Living out The Ordinary Green Time

The Ordinary Green Time

Christy: [00:00:00] Hello everyone. We’re here and we’re glad to welcome you back. I’m Christy

Grace: and I’m grace and you’re listening to the thanks mom podcast

Christy: podcast. So it’s late.

Grace: What time is it? It is

Christy: 10 15 and I’m tired. Yeah, we’ve been gone for the weekend and

Grace: Sunday night folks Sunday night.

Christy: So, but we thought, Hey, we’re talking.

We’re talking on our drive home. And why don’t we just do our podcast episode now?

Grace: Yeah. Cause we were like, what should we talk about this week? We should plan that. And then we’re like, why don’t we just do it now? Cause actually we have our thoughts kind of together and we are gonna drive for a while. So perfect timing.

Christy: Yep. So sorry if there’s any background noise with the outside road, but I think last time we did this, actually it was fine. [00:01:00] Little bit of, you know, excess feedback, but not bad. So, but we were like, we started just talking about our topic and we’re like, we should just jump in and do this now and take advantage of the time.

Ooh, rumble strips.

Grace: we’re on all those construction, summer construction roads where you drive over the rumble strips to get around and yeah, all that fun stuff.

Christy: I wonder if anybody else, besides us Michiganders in the summer, Calls it summertime or construction time. Like it’s like simultaneous

Grace: summer construction.

Yeah. Is that just Michigan? I

don’t know.

Christy: No, I mean, it’s gotta be more than that, but I swear, like, that’s the joke here? Like, oh, what is it? It’s summer. You mean construction time? Not summertime,

you know? Yeah. I had like two weeks cause I take a, I take the highway for just a short strip when I go to work.

Just cause it cuts all those downtown blocks off anyways yeah. So I just take it for literally two minutes, but so the first two weeks of my internship, maybe only [00:02:00] my first week, there was no construction and all of a sudden the same exit I get off every time is construction and it’s fine.

I still get off if they didn’t close it. But all summer now I’m over halfway through this internship and it’s like, is this ever gonna be done? I don’t know. It doesn’t really affect my commute. It’s just been funny where I was like, oh, this is still here. I still have to drive around the construction. So,

well, I swear that the minute they finish one construction zone, there’s one like right at the end of that.

So it’s like, it is never. Like we just drove through Chicago today and we had driven through Chicago on Friday and because we were going to Avis feis right. Yeah. And I have been to Chicago like every month and I will be there again next month, either to the airport or downtown for your thing. That’s true.

You go to Chicago a lot. I wasn’t there in December.

Grace: Cause you dropped me in November.

Christy: No, I went for Ava. No, we took you in December, Ava in November.

Grace: No you took me in February. Oh yeah. Cause I get my visa

Christy: I went in February and then. Something else. [00:03:00] I wasn’t there in March, then I was there in April.

Grace: Oh, to fly.

Christy: And May.

Grace: To pick me up.

Christy: So I guess I wasn’t there in June and now July and I’ll be there in August, like going through.

So I’ve, I’ve gotten really like down some of the patterns of Chicago and there is always construction. Yeah. And I don’t think that it ever ends and I don’t think it ever will end is my thought, because I think the minute they finish.

Grace: It’s like New York. Isn’t New York like that too?

Christy: Well, I think anywhere’s like that.

Okay. We did this stretch for a year or two, and now we just pick up where we left off and the next stretch. And by the time we finish, we start back all over again. So, yeah. I don’t know. I don’t know. It’d be really nice if we had a listener who was a construction worker, like road construction, and can tell us like the method behind the madness so that I don’t always just think it’s madness.

so, yeah, I dunno. Anyway, that’s what I’m thinking of. As we’re in a single lane, driving home

on the highway. Yes.

Grace: Single lane highway [00:04:00] during the construction season of summer. Yes. Of summer. Yeah. It’s crazy.

So, but yeah,

Christy: Anyway, onto our topic though, we were thinking of discussing what grace,

the green time, the green time.

And we’re not talking about your garden.

No, even though it is summer or your grass or your plants or your veggies. Yes, though. We do hope they all are green.

Grace: My plant is green. I have a succulent guys and it has been blooming. I’m so proud. I thought I was gonna die. It’s not so well.

Christy: I’m glad I haven’t really, I didn’t know much about succulents until Grace got very passionate.

