How To Honor Dad

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How to honor your father. What a great theme, right, Bob?

Well, it's amazing. That song got me. I've just got a little. Lump in my throat that's making it hard to swallow, but very, very exciting. I have to tell you, but it got me so hard this morning.

I was like, oh my word, I was looking for exactly the song to explain what I wanted to convey. How I was feeling, and I'm praying. Actually, following these directions here, hitting your knees. or low gear is how you get out of a ditch. In other words, If you get humble and admit you don't know what you're doing and you get on your knees, It's how you get out of the ditch.

It's just how it works. It's exactly where I am right now. Struggles in my mind and struggles in my heart, and it's really, really, really becoming a lot mentally. And now I know. I got to hit those knees.

Hit low gear, and that's how you get out of a ditch.

So. The reason I wanted to express this is how to honor your father. That's an amazing idea. But it's best explained, I think, by this story.

So Years ago, 2008 in the early spring of that year, might have been late winter. Um General Motors declared bankruptcy. Chrysler did very quickly thereafter. And Ford was in desperate trouble as the economy was in the ditch, so to speak. And the car business was really in the ditch.

For a lot of reasons that I could go into at some point. But at this point in time, I wrote an article based on a publicist, Robbie. Could you save General Motors if they put you in charge of General Motors? I said, I believe I could. And I wrote this article at ChristianCarGuy.com on how to save General Motors.

What year was that again? Yeah, got it. I'd been a Christian car guy for two years. But I'd been in the car business for forty, and my father worked for Buick before me.

So I I was very steeped in understanding the retail aspect of the automobile business, the automobile business a lot. And so I really did have an idea that I think to this day would just really pull put a lot of people to work in whatever. But nonetheless, As a result, when Fox and Friends read this article, they called me on how to save General Motors. And I did, if you can see it on my website to this day, if you look under Robbie at ChristianCargai.com, you're going to see this. um news thing I did one Saturday in New York with Fox and friends.

on how to save General Motors.

Well, as a result of that, Interview I must have had 150 interviews across the country on Fox News on almost every station over a period of two weeks. They were coming fast and furious as fast as they could. I mean, it's like every morning I'd have 10 or more at some d different station across the country to do these interviews. And The day that they fired Rick Wagner, and the reason they fired Rick Wagner is Barack President Obama at this point in time had met with the board of General Motors and said, You've got to get a new person in there. And maybe not a bad decision.

You know, I don't know. We'd never had a President of the United States jump into a private organization like that happened at that particular time. And then, right at that moment, I'm supposed to have this interview with a very liberal woman. On a station in Chicago, which is where Barack Obama is from. And this particular woman was very much a Barack Obama supporter.

And I was briefed on all this before the interview, and these things had just happened. And I was told this was probably not going to go well for me because she's extremely popular. She's been on the air for like 20 years, and she's going to eat your lunch. And I didn't really want to get into any kind of argument. And so, you know what I did?

Mm-hmm. I I got in low gear, admitted I was way over my head in this situation, and I called Dad, right? I'm like, Man, God, you got to help me I I don't know what to say, and I really didn't know what to say. And the interview started this way. She says, So And very sarcastic, honestly.

So you're the Christian car guy. Do you only help Christians with their cars? That was her question.

Now, out of my mouth comes this, which to this day I will never understand. Usually I answer questions. But I didn't answer that question. I just said, you know. My favorite phone call I ever got in my life.

was when my son. called me right after he got his driver's license. Had it for less than a week. He drove his Jeep in a ditch. He really did.

And his first phone call was to me. Yeah. And it honored me more than I don't know how many times I've had calls from my kids after that, but those phone calls in themselves, just Dad, can you help me? Right? It's a tremendous honor that your kids want your wisdom or they want your protection or they want your love, whatever it is that they're calling you for, right?

They are tremendously honoring you.

Well, How do you think God feels? When you pick up the phone. Yeah. On your knees, right? And you call him.

Well, I said this, I said this to this. Um Actually, turned out to be a wonderful talk show host in Chicago. When I said that, the whole interview changed on its heels like that. Like, as soon as I said, remember, her question was: So, you're the Christian car guy, you only help Christians. I come out with, you know, my favorite phone call I ever got in my whole life was from my son when he got in the ditch and he called me.

