Important Announcement: We're Making A Massive Life Change (Shabbat Shalom)

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1:01but we've never talked about actually observing a Sabbath. We talked about it. A day every week. We've talked about it. Like full turn everything on. I mean, yes, but we didn't call it that. Correct. Right. So what prompted all of that this week? Okay. This is going to make one particular person really angry. So last week I made a joke about Candace Owens, and then this one gal got really mad, and she's like, can you ever do an episode and not talk about Candace Owens? She's doing it again. No. So she released a new shirt this week that says, daddy's home, Shabbat Shalom, and essentially it's making fun of Erica Kirk saying that Charlie Kirk would say that every Friday. We're not going to spend too much time on this. I promise, I'm not. So I thought, that's weird. Did he say it? Because like, I remember him saying it on a podcast. I used to watch all his podcasts, and then Nivea said, no, at Young Women's Leadership when I was there for turning point this last summer, he gave a whole speech about the importance of the Sabbath, and observing the Sabbath with your family

2:02and why he does it. And so I thought, yeah, that's what I thought. So I kind of went down this little rabbit hole, trying to find him actually saying it, which I found five different places in like five minutes, it's very easy to verify. But then I went a little deeper down the rabbit hole, and I thought, he's onto something. This sounds like a great thing for our family. It's not like he came up with it. So I would just like to thank Candace Owens for creating her mean-hearted shirt, which is leading me to really investigate, observing a Sabbath for our family, and doing this every week. This is going to bring about a whole, it has the potential to bring about an entire discussion about people in this industry, whatever you want to, however you want to refer to, or think of this industry that will maybe table for now, because I don't want to go off on something negative here to start. So the primary motivation I think for us doing this is somewhat of a mental health crisis.

3:04Can I call it that? Sure. I was listening to Tony Robbins, just coincidentally, it's not like I sought this out, it popped up in my algorithm, and it was a attention-grabbing clip. And I listened to it, and he basically addressed all of these conferences that he does, how he can very easily determine that about 90% of the people in the room are suffering from some sort of a mental health crisis that is being brought about primarily because of time or just life stress. And I definitely think that we fall into that category, and he explained that basically so many of us are experiencing this same mental anguish, but we do such a great job of masking it when it comes to these face-to-face interactions that we have with other people. Yeah, well, the reports are that somewhere around 30% of Americans. It was 23%. Okay, are in a mental health crisis. Now, I think it's probably higher than that. We just call it stress, or we call it depression, or we call it being overstimulated or overwhelmed, or not liking our job. There's different things that we call it, or label it,

4:07and really what it is, is just like the whole world crashing down on you, and never feeling like you can get ahead. And it's because we have so many distractions, and we never quit. I think in America, we just go, go, go, go, go, go. Especially if you own your own business, anyone that owns their own business, it just goes seven days a week because you can. You never shut it off. And we're doing it to our children. We're overbooking our kids. They go from, they get up at six o'clock in the morning, and it's go, go, go. I mean, I remember school mornings, they were stressful, and you were in a hurry, and you were trying to catch the bus, and you were trying, mom was yelling at you, get your stuff, get, do you have your homework? Okay, but we have avoided that. Given how it is that we have chosen to live, however, I would still say that we suffer from the same affliction. Right. So why is that? Because we work for ourselves, and there's always something that we can be doing, so we're always doing something. And it has to do with the way we live. Also, when you live on 20 acres,

5:08and you have a farm property, there's always something. Yeah, that keeps you busy, for sure, but that doesn't have to come and go with what it is that you consider work. That's just your to-do list. So those are chores. I don't think of it the same way. If you're a vlogger, you have made your life, your content, and your work. A big part of my frustration, which is this entire concept, is the fact that I will hold off on doing things that I would like to get done around here, because everything does have the potential for us to record it and turn it into a segment for our vlog channel, Good Simple Living. And this is something that came up in a discussion that you and I had of going back a few days ago, because most of the books, everything it is that you guys see for us with regard to running our own business, I guess you could say. And in the latter part of last year, prior to the new year, we had a discussion on here with you guys about how we're going to take more time off, the more ourselves of the family, and I was like, where's the time off? Right. Which is a little awkward to bring up on camera, but I've just been feeling like this overwhelming sense,

6:08lately of like time slipping through my grasp. And I think a lot of us feel that way, especially the age that we are, but we're having the kids and having them get older. You know, I took my money in for his driver's ad drive this morning. It's what we had to devote pretty much like the first half of our days of year. And while I'm like, ex-dad, I can super happy and excited for him. I can't help but at the same time feel as, oh, I can't, I can't believe this is happening again. Like this is so bizarre that our kids are growing up and that we could potentially not only have him for another couple of years before he decides to- And then baby Kira. And baby Kira's right behind you. We've always called her baby Kira, and all she's not a baby anymore. I don't know if it's like a midlife crisis type of thing or it's just, you have a different comprehension of time the older you get and you know how quickly, you know, everything moves along. Yeah, and I think our kids are feeling in a little bit too. Like they're falling into the feeling overwhelmed and when you go seven days a week you get overwhelmed and it never ends and you feel like you're on this vicious cycle that just keeps going.

