Good morning friends, happy Tuesday. It is the 16th of April and day is the AZ Merit math test part one. So I have my little letter to my students on the board. We've got the desks all set up. After Easter break, which is this Friday, I'm planning to get the key to our storage unit here at school and I'm planning to bring my tables back into my classroom. I plan to keep about eight desks in my room in addition to my tables that I'm bringing in because I have three circular tables that I will be bringing back. And then I also have my two rectangle tables. I have that one back there and I have my one back there. I also have these three slash four black tables. But I'm gonna try to use tables again next year, not specifically flexible seating. I plan to still assign students a seat, but I really like the idea of having tables instead of desks. I think that it promotes a little bit more organization and I also do a lot of collaboration. So I really would like to just have my tables back and I really don't like the look of the desks and how they don't match. It really drives me crazy. So Friday, my nephew and I are gonna be coming to school and getting my desks out of here and bringing my tables back in. And I should have enough seating for each student to have a seat at a table or a desk. And I won't have as many floor seats. So I'm planning on putting the legs back on the smaller tables that are on the ground and bringing them up so that my students can sit in a chair because I feel like when they were on the floor, like a lot of them would complain. So I also moved a lot of the stuff from upfront so that I could have my kiddos sitting on the floor during instruction time again. And I really wanna do that next year, but I wanna get a rug. And I have one on my Amazon classroom wish list, which is linked down below. So you can go check out the one that I'm planning to get. But I would like to do a rug next year so that that's like a specific spot. I know that I've used sit spots in the past and I like them, but I'm gonna try the rug route and see if that works for me. I don't know 100% yet if I'm really gonna do it. I'm thinking about it. But the desks are set up right now in groups of two. And they're set up in a way that I had the space in the front of the room without so that I can kind of plot where my tables are gonna go. So I'm thinking I'm gonna do small round, small round, big round, and then I'm gonna do my two sets of desk tables. So I do plan on keeping about eight desks, but I'll probably turn them around so that the opening is blocked so the kids can't use the inside of the desk because I want them to clean out their stuff and just be like minimal for the end of the school year. I also put my teaching space over here because I felt like it was more out of the way. And now when I sit at my table, I can have all the kids in front of me and I'm still able to teach in front of the smart board but I have more space for kids this direction because I felt like before they were like all crammed in the front and yesterday it was nice. I was able to walk up front and I had plenty of space because I could get kids back here rather than being cut off at this line. So it worked out pretty good. So I'm testing this out for next year and I also really like the fact that I can stand on this side of the table and sit on this little stool and teach from there if I want to or I can sit on the other side. So I kind of liked that feature too, but yeah. There goes my principal up the stairs. Do you see him? Oh, he's gone. So anyway, that is what is going on up in here. We have testing again today and then our last day is Thursday. So excited. My dormit just walked in so I'm going to stop vlogging and go talk to her for a little bit and then I'll see you guys later. Okay, so I'm gonna sit down real quick and just do the introvert teacher tag and Janice Won created this little tag thing and it's called the introvert teacher tag and what she did was she took 18 questions from Buzzfeed about introverts and she answered the questions that pertain to her as a teacher. Now, before I begin this tag, I just wanna mention that I don't really consider myself an introvert or an extrovert. I feel like I'm somewhere in between so I thought that this, so I thought that these questions would be interesting to ask myself just to see if I am more of an introvert than an extrovert. I feel like a lot of the two different personalities really shine and it just kind of depends on the situation that I'm in. So really quickly I'm just going to answer these questions. Janice Won is the first teacher tuber to do the introvert teacher tag so if you guys wanna go check out her channel I will have it linked down below and okay, I'm gonna get into these questions real quick. So question one, do people call you antisocial all the time? No, absolutely not. I would not really consider myself antisocial. Do they try to convince you to be more outgoing? I definitely don't think that I have any problem being outgoing unless I'm in a situation where I feel inferior I guess. So I think that I would say that like in staff meetings I'm not very outgoing like I don't usually raise my hand or wanna talk or share out but it's funny because I will talk and share out on YouTube to thousands of people and not to my own staff. I don't know why. Do people ask if you are depressed or okay? I guess sometimes people ask if I'm okay just if I'm not like super bubbly and full of sunshine. So I feel like if I'm having an off day where I'm my more introverted self then people wonder what's going on. Do people ask you what you're thinking about? No, not really. I guess I'm usually one to explain what I'm thinking. Do you take breaks to recharge? Sometimes when it's my prep during recess I have like a 15 minute afternoon recess. I will just sit in my room in the dark and just do nothing. Do you take breaks to recharge after spending time with someone? I guess I would say that when like when my husband goes to work I really do enjoy those nights when I'm a little bit by myself. I guess when my husband goes to work I really do enjoy the nights that I have when I'm by myself. Once I put the baby to bed I just like do nothing. I sit, I watch Netflix. I take a hot bath. I enjoy a cup of tea and I really enjoy having that time by myself. Also after I have company for like the weekend like my mom and dad will come for the weekend I'll just like totally enjoy the quiet for a while and where it's really hard to enjoy quiet when you have a toddler. Any chance that I get I will just sit in quiet and enjoy that time. Do you purposely ignore a call if you don't know who is calling because you'd rather not talk to a stranger? Absolutely. If you are an unknown number on my phone I am not answering it.  I kind of do. It's like I don't really know you so I don't really want to talk about like anything with you.  Do you stare at the ground so you can pretend you didn't see someone approaching? I don't say I stare at the ground. I look everywhere else. So like if somebody's coming up this way sometimes I'll look that way or I'll look at my phone and then when they get closer to me then I'll like look up and give a smile but I'm not like gonna look at the ground. I don't know, I guess I just look away. Do you spend most of your time at a party slowly nursing your drink or eating snacks? Yeah, at parties depending on which party I'm at I don't really attend parties very often or social events or gatherings unless it's like for family but if I do it depends on who's there. There's someone there that I haven't seen in forever then I'll have a conversation but I spend a lot of time at parties eating snacks. Like I'm always by the snack table. And I don't think that's an introvert thing. I think that's a foodie thing. Yeah, if I don't know anybody at the party I'm gonna be sitting on the couch by myself eating my food or like if it's something where my husband is like I'll just be kind of like trailing around behind him. Do people mistake your thinking face for a resting beep face all the time?  So when I'm just sitting quietly I kind of just do you not participate in events that would involve ice breakers? Technically no because if I have to participate in the event then I do but when the time comes to actually talk sometimes I just don't. Just introducing yourself fear inducing. I always get a little bit hot and like my heart beats really fast and I get a little bit sweaty when I'm put in a situation where I have to like introduce myself but once I get comfortable then I feel like I open up and let go and become a little bit more friendly. Do you like using the internet because you can show your personality without having to deal with people? I don't think it's about having to deal with people. I think I just find myself a little bit more comfortable talking to a camera. I do like to share with people in person but I also feel like I have to be very selective with who I share with because if I over share with someone who doesn't appreciate being shared with then it feels very awkward and I feel a little bit like they're annoyed by me because I'm sharing. So I guess I feel like if I share on the internet then whoever wants to hear it or wants to accept what I'm sharing will take it and if you're not interested in hearing what I have to say then you just won't click on my video. So I feel like it's a little bit easier for me to share online because the person is not in front of me reacting to what I'm giving them and I don't have to deal with people who are not interested. I guess, is that weird to say that? Face to face, if they're not interested I guess it's more like like if I try to share with somebody like in person that I know who doesn't want to be shared with it's harder to read them whereas I can just share with everyone online because they're gonna click if they wanna know. Canceling plans, guys I am really bad at this. Like I'll make plans with someone and then the time will come and I'll just be like, you know, I'm a little tired I don't feel good I think I'm just gonna stay home and I do that all of the time. I've been trying really hard lately in my life not to do that but I have been a person that has done that a lot in my past trying to fix that but I am a person that cancels plans not on purpose, not cause I don't wanna see that person just because I'm like, I would rather be home I'm such a homie. Does everyone try to fight you to be more social but you're happy the way you are? I don't really think that people fight me to be more social I think that it's just like I would rather spend my time at home in quiet just sitting around than going out and doing extravagant things. Like on weekends I usually spend my time at home in my house or just like branching out a little bit here and there to places I know like I'm not a social butterfly I don't attend Christmas parties I don't attend like other holiday events I don't attend a lot of