July 3 - Learning by Living

The Daily Ripples Podcast · Jul 3, 2026 · 12m · transcript

Truth doesn't become real until you live it. Pastor Mike and Cristi bring warmth, laughter, and hard-won honesty to a conversation about how experience teaches what thinking alone never can.

Understanding grows through experience. Truth becomes real when I live it, not just think about it.

Cristi opens where she opened yesterday — with music, one of her love languages — and the truth that experience is a good teacher, but only if you learn from it. If you don't, you're destined to repeat it. She's honest about her own path: two previous marriages where the mistakes weren't only on the other…