Foxhole Symphony
Foxhole Symphony
Finding Peace Amid the Noise
Amid the chaotic noise of early holiday preparations and the relentless cycle of news, Mark and I uncover a path to clarity and peace. What would it feel like to step back from the barrage of media consumption and embrace a life more focused and serene? We share our journeys of disconnecting from traditional news sources and social media, finding solace and essential information within our personal networks and communities. Our conversation reveals the benefits of this intentional choice, as well as the challenges that come with maintaining focus amidst life's distractions.
As we discuss the impact of media on our language and thoughts, we recount a personal story of how a TV show unexpectedly influenced our vocabulary. This led us to explore the concept of "white noise" and how it can subtly shape our mental state, often normalizing behaviors and language without us even realizing it. We highlight the importance of carving out quiet spaces for spiritual discipline, emphasizing how retreating into solitude can help us experience God's peace amidst the clamor of daily life. Through self-reflection, we find that these efforts bring us closer to understanding and prioritizing time with God.
The transformative power of sound and music takes center stage as we reflect on how these elements can shape our spiritual and emotional well-being. From the uplifting rhythms of high-energy praise music to the soothing embrace of nature's melodies, we delve into the role of sound in fostering adoration and a healthy fear of God. Our discussion culminates in a call to make purposeful choices each day, seeking divine direction for hope and healing. Join us as we explore how the right sounds can bring joy and peace, and don't forget to engage with us on social media, share your thoughts, and suggest any topics you'd like us to cover in future episodes.
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Speaker 3:Hello everyone. They call me the Maestro and we are back in the foxhole where we actively pursue belonging, accountability and growth through authentic relationships. No masks, no agendas, just iron sharpening iron. Mark and Steve are back at it and they're talking about the noise all around us. No, don't get your earplugs. You're going to want to hear this one. Grab a comfortable spot, open your notes app and let's get started.
Speaker 2:Hey, welcome back to Foxhole Symphony Podcast. I'm Sarge here with Mark. It's good to see you, brother.
Speaker 1:Hey, how are you bro?
Speaker 2:Hey, how are you, bro? I'm good, I'm good, it's. You know, we are through election season officially and we're, you know, going right in the holiday season, and so you know I will say that in my house, typically the house gets decorated for Christmas after Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving weekend, right? So that's been the tradition. Thanksgiving Thanksgiving weekend, Right? So that's, that's, that's been the tradition. Uh, well, that's no more, it's. It's now the day after, uh, elections, apparently in an election year. Uh, this is so, um, you know, our house is for Christmas, uh, as of.
Speaker 2:November 6th and, uh, so we got two full months. I said, wow, what are we Macy's? We're like, we're Macy's. Now, this is a we're like a department store. Um, but it's wonderful. No, I'm loving it and, um, you know, but it's, yeah, it's like one of these things, man, just you know the season's just running into each other and clashing and the messages and the. You know we start hearing about Christmas now and, like you know, the Christmas songs, right, like families and spouses argue about you know when, when it's too early to play Christmas music, and the messaging and the marketing, right.
Speaker 1:Big box stores had Christmas stuff little bits, little bits of Christmas stuff. I won't remember. I won't mention the name of the store that begins with a big red C, but they had Christmas stuff out at Labor Day.
Speaker 2:That's what I mean, right, and uh, so yeah, so much messaging, so much messaging man, so much noise, and and you know it's, it's, I know you, you've, you know I, I look at you and I listened to you and you're, you've been so good at, like, reducing the level of noise in your life.
Speaker 2:And you know, over these last couple of years, especially since COVID, but even the last couple of years, and um, and I'm like you know, like I'll say things. You're like, yeah, I don't know, haven't heard about it, and you know it's in one of the one of the. I was reading a book recently and then a devotional about the book and it's about redeeming your time. And one of the things that is said in that is you know, if you want to redeem your time, like, start getting your news from your friends, from your friends. And he and he says, like, if you actually stop getting your news from wherever you get it, like the important stuff, you'll actually get it through those closest to you. They will inform you what you need to know. And I'm like, and I thought of you, I thought of you, I'm like man that's, that's Mark, he's living that and I'm so not.
