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So I always have love that in the beginning country and it grab your gear and come on a question that speaks actually to the stage that were at today masculine journey. How cool. On the masculine journey were talking about the stages of the masculine journey and last week we did the boy. You know that the beloved son, and so today where we had. So today were at the cowboy Ranger stage and I will pass around and let some others talk about it but to me it was just that if that stage, you know that teenage years pretty much a big part of that time and you know when you're just have to figure out what adventures like it's just that life learning the fish learn into just just enjoy life.

According to the stages she got the same references last week.

Just some of the identifiers that she just had a more understanding and connection to adventure nature hard work that we can scratch that one but not and then in this, the idea that life is hardest to study is easy but yet there's a there's just a lot of discovery that goes on at that age, yeah. And for those of us who were little boys. He wants to think back to when you're 1011 1213. In that age.

You know what was going on that was literally testing your metal to find out that you have what it takes to be a command unit. As you begin this this journey and is is things would test you even hard work right dentist to see what you can do.

How about for you Dave and what would you happen when you are 10, 11, 12, 13, I mean that's really the fun stage of childhood that's on your old enough to understand things was still young enough and I really care about so there is no details. Everything that and either led up to the door stages (for that, but for me know a like wind identifiers and there was hard work and really started to prepare me for as I got older, life and realize that you know hard work is still thing even in 2022. Even though we still have issues with that around workforce elect. You know I just I really enjoyed that time. Regardless of the wounds that I got from you. Looking back at it now, you know, that was one of the best times of my life outside of normal. I think it's amateur Jim that was a period that I know there were disappointments.

When I look back on it with joy. I would be first follows Clausen scouts Webelos on in the scouts that was quite the adventure that cooler by the way that I think that's Boy Scouts for us, which were at the perfect time for that because it was hard work and it was a way to prove you have what it takes in certain ways and but that they were sent a leader in the scoutmaster of those people that were helping to guide you in and showed us that yeah when you first camping trip you roll outside and you get frozen into your sleeping bag because of the sleep that's hard-working to get up go back to that that was quite an adventure is also a time when I was regularly going flying with my bad. He had a passion for flying have a small plane and got to go on that adventure with him and ran into kid. I knew it we were talking about places would adventure it took me back to that boyhood stage and some trouble I got into adventures we had, Rose Johnson, a great time for me growing up.

Danny is a good time for me to I can remember that is been neat going back through seven. This in no I was he there was some wounding but you grew up on a small family farm so work was part of the deal. But you lots of adventure. I think you gotta tell the story of mowing the greens at your grandfather or your granduncle have that worked. You can tell that story aloud.

There's nothing that doesn't make it today or the seller one of my first one of our first jobs was my great uncle had a par three golf course and I got the job of mowing the greens and hours lost in the first day I had it because it was this self-propelled greens mower that had a big liver that you snatching he goes into gear and leave be in the 98 pound weakling that I was. I snatched it into gear. It drag me down. Dragon is not here to point that out, but he will be back your servant, but a end of mower carries own without me down the fairway and Moses the fairway the same height as the green for about 30 yards and so on to serve at first it's dragging young Danny which with your curly locks that you once had in your skinny body once had. Yes and and and and unlisted drag and then all of a sudden you turn loose.

I did.

I lay there goes the mower and what were you thinking as you're watching it. I'm dead, dead, and so then what happened.

We got to know they will. But I got the job tell me that whatever the mower mean let it go, then the rest of them will mogul collect, it takes pretty fast with Olga if he thought it stopped and brought it back in here we we revisited what we were doing it was adventure Tyler crab and obviously every time you both as greens, you felt like you have. What I mean. It was hard work it touches. I suggest you and that was what that was what the bill there was a logic greens at times goes it did get away from time to time around is it pipette to our signature hunching out anyway and it's time for you to set up the quintessential clip we are Jesus could yet is part of the big camp package in it and we use it in the Sun ship talk, but it this is a part of that censorship.

It's an important part. It's when William's father dies after he's been killed in battle. We we talked about his son's friendship last week, but his dad is killed in battle and then there's just a sequence of events at or shortly in this together in the movie that really kind of spell out a lot of what he's experiencing in that cowboy Ranger and I'd rather just talk about them after the clip William uncle got your mother will stay at tonight. Tomorrow you come home and meet someone to leave one in front of the guy I did the priest give prolific benediction listing keeps the Strickland something we should often remedy this, because he's like fishing. The Lord lift up his supposedly the piece to see the courage to follow when it was a symphony. This teacher to start going through there. I go through this real quick so much into that for the first part is, you know he's just he's lost his dad and his uncle from his dad's side comes in.

