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Bread upon the Waters · A Time to Sharpen

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Is there anything worse than a dull blade?
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Well yeah, lots of things. I guess poverty War Baywatch,
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seriously though, the dough blade is bad.
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It's unusable and worse, you're more likely to cut yourself with
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it, then your juicy ribeye steak.
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Let's face it knives. Need sharpening from Whetstone,
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Boys, Ranch, in Mountain View, Missouri, Comes a time to
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sharpen a Bi weekly podcast that examines how we can all be
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better versions of ourselves better parents, better teachers.
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Better counselors better people. Hello, welcome to the Whetstone
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Boys. Ranch podcast called a time to
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sharpen. This is our inaugural episode.
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Although Brandon says it differently, I said inaugural
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inaugural. It's just so so hard to say
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girl. So you can say it however you
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want but it's the first one it's the inaugural or the inaugural
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episode and before we get into our topic for the day we wanted
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to be We introduce ourselves. My name is Axel, The Meta.
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And I am the one of the co-founders along with Brandon
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Maxwell, and Jeremy Thompson, who's our executive director.
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I have been the Headmaster of the academy here at Whetstone
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for 10 years. We opened in 2011 and I am
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currently working more on Communications with our
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stakeholders parents, donors, potential employees, things like
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that. Brandon Yeah, as Axl said I am
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Brandon Maxwell. And my first role here, our
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first roll, my wife and I we were the original House parents
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and we were there for a couple years before moving into a site
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director position and now I'm currently director of
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development. So all things fundraising and
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sustainability and we all wear a bunch of different hats but
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that's my main hat right now. And for those of you that maybe
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don't know. What a whetstone is or how to
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spell Whetstone. So do you say Whetstone or
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Whetstone? Whe T?
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So the idea behind Whetstone Boys, Ranch, the name was really
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from the founding verse proverbs 27:17 is iron, sharpens iron one
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man, sharpens. Another and so there's just a
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lot of power in that short, little verse of just how God
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designed it for us to need relationships and that's kind of
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a the idea behind White Stone and everything.
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Thing that we do here are our mission is to sharpen the
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character of young men and we just know that we all need good
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men in our lives and our boys are struggling.
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And a lot of them have not had good men in their lives.
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So we try to create an environment here on campus to
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where they get that relational element, they get that
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sharpening in the right measure to, hopefully be better and have
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more tools when they go home. And when we say men, we also
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mean women. Okay let's just get right out
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there now, I mean, We may sometimes use the broader term
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to describe Humanity, but we are talking about men, we are having
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said that, we are a boy's Ranch. So we do not currently serve
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girls. That may be a part of our
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future, we don't know. But there are some things that
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are unique to working with young men, that that we're going to be
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talking about. But we also feel that it applies
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to teenage girls as well, right? And I would just add that
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conflict is a part of life and we're going to talk talk about
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conflict that we go through here at the ranch conflict that they
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maybe we've experienced in our own lives.
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And we're going to, we're going to process that we're going to
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give you some tools for how to deal with that.
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But if you're feeling right now that you just need to send your
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son away because there's just too much conflict in the home.
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I would just say just put that on pause for a sec.
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Let's have a conversation. Let's listen, let's figure out
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some other ways to deal with some.
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Some some problems you may be having, we're here as a resource
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and we currently serve. We're getting our 10th boy next
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week. That's not capacity.
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We have room for a few more, but but there are places like this
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around the country, but there are limited spots.
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So we want to have a share. What we've learned so families
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that are struggling, don't have to send their boy here.
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Yeah, and that's certainly one element to this podcast.
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Specifically, we want to be a resource as Axl said, but you
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know, thinking about last year was our 10-year anniversary,
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which is a big milestone for us and we've had Probably over 100
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families that we've served here. Probably 70 employees.
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And so just thinking back about that time frame and just the
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amount of things in the people that we work with on a regular
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basis. And the things that we've
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learned through working with that amount of families, we want
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to share some of those stories and share some of those
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hardships in the stories that we've learned through that.
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So it won't all be about teens and parents.
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Uh, Sara Lee. We're still trying to figure out
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exactly what the podcast is all going to incorporate.
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They'll be some structure to did.
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I mention, who is called the time to sharpen?
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I don't know if you discount may have left that out but there you
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go. It's we decided from that stone
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boys reddish a time to sharpen. So this is something that we've
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wanted to do for a long time. It's probably been talking about
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it for over a year and we're finally able to just say you
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know what, let's just do it. Let's just get out there and do
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the things get the inaugural one.
