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This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you today, 866-34-TRUTH 866. 348-7884. If you want to be a part of the program, well, the elections are in. How about that?
Did you watch that last night? And Looks like we have a very sobering picture. Wouldn't you say? New York City, the largest city in America, has elected a leader who openly embraces A world view that is completely at odds With this nation's founding, with our Judeo Christian values and ethics. Bro Intents and purposes, it is.
Now a Marxist Muslim who is going to lead the largest city. in America. Hmm. What do you think about that? New Jersey.
They elected a governor who Has already pushed hard for LGBTQ curriculum for very young children. In fact, she's on record saying that she's advocated that this should be taught. She said at an interview: of course, parents have the right to voice their opinions about the curriculum and so forth, but this should be taught. LGBTQ curriculum should be taught. And then.
Virginia. They elected an attorney general. Who doesn't appear to have a whole lot of qualifications to be in the spot? I don't think he's ever prosecuted anybody. That's what attorney generals do.
But this guy texted that he wanted his opponents. uh his opponent killed and his family killed. And yeah, you come out and apologize for that, but wow, how do you walk that back? And this is where we are in America today.
Some of us remember back in 1988, I'm dating myself a little bit, but when Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race then because of plagiarism. And that was enough to end his campaign.
Now, I never did understand how Ted Kennedy survived Chappaquittic, but. That's a conversation for another time, but compare that with where we are now. And what we accept and even celebrate, we've come a long ways down a very ugly slope. Scripture gives us some language for moments like this. Isaiah spoke of a nation that rejected God's wisdom and was given leaders who reflected that rebellion.
If you remember, that's exactly What happened with King Saul in the first place? The people wanted a king to be like other nations. And it was rejecting God, God said as much to Samuel. But God said, I will make in Isaiah, I will make boys their princes, and infants shall rule over them. And he was describing leadership marked by immaturity.
Instability, emotional impulsiveness. Does that? Ring with you and what you see on the news? Do you see immaturity, instability, and emotional impulsiveness? Free.
stuff on the in the grocery stores that that the city will own the grocery stores will have free stuff there Guess what? Mondami says. Buses will be free. You think the homeless will like that? They'll just sit on the bus all day long.
Would you like to get on a bus that's free, that's filled with homeless people just riding around? Would you feel comfortable about that? He also has said on record said that the cops are the problem.
Well We're about to find out. What he you know, what he's going to do. But But Isaiah was Pretty clear, I will make boys their princes when he spoke the word of the Lord. And infants shall rule them. This guy has never had a job.
thirty four years old. Never had a job. And now he's going to run the largest city in America. And the things he has said. our mind-numbingly infantile.
When a people abandon God, they will elevate rulers. Who look like that abandonment? Adults stop bleeding and Children take their place. Proverbs tells the same truth. A little bit more simply, when the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.
So the question is not only what happened last night, the deeper question is: what does this mean for believers? who resist the world's encroachment on their faith, their families, and their freedom to raise the children without that woke mind virus being pumped into their schools. Do you pay attention to your children's curriculum? Maybe some of you don't have young children any more. I've talked to my son about this, about his children.
Pay attention to the curriculum. Pay attention to the word problems in math. And see if they're not Weaving in all the stuff they're doing. Bill Gates has come out and said climate change is no longer an existential threat. How much money has been spent?
With the political pressure applied by the climate change folks. And now here's the one guy who is promulgating this stuff a lot more than most. And people used to say, I remember Dan Rather saying back in the early 80s that the world will be gone. Long before now. He said I think like 12 years and that was 40 something years ago.
It's just ridiculous. And how much money have we spent? How much time have we wasted on these kinds of things? What does it mean for those of us who want to live out our faith without being pressured into that new orthodoxy that you saw last night get Swept into office. We need clarity.
And we need courage. And we need to talk honestly about where we're heading. What do you think about this? Are you concerned? You say, well, Peter, that's in New York, and that's in Virginia.
There are people who listen to this program in New York and Virginia and New Jersey. You know, we got brothers and sisters in Nigeria that are being butchered. While the Pope's out there blessing a block of ice All in the name of climate change, Well, now Bill Gates is saying that's not an existential threat. Do you think? that our brothers and sisters that are being butchered in Nigeria?
Think climate change is an existential threat to them? I mean, remember, Joe Biden, he. Preached that. He said it is the biggest thing. John Kerry out there, he's been preaching that as well.
