As we shift into 2024, what is your focus?
We hope you had a great holiday season and are settling nicely into the new year. This year, we're embracing the guiding theme of 'Nourish,' focusing on the wisdom of cultivating what's already in our care.
We've all had moments of biting off more than we could chew, and in this episode, we recount those personal tales of ambition and the subsequent burnout that taught us the importance of balance. From our home to our health, we're talking about the power of appreciating and enhancing the commitments we've already made, fostering a more enriching life without falling prey to the constant chase for something new.
We’re so glad to be back and grateful you’re here!
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As we shift into 2024, what is your focus?
We hope you had a great holiday season and are settling nicely into the new year. This year, we're embracing the guiding theme of 'Nourish,' focusing on the wisdom of cultivating what's already in our care.
We've all had moments of biting off more than we could chew, and in this episode, we recount those personal tales of ambition and the subsequent burnout that taught us the importance of balance. From our home to our health, we're talking about the power of appreciating and enhancing the commitments we've already made, fostering a more enriching life without falling prey to the constant chase for something new.
We’re so glad to be back and grateful you’re here!
Episode Highlights:
Links Mentioned in Episode/Find More on A Force to Be Reckoned With:
We are at war and it's not against our neighbors, spouses, children, politicians or whatever else we feel like we're battling against.
Speaker 2:So the questions are who's the fight against, and are we winning or losing? We're the Adkins, and we are a force to be reckoned with. Are you ready to join the force? Alright, welcome back, babe.
Speaker 1:Welcome back, baby boo.
Speaker 2:Wow.
Speaker 1:What a do-yo.
Speaker 2:So we're here, we have video. The video is the YouTube is up, youtube is linked. We've been putting some YouTube my reels, turning them into YouTube shorts. We're basically YouTubers now, not at all.
Speaker 1:Yeah, just bear with us with. We need people on YouTube. This is an old sign from the old podcast name and I'm gonna have to repaint that wall and we're gonna need a new sign.
Speaker 2:Yes, but all that to say, we just you know, these podcasts have kind of become like our date nights or something. So we just have we just have a lot of fun and the nice thing about the podcast is. I would be fun to do video too.
Speaker 1:Is that for these date nights? Is you have to like me, because people are listening?
Speaker 2:Yeah, which is why we didn't record last night.
Speaker 1:But those episodes don't go live. So if you're here in the podcast episode, that means she likes me.
Speaker 2:Or at least I'm a really good faker that day. Yeah, no, okay. So we hope that you guys are all well. We hope you had a great Christmas Holiday season we did. If I'm being completely honest, I'm really, really relieved that it's over. It just felt like a lot this year. Had a great time, it was fun, enjoyed it, but it was a lot.
Speaker 1:Isn't it so weird? I said this for the first time. It, like, I don't know, hit me this way. But like the whole month of December, we're just like, oh, everything's so Christmasy and like hot chocolate and presents and Christmas trees and lights and all this stuff. And then one day later it's just like boom and it's over and we're like clutter, yeah, and it's not good. And everybody's just like let's charge into the new year.
Speaker 1:And it's like, isn't it weird how your brain like completely shifts that and what what hit me was that I almost said his name, but one of our sons said I wanted to listen to the little drummer boy after Christmas. I'm like we can't listen to that, Christmas is over. But then I played it and anyways, I'm listening to it and I'm like, yeah, we were just like all about this.
Speaker 2:I guess it's appropriate.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but we were all about this like a week ago.
Speaker 2:Now we're like oh no, that's in the past. That is funny. Also, I'm looking at myself in this camera and I definitely got windburned from being in the hot, yeah, you did. I'm like my face is real red.
Speaker 1:We didn't even run. No.
Speaker 2:I didn't, but it's 12 degrees out. My skin's really sensitive.
Speaker 1:I ran down the street to stop sign. My face looks pale.
Speaker 2:Okay, so we are opening the year just kind of talking about the heart behind the podcast where we're going with things this year. If you want to like get, if you're relatively new and you want to get the full scope of the heart behind a force to be reckoned with, check out episode 160 and episode 161. Those are our intro episodes of the rebrand and those will be linked in the show notes. Yeah, so we're just kind of doing just talking through, honing in. We've been really trying to reflect over the last like month and a half that we've been off like all right, what do we?
