The Hope Hotline - The Hope Hotline | S01-E94 | 12-20-23

Episode Date: December 24, 2023

The Hope Hotline | S01-E94 | 12-20-23

Real talk. Real talk. Real talk. Real talk. Happy Wednesday. It is the Hope Hotline and none of us in this room, well I shouldn't say none of us, but pretty much a lot of us in this room, well, I shouldn't say none of us, but pretty much a lot of us aren't prepared at all for Christmas. But we still have smiles on our faces and we're ready to go. It's going to be a good day. I am so far behind, I cannot even tell you.

I've been later, though. I have not mailed off one gift. I was talking to my mom, which she put me in a little bit of a panic today. I have all mailed off one gift. Okay. I was talking to my mom, which she put me in a little bit of a panic today. Yeah. But I have all my gifts for my family that are outside of the area. Tom's family, not really mine.

All Tom's family. Not to say if it was my family, they'd be getting it because they wouldn't either. But I have not mailed off one gift. So they'll be getting their stuff probably after after christmas okay girls let's let's chat okay tracy you're not done no not even close because we talked about this yesterday i should you go this morning i've done better well okay i did deliver my two packages that were really important i had to pay a lot to get one to where it needed to go but but it's okay. It's okay. Cause sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. Um, I needed to put two things in there that were really important. So I got those done. They're in there, they're in the mail and they're

going to make it there in time. And then everybody else I bought online, I found my, I found the coolest gift for my mom, but I can't tell it because she's probably watching. So I'll tell you about it later. So is it mailed out or is it still in town no that's gonna be there late but it's mailed okay and uh and then the rest of my family I have plenty of days for local people I'm I'm in big trouble Logan are you done I'm working on the best Christmas gift ever. So in other words, no. No, you're not. I gave Chris his gift early. He had... I'm thinking of the Jimmy Fallon, Meghan Trainor song.

Which one? Wrap Me Up. Chris got Bengals tickets at the beginning of the month, and him and Brent went up to Jacksonville and they got to watch their favorite team. That is so dang awesome. Andrea and I did that for our hubbies to enjoy. I've done that before.

I went with my sister. Me and Tom. I think it was Redskins versus Tampa Bay. They're Tampa Bay. We're Redskins. We went and watched a game. Maybe it was a Tampa game. I're Tampa Bay. We're Redskins. And so, yeah, we went and watched a game, I think it was. Maybe it was a Tampa Bay. I don't know. It was so much fun, though.

And they were in the playoffs, so it was a playoff game. They won in overtime. Even better. It's exciting. Vanessa, both of you are going to have to pull the mic in. Sarah, we already found out. She's doing Christmas a little different this year. Oh, I love that.

I am fully prepared. You can't even see you, Vanessa. Pull that mic. Look at you. You can't even see you on the screen. How can we move you guys down? What's up with the camera? It's because Aaron had to take it out of town, and I think he did his best to position it correctly.

No, it's okay. I usually move it, but it's... They're trying to hide from us. No, Sarahah's not trying sarah hide from the camera are you kidding me never gonna happen never gonna happen yeah yeah okay okay let's hear it are you done i'm fully prepared um and everything is wrapped and ready to go and And yeah. But you know what? I don't have as fun of people to like get gifts for. I don't either. Okay, that's not making me feel

a daggum bit better about myself right now. Oh my gosh. I don't have nearly as much on my plate like you do. So I had some more downtime. That's correct.

You were not at the gym this morning. So you were probably wrapping presents instead of going to the gym downtime. That's correct. You were not at the gym this morning. So you were probably wrapping presents instead of going to the gym. But that's okay. You're correct about that. At least you come periodically, unlike other people who have totally done the New Year's resolution, which is a question for today, and started something and did not complete it. But I digress.

Keep going. Sarah, how are you doing down there? How's Sarah doing? I'm here to make you complete it. But let's, I digress. Keep going. Yeah, Sarah, how are you doing down there? Yeah, how's Sarah doing? I'm here to make you feel great. Oh, wow. I wish I could see her face better. Put all of you on and eliminate me. Oh, wow.

So can you even do that? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can. Or I'm going to change that camera. There we go. Oh, shut up. Is that better? Well, the whole world can hear it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They can hear you. You project. Go ahead. Talk to me, Goose. I have purchased a few little stocking stuffers and one gift. Are you done? Question is, Sarah, are you done with Christmas? Emotionally and mentally, I am done with Christmas. But physically, are you done purchasing emotionally and mentally I am done with Christmas but physically

are you done purchasing no God bless you I receive that blessing may God find you with favor in everything you do amen amen can you put that blessing back on me As I bless you, I bless myself. I, Talia, sister, even though you're like, what, you're just shy of 18, got six months more to go, are you done? We can't eliminate the girly. No. Okay. Well, you don't got a car, though. That plays a big, huge part into you being complete or not.

Online shopping. So, she can't. No, Amazon. Okay, so Talia, I not. Online shopping. So, she can. No, Amazon. Okay, so Talia, I have to go shopping. Do you want me to take you with me?

Sure. Okay, I'll pick you up, sister. I will, we'll get her done together. One and done. All right.

You're just using me now. No, I don't need you. I don't need you, Talia. I have things rolling around in this beautiful mind. Oh, my gosh.

That's funny. Listen, I was just trying to help a girl out. But listen, if you think I have ulterior motives or something. Not hope. You can stay home. But if you want me to, like, be your chauffeur. Yeah. I'll help you out.

And then along the way if you see something Norma might like there it is but I'm good totally good alright go for it Tracy because you got a lot to say in a short period of time we're going to do this quickly

you guys know the role we do like, share, subscribe and comment on all of our platforms we are on Facebook but we prefer you to be on Rumble. So if you can jump over to Rumble, do that. Or if you want to support socialism, go ahead, stay on Facebook. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.

Whatever else, I don't care. If you're an adult, make an adult decision, but also Rumble, Rumble, Rumble. So we're also on YouTube. And again, we would just prefer you to be on Rumble. The conversation's great over there. We got Erin on and we got a Marie and Sean and Logan's in there and Sarah um so we're all we've already got the conversation rolling don't miss out by the way serum yeah I love my gift great rapper and I don't mean a wiki wiki wiki

I don't mean that kind of wrapper. I mean like wrapping gifts. Unbelievable. Yeah. Like you killed it. We loved it. We opened it last night. Oh, it was good. Sweet. Go ahead.

I love her. I love you, Sarah. Okay. Um, so yeah, please like, share, subscribe,

do all the things that we need you to do. Please send your questions in. We've got a whole new season coming up, so we want some more good questions from you guys because you always come up with great ones. Our merch is available. If you need to do some last minute Christmas shopping on Sunday, you can come to the merch store or you can just print out a picture like my mom would do and say, your gift will be here. And this is what you've done that plenty of times. So you can do that too.

