Episode Transcript
[00:00:01] Speaker A: This is the Morning Journey Rewind with Mark and Brittany.
[00:00:05] Speaker B: This week on the Morning Journey podcast, Mark and Brittany draw a fish.
[00:00:08] Speaker C: Brittany plays pips.
[00:00:10] Speaker B: And the Journey partner invitation is getting even closer. And we find out that music makes you feel less alone. Also, how many books have you read in your lifetime? I bet it's nowhere near the amount Dan has.
[00:00:22] Speaker C: If you're looking for something fun to do, go to drawafish.com Brittany just told me about this.
[00:00:29] Speaker B: It's pretty great, actually. If you're bored or maybe your kids are bored and you want to practice your drawing skills. I am not a good artist. In fact, I drew my little tiny fish the best way I know how, just, like one of the little loops with a little tail on it. But, yeah, it's a lot of fun. And you can actually see other fishes drawn by other people.
[00:00:46] Speaker C: So I just tried. It's really hard to use the keypad on the mouse to draw.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Yeah. If you don't have, like, a mouse.
Okay, that looks like a blob.
[00:00:56] Speaker C: Isn't that a great fish?
[00:00:57] Speaker B: It says fish probability 64%. 64% chance that it's not a fish.
[00:01:03] Speaker A: Helping to get your day started. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:01:07] Speaker C: Brittany has got hooked on this new game. It's sort of like Domino's meets a brain teaser.
[00:01:13] Speaker B: Yeah, it's very, like, confusing and weird, but I love, like, the New York Times. It started with wordle, like, they did the wordle game. So I played that all the time. And then there's strands, which is like a word search. There's connections, which is like grouping 16 words in groups before that relate to each other. And now I'm onto pips, called pips P I, P S Pips. And there's three different difficulties levels. There's easy, medium, and hard. And it times you. And you have to kind of like, put the puzzle together. Not necessarily. Like, the dominoes don't, like, link together like they would if you were playing dominoes. It's more about the numbers on the dominoes. And so my husband and I, once again, we're competitive. We've been competing with each other in this. And we were actually doing it before church started yesterday, trying to finish before service started.
So that is our new thing. I encourage you to play it. It's fun. It'll make you think.
Yeah, Pips.
[00:02:02] Speaker C: Look it up. Pips.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: A great day begins with a positive morning. You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:02:10] Speaker C: You know, your support of the journey. It means so much. It Helps us meet our financial obligations, helps keep the music playing. But it is much more than that. It impacts lives every single day. It brings hope into hospital rooms, peace into long commutes and joy into homes that need it the most.
[00:02:29] Speaker B: We love being able to hear those stories of life change that happens through the ministry here at the Journey. We're so just honored that God would use a radio station to reach people right where they are. And so thank you so much for giving and for supporting us. You have an opportunity to do so right now@myjourney fm.com if you'd like to give early. But our partner invitation kicking off September 15th with Kids Giving Day. It's the 16th through the 19th and we'll be sharing with you so many stories of life change that happens because you give through the journey.
[00:02:57] Speaker A: Mark, Brittany, and you, you're on the morning journey.
[00:03:01] Speaker C: You've heard us mention this multiple times that somebody will email us or contact the station and say, hey, thank you so much for playing that song because it really connected with me. It's something that I needed to hear. I needed that bit of encouragement. Well, now there is research out that talks about the power of music, that it really is good company because it can trigger thoughts of connection, of warmth and, and companionship.
[00:03:26] Speaker B: It really does make you feel less alone because when there's some kind of, and I don't want to say just noise, but when there's like music in the background, you do create images of the story of the song. And especially when you're listening to the journey, you definitely feel that connection with the Holy Spirit. It reminds you that God is there with you. And so I definitely think that music is a great way to just stay connected not only with like your spiritual life but with other people as well.
[00:03:51] Speaker C: Yeah. So researchers are saying that the findings provide really, it's an evidence based basis for using music in clinical situations to help people and then creative uses for musicians as well.
[00:04:04] Speaker B: Yeah. And that's what we always say. We can go the journey can go where people physically cannot. We can be in that hospital room with that person when they're feeling alone. And so yeah, music makes you feel less alone. So hope that you're listening this morning.
