Welcome to 10-minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

Keith is currently out of the office and unable to record, so I am going to be filling in today.

My name is Luke Simon. I'm an avid TMBT listener, and I'm excited to be your guest host.

So let's get started.

Sometimes it feels like I am my greatest enemy.

It's amazing how good I am at self-sabotage.

Usually it's my mouth that gets me in trouble.

Saying something dumb, speaking at the wrong time, making a joke I immediately regret. Take this,

for example. My wife, Gigi and I started dating five years ago when we were seniors in high school.

Yes, we're sweethearts, COVID sweethearts. And like every other fresh couple in the middle of the

pandemic, we had to get creative with date nights. So when the world was shut down and people were

stuck inside, we did what

any rational couple would do. We went minigolfing. We drove about 25 minutes to this course. Tickets

were like $20 each, a little pricey. But of course, as the gentleman I am, I paid. I figured we'd

make it worth it, right? But the moment we got on the course, I realized Gigi had no interest in

actually playing. She was just slapping the ball around, barely trying, totally uninvested.

Meanwhile, I, maybe a little too competitively, was hoping for a bit of a challenge. I didn't

expect her to take it as seriously as the Masters, but at least enough to justify the money. Looking back,

I think she was just nervous because, trust me, I have definitely seen her competitive side come out

since then. But at the time, I was annoyed. Why? Who knows? Maybe it was 18-year-old hormones. Maybe I was

just being a jerk. But when we finished the course, I let my frustration

get the best of me and said, well, if I knew you were going to play like that, I would have just

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