As you could tell from the bags under my eyes, I haven't been sleeping, partially because things

are weighing on me. And I'm having a dilemma, which fits appropriately into our speaking

engagement today on preaching to the choir. If you're new to PTC,

I want to say welcome.

I appreciate you joining me

and just sharing a man's journey

and making mistakes and picking up the pieces

and doing it all over again.

If you guys are listening to me on Spotify,

you can catch me on Substack, Patreon,

as well as YouTube.

I'll link them all down below.

You know, there's that story, this analogy,

typically around fishermen,

whether the fishermen's on the dock or he's out to see. There's one example of

pretty classic cartoon of the guy asking for God's help and certain people come by,

certain things happen. He's like, no, no, no, I'm waiting on God. The best example of it is

a fisherman sitting on the dock and asking God to provide

because he needs to feed his family. And in that asking, he sees a man put his boat in the

water every morning and goes out and cast his net and comes back with a full

load of fish to feed his family and he asked god why can i have that why is god blessing him and not me

the answer simple god blesses effort, not just wishes, not just desires. And so the

...