friends' barbecues and maybe that's just because I don't have a lot of friends that are here in the moment a lot of my friends are like out there like Jen she lives in Prescott my best friend Nicole lives in South Carolina Mandy she lives about an hour away however she'll be teaching with me next year so I'll get to see her all the time and I don't really feel like I have like a close tribe of friends where like we all hold events and everyone goes to their each other's houses and like we have social stuff I don't really feel that I have that right now and that is something that I would really like to have because I feel like it's just more fun to have like a close group of friends where you do everything together like you celebrate holidays and everyone comes to kids' birthday parties it's more like I talk to you on a regular basis and I see you on a regular basis our next door neighbors are amazing we see them all the time we hang out with them all the time and so that's really nice but I don't really feel like I'm a person that has to be in a social setting all the time I really do enjoy being quiet and to myself and it works for me so anyway that is the introvert teacher tag if you're interested in participating in that if you feel like you are an introvert or if you're maybe like on the fence of you don't really know which one you are or maybe you're like me and you're both an introvert and an extrovert depending on your situation then go ahead and film the introvert teacher tag I will put the questions down in the description box below don't forget to check out Janice's channel and her video and I'm gonna get back to the vlog so guys happy Thursday I feel like doing my Friday dance like it's Thursday, Thursday gonna get down on Thursday yeah so I'm here at seven, oh, 10 seven oh 10, that's what time it is wow you can tell that I've gotten a lot more sleep today I'm sorry, last night then I did the night before because I have so much more energy and I feel so much better and I did get coffee this morning and I'm gonna share with you what I get from Starbucks I do not get anything super fancy from Starbucks because quite frankly, I don't know what to get and sometimes when I try to get too crazy I don't like what I got so I just get a Trenta vanilla iced coffee with classic and cream that's it and I like the classic and the vanilla because it makes it extra sweet and I like it extra sweet and then I got a spicy chorizo sandwich also I wanted to share some details about my outfit this morning because I have tons of questions about them all the time so I'm gonna try to do that a little bit better you know, than I usually do so my headband that I'm wearing today is by Teaching Joys she has an Etsy shop and I love her headbands because they are $2 cheaper than Naughty's and every time I try to buy a Naughty's headband every time I go on the Etsy shop they're not open like they're out or they're on vacation or whatever so I haven't been able to get my hands on them but Shannon at Teaching Joys makes headbands too she has different styles than Naughty's but they're still super cute and she's actually a local here in Arizona and she has a little one year old boy and we've gotten together and had the boys kind of play but we're planning on having a little bit more fun with that this summer now that her little one's walking oh he's so cute oh my gosh his smile just makes me ah anyway, I'm moving on then my earrings are by Alan J. Dreams and they're on Etsy as well they're also on Instagram and I will link both of these Instagrams down below I'll just put their handles I will put so they're by Alan J. Dreams and I love these because they have like a pinky floral type pattern in there I don't know what that pattern is but I love it and then the tassels are pink with blue I love them I thought they tied in really well with my kimono today which I'm so sorry guys but this kimono is from Target from like two years ago so you probably can't get it but it's long and flowy and I picked it because I'm wearing my lipstick and littles may your strategies be with you shirt again because today's the last math test and I thought well I need like my my vader cape you know so I can flop around the room so this is from Target you probably can't get it at this point in time sorry and then I'm wearing some lulu legging pants because I need to be comfortable today and then my shoes are from Target I love these I get so many compliments on them and I love how they make my legs look a little thin my feet are huge I wear a size 10 but I feel like they make my leg look thinner so I wear them I only wear them with pants though like if I try to wear them with shorts my legs just look chubbier I don't know I don't understand also my friend Becca who's been observing in my class a couple of times she's the girlfriend to my husband's best friend and they work together anyway she came in yesterday to do an observation and teach a small group lesson cause she's studying teaching and she brought me a bunch of books I'm so excited, look at this one tons of magic tree house books which I'm so excited about because my kids are a little bit lower readers and they're going to love these and then a world record book two copies of Charlotte's web so now I have 20 books total I had to check out two from the library so I'm going to add these two because my lovely teammate who's retiring gave me a class set of Charlotte's web so I have a class set of Charlotte's web and I probably will just keep these three copies just in case from the library but now I have 20 books of my own technically I have 21 because I have my own personal copy that I keep super safe in my bookshelf and even though I probably don't need to but this is the color edition that's why it's my special copy it's the one that has the colored photos so I keep this one safe in my own little bookshelf and nobody touches it you don't touch Mrs. Veldeth's Charlotte's web copy no you don't so that's exciting I gotta put those away I think I'm gonna go through my library pretty soon and just toss some of the books that are a little bit too higher level for my kids and maybe donate them to Mandy since she'll be teaching fourth grade next year her kids might enjoy them and because I know that when she cleaned out her classroom she got rid of a lot of books so I think I might just put them in that box and then donate them to her for next year so here's what I'm gonna do yesterday I got all prepped for Charlotte's web and I don't know if you guys watch Jennifer at Genuine Teaching you probably do she's my BFF she and I are both doing Charlotte's web to get, well not together but we're doing it at the same time and we're using the same resource I'm looking around my room trying to find it where did I put it? Oh, it's over by the books wow so I have it all printed and it's organized by section in here and it's just like separated by a sticky note and then let me show you it's by the book umbrella the actual resource is by the book umbrella oh here it is the book umbrella Charlotte's web novel study and the reason why I like this one better than there's one on there's one on Super Teachers 2 which is like if you have a membership then it's free that one is organized well it looks like this this is a Super Teacher one this one is broken up into four chapters each and I just feel like three would be easier to do in a two day period so we're gonna do three chapters every two days so on day one we will do vocabulary and then start reading and then on day two we'll finish reading and do the comprehension and understanding activities and then my teammate also gave me this and it's by Smart Chick Teaching Resources I don't know if this is on TPT it probably is but it's a Charlotte's web stem engineering challenge pack and it has a ton of stuff in here like design a pig pen design a spider web and it's like a plate thing there's a water bottle piggy bank in here super fun stuff so I have those oh yeah piggy bank bottle challenge build a spider challenge so I'm gonna try to look through those and see if I can't like shove a couple of them in in the last like two weeks of reading Charlotte's web because my plans have us reading up until the last Friday before the last week so we'll have the whole last week of school to do like all the STEM challenges that go with it to do all the like after reading stuff like character analysis, studying analysis all the things that come after reading the book and then we'll obviously watch the movie so I'm thinking maybe we could reserve that for the last day of school since our last day of school is a full school day it's gonna be a wild one so I'm thinking like morning watch the movie afternoon board games done so I feel great about the end of the year however, I feel like my room has exploded into a disaster zone so I feel like I'm gonna come in on Friday tomorrow with my nephew we're gonna move some furniture around I think I already told you guys but I'm also gonna try and clean today after the kids are done testing so I'll have them work on like a work menu which I have on the board right now and I think I wanna make a slide for it but I have just like a menu of things that the kids can work on and since we have computers if the kids are done with everything on my menu they can play on a computer game or something like that because we do have the cart since we're testing so I think I'm gonna spend the afternoon cleaning maybe have some kids work on some cleaning projects I did have some kiddos organizing fraction tiles and they have done a really nice job each of these has every single tile that they need so for next year I have these wonderful math manipulative bags and each one of these contains like as much as each kid would need and I have like 35 of them so I think what I wanna do is assign a couple kids towards the end of the year to take everything out of those and then just like recount and make sure everybody has the same amount because I'm thinking next year I'm going to assign each kid one of those have them keep them in their cubbies and then when we're gonna use math manipulatives they just take out their manipulative bag and it's done I don't have passed anything out I don't have to count anything but if I know ahead of time how much stuff is in there then I can plan around how much is in there so I'm gonna do that and then I have these I should have kept up with it but I have these bins right here full of curriculum so like things that I purchased on TPT that I need to hole punch and put in my binders but I actually don't think that my binders are big enough for a lot of the files that I purchased so I need to get a crate I think I have one underneath one of these cabinets that's just holding clipboards and I haven't really used clipboards all year because I use whiteboards as a clipboard like they just flip it over and write on it so I think I might get rid of those clipboards and put them up in the office and