We've got the mug and the spoon. I just met a new friend and she has the spoon. And when her six-year-old boy is not behaving, she goes, I'm going to grab the spoon. And then he apologizes. And she goes to make cookies. And she makes cookies with the spoon. That's why he's apologizing. Because he wants those cookies so bad. Exactly. And she makes cookies with a spoon. That's why he's apologizing. Oh, my gosh. Because he wants those cookies so bad.

Exactly. All right. UBU t-shirt is available as well. And then, of course, this Friday, if you missed out, we have the famous, wonderful, super excited Pastor Tom who will be joining us. And it's going to be amazing. And who knows, last time Aaron was here, so it got a little wild. Well, both of you are going to have to share the seat. That's going to be an interesting little scene over there. We all do a great job. We'll make it

very enjoyable. And a couple of days later, we are only a few days out, believe it or not. It is Christmas Eve service. I'm not even going to tell people how many people are coming. Okay. It's going to rock the world. Oh. But please still come because we'll have plenty of seats. We are making do. Yeah, yeah.

Absolutely. And register. Let us know. Let us know you're coming. Let us know how many people you're bringing with us. This is the time to do it. This is the time where you can invite a friend or two or three and family members and you never know. Sometimes they just need that invite. So all right, this is the one that we are going to be

doing quickly but very exciting because we will be announcing those gifts. That's my girl. That's my girl. All right. So the new one today is the hoops, but not only will you get the gold hoops, you will also receive the Alani drink. Are they real gold or are they plated? Which people need to know.

Are they getting cheap or are they getting really expensive? I mean, it's Hope's gift, so you know. It's going to be real gold. It's going to be real gold. I don't buy cheap. Right, exactly. We don't need no gold green ears. Okay, so you're not only going to look like Hope,

but you're going to feel like Hope with the energy that you're going to get from the Alani Dream Float. Oh, that one's a good one. That one's a good one. Cream soda or cream float. Yeah, that's a good one. A cream soda. That is divine. It's just special.

And are you ready for this? This is the final gift, the one everybody's been waiting for, the Perry Stone New Testament Study Bible. Sarah, have you not been keeping track? No, I don't think it's fair. Why is it not fair? I'm like here for a lot of them, so I didn't think I could even. All right, Sarah, I'm going to buy you a set. Oh my gosh. Yeah, I'll get you a set. That way. Sarah's crying. Okay. Didn't mean to make you cry.

But Sarah, you're getting a set. There you go. Then it doesn't matter if you get Hope's favorite things. There she is. There you go. Okay. All right. We'll take a moment.

But that is the best of the best. Okay. That set will revolutionize and transform your Christian. Amen. Let's go through them all. Let me tell you about this daggum stampede. Okay, okay. Go ahead. Go ahead.

I'm going to go through all of them. I was going to go through all, but let's take a moment. Hold up, Shorty. I'm just telling you. Tommy's birthday, Monday night. Yeah. Shorty Sporty. Sunday, Monday night, we celebrated Tommy's birthday.

Because it was on Sunday. Okay, we go to Longhorn because he loves Longhorn, which we do. We all are Longhorn fans. But so Tommy, all he wants is the stampede. So we take it home, and Tom looks at it, and he's like, oh, my gosh, that thing looks amazing. So I said, okay, you know what, dude? I'm gonna be nice because i told tommy i get the one piece you get the other piece if i'm getting this fair you ain't getting both so i said okay i'll share my piece with you the man

almost died and went to heaven and i told him him, I said, you could have had, when it was our anniversary, you could have had both pieces, but you gave yours up to Tommy. He said to me, he's like, I think I'm going to have to make you go out tomorrow and get me another Stampede. It's that good. The ice cream is so good. It's such a great, it's so creamy and so yummy.

But that cake, I'm just telling you, you might be doing that. You might need like tapping the vein and kneading every day. Because I'm just telling you, it's hard to resist. If I could, I would eat that stampede every day. But girl ain't fiending like she's on drugs. So back her down, sister. I know, I know.

I'm just telling you, it's good. You will not be disappointed. It looks amazing. And I've never tried it. And I'm very excited to try it. It's so good. But you're not going to win. No, I know.

But at some point, I'm going to definitely try that. I know. I'm not going to win. I'm out of that. I just shook out the last little bit today. I'm in big trouble. Oh, no. All right.

We need to get some on, um, on subscription. All right. So we got the gold bond neck and chest cream. Um, one of the fave faves, and then we've got our hope hotline mug that we love and also is available on the purchase and their store foundation church, fl.com. You can go to shop and we've got the amazing, which actually it's the buff city body butter coconut smell i just purchased myself a little gift and i got the mini one and i love it yes the smell oh but i feel like you're at the beach every day exactly that's why between your sun in with the top down and your buff city coconut i'm ready to go. Rock and roll, dude. Especially when it's cold. I literally should have Buff City be a sponsor for it.

I do. I think we should be sponsored for all of this. I'm going to reach out to them. Erin, let's figure this out. Yep. All right. Tom has sponsors. It's time, yeah.

The Thrive Liquid Lash Extension Mascara. I received that as a gift, and I love it. So I also can vouch for that. Also can vouch for the chocolate peanut butter. Yeah, but you don't love it as much as me, Vanessa. No, no, no, I do. I do love it. I just, like, you.

Do you, though? No, I do. I do love it. No, I do love it. Do you drink it as much as we do? No, I don't. Because I can't tell you how many bags I've already gone through. That's impressive.

It's incredible. It's very good. I just think that I was like, oh, yeah, I don't. Because I can't tell you how many bags I've already gone through. That's impressive. It's incredible. It's very good. I just think that I was like, oh, yeah, that's good. And it just didn't meet your expectation. Maybe we hyped it up too much to you. You did. Okay. If you would have said it was, like, it's pretty good, I would have been like, no, this

is really good. But I did that with Dana. And Dana agreed that it was as good as we thought it was. Oh. Well, that's because she's super healthy. So that makes sense. Could be. That's true.

I can confirm that. Exactly. That is. That's true. I can confirm that. That is true. All right, we've got our spoon. We've got the Alani and the hoops together because they just are a match, a match made in heaven. And then lastly, this is where we get a moment to shine with the New Testament study Bible. You saved the best for last. I will promise you that. That is the best for last. It's just all this information. You can take a screenshot and read all this great information later. And today will be special because you will not have to listen anymore for the secret word.

We will have three secret words today. So this is what we're going to do. I'm going to pull myself up. Give it to me now. Give me one now. Okay. Pulling it up right now. Because we keep forgetting.

