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Now nothing's easy. Did Christmas change or just me today's show, Where Are You Christmas? Twenty twenty five. And I've always I don't know why it is, but I just love this time of year, and for some reason, it makes. These Christmas shows, the Christian Car Guy Show, are extremely popular, Bob.
You know what the most... Popular Christian Car guys show is It'll be 20 years next year.
Next February, we'll we'll have completed our twenty twentieth year. As they're doing the Christian Cargas show, do you know of all those years and all those shows, what was the most popular, from a podcast standpoint, downloads show of all time? If anybody would know an answer to that, it would be you because it was the show where your son, it was right before Christmas. Oh. That but Yeah.
Yeah, you you had gotten sick that day and you asked her son to do the show for you. And he came in, gave his testimony, and it was spectacular. And for whatever reason, God has blessed that show above all other Christian car guys shows for all time. But interestingly, almost all my most popular shows are Christmas shows. The second most popular show.
Another Christian car guy. And number three, wraps it up pretty quick, is also Christmas, is where are you Christmas? It's such a great question. And then the Christian Cargai Theater, a Christmas Corolla, would be number three, which we'll play that again. As always, I do need to make everyone aware that unfortunately.
Ann Alt, our store our star of Christian Cargai Theater for years and years and years. She went to be with Lord About two and a half, three weeks ago, very, very sad. And when I get back from Israel I will do a tribute, undoubtedly, for Anne. Um, get some of the highlights of all those years she did Christian Carga at theater with, Bob. I know it's a shocker, isn't it?
I didn't know that.
So every interaction with her was always pleasant and just a magnificent woman and uh Well, she had a brain tumor that she fought for I guess about three years. In the last episodes we did, for the last, I don't know, two years or so, I she'd lost her memory. From the brain tumor. And so I would read her her lines, and she would read them back to me with her gifting. She could.
She could do it, so I have all these episodes with Ann that we did, and again, we'll do that tribute when we come back. But on this idea of where are you Christmas 2025? Right, I don't know if that's as haunting a question for you as it is for me, right? Because it's this season where you know. Wow, Jesus was born This is special, its advent.
And how come I'm not feeling that? Maybe it's 'cause there's a seat that's like there was at Thanksgiving for you, where you didn't have that person sitting at the table or whatever it was that just it wasn't the same. You know, Cindy Lou Who in a cringe soul Christmas, she asked that question so well, right? And so this year, as I studied it one more time, because I'd love to do that, I began to look fascinatingly. One of the first prophecies that you will find that Jesus would come.
was in Genesis 12. And it's verse 3. And here, God is blessing Abraham because Abraham is going to move. And when God blesses Abraham, he kind of blesses him to be a blessing. And he said, and I will bless them that bless thee, and I will curse him that curseth thee.
and in thee all the families of the earth will be blessed. That was my Questioning mind, don't you find it fascinating that he used the word, and this is God blessing Abraham. And this is a very famous, it's repeated throughout the scriptures many times: that if you bless Israel, you're going to be blessed, and if you curse Israel, you're going to be cursed. But he was blessed because he was going to bless all the families of the earth.
Now, why did he use that word families? That's the kind of question that I like to delve into. Like, what's up with that? Why didn't he say all the peoples of the earth would be blessed? Why didn't he say all the nations of the earth would be blessed?
He didn't. What he said was all the families. of the earth. will be blessed. And and The conclusion I kinda came to, I'm gonna jump way ahead and then come back for you.
is that Where are you Christmas? isn't a matter of you trying to find Christmas, because Christmas will find you. And I can prove that. Yeah. I can prove that by my own experience, but I can also prove that By the fact that you know, the very first Christmas The angel found Mary.
She was not looking for Christmas. Maybe to some extent she. Down deep, wanted the Savior to come, et cetera, et cetera. But she certainly wasn't that night expecting. Oh.
What would happen? And So it's a fascinating thing, right? Yeah. The angel found her. And similarly, the angel found Joseph, right?
Joseph was he was Topsy-turvy, trying to figure out what in the world's going on. And again, he found out about Christmas from an angel, and he showed up for him, and there was. And then Obviously the shepherds you know up on the mountain Again, it was that they weren't looking for anything special. Um Season of the year, and all of a sudden, here comes this angel telling them that the baby would be born. And again, with this idea of Families.
