Ep 856 ｜ Can Christians Burn Sage & Collect Crystals？ ｜ Q&A
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In this episode of Relatable, Allie answers a listener question about which fast food restaurants are better, Qdoba or Chipotle. She also talks about what it's like to not be able to wash your hair every day.
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What are my thoughts on burning sage and collecting crystals?
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Am I optimistic or am I pessimistic about the future of the country?
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What's my encouragement for Christian public school teachers?
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We are answering all of these questions and many, many more on today's episode of Relatable,
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which is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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So I'm answering some of the questions that you guys sent me on Instagram today.
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I always love, I always love taking in your questions.
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We'll be talking about some serious stuff, some not so serious stuff.
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Well, serious to me because I care so much about Mexican food and what kind of food I consume.
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So this is a very important question to me, but I understand maybe not consequential to
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Nevertheless, I want to answer it because it's a good one.
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It shouldn't even be in the same realm of conversation with Qdoba and Chipotle.
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Now, I will say same thing with, so I used to live in Athens, Georgia, and there was like
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And there were some other, I can't remember the names.
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I went to school in Greenville, South Carolina at a small school there.
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We had a Moe's on campus and people thought Moe's was so good.
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But as someone who was born and raised in Texas, no, no, no welcome to Moe's for me.
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However, Chipotle is what is accessible to me now.
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But if you're looking, like you got to look at a few different things here.
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And I think the main thing that you really have to look at if you're looking for what
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is the best fast Tex-Mex, if you don't know what I'm talking about, if you live in like
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Minnesota or something and you don't know what Qdoba is, we're talking about fast Tex-Mex
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type things where you just, you know, you walk in, I guess maybe I'll have Chipotle.
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And that I think is a really good indication of what kind of quality you're getting.
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And for those of you in the Southeast, we're talking about cheese dip.
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I would say that Chipotle still has not mastered the queso.
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And therefore, like I probably have to rate Qdoba better than Chipotle, even though I eat
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Chipotle a lot more than I eat Qdoba because that's just what I have access to now.
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If Mo is out there, I'm sorry for hurting your feelings, but your restaurant just isn't
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Um, all right, let's look at some more questions, maybe some more serious questions, although
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It's not really great for your hair to wash it every day.
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My hair color, I guess, is kind of the hair color that you can get away with not washing
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We also, life hack, if you are trying to be like a little more natural, you don't want
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to wash your hair every day, but you don't really like all of the ingredients in, um,
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in dry shampoo, which I mean, moms live and die by dry shampoo.
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It's how you get through the week without looking like a complete and total trash person,
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So you can get arrowroot powder from, uh, like sprouts, whole foods.
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You know, health food stores and it's, you know, a kind of powder that I think people
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And yet, if you put it in your hair, it disappears.
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So you don't look like George Washington forever, but it does soak up the grease in your
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So sometimes that's what I'll use because no one has time.
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I don't have time to wash my hair that many times a week.
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Sometimes I know not everyone can do this, but sometimes I'll get my hair blown out.
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And I absolutely love getting my hair blown out, even though I'm very tender headed and
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I still love doing it because that stuff lasts for a really long time.
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I mean, if I could do that, like all the time I would, that is also a life hack.
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If you can go get your hair blown out, make them wash it twice.
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Next question, more serious question, change of pace here.
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How to deal with discontentment as a young person desiring stability.
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So first of all, I just want to tell you that it is normal human nature.
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It is an innate drive to want stability and security.
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I've kind of talked about, I think I talked about this maybe at the beginning of the new
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year, how there is part of us who really wants change.
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That's why COVID was really hard, especially for those of you who lived in those blue states,
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not seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, not knowing when normalcy was going to come.
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And not knowing when things were really going to change.
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Like we were constantly put, like this carrot was put in front of us, like by Easter, by
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And we felt like we were just surviving on the prospect of future normalcy.
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Human beings don't exist well in just kind of this static state.
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That's why when you think about the Chronicles of Narnia, when you think about the Lion,
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the Witch, and the Wardrobe, how awful it was for the creatures in Narnia to be cursed
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Think about being placed in perpetual darkness, perpetual cold without any hope of season.
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He created us to need those seasons, to need those cycles, to need those changes, to need
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But at the same time, we don't do well with chaos.
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So there is a difference between needing necessary change and a turning of seasons and chaos and
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We like the change, but we need it to be predictable.