That this is the biggest thing facing us, and we have to do something about it right now. And all of a sudden, now, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Bill Gates is saying no, no, no, not really. And all the people that predicted that the earth was going to end.
Some of us been living around for a long time. with this and we remember when they said it was ten years 30-something years ago, like Dan Rather did. And, like, Ted Danson did. And I just go through the list of all the Hollywood celebrities. We got 12 years, we got this.
Now you got Greta Thunberg, who has abandoned climate change and just goes straight to hating Israel. It wasn't that long ago when she's at the United Nations saying, How dare you? How dare you? But now she's not talking about climate change anymore. She's talking about hating Israel.
Isaiah 3 again says. I will make boys their princes and infants shall rule over them. Do you get the feeling? that we're seeing that played out. infants, people who are basically the maturity equivalent of children.
There was a candidate the other day saying that we need to have the minimum wage at thirty dollars an hour. Let me ask you a question about that. Why thirty? Why not thirty one dollars and twenty three cents? Why not?
forty four dollars and fifteen cents. Why did they give these round numbers? We're not going to tax anybody that makes under $250,000.
Well, why not $249,000? What about $271,000. Do you see how they give these round numbers? Oh, that's yeah, that sounds good. That sounds right.
But is it based in science? Is it, we've got to follow the science, remember that. Always trust the science. The science is settled, right? The science is settled.
Science is not settled. My science text book that they said was settled when I was in high school is certainly out of date now, wouldn't you say? But why these round numbers? Because we're being Influenced and ruled by now children who make up stuff in order to get votes so they can stay in power. and tell you what to do.
That's a bold statement, isn't it? Am I wrong? Show me. Show me that I'm wrong. Because I don't understand why we don't have a minimum wage then of $75.
If $30 is good, why not $75? Why not $100? At what point does it become problematic? And once you understand why it becomes problematic, then you'll understand why the minimum wage doesn't need to be at $30 an hour. But how do you have that conversation?
with children. How do you have that conversation with people who have bullied the culture into climate change as an existential threat and are now walking it back? How do you have that conversation with people who now admit that the president that we had for four years was incapacitated? How do you have that conversation with the mayor of New York who's promising all this free stuff, but you have people fleeing the city that have the tax base that he could pull that money from? Where's he going to get the money?
How do you pay for it? Margaret Thatcher said it beautifully.
Socialism sounds really great until you run out of other people's money. The church needs to be ready to respond to this with clarity, with maturity, with adult thinking. What do you think about that? 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884. We'll be right back.
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truth if you want to be On the program, let's go to the phone lines. Buckman in Ohio. Buckman, how are you doing today? Hey, I am doing good, Brother Peter. How are you, sir?
Lovely. Thank you for asking. How what's on your mind?
Well, I heard you're talking about Mondami.
So Um, I've been doing a little bit of research. I'm actually, uh, I've I've started a small podcast. And I don't want to advertise it on the air because I don't want to Break any uh renewal ordinances or signing thing that's due and and truth saw. But here's the thing, I interviewed I interviewed a woman named Annie Cyrus. And Peter?
This woman's testimony is hard to placate down. She's Islamic American. She's a former Islam. And I said, Annie, describe yourself in one sentence. She goes, Bustman, it's this.
I'm a child of God. who was raised in hell Until I came to the United States of America at 17 years of age. How you like them apples?
Okay. Hmm. Now, she's in her I think, sir, she's in her late thirties, maybe early forties. But her testimony Is incredible. It's almost unbelievable because of the horror that the Islamic faith did to this young kid.
And so to get Mondami in there. Yeah, yeah. Governance You know, and I'm saying that as Just okay, it's Once He gets a governorship of a majority.
Now, he's a mayor. He's a mayor. Mayor. Thank you for the correction. Mayor, but still, that's a significant point of power that a human can have.
Would you not agree? It is. Uh it's a mayor of New York is bigger than a lot of governors. There you go. That's voter, that's why I was thinking governor, because you're right.
He's only mayor of New York. And you said, did I hear that right? Because I just got in from the lumber yard. Did I hear you say that eighty percent of his constituency voted for him? I didn't say that.
I I don't know how much of his constituency voted. For him.
Okay. But it doesn't matter. He's going to be the mayor. Yeah. And so we're going to see, we're going to see how this works.
