"A Wedding, A Dentist, and A Vineyard"

0:00 and I'll see you guys next time. Don't get down when you're seeing the worst Cause the last will be the first What a day I'm telling you All things will be new Living up in a down world Yeah we're living, yeah we're living Living up in a down world Oh Hey folks, it's Jimmy and Annette We've got Chevy with us, he's hanging out Chilling out. Where's Chevy by the way? He did not want to sit in my lap I don't know what's wrong with Chevy I have no idea He got super excited, I was setting the chairs up and he just like loses his mind for a sec but then he's staring at me and then he's staring at you like okay I would rather sit with you but your chair's too little cause we had to switch chairs I know, I've got the baby chair That's what he wants, he wants me to switch back so that you will have the big chair and he can sit in your lap You think he's mind melding with you and telling you that?

1:00 He's acting depressed or something I don't know what's wrong with him I know, it's weird, I don't know what's going on Who knows, who knows Mr. Chevy is not in a mood today to be on the broadcast But we do have a picture We do, we do, I'm going to put it up on the podcast cover that'll be on there and on our website livingupinadownworld.com I'm going to start adding some pictures with our blog so those of you that maybe you're interested in seeing a little bit about us and what we look like and what life looks like I know, I'm not a big picture person Not this second So anyway, welcome to the show We're glad you're here We are Jimmy and Annette Pruitt We are living up in a down world and this has been for us So this is Monday We were going to record on Sunday and we hit the record button and about what, 10 minutes into it we both looked at each other and went Dap, cut, cut it, cut it Eject, eject Well we sounded really tired We were tired It was a long day Sundays, I want to do it on Sundays I know, I do too Yesterday was an extremely long way to potluck after church So we were with people constantly That's pretty crazy when you've got 170 people No, it was probably over 200 I mean, our church, we were at nearly close to 500 450, whatever we were yesterday Close to 500 So close to 500 and then you've got half of those staying for old fashioned dinner on the grounds potluck, which has turned into one of the coolest things we do because it's a chance for people to hang out

2:30 and get to know each other and eat a lot of good food It is a lot of fun And the food's great Oh my gosh, it was amazing However, we're tired By the time we do two services and hang out for another hour, two hours after by the time we get home, we're wasted And we both took a nap, which An accidental nap This is where I'm feeling like I'm turning into an old man and I actually go to sleep in a chair Both of us, with our glasses on sitting up and we fall asleep in a chair It's official We never do that We're not nap people It's official, we're old We're not nap people So it's weird that the last two weeks Is that saying anything about us? I think it just says we're tired We've been going, running and gunning for weeks and weeks and weeks I don't know about your lives, but sometimes we have these, I call them convergence seasons where it seems like Oh, I didn't think about that We scheduled that Oh, we should have thought about Oh, we should have looked at the calendar before we said yes And you end up with just a bunch of things in a row That's convergence I will do better, it's my fault You don't look at your calendar I look at my calendar, I ask you That's why you're my wife And then when it comes up to you You go, oh my gosh, I didn't know Well, that's one of the reasons you're my wife It doesn't matter if it's on my calendar You're my calendar You shouldn't even have a calendar You're supposed to tell me This is what?

3:47 Yes, let me tell you what to do from here on out Great, why is that any different than the last 30 years of Wild? Well, that's true No, that's the life I mean, really guys, we're not good about keeping up Most of us, you've got those rare organized dudes But most guys are, I mean, we do Over time we become dependent on our wives For some things And our wives become dependent on us Like, hey, can you put that thing up in the top of the pantry? Hey, can you hang that ceiling fan? Hey, don't bring it up Which you still need to do No, no, no, I shouldn't even Why did I even bring that up? I know, I know It's been sitting in the garage For how long? The clean, organized garage Very organized And we're having guests this weekend And I need you to put it up It goes out in our back patio It's easy I'll help you We were so busy today Okay Oh my gosh, no we weren't So let me tell you We want to tell you about our Mondays Because what we do on Mondays This is something that we learned Well, we didn't learn it We learned the principle We never learned it We learned the principle of Sabbath And if you're a follower of Christ You know that even one of the Ten Commandments is You know, He's given us the Sabbath as a gift And He wants to keep that day set apart and holy So on Monday we have found Over the years that Monday is the best day The joke is And I actually shared this with our church family on Sunday That most pastors quit on Monday morning Because they're just fried They wake up and And they get all these positive affirmation And then one negative

