 Hello, hello, everybody. Welcome back to The Walk Podcast. I am your host, Sam, if you're new here. I'm really glad that you're here. We talk about all things lifestyle, dating, faith, Jesus. There's an occasional vlog sprinkled in here on this channel. So if you're new and you enjoy your time here today, then I would love for you to subscribe. I have really big plans for this channel, and so I hope that you guys will choose to stay with me and go on the journey with me. But guys, we are on episode 10 of The Walk Podcast, the podcast that was nameless when it started. And it's crazy. I feel like I can already see how much the podcast has grown, and not even just in numbers, but in the depth of what we talk about. I feel like when I started this podcast, I don't know, I thought it was going to be like a cute little thing, and it is still pretty cute. But I feel like we've come a long way from episode, I think it was episode two, which was a list of things that I feel like I'm too old for, which was not a bad video. That's not what I'm saying. It wasn't a bad video, but I feel like I have found kind of my rhythm of what I actually want to talk about and what I want to share, and things that have more meaning, and things that you can listen to and kind of take with you after the video is over, rather than just a quick little 10, 15 minute video of nothing that you're going to take with you. Does that make sense? So I'm really proud of where this channel has gone and where it is going, and like I said, I have a really good feeling about where this channel is going, and I have some plans. So yeah, this is episode 10, and I think I'm going to take not like a break, break, not a formal break, but it will be a couple weeks, I think, until episode 11 comes out. I think there is going to be a vlog that comes after this video. How many weeks am I going? Am I going to Seattle in two weeks? Three weeks. I think three weeks. I will be going to Seattle for a couple days with my cousins, and I plan on vlogging that trip. I haven't asked them yet. I'm going to ask their permission first, of course, because I would never want to make anybody feel like they have to be in a video with me. But yeah, I plan on vlogging that Seattle trip where we're going to go hiking, and we're going to visit different places. We're going to visit forks for any of the Twilight fans out there. You know what I'm talking about. So it should be a really fun trip. So that's probably what you're going to see next on this channel, and I'm really excited to film that. What else? Please excuse my sweatshirt bun appearance. I normally like to, you know, dress up a little bit for you, but I'm tired. I'm tired. And I really just felt like being cozy. I lately have been, well first of all, let's check in. How are you guys? I hope you guys are doing well. I am good. I am feeling really good, really thankful, really blessed, but I'm tired. I just lately have realized how much I really am just like go, go, go, go, go all the time between two YouTube channels, a full-time job outside of YouTube, and then friends, family, me, and then doing household things, going grocery shopping, doing laundry, cleaning, like between all of that. I really like a lot of times I find that I'm going from like 8.39 a.m. until like 2 a.m., like no joke. Between working out, Bible study, work, YouTube, then I have to edit the videos, then I have to, you know, and I'm not saying all this to like, I don't want you to like feel bad for me. That's what I signed up for, and I wouldn't change it. I'm so thankful that I have platforms that I can talk to you guys about really whatever I want and whatever you guys want, you know, and I'm lucky and not lucky. I'm blessed that I have a job and that I have friends and that I have family and that I have an apartment to clean, but it's a lot. It's a lot. And lately I've been finding that I've been sleeping later. Like I'll set my alarm for like 8.45 in the morning, but I'll snooze it subconsciously, and the other day I snoozed it until 10. And that's my body telling me that I need to sleep more and that I'm tired. And lately I just feel like there's not enough time in the day to do everything. And I'm lucky that I don't. I've never really suffered from burnout too much to the point where it's like debilitating. Like I have a little bit here and there, but nothing to the point where it's like so serious, you know? But I definitely have been feeling tired lately. So I've kind of just been telling myself like I need to find little opportunities to rest. And like today is a Sunday. I went to church, ran some errands afterwards. I'm here filming the video. And then as soon as I turn this camera off, I am out the door again to go hang out with my family and go see my dad and them because they're doing a little celebration for something at their house. And so I'll spend a couple hours with them. And then by the time I come home, it's like nine, nine thirty-ish probably. And then back to work tomorrow, you know? So it's just like it's always something, but it's all good things. And so that's just kind of where I am mentally right now. I'm happy. I'm not sad or anything like that. But yeah, definitely, definitely been feeling that a little bit. And I want to prevent getting to a place where burnout could be a reality. So I'm just being mindful of that. But that leads me to and I promise we're going to get into the Q&A. I didn't even say what we're doing today and we're like seven minutes into the video. We're going to get to the Q&A in a second. I have all of your questions here. But before we get into the questions, that leads me to my next topic. I want to challenge you guys with something this week. And I'm going to do it along with you. I want to challenge you and we've talked about it a little bit in past episodes. I want to challenge you to join me in changing your mindset this week. And by that, I mean we all go through our day-to-days where things may get under our skin, we may get frustrated, we may get stressed, we may not want to do something. Um, for example, I'll tell you a little story. The other day, I got home at my normal time. I got them actually a little bit later. So I got home around 11.15 at night. It was a Wednesday, I want to say. And I, nope, it was Monday. And I had to be up the next day, Tuesday, because I was going to go serve at church. And I had to be there at 8am. So already that's a quick turnaround because I was going to come straight home, get like six to seven hours of sleep, and then go straight to church in the morning and then go to work after that. And I got home, I changed, I did my skincare, I washed all my dishes, I cleaned up the kitchen, I was just about to get in bed. And I got an email from my boss, what we all did, all of us directors, I work in television news, if you were not aware, that's my full-time job outside of YouTube. And I got an email from my boss saying that there was something wrong with our overnight, with our show, with our overnight show. And it airs all night until the morning crew comes in. And it was frozen. So I'm not going to get in the technicality trying to explain television to you, because that's kind of irrelevant. But basically there was something wrong with the show. So imagine you turned on the news on your TV and it was just frozen. There was nothing playing on the channel, it was just frozen. That's a problem, right? So it was more along the lines of, hey, this is an issue, fix it essentially. He was like, show is frozen, not sure what this is about, aka that means y'all better fix it. And I am the closest one of my coworkers on the night team with me. And I do have a company laptop, but it is currently broken, which actually reminds me I need to bring it to work tomorrow to get it fixed. But I could not log on from here. Because if the laptop was working, I would have been able to just log on and I would have fixed it from here. Could not do that. So I had to, I left, I went back out the door at midnight, basically in my pajamas. And I went to work, no makeup, no nothing. And I went back to work and I fixed it, knowing that I had to be up at like 6am. And let me tell you, I was mad and I was mad at no one in particular. It was just mad at the situation. Like I was, I was already tired. I knew how tired I was going to be in the morning. I didn't want to have to go back, you know, and I'm like, I need a new job. And I was just so