Haunted Cosmos - Did This Family Have A Guardian Angel?

Episode Date: February 18, 2026

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This episode is brought to you by Jake Mueller Adventures, a thrilling Christian audio drama. In this episode of The Graveyard Shift, you're going to hear one of the craziest stories about angels that I've ever heard. Hey, everybody, welcome to this episode of The Graveyard Shift. We are happy to be back with all of you. My name is Ben Garrett. I have funny fingers on both hands. I was doing Dragon. Yeah. Like, you know, the dog thing. Anyway, my name's Ben Garrett. I'm joined as always by my friend and co-host, Brock. Ryan Sovey, most handsome and talented guy. What?

Period. What? Matthew McConaughey? Brad Pitt? Fight Club Brad Pitt? Dude. Brad Pitt. Brad Pitt.

You're talking Henry Cavill, whom you look like every day. Dude, the rumors that we start every time we get in front of the mics and start. Like gassing each other up. It doesn't help. Yeah. Hey, welcome to the show listeners. You're the real MVP. Like third string.

We are also joined in studio today by one of our parishioners at this church. And his name is Thomas Freed. Thomas say hello to the people. Hello, people. Yes. Thomas is a fan of the show. He's great to have around, a really cool guy. And we're just happy to have him here.

So Thomas, we do a little thing during the graveyard shifts. Oh, boy. To start out. And it's an icebreaker. Now, I know that we don't really need an icebreaker because we know you. the people do. Listen. As somebody who was in children's ministries for 10 years, I'm aware of the concept.

He's ready. I'm ready for this. We need, you know what? Since you were in kids ministry for so long, we're actually going to do it a little different. No. I'm going to ask you an icebreaker question, but then I'm going to have a follow-up task. Okay.

So the question is, who is your favorite character in Lord of the Rings and why? Okay. Favorite character in Lord of the Rings and why? I think it's I think it's theater And I think he shows a wide range of What it's like to be a ruler And to have people underneath you to be fallible to mess up to redeem yourself He's kind of the every man king in Lord of the Rings

Yeah You know I also his lines are fire He does have some of the best lines What can men do against such reckless hate At least in the movie And then Saramont Gibots and Crows Jimets and crows.

Gibbets and crows. Jimits and crows. Well, him yelling like death, death, death before the charge. In his exchange with Saramon, when he says, we will have peace. We will have peace when your body, you know, like, for the sport of your crow. When you hang from a gibbet for the sport of your own crows. When Theodin, though, and all this people are like, they're getting sucked in by Saramon's voice. Yeah.

But Thayadin shows the royal blood. Yeah, yeah. And then Thayadin's like, he's dying. The huge homest body. before the gate. Before the gate of the Hornberg. And then Thadden, when he's dying, I go now to my father's in whose presence I will not know.

And then it, that's, that goes hard. The best part, though, is that, like, in the whole thing, he's like, I have slain the, the evil beast. Literally, no, you didn't. You were pinned under a horse. Hey, but, hey. Eowen did. Hey. I'm so, like, I.

We're going to overlook it. He's a same man. No, no, I will not feel. Okay. So you say, you say, you say, Thiodin. Yeah, Thedon. Thedon's up there. It's a tough question because.

it's all, there's so many good characters. Yeah. I used to like, in my youth, I was a big Gimley fan. Oh, yeah. Just because, yeah. Who doesn't like a cranky dwarf? You got a Gimley vibe. You got the beard. Yeah. Yeah. You have any really cool helmets, like metal helmets. So I once went to a, for the screening of the third movie in 2003, I think it was, there was a midnight showing and they had a costume party. And basically, my costume was just Gimley, like a sign that said Gimley, because, you know. This was your costume.

You're actually in it. It was a label. It was an label. I got third place out of like 40 people. Dang, out of 40. I thought you were going to say like 400. What's the follow up? Okay, so the follow up is this.

Now, you got to do this quick. I don't. I don't. You got to do this quick. I think you can because of your history. Two truths and a lie about yourself. Go. Okay.

Let's see here. Quick. Wow. The first one is that I was a classically trained pianist. Okay. I've run for political office. Okay. And spaghetti is my favorite food.

Okay. Okay. Those are like, that's a lot. I think... What's the lie? Penest. Spaghetti's not your favorite food. That's the lie.

