Ruck's Place
Ruck's Place is a Podcast with episodes that covers topics ranging from, Self Help, Success, Failure to Coping with Loss as well as with Gains. It covers the ends and outs of every day life. It's truthful, raw and honest in the delivery of it's content which is based in real life experiences through the host lenses. It's user friendly and simple to those who are open minded. It is not perfect as I am not in anyway, shape or form a perfect being. The Podcast is for the purpose of entertainment. I am just a man with an opinion based on my experiences in parenting, relationships both personal and in business. I live and love entrepreneurship as well as the human interaction on all levels. I am in the Real Estate business and have been for a long while and have had the blessing of touching and being touch by grate people from all walks of life. I look forward to sharing my story and ideas with you all. I hope to have feed back and critiques as I am a student of life and always searching for wisdom and understanding in whatever it is that I experience. Thank you for hanging out with me for the past four and a half years. I look for many more years to come with you all.
Chuck Rucker
Ruck's Place
God's Grace Is Waiting for You Even When You Can't See It
Grace appears in unexpected places when we're paying attention. Sometimes it's in that morning sunlight streaming through your window, reminding you that you've been blessed with another day. Other times, it manifests as strength during life's hardest moments — when relationships crumble, jobs disappear, or uncertainty looms large.
In this deeply personal episode, I explore the transformative power of recognizing God's grace in our everyday lives. Drawing from my own morning routine of gratitude and scripture study, I share how establishing a spiritual foundation has allowed me to navigate life's challenges with greater resilience. We all face those moments where everything feels out of control, but that's precisely when grace does its most profound work — if we're willing to step back and allow it to operate.
The choices we make daily represent the ultimate expression of free will — each decision flipping between life and death, positive and negative, light and darkness. When success overwhelms you just as powerfully as failure might, how do you respond? I invite you to consider that divine messages often travel through people, making you potentially the vessel through which someone else receives exactly what they need today. Your smallest interactions might be carrying life-changing grace to someone who desperately needs it.
What would change if you began recognizing the grace already operating in your life? Join me as we explore gratitude for both the monumental blessings and those tiny moments that remind us we're part of something greater than ourselves. Subscribe to Ruck's Place for more conversations that nourish your spirit and challenge your perspective on life's journey.
What up everybody. It's your boy, chuck Brucker, it's Friday, y'all. Yes, july Is doing what July does? We're getting through this month, y'all.
Speaker 1:I got up this morning and I wanted to give a shout out to everybody, everybody who's rocking with Rucks Place, who's been with me for the longest time. I appreciate you guys, man, and your love Is God's grace For me, and I'm so blessed to have you guys still hanging out with me after all this time. And because of that, I just want to let you guys know that you are special, that you are amazing, that your love is not taken lightly on this side of things, and it will never be, because without you, there was no me. Without your time and your energy that comes back towards my direction, I cannot, guys, I cannot, cannot, cannot, cannot tell you guys how blessed I feel. All right, so let's get into this episode, and today I want to talk about God's grace. That is, that's right. Not a preaching session, but just a message that God's grace is everything. Think about it.
Speaker 1:You just woke up, or you're just getting up, or you got up a few hours ago, depending on what coast you're on. But let me tell you I got up this morning and I was me tell you, I got up this morning and I was. I woke up about five, maybe 5, 30, and uh, I went to get out of bed because you know I got a morning routine and if you follow me, y'all know my morning routine. I got to get up and get on my knees first thing and bless the day. Thank god for blessing the day, thank god that I'm a part of the day and. And then I head downstairs and I get into my verses and chapters and I give my attention to God's word, because I like to set the foundation of my day with God's word, because if I set the foundation of my day with God's word, then, whoo, the rest of the day I could deal with anything. No matter what you throw my way, I can deal with it, because I know that if I'm reading these chapters right, I am definitely in the right place. And I've spent a lot of time there y'all, so I've had some time to analyze some years.