Speaker 1:I am, I am, I admit it, I am, I am, I admit it, and it was gosh. So the first time I can recall stopping the noise was turning off a conservative talking head back about 20 years ago, where I just I was a devotee. I was in it man, Neil, Weaver, Rush and Sean, and a lot of that noise was coming at me and I've spent a lot of time this is pre-podcast where there weren't podcasts. Maybe my taste in music had changed by that point. Now I feel like I'm more into classical music, even though if Eddie Van Halen comes on, I'll go with Eddie. But long story short, I remember it then. But you're right, it's about the last six, seven, eight years that I specifically said. That's it. I'm not reading or listening to any news. So whatever is considered news, that is, TV news, newspaper digital news, social media news the only reason I have no, you know this and I've talked about, I think, in the three years we've been doing this together by the way, we've almost been doing this three years together Um, I, I. The only reason I have a Facebook account is because of the podcast. When you help me, set up a Facebook account in 2021 for this podcast, other than that 21 for this podcast.
Speaker 1:Other than that, I am social media free and a lot of it has to do with how loud the world was. I felt like it was very hard for me I'm easily distracted, as it is, but that just took it to a level where it was unhealthy for me. I was doing some really healthy things in my life and it just made sense to me. I wasn't taking out any ads to tell people I'm off the net, I'm off the grid, but I just said that's it.
Speaker 1:And I realized in about a year and you, you pointed this out to me just in some of our conversations, cause I'd sound like a ding dong talking to you about some current event and I didn't have a clue, and so I actually admitted this at lunchtime to a pastor friend of ours yesterday and we talked about the noise and we're talking about the podcast and so on, and I just said the risk of getting quieting the noise is you're not hip, I am not hip, I am clearly not current, I'm not hip. I have no game, I don't and I I'm. I'm selling for a living right, Having kind of contemporary news and being able to, but you know what Sarge I've I've navigated through it and I'm okay with my unhipness.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, that makes sense, yeah, it makes total sense man, and it's amazing and I've also seen that makes sense.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it makes total sense, man, and it's amazing and I've also seen. You know the result of that, in part, is I've seen your prayer life and your scripture reading. The time you spend in scripture and prayer has exponentially grown and therefore your maturity as a believer has skyrocketed. And so you know, that's just some of the fruit of making those hard decisions to cut out the noise, yeah, and so I say that to you know, just like alert our audience that they're. You know, the benefits are real, the benefits are real and they're emotional, psychological, they're spiritual. You know, and so you know again, it's, it's, we all have the same amount of time in the day and how we use it, how we choose to use it, is up to us. You know, we, we, we tend to make excuses I don't have enough time, you know and we all have the same amount of time in a day, and so it's.
Speaker 2:It's just we get to choose how we use it. So, but you know, even aside from making those decisions, though, right, like there are some conscious decisions we could make to tune things out. But, boy, I mean, unless you're living in, you know a hole, right, like you know a barracks, a basement, it's, it's tough to avoid the noise, right, whether that's from a media source, whether it's from you know other people, you know again, like I, just anything right, any messaging commercials, you know. If you watch any TV, if you, you know, whatever you turn on, you know there's there's noise, there's opinions, there's, you know it's. So, yeah, what is the noise? Right, define, define the noise.
Speaker 1:Well, that's just it. I love the word cacophony, right, if you, if you look up right, it's just a good word and that's what it is.
Speaker 1:It's messy, dark noise. That's what I'm trying to do is escape the darkness. I don't need any. I don't need the world first of all telling me what to think. That's, that's a problem for me. Now, maybe there's some pride in there, but I just don't want people. I'm tired of people shouting at me about what to think and telling me to take sides and things like that. It's just, it's an uncomfortable place for me and then everybody's pushing something at me. I can remember the joy, bro. How long ago was it that the like the Amazon echo, came out, the little disc and you put it down and you say, hey, echo, what's the weather? And then I found out about two weeks later that echo was telling me things about me. I'm like, how do you know that? Right, what? Who's listening? Are you listening to me? And I mean, I know my phone does it now. I mean, I'm not conspiratorial, you know that. But Maria and I are talking about buying a rug the other day and I get more rug ads.
Speaker 2:Everybody knows, it happens Right. Everybody knows.
Speaker 1:So meta, whatever AI is making me nuts, people making stuff up about think this way. So there's this mixture of noises and, like anything else, it's it's it's. Here's a good analogy. I think it's like going to a salad buffet you know and you take, take some of this. I take the beets Nah, I don't like that beets. Who takes beets? And for me?