see if anybody needs them and then use the crate and do like files and then store that somewhere because I would love to put all the smaller files in these binders so that I can just grab and go but like the big files like my lit studies and stuff I feel like I need just like a thing to put all the big things in maybe even two and I do have the extra tub so I might just do that anyways I am rambling and it is now 7.28 so that means I've been talking for like 12 minutes so I'm gonna go and get started on some of my projects and I'm gonna update my to-do list I need to progress monitor today as well so I think maybe since I have my aid in here maybe when the kids are done testing if they're done before lunch which they were last time about 20 minutes before lunch maybe we'll have her progress monitor and then that's done and over with and I can just continue with my to-do list all right, I'm gonna go eat my breakfast and shut up Hey guys, so I am going to end this vlog here it is now 3.12 and I definitely did a lot of work today when I didn't have students and my kiddos helped me a lot so I'm gonna turn the camera around and show you everything that I've changed and it's actually a lot and I'm really digging what's going on and there's a few things I still wanna tweak and like change a bit but for the majority it's looking the way I want it so these are the desks that are going back to storage and being replaced by tables I kept eight tables to create or eight desks to create two tables and what I did is I turned them around so that the openings are away so that kids can't like put stuff inside it's literally just a table except for this one would not turn and be level cause I only kept tables that were level cause all of these were like different colors different levels, hated them now they look so nice and uniformed and I might even buy some black table cloths to throw over them for like fun so these are all going back into storage and I will be bringing my three round tables back if there's four kids at each round table that will be 12 seats plus four more is 16, 20 and I have 21 students so I can have a kid sit there I can have a kid sit here I can have a kid sit there I can have a kid sit here so this is another thing that I moved I brought my big tall black table from back there and I put it up here because this is my teaching station and I normally don't sit at it I usually stand at it so I thought I would just use this for my teaching place and then this table I think I'm gonna give to Mandy next year cause she's gonna be here at our school next year and her classroom that she's moving into doesn't have very many tables and since I don't need this one because I have those I'm going to save this and just keep it here for the rest of the year and then in August I'll take this into Mandy's room so that she has it so this is what this looks like right now and I love this because I can have all my kids sit in the front here like I do normally I can have them all sit right here and then next year that will be gone but then back here is gonna be all their tables for their work for their collaboration I can fit one, two, three round tables and I can fit everybody in here and I do have the legs to one of my circle tables so I'll only have one floor table and then that one isn't even gonna be used for assigned seats that will just be like another flexible seating option and I might even take two of them away and move them up front just for me to have a place to put stuff up there this table here is going to go to Mandy as well because again she's coming to a classroom that doesn't really have a lot this is a dry erase table I've never really used it since I have my big dry erase boards I just throw them down on top of the tables and they worked us fine also I'm keeping all my chairs because I do plan to have the kids using chairs not stools at my tables except for the one table that will be on the ground they will be using cushions and then if I can get my paws on some legs for those for that circular table I will because I really just I know the kids don't really like sitting on the floor and so for assigning seats I'm just gonna ask the kids who's comfortable on the floor all day and if they are great if they're not I could even have them assigned to this table and then when it's small group time have them move to the floor table that might be even helpful because it's only an hour they'd have to sit on the floor or they can sit on the bench or they can sit on the Ottomans we'll figure it out but there will only be one floor table so that's nice I moved this long thing from over here I wanted there to be more space in the front of the room for kids to sit so this is gonna be my small group area this will be Miss Jane's small group area she's my aide that table will get pushed up a little bit more but for now it's just gonna be pushed up there until I move this and then this I was planning on putting back there for next year but I'm not sure it was between leaving that there which I might actually do now that I'm looking at it and just move my black one over there and make that more of a my stuff thing because this is gonna be my little desk area it's super small because I don't really use it but it's gonna be my space so I might move this here and then I wanna get two smaller short bookshelves to go here to make a small library because I really don't feel like my library gets used that much like all of the books that are there I'm planning on donating a lot of them to Mandy because they're higher level and the books that my kids never touched like I don't need to keep them if they're not using them so I wanted to get two shorter ones to put over there for next year so a lot of the stuff that I'm trying to do and accomplish right now is moving towards what I wanna do next year and I'm trying to get ahead so that I don't have to do it when I come back in August so a lot of the furniture moves I did it now because I have the time I love where this ended up it's centered on the wall it's perfect I don't have to take this paper down this summer so I've just figured I would leave it there and I love where it turned up and then this paper and I love how this fits right here so it's kind of like perfect the way I moved it all I was going to get a horseshoe table but I don't know if I want to because I love how this table doesn't take up that much space and if I need more space I can just push it up against the wall and it's an extra counter space that I can use and then I just pull it out and use it so I kind of like the fact that I don't have that however, now this is not centered so I don't know if you guys comment down below do you like the way this wall looks or should I move this over so that it's centered on the wall I don't know, you guys tell me and then I put this one over here I need to paint this but this will be like where I keep all my small group materials and then I want to get some supplies things you know the ones from Ikea with the little drawers I want to get those and put them up here for next year so that all the stuff the kids use and touch will go in those and then I really want to get a stage you guys like misfits, the one with the storage underneath I really gonna see if my dad can build me one because I feel like it would just be the cherry on top of my classroom so since that will be gone I think that there will be plenty of space for it because then I can have kids sitting back here and it will be perfectly fine but I think that this will be great I think that I really like the space it gives me and I love the idea of having my tables back really love the idea of having my tables back and I just think that it's gonna be way more fun with all the projects we're working on at the end of the year and all the stuff also I had my kids clean out their desks obviously and they put all their things in their cubbies so their cubbies look a little bit messier now that's fine, that's what the cubbies are for so the mess is over there and not out here okay guys, I've been rambling on too long so I'm gonna let you go but thank you guys so so much for watching this week I will see you next week and hope you guys have a fabulous Easter and I will see you next week


Can you lose the Holy Spirit? Will the Holy Spirit ever leave you? Can you exhaust his patience with your many mistakes and repeated sins? All too often, I'm approached by Christians who are filled with fear and doubt. They wonder if they have finally gone too far. They imagine that their most recent mistakes have done them in. Disqualified them from fellowship with the Holy Spirit. Now to be clear, I'm not talking about losing your salvation. That's an entirely different topic, which will require an entirely different video. What I'm addressing here is the idea that a Christian can be abandoned by the Holy Spirit. So let's settle the matter now by looking at what Jesus said. In John chapter number 14 verse 16, the scripture says, And I will ask the Father and He will give you another advocate who will never leave you. He is the Holy Spirit who leads into all truth. The world cannot receive him because it isn't looking for him and doesn't recognize him. But you know him because he lives with you now and later will be in you. The Holy Spirit doesn't abandon us when we make mistakes. Instead, he remains to rescue us from ourselves. Think of all that Jesus taught concerning forgiveness and patience and then realize that God keeps to his own standards of mercy. The Holy Spirit abides faithfully, patiently, working with us to overcome the worst parts of our own humanity. The Holy Spirit is not a reward for the spiritually elite if ever such a group even existed. The Holy Spirit is our only chance at truly being spiritual. Now, what sense would it make for God to withdraw from us our power to be holy as a punishment for not meeting standards of holiness? The Holy Spirit's patience is by no means an encouragement to go on sinning. And one of the marks of a true believer is a true desire to be holy backed by a lifestyle of true repentance. But it is a relief to know that we are not abandoned just because we make mistakes. When you sin, repent. When you fail, turn to the Lord. When you make an ungodly mistake, humbly turn to your friend, the Holy Spirit. The one who never leaves you. The one who stays faithful to you. Even when you are unfaithful to him. He is more loving than we are flawed, more patient than we are stubborn, and more faithful than we are sinful. I'm David Diger Hernandez, and that is your moment of truth. For more free content like this, sign up to my emailing list by going to davidhernandezministries.com slash email. Thank you for watching EncounterTV. Don't forget to subscribe and click the notification bell. Also, help us spread the gospel of Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Make a one-time donation or become a monthly supporter by clicking on the donate link now.


