You probably know the Robertson family from A&E’s hit reality show, Duck Dynasty. From crazy long beards to crazy Uncle Si moments, America fell in love with the family from West Monroe, LA. For 11 seasons, America watched the Robertson family have a lot of fun while running their duck hunting business, Duck Commander, as well as live out their faith. They even closed each episode with a family prayer around the dinner table. Now that the show is off the air, the Robertsons continue to live their lives for the glory of the Lord.
family family is everything making sure
that you’re connected to the people that
really God gave you you know you didn’t
choose your family members this for the
most part there you are just plopped in
this group of people who are your family
and every time I see a family that loves
each other they are encouraging of each
other they’re lifting each other up
there’s a healthy dynamic there I just
want to get to know them better I want
to know what makes them so connected and
how God is working in their lives and
and learn what I can learn from families
with you know one generation leads to
the next generation that leads to the
next generation and there’s no more
beautiful picture and our day and age
than the family that I’m gonna be
talking to you today so stay tuned
you’re not gonna want to miss this
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for 11 seasons 11 seasons America was
captured and intrigued and curious and
drawn to a family that just kind of
permeated the airwaves and we were so
proud of them what kind of sat back
celebrating this particular family not
only because of the health of their
family the dynamic that they displayed
but also because of their firm faith I
mean they just were not ashamed of the
fact that they believed what they
believed no matter what anybody else
around them was saying we celebrated
this incredible family and I’ve wanted
for quite a while to sit down and chat
with with not only the members of the
family that I knew because I’d met you
know one or two every now and then or
throughout the years but I really wanted
to sit down and talk with you know some
layers of generations because I wanted
to talk to one and then the other and
then the other who had poured into that
one and just sort of figure out a little
bit more about this family dynamic and
what we can learn about making sure that
our families are healthy as well and so
would you please help me to welcome this
incredible family Sadie her mother Cory
and then her mother Miss Kris Howard
would you welcome the Robertsons
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I’m so glad to see you guys here thank
y’all for coming first of all can I just
acknowledge what we’re all seeing right
now that y’all have some good genes your
family
I mean seriously that the DNA is a is
for real and that’s you guys are
beautiful through and through I want to
just dive right in and ask you kind of
the questions that I know people really
want to know and then there are some
questions that you know just I really
want to know and I’m going to ask those
questions too but I want to ask you
about being on television
cuz really people can’t quite figure out
what does it mean to have a reality
television so like what does it look
like day in and day out or people just
kind of following you all the time I
mean how do you navigate that in the
regular rhythms of life yeah well we
have a big family so we’re used to
people in our homes all the time so
people were always like did it drive you
crazy that the crew was there and we’re
like no it’s just kind of like come on
in like more people you know it was fun
it really was and we just felt like it
was I mean what a blessing to get to do
so we all work together and for their
kids to get to spend time with their
crazy uncle sy and their more time with
their grandparents and all that and my
mom was the onset tutor so when the kids
miss school for filming my mom was there
and she you know tutored the kids
through school and everything so it was
just a family affair it was it was a lot
of fun cuz cuz the 11 seasons means you
grew up yeah this is your home yes
mister childhood yeah being on
television so how old are you now Sadie
I’m 20 now and I was 13 when we first
started filming so yeah I’ve kind of
grown up on a TV which can be kind of
embarrassing at times you learned to
drive onto a first date on – yeah first
yeah good times huh
Hey so miss Chris I’ve got lots of
questions for you I can’t wait to ask
you several things that I want to ask
you say well it’s true I’ve just been
kind of admiring you from afar for many
reasons but for for people that that
don’t know all the dynamics of your
family like how many kids how many
grandkids you mentioned how big the
family is would you just kind of give us
a little bit of the outline of the
family tree here
well our side of our family is very big
as well as the Robertson side of our
family but we’ve been very connected for