7:09Even if you work Monday through Friday and you do have your weekends off, weekends are for catching up on laundry, cleaning the house, getting grocery shopping, planning the kids for the next week of school. I think anybody can relate to if you work for the weekend, your weekend isn't just free. That's when you catch up. And then Monday morning comes around. That by itself is a lot. And to you in an analogy that we've applied to like our parenting in the past is like, well, what it's like having five kids will picture your drowning. This is all a joke. And in someone hands you a baby. I feel like our life has just become like this conveyor belt of things that need to get done. And that's great. Don't give me wrong. I'm not trying to come on here and to gripe and complain. We are so incredibly fortunate to be able to do what it is that we do. And we have all of you out there to thank for that opportunity. But there are times where it just does become a lot. You know, I mean, it feels like there's never a break. It is nonstop and it isn't so incredibly overwhelming. Well, I think that a lot of people that have watched the YouTube for a while or watching internet for a while

8:09are starting to see the creators that have been around for a long time starting to step back and starting to take massive breaks. Yeah, for, I'm sure a number of different reasons, but every time I do see that and somebody I respect it so much because I, you know, they're what they say they're going to and then they don't because they can't get off the hamster wheel. It feels uncomfortable to step back. What is your why? What is your motivation for, because you're somebody and I've referenced this on here before, is you're somebody that's really hard to keep up with. You are always looking ahead to the next thing, the next thing, the next thing. I think, and this is an knock on you, I think I'm somebody who's far more present, is that fair to say, of like the here and now, and I'm not going to like worry so much about the future. I don't know. I feel like when we're in the here and now, and now I don't know. I feel like you worry about the future far more, like you're almost dread the future. I do have anxiety about the uncertainty of the future, but at the same time, just because of that, uncertainty, I want to try to appreciate the present as much as I possibly can. And that's always been really difficult to do when I,

9:09like I said, you had that conveyor belt of never ending to do so. Okay, so hear me out on this. Go ahead. I feel like I might be a little more here and now present, intentionally, and that's why I don't feel as much stress as you because I do enjoy today, and I feel like you feel guilt about looking towards the future and you're mad that you're not enjoying today. You want to, but you're not. I think I have a lot of like present day stress because I feel like something's off. I feel like there should be, like our priorities should remain to where we are maximizing the amount of time we possibly can, especially when it comes to the kids. I mean, when I feel like, you know, something is interfering with that, I just become very conflicted and even frustrated at times. Yes, so you have brought up a way. I want to turn this into like, like marriage therapy. No. Is this sounding that way? Welcome to our therapy session. So you have on multiple occasions brought up, we live somewhere where there's beautiful hikes.

10:10Why don't we go hiking? I want to go fishing with the kids. I want to go hunting with the kids. I want to go boating more. I want to go do, you know, all these things. And so I said, yeah, we have to have a designated day for this and then can't just made her shirt and I dug down the rabbit hole and I went, we need a Shabbat. Okay, there we go. That's how we got to where it is that we currently are with Shabbat. We need an intentional day off where we focus on God and our family. And I think in focusing on your family and focusing on your kids and our relationship with one another, you are honoring God. That is focusing on God because he wants you to focus on your little family and what's important and what he's blessed you with. And work is important. Yes. You work. You shall work for six days and you shall rest on the seventh. But you can work 18 hours a day if you choose to do. So this is kind of my point. It's like, hey, let's be reasonable all about this and again, how can we just maximize our time? And when I feel like we are allocating our time in a way that doesn't necessarily with my genuine, my true desires, it again, it just creates some internal conflict.

11:11So when we're talking about what we want to do with taking a day of rest, a true day of rest, it is turning off the router. No, because the big thing, the big thing that drains your time is these freaking phones and those freaking routers and the stupid Wi-Fi. It is the worst thing to happen to humanity and the nuclear family and relationships. Husbands and wives just sit there staring down at their screens. You all do it. You know you do and then your kids do it. And then your kids come up to you and they have something to show you or tell you. And they have done studies where they hook up the brain with the little stickers and they will show parents doom scrolling and they will show their kids come up to them and the anxiety and the annoyance levels go up when your child approaches you. And then they have parents just sitting on the couch having a conversation or just sitting there

12:12and their kids come up to them and endorphins light up. They're happy to see their children when they come to them but when they're doom scrolling on their stupid phone, their annoyance goes up. The problem is not with the child. The problem is with the evil device. Yeah, it's not just that. And I think that's something that like Melissa alluded to. I think most of us probably experienced that otherwise you wouldn't be here watching us. But I think it is all amplified when you operate in the world that we have elected to operate into where you feel like you need to be up on stuff. You need to be constantly checking and refreshing and checking the status of things. And even with this entire concept and idea of implementing this Sabbath day with you and I, we're trying to establish when it is up we could take this 24 hour period to turn off the Wi-Fi so that we can decide and that was like we couldn't come up with that. We're like, wait a minute. Because we want to do it on Saturday. I want to do it on the day that God intended. I want to do it on the last day of the weekend and I'll get into why because I know Sunday is a traditional day of worship for Christians.

