Welcome to the Ransom TARP Podcast. Today in the studio is John Eldridge, Stacey Eldridge.

And I'm Alan Arnold, and I have the privilege today just to talk to John and

Stacy about some pretty big changes that have happened in both of your worlds

recently right? Yeah. Very big. Yeah. So I don't think many of the listeners may have even heard about the first big change, but now there's two. Yes, we have two granddaughters. Our middle son, Blaine, and his wife Emily, gave birth to a little girl back in

October. Her name is Aalish. And then our oldest son, Sam and Sam and his wife Susie just had their little girl just a couple of weeks ago.

We find ourselves in a brand new stage of life and I was so struck by that the reality of man it is always frontier

it's God is always taking us in the new things God is always expanding our horizons wherever we are, whatever stage of life we're at.

I remember with joy that the young children stage in our house and having little boys and Legos and

Tomahawks and Cowboys and Indians and and that was a great that was a great stage.

And just when you begin to kind of feel like you get that down,

like, yeah, okay, we're getting the hang of this thing.

They become adolescents and oh my goodness, they move into the teen years and and that takes

some adjusting and some calibrating and then you feel like you're beginning to

get the hang of that, they become young adults and they move off into their worlds and now we're in a new phase and it's love how it is completely requiring God again.

You just love that, huh?

You just said that we have granddaughters.

I just, I have the biggest smile on my face that I can't even I can't even talk and part of the frontiers is

Doctors like we don't we don't know that from Adam or Eve we don't know little girls. We raised little boys. And then as you

continued talking so just a little quickly through the stages of life then I

wanted to cry because, you know,

it seems like it goes so long,

but then it goes so fast.

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