He doesn't really want to be with him, but as a guy goes along his, socks, yet he was a hollow glass and I still thought that way, uncle Lori yet.

I was the greatest line come back for that was you I get the look, your mother said you had the look at me sweater I so we usually have a funny clip.

I guess this is the funny part of the call. I'm sorry to interrupt is very spectacular. In all sorts of it is, but you know you got this clear guy, nearly got one. I point out the other way was but really this guy comes in and is like another father to him as uncle. And you know you you hear is if you go through that noise like did you hear the benediction while no I didn't understand was in Lent, we don't all have to remedy that slowly speaks to his mind right.

One of the things that you do this is a cowboy Ranger you start developing your mind. In any lease praying is praying for his dad and he brings in the spiritual part of it and then you hear his dad at this that the part that you hear that other boys come in.

That's his dad on his deathbed and we miss having a dream in his dad says to to acknowledge his heart to your heart is free. Have the courage to follow. It will you know you see the rest of the movie is any question he followed his heart right now and then and then you get into where there listening the bagpipes.

This one of the things that happens after a warrior dies and that their dad had Argyle and his dad William's dad. Their father had died in battle and their kind of memorializing them within their states that Maren Argyle sold the sword in and William looks over the sword, and that's what he says you know you take care of this point in his head and then I'll teach you how to use this the sword and you look at it next the holes the whole complete cowboy Ranger Barry met encapsulated in that is how that ties to my story. I didn't lose my father from death, but I did lose my dad moved out of state. He did a lot of things from a heart before he left, like William's dad did before he left and he told him he was a beloved son and I had those things going on and that did need to build on that next stage. And a lot of those things that I did I did became a cowboy Ranger. I can remember when I found out my dad was my dad and mom were divorce and then he was going be leaving the state and I've had fishing playing that night and is one hit with some friends. Both those guys have been through divorce, shared that pain with one another, but that's where you were added as a kid you were trying experience life as a cowboy Ranger and anyway it was just but that my dad came back and did some really important things. He took me on some trips I ride it. We were talking on the show before then about how God wants to take us on adventures.

When he did that to name him someone that into me years later, it made an impact, well, you can see how fun the campus can be an economic, I mean really got entrenchment coming up which is free, we might mention. And that's only a couple weeks from now and start September 30 through February 1. What has been given to me that's a really testing articulate it so deep inside me. It's ingrained in every part of me understanding woundedness.

That's where God really caught me my first boot camp and also helping me step in the healing and restoration from those wounds is critical.

It's like an onion, each peeling back the layers and it is exciting and sometimes frustrating together with the that I enjoy the process in the way God yesterday@masculinejourney.org for me describing boot camp when I heard the stories from the stage and the other men had and then during my prayer time. I'm getting a download from God on where my life is and how I have wounds and I have his story is communicate with us yesterday@massgoingjourney.org and he is Raj another day. Now I deftly didn't know that you did notice Gene Autry and many in this room did only one unit is. That's okay, it's perfectly okay so you know this weekend like a chance to for my first rodeo ever to speak of writers rodeo their and I have this outfit. I got to tell you talk about cowboy Ranger and it wasn't banana colored was.

It was like that why she is see back when I had Westside Chrysler Dodge Jeep.

I used to do these commercials. You might remember, in beautiful downtown Montréal. You know what I would dress up like a cowboy to some of those commercial and I had this the odds rodeo sure is bright red with silver Dodge ram, you would love it like truck and and then it's got I had a black vest, you know, like a cowboy everywhere had the hat and the boots and all the stuff in the boots even have little bold things that come out. My wife was like you're not aware that I sit and speak at a rodeo look the part. This is my first so anyway I got to you now and who didn't do that right when you were little man you had the six guns about you but I had to have, you know, one of those Winchester lever action rifles like the riflemen I know around me where you are.

Your appreciating this but but the idea of you know what were looking forward to being a man and and we can try to figure out if we got what it takes and hopefully we got a good man to take us along that journey and so David that leads us up to your clip okay so this is from the movie hook where log Robin Williams played pan.

This is around. So he left Neverland due to someone that the store really doesn't portray, but ultimately it is this incomes and he's coming back to Neverland and starts to unfold. What he needed to be in as the postop music at Duke and opposer is ultimately what he was doing. Up until this point, so will I listen to this clip and it's helpful to know that Robin Williams character. I think in this clip is actually Peter Pan is like I have a little later, but you can imagine the lost boys and also this old geezer shows up on the CNN so you know even appear to be a cowboy Ranger at this point, but nonetheless okay somebody I know Mr. skunk you just a punk kid. We can hire it so happens I am a lawyer so here there's a lot of descriptions of the pain that I wore my favorite ones is he's an old bat grandpa man and you know Sam when you're listening this if you think said that toward you absolutely did I know that's what happens when you get your equipment first so she had to stick it to the man overboard and he is not here today.