many years we vacationed together every
summer we still go to the beach together
and we had 65 of us yeah yes so we’ve
always shared life together with the
Robertson family ever since Corey
married Willy and our side the family of
course I have my mother who’s still
living in as the matriarch of our
neighborhood she’s the first house she’s
the gatekeeper we say she’s the first
house of the neighbourhood then when you
come into the neighborhood four of
Corey’s side of the family and four of
well the Robertson side and then four of
our side of the family live on the same
street so the kids are the common
denominator in the middle and it’s both
sides of the family right is lots of fun
so everybody lives together so you’re
right next to your cousins oh yeah right
next to mine yeah you know that’s kind
of like a little bit like our family we
were talking a little bit in the back
that my sister and I were next-door
neighbours for a long time and her three
boys were the same age as her three boys
are the same ages as my three and we
kind of homeschooled them together so I
took recess and lunch at my house but it
was just like a zoo all day long
six boys were just running back and
forth between the houses but it’s kind
of like cousins always in so I am NOT
the cook Willie’s the cook in our house
if you watch the show you probably they
make fun of me a little bit for my
cooking skills but just fine because
like there’s other things I’m good at
it was a joke in our family because
they’d say whenever like her dining room
light went on I would turn on John Luke
would like pop in like Kramer on
Seinfeld that’s like kind of us in
through the door because he’d know
there’s like there was food there and
there wasn’t you need
so that’s kind of how it works like
there’s things that I’m good at and all
the kids come to me for and then yeah
Missy cooks and he runs across the
street for her well even this week John
Luke
Cory’s oldest is at Liberty now John
camara cater there so he wanted to have
a big Mart Mardi Gras party so he called
me in the morning Oh Thursday or Friday
and probably because it couldn’t get
Cory on you know the grandparents on the
back-up plan we we’re the second-string
we’re ready to go in whenever they
called me and and he said yeah I said
are you getting ready for your party and
you said yes
but I have a question and my first
question was is it a cooking question
because he knows with this this is not
the person yeah but I told him I said
call me mojo that’s my mother and it’s
just so awesome that they have that go
there’s the backup and the backup and
the other backup when everybody you know
there’s somebody who’s gonna be able to
answer your question you know it’s just
such a neat thing it is neat and I’m
really curious from your vantage point
because you’ve got you know the the
years and the longevity and some
seasoning to your life is what I like to
call it where you can kind of think back
to things you prayed things you asked
God for the hopes that you had just for
your own kids and then thinking forward
to grandkids and those sorts of things
what is your perspective now that you
look and you see this family like your
mother still being behind you the wind
behind your sails is she’s still there
what is your vantage point about
faithfulness about just doing the thing
day in and day out and showing up for
your family well that is it that’s
exactly what what you says is that they
right and I said that to a group of that
I was teaching just recently that the
older you get what you discover that
makes the biggest difference is
consistency if you just stick with
something long enough people will notice
and that will make a difference in
people’s lives and so just you know
having our mother having my Mojo’s still
in the family it’s huge you know for all
of us but so because what we have is
that consistency of what our legacy is
about and Memaw still says things like
there’s
nothing is worth being unkind of
somebody you know when you hear things
like that and you pass it down to this
one and she passes it down to that one
and the one who said it first is still
there watching it makes a big difference
you know our children I don’t think they
ever felt like and you guys can speak to
it because these were the kids on the
neighborhood Cory – I don’t think they
ever felt like they were being guarded
or watched in a bad way they were just
being protected and taught right you
know I don’t I don’t think they ever
felt like the all-seeing eye is watching
you and why you do it was just more of
you know this is how our family operates
this is how our faith we live out our
faith and we expect you to live that way
– not in a bad way but in a great way
yeah well and I appreciate what you’re
saying because it really lifts a little
bit of a burden off of those of us that
are in the middle of raising kids right
now that it’s not perfection its
consistency right it’s just pick pick
the thing you’re gonna do yeah and then
just do that show up and do that thing