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Out and just tell people a little bit about what to expect
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and so it'll be a little bit of a journey that you guys can take
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with us because we don't know exactly what to expect
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ourselves. So saddle up partner.
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So yes, you can expect some Dumb and Dumber movie quotes.
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Some Nacho Libre and many more but so I'm sorry.
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If you don't like Stupid humor, you may want to just go ahead
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and take it out from here on out but hopefully not.
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Hopefully, hang in there. We'll get some good stuff.
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Yes, it'll be. It'll be something.
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Hope you guys appreciate in value and we want to hear from
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you to let us know as we get going.
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If there's something specific you want us to speak on and
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we'll see if we can address it. So thank you.
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Okay. Let's do it.
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King Solomon said that if we cast our bread upon the waters,
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we will find it after many days, something tells me he wasn't
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extolling. The virtues of soggy toast.
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Although a good piece of Sopwith a beefy stew is one of life's
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greatest pleasures. That a nice MLT to quote,
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Miracle Max from The Princess Bride mutton.
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Lettuce and tomato sandwich with a mutton is nice and lean and
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the tomatoes are ripe. No, I'm pretty sure bread upon
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the waters is a metaphor, but what does it mean?
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And how can we apply it to working with struggling
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teenagers on this inaugural podcast?
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We examine bread cast upon the waters.
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It may not sound all that appetizing, but we're offering
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food for the Mind, something to chew on, even if you feel like
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all your teeth, Teeth have been kicked out.
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Cast your bread upon the waters for.
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You will find it after many days, that's from Ecclesiastes
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11:1 and we're going to talk about that a little bit today
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and relation to working with with teenagers specifically
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struggling young, boys. And that's what we're going to
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do. With each podcast, we're going
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to have a little short reflection on a Bible verse and
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how it applies to Parenting and counseling and teaching.
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And then at the end have a Little higher level literature
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discussion so I will state that you brought me in for ya, the
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higher level. Yeah.
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Richer discussion day, tuned for that, you'll want to hang around
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because we talked about a lot of literature around here at the
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ranch as a part of the schooling and as a part of the therapy
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because we can bring in poems and, and movies and theater, and
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things of that nature. But let's start with this first
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cast. Your bread upon the waters.
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Brandon, what do you? What does that mean to you in
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relation to working with young men?
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N. Well the story that pops into my
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mind. When I hear bread upon the
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waters actually happened about 20 years ago.
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There was Laura and I think I've heard this no you have not heard
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this one before and it's I think it's fitting but we were on a
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trip we'd actually got done working at a group home for a
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year. It's actually where I met my
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wife, Laura and following that trip.
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We went with some friends too. Like pow on this house, boating
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trip. And it was pretty, pretty
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incredible trip. But I just remember we pulled
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into this one, Marina to get some gas.
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And I had a sandwich that was on the seat that had gotten wet and
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so it was basically soggy bread uneatable, no bueno, no bueno.
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And so we pull into this Marina, we get out, we tie the boat up
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and we're getting gas. And there's a probably 15 or 20
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carp just kind of hanging around each Bay because, you know,
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people throw food to these things.
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Creep me out. Oh yeah.
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They're they're not people will just see a little mouse coming
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up. Swallowing your little.
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Yeah, it's like a little bit suckerfish, but but anyway.
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So I throw my sandwich, I throw a piece of my sandwich into the
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middle of this Bay where they There's no boat and there was 20
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fish that we could see. And then once I threw my
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sandwich in a little piece of it, there was like all of a
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sudden there was about 100 fish and they were just all vying for
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this like nasty soggy toast and bread.
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So then I had the rest of my sandwich, I just threw the whole
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piece in there. And like, literally within
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seconds there were hundreds of carp off right there.
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And they were just like all vying for this nasty, soggy
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piece of toast. And then my buddy, Mike It was
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with us, he's like, dude, I dare you to do a cannonball right in
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the middle of this Garb. And so obviously I trying to
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impress my wife further, I Run and Jump Right In the back of
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the car, I actually did it. So and then the carp just have a
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whole I could feel about you. Now I can feel about yeah, 50
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carp, trying to swim between my legs and get out of there.
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So, so that's what I thought of Axl, I thought of soggy toes.
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Did not see that coming. Yeah.
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So, what did you think of? Um, well, I the first person
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that shared that verse with me, I remember was a guy named Doug,
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Kilgore, who was a teacher at Central Arkansas Christian in.
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Little Rock, which is the first school I taught at.
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And I remember him quoting, that verse and, and kind of being
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funny with it and he's, like, cast your bread upon the waters
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and when it and when it comes back, it will be soggy.