Grace: I still don’t know much. I just know it’s living and it’s alive. I didn’t think it would last this long. I know I got it. Like 18 months ago. It was the end of my sophomore year. I’ve been through junior year and I’m starting senior year. So not, no like a like 15 months, not even a year and a half.

Christy: Why did you get it?

Grace: Just because at the end of the year and the end of the school year, we. The dining hall to [00:05:00] get like dinner there, like finals week or the last week of classes. And they’re like, thank you for like doing all the COVID rules. Here’s a plant. And I was like, I’ll take a plant. Sure. And I see that it’s been with me ever since so, and I was like, this will die before I move home.

But I’ll try. I’ve never actually had a plan to call my own. Cause I didn’t trust myself, but it’s still going. And I’m really proud. And people are like, well, succulents are hard to kill. And I was like, you’d be surprised how many times this thing has had brown leaves just fallen off. I think it’s been on the brink of death, at least twice.

Christy: Your Dad and I did say that about plants that we had to practice on a plant before we had a baby to make sure that we could keep it alive. And our first year we got married right at Christmas. And so we didn’t get a Christmas tree cuz we got married a week before Christmas and then went on our honeymoon and came back after Christmas.

So we had this like inside evergreen, like with these like really wimpy type limpy branches and stuff, like not like a really strong, like a spruce or something. And. Hung a couple lights and bulbs on that. And it [00:06:00] just looked like a really sad yet kind of festive, like Charlie brown tree, but it wasn’t brown.

It was green and I’ve never know what happened to that plant. I’m really hoping we didn’t kill it, but maybe you came along and, and we let it die, I don’t know. Hey, well,

I’m alive and that’s, what’s more important, I guess that’s true. You did keep me alive.

There you go. But anyways, back to our green time that isn’t about your plants or your garden or your vegetables, what are we about?

Grace: Ordinary time! Yes. I mean the season, the liturgical season of ordinary time, and you know that

our podcast is all about how to live out the extraordinary in your ordinary. So when I heard about this and other people talking about a little bit on, you know, this podcast or that blog, I was like, this is perfect.

Christy: This is like us, this is our podcast. We should do an episode on that. Yeah. And why did we think it was good to do now? Grace?

Grace: Because it’s ordinary time. And we’re almost halfway. [00:07:00] I thought for a second folks that we have 30. Okay. Sorry. You say folks all the time in here. I never say folks. And now I say folks cause of you anyways.

Christy: Really? Yeah. No, I didn’t know. That was my word.

Grace: It is your word. And I’m adapt adopting it. It’s one of those, like you adapt, you adapt to the people around you and the words they use. Like I say, y’all now cause of Gracie, shout out Gracie. Y’all I’m not Southern by any means, but I say it because she said it enough around me that I just anyways, but I thought we had 32 weeks of ordinary time. And I was like, it’s week 16. We’re halfway, but apparently there’s 34 weeks. So we have one more week and then we’re halfway.

Christy: And you, you had a hard time adding.

Grace: Well, okay. This was pre coffee. She was, I was like, we’re halfway. And then she was like, no, 34 weeks. I was like, oh, and in my head, I hear like 36 or something.

Christy: No, it’s 36 weeks.

Grace: Oh wait. It’s 36.

Christy: Now you’re getting confused.

Grace: Cause I don’t remember what we talked about this morning.

Christy: Cuz we were trying to add it. up pre coffee. So anyway, the point is.

Grace: We don’t trust our math pre coffee.

Christy: No, we don’t. And we’re about [00:08:00] halfway

Grace: Almost, not quite.

Christy: Yeah. Right. But when this is, you know, when this is posted everything, it’ll be about halfway.

So we thought this was a good thing to talk about, cuz it’s, I think it’s kind of hard to think about being halfway when cuz that’s how this came up. Because the beginning of ordinary time, like the first part of the year, cuz here we are in mid July.

Grace: The first part of the year is advent. So you get through two months of the liturgical year.

Christy: Right. And then the first part of the calendar year. You have advent in there, you have a couple weeks of ordinary time and then you hit lent, and then

Grace: you have, you have Christmas in there and a couple weeks ordinary, you said advent, there’s no advent at the beginning of the calendar year. Right? Just clarifying.

Christy: So, but you’re finishing the Christmas season is what I’m trying to say.

Grace: Yes.

