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I just had this brainstorm for us. Can you guess what it is? No. Bowling.
What do you say? Bowling, huh? Bowling's insane. Bowling is crazy time. Bowling.
I don't think so, George. You're getting a rush from bowling. Rush? You want a rush? Drop a ball on your toe, my friend. Talk about a rush. You'll be throbbing.
You'll see visions. No, no, no, no, no. I'm thinking rock climbing. All right, let me just apply some more chalk here.
All right. Hey, joyriders. It is I, Mountain Climbing Keith, and welcome to the great outdoors.
This week, the guys are talking about going on adventures with the father, and bam, just like that, inspiration hit me. Mountain climbing. Now that's an adventure. Now, the people at the sporting goods store said I should practice on a climbing wall before climbing an actual mountain. But man, forget that noise. I'm trying to go adventuring.
And what better way to do that than by climbing a mountain created by God himself. But worry not, dear listeners. I'm being extra safe. I get all kinds of hooks, ropes and ties.
And once I figure out how to use them all, I'll be good to go. And as an added precaution, I got a safety net. So, you know, just in case the worst should happen, I will still be in no danger. See, it really pays to think ahead. Yep.
Buying that net was a stroke of genius. And I have it safe and sound right here in my bag. Right here in. Huh. Well, that. Let me check.
Let me check. Yep. This could be a problem.
Boy, are the people at the sporting goods store going to get a kick out of this. A few weeks ago, we were we were talking about adventures on another program. And I had a picture of of me and riding a four wheeler.
And I had my dog on the on the back of the four wheeler and she was kind of leaning up against me. And I talked about that picture some. And what I didn't say then and what I want to say today is that we were going. I called it an adventure. But what we were actually doing was we were going to check the mailboxes. You know, I just and the other the other picture, we were heading out across the pasture.
We were going to check the cows. But it wasn't they were adventure. So the way it's the way you it's what's in your heart. It's the way you look at what you're doing. Ordinary chores can be you know, you can look at it through your your dog's eyes.
You can look at it through with the help of God and what he's doing inside you. And anything can be an adventure. And Harold talked about, you know, fate possibly facing a new disease being, you know, this is an adventure. This is a new experience.
This is something that, you know, I'm going to work out and do and the best I can. And, you know, the venture, the actual definition of an adventure is an unusual, exciting and possibly dangerous activity, such as a trip or experience or the excitement produced by such an activity. But I want to point out it does say possibly dangerous.
You don't you don't you don't actually have to do anything risky. It's just it can be the way you view ordinary things. And I know I've been doing some fencing, putting up some barbed wire fence recently and repairing some old fences. And, you know, it kind of takes me back to, you know, to my childhood to doing that in my childhood days. And my father showing me how and I'm going on a little adventure back to my boyhood with doing that. A neighbor says just I just put up that high stencil wire.
It's so easy and works so well. And I'm like, no, you know, I want to cut down my cedar posts and cedar trees and make posts out of them and stretch barbed wire like we used to do. You know, it's reliving something from your past.
For me, that's an adventure. Absolutely. Fencing can be very dangerous, especially if that little tip comes off of the end of your foil. We have that one clip we play with the swordsman guy there.
That's if you don't know what you're doing there. Yeah. Yeah.
That was one of the three that I thought I might use. Yeah, well, I will say that I have to vote that as the best point of the night. The whole show, the last two shows.
There's been good points, but I think that's the best one that I've heard, in my opinion, that I needed to hear the most is adventures in attitude more than anything. Right. Exactly. Exactly. I needed to hear that. So thank you for sharing that.
I just have to look at my dogs and see how they are seeing things. Everything's an adventure to them. Absolutely. Yes.
And I just follow in with them and do the same. Well, that's good. Well, thank you, Art.
You're welcome. Andy, you actually have the next clip. Well, I'm glad he said that because I was thinking along the same lines. Yeah, attitude. An attitude.
You're sure you were, Andy. But the point. Give him something. Yeah.
Bury him. I'm not trying to steal him thunder. I'm saying, you know.
Yeah. You hear what I'm saying. I thought I heard you say, go ahead and give me a hard time. I thought that was how you saw it. No, please.
But you have the mic. Go ahead. But the point is, is I think it's a matter. It's what Rosie was saying. It's like you become bored with life when life becomes too predictable. And that whole idea, I've experienced some of that recently in the fact that I think I've said about how I'm getting more active because I've lost some weight and I'm working out so I have energy to do other things. And with that, I'm doing a lot more – I'm going back to those times of I look at a problem where I used to think, man, I don't even want to bother with that.
Now I'm just like, I want to attack it or whatever. I want to step in. I want to risk.
I don't care if I fail. I'm going to try to do it. And most of the things I'm doing, they're small things. But it's almost like God's taken me back to that cowboy ranger stage where I'm being fathered again by him in not just these adventures. Everybody's heard me talk about going on trips and the adventures and that, like Jim was talking about. And I love those. That's a big part of what I do.
But it's risking in the areas that I don't normally succeed in. And God loves that, I believe, because he makes us to come through. He makes us that way.
When we pull back, when we aren't fathered in that, but when you say, okay, God fathered me in this and let's do this adventure together, he's all over that. Dr. Darrell Bock Okay, well, I take back giving you most of the hard time. That was a solid point there. Dr. Darrell Bock All right. Well, thank you.
I appreciate that. Dr. Darrell Bock Not as good as hearts, but it was close. Dr. Darrell Bock He set me up. Dr. Darrell Bock Yeah, he did. Dr. Darrell Bock We collaborated. Dr. Darrell Bock Thank you for letting me go first. So from the guys on Masculine Journey, I'm Keith, and we'll see you down the road.