Speaker 2:We were really narrow at first, just talking about real life, real struggles. Then we kind of brought in with a force to be reckoned with and I'm just really excited about the direction we're taking this year especially I'm just going to say it because it's an election year. There's, I mean, the whole thing behind a force to be reckoned with is like it is spiritual warfare and it is like we're living in a like a post nominal Christian society. We're meanwhile we're trying to still raise, you know, good, solid Christian families.
Speaker 2:It feels often like we're swimming uphill, swimming upstream, and I like swimming uphill and, honestly, families are under attack, I believe from the enemy, but it comes out through a lot of different ways in just America as a culture.
Speaker 1:Yeah, our families are under attack, our communities are under attack, our churches are under attack and, honestly, our country is under attack because of what it stands for. And so one of the things that we a little bit of a shift, I think, maybe, and what you guys are going to hear this year is, I think, in.
Speaker 1:I know in years past we've been, we've tried to be a little bit more general general and careful on some of the things we say and I I've honestly felt that I shouldn't be doing that Honestly. And then I know that you sort of feel the same way and I think part of it was just we wanted to make sure that we weren't like turning anybody off, because in the sense of that, you know, a lot of people don't do that because they're worried about their business or they're worried about the ad Spend and stuff, and for us this whole point of this was to really bring people to Christ and help them to be known.
Speaker 2:But in the in the same sense it felt like we were copping out, like we were being Maybe soft kind of balance of like not turning, not turning people off, but still being true to like your morals and what you believe in and the truth hurts a lot of times.
Speaker 1:Jesus spoke the truth.
Speaker 2:I mean, Jesus was killed for speaking the truth right, you know so you're gonna hear more of our viewpoints and, honestly, some of it, I mean, it could be wrong- and some of it like I think another reason why we haven't really touched on it is because you and I, well, very similar, like blunt personalities, different in our approach, especially when it comes to like America and politics, where you're more like, put the sign in the yard and Speak, speak where I am and speak what I'm thinking, and I'm more like no, like I. I agree with your stance, I agree with your beliefs, but I I feel that the approach should be different. But the way that we're kind of tying that into the podcast this year is like we are very different. So we're bringing different kind of hot topics within the family to the podcast and Corey and I are gonna kind of debate Back and forth on them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and there are things that over the last year we have not been on the same page about, and so we've kind of navigated it until we've come to type some type of a mutual agreement.
Speaker 1:So and just real quick. My viewpoint on that has been that you know, if you stand up and it gives other people, it emboldens other people to stand up and speak truth to, and if you just sit back in, like the whole terminology of the phrase, the silent majority has been a way to silence the majority and so that the, the extreme minority can have more power, have more influence and have more control over us and we really see where that's gotten us. So I just my viewpoint is is that by speaking the truth, speaking it's our worldview and how we truly feel about things One bold and others to do the same, so that truth can reign supreme again.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, anyways. Okay, so we're not wearing usually word of the year people, but it is our first episode of the year. We're gonna do a word of the year. I don't know that is. We're calling it a word of the year, but maybe I got that tattooed on my chest Very funny.
Speaker 2:But as we were kind of just talking about, like, our intentions for the year and we went away After Christmas, corey and I just like going over our budget and going over you know life and goals and where we're at, we we're, you know, dreaming and talking about our plans, and then the word Nourish kept coming up. Nourish, I think it was because we were hungry.
Speaker 1:Yeah, probably.
Speaker 2:Probably, but yeah, I mean we.
Speaker 1:Oh, the jokes are really bad today. Yeah, no court.
Speaker 2:So we used to. I feel like we've. Like I said, we have similar personalities. We Are always up for different challenges. We do like being uncomfortable and so, as something that they're not, something that that has a predicament that that has put us in, is that we I don't want to say we get easily bored. Do you think we was that what you would call? It like we like to like shake things up a lot.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I feel like like we like challenges. That's a big thing like, and that is my personality like, even when it comes to fitness and stuff like what that when I'm most successful is when I have a challenge in front of me.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, definitely. And even like we're like all right, we got married, we got our house, we're both working, all right. So what do we do now?
Speaker 1:Let's move cross country, sell the house and move to California.
Speaker 2:We've only been in this house for eight months, but like we got this figure out, so let's, let's shake it up and then you know where it. We move back to Ohio and then we want to stretch ourselves and be in an apartment so we can really focus on paying off debt, like we like doing a Extreme I don't know if you would even call my extreme, but just like challenging, doing challenging things.
Speaker 1:And then we're we got a new house.
Speaker 2:Yes and then foster care and yeah right, and so a lot of you might relate to that. But so, as our tendencies in planning, it's like all right, what's the next, like extreme thing that we're doing, and as we were talking about this year, it was kind of like, well, what if we just Didn't do that? Yeah for once and we just kind of.
