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The Parent Trap Syndrome

The Christian Car Guy / Robby Dilmore
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April 17, 2021 12:40 pm

The Parent Trap Syndrome

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April 17, 2021 12:40 pm

Robby welcomes Jerry, the Christian Body Shop to the studio.  This weeks program is brought to us by the Letter BAZE.  They talk nesting.  Spiritual nesting. 

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Every gift counts and now every gift is doubled. trainaposter.com in just seconds. Enjoy it. Share it. But most of all, thank you for listening and for choosing the Truth Podcast Network. Welcome to the Christian Car Guy Radio Show. I say this calls for action and now. If their love's on skids, treat your folks like kids or your family tree's gonna snack. So to make them dig, first you got a rig.

When you got a rig? The current trap. Here's the deal.

Let me find a bib straw or something else at the sock. A plate of gas would be a street to build a nest before a king. A nest is best to keep birds warm. A nest is best to keep them from harm. A nest is best to sleep at night. A nest is best.

A nest is best, Jerry. The more you hear that song, the more you will like it and you'll get a chance to hear it a few times today on The Christian Car Guy Show. Today's show, a bit of a different title, is The Parent Trap Syndrome or Car Heaven. Today on The Christian Car Guy Show, you might have heard that was Brian, you know, with the Beach Boys, Wilson, right? Go to Heaven in My Car, you might remember that song. Well, you know, The Parent Trap, if you ever saw it, there was like three versions of it.

Hayley Mills was the original one. And so we're going to dive into why that is, you know, God kind of rigs life that quite often we find ourselves in the parent trap and that has everything to do with car heaven. So today's show is often is brought to you by the letter Beis, or you might have heard that letter referred to as Bet in Hebrew. And you might also know that the letter Beis is the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet.

So it's like Aleph Beis, just like AB. And so, not coincidentally, it has that buh-buh sound. And so it is the second letter, did you know it also means two? So it has to do with duality because, and this is really cool, you might know the word blessing, buh starts with a buh-buh sound. And in Hebrew, it's barak, and so in order to have a blessing, it takes two. You got to have a bless-or, and you got to have a bless-ee. Always helps, that's true.

As we've talked about a few weeks, the last few weeks, really, it takes a giver and a taker, but you got to have a bless-or and a bless-ee. And the reason why this has everything to do with the show today is the letter Beis means house. That the whole Bible itself, the Torah, starts with a Beis, because God wanted to have a house. He wanted to have a nest, right? And so you might have heard the nest is best there, that's the Green Bean Productions with the SOS studios. And the more you think about God nesting, you just go back to Genesis 1-1 and see that God was making a nest.

And I came across something this week that just lit me up, like, oh my goodness, I hadn't thought about that. We all know that in the beginning, God created the earth, but I don't know if you'd ever thought about it, that in the beginning, God created heaven, too. And so he created something physical, and he created something spiritual, right? And we're made in his image, so we all have a physical nest, don't we? We have our houses, and you were probably kicked out of your house when you were, you know, at some age, and you had to go get in a new nest with your spouse or whatever the situation may be. You're nesting to this day, believe me you are, but you also have a spiritual nest. And there's people that you will not let in to your spiritual nest, just like God won't let certain people in his spiritual nest. So as we get this concept together, just think about, wow, there's certain people I wouldn't let in my house, there's other people, a lot more people that I would not let into my spiritual nest, where I hang out in this whole idea. So you go, Robbie, what does that have to do with the parent trap? I'm glad you asked.

Okay, we're bringing it in. Well, I hope you got to see it at some point in time, one of the many ways that it has been made. It's a Walt Disney production, undoubtedly. But what happens is these two girls look just exactly alike. In fact, they're played by the same actress in both cases. And these two girls hate each other. They are not letting each other into their nest whatsoever. They're not letting them in both, but they're not letting them into their nest. They're not letting them in both, but they get in all these fights. And then they do the camp thing where they put shaving cream all over each other and molasses and all this stuff.

