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July 14 – Humility That Sustains · The Daily Ripples Podcast

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  Hey guys, this is the Daily Ripples.
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  Hey, we got a website also, and it's dailyripples.com.
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  And Pastor Mike puts all this stuff out there, maybe one day, five or...
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  Yeah, speaking of, before we get into this, like two or three weeks ago, we were talking
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  about because you have these excellent handwritten almost like study notes that you're doing walking
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  through page by page the big book and all you have to do sir is take a picture of those notes slap
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  them into ai let it transcribe it for you maybe clean it up and then post it to the website man
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  we need this cory we need this all right anyway carry on but we have a website and eventually we'll
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  have other stuff on it and uh but we got pastor mike stuff if you ever want to read this to not
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  just hear what we're talking about because you know for me i think you know when i read things
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  i can you know we talked about this before right you uh you retain 10 of the stuff you listen to
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  you retain 30 or percent of the stuff you read yeah but you also you retain like 90 of the stuff
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  you teach and talk about it. So, you know, I don't know. Yeah. But anyway, so today is July 14th.
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  Humility that sustains the stone. Humility brings balance and steadiness to my life.
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  Ripple one practical. Today, I will not let my problems take over my thinking.
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  When frustration rises, I will step back and shift my focus. I'll remind myself that my
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  perspective, not just my situation, needs adjustment. Ripple 2 Spiritual. The Father
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  uses humility to steady my heart. Jesus shows me the strength is not found in control, but in
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  surrender. The Holy Spirit lifts my focus off myself and places it back on God. As I ask for
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  humility, I find that peace begins to return, and my life regains its balance. And you know,
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  when I was reading this just now,
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  it says I'll remind myself
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  that my perspective,
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  you know,
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  I think about perspective
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  and we talk a lot about this
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  and it's in this big book
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  countless,
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  countless times
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  and it's talking about,
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  like I think about
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  how it's talking about attitude
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  because,
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  you know,
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  we've talked about how the plane
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  and I don't know,
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  have we talked about this before?
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  In a plane,
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  there's a measure
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  and it's because the attitude
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  it's not the altitude
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  it's the attitude
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  and it's your position
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  on of like where you're at
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  so it's like
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  your perception
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  so attitude back then
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  this is more in the 1930s definition
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  of attitude but it's pretty much
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  your perspective and attitude
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  in this big book is in here
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  I think it is 26
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  times if I'm not mistaken
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  maybe 27
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  but it's in so many different places and it's oh it where is it at it's uh i was looking for it on
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  page 19 so it says most of us sense that real tolerance of other people's shortcomings and
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  viewpoints and a respect for their opinions or attitudes which make us more useful to others
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  and so i think about my attitude and how it can be more useful well at my home usually it's keeping
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  my mouth shut and listening and i think about the saint francis prayer right and i don't like
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  memorize the whole prayer even though i you got that thing tattooed on your back i got that song
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  yeah i got that prayer tattooed on my back yeah it's not i don't i wish i put it on the front side
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  so i could actually know what it says yeah um but you know instead of being under you know
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  understand instead of being understood you know love instead of being loved man i've always wanted
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  to have, not always. Today I try not to seek that, but I try to love instead of trying to be loved.
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  And that's such a big thing for me because when I'm doing that, man, I get abundances of love.
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  Of course, yeah.
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  Right. And, you know, so that, like, you know, I used to just beg for attention. And, you know,
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  we kind of talked about the last one, you know, but I've always wanted that attention. And then
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  And when I give it to others, I get that back.
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  And I don't have to even do that in a motive way.
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  It's just out of love.
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  And what were you thinking?
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  Well, I mean, what you were saying about that just now, you know, thinking about love, is that when I am loving others and not expecting to be loved in return, I feel probably one of the greatest loves in return.
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  And that's the love of God, you know, because when I'm being a service to somebody, there's something magical, mystical, spiritual that happens, you know, within me that.
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  that makes me feel complete, you know, makes me feel at peace.
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  That's that comfort, you know, the comfort and presence of God is nothing more than feeling God's love in my life today.
