welcome to new every day my name is Carrie and my name is Jen and on today's show we are totally random and how does randomness fit into everyday life we're going to talk about reflection and how at least being thankful in the Lord both stay tuned you've got mad skills now hone them learn new skills or improve your existing ones with online video tutorials and training from Linda calm through our special link at cat five dot TV / Linda learn software technology creative and business skills you can use today to help you achieve your professional goals join today and start learning will give you this chance to try it absolutely free with unlimited access to all of the courses sign up now for free cat5 dot TV / linda welcome back and we're so glad that you tuned in again this week to new every day we hope that you are following us on facebook new every day Popeye leave us a message and we're always just so happy to hear from you and we would love to to hear from you so we can be praying for you and Jen yes Gary we have a great show today because it's completely random it is completely random and and the reason this whole show started is because when we come home from work we just start talking about our day and how the and then as we talk back and forth we actually challenge each other and well how did how did the Lord meet you here and how the Lord meet you here and so it's been really cool because it can lead into some totally random conversations that actually cause for very deep reflection yeah and before we actually started the show today we had a totally random conversation about baptism and how and what it means and what a nap time what it means to be baptized and at what point should you be baptized and it was just totally random and were like why did we not turn the camera um because some time to stop and and reflect right it is insane no it is good to stop and reflect and sometimes it's in the totally random moments that you think huh I should buy a Christmas present and you're like Jim God is random and i say that because christmas is coming it is november it is november and it's a time of the year when people are buying Christmas presents and thinking about the season and who will be coming by yes now jen is far more organized than I am and she starts purchasing Christmas gifts Oh January it's you left to get it's incredible really so but for those of you who are late shoppers we encourage you to help support our show because as we're learning it costs money mm-hmm to make the show run when I was younger I just you know would go to the TV turn it on when oh look there it is having no concept of oh maybe there's some cash that needed to happen here what went into actually producing this and editing it where we are so thankful for Robbie Ferguson and it's team at category 5 TV Robbie is our editor and producer of the show and he puts in a lot of time and this is all voluntary and we just we're happy to talk to you and reflect on 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it's 25 cents per show mm-hmm and I always conflicted about asking for money Jen but I we see all the work that goes into this and 25 cents a show is something you know that I can manage to give as well so it's actually through patreon so if you go to patreon patr 0n dot com / category 5 you will be able to sign up to donate just 25 cents every episode and at the end of the month you'll get a bill for one dollar on your credit card so we have a surprising number of viewers now Jen I know like we're up over two million views like is that weird or what I know it's like Oh thankful thank you God thank you God but if everyone was able to donate that 25 cents an episode will be able to keep going we'll be able to keep going and keep talking about totally random things speaking of random speaking of random what's on your mind and so many things are on my mind what's your favorite color okay blue sparkle really I like it okay this is a total sideline random did you hear that the worst gift that you could ever give someone is putting sparkles inside an envelope and nailing it to them cuz then when they open it Sparkle shot just goes i love that you'd be wearing the gift all day unless you inhale it and it causes inflammation and irritation and coughing and it does it when you inhale particles sure I'd never really thought i never inhaled sparkles but you know i'm sure this is part of the randomness happens so what we were talking about why why talk about random things that happen in your week i was saying to jen that when you take the time to reflect on your day or reflect on your week I found and then invite the Holy Spirit to highlight the things that you're trying to speak to you through the week it allows you to have a change of perspective about a situation to actually become more thankful to realize that God's at work in your life and maybe highlight areas in your life that you need to be more prayerful about yes no there's a verse in the Bible that says on my bed I remember you I think of you through the watches of the night and there's another verse it says on your beds search your heart and be silent so the bible does encourage us to be reflective and sometimes maybe for you at nighttime that's the only time of quiet you get maybe you're a very busy mom you're chasing three kids all day and finally at night you have that opportunity