[00:04:17] Speaker A: They'll help you wake up the morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:04:20] Speaker C: Brittany, how many books do you think that you've read in your lifetime? I know as a kid you said you read quite a bit.
[00:04:26] Speaker B: Yeah, and I've read a lot now. I just checked my, I have a keep note of books to read and I check them off on there, and I just checked that. That's been. In the last two years, I've read over 24 books.
[00:04:35] Speaker C: Have you really?
[00:04:35] Speaker B: Yeah. And I know you like to read sometimes, too.
[00:04:38] Speaker C: I do. I didn't read much as a child. My sister was the reader. She read all the time. Like, summertime. She was, like, in her room and reading. I was not doing that.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:04:46] Speaker C: So I didn't really start picking up reading for enjoyment till probably it was in college.
So I have not read as many as you have.
[00:04:56] Speaker B: Maybe like a hundred.
[00:04:57] Speaker C: Maybe.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: Yeah. I think I'm in, like, the three to, like, two to 300 range, at least. Cause I could think back on, like, the boxcar. Children was like, my thing when I was, like, in school. And there's over 160 of those. I don't know if I read all of them, but I know I've read quite a few of those. That was, like, my series back then. But nothing can really beat dan. He was 92 when he passed away, and he read, over the course of his life, almost 4,000 books.
[00:05:24] Speaker C: That is unbelievable.
[00:05:25] Speaker B: And not only did he read them, he kept a register, like a list.
[00:05:28] Speaker C: Of them, which is, what, 109 pages long?
[00:05:31] Speaker B: The list itself. Yeah. Was 109 pages long. So his kids told the local library about it there, and they actually posted his list. So you can actually go online and find it and see all the books that he read throughout his life. And I think that's so cool, because now I'm thinking about how many books I've read and the ones I can't even really remember.
I'll never know how many I've actually read. And so I think it's cool that his kids can kind of go back and read the things that he read and kind of get to know, like, what he liked and a little bit more about his personality.
[00:06:01] Speaker C: No, I think it's a cool legacy.
[00:06:03] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:06:04] Speaker C: That he left. So, yeah.
[00:06:05] Speaker B: Almost 4,000 books.
[00:06:07] Speaker C: Amazing.
[00:06:07] Speaker B: You guys always make me smile.
[00:06:09] Speaker A: The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:06:12] Speaker C: To Brittany's daughter Stella. Getting closer and closer to starting school.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: I know the first day of school coming up on September 2nd, right after Labor Day. And so my husband Phil's been waking her up in the morning, feeding her, getting her dressed and ready, and then, like, walking her over to the school.
[00:06:28] Speaker C: Oh, cool.
[00:06:29] Speaker B: And so they walked over the other day, and one of the teachers was outside and actually, like, let them go in. So she got to see her classroom.
[00:06:36] Speaker C: Was she excited?
[00:06:36] Speaker B: She was so excited. And so we're getting there, we're getting ready. We're doing the little prep the week or so before to get her in like a routine for it. But I'm gonna have a lot of free time when she goes to school and I don't know what I'm gonna do with it. It's gonna be really weird to come her not to be there. So we're excited. But she gets to meet her teacher this week, so it's gonna be. It's gonna be fun, but different for sure.
[00:06:59] Speaker A: Some great music. The Morning Journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:07:03] Speaker C: I mentioned earlier that this weekend felt like it was kind of the last weekend of summer. It's not officially, but it felt like it. I was down at Vir on Saturday for the IMSA races. Had a lot of fun. I walked a ton.
[00:07:17] Speaker B: Nice.
[00:07:17] Speaker C: Yeah, I should have counted my steps, but I didn't. But what's really cool is IMSA gives you so much, so you can basically walk anywhere. Walk into the garages, talk to the race teams. So got a ton of pictures and then had an opportunity to talk with the people with Operation Motorsports. They're a group that uses auto racing to help veterans with disabilities transition to civilian life. So we've interviewed them before and I had a chance to talk with them about an event that they have coming up in November. Brittany, I know you were busy this weekend.
Part of that was the Hill City slide.
