Hey everybody Greg Laurie here. You're listening to the Greg Laurie podcast and my objective is to

deliver hopefully compelling practical insights and faith, culture and current events from a Biblical

perspective to find out more about our ministry. Just go to our website harvest.org. So thanks for

joining me for this podcast. Hey, let's welcome Austin Carlisle. Austin. Wow.

Well, what did we just met before the service and what an amazing story you have. I kind of want

to pick up on that lyric that you were just singing there and we're you saying, I need your love

like a boy needs his mother's side, right? And so that was a big moment in your life, a horrible moment,

a painful moment that I'm sure affects you to this very day still. And that was the day that your

mother passed on due eternity and you were very close to her. She was a very nurturing mom. She

wrote some notes and told you how much she loved you all the time and so your mom and dad,

you're raising the Christian home and your dad was more the disciplinary and your mom was more

nurturing and you even said when you were speaking not long ago that you were more of a fan of your

mom than your dad, right? So so here you are raising the Christian home and and you have a call from

your grandmother to go down to the hospital. Kind of take us to that moment. Yeah, my grandmother called

me. I was working at a barbecue restaurant at the time and she told me that my mother had passed

out and I went to the hospital where she was and I got there at the same time as the ambulance

and they were pulling my mother out of the back of the ambulance and that ended up being the last

time that I saw my mother. I they came into the the room a couple hours later and they told me that

she had passed away and my grandmother was with me and she took a left to go see the body

and I took it right and I ran out of the front door of the hospital and I threw my hands in the air

and I cursed God for the very first time in my life and at 17 years. Wow, so this event just

rocked your world. You were obviously angry at God. Now you found out you thought your mother died

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