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  And that kind of agape love, as it's called, you know, from a theological perspective,
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  is way more fulfilling than any type of eros love, you know,
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  which is the type, you know, typically between people who are in a loving romantic,
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  kind of the romantic love is that eros love, you know.
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  Right.
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  And that is fulfilling and sustaining to a certain extent.
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  But that agape love, that comfort that I have knowing that, as Scripture teaches me,
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  you know, nothing can separate us from the love of God through Jesus Christ, you know.
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  And that's where I get a lot of the comfort,
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  And that's what allows me to be of service to others, regardless of how they react or respond to that.
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  You know, because I'm not, I'm not, while yes, I'm doing something for someone, I'm not doing it for them either, if that makes sense.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Like, I'm doing it because that's what I'm led to do.
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  You know, it's an act of love and service.
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  But in terms of, you know, the thought about humility, you know, in Proverbs 29, verse 23, and this is the New King James Version, it says,
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  A man's pride will bring him low, but the humble in spirit will retain honor.
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  And I think about that because when I am, that sustenance that I get is from that agape love of God that I receive.
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  But it's also from knowing that, you know, I have that integrity, that honor that the scripture called it.
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  You know, not the honor of others, but just to back up a little bit.
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  In biblical times, it was very much a shame and honor culture in society.
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  And the only way back then, according to their thinking, is honor, you might say, was in a limited quantity.
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  So for you, Corey, to gain honor, you had to take it from somebody else.
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  You had to shame somebody else in order for you to gain honor.
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  And so when I think about honor, I'm not thinking about that type of honor.
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  I'm not thinking about the type of honor that requires me to take it from somebody else,
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  because the honor that I have is the honor that's God given.
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  You know, it's the honor of knowing that I'm a man who can stand, you know, face to face
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  before anybody with integrity, knowing that I have tried to do the right thing.
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  And I can't do that if today I do let my problems take over my thinking.
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  I can't do that if today I do let frustration rise.
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  And that's why, you know, our practical ripple today is saying, I'll not let my problems take
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  over my thinking.
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  And that when frustration rises, I will step back and shift my focus.
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  And it's because if I'm being self-serving and I'm acting that way and I'm acting not
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  from a place of humility, but from a place of pride, then I'm probably acting shamefully.
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  Right.
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  you know where i was thinking about this humility thing since we've been talking about it a bunch and
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  so if everything's god right and you know our book a lot or the book of alcoholics anonymous and i'm
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  sure the bible does as well but if i think about everything being god and it says when we became
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  alcoholics crushed by self-imposed crisis we could not postpone or evade we had to fiercely face the
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  proposition that either god is everything or he is nothing right and so when i think about humility you
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  humility being God.
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  So, like, I think, you know,
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  I've been talking to you a little bit about this book,
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  William James, Varieties of
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  Religious Experiences.
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  Right. There was a lot of, uh,
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  and it,
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  it says, um, on page one,
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  I know people aren't going to go look this up, but if you got the book,
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  it's cool if you want to.
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  But it says, seek not to be happy,
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  but rather to escape unhappiness.
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  Strong happiness is always
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  linked with pain.
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  Therefore, hug the safe shore and do not tempt the deeper raptures.
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  Avoid disappointment by expecting little and aiming low.
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  And above all, do not fret.
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  The only genuine good that life can yield a man is the free possession of his own soul.
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  All other good are lies.
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  You know, I think about what that's saying.
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  And, you know, I think about what God, like, you know, what I was talking about bad.
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  And, you know, this book also talks about, you know, no profound thing happens in 98 degree temperature.
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  When I have a 98 degree temperature, right?
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  And then, you know, because, you know, having a fever back then was really big.
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  Yeah.
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  Yeah.
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  It was like, yeah, very much life or death.
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  So, like, in their view at that time, and, you know, that book was written in, like, 1910 or 19-something or in there.
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  And, you know, it's a bunch of different religious experiences about dudes in the 1800s.
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  But what they're, you know, what they're saying is like the profound experience has happened when you got a hundred and three hundred and four degree temperature.