13:13But to me, it's important to do it on the day that God said to do it on because I feel like it's timing's right. I feel like his map for humanity is correct. And I understand that it was a covenant between God and the Jew and I'm not trying to step on those toes at all, but I don't believe that we're under the law anymore so I think you can take your Sabbath on a Monday. You can take your Sabbath on a Friday. You can take your Sabbath not at all. We're not mandated to take a Sabbath but are there still benefits to it? Absolutely. For sure, which is why I'm completely in favor of it. But with establishing Saturday, that's the day that we post on Good Sambo Living for those of you who watch us over there. And releasing a video on YouTube, at least for us isn't as simple as just hitting publish and, or, you know, public or whatever it is and having the video go live. It's sitting there monitoring things, tracking how a video is doing, having discussions with other people and how we need to tweak something to make it perform better. And talking back and forth with our audience too, if you guys have questions or what's the code for that

14:13or why do you do this? Like, we'd like to be there and be present and be able to respond to you guys. So generally, we release at 8 a.m. Pacific Standard Time, but we are sitting at our computer or we are on the phone trying to answer comments, monitor how the video is doing for at least a few hours. Generally, I try to walk away from it by like 10 and that's not because of any of you out there. So apologies if you are somebody who happens to watch and comment a couple hours after we release because of that point. I just try to move on with my day for my own health and sanity. Yeah, so what we decided was we would, we're going to continue posting on Saturday. So we'll post at 8 o'clock a.m. Pacific Standard Time on Saturday. We will monitor it for two hours and then 10 a.m. Saturday morning, our Shabbat starts, our day of rest. And then Sunday at 10 a.m., we will turn the Wi-Fi router back on and then we'll, you know, I'll probably answer questions and things like that. I'll scroll through and we'll be back with you. But for 24 hours, we are going to take time to be with God

15:14and with our family and be intentional about rest because rest is so important for everybody. Everyone needs rest and if you're not intentional about it with Wi-Fi in your life, if Wi-Fi streams through your home and you're not intentional about it, you're going to get distracted and you're going to get pulled back in. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I just found my new favorite brand for Jeremy. You know that he values comfort over everything else and it's really difficult to try to get him to try anything new because no shirt actually survives that break-in period before he's back and is old, holy favorites. And then I found poncho outdoors. Yeah, I've been wearing their flannels this winter and these things are unreal. I hate getting new shirts because they're always full stiff and bulky, but poncho shirts are soft, stretchy and breathable. They definitely live up to the height. And poncho has everything from soft flannels to denims and also lightweight shirts that are going to be perfect for the warmer season while we're boning or even just working around the yard. They come in regular slim or tall so you get that perfect fit and a man in a good fitting button up.

16:16That just makes it all happy. Yeah, well, Melissa said it's true. I'm definitely somebody who really appreciates function and poncho shirts have some really cool features that I've never seen on other shirts before, like magnetic pockets, a lens cloth, which I use constantly and then there's zippered pockets as well. The flannel has definitely been a favorite of mine but I picked up a few of their ultra light shirts which I know are going to be my summer go-to because they dry in minutes and offer SP of 50 sun protection. Poncho also has a huge variety to choose from and incredible customer service plus free shipping, free returns and even exchanges anytime. They will scan behind every single shirt and they will make it right if it's not your favorite even months later. So to grab your next favorite, wear anywhere shirt that will make you and your wife happy. Go to ponchooutdoors.com slash NWOS and enter your email for $10 off your first order. That's PO and CHO outdoors.com slash NWS for $10 off plus free shipping and when they ask how you heard about them, let them know that Melissa and I sent you over from the New World Hotel podcast. What qualifies as rest to you because rest and respites mean stepping away from everything it is that we would ordinarily do. So if I go outside and I hop on the tractor, hop on my lawnmower or I decide to take the kids

17:18for a hike, is that acceptable? Yeah. So I think so. I have been trying to figure out what is an appropriate Charlie Kirk said, if I can walk into your home on your Sabbath and it looks like any other day then you're not doing it right. Agreed. That's what he did set it young women's leadership for that NWOS thing too. And I agree with that. But also there is times in the Bible where Jesus even corrected the Pharisees because the Pharisees took the fourth commandment. The you shall keep the Sabbath and keep it holy, right? That was the fourth commandment and they were very strict about it. But they became so strict about it that they became like militant about it. You have to do all of these things and you can't do that. If you even hit a grain of wheat and the grain falls to the ground and plants itself, you have failed and so Jesus came back

