Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: This is the morning journey Rewind with Mark and Brittany. Never miss a moment.
[00:00:04] Speaker B: This week on the morning journey Rewind. Mark and Brittany, thank you for giving during partner invitation. Stella, Brittany's daughter, likes Mark better and she runs her first race. Kate comes in for a surprise. And did you know that getting sun is actually proven to boost your mood?
[00:00:18] Speaker C: Well, if you hung in there with us to the very end, a little past 6 o' clock on Friday, you know that we made our fundraising goal during partner week. So glad that that has happened. And a big thank you. I tell we really can't thank you enough. Number one for investing in the journey. But more important, thank you for investing in sharing the love and hope of Christ and sharing the gospel.
[00:00:41] Speaker B: We heard so many wonderful stories about what the journey means to people in their daily lives and how it's changed their lives. We're gonna share some of those with you this morning. But we are covered in confetti in the studio here and we are very, very happy about it. So thank you so much for listening and for stepping into the giving pool. So many people giving for the first time this partner invitation. So we just wanna say thank you so much.
Want to give? You can. We are at 100% of the goal but you can always go to myjourneyfm.com and click on the red donate heart.
[00:01:10] Speaker C: Thank you to everybody who prayed for us. We got a lot of comments saying, hey, we're praying for you all this week. Thank you for giving and for donating. A lot of people gave during our pre partner campaign. We had the kids that came by the station last Monday for our kids giving day. And then we had a gentleman that came to the station, made a very generous donation, a very generous gift. Thank you for that. But when he was leaving, he said use every bit of this to share the gospel.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: And that is our goal here at the journey. If you hear nothing else, know that Jesus loves you. We want you to know that the creator of the universe who created you loves you just as you are. And Vanessa, she wrote in from partner invitation this week and she said it reminds me and encouraged me to seek the Lord. The last few weeks have been really challenging. But with the weight of the world gets heavy, I just turn the music up louder. I absolutely love that. So if you're listening this morning and you're feeling heavy and you're feeling discouraged, crank this next song up louder and just remember that God loves you and he's with you. I turn y' all on in the morning when I get in my truck. It's helpful when I'm taking the kids to school. Here we go.
[00:02:19] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:02:21] Speaker B: Well, there's something I've been meaning to tell you, Mark.
We were listening to the journey the other day, and we asked my daughter, who do you like better, Mark or Brittany?
And she looked me dead in the face and said, mark.
And I was immediately offended because I don't know if she doesn't know that Brittany is her mom. I'm pretty sure she does. And the fact that she said Mark made me very upset.
[00:02:44] Speaker C: When you know, you know. And Stella knows.
[00:02:47] Speaker B: Well, it gets worse. I asked her why. I was like, why do you like Mark better? And she said, because he's funny.
So I guess I'm chopped liver and you're hilarious.
[00:02:58] Speaker C: Tell Stella that the 20 bucks is in the mail.
[00:03:00] Speaker B: Ah. Ah. I knew there was some bribery involved.
[00:03:05] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:03:10] Speaker C: A few minutes ago, Brittany was showing me a picture of her daughter Stella getting ready for her first race. I will tell you this. Now she's got the start stance down.
[00:03:21] Speaker B: She really does.
[00:03:22] Speaker C: She was ready.
[00:03:22] Speaker B: Now, my husband was a linebacker, and that's like the stance that she has. She's got like a linebacking now. You're not tackling kids. This is the healthy kids running series. So she's just running like a 50 yard dash, but she is in that little, not so much sprinter stance, but like linebacker stance at the start line, the three point stance, like, eyes focused, ready to go.
And my friend's mom is like, running it. And she gets on the megaphone and she says, hey, Mark, get set, go. And Stella hesitates and then starts running. So she didn't win, but she had a great time. Huge smile on her face, and there's five weeks of this. And so we went out to dinner with those friends later and she told her, she said, Ms. Jen, your voice was way too loud.
It threw her off a little bit, but that's what you have to do. You have to use the megaph. They're kids. If you're not using the megaphone, they're not listening.
[00:04:08] Speaker C: Get her coached up.
[00:04:09] Speaker B: Yeah, we got her coached up and gave her a piece of chocolate and some Gatorade before the race to get her ready so she was prepared. We just gotta remind her that when they say go, go, you go.
[00:04:21] Speaker A: Good company makes for a great day. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:04:27] Speaker C: We brought her in a little bit early.
