What's up, guys? I'm Jared Lopes and you're listening to the Dad Tired Podcast, where I'm helping

everyday families learn how to follow Jesus and everyday life.

How's it going, guys? Jared Lopes with you back here on the Dad Tired podcast. It is good to be with you. Merry Christmas week. I hope that you have a very, just great week and celebrating Jesus, hanging out with family and all that good stuff. If you are new to the Dad Tired ministry, we are a bunch of people from around the world who are trying to take our faith, our family, and our marriage very seriously.

And we'd love to have you be part of that group.

You can do that by going to Dadtired.com and clicking in the community tab.

That will link you over to a closed group on Facebook where we have a bunch of guys again, like I said, from around the world who are

just doing their best to be the men that God has called them to be. We are connecting like-minded

men together. So go to daddattire.com, click the community tab, and that will link you over to a

close group on Facebook. Today, I've told you guys this before, and on last on podcasts in the past that sometimes I just

I've got a thought or I've got something that's like on my heart that day and so I

literally just hit the record button and go I don't normally do a lot of editing I

just kind of give you the raw thoughts that off the top of my head and oftentimes

you'll hear my kids in the background, my wife, um, popping in, uh, we try to keep things very

real and raw. That's kind of the whole point of dad tired is that we are, uh, this is real life.

It's not sexy or glamorous, but, uh, we're doing our best in the midst of real life to be

the best husbands and fathers and men that we can be.

But this particular podcast today, I have something that's just been brewing on my heart for

a while. Every now and then you'll hear me say that. I've got something I've been thinking about

for a while. And that's what I want to talk to you guys about today is this topic that's been on

my heart.

As many of you know that if you've been a longtime podcast listener, I spent 11 years in full-time ministry.

And so I was 11 years right out of high school.

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