We get so caught up in we get caught whatever it is yeah i know we forget about the secret word okay as we're pulling that the secret word up this is what you're going to do you're going to get all the whole phrase you'll have the entire phrase what i need you to do is i need you guys to email the email so i'm going to pull that up so we can have it up and you can take another screenshot of that as well. And okay. So it's the same one that you're going to send a question to ask hope at hope hotline.com. I need you to email me the phrase and then your name will be put in to win this basket of stuff.

So if they don't have the timestamp, are you going to eliminate them? Because I mean, that might be a little hard. It depends. Listen, I will bring that to Hope. If you don't have the time stamp, I'll ask Hope and see if she's the Grinch this year. No, I'm merciful because I won't have the time stamp. So she's going to hear just so you know. Okay.

It's up to Hope. Yeah. Okay. So Hope, yeah. Hope is. I would never have the time stamp. Do we only have two? It's too difficult.

Okay. We only have two more words. Okay. We only have two more words. Okay. We only have two more words. Two more words. This is it. Tickety-doggety. Okay.

What are they? Give me the one. B. I don't know what that means. B-E. Oh, the word B? Yes. As in, I don't know what?

To be? To be or not to be? I can think of as be as in B-E-E. I'm caught. You be you. That's what it is. You be you. Yeah, thank you.

And you can purchase that shirt today at thehopehotline.com. Hey, listen, there ain't a lot of sparks flying between these two ears right now. It's because you're a blondie. Huh? All right. We're blonde. I'm hungry. Oh, you're hungry.

That's not good. What do you want? I'm thinking more about being hungry than I am about anything else. Why are you hungry, Logan? Are you thinking about this? I'm always hungry. Oh, yeah. All day long.

I might have to pick up one of those on my way home. Do you know how happy Tom would be if I came home with that? You should. Want me to order it? I might have to. We'll order it. Let's order it Do you know how happy Tom would be if I came home with that? You should. Want me to order it? I might have to. We'll order it. Let's order it. You can't.

Can you order that? How does that work? Because it's ice cream. I don't know, but I might have to do it. We'll get there. We'll be melted. You door dash right to the house while you're doing the podcast. Man, he'll be so excited for Friday.

Just be like, this is for Friday. It's not enough money, though, for them to door dash. It's only $10. Order a like, this is for Friday. It's not enough money though for them to door dash. It's only $10. Order a steak. Yeah, order three. Are you coming to my house? All right then. I'll order two. Oh my gosh, Heather.

Hold on one moment, please. Heather, you've got to bring Brinley to the front, to the house. Okay? Tom decorated, but the front, to the house. I know. Okay? Tom decorated, but he put something in the window. Oh. And Brinley's going to love it. That's so sweet.

Okay. Well, it actually fell on the floor, so I hope it works. Because Tom actually knocked it over while it was flashing through the night. I was like, it scared me. It woke me up, and I'm like, and he's standing there like I'm like are you okay I'm like I thought I felt like it broke with and glass went everywhere so I'm like are you okay do I need to go get like the broom or something and usually in the middle of the night I do not do well but that scared me and he's like no I have a cramp that's he was stuck he's like, no, I have a cramp. That's, he was stuck. It's like, no, I have a cramp.

I'm like, oh, okay. I roll back in bed. I'm like, night, night. I'll see you. As long as there's no glass on the ground. It's like, I don't know if there's glass. I'm like, well, then you'll be fine. That is so funny.

Whatever. But yeah, so make sure the girl comes. Okay. Okay. Are we ready for questions? That's it. So you were going to do one more? One more word. I'm writing it right now now my notepad okay okay i worry about being professional

and yet i know i am so unprofessional sometimes working on it whatever as long as i'm doing it it's okay it's when you do it it's not okay tracy 100 that's how that works i will take all the blame that's what you do when you're a mom what is that you take all the blame when you're a mom so yeah it's all my fault well you always you don't care you don't care if you take the blame it just it just rolls right off your back like you could give it that's why I'm doing that's why I don't want to go back to the previous podcast but that's why you'd be my girl all right let's let's go. Oh, my gosh. Yeah, let's continue. We're not going back. No, don't. I'm just saying it's just one more reason.

And Jer is so scared that I'm going to poison him. I know. And take him out. But I am happily married until I'm not. He has nothing to worry about. I mean, he needs to take a chill pill on it. That's all I can say. All right, here's the first question.

This is all Christmas. Throw in a little bit of New Year's. Okay. So there's a New Year's question in here. Maybe there's two, I think. Whatever. So first Christmas question, which the peanut gallery will add their two cents because I'm super interested in yours. But what is your favorite Christmas tradition? My favorite Christmas tradition that my family does every year is we always, always, always get a real tree. We never, only one year did we have to do a fake one. And that's because we waited too long with, for the real ones. And there was none left. And every single time we went and looked for one, it was a Charlie Brown. And I was like, I refuse because

I can't even hang one stinking ornament on that daggum tree because they were all like this. So that's what you get when you wait too long. And I told Tom, I'm like, dude, you got to go after like the weekend of Thanksgiving. If we don't go the weekend of Thanksgiving, we're not getting the size we want and we're not getting healthy. So now for the last two or three years we've gone and then he says to me this year he goes listen i am so glad that i made the decision that we are going after thanksgiving every year you guys should be lucky i mean like it was me the reason we have so much luck is because i do this and i'm like i'm gonna kill you mm-hmm it's not you

dude and he complains every year when I say listen Thanksgiving weekend we're getting the tree we're getting the trains oh and then he takes props okay girls that's exactly like my brother he's mad every year to go get a Christmas tree I'm like why are you you're gonna do it so just go and get it how it's like the time he got free Christmas trees when he was up north because they gave it because he was a veteran. And I'm like, all you have to do is walk and you don't have to cut it down.

Just put it on your truck and walk back. Tommy has found the last two Christmas trees in less than five minutes. We walk in to the tent because they have so many to choose from. He literally finds the tree. Tommy, two years in a row, finds the tree in less than five minutes. And I'm like,

you didn't even drive 30 minutes down the road. It took us less than an hour. Quit, and just get the daggum tree. It's like, stop it. So, what's your family tradition? Yours is the tree

too? Because you guys go thanksgiving with your whole family to get a tree correct um is that your family no that's not it okay go ahead tell me i i don't have one i okay when you're you don't do something every single year when you're a blended family like every year looks so different so like every other year i didn't have the girls for a very long time. Yeah. And then so sometimes we would go up north and sometimes you don't go up north and sometimes I'm here. And then so I literally don't have anything. I don't think that I've ever done every single year ever. I ain't going to lie to you.

That stinks and hurts my heart. Just a little. But I mean, that pretty much stinks. Yeah. But at the same time, I like different things. I like some years going up north and some years going down. Her cup is always half full. I know.

Because I kind of do what I want to do. If I want to go get a Christmas tree, we go get a Christmas tree. See, I live like that too, but we like traditions. I know. And that's so sweet. This year, we did not decorate the whole tree together as a family. Yeah. And I didn't like traditions. I know. And that's so sweet. We did not decorate the whole tree together as a family. Yeah. And I didn't like that.