what what did your mom just do like what
was she just doing regularly that now
you realize it’s just a part of the
fabric of your life you just kind of
think it you say it you do it because
you know we all grow up and become our
mothers I know that she’s so right they
are the most consistent women and it’s
funny she said that cuz my mojo my
great-grandmother who’s her mom we like
call each other a lot cuz we’re very
close and she said to me the other day I
was really upset about something and she
said well she always says well honey
you’re not kind to them because they’re
kind to you you’re kind because we’re
kind and so it’s funny cuz she literally
just said that to me what she always
said to her and yeah they’re just
consistent but my mom said my mom is
always gonna think it you can see that
in us as siblings is she like is so
goofy at last that herself all the time
and to me that is consistent and that’s
awesome and that takes that pressure off
like you said to not be perfect but to
be consistent because that my mom is
perfect I would feel pressure and I
would be like oh cause she’s like she’s
always acting like she’s perfect
whatever but she’s so real and relatable
that’s how we have a relationship and
with all of my siblings especially me
and John Luke and Will and Bella where
we all are and Rebecca how many of y’all
is there six of it there’s six of you
all of us we all like our laugh at
ourselves Allah and our goofy and laugh
with each other and don’t get offended
easily because that’s how mom was in our
life and we saw that with her and dad
that makes fun of her all the time
laugh at it and it she’s just relatable
and I think that is I think that’s the
part of like humility and liability of
yourself more highly than you ought and
I think that that’s something that maybe
is not taught but it can be taught in a
fun way you know like let’s just don’t
flap that’s right idea if it’ll laugh at
yourself don’t take yourself too
seriously and know that there’s
something that’s way more important than
then whatever little thing that we’re
going through right now yeah and that’s
a funny thing to point on kids I could
say a million things about my mom and
consistency is she’s always answering
the phone whenever I need her she’s
always quoting scripture and this is one
of my favorite things about my mom is
obviously I used to struggle with fear
because I have a book called live
realist but my mom never really
struggled with fear as I could see she
but she’s kind of that person like
proverbs 31 she laughs at the future
he’s school like there’s a fire she’s
ruining and saving people and I’m like
this is like that person but she learned
all the scriptures about like do not
fear Aldo so when I was panicking she
would start quoting them and speaking
them over me and to meet that
consistency even though she wouldn’t
struggle with that she saw her daughter
did and she walked that out with me and
covered it in truth and didn’t say oh
it’s okay cuz things are scary
she said no listen I’m there with you
but we’re gonna speak truth over this
and we’re gonna you know cover this and
now you speak it you know and now add
the drop if anything happens I remember
my mom and I also remember here my
great-grandma say this to my mom do not
fear for I am with thee do not be
made because that’s consistent we hear
that in our house all the time so
there’s a million things I could go on
about but that and just laughing at
herself those are things day in and day
out I see my mom do and I’ve also seen
it and my brothers and my sisters and
stuff so I’m really curious about this
miss Cory is she right that you weren’t
afraid of that that’s not something you
struggled with or did you become
well-versed on fighting with the word of
God in regards to fear because there is
something that maybe your daughter
didn’t even know that was a struggle
with you feel wiser this answer well mom
does tell a story and I remember this
very plainly it was about five years old
and we my mom and dad always worked with
the youth group and like so I always
wanted to do what the youth group did
and you know they were members us em I
was like you didn’t fear even when you
were five years old I like so long
across the thing and we were on a we had
taken them floating down one of the
rivers you know how you float down the
Buffalo River or whichever one and there
was also a pulley that you could jump
and hold onto and go across like a
zipline my and she was five I knew there
was no way she could do that and she’s
insisted that she could’ve showed you
yeah dad like a crazy mother I must have
been I was young I guess all I can plead
is my case I let her do it
and sure enough she fell just
immediately as it took off and she went
straight down the side but fortunately
she hit the water and she was she was
fine but she really I know
it’s she’s born with the no fear gene
you do still I don’t say I don’t have
that traditional fears of things like
that like I am kind of fearless about