like cranky. And I had to change my mindset. And so in the car, driving to work, turn my volume on my radio all the way down. And I don't even know what I fully said, but I got to the point where I was like, you know what, God, thank you that I have a job. Thank you that I have something that allows me to pay my bills. Thank you that I have a job that pays for the apartment that I live in, my mortgage, you know, the car that I'm driving. And it changed it. My chest went from feeling so like tight and heavy. So I was like, okay, like I'm good. I still didn't want to be there. I have no business being at work past midnight. And I don't get paid extra for it. I didn't want to be there. But it changed like how anxious I was and how like not even anxious, just like frustrated and upset I was. And it changed my mentality. So I want to change, I want to challenge you with me because I'm trying to do it every day. I want to encourage you and challenge you to change your mindset a little bit. So if you wake up one morning and I know it's cold and now it's kind of dark when we wake up and you know, we're like, I don't want to go to work. I want you to instantly check yourself and be like, I'm so happy I have a job. Or you get home from a long day of work and maybe you have to cook for your family. Change your mindset even though you're tired and be like, I'm so happy and feel so blessed that I have a family to cook for that I have food that I can put on the table. A lot of people don't have that or whatever, whatever it is, you get my point. And if there's something you don't want to do or something you're so frustrated with, I want you to check yourself this week and change your mindset. And it helps for me personally, it helps to say it out loud. Like I said it in the car I said, thank you Lord that I have a job. And it really like, you know, and once you start to do it and you like have to force yourself to do it for like, they say like habits happen after two weeks of doing it, right? Or it becomes habitual. Eventually it's gonna that's going to be your default where you're just going to look for places of gratitude rather than things that you're upset about. So that's just a little challenge I wanted to throw at you this week and I want you to let me know how it goes. You can come back here and write it in the comments. You can DM me on Instagram. My Instagram is just Sam underscore on underscore Y T. So Sam on YouTube. And just let me know how it goes and how it has maybe changed you or maybe major week better or whatever. And it gets easier the more you do it. So I just wanted to leave that challenge with you. But let's get into the meat and potatoes of what this video actually is as we're 12 minutes into the video now. You guys said you like when I ramble. So here we are. I took to Instagram. And I put on my story that I wanted you guys to lead this video. I wanted to know what you wanted to talk about. So it's essentially like a Q&A. So that's what we're going to do. But I didn't want it to be just questions of like Sam, what's your favorite color? Not that there's anything wrong with that. It's blue if you wanted to know. But I wanted to really talk about like deeper things like let's talk about friendships, let's talk about dating. I already know there's a bunch of dating questions in here because that's the topic I get asked about the most. I said let's talk about faith. Let's like talk about it. Let's get into it. And that's what we're going to do. So I took screenshots because I posted this a couple days ago. But I have all your questions here. And there are a lot of them. And I don't know if we're gonna like it's it's still going. There are a lot of them. So I don't know if we're going to get through all of them. But you guys know that I try to do as many as I can. And let's just get into it. Let me say one more thing. Don't kill me. I am talking and answering these questions or talking about these topics from my own experience, what I am learning. But I'm not saying that I'm right. So I encourage you anything that I'm about to talk about whether it's faith related or not. I encourage you to explore these things on your own. If it is faith related, pray about it. If it is not faith related, go listen to other people as well. So don't take my word as gospel. I am not God. I don't know everything. Not even close. So you know, take everything that I say with a grain of salt. These are just my opinions, my experiences, things that I'm learning. And even if they're things that you just agree with me on, that's totally okay too. You know, we're all different people with different upbrings and different minds and different ideas. And so we're going to think about things differently. And that's okay. So let's get into it. Shall we? I'm not going to say anybody's names because some people don't like when I do that. So I'm not going to do that. But let's just get into it. And I don't I don't know what order this is in. I just really was just taking screenshots. But okay, let's do it. Let's start off easy. Do you have any Christian music recommendations? Yeah, I am right now my favorites are Maverick City, Elevation Worship. I am a huge Brandon Lake fan. I really recommend like when I was really getting into like I want to learn new music. I would just search Brandon Lake on Spotify. You can do it on whatever you listen to your music on. And I would just put on a Brandon Lake Spotify playlist that they made. And that's how I learned a lot of my current like favorite songs. So I really recommend Brandon Lake. My mom and I just got tickets to go see Elevation Worship, which is going to be really cool. That's in 2024, but I'm really excited for that. Let me look at my Spotify. I found a couple songs lately that are like dance mixes of Christian songs, one of them. So if you're into that, my friend sent it to me and my jaw was like on the floor. It's called shackles, parentheses praise you. And the artist is Malarkey, M-A-L-A-R-K-E-Y. It's like a dance mix. So good. And then Hillsong Young and Free has a song called Every Little Thing. And when I tell you my jaw was also on the floor, I was like, what is this? And I sent it to my friends. I was like, you need to listen to this. And even they were like, okay, Hillsong, I see you. So yes. Yeah, a lot of this I have. I like Phil Wickham a lot as well. The song I Speak Jesus by Charity Gale is also phenomenal. Holy Forever by Chris Tomlin is a great one. And what I like to do personally, especially when I'm listening to Elevation Worship in Maverick City, I tend to listen to something in my eye. I tend to listen to the live versions just because they're more energetic. And I feel like they just get me more like pumped. So those are just a few of my recommendations for you. Okay, the next one says, moving on from someone who you thought loved you. Yeah, I've been there. I'm sure most of us have. What I will say about moving on, it's really hard. Forgiveness is a big part of it. Of course, it depends on what the breakup was like. In my case, I had to find forgiveness and I had to forgive myself. I had to forgive them more for myself than for them. Does that make sense? So I wasn't forgiving them so that they could have peace. They don't know. I haven't spoken to my ex since the day we broke up, but I forgave to give myself peace and to just let it go. Moving on is really hard, but I take comfort in the fact that what is for you will never leave you. Nobody can, no one can take it from you if it's yours. If it's meant to be yours, no one can take it. And if it is for you, this always gets me confused. Let me try this again. If it was for you, no one can take it away from you. If it is not for you, you have no power to keep it. That's what I meant. So if someone walked away from you, it wasn't for you. They were not for you. And that helps, that helped me in knowing, okay, I need to move on. And it's not, healing is not linear. You're going to, it's essentially like mourning somebody. It's almost like they died, God forbid, but it's almost like you're mourning a death because you're mourning, you're mourning their presence in your life is what it is. And it feels like you're actually grieving because you are little by little, day by day. It does get easier. But let me tell you in my case, it wasn't time that healed my wounds. Sorry, I'm going to come off really strong. We're starting strong here. It wasn't time that healed my