18:19not to abolish the Sabbath, not to say this is no longer important. There's no longer benefits, mankind. He came back to clarify its intent. So there's all these laws that got more and more and more strict and it became a source of judgment against the people. You're doing this wrong. And so he intentionally healed somebody on the Sabbath. His disciples were criticized and shamed for grabbing some wheat and eating it. Like you can't do that. You have to have all your meals prepared and everything. Sabbath was meant to bring peace and rest and family time. I think you weren't even supposed to leave your place of dwelling on the Sabbath. You were supposed to stay home and be with your family and reconnect with God. And I think that's cool. But we're not under the law. The law was still. Nobody here really on this at the same time. I'm not saying there should be some,

19:19it shouldn't be so stringent. But if I decide to take the kids to go do something or if we're going to hike or if the using example I just threw out there, if I hop on the tractor and I tackle some project that I just want to do off camera or I want to, whatever it is, work in the garden. Does that bring you peace and rest? It does. At the same time, I would say that it's honoring God. Yeah, I agree. So I mean, it's very important that we don't judge people. Like us taking a Sabbath doesn't make us holier. It's not, we're not going to stand before God and he's going to say you honored the Sabbath. Therefore, this merit-based, you get to go to this higher level of heaven or you're holier or you did better because you observed the Sabbath with your family. We are no longer under that. We're no longer under dietary laws or anything like that. If you choose to eat kosher, if you choose to honor a Sabbath, if you choose to continue on with these traditions, you are free to do so, but you are not free to judge as others that don't and you're not mandated to,

20:19which means you're not under the strict laws that once existed. Yeah, this isn't about judgment or comparison. I'm not doing this for any other purpose than trying to honor God in my own way. And to devote myself to my family, which I think also honors God. So yeah, so we said that our Sabbath was going to be when we went out on the boat with our kids and when we take them out fishing for a whole day, when we go out and we do every hike that's an Idaho because we live, there's so many waterfall hikes. Like we want to go out and hike in nature, not record it and just be with our family, pack sandwiches and have an amazing day. And then I want to have a Shabbat dinner. And so, and not in the traditional sense, we're not going to have, you know, what people of the Jewish faith would eat for Sabbath. We're going to have pizza night or we're going to, or Kymani's going to cook. Kymani's a really tremendous cook and he loves to cook, but he needs like a little bit of help, still he's not going to have to eat. And everything he's made so far has been so good

21:20by Fox Norfens, by all the best meals that we share together as a family. He's making like racial quality. Because he's quite in like crazy recipes and then he gives me this little list, right? And I encourage him like it's such a cool thing for him to tackle and take on it at 15 years old. It's so impressive what he's able to do already. He read that of all the things that women find most attractive, it's being good with kids and knowing how to cook. He's got to cover his life. He's like spending all this time with Micah and then he's learning how to cook really, really good food. He's so good, Micah. He's so good. He's so sweet. He's going to be the best. He's going to be like the best little, I'm going to be so protective of him, my gosh. I'm going to need a Shabbat just to be nice to any girl that comes along to steal my little boy's heart because oh gosh, it's going to be so hard. I'll be part of this has me questioning what, again, our motivations are, what motivates you to continue on? We've been on this treadmill for years now.

22:21What is it that has kept you going? You're always looking ahead, like I said, whether it be like, hey, I'm going to write another book this year. Every time we think our plate is full, Melissa's like, nah, I can fit more on there. Let's do this this year. How about we grow and expand and try to do this? And I get that, you're trying to balance on the opportunity that we have been blessed with. But what really is your incentive? What is your motivation here? I enjoy it. It makes me excited to get up in the morning. I'm somebody who really needs something to do and something to work towards. And I don't like the feeling of completion. I like having something that makes me excited to put my feet on the ground that I'm working towards. That's hard. I would say we differ in that way, would you agree? Yes. What do you think my motivation is at this point, the stage? I think you want to live the life you imagined and you feel like you've worked, you've worked up to that point and now you want to sit and be in that. I don't just want to sit. It's not like I want to be coming in. No, but I mean, you want to immerse yourself

23:22in that life that you dreamed about. For sure. But it's time more than anything. Yeah, time. It's about time for me. Time is so important. About you time more than anything else. So I have, I mean, I have a couple things like, I do like to be working towards something. I like to inspire the kids. And I think that we have definitely done that. Writing a, just writing a children's book and then like now, I'm going to be writing a second book. It's, I like to show the kids that they can do things that people don't really think they can do. I never thought that I could actually write a book. I always wanted to, but it's like, well, no, only authors, right? No, I'm with you on that. And so all of this is beyond my wildest dreams, believe me. Yeah. Everything it is that we've managed to do with the past who is however at the same time, I think that there is value to come along with prioritizing the things that I'm speaking on as well. Like that can serve as motivation or an example to them when they are older and they have their families of their own. So things are going to start looking a little bit different. We've decided that we're going to be taking a week off