that kind of stuff or or even like Sadie
had fear of like weather and sharks and
things like that I don’t have this but
of course I have women I’m sorry she
feared weather weather yes – and a
tornadoes or you know thunderstorms
things like that like I used to think
she was gonna be a weather girl here she
goes we’re talking about there having
fears you’re talking about major days
phears sterilizing right so I didn’t
have those type of fears but of course
fears of like am I doing this right as I
mom like what you know like are we gonna
make it how like those type of fears of
course and that is where my
great-grandmother her favorite verse was
do not fear when Isaiah and I heard it
over and over again and you know I
really believe and one thing you know I
did tell the kids I was like you can
have a reason to not do something but
fear cannot be it because you have the
power of God living inside of you and so
we cannot give in to fear and it is not
it’s really it’s against God’s Word and
how he tells us to live so it is
something that we have to fight and I do
really believe that and it’s something
that I have tried to model for our
children and that’s something that you
know I say to it’s like we sometimes as
parents we’re like oh we want you to
dream big but not too big because we
don’t want you to like don’t know but so
if we say these things to our kids we do
have to live it so it is something that
we have to work on within ourselves and
so you know me memorizing those verses
for Sadie it’s working on me as well I
might not be afraid of a tornado or a
short but we all have those fears of
like you know how is my life are we
going to be doing it right or how are we
doing this you know I really think
that’s one of the enemy’s main way of
crippling God’s people is through fear
and a lot of times just as an aside you
know a lot of times when I’m trying to
determine and discern sort of what God’s
will is isn’t for me in a particular
situation and maybe there are two
options in front of me and I’m just sort
of praying Lord option a option B which
one would be your best for me I always
think about if there’s one that I really
don’t I just I’m not interested in that
one if I water down the reasons and
anywhere in there fear or anxiety is the
reason yeah then I automatically assume
that if the enemy is working that hard
to keep me away from this one that there
could very well be something in this one
he’s trying to keep me from having and
if there’s something in there he don’t
want me to have I want it
yeah is one of sort of the detectors
that sort of lets me know man God
doesn’t give us a spirit of fear power
and love and a sound mind yeah okay so
how did this start cuz you guys are just
living your family you’ve got legacy and
home and cousins left
you’re not like ambitious towards
television you didn’t go to school and
study how to become superstars wasn’t
your goal in life you just are living
your life you’re doing the duck thing
first of all explain that story is that
the Robertson side to the back oh god
yes and my father-in-law invented this
duck call he loved duck hunting and it
was just like a passion of his and he
invented a duck call and that’s when his
men were growing up that he was he was
he had already invented this or what
point in his life the husband’s life did
he sort of okay so his family has a
pretty crazy story so his dad was you
know he was a football player and I
professionally played football in
college and could have gone
professionally actually played in front
of Terry Bradshaw in college but he
loved duck hunting and that was duck
hunting a football happens at the same
time so he went in it’s the same season
same season that’s right so he quit
football and was was just doing his that
kind thing but he also was teaching
school but he was not living a life that
he was living a really tough life he was
just going down a bad road and okay
we’ll tell you he was like the devil
himself that’s what she says her words
that is her word and so he ended up
lacing a bar like just really in a bad
place in life ended up wanted by the law
kay and the boys moved to West Monroe
Louisiana where they live now and Phil
was out they don’t she didn’t know where
he was she moved moved with the boys and
as protection she paid off the debts or
whatever and took the boys and came to
West Monroe a few months later Phil
showed up at her work and he she was she
was scared for her life she didn’t know
what he was there she assumed he was
drunk she didn’t know what he was there
for she told her co-workers said you
know what and call the cops if something
bad happens and she goes out to the car
and he was crying and she’d never seen
him cry before and he said
I want my life I want you I want the
boys on my wife back and she said well I
know where you got to go get it and she
said him to church and he was baptized
that night and his life turned around
come on mama kiss right she put sent him
right to the place he needed to go and
