that plane. So it's like, why can't we trust God when He's the one in control of our lives? We don't need to take control. Yeah, I don't know why we think we can fly the plane better. We sometimes we all the time think that we can do better. And I've been doing that a lot lately, unfortunately. I've been like thinking I need to spend all this time working on social media videos and all this stuff, and it's like, man, I'm sacrificing my time with Jesus sometimes when I do that, and I realize that, and then I need to remind myself to set that aside and focus on what's truly important and the one who is actually going to help you not only help me, but save me. Yeah, like my social media is not important compared to what Jesus has to offer. Yeah, so true. And it's like it feels it feels the opposite on this earth, but it's not at all. We all struggle with it. It's hard to it's hard to set your eyes on Jesus all the time. But honestly, it is the biggest blessing when you do. Isn't it interesting how like the things that you need, for some reason you don't tend to do them all the time, and you think you need something else like work or that's gonna make your life better, and so you veer off track. Oh, like water? Yeah. Like how I don't drink, I don't think I've had one set before. But you know you need it. Yeah, I definitely need some water. I'm I'm behind it. And when you do drink it, you're like, oh, I feel way better. But it's like you you just don't do it. Why don't I drink water? I don't know. Yeah, it's yeah, it's I feel like that's just the stupidity of humans. I remember our brain is the size of a coke can. Yep, that's it's kind of sad. And it's not just water, it's everything. It's everything in life. We all think that we can have control, and we all think that we have the best opinions, and we all think that we know what's best and we know what's right, and ultimately, like we don't. We didn't this is such a small everything here on this earth is so small compared to what is to come in the afterlife. And so I think if we're so consumed in these earthly things, we're gonna be so consumed that we won't be able to um have any space for Jesus and He's the ultimate savior. 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