wounds. It was God that healed my wounds. That's a whole different topic that I could go into, but we'd be here forever. But time doesn't make it easier. It doesn't heal it, but it makes it easier. And just take comfort in the fact, like I said before, if it was for you, nobody could take it. It's not for you. You can't keep it. So I hope that brings a little bit of peace and give yourself grace. You're going to have days that are harder than others. You can have one really good day and the next day have a bad day and then maybe have a better day than have a bad day again. It's not linear. It's going to change. Give yourself grace, pray about it and really just, you can also seek the comfort of the people in your life, your friends, your family. That stuff really, really helps. The next one, what do you think about a man praying for you? Like praying for you to be the one slash wife. Like praying for you to be the one or his wife, I guess that means. I think praying about your spouse is a really important thing that everyone should do. But I don't think it's like a, like a genie type of thing. Like God's going to grant your wish. Like Lord, you see that guy right there? Please make him my husband. Like I don't think it works that way. Imagine if it did though, that'd be cool. But no, I don't think it should work that way. I, like I pray for my future husband. I pray for him every day, every single day, every morning. I pray for him every morning. I pray for his, for his wellbeing, for his health, for his relationship with the Lord. But I'm not praying about anybody in particular. It's more of just like God knows who he is. And I'm praying for him, even though I don't know who he is yet. Does that make sense? Am I making sense? So I think there's something really beautiful about, you know, if I'm praying for him, and maybe he's out there praying for me right now, and we're both praying for each other until we meet. Like I think that that's actually very beautiful. So I think it should be like that, but not necessarily like praying for a specific person to like be your spouse. Because it doesn't really work like that. But yeah, I think praying for your future spouse though is actually a very, very beautiful thing. I saw something the other day that was like, there's something so beautiful about two people just praying for each other, and then God brings them together. Like I think it's really beautiful. So anyway, let's see, what else we got? How have you seen God's faithfulness in your life this week? That's a nice question. This past week. Well, as you guys probably know, I've joined a new church the last couple months. And in the last, maybe three weeks or so, I actually started serving there and volunteering there as a as a greeter, which is really cool. It's allowed me to meet more people. Because, you know, going to church is nice, even if you don't know anybody. But for me, it was very weird, like walking in and out every Sunday and not knowing a single soul, having no one to talk to, have knowing, have no one knowing who you are and vice versa. It's just not as fulfilling for me. Like I like, I like church community. That's one of the biggest reasons I went to this church was because I wanted more God the community in my life. So anyway, so serving has been a really nice way for me to have that. So God is delivering those prayers little by little that I've been praying for God the community. And this week I went and served. That was the day that I said that I had to be there at 8am. And I met a lot of really nice people. And just people that I think like are going that I'm going to continue to become friends with and God is just delivering that prayer of bringing me God the community and and more like minded friends in my life. And so, um, yeah, that was a big kind of kind of step in that direction. So he's definitely delivering there for sure. Someone said how is dating going? So I will say this, I'm not looking for a relationship, but I'm open to one. And by that, I mean, when I was telling you guys all these these stories of how like I've been going on dates and this and that and I was and I was, it was fun. I don't regret it. But I realized that I was really like I was searching for it. Like I was really trying to make it happen. And I am of the mentality now where I am going to do my thing. I'm going to run my race. I'm going to do things that I want to do things that I am passionate about volunteering, serving, you know, becoming part of this church community, hanging out with my family, my friends, growing my YouTube platforms and, you know, doing doing the things that I'm passionate about. And then as I'm doing that, God's going to bring somebody that is running in the same direction as me and then we'll run together. So that's what I mean by like, I'm open to it, but I'm not looking for it. I pray God and I, we talk every day. And I could tell you, like without a doubt, I know like God, the word says that he's going to bring me the desires of my heart. He knows my heart's desires. He knows that I desire a marriage and desire children. And I truly believe like with my whole heart that I'm going to get that one day. So I'm not stressed about it. I think before I was trying so hard to make it happen, because there was a part of me that was afraid that it wasn't going to happen. That I was never going to meet somebody that I was going to be single for the rest of my life, because that's kind of a fear of mine. If I'm being, if I'm being honest. And so I was just trying to make it happen. And I was trying to overcompensate for my fear. Whereas now I have no doubt in my mind that it's, it's going to happen and God's timing. So now I'm not as actively looking for it, but I'm open and I'm preparing myself for that when for when it happens, I'm ready. So it's going well. I, I don't have Bumble anymore. That app gave me a lot of anxiety and they're just, they're not a lot of godly men on those apps. And so I have, I still have hinge. That's the only one I have, but I don't use it anymore. I'll go on every once in a while just to clear the notifications. But I really just don't use it. I'm keeping it because, you know, God can work in mysterious ways. But I'm not, again, I'm not like actively looking for it. I'm not on there scrolling for hours a day. It's just when it happens, it happens. I feel a lot of peace about it. And I really think that God took my relationship away from me, my last one away from me, because he wanted to show me that I needed him first. And once I know who I am in him, and just who I am alone as a single woman, then I'm prepared to love somebody better. We talked about this last time, I think where I was like, they're not, they're not making me whole. They're just going to compliment what I already have. So I feel a lot of peace. It's very liberating actually. And when it happens, it happens. I'm open to it. You know, I go to church. I smile at everyone because you never know. But yeah, no, I'm good. I'm good. I'm very, very content. And again, when it's going to happen, it's going to happen in his timing, not mine. Okay, tips on having hard conversations as a Christian woman, i.e. women's rights, gender equality, etc., etc. I mean, I feel like those, those conversations are hard, whether you're a Christian or not. But I will say sometimes it's hard because no matter what you say, people find a way of like, taking whatever you say, and then coupling that with the fact that you're a Christian. And they just, they come up with ways where they think they know you and they judge you even harsh, even more harsh, because you are a Christian. Why can't I speak? Because you are a Christian. I have noticed that, especially on the internet, actually really only on the internet. I don't think anyone's ever really done that to me in my real life. It's mostly on the internet. But um, whether you're a Christian or not, I mean, the way to just, the way to have those conversations is with love. You just have to lead with love. The only thing that we are called to do, we are not called to judge people. We are not called to play God. It is not my place to look at somebody and say the way that you think about this is wrong. It's not my place. It's I actually have no right to say that to anyone about any topic. But when you go into it with love and you really just make that your focal point, that's what we're called to do, is to love others. So I think