Speaker 2:I'm teasing, but you go down the line, you take what you desire right, these things make up my salad bowl and there are things you leave behind, and that's the kind of discipline I think we need to, whether it be the news source we decide to select and get our news from, I know you and I get our news there.
Speaker 2:There's there, there are lots of neat options out there, but if you're, if you, if you consume your news for mainstream media, you know you, you gotta know what you're getting and it's it's, you know it's not truth, right, and so you know it does come down to, um, you know truth, right, it does come down to the noise I would almost define as anything other than truth, right, anything that gets in the way of truth and truth.
Speaker 2:You know there's a lot of talk, culturally right, there's been for years about your truth and my truth and respecting each other's truth, and it's nonsense, right, it's nonsense I mean the scriptures are clear about. You know what the truth is, more than that, who the truth is, right. Jesus is the truth, is the truth the way and the life, right, and and so, and there's, there's an enemy, right, who's the father of lies? The opposite. So you know, listen, lots of scriptural reference, lots of biblical reference, so you know, if Jesus is truth right, it would serve us well to spend most of our time listening to consuming truth right. And so you know, anything other than that is likely spun in some form or fashion.
Speaker 1:There's an agenda.
Speaker 2:There's an agenda of some sort.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 2:Whether you're being sold to, whether you're being marketed to, whether you're, you know, you're just again, depending on who's delivering the message. It's not pure, it's impure, right, and so that's putting it it lightly. Then there's the you know everything else and so you know, for, for starters, right, it's just wise, as a follower of jesus, to think about, to be aware of, you know, the information we are consuming, the entertainment we're consuming. So it's not just media, you know news, right, sources, but it's, it's just media entertainment. You know, what are we? What are we putting into us? What are we consuming? What are we taking in? Right, and it matters, and it and it, it changes us, it changes our thought patterns, it changes our you know, our, our, our, our, you know internal compass, right, it, I mean it changes who we are, how we behave. I mean, you know, I mean all of that. There are implications, and so, um, you know, our, our, our thoughts and hearts shift due to what it is we consume.
Speaker 2:And so, you know, all of this can be in my mind, it falls under the category of noise, right, there's distraction, there's simple distraction. Maybe it's not a media source or entertainment, but there's just, there's the circumstantial distractions of life, the things maybe that we make bigger than they really are right, because, let me tell you, we've got an enemy that loves to distract us, loves to keep us from being on mission. Whatever that God-given mission might be right, and it might just be this little circumstance or this little annoyance, or whatever it is right, and all of a sudden our entire focus is on that, it's all we can see, and all of a sudden we're off mission. Right, noise.
Speaker 1:So not hard to turn right. It's not that that little pivot, like all of a sudden you're like wait a minute, how did I get here?
Speaker 2:And you know, what the loudest noise is in my life, what the notifications on my phone and and I'm like, well, I don't, well, it's not. No, you know, I turned the ding off. Ding, ding, ding, ding. I turn it off. Okay, so now it's, you know, it's like listen the end of the day, or maybe I turn, I silence it completely, but it's still flashing up on the screen and every time it does, there's like a little dopamine hit, there's a little like I have to see what it said, I have to know what the message is. I have to like, oh my goodness, to the extent it can't be. What so like turn your notifications off, turn them off turn them off for the week Right Right.
Speaker 1:That's why I got rid of my Apple watch in 30 days, cause I couldn't stop looking at my wrist.
Speaker 2:Really, I'm in meetings. It's just vibrating're. You're talking to somebody.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:How? You know how annoying is it if you're talking to somebody and they're like you know, all they're doing is looking at their phone and they, you know, their attention's not on you.
Speaker 1:You know it right, everybody knows it. It's like the eye contact thing, because part of my mission statement is I'm present and I swear that's aspirational, like I really want to be present. Let me tell you a quick story about the consumption and how it changed. That environment changes us. I have a.
Speaker 1:I'm a guinea pig, without knowing it, but I watched a particular show on Apple TV two years ago. Three seasons, eight episodes per season, 24 episodes and there were only 40 minute episodes. Not a lot when you add it up. I'm saying all that to say it wasn't a ton of time. It literally changed my vocabulary because on this particular TV show, one man said the F word, every other word, and at first I was like this isn't for me, but it was so funny and so and, and, and we, we decided we're going to watch it. For six months after the show was over, I had to catch myself from saying the F word and I don't cuss, but I. It took me six, seven, eight months to to like stop, bite my tongue, really. So I'm, I'm here to say to anybody listening, if you, if you're wondering if what you consume with your eyes and your ears impacts how you think and what you say, yes, and there's probably some smart scientists out there that will tell us about environmental science and how this all works.
