Hello, I'm John Eldridge, and welcome to the Ransomed Heart audio podcast.

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So John, you mentioned something about

Blaine's car. What was that?

What happened?

I am so, I am so mad and sad for him.

Blaine doesn't have a lot of possessions in this world, partly out of choice and partly out of income.

You know, teaches in a middle school part-time.

He lives in a fairly impoverished area of Spokane and frankly he just doesn't care

about things I think he has like five possessions and he drives a old Toyota Tacoma that has more than 200,000 miles on it.

He owns a bicycle.

But he does actually have a weak spot.

He actually does have one possession and it's his climbing gear.

Blains a phenomenal rock climber and it's something that he and I have enjoyed together for years and now he loves taking other people into. He loves

teaching people the joy of that. And so he has, it's called a rack. It's all of the different

gear that you need to ascend a very large rock wall

different pieces of nuts and cams and stoppers and that kind of thing. One piece of this equipment, you know, can run $85, just one cam. Anyway, it was all

stolen from his car. broad daylight downtown.

Somebody smashed his window, the passenger window of the cab,

and took the backpack that had every piece. And part of the blow is the memories we built that actually a lot of it's

mine entrusted to him you know from my climbing life as a young man and then stuff that we built together

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