Speaker 1:Now that I've done this to analyze, dissect, let it sit on me, gloss over it sometimes, go back and uh and uh. When I do do that, the understanding is deeper and deeper and deeper, not to say that I'm some expert, because we are not. I am not worthy of a full understanding, because God is too big for this little brain of mine y'all. But what I can understand, what I can pick up, I try to implement and use. And even when you don't think you're using what you're picking up in the word, somehow it bubbles to the top In some of your situations you don't even realize it. And that is what I am talking about, grace.
Speaker 1:For some of us, when our lives are so out of whack, we feel like there's not a hope. You know, maybe you lost a job, maybe you lost something that was very important to you, maybe you lost someone that is very, very special to you, and maybe a relationship or something broke up right and it still exists and you can't understand what happened, what was the reason for it. Oh man, I know I had those stories. Oh, lord knows I know about how I mismanaged something so badly and uh, and it was god's grace that when I step back and allow god to manage it for me, then things changed, things changed. Sometimes we need to just sit back, sit in the season of rest and let him do what he does, and thank God that I felt that and heard that message today. Just today, I went out on my walk, got my steps in and a lady was having that kind of a day where she was just being grateful and the grace, whoo, the grace, y'all, god's grace. Right, I said just the other day, I had a meeting where I did a Zoom and I did a TikTok and I did an Instagram and I did a YouTube Live, which I, yeah, and I talked about there being two sides of every coin.
Speaker 1:There's a decision that we make about everything that we're dealing with in life. Right, there's a decision to do it, not to do something. There's a good in us and there's a bad in us. There's a dark energy in us and there's a light energy in us. There are, you know, heaven and hell. I'm kidding. There's heaven and earth. There's heaven and earth. Some of you say what? No, I'm kidding. There's heaven and earth. There's heaven and earth. Some of you say what? No, I'm kidding. But yeah, there's a flip side of that right. There's positive and there's negative right.
Speaker 1:So, with that being our choices, we kind of sit in the middle and have control that we don't even realize that we have control, and when we don't feel like we have control. We don't even realize that we have control, and when we don't feel like we have control, we get. We get the higher power, we get the source of it all that we could call on and say, lord, I'm in the middle of this decision right here and I just don't know which way to go. Right, can you set in step in handle this for me, manage it, have family, my peeps, y'all. His grace is amazing. Right, you need to go to the gym. I don't want to go to the gym. You need to eat. Right, I don't want to eat. Right, I'm going to eat. Right, I'm going to go to the gym. Whatever it may, I don't want to go to work today. Let me call in, let me give him an. You have the ability to go to work when so many people don't.
Speaker 1:I don't think we think about that. So many people nowadays, today, even today, have been let go, and God rest and bless and cover them in the moments where they're trying to figure it out, where they just got hit so hard by something. They can't really fathom what just happened. But I can tell you this Either way too. I said it was the flip side of that right. Either way, something so bad could have happened and something so good could have happened as well, and they don't know what to do with it. You know, sometimes success will hit us so hard. Something good when I mean success, I mean success, I mean something great, something amazing, something that we were waiting for, something that we were looking for, something that we were hoping for, and it just seemed like it wasn't in the cards. And voila, here it is, right in your face and it's so heavy that you don't know where to start. I hope y'all having those kind of days, man. I hope y'all having those kind of days, man. I hope y'all have that kind of a weekend. Well, y'all just can't figure out. What am I doing all this money? What am I going to do with all of this abundance that just covered me and covered my family, covered my friends, covered my haters? No, yes, but yes, right.
Speaker 1:Imagine that happening to you instead of thinking about the opposite side. I was just saying don't speak negative into the universe, because that negative spirit loves to latch on, loves to put its hooks in, that loves to get all up in your business, because you put it out there and then do whatever that negative energy wants to do with you because you shared with that source. Uh-uh, keep it to god, keep it to yourself. If it's so bad that you just are so frustrated you want to scream it out, it's okay to do that too, but scream it at god. God knows just what to do with it. He knew when, before it happened to you, right? You say, well, you know everything. Why would he let that happen to me? We have choices. I just said it. We have choices.