So, this is what we have to warn ourselves, according to Anti-Cyrus, who is Iranian, who was raised in Islam, whose father was a higher than an imam, which is your holy leaders of Islam. He was higher than them. And She has lived it, done it, breathed it, does not want the t-shirt from it. And one of her major is of America. Wake up.
this little peaceful Religion. is a huge, huge threat. As soon as they get activated, she calls it activated, Peter. when these Muslims Get activated. By Iran.
They are now forced to go to heaven.
So, we have a very good idea. Funding jihad. Or B killing innocent people. who will not submit to Islam. That's what this Iranian American now, praise God.
Woman who lived it, done it, doesn't want the t-shirt, and is trying to warn. These wonderful Americans that she absolutely adores.
Now, she's an immigrant. Peter. She knows our Constitution and our founding documents. better than I do, sir. And I was born here.
And she says. Bossman, you've got to understand as an American, and I need to say this to all Americans. You guys are just toying with your freedoms here. We would die for this place. That's what she said.
And I said, Annie, you're convicting me. You're convicting me. I am so sorry that I don't know the documents like you do. No, you guys don't. You take it all for granted.
You guys were born here, she said. You haven't had to fight. Like I and other immigrants who would die for the freedoms that are granted to you by birthright. We had to earn ours. And it's like you guys need to wake up plus That's it.
She goes, This is the day of peace. I said, What's that, Annie? She goes, when all people are either dead as infidels who would not submit to Islam. Was there now Islam? and the entire global population.
on all seven continents are now worshiping Allah. That's their day. of peace. Check all of this, Peter, and all of those out there in the truth talk. And I would highly recommend that Stu Epperson, and I can get you guys.
Annie's personal notice. I will call her first. and get her okay, obviously. Because I'm a gentleman. But Stu needs to get her on and somebody needs to interview her.
She's all in sub stack. And if you guys don't mind, I'll give you the sub stack, I'll give you the website. I don't think that's a problem.
Okay. If it is, Stu will beat me like a rented mule. No, Stu, Stu, please don't beat your great health. These are wonderful hosts that you have dealing with. He's already pitiful.
Don't beat him, Stu. Don't beat him, Stu. He'll tear into me like a hobo into a bologna sandwich. Oh, he will not, Peter. He will not.
He is a wonderful man. Listen, you know, I got to meet his mom over the air. He had his dear mother on during one of the Truth Talk Lives. And it was such an honor to talk to Mrs. Efferson after the loss of her husband.
Wow, is that woman a strong Christian? And then I thought, well, Busman, there you go. The fruit doesn't fall far from the tree because. Look at their son, Stu Efferson, a mighty man of God, willing to open up a phone form on a public radio station that goes to. hundreds of stations And he's saying, talk to me about anything.
I love that fiction. did that. It, the legacy, and now Young Stu is carrying it on in his father's stead. And listening to Mrs. Efferson is just absolutely just a heartwarming.
I said, I want you because I had lost my mom to the ventilator. They killed my mom with the ventilator. And I said to Mrs. Efferson, I said, I want to adopt you, ma'am, as my mom, because I missed my mom. She's so motherly.
And it doesn't matter who you are, what color you are, what what Sexy war. She's just got that motherly spirit that Paul taught Timothy to acquire and understand. The women come in his little church. They're an ancient. Ethics.
But anyway, I kind of got off subject.
So if you want Annie's information, it's liveuptofreedom.com. Weird. Up to freedom. And I'm going to save this. Dot com.
Yes, not dot org. I had to check it. Dot com. Annie Silas, A N N I C Y R U S, just like the The dear King Cyrus. that uh was worried about Daniel and then You know, Cyrus said the person.
that let the ancient Jews go back and build their wall of Jerusalem. I think it's amazing that this woman has that last name. For this biblical era, it was in our ancient text. the old testimony. Indeed, it is any Cyrus live up to Christ.
And she will tell you in the Substacks because that's your flagship. If you will. That's her flagship that gets you to all of her SupSack abilities and availabilities, her art. She's a wonderful artist, and that's how she supports herself as through her handmade art, and it's beautiful stuff. Anyway, I'm going to order a couple pieces from it.
I highly totally have. But is all things Islam Coming from Someone who was raised in Islam. I mean, we can read books about it, Peter. But this woman lived in She's Iranian. She's well actually she calls herself Persian.