Speaker 1:But I just want to add a little Astric in here is that every time that we've done those things yeah, every time we're making a especially a big decision, but even smaller decisions, we pray about it. We don't just make it quickly and rashly. We, we pray about it, we seek counsel, we do all those things and in every one of those we felt that God was calling us to do those things.
Speaker 1:We know that God was calling us to do those things and so like. In this season, right now, we've been praying and seeking Okay, what's next? What do we do about this? What do you do about that? And I haven't felt a nudge or haven't gotten.
Speaker 2:I also like. I feel like we do this thing where we're like take on, take on, take on, take on and then we're like at maximum, and then we burn out and we're like, okay, get rid of, get rid of, get rid of, scale back.
Speaker 2:and then we're like it's like like phew, phew, phew, phew, and I think that we're pretty close to that point of like okay, we have a lot on our plates. I don't know that we're quite like this burnout point yet, but we are just juggling a lot and it's starting to feel like all right, something's gotta give God.
Speaker 1:what are we gonna do?
Speaker 2:Right. But then it's like, okay, well, in this, what if we just said, okay, we have what we have, let's not take on anymore, let's not get rid of, unless it's very like abundantly clear that we need to, and let's just focus on, like nourishing every facet of our lives and taking care of what we have. So, like you know, even like updates with the house, like it's so. We live in an older house. It's always been our intention to fix it up. It's so easy to look around and be like, oh, my goodness, like this woodwork needs done, but like, yeah, just like, taking care of what we have here, doing small little projects, taking care of that. When it comes to our health, you know we don't need to do anything like super extreme, but just taking care of the health and all of that, you know, like taking care of every facet of our lives, with parenting. Again, just go ahead.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna say it's kind of like the grass is greener, things Like. Sometimes, when things get hard or you've been doing something for a while, maybe it loses the sense of challenge or you just get kind of tired of it because it's the same old, same thing, same thing, and so you're like oh, the grass must be greener. On the other side, and it's like no, let's just we feel like we're.
Speaker 2:We need to just water the grass where we're at and to take care of it With the business, with the podcast, with foster care, with our biological kids With work. It's like let's not take on any more than what we have. But yeah, let's also not throw the baby out with the bath water and just get. You know, get rid of the kids. No, you know what I mean. Let's just say we're keeping things.
Speaker 1:Should I take that listing off Facebook Marketplace?
Speaker 2:We're keeping things where they are, but we're not choosing to get in this cycle of. This is the way our life is, but this is what we have and this is what we're gonna take care of and nourish, and let's see what by like sewing that. Let's see what God does with it.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Does that?
Speaker 1:make sense.
Speaker 2:So that I don't know if it makes sense to you guys, but that is kind of like what we're doing this year.
Speaker 2:We're just working on taking care of what we have. So, with that, when it comes to like we just came back from the forever long conference and it was so good and they talked about being a high performer and they also talked about like high performance doesn't equal perfection and you know we're gonna get. We have a bunch of plan. You know bunch of plans just to like take care of our health this year and take care, like really focusing on our kids and be intentional with them, and so through that, we have to just continuously remind ourselves that we aren't gonna make any drastic moves. You know, like, when it's a hard week and the business is so difficult and there's some challenges, it's like remember, this is just what's normal, this is part of life, and we just need to continue to remind ourselves like this is what we have on our plates, this is what we've been given. So let's just continue to push forward and be obedient and through that, we will allow God to take care of the rest.
Speaker 1:Yep.
Speaker 2:Okay, so that's exciting and so the question is so then that all makes sense, but this is very general and so how are you guys doing this? So we talked a little bit about this and obviously it's probably pretty clear, but all of it is just gonna be through choosing to be extremely, extremely intentional in every area of our life. And then it's like, okay, well, that's overwhelming. So we've kind of broken it down and really a force to be reckoned with. If you take everything we talk about, everything we talk about can be placed in these four categories. So one is intentionality in our faith. Two is intentionality in our marriage. Three is intentionality in parenting.
Speaker 2:And four is intentionality in our community, which we have talked about all of this before, and so each of our episodes, you know the whole heart, is like we just want families to rally, we just want a bunch of families to rally to listen to this podcast, to be inspired, not because we're anything special, but because we're all walking through the same phase of life and we all have the same challenges, even though sometimes this phase of life can feel very isolating, when you have behavior issues with your kids or issues at school, or you feel, like you know, worried about what's going on in the public school system or worried about what's going on in politics, or your kids feel like they're a little bit different because of the rules and the boundaries that you have within your family.