Speaker 1:But all I'm telling you is, if a stupid sitcom can do that to me, wow, you know, holy cow, it's amazing to me what we let come in, what gets through the filters that we have. Couldn't agree with you more. I was thinking about what does white noise mean? That was a term we use, right, white noise to some people. My son has tinnitus. You know Jack suffers from tinnitus and he has white noise generators in his ear, so all day long he has the tinnitus ringing. But then the opposite frequency he has, right, that hissing sound going the other way. That's what we think white noise is. But I'm guilty. I like having some noise in the background at night when I'm sleeping. I'll often go to sleep with a podcast in my ear or music in my ear or a video in my ear. I'm not looking at anything, but that's how I'm crashing. Not a good habit, I realize that, but ultimately I let white noise in and I'm learning that. Not a good idea.
Speaker 1:It's just more noise, it's a substitute noise.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Most of the noise I'm trying to filter is dark, you know? Yeah, it's the shouters. It's the doom. You know they call it doom scrolling. Well, I don't have to worry about scrolling. It's the doom that you're yelling at me about, because for me it comes down to a lack of trust. It's a trust issue. Yeah, folks who are yelling at me, I have a problem trusting it. You talked about the political thing and I don't know that.
Speaker 1:I don't trust these people. Stop telling me how to vote and how to think and what to what to believe. It comes back to the word.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's, there's a normalization factor. Right, you talked about the profanity and you know like how, how, how you, you get sucked into that Right, and then, like things get normalized right, you're like, oh, okay, like I just you know, oh yeah, the F word, no, it's normal normal, normal, normal, normal right.
Speaker 2:And then even that, and then there's the, there's the, what we see, right, what we see, what we hear, what we take in, but then it's also just the consistency of the noise. Going back to your point, the noise we get used to, we normalize the noise so that we get to a point where we can no longer be still and quiet enough to actually hear from the Lord. And that's the. That's the part that is most concerning to me is that, you know, for me, and it has to do with pace, but it also has to do with the again, it's the noise, it's the distraction, it's the constant If, if the first thing that happens in the morning, my phone, you know, ding, ding, and there's a thousand notifications I'm going to go through, and all of a sudden that's it, I'm off and running right, and it keeps me from time in the Lord.
Speaker 2:So I have to be really, really disciplined about that. And so you know, ultimately, this resistance to the noise that we're talking about, you know, really, what we're talking about is embracing quiet, embracing solitude, and you know, really, modeling, and you know what Jesus showed us, right, and to retreating, to be with his father, like retreating, to get away from the noise. He did it all the time right To get out of the crowds, to get out of the noise, to escape that and get alone with God.
Speaker 1:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:Yes, right, and yeah, and so we gave you know we were talking about a lot of practical things and we can get even more practical because you and I love that. We'll give you an action list, give you a to-do list, but it's, you know, it is, you know this heart condition and that has dramatic implications on you know the time we do, or don't, spend listening, just listening in quiet, to hear the soft, still voice of God, and you know it is for me I'll just speak for myself really hard to hear. I get it Really hard to hear.
Speaker 1:And I know how you feel, even seeing your note this morning in our devotional together and we didn't talk about this beforehand, but there's a look I think there's a self-inventory required. I don't mean to be too practical about this, but if, if you sat down at the end of a day and thought about the amount of time you gave God a fair chance to get through to you yeah, let me say that differently If I looked in the mirror and said Lord, you know, did I give you a fair chance? Did I listen for you today? So many days? The answer would be no. There would be time every morning. That hour is God's and mine and it's the best part of my day.