glad that you are joining us for hope today and you see that there's we have a new addition that he's like here with us you're gonna hear just in a moment about what he's going to be talking about today that's really going to encourage you all of you dads that are out there but I'm so happy Tom, Amanda and I we are back together and so tell us Tom. Well and this gentleman that we haven't introduced yet is uh pastor Zach Blair and we're so glad to have them. Let me ask you a question to the men out there what type of father do you want to be and what steps should you take to become the that father that you want to be? Well pastor Zach he's going to answer that for us today and uh give me one give me one like tease there Zach about what are we going to share with people today? We're going to share with uh with fathers about intentional connection. I feel that many fathers feel the need to be perfect but there's no such thing as a perfect father and we can be intentionally connected. Yeah important stuff you're going to want to hang around just in a just a minute we'll be we're going the book is called the father code by Zach Blair there is so much good stuff in here you don't want to miss it. That's right so call up those dads or brothers or sons in your life and get them to tune in the cornerstone if you don't make our morning program catch one of our re-heirs or watch us on ctvn.org at your leisure but make sure you let others know about this book because I really do believe that it's going to inspire men and we need the men I know there's been like all the women movements Sydney and I you know seeing happen but we need the men in our communities to rise up and be who they're called to be. Yeah when men get into position it makes us all a better nation it makes us all better people and so we're just so excited to have this conversation because I do think you know one thing that when in a lot of churches you see there's predominantly a lot of women but we do need the men to rise up and I know the enemy is going hard after men in these times and seasons because he knows that when you have the men at the head in the home who there's certain things that happen in the family so it's really important that we have this conversation today. Absolutely well again I would like to introduce pastor Zach Blair tell us a little bit about where you're from your church and then what's going on in your life right now. I grew up in the Ambridge little steel town Beaver County you know so you were in Belle Vernon I've never went to Belle Vernon in my life I didn't even know where that was right yeah so Beaver County boy through and through but I went to Geneva College you know I grew up and didn't I knew God but I didn't have a really strong relationship with him and I really came to the Lord at Geneva College and through the football program there Gina DeMarco's just put his arm around me and you know through the years my wife and I we served in ministry for 15 years and now we planted we planted a church about six years ago going on right now in Robinson which is great yeah that's great what's the name of your church Hill City church Hill City church yeah great well great to have you Zach let me ask you about fathers then pastors you have a lot on your plate why write a book about fathers now I just feel that it's such a need for men to have good relationships not only with their children but one another you know my heart burdens for men because we we have so much pressure on us in so many different areas and we don't really know how to connect and how to let that pressure out you know so that pressure exudes itself in in our parenting sometimes and we we want to be good dads we want to be great fathers but we just don't know how and so this book is to essentially give six timeless principles to men to hold each other accountable to in the context of groups you know I didn't write this to be a bestseller I just want to help men it should be that's it thanks but you know I just want to help men connect with each other and connect with their children and through the years of youth ministry I saw that the children who had intentional connection the father who was intentionally connected they succeeded and they made it through the most difficult times and so many stories are in that book of people overcoming and able to overcome because of the love of their father or the encouragement of their father their relationship with their father so I just wanted to put those principles out there because I saw these principles were timeless well and we're going to get to all those the the different connection points here the different you know father codes but let me ask you tell me this story because I think it's really a key in your life and in the book tell me the story about your father and his his story yeah my father is a good man he's very quiet and he's very uh he's the type of man that I've never heard anybody say anything negative about him I mean if somebody didn't like my dad there's something clearly wrong with that because he just is so kind and he serves everybody you know um and there's a part in the book where I tell the story of a little bit of frustration that I had with my dad and uh and I think we all naturally go through that we have to be honest about that there's rubs you know with with your upbringing and our parents will naturally they'll even say to us hey you know we didn't do everything perfect but just try to be better than us you know just you know and so we take those principles but we were at the we were at the uh ocean with my dad and you know he's quiet and he he's kind of slow and I'm more fast-paced and I have a lot to say and uh I'm like where's my dad right now where is he and he was he was my wife I was annoyed by it but my wife pointed out she said look at what your dad's doing and he he picked out uh independent these seashells for my kids and just one was like a strong one that was for my youngest you know one was like shimmering and that was for my middle who's super creative and then the other one was the perfect one which is for the oldest you know he likes things to be ordered and organized right and so uh he was doing that my my wife said Zach every time your dad is picking out a seashell for them he's telling you he loves you you know he's a quiet man and so he didn't say much growing up but he I learned that day he said it through his actions and I felt at that at the beach that day the Lord gave me a vision of him that gave me so much compassion for him because he was a fatherless he was a fatherless son and one of the best things that he did for me was he never left me you know he stayed with us no matter what he was always there he worked so hard to provide for us as a family and his presence throughout my life men it means the world you know it means the world he gave me something that he didn't himself receive you know and I think too many men are are stuck in well I didn't get this I didn't get this they get stuck in bitterness and they don't have a vision for their future you can't just say what you don't want to be you have to know who you want to be and my dad did that for me you know he said no matter what he didn't leave yeah and then that was his story that he didn't have that connection right with his father but that was your that's your that your first code is that we never leave we never leave yeah so let's go to the second one we're both there and present so talk about that men being there and present well you guys jump in here don't get let's get the the female perspective here as well I think we all understand how difficult it is to to be fully engaged and and there's so many distractions you know we have text message that comes through and you know social media and we have work messages emails we don't we don't have a time to disconnect and so we have to we have to have intentional time with our children we have to be both there and present you can be in the room and actually not be present with your child but you have to be physically there and also mentally emotionally spiritually there as well and that's what that principle is about yeah that's so good I know in my own household like uh growing up we like we went through some really traumatic seasons my dad did and I can remember there were moments where he'd be there but not present yes but I watched the Lord heal him really through worship because he played a guitar yeah and so like watching my dad persevere and lean into God in those hard seasons really helped shape me that you you know do that or going beyond himself to help someone else so it is imperative like for our dads to be present I love that you said that was my post this year that I just thank my dad for being present right in my life the older I get the more I just appreciate that he was present he was there and it's so important yeah and although the book is formulated a little bit more about the values of that there are intentional things that we can do to be present with our children to know and I heard one person say I spend 15 minutes of individual time with each of my children every day and if I can't do that then I'm too busy you know there's a appropriate eye contact appropriate touch appropriate attention appropriate discipline all those things help us to intentionally connect and be both there and present but we have to fight for that connection we have to fight for in fact your son said something interesting when you had a mishap with your ankle what did he say you read this book so well I appreciate it he said you know I had broken my ankle I saw I have a scar going from here to here I've played in here and I wasn't the same for about a year you know 95% use of it right now and my son said Zach dad I don't I don't mind he didn't call me Zach I don't know why that came out he said that I don't mind that you got injured and I hope I don't get in trouble I'm like you're not in trouble with me why and he said because we've been playing video games and we've been we've been watching movies together and my one of my pastors said I told him that story and like man this has actually been good for my family and my pastor said because you because he has all of you right now you know planning a church is crazy you know it's like building an airplane in midair you know it's hard to be that both there and present and sometimes it takes the circumstances of life you know in the circumstances of life God will use those circumstances to help us to reshape and and you know get back to our value yeah like Zach one thing I just appreciate because I think you're we're in the same generation are you like I was alone so I think there's a lot of men out there that unfortunately they don't have men that they don't have fathers to grow up so what are some things that you have learned in some tips and tools that