Foxhole Symphony
Foxhole Symphony
The Pace Paradox: Finding Meaning in Chaos
The relentless rhythm of modern life has many of us caught in an exhausting cycle—moving from task to task, commitment to commitment, all while feeling like we're running on empty. What happens when we realize our worth isn't tied to our productivity?
Steve and Mark open up about their personal struggles with pace and productivity in this vulnerable conversation. They discuss how easy it is to artificially inflate noise and busyness in our lives, finding ourselves explaining away downtime, prayer time, and moments of stillness as if they're somehow less valuable than constant activity. "I want to be seen as productive every day," one confesses, highlighting the core struggle many men face.
The conversation shifts to a powerful visual metaphor—a wall covered with Post-it notes representing all the opportunities, commitments, and decisions demanding attention. This overwhelming array of options leaves little space for discernment and hearing God's voice. When faced with time-sensitive opportunities that require immediate decisions, the wisest response might simply be "no," not because the opportunity lacks value, but because proper discernment requires time with God.
A particularly moving moment occurs when Mark shares discovering an 18-year-old "Experiencing God" workbook with his self-admonition: "I am ill-equipped to lead this study, so sit down and shut up." Now, years later, he finds himself leading that very study—a powerful testament to how God works in the areas where we feel least capable.
Who are you doing it for? This question emerges as the central filter for evaluating commitments. Understanding whether our actions serve ourselves, others, or God's kingdom provides clarity in a chaotic world. Remember: "You can take your foot off the gas and still be valuable to God, your family, and your friends." In fact, slowing down may be exactly what allows you to show up as the man God created you to be.
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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. Steve and Mark are in the foxhole today and they are talking about the pace of our lives. You know what time it is? Get comfortable, open your notes app and let's get this symphony started.
Speaker 2:Hey, welcome back to Foxhole Symphony Podcast. I'm Sarge here with my good friend Mark. Good morning, hey brother, what's shaking? Good morning, hey brother, what's shaking? Well, you know, I feel like I say this at the beginning of almost every podcast in the last couple of months.
Speaker 1:But boy, I've just been running, I've been running and I thought you were going to tell the weather again, OK no, no, no, no.
Speaker 2:We're not going to talk about the weather, ok, but the pace, the pace of life. And so, you know, rather than just talk about it at the beginning, let's dive right in and talk about, you know, the pace. And, man, I don't know about you. I mean, we're obviously in different stages of life, we've got different things going on for me, um boy, when things are moving, I am so much less aware of the things that I need to be aware of, and I'm just focused on the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, the next thing, but at a pace that is not great because it's usually on my own strength. So how does this resonate with you this morning?
Speaker 1:It does, it does I'm. I am one of the guilty few who will artificially inflate pace and noise sometimes to keep to keep that. I want to call it edge. I've been going so fast for so long that when you just were talking about it, I'm thinking there are days, you're right, we are coming at the world a little differently these days just difference in age, difference in careers, things like that age of kids. But I know that as much as I complain about how noisy and messy the world is, there are days where I keep it pretty darn noisy and messy because I see myself when I look in the mirror as a great manager of that stress and I can multitask my way through it.
Speaker 2:I can multitask my way through it, and so so what?
Speaker 1:so is it to feel productive, go ahead. Was there an or no? No, I don't get another choice, of course. Yes, it's so I. I see myself as fulfilled. It's it's. What's option B, please? Well, I'm looking at you, thinking is he going to give me a way out of this or do I have to admit this? No, it certainly is. There's people who love me, have come to expect a certain level of production out of me, have come to expect a certain level of production out of me, and I, wow, this is like confession early, but I find myself confessing or trying to explain away.
Speaker 1:Downtime, naps, prayer time, thoughtful moments, meditation. Does that make any sense? I do. I find myself telling my sweetheart like what are you doing Reading? I'm doing my experience in God study, unit three, day one, but I might fall asleep while I'm doing it, at 4.30 in the afternoon, I don't know. And on the other hand, I, um, what's the word I? I, um, I pat myself on the back and take ease in that, because I know. For the seven and a half hours prior to that I was running and gunning between my work responsibilities, home responsibilities, father responsibilities, husband responsibilities, et cetera, et cetera. Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:So, the end. The short answer to your question is absolutely yes. I want to be seen as productive every day, yeah, yeah, and unfortunately, bro, while there is some balance in my life in productivity for God and productivity for Mark, as you stated earlier, often in my own strength I tip the scales toward Mark.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah. So yeah, I don't know anything about that, but sounds interesting.
