The Jeff Cavins Show (Your Catholic Bible Study Podcast) - Talking to God Out Loud

Episode Date: November 4, 2017

Catholics are comfortable reciting prayers out loud, but that's not the only way we're instructed to pray. We're called to speak to God in the most natural way. Wouldn't you like to be able to talk to God out loud just as you would talk to a loved one sitting beside you? In this episode, Jeff Cavins gives you advice to help you start your own conversation with God—out loud.

You're listening to the Jeff Kaven Show. Episode 39, Talking to God Out Loud. Hey, I'm Jeff Kavins. How do you simplify your life? How do you study the Bible? All the way from motorcycle trips to raising kids, we're going to talk about the faith and life in general. It's the Jeff Kaven show.

Welcome to the show. I'm glad you could join me again. We're talking this week about being a modern-day decisive. and the practices of being a modern day disciple and some of the disciplines that we can bring into our life that will be fruitful and bring us closer to the Lord and allow the Lord to be glorified through our life. And this week, I was really stuck on something that I wanted to talk to you about, something that I've been doing more and more. I've actually been doing this for many, many years. But this last few weeks, it has really become real to me in a new way. And I want to

share it with you. And it's actually about praying. And it's about praying out loud to God throughout the day. And I'm going to talk to you about that and the benefits that it has brought me in my life. And I want to challenge you to raise your prayer game, sort of speak, to a new level of praying out loud and literally, literally acting like God is with you. That he's not a concept that you're thinking about in your head throughout the day, some kind of quiet exchange of thoughts, which is good. And yes, God does hear us. But I think that biblically and experientially and relationship-wise, there is a call to us to pray out loud in a way that we've never done before, and I think it will really bring a benefit to your life. And I'm going to talk to you a

little bit about that. I'm also going to share with you a couple of clips on YouTube of some instances that really blew me away. One was an Orthodox Jewish woman in Jerusalem and her experience of talking out loud to God. And then the other is a beautiful young girl that I posted it on my Facebook page and I'm going to put the link in the show notes. She's part of a choir and they're singing praise to God and they're all kind of just singing the way little kids do except for one. And she is beside herself. She just goes to town praising God and she is not ashamed at all and I think you're going to enjoy it. Hey we got some good mail and I want to thank you for emailing me. You can get a hold of me at The Jeff Kaven Show at Ascension.

press.com and I got some really good feedback recently. I had a number of people who commented about my last show as I talked about redeeming the time, not wasting time on news television shows and how to redeem that and use the time to read scripture, pray, spend time with family, and so forth. And I think one of the individuals, Jason, offered a really unique perspective. that furthered the discussion. There's also a gentleman from Australia whose life changed dramatically when he shut off TV. And he had a really long email, appreciate that, I really do from Australia, and I know that turning off television can really change your life. Also, a lot of you

responded about baptizing your smartphone, and you gave me a lot of really good ideas as to how you're using the smartphone to serve the Lord all away from reminders in the middle of the day to changing your alarm from some jolting some jolting noise to a praise music that wakes you up in the morning. Kathy writes me and says, I love your podcast. They're so down to earth and give practical advice on how to live an authentic Catholic Christian life. She said, I laughed when I heard you speak about discovering that your phone's alarms could be set to play a song. I discovered that too. A few months ago, by accident.

Anyway, I have two songs that play, depending on which alarm time I'm using that day. One is, as I have done for you by Dan Schulte, by Dan Schulte, by Dan Schut. And the other is, will you love Jesus more sung by Phillips, Craig, and Dean? I'll have to look those songs up. She said, they remind me what my day should look like service to God without personal glory. It's all about him. So I want to thank you for, she says, I want to thank you for enriching my life in Christ, and I have done many of your Bible studies and love the immediateness of your weekly podcast.