That's the first. Well, that's another one that was broken this year, which is not rare. But we don't have very many that we consistently do. So if one doesn't go through, I don't like it. I know. Not real happy. I'm not like you in that. Like, I'll go with the flow, but some things still need to stay the same to a certain extent

like literally when we go to get the Christmas tree I expect my children when they are married and they have their children we're all piling in a vehicle of some even if they have to drive separate we're all going and we're getting yeah me and Tom's dad gum Christmas tree I don't care if they get theirs but we're doing our tree as a family. And that's okay. That'll be special. That'll be special for their family. And a lot of people don't have traditions. Probably not, but it has to happen. No, because some people don't have traditions, right?

And so when you get to like go into a family and they have things that they do. I don't want to not do that. Yeah. I love that. That's been like for forever. I can't imagine not doing it. Yeah. So keep doing it.

What are you laughing at, Heather? It's probably not going to happen. But. No, it will. If they want to crush their mother and personally destroy her Christmas, then that's fine. They're going to marry somebody. If they want to ruin their mother's Christmas, hopefully Tommy does watch this periodically. If you want to ruin your mother's Christmas, don't come and get the Christmas tree with me.

Norma will probably do it unless she. Unless she's in another country. That's true. But. That would be hard. That would be hard. Because that girl, like. Yeah. Who knows?

Okay. Logan, lay it on me. We used to cut down our own tree every year together. But. I would love that. That was the best. We would take a little hayride out. Not a hayride, but a tractor ride. They'd give give us our own saw we'd pick it out in these beautiful fields

don't you do that tracy yeah we do sometimes they give you a saw yeah yeah that's what i've seen you do okay it's the same thing okay go ahead so when we moved to florida a few years ago the live trees are subpar and way overpriced so oh they are Big Little Huts. And now we got a fake one. And it's pre-lit. And it's great. It's in like three pieces. Done in ten minutes. And it goes up November 1st.

November 1st. Yeah. And you do it as a family. For the most part. My mom helped me this year, which was really sweet. She was in town for the baby shower, so she helped me this year. Oh, that is so dang sweet. I love that. Okay, lay it on me, Vanessa. Do you have anything? I do. November 1st, so very similar to Logan. I stole that from you. Everything comes

out. The decorations, as a family, my fake tree comes out already fluffed because now trees fluff themselves, which is fabulous. Trees fluff themselves? What do you mean by that? Well, like you get it out of the box and it's already fluffed. Like you don't have to do anything. Did we buy fluffy trees, Heather, when we bought it for church? Well, we're in big trouble. We didn't buy fluffables.

Okay, how is that possible? It comes out of a box and fluffy. Hobby Lobby. That's where I got it, like three years ago. So when you smush that into the box and it comes out of the box, it goes from this to. Ah. Exactly. Yeah.

We need a video next time. I will post a video next year. Yeah. Not that I don't believe you. You're not a liar. But I cannot. How in the world that would even happen, I do not know. That makes no sense to me.

I know. I cannot see it. Like, is it not with wire or something? I don't know. Yeah. Vanessa doesn't know. Vanessa doesn't know. I don't see it.

It is. It's like magic Sarah I'm not done Cookie baking Oh Okay maybe She does got a little

Spice in her Oh she does Never seen that before Okay girl You go for it sister You keep talking You have the floor Until you're ready

To give it up My tree doesn't go back Or the decorations Stay up until like January 5th Because I'm Puerto Rican and I grew up celebrating Three Kings Day. So Three Kings Day is when the kings come,

the three kings come to visit baby Jesus. So what we do is we put, my kids put their shoes at the end of their beds and overnight, and then they like fill it up with hay. And in the middle of the night, I fill it up with treats. And then they wake up.

And the three kings have arrived. Do they still believe in the three kings? No. Everything is all like, it's fun to pretend, right? Yep. Oh, yeah. So from November 1st to January 5th, the house is decked out.

The tree is up. And we do it every year. I'm going to keep mine up longer this year. And Christmas cookies. Oh, Christmas cookies. Yeah. You make some killer cookies, man. Oh, my gosh. That girl makes insane cookies.

Hey, listen. How do they know this? Have you made cookies and you have not shared this year? Is that the deal? Did you make cookies and not have not shared this year? Is that the deal? Did you make cookies and not share this year? Because you know Tom loves your cookies. I did make cookies. And you did not share.

Christmas is still. Okay, so she's going to be baking. In other words, she's going to be hopping to it and baking. Yeah. Because you didn't get any either how convenient okay they're so good all right may we give the floor to sarah now yes okay i make sure we have permission because lord knows we don't want that coming out again okay sarah that was awesome oh yeah i've never seen that before she's got a little bit of spice spice in her okay sarah what's your family uh i have two and they both involve food so one of them is homemade raviolis that my dad's mother's side that side

of the family used to make are they italian yeah, that's a long story. I was told my whole life they were Italian. Are they mutts with a little Italian? No Italian? A little bit. A little bit. But mostly French-Canadian. We don't want to talk about it. Okay.

But she made raviolis. Well, a French can cook. They are really good. And it's like dough made from scratch. Okay. We make the filling. We put them together. And the other one is on Christmas morning, we do fried dough.

Oh, my grandmother used to do like crullers kind of thing. Oh, they're so good. My grandmother did that every year. I found a recipe today using Hawaiian rolls that are like churro. Yes, I just saw that. Did you? I might. Send me that. So I might be doing that this year. Send me that, Sarah. Yes, I just saw them. Did you? I might. Send me that.

So I might be doing that this year. Send me that, Sarah. Oh, my gosh. I'm going to send it to you. Hey, maybe we'll put it on the, send it and then Logan can, just in case somebody else wants it, Logan can pop it up on the Hope Hotline later on.

Okay. For Facebook. Even though we hate them. And Rumble. We love. I could share it in stories on Hope Hotline. There we go. There we go.

If you want that recipe, do it on stories. Is it this one? Yes. Okay. I'm going to share it right now. You've got to go to Instagram, to the Hope Hotline, and I'm going to share it there. Yeah, but some people don't have that.

They don't have Instagram. You know what? Okay, listen. This is what happens when you hang out with Instagram. You know what? Then get Instagram. Okay, listen. See, this is what happens when you hang out with these people. I would prefer nobody get Instagram, nobody get Facebook. They just go to Rumble. Let's not, like, Instagram is socialism. Well, so is Facebook.

I have an Instagram now because this is what I got. And there are so many good things on there. I don't want it. That's not good. Instagram is... I will cut and paste the recipe and put it into... Thank you. Thank you, Sarah.

I will share it on stories. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. That will work. All right. Moving right along. Next question.