And so they get kicked out. And what does the leader do but stick them together in the same cabin, right? And what happens is they find out they not only love each other, they're sisters, right?

They're sisters. And so once they come across this unbelievable parent trap syndrome, like, I bet we could make this work with our parents because their parents are divorced. And so they set up. And so when you listen carefully to the song, you know, where it says, if you want to make them dig, you've got to rig the parrot trap. So now that I have that totally released and you understand the theory of the parent trap, okay?

Well, God is doing this in a way to all of us all the time. So if you've ever been forced, and here's where I want the stories to come in today, I want you to think about, have you ever been in a situation where you had to go on a road trip with somebody that clearly you would never let in your house and you would never let them in your spiritual nest? In other words, oh my gosh, I have to drive to New Mexico with this.

And just to give you an example, okay, to say, okay, here's an example. You may have heard me refer to my mother-in-law a time or two on this show as we're just not two peas in a pod, okay? Well, as I was thinking about this parrot trap idea, like, oh my gosh, I remember one time I had to take my mother-in-law to Texas. It was just me and her.

And it was about a 17 or 18-hour trip. And I remembered by the time that we got there, we were two peas in a pod. I mean, we were having the best time, and we had talked so much.

And I'd really like to get back there with that relationship with my mother-in-law. But when you actually find yourself in the nest with somebody for a period of time, then all of a sudden, you see that that person is not just all that different from you. And their story has something to do with what that is, and they begin to see something else. You're not all that different from them. Now, while you're thinking about your story, and I want you to call in at 866-348-7884.

That's 866-348-7884. I need your stories. Jerry's thinking up his when he went on that road trip, right? Oh, yeah. There's plenty of those stories. You know, the thing is, as you talk about it, so many times we're forced to talk, but also we're forced to listen. For me, that's a big part of it. Yeah, isn't it? Yeah. And that other person feels like you've listened to them. Yeah.

And there's this natural connection that just begins to happen. Okay? So now, I want you to think back to your nest. While you call in, I don't see any lines lit up here.

866-348-7884. I want you to think back, if you're like me and you weren't a Christian at some point in your life, and you can remember back there. Now, I'm fortunate, I guess, in that I can remember there. I wish I hadn't spent 30 years without Christ, but I came to Christ about the age of 37 or 8. And how many people were in your spiritual nest at the point in time Christ came in to take the throne of your spiritual nest? I don't know about you, Robbie, but that nest, the complexity of that nest changes quickly. Oh my gosh, I was thinking about it.

There was, I might have had a friend in this world, one, but I'm sure wasn't very close to them, and there was a lot of things that I would never talk to them about, you know? And I just think back to, oh my goodness, look how many people are in my nest since I came to Christ. Look at the difference of how I feel towards people in general, but when I think about all my brothers and sisters, all the little Haley Mills that are out there that I've ended up in the cabin with, however that worked out, how many of those people are now like dear friends, and like, oh my goodness, what a difference it makes when you bring God into your nest and let him shepherd you on your whole nest-building procedures.

So now, I'm really, now think about your road trips, you got to. It's 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH, and you know, coming up we're going to talk a little bit about the Jesus labor love, we had a really neat, neat event that happened this week, that's car repair labor for single moms, widows, and families in crisis. If you're familiar with that ministry, it's part of the Christian Car Gas shows, we're going to talk about that, but when did you go to heaven with somebody in the car? You know, you thought you were headed to hell, but it was heaven.

Come on now, 866-348-7884, we'll be right back with so much more. The Parent Trap Syndrome. Don't you love that?