5:17 And it just causes most pastors to say I'm done And it doesn't even have to be an email or a text It can be just a negative thought It's just in their thought Yeah, in their mind Oh, I should have said this Oh, I had this point and I forgot Oh, I misquoted that I mean, you know, just A litany of things can run through your mind Anytime you're a public speaker You're always thinking Oh, I could have done better Or if you're a singer A performer You're always thinking I could have done better And it's no different when we're preaching and teaching And you think Oh, I wish I would have said this Then the enemy By the way, we have a very real enemy Called the devil And he just starts to just Assault your heart and assault your mind And so anyway Mondays are really rough for pastors If you are in a church and you have a pastor Pray for your pastor Especially on Monday mornings And don't contact them on Monday About anything serious Especially if you're quitting the church If you're leaving or you're mad Or you've got a complaint Mondays are not the days Keep it till Tuesday That's why most pastors should not even go In the office on Monday Because that's Very vulnerable Mondays should be a Sabbath Where you don't do any work And here we are podcasting This isn't work This is joy This is life It's a little work Well, we are after the Sabbath It ended at 5 o'clock Oh, is that right?

6:36 Is it? Is there a time here? Okay Yeah, yeah Usually it's Sun down to sun down the next day It's still bright outside We're off on our days Because of the time change Sabbath So what Sabbath is We learned this when we went up to Sunscapes And Sunscape retreat in Colorado Fantastic Seven days away with your spouse And then with three other couples Plus a leader couple And they teach you about rest and restoration And how to kind of get your life back And take care of yourself Exactly Because you need to exercise You need to eat properly You need to rest You need to turn off your phones and emails And social media Which you still have not been able to conquer I did a lot better today I did not spend all day I had it away from me I think I'm going to get to the point Where I hide your phone And I can't turn off your computers You did good today I want to help you No, I'm helping myself actually I took strides today to keep it out of sight And keep it away It's all right for me I like at least talking to my friends I do the same As long as it's not work Right, exactly Not work related Right I had a dear One of my elders who I love dearly Reached out to me today He said, hey, can you call me?

7:53 I know it's your day off And I said, I'll talk to you manana Talk to you tomorrow And I just wrote Sabbath So what the Sabbath is It's a gift that God's given We're to work six days Not like it's your job job It's life For everybody This isn't just pastors No, for the human race Everybody should have one full day off a week Where you're not working Where you're not working And you're not doing work related things Which that's the hard thing to turn off Especially for pastors Because we are in this 24-7 But we've been taking more intentional steps to Sabbath And it's life giving I feel like today was a really good day I feel rested in my mind And refreshed in my heart and spirit It's good I had a really good time with the Lord this morning I'm reading through a book devotionally It's not a devotional book We got in the hot tub And we listened to No Agenda I know Adam Curry and John Devorak We're tearing it up From their broadcast yesterday And their podcast And they're on fire So I would encourage you to go and find No Agenda It's easy to find Just Google No Agenda podcast And you'll find it And Adam Curry and John Devorak Fantastic stuff So we listened to that So I guess that's going to be our new Monday ritual Oh yeah, we could do that Get in the hot tub Or the swimming pool I love it Whenever it's warm enough I like being informed By people who tell the truth And so yeah, Adam and John do a great job of that And so yeah, again, a great day You've been talking to your friends a little bit

9:24 I've talked to my friends a little bit That was not work stuff, just friendship And so we thought we would share this with you It is a biblical principle It's something that dawned on me After many years of just work, work, work, work, work That I didn't ever take the gift that God had given me Well, and another thing that we did That wasn't the best thing for our marriage Was we never took vacations Oh yeah, those early years We would go on a ministry trip And we would add on two or three days Just for personal rest Or fun or whatever But that was not enough We were still working the whole time Still felt like we were on the clock No matter what And so we had committed And our board of directors had said Hey, we want to gift you guys with a sabbatical this year It's not going to happen No, not going to happen We're going to do some vacation time And then we'll do some Sunday stuff in the meantime So we're going to try to make it work for us this year And then revisit it next year Anyway, we'll be smart with our Sabbath days And then a sabbatical down the road It's a little bit hard for me to rest Because my daughter is getting married Excuse me, not my daughter, our daughter Ours, thank you very much Our daughter is getting married this weekend So it's been a whirlwind kind of day

