Harry's Creek, how we doing? Let's go. Let's go. excited to jump into God's Word with you.

We owned the lot behind our house, and it's kind of just like a bunch of brush, if you will.

And I noticed I walked back there. Actually, when I tore my calf, that's where I was walking, was back there.

And I noticed there's all these

little mesquite trees growing up. And so they're like these thorny bushes growing up everywhere. And I was like, man, we got to do something about that. But that's when I was injured. And I was like, man, what do we do? And I was like, you know what? This is going to be like a coming of age thing for Weston. We're going to go get a machete and I'm going to send him back there.

And so sure enough, we go to Ace Hardware, get us a machete, and I'm telling him, you know, what he's going to do is say, hey, I want you to cut down every little bush, every tree that's smaller than your thumb. Just whack it with the machete. and so I was kind of walking them through this. And I just send him down there. You kind of got to go down a hill and you walk in this back area. And so he's back there. I'm in a meeting on the patio, our back patio with someone. And we're just hearing him just going to town. I mean, he sounds like a lawnmower back there. just whack, whack, whack, all of the, I mean, in fact, several times we just stopped.

And we're like, man, Weston's really getting after it back there. And I'm like, yes, he is. You know, this is awesome. He's doing work. And so he was down there for about 45 minutes. and then he comes back up.

He does that walk back up the hill.

And I'm like, and he's just, you know, he's just standing there.

And I look in, and he's just, you know, he's just standing there.

And I look in the machete. He's all mangled up. It's all bent and twisted. And I'm like, that's a bummer. But, you know, small price to pay. Okay. You know, one time use. Okay. I'm like, hey, buddy, did you get it done? And he was like, uh, sort of.

I mean, did you cut down

all the all the trees did you cut them down you put them on the pile like i said and he goes i got a

couple of them and i like like like how many did you get and he goes uh two and i said two

i said i'm i'm so confused you were down there for like 45. I heard you. Like, I heard you just going to town down there. What were you doing? He's like, I don't know. He's kind of just like, I don't know, you know. And I was like, well, let's go look. And so he and I walk down there and I'm walking around. And sure enough, there's still these little trees everywhere. And I'm like, what in the world were you doing? And there's two that he cut down and put on a pile. I'm like, I just don't, but Weston, I don't, I heard you. I don't understand. And then I walk up on this log. It's about this big around. And it's been struck by lightning, as hard as a rock,

you know, and it's just laying there, and it's got hundreds of little cuts in it. I'm like,

Weston, what, I don't know, why would you do this? Like, why didn't you cut down the trees? I asked you to,

and he goes, it was, it was hard. And it kind of hurt.

And I was like, but this, this, this, I'm sure this hurt hitting this rock hard log with that

machete, I'm sure hurt your hand. Like I'm sure this hurt. You use the same amount of energy to do

this that you would have used if you would have just been obedient,

if you would have just done what I asked you to do, you know?

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