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We need to know where our next meal is coming from.
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Human beings have craved these things, have sought these things, have built entire civilizations
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and societies based on human beings' need for this kind of protection and stability and
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So just understand, if you are discontent because you need stability, I don't know exactly
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But, and again, I don't know all of the factors contributing to the instability in your
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Maybe you're talking about you want to get married, you want to have kids, you want a
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stable job, or maybe you're younger and you just wish your parents created a kind of stable
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And all of these things right now may feel like they're out of your control.
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So really, what can you do to contribute to the stability in your life?
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Can you find a group of friends at that local church or a Bible study that you can plug into?
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Can you create a daily routine in your life that gives you some kind of regimen and predictability?
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And then, of course, just reminding yourself, which we have to do every day in a variety
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of ways for a variety of reasons, preaching the gospel to yourself.
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Because Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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And so while we need these changes in seasons, we also need a solid rock on which we can place
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So even when your life or the world is in chaos, even when you can't predict anything,
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we can have the same peace that Jesus had when he was sleeping on the ship in the midst of
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We have that power, that spirit of God within us that calms the waves and calms the seas.
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And so knowing who we are in Christ, knowing that we belong to him, that our purpose is
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wrapped up in him, that our identity and everything that we are and everything that we need is found
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I encourage you to go read Jesus's words about worry, about anxiety, about looking to him
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If God clothes the lilies of the field and the grass of the pasture, all of these things
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If he cares about the flight and the plight of sparrows, two of which are sold for a penny,
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then how much more does he care about us, people who are made in the image of God?
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So I just encourage you to preach those things to yourself in addition to trying to find ways
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to create stability and predictability in your own life.
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So I totally understand why you're asking this.
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Witchcraft is something that has become very popular, especially among millennials and young
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We did an episode on this a couple of years ago, why millennials are engaging in witchcraft,
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There's something called witch talk where they talk about, you know, casting spells and all
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the different things that come with witchcraft.
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And it's really become very commercial in our capitalistic society.
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The supply and demand things become very commercialized.
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So now you can walk into Barnes and Noble and you see like spell books and you see tarot
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cards and you see Ouija boards and all of those things, which really should be cast into the
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outer darkness and really shouldn't be accessible, especially to young people at all.
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Because while we can laugh at them, demonic forces are real and can use these things to
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really darken people's minds and to really harm people and to trap people in this kind,
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a form of, a form of, we could get into the theology of all of this, but a form of demonic
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possession in at least in that someone is following the print of the power of the air rather
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than the Holy Spirit, as Ephesians 2 distinguishes.
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So burning sage is kind of a part of this witchcraft culture.
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However, I also want to remind you that like God made sage.
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God made all of these things which naturally occur in the world.
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And so I think it depends on what the purpose is.
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Are you burning sage in your home for some kind of witchy reason or some superstitious
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reason, even if you wouldn't call it witchcraft, just because you think it's going to like cleanse
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the aura or cleanse the spirits in the room or because you think it's going to banish bad
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vibes or bad energy or evil forces or darkness or whatever.
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Then yes, that is a form of witchcraft, which is absolutely forbidden in scripture.
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And again, you're just inviting in things that you just really don't want to mess with.
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But if you have sage in your house because you think sage is beautiful, because you think it's a beautiful
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color, because God created it, and you know that everything that God created
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can speak to his glory, then I think that's fine.
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If you have a crystal that you got on vacation because you think it's beautiful and you put
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If you have it because you think it's going to bring you some kind of luck or because you
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think it's going to wash over you or ban evil spirits, then okay, we've got an idolatry
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It really matters what the purpose is of you using these different items.
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Now, this is something that we talk about a lot.
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So I don't know if you're asking because maybe you don't listen to the show very often,
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or maybe you're asking a deeper question that you feel like we haven't really touched on
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And the question is, why are people for the normalization of kids having the option to
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So I think that's actually a good question and maybe one that we don't touch on that much
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We talk about the biblical reasons why male and female exist, the biological reasons why
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that sex dichotomy and gender dichotomy of male and female exist.
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But the question would be, why are people for the normalization of kids having the option to
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choose their gender, knowing everything that we know about the dangers of puberty blockers,
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the dangers of cross-sex hormones, the dangers of these surgeries, which are being performed
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on minors, teenagers, but puberty blockers on much younger than teenagers because it has
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So I think the vast majority of people who say that they're for the normalization of kids'
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so-called transitioning, they have not thought about it.