[00:07:51] Speaker B: Yes. So this is so cool. I mean, I just can't believe that this event comes to downtown Lynchburg. They shut off a whole street. Church street is completely shut down and they put a giant water slide down the street, like the whole street. And so this year my daughter was actually old enough to go. My husband and I went last year without her. And this year we took her and I think she had a really good time. But then a snow cone was brought into the picture and she kind of ditched us. So it's fine. She went down a couple times though, and was like so squealing and laughing the whole time. I did spin out one time. Like I hit my foot on one of the blow up pylons and then just couldn't stop spinning. Felt a little dizzy after that one. But then I decided to go face first on the tube and that seemed to be like a lot better. You don't spin that way, but I love it. It's become a tradition for us. I'm glad that it comes back every year.
[00:08:37] Speaker C: It looks like a lot of fun.
[00:08:39] Speaker B: Next year we're gonna have to get you on the slide.
[00:08:40] Speaker A: Mark, your day starts with encouragement. The Morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:08:46] Speaker C: We had some technical issues with our music crew survey, but some of you made it through and we have some winners.
[00:08:54] Speaker B: Yes. So thank you so much if you were able to take the survey for still doing so. Abigail and Wendy are our winners this time winning a Journey gear prize pack. So thank you so much for your feedback and the next survey. We'll work out those technical glitches and hopefully everyone will be able to take it then. But thank you for listening and for voting. We so appreciate your feedback. Thank you.
[00:09:15] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
[00:09:20] Speaker C: Brittany, when your daughter was born, did you have a baby shower for your mom?
[00:09:26] Speaker B: I had a baby shower for her and for me. For my mom.
No.
[00:09:32] Speaker C: So apparently this is a thing now. They're called the grandma showers.
[00:09:36] Speaker B: Grandma showers?
[00:09:37] Speaker C: Yeah. So they're doing it.
Some people are doing this. It's a way to honor grandma.
[00:09:44] Speaker B: Okay.
[00:09:44] Speaker C: But would you do this?
[00:09:46] Speaker B: No.
[00:09:46] Speaker C: Yeah.
[00:09:47] Speaker B: It doesn't make a lot of sense to me. Like, do you get them? Like. Like what? Do you get them? Like, do you have to get gifts for this?
[00:09:53] Speaker C: I see. I don't really know.
[00:09:55] Speaker B: Like, I'm confused because.
[00:09:56] Speaker C: But they. Apparently there's like a debate because some people are doing this and they say that this is a way to honor especially like a first time grandmother. So you have a. You have the baby shower.
[00:10:07] Speaker B: Right? Right.
[00:10:07] Speaker C: And then you have. You also have to have a shower for grandma. The grandma shower.
[00:10:12] Speaker B: I'm not doing this.
[00:10:13] Speaker C: Why don't you just honor grandma at your baby shower is what I would think you would do.
[00:10:18] Speaker B: Congrats. You're going to be a grandma. Like, I mean, I don't know what else to do. Hey, how about take all this extra toys that I don't want at my house and put them at your house. I like that idea. That's the grandma shower I want to have.
[00:10:30] Speaker A: It's the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:10:33] Speaker C: Well, maybe you have a lot of stress in your life and you need to lift your mood.
Have you ever thought about hugging a cow?
[00:10:41] Speaker B: I have all the time. And this is amazing.
[00:10:43] Speaker C: It's a dream you have.
[00:10:44] Speaker B: It's a dream I have. I would love to do this. So there is a farm. Unfortunately, it's all the way in Pennsylvania, but they offer cow cuddling sessions.
[00:10:51] Speaker C: This is actually a thing.
[00:10:53] Speaker B: It is a thing. I kind of did this for my birthday. We went out to a farm in Waynesboro and we got to, like, pet the cows and, like, feed the babies and stuff. So that was like, dream come true. This is like, they offer like 15 to 30 to 45 minute sessions of cow cuddling. It was two friends who worked on dairy farms growing up. They were tired of their corporate job and being stressed out all the time. And we know that animals can bring us some stress relief, like petting your dogs and hanging out with your cat and stuff like that. But I love cows. And so for me, I'm like, when can I drive to Pennsylvania to do this?
[00:11:24] Speaker C: I have a feeling that you and your husband are going to be booking a trip.
[00:11:28] Speaker B: I think so. I mean, every time I've seen this.
[00:11:30] Speaker C: Oh, I know so.