And I said, it's time for the car business to call Dad. And she said Preach it, brother. And she jumped into. Her Christian upbringing. And there couldn't be better advice than for the country to pray about this situation with the car with the car business and what they were all going with, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

And I've never forgotten the whole incident, but there's just that whole part of if you think about it in your own life and again, this is a live show and you guys' calls or what make the show. Is when did you have a situation where you caught, you were in the ditch? And you called your dad your earthly dad, or maybe you called your heavenly dad, whatever the ditch may have been, eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four is a number to call in and share your Right? Getting out of the ditch experience. 866-348-7884.

How to honor your dad. And so. You know Bob, you got a story for us. Oh, under the bus for me.

Well. It it's true and um I was in college. And so this would have been 78. Seventy nine no seventy seven or seventy eight nineteen seventy seven seventy eight and uh had to make a phone call. and my parents had to drive Five hours.

with two thousand dollars to obtain my freedom On Good Friday.

So yes, I have had to call dad. And it showed up. And I'm not sure that it was his proudest phone call as was your case. No, no, no, no, it wasn't. But he uh he uh You know, they may they showed up They got me out, and you're talking about a long five-hour ride back home.

Very quiet. Very quiet ride, but uh, you know, da made the call, dad come got me. And Did you actually call your dad? Or you just called home and he answered. I I'm not exactly sure how that happened, but I know he drove.

Yeah, he's got a lot of money. And I know I got out. And I know I didn't have much to say on the way home. But uh, you know, there's been so many times in my life that my sons have needed help. And Especially romp.

You know, my parents did awesome things for me, helped me out of a pinch, helped me out of trouble. I did everything I could for him, helped him out of a pinch. We try to help Sean and Jeremy in the very same fashion. It's an honor, isn't it? They're my boys.

And it's an honor when they need help and we'll accept it. 866. The number to call with your story: 866-348-7884, 866-348-7884. We'll be right back with a little more of how to honor your father. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.

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We got William is calling at 866-348-7884. William is in Tip City. I got to hear about this. Tip City. I don't think I've ever heard of d hip city, but that's cool.

Yes, good morning, brother. Thank you, Robbie, for taking my call. I really appreciate the context of the conversation. Thank you. Oh, oh, I'm so glad you called.

So where is Tip City?

So, Tip City is near Dayton, not far. It's also near Troy and Vandalia and Huber Heights, just in the locality.

Okay. Know exactly where that is.

Okay, I couldn't really pinpoint it. If we had a map in front of us, I could for you, brother. But I understand. Yes. Um, so I am calling today about How to honor my father, and how I honor him is by showing what he has done to help me understand on what it means to be walking this path.

As a man of Christ, as a follower of Jesus, as a brother. in his house. And so When I made a call to him, because Robbie, I'll be honest with you. my whole life I've been estranged from relationships 'cause I just felt odd and strange. and I've had some hardships.

And so it's been really hard to get back into the flow of things. And so I was led to Jesus. Through victory, and that's where I attended my local church. And I'm in his house and I think to myself, I feel odd and peculiar, and it's not them, it's really me. And I had to call him and say, Father, Father, why do I feel so strange in your household?

And he said, Well, your brothers and sisters Okay, rumble and tumble. It's an odd family, the largest family. You have to keep that in mind. And I said, okay. Um Helped me to understand that.

And so when I made that call to him, he said, You know what? All my children are versatile in character, and it can be hard to understand them, and it can be hard to get along with them. you are family. And so, in keeping with the platform that you're working with today, I just got the truck and I'm finally coming out of the ditch, and it's thanks to my brethren. Um And it's all because we're in the house of God, and that's in Christ.

speaking truthfully. That's so beautiful. I can't tell you how beautiful that is, William, because I have and Stu says this all the time, my ball is at Truth Network. He he says, you know, the Truth Network is a land of misfit toys. In other words, you want to meet an odd group of people.

You know, I'm telling you. And I know Bob can relate because it just is when you really get to know people at a deeper level, which Christians do, and you begin to feel their hearts and see these things, it's a really peculiar thing. Indeed. But praise God that He gives us grace. Um in amazing ways that we can give other people grace.

And he understood that. Um Because it requires a lot of it. Just saying, you know, like Bob's trip, I'm back at the end of the quiet ride. The quiet ride. There's some grace going on there, my friend.

Well, God bless you. I'm so glad you called today, William. I'm so glad you listened. Thank you. And I just got to say, thank you for your grace and patience to endure each of my phone calls in developing this relationship.

I appreciate you and the listeners so much. Me too me too, William. God bless you. Have a great Father's Day. You too.