Do you believe in New Year's resolutions and do you think there may be a biblical principle behind it? Absolutely, positively, no. I do not believe in New Year's resolutions. And here's the thing. Nobody sticks to them, ever. I don't think I've ever met one person make a New Year's resolution and stick to it.

I can't think of one. Don't put yourselves on, but can you guys think of one that anybody's ever made have you personally made a new year's resolution and stuck to it because i can tell you i haven't never once that's a big no for me yeah nobody ever does it i don't believe in them i don't i mean i mean the bible is where there's no vision the people perish but that's not really a it's like a goal i mean everybody should have goals, but New Year's resolutions,

people don't take them serious at all. But I did do some research on this. And you know where New Year's resolutions are like 3,000 years old? People have been doing it for 3,000 years, and it started with the Babylonians. Can you believe that? Wow.

Yeah. So for 3,000 years, and it started with the Babylonians. Can you believe that? Wow. Yeah. So for me, what's the difference between December 31st and January 1st? If you can't do it December 21st, 31st, November, you ain't doing it. You're not. It's like I'm going to go and start my diet on Monday, and it's Friday. Okay? You know by Wednesday, after you diet on Monday, and it's Friday. Okay, you know by Wednesday, after you start it on Monday, that thing is going right out the window.

If you can't start it on Friday, you ain't going to make it on Monday and last. It's never going to happen. It's a difference of a day. Who cares? But I looked up, what do people do the most? What is the most common New Year's resolutions that people make? Quit smoking. Stop drinking.

To manage the money more wisely. Spend more time with family. And the most common is eat right, exercise, and lose weight. That's why the gyms are full. Which I'm not really looking forward to when January rolls around to go to the gym because our classes will probably be quite a bit more full. But then I know in less than four weeks, they'll be back to being empty because nobody sticks to squat. But they say Christians who make New Year's resolutions usually do pray more,

read the Bible every day, never met one person. Listen, if you can't read the Bible every day now, the odds are you ain't reading it every day on January 1st. I mean, I applaud you, I guess, to a certain extent, if you plan to put that into action action but why don't you just start it today just start it today who cares to attend church more regularly and listen this is true because inevitably the first few weekends after Christmas the church will always be fuller and then it goes and dwindles back down because you you know what? People don't have any stick-to-itiveness.

Laziness goes, everybody reverts right on back to their old way of life and to do things the way that they've always done them and been more comfortable with. Because nobody really, outside of God, like, unless it's God doing it, it's not going to happen. It's never going to stick. It never happens. I mean, it is very rare.

I mean, do people quit smoking? Yeah, but it's not usually a New Year's resolution that causes them to quit smoking and drinking and things like that. It's never going to last. It has to be a decision. And, like, I know people who have gone cold turkey there aren't Christians that have done all those things I'm just saying on the whole biblically speaking if you're going to start reading your bible more pray every day those kind of things like you're going to have to like step up your game and let God help you with it because you probably ain't gonna do it so through that anybody got anything to say about that i do i just shared with vanessa

i gave up drinking like on new year's no yeah there you go for jesus my point and it's been over a year i know i've been pregnant a majority of it but still i'm not but you started it before i did i did yeah so why my whole thing is, if you're going to do those things, most of the time nobody that ever does them and sticks to it, it wasn't a New Year's resolution. It was a personal decision, usually God-related and things like that. Otherwise, it's not happening. It's not.

So, all righty, Rue. Okay. Next question. Okay. If you could have a famous person sit at your Christmas dinner table, dead or alive, who would you

choose? Now, I'm going to tell you who I'm going to think and all of you guys think about somebody. I'm very interested in finding out who Heather would. Be thinking. You got time. Are you already at now? Oh, God bless it.

She is. She's got so much going on. Heather's processing over there, but it's not about the podcast. It's about Christmas Eve. I know it. I know what she's doing. Is it processing Christmas Eve, Heather? Yes, it is.

So my question, Heather, give your brain a rest on Christmas Eve and think about this. Use as much brain power as you possibly can. It's going to take it. If you could have a famous person sit at your Christmas dinner table, dead or alive, you got time to think about it. Who would you choose? I'm going to go. I'm going to start with me. And hey, I got to listen. I got another person in the room that you haven't seen in a really long time, but I'm not going to make you look at her because she'll kill me. But Trish is here. Some of you know her.

Some of you don't. But Trish is with us today. Trish, if you want to give us your two cents, you can. But I'm going to start with me. I'm going to work my way around to the peanut gallery. I'm going to come over to Heather, see what she has to say. And then Trish, if you want to give your two cents, neither one of you have to be on camera. I will say what you say.

You can't choose Jesus. Dang it. Jesus is out. That's who I am. Jesus is like so super spiritual. I just want to eat with Jesus. Okay, everybody wants to eat with Jesus, dadgummit. That's like a no-brainer.

Come on. Let's not be super spiritual or religious. Let's take her down some notches and be regular Joes. Do they have to be famous? Yes. Because if they weren't famous famous I would choose my dad right for me two seconds if I had if I had to choose anybody on the face of the earth to have dinner with again hands down I choose my dad okay but he's not famous so So for me, I love this person.

Like if I had the chance to eat a meal with this man, I would pick his brain like there would be nothing left of it if I was done. I would sit and just listen and listen and listen to the words of such valuable wisdom and pick his brain like there's no tomorrow. He is no longer alive, and it would be Kenneth Hagin. I got it right. I would listen, like... That's super spiritual.

That's pretty spiritual. Yeah. Well, I'm not going to go for somebody carnal. They got nothing to offer me. They got nothing to offer me. So obviously it would be somebody who's a Christian. I mean, if you guys choose somebody who's not a Christian, that you want the word of wisdom.

I'm going to pick another person. Okay, be a heathen if you want to. I'm just saying, biblically speaking. I mean, everybody's going to choose Jesus. Come on. That's a no-brainer. We'd all be stupid if we didn't choose him. But I'm just saying, that's a common one.

Pick, like, who is a person that you, like, know that it would be such a time of, like, for me, there's so much wisdom and so much influence and pouring out of that knowledge. Like, you could never walk away. I could never walk away from eating with that man and be the same again. The power and the anointing that he walked in, it'd be like eating with Pastor Rodney.

But I get to eat with Pastor Rodney. I mean, not that it's not a big deal, but I literally thought to myself, well, if I didn't already get to eat with him, then it'll probably be him because there's such a power in anointing. I remember asking him a question one time. It doesn't matter where we're at. We were together. And I said, it was just he and I, and we were sitting in our room. And I said to him, say,

Pastor Rodney, I got a question for you. And after he answered it, I felt like that big. I'm like, well, that was a dumb question because that was so daggum obvious. And he was so sweet. He was like, what's this? Like, it's not a big deal. And I went, oh, my gosh, man, girl. But for him, it just rolls off. It just rolls because they just live with the Holy Spirit 24-7.