you could tell young dads that are out there that might be terrified of the whole fact was like I have this child I don't know what to do what are some things that they can do to be intentional to love on yeah Sydney I think I think that's such a good question and I think the best thing that I can tell men right now is that they are the man that God has chosen for their children I'm getting all emotional thinking about it because I think a lot of times like I remember holding my son for the first time you know I was 25 years old and and I'm holding him and I'm like I'm going to ruin his life you know like I really thought that because I didn't know anything I'm like what am I going to do you know I like am I going to am I going to mess him up am I going to you know no like this child that I'm holding in my hands like God he's called me to love his child and this love that I feel it's it's it's from heaven like this love that I feel for him is from heaven and so God has he is I am the father that God has called me to you know to be you know and I'm going to I'm going to fight to be that father you know for that child I think that's so important I appreciate how like emotional you've got because I have friends I like male friends that they were like they had that moment like oh my gosh like what am I going to do like we're going to have like friends that have you know had newborns are like here we go like you you just you have the baby there's no manual right it's just like literally relying on the Holy Spirit so I appreciate like just your sincerity in your heart and just getting emotional yeah thank you yeah we're in the hospital and we have the car carrier we're about to take our son out and we're like okay so they like trust us with this child this life you know it's so overwhelming you know but it doesn't have to be you know thank you I think that's such a key I've told young guys I said none of us none of us guys are ready to be dads you know you just sort of learn as you go right you learn as you go and and you trust the Lord just like you said God's put us we're the right person for that for that that child but let me ask you about another principle and another story here our hands will bring love not pain tell me about the broken window your grandpa's broken window story because yeah I love that story yeah my grandfather was a very strong man and one of my best friends I mean I am where I am because of my grandfather's investments in me I spent almost every day with him and I remember it was on his birthday I can't remember what birthday it was but he uh I just took a walk and and I was I just found a basketball and I just kicked it you know just being a kid you know probably about 10 or 11 years old I kicked it it broke one of the windows in the shop that he had built you know and and it was his retirement he he he fixed tractors sold tractors all that stuff broke a window in the back and I was so afraid of him because he was just so strong you know like he's gonna kill me like I remember thinking that right so it's his birthday so I go in and I whisper to him and I see his coffee steaming and you know he's about to take a bite of his cake and I said I I made a mistake and I'm really sorry you know and he said well what is it I said I broke your window and in your garage and and he said let's go suss the damage so we go back out there and I thought he was just gonna you know yeah I thought he was gonna scream at me I thought he was gonna like hit me you know something like that he had never done that before obviously but uh when we went out there he just kind of smiled at it and he and he taught me how to replace a window how to fix it uh we cut up some wood and then he said hey go upstairs and get a marker for me ran upstairs grab a marker and he drew a picture on it and he said this is Papi's birthday present you know from Zach he drew a picture of both of us we were both smiling his arm was around me in the picture and then uh as I become a father you know it's my my son's probably five or four or five years old he gets a hockey puck and shoots it through my garage window and uh we did the same thing said hey go upstairs and get me uh get me a marker you know and then we drew the same thing on there you know it's powerful isn't it yeah it's grace isn't it it's a demonstration of grace I love that yeah his hands really could have brought a lot of pain you know but I saw his hands craft something and I equate his hands with love you know and and that's that's the call of fathers when our kids see our hands what are they going to think these hands embraced me these hands loved me these hands comforted me you know that's the inspiration of that so I'm just thinking of like we have a lot of children in our sphere of influence that are fatherless yeah and I love that you and your wife you know have taken in foster children but how important is that for the godly men in our communities to father the fatherless and what does that look like yeah in the very first chapter we go through the a little bit of statistics I mean I think it was 2008 the United States found the the issue of fatherless like really the epidemic of fatherlessness in our nation and with with the child who is has a father in the home they are 75 percent less likely to to be in jail incarcerated for a violent crime you know even when it comes to the the grades on the report card are better and you know this doesn't dishonor by any means single moms because single moms there's a grace and a lot of times even even with that you'll see god fills in the gaps he brings somebody in to be a father figure and when a child has that security it's my belief that with a son mom's job is to bring security in his manhood but dad's job is to teach him how to be a man and with a fatherless epidemic in the united states with father father's out boys don't know how to become men and they need somebody to be an example and even in my in my thank you in the book I have men who were father figures to me and that and they showed me how to be a man my grandfather showed me how to be a man my uncle Dave showed me how to be a man my my my father-in-law my father and my one of my pastors Larry Bettencourt they showed me what manhood was and it is vital for us to step into those roles and right now and when he's just said something like what does it mean and what does it look like to be a man can you define that because I think there's a lot of young men they hear that they're like but they don't I know like you know men in my family and just men around me they didn't have fathers around so what does that look like for some tangible things of this is what it looks like to be a man and we can talk about that for a couple hours I think right you know I love the idea of tough and tender you know I think one of the values in this as well is is that we stand guard to protect like that is a that is a job of mine to keep our family safe and you know even I can't get into too many details of fostering and all of that but there's a safety aspect of it that I can give to children as they come into our home that that I can tangibly sense whenever I hold them they feel safe right now you know and so tough and tender you know hey I'm gonna stand up for what's right I'm gonna do the right thing no matter how much it hurts me that's tough but I'm gonna do it because I'm led by love I'm filled with compassion and I think we have to understand that as men that that our role is vital and that that we can we can do the right thing no matter how much it hurts but it's let out of compassion make sense I hope I'm clear in fact I'd like you if you would look at the camera and just speak to that one out there maybe they didn't have that father figure maybe they're a man who's something something's really hitting their spirit of what you've been saying but they didn't have that father they didn't have that that person to show them and what would you give them hope about in following God's plan for them as a man yeah I would encourage you to first receive the love of the father to not be caught up in in what you didn't have but to have a vision to provide for somebody else something that you that you never got but you have to have a relationship with the father it's my belief and then also begin to look backwards and and thank God for all the men who came into your life who showed you the way to be a man and how to be a father how to be a how to be a man but you're not alone there's men everywhere who feel this way and and and don't let bitterness hold you back from who God's called you to be you have a call in your life and you have a purpose and and God has a plan for your life just lean in and and and learn to receive his love that's it that is so good pastor Zach thank you for you know with us the father guy the father code I'm sorry by Zach Blair great book uh easy read but a long application lifetime application so I highly recommend that what we're going to ask you to do now Zach is we're going to see if we can embarrass you on television here uh we're going to ask you bible questions about fathers yeah because we got this little thing we call stump the host all right so we have not seen these questions Zach certainly hasn't seen these questions but we're going to ask and we'll we'll all jump in there so uh this one first one should be easy whose name means father of a great multitude abraham abraham are we good we're good with abraham abraham all right there we go so we have like that's like from genesis 17 and verse five and here's our next question honor thy father and thy mother is one of the 10 commandments which one I'm going to say it's either two or three it's up there it's pretty high because it's the first one is it's the first one with the promise first one with the promise yeah we know that I'm going to go with two or three I'm with you on that I'm with you on that I trust that I don't have any idols and then like honor your father get it I feel like it has to be the third I'm with you on the third one look at that third of the fit oh no we did them you know with the kids I don't know I don't know I don't know for sure no then we're gonna have to go with third yep yeah all right so what does James say is the source of every good and perfect gift I got it you got it go ahead the father above yeah father above yeah father above more specific no every good perfect change is not as shifting shadows I mean that's all I got every good and perfect gift comes from the father of the father above is the father of lights no father above every good the father okay they're gonna give it to us good there we go father of lights okay I mentioned that I mentioned that yes you can go back and find father lights yeah you can access Rick it's all right we're not gonna well we're gonna dig into God's word right now we have a verse from Joshua 