And the nest is best to keep birds warm, I just think it's awesome. So today's Christian Car Guys show, the Parent Trap Syndrome, Car Heaven Today, and you know, the nest is best, as we can talk about, maybe it's not, because we have, John is calling in from Everett, Washington, I'm really excited to hear John's story. John, you say you had the opposite experience. Well yeah, yeah, my cousin and I got tasked somehow to plan the family reunion together, and so we drove from Denver, Colorado to a tiny town actually, Iowa, and I was trapped in her car for the whole weekend, in her Prius, and this is a lady that, you know, she had pictures of herself shaking hands with the opposite president of the United States, from the one that I voted for. So on the drive, we're making small talks, we hadn't talked to each other much in years, even though we lived in the same town at the time, and I said, so you still, we both grew up attending the same, you know, Christian church, sort of, and so I asked her if she still attended, and she said, oh no, I don't know how anybody could believe the Bible, I've been, it's such a hard, I consider myself a freethinker, and she went on for a while, and she said, when did you get so religious, because I got saved, I got born again, and after growing up in that denomination, and I said, well, I don't, I don't like to consider myself religious, I like to consider myself a freethinker, because I actually read the Bible for the last 40 years, and of course you've read it, I'm sure, all the way through, she has such strong opinions about it, she's like, well no, I didn't read the whole thing, but I could give you some quotes, you know, so that was our weekend together in small town in Iowa, and we didn't wind up finding that we were so much alike, we found out how different we were, and she didn't really want to, want to hear about, yeah, I am so, I am just thrilled that you called John, because it's a perfect example of how, you know, we need to really seek God, and when we're in these situations, like man, and so how long ago was that road trip?

Oh, about five years ago, yeah, we had had a family reunion, in Estes Park, you know, we're the grandchildren of a family of 14, and we'd had this wonderful family reunion, with like 75 people in Estes Park, and everybody said, let's do this again, but let's have it in this tiny town, where we all, where the whole plan originated, and we went there, there wasn't a hotel big enough, well there wasn't even a restaurant big enough. Well the one thing I would, I would throw in there, because I guess I'm the eternal optimist, is that, you know, I used to do a Bible study at one of the dealerships that I ran, and there were some people, not unlike your cousin, who used to tell me, you know, how exclusionary Christianity was, and all the different things that they might tell me, and one day, about 15 years later, I had two different people on the same day come to me, and they said, you know Robbie, actually one of his name was Tony Rahim today, Tony Rahim today, I saw him the other day, he was a Muslim, and he said he wanted me to tell you that he's been born again. In other words, that was the message that he gave somebody to give to me, and then on the same day, a few hours later, and I can't remember the lady's name, but she used to be our public relations lady, and she told somebody too, go tell Robbie Dilmore that I was born again. I've been praying for Aunt Jean, or my cousin Jean, but we haven't had a whole lot of interaction. She knows I teach evangelism, but she's not much interested in what I do.

Her hair was on fire for the next four years. I loved what you said to her though, you know, I've read the whole Bible, have you? And that's got to stick in her cross somewhere, you know, that like, well maybe I need to, and you know, if she reads it?

Well that's what she did, she gave me some quotes that she really thought were zingers, and I said, so you wrote a book about your life story, and I picked a couple lines out of it, and said, you know, you Christians always talk about taking things out of context. Well, that's true, you know. That's beautiful. Well John, I applaud you, and I thank you for your call, and it just goes to show you that, man, there's a lot of stuff going on, and it's important that there's certain people, you know, Jesus said, don't cast your pearls before us wine.

There's certain people that don't belong in your nest. It keeps you safe from harm, so you know, that's part of what happens. It's sad though, isn't it?

It's really sad. Yeah, but the thing that I've got to that is the importance of just sowing the seeds. I mean, as Robbie said, you know, maybe just mentioning that about reading the Bible, and you shared your faith. I mean, that had, every time she thinks about it, she probably thinks about those conversations, and that may be what, yeah, it's like the, well, I hope we did get her to read the Bible. Yeah, that's awesome. Thank you, John. God bless.