as long as you're leading with love and you have good intentions, nobody can really say anything bad about you. So that's what I try to do. I try to lead with love. The people that know you or the people that can that are sensitive to people's intentions will see that you mean well. And that's really it. That's I've kind of applied that to like every area of my life now or I just lead with love and make that my focal point. So I hope that answered your question. Okay, let's see my favorite Bible verse. I don't know if I have like one. So in the back of my Bible, I recommend you do this. I have in the very back of my Bible like last, last, last page. This is the inside cover. There's no more page here. I have some of my favorite verses. You can't really see written here. Ones that I always want to like look back to and just kind of like have on the ready. Let's see. I'm not going to read all of them to you, but maybe I'll read you a few. This is one of my favorite ones. Isaiah 41.10 says, Don't be afraid for I am with you. Don't be discouraged because I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. Let's see. Romans 828 is another one of my favorites. It says, We know all things work together for good to those who love God. I say that back to him all the time. I always say, say your word says you're going to guide me down the best path for my life. That means that everything that happens to me is for a reason and for a purpose. And it just gives me a lot of peace. Let me give you one more. Psalm 37.4. It's the last one I wrote down. It says, Take delight in the Lord and he will give you your heart's desires. So there's just a few, but I have a lot written there. But those are just a few of my favorite ones. Let's see. Okay, let's go there. Let's go there. Thoughts on drinking as a Christian and thoughts on drinking overall. So I went through my phases. If you listen to my testimony video when I was younger, I did drink. There was a time in my life, even though I was a Christian, and even though I was going to church every Sunday, there was a time in my life where every Friday or every Saturday I was in a club or a bar with my friends every single weekend. That's when I was younger. That's when I was like 20, like 21, 22, 27 now. So it was a while ago. But even last year, I mean in my last relationship, like alcohol was present in that relationship. I am not of that mentality anymore where like drinking and going out for me personally, it just doesn't fulfill me anymore. It doesn't being in a bar until 2am just does nothing for me. A club is like probably my worst nightmare now. It's just not fulfilling for me. I don't need to be doing that. I don't need to be drinking to the point where I can't control myself or I'm not aware of what I'm doing. But I will say, like I am not, and I know a bunch of Christians who have a bunch of different opinions on this. So this is mine. This is my opinion. I am not of the mentality that you have one sip of alcohol or you have one drink and you're going hell. I don't believe that. I don't believe that. Wine is in the Bible. Okay. The Bible says let's just bring out the scriptures. I'll wait for it to go there. Let's go there. So there are a couple of different scriptures on like drinking. The first one that popped up, which actually it's funny because my pastor spoke about this one last week. I think Ephesians 518, do not get drunk on wine, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the spirit. I think my Bible's translation actually says like don't get drunk on wine because it ruins your life. Like it's straight up. Just said that verbatim. So with that being said, me personally, my belief is if I want to go out and have dinner and two glasses of wine, cool. It also depends on like your limits. I know I can have two glasses of wine and I'm fine. This is from the girl. I'm going to be honest and I don't condone this, but this is from the girl that in college when I was young and stupid I could have an entire bottle of wine and be okay. I mean, I wasn't sober, but I could, you know, so what I'm saying is I know that I can handle a little bit more. Don't drink a whole bottle of wine. I'm not condoning that. Okay. This is, don't do that. Don't do that. But when I was young and stupid, that's what I did. And yeah, so I know I can have two glasses of wine and be fine. It's when you get to the point where you don't know what you're doing. You can't control yourself. You're getting, you know, sloppy. You're falling on your face, whatever. That's where it gets dangerous. I'm trying to like decide how much I want to like say about this. It just, it just, it depends for me. It depends on how you carry yourself and I'm not perfect. I'm not going to sit here and say that I'm perfect. You remember the Jonas Brothers concert I went to in July? I'm going to be so straight up with you right now because this, that was a big actual learning experience for me. I had, my friends and I had a good amount of wine before the concert and I didn't have dinner that night. So I was not sober that night and I actually, the next day I felt so like convicted. I had such anxiety. I was like, Sam, this is around the time where I started to like share my faith a little bit more on the internet and on TikTok and stuff. And I was like, Sam, I was so like ashamed of myself. I was like, Sam, are you starting to talk about your faith on the internet for people and you're inspiring people? What are you doing? A big part of it was that I didn't eat dinner, but that's also my fault. And I was like, what are you doing? That's not what you need. That's not what you should be doing. Like I was so convicted. I had to pray about it. I was okay. So I'm not perfect. I'm learning. I'm, I am in this with you, but I'll tell you, I haven't drank, I haven't drank like that since then. You know, yesterday, like for example, yesterday, I had coworkers over, I had friends over and we made a little apple cider, apple cider mimosas. And I think I had like three throughout the day, not back to back, but throughout the day. And that was fine. It's how you care for me. It's how you carry yourself. I also know that being in bars late at night, like nothing good really comes of that. Nothing good comes out of that. You spend a lot of money. You wake up feeling like crap the next day. Maybe there's parts of it that you don't remember. That's where it gets dangerous. And the Bible says that you have to eat. God wants you to always like be in control of yourself. And when you start to lose control, that's when it becomes a problem. So yes, I like to go out to dinner, have a drink or two every now and then I love wine. Like I drink things because I actually enjoy it. I love a whiskey sour. I actually really just like whiskey, even like straight up, like, you know, a little bit of whiskey, I enjoy it. So I'll drink that. It's not about drinking to get drunk. It's not about, you know, because that's a whole other beast. And that's where it starts to get wrong and doesn't honor God. So I am learning. I am there with you. But that's kind of like what my brain thinks of that and just what I'm learning. So yes, I feel like I just kind of talked in circles a little bit, but I hope that that made sense. Okay. How to stick to no contact when you really want to talk to someone you shouldn't. So this makes me think of like a breakup sort of situation. Yes, I can confirm going no contact is one of the best things that you can do after a breakup. They are in the past for a reason. They are an X for a reason. Living in the past is not going to do you any good. So I guess how to do it. You really just have to tell yourself that it's not going to benefit you. Holding on to that person. It's like an invisible, umbilical cord tying you to that person. You got to let it go. You got to sever it. You got to move on. Because that's, you're not going to be able to heal if the thing that hurt you is still attached to you. You can't heal that way. So it's hard, you know, block them if you have to, maybe take a break from social media, um, you know, but it's really going to come down to discipline. It's going to come down to how much you discipline and maybe have a friend that's going to hold you accountable. Every time you want to text them or look at their Instagram or whatever, instead of doing that, text your accountability person and be like, I want to look and they're going to tell you not to, they're