I want to be that. Like, I want to be to that level. Like, it's crazy. And the things, like, some of the times when Pastor Rodney talks to us and he tells us things, I'm just like, like, it's so elementary. And it's like, how come I didn't think about that? Because we don't flow in that realm. And that's the reason why you don't think like that.

So, but to, but all of us can get there. That's the thing. We can all get there. So are you ready? Tracy, do you know who?

Oh, I feel like you guys on. I feel like a heathen. What? Okay. Well, you can go to hell if you want to wherever you're going to eat dinner with,

but go ahead. I mean, I'm fine with that. First, I was thinking Jesus, and then I got no. Then I was like, okay, any Bible character, anybody, Mary, Joseph, anybody, Paul, anybody. Then you're like, no, you can't do that. That's too religious. So then I'm like, okay, what else would I want to know?

I mean, Paul would be dang awesome. Yeah. But you said I can't. No, I did not. I said you could not choose Jesus. Too religious. No. No Bible.

No. I said Jesus. He's obvious. None of us would be so stupid to say, I'm not eating. All of us would pick him. All of us would walk around. I would ask everybody and everybody would say, Jesus, Jesus. I don't want to hear Jesus, Jesus.

I want to hear somebody else. Somebody would be like, I don't need to eat with Jesus. I've got the Holy Spirit in me. That's what somebody would say. I got no comment for that. I plead the fifth for that one. You know that. Okay.

Is that what Heather said? Okay, Heather, you don't even want to know what I was thinking in my head. I know. That's why I said it with that voice. Okay, so I felt like I couldn't say those. So then I'm still thinking, well, I went to the Boston Tea Party Museum this summer. And I'd be so interested to talk to anybody that came over across and through the tea and caused this whole upheaval.

That's pretty dang good. Yeah. Any of them. That's pretty. But you know what? Oh, that's pretty dang good. Yeah. Any of them. That's pretty. But you know what? Most of them were Christians. Right. Yeah.

And they, most of them were all, that's one of the reasons why they came over here. So most of them for religious freedom. So actually. So I'll still go to heaven? You will go to heaven. I will allow that. I don't know who you pick because you don't know any of their names,

but go for it. Samuel Adams is one of them. But there's like women that I'd be interested to talk to, and I don't know their names. I have a whole list. I was trying to get it, and I didn't get it fast enough. That's okay. At least we know the direction you're headed.

Okay. Logan, who would you talk to? I know you said they have to be famous, but I've never met this person, so they are famous to me. It would be Chris's grandma. I've heard the most wonderful things about her and she's the reason he has seeds

planted from when he was young. She was such a big part of his upbringing that I would absolutely love to meet her and have her for dinner. So Logan's the only one that gets to allow a non-famous person. But again, I haven't met her. She didn't meet her.

That's okay. But I'm just saying, none of the rest of you are allowed to do that. I'm going to let that one slide, Logan. Patrick Swayze in his prime. Okay. Why would you do Patrick Swayze? So we could do the dance. To do dirty dancing?

Yeah. Lift you up. You go, girl. Maybe next Christmas you could go. I'm going to have a time of my life. What was the girl's name? Jennifer. Jennifer.

Gart. No, not Gart. Gardner. Yeah. No? Yeah, I can't remember. No. Is it Jennifer Gardner?

No, Jennifer Gardner was married to Ben Affleck. Yeah. And I don't even know famous people, and I knew that. Yeah. Jennifer. Heather, are you looking that up? No, Heather's not looking that up. I heard her typing.

Heather's got better things to do than find out who was in Dirty Lisa. Jennifer Grey. There you go. I knew it was Jennifer. Vanessa, please do better than that. Not that that was bad, Logan. It's just not a famous person. Well, it's not what I'm looking for. Okay, so my first gut reaction was Jesus, right?

Of course. So was Logan's. So was Tracy's. So was mine. And then I thought Paul or even John. John was like Jesus' best friend. John, oh, the beloved John. I know.

Not John the Baptist. I mean, could you imagine? Oh, that's a good one. You know what? Because he wrote Revelation. He might be able to give us a little tidbit. Oh, I changed my mind. Maybe he can tell you what was on the scroll that he ate that he wasn't able to share.

Oh, so many good questions. That's my final answer. That's a good one. But also, I would love to have a conversation with Eve. Just saying. Just to, you know, I know why. Pa-pow, pa-pow. You screwed us over, girl.

On so many levels. Okay, Sarah. This is really super carnal. Okay, I'm good with that. Marshall Mathers. Eminem? Yes. Oh my gosh, you know who I thought Marshall Mathers,

you know who I thought Marshall Mathers was? Do they have to be dead? They could be alive. They could be alive. You know who I thought Marshall Mathers you know who I thought Marshall Mathers was? Do they have to be dead? They could be alive. They could be alive. You know who I thought Marshall Mathers was? The one that married that Nicole

whatever it is he was really really old and she married that old guy blonde Nicole she's dead. She died because

she had an overdose. He's dead too because he was like 90 something when she married him. Marshall what was his name? I thought that

I was like what does she want to meet that guy for? Maybe to ask him what he was thinking, marry Nicole, whatever nameless. Slim Shady, Eminem, because I want to learn how to rap. White Eminem?

E-M-I-N? That Eminem? Yeah. You want to learn to rap? Yeah, I mean, I can kind of, but like You want a white boy to teach you how to rap? I need a white boy to rap? Yeah. I mean, I can kind of, but like. You want a white boy to teach you how to rap? I need a white boy to teach me because I think otherwise.

Yeah. You ain't got it going on. Yeah, you're too white. So you need another too whitey to teach you. I get that. Because listen, it's not natural. I'm just telling you. A black guy is going to be like, I can't even do this.

She's too white. This is too hard. But another whitey will be like, I've been there. I've done this. I can help you. Yeah. There you go. I get that.

Totally 100%. Yeah, well, I don't know. I don't know about that. He might get a little frustrated. It's natural for him. An unnatural ability with another unnatural ability, you have more patience. Somebody who is naturally, like somebody who can naturally dance. Chris can naturally dance.

You think he's going to spend too much time with a whitey like me who can't dance? He's going to be like, girl, just stick to the wall. Stick to this. I ain't got time. You get another whitey who had a hard time learning. They're like, I've been here. I've done this.