to be quiet and actually search your heart reflect on the day give thanks mm-hmm yes psalm for says at the end I go to bed and sleep in peace because Lord only you keep you p sources in that you only keep me safe that idea of of going to bed in in peace because you've actually given everything from your day over to the Lord and and throughout Scripture it does talk about reflecting and one of the things that I have done now for a really long time 20 years is this is my journal mmm big three-ring 500 notes and on the inside you can sort of see like that I've written things hmm well every day I write three good things that happen really yeah I didn't know that see I obviously don't read your journal that's good she's a good friend but things like okay this is so this is from August 25th so my friend James came to the chapel so we must have had a really good conversation yes because he wasn't working at camp I was quite pleased that I had a chance to talk to him I spotted on the boat with my friend Trevor that meant we had a really good conversation and yeah stayed and talked with a friend after chapel and then I watched hannah put dreads in Graydon's hair that was so cool I've never seen people put dreads in hair before and so there was great like with wax and everything well no well no like just the nodding and how you have to pull the hair back and wrap it around and pull the hair back and wrap it around whoa but those are like cool little things that I was so thankful for that I had these wonderful conversations and remember that night is going God thank you so much and it was interesting yesterday I was quite I don't get quite sick I just kind of feel under the weather and kind of monkey um and so you know when I went to write in my journal good things that happened yesterday it was like okay I had a good youth and it was good and then I she lead to youth group and then oh we're doing it at a hand a glow in the dark hand angel mime thing okay is so cool that was a good thing yeah and then I I'm like I'm thinking I'm thinking Lord something else good must have happened it was 24 hours like there are three good things in there and so one of the young men in my youth group his name is Kirkland he did a really amazing game and he like many black game he got everyone involved everyone and we didn't have to get off of her chairs which was great but then one of the leaders came to me afterwards and said he did an excellent job yeah good and I was like thank you God so good and it's like but I had to sit here and I remember sitting here for a long time thinking Lord revealed to me the good things that happened yesterday and it was just because I could have said oh no I was sick and I felt crappy all day long so i can create in my mind then nothing good happened and sometimes this whole idea of of being reflective actually challenges our way of thinking right and we start to see oh yeah well maybe God was at work there maybe God was at work here and all I could think about was but I had to cancel three of my appointments that had made and i had to reschedule them and this is really being sick is really messing with my day right and yet you know i was able to reschedule what i needed to reschedule and I think it's worked out quite well actually and but I was really challenged to look past what I think constitutes a good day right and really reflect on what's important and I realized at the end of the day yesterday it wasn't that I necessarily had anything to do with the good things that happened I watched God work around me in the lives of people and go wow okay like I watched my leaders do amazing things with the kids I watched the kids get the hand mind thing like they got it and I watched kirkland do this and I was like yeah yay God like what cuz it's not about asked cuz it's not about us or how we feel yeah like cuz Carrie was on her way home from her family's last she spent three days with her little family it was and I just love them just loves them and I'm on the phone and I'm not feeling like being very chatty you could have said that I know but you didn't but I didn't because I wanted to hear about your day you're nice and um and this is where you know where conversations can go sometimes because now I'm realizing that in spite of my feeling ill God was still at work all around me and this is why it's so important to reflect to actually think about you know what what else what's going on what else is going out on in the world around me because i am not the center of things it is not all about me it really is i don't really feel like talking right now but because I you know love and appreciate my roommate and I know and we might get around to talking about visit I knew it was important to you uh-huh and so I wanted to hear about it so it's like okay when we're told to love one another that really means listening and and okay God you called us to love one another no help me love even though i'm not feeling really great right now and it was good cuz i was so glad that i heard that you had this full time so it's a reflection like I'm sitting here thinking you know what in spite of my not feeling very well yesterday got good thank God did good thing totally psalm 136 says oh give thanks to the Lord for he is good for his mercy endures forever o give thanks to the God of gods for his mercy endures forever o give thanks