24:22a lot of months, maybe not every month. We didn't take a week off in February or March. But in April, in May, in June, in July, in August, definitely over the holidays, we're going to be taking a week off a month. So there might be three videos instead of four because we want a block of time. And in addition to that, we're going to be taking every Saturday off. So if you try to reach us on a Saturday, we are having our Shabbat. And we will get back to you on Sunday. It's just very important. It's important for our marriage because we've kind of been, you want me to slow down. I want you to catch up. And so we've had this little battle where I think this is going to be good for all of us. And our kids seem excited about it, too. At first, I thought they'd be resistant. And when I first brought it up, they were like, no, Wi-Fi, 24 hours mom. And I was like, I just started posting videos. I was like, I have to edit. I have to end the day when, oh, wow. Like, that's going to be hard. And then the more we talked about it, the more they were all,

25:24like, well, what day? What hour is this going to be? Yeah, they see the value in it. They see the value in it. And I think if we can instill that in them when they're young, that rest and time with God and prioritizing their family and knowing when to stop. Like, if we can instill that in them when they're young, it will hopefully carry on. Because I told them, I have this dream that we continue this as a family. If you move away, it's your choice to continue in or not. It's a family. The Saturday tradition of rest. Because how cool it it be if we actually end up, I know, it's more work, building that outdoor pizza oven. I've been talking about. And every Saturday for Shabbat dinner, our kids and our grandkids come over and we have pizza. And we do a Bible study. And it's just the day that our family gets together. Yeah, sounds great. And we can get there. But there's not that same sense of urgency with me in my mind. I'm like, no, we'll get there. Yeah. I mean, it's not a matter of like, it needs to be balls of the wall as it has been for the last six years. Right, I want to have this rest time too.

26:26And I think it's going to be really good for our family. It's going to intentionally give us that time to go do those hikes that we've been talking about to take those family walks to ride horses more often. What a blessing that is. We have afforded ourselves that opportunity. What good is it if you don't take advantage of it? And it's God's design. And I think he rested on the seventh day. But I think he knew that the nature of man was always going to be more. It's part of our fallen nature to always want more, to always strive for more. And it's not necessarily a good thing. And so he mandated. But he made it the law that the Jewish people rested because he saw the importance of it. He knew this is so important that you have this time to reconnect with me, to reconnect with your family, and to find peace, and then get back to work. Yeah, because everything else is a distraction. Right, and everybody that I hear, I mean, if you actually Charlie Kirk just wrote a book, well, he wrote a book, he was,

27:27he was talking about it in July, and it came out of Christmas time after he had passed away. And it's called Stop in the Name of God. And I want to order it on Amazon and read it, because I know it's going to make me even more excited about it. I haven't read the book. I don't know if any of you guys have read the book, but he said that it changed his family and his life and his stress level so much by taking an intentional day, turning everything off that he would literally take his phone, put it in the junk drawer, and say, he would walk through the door, tell his daughter, Daddy's home, Shabbat Shalom. And then at the end of his podcast on Friday, you can go watch his Friday podcast, he'd go Shabbat Shalom, everyone, go turn your phones off, go spend time with God and family, enjoy your weekend, we'll see you back on Monday. And he was excited, you could tell, like he was so excited for that time off. Yeah, I admire it so much, between serving as an example, and people like Ben Shapiro, I was telling you about how he, and everything he does, and it's part of his Jewish faith. It's his breaker off. Yeah, they have no power even in their house, but he was explaining how even, he just takes a sip of his water or tea, whatever beverage he's enjoying.

28:28He takes a second to thank God for his now, and for that drink. And like I admire that tremendously, because you're keeping God at the forefront. And like I said, we're bombarded constantly, nonstop with distractions, especially when it comes to things like our phones. And so to cast all this hide, it's something that I just got me a year for it. All right, parents and grandparents, Easter is just around the corner, which means we're all starting to fill those baskets for all of the little ones in our lives. Now for many kids today, Easter means egg hens, candies, and of course, the Easter Bunny. Now these are all really fun traditions, but they can also overshadow the true meaning of why we celebrate Easter and how the resurrection of Jesus changed everything. So this used to try to find the perfect basket stuff for us. Definitely go check out the incredible story that brief books just released from Christian apologists, Moisa Dordi, called The Day That Made the Way to Help Families Clearly Explain the Real Story of Easter and the Gospel Behind It. Yeah, The Day That Made the Way is such a sweet story about creatures living in darkness until light enters the world.