I can help this person out. Potentially, we have hope. Things that are, people who are naturally gifted and talented at a certain thing, their patience level to teach somebody that very skill set sometimes is not there because it's just so easy for them. They can't like, but a person who doesn't have the skill set that had to learn it, they can actually teach you what they learned and how to do it. So yeah, good idea, girl. Stick with secret word is dingbat. Secret word of the day is dingbat so today's two words is be be dare to be and dingbat that's one word dingbat dingbat okay sarah i get you whole new level tau who you going for tau put your face

in it because nobody can see you sister yeah right Oh, where am I supposed to go? Right there. You can come to mine. I will gladly do that. Just sit on Vanessa's lap for two seconds or whatever. Okay, so. Okay, I feel hunchbacked, though. It's fine. Definitely my first one would be Jesse Duplantis because. Who, Jesse Duplantis? I love that man.

I get that. I love that man. Yes. But also, like, Trump or Biden. Like, come on. Which one? Trump or Biden. I would love to have one with both.

Trump or Biden? Yeah, that's so interesting. Listen, I'm going to advise you on this Which one? Trump or Biden? I would love to have one with both. Trump or Biden? Yeah, that's so interesting. Listen, I'm going to advise you on this. Go for Trump. Because if you go with Biden, you might be molested by the time the whole entire dinner is done. Oh, that's true. I didn't think about that. He'll be smelling your hair.

He'll be all up, all over. And it would be probably a funny conversation. Biden is not the way to go. Yeah. It would be funny. Yeah. He's a clone. I was able to get something out of him, I is not the way to go. Yeah. It'd be funny. Yeah. He's a clone. I was able to get something out of him, I feel like.

Out of Biden? Yeah. No. Yeah. He'll try to get something out of you. Stay away from the man. He didn't even get a full sentence out of him. Stay away from the man.

You can get out of him. Not good. Get him out of the basement. Trump, definitely. Like, by the time you get done with Trump, he'll make you a millionaire. He'll tell you how to become a millionaire. That's true. He'll pour so much wisdom and knowledge into you as far as entrepreneurship.

You'll be rich by the time you walk out. And that's not a biblical principle. I mean, he doesn't understand biblical principles, but, like, the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous. So wicked people can be rich all the way. They ain't doing things right. They just have gifts and talents and smartness that we should be using, but we don't.

Like steal that wisdom. I get that, girl. Heather, play the game. Who is it? She instantly thought of Elvis. Tom would love you for that, Heather. But then she changed. No, I didn't say you had to be biblical.

I'm just saying you're going to hell if you don't do biblical. But that's okay. Elvis is fine. Oh. You want to do Mary or Martha? You want to do Mary. Okay. I only ask because you're really a Martha.

Right. Yeah. Oh, so you can learn from Mary how to be not a Martha. Yeah, that's a good one. Truthfully. That's good. Tao. I mean, Tao.

Sorry, Tao. Trish, do you want to play? Trish wants to play. What is it? Andrew Womack. You know you can go to his play? Trish wants to play. What is it? Andrew Womack. You know you can go to his conferences and pretty much talk to him. He's not dead. That's still a possibility.

There you go. You might want to do that. Tempest, which is Sarah's daughter. Tempest doesn't want to play. I'm totally fine with that, Tempest. We have a couple online. Okay, tell me. Anne-Marie said that Chris Farley would be fun.

Chris Farley. Oh, yes. Chris Farley. That man in a little jacket. Oh, yeah. Do you remember that? Tom would love Chris Farley. In a little coat.

Oh, my gosh. He'd be high while he's talking to you or drunk. Probably. That would be great. Probably. As far as not him being drunk or high, but that would be a great conversation. Okay, go ahead. You never stop laughing.

And Aaron said Jeremy Clarkson from Top Gear or Tucker Carlson. Oh, yeah. Tucker Carlson's still a possibility, Aaron. I was thinking that. That's still a possibility, dude. I don't know about the other guy but yeah tucker carlson lives right around the corner yeah you never know you never know god i think is working on that man more ways than one so that's a good thing yeah um those are good girls yeah those are really good

i like that so my next question is and though that was this one's my question but i'm asking and the last one was my question just so you guys know okay i made up those two questions because i was curious i like those next question and be honest is it really the thought that counts i say no it's not depending on the person do they really put a lot of thought into it or they just give you a really the thought that counts? I say, no, it's not. Depending on the person, do they really put a lot of thought into it? Do they just give you maybe a re-gift or they just try to get it

out of the way? Do you know what I'm saying? Does the thought really count? No. No, it doesn't. I don't think so. I know Tracy probably thinks that it does because she's sweet. But just for the record, don't come and tell me. It's the thought that counts.

No, it's really not. No, it's not. To me, it's not. Like actions, it's like a lot of mouth. Actions show what really counts in my book. Not pacifying something and shoving it off to the side, just going, they have a really good heart. No, if they had a really good heart, you know what I'm saying?

No, the thought doesn't really, in my opinion. So Tracy, yours, it does. I already know. But I do, like, it's not to the place that like, oh, they're going gonna be my best friend because they did something nice it's just like okay their heart like they're trying they're trying to do something nice so yes that's what balances this out in this podcast so I know that I can suck eggs and you'll think it's the thought that really counts good to know absolutely every

time every time cups half full all the time. All the time. And then overflowing. That is true. You're a good person, Tracy. And then we keep Logan for, what do you think? Just depends. Okay.

And then there's the middleman. Yeah. Well, it always depends because it depends on the person. You can always know, like, if they really did try, then in that instance, probably the thought did count. But on the whole, on the average, in my opinion, it's a cop-out, and most people use it as a cop-out. That's the truth.

And people will say, well, ministry's jaded you. I say, no, ministry hasn't jaded me. Ministry has shown me the carnality of people and the truth. Most people are not honest people. Even though they look at themselves as honest. If they really examined who they are, they'd find out they're very deceitful about themselves and about how they perform as a believer and how they perform with others and an acceptable level of, I mean, here's the thing. Everything we should do is in excellence.

If everything we do is in excellence and we strive for excellence, most of the time the thought won't need to be counted because you've done it in excellence. That's why I don't buy into that. But listen, if you guys feel differently, that's totally fine. It's not a bad thing. It's just I just think sometimes perspective is different in the places we've been and walked.

Go ahead, Vanessa. Do you think the thought counts? I see both sides. I can see what you're saying and totally agree with you, and then I see what you're saying, Tracy, and totally agree with you. So she's Switzerland, and she's Conc you. I think. So she's Switzerland and she's conquered. I know that's okay.

Surprise, surprise. And I don't want to be Switzerland. Switzerland's conquered just so you know. But that's okay. She can't pick one or the other. But that's okay. It's hard. Because it's the condition of the heart. And so it's hard to like really judge that. Because there's always exceptions to the rule.

But which one is the rule applied to most? And that's the difference. And that's where you have to determine. There's always an exception to the rule. But is the rule more one way than the other? And that's what you have to determine. How you feel about something. That's how you can say yay or nay.