going to convince you not to. Just know that it's really, it's not going to benefit you. And I want you to, I want you to thrive. I want you to, you know, move on to the, to the best thing, to the better thing that God has for you and living in the past is not going to help you with that. Okay. So that's my big sister. I don't know how old you are. I don't know anything about you. I can't even really see your picture, but I want you to thrive. And so that's my big sister advice to you. It's not worth it. It's going to keep you in the past. You can't move forward if you're looking over your shoulder because you're going to bump into, you're going to bump into obstacles. You're going to walk into something. If you want to go forward, look forward. That's it. Okay. Okay. Continuing. How do you get over the fear of wanting to try new things, but being afraid to do it alone? Yeah, that's a big one. I was that person that was always afraid to do things alone. And I'm actually living in that right now. This new church that I was telling you about, I went in there, I walked into those doors in July, or I walked through those doors. I didn't walk into the door. I walked through the doors in July and I didn't know it was a single soul. Not a soul. And I recognized the pastor because I saw him on Instagram, but I didn't know him. He had no idea who I was. Nobody knew me. And for a couple of weeks, I would go in and I would sit by myself. I would do the service and then I'd leave and I wouldn't talk to anybody. And this like getting involved and like meeting people, going out of my way to be like, hi, I'm Sam by the way, smiling at everybody in the so out of my comfort zone. I love people. I love talking to people, but it's mostly the people that I already know. It's different when it comes to people that you don't know that you have to like try to form relationships. I've always been the type where I kind of rely on whoever I'm with to kind of like be my safety blanket. And then we'll go talk to other people. But when I'm by myself, it's a whole different beast. So this is the first thing that I've done that's really out of my comfort zone. And it's really scary. Growth is really, really scary. But I don't know, I've just been kind of telling myself that it's going to be worth it. You've been praying like I've been praying for, for a godly community. And I'm in a church of people who could be that godly community. God's like here, I led you to this church. Now do something about it. Go talk to people. It's just it's going to be worth it. And it's okay to be alone. Who cares? Like that's, that's my mentality now. Who cares? Go, there's nothing wrong with saying, Hey, my name is nice to meet you. How long you've been coming here or ask them a question. Like that's like, that's my main question when I meet people at church. How long you've been coming here? It's an easy question. Just think of some sort of question to start the conversation. But it's okay to be alone. It doesn't make you any weaker. It doesn't mean that you need to be more self conscious at all. Just be confident in who you are. I read something months ago that said, walk into that room, like, you know, God put you there. And that like changed my entire mentality. Now, every time I go into a new situation, or I go to like an event at the church, or I'm going to volunteer, and I don't know who's going to be there. And I don't know anybody doesn't matter. God put me there. He places my steps. He put me there. So I'm going to walk into the room like he put me there. It'll change your mentality. I promise you. Let's see. This one says other than God and Jesus, what makes your heart full? Friends and family, the past two weekends, I've hosted two different groups of friends over here in my apartment. And it just, I am learning that I have such a joy and a heart for hosting people, having friends around me, just hearing their laughter, you know, enjoying good food, apple cider, mimosas, you know, whatever. And just having people around me, having people in my home brings me joy. Being just around my friends and my family just makes my life feel so full. I love being alone too, but like being with people makes my heart really full. Creating on YouTube and even TikTok brings me so much joy. Taking the experiences that God has put me through and sharing those experiences with people to help them learn from my mistakes brings me joy. And little things like I love like if I have like a checklist of things to do and like checking the things off like one by one, that brings me joy too. That's like a little thing, but I love that. So those are just a few things. Let's see. What would you tell your younger self? Like what advice? And they said I love your content. I appreciate that. Thank you. What would I tell my younger self? It's not that serious. And that pertains to like really everything because when I was younger, I thought everything was the biggest deal in the world. It's not that serious. I would say I know you feel different than everyone around you. It's for a reason and you're eventually going to figure out why you were called to a higher standard that doesn't mean that everyone around you isn't as good as you. That's not what that means at all. But there's a reason and you're going to find out why when you get a little older. I would also tell younger me to not take family for granted. You need to honor your family. You need to honor your parents. What else? What else would I tell my younger self? If there's something about your life that you don't like, change it. That's like you guys know me. That's like the era that I'm in right now. I didn't know how to do that back then because I didn't have enough confidence to do it. I didn't have the resources to do it. Well, I did. But anyway, I would tell myself that. And I would also say that you don't need a boyfriend or the male attention to complete you or affirm you. It needs to come from somewhere else, baby girl. So those are just a few things. Let's see how to make friends when you're incredibly shy and not good at approaching people. I used to be painfully shy. Like I'm talking ran away from my own uncle shy. Okay, like I was shy. Even through even through college, I got better in college. But even through college, I was I was pretty shy. And like I said before, like I would rely on other people that I already knew to introduce me to other people. So I can I can relate for sure. Tips on like the one one tip I could give you, especially like as I've been going through this new church and trying to meet people, I always try to when I go to somewhere new, I pick one person, maybe someone that looks a little new as well, or someone that's maybe a little more quiet or whatever. I like latch on to them. I'm like, you're gonna be my friend. And then together, we can meet more people. That's one tip that doesn't always happen though, but that's a that's a good tip to use if you can. But again, just like walk into that situation, like you know, you're meant to be there. And it helps. And like I said, when in doubt, just look at somebody smile and say, Hey, I'm Sam, obviously, whatever your name is. Hey, I'm Sam, by the way. Nice to meet you. Ask them a question. It could be anything. Just get them talking. Easier said than done. But you can do if I can do it, you can do it, I promise. Let's see. How does it feel living alone? Is it lonely or do you not like being bothered by other people? Well, I want to do someone actually requested that I do a whole podcast episode just on this topic of like loneliness. So I want to do that at some point. Um, I will say I chose to live alone because I knew that I didn't want a roommate. I wanted to just have my own space. Does it get lonely sometimes? Sure. I mean, like I said, I'm always so go go go that I don't always have time to feel lonely. But yeah, I've absolutely had, you know, in a couple weeks past where like if I didn't have plans on a Saturday, you know, I'd go out and run errands and whatever, and then I'd come home and I'd be like, oh, all right, well, I'm a little lonely. So yes, it has its lonely moments. But if you're like me, it also like being alone kind of lets me recharge a little bit. And I have more time with like, I have more time with God and doing my quiet time and whatever. So it's what works for me right now. I don't plan on living alone for the rest of my life. But for right now, it's okay, but I