Speaker 1:You can't, you can't do that. When I have a mouthful of tea, I'm going to snort it out my nose.
Speaker 2:Okay, I mean, listen, we're cut from the same cloth. So, you know, feeling productive and being active, you know, being able to check a box Right, we've to be most effective. But I've just got it coming at me from all ends the demands, the opportunities, the options, the asks, the requests, asks, the, the, the request. I mean it's just and I'm, and I'll be honest, it makes me feel good to feel needed or wanted in all of those environments, and that's a slippery slope. And so I'm.
Speaker 2:I for me, right now, um, we talked about this last week. You're, like, you know, time for time for post-it notes all over the wall. Right, I did that. I was like I can't even process the number of options, all of the options, right now.
Speaker 2:People, I need to respond to things I need to commit to or say no to. Man, I got to say no to some really awesome things. It weighs on me because I don't want to disappoint, I don't want to, you know, miss out on something God might have for me. And so I sit there staring at the wall of post-it notes and feel utterly convicted and embarrassed that I haven't brought these before the Lord, right To to, to say, like God, okay, here are all the things you know. Here are all these many you know great options Like where are you in this? You know, and? And what are the things? Just looking at each one, praying over each one one, you know, meditating on each one, saying okay, like what is this? Where's it from? Why am I drawn to it? And you know what is the what? What, what's it for right? You know what test does?
Speaker 1:each one have to pass right. What are the five questions I have to ask of every one of these initiatives? Yeah, every one of these asks you start adjusting, and you and I do. I'm going to speak for you. But you know, when you get that and you're like well, I could do this and this is good for me, wait a minute, I still got kids in college. This is really good for the kingdom. It takes a lot of time. Yeah, no, no, I feel you, I do, I do Wow.
Speaker 2:So I think you know, I mean sometimes, you know, for me the pace is so rapid, like I said, I've had to like I mean yesterday, like had to shut it down for four or five hours and just to catch up and process what all the, what all the opportunities are like, just just to just to even identify, you know, like what are the things that I need to even bring before the Lord, you know, and then needing to be intentional, to carve out the time to to pray and ask God. And you know, it's so funny I got, I got two requests last week to to like really big things, like enormous, not just opportunities but responsibilities asked. These are not little things, big commitments. Both of them were like oh, yeah, we need an answer by March 31st, we need an answer by next week. I'm like, okay, oh, and, by the way, it's been plenty of time in prayer. You know it's really important you pray about this.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay, I don't have time in the next week to like bathe this in prayer. I don't have like are you kidding me, lord? And so I don't know. Like one of them I've already said no to. I've said like incredible opportunity to be a part of writing this book and I'm just, I'm like I can't, I can't do it, not, not in this season. And so, you know, maybe another time. And the other one I've got to, I've got to pray through today and just say, ok, you know. And the other one I've got to, I've got to pray through today and just say, okay, you know, try to really just have the time to hear from the Lord as to you know, whether or not it's, it's, it's for now, but Well, you just did pardon me.
Speaker 1:You just did something really important and maybe unwittingly but probably not knowing you, but remember Jack Welch, neutron Jack from GE. Yeah, jack said, when you get that big wall of stuff to do, there's the 10-80-10 rule and the bottom 10 are the ones you throw out. And he also said this about people, by the way.
Speaker 3:When people management there were 10% of the people you just fired.
Speaker 1:And 10% you promoted and it's the 80.
Speaker 2:There's always, he said, there's always, 10% Correct. Yeah, always, he said there's always 10% Correct.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the 80 you're working on and you just did it. You took that one. It was in the box. I was like I can't do it Right. And then there's some other things. When you look at the wall, you got to get a couple of different colors sticky notes, because there's a couple of. You just know you're going to do you feel it.
Speaker 2:It's kind of Well, that's it, that's exactly right. That, right there, right Like the knot in the chest, the knot in the throat, going like something's got to give, in fact, not just something, but some things. And um, you know, if yeah, so again. And then, looking at all of that through the lens of, you know, am I called to it Right, do you know? Does it need to be me? You know what's, what's the fruit is, you know, is God is again, is God in this? Is God calling me to this? But then also like, on the other end, what is the pace look like?