he did and their life Willie was three
at the time and their life just changed
forever and those boys really saw the
power of Jesus and what he did in their
daddy’s life because it was like night
and day
it was night and day and that’s when he
decided to pursue this dream that he had
of building this call and so they
commercial fished well so the boys grew
up commercial fish and catch a fish and
selling the fish at the fish market and
all that while he was trying to get this
so-called business off the ground so
fast-forward about 40 years 35 years
later of a lot of hard work and a lot of
you know dream and passion and all of
that for this duck call business and we
got a little email that said hey we
think you your family has what it takes
to make a television show and we were
like how did they even know how do we do
that
we were actually making us a show on a
small really small network called
Outdoor Channel they’re only like men
watch like that love to watch a deer in
the woods for 30 minutes and that like
that that’s all they could just watch a
deer standing there for 30 minutes I was
happy that is that Network and so we
started doing this show and that network
but we were we were making a little more
fun I was a kind of a reality TV fan so
we started like trying to make it more
like reality TV so we did hunting but
then we also did like what you see on
duck dynasty we started doing little
parts about the family and about the
business and all of that and so that’s
how they noticed us and we were just
kind of doing it with a small production
company and all that and we’re just
having fun it was like a just a way to
family market our business and grow kind
of just show who we were a bit hesitate
at all when this huge production company
now calls you and says we want to for
real do you have real reality did any of
any members of the family kind of go
because let me say something if if the
production became to my family and said
we would like to do a reality TV show I
can name about six
members of my family that would
immediately be like there is no way any
members of your family kind of go out
yeah Phil of course that it’ll never
work
he was like this’ll never why would
anybody watch us like you know coming in
all this and Jase is always Jace is like
known as the skeptic in the family he’s
very like he’s always negative and so
don’t tell em I said that but I think he
knows but oh he was like this is the
worst idea ever like how this is gonna
be terrible you know and so yeah there
were definitely some skeptics but we
just really believed in it and back to
that kind of do not fear you know we did
it felt like yeah she was like all
foreign cuz she jumps off of mountains
and you know what was so strange it
really was one of those moments that was
strange to us because we had a lot of
Christians really believers worried for
us like oh you’re gonna go to Hollywood
that’s what I was gonna ask because
you’ve seen these programs before where
you watch the young people particularly
the kids go through this process and
then from there no telling what happens
with their you know their compass their
moral compasses a little disheveled or
the marriages seem to dissolve
underneath the heat of those spotlights
all over their family so was there any
real concern as these believers who I’m
sure loved you and cared about yes
really think about this well there was a
lot of Prayer you know we sat down as a
family and we had just a powwow and we
came up with like a family phrase yeah a
family phrase that were like okay if
anybody like starts going off the rails
like here’s what it is and sock came up
with and it was remember the Alamo I
have no idea why but it was like if
anybody starts like you know getting the
big head or going off the rails like
that then we say remember the Alamo and
it brings us back you know so we all had
little frigerator magnets that just for
you to remind us of that
remember the younger element yeah my
very – of that and we just really went
into it with a lot of we just talk a lot
in our family a lot of just conversation
element remember the curls
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and so then you just started you just
started the process kind of not really
knowing right how it was all going to
work out and so when things just rate
exponentially kind of got crazy and the
notoriety and all of a sudden you’re on
magazines and you’re you know people
want to interview you and you can’t were
you guys at the point where you you
really couldn’t go anywhere without kind
of oh yeah that was your life it was
crazy it was crazy there for a little
bit and now I look back on I’m like that
was crazy but in the moment I think you
know how God just like he holds you up
he protects the I just feel like he
really we felt his hand on us of
protection and guidance and and you we
also looked back her like oh see how he
kind of gave us a little bit – Stuart is
like okay and a little bit more and a