Christy: And then you have a few weeks, depending on how, when Easter falls, when Lent starts of ordinary time. So it’s kind of broken up. So I think we get to the, you know, like here we are at the middle of summer, the middle of ordinary time. And yet, we really haven’t been [00:09:00] in ordinary time that long, because Pentecost was just what, like five weeks ago or so more or less

Grace: I think a little more than that, cuz it was right, like three weeks after I came home.

Christy: June 2nd?

Grace: So maybe it was like five weeks ago. Cause I think I’ve been home eight or nine weeks and I think it was like three weeks after I came home. Something like that.

Christy: It was definitely in June.

Grace: Oh, it was in June.

Christy: Yeah. It was the second or third week of, I mean, first or second weekend.

Grace: It was that first weekend in June, I think. Cause I think that, that was like some people’s first masses right after ordinations.

Christy: Right, that’s what, I guess it was, it was like June 2nd or something. Yeah. And so, you know, I think it gets broken up. So you don’t always think that you’re in the middle of this ordinary time until you really realize where you’re at. And then, and then you’re in this long stretch of it where it’s like you were saying, it’s not [00:10:00] leading towards something or it doesn’t get broke up by another liturgical season. Or things like that.

Grace: Well, just before this, when we were discussing what we’re gonna talk about, I was saying, saying that I was like, I’m just like, we didn’t say that on here.

So I’m gonna say it again. I was like it’s. I was like, sometimes ordinary time is annoying for me because I love, I love all the preparation seasons and celebration seasons, cuz at least in the preparatory, even if. Fasting, like you’re building to something and all the readings are building towards something and it’s like this excited anticipation.

And then the entire celebratory season is all just these readings about how amazing either Christmas or Easter is. And like what that means. And it’s like, it’s, it’s just like, it’s like these mountain type, top experiences almost. And then ordinary time is like, I’m sure someone could tell me there’s a theme underlying all of ordinary time.

But in my head, there’s not a theme. There’s a theme each Sunday. And maybe for the week based on. And they all tie together, but there’s not like, and next week we’re building off of last week and we’re building off of, and I’m sure there is, but to my less [00:11:00] educated brain, there’s not this, like, there’s not the same drive week to week,

Christy: but I think that’s why I’m here Grace! Let me enlighten you.

Grace: Go ahead. And that’s why it annoys. I know there’s a purpose to it, but that’s why it will annoy me sometimes, I guess, because, okay. Last thing before you enlighten me it, even before like advent, you start talking about the End times like you’re even, you’re like preparing for the preparing season.

And I just love that, like the readings are just like building and building and I just love that part. So that’s why ordinary time is hard for me sometimes.

Christy: And we do do that in ordinary time. And as we turn towards the end of it, it is preparing for the end times and we do start talking about that again.

Mm-hmm and, but that’s why it is the green season. That’s why we wear green because when we think of green, what do we think of growing, growing, and with. Out ordinary, nothing can be extraordinary. And if everything was just high and extraordinary, [00:12:00] that’s why extraordinary is extraordinary. We wouldn’t have that if you didn’t have ordinary.

So we need this time to be able to grow, to be able to learn how to live our ordinary lives with extra ordinary things, to set them apart so that when we have those seasons of Advent, Lent, Christmas, tide, Easter, and those higher holy days that we know that they are set apart and they are extraordinary because we’ve lived the ordinary.

Yeah. And I think in the challenge of that though, of living the ordinary is how, like what you said the challenge to keep going to keep growing and

developing.

Grace: Because you don’t, you don’t feel like you’re building towards something.

Christy: Mm-hmm .But yet we are because we’re here on Earth to become saints. So we’re always supposed to be called and be growing and moving towards our final destination, which is to have [00:13:00] everlasting life in heaven with our Lord. And, you know, and to live out that vocation, if we’re a married couple to bring our spouse to heaven, to be growing, you know, raising saints in our home. And that can feel very mundane on those, you know, days when the kids are screaming all the time or when, you know, your or husband loses his job or you as a college student, you know, you’re trying to figure out, you know, internship or your classes, or you have 50 exams and papers coming up.

And, but those are the, the day to day tasks. And, and sometimes they’re even like more mundane than all those crazy things I just mentioned. It’s just, you know, I gotta read 50 pages. I have to do, you know, the dishes and the laundry and change diapers and wipe noses. And yeah. You know, for me it’s that.

Grace: And you feel like. And those are the people that get bored of life, or like that’s part of like midlife crisis sometimes too. It’s like, well, what’s the point of this? And I still have how long to go, like, right.