No, I haven't run for political. Oh, dang it. He got both of us. All right. Well, now we all know Thomas a little bit better. And we end that we are bad at that game. We're really bad at reading people in general, apparently. Great.

along. Thanks for being a good sport. So here's what we're going to do. Neither Brian nor myself really know what you're going to say. It's going to be surprised to both of us. So you didn't read the email. I did read the email, but I forgot what it said. I didn't. Yeah, he didn't. I forgot what it said. So that's what we like to do.

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Concentration, though. So it's, so it was quite a while ago. At least 15 years. And, and so it's like I tried to pick stories that I was, I have firsthand knowledge of. These were stories that I was in the vicinity or directly took place in the story. So, but there are several other.

dozens of stories where I heard secondhand from family members that are like this. Growing up in my house, it was, there was just a lot of bizarre happenings. So the first story is, is my family went to a playground. And my dad took me and one of my sisters. I'm a, you know, my younger sister's like four years old. And we went out to do some like t-ball batting practice type stuff in the field. And my mom was with the other sister. Okay.

And it was just our family at the playground. And my mom was watching my younger sister. And she's on the monkey bars. And she's hanging upside down. And my mom sees her from across the way. And this is like, this is in the 90s. So it was asphalt underneath the monkey bars. It was not like what chips?

Monkey bars high stage. I remember that. I remember that. I'm a 90s. And so it was. You know, so she falls. And my mom runs across the playground. She gets to her.

And my sister's fine. She's happy. She's standing upright. No physical harm to her or anything. And my mom's like, what happened? She's like, nothing. And it's just like, I saw you fall. She's like, well, yeah, but the guy caught me.

And. All right. Nope. Hey, what guy? Shut up So to like kind of like it kind of explains a little bit like about Or describes a little bit of the constant Minor amounts of weirdness that surrounded my family

That this was not like a huge This was not like hugely alarming It wasn't like breaking news Yeah well it wasn't I mean my mom was a little weirded out for it But it wasn't like you know totally out of left field like that something like this would happen. And my mom's like, what guy? The guy.

What guy? The guy. You know, and it's like, you know, talking with a six-year-old, you know? It's like, my mom's like, look around. There's nobody here. Invisible ghostman, copy, mom. Point at the guy. Right.

And do you mean dad as we, she, you know, point gestures across like, you know, the parking lot and in a baseball field? No, it was a guy. All right. Well, whatever. Okay. And so later on. I think it was that winter. And we were in a private school.

And it was like in a kind of a downtown area of Omaha, Nebraska. And my dad comes to pick us up after school. And it's been snowing a lot. But it was a warmer day. And we used to hang out in between these two buildings. And my sister is off playing. And so my dad comes. I was like, hey, dad, come on.

Let's go. I'm like, sorry, my sister's not here. You know, I'll take you to where she is. And, you know, dad kind of brumpy and like, okay, let's go. Right. So she's playing up against the exterior wall of the school. And the warm air and the warm weather had like started to melt the snow on top of the roof. And it just comes down in a sheet right on top of my sister.

Okay. And so my dad and I, we go running and it left a huge pile. The pile's like, you know, four or five feet tall. It was a ton of snow. Yeah. Yeah. Right. And, and we go looking and she's behind the snow kind of like wedged in between the snow pile and the wall. And she's totally fine. And we kind of like have to get her out of there a little bit. Like she's not like stuck, but she's also like, six, seven, just needs a little help climbing out. Right? And we're like, wow, that was, yeah, my dad was kind of, I could tell that my dad was a little unsettled by the whole thing. And we're just talking about it. And it wasn't until like we were on the way home, I think, that she said something like, yeah, it's real lucky, like,

that that guy pushed me out of the way. And it's like, the guy's bad. The guy. And Guardian Angel, but in the, creepy as possible way to describe one. It is the same sister, right? It is the same sister. The other sister had encounters, and I also, like, I have the next story is, like, my encounter.

But the other sister had encounters, but I was not a first person. Sure. A witness, witness to those encounters. But, like, it's just kind of, like, it's just like a lot of small stories like that, where there was just always, a guy conveniently placed to just put a handout to keep a somebody from running out traffic. Something like that. But it was a guy that like no one ever saw him. Nobody, nobody ever saw him.

What did your family do to get this like God? What did that angel do? God's like, you're going to have a responsibility. This family is constantly going to be trying to die. And you're going to be there. But also like it's going to really creep everybody out because the sister's just going to look. her mom and the eye after every story and say, the man saved me.

I believe she said it just like that too. I believe it. But like some of this, so one of the secondhand things that I never saw, it was never witnessed to, I was never around when it happened. Like in the middle of the night, the other sister would say that she would go out

and, you know, like get a glass water in the middle of the night. And every now and then she would see one of dad's friends just in the living room. Hang it out. Dude. Now they're doppel ganger. No. No.