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  And, you know, so I like when my back's against the wall, when I'm sitting in, you know, different positions I've been in, you know, but like that's when, you know, God really comes in.
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  And, you know, I think I can't think of the verse, but I know that that's kind of what I can't think of the right wording for the verses.
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  but it was talk about, you know, when we're empty inside, that's when God comes in. And so when these
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  moments of like bad come in and bring me down to a state of humility, that's when God comes in and
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  lets me do his work at the most optimal level, I think. And that's kind of what I was thinking about
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  some humility stuff. But also, I like how you put in here, when frustration rises, I will step back
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  and shift my focus. And I was thinking about, right, that that flip in between continue to watch
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  and pause when agitated.
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  And, you know, so I'll shift my focus on what?
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  Probably somebody else.
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  Let me think about somebody else instead of me for a minute
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  and shift my focus and let, you know,
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  because I think what happens is, right,
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  when I shift my focus on somebody else and not me,
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  God comes and takes care of this problem
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  and I don't have to deal with it
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  because I've been dealing with it
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  and put my fingers all in it
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  and it just blows up every time.
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  So, you know, God, you know, I think, you know,
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  that's the whole, that was my whole,
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  I liked how you put that shift my focus
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  and I will remind myself that my perspective, not just my situation, needs adjustment.
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  Well, when I'm flying the plane that is my life, if I'm in a nosedive, I can't even see the horizon.
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  Right.
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  Right.
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  If I'm aiming for the sky, shooting straight up, I can't see the horizon.
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  I'm just lost in the clouds.
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  Right.
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  But when I'm flying straight and steady, when I maintain a steady attitude, taking it back to your term that you taught us earlier, and I looked it up, and he says the attitude in aviation is the orientation of an aircraft relative to the Earth's horizon.
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  Right.
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  Well, if I'm in a nosedive going too low or if I'm going too high, I can't even see the horizon.
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  Right.
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  So I have to adjust my attitude.
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  Right.
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  So that was a great object lesson for the day, Corey.
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  That was really good.
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  Well, I appreciate you bringing that in.
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  I don't know we're kind of going over, but that's okay.
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  On page 52 in the big book, right?
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  It kind of points to this, and this is one of the beginning.
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  I'm just, you know, I was thinking about this just right when you said that.
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  So it says we had to ask ourselves why we shouldn't apply to our human problems.
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  And human problems I've been messing with my whole life.
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  Everything.
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  You know what I mean?
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  Let me put my hands in this, the job, the girl, the house, the whatever, the kids, whatever I can.
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  I was definitely not Midas.
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  Everything that I touched was not turning to gold.
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  It was turning to something brown and putrid.
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  Go look at my record.
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  But it says the same readiness to change our point of view.
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  Yeah.
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  So like instead of me, because I've been focused on this my whole life.
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  We were kind of talking about something and, you know, how well did it work that way?
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  And like we were talking about this dude that's broken, you know.
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  And, you know, so how well has it worked so far?
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  Exactly. And, you know, I think I come in, I, I, I, maybe, I don't know what it was. Maybe I was
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  broken enough not to argue with anybody about this stuff, but I didn't have argument of God or,
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  you know, I mean, it was, it was just late. This stuff was laid out in front of me. I was like,
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  Hey, you want to do this or not? And I didn't have an argument about coming into this anonymous
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  thing saying, Oh, I don't want to believe God. He's like, I, I mean, I think I told you, but I was
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  sitting in jail with a large bond.
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  And a dude in my cell had a Bible and a dude across the hall had a Quran.
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  And one of the guys asked me and said, Hey, do you want, do you want this Bible?
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  And I said, man, the other dude asked me if I wanted the Quran.
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  And I said, man, I'll read whatever we'll get this bond down so I can get out and go
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  see my son.
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  So anyways, absolutely.
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  Well, Corey, that was a good place to stop.
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  Why don't you close us out with our prayer for today?
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  Father, give me the gift of humility today.
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  Through Your Holy Spirit, lift my focus off myself and restore balance in my life.
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  Shape my heart through the examples of Jesus and lead me into peace and serenity.
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  Amen.
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  Amen.