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 and everyday life.

So last night after church, me and a couple friends, we normally meet on Mondays and just talk about Jesus and talk about life and all that stuff.

We meet every Monday.

But instead of meeting today, Monday, we met last night after church.

And we went over to our friend's house to shoot some guns, which, by the way, was brand new for me.

I'd never shot

guns outside before. I've only shot guns one time in an indoor range, very contained

environment, but we were outside shooting guns. Where I'm from, guns are like, I come from

Southern California, Bay Area-ish, near the Bay Area, the northern valley, and near a town

called Stockton, which is like really ghetto.

It's got like the highest crime rate per capita in the nation.

It's just a, so when we think of guns, we're just, you know, we're not, it's not like a fun

thing.

We're normally like scared of drive-bys and all that kind of good stuff. But in Oregon, people shoot guns for fun. It's cool. It's whatever. And they

asked me to shoot guns. So I was totally nervous and freaked out. I also had a lot of adrenaline

going through my body. I've been watching a lot of documentaries on war and stuff. So I felt like in my mind I should be really good at this.

It turns out I'm not. There's nothing more humbling than those stupid clay pigeons being

shot in the air and you feel like you should hit them and you can't multiple times.

It's a very humbling feeling. And anyway, I'm thankful for 911. And hopefully

somebody can get here before I, this introduction turned into an introduction I did not mean

for it to turn into. Anyway, all of that to say, after we shot guns, the reason we were really getting together was to like share our stories

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