David & Lindsey Pollack - The Gift Of Resilience

May 11, 2026 | 27:29

A former pro football player and his wife share their trials, disappointments, and difficult lessons to teach them that “Every Day Counts.”

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Life Today with James Robison | David & Lindsey Pollack - The Gift Of Resilience | May 11, 2026

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David pollack: got drafted in the nfl and then one play, one
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Hit, and "you fractured your c6, c7.
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That means you broke your neck."
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Announcer: a career-ending injury was david pollack's worst
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Nightmare, until his wife received a shattering diagnosis.
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Lindsey pollack: they came back and said, "okay, it's a brain
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Tumor and it's cancerous."
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And they were like, "yeah, this is a grade 2 glioma.
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It's got to come out.
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You're gonna have to have brain surgery to remove this."
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Announcer: how lindsey and david pollack
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Make every day count, next.
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[music]
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Randy robison: welcome to "life today."
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I'm randy robison.
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Blynda lane joins me as well. how's your day going?
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Blynda lane: it's going awesome. randy: is it counting?
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Blynda: because every day counts.
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Randy: every day counts. blynda: that's why.
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That's why it's going awesome, because every day counts.
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Randy: yeah, she got onto me on it.
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She knew where i was going on that one.
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"every day counts" is a book that is available now, but it's
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More than a book.
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It's the story of david pollack, and his wife lindsey joins us
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As well.
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You may recognize david from espn or maybe his name on the
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Back of a jersey in cincinnati or georgia, or maybe a lot of
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Other great things he does.
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But you're gonna hear the story, not just of david but of a
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Family, and it's going to, i think, encourage you today.
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I've been encouraged by it.
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Blynda: i've been encouraged, and even just getting to talk
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With you before the show, just what an incredible family
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And story.
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And we're so thankful that you've said yes to god in so
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Many ways.
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So welcome to the show.
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Lindsey: thank you.
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David: thank you so much for having us.
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Randy: so for those of--we were chatting a little football
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Before we started here, and you know, i could see some people's
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Eyes glazing over, but--
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David: we're not talking about football.
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Randy: yeah, no, we're not gonna talk about football, but i'd
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Like to talk about you, just so people can understand a little
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Bit of how your life was radically changed.
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But jump back to how you got to be eventually in the nfl.
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David: well, i was four years old.
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My brother was two years older, and he--i knew i wanted to
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Play football.
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Like, i tackled everything on the sidelines.
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Like, i got in trouble because of the cheerleaders and the
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Water jugs, like, i hit everything.
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Like, i knew i wanted to do it.
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And from when i was six years old, i told anybody who would
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Listen, "i'm gonna play in the nfl."
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That was my goal and my dream.
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And then, you know, growing up, you hit your hiccups and you hit
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Your, you know, spots that you weren't very good, and you keep
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Pushing and pushing.
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And then, you know, i got drafted in the nfl and then, you
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Know, drafted by the cincinnati bengals.
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One play, one hit, and it was gone, just like that.
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So, literally on the field, they take you underneath the stadium,
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They have the mri machine, the x-rays, all that stuff there.
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They take you underneath and it's like, "hey, you fractured
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Your c6, c7," and me being a big dumb animal meathead football
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Player, i'm like, "cool, what does that mean?
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I'm out a couple weeks?"
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They're like, "that means you broke your neck."
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I was like, "oh, can we stick to the c6, c7, because that sounds
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A lot better than a broken neck."
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Randy: how difficult was it to have achieved your lifelong
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Dream, and have it gone like that?
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David: i think it's difficult for sure, like, because that's
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What you wanted to do, but i think it's fun to watch it now.
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It's not always fun in the moment, right, to go through
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Something that's really difficult.
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But like, you know, god really used it for us, because it
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Slowed us down, and especially slowed me down.
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Like, i am add, all over the place, like energy boy, get in
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Trouble, annoy the mess out of her all the time, like.
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And so i had a very transactional relationship
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With god.
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I talked to god in the morning, i talked to god before meals,
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And then occasionally, if i had time, i'd holler at him, right?
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Like, that's kind of how it worked.
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And so, the bible says, "be still and know that i am god."
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It's the first time that i actually had to be still.
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I had the halo, you know, drilled into the skull and two
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Years recovery, but i think god used it in a mighty way.
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I'm a better husband because of it.
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I'm a better dad because of it.
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But i think those storms in our lives are gonna come, right?
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It's not if, it's when.