[00:04:29] Speaker D: Yeah, this is weird.
[00:04:30] Speaker B: Do you have any idea why you're here?
No.
[00:04:33] Speaker D: Am I in trouble?
[00:04:34] Speaker B: I feel like I'm in trouble. She has no idea. No, you're not in trouble.
But, yes, we have something for you. Well, Mark does.
[00:04:44] Speaker C: Yeah. So every year, the Journey group here, we get about four or five of us that participate in the NCAA basketball challenge, the tournament. All right. I was a three peat winner going into this year. I like to always tell people that, remind people of that.
[00:05:00] Speaker B: I'm so glad he did not win. Thank you, Kate. For Brittany.
[00:05:03] Speaker C: Brittany has not won.
[00:05:04] Speaker B: Oh. Oh, no. I've never won. And I've been playing since I got here about eight years ago. So one thing we do for the winter every year is we go to lunch. So we owe you a lunch. So we are basically just telling you that we owe you a lunch. Yeah.
[00:05:14] Speaker C: And then we decided to add a little something to that, to the lunch. All right. So.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Okay. Don't open it yet. Don't open it. Okay. Any idea what that could be?
[00:05:24] Speaker D: Oh, it's kind of got some weight to it.
Is it something for the studio?
[00:05:29] Speaker B: Maybe something that I can possibly hear?
[00:05:31] Speaker C: Possibly.
[00:05:32] Speaker B: Maybe.
[00:05:32] Speaker D: Maybe I'm shaking it a little bit. It's not making much noise.
[00:05:37] Speaker B: I don't know.
[00:05:37] Speaker D: Is it gonna, like, bite me if
[00:05:39] Speaker B: I take it out of the. It might be. Mark is pretty salty that he didn't win, so. Could be a complete gag gift. I don't know. We'll find out here in just a minute.
[00:05:48] Speaker C: Kate is in with us this morning. Now, Kate was the. The winner of our basketball challenge. That's our college basketball tournament bracket challenge.
[00:05:58] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:05:58] Speaker D: Not playing basketball. Let's make that nice and clear.
[00:06:01] Speaker B: I will make it clear, though, that she picked Duke to win, which made me really happy because I know she's a UNC fan, even though we disappoint.
So there's that.
[00:06:09] Speaker C: That's right. So the winner, the Journey staff, we will take the winner out to lunch. We do that.
[00:06:15] Speaker B: Fun.
[00:06:15] Speaker C: But we also have something a little extra with that that we present to. Now, we did not tell you yet what that is.
[00:06:23] Speaker B: No.
[00:06:24] Speaker D: Okay. You just handed me this box a few minutes ago. You told me not to open it, so I'm trying to.
[00:06:29] Speaker C: You've been shaking it.
[00:06:30] Speaker D: I've been shaking it. It's not making a lot of noise,
[00:06:32] Speaker C: but it is broken.
[00:06:34] Speaker B: I am. Yeah. Way to break it.
You asked if it was something for the studio. No, it's not. Not.
[00:06:40] Speaker D: Not something for the studio. Okay.
I don't know, guys. What in the world. It's not super big. Like, it's only like. I don't know, what is this, like 6, 7 inches?
[00:06:50] Speaker B: I like how I colored on it with Sharpie so you couldn't read what it was like. She took all the descriptions out. Okay, well, we'll let you open it.
[00:06:57] Speaker D: Am I allowed to open it? Yes. All right, let me get the box open.
Oh, bubble wrap. Always a good choice.
Okay. Okay.
[00:07:04] Speaker C: Yes.
[00:07:07] Speaker D: Journey to Madness Champion trophy.
[00:07:09] Speaker C: Yeah, look at that.
[00:07:11] Speaker B: Congratulations.
So now every year, not only will the winner get lunch, but that's funny. We'll pass the trophy. We'll pass the trophy around. That's awesome. Unless you keep winning and then you just get to keep it.
[00:07:22] Speaker D: Yeah. What did you say? 3 Pete for yours the last few years.
[00:07:25] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:07:25] Speaker D: It's on the table now. I gotta bring it next year too.
[00:07:27] Speaker C: Now if I had won, I was going to get four championship rings and I was gonna wear them.
[00:07:33] Speaker B: I'm so glad that did not happen. I would like to win once. Let's just put it out there. One time would be nice.