Speaking of which, I'm late for my Gideon's meeting. Oh no, oh no, let you go. Have a great, a great day. Bye-bye.

All right, so maybe you had his experience. We know you're thinking about it, so just call us. Have the courage. It'll be fun.

866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. As my wife will tell you, when she hates when I say this, by the way, I'm quite often wrong. But sometimes I'm right too, and so, you know, call in and let me know. You had the good experience.

You had the bad experience. We know you had one, but you got to call us. We got to get in on it. Again, we got to tell you about this Jesus Labor Love event, which was absolutely remarkable, and you can see God in that. And we got so much more Christian Car Guys show coming up, so stay tuned and call.

866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. Yes, one thing is that song plays out. That's a memory for me because we use that as backdrop music on mission trips and stuff and on the screen and stuff like that, going back to Jamaica.

It keeps birds warm and it keeps them from harm. I think they did a great job rhyming those words. Today's show is the Parent Trap Syndrome, Car Heaven. Where was your road trip with somebody that you never would have guessed that, oh, my goodness, I get stuck with this person all the way to there? And the next thing you know, you let them into your nest, and it's an amazing thing.

Or you didn't, as the case may be. As we heard from John in Washington, we got actually a good friend of mine, Andy, with a Mask on Journey radio show, must have been listening today, so he called in to share his story. Andy, I'm so glad you called. So you got a story for us, Andy? I do. Yeah, Robbie, I hadn't had a chance to listen in a while, so I was here this morning by myself, and I was like, oh, I'm going to listen.

Thank you. And at first I was like, well, let's see, do I have a story? I'm like, most of my road trips, as Robbie knows, are me and the God, you know, so that's a pretty good parent trap there. It is a really good one.

Yeah, yeah, they are. I've got some stories. But no, recently, it was about two years ago, our family has, I'm originally from the Midwest, and our family has a family reunion in Arkansas, but my family's from Missouri. So my daughter decided that she wanted to go to that. And I was all for it, because I was about her age, maybe a little bit younger, and I went out the first time to the family reunion and enjoyed the experience. So I was like, sure, we'll go. We hadn't been home for a while, so let's do that. And it was just she and I. And so we get in the car, and I live in Boone, and we take off west and go through Johnson City, Tennessee. And we're like, we don't want this awkward silence for 14 hours.

And we have a great relationship. But you know, it's like Robbie was saying, I mean, it's a long time in the car, you gotta, it helps to have something else. But we got this, we were looking for something to listen to, and we couldn't agree on any audio book. But finally, she came upon Treasure Island. I was like, okay, I've always wanted to read that book.

Let's do that. So we listened to it all the way out. I think it took us all the way out and all the way back to North Carolina, to Arkansas, to Missouri, and then back to North Carolina.

I think we finished right before we got home, but it was a great experience. And you know, it was fun in the fact that we got to use our pirate voices anytime we wanted to, to make a jump, you know, the shiver me timber, that kind of thing. So it was definitely made some memories in it. And I guess that is my version of the parent trap.

She trapped me. And it really was, it really was. That's, that's a beautiful thing, Andy.

I'm, I'm going to be Arin on my way to Georgia tomorrow. That's right. Yeah, that's, that's really cool. Yep. I know you got a road trip coming up. You taking anybody with you on that?

No, I guess it's me and God. It's a Robbie trip. That's a good one. Yeah, there you go. Yeah. So well, thank you for calling in Andy. And I look forward to seeing you in a couple weeks at boot camp. Absolutely. Good talking to you, Robbie. Thank you again. God bless.

So yeah. 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. And I could point out, it doesn't have to be a car. You might've been sitting next to him in an airplane. Like I could tell you about when I, the guy went on a mission trip to Jamaica when all of a sudden, you know, he looked at me with this really strange look in his eyes and he goes, I've seen some things.