And it was like, well, which friend? And she would never be able to like tell which friend. It was just, you know. That's weird. Little kids are so funny because stuff just happens to them in their life. They're just like, oh, we're going to baseball practice now. Oh, it's dinner time. Oh, whatever.

Like, oh, in the middle of the night, there's a random ganger of a doppel of my friend, my dad's friend. And to them, it's all the same. Right. They're like, yeah, we're having a bescgetty for dinner. And like, there at 2 a.m. is a random maybe semi-demonic creature that is imitating the likeness of one of my father's friends. Yeah, no big deal. I'm going to get a glass of water and go to sleep.

So I'm not even sure that it was imitating the likeness of one of his friends. He just had a, the sense I get is he just had a warm presence. And my dad was just a great, likeable guy, really likable, warm, warm guy. And she just probably assumed, like, oh, this is one of dad's friends. Well, it's got to be one of dad's friend. I heard this story of like the creepy things kids say kind of stories. Yeah. And it was a mom who was putting her kids to bed.

And the daughter, every once in a while for like a couple of years would say, who's that man over in the corner? And she'd be like, what man? The purple man over there in the corner. Yeah. And it's like, I don't, even if you're just making it up and it's just a kid being a kid. Take the night full, go to sleep now. Yeah.

You're like, what more terrifying thing is there. I need you to stop making this up. I need you to stop. Yeah. And so, and so then like the, so there's just like lots of stuff like that in and around our family. It came and burst sometimes. Had a lot of bad dreams in the house growing up. I didn't, I didn't, I don't remember having too many. But my sisters had them a lot.

Yeah. And they had a, they had more complicated life situation later on. And sometimes it just makes me wonder like what this was all leading up to or whatever. And so the last small short story is it's the only dream that I have ever remembered with such clarity. And again, this happened at least 15 years ago when I was like eight. And so in the dream, I wake up from the dream. But, you know, I'm still dreaming. Already confusing.

Yes. Okay. But in the dream, I'm awake. Yeah. Okay. Okay. And my bedroom was at the end of a hall. And my sister's bedroom was like catty wampas to that.

Okay. So our doors were like three feet apart from each other. And I just sense this really malevolent presence in my sister's room. Okay. Was it your sister? It could have been. Sorry. No.

No. But it was like, it was, it was weird. It was really unsettling in the moment, but then also afterwards, like, this dream has literally stuck with me my whole life. It was that unsettling. And so I creep my head around the corner, not sure what I'll find. It's like almost like dream me was walking forward, but like real me was like in the background of my own dream being like, what are you doing? You idiot. Never go in the room or the creepy press.

Yeah, no, and so I turned my head into the corner and basically in the corner of the room, there's like this dark portal into the void with like this evil maniacal presence that's sucking my sister through the wall. And she's barely grabbing onto the wall while being sucked into this way. Like I said, this is this dream terrified. It's the only dream like this that I've like I've ever had. Yeah. That was like this.

And I make a motion to go forward to help my sister. and then there's this hand on my shoulder. And it's a warm, loving hand that pulls me back. And as I'm being pulled back, I just get the sense it's, it's a older, gentle man. That's not my dad. And I wake up. And that's the dream. And I don't, like, you know, and I don't know what to do with this.

I'm eight years old. And, like, I didn't know what to do with this most of my life, right? And it still don't really know what to do with it. But like, there's just, it's, it was just really weird. And, you know, my sister went on to have some, some difficulties. Over the next, you know, 20 years or so. But she's, she's walking with the Lord now. But, uh, uh, it was, it was really bizarre.

Like sometimes I wonder if it was like a, a foreshadowing. What, what it was. I don't know what it was, right? And it's like, I'm like, I would speculate, but like it's just almost any speculation seems kind of like pointless. It's just is what it is. It was what it was. But it's uncanny that like her doppelganger dad's friend, guardian angel was there in your dream. Maybe.

Yeah. Oh, definitely. There's no doubt. Yeah. So like I don't know what to. I don't know what to do with that. Yeah. And an angel appearing in like a dream.

If it was an angel. Who knows what was an angel. Right. That's crazy. A dream angel. Dream Angel. That reminds me. I forgot about this story until, for whatever reason, the void thing reminded me.