And so The question I have, and I would love for you to call in and share it today, as we think about. Um But We don't find Christmas necessarily. It finds us. And you know, if you if you think through that, in a lot of ways it'll it'll make a lot of sense to you, I think. That One Here's a perfect example, Mom.
You know, we have the Jesus labor love here at the Christian Car Guy Show. We've had it for years and years. And uh You know, it's help for single moms, widows and families in crisis. Yeah. Get that family at least.
Single moms, widows, and families in crisis, which is often the case. And I had had uh A fairly famous battery company CEO on my show and He he Had told me how, oh, Robbie, if you ever need a battery for any of your single moms or whatever, we will take care of you, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. And I thought, well, how exciting that is. And it wasn't long after that that he was on the show that. I had this.
um single mom in Utah that needed a battery. And uh oh well we can't help her because she there's not a one of our local stores in her area 'cause that's in Utah. I'm like, okay.
Well, about Christmas time, a number of years ago. Uh I get this woman who makes this application and she's wrecked her car. It's unusual, but she's wrecked her car. And the way she describes it is the fender is on the tire, so she can't drive it. It exploded the battery the way that the wreck happened.
And unfortunately didn't she didn't have any insurance to get her car fixed, but she Did have that single coverage insurance, me and the insurance company would pay it off for the bank, but she still had to make payments on it and she had no way to get to work, and it was Christmastime. And as I recall, she had three kids. Right? And so I thought, well, if there was ever a situation since this particular lady was in Fort Worth, Texas. That man, that's where the headquarters of this battery company is.
I thought, for sure. And when I called that battery company, They turned me down, like, oh, I'm sorry, you know, this time of year, we're real busy, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We can't help. And I was so, I got mad at God. I didn't just get mad at the battery company.
I'm like, God, what in the world? I mean, here we got this lady. She desperately needs help. And um I'm yelling at God, which is not all that unusual. And he says to me, Well, Robbie, if you're so excited about getting this lady some help, why don't you get her some?
And I'm like, oh. Here's your sign. Yeah. So I was like, okay, well, I got to figure this out. And So I just googled, you know, body shops that were somewhere close to where she lived, because obviously it was going to take a body shop to take this vendor off, and we'd raise the money somehow to get this battery, and we'll just get her on the road somehow, because this is a horrible situation, especially at Christmas time, right?
And I call this The very first one I call. And this receptionist answers the phone, and I'm like, hi, this is Robbie Dilmore with the Jesus Labor Love. I've got this woman that needs a. a battery and the fenders up on her wheel, etcetera. And and she said, Oh, you'll have to talk to the owner.
But You know, I don't know, that sounds pretty wild. I'm like, I understand.
Well, let me talk to the owner.
So I get the owner. And of course, he's a guy from Texas, which I understand because my wife is from that part of Texas. And he opens the conversation with, after I tell him the same thing I told his receptionist, he says. Do you mean to tell me that you talk about Jesus Christ on the radio? And I didn't know where he was going with that.
I thought this might not go good. But What a surprise I had, which I will share what that surprise is on the other side of this break. But the idea is: where are you, Christmas 2025? When did you have Christmas find you?
Some family. That was in need, some situation where God had provided this work ahead for you. 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Where's it?
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Where are you? Christmas 2025 today on the Christian Car Guys Show, and we're talking about. The answer to this really is: Christmas usually finds you. You don't necessarily find it. And when did it find you?
And when we left. And I've I'm so blessed to have Bob Young, my Christian Junkyard guy, with me here today. It's a real pleasure to be here today, brother. Three weeks ago, I was on this show. And you and I were in here and I can't even remember exactly how it got brought up, but oh, we were talking about manure.
That's right. And you mentioned some of the manure in my life. And. Part of that being when my son passed away, and then you parlayed that into Um Talking about how I've had the opportunity to help some addicts find recovery.
Some parents and families of addicts find some relief and have tried to. takes that manure from way back then. and turn it into a positive thing. and uh was telling a story about a recent fella that I'd been helping. And when I left the studio that day I didn't get out of the parking lot and my phone rang.
And it was a guy I've been helping. and a girl was ridin' down the road. trying to figure out how to help her son in law. And she hit the seek button on her telephone, San Scan or Seek, one of those buttons, and it stopped. on our station.