May God bless you richly for all you do. Love Kathy. Thank you, Kathy. Appreciate that very, very much. And I do appreciate all of your feedback, and I read all of them. And it warms my heart to know that the show is making a difference in your life. Well, this last week, I was driving in the car, and I was exercising. this discipline that I'm introducing you today, which is talking to God out loud. I was doing

this in the car. And we've all driven, you know, down the road and we come up next to somebody at the stoplight and we see them talking or they are singing a song or whatever they're doing. And there's a little bit of uncomfortableness when they suddenly realize, oh, someone's looking at me. I'm, I've got to put the phone up to my ear to make it look like I'm making a legitimate call here, and the truth is they might be singing a song. And we've also become used to coming up next to people in traffic, and they're talking as if talking to no one, but we know that they're using a speakerphone in their car, and they may be calling their husband, their wife, a spouse, you know, a friend or, you know, work, I'm going to be late,

or just talking to a friend, whatever it might be. When I was growing up, it was quite a bit more strange to be talking to nobody in the car. Nowadays, I think it doesn't bother people as much, and they don't consider it quite as, you know, weird to be talking in the car. But anyway, I was driving, and I was beginning to pray, and there's really a number of ways to pray, and they're all legitimate, they're all good. And typically, you know, I would go down that road of I'm praying by just thinking some thoughts to God. Lord, thank you for your grace, and I thank you for your life today, help me, Lord, and raising my daughters, help me, you know, in this situation or that situation. But I don't move, I don't move my lips. I just think these things. And the

question comes up, well, can God understand your thoughts if you don't articulate them? And the answer is, absolutely, God can understand your thoughts. The blessed mother can understand your thoughts because she is outside of time, and she has a particular charism as a mother in the family of God. It's been said by theologians that the enemy cannot understand your thoughts, and I believe that's true that the enemy cannot read your mind. He can certainly listen to you. He can read your actions and get a pretty good profile on who you are and what your weaknesses are and so forth. But yes, God can read our hearts as we pray in silence, which is certainly a very good thing to do. But I want to introduce you to praying out loud. While I was in the car, I started

to pray, starting silently, and then I just started talking out loud in the car, which I have actually done for many years now. And it went something like this. Lord, I'm getting ready to go home now. And I don't know how many are at home. I think my wife's at home. I think Emily's at home. You know who's at home. Lord, help me when I go home to be a servant and to be kind to my daughter. and whatever happens tonight in the schedule, if anything is thrown off, may I not respond in an ugly way, but in a way that would honor you. Lord, I'm so grateful for what you've been doing in my life. And I'm so grateful for your grace and your beauty and your power and your glory today. And I just wanted you to know that. And I just want to say that to you, Lord. I love

you and I and I worship you. Well, now let me throw in an name in there. But somebody driving up next to me may think that I'm just talking on the phone to somebody when the truth of the matter is I'm talking to the creator of the universe. And as I do this more, you know, talking to the Lord as I'm getting ready in the morning in the bathroom and I'm talking out loud. I was mowing the lawn not too long ago and someone in my family asked who I was talking to. assuming I was talking on the phone, I said, oh, no, I was just talking to God while I was mowing the lawn. It stopped at one point, and I carried on a conversation for a little bit about some things that I was dealing with and needed his help. And I just stopped, you know, rather than thinking these things, which is legit, don't get me wrong, I felt like I really needed to have a discussion with the Lord.

And that's something that's been changing my life, to be honest with you. It's been changing my life more and more as I go on. wonder, have you done that in your life? Have you had times where you just talk to the Lord like you would, a regular conversation with somebody? Now, my wife and I have been married, it's going to be 40 years coming up. And as we're driving in the car or we're walking around a lake, I certainly have thoughts about her. And I know she has thoughts about me. But we would never think about going on a trip together in the car or going to church or going to the mall and literally not saying a thing. And if my wife said to me, you know, honey, we've been in the car

for two hours and we've been driving and you've been so quiet, you haven't said anything. And I said, well, I'm so sorry that you feel that way. The truth is, I have been talking to you all this time. I've had thoughts about you for the last two hours in the car. Well, she might say, well, I'm not God. I don't know that. It would be nice to hear your voice. And I think sometimes, you know, when it gets down to our relationship with the Lord, the Lord may even be saying to us, I'd like to hear from you. I want you to speak to me as though I'm real, not just a theological concept or some kind of ethereal God in the sky that you think about, but I'm real. I'm with you. I am Emmanuel, God with me. He's with me. And as I relate to my wife, I also need to relate to God because it's a bridal-spousal relationship.

Now, I have learned a few things about praying over the years, and I want to share just a few thoughts with you, and then I'm going to share an amazing, amazing video clip. and I'm going to give you the URL in the show notes, because I want you to watch it and see what. I'm going to describe it to you. I'm going to spell out the clip, but I want you after the show to go and actually watch it. It's very short. I'm even going to give you the exact moment in the film that this quote takes place.