I don't know if this is made up. I don't know if this was a dream or if my dad is claiming that this actually happened. Okay. But years, I don't think it's made up because I was an adult. And I wasn't doing Honod cosmos yet. But my dad told me one time that like he and my stepmom, they used to go backpacking in North Carolina all the time, like all the time. They're a little older now, so they don't go as much.

But they would go constantly. And he was like, yeah, one time we were up, you remember that looking glass, like whatever, that you and I went to? Yeah, I remember that. Well, you remember how you can camp up on the rock and you're looking over the whole valley. Yeah, I remember that. And he said that my stepmom was, she had set her hammock up. between two of the trees up there. And then he was on like a step above her between two trees.

And that he just randomly woke up in the middle of the night and saw, and this is where I'm like, I don't know, but saw her. When you're in a hammock, you know, it's sinking down. Yeah. And he was like, and she was not sinking down. It was like she was like parallel to the ground. Her whole hammock was parallel to the ground. And it was pulled over to the side as if she was like,

going towards the cliff edge. Sorry, I got really far away from the mic there. As if she's going towards the cliff edge. And then he was like, and I saw this like really thick mist or thick fog going from her nose out over the cliff and into the valley. And he said that he got down and like pulled her back down. And of course she woke up, but it stopped. And it didn't happen again.

And anyway, that just reminded me. And then he's like, nothing happened. happened, babe. What do you say? I know. I have no idea. Don't let the voids brand get you. I have no idea if that's made up, if it was a dream or if he's saying it really happened, it was too long ago. But when he told me, I remember being like, whoa, whoa, whoa, hang on. Because he treated it as this is just like throwaway thing. Anyway, as you were saying. Dang, we need to do a graveyard shift with him. That'd be fun. So this, this house, we lived there for another like four years after this. And there was like,

there was always an unsettling I don't want to say presence dude because it just sounds like way too melodramatic so cliche no the house was just always unsettling so anyway it was a presence and we eventually moved like three or four years later

into a home that my grandfather had lived in and he was moving out of so we moved into like a home that family had previously lived in and it was it was just it had that aura of home to it and it was much more warm oh yeah it was a homely house

yeah it's it's the home it was the home my dad grew up in and so it and like he still owns it now and so it's been in the family now for probably i think 60 years yeah and so it's just it it's the house that is the home right and so uh and then like that that's when like this stuff started like fading out right like the the weird the weird issues that we were having which didn't put that together until many years later in retrospect. But going back to the last story now, this is a little bit longer story. For too long, pagans have held claim over the art and design world. It's time we as Christians realize what time it is and fight to take back the good, true,

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And so, you know, we would often just like take that they did they would give it to us and say just donate that whatever you don't want. Right. And so we would. We would make a lot of trips down to the shelter and, you know, do that kind of thing. Donate it. It's like I don't think I even owned like a pair of pants that my parents bought me until I was like in my teens. Like we just were tons of clothes all the time. And so this was a usual thing that we did.

And so one winter. I think it was that same winter. We're driving down to the Salvation Army, and we have 10 to 20 coats in the back of our station wagon, and we're just going to donate them. And it's a really cold day. It's one of those bitter days in Omaha, Nebraska, where it's like humid but really cold.

Oh, yeah. And there's a lot of snow on the ground. And we see this guy. Now, we see this guy. A presence. We saw a presence. We see this guy and he's just walking down the street and like he's wearing a white t-shirt and jeans. Yeah.

And my dad did something that like he's never done before. He's never done since. Like we did not do this as a family. He pulls over and says, where are you going? Do you need a ride? You know, we got these coats. Right. Do you need a coat?

Yeah. Starts talking to the stranger on the road. Yeah. And so my dad's talking. to him. I'm eight. I'm barely following along with the conversation. I get the gist of it, though, like this guy's not wearing a coat. It's really cold outside. Right. And, and so, you know, he ends up telling us that, like, he lives in this, I want to say it's a halfway house. It might not have been a halfway house. A group home of some sort where multiple people lived. And he says,

hey, we just had, the reason I'm not wearing my coat is we just had like this incident. I think an animal got into like a closet and sprayed a bunch of coats. And yeah, and it's just one of those things where that's why he's not wearing the coat. It's, you smelled like dog pee or cat pee or something. Right. Like, yeah. And he's like, he's just manning up, angeling up maybe. And, uh, or shadowing.