to the Lord of lords for his mercy endures forever to him alone who does great wonders for his mercy endures forever to him who by wisdom made the heavens for his mercy endures forever to him who laid out the earth above the waters for his mercy endures forever to him who made great lights for his mercy endures forever and you know sometimes if sometimes I find it hard to reflect on the day and think about what to pray and but the Psalms are great for that you can just open it up in the face okay give thanks to the Lord for he is good God Your mercies endure forever and use songs to guide your prayer yes yeah and it's interesting when we were talking about reflecting on your bed at night and then you made reference to psalm 4 verse 8 that god gives us peace mm-hmm one of the proverbs says that anxiety in the heart of the man leads to depression and depression can be this great darkness you know we get anxious about events because we have blinders on and can't necessarily see the whole picture or maybe it seems overwhelming and then the darkness of depression can come in and really just pervade your whole life and I know that one of the therapies for depression is talking about Thanksgiving and actually reflecting on what's good and writing down three things that wow you're thankful for that day to kind of turn your eyes on to something else and who better to turn our eyes to than the Living God there's a book she's going to step out of the camera but up there it says there's a book that says 14,000 things to be happy about can see it at the very top whoa i don't think i can get that but i see it ok with 14,000 things to be happy about which can be purchased through our website on to amazon.com shopping I try to make sure I get it hold the phone hold hold the phone yes we all here we go ok here we go she's gonna model at flora random ok so this book fourteen thousand things to be happy about when we talk about reflecting cuz sometimes we need props right right ok so just read me some of those things to be happy about something low it like a list oh my it is a list of 14,000 rings here we go blts on English muffins learning words to songs peace buttons plaster of Paris can't say I've ever given thanks for that but play-doh actually that's quite nice ah beautiful oil lamps hmm ah coin purses the NFL tiddlywink discs diamond rings flailing corn head lettuce with French dressing I am really enjoying this see it's just very random like it's it's so interesting that somebody actually took time to write out 14,000 things to be happy about oh yes or so many Easter egg hunts camp firewood pineapple pie fall fashions colorado mountain roads men with egos hahaha are you kidding me Oh clearance sale ritz crackers oh yeah getting a job so many great things so go on our website new everyday TV click on our partners page go to amazon link and check out this book it's hilarious fourteen thousand things to be happy about really enjoyed that thank you and you're right it's when we start getting our eyes off of our state whatever state were in because you said specifically about depression and how you know it's starting to give thanks is key yeah cuz sometimes you just need the prompts yeah or you need to get into a habit of being thankful right last week no the week before just a really really rough week and just saying God where are you and I had a choice do I give up my regular routine of writing down my thankful things praying reading my Bible and it's like no because God has promised to meet me in those places so why would I give those things up and what what did is it continue to cultivate space for God to move in my life even though I wasn't necessarily feeling him but just because I don't feel him doesn't mean he's out there doesn't mean he's not there so in the midst of i want to say the darkness I still continued to give thanks mm-hmm and so um yeah giving thanks helps us to you know reflect and focus on who God is hmm and gets our eyes off of us and on to Jesus yeah which is where it needs to be yeah and it allows God to speak to us like as I was writing my list it was God speaking to me and saying this is where I was this is where I was but do we even take time to sit and think about it you know to say okay god there must be three then to allow him to say I was here I was here I was here um we've got so much to be thankful for we do why don't we just take a minute now and just pray why don't you pray with us and maybe you can think of three things that you're thankful for right where you are hmm all right let's pray gen father thank you thank you so much that you love us hmm I thank you Lord that you have given us the ability to stop and think and you have been so good and so kind to us thank you for our lives thank you for our families our friends thank you for the show and the wonderful people who are tuning in all over the world thank you Father for category 5 and all the work that they are doing thank you Jesus that you loved us enough to come and die for us and that you rose again to give us new life mm-hmm so thankful we pray this in Jesus thank you so much for tuning in again and we hope that you will tune in for some more randomness perhaps we decide to next week yes same time same place check us out new everyday TV and also tune in on facebook so it's good so until next time cheerio happy reflecting have this one you