You too. Happy Father's Day. Happy Father's Day. God bless. All right, we got Woody is in Virginia.

You know how to honor your father by hitting your knees or low gear. Um we got What if Good morning.

Well, listen, when I was about twelve years old, and generally most of my stories when I was young involve a girl.

So I had just finished Selling some produce at my mother's little produce stand on the weekend, and this girl invited me to. Go skating and skating our birthday party.

So I lived on the other side of town and I had a little motor scooter. An all-state comic, bought it from Sears, saved my money, and bought it.

So oh man, I can remember those motor scooters. Those were cool. Oh, man, they they took me all over the place. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

So I'm in Chattanooga, Tennessee at the time. And so I get on a scooter, I take flying down the road. I've got my cousin on the back from Richmond. And I see this light getting ready to change. It's yellow.

And I said, 'Well, Dern, I'm gonna hit it and go through it.' I was going about 45 miles an hour.

Well, unfortunately, the car in front of me decided to stop. Oh wow. I hit it full force. My cousin flew over the top of me and landed on the Hood, and I'm laying on top of the car. I'd never forget it, it was a 1963 Thunderbird.

And I'm just dazed, not not really hurt bad. And I'm scared to death. I don't have a driver's license, you know, and actually, I didn't even need one, I didn't know that.

So my first thought is I'm going to jail for one thing.

So, um Now my first inclination was to call my daddy. Oh.

So I called him. And it's perforce out of his mouth or Are you okay? And I said, Yeah, I'm okay to head. Yeah. My mic's not so okay.

He said, Well, don't worry about that. He said, can you? Can you get home? I said, I I'm not sure. I said, I think I probably can.

So the policeman's asked me all these questions and stuff. What's your name? I told him my name. He said, uh Does your daddy work at uh the flour mill? And I thought that was an odd question to ask me.

So he said, okay, he said, I'm going to try to pull this fender off the wheel. And I think you'll be able to get this home. I had a little gash and not nothing, so I'm thinking, okay, he said, I'm going to come by and see you and your father here in the next day or two.

Something, oh boy, I'm done for, I'm going to jail.

Well, it turned out If he knew my father from the from the flour mill, And my father was a a very strong acquaintance with this. He never came. you know, uh I ended up But my dad was right there when I needed him and uh I celebrate. Uh, so much grace. Uh, it's amazing.

Uh I had one more small story if you want to hear it that was really a bit about who he was. I really do, but I also want to comment because, you know, as soon as you said 63 Thunderbird, I pictured this car in my mind and I thought, well, man, that thing had a huge hood to land on. That was a beautiful car. And we want your other story, Woody, but we've got to go to a break. Can you hang on for a minute with us?

That's so awesome. I'm really looking forward to it.

So, how about you? We need your story, too. 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. And getting your name.

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When did you find yourself making that call? And he was there. Your heavenly father or your earthly father still got Woody in Virginia with us, but I need your call. I want to hear your story. 866-348-7884.

You have no idea all the people that you bless. Believe me, we all have similar situations where we were in that ditch or on the hood of a 63 Thunderbird, as the case might be. I could picture that scene. I can picture, you know, who doesn't remember the Shears catalogs back then that we even flipped through. And I can see that scooter sitting there.

And I always wanted one, man. You had one. Yeah, I had to work for it. I had to sell produce on weekends and deliver papers. And my second story was when we moved to Richmond, I was 15.

And I had no idea what I was getting to. I had this paper route, I had like 160 papers, so I just assumed when I went out, when I went for the Sunday route, Because you know, my papers would be gathered there in a few bundles, and I would just go ahead and deliver them, right?

Well, I get there and I see this whole massive amount of papers and I'm thinking, boy, they must have three or four routes here.

Well, they didn't. It it was all mine. And I think there is no way in the world I can get this done. And I want to preface this story with that my father Um Was an honorable man, but unfortunately, he served in World War II and he had a lot of issues and. And he was a functional alcoholic, and so every Saturday night he drank heavily.

But I had to go home. I went back home and I said, Daddy, I can't do this because you. come and drop some of the papers off for me at strategic points. And uh You know, he got right up and I know he felt horrible. That's just the way that thing played out.

And from that point on, For the several years that I had the paper out, he always got up on Sunday morning about four o'clock. and set my papers and teaching places so that I was able to do my job. Oh my goodness. What a story. Yeah.