And he's just not wearing, he's not, he's not, he's just not wearing a coat. And, um, he, uh, so we, he hops in the, in the back seat with us. Um, and we all as a skewer over. I think one of my sisters jumps in the way back. you know and we drive him two minutes away to this group home and when we get there he helps us unload the coats and stuff and we walk into the group home it opens up into like this parlor area and we have all the coats and stuff and he's like uh let me go get uh i don't see Sharon around here I think you know I don't know what her name was but you're like I don't see Sharon let me go get Sharon

And so he goes off into this adjoinder room. And we can see the door from the parlor. That's an important detail. He did not turn a corner, go down a hall. We see the door from the parlor that he goes into. And so he goes in there. And like 30 seconds to a minute later, Sharon comes out. And Sharon is like, oh, hey, what do you got here?

You know? And it's like, hey, we figured, you know, we. we have all these coats and stuff, you know, and we're kind of explaining it to him. And somewhere in the explanation, the guy gets brought up. Now, this guy, he had like a weird, like kind of, he introduced himself. He had like a foreign sounding name. Wait, Sharon is a man. No, Sharon's a, Sharon's, uh, the lady.

Oh, the guy in the car. Yeah, sorry. The yupp and my white cheese, my Nike. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, he had introduced himself. Yeah, that's funny. He had introduced himself and he had like a foreign sounding name. He said, hello.

My name is Abdeal. Yeah. I am from the beyond. Right. Like, he spoke like a, he spoke like a normal American. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But he had a weird name. And so I don't remember it. And honestly, I was bored to tears by all of this.

You don't want to be going to the Saturday. You're like, I'm eight years old. We're going to the Salvation Army on a Saturday. Don't want it. I'm like, barely paying attention. I think that was the year that my parents bought me just tons of Lincoln logs to. Oh, yeah. And so I'm like, you're like, I got to get my Lincoln line.

I got to build a second. story. Yeah, it's second story. Like an eighth story. Still going to put those windows in. I had a ton of Lincoln laws. Yeah. And so, so like I, anyway, we mentioned his name. And you can see that Sharon is like, she like lets it go the first time. But like after we keep, you know, the guy. And she's like, and finally she's like, what are you talking about? And she's like, well, this, we picked this guy of you brought him. And then he went in there to get you.

And she's like, nobody came in to get me. And we're like, what are you? Like my dad, I remember, I remember my dad who was a very soft-spoken man. What? It's like, like, wait, wait, wait. Hold up. Your dad's like, yeah, yeah, someone did. And my mom, my mom was not soft-spoken, you know, and she was like,

lady, the guy that went in to get you, we gave him a ride here. opens the door to her office and there's like one tiny window in there not even a closet. I knew it. And she's like, I knew it. She's like I knew it. Where did he go? Where did he go? The man. Where did Michael go? And the little

girl goes. The man who saved him from the monkey bars. And so we're having this we're like having this out with the lady and it like she ends up being a Christian. Yeah. And we all kind of end up laughing. joking about it being an angel.

And that's the story. Did they need the coats? They actually did need coats because the everybody's... That was true. Yeah, in the house, the coats were foul. So the angel let, like, he told the, it was all corroborated. So I found a small genre of story like this on the internet where I call it a connector angel story.

Where it seems like the angel's sole purpose in the story is literally just a connect. You need coats over here. You got coats over here. The logistics guy. If Martin was an angel, dude, Martin would be like, on Monday.com.

I got you. And what I find most compelling about these stories is that, like, they're not like super fantastical. Usually it's like, it's like ordinary. There's no way in use. And then the,

and then the connector angel like kind of evaporates into the backgrounds at some point. He's like, I've done my job. Yeah. And then nobody like, no, out nobody at the family reunion knows him. Well, dude, that's how it worked in.

It's a wonderful life. Dude, that is insane though. Well, so on the way home. But wait, there's more. Oh, there's more. Well, it's just a little bit more here. And so on the way home, you know, we're talking about how weird this is. And the sister that was in the first couple stories, she was super shy.

And so that can't be like emphasized enough. She would never speak up in front of a stranger about something like this. So, well, Sharon was in the room, this was not coming out. But, like, on the way home, she was like, yeah, I was like, I really like that guy. I wonder when I'll see him again, you know, like, and she made like a reference to, like, he's always been nice to me. Oh, dude. Get the flip out of here. And we just all kind of, we just all kind of like, I just remember, like, it was almost a comical scene where everybody in the car just kind of looks at her.

because she's six. Yeah, she's six. But she's six. I have a six-year-old. Actually, they're pretty advanced in their understanding of like people materializing or not. You know what I mean? Yeah.

And so it's like, you know, we just kind of just looked at her and we just kind of went on about our business. And that was it. And so, y'all are way more chill than I am. Yeah, that's the guy. I just, I'm sorry.