Sarah. So if the thought counts but the outcome is not good then the thought sucked to begin with. It was a bad thought. Like maybe. And if you're flowing spiritually speaking

usually you're hitting it out of the park. Correct? Go ahead Sarah. Yeah. So I have received things like gifts and I don't go for the whole, it's the thought that counts. And I'm pretty honest usually about that.

I'll be like, thank you, but this is not good. Well, if you don't ask me, well, here's the thing. If you don't ask, like there was a Christmas, my mother's probably going to go, oh's the thing. If you don't ask, like there was a Christmas. My mother's probably going to go, oh, my gosh, please don't tell this story. But there was a Christmas, right?

The Christmas, and I would only say if somebody asked me if I liked it, if I would be honest with them about it. Otherwise, I'm going to be smile. I'm going to be gracious and take it. Shut up, Heather. So here's the thing. One Christmas underneath the tree, I'm turning 16 years old. My parents buy me a 10 speed bike. Like, why would I want a 10 speed bike? Why isn't there a car out in the driveway? Correct, Tempest? Correct. Why isn't there a car in the driveway with a ribbon on it? Yeah. Okay, I don't want to ride a bike.

Right. I'm getting my license in five months. Yeah. I'm not riding the bike. So my mom ended up with the bike because I... Mm-hmm. So my dad asked, do you like it? Biggest mistake on the face of the earth.

I'm like, Sarah, I'm going to be honest. No, because I'm probably not going to ride it. I'm going to get my license. I'm going to be driving. Yeah, because I'm probably not going to ride it. I'm going to get my license. I'm going to be driving. Okay. Not happy with that response. My dad. Then my mom proceeds to go and shopping for me and buys me clothing.

Okay. But she buys me clothing that she would wear. Okay. She's 40 years old. I'm 16. Almost to be 16. So everything I opened, except for the gift from my brother,

I hated. And so my dad, religiously, do you like that? And eventually, the whole Christmas morning was ruined because don't ask if you don't want to know, but you aren't going to be mad and offended by the answer. Otherwise,

don't ask. So Christmas morning blew up like a like seriously it's like dynamite was put into the room pow it was over in two seconds i mean it was bad my mom tried but at the same time it's like she i think either took all the clothes and wore them herself or we returned everything i don't know but it was a rough christmas morning tom likes to bring that one up because he thinks it's a funny laugh and it was not funny at the time but now it's funny but i'm like you listen i will give you my opinion and if it's if i don't like it then i'm going to be honest but people need to really be cautious like don't ask if you don't want to know because Christmas time can be rough.

I know this because of my daughter, Norma. I don't ask Norma. Do you like that? Yeah. Because she's going to, she's like me. Yeah.

I'm like, just return it. Talia, thought that counts. We're a minute late. I just say no. You say no. The thought doesn't count.

Heather, does the thought count? Is it the thought that counts no thank you all right so i got i got four thoughts don't that don't count and then i got one that it does and then i got two switzerland's over there and they don't know whether they're coming or going but that that's okay. Again, there's always caveats. There's always one-offs. There's always one-offs because that's life. But there's always more one than the other. It's just like when you're in a marriage and you have a dispute about something

because something has gone awry. There's always, or you're dealing with your kids, right? And there's an argument between you and your child. There's always going to be one that is less wrong than the other. Because that's life. It's usually the parent that's more right than the child. Just for the record. I have two youngins in the room.

Oh, I don't know what that's for, but that's how it is. So there's always caveats. I will say that, especially when it comes to gifting, the people who get to know what your favorite thing is and try to figure out something and then they gift it to you, you feel seen in that moment you yes it's important yeah i could see instead of somebody just going to buy the store like 10 minutes before just to do it because that thought does not count yeah okay it doesn't you were just

trying to get yes you spent money yes you spent money and that's great and all i'm not i'm not disputing that you cared enough to spend money but care enough to take the time to find out the likes and dislikes like vanessa got uh like i don't know where did we go we got she bought like me and heather and i think tracy something right and and logan right so she what she did is she took the time to think, what do they like? And each gift was specific. Serum. Serum got me a big, huge, me and Tom, this big, huge thing. She knows, she doesn't even know us that well, but what she did is she listened to Tom preach.

She's listened to this podcast. She's like, talked talk to me on numerous occasions. And through that process, that basket had every single thing in it that I love and appreciate. She spent money, some stuff she didn't spend very much money on, but I absolutely love, like she bought this little air freshener thing. I love those. Okay. Did that cost her $10? Okay. If she would have just gotten me the air freshener that costs $10 okay did that cost her ten dollars okay if she would have just got me the air freshener that cost ten dollars i would have loved that because i love those things instead of just going and buying me a ten dollar whatever that means nothing do you understand what i'm saying it isn't the thought that counts it's if unless thought has been put into it. It matters. So, okay. Does Jesus matter to you? Hopefully he does.

But if he does not, I'm segueing right this moment. If he does not, today's your day. Because I don't know if we're going to do this on Friday. Tom's going to be here and who knows how it's going to end on Friday. So please don't wait. Yeah. So please don't wait. Because if you don't know Jesus as your Lord and Savior, I might not be able to help you before Christmas time. Yeah. We need, if you need Jesus, today's your day. If you're not saved or you've walked away from God, listen, I'm just telling you, geez, you know, tis the season, make it right, get it right. And then if you get, do it now, don't make your New Year's resolution to try and be, I have known people who said, I think I'm going to get my life right with God. I'm going to start in the new year.

And you know what? They're still not saved. It doesn't work. New Year's resolutions don't work. So let today be your day. Let's say the sinner's prayer together and let Christmas be a whole new thing for you. Like, seriously, if you thought presence and the materialistic things and all that,

if your world has consisted without the Lord and you thought that that was great, make Jesus the reason that you celebrate Christmas and it'll take you to new heights. So say this prayer with me right now. Heavenly Father, I come to you right now. I thank you that you are the gift that I can have for the rest of my life.

I thank you for what you did on the cross. I thank you that you died for my sins. I thank you that you bore stripes on your back for healing for my body. I thank you that you became poor so that I might be rich. And the wealth does not consist of just money and finances. But it consists of the wealth of walking and talking. And the life and the good life that you provide while I'm here on this earth. Whether it be friends, relationships with family.

Or just a good solid walk with you. It can be all of those things and so much more. I ask you to forgive me of my sins. I ask that I would follow the path you said in your word that our steps are ordered. So Lord, show me what you would have me to do. Give me the courage to do it And let me live with you forever In heaven when I grow old and die in jesus mighty name we pray. Amen Thank you so much for staying four minutes and 33 seconds late Have a great day next podcast. There's going to be two people sitting at this table One of them we just don't know what he's ever going to say

We always know what i'm going to say. We always know what I'm going to say. We always know what I'm going to do. We don't know about him. So thank you so much. See you on Friday and have a great rest of your day and week. Bye. Real talk. Real talk. you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you you