Well, you know, when we talk about prayer in general, we learn to pray when we're little children, and when we learn to pray at our mother's feet, our father's feet at the kitchen table, going to bed at night. Our first words, our first introduction to prayer is out loud. We kneel down next to our bed. Our parents teach us, our father, who art in heaven, hallow it be thy name. Our parents would be rare for our parents to say, I want you to kneel down and then I want you to think this prayer. That would be quite odd. They typically would say, repeat after me. And we learn

the very first words of prayer in our life. We learn to say them out loud. And, you know, you even got that, remember that semi-morbid prayer, now I lay me down to sleep, you know, remember that prayer? If I die, imagine this, six-year-old kids, if I die before I wake, I pray my soul you'll take, you know. Well, yay for trying, but it's kind of a scary prayer. For a little six- or seven-year-old, every night talk about dying tonight, and if I die before I wake, I pray you'll take my soul. But we do learn to pray out loud by bowing, you know, kneeling down at the bed or at the dinner table, we learn to pray out loud. And when we're little, we oftentimes make mistakes. But the beautiful thing about being little and learning how to pray

is it's okay. It's all right, you know. Our Heavenly Father knows our needs and it's okay to make mistakes, and it's okay to express that to the Lord. When the disciples saw the Lord pray, they were moved by his prayer. I don't think they were necessarily moved by what he may have been thinking. I think they probably overheard him at times when he prayed, and they finally said, Lord, teach us to pray. Teach us to pray the way you are praying. And I think God rejoices in our desire to pray. He doesn't condemn us for not praying perfectly, but he is very, very patient. And as we grow older, I think we tend to lose this childlike essence of prayer. We become sophisticated. We become smart. We become educated. And we don't talk

out loud. We just think things. And I'm not there anymore. You know, I mean, I do do that. I do think and pray in silence, but I so like talking to the Lord out loud. I think that we, as we grow older, become more aware of ourselves and how we'll be perceived and less aware of our focus on God. And fear enters in. We have a fear of looking foolish, of a fear of failing or letting other people down. I remember one time when I was 18 years old, I was at a prayer meeting, and it was a Protestant prayer meeting,

and I had never prayed out loud in my life, in an extemporaneous way, which is the ultimate fear for most Catholics, is to get into some kind of prayer meeting and someone say, hey, Frank, hey Susan, would you lead us in prayer? And oftentimes they'll say, well, I've never done this before. They have prayed, wrote prayers, which is good. But what they're saying is, I've never prayed out loud like this and expressed my heart in front of anybody else.

Well, I think we can grow into that. and I think there's so much inside of our heart that we want to express to God about real life and problems we're facing. I know in the Old Testament in 1 Samuel chapter 1 in verse 13, I'll put this in the show notes. By the way, you have this young woman by the name of Hannah, and Hannah doesn't have any children, and she wants children with all of her heart. She really does. And Eli, her husband observes something. He kind of sneaks up on her, and he overhears.

hears her as she is praying to God. She's praying to God, and Hannah was speaking in her heart, and her lips were moving. It was so deep within her that her lips were moving, and her voice was not heard. And Eli took her to be a drunken woman at that point, and she responded that she just wanted a child. She wanted a child, and she ended up getting the child,

and that child is Samuel, the great young. prophet Samuel, the 13th judge, if you will. Now, while Hannah didn't make any noise with her mouth, the moving of her lips expressed a deep, deep affection for God in her, in her life, in her heart. And that's a good thing. To pray silently is a good thing. To move your lips and express your thoughts to God in a real way when the chips are really down. When you hear from the doctor that you have cancer when your when your child got picked up for for drugs or or or you just lost a sister whatever it might be to express your your anguish and your heart to god is a healthy thing and a real thing yes we can think the prayer yes we can move our lips but to say it out loud

and i think we should have the faith of a child the courage to pray to sing to god at the top of our lungs and not be burdened down by what we sound like or what others will think. There's a great example on Facebook that I saw this week. And I'm going to put the link in the show notes, but I put it on, I put it on my Facebook, which is just Jeff S. Kavens. It's Facebook.com forward slash Jeff S. Kavins. And it is a young girl. And she is absolutely, absolutely a delight. A delight. A lady by the name of Jennifer Peterson posted this. It's a choir of children in a church singing, and there's one girl who is singing and expressing her love and praise to God in such an amazing way. In an amazing way, she's expressing her love to God. So after the show, go ahead and look at that video. It is going to bless you. I'm telling you what.