Speaker 2:Pace, look like, because exactly what you said earlier about, you know, not feeling great, maybe about having the, you know the downtime, the rest, the retreat, the, and that's just so critical, it's so critical for all of us and it's, it's it's needed, it's when we are able to hear the Lord the most and the clearest. And so what does the pace need to look like in order to prioritize that? You know, and you know for me, more and more it's. You know that quiet time is being replaced with group devotional time, and I'm like man, okay, like that sense, like group devotional, group devotional, group devotional group devotional time and I'm like man, okay, like that sense, like group devotional, group devotional, group devotional, group devotional, and all of a sudden there's no time left for just me, just me and the Lord Cause. Every I'm just, it's all, it's through the lens of.
Speaker 2:You know, community, how many group devotionals do you do you know community? How many group devotionals do you do? Well, that's, I'm on the precipice of. You know a lot more. So you know, again, being in a new this is again I've got some decisions to make. I've got to figure that. Those are, those are the rest of the sticky notes, you know. And and being in a place where you know I'm building new community, you know that's important to me and takes great intentionality and great time and has tremendous value right relationally. And you know, yet, with the move I've got you know communities like Victoria's Together and others, where you know I've got these commitments and there's only so much time and I'm going. Man, this is not sustainable. This is not sustainable.
Speaker 1:And even within our group we've got multiple groups yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, the Experiencing God group is the same as v2g, right, it's well it is. But there's the daily devote, there's the daily devotional right, then there's the experiencing god. So we're doing multiple studies. That's true.
Speaker 1:That is true, yeah yeah, well, let's, let's, let's go there for a second. Let me wow, my brain is exploding. I'm so glad you did this. Now, the pace. I have to admit something more confession, I love it. I love it. I love it, I love it. Man, I dig the multitasking monster. People going, look at him, go, how old is he? Oh my God, how does he keep this up? And I'm like how old is he? Oh my God, how does he keep this up? And I'm like I want to nap, you know? Okay, so so I'm.
Speaker 1:I'm admitting that, secondarily, I am struggling with my value as a human being versus a human doing. Yeah, how many times have I said that on the podcast and in my life to you that that transition to a human being has been one of the more challenging ones of my adult life and it's spiritual right, it's not I'm not just talking about the doing, it's. It's doing for God, it's that kingdom orientation, it's, it's my human being. Those devotionals fall under that category. I mean, I'm doing something, but I'm seated, I'm thoughtful, I'm meditating, I'm thinking about. I've got the Bible on one thigh, the experiencing God book on the other, a highlighter in my right hand and a pen in my left. That's, that's how I do that, and I've got a chair to do it in, and you know, and so I want to speak to anyone listening. That is also there. That we're like as a human being. How, maria, do you accept me that way? My boys, my, my co-workers, my, my friends, you, how am I doing?
Speaker 1:Yeah, I, we talk about gsd, llc. Right, getting stuff done, that would be the right, the name of my business, the, the website that I crave, and and, yeah, I still feel that way. But I can tell you that there is a louder and louder voice in my life that is pulling me towards being so. Hallelujah for that. It certainly. It's not the. The seesaw is still to doing, because I need. There's stuff to do. I'm in spring here in our home and there's so much to do. Yeah, you know, taking care of the four and a half acres is a spec compared to some people, but there's a lot to do and I know I'm expected to do it and very often I get up going. I don't want to hump 10 yards of mulch, you know Right.
Speaker 1:So, that aside, I want to talk about the group devotionals though, because, since you mentioned it and I loved how you used that, like you pointed to like four or five possibilities there. I just want a shout out for the Blackabees and Experiencing God and saying that our Victorious together, men's authentic community, is now just starting unit three of that and it is rich, it is powerful, it is such a great opportunity. I mean, if you're going to do something and keep the pace with God Sarge, I think doing this over a month you know a monthly basis, instead of 12 weeks in a row, is genius.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Because I am doing one of these every six, seven days and I feel like it's a vitamin.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:Yeah. What's your experience with it?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so good and I agree with you. Like you know, we kind of did that by default because of the pace Correct. Like you know, I was like I can't do this on a weekly basis, let's take a year, let's do one unit a month and, um, man, it's, it's, it's just so rich. I mean, yeah, if you, if you haven't done it, it's, it's, um, absolutely worth doing and it's a game changer. I mean, it's a game changer.
