Hey my friends I'm Matt this is the 10 minute Bible hour podcast we are chipping away at the

book of Matthew a little bit every weekday morning and when I'm not chipping away at

the book of Matthew or hanging out with my family as I've told you before one of my favorite things to do is to

flyfish. There are two different types of fly fishing that I really like. One is to

go out if it's summer and it's hot I'll just wear my jeans and some hiking shoes I just

walk right out into the middle of a brook or a stream it's super refreshing and

the soundscape is wonderful it's white noise so you don't really hear what's going on

away from the water. You're kind of locked into your own thoughts, but you can hear

how the water is moving. You can even get to a place where you've done it long enough that you can hear where the fish ought to be as

ridiculous as that sounds but I also like fishing on flat water so you can wade out into a pond with rocky bottom and you get there

early or late and you've got that mist rising off of it and the water is just glassy

and perfect and you can hear what's going on in

the trees and the mountains around you you can hear the fish hitting lightly or

hitting aggressively you can hear all the mechanics of your rod. It's another beautiful

place to be in terms of the intersection of the sound environment around you and your

own head space.

Every now and then when you fish on a pond, of course other people are going to wade out and

be fishing there as well.

And there's this interesting phenomenon that occurs there sometimes where you'll see somebody else

you know clear over across the water and your brain says that is more than far enough

away for me to have privacy. See you know if you're out there with somebody else

you just say things to them and carry on as you

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