Speaker 1:Some of our choices gets us in situations where we just need to scream and, like I said, we could be screaming in joy, right, we could be screaming at the top of our lungs in joy, depending on where you are right now, depending on who you're with, you know, and what's, who you're around. So, understand that God's grace is everything and uh and that's. I'm just feeling that today and I just felt the need to express that and I felt the need to share that today, right, because I think you need to know that you are special and you have grace and you have these decisions that you definitely have control over and the power to make. What are you going to do with it? What are you doing with your life today. What are you going to do on this Friday? I would love to know.
Speaker 1:Someone said to me, when I was given a message, that that flip side of that coin, on one side of that coin, is life, on the other side of that coin is death. And, oh my god, it is your decision to decide. Is it death in this situation or is it life in this situation? Am I speaking life into this paycheck that I'm about to receive and go out and blow a few digits? Or am I speaking life into this light bill, into the cell phone bill that's $250 a month, right Into this $1,000 light bill oh, cell phone bill is $250 a month. Right into this thousand dollar light bill, oh man, right into this thousand dollar car that I, you know I'm driving around right, tell, talk to me y'all, y'all, can y'all hear me? Do y'all hear me, man? I know some of y'all know exactly what I'm talking about and if you say you know what, I'm not gonna breathe, breathe. Get myself convince myself that I need this thing. Right, I don't need to jump on this plane and go see home, boy. I don't need to go hop on this plane and go pick up home girl. Some of y'all know what y'all, some of y'all out there, like that man, and that's a beautiful thing.
Speaker 1:Because of grace you get to do those things when so many other people are sitting there with those paychecks or with that little piece of energy, that little piece of money that we got our hands on today and we got those kids sitting right in front of you, or you got something that's sitting right in front of you that you just don't want to give that energy to, but you have to. You have to thank God and say Lord, I just appreciate the little things, I appreciate that I got this thing and I'm going to do the right thing with this thing Because I'm not the only one and you treat me like I'm not the only one and you treat me like I'm the only one and because of that I need to do the right thing. Wow, ponder that y'all man that just hit me. I just had to fall back on that one man Because he does treat you like you're the only one. And let me say this to you and I'll close this out because I got things to get to like always right y'all.
Speaker 1:I was talking to a new friend of mine in amsterdam. What a beautiful soul soul is. And she was given talk the other day and I just so happened to pop in on her and she said God had to move through somebody in order to speak to someone else, something along those lines. I'm paraphrasing but God had to put himself in a human form in order to show what he was about, to tell crowds. Show what he was about, to tell Crowds, people one on one in private rooms, to tell some people that he was the light and he was the way.
Speaker 1:Understand that God Can easily be moving through you To get to that person that's sitting right next to you Today on your job, in the car, as you go down the freeway, the highway, on the roads or wherever you're traveling to. Someone's sitting on the sofa, someone's sitting across the street at the bus stop. I know I'm going, I'm reaching y'all, but through you, the message for someone's, maybe even another day with us, y'all is coming through you. That's grace, man, this's grace. Be appreciative of the little things, the many, many, the things. That's so tiny, that flicker that just went past your eye, that word that just went into your ear, hopefully coming from me, word that just went into your ear, hopefully coming from me that thought that you just had about something that connected just now for you. Be grateful for it, be grateful for these things, appreciate the life that we have been given and the life that we are promised when we, like so many of those people who taught us and loved us and loved on us, who are just hopefully in the waiting, as the good book says, all right, I'm chuck rocker, y'all.
Speaker 1:Man rocks police is the podcast, and I thank you guys so much. My gratitude is to you and I do see. I do see the support and and it is mind blowing, and I'm going to be grateful For every little, every second, every minute that you give to me. And, with that being said, happy Friday. Y'all. Go and have a blessed and beautiful and, most of all, healthy and safe, whatever it is that you're getting into, I wish I was there. If it's something good, y'all, and if it was something bad that you needed a little help, a little pick me up on, I wish I was there for you too. Hopefully I just got to you, hopefully I just reached you. And then to the next episode. I'm Chuck Parker, rucks Places to Podcast and I'm out y'all. Peace, thank you. You.