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This is true of most people also who say that they're pro-choice.
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Beyond the talking points, beyond being constantly inundated by the ubiquitous progressive culture,
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the progressive zeitgeist, they just haven't thought about it.
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Like if you ask someone, why are you pro-choice?
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They might say, well, I believe in a woman's right to choose.
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I believe, you know, what about those terrible circumstances in which a woman gets pregnant?
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She was coerced into having sex, all of these different things.
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But if you get down to it and you ask them, why do you believe it's okay to purposely kill
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Because there's really no debate if you're talking to a sane person about whether the
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They might not think it's valuable, but it's human at the point of conception.
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You can't put it in any other category in the universe.
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So you ask all these questions and they typically don't have an answer.
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Which has nothing to do with what you're actually asking them.
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Why do you believe it's okay to kill some humans?
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They haven't thought through it because it's really difficult.
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Even for the most ardent pro-choice person to say, yes, I believe that killing defenseless
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human beings is okay if that's what someone wants to do.
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I mean, that's what underlies the abortion argument.
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And then also when you go to gender, why do you believe that it's okay?
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You believe that most of these people who are for this transition, they would say that
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kids, rightly, they would say that kids can't consent to sex because their brain hasn't fully
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And it's wrong to prey upon children in a sexual way.
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They would say, you know, an 11-year-old doesn't have the physical or mental ability to be able
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They shouldn't be able to be able to make major life decisions.
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A lot of people, not everyone, but a lot of people on the left would agree that maybe
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They just don't have the cognitive ability to be able to do that.
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They don't have the emotional capacity to make major decisions.
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They shouldn't be able to get married at 12 years old.
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And yet they will say, well, they should be able to make the life-altering decision to
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pause their puberty, which is not temporary, but does have long-term, often lifelong repercussions
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And when you ask them these questions, they typically will just be angry.
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At the end of the day, most people have not thought through their positions.
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They're not even really for the things that they say that they're for.
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And because we, on the other side of these things, are so against the zeitgeist, like
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we're, you know, we always talk about being human salmon, like we're swimming upstream.
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Like we have to really understand both our argument and the other side's argument.
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That's why we typically are so much more effective in debate than the other side.
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And so often when you're talking to your friends and your family who are on the other side of
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these issues, they just erupt in anger and they start calling you names.
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They're actually not armed with any illogical defenses for why they believe what they believe.
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And they just are like, I don't want to debate.
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But they will still insist upon calling you a bigot.
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And they'll call you divisive for actually having an answer for the things that you believe.
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Now, of course, there are other reasons beyond that.
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I think that's the vast majority of people, really on the left in general, whether it
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But then there's, of course, the people, as we've talked about, who are perverse, who
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have a perverse incentive to trap children in perpetual adolescence.
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That's what puberty blockers do, who have a perverse incentive to make men into women.
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We've talked about the pervasiveness of something called, it's very disturbing, just FYI, go back
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and listen to my episodes with Genevieve Glock.
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But sissy porn, kind of pornography that actually glorifies humiliation of men and makes them
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dress up like little girls, that has become a very popular fetish among these men who now
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And then there's also big medicine, I guess you would call it, the industrial medical complex
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that makes a lot of money from puberty blockers.
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They're creating lifelong patients because these women who are put on testosterone, well,
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they're going to have lifelong health problems.
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These men who are put on estrogen, lifelong health problems, especially when they decide
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one day when their brain is developed and they're 27 years old, oh, yeah, maybe I actually
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Well, you can't do that naturally because your body has been mutilated and your hormones are
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And so now you have to pay more money to big fertility, the medical industrial complex.
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There's ideology incentive, there's sexual incentive, and there's control incentive, too.
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That's why a lot of this propaganda is actually being pushed by the Chinese Communist Party.
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Why don't you talk more about the Second Amendment?
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So the Second Amendment, I obviously really care about it and I really believe in it.
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There are just issues that I think that I am more well versed on, better versed on than
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I think it's really important in opposition to tyranny.
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And I think that you should take advantage of Second Amendment protections.
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And I think a lot of the arguments, not all, not all, but a lot of the arguments in the
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wake of tragedies and school shootings in favor of, you know, gun laws are just bad faith.