Speaker 2:The thing is that so many of us and we have several different friend groups and some of them, like some of the friends groups, don't hang out with other friend groups, but among all of those, like we're all walking through the same struggles, and so that is the reminder that like, yeah, sometimes it's just a struggle, but you know we're not alone. And the thing is like you were saying about the silent majority they want us to feel like we're alone, they want us to feel like the oddballs so that we cave under the pressure and choose to just go with the flow, but like we have to stop and say no, we're not, Not our families, not our kids. No, not our marriage, not our community like we're not going with the flow.
Speaker 1:Right, we've just sat back for too long and I think, like this country and the church, we had a great ride, I think for a while of this. You know being a Christian country and you know people being comfortable and in that we've gotten very complacent. Right, the church has gotten complacent, christians have gotten complacent and honestly, I think it's that complacency that has turned a lot of people off from the church and from Christianity and from Jesus. And now you're starting to see like kind of a younger generation and like a little throwback to the Millennial Mission Podcast where we talked about purpose. We have a whole generation of like millennials and Gen Z that are like very purpose oriented. So like when they are looking to choose jobs, they're looking for jobs that have meaning, even over Like if they're looking at two jobs, they will even take that into account a lot of times over pay.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Right and so they're very purpose driven and in that they don't want this. What the church has been over the past I don't know whatever 50 years or something where we just go to church on Sunday, we dress in our Sunday best, we sing a couple hymns, we sit in front of the pastor and then we go back to our normal life during the week. Like they want a church that is on mission, that is on purpose, that is real and authentic and doing life together, like the acts.
Speaker 2:Like that your church and your life are all the same. You're doing, you know, like I do. Yeah, like what you're saying. I feel like so many families. You know like you would go to church or you would go home, you would live life and you, six days out of the week, you were someone and then you would. You just show up at church, you check the box and then you go back to life. I honestly think that's what's gotten us into the position that we're in now, because it was so many years of people going through the motions and then going through struggles alone, because they felt like they were the only one going through the struggles. And then we would show up. People would show up to church, pretend like everything was great, and then you would go home. Maybe your spouse is having an affair, you're struggling with parenting, and it's like let's just put away the poker faces because, we show up to church and I love our church Like I'm so thankful, you know.
Speaker 2:You look around and it's like, oh yeah, like they're so transparent about their struggles and I'm thankful for that because through that family I know that I'm not alone in my struggles and our hope is that we're doing the same. You know, it's just very real it's real people showing up loving and serving Jesus and serving the people around them and just doing life together.
Speaker 1:Right, and that's what it was supposed to be and I'm so, I feel, honestly blessed to live in this time? Yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean, yes, I mean I feel that we were born for this time With a mission for this time, and so many other families are too, and so that is what Forrest B Reckon with is let's just rise up, let's band together and the hope is not lost, like it's not even close to lost. Yeah, Right.
Speaker 1:So I think just this part of nourishing is just about being consistent. It's about being consistent with your family, being consistent in your marriage, being consistent with your faith and your relationship with Jesus, and you don't have to do these extreme things, and I think that's a lot of ways why we get off track with anything. You know, it's just a lack of consistency, yeah, and so just in here, I know we had a note on this, but at the Fervolone conference I did a breakout session and it was really geared towards sales and goal setting and all these things. But as I was preparing and putting this together, I was like man. This really applies to anything in life. It's just like we get overwhelmed with certain things because it seems we don't have a Unattainable.
Speaker 1:Unattainable. We don't have a plan or whatever. Like reading the Bible, right, it seems like, oh man, this person has read the whole Bible, they've memorized verses, and this is for me too. It's like no, if you just read a little bit every day, like to spend 10 minutes, you know, then that's part of it being consistent. If you spend 10 minutes talking with God, if you spend, you know, just a little bit of time talking to your spouse, just the two of you, that helps with your relationship. But if you spend quality time with your kids, it doesn't have to be quantity, just quality, just an hour or something or whatever, just a little bit of time.
Speaker 2:I was just talking to a friend about quality versus quantity time with our kids, which we should do an episode on that, because it's something that I've really been thinking about a lot recently, because what is quantity if it's not quality?
Speaker 1:Right, I mean if you could spend three hours with your kids.
Speaker 2:But you're on. Let's move on, cause I wanna talk about that later.
