Friends, this is Morgan Snyder, and welcome back to another episode of the

Ransom Heart Podcast. It's an honor and a privilege to get to host the space to connect with you allies all around the globe.

Friends, I've navigated many acute moments in wilderness survival.

I've been in storms at sea, lightning strikes,

hurricane speed winds in the high alpine

of the Colorado Rockies, close encounters with Grizzlies in the Yukon Territory.

Nothing to date has been as challenging as a seemingly innocuous adventure my wife Sherry and I took 16 years ago.

An 11 hour drive to a week-long camping trip in the Yellowstone National Park with our eight-week-old son.

No parenting book I found recommends that sort of camping trip with an infant and a nursing mom. But I guess some combination of new parent, sleep, deprivation,

and a longing to immerse our son and ourselves in the comfort in the expanse of wilderness made this trip

seem like a perfectly reasonable choice, at least at the time. Looking back in the rearview mirror at the

woefully unsuccessful yet life infused trip,

I remember that what most nurtured us was not the much anticipated wildlife encounters.

They didn't line up with Joshua's nap schedule.

Were the iconic lingering by a campfire, The volume of our sons crying against the background of the otherwise

quiet campground compelled us to bail on the campfire in order to preserve some evening ambience for our fellow adventure seekers.

What brought life to us on that trip was being swept up into an audiobook that captured and reoriented our hearts

during the endless hours of driving we did while our infant son napped. The car rather than the tent turned out to be his preferred sleeping

environment. Those hours of driving along the scenic byways through Yellowstone and Grand Teton's National Park, just taking in the expansive

and magnificent beauty of the Rocky Mountains. They were moments of eternity piercing our seemingly ordinary lives.

Our son could rest and my wife and I could be saturated in hope and vision by a mentor and a guide.

Through his compelling and intimate audio book,

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