But that’s where we [00:14:00] grow. That’s where we learn from experience and, and life and how to keep going and find those times so that we build for those higher days.

And in some ways, like when we look at just a year, a calendar year, a liturgical year, we know they come again. Right. It’s cyclical. And in some ways it’s like, okay, we’re, we’re building for a new, you know, cycle cycle a next year versus cycle C. You know, we’re gonna get different re readings or we’re gonna have, you know, we get to celebrate those high holy days again.

And so we move through this time, but I love how father Troy, our pastor is always says, like at the beginning of advent, it’s our new year. And can we think about. Looking ahead to that in a year, when we look back, we can be different than we were a year ago, or reflecting back from where I am now. Am I different than I was a year ago?

[00:15:00] And those times I really think happen that growth happens in the habitual nature of our ordinary life during the ordinary green time. Like how do we take those simple moments to make them extraordinary, to recognize the holy spirit living and breathing and moving among us so that we can experience those highs and we can partake in those celebrations because if everything was high and a celebration, it all of a sudden become ordinary again.

Right? Yeah. So I think that’s what excites me about and, and wants me to keep going. It’s like, because I wanna experience all of the spectrum and it’s beautiful that our faith encompasses all of the spectrum. It encompasses the ordinary and the extraordinary. I don’t know. I get kind of geeked out thinking about that. Because it’s all the feels like we have all of those feels in it.

Yeah. I think, yeah. And that’s a good, [00:16:00] you’re better at seeing that than me right now. I think because, and I’ve seen like, even before you brought this up, like we should have this as a topic. Like I’ve noticed like this in my personal life of like, this needs to be something I’m like realizing.

Cause I remember just sitting in my internship one day and I don’t remember what it was, but I was like, This is boring or I don’t know, there was something I was doing that I was like, and I have to do this for how many more weeks. And this is just kind of boring, like for a summer, like in the, you know, just one of those discouraging moments I was like for the summer, I’ve always gotten to have, you know, more fun and, and I’m just gonna keep repeating this and for how long, which yeah.

In the long run three months isn’t long. But then all of a sudden, I remember just kind of feeling struck like, but this is like the ordinary time. Like it just connected somehow in my head to the liturgical season of like, there’s still purpose to this. Like, and it does end as well. And there is those different high seasons and low seasons and preparing seasons, like, and just kind of a, like your, [00:17:00] like your job right now is to be in the, in the mundane and the monotonous.

Like mm-hmm and just kind of like, there’s still good that’s coming from. Cause I think that’s kind of what I was, I was like, what’s the point? Like what good is coming from this? This isn’t very like, not life giving like bad, but just like excitement of like, oh, I just love life right now. Kind of, I was like, Where’s that right in this moment.

And it’s like, but you’re not like your job. Like just kind of, I felt like it was you just being like, but your job right now is to do this mm-hmm and there is good that’s coming from it and you can’t always see it. Cuz that’s the thing about growing time. Like I think about plants when they talk about that for growing time for ordinary time, you don’t see things until they bloom and that takes a while.

And so there’s all this work that’s happening and when it looks like nothing’s happening and it will come to fruition, but you need to stay here right now. Like, and, and you don’t quit and you do what you’re doing and what you’re doing is good. Even though it doesn’t always feel good. Like maybe it doesn’t feel bad, but it doesn’t feel like it’s doing anything.

Like, it just feels kind of, eh, [00:18:00] it’s like, it was just like a reassuring moment of like, no, this is your ordinary time, like literally in your life right now. And there is good, that’s coming from this and you’re not gonna see it right now. And later it’s going to make sense, like, but this is where you’re supposed to be like.

Right. And I think that just goes back to, I like your analogy. Plant and growing. And when we, you know, dig a hole and we plant it, or that bulb that has to nurture and grow and be watered. But we don’t see all the work that’s going on below the surface. And just like the scriptures say like that God works for the good and those who are in Christ.

Jesus. And, and I think, I mean, a lot of that can connect into discernment, but in this situation, if we’re seeking the Lord and it seems mundane. Or it doesn’t seem exciting. The Lord’s still gonna work that for the good, even if we make a bad decision, a bad quote, unquote decision. Yeah. [00:19:00] God still can work that for his glory.

And we, we see many people who’ve shared that and where they’ve either, I mean, fallen in either to big sin and had mistakes or just their two paths looked fine and they chose one and, and the Lord just blesses it. You know, it’s not that it’s not always that. This is the right versus the wrong when it’s not like a moral decision.