24 verse 15 and it says but as for me and my house we will serve the Lord and that is a wonderful choice talk to us about how important it is for every father to serve the Lord yeah I love the context of that of that scripture Joshua has taken the Israelites into the promised land and he essentially says him you're not strong enough to do this and they say yes we are we're gonna do it and he's like no you're not because you have to depend on God's strength to lead your family in that way and he said hey listen you do what you want to do I'm drawing a stake in I'm putting a stake in the ground I'm drawing a line in the sand I'm going to serve the Lord and my family's coming with me it is vital there's I think it's over 90 chance that if a father if a father follows God and draws this line in the sand that the whole thought of the whole family will but statistically it jumps down if it's any other role in the family the father's the father's role is vital yes we need our dads well we do and again so often we've we've seen where we we can impress on God or project on God the things that we felt from our own father and and I had a great dad I've said that here many times wonderful wonderful man of God but God's it was even better than my dad and God is better than your dad and God it God wants us to be those the men of God but he wants us to understand there is a father in heaven that loves you that cares for you that that that even sent his son to rescue you from where you were into the place you need to be there is a good good father in heaven there is a good good father in heaven you know one thing I just love about this whole conversation about like our heavenly father and just even want to encourage you that I know there's so many of you that are watching that did not have a father and if we can be honest and real it wasn't really a good situation but you know one thing I've just seen in the people in my life that didn't have good dads around or absent fathers is that when they knew they had the heavenly father isn't that interesting like that's a name that we can call I love sometimes in my hardship I've cried out Abba father in the lowest of my moments in my life just saying all I had to say is Abba and there would be moments where I felt his tender arms around me and just his presence and so today if you've been watching this whole program and there is this deep father wound that is in your spirit that is in your heart that is crushing we just want to encourage you today to know that there is a good good father his name is the heavenly father he is your Abba father and you can call on him at any moment in any time and he is with you and so we just want to encourage you even right now if you feel like a little burdened or heavy or this conversation is bringing up some things give us a call at our prayer line at<PHONE_NUMBER> so good Sydney I just believe that the Lord desires to do a beautiful work in and through your life and as Tom was referring to you know we need Jesus turn to him today today just run to him he's running to you the moment you glance at him his heart is for you and as pastor Zach said you know you are called for this and you've got what it takes when you lean into God to fulfill that purpose of a father in your own child's life or in another person's life so don't let this moment pass we say this often but there are times and moments where the Spirit of God is drawing us and we need to cherish those and we need to press in when the Spirit of God don't resist the Spirit of God pull let the Spirit of God pull you towards the Father towards the person that loves you the most the one that that cares for you and the one that wants to put his will and his way upon your life whatever's gone before God has a new and a perfect way for you draw to him trunk close to him today you'll find that and you'll find his heart too have a great day on tomorrow's hope today helping people connect to God through her uplifting music and heartfelt messages Christian pop artist Estella Kirk shares her music an inspirational story of overcoming fear and self-doubt by reminding us that God is with us every step of the way don't miss tomorrow's hope today television t-shirt where'd you get it I am so glad that you asked you know this is an exclusive offer for the month of June for you to receive this one-of-a-kind ctvn t-shirt you can support and support your favorite Christian television 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Hey Virgo, welcome back to the channel. Happy Virgo season. If you are new, welcome. Please smash that like button and do subscribe. If you enjoy this reading, keep in mind this is a general love reading. We're gonna take a look at this person. There's someone's current feelings about you. This is a channel for Virgo, Sun, Moon, Rising, and Venus, but all signs are welcome. All right, Virgos, let's get into this and happy birthday. Happy birthday to you. Okay, let's get started, Virgo. Anything you need, any links to book a personal reading, every and anything, there's a link under my profile picture here on my channel and also in the description box. Okay, you have healthy choices, making healthy choices in love and in life, self-love, self-care, being happier, you've got sunglasses. Okay, somebody's watching, looking, stalking, gaslighting, perception, focusing outward, but with glasses kinda just behind the scenes, looking at you, making healthy choices. Wow, you've castrated again. Looking at you, making healthy choices in your life, loving yourself and being happier. And with cassette, this is outdated thinking. Hmm, someone's replaying events in their head in regards to you and thinking differently about you, Virgo, seeing something different in you, thinking differently about you and about events that occurred in perhaps the past. So as always, keep in mind, this can be romantic, but it can also be friends, family, other people you know. Okay, so somebody is in decision mode at this time. Let's take a look and see what's going on here. Okay, hmm, nine of cups, someone's definitely got you on your mind about something that's ended, but they're thinking about how special you are to them.  Excuse me, we do have the hermit, which represents Virgo and death, which represents Scorpio. A little bit under the weather today, you guys. So if I'm like hacking up here, please forgive me. I'll try to mute it. Let's see what else is going on. Somebody's definitely in decision mode right now. Okay, thinking about transforming themselves or transforming this relationship, also reflecting on how much has changed or how much is changing currently, let me see. Okay, so I feel like somebody thinks that you are very courageous and you are a very giving, charitable, wonderful person, how you've got the mind as touch, everything you touch turns to gold, how you have the courage and strength to make changes in your life, really thinking highly about you. Okay, and also how you are able to transition from one thing to the next, I don't feel like a chameleon or something. So we have Leo energy here and the wheel of fortune can represent Taurus Aquarius. I'm picking up here, okay. So I feel like this person, let me see. Okay, yeah, they're heartbroken. And I feel like, okay, Gemini Libra Aquarius, I feel like this person wants to talk to you. So there's definitely going to be some kind of conversation, seeking clarity and peace after some kind of a heartbreak or whether that was you with them or them with somebody else. I get a sense that this person really, they like how you bring peace of mind to them, like how you kind of find a way to soothe things or make things better. Okay, that's interesting. Now, this person learns a lot from you Virgo. So things that you have communicated to them, your truths and the clarity that you bring to them, this person feels like they learn from you or they learn a lot from you. Almost as if they're kind of an apprentice and you are like a trainer. Okay, maybe somebody is an apprentice or maybe somebody is a trainer, but I feel like, I do feel like this person wants to communicate with you though. Okay, let me see and tell you that.  Okay, yeah. So I mean, I feel like this person looks at you or they see that you are home. I'm just hearing you represent home to them, you represent family, you represent stability foundation. It's the 1111 and even here, we've got one, two, three, four, some kind of heartbreak situation or argument of some sort has brought peace of mind. And I think it's because it's brought truth. Okay, this is definitely a soulmate kind of a connection that they feel towards you. Let me just get a clarifying card for, okay. Excuse me, the hermit. Definitely Virgo Energy.  This person feels like they get what they deserve. Okay, they see some kind of truth. They see a truth about you right now. They see that you are fair and just. Okay, but what are their emotional, like what are their feelings feelings? Cause I, even with the three swords, I kind of feel like this person is a little bit distraught by something, okay. All right, picking up Leo Virgo Cusp here. They know that you know how to get where you need to go and what you want. And that you're easy to, like you free yourself very easily, that you have a lot of faith and you're willing to just take a chance and take leaps of faith despite your struggle or any kind of like mental struggle. And they feel like you're very intuitive person as well. Wow, Virgo, like you have secrets or things that you keep to yourself that you don't share really, unless it's with like select few. And I feel like they like that about you. Okay, so we have fire energy here. Like all the signs are showing up here pretty much.  You're very resilient. Wow, look at all everyone. Virgo, this kind of feels like there's a lot of people that feel this way about you, air sign. There's, this feels like it's more than just one person. This feels like it's a lot of people who have, like very similar views about you. Like they, a lot of people really admire you Virgo or everyone in your periphery or in your life to whatever extent people are in your life. You know, even with the nine of cups, I feel like people, yeah, I was kind of feeling like this was gonna start as one particular person. We have Libra here. This feels more like it's a group of people, a lot of people, lovers, friends, family. See you as like a wish maker. They'd like it to be in your presence. They'd like to be around you. Like majority of the time it's positive.  A lot of people see that you, I know you might be asking about one person, but I'm seeing groups of people.  You don't quit, you don't give up. You may lose battles, but you don't lose the war, your intent. No matter how much suffering or struggling, you're very good with your boundaries and that you will take a step back if needed to kind of do a reset, but you never just give up 100%.  