You know, back, and he said I'm never gonna regret that one on on the letters on listening down the road and Legos.

But you know for for me growing up, the cowboy Ranger stage as far as what the storyline.

This version of pick up your pants is, is that the lost boys were in Neverland because they want to be at a place where there were no parents and you know growing up I can.

I can look back at my age is between 10 and 12 right for preteen that you know that's what I wanted is I wanted to go to a place where no parents and I think a lot of kids go through that as a as they're grown up, but it is ultimately a protection on whatever wounds we may be getting whether it's from both parents, no parents, maybe outside of that and really I think Robin Williams does a good job as his movie goes on the ultimately blocked out all of his memories of being actual man and he goes through that process to come back to pandas is where it kinda shows what God does that fill our hearts as were working to do was to get back to who we truly are and what God's purpose forces is beautiful. David really because the idea is you know Sam points out about the stages is you you know you go through them and you get back, which lost picture. Always a cowboy Ranger you're always in the boyhood and of the beloved son and and getting back the stages is a big part of of what that's about. Harold houses go say that's perfectly illustrated by the fact that Michael Jackson never left Neverland truth hello I'm in a go on to my clip which is from the bucket list which you may think what these are.

Cowboy Ranger's well what you got here to old men that are just been diagnosed with cancer and as they get that cancer diagnosis. All the sudden when their days are numbered. You know all the sudden living life which has a lot to do with having that cowboy Ranger boyhood in a love of discovery is is here, so it's just there's a lot of wisdom in this department play will talk about the 600 back is my freshman philosophy professor signed this exercise for think because of the bucket list.

Spinoza make a list of all the things we want to do in our lives before kick the bucket cutesy help complete stranger for the good laugh until I cried. Not to be judgmental.

This is extremely weak, pointless now.

I would argue the exact opposite rewrite that's me.

Don't you want to go Allison guns blazing. Have a little fun not be about guns blazing to miss the point with this witness something majestic element of the Dragon listings you have that sky now something we hear something in so absolutely I really do love what Jack Nicholson character says when he says, I would argue the complete opposite of what seems so ridiculous. Actually is life-giving, especially if you only have two or three months to live, as the case may be, when you're going to go back and be that boy you know that Neverland can write that that that however there is another aspect to this, which is critical and that is Jesus as the cowboy Ranger was totally connected to his father. Remember, even when he was in the temple right I'm about my father's business so the idea of being able to go on these adventures together with your father is is really something that I think is is believably connected to this so recently for those you may listen to the John Eldridge podcast which is awesome Bob Hart they've been talk about the rule of life and how we set up our lives to do things that would give them structure in a way to get more God in him right and and one of the things they suggested this this week and I've been doing it about for five months is to go for a long walk every day as matter fact I go for about an hour walk every day. But… Just walking by myself I been trying to do is is is stop and wonder about everything I see on these walks and I try to go back and it is much would get us back in the forest nature actually went up to hanging rock and client ended that. But, as I do this I'm I'm taking got along my candy talked about when he went on his ventures and then the other day I was coming out of the woods and I just smelled this incredible smell like me. What is that smell. It just smells awesome and as I started to look around. I saw these yellow flowers and I grabbed one of my stiff on-site man. That's the most beautiful smell I've ever smelled and so are you. I got some of what's app app you know and so I snapped it in my camera and it comes back and it says all that is a bearded beggar tick right of him or her that far. Well, if you seen there's a zillion of them this year in North Carolina.

Everywhere you look, there's all these yellow flowers. Well, if you will go smell one of those yellow flowers you will be shocked to sit there smell my finger on what I miss the smell my entire life. How did I miss all these flowers then I'd actually click the little rascal and took it home to my wife months smelled a romantic Jing that worked out good. I just tell you that like as I as I started to really you know go on that adventure with dad right experience that feeling with him, and since his pleasure as as we go exploring every day, whatever that may look like what that does for the rest of my day it is, is like you know every day having a covenant of silence in its own way like your red boot camp and you going out there and it's available to everybody.

But guess what you structure your life in such a way to go.

Okay, this is something besides my quiet time so cowboy Ranger's still in there is like Prego spaghetti sauce.

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