Yeah. And I think in these ordinary times, that’s what it is. Okay. Do I, you know, do the laundry right now or do I do the dishes? Not a moral issue and no matter which one you do first or, or second, the Lord’s gonna work it into your day or that you chose to do that chore a day and you could put the other one off to tomorrow, or you have this reading for a class or whatever, and it does seem.

Mundane, but when we take the mundane and we just dedicate it, like Lord, just be glorified through my work and what I do today, no matter how simple, boring, because this is what you’ve [00:20:00] called me to do. And most of my life is gonna be mundane. Most of my life is gonna be monotonous, but when I can take that thought and go, but the Lord can still be glorified through this.

That makes it extraordinary. That makes it holy. And it makes it sanctified and set apart. So that I can experience those bigger moments and that’s what’s, I, I just get so excited. Like we can sanctify this and we can make this about God, even when it just seems like, why are we doing this? And it’s the same thing over and over, but no, but, my, the Lord is calling me to this work and therefore I should be about the Lord’s work because I’m here to glorify him.

That is my point. That is what he’s done here, you know, place me here to fulfill. So I don’t just, it just digs in my mind. I don’t know. I just get very passionate about going no, there is a point and it’s not, it’s not for me [00:21:00] to know it’s for me to serve and fulfill the purpose for which I’ve came and that’s that the Lord has put me here for a purpose and I need to live it out, even if I don’t understand it at this time.

And it’s just doing dishes.

Yeah. And it, and I think in all of this too, what keeps coming back to. Is supposed to be those high points of life still. Cuz I think sometimes when people, even me get to those points where you’re like, this is just mundane, da da, da, and then you just feel like subject to this is just what life is.

And it’s like, no, for such a time as this, or even like there’s the scripture verse of like this two shall end. Something, isn’t that this too what this too shall end, isn’t that?

Christy: Yeah. This to shall pass this too shall pass.

Grace: Like, and I love that and it’s, and that’s, you know, and that’s sometimes sad for the good things where it’s like, this is gonna pass, but even, and the bad.

Encouraging, this is gonna pass, but even the middle things where it’s like, this is gonna pass too, and it’s going to be right. You’re gonna have your highs and lows and your middles. And it’s not always gonna be this [00:22:00] middle and that’s, and that’s encouraging to, to me where it’s like, okay, right now, it just might be this middle, eh, but it’s not gonna stay like this.

You know? Like, and sometimes I feel like that’s the, when people feel stuck, you feel like it’s never gonna change and that’s not true. You know, this is gonna end. Yeah. And it’s gonna

change and that’s, and I think.

Christy: I love how the Lord appeals to that. Like, I think that goes back to like, why do we have sacramentals? Why do we have smells and bells, why do we have things that we can feel and touch and smell and taste? You know, why did the Lord give himself in the Eucharist? So it’s something tangible. And, and he does that with the ordinary, the mundane, the extraordinary, the middle, like I said, like how you said the highs, the lows in the middle, because we’re a human person and we have. Is, and the Lord’s created us with those senses and we need to be able to experience all of those emotions. Mm-hmm the high ones, the low ones, the middle ones to know that, [00:23:00] like you said, this two shall end or pass the, the high and the low in the middle. Like where are you at? And because we do, we get kind of tired of this or that. And when we have something to look forward to, hopefully you have,

Grace: you have a different motivation,

Christy: Right! But hopefully also we can go, yeah, there’s something else coming. And there isn’t a motivation, but also to, to let it be and be able to sit in the moment that we’re placed in now, like how people say, oh, I don’t wanna wish this away. Like, like we need the ordinary to grow. We don’t wanna just wish it away. We don’t want to not be working and building or something. Like for the end of this year, I want, I wanna be better than I was last year. So in this mundane, ordinary, I should be working for that, cuz this is the time so that when I get to that extraordinary I can celebrate and I can lift it up.

Grace: Like time, but that does relate to liturgic ordinary time of that’s just reflecting our human, [00:24:00] our human, like the seasons of, I think it’s sorry, English. Okay. Let’s try again. Like I remember listening to an advent podcast, but they were talking, it was the, what’s their what’s those girls, sister Miriam and the other two. Abiding together. They did like two years ago, they did like an advent series. So four weeks anyways, but they’re like, when have you had advent seasons in your life? And so I feel like that’s very, like, we have the liturgical things, but then there’s seasons of your life where it, this is my ordinary time.