10:54 Trying to figure out all the wedding stuff That has to be done at the last minute And then we're going to move to another apartment She lives in a small apartment And then her and Brandon are going to move to a larger apartment We just got word today that it will be ready on Wednesday I'm like, oh no Perfect, good timing I need to have off on Wednesday and Thursday to help her I'll talk to the boss and see Actually, my boss needs to be off today You need some manpower there We didn't really plan to be off No, we did not It is what it is We're happy for Brandon and Faith They're both 22 years old And here they go Starting a new chapter of their life together I'm honored to actually officiate the wedding We did some pre-merito counseling at the house That was interesting It was very interesting because we use a tool called Prepare and Enrich Which is a great tool We use that I forgot to hit the timer I'm going to make sure we're not two hours in We're 12 minutes in This Prepare and Enrich tool is like a test or an assessment You send it in and they spit back all this information About your trauma related issues, conflict resolution How you relate to people All those different indicators, family of origin, all that stuff Very interesting We went through it with them

12:24 There's a whole section on sexuality That was weird talking to our kids about that That was awkward, wasn't it? I tried to keep a straight face Inside I was laughing We didn't go too deep on that We'll talk about that later If you need any help call us or call somebody else It was like the rents were going Did you recommend a book? No, you didn't recommend that We didn't recommend that book That's big news We're going to do rehearsal on Friday night Our last one to get married on This is our youngest I know, it's pretty awesome actually Brandon's a great guy We're really proud of him We just need to pray that he gets a job He moved here He wants to get on with the Fredericksburg Police Department He wants to be a policeman He's working on that We're praying that door will open up Join us in prayer We're talking about Adam Curry Adam had major dental surgery I thought he had seven posts put in his mouth He said eight today I can't even imagine His whole face swelled up It looked like the elephant man Remember that show?

13:39 It was huge Did he send you a picture? Not this time We saw the first picture It had to be worse this time It was rough for him He wouldn't know it Pray for Adam He's doing much better He's still only able to eat soup He has this voracious appetite He can't really take care of Be lifting up Adam The Podfather We love Adam and Tina They're dear friends We can't do a show without giving a shout out to them The reason we're doing a podcast Is because of our relationship with them Even more important than the podcasting piece Is the fact that we're walking together In our spiritual journey In our growth They're fairly new to Christ We've been in this a while We've been walking together Doing life together It's a powerful dynamic We're super proud of them They've been sharing their faith journey On their show Curry and the Keeper Several people have been saying They're going to be great Several people have been sending them Bibles They got a new Bible I told him I should start streaming those I'm trying to think of who it was who sent it to them I'm going to look it up I know it was What was it? The Spirit-Filled Life Bible Something like that I know Adam loves his Life Application Bible Which is a really good one If you're listening and you're wanting a Bible

15:09 Maybe you're new to faith Or you're coming back I know the Life Application Study Bibles This is Spirit-Filled Life Bible New King James Version That's the one we have Roger McGuinn from the Birds Sent it to them The guitar player from the Birds Roger McGuinn sent that to them That is very cool We don't get cool stuff like that Something fun happened to us yesterday At church That never happens at church It made me very happy We have a new couple in our church They own Chuck and Diana Charles and Diana That's right That's how I'm going to remember them According to her husband A famous winemaker in Sonoma They're building a winery Here in Fredericksburg They said it will take about 60 days I'm like 60 days?

16:07 They brought us Some wine From their Winery in Sonoma She's also from the former Soviet Union Lovely accent I'm fascinated They're both interesting people He's from Texas, she's from the Soviet Union I just can't believe I'm just thinking about How all these people In our church That work and own wineries That someone Given to us Are you casting a line out? I am I see you Tina and Adam always have Wines Their whole show is about wine We need to change our show We've copied them on everything else We're different We like white better than red It doesn't mean I won't drink a red I'm doing a whitening on my teeth I get the whole bottle Which means I have not had coffee In weeks Shock and awe Before you got off of coffee You would walk by my I'd be in my office in the morning I get up early I always do my devotional time really early I write a devotional every day I do that in the morning Usually you just walk by Don't talk to me You haven't had my coffee yet I had coffee in 3 weeks