29:28Helping kids understand big biblical ideas like sin, redemption, and why Jesus had to die and rise again. Also, you have just this week to order to make sure that you have it in time for Easter. In addition to The Day That Made the Way, Brave also has a very sweet Easter bundle that is perfect for every basket this year. We got the whole bundle. There are two incredible books, a coloring book, activity book, stickers, and the cutest softest bunny. Just add some sweets and you'll be all set with basket stuffers that are not only to light, but also teach about the true meaning of Easter. That's right, and if you join the Brave Book Club, which we've been telling you guys about for months now, you are going to get The Day That Made the Way for Free along with the new children's book, every single month designed to help families teach biblical values and a Christian worldview. When you go to BraveBooks.com slash Easter and remember to order this week to ensure Easter delivery. So Sunday would have been the obvious day because we're Christians and that's the Christian Day of Worship. So that led me down another rabbit hole of like, why do Christians celebrate on Sunday instead of Saturday? And was it literally just because,

30:29well, and then I heard a lot of Jewish people on one say, Christians should not be taking a Sabbath on Saturday. That was a covenant between God and Jews. And they believe that that covenant is still in place and so that's why they still serve the Sabbath and they're still doing it with all of the rituals and the traditions. And I mean, I would argue that the Sabbath and rest is for mankind, God created all of us. And yes, it was a covenant. But once Jesus rose again, the law was fulfilled. Now if you're of the Jewish faith, you don't believe that obviously and that's fine. I'm not here to debate Judaism versus Christianity, but it kind of led me down this like, so why is it that the Christian celebrates Sunday? And then it all started like a very long time ago where the Roman Empire Constantine, or the Roman Emperor Constantine, he used to worship the sun, he was a sun worshiper and that was like a pagan religion in Rome.

31:31And then in 321 AD, well, a few years before that, he converted to Christianity. And so their Roman Empire was still pagans, but then he was a Christian and he was watching Christians be persecuted and literally thrown into the arena to be killed. That's what they did with a lot of Christians and slaves to entertain them. And so to try to kind of marry the pagan religion, to the Christian religion and have peace in his empire, he said Sunday is the day of worship. So whether you worship the sun, the sun God Sunday, the day of the sun, or you worship Christ because the Christians were all worshiping Christ on Sunday, this is gonna be this day of worship. Shops will be closed and you can't persecute anyone. Nobody can, so you kind of was like pardoning Christians. We can't persecute Christians on this day. It's their day of worship. But really what he was doing was trying to be friendly with the Christians because he was converting. My little historical bride here,

32:33a historical bride. So I just, I dove down around it whole this week, okay? But then it became a persecution against the Jews. So then it became, okay, if you're not celebrating on Sunday and you're celebrating on Saturday, ooh, those are the Jewish people and then they started to persecute Jews that celebrated on Saturday and forced them to celebrate on Sunday. So they literally have now gone back to a Saturday Sabbath but they were celebrating on Sunday because they were persecuted or excommunicated out of Rome if they tried to celebrate on the Jewish tradition of Saturday. This doesn't really matter. There's seven days in a week, let's go on. I mean, I feel like do we wanna be traditional with doing Saturday the last day of the week as God intended, he rested on the seventh day. I feel like God's timing is always perfect. So I've been tortured all week with this. But then it's like, but if you go back 200 years earlier, there was somebody just in, just in martyr, wonder what happened to his parents.

33:33I'm not saying I'm in the last name, martyr back then. So this is like a hundred years after Christ died. He wrote that he noticed Christians were celebrating on Sunday because it was a resurrection day. It was the day of our Lord. So long before Constantine said, we have to celebrate on Sunday, Christians were already celebrating on Sunday. So I feel like you could do it Saturday or Sunday. There is no right or wrong answer because we're not under the law, we're not under the Jewish tradition. Do it for peace, do it for God, do it for your family or don't do it because you don't have to. Agreed, are you disturbed as I am that it was so difficult for us to find a 24 hour period like a Sunday day, sun up to sundown to implement all this? Because we're so busy and we work seven days a week that we had to shuffle stuff in different directions. Something's gotta go. Okay, on Saturday, this can go on Friday and then this can extend to Sunday and then this will just not do anymore. So we had to clean the slate and move stuff

34:36and it was very difficult. And I think anyone's gonna find that difficult. Like people could be listening to this going, I work Monday through Friday, Saturday I go grocery shopping, I catch up on all my laundry. I do all this stuff for her guys might be going, I'm not doing Sunday, there's football. We'll never call it on laundry or any of the things that you're laying out here, ever, which again is part of the problem. We can't find the time to do even these very basic things. So you have to say, okay, if I do all my laundry on Saturday, can I do it on Sunday? Or can I do a load on Friday and a load on Sunday? First world problems. But I'm just saying, like you have to squish it out, you have to get rid of the stuff that's work and you have to only keep the stuff that brings, you have to Maria Kondo your Saturday. You have, if it doesn't bring you peace, you gotta give it to the thrift store. Now I'm looking forward to it, so did you have more on the historian front there on the paper? I mean, I could go on and on. Oh, it's just a lot of people will argue when they hear this podcast that the Sabbath