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Not all of them are bad faith, but a lot of them are.
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And they're just kind of illogical and disconnected from the reality of what laws actually do and
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But I also think it's just used as a diversion tactic on the left that, oh, you can't say
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that you care about anything unless you are for confiscating people's guns.
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But yeah, I just don't talk about it as much because I think that I am, I think I'm more
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interested in and just better at talking about some of these other issues.
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Okay, this is a very, very, very serious question.
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Would you rather have hot dogs for fingers or spaghetti hair?
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If it's like regular hair and that it grows back.
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Okay, I mean, you're going to lose a little bit of hair every day.
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It would be completely useless to have hot dogs.
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I would rather not have fingers than have hot dogs for fingers.
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So I'm going to go with spaghetti hair for that one.
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That would, I mean, that would really change my life, though.
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I don't know how many people would be watching on YouTube if I had spaghetti hair.
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Am I optimistic or pessimistic for the future of our country?
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So I was just speaking at an event where the host of the event, the head of the organization, distinguished between optimism and hope.
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And I think I don't, I'm not, you know, I don't have a problem with people using the word optimism.
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And I think that it comes from a place of faith.
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Like optimism, I would see, okay, you're looking at indications of what the future is going to hold.
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And if it's positive, then you're optimistic about it.
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Or you're looking at indications or what you think are indications of what the future may hold.
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Whereas hope, I think, is rooted in something a lot deeper, no matter what the indications are of where the future of the country is going.
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But just based on the moral collapse of our country, the stupidity that is now glorified, the Romans 1 that is manifesting every day, the political corruption that we have, and how little it seems like we can really do about it.
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Yeah, like, okay, there's a lot of negative indications there.
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Not that there's no positive indications, but there are some negative indications about where the future of the country is going.
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So I don't know that I can say that I'm optimistic, but I can say that I'm hopeful.
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Because when I look throughout history at change, I know that it didn't happen a day.
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When I look at something like Roe v. Wade being overturned after 49 years of relentless perseverance, of unsung and unseen pro-life heroes just pushing for truth in every sphere of culture, private and public.
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I think, okay, things can change just because things seem bleak right now doesn't mean that at least one thing can't change for the better.
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Maybe not everything all at once, but maybe one of these things, maybe it's gender ideology and the transitioning of children.
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Maybe it takes 20 years, but it's going to take us raising a relentless and respectful ruckus every single day in a million different ways in our lives to do that.
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And so when I see the perseverance of people, when I see the courage of people that are willing to count the cost for the sake of the most vulnerable in this country, which is what makes America unique,
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then I think, okay, I'm hopeful because I can look back on history and see that things have changed for the better.
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But I'm also hopeful because it's rooted in my faith in Christ, is that no matter where the country goes, even if it really does go completely to hell in a handbasket and God just takes his hand off completely and no amount of evil is held back and he has no patience and no mercy anymore, which we completely, I think, deserve as a country.
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Even if that happens, I know who wins in the end.
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My command that God has given me to not fear, to not worry, to rejoice in everything, to think about what is lovely and pure and excellent, that doesn't change.
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My call to share the gospel, to raise my kids, to do the next right thing in faith with excellence and for the glory of God does not change.
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I am hopeful that if enough people do that, maybe things can change for the better.
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But if not, I know that God is still going to be glorified.
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Romans 8, 28, he works all things together for the good of those who love him.
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He's working all things together for his glory and our good.
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And I try to change things for the better with the grounding of that hope, not based on some flimsy optimism or pessimism.
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If you're talking about like Marvel, I don't know.
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What's the difference between Marvel and what's the other one?
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What's the difference between that and Star Wars?
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If you like that kind of stuff, I know a lot of people do.
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But one time I was on Ben Shapiro Sunday special.
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And when we were taking a break before the end of it, I was like, I got him to instead talk about theology.
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Let's talk about something else that I know a little bit about.
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My producer, Bree, is laughing at me behind the camera.
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Um, thoughts on the future of Christian higher ed.
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Like, I think that there are positive developments that Christians are like, yeah, don't like the
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public school system, but we're going to build something better.
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Um, I see that happening or at least non-progressive entities.
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I see these kinds of colleges, like, cropping up around the country and charter schools and
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Um, I'm, I'm actually very positive about that.