You know, that's kind of your fighting spirit. It's the endurance that you have. It's the old, it's not how many hits you can take. It's how many hits you can take and get back up. And you always see these people or maybe someone in specifically see that you have this ability to get right back up after a failure or a fall. You're good at recreating and rebuilding. You're very strong. These people see you as very strong. See how all of the signs are showing up, Virgo? So now you have water energy here. So this feels like a lot of people really admiring you and especially going into Virgo season, I mean, it's all about you from August 23rd to the end of September 22nd, 21st, 22nd, 23rd. I feel like you have a lot of admirers and suitors or at least people who, okay, none of sorts, the devil and the Empress.  You know what? I feel like you're tremendously admired for the way you're able to rebuild, the way you're able to stay in this Empress energy where you're like, okay, that didn't defeat me. It maybe got me down, but I'm still gonna come up shining, smelling like a rose. So I mean, you're on a lot of people's minds and will be on a lot of people's minds going forward, okay? And no matter what the people you've dealt with in your past, like nobody holds any grudges or issues with you. It's actually, I feel like these people or anyone in particular, if you have someone on your mind, they look to you.  Okay, that's wonderful, Virgo. Oh, I'm just hearing that Adam Ant song, wonderful. Do you remember that song? Okay, wow. So you definitely have a new love situation starting your family, feels very blessed to have you in their life, whether that's your actual family or your soul tribe. And you've got, oh my gosh, so you do have a new love offer, a new love, not offer beginning happening here is when I wanna say, Taurus as well. Let's take a look here and see what's going on here. Someone that may have cheated you or lied to you in the past, I feel like this person wants to heal this relationship, yeah. Or someone that might have deceived you or left you out in the cold or there was abandonment or someone that, you know, kind of, I just feel like they want to, this person wants to heal this relationship, get back into your good graces. Okay, for now. Yeah, they've been thinking about their, it feels a little bit like yesterday's reading, but I feel like they've been thinking about their side of the street, the things that they've done wrong. I feel like, okay, yeah, there's definitely communication coming in from someone here, there's gonna be good news. I feel like someone here wants to tell you that they love you and that they have like this thing for you. Now, this could be someone who did you wrong in the past, but this could also be someone who has been thinking about just how they have spent their life struggling. And because you are such an inspiration and a blessing to this person, they, yeah, my gosh, you've got the night of cups. So there's a love offer coming in and also there's some kind of proposal and some type of like gift. It could even be during your birthday month, you know, in your birthday season, there's travel, there's definitely a connection. Someone wants to connect with you, the 11-11, the 11-11, okay?  You're just super, super admired. You might be very spiritual and this person looks to you for your spiritual wisdom, but there's so much love here, my goodness. Okay, Virgo. So I feel like it's not only that you're admired by many, but you are also admired by someone in particular and or others. So the love offers coming in could be from a lot of different suitors and one of, you know, I don't have the six of cups. So I don't want to go too deep into this being a past person. It could be, okay? But that's kind of lower on the percentage. So I feel like there is of a group of people, there's several people who either ask you out or want to spend time with you or make a proposal, give their love, you've got to go slow, take the time to get to know each other. Okay, that's your advice, Virgo, with this person or these different people. Okay, you can be completely open. All right, they're saying with this person. So there is someone in particular and I feel like it's whomever you have on your mind at this time wants to open up to you. They feel they can trust you, that they can talk to you. They're willing to take things slow and see how things go. Some kind of beautiful birthday gift.   I feel like whoever they are or whoever's on your mind, this person, like I said from the beginning has learned quite a huge deal from you on a spiritual level. You know, what do they say? Like tarot card readings are cheaper than therapy. So this person, the things that you have learned through tarot, I'm hearing through watching or practicing has turned you into a much more spiritual person, much more understanding of yourself, someone who is healing and your healing brings healing to others. And I feel like this person has felt the effects or feels the effects of your energy, your positive, beautiful energy.  So you may receive birthday gift or some messages of some sort from not just one, but quite a few people, let me see what other message is. Okay, for some of you, there is a fire sign who is super significant during the month, the end of August into September. And I feel like this person is definitely going to be reaching out or communicating with you, no contact in the reverse, okay? So there's an opening up of communication happening here with a fire sign. Okay, and the past does return. So some of you might have a connection with this person already, mature, dynamic, fiery, masculine or feminine. So yeah, you're definitely, if you were not in contact with someone for quite some time, yeah, there's gonna be some type of communication with this person. Okay, a new chapter.  There's a new beginning, that's the world. Lessons have been learned, contracts, so contracts finished out. There's completion, completing a goal and starting over, okay, there's a starting over energy here, okay, someone who was ghosted or blocked. Yeah, I feel like this might have been someone that you had some, maybe some issues with. There's no more ghosting and the blockages are being removed. So I'm not exactly sure who that's gonna be for you, Virgo, but there's definitely an opening up. Okay, fear and anxiety are suppressed. This is good, this is good. And there's peace, peace of mind. Okay, that's good, Virgo, I like that for you. All right, let's take a look and see. Let me try these signs. Let's see who's showing up here. Okay, year of the goat, year of the rabbit, year of the pig, year of the tiger, year of the rooster, tiger again, pig again, goat again, goodness, dragon, the ox, and one more, the rat, okay, very beautiful. So that's either your Chinese sign or the other person. So take it as it resonates. Okay, let's get some cards. I mean some, I'm gonna try this dice thing again. See how this works out. Okay, so we've got the letter J. Okay, somebody's name starts with a J. We have August 31st, September 17th, 1973, someone is 55. The month of March is significant and someone is 52. All right, let's see. When will you be hearing from a particular person? Hold on, Virgo, okay, for some of you, you will hear from someone on the 23rd of August and also September 16th, okay, very significant. Let me see if I can get some more initials for you, Virgo, and see who else is showing up here. Okay, we have the letter T, we have the letter I initials, we have a U and the letter E and A and the letter C and then it just switched to a B, okay. Wow, Virgo, let's see your signs, who else, what signs are showing up here? Okay, Scorpio, Taurus, Libra, and Cancer. And one more, Pisces, Virgo, again, Cancer and Libra. I feel like it just wants to keep giving the same messages there. All right, Virgo, let's see what your charms are. Okay, all right, Virgo. So you've got a gingerbread man, here comes a muffin man. So significant time period is when we have gingerbread cookies. That's all I have to say, maybe somebody makes gingerbread cookies. You know, I saw Dragonfly yesterday, it was the first one I saw all summer, first or the second. And you also have an angel. So gingerbread, so there's something happening around the holidays, Christmas holidays. There's definitely with this butterfly a new start happening here for you, a transformation, a change, kind of a coming out of a cocoon. And it's just going to be significant. Like I believe I can fly that kind of energy. And even with this dork, there is like a new beginning as well, like a birth. Somebody might be having a baby or finding out about being pregnant as well. And that could be anytime now between the holiday season coming up, like Christmas and Hanukkah and all that, all the holiday season. Now maybe you are just seeing butterflies a lot lately. If that's the case, this is definitely a message for you. You could be seeing flamingos, storks. Well, I don't know. I've never seen a stork, I don't think. Are they even like real? Is this real life? And there's something here very significant about a pink flamingo. I don't know if that's a drink or if that's a place or a thing, but that's very significant. Also, angel bringing a baby. I'm picking that up very strongly. And there's just something about this little gingerbread. Unless if you're someone that makes cookies around the holidays and you sell them, significant time for you to do that. I feel like you're gonna do very well if you're starting, I'm just hearing like a cookie business, something creative, like crumble, something super creative with food. That's gonna take off. Okay, so I know this was short and sweet, but I'm gonna leave this here for you. And I hope that you guys have a fantastic, wonderful evening, morning, afternoon, and going forward. I know a lot of you have birthdays coming up, so shout out to everyone. I'll always say a happy birthday for every day that we do these readings until the end of September. And again, if you wanna donate to the Children's Fund, definitely go do that. Any amount helps, I greatly appreciate that. There's two of them. And again, you can find them at the link, at my link tree. And personal readings for September will be discounted. You can buy me a cup of coffee if you like. And thank you to everyone who's bought me like all these coffees. I'm super, super excited about that. I love you guys so much. That's just a great donation. And you know me, I just love my coffee. And yeah, don't forget to join my OnlyFans for the spicier readings, where I use the cards and the decks that I can't use here on YouTube. All right, you guys have a fantastic day and night. Make good choices, healthy your choices, love yourselves, love each other, and I'll see you all back here tomorrow. Take care.