[00:07:39] Speaker D: Brittany, it's our mission. We're not going to let Mark win never ever again.
[00:07:42] Speaker C: So we'll get a picture you a picture with you in the trophy. Put that on there on our socials.
[00:07:47] Speaker B: Yes. Congratulations.
[00:07:48] Speaker C: Congratulations.
[00:07:50] Speaker B: I just kind of channel surfing through the radio.
[00:07:53] Speaker A: Families are catching on and I'm like,
[00:07:55] Speaker B: wow, this is pretty cool.
[00:07:56] Speaker A: To the best way.
[00:07:56] Speaker B: So now this is the only thing I listen to now to wake up. My style of everything has started and changed.
[00:08:01] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:08:04] Speaker C: One of the great things about springtime is one more daylight, more. It seems like more sunshine.
[00:08:12] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:08:12] Speaker C: And I don't know, it just kind of lifts your mood.
[00:08:15] Speaker B: It really does. I feel like I get what's called seasonal depression. Like in the wintertime, it's so dark, it's gloomy, it's cold, you can't go outside. And then spring comes along. And the mood boost we get from spring, it's actually scientifically proven. More daylight increases serotonin, which is the feel good chemical in your brain. So it does make you more energetic and more optimistic. So it's a real thing backed by science.
[00:08:35] Speaker C: Yeah, because I'm, you know, in the wintertime, same deal. Like you don't really feel like going outside a whole lot. But when spring comes, I love to get outside. Spring and summer I can stand. Even when we get into the real hot weather, it doesn't bother me.
[00:08:48] Speaker B: It bothers me a little bit, but I'D still. I just like being outside. As long as I'm prepared to be outside and sweat, I'm. I'm ready for it. The days that sneak up on me where I'm not ready for it, it's like, okay, I didn't expect it to be that hot today. But it's funny because everyone jokes me about having babies in the summertime because my daughter was born in July, this baby's due in June. And I'm like, it's so much better than having them in the winter, in my opinion, because after they're born, you can sit outside with them and you can go outside and do things and in the winter you're just trapped in your house and it's dark and gloomy out. And I think it does increase the depression there. So there's scientific facts. The spring does boost your mood.
[00:09:27] Speaker A: Uplifting and encouraging because you need it now more than ever.
[00:09:31] Speaker C: You betcha.
[00:09:32] Speaker A: The Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:09:34] Speaker C: Times when we think about peace, we think of it as, you know, something that's going to be in the future. When I get this done, I'll have peace. When I reach this point in my life, I will have peace.
When I resolve this problem in my life, ah, then I will have peace.
[00:09:50] Speaker B: I have this problem a lot. It's like peace is going to come after the house is clean or the kids cooperate or my list gets shorter or I just become more spiritual out of nowhere. But the good news is peace isn't the prize. It's not at the end, it's not an end goal. It's not something that eventually arrives and we can take a deep breath. Peace is the presence of God in the middle of all that, in the middle of your list, in the middle of the kids not cooperating, in the middle of cleaning the house.
[00:10:15] Speaker C: Exactly. It's not a destination, you know, peace is what happens on a day to day basis. And learning to trust God in the midst of all of the chaos, that's how we find peace.
[00:10:27] Speaker B: Yep, we got a lot of chaos in the world right now. But we know here at the Journey that if you trust in God and put your faith and keep your eyes on him, you can have peace. In those moments in the most chaotic part of your life, no matter your circumstances, God will bring you peace.
[00:10:41] Speaker A: Start on a positive note. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:10:46] Speaker C: Hey, if you don't have the My Journey FM app, you can get that in your app store. Get that today, no cost for that, totally free. And if you are using the My Journey FM app. You'll see the link there where you can map the app. So we want to know where you're listening and the state, the country. And we've had some updates on that. We've got Candice from Richmond listening on the My Journey FM map. Karen from Chesapeake.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Yes. So you can take the app with us wherever you go. We have Dale. He's listening from Anchorage, Alaska.
Marini, she's in South Mills, North Carolina. Thank you so much for listening and for telling us where you're listening from. So we could put a little pin dot on the app.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: Yeah. And then our good friends, the Hinkleys, Rich retired back a while ago, and they have been all over the place, traveling, enjoying retirement. So they take the MindJourney FM app with them. So the app has been in West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana, Alaska, Wyoming, some other places, Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, all over the place, even up into Canada.
