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There's a love that calls me back, telling me where to go. Your faith. Favorite Thanksgiving memories today on the Christian Car Guys show. I know I'm looking forward to the show, Bob. We got Bob Young, our famous Christian junkyard guy.
Bob, I don't know about famous, but maybe a little well known. I think it might be similar, but it's great to be here this morning. Really excited about your topic, and can't wait to get into it. And we got you know since a lot of people are getting their cars ready for those road trips for Thanksgiving, right? We got a few tips coming up on RK in the garage, and of course the weather's changing.
We had to scrape our windshield this morning, Bob. A road trip at Thanksgiving would be. It would be really different for me. It's been a long time since we've done it right on Thanksgiving. I get to leave sometimes right after Thanksgiving, but it's a great thing.
Over the Thanksgiving and through the yeah yeah Thanksgiving is a great time, and some of the old memories are are very very very special. They really, really are, and so anyway, before I forget, that this morning I got to use my new scraper. It has a mitt thing that goes over the top of it, like to put your hand in, so your hand doesn't get cold while you're scraping the way. That was really nice. Like just you know, a little tip from the Christie Car Guy.
I really like the sound of that because I tend to have very cold hands. But I always tell people it's because my great big warm heart draws. All the heat out of my extremities, like my feet and my hands.
So, and that's my story. And I'm sticking. There you go. There you go. So, you know, I don't know.
We were so blessed yesterday. We were. We had our for the first time in years and years. We had all our kids for Thanksgiving. We did it early so that we didn't interfere with anybody's plans.
Right for the actual day of Thanksgiving.
So I said, okay. We sent out a text actually in February. It was a great idea because everybody. May I mean, we had all the kids. Most of our grandkids, a couple of them had other plans, but you know, as the older grandkids get other plans, you know.
Oh, but all the younger grandkids. There were five of them, and even the new baby that we just got. And what I had was observing, right? Was love. I could see it everywhere.
I could especially see it that my wife started preparing for this event. I don't know. I mean, I didn't even have an idea all the stuff she was going to pull out, like table decorations, stuff to put on the front porch. I mean, it looked like a fall festival. It was unbelievable, and the house was, you know, we're We had to figure out how to get thirteen people at at at the dinner table.
You know, you made it happen, though, didn't you? It was awesome. It was awesome. So, I don't know if lately I've been. I don't know counseling a lot of people.
You may know I'm a pastor as well at Amazing Grace Church in Ramsor, North Carolina. If you ever want to come see us on a Sunday morning, we meet at ten thirty. That's really funny and fun in Ramsor, North Carolina. But nonetheless, I've been counseling a lot of people in grief and processing it myself as I'm going through this process and thinking about. First Corinthians thirteen says, "Love never dies.
It never fails. It never, you know." And it it gives you all these ideas. When you really look at that word in Greek, you're going to see that the word that's translated in most most translations says "fails," but you could really say that it never dies. You you could say it never falls. Certainly, is the is the way that word is, and so when you think about it, your mother's love, your grandmother's love, or maybe in your family it was an uncle or somebody that just man, come Thanksgiving you could hardly wait to see him because you know.
That they loved you, or they know all the preparation and all that that goes into it.
So you look at that First Corinthians verse. It says, "Love suffers long; it's kind, it doesn't envy, it doesn't boast, it doesn't parade itself. It's not puffed up. It doesn't behave rudely. Doesn't seek its own.
It's not provoked. It thinks no evil." I love that. Does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in truth. Bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. In other words, love never fails; it never goes away.
And so, you you think about. That when you put this put that verse together with this verse, okay, and and this verse, the more I've thought about this one, when you let it sink in, it will really grab you. It's Ephesians three seventeen. It it would read in most translations that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith, that you being rooted and grounded in love. In other words.
Christ dwells in your heart in what in love, and so when you read this in the Living Translation, it says, "And I pray that Christ will be more and more at home in your hearts, living with you as you trust in Him. May your roots go deeper into the soil of God's marvelous love. In other words, even back as a child." God's love was coming through those people in your life at Thanksgiving. God's love was building these roots down into your hearts, so that you would know what it was, so that you would be able to offer it. And to some extent, my wife was offering God's love to all the people at the table yesterday, right?
In the pumpkin pies or whatever it was. There's so many times that. People are not grateful, or you don't think they are. But seems like every year at Thanksgiving, somebody shows up that has had a had a big change in their life or something new in their life, and you find out that they are really grateful for that. And in our family, it's it it seems to happen.