I didn't say a whole lot that day. But She happened to land that radio on our station. In the two two minutes or so right that that I was talking about that. and she was trying to find help for her son in law. She recognized the guy I was talking about, the story of the guy I was talking about.
She calls him, he calls me. And V note. not t that was on the eighth and on the thirteenth. Her son-in-law. entered Arca.
The recovery program. And somebody says, Boy, that was sure lucky that she hit. I said, that wasn't lucky. Lucky can't do that. God can, but lucky cannot do that.
And. And I call uh I texted and checked on him this morning, and he's still there. Uh been there since the thirteenth. We did show on the eighth. But just Right, it finds you.
It found you. It feels so good to walk in a miracle. You know, I I don't live a a perfect life or nothing. But every now and then I get a chance to help somebody. And God will just take that stick and hit me right between the eyes and say, I'm still here.
Yeah. Yeah. Keep doing what you're doing.
Somebody, we don't know how many people are listening to us. We don't know how many people hear our message, but for me to talk. for less than three minutes and somebody hear it. and somebody and this fella has been Addicted. since he was thirteen years old.
He was in an accident. Was banged up really bad and got started on the opiates. And He had been an addict for a really long time. And uh as of this morning he's still in recovery. And You know, we were just talking about our past and how a fellow recently has been.
Doing really, really, really good, and somebody hears that story and connects the dots. and now her son in law is in recovery. Exactly. And how about you? You got a story, I know.
I would love to hear it. I know everybody would love to hear it because it's a testimony of what God does, right? And we didn't do that. God did it. It was obvious.
866-348-7884. 866-348-7884. And I was in the middle of telling this story. Where I had called this fella in Fort Worth, Texas, right? And I was in the middle of being mad at God and I was in the middle of just frustration because of this situation.
I wanted to help this lady had no idea how. And so this man starts off by saying, Do you mean to tell me that you talked that? And I was like, What in the world did I get myself into now? And after he says that... He says this.
He said I'll fix that lady's car, and I'll fix it to day. I'll buy the battery, and she'll be on the road before you know it. And I was like, well, give yourself, you know, I worked in a body shop for a number of years, and I knew the fenders on the wheel and all this, you know, may not be something you could fix in a day. I was wrong. God had other plans.
That lady in Fort Worth, Texas. Right, where I did not know a soul except the battery company that went out. Um Right? They had her on that. That lady called me.
She was like, You're not going to believe it. But he came out here, he put a battery in here, he took the fender off the wheel. You know, I'm driving my car, I can get back and forth to work. And away I go. Christmas found Hello.
Christmas found me. Because, you know, I got to see the blessing and I took some part in it, but man, it's just like, you, you know, God did it. How about you? 866-348-7884. As we were talking about.
In Genesis. All right, Genesis 12. God is blessing Abraham, and he said, This shall be for all the families. of the earth. Talk Hebrew, or I lose some people, and I don't want to lose anybody on this.
It's this idea of families in the word Hebrew. All roots, all words have roots. Right? And and things that that was grown on.
Well the root. of the word families Is and you'll make the connection, I hope, immediately, is maid servant. Which seems kind of peculiar when you think about it. Why would families come from the root of the word maidservant? And the The more you think about that, you go, wait a minute, you know, it was these maidservants.
that raved As Mary would say, I'm the maidservant of the Lord. It was these. Rape maid servants. That would Be the ones that gave the children their identity. It would be them that would essentially be the womb that comforted them, protected them, and all that stuff.
And that. This is exactly why Mary said what she said when the angel said to her, you know, that you're going to have this child. And she said, Behold, the maid servant of the Lord. That's an amazing thing because you're talking about his family, which I'm hoping. And if you listen to this broadcast, you're a member of.
So when we get back, we got a lot more. Call us 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Where am I? Are you Christmas?
Do you remember the one you used to know? I'm not the same one. See what the timestamp is. Where are you, Christmas twenty twenty-five? Such a haunting question.
I'd love to ask at this time of year as we get prepared for the Advent and we Begin to think through the processes we talked about throughout the show often. Christmas finds us if we didn't find it, and it usually finds us in an opportunity to help a family somewhere in something that you just did not see coming, but the next thing you know, you were blessed out of your socks. I know you've had it happen to you, and I would love to hear it. 866-348-7884. Blessed to be a blessing, as Abraham was in Genesis chapter 12.