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And I was like Okay, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take
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away from that and the more I reflected on it, like, over the
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years. And the more I kind of that
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verse would come up. I started to, I started to think
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how it meant that wisdom does not go forth into a void, right?
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When you say something wise or when you do something
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meaningful, it may seem that in the moment, it doesn't achieve
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its purpose or more often, it doesn't achieve your purpose.
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Right. And so, much of what we do here
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at the ranch is about speaking truth in love and being
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consistent and being a voice of reason, even when the results
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are not apparent. And it's all about the long
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game, right? And planting seeds, casting the
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bread upon the waters and not expecting immediate results.
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Because, I mean, as a parent, especially when you have little
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kids, it's like your word goes, right.
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Arguing about the sippy cup. Are you arguing about the who
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gets the banana? Who gives you like?
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No one gets the banana. Yeah, shut it down.
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Shut it. And that works.
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Until they get to be, you know, he 789, right?
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You guys are change your mind a little bit and parenting Styles,
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right? Yeah.
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But that doesn't mean you don't keep putting it out there.
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Sharing the wisdom that you've learned.
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You just don't expect them to absorb it immediately, right?
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Yeah, going back to, there's probably a lot of analogies.
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The story that I shared as far as, you know, hundreds of fish
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Vine for for one little piece of bread, but like you said, a lot
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of times, you know, there's a lot of times, it feels like you
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don't quite have enough or what it takes to give these boys,
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what they need all the time because you don't see
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necessarily the results right away with the type of work that
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we do. And so thinking about just the
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The need is so great, you know, there's hundreds of fish right
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there. There's one little piece of
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bread and they're all vying for the same thing, and sometimes we
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just feel as staff almost like we're just being ripped and so
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many different directions because of just the nature of
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what we do when we deal with loss and hurt and frustration
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and all the, you know, the trauma that a lot of our boys
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and families are working through.
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It's hard to know what the answers are, and it's hard to
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feel like sometimes you Are having the impact that you want.
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And so, when you think about this idea of bread upon the
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waters, you do feel like soggy toast at the end of the day and
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you're not real. You don't feel Strong and like
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that. You're doing what you need to be
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doing so often we feel that way. Yeah, I think that's a very
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common experience for teachers counselors parents to just at
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the end of the day feel drained and just helpless, you know,
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like that piece of toast that you're talking about we got
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another gentleman used to work here at the ranch.
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One of the first employees is name was, Mike, Heston and still
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a mentor of mine. Someone I mean, I thought I was
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a regular basis, retired Minister but he said something
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early. In those early years to me, that
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that really stock about how we are in the business of speaking
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and sharing Frozen words, words that in the moment, when a young
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person hears them seem out, of touch out of date.
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Not cool. You know, on applicable
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irrelevant and they just kind of write it off as being.
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Oh, that's just the older generation or that's just mr.
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Fuddy-duddy. But as they get older and as
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their heart thaws and as they become more capable, actually
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intellectually to think about abstract things and to apply
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wisdom to their lives. Those words will will melt the
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kind of sink down into their soul.
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And that's, but for me, that's been a very helpful visual
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image. When when I feel like, I'm just
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wasting my time, spinning, my wheels.
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Yeah, I mean, how many times have we had boys?
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Families call when especially boys, when they are in a tight
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spot and they are not doing well or they're just struggling, they
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they call us. I mean, I can't remember how
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many I mean, there's countless times between all the staff here
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that somebody has reached out that the next graduate or
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somebody who's been here a resident and they maybe did not
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those. Those words may be that they
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heard here ring true or two years down the line because
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Because time has elapsed, they become more mature, they have
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more experience. And like you said, it's become
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unfrozen because they have just simply had more life experience
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and I think that's how God works through these situations.
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And you know, the Bible says his word does not return void, and
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that's something we've just talked about a lot with our
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staff because we don't see sometimes the fruit we want in
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the time of boys here, but that doesn't mean we don't show up
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and keep speaking the truth. To these boys because we don't
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know it's not our job. You know.
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It's like God's power is made perfect in our weakness.
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You know, we're week is soggy toast going back to the analogy.
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That's where God steps in. That's where his word is made,
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perfect, and the power and his word, because it's not us.
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It's him providing. Yeah.
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The water of those seeds. Yeah, it's his best work is
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sometimes done on our worst days.
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Because like, exactly what you're saying is that when we
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empty ourselves, when we make ourselves clay, when we humble
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ourselves and realize that we really don't have a lot of
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wisdom. Ultimately, if we're just
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sharing man's Wisdom, then we're wasting our time.