am going to like, I'm going to leave that alone for now because I am going to do a topic or a podcast episode solely on that topic at some point. So I will leave it for for that. Let's see. Is it wrong to overreact about your partner having a close friendship with a girl? All right, let's let's talk about it. I've been there. Yes. I, yes, it, yeah, you have to, you definitely have to make sure that you don't overreact. But what I will say first and foremost is that if you are in a relationship with someone where you feel like you can't fully trust them or you don't know what, you don't know what they're doing when you're not around meaning you're not with them. Is he texting another girl right now? Is he hanging out with another girl right now and lines me about it? Is he maybe being a little too friendly with another female when I'm not around? If you feel that in here and you can't shake that feeling, I hate to tell you my love, you have bigger problems that you need to address because that comes from somewhere. I learned it the hard way that comes from somewhere. You have bigger problems. You got to sit with your partner and figure out where that's coming from. Where does that insecurity come from? And what, if anything, is your partner doing that makes you feel that way? Or is that coming from just somewhere else entirely? In my case, there have been times where I felt that and I was correct, but that's not the case for everybody. So you really have to dig deep and figure out where that's coming from. Is that just a deep rooted insecurity in you? Did that come from maybe a sort of a past trauma? Or is your partner being shady and not giving you the reassurance you need? Both are problems. Both have separate causes and different routes of where they come from. So you really got to dig down and figure out where that's coming from. But I promise you, no matter which one it is, you can be set free of both. You just have to figure out which one it is. Okay? So is it wrong to overreact, especially if your partner is not actually doing anything? Yes. Yeah. But if your partner is not giving you the reassurance you need, then that's something worth exploring. Okay? All right. Would you ever date somebody younger than you? I have. It didn't go so well. I wouldn't say that I never would ever again because, you know, God's in control, right? He has a plan. So I'm not going to say I never will date someone younger than me again. But it would have to be somebody very, very special. And God would kind of really have to hit me over the head with it and be like, yes, Sam, that's him. That's who I'm sending for you. This is the guy that I have for you. Because let me tell you, I would proceed with a lot of caution just because of my own past experiences. I would just be cautious. But I wouldn't say that I would never date somebody younger again because only God knows. What excites you most about marriage? Well, first and foremost, I will say my marriage is going to be a walking living testimony. I, like I said, I talk to God about my future husband every day. I truly believe with my whole heart that when he comes, it's going to be a relationship that is only, that can only come from God. Like you're going to look at that relationship. You're going to be like, God put them together. I believe that with my whole heart. We're going to keep this rumor, keep this video in your mind. A couple of years we're going to revisit. We're going to look at this video of me saying all this because I truly believe that it's going to happen. That is not a doubt in my mind. And so I'm excited that my, my future marriage is going to be an answered prayer and it's going to be a huge part of my testimony. That's one. Two, being married, I feel like everyone should be married to their best friend. It's like a live in best friend. So excited for that. What else? I mean, I love serving the Lord with ministry, you know, online or just volunteering at church. And I feel like when two people do that together, you're even stronger. So who knows? Maybe he'll be, I don't know what my online life is going to look like when I'm married. I have no idea. I would love to keep making videos for a long time, but who knows? Maybe he'll be part of that. Who knows? Only God knows. But those two things that I said are like the main ones. So and I'm just like excited to have kids and have like little mini knees and stuff, God willing. So yeah. Okay, let's see. There's like one person who asked like 10 questions. So I just got broken up with how did you begin that transition into living life for you and God? So I will say if a breakup is what leads you to a closer relationship to God, get on your knees and thank God for that breakup because it's about to be the biggest blessing of your life. I knew I turned my life over to God again, like for real after my breakup because I couldn't handle the pain on my own. And I've told you guys the story, but like one day I woke up, I was a couple of weeks, maybe like two weeks after the breakup, and I was like, God, I can't like I said it out loud. I was like, I can't take the pain anymore. I was like, I need you to take it. I can't, I can't do it. I can't handle it. I need you to take it from me. And he did. And I would just read scriptures that were comforting, like I think I have one in here that I wrote in the back, Romans 8 18, the pain that you're feeling now does not compare to the joy that is coming or John 13 seven and Jesus replied, you do not realize now what I'm doing, but later you will understand. And then going forward of whatever relationship comes next for you, Isaiah 60 22, just say at the right time, the Lord will make it happen. So little things like that, like, oh, and there's another one, a really good one. Ah, there it is, Psalm 35 18, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted. He rescues those whose spirits are crushed. That was my wallpaper for like two months after the breakup. My wallpaper on my phone was that scripture that is Psalm 35 18. That was my wallpaper on my phone. And I just it was just it would just bring me so much comfort. And the more that I read, the more that I wanted to keep reading and keep reading and keep reading. And one day, I'm going to go through this notebook with you. I already know that I'm going to make it a podcast episode probably early 2024. I'm going to go through this. Not maybe not all of it, but I wrote down a lot of things in here that I saw like on Pinterest and just scriptures, but also just motivational things about being brokenhearted and just the comfort that God gives you. I just it's just it's all in here. And one day it's almost like a little not a diary, but there's a lot of things in here. And so one day I'm going to walk you through this maybe for my one year anniversary of my life changing. I'm going to walk you through that. But yeah, once you start really seeking God, the more you read and the more you hear, the more you're going to want. And it's just going to fill you and it's going to fill you and it's going to fill you and it's going to fill you until you're just on fire for God again. And it just it really just changed your life. And it's it's I'm making I feel like I'm making it sound very simple. It isn't it isn't. It's like one of those things where it's a lot easier said than done. But once you really just like surrender it and you ask God to comfort you, something just changes. And then it actually kind of is that simple. So I'm thinking of you and it's going to get better. I promise. Just just seek his comfort. Let's see prayer, how you pray, what you pray for and how to increase the time you pray. That's actually really funny. So it's not funny. It's funny because this is something that I recently learned how to do. I was never the strongest prayer, especially praying out loud, especially in front of people. And in August, geez, time is really just kind of meshing together. Oh, is it August or September? I don't remember. September. I don't know. But my church did 21 days of prayer, where we were, everyone got like a little card and you would write down things that you were praying for. And then they encouraged you to pray every day for 21 days. And I remember being like, God, I like I pray, but I don't know if I can like pray for 21 days in a row. And let me tell you that was over a month ago, two months ago, and I have not stopped praying since then. I pray every day because