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To get that at 22 and to get that perspective at 22 has
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Changed the way we lived and how we fought the next battle, and
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The next battle, which obviously keep coming.
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But it was a very awesome moment to get still and learn like,
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Hey, my god wants a relationship with me, and when i spend some
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Time with him, it's amazing.
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You wanna hear from god more?
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Like, talk to him more.
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It was really enlightening.
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Blynda: so lindsey, i'm curious about, here he is, a very public
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Figure, and the dream that he has, you're kind of seeing that
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Be taken away from him, but yet here you are as his wife, and
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Raising the children and that kind of thing.
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Yet you also, as life went on, experienced a lot of battles.
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And so how has your faith been impacted by watching what he's
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Walked through and also in your own life?
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Lindsey: well, he's been a rock star, because after he broke his
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Neck and had to leave the nfl, you would--i know it was hard
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Because i'm his wife, and we would talk about it and i know
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It was hard, but other people wouldn't know it.
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He handled it with such positivity and such grace and
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Such resilience, and that's a testament to his faith and how
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Strong he was, and that didn't define him.
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He knew that his only purpose in life wasn't just to be an
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Nfl player.
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And so i got to see that firsthand, which then
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Strengthened my faith, because it helped me realize that we
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Have more purpose than just the one thing.
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Whether you're a football player or not, i think his story is
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Very relatable because we all have dreams that go away, and we
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Have to learn to move on to the next thing and trust god's plan.
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And so i think with that, i mean, i absolutely had to learn
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To surrender more.
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I'm a control freak, i like to plan out everything from
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Yesterday to ten years from now.
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But we learned real quickly, we're not in control.
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And i had to learn to just let go, and let god, and trust him
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With his story, with our story, with our family.
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And like he said, it's not if you're gonna go through a storm,
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It's when, you know.
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Jesus tells us this life is going--not if it's gonna
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Have trouble, it is going to have troubles, "but take heart,
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I'm here with you."
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And so learning to trust, you know, that he's with us every
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Step of the way, we just had to learn to do that.
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David: well, we learned that football is a terrible god too.
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Randy: terrible god?
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Both: yeah.
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Randy: football, an occupation, whatever you do, it's a terrible
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God, like, because it is going to be gone at some point.
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And like, it happened for us immediately, which was a
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Surprise, which was difficult, but like, you know, anybody
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Who's gone through something like that, you start to realize,
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Like, my identity, and where am i gonna put my identity?
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And there's a bunch of things we talk about with identity in the
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Book, but there's three ways to define identity.
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It's inside out, which is terrible because sometimes we
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Walk by the mirror and we're like, "oh, i like what i see,"
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And then sometimes you walk by the mirror and like, "eugh,
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That's an ugly dude," right?
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Like it's just the way it works.
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Y'all don't say dude, but.
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And then, or you can define identity from outside in, which
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Is what everybody else says about you, which is just as
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Miserable and just as volatile, right, because some people don't
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Like happy people, some people don't like sad people, some
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People don't like people.
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Y'all know those people.
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If you don't, it might be you.
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But like, some people just don't like people, so it's gonna
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Be volatile.
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But like, i think learning to really put your identity in this
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Top down, right?
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Like what does god say about us?
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And so to have your identity of this world stripped away at a
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Young age, it was awesome because it's like, okay,
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Whose am i?
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Like i'm loved, i'm created. what was i created for?
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I thought i was created to play football.
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I was wrong.
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But that's the way my brain worked, right?
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And competitiveness, and then you start to realize, oh wait,
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Like, god created me to do this and he created me to do this,
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And i think it's fun because the art of the possible opens back
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Up in your life.
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And so whoever's failed and had those moments, like, those are
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Moments that are used because god uses everything for good,
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Not just the good times, but the bad times are always used to
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Give us something that we haven't had.
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Randy: was he legit like this during while he was in the
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Hospital, while he was in recovery?
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Lindsey: always.
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Randy: always like that. where does that come from?
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Blynda: i'm kind of sensing an opposites attract moment here.
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Randy: but where does that come from?
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You have a mama that prayed or something?
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David: yeah, well, i don't--my mama didn't really pray for me.
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We were not in the church at all.
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We didn't set foot in the church when we were younger, but i've
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Always had a lot of energy and intensity.
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And now listen, and i've had a lot of competitiveness, too, and
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I'll say this, it's been my greatest strength, but it's also
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Been my greatest weakness, because it's also got me in
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Plenty of trouble.
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Randy: but the faith to know that god was working through
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What seemed like the end of your dream, like, where did that
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Come from?