I mean, you know, that. That is a really and you know having Delivered papers, I'm feeling your pain throughout this story because you don't just deliver the papers, right? You got to fold every one of those bad boys. And that Sunday paper is a big monster. Yeah, it was.

It was. Five or six sections. Yeah, it was just, I don't know who dreamed this up, but most people that have there's way more people that have a Sunday subscription than have a weekly. In other words, that day you have a bunch more people on your route that you got to remember where they go. Because your regular route's just the people that come the regular days.

Yes, sir. You know, man, I am feeling that. Woody, what an amazing, amazing story. It brings to mind one of my Call Dad stories, which. Um That when I lost a dealership, I was.

in my late fifties and we were so broke that we really didn't have enough money. Um Sure. To pay the power. We'd lost our house. It was foreclosed on, and we didn't have the money to get a deposit.

so that we could have the power turned on in the house that we were renting. And so I took a paper route. Right? Sure. And and so there I am.

This is like January, and there's all kinds of ice all over the place. And I've got this apartment complex, and I'm going up and down these stairs. you know, throwing papers. And I'm trying to get it all done on a Sunday morning because I'm feeling your pain. Like, Sunday is a different world, right?

And so I'm running in between apartmenting. I can't run up the stairs or slip and die. But as it was, I was running across the parking lot. And man, I slipped and totally. It was like wipeout.

I mean, I'm all over the ground. There's papers scattered everywhere. And I literally roll and it's dark outside, as you know, at four in the morning. And it's dark outside. And I roll over on my back And I looked up to God and I said, really?

Because I was. You know, realize it's eight months before this, I was essentially the Chrysler dealer in Moxville and would have been thought to be a fairly wealthy man. But now I'm on my back in a parking lot of an apartment complex looking up at the sky and going, Really? Has it come down to this? I think we've all been there.

I I but you know Isn't it amazing? How Well Your father will listen to you even when, you know, I didn't have a right in the world to be upset about anything. He was providing the power. I wasn't hungry. I had all I needed, right?

Um But he still listened to me, so I. But your dad, I am. Like, man, how cool is that? How cool is that? Thank you, Woody.

That makes my day. In so many ways, I really appreciate you calling. God bless. Hey, God bless you. Thank you so much for your show, and thank you for the Truth Network.

Oh, thank you. God bless. Bye-bye. We need your story, 866-348-6. 7884-86634 Truth.

Bob, you look like a. You swallowed a canary or something.

So you're some great memories thinking about, you know, some of the circumstances. that got me to the point where I had to call Dad. And and, you know, or in some of the circumstances that got Rob to the point that he had to call dad. Um, you know, it's It's some really tough stuff to chew on. And uh it's just uh It warms my heart.

It breaks my heart. It's just a mixed bag of emotions. It's kind of cool because, as William talked about, it kind of forces us into relationship. Right? I guarantee you there were times Rob did not want to call dad with his situation.

And you know that, but he got low enough. Right in the ditch where you get to the bottom. You got to find this.

So, I heard this story yesterday, and it touched me, and it speaks to something else here. There was this. missionary and and he had a like he was in New Guinea or some place where they had cannibals and he had gotten word out there in the in the weeds that that they he had a house out there, out there in the bush that that these cannibals were coming to eat him. This night. Invite him for lunch.

Yeah, they were going to serve their fellow man, so to speak. And Anyway, this is an amazing story.

So he gets word, and so he goes, he climbs up in this tree. and hides out.

so that they won't see him. And uh Then the cannibals come and he watches them burn his house and and he sees them looking everywhere for him, trying to find him, trying to eat you know, obviously it would not go good. And Of course, that night you can imagine he's crying out to God all night.

Well, later he would reflect. And I love this is beyond. I love this. He said You know That was probably one of my favorite moments in my life. I would literally go through that again to be as close to God as I was.

I've never been that close to God before or since. And if that's what it takes for me to get that close to God, Then that's what it takes. And for those of us who have been that far down, Right? that that you thought you were gonna die in a certain situation or you thought it was the end of the whatever, those moments are sweet, sweet, sweet fellowship. We got Miss Jay is in Greensboro.

Always great to hear from you. What are you doing, Gladdy? Long time you're here. Really? Really?

I'm so glad. What have you got for us? Oh, well, let's see. I'm going to tell you a little story as quick as I can. When a young lady gets pregnant and What they normally do is send you down south to the older women, you know, and older women start to minister to you.

