What's up, guys? I'm Jared Lopes, and you're listening to The Dad Tired Podcast, where I'm helping

everyday families learn how to follow Jesus in everyday life.

How's it going, guys? Jared Lopes back here with you on the Dad Tired podcast. It's good to be with you.

If you're joining us for the first time, welcome. Glad to have you. You can go to Dadtired.com and kind of get some more information on what we do and what we're all about.

But when you're there, click on the community tab. I will link you over to a closed group on

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marriage very seriously. And we'd love to have you come hang out with us on that group. So go to

dadtarty.com, click the community tab. Also, sign up for, you'll see, like, you can put your

email in there. I don't send out a lot of emails less than

once or twice a month, but it's, it is a good way to like stay updated on what we're doing,

especially because I have a devotional coming out this summer that I know a lot of you guys

are interested in. So if you're not part of that, if you don't, if you haven't signed up for that

email list, do that so that you can stay up to date on that stuff. Last week,

I recorded podcast. If you listen to that, I was kind of just sharing real basic stuff.

I didn't do much preparation. I admitted that and just kind of shared some stuff that was on my

heart. And one of the things

that I shared last week was don't whatever you're chasing after to give you identity. Just know

that it won't satisfy you. It's not actually going to be where you need to be chasing your identity.

So whether it's work or your job or whatever you're seeking, wherever you're seeking to find

like your source of identity, it will let you down and i

recorded that on monday morning monday afternoon uh i got an email that was like could not have

tested that my own words uh anymore uh i don't know how else to say like it it tested what I was saying. I had to put my money

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