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Did that grow over time or?
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David: oh, 100%.
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Like, i came to faith when i was--just before my senior high
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School, and two things happened, and i love to share this because
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These are two things that anybody can do.
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It doesn't have to be on the tv station.
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But like, i had a neighbor across the street that asked me
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To come to a lock-in.
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I was like, "what's a lock-in?"
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They were like, "you come to the church and we lock you in."
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I was like, "no, absolutely not.
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Why would i wanna go to that?"
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And then they said, "you get to eat and you get to play sports
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And stay up all night."
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I was like, "okay, i can get down with that.
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I'm in."
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So i got into that.
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And then i had a teacher in a public school named mark watson,
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And he played praise and worship music, and he had the jesus
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Sticker on his computer, and i was like, "oh, he's one of those
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Jesus freaks," and everybody has their spiritual gifts, right?
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Well, mine, one of mine is being annoying.
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It's really strong.
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You can probably feel it, you know.
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Randy: i missed that passage in the scripture, but okay.
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David: but like, so i had a gift to get in trouble, and mark
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Handled me with such grace, and i was like, "something's
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Different about that dude."
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And so, i say that because first of all, you don't have to know
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The scripture inside and out and be a preacher.
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You can invite somebody to church.
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Anybody can invite.
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The preacher can do his job, right?
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And then the second thing, the most important thing, is living
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A life worth emulating.
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Like, because if somebody watches you and they're like,
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"do they see your fruit?
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Do they see, like, you are a faith-filled person?"
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That's different, because if they do that, then they're gonna
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Want a piece of it, right?
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Like jesus walked this earth and people were like--like, because
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He didn't come with clout.
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He didn't come as a king, right?
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He came as a peasant, a day worker from nazareth, right?
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Like, so nobody was like, "oh man, that's the dude," but the
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Way he carried himself was in a way that people were like,
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"that's different.
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I want some of that.
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I wanna touch his garment," right?
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Like, "i want some part of that."
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And we can all--we all have that ability to do that.
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Blynda: it's so good.
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It's almost like a peace that resides in you when you know
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Where your identity lies.
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David: it takes a lot of pressure off your life.
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Imagine if everybody out there in their marriages took divorce
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Off the table.
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Imagine if you took that off the table.
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Like you take the negative off the table, and you just say,
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Like, "i'm gonna be positive in every situation," like, "god's
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Got something for me in this."
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Blynda: we can think of something in our life and go,
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"okay, i'll have the faith to to walk through that."
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But then lindsey, something like a brain tumor, which is now your
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Life is hanging in the balance, that's something that could
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Really shake your faith, that can really show you what really
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Is inside, and that happened to you.
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Can you tell us about that?
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Lindsey: yeah, so, in 2019 i started having ear pains, had no
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Idea what it was, so just went to the doctor like
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Anybody would.
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Let's figure this out.
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Ent, chiropractor, they couldn't give me an answer, so they were
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Like, "let's do an mri of your brain."
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And they do, and lo and behold, there's something that comes
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Back on the image, and they don't know exactly what it is.
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They labeled it an abnormality and they're like, "okay, we'll
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Just watch it."
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So five years go by and we're imaging every six months and
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There's no changes, no changes, i'm having no symptoms.
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And then my last mri october of 2024, when they were actually
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About to release me, "okay, if nothing's changed, we're gonna
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Let you go," and it has grown.
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So they decide, "okay, we need to biopsy it and see what we're
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Dealing with."
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So in december of 2024 they did a biopsy, and we waited weeks.
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Almost a month later they came back and said, "okay, it's a
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Brain tumor and it's cancerous," which is not at all what we were
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Expecting because we had nothing to tell us up to that point that
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That could be what we were dealing with, so it was
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Definitely a shock.
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He didn't even go with me to the appointment when i found
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Out because--
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Blynda: you'd had so many good scans.
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Lindsey: yeah, every time i had gone they were like, "oh, you
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Know, no news is good news, so they're just taking their time,
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But we think you're fine."
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So we met with several oncologists and surgeons, and by
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The grace of god we were able to get in with some amazing doctors
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At duke university.
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And they were like, "yeah, this is a grade 2 glioma.
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It's gotta come out.
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You're gonna have to have brain surgery to remove this."
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And it's like, okay, here we go.
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I mean, i'll never forget, he looked at me and he was like,
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"we're built for this," and he's right.
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I mean, that's what god has been preparing us through all these
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Ups and downs.