17:37 I can't believe you broke that habit I love coffee We used to have a coffee house We did We have several coffee makers We have a Nespresso It's awesome on steroids It's so good Then we've got a typical Keurig type deal Then we've got the pour over stuff We've got all kinds of apparatus Now I'm the only guy Drinking coffee around here It's just weird It says not to drink coffee I understand why you did it Your teeth are so white Smile at me Close your mouth It's too bright This is the best thing I've ever done Although my mouth is so sensitive right now It's not as bad as it was yesterday Yesterday I was in pain I could have used some painkillers But today I'm better I've only had two ibuprofen today Yesterday I had about A bottle Tina gets on to me Don't take that I had to I'm hoping this subsides It works Dentist approved It's actually something I had to do A prescription from the dentist It's not that big light They stick in your mouth I heard that's not good It worked in three days I was like Girl, you're back It better work $1500 to do this

19:07 You're sharing that on Somebody may want to try this With their doctor It's a real deal It worked I took a medication That literally stained My teeth recently We were like, oh my gosh I went to the dentist Here we are Crazy You're doing good Do I go back to coffee? Oh yeah Why wouldn't you? It's permanent This is going to last forever You have to do maintenance One treatment a month You'll be 90 years old All your teeth will fall out The three that are left How do you do that?

19:55 I have a weird imagination You really do Very active I deserve an applause That's why I'm not drinking red wine I'm drinking white wine White wine? How do you say that? White wine I haven't had any today What are you drinking? Aloe vera juice Cheers to Adam and Tina Curry I'm going to She's volunteering at the office I'm going to take her some I'm going to make her try this If aloe vera is good for a cut On the outside, it's got to be great For your inside She loves healthy drinks Food She's so into health food I'm going to do that Thanks for reminding me of that We have a blessing for you, Tina She gives us a bottle of champagne You get aloe vera juice It was really cool We were talking about meeting this amazing couple Who we're excited about We have We have like 79 Wineries In Gillespie County That's just between Johnson City And Frederick'sburg We have more in the county On that one stretch There's like 79 What did you do? Count?

21:19 No, an attorney told me that When? Two weeks ago Because another one's probably popped up Since then I've never seen anything like it Every time we drive to Grape Creek To pick up our wine Oh my goodness, there's another one The Texas Hill Country is a $2 billion wine industry And it's massive out here A lot of California wineries are moving And we have a lot of wineries And we grow really good grapes Up in the Texas Panhandle North Texas, north of Lubbock Amarillo, Plainview, all that area up there But nobody wants to go up there to a winery They want to grow the grapes there It used to be cotton fields It's great farming up there So they found that they could grow grapes very well And so they have lots of Fields and vineyards up there And then they buy them And do all the production down here It's actually the second largest wine industry In America right now Just behind Napa Valley And I heard that we're fast We're catching up with Napa And we'll pass them in production We did pass Sonoma like several years ago So we're number two and I have a feeling we'll be number one Because it's just blown up out here But it's fun We love living here We love the fact that people love to come to Fredericksburg Because our town is a resort town B&B's, bed and breakfasts And our town grows from 13,000 to 50,000 On the weekends Because of tourists and all

22:49 We love it Even during the week though it's getting more crowded Typically after spring break all into the summer We get tons of people It just stays busy after that point Which is great for economy We're very thankful By the way if you have never I'm jumping all over But if you've never listened to Our church services we're online Annette and I pastor a church called Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas You can find us on Facebook If you'll just go into Find us on YouTube That's better, go to YouTube Do the YouTube, all you do is do the search feature Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Texas There is a Bridge Church Fredericksburg, Virginia Wrong church It's Texas So be sure you find our channel Or you can go straight to our website at www.BridgeChurchFBG.com And we're on the front page there And you can just scroll down and there's all of our services We've been doing a series I just started a series called No Perfect People Allowed That's right, so I talk a lot about Mr. and Ms. Dumpty Y'all remember them?