[00:11:31] Speaker B: Every time I've seen this in the past, it's always been like, cows in a field. And the pictures of this looks like they have really nice hayfield barns with, like, the cows all groomed and, like, you get to just like, lay there and lay on them.
[00:11:44] Speaker C: 45 minute session.
[00:11:45] Speaker B: I'm gonna book my 45 minute session and then have to take a five hour drive to get there. I'm gonna need two sessions.
[00:11:53] Speaker A: Thanks for catching up on the morning Journey Rewind podcast with Mark and Brittany.
[00:11:57] Speaker B: Well, I. I'm very guilty of this. My friend posted this on Facebook the other day and I was like, I can so relate. She's like, you know the wave and run. Have you ever done that where you see somebody you know in a store and. And you just like, wave and then book it in the other direction? I'm so guilty of that that I sometimes don't even wave.
[00:12:15] Speaker C: You just, like, turn around.
[00:12:16] Speaker B: I just run away. It's because I'm socially awkward, and so when I see people out of the context I normally, like, see them in, this can be, like, really good friends of mine too. It doesn't matter, like, who they are.
[00:12:25] Speaker C: Oh, this isn't like somebody you've met like, one time.
[00:12:27] Speaker B: No. It could be like, one of the people that I watched all the time and I'm just like, not like, you know them. I know, but I just, like, sometimes I just like. I don't know what to say and I'm trying to do.
So I will literally, if I see you from a distance in a store and we don't make eye contact, I will avoid.
[00:12:45] Speaker C: You will not even do.
[00:12:46] Speaker B: You'll just avoid the conversation.
[00:12:47] Speaker C: No wave. It's just the run.
[00:12:49] Speaker B: Run away. Just the running away. Because I don't know what to say. This happened to me in Target the other day. My Friend's husband, we've met a few times in church, and he was coming down the aisle with his child, and I was coming down the aisle with my child, and we did not make eye contact, and we just, like, scattered. I was like, I just don't have the capacity sometimes to talk to people. And that's what she said. She said loving people, that sometimes means just waving and saying hi. And loving yourself sometimes mean recognizing that your social battery's on empty and you just don't have the capacity to talk to someone.
[00:13:17] Speaker C: No, I get that. I mean, like, if I'm in a restaurant and I'm eating with, like, friends or my family or whatever, like, and I see somebody in the restaurant that I know, I may. If we make eye contact, I may kind of acknowledge a little head nod or something like that. But I'm not gonna go over and talk to them.
[00:13:34] Speaker B: Right. If we make eye contact, I will at least wave at you. And if, like, we're close enough that I have to have a conversation, I will. But I bet you it's gonna be awkward because I just. I don't know what to say to people. Anytime I run into them in a situation that's not a normal setting that I know that I'm gonna see them. I'm just like, hi.
Bye.
So don't be offended if I do that to you.
[00:13:56] Speaker A: You're on the morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
[00:13:59] Speaker C: One of the signs that we are making that transition from summer to fall is that the NFL season starts next week.
[00:14:08] Speaker B: I'm so excited. I love football, so this is one of my favorite times of year.
[00:14:12] Speaker C: Yeah, exactly.
This is a really cool thing. I saw quarterback Justin Fields. He played with the Chicago Bears after he came out of from Ohio State and then with the Pittsburgh Steelers last year. He's going to be with the jets this year. But he has been talking more openly about his faith, especially Bible reading that has helped him deal with the pressures of playing in the NFL. He says he tries to get into scripture every day, especially the last six months, and that it's given him sort of this newfounded grounded confidence that really only comes in a relationship with the Lord. Good reminder from him that no matter what we face in life, we have to let God have control.
[00:14:55] Speaker B: I love it when athletes use their platform to talk about scripture and talk about Jesus. And I really think it does help them realize that they are more than just a football player, that they are a child of God, and that. That no matter what, I mean, they're going to get older, they're going to not be able to play football forever. And so I feel like a lot of athletes do struggle with identity after their professional career is over. So having that faith and that scripture and being able to know where your identity comes from is huge for these athletes. So, yeah, excited for the football season, excited for what's going to come. And always love it when our athletes get involved in scripture and use that as a platform to share Christ with others.
[00:15:32] Speaker A: Helping to get your day started. The morning journey with Mark and Brittany.