This is my advent time. This is whatever. And it’s just reflected differently. That’s not always the same as the liturgical calendar, but it’s very much the human life cycle, not like death and life cycle. That sounds very Lion king.

Christy: No like Lion King

Grace: The circle of life.

Christy: But it, it is, I mean, in terms of the year, it is cyclical of the liturgical year and it, and it does build in different [00:25:00] ways. We hear all these different parables or we have like good shepherd Sunday, or, you know, just this past week we heard about Mary and Martha. And I mean, it’s all these we’re hearing about all of the Lord’s experiences in those 33 years of his active ministry. And then they do build towards his. You know, death, but king, you know, our last Sunday and ordinary time is like Christ.

Grace: Christ, the king, right.

Christy: Christ the king, and then move into.

Grace: No, oh, no time. I think Corpus Christi, no Christ because they both have Christ in it. And I was like, wait, what?

Christy: The Christ the King at the, and then we do start over all over of preparing for him to come. And, you know, so there is, there is a maybe not as, as short and intense and concise theme like we have in lent or advent or whatever, but there is, we’re learning about Jesus’ journey in his life and what he was teaching us, because that was his ordinary too.

Grace: His three years of [00:26:00] ordinary time.

Christy: That’s right !

Grace: Before the passion and everything.

Christy: Exactly.

Grace: After Christmas, he had to come and teach us to how are we going to live when he isn’t here? . How are we to live when he isn’t among us? And that, that has to be the norm.

Yeah. I really shouldn’t. I don’t know if I could even, well, I guess you could say those three years, ordinary time, if anything, I feel like that’d be a high for the disciples and his ordinary time was the 30 years before that, but,

Christy: well, yes. I think like you said that when the bride groomings among us, why we don’t fast, like we could get him that whole thing, but in, in what he was doing was teaching us how to live. He was creating his Christian, we, what we call ourselves we’re followers of Christ. Yeah. His following and what that was. Look like, and how we were supposed to emulate him.

Yeah. And so I’m using, I guess that type of form as the idea of like teaching us to live out the ordinary of that type of thing.

Grace: Sure, sure.

Christy: And so, I don’t know. I just think it’s, there is [00:27:00] such an example there of like, you know, love one another, as he has loved us, like, you know, How you want to be loved, you know, that like that type of thing, like do one to others as you want done unto yourself, like all these things that were like such like different from the old law of an eye for an eye mm-hmm like he came to teach us what being a Christian was during those three years of his ministry so that he could be glorified.

Grace: Yeah.

Christy: You know, those type of things, they just, yeah. Yeah. Anyway, very. That’s my take on ordinary and how to make it extraordinary and how to live well in this green time.

Grace: It’s seeing it all in perspective. That’s really what I think it is. It’s just seeing this all in perspective.

Christy: And there’s a skunk.

Grace: It’s the zoo guys!

Christy: It’s come alive. It’s 10 45. The zoo has come alive.

Grace: It’s okay. We’re safe. No worries. Yeah. We’re observing from a distance. Not like in the road. No, but[00:28:00] in case anyone’s like, there’s a deer stop recording. We’re fine. We’re fine. We’re fine.

Christy: We’re safe.

Grace: Anyways, how many times can I say? Yeah, in 30 seconds, I don’t know.

Christy: Try and cut. ’em all, all out.

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Yep. So that’s all getting linked up. So, yeah. Awesome. Well, thanks for listening guys. We hope your ordinary time is going well. And this motivates you to keep living it out. Cause this is motivating me to live it better.

Christy: So it’s okay to [00:29:00] be green. Mm-hmm not like hermit the frog green.

Grace: It just means you’re Spartan.

Christy: Oh, let’s stop right there. We might lose listener or we might gain,

Grace: , I don’t know. Yeah, a little bit of both. Might it might even out in the end now

Christy: it could, it could even out. Yeah, we could see, but either way we just yeah. Want you to yeah. Embrace the green time. That growing time of, yeah, be extraordinary in you’re ordinary. Go do something like that.

Grace: Yeah. And have, have confidence that when it feels very ordinary, the extraordinary is still there.

Christy: Yeah. So God is about a good work in all of us,

Grace: even if it takes a little bit for you to see it and for it to break ground. Yes. I’m being very plant focused. It’s fine. It is good.

Christy: Well it’s summer, so yeah, great.

Grace: We all see you next week

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