Do you have any examples come to mind of maybe a time in your life where you did, you know, you'd like to open up and share something you pursued or your focus was on the pursuit of happiness? The American culture, and I'm sure probably a lot of the population experiences it, there's this pursuit of, you know, the white picket fence and then the vacation, the retirement and the What in your life can you share where there was a season that you pursued it, maybe even achieved it, only to find out it was empty? I would say

probably things are, you know, I know there was a time that I played a lot of golf.

I was playing two to three times a week.

I was like, man, I think I can maybe go maybe amateur or something.

Granted, I was single, so I had a lot more time.

But looking back, two or three times a week, I was just, all right, I'm done with work.

I'm going to go play.

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What is God to you? Who is God to you? And take it away.

Who is God to me? I would say the present moment, before we take a step back, is Christ.

He's my heavenly father, and I'm still learning that.

It's hard to, as a man, to come to an understanding of that, because we have the earthly things, we have the, well, there's my dad right there, and my dad's actually in a, I'm not gonna say retirement home, but assisted living home, and him and I didn't have a great relationship.

Um, when we were, when I was a teenager, probably I remember the younger years, uh, we did some things together, fishing and working on cars, but there grew a time when my parents got divorced and that relationship kind of grew distant just because I was doing my own thing, trying to figure out life.

And so missed out on a lot of things, but Now I see that as much as I wanted a dad, as much as there's times that I would just sit at home and I don't know what I'm doing.

Where's my dad at? I don't have – I'm figuring this out on my own.

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