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So in march of 2025, i had a craniotomy to remove the brain
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Tumor, and thankfully they got it all.
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Blynda: which is like across your entire--
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Lindsey: across my head like a headband.
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Six weeks of pretty intense recovery, but you know, now i
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Take medication, like an oral chemo every day, and so, you
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Know, that's one of the miracles is that back in 2019 when they
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Found it, the only option would have been surgery and then chemo
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And radiation, which, radiation on your brain doesn't sound
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Appealing to anyone, i don't think.
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But because they didn't discover what it was until 2024, there's
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Now a medication that i can take every day for the rest of my
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Life that will keep--because this tumor can grow back, but it
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Will keep it from growing back.
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So i'm beyond thankful for the timing and that that is an
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Option for me.
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So i take this medication daily, but i don't have any symptoms,
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So very thankful, yeah.
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Blynda: praise god. i mean, this is a miracle.
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Lindsey: it is a miracle.
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There's so many things about his timing through my story that
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Is miraculous.
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David: she had this--she never once cried.
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She never once said, "why me?"
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In one of the car rides, i'll never forget, she said, "i think
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God chose me for this because he knew i could handle it."
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And so i thought, i mean, it was like, mm, yeah.
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I mean, it was hard.
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Honestly, like, breaking your neck, and i think everybody can
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Probably relate to this, like breaking my neck, getting fired,
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All that stuff, it's nothing as bad as when it's your spouse.
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Like, that's infinitely harder because there's no
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Control, right?
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Like, you can't control it.
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And i think how you handle it, like, to me it's like you
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Wrestle, right?
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And if you wrestle with god, and you're one of those people that
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Wanna wrestle with god, well, i got bad news.
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It's just gonna be broken hip and dislocated joints and stuff,
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And it's not gonna get you anywhere.
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And it's like you said earlier, how do you let go and let god?
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And so i know that like with us, scripture everywhere, sticky
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Notes on the mirrors, like when we're walking through this
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Stuff, it's sticky notes next to the bed and just
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Constant reminders.
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The thing i love most about the bible is the bible is the
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Living, breathing word of god, and it does not change.
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But here's where the bible does change.
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It changes because you're always changing.
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I'm not the same person that reads this verse, and so this
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Verse might slap you upside the head, right?
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And before it didn't mean anything.
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In mark 15:21, the way i memorize scripture is like mark,
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15 is tim tebow, deion sanders, 21.
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That's just the way i memorize scripture.
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But it says simon--it says simon of cyrene was walking by.
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And he said, his sons alexander and rufus were there, and he
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Said he was forced to carry the cross.
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That scripture has never meant anything to us.
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That's never meant anything to me.
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But here's what happens.
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When you have brain surgery, you know, you're forced to carry a
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Cross, and just like y'all at home have been forced to--you're
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Gonna be forced to carry something that you don't
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Wanna carry.
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I'll be honest, i wasn't strong enough to carry it.
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Like, we had some hard days.
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Like, eating breakfast at 2 a.m.
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And her not sleeping, and we had some rough days.
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But to have other people in your life come in and pick the cross
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Up, nicholas and leah are 17 and 15, our kids.
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They had to help me carry the cross.
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Like, that thing was heavy.
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And so if you know people that are going through things, i try
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To always get this across.
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There's a lot of people that you know that are struggling and
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They're really, really hurting and something's going, and you
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Don't know what to do.
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Like when people asked us about her, i'm like, "i don't know
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What to tell you."
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But here's the best advice i can give you, just do.
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Lindsey: just show up. david: just show up, man.
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Like, we had so many people that got groceries for us and had
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Them dropped off and cleaned the house, and like just so many
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Things that like--and spent time with us.
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And it just, you don't feel worthy of it, but you're so
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Thankful for it.
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And so, whoever that is in your life and you know they're going
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Through something, just go do something.
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Go cut their lawn, you know, go get them groceries, go do their
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Laundry, whatever you can to just be a part of it, because
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That's all they need, right?
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But they just don't know how to ask, and just like we
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Didn't either.
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Randy: i think the natural question that you said you never
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Asked, which is "why me?" or "why this?" you know?
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And i, man, i get to the end of the rope on that one and i still
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Don't have a good answer for everyone, but i do know that
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Christ promised he would walk with us through anything and
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Everything, and that's what i hear both of you guys saying.
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Is that how you make every day count?
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David: yeah, i mean, it's not "why me?" it's, "yes, me."
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It's, "i've been chosen, this is mine."