Speaker 1:Okay, so I'm gonna just tell this story that was from my breakout session and Beth is gonna end with some scripture. But so if you're looking at anything in your life that you wanna be consistent with, if you break it down into manageable chunks, then it can be like a stretch goal thing, whether it's reading the Bible, fitness, intentionality with your community, whatever it is, being consistent wins the game. And so there's the story, true story In 1911, the South Pole had not been. Nobody had been to the actual, physical, geographic South Pole, and there were two explorers and they set off. It was 800 miles and the guy's name was Raud Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott were the two explorers. And so Robert Falcon Scott they both had the same amount of team members and everything.
Speaker 1:His plan was okay, if the weather is good this day, we're gonna do 40, 50, 60 miles that day, and if the weather's really bad, we're just gonna hunker down and gain our energy and then go back the next day, right? And then the Raud Amundsen. His goal or his strategy was we're just gonna march 20 miles every day. If it's a really good day, we're not gonna overdo it, we're gonna stop at 20. If there's really bad, intense storms. We're still, we're gonna push through and it's gonna take us longer, but we're gonna do 20 miles that day. And neither one of them really knew where each other was in the process or any of these things. And Robert Falcon Scott got to the South Pole and when he got there there was a flag. Raud Amundsen had already been there. What he didn't know is that Raud Amundsen had been there five weeks prior to him. Well, okay, they both got there, but now they had to get back too. Same strategies on the way back, and so Raud Amundsen made it back and made it back with all of his men intact and everything safely got back. Robert Falcon Scott there was journal entries His last man and his crew died 11 miles from their supply depot. That would've, if they could've got there, would've prolonged them to continue to go, and so his entire expedition crew, including himself, never made it back.
Speaker 1:And it was because of the inconsistency, it was because on good days they overdid it. They felt really good, but they overdid it. So if you're trying to, you're feeling really good that day and your goal was to read the whole Bible in a year and you're supposed to read two chapters and you're like I'm feeling really good today. I've got the time, I'm gonna read eight. Don't overdo it. And then the next day, when crap hits the fan and there's too much going on and you're supposed to read your two chapters, you're like I'll just read for tomorrow. Don't do that. You get yourself in a hole. Just be consistent.
Speaker 1:And just the last thing and this was he's the quote from Kobe Bryant. And after Kobe had retired, he was coaching his daughter's AAU team and he told all the parents he's like I'm gonna guarantee that your daughters are gonna make it to college basketball. And they're like what? How can you guarantee us this? And he said well, the average player plays basketball about an hour and a half, two times a week. He said your daughters, we're gonna play basketball two to three hours every single day, no matter what's going on.
Speaker 1:He said if you do that over time, you're just gonna be. You're gonna take quantum of leaps over everybody else around you. He said it doesn't matter where you start, what your skill set is, how tall you are, what your athletic attributes already are, if you just do the work and be consistent with it. It's just math. So if you wanna accomplish anything, you need to figure out what's your 20 mile march. Break it down. Figure out what your 20 mile march is. Figure out what you need to do daily, weekly and honestly. We need to do this for all of our things.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I mean it goes back into the beginning of the episode where we say like we both have very extreme personalities. Where we're like yep, we're hyper-focusing it on this, we're doing this and that's great, but it also can be to our detriment too, because it's not that consistent thing. It's like we're extreme for four months and then we kinda burn out. Where it's like it's so much of this social media, online culture. They want you to make abrupt moves and quit your job and lose 50 pounds in a month, and it's not like those extreme things. They're not lasting. It's all about that consistency.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and there's a difference between and I don't wanna get anybody to get the wrong message here we're not saying to be complacent. There's a difference between being content with what you have and what is in front of you and just taking those consistent actions and being complacent. If you're unhealthily overweight, I'm not telling you to not do anything.
Speaker 2:You need to do something Like go for a walk 30 minutes a day because so much of that. You think that's not gonna make a difference. So I'm gonna run five miles today and it's like, well, you can run five miles one day in five weeks, or you can walk 30 minutes a day for five weeks and if you just run once sporadically, it's not gonna make a difference.
Speaker 1:Last thing I'm just gonna say on this is the comparison I always have, because I've been known to do this for myself is that when you get back into the gym there's probably a lot of people that have gotten back into the gym by now. You've probably already quit a lot of you but a lot of times we think we can do more than what we can going back in and so we go too hard the first day or two days and then you're so sore afterwards that you don't even go in the other days. That's the extreme you want too hard. Just go in and just do something you could eat. I'm not saying go way easy, but go enough that you're gonna get something out of it, but not be sore to the way. You're not gonna do it the next day.