And I thought this could not be good. Or maybe, you know, Jerry, you were talking about, you know, you've got a small group family that signed up and you're like, well, I don't know about these people coming into my nest. Yeah. We do the 40 day devotions and meeting homes and stuff and people sign up and there's always, you know, it's been times that somebody will sign up in my group and it's somebody that I, you know, I'm kind of may know, but then I'm thinking, oh man, this is going to be a, yeah, a rough, rough five weeks or so. And you know, and as time goes on and, and, and I think as you mentioned earlier, just spending time and sometimes it's not what you're saying or the conversation, it's just sitting back and listening and stuff. And then you get out of there. And I mean, I'll tell you, there's times where I'm thinking, you know what, we're not going to be going out to eat or anything, but get a whole different respect for somebody and stuff. And a lot of things that you think you know about somebody, you really don't know until you just spend time with them.

And that's, that's kind of the beauty of it. I mean, even in our business, when my guys will get a, we'll have somebody will call in and then the broke down or been in an accident or needed to get towed somewhere. And they're all stressed out and they're in the middle of a crisis. And one of my dispatchers, like trigger, say something about call the driver, you know, just know that this is going to be, they're upset and just, you know, just really just don't say anything.

They're having a really bad day and they know that the drivers know that. But then when they'll come back, they'll, they'll multiple times, they'll come in and share a story that somebody will tell them about how bad of a day they really were having and how they, you know, just, just needed to kind of just simmer down and, and, and stuff because we don't understand really what people are going through and where they're at in life and stuff. And as the first caller mentioned, sometimes those opportunities to just plant a seed, you know, it may be something where you think they'd brush it off and don't even pay attention to you, but it comes back to them. If you show grace and let them know that, uh, you feel God's going to get them through that. And that's how you would get through it is having a relationship with Christ and, you know, just throwing out those seeds. Sometimes that's all we're called to do.

Yeah. I've heard that it's a divine conspiracy, that it's somewhat like being put in a stone tumbler with another person at times. And, you know, you knock off each other's rough edges. If you get close enough to each other to bump around on each other enough, then the next thing, you know, you know, they're going to challenge you to, you know, look a little deeper, like what, what is behind this feeling I have? And often for me, I'll realize I feel like I'm 12 years old or I'll feel like I'm 17.

I'm like, oh, this is the rebellious Robbie. This Robbie is, is, is feeling like I did when I wanted to get even with my dad or something, you know, and I, and I'll begin to process that like, God, is there some forgiveness stuff in my life that we need to work through? And it's really like a check engine, like, you know, to, to make a car analogy, it's like a check engine light going off, like, why is this making me so mad? And now it's a bad situation, but there's more to this than what I think. And so what is this telling me? And it's amazing how much healing is available when you go to Jesus and say, what is this?

And I actually had one of these situations about a week ago with a client and they really made me mad. And I realized that very thing. And all of a sudden I remembered a situation with my father that was really some helpful stuff that he and I, I actually got kicked out of the house, you know, and it, it was a situation that needed some healing. And wow, you know, maybe the reason why you're so upset is God is, is point, is, you know, trying to get at something in there that's festering that you don't even know is festering. And he wants, he wants some healing in there so that you can, you know, be more of who you were designed to be, right?

Yeah. I mean, so many times and for all of us as humans and, and, and mankind, we, you know, what, what, what is on the surface is just what is on the surface, man. It goes so much deeper. I mean, so many issues we all will feel like is that we're being dominated by really has nothing to do with what the real issue is and stuff.

And I think that time away, I think, yeah, yeah. The God trap where God sort of gets us off and, and, and if we can be honest with ourselves and honest, as far as just letting our emotions come to the forefront and stuff and pray about it and get in scripture and stuff. It's amazing to me.

I mean, I'll speak for myself, how many times God will point me right back to what the issue is and has, you know, most of the time it has nothing to do with what I thought the issue was. Yeah. He has an amazing way to do that. And the good news is if you listen to the truth network today at one o'clock, Amy Cabo has a show coming on called that where she's going to be talking with an abuse counselor. So if you've wondered, you know, she's actually an abuse coach. So if you wondered, you know, how to do better abusing, you know, this is an actual coach for this. I'm kidding.