Speaker 2:It's God has used, experiencing God, the, the, the, the studies. They also have a devotional and there's all kinds of things. But the workbook and the study is, um, you know, in the scriptures that you know come with, that are, um, you know, life-giving and very challenging, very challenging but really helpful in understanding God at work and the pace. I mean it's everything about pace. Exactly, it is Everything about pace, right, our pace, god's pace, you know, and how this all works and how we stay, how we remain in, you know, sync with the spirit of God and hear from him and are aware of where he's at work and then what's required of us, right, so you know, um, it's good.
Speaker 1:I have to tell you a story, very, it's a short one, uh, and it's experiencing God, specific. So, um, you recall that one of the reasons we're doing experiencing God is I was cleaning out a closet that had some books in it and the workbook a experience of God, older edition workbook, fell into my lap literally and I thought, wow, how long ago was that? And I sit there being nostalgic, thinking. Sarge and I did this together and I looked at I'm like holy crap, it's like 18 years ago. And I looked at some of the notes that were in it, but it was sparsely. Not like me. I get a workbook. I'm like, yes, you know, fill in the blanks, check the boxes. But it catalyzed this movement where we're doing it now as a group and I invited folks. It's so great and I'm in it, I'm loving it.
Speaker 1:Well, we're getting a couple of rooms painted in the house and one of the rooms has a gigantic black cabinet in it and there are just a lot of old books in this with pictures in front of them, and the truth is I haven't opened this cabinet in my living room in many years. Let's just leave it at that. And so we're taking books out and we're doing a purge, which is easy for me, hard for the rest of my family. Jack loves history books of mine from the past. Dad keep these, put these in the attic. And Maria's like oh, my doula books and nutrition and this and that, and I'm like throw it out, throw it out, throw it. You haven't opened it in 10 years, throw it out. And we're going through the book Sarge. There's a pile of books in the far left corner in the back and they've been water soaked. They're crinkled and stuck together and we're thinking and we look up and there's a gigantic you know the lion's mane fern that we have in the living room. I have a gigantic green fern.
Speaker 1:I'm in charge of watering the fern Well, I must have over watered it over the years and one corner of the cabinet got wet. Books got wet Short. We take out the stack. No one wants to touch it. It's kind of icky, moldy stuck together and I pull them out and on the bottom of the stack is an experiencing God workbook and I can barely get the pages apart. It's so damaged. It's been dried out after being wet. I'm like what the heck is this? I'm looking at it sitting on my chair in front of me. I got goose flesh all over my body. I opened the front cover and it's my actual workbook. It's the one I filled in Mark's style in the class and I can't read a lot of it. But I open the front cover and I peel it apart and in a little bubble cloud like the Farside comic in the bottom right, it says it says I am ill-equipped to lead this study, so sit down and shut up, wow.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I have not opened. I just put the book down and left it there and I don't know what God is doing with that, but he's doing something.
Speaker 2:Then you raised your hand and said I'm going to lead this study 18 years later.
Speaker 1:18 years later, yeah, and if you asked me if I'm ready to lead an experiencing God study, I'd say no, but I'd love to Sure. And here we are.
Speaker 2:So sure, Well, that that's a listen, that's a great, that's a great note to just a great exclamation point, right, Like, like, yeah, I'm no, uh, I'm ill equipped, but yes, but yes, God, right, Like, if, if, if, if that's where you're at work, you know I'm in and listen, that's he, that's exactly where he calls us is to the areas where you know we feel ill-equipped. Right, Otherwise we would just do it on our own strength there it is.
Speaker 1:That's it for me, that's all that was. That was a two by four, right in the forehead of what you said a few minutes ago about God's strength, my strength, 18 years ago. I'm listening to whoever I don't remember who taught that class to us, but whoever it was, I'm watching them being a prideful jerk going. Oh they're terrible at this.
Speaker 1:Let me show you how to lead a class. And remember 18 years ago. I'm a new Christian, so pretty hysterical dingling that I was coming to realize that this pace you can pick up fast pace. You can probably maintain it for a while and kid yourself about it, but ultimately you're going to need to slow down and put the sticky notes on the wall and start making some choices.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and I, you know you said something earlier about. You know, look at me, right, like doing this and doing that and doing this and doing that, and then you'll, you'll crash where nobody can see you, right, oh, face facing the pillow, out going. Oh my gosh, like what did I just do? Why did I do this?