Speaker 2:Right. So, yeah, I mean heading into 2024, we're finishing up on the first month of 2024, so we're already almost one-twelfth of the way through. We hope that the start of 2024 has been good for you, but if you aren't where you wanna be and you're in a place that you don't like, I just wanna encourage you that that doesn't mean you have to make some drastic, crazy move. So often we think that's the answer. If you get on social media, that's often the answer to be to. If you hate your job, quit it. If you don't like where you are, move, and I think that there's a time and there's a place for all of that. But for some of you, that might be the answer, but more often than not, it's more about nourishing what you have. And so Do you wanna know what?
Speaker 2:I really think the best part about being somewhere in life that you don't like is Like. I think that the best part about that, if you're somewhere where you don't like, it's that you have the free will, because God has given us the free will. You have the free will to change it, and I honestly it sucks to be somewhere where you don't like, but it's also such a gift that God has given us. I mean, how lame would life be if you had this challenge in front of you. You know, like weight is something I've struggled with my whole life, but if I could just like snap my fingers, yeah, I would definitely want to do that, but it's not. It wouldn't feel good at the end, it wouldn't be gratifying at the end. And so God has given us this choice of free will where, if you are somewhere in your life where you don't like, you have all the opportunity in the world to do something about it and to change it, god. So God has given us the free will to change it and he has given us that choice. We're not robots. It's a blessing and it's a curse, because we all know what it feels like to be somewhere where you don't want to be in life and just feel like you're stuck in this rut of poor decisions. But if you've ever conquered one of those challenges, like weight loss or a financial goal or self-improvement, you know how amazing it is to feel, to get like to the finish line or to accomplish something and to look back and be like man. I actually did it, you know. You get a pep in your step, you get a boost of confidence and it feels so good.
Speaker 2:So this year, instead of looking around and not liking where we are and moving into something new you know just jumping ship and moving on to something new, because of that, grass is always greener mentality Instead of doing that, let's make amazing what we already have in front of us and so we. That's what we're gonna be sharing through the podcast this year, and I'm just gonna share a few of the topics to give you guys little teasers. There's a lot more. We have some guests that we'll be bringing on, but so here's some things just family stuff that we're gonna be talking about Kids, cell phone screen times, debate on kids in video games, kids and dating, boundaries in your marriage and what that looks like.
Speaker 1:I need a boundary right here.
Speaker 2:Public school perspective. What's wrong with our public school system, life update and foster care. Foster care topics like biological family relationships. So if you think about all those like relationships, school system, what else? Cell phones and screen time so often it's like no, absolutely no screen times or school. It's either homeschool or public school or it's just like all about extremes often.
Speaker 2:And so this year we're gonna focus in on that messy middle. And what does it look like to have a Christian child in the public school system and how can we nourish that well and how can we be intentional in that and how can we take care of that? Okay, we might not love video games, but what does it look like to live in that messy middle and allow our Christian child to have video games and use it to engage with their friends and use it as an opportunity and a tool to teach them people's skills and teach them how to react when something not appropriate comes up? Same thing with cell phones, like how do we nourish these things and steward them well and live in the messy middle and talk about our finances and nourishing that and our marriages and all of that. Does that make sense?
Speaker 1:Yeah, and we're also gonna hit some touchy topics that are like secondary Christian.
Speaker 2:Maybe we are.
Speaker 1:No, we are Maybe Some secondary Christian issues and it's gonna be our viewpoint on these, coming from a Christian conservative couple. But, like what our viewpoint is on some of these, you know, secondary type issues, yeah, don't share them yet. I'm not gonna share them. Teaser, one thing at a time.
Speaker 2:Teaser. Okay, so we kind of covered both episode one and two in.
Speaker 1:Did we?
Speaker 2:Yeah, but we hope that you guys will join us next week. We're excited. We have a lot lined up.
Speaker 1:We did.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I've been just really praying about this podcast and this community and I'm just really excited for what's to come. I'm thankful for all of you guys who show up every week and listen. If you are excited about what we have in store, we just encourage you to text this episode to one of your friends and ask them to join us, ask them to join our community.
Speaker 1:This year, we have exciting things in store and yeah, yeah, and thanks to this YouTube stuff, I can't do these episode recordings in my underwear anymore.
Speaker 2:Hmm, yeah, better for it. Better for it, all right, we'll talk to you later, guys.