Correct. She's Persian, you know. And oh my gosh, she's a beautiful woman too. She's a beautiful woman, and when I see her, I think of the ancient text that talks about the. Abraham, when he had Sarah, and the Philistines come and said, Hey, hey, we want your wife.
Yeah. Um And then actually, what's even more comes to my mind biblically, Peter, is where Samson got swooned in by the Philistine women. These Persian women are gorgeous. They are.
Well, I think we've taken a left turn here somewhere in this conversation, Buxman. I'm just telling you, God's creation. Yeah, you would say even the women the same. That is one beautiful woman.
So that's Annie Cyrus. Liveuptofreedom.com. Thank you so much for doing this, Bucksman. I appreciate it. This is Peter Rosenberger.
We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you, 866, 34 Truth, 866.
3487884. I was cleaning windows this morning. And we've been working on this new addition we had, and we're in it, but there's been a lot of construction, so the windows got dirty.
Now, when we started doing this. Addition I told the contractor we had Three things that we needed to accomplish: accessibility. 'Cause my wife is severely disabled. Space because wheelchairs take up a lot of room. and Windows.
One of the things that she has to be you know, bedman so much. that I wanted to bring the world to her. I couldn't get her out in it. And we live about six thousand feet up. In the Rockies, the peak behind us, we live back up to the forest and the peak behind us goes up to about 10,000.
And The view we have of the valley on a clear day, you can see the peaks way down at the south end of the valley. on your way to Sou West Yellowstone, Montana. And so you have this massive view and those people I think that's about 50 miles.
So, on a very clear day, you can see about 50 miles. That's how high up, and that's how long. The um The valley is and so forth. It's an amazing view. But it's not much good to have really nice windows and big windows.
if they're all covered with gunk. Wouldn't you wouldn't you agree? And so, with the construction and sawdust and dust and everything else, they've gotten pretty dirty. And these are brand new windows, beautiful windows, big. Big, big, big windows.
And I got out there and started working on them this morning with a a squeegee and uh I have one on a pole and some um windecks and I was working on that earlier b s before Gracie got up this morning. And the inside windows I had worked on, I'm gonna have to do a little bit more again, but these outside ones had taken a little bit of a beating from all the stuff and they're just real dirty. I spent a lot of money on those windows. But they're not much good if they're not clean. and she couldn't see this magnificent view.
as well. particularly when the glare of the sun and it just lit up all the dust.
So what good is a window? If you can't see out of it, it's just a, you know. At that point, it's just a wall. It's frustrating because I can't. get her out in it very much, so she needs to be able to see it.
Now why am I telling you all this?
Well, I'm glad you asked. We are the workmanship of God. And if We are not able to allow people to see Christ. in our lives. then we're basically just a dirty window.
Would that not stand to reason? Can you go with me on that metaphor? And I go back to Psalm 51. David said, Create in me a clean heart. Oh god.
He recognised. His filthiness. And I think about this with Gracie. She can't get up and clean the windows herself. She relies on me to do it.
I can't clean. Myself. I have to rely on Christ. In me It's not going to happen. But through him I can.
And that's what we're equipped to do, but am I doing that? Am I preparing myself? Am I going through that process. of saying created me a clean heart, O God. Wash me, and I'll be clean Of fowl I to the fountain fly Wash me, Saviour, lest I die You know what hymn that's from?
I'll give you a hint. Augustus Toplady wrote that. You may know it as Rock of Ages. Cliff for me. Let me hide myself in thee.
It's a great hymn. And you know how much I love the hymns. And we don't we don't sing enough hymns anymore, but that's a great line in there. There is a fountain filled with blood, washed from Emmanuel's vein, and sinners plunged beneath that flood. What?
Finish the sentence for me. lose all They are guilty stain He washes. He washes. And we're obedient. in that.
It's an active thing in our life of saying, you know what, this needs to be done. Needs to be clean. I can't do it myself. Do you remember the Voyage of the Dawn Treader? It's a one of the Chronicles of Narnia by C.
S Lewis. You remember that? There was a kid in there whose name was Eustace Scrubb. And the C. S.
Lewis introduced him, said and he Deserve the name. I love guys that come up with great names for character. You know, Dickens was like that. He came up with Ebenezer Scrooge and Fezziwick. And uh but Eustace Scrubb.
And um he was a brat. He was a cousin of the main heroes Lucy, Peter, Susan, and Edmund. He was a brat. And they were on board this ship, and then they stopped at this one island, and he found this pile of gold, but it was cursed. He didn't know it.
