nugget for Jessica

The speaker begins by expressing excitement about their one-year anniversary and upcoming adoption. They then discuss how they have been encountering people who they consider walking miracles and mention specific Bible verses about miracles. They share stories of meeting a police officer who survived a terrible crash and a woman who almost died from a rare disease but is now leading a Bible study. They emphasize that God is still in the miracle working business and encourage gratitude for the small blessings in life. They also mention being thankful for the recent snowstorm, share the joy of a new grandbaby, and reflect on a positive experience at a church conference. The speaker highlights the difference between peacemakers and peacekeepers, and discusses the challenges faced by reformers. They encourage listeners to consider the perspectives of troublemakers and to stand firm in their own beliefs. The episode concludes with excitement about the start of Season 4. Okay. Here we are in 2024. We're coming up on our one year anniversary. Woohoo! Can you believe we've been doing this a whole year? Wow. Isn't that crazy? It is. And before we go into our Nuggets section, I just want to say, when this airs, our baby will be legally A. Rogers. Yay! And we're going into adoption this Friday. Before this is recorded. Or before this is aired. Before this is aired, yes. Alright. So I had to throw that in there. That's my blessing right now and that I'm living the high off of. We are so excited. They'll finally call him ours on paper. He's always been ours in our heart. But we're excited. So anyway, let's get into our Spiritual Nuggets before we get started with our first guest. Lately, the Lord has really just had... I feel like God works in my life with reoccurring things. And it makes sense as a teacher because we learn by repetition. Lately, I've just noticed I'm meeting a lot of people who I consider are just walking miracles. In the Bible, I found five different verses about miracles. Acts 3.16. Deuteronomy 10.21. I'm just spitting these out. You can pause and look them up on your own. Exodus 15.26. Jeremiah 32.27. John 2.11. Talks about how God is capable of these miracles and how there is nothing that He cannot do. I recently talked to people. I met a man this weekend. We were doing some training in Tennessee. We weren't even really having a God discussion, but it went there because he's a miracle. He had been in this horrible crash in the line of duty. He was a police officer. He had gotten T-boned. His whole entire right side of his body was crushed. He had torn kidneys and all the computer systems that come in on him. It was really terrible. He had to relearn to walk. It was just a miracle that he was there. I've just met so many people like that lately. Last night, I went to a Bible study. The girl who's doing our Bible study, who may be a guest on here soon, started talking about this time in her life. I had actually forgotten about it, but she almost died. She had this very rare disease, disorder. I'm not sure how you would refer to it. Something very rare. The doctors couldn't figure out how to treat her. Everybody was afraid she wasn't going to make it. Here she was leading this incredible Bible study and a walking miracle. Her neighbor actually just had this horrible crash. People were afraid. This is it. Oh my gosh. She's so young. This is so sad. She is recovering. She's been moved from ICU to step down. She's recognizing people. God is still in the miracle working business. It's just amazing. I think we just take for granted so many little things. He does do these great things, but I think sometimes He does these great big things so that we recognize the small things and we're grateful for it. Last night, the girl doing the Bible study mentioned that as well. She said the day after that crash of her neighbor, she was just thankful to be able to cook breakfast. We just had this horrible snowstorm, ice storm, whatever. I know a lot of people were complaining, but I was really thankful to just have some time where I'm not on the go. I could read my Bible more and just slow down. I could complain about some things because after I'm with my husband for a certain amount of time, I forget my wedding vows about loving each other and all that kind of stuff. You know what I'm talking about. You know my husband. It was nice just to slow down and appreciate some small moments of being able to put my kid down for a nap and just be there. I think it's important we remember those small moments are God's blessings. Well, you were talking about the snowpocalypse that we just survived in this past week. Well, I have a lot to be thankful for during that time, too. What do you got? What do you got? I had a new grandbaby born. I didn't get to be at the hospital because of the ice and snow and all that, but I was stuck at home with my other two grandbabies. I got to enjoy that time. I'm so thankful that with my job, I'm able to work from home some. I was able to work and help Emi with the kids. My other daughter, Emi, I can help her with the kids and just get to enjoy that time. Like you said, just kind of slow down a little bit and do that. That's not my nugget. Yes, I'm thankful for that, but that is not a moment of gratitude. Yes, yes. This past weekend, I went to our church conference. Now, let me just tell you, Thursday afternoon when we were leaving, I just had this feeling of dread. I do not want to go to this. I don't want to go do this. I'm just going because my husband is the delegate from the church. He asked me to go with him, so I'm just going to be the good wife and I'm going to go with him. Y'all, I am on a spiritual high from this weekend because the worship was awesome. The people there were awesome. I got to see a lot of people that I knew that I haven't seen in a while and things like that. It was just a great spiritual weekend. Just time with the Holy Spirit. Y'all know I've said this before. When the Holy Spirit is present, I cry. I did a lot of crying this weekend. It was just very moving. It was just a great time. One thing that I picked up, I've got lots of notes. Y'all will be hearing about this for months on end probably. The one thing that I came home with, Matthew 5, 9 says, Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called the children of God. The speaker said, the Bible says, blessed are the peacemakers, not the peacekeepers. I had to stop and think about that. What's the difference? What is he saying? Peacekeepers are people that just accept things and try to smooth things over and not make a change. Whereas peacemakers have to make peace as things are changing. They also said, reformers are often misunderstood. I thought, yes. When you're trying to stand up for something, when you are trying to make a stand and make a point, people often look at you and say, they're just being difficult. They're a difficult person. They're just trying to cause trouble. This is not on. It's not, is it? But we're still recording. So what does this do? Well, I don't know. I guess we will see. The red means it's... No, that's the sound. I don't know. It was on while we were recording her, at least. We'll go back and listen to this and see. I don't even know where I was. What was I saying? Reformers are looked at as troublemakers. So the next time you see a troublemaker, the next time you come across someone who you think is just trying to stir things up, stop and think about what they're saying and what they're doing. Because I've been in that situation before at my church. I know a lot of people thought that I was just trying to cause trouble when I was just trying to take a stand. But that's what I've got this week. Love it. I think we've both been in those situations where we feel strong. I don't think a lot of people have. We feel strong like this is right. Like this is biblical and it feels like everybody else is crazy and they're calling you crazy. And it's what is wrong with the world? The Bible says we're going to have faith times like that where His truth will not be accepted. Yeah, it does. I love it. Alright, let's get into Season 4!