Speaker 1:But that giddy up notification, here we come, check the list off. Baby Woo, I'm just trained. It's Pavlovian, you know. Yeah, but let's agree that the enemy is in the noise, because anything that distracts you said this to your point anything that distracts from listening for our God, our King, our Savior, the Holy Spirit, that's of the devil. He wants us distracted, frustrated, befuddled. Right, those are the things he wants.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, absolutely, and, and that, and this is why I mean we were given, you know, the gift of the Sabbath, right? I mean, it was, it was, you know, like, this was a, this was something given to us as a gift, right, as a gift rather than an obligation. And so you know, obviously for you know too much time this was seen as an obligation, and you know, when we start to discover, you know what the, the riches in Sabbath rhythms, um, I can't even believe I'm saying these words. I can't believe I'm using this language, right? Because, like, I'm actually saying it, are you?
Speaker 1:writing your own prescription.
Speaker 2:No, because I've got listen. I mean it's taken 50 years, but like I, you know, as you know, I mean the whole mantra of embrace solitude, you know, uh, like last year, you know, it was just, it was such a, such a beautiful you did so good, I mean you really, you know like for for the for 49 years it was.
Speaker 2:It was not right, so like, but I have discovered the riches of it. I have discovered, like I know, I mean it keeps me rooted in my faith and, you know, connected to the vine and you know. And so it took a lot of discipline and a lot of time and a lot of practice and I remember saying, like gosh, like it's so hard for me to be still so. It was all about it was activities and it was like, okay, well, what activities right, what activities are acceptable for the Sabbath and what aren't right? And so you know, am I replenished? Is it? Am I basking in God's goodness? Am I rejoicing in him and his goodness in my life through those activities?
Speaker 2:Yeah that's that's good for, that's that's good for Sabbath, right, um, but you know it's, it's, uh, there's some really simple principles you know to to observe and experience the riches of Sabbath rhythms. You know, um, you know whether that's a weekly Sabbath or whether it's even daily. You know a daily rhythm, um, quarterly rhythms, whatever, um, but you know, obviously not working right, like we've. You know we're, we, god's designed us for work and taking, taking that rest from work. You know, for a 24 hour period once a week, and you know, um, you know, possibly even more Right.
Speaker 2:And then there's the physical, the physical aspects of the Sabbath. Just, you know, resting our brain, and this is where it goes back to the noise and how much we need to process on a regular basis is we're marketed to and we're messaged to and all that it's like turning that off to give rest to our brains, so that you know God can, you know, literally restore our brains, right, that information is we're not on information overload and our and our body needs it. Our physical bodies need that, and you know. And then just delighting and praise, delighting in him and praising him and contemplating on his awesomeness and his goodness and his holiness, like you know. That's what the Sabbath is all about, and it provides rest, it provides health, it provides perspective and it provides space to hear from God, to grow in God and to um to be restored, really to be restored in in who we are, as we acknowledge who he is.
Speaker 1:You're doing great. I love listening to you talk about this.
Speaker 2:This is awesome Cause I have to break it down, you know, otherwise I'm like you know, it's for me it's like overly complicated and it's not. It's not overly complicated, no, and let's, let's talk about that.
Speaker 1:Okay's not, it's not overly complicated, no, and let's talk about that, Okay. So so if you're thinking if you're listening to us, I hope and you're thinking I can't, I've, I've got to move, there's noise, it's a noisy place. This is how I operate and that's the way it goes, that may be true. I'm not saying any listener that you don't know your situation. I'm saying we are saying I believe that you can stop, you can make time, you can adjust your schedule. Don't stop lying about what you can't do. What you can do is make time for God, Give him a chance in certain noises that are fruitful, fulfilling Sarge. What are some noises you like? Give me name a noise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean I love music. I love music. What kind of music? Be more specific? I mean I love especially, like high energy praise music. Okay, yep, depends on my mood, depends on my mood, depends on my activity, what I'm doing. But I mean I also love quiet, slow, you know, praise music. So for me, like I just love to again to get into that space of praise and adoration and just again acknowledging God and his majesty and his awesomeness, which I think is so critical because we can fall into this trap of like Jesus is our buddy and our best friend. Critical because we can fall into this trap of like Jesus is our buddy and our best friend. And yeah, he is. But like having a, a, a, a healthy fear of God is, is the beginning of all wisdom. Yeah, and so, and so you know you want more wisdom in your life. We have to establish a healthy fear, fear of God, and that's not like fear scared, right, but it is. It's more than just a reverence, it's the awesomeness, but anyway, so-.
Speaker 1:Give me another sound that you like, some other noise that you how about nature sounds?
Speaker 2:Yeah, love the waves, you know me man.
Speaker 1:There you go.