I thought of a joke about the Martin thing. where like if Martin was, I got to say it. It's not going to be funny anymore. And no one knows Martina McBride the way we do. Yeah, Martina McBride. He's a logistic stand. The most important thing you know about him is that he's from Mexico.

He's like, I got to optimize this system. Yeah. And so if he was an angel, he'd be like, hey, heavenly father. You really need to get all the angels on Monday.com. Yeah. It's inefficient the way we are connecting people from one demand to another.

All right, sorry, that was all I had to say. That's crazy. There are some key KPIs we need to be tracking. And the thing that, the thing, so as you were saying it, the email did start coming back to me where I was like, wait a minute, I did. And I remembered what was coming. But the crazy thing that I didn't remember was that your sister was basically like,

hey, that's the guy that saved me from the monkey bars and from the snow. Right. That was, you know, the other sister said would just sometimes chill in our living room in the middle of the night. I wonder when I'll see him again. And like, now you know that when she saw him in the living room, he was like stopping the bullets of a drive-by shooting. Listen, entirely possible.

And if he's in the living room, he's like, do they have any coats? He's looking to the closet. I'm going to have to arrange for some coats. Maybe I could use them for the coat thing. Listen, that neighborhood was not a great one. All right. Yeah. Yeah.

And so this was like, I mean, this was like typical. So this was like typical for our family. like just kind of like I call it small strangeness you know it's not high strange it's just like peculiarities you know something supernatural happened you're not sure what it was or like nobody got miraculously transformed nothing was like healed you lose the remote that same guy shows up again he's like hey man I was walking by it's like you gotta be more careful they didn't do anything creepy it's just but like stuff like you're gonna mistouched by an angel stuff like that would just always be kind of happening.

Yeah. In the background. Right. Dang, that's crazy. No, those are amazing stories. That's one of the best I've ever heard. Those are some of my favorite stories too because they're, it's like, it's fun. We need to add an intro bumper just really quick.

This is now going to be at the beginning. The episode's going to be super meta. In this episode of the Graveyard Shift, you're going to hear one of the craziest stories about angels that I've ever heard. Okay. Now they'll see it twice. Thank you for that. Yeah.

Because it's true. It doesn't seem that crazy to me. Let's be honest. Evan, don't put that at the beginning. No, do put it. Hey, if it's not at the beginning, I walk. There are no consequences. I walk.

Evan's like, all right. Oh, man. No, that's wild. That's wild. And it's like, you know, so in my, I have kind of a larger extended family in Omaha at this time. Like, and so there's things going on in my church,

which are really weird. one of my uncles married a Wiccan priestess. Terrible idea. Yeah. Knew it almost right away. Almost right away. It took time? Listen.

And so, you know. You can't win them all. Well. And so there was just like a lot of like weird stuff going around in the extended family. Well, yeah. In our friend group, in our church group. And so like the growing up around this stuff, I'm eight years old. I think it's kind of normal.

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, your baseline was set very strange. Honestly, once we kind of left that whole situation, I grew up a little bit, got into my, my, my, you know, mid-20s, started going to a normal church. Life was a lot more boring than I was expecting it to be when I was eight. I thought there would be weekend adventures with, yeah, with angels. Yeah, every Saturday from then on, you go around your house, do you pick up random items that someone might need and you just start driving around. Yeah, yeah. looking for the guy.

You're like, where's that guy? He's like, oh, you got a tape measure? There's a guy trying to put together a bunk bed. Who he really needs it? Wait a minute, what's your name? Well, man, well, Thomas, thank you so much. Thank you for sharing those stories. Genuinely awesome and just really fascinating stuff.

Praise God, by the way. Praise God that, you know, even, hey, even if it wasn't an angel, which I would go to my deathbed. But I'm just, I'm just leaving. even it over there as a possibility. How amazing is it that providentially the Lord orders things so that even just like small needs are taken care of? You know, Sharon is a Christian. She's managing this house and she needs help with coats.

Like, and the Lord is kind. And that's amazing. Yeah. Yeah. I thank God all the time because I grew it. Like I often look back where I came from, came from this really weird background. And now I'm here with the two most normal pastors in America. Totally.

Having a pretty mundane existence here. So true. No one's ever, for example, upset with us about anything. Anything. Nah, don't look at, Hon. Cosmos listeners, don't look at that. Well, hey, that's going to do it for this episode of the Graveyard Shift. We hope that you have been enjoying this content.

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