Hey, my friends, it's Matt. This is the 10 minute Bible Hour podcast. Get ready for some

intro-spection because I'm in a mood to do that right now. When I was little, the scariest

things I could imagine were outside of me and probably sixth grade. I illegally went

to a movie with my friends because I wasn't 13 yet. My parents didn't give me permission.

It was critters. And critters, they're space aliens. They roll up in little balls and

they roll around and then they look kind of harmless. But then they unroll and you're

like, whoa, those are huge teeth. And they they eat your face or your neck or something

like that. That's very troubling. But for the longest time, the scariest stuff I could

picture was all external to me. And then as time has gone on, it occurs to me that the

stuff I am most scared of is no longer that. Don't go me wrong. That stuff's still scary

and you can still jump scare me. But what I am most scared of is not self-awareness. And

you're like, oh, oh, dude, well, I hate to be the one to tell you. But you may be able

to have a problem with that. I do have a problem with that. What I mean by that though is

that I'm terrified of charging ahead and being like, oh, in a world full of opinions,

I have formulated one and I'm pretty sure I'm right. And I'm going to do this. Big, proud,

and front of everybody. This is my plan. And then it turns out that I was wrong about all

of that. And now all of the standards that I put out there in the big full-throated

boasts that I put out there about how things ought to be come crashing back down on me.

And so right now I am doing this thing where when I'm alone, I picture the cringiest moments

from earlier in my life. And I mean, my friends way back in life. We're talking like elementary

school stuff. We're talking even little kids stuff, middle school, high school, trying to figure

out how to kiss a girl in high school, trying to figure out how to be cool on a field trip and

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