And so that's what happened to me. I had to end up getting pregnant around 17, 18. Um I was 18 years old. And they sent me down to see the elders, some of the older women, my great great grandma and great aunt and them. And they start telling me about how you're not supposed to get rid of your baby and things like that.

And your Heavenly Father telling me about him. I heard about him, but never really had sixteen him in my life. And I was thinking about having an abortion and because I was so afraid about delivering a baby and all of that. And then I wasn't sure about my relationship with the male I was with, and it was just crazy. And I'm sitting in the kitchen crying, and they said, Someone else wants to talk to you.

And so I looked at I always saw him in the shadow and I always saw him every year of summer we would go down And see, and this man will always run to the car before we get ready to leave and put money in my hand and say, share with your brothers and sisters. I just thought it was another uncle for years that went on. But this time, when I was at the table sitting, he was sitting in the living room and his shadow was there. And when they called him in, Um they told me that was my father. I had just gotten ministered to my Heavenly Father about what I wasn't supposed to do and things like that.

And then I got introduced to my natural dad. And it was just so everything was just a whole, it was so much to intake, but I did listen to him. And I didn't get rid of the baby, and I did visit my father, and I got to a chance to minister to him. You know, him. I hate to.

Stop you in a min but I gotta know, but we also gotta go to a break.

So I would love to know like that conversation. Right. Hi, I'm your dad. Mm-hmm. Did he say don't you know hi, I'm your dad.

Keep your baby, or I'm dying to know the details of that conversation. We're going to hear that when we come back, but we also need your story: 866-348-7884. You're listening to The Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. And yen in the or a low gear is how you get out of the ditch And getting your knees or a low gear is how you get out of the D. If mama didn't have a Bible And daddy didn't have a truck How to honor your father today on the Christian Car Guy Show.

Amazing stuff as we're hearing stories of when we called. uh dad when we were in the ditch, so to speak. But interestingly, this this this wonderful story Miss Jay is telling us right now, she didn't necessarily call Dad, she just happened to be where Dad was, but she didn't know it, so she hadn't known who her father was, and she found herself With child and sitting with her great-grandmother and some of other family members and out of the shadows comes her dad and sits down with her, and so Miss Jay, as he sat down, what did he say? Yeah. Oh my God, I was literally reading the Bible.

They were showing me the things in the scripture, and I had my hand on the Bible and When he came from out of the shadows, this is kind of deep for me, too, still. When he came from out of the shadows, he sat down and he took my left hand. My uh, my right hand was on the Bible. And he told me, I'm your father. I know you must have heard me as a friend of the family.

Well, and I just kept shaking my head and noticed I really didn't know who he was. And he just told me that he loved me and he always had loved me and that he he's always been around. And that, um, I didn't have to go through what I was about to go through alone, and that he would, um. Help me. Um with the baby.

And um, he wanted me to come and see him and he um gave me two tickets to come to Washington. He said he lived in Washington. He also worked at the White House as a carpenter. This is really funny about all this stuff. It's really funny.

He literally was the um person who did their furniture and stuff and made their furniture and stuff. And It was very, very emotional for me.

So I did keep my baby. You know, I kept my firstborn. Got to go visit him. I went on my first flight on the plane. It was the first flight for everything.

First thing on the Bible, first meeting my father, first flight and going to his home. Oh, God. And he gave me two weeks of his life. That was just I'll never forget. And so the child.

Tell me about him or her. Oh, my God. He's 40. 20. I understand that too.

Amen. But undoubtedly, you know, there's a whole lot of life that transpired because he lived, right? Yes, yes, sir, yes, sir.

So I now and I kind of contemplating on whether this year or not, but my father's not living. He he died like five years um after me meeting him. And um And I just wish that, and I got an opportunity to minister to him, too. And I shared with you guys about he was a 30, 32-degree mason. Right.

And he had all this stuff in the basement that I didn't fully understand. But I went to church. I saw all these things. And I ended up sharing with him about the God that I was serving. He kept talking about love.

My father kept saying, he kept saying, me, girl, he said, even all that which you said, I loved you. And I know God loves you, and I love you. And so love with you is going to always be in the middle of anything going forward. And I pray that my father's soul will be in heaven when I get to meet him again. But he gave me the best two weeks of my life.

Well, with him, it's knowing a father, not being fatherless. But I wasn't anyway, you know. It was just amazing how my right hand was on the Bible, left hand in his hand. And it was like at the same time, they were like both loving me at the same time. Precious man.