see children unafraid to express praise and worship to God and express their heart to God I'll tell you what it really does something it really does it just touched it touched my heart a lot so I want to

I want to encourage you to pray to God and ask for the courage to pray out loud pray out loud and express that that heart to him you know the history of the Jewish people is actually quite interesting because the Jewish people have a habit of praying out loud.

They have a habit of praying out loud and even muttering words to the Lord as they pray. It's like a meditation that springs up in their heart through their mouth and they begin to pray. And oftentimes you will hear them pray the Psalms this way. They will mutter, utter, and mumble the Psalms to the Lord. and it's a beautiful thing. Even in our own Mass, what if everybody came to Mass and nobody said anything? Because the Mass is our greatest prayer.

The Mass is the greatest expression of praise to God. And when we hear God's Word proclaimed in the liturgy of the Word, the first half of the Mass, there's a response. It's called the Responsorial Psalm. And we all say it. We say it out loud. We don't think it. We say it out loud. And the Psalms are the school of prayer. The Psalms teach us how to respond to God and how to talk to God. If you want a good language book, you want a good curriculum for how to pray out loud to God, read the Psalms. In the Great Adventure, we have just a wonderful study on the Psalms. If you look it up on the great adventure, it put it in the show notes. But in that study, we really teach. you that this is the school of prayer and we do this out loud we pray out loud but the mass itself is one great big response to the Lord and particularly the responsorial Psalms are are really really important really important you

know I was thinking and this the other day and I was sharing this with a friend that that as Catholics oftentimes that I'm going to do a whole show on this sometime I think we as Catholics we excel in secondary contact with God. What do I mean by that? We excel in exercises that teach us about God. They explain how to pray. They discuss what goes on in the Mass. They go deep into the sacraments and the saints. And we have a sense that we have come into contact with truth, which is true. But it's a secondary contact with God. It's not a primary contact where we actually talk to God. We taste God. We worship God. We actively trust him with our will. But it's a

secondary contact with God. It's good. We're reading about things. But I want to encourage you in the area of prayer to go beyond excelling at secondary contact and excel at primary contact. That is talk to God. Talk to him as if he's real and he's with you in the car. He's walking with you down the street. He is with you going into that business meeting. He is with you as you go to school to pick up the children. God is with you. Emmanuel, God is with you. Now, there's some things that would really benefit us when we look at this in a real way. And I'm going to share those with you. And then I'm going to conclude with this amazing video clip from a movie that I want you to watch that this movie clip that I'm going to share with you has has and I saw it I don't know it must

have been seven or eight years ago something like that I'm telling you it changed my life what what I'm going to share with you changed my life when it comes to prayer and I know that it will with you you're listening to the Jeff Kaven show stay with me we'll be right back Hey guys, this is Shayna from Ascension. I don't know if you've heard, but with the Sension's new digital delivery platform, you can start a study with anyone anywhere. Here's how to do it. First, go to Ascensionpress.com and create a free online account.

Once you're there, preview any of our study programs for free, and choose the one you'd like to leave. Then, find at least three friends, family members, or coworkers who want to do the study with you. Once you have your group, make sure everyone registers to receive their study materials. Then you're ready to go. Meet with your group in person, online, or both. It's that simple. Welcome back to the Jeff Kaven show, talking about talking to God out loud. Sometimes we hear people say, well, I'm just going to go and have a quiet time with God.

But you know, a quiet time is kind of a misnomer in some ways. It's more like I'm going to go have a noisy time with God. I think I'm just going to take some time tonight and have an out loud time with God. I'm going to talk to God out loud. And we don't even think in those terms, do we? We really don't, but we think I'm going to have a quiet time with God. Well, have a noisy time with God. Get real.

Tell them where you're at. Tell them what's going on in your heart. express the emotion, act like he's real, and it'll do some things for you. Number one, is I think that talking to God out loud makes the relationship more real. It makes it more real. There's something incarnational about this prayer life when we go from simply thinking something to expressing it and expressing it with emotion. It concretizes the relationship.