23:53 Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall Humpty Dumpty had a great fall All the king's horses and all the king's men Couldn't put Humpty together again But God can And that's we are Mr. and Ms. Dumpty So you have the church repeat A fairy tale, yes Yes, a fable, it's beautiful It's fun hearing the church say it actually Because you like a church that talks back I do, I like churches that Talk smack, yeah, I do I like feedback It depends on what kind of smack Well, when we were in Abilene we were multicultural And I got all kinds of talk back going on That was fun actually, I loved it But anyway, so that's our Church and we'd love, just come check out Our website, richchurchfedericsburg.com And you can find us We're also on social media, I'm on Twitter We're on Instagram What does no perfect people Allowed mean? Yeah, well the idea is That first of all, if only Perfect people are allowed in church, there would Be no churches because there are no perfect People, and that's where we Learn to have grace for one another And what we're doing, we're going through and we're looking At people from the Bible Particularly in the Old Testament, because It's been a while since I've gone much into the Old Testament You're more of a New Testament kind of preacher But I love you preaching on the Old Testament Oh me too, I'm having a blast Doing it, so we started with Elijah This last week, the week Before I just did an overview of talking About why this is important But it's important because God wants you to know That He can use you right where you Are, no matter

25:23 The hot mess that you are, God can use you And you don't have to be fixed You don't have to be all put together You don't have to be a Bible scholar A theologian, I mean Yeah, Bible professor Just be you and let God Work in you and through you And let Him do The cleaning up, let Him do the fixing A lot of people have said to me through the years And they'll say things like You know, when I get my act together I'm going to start going to church, I'm like Then you'll never go to church I still haven't got my act together, I've been a pastor For 38 years So hey, here's me And my messed up self But this is the reality that we live We're saved and we're being saved Is the way the Bible puts the word Salvation, it means that You're there and you're getting there It's a strange concept but that's more of Eastern mindset, so it's the same way So we're Fixed and we're getting fixed We're free and we're getting free All those things work that way In the meantime Between now and heaven, we've got work to do We've got stuff to do, we can make a difference Are you looking at my shirt? Yes, I'm just reading Your shirt, that's okay That was distracting me I'm like, why are you looking at my chest?

26:35 Because you've got a woman on there playing a guitar My pecs are huge No, it's a Fender shirt Fender guitars, it's a ukulele With a woman With a ukulele Don't say anything else, I know what you're thinking I've never noticed, you've had this shirt for years It's like Hawaii I know, it's just funny By the way, I was really Waxing eloquent there for a minute I just got distracted by your shirt This is weird So we're sitting at a desk Where we can table in our studio Where you can look across And see each other When I see you, I'm like, what are you looking at? I'm slobbering I'm just reading that No, you're fine Keep talking Well, anyway, so God wants to use you right where you are Because He loves you He loves you radically So that's where we're going with this And I'm taking different people from the Bible Elijah, I'm going to talk about King David He's a great study in contradictions He was a bundle of contradictions Just like we are, he had high highs And low lows Moses, Abram, I mean You just go down the list So many great stories, Job, Joseph So many great stories And we're going to talk about some of them Scripture, and these aren't just stories We call them stories, but they're actually events These are people's lives I'm also trying to humanize These people so that you don't just read it And think about a Bible character I don't like the word character

28:05 I wouldn't want to be called a character A character sounds like it's a cartoon Like a play or a theater Or something fake But these are real people who were dealing with Really extreme circumstances And God used them in the middle Of their brokenness And we talk a lot about leaky buckets Around here, well buckets don't leak Unless they're cracked And what the idea is, is that we get filled up With him and then those buckets leak out Through the cracks, and he just keeps filling them up And maybe someday Those cracks will heal, maybe they'll Close up and then at that point They just overflow So it's both, it's either going to leak out Or overflow and spill out And then your mind is going to come out Whatever you put inside So to me it's important That we put the right things in So agree And if you're listening This might be helpful for you If you've never had what I remember, I was a youth minister for years We talked about, hey you need to have your quiet time That was just a way of saying You need to pick a time of the day Where you can sit down and maybe get in the Bible Use a devotional If you're listening and you want me to Feel free to write us Go to livingupandadoworld.com And you can write You can just write us directly I'll get right back with you And if you want maybe some resources I can tell you what to get That would really help you in your walk with Christ And maybe just give you some direction In that, but I do want to encourage