There's you know this. Even during times of loss or after a loss, you remember the ones that were there, and and thankful for the time we had with them, right. Or or newborns enter the family. Oh yeah, we have one of those. It's the grandkids' rule, that's for sure.
So, what are your favorite Thanksgiving memories? What what's ones that come to mind for you? We'd love you to call us eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight six six three four Truth. And so, I'll start off with one, Bob. I think it was 1968.
In fact, if you go to ChristianCarGuy.com, you're going to see a picture of me dressed as a turkey when I was a boy. I thought you were today. These were homemade costumes, and there was my sister was in the Indian one that was made out of two paper bags. My little brother had just a loin cloth-looking thing. You know, it was made out of washcloths, and I was dressed.
Completely, they kind of wrapped me in the sheet, and you know, to get me bundled up so I look like a turkey. How old were you? Women, I would have been about thirteen or fourteen, I guess, and and my legs look really long. I turkey legs. I've always been called bird legs, you know.
And so, you know, if there was ever a turkey memory, you know, for me personally, um, yeah, there you go. It was, it was, I was a gobbler, and I gobbled that Thanksgiving too. But you know, I I can never forget. The fun of us portraying that, you know, my all. There were four of us, right?
And then my parents. We paraded. We had so much fun putting it together. We had so much fun doing it, and it made a memory for a lifetime, right? Oh yeah, still sticks with you.
And you know, I was just thinking about it this morning. Like, man, I had no idea what my mother put must have put in to. Directing that play, putting it together, all the stuff that she did every Thanksgiving, and you realize just how much, how much love they have in their heart. By the amount of work they do, right? We do it at our house almost every year now, and then we repeat in a month for Christmas.
But we have a big basement, and and it works very well. But just to see Laurie. Scurrying around the kitchen and getting everything ready, and it's just amazing. You know, everybody jumped in and brings this or that. But well, so what are your favorite Thanksgiving memories?
Eight six six three four eight. We would love to hear it. Believe me, eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. We got of course some road trip tips coming up. Stay tuned.
You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. What are your favorite Thanksgiving memories or things that you like to when you think of Thanksgiving? And and it may be a smell, like yesterday when we were at our house. Like yeah, there was a guy that was delivering some stuff to us that that Tammy had ordered, and he comes in. He goes, "Man, it smells like Thanksgiving." You know that smell of pumpkin pie or whatever it may be.
We would love to hear your memory. Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four Bob. Do y'all do a sweet potato casserole? Oh yeah, with the marshmallows and the. Of course.
And sometimes there's nuts and crunchy stuff. Oh, of course, pecans. Yeah.
Well, see, somebody, one of the adults, was trying to get one of the kids to try it last year. I said, "Wait a minute." We don't need new eaters on this. It gets gum first every time. We don't need new eaters. They'll get to it in a few years.
You know, but we cut up so much about just just different dishes that are are traditional and great and appreciated. And Lori's. Sweet potato casserole is one of those, and there's, I think one son likes the nuts on top, and the other son doesn't. Right down the middle, nuts on this half, no nuts on the other half.
Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. I mean, just little things like that that she does, like you say, out of the love. Right, right. She's looking forward to that. Like, man, this pie is wonderful.
This, this sweet potato casserole. How about you? Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. You know. I I just thank God for these things.
Again, if you want to see me as a turkey, you can go to ChristianCarguy dot com. It's right there on the front page, and you can during the next break. I want you to pull that up over here. I'll pull it up. You can see it.
It's it it's a pretty unique picture because they had my arms wrapped up in this thing, so I look like a. I mean, it's surprisingly turkey like. Not the kind of turkey that was around, but the kind of turkey you would cook. Can't wait to visualize this, you know. You know, I put down there.
Do you think I was typecast? You know, was this something? But anyway, I I have recently learned, or I guess God has been teaching me. That's a better way to put it. You know, I love to pray.
I like to spend a lot of time in prayer. I really, really, really—it's one of my favorite things in my life to do—is to get up early and pray and spend time with Jesus. And it—it's a way for me to experience heaven on earth. In other words, when you really connect with God in prayer, from my perspective, if you're really in that relationship with Him, and again, I try to pray all through the day and at night and all those things. But in the morning, it's especially sweet.
So I I recently discovered, but it's always hard to to get there. For so long, you think your prayers are hitting the ceiling. I don't know where you are, Jesus. I can't find you. But what I have learned is this: Ephesians three seventeen says He dwells in your heart.