35:38is no longer biblical because when Jesus died, the law was fulfilled that we don't need to practice it anymore. I will argue that all of the Apostles still observed the Sabbath after Christ's resurrection. And the Apostle Paul who knew that Christ was the Christ he knew that he was resurrected, he was literally the Apostle to the Gentile, still observed the Sabbath after. So he knew that the law had been fulfilled but he still saw the importance in it. So I don't think that Christ came to abolish the Sabbath. I mean, you could say like, oh, we're not damned by the law anymore but does that make it no longer important? I mean, you can't just go out there and lie, cheat, steal, murder, covet, and then take your neighbor's wife and his sports car because Christ died and fulfilled the law. I just feel like the degree to, like I told you, there was an analogy that was made about people and how we were all so internally conflicted and that happiness resides somewhere in between what it is that we say we would like to do

36:39or ideally what it is we would like to be doing with how it is that we spend and redeem our time versus what it is that we actually do. And so few of us actually live out our lives the way that we ideally would like to. And I don't know what the reasoning for that is whether it be laziness or just distractions but I'm trying to make that discrepancy as little as I possibly can because every time we seem to take on more, like I said, I know the broader that discrepancy becomes, it just serves more so as a recipe for not misery but just some mental and emotional anguish. You know what I mean again, I'm not trying to be too heavy handed with, like I'm not complaining, I'm very grateful for everything it is that we have in our life but it doesn't mean that you can't also improve upon things. Right, I think yeah, I think anybody can improve on their schedule and on their priority list and on their time with their family and on their marriage and on their time with their aging parents. There is always somewhere where you can improve. And so I love that we're going to do this,

37:41we're going to stick to it. And it's going to be very easy in the beginning before it becomes a habit because it takes a long time to form a new habit. All that I know, what fears do you have going into this? Do you have any? My fear going into it is that we're going to be tempted to put stuff in there that we go, well, this isn't really work or it's okay or, oh my gosh, something major happened. Like we have to monitor this. Like so my fear is before it becomes a true habit and we see the fruits of it in our lives that we're going to be tempted to cheat or justify. A little bit of... A little bit of... A little bit of... A little bit of... A little bit of... A little bit of... A little bit of... But with the drawing comparison to others and this feeling of competitiveness, I read through a comment thread on another video that I don't want to reference directly, but somebody sort of tried to explain what the experience is of being a quote unquote YouTuber or an influencer and having these feelings of competitiveness in your niche and the audience struck me

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40:44just go to trustinwheel.com slash new world and get 20% off that's trustinwheel.com slash new world. Yeah, I don't think the audience cares. I think contact creators care far more about who's getting more views. And oh my gosh, we released at the same time and they have 50,000 more views on us. Well, I'm asking you about what your fears are and having these feelings as though you were falling behind when really they're completely illogical because the reality of it is regardless of how drastic a downturn might be, we're still gonna be okay, we're gonna be just fine. Also, what you gain is so much more valuable. There's no, there's no dollar sign on time. This is my point. You can't buy more time. You can't buy time, really. And you definitely can't buy more time. That's why my time is more valuable. Yes. And so I would say that you just have to be at peace with that. You don't, you can't compare yourself to someone doing more than you. I will struck by it, I guess, because it's a very, it's a thing, like competition in any space in any industry.

41:48Yes, sports are like that. Services are like driving for us on motivation so oftentimes for people like us. Restaurants are like this way. Restaurants used to close on Sunday. Shops used to close on Sunday, but then it became, oh, well, Joe across the street stays open on Sunday. So we need to stay open on Sunday. But I think because in the online world, you don't have anything tangible. It's not like a brick and mortar type of location. I think people are just kind of oblivious to that. But it is a highly competitive space. And that brings about the worst in people a lot of times. It brings about the worst in people and I mean it. This is why we don't, we don't, we just do our own thing. We don't, I don't, I don't, I said this on here before, like I don't follow any, any one else or anything else in the broader space that we sort of operate in. And the reason for that is I just don't, I really don't care all that much. It's not like, it's not, it's not important to me. Well, you can rile yourself up. And it can bring about the worst in you because you're like, you know, you're trying to keep up with the Joneses and that, that matters with cars and yards

42:50and the way you people look and the way that people's children look and who's the smartest kid and who's the best kid on the team. You start questioning yourself, like, oh, am I doing something wrong? Because this person's, should I be doing this? On the outside looks better. That's a slippery slope as well. And you see that in the online space all of a sudden. Not want to take a day of rest because you'll feel like you're, you're falling behind a day but you're not, you're gaining so much more. Yeah. And if you gain peace and you gain time and you have these amazing memories that don't involve any distractions, when was the last time you made a memory with kids, grandkids, your spouse that didn't involve anybody looking at their phone or anything like that? It's been a while. You know what I mean? Like just no phones. You got to eat nobody, you don't order and then as you're waiting for your food, you pull your phone out and this need to be constantly entertained is stressing us all out. Yeah, we all feel that you and I were talking about