Speaker 2:Again, right, and you know, the truth is that, like there's sort of the, the silent weight of pressure that no one sees when we're doing everything on our own strength, right, and it it not only drains our energy but steals our joy, can steal our peace, and like the reality is that our own strength will only take us so far. I mean that that's, you know, at the root of experiencing God. Like we can, we can do all these things. We can do all these things. We can, you know, carry it all, you know, supposedly, and, uh, build an empire, hit every revenue goal, you know, be the best leader in the room, yeah, yeah, and but like, without God at the center of all that we do, stress adds up, you know, exhaustion sets in and no matter how successful we are, there's always going to be this feeling that something's missing or someone's missing. And you know, and you say that from experience right.
Speaker 2:A hundred percent Right.
Speaker 1:I just want to make that clear to folks. This is not philosophy.
Speaker 2:Absolutely. I mean listen, you know, operating a full capacity, trying to be everything for everybody, trying to control the outcomes, pushing through exhaustion with sheer willpower alone, until you hit a wall and go what am I doing Right? This isn't the way it's supposed to be. And so, man, just the constant checks and balances, and and goes back to exactly why it's so important to stop regularly. And exactly what you wrote in the front cover shut up, sit down, pray, listen and wait. Like what is it, god, you know, where are you calling me and where are you not for this season, and what are the really cool things or important things or things that make me feel good or make others feel good that I need to say no to? And where should I be? So that you know.
Speaker 2:There was a quote. I can't remember the full quote, but it started with it's better to be a fool with focus, you know, than you know something other. Like you know, really successful, really successful person that's distracted, right. Like you know, help me be a fool, for you know, a fool with focus. Like I love that yeah and so yeah, but requires us to uh and and. Again, it's not a cop out, you know, to to not leave it all out on the field Like we can and we should. Very manly of you, yes, yeah, like, really, like you know, leave it all out on the field. But we were not created to carry the weight of the world. You know, alone and you know be, find our, our identity in the activity or the outcomes.
Speaker 1:And you and I know some very successful, passionate guys we love that decided they were going to keep going and wait to get to the bottom of themselves to realize they had to pivot and slow down. Right. So I'm not, you can do it. And I'm thinking of of, of brother Pete. You know his, his testimony will tell you he decided he was going to wait until his face was in the gutter. You know, right Through his addictions and problems. So, or, I think we are both supportive of the concept of slow down. Give yourself the advantage of letting God do what God wants to do for you. Right, that journey is his journey. It's not mine. And I was saying that sounds easy. It's not. It's not because it's, it's work I've got to. I've got to adjust daily, hourly, to reorient, reorient, pivot to God, pivot to God. I wish I could tell you it was easier. You know, I just like once I decided to pivot and make my life, you know, totally focused on the Lord.
Speaker 2:Everything was perfect decided to pivot and make my life, you know totally focused on the Lord, everything was perfect. Yeah Well, that's a story for another day. That's the latter. That's the latter part of experiencing God. What's required of us? Right, it requires us to make major adjustments in our life.
Speaker 1:So let's be, we have, let's talk for another few minutes. But tell me, you're in it, man. You're your pace the world is. If you were one of those movies, you'd be the guy standing there with stuff flying by you at a thousand miles an hour. How are you doing?
Speaker 2:Well, the reality is that it is a unique season, right, it's a transitional season, and so with that comes uncertainty.
Speaker 2:With that comes uncertainty, it comes with a lack of real, full knowledge and experience of what the new normal is going to look like.
Speaker 2:You know, in my work on more activity, until I have an understanding and an awareness and a routine that comes with that, I don't know yet I'm lacking the knowledge that's needed in order to make an informed decision of how much other stuff I can put in these long-term commitments. I have to be very careful about making additional commitments until I get to that place where I've got a new routine, I've got a new normal, I understand what my calendar looks like and my commitments are, and so you know needing to prioritize that and so, um, yeah, so that it's a. It's a really uh. Um, yeah, so that it's a. It's a really, uh, you know, uh challenging place to be, because the ground is shifting and will continue to shift here, probably for the remainder of this calendar year until you know I I really have, I've experienced the new normal enough to be able to make informed decisions Like, yep, that's not going to work, because, you know, this is how my calendar now works and it's a very different, unique situation.