We have, speaking of blessed to be a blessing, we have Danita Carson, a dear friend of ours. Who happens to be married to Dr. Dwayne Carson? And they got a big announcement coming up.
So. Danita, you're on the Christian Carguy Show. Good morning. Good morning. How are you doing this morning, Robbie?
I'm guessing I'm warmer than you are. Aren't you in Pennsylvania or somewhere? No, we're home, but it's still chilly here. Yeah, 27 degrees this morning. Yeah.
So. Yeah. We got a big announcement. We've been waiting, waiting, waiting and finally it's here. Drum roll please.
Really? De Wayne's book has finally been released. And it's a daily devotional. Um it's on Amazon. And it's just a great way to He does, you know, you have his devotions for every day.
You also have room. in the margins for you to put your own notes so you can when you come back to it next year You have a whole new perspective of what you thought about it last year. And maybe you'll think about something different next year. Wow. I call him Doctor Date the Word Carson because his whole ministry is this idea of date the word.
And so every single date he has a verse that lines up with that date. Like You know, Romans 12:1, obviously, will be around the corner as we get up all for your bodies, right? After Thanksgiving. It is Acts 11:29. Right.
Right. Right. And so This is a beautiful I like you have We've been giving away date-to-word calendars for I don't know how long, and people ask and ask and ask for them because here's this verse.
Well, now you can get it in a book form. And you can Like she said, you can make all sorts of notes, you can process that, and it's a great devotional book. But also, the reason why we want to get this out to you right now, it makes a great. Present, Christmas present, for somebody that that you know that you would like to get into the word that you've been praying about, that the word would bless them in some way. Because you know, we've been talking about Mary's womb.
Right? And that he was the fruit of Mary's womb in so many different ways that has to do with families.
Well I don't know if you ever considered this, but the womb has water in it, and the water is the word. In other words, that which protects and And all that life makes life happen, all these things is water.
Well Any friend of yours that gets into the water of the word, I assure you, it will protect them, it will cleanse them, it will renew their mind. And so, what an opportunity you have to give the Christmas present of Christmas presents, to date the word. Daily Devotional by Dr. Duane Carson. And Danita, you and I both know there would be few people on the planet Earth that love the Word of God more than Dwayne Dorris.
Well, I always said, I mean, like He never has never forgotten a date, whether it's a historical. Facts. Whether it's You know, our first the date of our first date, the date we got engaged. He just he just has an amazing capacity to remember dates. And He just was challenged to Think about when you look at a date to think about the number of that date and.
See if you know a Bible verse. that connects to it. He also does it with time sometimes, or a hotel room number. Or a football number anyway. You can get all this stuff for you.
Yeah, anything. Anything. What something to meditate on. If you go to date the word.com, you're going to find it all, especially right easy way to get this book. Date the word.com.
Again, you can get the devotional Danita. Thank you so much for calling in. Let us know.
Well, I'll do another plug. Since we talked about the calendars, Not only the calendar for 2026, the wall calendar for 2026 is also for sale on our site. And the perpetual calendar or B3, Bible before breakfast, Bible before bed. Uh that you can use Or does it ta it's a desktop calendar, a flip calendar that you can use Every day from now on. There you go.
All right.
Well, thank you, Danita. God bless. Have a great day, Robbie. You too. Have a great weekend.
Bye-bye. Bye-bye. All right, Bob, we we were loaded up for story. We won. Like, when did Christmas find you?
And there was a family involved that would make it extra special. Because, again, this idea of families, all the families of the world would be blessed by Abraham. And of course, that family, if you think about it, Sarah She didn't have a baby till she was a hundred. Right? Now all the families of the world would be blessed.
through this miraculous birth.
Well, the book ended that. There was another miraculous birth. Just slightly. Yeah. Which started a different family, right?
And that family has spread and spread and spread and spread, which is actually part of the root of that word family as well, is this idea of it just keeps spreading. It just keeps going. And if you're in the family of God, you can keep making that happen.
So, Bob, you've got a story force.
Well, I've told this on the radio before. It's one of the best Healing moments. Um in my life. It was the first Christmas was coming up. after Rob's death.
And Hours. I was still pretty much a mess in my mind and in my heart and in my head and just everything was was still kind of scrambled up for me. And they were having the the children's Christmas program at church that night. I was sitting there and I was I was just not really into it. I was just like.