[00:12:00] Speaker B: Yeah. Thanks to Rich and the Hingleys, we're probably gonna end up having our app in every single state, if it's not already. And so let us know where you're listening via the app at MyJourney FM on Facebook, or if you're listening via the app, you can tap that link right there on the app and tell us where you're listening.
[00:12:15] Speaker C: We're just gonna worship, we're gonna be
[00:12:18] Speaker B: encouraged, and we're just gonna be together.
[00:12:21] Speaker A: That's the idea. You're on the Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: We think about homelessness. We think about people that do not have enough to eat. But I wonder how often we really think about the number of kids in the United States that do not have their own bed. More than 140,000 kids in the US are waiting for a bed.
[00:12:43] Speaker B: That's crazy to think about. It's one of those things that we kind of just take for granted because most of us are fortunate enough to have homes, and with those homes comes bed for us and our kids. 6,500 volunteers worked around the clock to build over 10,000 beds in just 24 hours in Charlotte, North Carolina, at a Lowe's. And so, I mean, they saw a need, and they said, what can we do to fix that need? And they got to work.
[00:13:08] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly. This was actually in the Charlotte Convention center, and then it was Lowe's employees. And then all of those volunteers that came together, as Brittany said, worked over 24 hours to build the beds. It's a project called Sleep in heavenly peace.
[00:13:25] Speaker B: 730,000 wood screws were used. Yeah, that's a lot of screws, if I say so myself.
But at the end, it all added up to something big. The noise, the tools, everything and stuff. And over, I think, like, over 110 beds or more. How many beds were done? Does that.
[00:13:44] Speaker C: 10,000 beds.
[00:13:45] Speaker B: 10,000 beds.
[00:13:46] Speaker C: 10 thousand beds.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: They were able to make 10,000 beds and give kids a place to sleep at night. So good job, guys.
[00:13:54] Speaker A: A great way to start your day. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:13:59] Speaker C: I think you and I are similar as far as the number of cups of coffee that we drink each day. I drink one cup in the morning before I come in early.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: Me too.
[00:14:09] Speaker C: And then that's usually all I have throughout the day. On the weekend, on a Saturday or Sunday, maybe two to three cups.
[00:14:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I'll do one in the morning before I come in. And then when I go home and eat breakfast, I'll have another one. But I normally do decaf right now, mostly because I'm pregnant. But, like, caffeine doesn't ever really do anything for me, so I could probably drink decaf all the time. I really do it for, like, the taste of the creamer, basically, so it
[00:14:30] Speaker C: doesn't really, like, wake you up or keep you up.
[00:14:32] Speaker B: I feel no effects from caffeine.
[00:14:34] Speaker C: So some information out there now saying 2 to 3 cups may lower the risk of mood and stress disorders.
[00:14:40] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's interesting. I've always heard that coffee makes some people, like, jittery, but I guess if maybe you're already feeling anxious and jittery, maybe it'll chill you out.
[00:14:50] Speaker C: Yeah. I think the connection there, it seems to be it's caffeine that is the key to that. So drinking it in moderation, 2 to 3 cups, can lower the stress in your life and improve your mood.
[00:15:04] Speaker B: Yeah. Too much might be a bad thing, but a little bit's okay. And I found this interesting. The mental health benefits are stronger in men than in women.
[00:15:14] Speaker C: We need some help with our mood.
[00:15:16] Speaker B: Yeah. I will say my husband, for sure. Much better mood. He's had some coffee. Absolutely.
[00:15:23] Speaker C: We're just gonna worship, we're gonna be
[00:15:25] Speaker B: encouraged, and we're just gonna be together.
[00:15:28] Speaker A: That's the idea. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:15:33] Speaker C: Well, maybe you've got a goal that you have set. Perhaps it's exercise, wanting to get in some better shape, and you're. You're going at it daily. Just a little bit of encouragement there that you are further along than you may realize.
[00:15:46] Speaker B: Yeah. A lot of times we're so focused on where we're going, we forget where we've come from. So appreciate your progress. You know, you survived every hard day, so if you're keeping score, you know, that's a perfect record. You've survived it, you've gotten through it. And each day that you're chugging a word to long along towards your goal, make sure you take time to look back and see where the Lord has brought you through in those moments and what you've accomplished. So April, I mean, four months into the year, maybe you've already accomplished one of your New Year's resolutions. Good job.
[00:16:17] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