Speaker 2:That's the one right, the birds, the waves.
Speaker 1:We share that one right. So these are practical Praise music waves. You know what here in Northeast in the fall, you know this, when everything is still on the trees and the leaves get crispy if you sit down and be quiet and listen to the wind.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Blowing through the right that that God's in that. God made that tree right Now.
Speaker 2:I got palm trees, I got the, I got the palm the fronds yeah. Perfect.
Speaker 1:Semen. You've got to breeze pretty much all the time. Another noise I like is um. It doesn't happen very often anymore, but my youngest son, jack, will be get on the piano and I'll be someplace in the house and all of a sudden you just hear a couple of notes. He'll he'll like. When he's not studying, he he'll sit down and play the theme to a movie we like, or, and I'm just I'll stop and sit there and I said, um, here's another one for me. Believe it or not, this will sound awkward.
Speaker 1:The Bible project, the set, the voices of the two, tim and John, the guys who for some reason that gets me there when they're in a podcast or in a class and talking about the Bible. I am entranced, I am hooked on those voices and you know you have voices you like. It's kind of how we adjust our telephones, like what voice do you want on Siri? What do you want your phone saying to you? Do you want the Australian, the English, the American? Everybody has theirs. Those guys, that voice, and I'm saying these things to say listeners, whatever those sounds are that you enjoy, those are gifts.
Speaker 1:Yeah, withoutbrace, those when the Bible is being read. How many apps are there now, where you can hear a myriad of voices, whatever you want to hear. From the word I mean come on, let's be honest Psalms. From the word I mean come on, let's be honest Psalms. You've done it. Where someone's just reading Psalms to you. How wonderful is that, how fulfilling, how fruitful is that noise in our lives? And you can. You can slow and stop the cacophony and make it beautiful.
Speaker 2:There are. There are two. Two other noises that came to mind that I really love to hear. I'm not sure how godly or spiritual they are, but one is the collective sort of cheer of an entire stadium. Right, like you know game seven of the world series right, like you know. Or or the you know the collective applause and screaming you know, of fans like I, just you know. Or or the you know the collective applause and screaming you know of fans like I, just you know, as a fan. Right, um, you know. Bottom of the ninth two outs full count, right, like I mean, that's, I love that, um. And then, oh man, the sound of some nice loud pipes on a Harley. Just love it.
Speaker 2:I can't take it Cracking some pipes. I mean, listen, I'm sure God's in that somewhere. God's in it somewhere. It's just a beautiful it's a beautiful noise. When God said make a beautiful noise, right Like you know, I think that's what he meant with motorcycles, I'm pretty sure.
Speaker 1:I knew I was in trouble, I went. I don't know how. I'm in my fifties, I'm a little bit older than you are now. I went to a parade and you know when the fire engines turn them on high and they do the sirens and it feels like your head's going to explode. I was like I'm out, that's it. No more parades. I see a fire truck. I'm heading West.
Speaker 1:I'm out of this so so let, closing, that we believe in our hearts that the world will try and fill your head with negative noise, dark noise, things that aren't of God, that you can adjust that noise. You can adjust the volume, you can adjust the tone. You can adjust the tune and melody of your life. You absolutely can. You can do it by breathing, embracing solitude, meditating. You're in control and we bless you and say, lord, thank you for giving us the ability to choose what we consume.
Speaker 2:Amen, amen, amen. Brother, this was a good conversation. Oh, I love this.
Speaker 1:Thank you so much. Good to see you. As always, you're looking tan and fit and clean and crisp. I know you said you're tired, but you look good bro.
Speaker 2:Thanks, brother, All right, Good to see you, man. Hey, thanks for listening everybody to another episode of the Foxhole Symphony Podcast.
Speaker 3:Share it with a friend and we'll talk to you soon. Peace. What are we feeding our hearts and minds? How much time do we set aside for God and the things that honor him in that relationship? What do we allow to slip in? Because it's not anything really bad, it's not a big deal. I know the difference between right and wrong, good and bad. There are very purpose-filled choices we have to make each day. There are very purpose-filled choices I have to make each day. We should all take inventory and go before the Lord to hear what he has to say about it. Lord, please continue to use this podcast to impact the lives of all who listen. I ask that you would bring hope and healing to each and every one of them. Meet them right where they are and reveal yourself to them like only you can do, in Jesus' name, amen.
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