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.
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So sit back, relax, and enjoy the joyride. Hey, joyriders! It's a new week, which means a brand new joyride.
So, what are we getting up to this week?
Well, I'll tell you. This week, the guys are talking about. See, I. No, I have it here somewhere. Today, we are talking about the topic of intimacy.
Ah, right. Thanks, Sam. That's right. We're talking about intimacy now. When you say intimacy, I automatically think, that is to say, quality time with the misses.
Knock it off, K-bot. But intimacy means the state of being intimate, nearness in friendship. In other words, it's more than just amori. If you know what I'm saying.
So we have a good clip for you. You know, a little snippet of what you can expect from the masculine journey this week. Ooh!
So y'all enjoy this clip while I get intimate with this pizza pie I ordered. When the moon hits your eye like a biggity pizza pie. My father and I didn't have the best relationship when I was younger, and he was kind of like you know the strong, silent type, or at least he was at home. He was a public figure, a politician.
So out in the public, you know, he was he was the face. He was Mr.
Social. At home, you know, he was more so of the the prison warden, you know, the stoic type.
So I'm. More of the social guy, least I am with people who I am close with.
So I wanted that intimacy, that openness with him, and I did not receive that. And he was also a disciplinarian, and you know, hey, I didn't really really care for that, but it kept me on the straight and narrow.
So when I got older and kind of got out of that disciplinarian type of a situation. I guess God kind of moved in His heart, or moved in our hearts, and it moved more so to a conversational relationship.
So this was after high school, almost like the day after graduation from high school, and I was pleasantly surprised at this new relationship that we had. And we started talking about regular everyday things.
Okay, like, hey, what you think about the Panthers game? I was like, you mean the football game? That that game? You want to talk about that? Oh well, okay.
Well, I thought that was good. I thought it was great.
Okay, well. I got tickets to a baseball game. You want to come hang out at the baseball game? Is this a political event? I mean, what's going on here?
Are you doing a speech beforehand? Right, right. What's the gimme here or the gotcha here? He was like, "Nah, I just want to just want to hang out. You can bring a friend if if you want to." So I say all that to to say this.
I did not get that intimacy earlier on, and it did have an effect on me. To where, in a positive turn, I did seek that in others.
So I tried to be more open book, and I think people, and I hope other people, benefited from me being open with others when I didn't get that at home, or didn't get that with my father, or earthly father. But God gave me a bonus to where that relationship did develop afterwards, so I did get that with my father.
Now, we didn't have the deep, in-depth conversations that I wanted to. But the growth and the and the development that we went through, and and you know, I guess I would say, especially through him, it was amazing, and I wouldn't trade it for the world.
So again, even though I didn't have the in depth about his history, his background, his family, where he came from, the fact that I could go over there just as his son and be in his presence and just simply converse with him, I wouldn't trade that for the world.
So hopefully. The listeners are listening to that that message about being present with not just our earthly fathers or father figures, but being present with the heavenly Father and communicating with the heavenly Father, because that relationship is going to be more precious than any other relationship that we can give or that we can get. And I'll end it with this.
So some people might say, "Well, God's not here in the physical. He can't take me to a baseball game, and you know, he can't high five me and throw the ball back and forth." That may be true, but he's present in the word, and he gives us other people, other father figures on this earthly vessel, on this earthly plane that we can go to. It might be the earthly father and the coach. It might be the earthly father figure in a cousin or a brother or somebody from Bible study. God will work through other people to step in to where he's not physically present.
But unless you get that word from him to go out and seek others to. Exercise your your your faith, because faith without works is dead. You're asking for all this, but what are you putting forth to to receive that blessing? If you're sitting at home and you're not interacting with people, then. You're not going to interact with none of those earthly fathers that God is sending your way.
So get out of your funk if you can. Seek those earthly fathers at the heavenly fathers sending to you, and then you can have the intimate relationship with those guys that God is trying to develop in your life. Absolutely, yeah.
Sorry about that, you guys. We're on the spot.
So thank you. Good story, and you know, I think a lot of what we do. We I was a man on an island for years. Too, too afraid that didn't want to be exposed by having other men, and I, I can't say again. This is a generalization.
There were men I allowed to get.
Somewhat close to me, but probably not really what you would call intimate. And you have to that the humility is the key to that. You have to humble yourself, and a lot of times the only way you get humble about that is God reveals Himself to you, draws you to Him, and then I think you begin to see the possibility. These men aren't out to get you. There are men that I will put in your life that are safe that you can be, you can trust them.
Exactly, they will father you right on this earthly. Earthly realm, yeah. Just going around the people in the room on a given Tuesday, yeah. The impact that God's made in each of our lives through one another, yeah. You know, someone sharing what God's doing in their life, and that's what happens continually to boot camp as well.
Someone will share something from the stage, and a lot of times it's a team member. And as well as I know your story, Andy, yeah, yeah. I learned something a little different, and God reminds me of something in my story that He's after, right? Yep. Right, and.
And I was thinking about when I was struggling this last year, around the time the the death of my mom. She died eight years ago, no, ten years ago, something like that. A long time ago, nine years ago. She died nine years ago. No, but I was struggling around it, and God gave me some.
Big breakthrough, and the first person I want to talk to about it was you, Andy. And I called you, and you thought something was wrong. Oh, yeah, you were. I was blubbering like an idiot. You know, I could have used that as blackmail, but I chose not to.
So, from the guys of Mastering Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road.