You know Rob's gone, you know, my mom died. The day after Christmas in 'ninety three' my daddy died a month. before Christmas in twenty eleven. And you know, Rob had died two weeks after Christmas. the previous year in 2014.
And it just I was just not feeling all that Christmassy, and we were. had decided we'd go to the Christmas uh the kids Christmas play that night. And they were up there. And they were singing. Happy birthday, Jesus I'm so glad it's Christmas And my voice is no better than it was when I was advertising but it just rang my bell and it became so important to me That this was the most important Christmas ever.
you know that Now more than ever I needed Jesus's healing. and I needed the gift that was given to us. And it just really, really marinated with me Just like a smack in the head. I get those a lot and deserve most of them, but a good smack in the head from God is like.
Now more than ever, Christmas and Jesus's birth isn't going to be important in your life, Bob. And It just I was brought to uncontrollable tears for a little bit, but uncontrollable joy shortly thereafter. And it was just a healing moment for me. And I was able to share some healing with some other people that were hurting about his passing and And this It was just a great thing. but the fact that we had decided to go to the Christmas play.
is where God found me. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. And I Chris was found, but the The The interesting thing, and I I was looking at that that same idea this week. Is it At the point of devastation, is when that door opens.
the winest. Once we figure out, you know, I really don't, I got nothing. Yeah. You don't know that God's all you need until God's all you have. Right.
I mean, it's just like the The basic basic of Prayer is How do you get there unless you totally empty yourself. And uh You know, that's kind of where you got. And so, how about you? What's your story? We would love to hear it.
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She sure sings better than I do. Oh, boy, I love that song. I do too. And I love it this time of year because it makes you think about it. Like, I wanna...
Push into this a little bit. And how exactly does this work this year? Because this year is different than last year. And every year it's a fresh thing that for you experience. And as we talk about it, Christmas is not something you necessarily find, it often finds you.
And it finds you in different places in different ways, but when it hits you, it Like Bob just talked about in his story, it kind of takes you to your knees and you can't help but worship God. But we're talking about. In Genesis 12. is one of the first prophecies of Jesus. And it comes in an interesting way because God is talking to Abraham after he decides to follow him, and he says, And I will bless them that bless you, and I will curse those that curse you.
and in thee all families. of the earth will be blessed. Pay attention to that word. families. Because inside of that word.
is a womb. And inside of that womb To an extent, is a maidservant. And so the root of that word families has to do with the idea of being a maidservant. And so, what did Mary say, right, when the angel came down and announced to her, like, oh my good. goodness like And Mary said, Behold, the maidservant of the Lord, let it be to me according to your word.
It just seems like a simple phrase, but what she was doing. We're saying, here it is, don't miss it. The families of the world will be blessed. Because the idea of families, again, is this going to spread out. It's just like you have a son here and a daughter there.
You got family all over the place. A sister, I don't know, family spread out.
Well, the family of God has been spreading out. since Mary. And oh my goodness, was she the maidservant of the Lord, right? In so many different beautiful ways. And so as you begin to look for that.
In families. Here's one way it kind of looks like for me when I think back about my Christmas: one year. Which, by the way, if you got one, we need it. 866-348-7884 is the number to call in. 866-348-7884.
But one year, you know, we went to Calvary Baptist Church in Winston-Salem, which is just a great big, huge Baptist church in Winston-Salem for many years. And they used to have a program where, you know, they would give. At Christmas time, needy families, you could get a basket of fruit or whatever, and you could go take it out to these needy families. And or maybe there were two or three gifts. There was something that you were supposed to do.
And so we signed up for that program. It sounded like really fun to do. One Christmas Eve we did it. It was cold, kind of like today. It was.
you know, in the twenties and we're out We get this I think we had two or three families we were to deliver him to, but every house that we delivered them to, they were like acures in the driveways and stuff like that. We just didn't have this feeling like we were really blessing people that we didn't already have been blessed in some way, you know? And so, you know At this point in time Mariah was not born, it was just Robbie and Tess. And we were all lamenting the fact that we didn't get what we were hoping for in Christmas. You didn't get your warm fuzzy.
We didn't get the warm fuzzy. We weren't feeling it. You know, like, man, we really. wanted to be a blessing to somebody. And Tammy said, you know, I'm not I go to Bible study with this girl.