He put it on a bracelet, and in the morning he woke up, and he had turned into a dragon. And the bracelet was digging into his arm because he's a little boy now. I mean, he was a dragon now, and he was a little boy, and it fit him fun. And there's a lot of It's very painful for him. And through a series of events, he was able to convince everybody that he was really Eustace.
They were trying to kill him at first because they thought he was a dragon that needed to be killed. And he was able to convince him that he was not that. And he was trying to be helpful. And his temperament changed, and he was a lot more pleasant to be around, but he was still a dragon. And when it came time for him to go, he couldn't go with him on the ship.
Until and they were getting ready to leave, and then that morning He showed up and he was a little boy and his s his cousin Lucy asked him, so what happened? And he told him that he had gone to this mountain area, and there was a beautiful pool, and he wanted to get in this pool. And he saw this lion that came out of nowhere. And it was Aslan, the the Christ figure in the Chronicles of Narnia. And They never there was no word spoken.
It was just he just understood and the lion was Wanted him to get in the pool, but he couldn't get in the pool. And the lion motioned to him: he said, You know, you can't do this until you take off your dragon skin. And the pool represented grace, as near as I can figure. And he couldn't do this until he got rid of the dragon skin, and the lion motioned for him to do it like a snake sheds his skin. And he did it, and the skin came off, and he was so glad that he looked down, he's still a dragon.
And he did it more and he just picked at himself, but he couldn't do it, and he just sat down in despair. And the lion communicated when he's going to have to do it. and he reached his claws out and he just dug into it and it said it hurt so So much. and afterwards he was stripped bare, and the lion motioned for him to get in the pool, and it felt so good and comforted him. We can't clean this ourselves.
We can't do it. David never said you know Clean me. He said, Lord, hold on, I'll go get myself cleaned up and I'll get back to you. He never said that. He asked the Lord, clean me.
Cleanse me. Search me and cleanse me. But we have to go to him for this. And as I was washing those windows this morning, I realized that if those windows do not are not properly cleaned, she's not going to see this magnificent view. It doesn't matter how magnificent the view is.
And if we're not living this way as Christians, Then people are not going to be able to see the magnificent view of the redemptive work of God in our lives. And sometimes we are filled with the gunk of bitterness or unforgiveness or resentment, harshness, mockery, all those kinds of things. And we can be outraged at certain things going on in the political world. We can be outraged at things that are going on. Jesus got outraged at stuff.
turned over tables. We can be indignant over things. And we should be. But not to the point that we obscure the Saviour. It cannot be looking at the grime on me and miss those magnificent mountains.
You see the metaphor there.
So I want to make sure that Gracie has a window that she can look out and see the magnificence of God's creation. not the grime, the dust, the dirt, The glare. all that kind of stuff. And that's the same thing with my life. What about you?
What about you? Are people seeing Christ vividly through your life. If not, why not? If so, Why? Remember Keith Green?
Loved his stuff. And he, um Uh It's hard to believe. He's been gone now for, what, forty, four years. Uh he was only twenty eight years old, I think, when he had was in that plane crash. And He wrote a song that Gracie Cut is she did a magnificent job.
If I had it, I'd play it for you right now. But I want to, I need to, be more like Jesus. And there's a line that says, my one and only goal is his image in my soul.
So that, you know, remember when John the Baptist said, He must increase, I must decrease. Kind of like cleaning the windows, isn't it? And we're going to be called upon in this culture of ours, which is increasingly hostile. To God, and we haven't been used to this. in America.
We've been kind of an anomaly. The rest of the world has been used to this, like a reference with Nigeria. They're used to this. Christians are taking a uh a harsh Uh treatment. all over the world.
It's here now. And they're going to scream? And they're going to do all those things. They're going to punish, they're going to mock, they're going to be derisive, they're going to who knows what's going to happen. There are people we don't know what's going to happen.
When you get the kind of people that are running things now, that are getting into power in some of these cities, It's gonna get As Barney Fife said, man, it's going to get tough, and it's going to get tougher. Are we prepared? to let the light of Christ shine brightly through us. Are we prepared for that? Are you prepared for that?
Is that important to you? 866. 34 Truth, 866-348-7884, if that resonates. And are we prepared to talk? As adults, to people who are functioning as children and you've seen children when they when they They act on selfish emotions and impulses.