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I think a lot of people are going to, you know, just homeschool or not go to college and
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But I also think it's awesome to build new institutions.
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Like, okay, maybe that's one of the reasons why I am not completely pessimistic.
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But Christians have been in the business of building culture and building institutions,
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hospitals, charities, colleges, all of these entities for hundreds of years.
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I mean, certainly the building of America and our first and greatest institutions were
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I mean, that's why the vast majority of hospitals and colleges, all of them have Christian origins.
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Like, maybe being kind of pushed to the margins and not having this kind of privileged place
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in society anymore, Christians are forced to build excellent institutions.
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Um, so I guess by the time this episode is coming out, I've already announced that I'm
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So in pregnancy, I have not liked, so I typically, I would say black hot coffee.
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Honestly, saying that right now makes me want to throw up.
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I don't know why, but black hot coffee throughout this pregnancy, it was not like this in my
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first two pregnancies, but it just, I don't know.
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It's so weird, but that's what I would have had every morning.
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And now for some reason during pregnancy, I just haven't been able to do it, but I've needed
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First semester, I didn't have caffeine, but, um, so I will do iced coffee.
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I just make it at home, iced coffee, and then I put some vanilla almond milk in there and
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And then I have my little frother mixer, mix it together, put some ice in there.
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It's not going to taste like a Starbucks drink.
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It's not like super sweet, but that is what I have on any given morning.
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I have it, have it with me right now in my little taking care of baby's cup.
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Encouragement for Christian conservative public school teachers.
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So as I just said, a lot of Christians where they're building other institutions, a lot of
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Christians understandably, and I would say that this is the right move, are pulling their
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kids out of Christians or out of public schools and putting them in, uh, Christian schools
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and putting them in a homeschool, giving them homeschool curriculum.
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And if you want to go back and listen to my episodes on that, you can, we won't get into
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my whole argument about why we shouldn't be sending our Christian kids to a public school,
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but Christian teachers, that's different because we're talking about adults.
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We're talking about probably a position that you feel like God has called you to and has
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And now some of you, I completely understand you're a Christian public school teacher and
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They're forcing me to teach gender ideology and stuff.
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And so I don't want you to ever sin because you are placed in that position.
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But like, if you can be there, if you can be there, you feel like you're called to be
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Um, then I want you to shine as brightly as you possibly can, because look, you are the
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only representation of Christ that a lot of these kids will ever see.
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Like, I still remember, I went to a Christian school, kindergarten through 12th grade, so
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it's a little bit different, but I still have some bad teachers, some mean teachers too.
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I still remember the kind teachers that I had, the teachers that attended to me.
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And okay, again, Christian school, like, I don't think these teachers that I'm thinking
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of necessarily like shared the gospel with me, although that's great, but they were kind
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and I still am affected by their kindness and how they attended to me, maybe in different
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I just like, didn't really like school that much because I was constantly talking in class.
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And so there were different ways probably that I dealt with discipline, but like my fourth
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grade teacher had such an incredible impact on me because of her kindness, because of
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her joy, because of her love for her job, which I understand is rare in a public education
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setting, because she had a great attitude, because I could tell she really loved and liked
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Be different than all of your nagging, sad, depressed, don't want to work hard teachers.
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Like, I have enough teacher friends that I understand that that is the environment in a lot of public
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schools that you're just like constantly complaining about how difficult it is, constantly complaining
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about how emotionally trying it is, how much money you don't make, not liking your kids.
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I'm not saying that you can't have those feelings because I think that they're valid in some ways
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for sure, but you can distinguish yourself by doing nothing with grumbling or arguing or having
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a bad attitude, but having a great attitude, getting up every day and loving and liking those kids,
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Like, you might feel like, well, my classroom is chaos every single day.
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You have no idea how God is planting those seeds of kindness and love in those kids that might not take
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As I often say, we won't see like the constellation of our testimonies and other people's testimonies
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until we get to the other side, until eternity.
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And yet you have no idea what star you are in someone's constellation testimony.
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And we may never know because it's not for us to know.
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But I guarantee you, as a Christian teacher, you play a part in every future Christian that
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walks into your door, a part of his or her testimony, as well as your administrators,
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as well as the other teachers that you're a part.
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So set yourself apart in your attitude, in your words, in your actions.
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And thank you for doing what you do, because I know that it's not easy.
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