now it's weird if I don't pray. I feel so out of touch with God. If I don't sit on my, sit on my butt on this couch, literally where I'm sitting right now, I look out the window and I just pray out loud every morning. And I just talked to him as if I were talking to a friend. And so someone at my church who I actually, I really like her and I really want to be friendlier with her and develop a friendship there. She's my age and she, she works for the church though. And so at one of the prayer rallies that we had for the 21 days of prayer, I went, it was a Wednesday night or a Tuesday night. And she shared a recipe for prayer, which you have to pray in this order. You go reverence. So praising God, telling him that he's worthy, telling him that he's holy, telling him that you love him. So praising him first, repentance, bring to get, bring to him everything or no, I think that's number three, reverence, reflection is the second one. Reflection, reflect on everything that he's brought you through so far, the blessings that you already have, what he's done for you so far. Then comes repentance, come to him, ask him for forgiveness or anything that you may have done, anything that didn't honor him, right? I even pray, I pray for things that I know that I've done. And I say even Lord things that I may not have even been aware that I did, that was not honoring to you. Change me and forgive me and wash me clean. And then thank him for washing you clean. Then only then do you get to the actual prayer of what you're praying for. That's the request. And then the fifth one is the reward. And that's when your prayer is answered. So reverence, reflection, repentance, request, reward. That's your recipe for prayer. And I use it every day now. Every morning when I sit down and have my quiet time with the Lord and I sit in his presence, that's the recipe that I use to pray. It'll change your life. I can sit here now. First time in my life, I can sit here and I can pray and I could talk to him for like 20 minutes. I could probably go longer sometimes. I have never been able to do that before. Literally ever. And it's just funny how I remember at the beginning of 21 days of prayer, I literally said, I was like, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to do this 21 days in a row, but I'm gonna try. And then it became like the easiest thing ever. And now I don't feel complete when I don't do it. I feel like out of touch with him. So I hope that helps. And every day, like it'll get easier to pray to pray longer. The first couple of days might feel a little unnatural. Do it for a couple of days. And you got it. But use that recipe because it really helps. Let's see. What is your relationship with the process of getting older? Does it ever give you anxiety? I actually, there are a couple of people I know in my life who are around my age that hate the thought of getting older. Every year that they get older, they're like, Oh, we're getting so old, like we're not in our prime anymore, blah, blah, blah, me personally. And I realized that I'm like, blessed to be able to say this, I feel like I get better every year. I feel like with every year that passes, I love myself more. I learned a bunch of life lessons. I, you know, I'm getting closer and closer every day to who the person that God has called me to be. And the life that he has mapped out for me, that's just what I personally believe. And I just, I don't know. I think with every year you, you learn more, you learn more about yourself, you learn more about the people around you, you learn more about life. And then you can take that knowledge that you're learning and make your life better. So I don't get anxiety about getting older. And I'm not that old. I'm 27. I joke all the time that I'm like, Oh, I'm so old, but I know I'm actually not old. I will say like that when I turn 27, I was like, Oh, I'm officially in my late 20s. Like I did feel a big difference between 26 and 27. But not in a way that like gives me anxiety. It just, I just feel like I'm in an actual like different stage in my life right now. But it doesn't make me anxious at all. Let's see. What are your dating check off boxes, like things you need in the partner? Funny, you should ask, because I have a list in my phone. I really think anyone who is single or anyone, even if you're in a relationship, and maybe you're not married, I will I encourage you to sit down, write a list of your non negotiables, things that you want in a partner. And that's not saying that, you know, you're looking for the most perfect person and he has to have blue eyes. And he, that's not what I'm saying. I'm, I focus more on like character things. But I think it's really important. And that way, when you meet somebody, you can look at this list and check off the things, make sure that he checks off at least most of them, ideally all of them. So let's, where's my list? Number one, faith in Jesus. There's a funny, there's a couple of funny ones on here. So don't judge me too much. This is one of them knows the sidewalk rule. You know what that is when the guy walks on the outside of the street? Anyway, has a great relationship with his family, gets along with my family, prays. And that won't like along with that is like, when he has a bad day, I want him to turn to prayer rather than needing a beer or needing a drink. Goes to church and serves. I wrote preferably can grow a beard. That's one of the funny ones. I'm sorry. It's okay if he came, my dad can't grow a beard. I knew I probably shouldn't have exposed him like that. My dad can't grow a full beard. So no judgment, but I do like a beard. Anyway, moving on. Gives a reassurance and regular communication. Likes country music. That's not a deal breaker, but it's, you know, it's on there. Prioritizes me and our relationship is gentle. Can plan or likes to plan shows intentionality. Oh, and then another funny one. I said five, nine or taller, but it's okay if he's not. I told you there were a couple funny ones in there, but that's the gist. There are probably more things that I don't have written on there, but that's the gist. I really exposed myself there. Okay. Let's see. All right. So we're only going to do a few more. My battery is indeed dying. The next one I answered this, this woman, this girl via DM, but just in case there's somebody else that is thinking and praying for the same thing she is. I'm going to share it. She said, not a question, just a request from a sister in Christ to pray for my husband to come to know Jesus. So I wrote her, I'm going to read it to you verbatim what I wrote to her. I said, first Corinthians seven, 14 for the unbelieving husband has been sanctified through his wife and the unbelieving wife has been sanctified through her believing husband. And then I said, I pray that God will use you as an example and as a vessel to speak to your husband. I said, just love up on your man and show him what a child of God looks like. I pray that God will soften his heart and speak through you. I said, your husband is blessed to have you. And I just told her to keep praying. And so that goes to any of you who may be a believer and your spouse is not a believer. You know, the word says, if you're married to that person already, like stay married to that person and just be a good example, be an example of what a godly relationship is like. And as they see you doing what you're doing, going on your walk with Christ, you know, and learning and growing from it, you're, you're leading them by example, as they're supposed to be doing. So just keep praying for them. I pray that anyone that you were lifting up in prayer right now, I pray that God will soften their hearts as well and that they will be nudged to know the Lord. Don't force them. Don't be like, you have to come to church with me. You have to read your Bible because that's going to make them run the opposite direction. They have to want it for themselves. So just love up on them and just pray. Just pray. That's all you gotta do. And I believe I'm believing with you that God will work, will work in them. Let's see. Gosh, there's so many good ones. Worse date, story time. I think I'm going to save that for like, I'll do a podcast episode all about like dates that I've been on just for your entertainment purposes. So I'll save that one. I'm trying to pick like really, like they're all so good. But how did you grow your faith with God? I'm currently getting