He's rooted and grounded in love. You want to find Jesus in your heart, and you know if you're praying with Him, you're communing with Him in your heart. Look for love. It's what he is, right?
So when you see these precious memories of your mother, or grandmother, or maybe it was, you know, I don't know because I know everybody didn't have the family I had, but whatever it was in your life where you experienced love, or you experienced it last week, right? When I believe me, this morning when I woke up, I couldn't help. When I was looking for love, all I had to do is think about all my kids together and watching them. You know, I was like, is this my family? I've never seen them get.
I mean, they were having a blast. I was like, "There's no drama." It was just beautiful. But Thanksgiving brings out the best in people, you know. It it really does. And I might grumble a little bit about having to rearrange the basement.
That's been. Used for other purposes through the year, and having to get all that ready. But you know when it's happening, and we're in there, and we got our face poked in that food, it was all worth it, and it's worth it every time. And just to make those memories, it's a really good thing. And so maybe you're going on a road trip this year.
And again, if you have that memory, believe me, sharing it would make our day eight six six three four eight seven eight, and make somebody else's day. Right? They're they're getting ready. They're they're trying to get in the the feel of it this year. The big scare yesterday with the airplanes and all that stuff.
Who knows? But it's pretty good to know that God's still completely in control. Thanksgiving is coming, and you know we're we're going to have a chance. To thank God for, you know, another great year, in so many different ways. I didn't.
I don't want to get plum into it, but I never did hear exactly what happened. I did hear right much about it, but you know, I did hear that they had lifted the band on, on the plane.
So that's a great thing to be grateful for. This has been the year of mystery. Yes, sir. I I have looked at the reports, and I came away in a mystery. You know, like I don't, I don't think I understand.
I know nobody was hurt. I know nothing seemed huge about it, other than oh my goodness, you grounded every plane in the in the United States and all these international flights, you know, and all this stuff that happened, where they brought them in one at a time, etc., etc. Seems really drastic.
However, if you're going to make an error, error on the side of safety. Apparently, and it was like I said, it's a mystery to me. I mean, maybe somebody's come up with something since I last looked, Bob. But that's that's my take on it. But again, it's it's all the more reason this stuff was going on.
It was full on when we were having Thanksgiving last night. But it wasn't it. You know, it was a distraction, huh? No, no. And and partially because nobody in the family flew in.
You know, when you put kids into the equation, they have a childlike faith, right? Right, and. You know, they see a cousin that they haven't seen for whatever period of time, or that aunt gets to see the niece, or whoever it is, or what. You know, those relationships are spectacular. They they are family.
That is what God meant us to be. And cousining, a friend of mine calls it cousining. You know, getting together with the cousins, and it just brings back such great memories of me and and my cousins and the mischief we got into and the fun we had. All right, we got RK coming up the next segment, but we need you eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. We'll be right back with a whole lot more favorite.
Thanksgiving memories. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. What are your favorite Thanksgiving memories? Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. What are your Favorite ones.
We would love to hear yours. Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four. And if you're going over the river and through the woods to grandmother's house and getting your car ready, like maintenance becomes kind of critical.
Okay, you had some bad situations this week where people had failed. In fact, they they kind of turked out on you to do their maintenance right.
Okay. Oh, I guess I got to click the button to get you on the air. Come on, Turkey. He was talking to me.
Okay, not you.
So, you had some people today, this week that needed maintenance. Yes, yes, and well, one I didn't do yet because she said she had it done, but. I'm going to talk to her about it this week because she is. She, in other words, she doesn't change oil for ten thousand miles, and then and ask me why she has engine noises. And I said, "Well, you got to do it more often.
You can't just do it every ten thousand miles." And it's a, and the oil is black. And I told her I said, "There's a problem," and I didn't know about it until voting. To voting, and she came up in the car, and I said, and I was talking to the gentleman there, and I said, "Holy cow, that's my neighbor! Listen to that engine!" And she said, "Well, I just had it serviced, but there was a ten thousand miles between that. Don't do that, folks!
Don't do that. That's abuse. Pay me now, pay me now, or pay me later." And the other thing that you know I've noticed about that.
Okay, lately myself, I, you know, in the Toyota Prius I have, I change the oil about every three thousand miles, even though it's synthetic and all the shenanigans they tell you, right? But you can you can watch that oil, and interestingly, it'll it won't burn any it won't it won't use any oil. Until it gets about three thousand miles, and then when I check the oil, and if it's a quart low, I'll bet I almost bet on the fact that it's it's reached the point that the oil gives up somehow, and that's the other thing. Times its way out the tailpipe, right? That's the other thing.
