The Joy Ride #167

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Hey, joy riders, it's a brand new week, so we must do a new joyride. As you know, for the past few weeks, the guys have been talking about their words of the year. As you may also know, sometimes they don't get their new words right away, which got me thinking, why should that be? What if someone could get their new word instantly? Which brings me to the Truth Network Tech Lab. Why does a radio station have a tech lab, I hear you ask?

Because. Now, allow me to present to you the WordFinder Computron 2.0. That's right, there isn't a crossword or jumble that this machine can't beat. You see, all you have to do is answer a series of questions and based on your answers, the Computron 2.0 will find your word of the year. There are questions like, what's your name? What are your hobbies? What's your favorite type of soup? Wait, what? What does soup have to do with anything?

Why do you need my social security number? Oh, uh, oh, sorry, it's my manager texting me. Let's see, it says, you don't need a Computron to give you your word of the year. Just pray and ask God for a word.

Trust in him and wait for him to move. Yeah, that's fair. He is an on-time God after all.

Okay, new plan, JoyRiders. Pray to God and trust in him to give you your new word of the year and wait for him to move. I just wish you would have texted me that before I bought the Computron. I wish I hadn't maxed out my credit card to buy the Computron, a non-refundable Computron at that. I also wish I didn't have to call my wife and explain to her how I maxed out our credit card on a machine I can't return.

I guess I'm sleeping on accounts tonight. So how many years have you been doing the word of the year? This will be my third one.

Okay, so what were your other two words? My first one was heritage, which, kind of unpacking that a little bit, was a year that we lost my father-in-law and then my mother in a couple of months there. But made me really think about where I came from and where, you know, the family heritage behind all that. And then my last year was Beloved.

And so now we're heading into adoption. It is cool how, you know, the family heritage behind all that. It is cool how, you know, when you have the privilege of looking backwards.

I can't look back as far as Robby and like Word of the Day, but they do link together and God is like taking you somewhere over a period of time. And so that is really cool. One of the things that's kind of cool, you know, at this point in the year, we're often, at least I'll speak for me, I'm usually trying to outthink where God's going to go with the Word.

Yeah. You know, and he may give me some grace and we'll initially go in that direction. And then he takes it where he wants to take it and he'll take it into a lot of different directions.

And that's the whole thing about doing it. You're like, how in the world could you spend a year on one word? Well, last year was a great example of that because, you know, I had Beloved and I was excited and I got the Hebrew for all that stuff. And I was set on where we were going to go and somebody said it in pre-show, we took a hard left turn somewhere about February and went in all kinds of different directions.

And it had been an amazing thing. So David, you might want to write that down. He actually quoted you. That doesn't happen that often.

It's recorded on air and it's on video. Well, he said someone. I said it was David. So it was you that gave me the credit. So definitely need to document that. Yeah.

It's not happening that much. Yeah. Oh, he gives you credit just after what you want. Exactly. So from the guys at Masculine Journey, I'm Keith and we'll see you down the road. This is the Truth Network.