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Like, this is mine to do.
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This is--like, i've been chosen to have something very unique.
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Like, it's not "why me?"
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I get to, not have to, right?
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Like that's always--it's gotta be the mindset.
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Like, we get these opportunities to--and here's the thing.
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Here's why i don't say "why me?" because if you say "why me?
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With my neck, well, then i don't have the ability to understand
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What people are going through when they're going through
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Hard things.
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Like, what we've been through now together, like her ministry
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Has started for, she's talked to two or three people now that
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Have to have craniotomies, and she gets to walk people through.
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So it's not wasted. it's not "why me?"
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God gave that to me for a reason to use it, like, i know why he
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Gave it to us.
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He gave it to use it for his glory, just like he gave us
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Every other gift.
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So it's how do we take it, and how do we use it?
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And so i think that it's a different mindset when we flip
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That and when we use it, because we're not guaranteed anything.
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Like in our bible studies and in our small groups we've had so
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Much of the, like, "why do good things happen to bad people?"
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I'm like, you ain't good.
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Like, i got news for you.
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You ain't good.
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Like, i am sinful, you are sinful.
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We are born into sin--we are born into sin and we live in a
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Sinful world, so what we deserve is death.
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So thank you, jesus, however long we get, right?
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And so i think trying to--what you learn is to make every
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Day count.
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Like i only--and that's the main mantra behind the book.
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Like, if you are driving in a car, as an analogy, if we're
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Always looking out the front windshield and we're always
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Looking to the future, then we're not enjoying where
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We're at.
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If we're always looking in the rearview mirror of that thing
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That happened, that shame, that guilt, that thing i wish i
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Wouldn't have done, that thing that held me back, if we're
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Always looking at there, we're not present.
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And that's where we're trying to challenge people with the book
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Is to, every day, to form goals and habits.
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And so if you're a believer and you're listening to this, like,
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What is the most important thing in my life?
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If i say god is the most important thing in my life, do
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My actions reflect that?
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Am i selfish in the morning
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So i can be selfless the rest of the day, right?
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Am i getting in the word? am i reading?
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Am i going to church?
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Like those are things that that's what people that wanna
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Grow are doing.
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They're meeting and they're pushing themselves.
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And so i think that's the main premise behind "every day
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Counts" in the book.
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Randy: yeah, very encouraging.
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I want people to get it.
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I would like to send you that book actually, if you will look
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At a situation right now and make today count, because you're
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Going to see a situation that it's really easy to go, "why?
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God, why would you even allow that to happen?"
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But i think if you listen today, you'll see this as the
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Opportunity that it is.
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And you're the people to rise up and to share god's love in
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Someone's life.
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Watch this and you can request that book, but most of all, we
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Want you to make today count, so that someone else can have
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A tomorrow.
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Announcer: rural health clinics in africa serve as a lifeline
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For children suffering from severe malnutrition.
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These clinics provide emergency nutritional supplies,
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Therapeutic foods, and life-saving treatments that
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But there is a crisis today, leaving many clinic
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Shelves bare.
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John yeatts: we showed up at one of the clinics today where we
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Were supposed to be doing screening and handing out for
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Children that are--they're in the crisis mode, they're in
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Danger but they're not hospitalized yet.
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But unfortunately there's no aid to give.
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And so we are desperately needing your help to make sure
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That the mission feeding can continue on, that we can
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Continue to support these families, these mothers that
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Work so diligently.
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Can you imagine this mama having to come 45 miles to a clinic
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Hoping to get aid, and there'd be none available?
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How defeating, how hopeless is that feeling for her, knowing
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That her baby is days away from dying?
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We're the ones that have a responsibility to step into the
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Gap and to bring hope and help to these mothers and
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These children.
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Announcer: with your help, we can provide mission feeding in
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Villages before a mother would need to bring their child to a
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Malnutrition clinic.
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But for those children in need of emergency care, it is
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Critical that we provide clinics with these
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Nutritional supplements.
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It could mean the difference between life and death.
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The time to act is now.
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Randy: we need to hear from you.
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Please go online, go to the phone,
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Make the best gift you can.
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Announcer: right now across the continent of africa, children
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Are suffering, facing severe malnutrition and even death.
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With food reserves critically depleted and many areas
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Experiencing devastating famine, we urgently need to replenish
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Supplies to keep feeding the 350,000 children who are
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Counting on us every single day.
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With your gift we'll send you "the father's heart" devotional.
