This is the Truth Network. Welcome to all you joyriders out there. This is a fantastic show from the guys you know. I'm speaking of none other than the Band of Brothers. My name's Keith, producer for such fine truth network programming like The Masculine Journey and Masculine Journey After Hours.
In this podcast, you can expect to laugh and smile with godly men who want nothing more than to honor and glorify God.
So sit back, relax, and enjoy the joyride.
So imagine. You're outside in the cold, trying to make it home. You're in the woods and you have directions. You just have to get home. It's dark, and it's getting darker by the minute.
The cold is really starting to get to you and you're not in the friendliest of places. But off in the distance you can see something. The snow is really starting to come down and you can barely make out what it is. As you draw near, you see clearly now, it's home at last. You open the front door and the light from inside comes pouring out, blinding you, but only for a moment.
As your eyes adjust, the warmth of the room embraces you as you are surrounded by loved ones. As you begin the fellowship, a voice can be heard. A voice that shoots through the sound in the crowd and reaches your ear. and a song is sung sweetly and tender. You are mine.
Honey bun, sugar plum, pumpy umby umpkin, you're my sweetie pie. You're my cuppy cake um drop snigums you're the apple of my eye. And I love you so, and I want you to know that I'll always be right here. And I love to sing to you because You A show dear. We were talking about before the break, what's it mean to be in Jesus?
And for me, There's a piece. That comes. You know, when I'm not walking closely to him, I have a lot of anxiety. I told you guys before when I was going to boot camp, I'd been praying a lot because this last year I got just hammered with anxiety. And I've not really been an anxious person.
Over the years, I mean, I think about stuff, I do worry a bit, but there's a difference between just a little worry and then anxiety. I can't handle this. Yeah, yeah, just uh too much, I can't sleep. you know, it's overwhelming, you know, that kind of thing. And I I You know, went to the doctor, got some medication, didn't really seem to help, you know.
Um, and so I'm talking to God. On the way there, I've I've got a long drive down to at Royston, you know, and so I'm driving down and my God, you know, I'd really like to work on this whole fear thing, you know, I've been praying about. I'd like to know more about it. And all he said was, Well, how much time do you spend with me? and I just started laughing.
Because that was the key. You know, the more time I spend in closeness with him, The less the worries of the world impact me. I don't know how it's going to come out. I don't know how it's going to turn out. Yeah, there's going to be financial pressures.
There's going to be these things. There's going to be people I love getting sick, people I love dying, those types of things. That's life. But in the midst of him there is peace that can be had. And since I've been back, I've been really focusing on spending time with him, and lo and behold, the anxiety's been not there.
Imagine that. Right. You know, and so anyway, that's a little bit of my story of just wanting to be. in him closer and more intimate, Because it brings a peace in my heart that cannot be given anyway else. One of the things this reminded me of is, and like I said, I've been going back to my childhood, we would go visit my grandparents almost every Sunday.
and Dad and my grandfather would sit in the den together and reading the paper, occasionally talk. And then on the way home mom would almost invariably give Dad a lecture. How come you guys don't talk together? Why? And Dad said something that meant a lot to me then.
It's that we were together. Just being in each other's presence is enough. And That's sort of where I feel like I am with God. Yeah, when I Have the I take stuff that's sent out to him all the time, and I get plenty of that. But It's it is more of a always knowing he's there.
and relying on him for things. And so that piece is with me and most of the Stuff, I was going to say, is this after hours? Most of the stuff that. Used to bother me a lot, just doesn't anymore. And that includes bad drivers, believe it or not.
I'm not quite there yet. Andy, you actually have the next clip. Are you awake enough to talk about it? I'm working on it.
Okay. For everybody, I got a dessert, a big dessert for dinner. The big is an adder steader stuff.
So I may or may not be going through a sugar crash.
So from the Guides A Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road.
