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More Than A Garden · Rideshare Revival with Wally Bates

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  Speaker 1: More than a garden. Hey everybody, it's Wally Bates. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: back to Rideshare Revival. I picked up Larry from University
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  Speaker 1: Hospital the other day. He came walking towards the car
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  Speaker 1: with a cane, moving pretty gingerly. You could tell every
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  Speaker 1: step hurt. Larry needs a hip replacement, he told me.
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  Speaker 1: And for a guy whose passion involves being outside and
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  Speaker 1: working the ground, It's a pretty big obstacle. Because Larry's
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  Speaker 1: a gardener. But not just the kind who grows a
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  Speaker 1: few tomatoes in the backyard. No. Larry's passionate about sustaining garden. Sustainable.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, he helps you grow what you eat.
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  Speaker 1: He helps people figure out how to grow their own
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  Speaker 1: food right where they live. If you've got a little backyard,
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  Speaker 1: he'll help you figure out what you can grow. And
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  Speaker 1: if you've got more land, he'll help you with the
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  Speaker 1: gardening as well as raising animals. This whole thing is
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  Speaker 1: helping people use what they already have to become a
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  Speaker 1: little more self-sufficient. I love listening to him talk about it.
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  Speaker 1: You can hear his passion. This wasn't just a hobby.
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  Speaker 1: He genuinely loves helping people. Our ride really wasn't very long.
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  Speaker 1: And we talked about life. We talked about what he's
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  Speaker 1: going through. We talked about that hip and the pain.
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  Speaker 1: And about the fact that God isn't finished with him yet.
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  Speaker 1: I told him, God's got you. There's still plenty ahead.
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  Speaker 1: Still people to help. Still gardens to grow. And when
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  Speaker 1: we pulled up to his destination, I reached over. I said,
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  Speaker 1: give me your hand. Larry reached out thinking I was
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  Speaker 1: just going to shake it. And instead, I held on.
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  Speaker 1: And I prayed. I prayed for his hip. for the
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  Speaker 1: procedure ahead, for healing and strength, and then pray for
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  Speaker 1: something else. I ask God to keep sending Larry people
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  Speaker 1: who needed him, people who needed to help him growing
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  Speaker 1: in their garden, people who could help sustain his income,
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  Speaker 1: and people Larry could help grow in ways that had
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  Speaker 1: absolutely nothing to do with the ground. Because maybe that's
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  Speaker 1: really what Larry does. He grows things, plants, food, gardens, confidence, people.
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  Speaker 1: Larry was genuinely touched by the prayer, and as he carefully,
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  Speaker 1: gingerly made his way out of the car, I couldn't
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  Speaker 1: help but think, maybe God isn't finished growing things through Larry.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe he's just preparing the ground for what's next. Rideshare revival.
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  Speaker 1: There's hope. at every turn. These are my prayers for
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  Speaker 1: the road. If you would like prayer, I would love
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  Speaker 1: to pray for you. Send me a real line to
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  Speaker 1: ridesharerevival at gmail.com.