A lot of people don't do is check their oil every time you get gas. Every time you get gas, it'll tell to you. It'll give you a sign. The United States' Veterans Day we last week, where I being in the motor pool in the Army, first echelon maintenance was check your oil in the morning. Really, they checked it every day.
Every day, every day. That was a must. Captain Billy, Captain Billy didn't do that, and he comes in about three, four weeks later. Says, "I need four quarts of oil." What do you need that for, Captain Billy? Says, "I need it for my—I don't know—he's mentioned something." So I said, "Okay." Then he calls me a week later.
Says, "My car, my Jeep won't start." I go there, and there's four quarts of oil on top of the engine, still clean. He had run it dry and burned the engine up. It's sad. It it it it's unbelievable what happens. Um, with just you know, if you could see it, and and it actually, another thing that happens is if you check your oil all the time, you'll see that oh, it's not loaded.
Looks, it doesn't look like it used to. Yeah, if it's brown, it's it's it's working. You know, it's working. You know, but black. In my book, and then one more thing I want to tell the people that are going on road trips.
Now, this is from me.
Now you can go put it with the tire manufacturer, but I put forty pounds across the time across the area for tires. People say that's not right.
Well, let me tell you something. If you have that check engine, check tire light on, it won't give you any problems. If you let that thing go down at 33, 32, and the other one's at 40, it'll give you a problem.
So, just in my opinion, I do every every vehicle 40 pounds now. Not the big trucks now; they take more than that. But the average car.
Well, you know, and again, they're using a lot more inflation than they used to use. Arcade, yeah. And doesn't hurt them. It doesn't. And the more air that's in the tire, the better gas mileage you get.
Too, by the way, you don't want to overinflate them too much because then you'll wear the center out. But if you watch most people's tires, they wear out from being underinflated, not overinflated. Yes, that was where. Yes. Yes, it's hard for air to leak into the tires.
Sorry, what did you say? He said it's hard for air to link into your tires. You know, absolutely. But we got Randy. Stay on with us, Arkay.
I got Randy is in South Carolina. He's got a precious Thanksgiving memory. I hadn't heard Arkay's yet, so we're gonna hear Randy's. Randy, you're on the Christian Car Guy Show. Good morning.
Hey, Hado, I am excited to hear what you have for us. Actually, okay, it was Thanksgiving. I had four children, and and and of course a wife, and she was cooking Thanksgiving dinner, and everybody was happy. And she had opened the oven, and she was going to baste the turkey.
Well, somehow the turkey and the oven caught fire. Oh wow! Ooh.
So I'm a retired, at that time semi-retired police officer. We had the appropriate fire extinguisher. I grab the fire extinguisher, come back to the oven.
Okay, the flames are coming out of the oven. I I pull the pin. I get ready. I aim the nozzle, and all I hear from my wife is. Don't hit the turkey!
I'm like, look over at her like, I extinguished the flames and we we saved. It was like a twelve, thirteen pound turkey. We saved half of it, but you were able to put out the fire without. The kids were laughing and giggling and so. Who hit the turkey?
Turkey's a pretty big target when you're shooting a fire extinguisher into an egg. Yeah, I'm like, how did that happen?
Well, I gotta say that that's that's that's a memory that will obviously last you and your kids for a lifetime, right? My grandbabies. I have six children and eight grandbabies. Oh yeah, and and dinner. There's always every year somebody will squeal.
Don't hit the turkey. That's what I was looking for, Randy. That's that's that's a turkey memory worth. You know, we got to hear the turkey over this. Oh, there it is.
That's what the turkey was saying before it got in the oven. Don't hit the turkey. Thank you, Randy. God bless you, my friend. Have a great Thanksgiving!
Thank you. Bye bye. Oh wow! Okay, that was worth listening to.
So, how about you? What you know? You've had almost ninety Thanksgivings. Like that's a lot of Thanksgivings. Yeah, you know that's funny.
And on Wednesday night. The the uh at the we went out for dinner and um at the Golden Corral and walked around. Everybody was a veteran, had a sign on him, you know. And when I'm walking down at ninety, when you say ninety, Robbie, I'm walking down the hall, and this gentleman turns the corner and says. What were you in the service?
I said fifty-seven to sixty-one. You you got to be ninety years old then. I just started laughing. The fun, the best one I I remember, was Thanksgiving time, and this is way way back. I'm sorry, but I can't remember everything.