You've seen this. And this is what we have now in our culture: that there's an unreasonableness about them. You can see, I mean, and you look at the compartment that people have. Civil discourse is out the window. I mean, people are just the profanity that's coming from all sides.
And just the coarseness of it. Are we prepared to step into that? with adult leadership. that people could see clearly. In our lives, The redemptive work of Christ.
And if We're not. Do you think that's important? You think it's time? Do you think the the time is now? Sure seems that way, doesn't it?
866-34-TRUTH 866-3636 348. 7884. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to be with you. This is Truth Talk Live, and we will be.
Right back. Truth talks. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosberger.
Glad to be with you. Oh, if you want to be on the program, 866-2666. 34 TRUTH 866-348-7884. I have a substack page. It's caregiver.substack.com.
Yeah. Caregiver.substack.com. I encourage you to go out there. I put stuff out there. I'm going to be loading one for this week.
I also write for several different places. One of them is Blaze Media. And I do a weekly column for caregivers there. I write for Mature Living, which is a life way publication, and I write for a local community paper out here in our town called The Madisonian. And I've got a um article that I'm gonna put out on my substack page probably later on today.
About um In fact, I may have already put it out there, but a calf, a chain, and a lesson I didn't expect. That's what it's titled. But I I went out um Monday. And and Rescued this. calf.
Um A week ago or so, and I may have talked about this a little bit last week, but it was it was kind of a rare moment of I I I wasn't planning on going out there, but as I thought about that an awful lot, I thought, wow, what a What a metaphor. For what God does in our life, and that we get ourselves into situations that we. We're just stuck. I mean, there's nothing we can do at this point. We, we're.
We're just at the complete mercy of somebody to come along. And it's. It's a wonderful steps into Our Messes. If you will. And it goes back to this thing again yesterday.
I mean, last block. We can't clean our own life up. We can't do it. We have to remind on, depend on him to be able to do this. And I.
Um And I was thinking again about, you know. when I was freeing that calf, that it got stuck in this gate. He he was not, um Where he's supposed to be, let's just say that. But calves have a way of doing that. He was going to be mountain lion food that night.
But I was just doing something in in the moment. That was not caregiver related because so much of my life is caregiving, but.
Sometimes we as caregivers feel that Someone is perpetually stuck and we're powerless to free them. And before I close out this program today, I never want to miss an opportunity to to talk to fellow caregivers because that's what I do. And I talk to people who are taking care of people, and I promise you, there are people in this audience who are doing that. And they're doing it and they're overwhelmed and they are struggling and they are hurting and fearful and all those kinds of things. We We have to find those things in our life.
that we can Fix, do one and done. where we can just check it off of our list. Earlier this week I leveled a refrigerator.
Now that doesn't sound like much to you guys. But The new part of our cabin is completely level and it's brand new. The old part of our cabin was built in the 1800s, and a level is more of a suggestion here. And through a lot of the construction, something happened with the refrigerator and the flooring there. And I knew that if I got involved with this thing, it's kind of you know, that I was going to end up being it time consuming.
I can't take on a lot of extra projects sometimes because I get called away at a moment's notice, even doing this program. Can be a bit problematic at times unless I have some very strict things set in place so that Gracie's okay, so I can do this program. I'm usually just 25 yards away from stuck like that calf. There's only so much I can do. But It's um As I looked at that refrigerator, it just kept bothering me and bothering me.
And finally, I just stopped. stopped everything I was doing. And I said, I'm going to take time to fix this thing. And I did. And I got it fixed, which is, you know, I don't take for granted because I was a.
you know, music major. They didn't teach me all this in music school. And it's one thing to fix it with just a crescent wrenching and you get the legs level and you put the level on. It's another thing to do it on a floor that was built in the eighteen hundreds. and it can be a bit challenging, and so it it requires some creativity.
And it's not perfect level, but it's It's Montana level. How about that? The bubble is there.
Okay, I put the level on top. The bubble is there.
I got it done. But. Just don't touch it a lot, okay? Just if you're ever here at the house, just let it be, just leave it alone. But the point is, it's done, and I walked away from it.
and I can do other things. I can't fix a lot of things with my wife. In fact, I can fix very little. I didn't do this to her, and I can't undo it. But it's important for us as caregivers to find those things that we can do today.