43:52the passage of time and how it all seems to be. So it seems to have gone relatively quickly over the past couple of decades at the very least. It seems like time has sped up and I don't think that's just an aging thing because you know, that is a natural byproduct of getting older. Time becomes very relative. Doesn't it for me personally, I referenced it to you before we hopped on camera here, is that ever since like September 11th, like time has just been at a warp speed to where you can't comprehend it. When we were in high school in the 90s, you would think back to the 70s as being like, oh, this retro thing, like you know, way back in the 70s, 20 years prior to when we were in high school. And now you have this entire movement I see or even the kids lock about it all the time. Why do you care? Like about the 90s and I see all these damn reels about, you know, people, what were you like in the 90s, or what were you like in the 2000s? We just had the 90s and 2000s when in reality, that was the same amount of time as it was for us back in the 90s when we were referencing the 70s and the 60s. It just seems like time has sped up tremendously. Well, I think the internet has wasted a tremendous amount of brain space. I do think that is a massive part of it.

44:53We are just literally being lulled through our days and through our weeks and through our lives. Doom scrolling, reels, reels are just, oh my gosh, like we just scroll and scroll and scroll. And like in an hour, we'll pass by and you're like, what happened? What happened? And your kids came up and they said stuff to you or maybe they tried to come up to you or maybe they went to approach you and they turned around and walked away. I was watching lawn care reels. And after a year, 20th one, I'm like, what am I doing? What are you doing? I don't need to know about when I need to fetch my lawn or aerate and what the best means of fertilization. It was such a waste of time. You know what, I'm getting now Shabbat Shalom reels because I went down this. Thanks Candice Owens. Yeah. It was very helpful. So I think this is going to be good. I really, really hope and pray that we stick to it until it becomes a habit. I hope it becomes a lifelong tradition for us and our children. And then it brings us peace and meaning. It brings us closer to God and closer to one another.

45:55I'm very excited about it. I think it's going to provide us so many days of hiking and fishing and boating and making pizza and... It's making memories and cherishing the time as though we have with our kids and each other. And so I have a little challenge for you guys. Try, try to see if you can find a day. It doesn't matter what day. It doesn't need to be the seventh day. Just a day where you're honoring your family, your peace, your mental health, your God, and you're turning off these horrible things. I mean, like turning them off. Turn your router off. If somebody, you can have your neighbors over for dinner, like if like, oh, we've been meaning to have those people over for dinner. If you have a day of the week, every week, where you're not distracted and you're not toiling over something, you can start to peace back together those friendships and those relationships with your family. And I just think this could benefit so many people.

46:55So I want to hear if any of you guys are going to try it, we're going to do it, we're going to go for it, we're going to report back here after a couple of weeks and see how it's going. But I think it's going to be good. I mean, I can't imagine that it's not going to be a massive blessing. I don't know why we haven't done this sooner. So starting this Saturday. Starting this Saturday at 10 a.m. So if you have a question, ask me before 10 a.m. Because then it is Shabbat. We are turning off. Let's just say get rid of your Wi-Fi and your cell phones, but watch us like a simple living on this side. So watch before 10 a.m. And then turn that off and we'll see you again on Sunday. No, that's fine. What if you choose to do for yourself? Yes, whatever is good for you. I like, I love the message. And yeah, I would encourage anyone out there kind of having the same feelings and desires that we're expressing here on the podcast to at least consider this on, yeah, I think it's going to be a good thing. And I'm glad that we're putting it out there publicly. Please hold this accountable. We'll report back like in what's said. If you see us online on like a Saturday at 11 or something, if I reply to someone, especially if I'm firing off

47:58and someone I have broken Shabbat, you can scold me. The comments are going to be out of control now between 10 a.m. and 10 a.m. and 10 a.m. If you want to say some real mean, that's your window. Because we won't see it. So I had it. All right, do you have anything else you want to squeeze in? No, I don't think so. I think that's it. I hope we didn't come across two marriage couples therapy issues. I don't know. We've been having a lot of discussions. It's been a thing in our household. Like I said, it's been bugging me for quite a while now from being totally honest. So hopefully this will maybe just we can talk this up as an improvement of moving in the right direction. And in the meantime, yeah, just still incredibly grateful to all of you out there. And blessed to have this opportunity. So I don't want to come on here and complain. I just want to be. We want to make sure that yeah, we're keeping it real. Yeah, okay. Well, we will see you next week here. Correct. Yep. You guys take care of the last week. We'll see you once again. Living in the narrow world.

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