Welcome to the Excel Stillmore podcast. I am your host, Chris Emerson. I'm here to encourage you in your walk with God. Thank you for joining in.

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Hey, welcome back. So look, I'm probably going to get way too much pleasure out of the stories that I have to tell you today. Both of them come from the

life of my son, Luke, one from just two weeks ago and the other from maybe two years back.

He would tell you that they are probably the two most emotionally traumatic moments of his young

life. It is not an exaggeration to say that he went into panic mode

and started falling apart. It just so happens, though, that I was the only other person with him

during both of these events, and they were tough, cold, rainy, windy, awful circumstances,

and while it really may have felt like the end of the world to him,

me being a little bit older and viewing it from the outside,

understood that he would indeed survive this,

and he could mitigate the damage if he could just

calm down and think it through. I am going to lay all that out for you today because, again,

I do get a little kick out of it, mainly because he's ridiculously good at everything. Most

things come super easy for him, but no one is exempt from

emotional overload. And more importantly, I was able to ask him the same question in both cases.

And while it definitely took him a little while to calm down enough to answer that question,

it did make a big difference. And it is that particular question that sits at the center of today's

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