But my dad said we're going on a road trip to Niagara Falls. Wow. For Thanksgiving, in a 32 Chevy with a rumble seat in the back, with us three kids and mom and dad, and we went up to Niagara Falls. In the rumble seat, and it rained half the time, so we had to close the rumble seat and be in between the passenger and and underneath the rumble seat. That's how the kids stayed.
It was fun time. Oh yeah, fun time. And the funny part about we got there, and my mother is English, she didn't bring any papers. They said, "Well, if you go across, you can't come back." And all the kids started crying. We said, "Wait a minute!" So we had to leave mom on the American side, and we went over to see the Horseshoe Falls on the on the Canadian side, and then came back.
It was just it was a great trip.
Well, I was going to say that rumble seat because you know people are picturing a rumble seat, or maybe didn't see one before. But you know where the trunk was, there was a seat that would sit up, but there was no roof on that thing. And I'm just thinking November up around Canada, you guys must have dressed warm. It was it was cold. It was cold.
Can't even. But we were actually we were all young kids, so we were actually. This is probably the 44, 44, maybe 1944. I don't remember exactly. And but we're all.
I was born in 37, so I was only seven. My sister was eight or nine. My brother was. I'm just thinking about. That's a cold ride tonight for falls, man.
Anyway, we're going to be back. Stay with us, RK. What's your favorite Thanksgiving memory? Eight six six three four truth. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
What is your favorite? Thanksgiving memory. We're talking about those today, from rumble seats to don't hit the turkey to to actually dressing up as a gobbler. I've just seen the world's largest turkey. That's an amazing picture.
It's worth a look, folks. He went to ChristianCarguy.com to see Robbie dressed. I was eleven years old because it was 1966. I what I look like is a turkey. I just turned eleven, by the way, in nineteen sixty six.
Dressed up as a turkey, all wrapped up in a sheet. It's it's a one of a kinder. It's memorable. It's memorable. It'll be never erased from my mind.
How about you? Eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four.
So. What were you saying, Bob? I was wondering if RK. Oh yeah, we still got RK. But I have one other little story to share.
And while you guys are thinking of yours, so one year we had a a man that was homeless. That you know, the kids were surprised as I brought this man home for Thanksgiving dinner with me, and you know, had him join us. This is when the kids were still a bit smaller, and they were in the house. Anyway. That year, my wife asked me to prepare the pumpkin pie because she was so busy doing other things.
And somehow, another, I had failed to put the sugar in it. Ooh, I can't even imagine. And so, if you well, just imagine. You know, you can sprinkle it on top; it'll be fine.
Well, of course, nobody knew it until you know we were eating it. You know, and we served the pumpkin pie. You know, and and this homeless homeless man that was there, he was like, "Boy, this is this is." This is a little different pumpkin pie, Dad. He's trying to be polite. The fact that this was it was sugar free pumpkin pie.
I am telling, healthy, healthy, healthy. But anyway, we never bring out the pumpkin pie at our house. That you know, did Dad make his sugar? Who made these pumpkin pie? RK, if you got another one of the memories.
Yeah, this is this is you may not understand this, but there was little black church in East Orange, New Jersey that did chicken dinners and turkey dinners for especially Thanksgiving time. Did turkey dinners and. You would go down there, and you could get a dinner for two dollars. It was unbelievable, you know. And so for years, I had to laugh because I always brought, quote, a pumpkin pie home, and we ate it and didn't say nothing.
Well, after about ten, twelve years, my son says, "Hey, mom, how you like the sweet potato pie?" She says, "What?" She's well. You've been eating sweet potato fiber ten years. You didn't know she does not need another piece of sweet potato. As long as it has sugar, I'm good. It was funny.
It was funny. Bob, your turn, I guess. Unless somebody wants to call us at eight six six three four eight seven eight eight four, we'd love to hear yours. We always prepare big because we have Lori has such a big family, and we've had as many as sixty five people there. And you know, if we if we have If we know somebody that may not have somewhere to go for Thanksgiving, we would invite some employees over or friends of the family, and and you know we've just always had an open door policy if you if you come, but you have to encourage people to take a little and leave a lot, you know, because sometimes if you let the kids go to the front of the line, they've got this big plate of food that ends up in the trash can, so you kind of have to monitor that a little bit, and I hate.
To be that way, but I like to eat as well. You don't. You don't tell them bring your own sugar, right? Byos. You know, you all got to.
So, I was going to get Nick or John, but they are. There's Nick. Nick, have you got a favorite Thanksgiving memory? Yeah, my my favorite Thanksgiving memory. Yeah.