closer to him and learning to be patient. This is a broad topic. But at the same time, it's one of those things that's also so simple. If you want to grow your faith with God, one, this is the best way to get to know him. This is how you do. I learned, don't read the Bible to see what it can do for you. Read the Bible to learn who God is. And then once you start to learn who he is, what his character traits are like, what he is like, what his attitude, what makes him jealous, what makes him mad, what makes him happy, what delights him. Once you know all that, it'll change your life in turn. But don't just read this selfishly because you're not going to get the most out of it. This is the way to get to know him. And also just just literally speak to him. He's there waiting with you waiting for you with open arms. He just wants you to call to him and you don't have to say anything fancy. I literally talk to him like I'm talking to a friend like God, this is what I'm thinking. I don't know what you tell me. That's literally how I talk to him. It doesn't matter. It doesn't have to be fancy. You don't have to use big words. Just tell him, Lord, God, I want to know you, but I don't know how. Just stir up my heart, speak to me, teach me. I say it all the time. Teach me how to know when it's you speaking to me. And he will listen and he will guide you. He's so powerful. There is literally nothing that he can't do. Asking him to draw near to you and to change you is easy for him. He works miracles. He can do it. Just ask him. I promise you, even though you can't see him, he's there and he's like this. He's like, come here. I got you. Come here. Come here. That's it. No matter what, no matter what you've done, no matter what you've said, what you've thought, it doesn't matter. He's just like, come here. It's okay. I got you. That's it. Just talk to him. Just tell him I want to know you, but I don't know how. He'll help you and read the word and find a church. Find people that will encourage you. I went to a new church completely by myself without knowing a soul and it's scary, but it's worth it. That's where you need to be. That's where you're going to learn and that's where he's going to move in you and work in you. You need mentors. You need a good pastor, someone that's speaking the word over your life. That's what you need. Let's see. All right. A lot of these are repetitive. So that's good. That means I answered them. I want to do one more. So I want to find a really good one. Okay. I'll end with this one. As a Christian, what's your take on dating a guy who has a great heart but is not a believer? It's a really, really important question because I've been through it, right? When I got in my last relationship, I was like, you know what? I've dated Christians and it's gotten me nowhere. I literally told my mom, I was like, I think I'm just gonna, I just need a nice guy. That's all I need. Yeah. Could you probably be happy with a nice guy that's not a believer? Probably. Yeah. It doesn't mean, just because they're not a Christian doesn't mean they're a bad person. It doesn't mean that they're going to be a bad partner. It has nothing to do with that. But what happens is, I don't know if you know the scripture about where it talks about being unequally yoked, but the Bible says, and I encourage you to look it up for yourself, but I'm going to just paraphrase, but in a nutshell, the Bible says that a believer should not be unequally yoked with a nonbeliever. If you know what a yoke is, it's basically this like contraption that they would put on animals like to work in the field. So let's say you had a horse and they needed to be yoked tied to with the little contraption. It needed to be, they needed to be combined, the two animals with the yoke, but the animals had to be the same. They had to be the same size, the same speed, because what happens if you try to yoke or like attach a horse and a donkey, for example, or a horse and a cow, they move differently, they're different heights, they're different. One of them is going to pull the other one, usually this one, it's going to pull them down because they're unequally yoked, they're not even. So when you have a believer and an unbeliever that are unequally yoked, and it's usually the unbeliever that ends up doing it, they're going to pull the believer with them and it's going to take you off track and it's not going to lead you to the best that God has for you. I don't know if you guys know, but like a marriage is one of the most powerful things that God has created. You take two strong believers and you put them together, you all know like how strong that is and that's one of the biggest things I should have said also that I'm so looking forward to about marriage is that when you put them together, it's such a powerful thing. It's such a powerful thing when it's done correctly and when it's done the way that God wants it to be done. So if you're unequally yoked with an unbeliever, they're going to pull you away and can I tell you something? You can be unequally yoked with a fellow Christian. That was me dropping the mic, I can't drop my actual mic. It's true because I have done it, not only have I done it once, but I've done it twice. So I'm telling you, it's true and that's not to say that I'm not calling anybody a bad person. It doesn't make you a bad person. It just means that you're on two different levels. You're running two different races at two different speeds with different end goals in mind. You have to be running the same race at the same speed with the same goals or else someone's going to pull you in the opposite direction and you're going to start doing things that you didn't used to do or you're going to start reading your Bible less or you're going to start going to church less and you're going to start living for the world a little bit more. I've seen it happen to so many people and it's happened to me. Luckily by the grace of God, God pulled me back. I'm back, we're back baby, but for a while I was not. Okay, for a good two years I let myself and I let a relationship pull me into the world instead of pulling me to church. When you're, can you tell a passion I am about this? I should probably do a whole topic or whole episode on this topic. You got to be the same or else someone's getting dragged down. You're not going to go to this. You're not going to end up where you, you're not going straight. You're going this way or you're going this way. You got to be equally yoked. That's what that means. You have to be the same. Doesn't mean that the unbeliever is a bad person. It doesn't even, I'm not even saying that you're going to, you would have a miserable life. It's not what I'm saying at all, but is it the best that God has for you? Probably not. So it could be so easy. If I really wanted to, I could probably be in a relationship with right now with someone that I met on hinge. It's one of the dates that I went on, but I'm choosing to wait for a believer, someone who's running the same race that I am because I want to get to that angle and I don't want anybody pulling me away from where I want to go. And it's almost kind of inevitable. Sometimes, and I will say, I have heard, like I know people who have been believers started dating an unbeliever, and then the unbeliever became a believer and now they're married with kids. So I'm not going to say that it can't happen because it can. I've seen it, but it's rare because living for the world is easier. Oh, okay. I'm going to stop because we could be here forever. It's true. Got to be the same. It's for your own good and it's hard. It's hard. It'd be so much more easy to just give in to some guy because he's cute and we could do fun things together. But is it the best that God has for me? Probably not. So I'm going to wait. I feel like I need to end it there because anything else I say after that is probably just going to be like wah wah wah. So we're going to leave it there. There were so many questions that I could have answered, so many more questions. You guys really showed up with the questions and the topics. We can do this again. I'd love to talk about more topics, things that you guys want to talk about, that you want to hear about. And I'm like winded. That was fun. Okay. Anyway, I hope that you guys enjoyed. Thank you for being here. Thank you for a great 10 episodes so far of The Walk Podcast. 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