It makes it real. It's in this world. It's like Jesus becoming flesh. My thoughts have become flush. My thoughts have become real prayers and petitions to God about my children and my wife and our finances, my emotions, and the neighbors and politics, you know, all of it. So number one, it makes the relationship more real. Number two, it solidifies memories of special times with God.

You've had special times with God. You've had incredible encounters with God. And when you speak out loud and pray in those circumstances, something happens to memorialize that event. Let me give you an example. About four years ago, I went to the dermatologist and they told the dermatologist that I needed to have a couple of things frozen off my face because of skin damage as I was a kid and looked like a young Irishman. And I have to do this every year or two. And I went in And he said, yep, looks like a couple things. We're going to take that, what do you call that stuff?

That's like a gas, they spray on you. It stings, you know. And you get a little blister. And he said, you know, you're due for a body scan. And I said, I don't have time today. I got so much to do today. We'll do it next time. And he said, Jeff, it only takes 10 minutes.

And I said, all right, already. Let's do it. So he did this body scan. And on my back, he found this little dot. And he said, I don't like that. He said, I'm going to cut it off in biopsy. and we'll see what we'll see what it is and I said okay whatever just let's do it because I got to go so he cut it off gave me a couple stitches that was on Monday on Friday I'm sitting at the kitchen

table with my wife and my assistant Paula and I get a phone call and I look down I saw that it was the dermatologist and and I hadn't been thinking about it frankly and he said are you in a place where you can talk hate that when they say that it's like it's like are you in a good place where you could die right now are you in a good place where you could talk. I said, yeah. And he said, yeah, you have melanoma. And it's a, it looks like an aggressive melanoma on your back. I went, oh. And I got up and I said to my wife and Paul, I said, I'll be right back. I have to take this call. And I went in the backyard and I talked to him. And he wanted me in on Monday for surgery. I was supposed to go down to Ave Maria in Florida to teach

focus missionaries. I said, can I do it? The surgery in a week? He said, no, no, we need to get this thing off now. Well, I went back in the backyard. And I stood behind. the shed. And I hung up and I got real with God. And I spoke out loud. And I said, Lord, I didn't think this. I spoke it out loud. I said, Lord, I said, I have been serving you for over 35 years consciously. And I have never been let down by you. You have always been faithful, even when I'm not. And Lord, I have learned to trust you in every situation. And with this news from my dermatologist,

that I have cancer, I trust you. I continue to trust you, O Lord, with all of my heart, you have been so good. I delight in you and I praise you and I just began praising God. Now, a peace came over me at that way. moment that I cannot even describe to you, a piece that, a piece that frankly passes all understanding, if you want to be biblical. But there was something about saying this behind the shed. I've never looked at that shed the same again. I've never looked at that part of the

backyard ever the same again as the day that I proclaimed with my mouth. I trust you, O Lord. I trust you. I trust you, O Lord. You know, Paul says in Romans chapter 8 and verse 26, the spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words can't express. So there's a depth of prayer that even goes to that groaning, that groaning expression. Peter writes in 1st Peter 5, 7, and cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. He cares for you. Now, in the New Testament, when Jesus teaches about prayer,

like in Matthew chapter 6 and verse 6, this will be on all this list in the show notes. He says, go to your room and shut the door, he tells us, and pray, and pray. And if others can't hear you, you're more likely to talk straight and you won't be tempted to mouth, you know, some other type of prayer. You're going to be real, you're going to be straight with God. And so if you are in the car alone, you are at your house alone, in the backyard alone, you're mowing the lawn. Go ahead. Go ahead and talk to the Lord. Oftentimes, like in Matthew 14 and Luke 5, Jesus went up on the mountain by himself to pray. He would withdraw to desolate places and pray.

