Fr. Mike Schmitz

And then it says, this is where you were.

And it's kind of good to be able to look back and say, I know where I was, but no, this is the route I took.

And on this corner, that's right, that's that big hill right there.

And there's something about it that you have a record of where you've been that then we have a greater sense of where we're going and what God is doing, as opposed to not having any record, just our memories.

And how many times does scripture talk about, like, remember, remember, remember what the Lord has done.

Remember how he delivered your ancestors from slavery.

Remember these things, because

Why?

Because we forget.

God has to tell us to remember so often because we forget so often.

Yeah, so it's just, that's, I think that having that written, recorded record is,

Well, even as you noted, I mean, there are so many times where I'll listen to people who are coaching when it comes to parishes, and one of the things that happens in some of these coaching seminars or these great parishes, like Amazing Parish being one of those things, they talk about how often

staffs on parishes don't necessarily talk about their faith they don't actually talk about their relationship with the lord they are just doing the business of running a parish or serving their parishioners and so this could be one of those really like what do you call like look easy access like low barrier of entry kind of ways for like having that discussion of saying like on the way to work i listened to the podcast at you know

1.5 speed and I got through the whole thing in 10 to 15 minutes or whatever the thing it takes because there's an opportunity there.

I've actually, you know, when you mentioned that on the way to work, that was the thing I remember talking with this man named Todd and Todd owns a CrossFit gym.

in Baxter, or he used to before he moved down to Florida with his family.

And he was saying, he's like, hey, I joined the gym with my sister and brother-in-law, they were there, and they said, hey, come along with us.

And so I'm talking to Todd, and at one point, he talked about his commute to work at four in the morning to be there before the 5 a.m.

class.

And I said, what do you do on that drive?