But then that was Robbie who said that, okay. It's an abuse coach, but coaching you through how to get the healing and all that stuff, but she's going to be on live at one o'clock. So you can call in and enjoy that. So, you know, those are the kinds of things that happen. But again, we need your call because we only got one segment left and we know you got this road trip story, right?

Everyone has one. It's 866-348-7884, 866-34-TRUTH. We have this one segment and we still got to tell the Jesus labor love thing. So that's coming. Plus your stories, which would make a great ending to the show. Think how great it would be. It would be like the crescendo.

You're listening to the Truth Network and truthnetwork.com. If the love's on skids, treat your folks like kids or your family tree's gonna snack. So to make them dig, first you got a rig.

What do you got to rig? The Parent Trap. Nasty fast to keepers warm. Nasty fast keeps them calm hearted. Oh, I hate that that's the last time I get to hear that song today.

Robbie, I hate to hear your new butt music here. The Parent Trap Syndrome today on the Christian Car Guy show slash Car Heaven. And, you know, as we mentioned at the very beginning of the show, this show is brought to you by the Hebrew letter Bet, or Beis, depending on you may hear it from different people in a different way. But it starts with that Bubba sound, which we talked about comes from Barak, like a blessing, which it takes two, and it's the second letter in the Hebrew alphabet, as we described, and it has a duality to it because there is a blessor and a blessee, right? So somebody gets a blessing and somebody receives a blessing.

And that may be you on the road trip, or it may have been the other person, depending on the situation. But in the case of the Jesus labor love, it was a great opportunity this week to have that situation. And again, if we don't have people that go to christiancarguy.com and have the humility to say, hey, I need some help, hey, I need some help, right? Then we would rob the person that gave this car the blessing of being able to give a car to somebody, right?

Or you would rob the person that gave money to the Jesus labor love the blessing of not being able to help this person that needs it. And then the real blessing that I see every time is that Scott, our volunteer, is praying with these people, and they call in, and we got a chance to bring God into a situation. And this is the ultimate. I mean, this is God making his nest, okay? He just is.

And he's trying to keep his birds safe and warm, I'm just telling you. So this is a neat story. A few months ago, we had a situation where somebody donated a car, and we had a lady that we gave the car to. But unbeknownst to us, she had a sister who wanted to give her a car, but she didn't have enough time, because the sister was in a desperate need for a car, to get her a car. And so when she found out that it was our ministry that gave her that car, she began the process to give us the car she was going to give her sister, okay? And it took some time, it always does, to get a donor and a donie or a blessor and a blessee together.

It's a dual thing, it's a letter bet, I'm telling you. And so, have you ever thought about this? It's not good for man to be alone, you know how God knew that? He likes it better when he's not alone, he likes to have you.

He wants to have a relationship with you, I can assure you he does. And so here was this opportunity we had, because another person had the humility to call in, and then this dear lady who, again, her sister got a car now, she was giving this car, and she was very generous to Jerry. Not only did she give the car, she paid a lot of money to get the car fixed to make sure that it would be a really good car for the recipient. There was a lot that was involved in it, I wish I could go into all the details, but I'm just going, man, God. I mean, yay, God.

Like, how cool that he was able to do that. And the reason is, is because of your prayers, your support, right? All the different things that, you know, you heard about the Jesus labor love, and you said, you know, God, I love that, I'm gonna pray for that.

Or, God, I love that, I want to give a little bit. Or whatever the situation may be, it's at christiancarguy.com, and I just, it's, what a blessing it's been to us, right, Jerry? We've seen it through the years.