And she doesn't have a coat. And so one time I just gave her my coat 'cause it's just making me cold to look at her. And I asked her, She goes, Well, we can't afford a coat, whatever. I happen to know where she lives because I took her home one time. Why don't we go out there?
And she lives in a trailer park outside the Clements. And, um which is also in North Carolina for those people in Ohio, or whatever. It's not terribly far from where we were. And so we drove over there. And when we did, the whole family was outside.
Warming themselves by a 55-gallon drum. There was a fire in the drum, and we're like, What's going on? And they're like, Well, our heat's cut off. Yeah. Really?
Mm. And and there was no Christmas in that household whatsoever. And when I think about this Christmas, it still just brings tears to my eyes because. You know, there we were. And I don't know how we managed to do it.
We got there. I think it they needed fuel oil. Uh it wasn't the regular and so we just We just went and got some fuel oil.
However, we went about doing that. I don't even remember now, but I do remember we got the heat on. And then my kids were like, well, they got nothing under the tree. They got no presents. Give them ours.
I'm not kidding it. Like we got all kind of true Christmas presents under the tree. Why don't we give them ours? And they were like, Are you sure that's what you want to do? And so we took.
The kids Christmas and took it over to those people's house. And we Like, celebrated, like, I can assure you, I can't remember probably 12 Christmases with Robbie and Tess when they were little, but I remember that one. Yes, sir. Because Christmas found us just because we happened to drive over there. And there she was, right?
There was that opportunity to... having been blessed to be a blessing, right? That's the good stuff, brother. Right, right. And so I know you got something.
We would love to hear it. I love stories. 866-348-7884-866-34TRUTH. And again, with Jesus, Labor Love. We have this ministry.
To single moms, widows, and families in crisis. It definitely is right along these lines, you know, and it was something God gave me. I didn't find it, it found me.
Okay, I'm just saying. And time and again. You know Somebody will donate a car. And oh, do we have a list of people that need cars? Right.
And some widows that are elderly and can't get around to do what they need to do, and single moms with special need kids. I mean, you have to see this list of just. Like, man, God, how did you do this?
So, you know, whether it's... Repairing these cars, which this time of year is always really, really busy for us because you know, money's short. And so it's a great time of the year to go to ChristianCarGuy.com and look at that. Like, Jesus, labor of love. Gee, can I?
Pray about the Lord putting something on my heart to give, or even a car, or whatever it is that you've got sitting out there. And I'm not talking about a brand new car, I'm talking about something that. you know, you thought, well, I need a new car and I don't know that I want to trade this old car. Those good that's what we usually get and oh, my goodness, the way that blesses people. It's it's unbelievable.
And even if the car's not running, uh, we have the means to uh Turn that in. to some help for somebody else, even if it's recycling the car. Let's call it as we see it. We it needs to be crushed. Pow, pow, pow.
Yeah, you don't realize that Carthusin' sitting out there and you go, Oh, I gotta do something about that someday.
Well, let's do something. I mean, we can turn it into what, two, three hundred dollars, Bob? I believe that's a going rate these days. Mino I can assure you that most of the people that we help, through the Jesus Labor Love, we help for in the neighborhood of $150, right? Between the people that volunteer their labor and us giving $150, it's amazing how many opportunities we have.
And so that car that's sitting out there doing nothing. Right? We got the ability to come pick it up and turn it into a real blessing for somebody. Right. And Jerry talked about it last week.
About How years ago when you came up with this idea, how we He called me and Jerry and we had a meeting. And we were at Town Center Diner. I don't even know if it's Town Center Diner anymore. I think they changed the name of it now, but that was several years ago. But when you talk to us about it, he and I We listened intently and when we walked out the door, we looked at each other and and you know, the y you were thinking really huge and really out of the box and what a blessing it's been for so many people through the years.
And uh The things that have been accomplished and the people that have been blessed by that. I just thank you for thinking big and trusting God. Yeah, it was His thoughts, believe me. And He found me. As I can assure you, in so many different cases.
Well, I hope as you begin your Advent season this year that, right, you'll. You'll begin to ponder some of these passages. You looked at them before, but maybe a new word will jump out at you because you're ready. for what God has for you this Christmas. And I can assure you so many times it's in His Word.
Bob, it's been great to have you back. It seems like I've been here a little bit extra this month, but I love it. Every opportunity is a great one. Remember, slow down. Jesus walked everywhere he went.