I probably say back in '97 when the Lord decided to put me on this world. Oh, yeah! You were born on Thanksgiving Day. I was born the day before Thanksgiving Day. Oh, I messed up my mom's Thanksgiving.
Thanksgiving Eve, actually. Thanksgiving Eve. Yes, I was born Thanksgiving Eve, and but this year it will be on Thanksgiving Day. Wow! Yes.
Oh, wow! Yeah.
How awesome is that? My mom and dad were married on Thanksgiving. Oh, that's awesome. Were they really? Yes.
Oh, that beats some Thanksgiving. You better be thankful. Get the family there. You know. Well, we got Carl is in Ohio with his Thanksgiving memory.
Carl, you're on the Christian Carguy Show. Good morning. Good morning. How you doing, Brother Rob? I am excited to hear what you have for us.
I really am. Hopefully, it's a little funny. It was funny to me, but my great uncle. We went to Thanksgiving there. I'm sorry for the noise in the background.
Quiet some. At my great uncle and great auntie's house, and my eyes were much bigger than my stomach, and I picked up pretty much every piece of meat I could find. And one of those pieces of meat happened to be cow tongue, and I didn't know it. And my uncle was just so pleased that I picked up the cow tongue, and he's like, "Well, you're going to eat that cow tongue," and I'm like, "Yeah, no." Not you want to eat it or anything else. I learned that day that yeah, whatever you you pick up, you're going to eat it.
And so, did the cat get your tongue? Yes. That's hilarious. That is absolutely hilarious, and so that and not and again something to just mark your memory of some love that your uncle shared with you, right? Absolutely, absolutely.
Great memories. Uncles do that. That's part of being an uncle. It's to pull some kind of shenanigan, Bob. I had an uncle.
He was he was known to pinch the kids. Oh, he didn't do it mean or viciously until you were a little older and had already had the warning pinches. If he could get near you, he didn't get around well. But we we learned to kind of keep our distance from him. He was a little mischievous.
Too, but we uh we did Thanksgiving at his house several times, and it was just a great thing. Those are good memories, Carl. Man, thank you for calling in. That means the world to us. God bless, buddy.
God bless you. Thank you. Bye bye. All right, we got to get to John.
So, John, you know we've we've heard from Nick, which, by the way, how cool to be born on Thanksgiving. And so, John is our. Producer extraordinaire!
Now there he goes. He's going to gobble for us. What you got for us, John? Uh, my dad told a story. It's not even my own story, but going back to probably about the 1950s, he ruined my grandmother's turkey because he was a prankster with a rubber worm.
So it always. How did he ruin a turkey with the rubber worm? Because mom, or my grandmother, threw it out. Oh, we put the worm in the turkey. Yes, she thought, but did it bake inside the turkey?
Felt terrible.
So I always learn from my dad to respect the turkey.
So it hits close to home when turkeys on fire and extinguishers. Respect the turkey. Don't hit the turkey. So yeah, we got it. Was this worm?
Um, the rubber worm actually baked into the turkey, or was that something that was found before the baking process? Knowing my dad, the turkey was cooked, but he was somewhere else when Grandma found it, and she just found it, probably yelled, screamed something, and then disposed of the turkey. And then my dad felt terrible for years to come. That won't get you many hero points, will it? No.
The legend of the turkey worm. Turkey worm. It's a good one. Oh man, I hate that music, son. I've had so much fun, and I appreciate all those calls.
And I hope you see the love, right? That and God, believe me, He loves it. When you're thankful, and he loves it when you're remembering all the things he provided. All those were gifts from him, right, Bob? I'm very thankful for a wife that has forgiveness in her heart, because I require a lot of that.
And it's going to be a great year. We listen to the Truth Network, TruthNetwork.com. A thank you note for a birthday card? You betcha. This is Truth Commentary with Stu Epperson, author and host of Truth Talk Live.
It was a thrill of my life to handwrite a thank you card to one of my former science school teachers, who's been writing me birthday cards for nearly forty years and has prayed for me in my ministry. And look what God has done through their support and prayer. I even included a copy of my new book, "Thanks Living," as a blessing to this former science school teacher. Hey, who can you write a thank you note to who's made A difference in your life. I am telling you, it will encourage them, and it will be a blessing to your soul.
Just to say thank you, maybe someone that brought you to Christ, someone that taught you the Bible, someone that helped give you some good advice in a tough time of your life. Write that note. Don't put it off, and be a blessing. That's thanks living. Join Stu on radio, social media, and his daily Truth Talk Live podcast.
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