Yeah. And, you know, so many times, we said, we're sitting here, just as this story, you know, the car is just the tool to bring people hope. And then, ultimately, making sure that people understand that hope isn't, that car is the hope in Jesus Christ. And all the volunteers, you and, and Scott, and everyone is just a, just a tool that an instrument that God is able to use. And for all the people that that give something and, you know, maybe, you know, they may go online and give $1, or they may be able to give a car, they may be able to give $1,000.

Now, there's a blessing in that also and stuff. And so man, for a little ministry that you come up with. A lot of years ago. A lot of years ago. What was neat about that, as you were mentioning that, I remember going, well, gee, God, if I just fix cars, how do people know that will come from you?

You know, how am I going to make sure that, you know, I don't just want to fix cars, I want, I want people to see what a generous car they are. And he said, we'll call it the Jesus labor and love. It literally, he gave me that name very specifically. And I've always just treasured it, that I can't tell you the times that I said, well, I'm with a Jesus labor love. And immediately that gets a reaction.

I've had it both ways. I remember one guy, a record driver in Kentucky or somewhere. And he said, I am not going to tow a car for Jesus. And it was like the unjust judge.

That was Kentucky, right? I said, I understand that you don't want a car, but you're the only record service in this town. And this lady's car broke down. And we really need you to, I am not going to tow a car for Jesus.

I don't know. I guess it was just the salesman and me wouldn't quit. I was like, man, you were my only hope to help this lady. And, you know, it would be so helpful.

Well, what's her address? You planted a seed, Robbie, I'm telling you. Yeah. You know, and then there was other time, it was in Texas, in Fort Worth. And I got the call, this guy's answers. I said, I'm with a Jesus labor. And he goes, the guy, you know, Texas sounding guy says, you mean to tell me that you talk about Jesus Christ on the radio? And I said, yes, sir, not knowing what I was fixing to get. He goes, well, son, I'm going to fix that car. I'm going to help that.

Because, you know, you can't get in. And man, this man was preaching a sermon in about two seconds. And this car, I never would have thought this particular situation, it was like two days before Christmas.

And all of a sudden, this man steps up. He goes to this lady's house and fixes her car. It was a body shop job. Her fender was on her tire. She had a busted battery because the way the car hit the, he put a battery in the car, he fixed it to her fender. And this lady was making payments on this car because she didn't have insurance.

Right. And it was just a horrible situation. And I was like, man, dude. But I'll never ever as long as I ever forget him saying, you mean to tell me you talk about Jesus Christ.

I was like, I have no idea where this is going. But you know, you know, God works it out, man, God works it out. And the word is blessing, okay?

Which has everything to do with house. Like, God wants all of us in his nest, to keep us safe and warm. And the thing of it is, is once you get in that nest, right, Jerry, then you bring other, you, you, you can't help but want other people to come in here with you.

Yeah. I mean, being in the nest, I pinned that bird. I mean, I'm not going to be in that nest forever. I mean, God wants us to, you know, there's times when we need to have the worms brought to us and we need to be fed and we need to be kept warm. Then there's times as, as we mature as God wants us to spread our wings and, and, and fly and then do the same thing for somebody else. And that's what, you know, the story you talked about with the Jesus labor love with the woman in the car, you know, cause she just turned right around and bless somebody else. And also, cause I'll tell you, she probably felt like she just missed a blessing because of we stepped in the first time and then she ended up getting that blessing anyway. Yeah. And how beautiful.

I mean, I've, I've seen the picture of the lady that received it. It's, it's gorgeous. Again, you can go to Christiancarguy.com and see this podcast or previous shows, all those things. But, you know, I, I, I'm just praying that you'll think about how, how can I help bring other people into my nest, both spiritually and, you know, as far as physically as this week. So thank you for listening. I'm so grateful for each and every one of you. And wow. We'll be back next week with more Christian Car Guy Show. Remember, slow down, Jesus walked everywhere wet and got it all done in 33 years. Thank you, Jerry. This is the Truth Network.
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