Episode 321: Mike Gregson, Active LDS, Finding Worth and Value

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 839 Ratings

🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 91 minutes

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Summary

My friend Mike Gregson bravely shares his life story. Mike, who turns 40 in late 2020, is married and has three kids. Mike shares difficult chapters starting with High School in Salt Lake where Mike went from a key member of the basketball team with good grades, to leaving the basketball team, poor grades, depression, alcohol and marijuana. Mike talks about how reading the Book of Mormon and then prayer changed his life and opened the door to serving a successful mission in Indiana. Mike returned from his mission on cloud 9 but after a divorce found himself outside the Church living the club screen leading to significant challenges including jail time. Mike shares, while finishing plans for his suicide hating himself, feeling God’s love for him. He talks about realizing his worth and value --- even in the middle of overwhelming issues. Feeling God’s love transformed Mike and led him out of this darkness and in a great spot in a wonderful marriage, active LDS and using his story to help others. Mike started a podcast call “Come Towards Delight” (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/come-towards-delight/id1514528066). Please check out his podcast. If you’d like to reach Mike, please e-mail him at [email protected]. Mike concludes this episode with an apology to LGBTQ people. His apology (starts at 1 hour 24 minutes) is deeply moving and I encourage everyone to listen to this podcast and his heartfelt apology. If you want to know you are still worthy of God’s love or want others to understating this, please listen to Mike’s story. It is deeply moving and compelling. One of the most powerful stories I’ve ever heard. You are one of my heroes Mike. Thanks for being on the podcast. You bring hope and healing to others.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.5	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Mike Gregson.
0:13.6	Welcome to the podcast, Mike.
0:15.2	Hey, Richard.
0:17.1	Mike is also the host of a podcast, and will you introduce your podcast to our listeners and tell
0:24.0	them where to find it. Yeah, thanks. So the podcast is called Come Towards Delight and you can find it on any of the
0:31.6	major podcast stations or channels like Apple podcast or Google podcast or even Spotify.
0:39.3	And much like you, we're really trying to just interview people that have amazing stories of coming to light and overcoming some things in their lives and the story that'll lift and help another that's in need.
0:56.5	So I encourage our listeners to check out Mike's podcast. And after hearing Mike's story,
1:03.0	I think you'll want to go to his podcast. And I want this podcast to be successful. And those of you
1:08.8	that might feel impressed that you'd be a good guest for Mike's podcast
1:12.7	after hearing his story, please reach out to Mike.
1:15.2	Oh, please.
1:16.1	We'll put his contact information in the podcast details so you can reach Mike.
1:22.2	Mike is 40.
1:23.7	He is married.
1:24.9	Three kids, lives in Utah, active LDS, served a wonderful mission in
1:30.7	Indianapolis, Indiana. His first companion was actually a friend from Salt Lake City and happens
1:38.3	to be our common friend, Jake Watts, who connected us. Jake has been on the podcast, and Mike is going to vulnerably talk about two
1:47.1	really different, difficult chapters in his life. One occurred in his teenage years when he was a
1:54.0	junior at Skyline High School on the outside. A lot was going right for him, good athlete,
1:59.9	a lot of gifts, but on the inside, things were
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