little bit more a little bit more to
where when we came we you know we just
felt lifted up and held and also the
prayers of all of you guys as we travel
the country that has been like the best
blessing
we’re in airports gonna be like I pray
for your family I pray your family and
it’s we felt it we really really did I
think we know God was with us yeah
throughout it but yeah it was a crazy
time like our people started showing up
at our warehouse we didn’t have a store
we we ship to like Walmart and all this
yeah we didn’t have a store people
started showing up and with her yes
everywhere
Willie has like a window at the top of
his office if he would be like standing
on people’s shoulders looking in his
window would be like working and look up
like looking down at us you know and I
mean you would come out of the office
and there would just be lines it was
like a parade everyday like come out and
be like oh it was crazy but now you know
now I can look back on it but at the
time it just it just happened it just
cool it it I don’t wooden you look back
and when even when we talk about it
because how Jesus says how long ago was
the last season we finished in April us
yeah it hasn’t been long Oh
but even just a year out of it when we
talk about it when we get asked
questions it’s really cool because God
was so
kind and some intentional with how he
carried us and held us through but even
as a family as doing it together
like that was awesome and that was so
intentionally so kind but how he spoke
to us individually to get us
individually through is so awesome and
so to hear what my mom says about how he
loved on her and how her my dad had
certain prayer moments or like the
certain times that uncle SI’s I remember
the Alamo whatever it is but then I
think about for me and those like
specific moments where things got a
little overwhelming or something that
God just came in in a radical way and
just carried me through and it’s really
cool because we were going through as a
family and that’s what kept us together
but at the same time I think everybody
individually had to you had to go
searching yeah yeah you had to really be
rooted because it is you have a lot of
opinions coming at you one well did you
ever feel pressured to be a little
quieter about your faith you know we
know
absolutely not we really went in and you
know we they knew who we were you know
they knew who we were they knew that
that what is about and we told people
from the very beginning we’re like
they’re not gonna be over able to get
around our faith because it permeates
every part of our life it’s who we are
it’s how we interact with our children
our have spouses our friends our work
you know so it’s not something that you
can film around yeah over our favorite
family and memories a Pepa fill in the
house was season she doesn’t wonder
season two they didn’t want to put Jesus
name at the end of the race so right and
you know I really don’t even think that
they intentionally did that but they
edit you know they edit and they would
edit out where Phil would say in Jesus
name and it would just say and thanks
for the food amen yeah and they would
just edit that out and I don’t know if
it was for time or why that was
happening but it just drove all of us
crazy particularly people feel I’m crazy
there’s like a favorite because he was
not having it like we’re putting in
Jesus name back in the prayer of America
I never forget we were praying it was
there like family dinner you know we’re
all holding hands the cameras are up
we’re you know going down and normally
it’s just a sweet simple prayer and pop
off he’ll change a little bit yeah we’re
all kind of like looking around we just
hear him go Oh Lord Almighty God the
creator of the cosmos I prayed today for
all these people with these cameras
these Starbucks and drinking and you
feel and if they want to take Jesus name
well I’m just gonna say it again
in Jesus name in Jesus they did not have
that name Jesus they can’t start putting
in that game we watched it together as a
family
almost every Wednesday night we’d get
together at our house and watch it and
the first time they left and you think
in the prayer like our family like
cheered it was like it was a victory in
Jesus for sure yeah water it down you
can put it with that man one of the
early upsets – they believe I fell and
they believe me and I did not say a cuss
word y’all could have believed it their
belief is just like dramatic effect yes
it was deaf intercept I said in all of
the kids we were like mom and I was like
Cory got an interview chair and was like
if you ever bleep my daughter-in-law
and they’re like oh we just it was just
for dramatic effect but they never
played this again yeah they never played
this again so we had we had to you know
say our piece every once in a while but
we certainly and we knew what we were
there for and that’s how we talked about
the whole town for the beginning we’re
like this is not about us this is about
pointing people to God and that is what
