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Faith Through The Storm "A Father's Perspective" · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  It's Monday, and you know what that means. Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin.
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  Podcast of inspiration. It's a podcast of hope.
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  It's a podcast of faith, and it's a podcast of friendship.
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  Here is your host, Angel Santana, and special co-host, Dr. E.
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  We're a three-podcast time. That's it, man. Let's rock and roll. Three, two, one.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome back to Have Faith, Let It Begin.
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  Why do I say welcome back? Because it is a comeback episode.
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  I'm your host, Angel Santana. And today, we got something that's amazing.
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  But before we do that, someone's returning to the show.
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  My guy, my co-hoster, my peanut butter to my jelly, Dr.
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  E is back. And I am so happy. Dr. E, what's up, buddy?
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  Listen, all my friends at Half-Faith, I want to let you know I wasn't away.
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  Angel would not give me the microphone. I asked them, Angel, can we do an episode?
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  No, I have this prerecorded. I already have one.
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  I felt like I was the guy on the team that was being benched.
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  I felt that maybe I did something wrong or maybe I insulted somebody.
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  Listen, Coach Angel, Sully, to the bench.
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  Not true. I had pre-recorded series and that's why.
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  And I thought you were busy, but that's okay. Because you know what?
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  I saved the best right now for what Monday's about. Today's conversation is going to be a real one.
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  And if you didn't hear the Kroc podcast yesterday, I'm telling you,
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  it is a must go to episode. It's a real life story.
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  Another real life story that Dr. E puts out there.
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  And it's something that you want to definitely check out.
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  So if you haven't done that, pause, have faith, let it begin right now.
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  Go listen to the Kroc Podcast and then come back because today's conversation
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  continues on with that realism.
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  It's honest, it's needed, and we're talking about something that hits home for
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  so many of us, especially as fathers, as husbands, and as men.
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  That's right. I'm putting Dr. Rita myself on the totem pole.
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  Here we go. What do you do when life gets hard and your faith gets tested?
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  How do you hold it together when everything around you feels like it's falling apart?
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  So we're going to start with Dr. E. Dr. E, it's always a blessing to have you
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  here, obviously, but let me ask you this main question right out the gate.
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  When life gets hard, what's the first thing that you would say that gets tested
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  for you? Is it your patience or is it your faith?
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  You know, I got to be honest with you. It's my hardships, you know,
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  that occur in my life as they occur in everyone's life are the moments where
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  I'm closest, you know, to my spirituality, to my creator.
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  It is actually when it happens, there's almost a part of me that I can't say
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  is happy that I'm being challenged,
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  but there's a part of me that feels like
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  this is really the person that I should
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  be all the time because what my challenges come
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  from in my personal relationship with my spiritual side is when things are going
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  great and I feel undefeatable and I feel like I'm top of the world and I feel
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  nothing can touch me and I feel that I'm all that in a bag of chips,
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  that's where my spirituality often flounders as opposed to when I'm being tested.
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  That's where I feel I'm closest. I'm taking the closer walk.
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  I'm feeling very close to God at that point.
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  And again, I hate to repeat myself, but those are the moments that I feel most centered,
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  Yeah. And you know, what's funny is that, you know, one thing I've been thinking
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  about a lot this week as men, we carry a lot.
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  And as fathers and as husbands, we, you know, I realized people depend on us.
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  So let me look at here's Noah coming right now.
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  No, I got a question for you. Let's ask Dr. E this question. Ready?
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  Dr. E, do you feel that like men today are expecting to carry everything without breaking?
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  Where do you think that pressure comes from? And how have you ever had a moment
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  where you felt like, I don't know if I can keep doing this.
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  And when you feel like that, where do you go?
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  Yeah, no, of course. Well, I think there is some good news for men.
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  I think that that old model where, you know, there's that sort of paternalistic
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  view of the world where men are stronger and they're smarter and they're,
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  you know, the responsibilities on a man's shoulders are too much for any woman to carry.
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  You know, I think that that model is quickly being eradicated, which is good.
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  I don't know how that happened. I don't know how we let that happen where the
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  men made all the decisions and they're the ones who voted and they were always
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  the COOs and they were always the doctors and the lawyers and the chiefs of
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  industry and that women were thought of as second-class citizens.
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  I think that it's a world now where it's a gender-free world.
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  I think that men, women, we all get tested, you know, all of our spirituality,
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  all of our, you know, all of the hardships in life, you know,
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  I think we can share, you know, with our partners, with the people who are in our lives now, whether,
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  whatever relationship you're in, whether you're in a marriage or whether you
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  have a significant other, you know, it's really, you know.
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  Irrelevant what the circumstances are, but,
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  And hopefully God put someone in your life that can share the burden with you.
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  Yeah. And as we're getting ready to close out this morning's episode,
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  I want to like to ask him one more thing.
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  But before I do that, I think there are moments where we don't even talk about
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  it either. We just carry it.
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  I know that that's something I struggle with. I mean, let's bring this all back to faith now, right?
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  Because it's easy to have faith when everything is going right, just like you said.
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  But it's different when you're in that storm.
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  Just exactly what you said. And what it does look like for me to trust in God,
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  I would say I put just everything at his feet. You know, we've just had Easter.
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  We just had, you know, a very, very amazing holiday. I call it the best holiday
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  since Christmas, to be very honest with you.
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  I love Easter. I love the resurrection.
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  But I'm going to leave you with one last question. It's kind of like a two-parter.
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  For you, have you ever had a moment where your faith was all that you had left?
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  And what would you say to someone, in your opinion, who is praying but feels
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  like God maybe isn't listening? Maybe he's silent.
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  How do you keep that faith? Yeah, you know, as a matter of fact,
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  many times in my life, that's all I had was my faith. And I think that I would
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  just tell that person who was in need or in crisis that.
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  That God will never leave your side, angel. That's one of your quotes that you say.
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  God is actually there to carry you. Your famous footprints, you know,
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  metaphor, where, you know, during those tough times, they will,
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  you know, our Lord will carry us and things get better.
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  Everything ebbs and flows in our life and things will not be in crisis forever.
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  Amen. So let's do this. We're going to bring this home strong.
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  This conversation right here that you just heard, that's real life because we
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  don't always have the answers.
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  We don't always have it all together. But one thing we do have is our faith.
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  So to every father, every husband, every man listening right now,
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  and I encourage the women to come on the show, you have your moment.
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  You will have your moment.
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  You don't have to have, you know, you don't have to be a perfect guy,
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  by the way, to the men out there, but you do have to hold onto your faith.
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  Because even when life gets heavy, your faith is what keeps you standing.
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  So here's your prayer. Lord, give strength to every man listening today.
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  Remind them that they're not alone. Remind them to say, yes,
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  dear, and help them trust you through every single storm, even if it's coming from the wife.
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  No, I'm just kidding. It's an inside joke.
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  He said that. I didn't say that.
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  But got to have a little humor. But listen, at the end of the day,
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  we are all God's children.
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  And I hope that if we are being tested on both ends, I hope you realize that
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  you can put it at God's feet.
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  So may God be with you. May he shine his light upon you and grant each and every
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  single one of you peace on earth and never forget.
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  Faith, let it begin, baby. Take care, everyone. Until next time.