Something we can do. That's one and done, that we don't have to have it plaguing us on our mind. Check it off the box, do things like that. I know I've kind of been a little bit all over the map today on some things, but the stuff with the election is weighing heavy on me. The things with making sure that the windows are cleaned and I've done that and I don't have to do that again for some time.
I won't have to really do it through the entire winter. Because the air is so much more cleaner up here, but it's done. And it's been weighing heavy on me 'cause Gracie couldn't see it, but I wanted to fix that. I've fixed the refrigerator. Just little things that I can do.
Yes, I may have to stop some things. Yes, I may have to reorganize my schedule, but it needs to be done. My question is, what needs to be done in your life that you could stop right now and just do it? Just get it done. Check it off your list so that it's one less thing that you've got to carry.
It's a one and done. It's not a repeated task. We have lots of those as caregivers. But maybe this is something that you've been putting off and putting off, but it's irritating you. I cannot tell you the enormous satisfaction that comes.
from accomplishing the little things.
So be faithful in the small things. I I don't that's that's the wisd the only wisdom I have today. About this, because I know that so many of you are dealing with a family member who has Alzheimer's. Or Somebody who is an alcoholic, or somebody who has mental illness, a child with special needs, somebody in my case, with trauma, somebody with cancer, somebody with there's always something. There's so many different kinds of afflictions.
And it seems that whatever we do is pitifully small. Against that. But do not despise small beginnings. I've been told that for decades. And sometimes you just got to do something small Today I put aside everything and I cleaned the windows.
And in the process, I gained insight into some things that evidently the Lord wanted to put on my heart. to help me see something a little bit better. metaphorically in Literally. The other day I levelled a refrigerator. Maybe there's something out of balance.
In your life that that resonates with you. The washing machine wasn't as hard to level as the refrigerator was. I just wanted to just put that out there. It doesn't have to be grandiose.
Sometimes it's just the small things. And you check that off the box, you say, you know what, I did it. It's done. And you move to the next thing. And you be good stewards with where you are.
You faithful in little? Faithful and much. God has important things for each of us to do for the kingdom. We don't know what all those things are going to be. Don't know how this is all going to play out.
The other night I was just being a good steward of the branch. And I went out there and a a calf was stuck and I saved that calf's life. It's not our calf, it's the ranchers we we partner with. They summer graze up here. They're they're taking all the cows out next week 'cause the snow's coming in.
But that calf was money to this rancher. If I hadn't done this, if I hadn't been there. I promise you there would have been a buffet up there for the mountain lions. And that would have been money. to this ranger.
If we are constantly in a place of stewardship. I need to be good stewards of the ranch. I need to be good stewards of the window. I need to be good stewards of my refrigerator. And let God deal with the big things We'll we'll see his hand in it.
I need to be good stewards of the window. Stewardship is not a word we talk about a lot in our culture, is it? Not something that we spend a lot of time with because look how much in debt we are, look how the money we spend, look at the money we waste. Look at, like I said, with this thing with climate change. Look at all the money we've wasted.
That Bill Gates said, we've got to spend this money, we got to spend this money. And then we, well, we didn't really have to. Are we good stewards? In the kingdom of God. You know, the currency of our country, the coin of the realm, if you will.
Per America is the US dollar. Yeah. currency we use. But what is the currency in the kingdom of God? You know what that is?
Obedience. What did Samuel tell Saul? Obedience is better than sacrifice. Jesus himself learned obedience. Through suffering, that means that's what the text says.
That's the currency in God's realm. If you want to know what God values, It's obedience. to the things that are at your hand to do. I cannot make Gracie's legs grow back. But I didn't clean the windows.
I can level the refrigerator. I could save a calf. These are things that we can do. We don't know what God will do. with our efforts.
That's his business. We're just called to be obedient to what is at our hand to do.
So my question to you is. As we close out this time together, What is at your hand to do? What is at your hand to do today, right now, that you can do? Maybe it's something as simple as cleaning the windows. or light blind the refrigerator.
Maybe it's something like saving a calf. An animal. There's stewardship opportunities all around us. And the more we do this as individuals, the more we'll do this as communities. The more we do this as communities, the more we'll do this as a nation.
And this nation needs good stewards. Would you agree? This is Peter Rosenberger, PeterRosenberger.com. I got a new book out. It's called A Caregiver's Companion.
You can get it wherever books are sold. Go out to the website today and you'll see. Thanks for taking the time with me today. We'll see you next time. Yeah.