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And that's not to say that we don't feel equipped or that we
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don't feel like we're qualified to do what we do.
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There's a lot of good stuff that happens on a daily basis and we
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do see fruit. Otherwise we wouldn't have stuck
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with this for however many years.
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I mean, for me, it's Five years and teaching for you.
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It's almost 20 years and youth ministry, and volunteer work and
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things of that nature, right? And just from the beginning,
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roots of what stone. So, and that's kind of,
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especially the Whetstone story is just like if we've done
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anything, it's just, we've shown up.
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Yeah, day in and day out, even when we maybe didn't want to may
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be, when we didn't think, we even would have a job to show up
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to, or a ranch to show up to. We got hit by a tornado that
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Shut us down for three months, and 2015 and we didn't know the
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outcome. We didn't have the answers.
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We didn't have the funding, and I know so many questions there.
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And, but we just for whatever reason, we just kept showing up.
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And, and by the same token, God kept showing up and God has
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shown up in so many ways along that journey.
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And so, it's just a humbling place that I think God wants us
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to be in a point of just complete Reliance on.
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Him to make things happen. If so that's kind of how the
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story of what's known as been this fall.
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Yeah. Amen.
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Okay we're going to we're going to transition.
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All right into we're not going to Pivot.
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No. Because you know like that weird
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kid. It's overused.
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It's too many you wait. Now that we've mentioned it you
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may have already noticed this but from now on you're just
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going to hear the word pivot over and over and I can you not
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say pivot pivot pivot pivot. Why does everyone pivoting all
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the time? We're going to transition into a
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literature discussion. The title of the poem that we're
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going to be discussing. His called complain and Jack and
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it's by the great Shel. Silverstein nice complaining,
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Jack this morning, my old Jack-in-the-Box popped out and
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wouldn't get back in the box. He cried hey there's a tack in
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the box and it's cutting me through.
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And through there also is a crack in the box and I never
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find a snack in the box and sometimes I hear a quack in the
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Box because it duck lives in here to complain complain.
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In is all he did. I finally had to close the lid.
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Complaining Jack by Shel Silverstein.
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So little bible a little literature to discuss to chew on
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here. Yes, chew on nuggets.
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Well I'll tell you what. I thought or what came to my
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mind is the last line. Complain, complain is all he did
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Axl. Why don't you talk a little bit?
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You've been doing this for years with the boys in Chapel for
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Friday's talk, a little bit about just, why do we do
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gratitudes? Talk about how we do that and
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like maybe living with the stickers and talk about why
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that's important. Yeah, first off, I got a
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compliment you on your answering.
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My question with a question back to me, so good job there.
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I've learned from the best. You can think.
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Well, I give all I got my off-the-cuff answer.
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Yeah, we do a thing called gratitudes to change our
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attitude in Chapel once a, once every other week or so.
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And the idea is Is that if you can change your point of view,
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your Paradigm for your circumstances and you can just
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think about your circumstances differently, then it will help
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you to cope with it. And it's just been proven over
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and over again through experience and actually through
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science and neurology. But that cultivating, that
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Spirit of gratitude has an impact on your health, your
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mental health, your physical health, social psychological
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health. And what we do is just say pick
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something. To describe that you're grateful
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for the pain that you're writing with the.
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But it's got to be like, personal mostly personal.
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Can't just because I'm grateful for are grateful for my dog.
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I'm going to people not things, people.
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Not things now later, or before? Yeah, yeah, people not things.
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Now, not later or before, and when I think about this
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Jack-in-the-Box, like getting up in the morning and having all of
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the things just kind of pop out, I would achieve that you have to
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get done and all of the things that you don't want to do.
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It's easy to get swamped by all of that stuff coming at you.
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So if you can take a moment and reflect on the good things in
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your life, not to Silver Line, everything because the boys are
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not going to respond to that. It's we're not just trying to
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turn lemons into lemonade. So it's that's a real trite way
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of looking at it and that's going to be counterproductive.
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But if you can just end in the middle of all of the bad stuff,
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that's In to still be able to sit down and say you know not
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everything is bad, you know? Right.
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I heard a quote just yesterday said even if we're not ready for
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the day, the night can't last forever.
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Hmm. Even if we're not ready for the
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day, the night, can't last forever.
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And that was I those just kind of blew me away that thought, is
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that good. Things are going to happen
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whether you want them to or not. Hope hope in the end the same
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way that bad things are going to happen.