29:35 Everyone, first of all We talked about Sabbath, I mean that's something That's a gift to us That we can be rested and restored And it's a gift And boy, receive the gift And you've got to make that work for you And then quiet time is something that you do Just on a daily basis It's like when you get up in the morning You've got to say breakfast is the most important meal of the day So you want to get up and eat Because you've got to feel your body Well you also need to get up and eat spiritually So you can feel your spirit Feel your heart It sure helps you have a much better day And if you have things that go You know, awrah At least you've been filled up and you can handle them better That's right, yeah, you've been equipped And prepared for the day And what it does, it sets the mood And sets the tone of your day I'm going through a book that was gifted to me By one of my spiritual mentors Dr. Jack Taylor It's called The Unshakeable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person By E. Stanley Jones It is not light reading He was a professor, he was a theologian He was a missionary He wrote this book when he was 87 years of age It's kind of a It's not a memoir, but it's like Everything he ever wanted to say But didn't get a chance to write a book about He wrote a lot of books So it's quite deep And man, I'm just reading it devotionally So I like to just take a regular book And then take my time And man, I've been marking it I already had a lot of marks in it from previous owners But I've been marking it up

31:05 And it's so helpful to me And for me, I like the You version Yeah, You version Bible, the app And they have devotional plans And I go through those I go through different ones every Some of them last a month Some of them are five days And I'll just go five days and then I'll pick another one So we want to highly recommend that The You version Bible app And you can get that on Android or IOS It is fantastic And you can just find devotionals you want to do All by topic So I highly recommend that And it's free It's a great resource Greg Rochelle's church has put all that stuff together Life Church in Oklahoma And they're all over the place now Well, the one I'm doing is called The God I Never Knew Robert Morris You started it with me And then you just said, ah Because you got involved in it Well, I've read that book, done the study I have too, but I enjoy it I wanted something fresh It was time to do I've had this book for years It was given to me years ago But I felt like the Lord was leading me to do it So I've been doing it and it is rocking my world Man, I'm having a good time So we want to encourage you Start having a devotional time A quiet time Also, if it would help you, I write a daily devotional And you can read it every day I usually post about 7 a.m.

32:27 That's my goal Central Standard Time Here in Central Texas Time And so I write it every day I put it on Instagram I put it on Twitter I put it on our website, livingupandadownworld.com Under blogs I put it on Facebook Have I left anything out? Oh, I put it on LinkedIn I'm on all those platforms You probably spend an hour just cutting and pasting And posting it It does take a while I have a misspell And then I see it I have to go back to I go back to every platform and have to fix it That does turn into a longer ordeal You just need to let me read it You're not always up when I do it Pretty much I am, you just don't know it I just don't want to wake you up No, send it to me A lot of times I'm doing my devotion in bed And you don't even know it because you're in your office So anyway, that's available to you every day You can go right to our livingupandadownworld.com And it's right there Under blogs Every day, so it's there for you We want to help you, we want to encourage you And want you to find life in this thing The name of the podcast is Living Up in a Down World for a Reason By the way, let me tell you where that name came from When I was a college student You always get assignments for papers Professors are always like I need you to write 5000 words On this topic We had an assignment We had several thousand words On a topic, it was in an English class

33:57 Actually, so this was a little bit different Than my Bible stuff And I was like We were all saying, what do you want us to write on? The professor said Write it on anything you want I'm like, whoa, okay, that's broad Can you narrow that down a little bit? Nope, I want you to write something that's in you In your heart, anything you want Which is not always easy It's kind of a harder assignment Because it's too broad You spend five days just trying to nail it down But this came to me Because I've always been A very positive person I'm kind of that I'm living up in a down world I'm a positive guy We just did the strength finders Gallup strength finders Thing by Tom Roth And sure enough, one of my top Five strengths, positivity There you go And it was that way 20 years when I took the test So anyway, that's me So I thought, well, I'm going to write on something About positivity And then it dawned on me Because I'm a follower of Christ too And when I was in school, I was going there to study To get a Bible degree But it was college, it was university And this phrase came to me Living up in a down world And I wrote it down on the paper And I remember thinking, I'm going to use that in something someday Wow Yeah, I did because I liked it 40 years later Are we that old?

35:23 So I liked it, I saw it When I wrote it down, it just worked for me We were trying to come up with something We talked about it For quite a while I met with Adam To just get a flyover And do some brainstorming about it And he said, yeah, we want a real short title To the point, and I said, is living up in a down world Too long? And he said, well, he kind of pondered it And then later he wrote me back like a day or two later He said, I love the title, go with that I think it because Even though it's a little bit longer than your typical No Agenda podcast, Curry and the Keeper You know, really short to the point Joe Rogan Experience It's memorable It's easy to remember, living up in a down world And it kind of has a cadence to it So I think it worked So that's where the name came from 40 years ago, I wrote a paper On that topic But what's interesting Is that I've tried to live that out for 40 years I mean, that's the heart of who I am Partly because And just to encourage all of you When you live a grateful life You can live up in a down world Absolutely Gratitude is the key Attitude and gratitude, right?