this is about if it goes the way
tomorrow then so be it
and so we really you know just try to
live by that and then one of the early
episodes that I I think was my first
episode
the kids had to have a tutor and so this
was been one of our you know original
meetings and of course for us it was
natural for me to say and I’m gonna do
that my degree is education and and they
were young fellow hell it was about
eight nine so the kids were young when
they started and we we just knew it’d be
better if at least I’m on the set with
us were you like a full time tutor where
they in school and park like part home
daily partners yes they were in school
but they were filming a lot yeah so two
or three days a week then we had to keep
the grades up and do all that so the
first time we were I was called on the
set I think I was like excited this is
like you know new this is great and I
call Cory to get instructions and she’s
like mom don’t say a word when you get
down there I’m like what she’s like cuz
she knows like I run things I write
under summer camp is just like new and
I’ll be able to change anything don’t
say anything you know I was like okay
okay I’ll get down there but then the
one the first things they asked me they
come over and said they were the kids
were supposed to be clearing this land
with Papa Phil and they wanted them to
you know kind of argue with him or at
least roll their eyes or not be happy so
they come over and ask if that would be
okay I’m like no that’s just not gonna
be I never forget they say when you’re
Pella Phil says go pick up sticks roll
your eyes oh oh
that is not going to happen with these
kids you take the fall if they can act
like they’re tired or it’s hard work but
they’re not gonna show anybody would be
to pop off the oh oh that’s so great
we had another moment where rowdy our
youngest that we adopted just recently
so I’ve been really working on him about
complaining and negativity is an issue
for him and about the verse you do
everything without arguing complaining
well with there another time when they
were working and they said oh you know
you’re tired you can complain a little
bit he was like nope my momma my mom
said I can’t complain he’s like um they
said I could I want to complain is that
okay and I was like no you don’t like
okay that’s great oh my goodness well I
this is the way I feel I feel like God
did give you all that platform and that
platform has dovetailed into a bunch of
other platforms because now I mean Sadie
come on yeah look fearless and then just
you all being able to stand on platforms
and speak and share your faith and I
think a lot of folks particularly in the
Christian community you know we can be a
little skeptical of each other and a
little hard on each other when you have
folks that the Lord has given whatever
kind of platform um it’s so easy for us
to turn our guns in their direction and
just start thinking why they shouldn’t
be doing that and yeah instead like you
said those folks who come to you in the
airport and say you know what I’m
praying for your family yeah that’s what
I’m to do the peace that God has given
whatever kind of interesting little
platforms unusual platforms instead of
figuring out all the reasons why they
shouldn’t be doing what they’re doing
what if we just channeled all of that
energy and said you know what I think
I’ll just love them instead yeah and
I’ll just pray for them and ask God to
preserve their family to protect them
and to give them the loudest voice that
he can to make his praise glorious and
so I just want to leave you with that
we’re gonna have a part two of this
conversation but just as we in part one
just just think about that think of the
people even right now that maybe you
admire because they’re on a magazine
cover you admire cuz you watch their
program I mean I’m taking a little
rabbit trail here but I just I do not
know chip and Joanna Gaines I don’t know
them I feel like I know
Joe was supposed to be my friend doesn’t
know it does not know it but I just
tweeted them and I said hey I’m just
praying for you I’m just praying for you
because I’m just thinking about all the
pressure in that position where you know
that there are a lot of people who are
not for you what if we just decided we
are for them we’re here and leave them
and celebrate them but not only the
people that you’re watching on
television what about that person that’s
just been elevated in your church
they’re the ones with the microphone in
their hand and maybe you are a bit
jealous or you wish you could have that
promotion that someone just got on that
job but God has seen fit in his
sovereignty for that person to receive
that or that person to get that instead
of jealousy instead of division instead
of strife let’s just go ahead and
celebrate each other in Jesus name and
pray for God’s protection for those
folks that the Lord has put in those
positions thank you guys so much for
sharing with us you guys
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