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Open whether you don't want them to or not.
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Yeah, I think that the Hope element.
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There's is what I thought about her and with gratitudes, I think
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is the goal in some of that, is to give our boys a little bit of
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Ray of Hope. They, I think we're all been to
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think about more negative about ourselves and our very
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self-critical. And then with some of our boys,
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with some of the loss and traumas that they have
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experienced that it's even more so that You know, Satan is in
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there ear day in and day out, telling them that, they're not
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good enough, that they deserve, whatever that loss for trauma,
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was that they experienced and they're not going to mount
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anything. There's just as barrage of
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negative self-talk, that they listen to.
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And I think it's very important for us to be able to kind of
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really curb those habits because it is a habit, you know, that
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it's that internal voice. You mean is just like springing
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out of them. Telling them that they stink.
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Yeah. Maybe they physically been in
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verbally been told that by parents or other people or
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people at school but most of the time I think it's just an
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internal voice and just says you know you're not good enough and
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you're not worthy and so part of that you know as it relates to
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complaint in Jack by Shel Silverstein and just the
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Gratitude and then just what we do with the ranch in the boys is
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to help them. See Hope through some of those
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behaviors to change some of those behaviors.
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And it's not just changing behaviors, but it's trying to
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change the Heart, Right? Is trying to change, not who
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they are. Because God God made them who
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they are, it's just helping them.
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See that they're worthy in Christ died for them and that
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price also has a child power to change, lives internal
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mechanisms Springs, all that stuff going inside.
24:35
I think I just had it prevented Vivid image of that scene in elf
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when Just because you can't do anything else.
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He has to go and test the Jack in the boxes, you know, the
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thing I'm talking about, it needs winding it and then Dead
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undead up until they find one that he thinks is like not
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working and he goes to right and then it pops.
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Oh actually that's kind of an apt kind of metaphor of what
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happens to the boys. It's like there's regression.
25:05
There's like I overcome this hurdle and wow, I got past that
25:08
That one and yeah I didn't kill me and and then maybe I can nuke
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to this next issue and but then out of nowhere sometimes that
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Jack-in-the-Box Will Spring out trauma-based.
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Yeah if you're or something that triggers them and boy they can't
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not react to it. Yeah and if we can just remember
25:26
that and realize it's just an automatic survival you know base
25:31
for trauma-based response we can we can kind of cope with a
25:34
little more and get past it they can rebound the more times that
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you are able to work through Those situations, the more
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equipped you are and really that's a big part of what we do
25:44
here is we have the staff and environment to be able to work
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with those behaviors as they arise and help them work through
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that with our therapeutic. Therapeutic team and give them
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better skills. Yeah.
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To when they re-enter great back in the bottle, you so our meal,
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you I'm is another word for another pot of you podcast.
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So, all right. Well, I think that's probably
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Blee TimeWise, good for this, probably a wrap.
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Yeah, yeah we really, really appreciate you listening to this
26:15
inaugural. Inaugural podcast is another.
26:19
We look we have a difference of opinion on.
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Yeah. We talked about that at the
26:23
beginning but will we look forward to having more
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discussions with you? This is what we do at the ranch,
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we sit around and we talk about stuff and we apply humor and we
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take what we've learned in our experiences, and we do it with
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some humility, some levity. And we want you to join us.
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I'm sure at some point we haven't uploaded this to all the
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various platforms, so we don't know exactly how but I think
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it'll be on probably Spotify and apple, whatever is free,
26:55
basically what we're gonna do right now so check that out and
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we'll have links and everything that will send out a future
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podcast will be more specific but thanks again.
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Awesome Audio. Hey guys, I'm doing Harding
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house manager at Whetstone. I want to talk briefly about
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relationships and how meaningful that is to our work here.
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There's a quote that's been floating around Whetstone for
27:20
some time. It says rules without
27:22
relationship equals Rebellion. If you me or anyone tries to
27:26
enforce our rules on to children in our lives before we built up
27:30
a good relationship with them. We're asking for Rebellion
27:33
relationship first rule second, let's go boys.
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Rich is the therapeutic boarding school located in the scenic
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Ozarks of southern Missouri. It was found in 2011 to serve
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families from around the country who are struggling with
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challenging behaviors from their 12.
27:50
To 16 year old Sons. Our mission is to sharpen the
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character of young men Allowing God to work.
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Through us as iron sharpens iron.
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Please contact us at Whetstone, Boys.
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Ranch.com if you or anyone, you know, has run out of options for
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their son. Thanks for listening to a time,
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to sharpen, and we'll see you next time.