Thank you, Ms. Jay. God bless you. It makes my day your call. I hope you have an amazing Father's Day.

You too. You too, Robbie. Bye-bye. Thank you. It's so great to hear from you again.

So Bob Again, like, man, these memories, they just, they, they're, they're firing up.

So I have to tell this story. I promised God I would. That this morning, last night, my, my, Youngest grandchild, it's her first birthday. My youngest daughter, that's a miraculous story in itself. And so I had promised my daughter I would make homemade pies, five of them, for this birthday party today.

And I ended up staying way later than I usually do because, you know, I get up really early.

So I got up really late this morning and I was really tired, and I had to do a show. I prepared a whole bunch of stuff all week on Father's Day and all sorts of stuff. But as always, I don't do a show without asking God, what are we doing? And I'm bone-tired and I have no idea what we're doing. I'm like, okay, you know, this morning, I'm praying, praying, praying.

I'm in a ditch from my perspective. I don't know what the show's about. And God, I need your help. And a little pie-eyed. Yeah, I was pie-eyed.

And so God clearly tells me in my soul, right? I'm hearing this. Robbie, Psalms 18, verse 9.

Well, when I read Psalms 18, verse 9, I can't make any sense of it because honestly, I I'm trying to see how it relates to any of this.

So I'm going to read this to you. This is what I read. I struggled when you read it to me the first time.

So it says. He bowed the heavens also, or he bent the heavens, depending on your translation, and came down, and darkness was under his feet. And If you know me well, you know I translated that into Hebrew, and I spent the next two hours trying to get to where I could truly understand what this verse said, to where I could really feel and begin to see.

Well, let me give you a little context of the verse. Psalm 18 is what King David wrote near the end of his life after he'd. Been released from, or in other words, he'd had victory over many of his enemies, including Saul. And clearly, Absalom and a lot of other people that he'd had enemies from. And what he's talking about is when he called on God, God bent over like a shepherd.

Picking up his lamp. Right? And he literally bent the heavens as he bent down. The darkness under his feet, fascinatingly, that particular word for darkness is the word for the darkness that was under God's feet at Sinai.

So when he came down at Sinai to give the word of God to the people at to Moses and the people at there was darkness under his feet, and that particular darkness is not the kind of darkness that Uh that is evil, it's actually this amazingly beautiful idea of the hiddenness of God's goodness. And so in our darkest moments, like we're talking about right now, like being way down in the ditch, When it starts to get really dark like that, or if you're the cannibal up in the tree, That's when you see the goodness. That darkness under his feet, and this is what David knew: that it looks like the darkest of times. But when Dad reaches down light's going to come on and it's going to literally take your your your your just like we heard from Miss Jay, just like we heard from William, just like we heard from Woody, just like we heard from Bob. Just like so many stories in my life when things were at their worst and God was all I had, that's when you realize that.

God's all you need. Exactly. Exactly. So many times.

So many times.

So when it really got dark, and I didn't talk about my earthly dead. But I will right now. Um since I have this moment. I can't tell you the number of times I got fired. It was just my lot in life that I never quit.

That isn't anything that's in Robbie's vocabulary. Quitting was not something that was going to happen. And so sometimes I told them where they were cheating customers, and sometimes I. I told them how they were cheating other employees. And I had this tendency to tell people.

know the truth. Stuff they didn't really want to. No, they did not. The truth will set you free from your job. And I probably didn't handle it with grace and I didn't handle it well.

However, it worked out, I can tell you that many times before I ended up. you know, with my own dealership, I got fired. And for Usually some kind of truth telling.

Okay. And each time. Who would I call? My Earthly Dad. And we'd have this discussion again, like dad, you know, and almost, I can't even tell you the number of jobs my dad got me.

Like the reason I'm in Winston-Salem today is because my father got me the job at Bob Neal Christopher Plymouth Geep Eagle. Bob, you're going to say something before we go. No, keep going. Keep going. I got to hear the end of that.

If it wasn't for him, I never would have gotten come to North Carolina to begin with. I never would have ended up in Winston. These were all different jobs he got me after I got fired. And it just so involved my life up to the very end. When he left, I was like, man, I've lost my lifeline.

Well, I have personal thanks for him because without all that, you wouldn't be in my life. And you've made a huge difference for me. Amen. And you for me, my friend. You have no idea.

So, how about you? You know, God has got ways that he allows us to honor him by calling him. Uh remember he