36:35 See you at the top Remember that book, Zig Ziglar, See You at the Top? I remember growing up In my childhood, my dad He never lived a grateful life He was always negative And always upset And down on everything And Then coming into a marriage with you Who's positive It took me a while to get up to that point To where I could be positive With you Because that's all I had And even with my former marriage Same thing, negative, everything Everybody, the people I was around Look at the world And they just, it's doomsday Every day And who can live like that?

37:19 Nobody can live happy like that And I love what you said today When we were listening to Adam Curry And we were talking about How he He's not How he Has to filter all this information That comes to him And he can't let it overwhelm him And it doesn't take him down I love that, I think it's why he and I hit it off Is because we're both living up in a down world He's got that mentality I love that about Adam I love the purity of that I do have to confess I have an allergy And no, Zyrtec does not work I'm allergic to negative people I mean It's just something in my life Through the years that When I encounter someone who's just Has that negative mindset That I just avoid I just take a wide Swath around them, a wide path around And I don't do it To be mean or exclusive Or anything, it's just I don't have time to hear negativity I mean, I am choosing To live life to the fullest I mean, Jesus said this in John Chapter 10, verse 10 He said, I came that you might have life And have it to the full Have it more abundantly In Galatians 5, the Apostle Paul says It is for freedom that Christ has set you free So don't go back to a yoke of bondage Embrace your freedom The fruit of the Spirit is love Joy, hello

38:49 Joy, peace, patience How can you have peace If you're always negative Or putting negative Critical, judgmental, condemning I do not do life with people like that I love them from a distance And it's not a put down for anybody It's just, I can't Garbage in, garbage out And we usually regurgitate And I'll be honest I'm just going to say this out loud It's my opinion But when you're taking in Constant negativity from the world Like news services You're reading all the Facebook posts From critical, negative, judgmental People, you're reading all the comments When somebody says something online And social media, and it's all negative And bashing When you live on a steady diet of that You leak out what you're full of We talk about leaky buckets If you put negative stuff in there Constantly You cannot help but leak that out Which is why we decided not to Watch TV like we were And oh my God, still we haven't I have to say something This is an interesting thing about getting older There's some things about getting older That aren't great, like My knee's snapping, cracking I know, snap, crackle, pop Or just the stuff The aches and whatever And you begin to realize Okay, things are changing here But there's a flip side to that coin Which is really good And is that as we've gotten older

40:19 We can be a lot more Picky's not the right word No, no, no, I mean in a good way We can make better choices On the people that we choose To surround ourselves with So we pick our friends A lot more carefully and intentionally And man, if you're negative You're not going to make the cut I'm just saying Unless they're dealing with something That you can help them with Of course But if it's, you know Debbie Downer, as we call it Is around all the time Karen, yes, Karen Karen is always running and complaining Definitely don't want to be around Clerks and stuff I just, I can't handle it And I always see it the most at airports Have you ever noticed that? You go to airport Everybody's ticked off, everybody's in a hurry Everybody's freaking out over there That's why Adam has his own plane He rents so that he can just fly I know, it's funny It is funny, because he wants to avoid TSA So you know what?

41:21 He's taking them up on us That's where I notice people get really Edgy and upset Demanding, I can't even imagine Being a steward The stuff they put up with Living up in a down world It's such a powerful thing We're at 41 minutes I think that's good Hey, we love you guys I do want to give some shout outs I want to say thank you to all of you That have been giving us feedback on the show It really means a lot to us We want to hear from you Don't ever feel like, I don't want to write these guys I don't want to be a nuisance Write us, we want to hear from you I made a comment about the podcast on Sunday And several people came to the center We listen to it every time You've never told us that We don't know If we don't know, we don't know Because you don't know what you don't know We would love to hear from you Not just so we can be encouraged But we want to be encouraged We want to be a part That's who we are We want to be a blessing to you We want to encourage you And help you along the path It is a good path Get on the journey with us The journey of faith The journey of following Jesus We want you to live up in a down world We love you, we appreciate you We want you to have an amazing week I'll just let you know We're going to have a few more From Nashville, Tennessee For giving us the coolest music ever

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