Speaker 1:And that that is a part I wanted to stress for our listeners is apparently and based on I'm actually discerning this from a few tidbits you've told me there really isn't a another model from from your job today, where someone else has run into this like you are setting some, you know you're blazing some new trails and hitting some new territory and how fast you're ramping up and it isn't as if you can turn to the guy you know doing c12 next to you going. How did this work for you? I? I think there were some different experiences. So who are you leaning on in terms of you know, like, when you feel like you've got all these things bags that you're carrying around and all these backpacks you're wearing, how are you sourcing? What resources are you using?
Speaker 2:Well, yeah, I mean, besides your common sense, yeah, there are. There is a community. I mean there's 240 or 230 other chairs like myself that have had all varying experiences that I get to lean into that and you know, understand what others experiences were, and so you know I do have that, that community, and that's really helpful. But it's it's. It is, um, it's unique in you know who I am, am the territory itself where I am here in South Florida, the fact that it's a brand new territory, kind of blazing new ground. So there's a lot of factors in all of that, and so there's a model. But this is your life Exactly, it's not going to follow the model, and it know. But this is your life Exactly, it's not going to follow the model and it's not following the model at all.
Speaker 1:So yeah, that's my point. You have a somewhat unique experience. How exciting for you really. I mean, I just want to praise God for it and say hallelujah that you are where you are. What a good problem to have.
Speaker 2:It's a great one.
Speaker 1:Can you imagine if you and I were on this recording right now and you had two people?
Speaker 2:Yeah, very different conversation.
Speaker 1:Correct, correct. So so hallelujah for that. Well, um, in, in, in talking about the pace I would just uh for, in closing, for me, I am, um, I'm just learning to be comfortable, believe it or not, in my sixties, of how God made me and I think he did make me to move, and I believe faith without works is dead. Uh, but at the same time, it begins with a foundation of faith and I and I try every day to do our devotions, to stay in the word, to stay close. I'm staying closest to the people I love the most and are closest to God, and that's how I do it. How do you do it?
Speaker 2:Well, I in in the, uh, the wise words of of Scotty, remember Scotty many years ago. If you remember Scotty from Markman many years ago, he used to say who are you doing it for, who are you doing it for? And it rings, it rings in my head, it's like who, who am I doing this for? And through that lens, right, is this? You know to what end? You know is is, is this for? Is it for me, you know? Is it for the Lord? Is it for someone? So, um, you know it's stopping along the way, right, pit stops, taking the pit stops. You know, racing hard around the track, being ensuring I'm taking the pit stops along the way, uh, before the engine blows right, um, is is the key right and not pushing it so hard to the limits that you know that that's a risk.
Speaker 1:But you can take your foot off the gas and still be valuable.
Speaker 2:Absolutely.
Speaker 1:God and your family, and your coworkers and your friends.
Speaker 2:Yeah, not only can have to, have to, need to, must. So, um, yeah, really, really important, especially during these, these seasons. And then you know, hitting pause, hitting pause and waiting and saying don't know about that. And if a decision needs to be made now, then the decisions know, because I'm not prepared to give it a yes Right For this season. And so, um, you know, that's, that's, that's where I'm at today. Oh, you put some real wisdom in that last sentence, you know that's.
Speaker 1:That's that's where I'm at today. Oh, you put some real wisdom in that last sentence. You know, if a decision has to be made now, no, yeah, no, sometimes it's those two letters have a lot of weight.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of weight. So I don't, I don't want to dive back in.
Speaker 1:Let's close with a birthday wishes for the young Raymond Sargent.
Speaker 2:right, yeah, baby 88 when Tomorrow 88. He was 88 on March 27.
Speaker 1:Okay, and my brother Dan's birthday. Today he's 61. Daniel James Vesper III. Brother, I love you, dan, happy birthday.
Speaker 2:That's awesome. Hey, this was good man. Go slow you too. Peace, Peace.
Speaker 3:How fast are you running? How long have you been paralyzed? What have you missed along the way? What have you wasted way too much time on? Who have you blown by? Who have you sat with and listened to? When will it be the right time to change the pace? Why can't you make that change today? Mark and Steve shared a little bit of their struggle with pace today. Now, I think it's time for us to take inventory and ask ourselves some of these difficult questions, then answer them and, most importantly, act on them. 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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