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Drawing from scripture and his past, james robison takes you on
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A 90-day journey to help you experience a deeper, more
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Personal relationship with god as your loving father.
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This stationary set, paired with the devotional, is a
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Thoughtfully-designed collection created to help you share
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Encouragement, prayer, and the love of our heavenly father with
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Those you care about.
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Finally, with your gift of $1,000 or more, which will help
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Feed 100 children in desperate need, request life's beautiful
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Bronze sculpture, the good shepherd.
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So, please call, write, or make your gift online today.
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Randy: i do hope you will make today count.
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Go online, go to the phone, make the best gift you can.
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This is a great book, and i want people to request this when they
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Join mission feeding today.
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Blynda: "every day counts."
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I love what it says here, "start where you are.
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Use what you have. do what you can."
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Randy: that's it. blynda: awesome.
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Randy: all right, david, lindsey,
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Appreciate both of you guys.
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Lindsey: thank you.
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Randy: you got a couple of podcasts for people that wanna
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Maybe follow up with you guys, what are those?
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David: well, if you're a football fan, "see ball get
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Ball," and then "family goals" is with my pastor.
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We started in the closet of the church and never assumed it
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Would ever be listened to except through the church, and it's
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Been kind of cool because god's used it, but just like how to
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Set family goals and go through scripture and just implement
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Things in your lives.
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Randy: well, they'll just have to tune into that.
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I appreciate you guys being here.
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David: absolutely, thanks for having us.
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Randy: appreciate all you guys being here.
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Be sure to tune in next time here on "life today."
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Jonathan pokluda: the scripture says a lot about the heart.
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And i think often when it talks about the heart of man or the
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Heart of mankind, men and women, it's talking about the emotional
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Quotient of an individual, like the place that
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Stores our feelings.
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And what the bible teaches us is that we're to guard our heart
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More than we guard anything, more than we protect our money,
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More than we protect our car, more than we protect our house,
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More than we protect our children, that we're to protect
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Our heart.
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It says, "above all else guard your heart, for it is the
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Wellspring of life."
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Or it says, "in all things, keep your heart with all vigilance,
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For everything you do flows from it."
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And this is proverbs 4:23.
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What does it mean that we're to protect our heart
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Or guard our heart?
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It's a military term.
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It's a hostile language that in the same way that roman soldiers
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Might guard a tomb or protect an individual, it says that in this
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Way we're to protect our heart.
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What does that mean?
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I think it means that we're to be careful what we let in it.
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Now, we can hear that as christians and think, "okay, i'm
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Gonna be--protect--be careful of what i let in my heart, but how
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Do i let things in my heart?"
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Well, as the proverb progresses, it says, "be careful where you
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Set your eyes, what you listen to, where you walk, and who you
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Hang out with."
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And so, all of these things that we do,
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They're feeding our heart.
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They're telling us to do something.
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Every now and then i'll speak somewhere, and a young woman
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Will come up and say, "pastor, i need your help.
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I have a lot of relationship struggles.
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It seems that i'm only attracted to guys that hurt me or that are
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No good for me.
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They don't treat me well."
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And i respond to that with, "well, what kind of music do you
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Listen to?"
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And she's always confused.
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She, you know, she's like, "well, no,
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I'm looking for dating advice."
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I say, "great, hear me out.
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What are your favorite tv shows?
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What are you watching?"
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Because i don't think we understand that through the
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Music that we're listening to and the shows that we're
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Watching, that we're taking our heart to a university of what to
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Be attracted to.
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We're informing our heart.
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Our heart works like a bloodhound.
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It gets on a scent, and then it follows it.
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Our heart works like netflix or amazon, these search engines
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That when you look to watch a show, it suggests other shows
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Similar to that show you watched
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Or when you look to buy an item, it suggests other items similar
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To that item that you bought.
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Our heart works in a really similar way, that when you feed
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It something, you're telling it what to look for, what to seek
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Out in the world, you're giving it cravings and urges to pursue.
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And so, "above all else, guard your heart, for it is the
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Wellspring of life."
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"keep your heart with all vigilance, for everything you do
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Flows from it."
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If you don't like where you're going, pay attention to what you
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Pay attention to because we feed our heart through our minds, our
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Thoughts, our experiences.
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Our brain feeds our heart, and our heart takes us places.
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So, above all else, guard your heart.
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Ryan leak: way too many people live by the mantra that the
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World would be a better place if everybody else just changed.
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David & Lindsey Pollack - The Gift Of Resilience

May 11, 2026 | 27:29

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