And as I said earlier, the disciples saw him, and I imagine on certain occasions they heard him. And their response was, Lord, teach us to pray like this. Teach us to pray like this. In Hebrews 5.7, it says of Jesus, In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard for his godly fear. Now, I want to share with you this clip from the movie

that I've been kind of teasing along here in the show because I think it's worth saving to the end. Earlier I spoke about the clip from Jennifer Peterson and the girls singing in the choir, I encourage you to watch that. I think you're going to be blown away by that. But a number of years ago, I saw a movie, which was really an unusual movie. It was unusual for a number of reasons. One is that it takes place in a very ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem, right by a place called Mea Shereem, Meashireem, and also known as the Brezlov community in Jerusalem. They typically don't allow people to come in with cameras, recording, and in fact,

they don't even want you going through their neighborhood. I made the mistake one time back in the early 80s, went through there on the Sabbath, took a few stones in the back, and learned my lesson. But this is a movie called Ush-Pazin. It's in the show notes. U-S-H-P-I-Z-I-N, Ush-Pazin, it's on YouTube, the whole thing. and the basic storyline is this. Moshe and Mali Belonga are an impoverished, childless, Hasidic couple in this ultra-Orthodox community in Jerusalem. Now, after Moshe is passed over for a stipend, he expected,

they cannot pay their bills. And they cannot pay their bills. much less come up with the money to celebrate the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Now, in this Jewish holiday of Sukkot, they have what they call four species that are required for the holiday observance. One of them is a beautiful etrog, or citron. And they console themselves by recalling a saying of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov that difficult times are a test of faith.

And after some anguishing prayer, they received an unexpected gift. the day before the holiday and Moshe buys the Etrog for a thousand shekels, it's about 300 bucks is a large amount of money that they really can't afford but they want to make the holiday special. Here comes the problem. The couple is visited

by a pair of escaped convicts, one of whom knew Moshe in his earlier non-religious life. The convicts become their guests. Ushpezine. That's what that means, Ushbezine, creating many conflicts and straining Moshe and Molly's relationship. They fight, they argue, they get into disagreements with these two convicts at the great holy time of the year when they can't even afford it.

And one moment in the film, Molly, his wife, is seen on a tight angle with the camera. she goes out on the balcony, lights up a cigarette, and takes a drag, looks out over the balcony with a tight angle shot, and she says, I have to tell you, your sweet, righteous, beloved, I'm just crazy about you. You did it big time. You gave me another chance. And then the camera, begins to go to a wide angle, and there's nobody there as she says, Father, I swear I'll do anything not to let you down, anything. And you suddenly realize she's praying to God. She's being real.

And it was life-changing for her, and to be honest with you, it was life-changing for me, to witness that level of honesty transparency, passion, authenticity. I have to tell you you're sweet, righteous, beloved. I'm just crazy about you.

You did it big time. You gave me another chance. Father, I swear I'll do anything, not to let you down. Anything. I want to encourage you this week. By the way, that's going to be in the show notes. Ushpazin, the visitor. It's at the 15.9.

nine minute mark, and all that will be in the notes. I want to leave you this week, my friend, by encouraging you over this week, make an effort to talk to God in a real way, foster that relationship, talk to him in a real way, talk to him as if he's really there. You say, but he is there, oh, I know, but talk to him as if he's really there. And it'll make a difference in your life. Whatever you're facing this week with your finances, your relationship, your health. I just got a call from a dear friend just today who has colon cancer, and I'm going to pray for her, out loud. And whatever you're facing in your life, it's okay to talk to God in your head. Don't get me wrong. But take another step this week and talk to him out loud,

and express your heart to him. And you'll be surprised that when you start to do that, emotions begin to be moved and deeper things come up from your heart, things that you never knew were there. I want to encourage you to go to iTunes and rank the show, leave some comments. You can also listen to the show and pass it on to others, not only with iTunes, but with ascensionpresents.com. The more times we check it off and we like it and tell other people about it, the higher it goes in the ranks, and we can get this good news out to more and more people. Pass it on to your loved ones. Pass it on to those in your Bible study and at church.

Let me pray for you out loud. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, Lord, I lift up my friends to you today who are going through difficulties, going through life. I pray, Lord, that you would intervene in their life and show yourself strong as a shepherd as the lover of their soul. I thank you, Lord, for comforting them in the midst of their difficulty, and I pray that you will,

will grant them tremendous grace and peace in their heart, whatever they are going through. And this week, Lord, as we're in the car, remind us at different times, hey, I want you to talk to me. And I want to talk to you. We invite that level of intimacy, Lord, as we learn to talk to you out loud.

In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, my friend, you have a great week. Okay, God bless.