Hey, this is Brett, and this 2020 Ford Explorer XLT is stock number 12481Z. We're here at Summit Automotive in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin. You're new and used SUV headquarters. This 2020 Ford Explorer has the 2.3-liter inline four-cylinder turbocharged engine. It pumps out an amazing 300 horsepower. This Explorer has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop. It has a fresh oil and filter change. All the fluids have been checked and topped off, and this one is 100% ready to go. We're going to go inside under the hood, start it up in this video. Magnetic gray metallic is the color, and we shoot all of our videos in 1080p 60 frames per second. So if you have HD capabilities on your computer, tablet, smartphone, or television, I highly recommend turning them on right now, because it is definitely your best way to check out the quality and condition of the vehicle before seeing it in person. And if you like the video on how we do things here at Summit Automotive in the upper right hand part of the screen is a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel, where we do videos of our new and used inventory each and every day here at Summit Automotive. This one comes with the 20-inch painted alloy rims, and they are in excellent shape, and it has Michelin primacy AS tires. These are 25550R20s, and they have probably about, I'd say, 70% of the tread left, maybe even a little bit more. Front fender is in excellent condition. You get the LED headlamps and the LED running lights and fog lights there. Front bumper is in excellent condition. I didn't see any dents or dings or scuffs or scrapes on that. You get the chrome trim grille. The Ford logo is in excellent condition, and the hood is in excellent shape as well. I didn't see any dents or dings on that. And the passenger side front fender looks really good. No dents on that. Passenger side rim, no scuffs or scrapes, and this magnetic grey metallic's got a lot of metal flake. It's one of my favorite colors on the Fords. Definitely in the sunlight. It looks really good. It looks good anytime, but in the sunlight especially when it's sparkling like that. As you go down this side of the vehicle, take a note of how clean the body is, how reflective and mirror-like that paint is. You take these HD videos, so if you are far away or even if you're close by and just cannot make the trip down, but you're still interested in purchasing the vehicle, you can see the vehicle, hear the vehicle, and have confidence in the vehicle that you're looking at before you even get here. So when you do get here, there's absolutely no surprises, and you can make a smart and informed buying decision from wherever you're at. And if this video helps you make that buying decision, let your salesman know that you saw the video, it was helpful and that Brett sent you. Back rim, no scuffs or scrapes, and the back tires have just as much tread as the front tires. Coming around to the back of the vehicle, rear bumper is in great shape. It does have a towing package, which includes a receiver hitch, four-pin and seven-pin wearing, backup parking sensors, and it does have the backup camera back here as well. The tailgate is in excellent shape, or a rear gate, I should say. It is a power gate, so that goes up like so. Back storage area is in excellent shape, and these seats do go down, and you can see just how nice and flat they go. Just grab the strap, pull it right back up, and you can put the headrest up as well. There is a storage area underneath here.   LED tail lamps as well, and as you go down on the driver's side, just as clean as I pass on your side, no dents or dings on the rear quarter, it does have the capitalist fuel fill, which is a really nice feature. Never get gas on your hands again, and for full disclosure, this back rim, no scuffs or scrapes on there. Down the rest of this side of the vehicle looks really good. Didn't see any dents, didn't see any dings. It does have the door code entry on here. We do have the code for this vehicle, and if you want to figure out how to find your door code for your, I believe it's the 16-22 Explorer in the upper right-hand part of the screen, I have a video to show you how to do that. Blind spot monitoring in the mirrors.  No rips, no tears on there, looks really good. Mid-current airbags, both these front seats are heated. Power driver seat, lumbar, factory floor mats, auto headlamps, tilt telescopic steering wheel, power windows, power locks, and power mirrors. Get the nice leather bolster on the door as well. We'll hop inside, take a look at the miles, radio, and everything that this vehicle has to offer on the interior. You can see that this one has 22,103 miles, and you get the digital speedometer, compass, miles per gallon, all that good stuff on there. Instrument cluster is very nice and clean. Comes with the leather-wrapped steering wheel, Bluetooth, and information center controls on the right. Cruise controls, adaptive cruise controls, lane departure warning controls on the left. You have the paddle shifters right there. This one has the sync 8-inch radio. It has the factory navigation system on it. You get AM, FM, and Serious Satellite radio capabilities. And then you have all your different apps here, including your Ford Connect. And then you have Apple CarPlay, Android Auto, and all that good stuff where you can project your cell phone to the screen. So a lot of really good stuff there. This is also where your backup camera shows up.  It does have a heated steering wheel, and your heated seat buttons are right there as well. You get a nice storage compartment right there. Has a USB, USB-C. There is your, I believe it's an 8-speed automatic transmission, but it's the turndile shifter right there. You have the start-stop capabilities, and then you have your different drive modes. And as you turn that, it changes in the EVIC, so you got Normal, Eco, Sport, Co-Haul. Then you have Slippery, Trail, and Deep Snow Sand. So you got all those different traction modes on there. So you can select that right there. Passenger side format and seat are in excellent condition, smells very clean inside this vehicle. I don't think it's ever been smoked in. You get your map lights up there, and we'll take a quick look at the back seats. And then we'll start it up and take a quick look under the hood. We'll also check out all those LED lights on the vehicle. This one has the second-row bench seating, no rips or tears back here. Does have the latch-child safety system for any child car seats you may have. Factory floor mats. These back seats are heated on the outboard side. You get a USB, USB-C, and a 12-volt PowerPoint, and rear air controls. These seats fold down, and then they do go up somehow here, but the back seats are in excellent condition as well. No rips or tears back there. These seats go up like that. Actually, that's how you get to the back row. It slides up like so. They actually don't fold up. They slide up, so that's good to know. And the back doors are in excellent shape. It does have child safety locks back here, and the bottoms of the doors are all absolutely perfect. We'll start it up. Take a quick look under the hood. Starts right up. No check engine lights or anything like that. And I would personally like to thank you for checking out the video today. And hopefully from this HD video, you will have been able to verify the quality and condition of the vehicle all the way around, inside and out. Here are all those LED headlamps, running lights, and fog lights. They look really good and are nice and bright. Under the hood, we have the 2.3-liter, four-cylinder turbocharged EcoBoost engine, 300 horsepower. Engine base is very clean, runs very smooth. Once again, this Explorer has been fully-safetyed and inspected by our service shop, has a fresh oil and filter change. All the foods have been checked and topped off. And this one is 100%. Ready to go. And to see more pictures of this Explorer, one of our other 450 new and used cars, trucks, STVs, minivans, wranglers, you know what we got to go to that website right there, www.summitauto.com, full pictures and descriptions of every single vehicle from two locations, all at summitautomotive.com. And if you'd like to check out more HD videos, you can go to youtube.com slash summitauto. Remember to like, subscribe, and share on this video and all the videos that you see there. Click the bell notifications. You'll get updates every time we do videos here at Summit Automotive. I really highly recommend this vehicle from a quality and condition standpoint. And thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share. And in fact, in a second you'll see a link to subscribe to our YouTube channel on the upper left. A link to more Explorer videos like this one, the upper right link to this vehicle on our website, and the lower left. And a link to one of our latest YouTube videos on the lower right. Click those. Check us out. And we're super excited to help you with this Ultra Clean 2020 Ford Explorer XLT in magnetic gray metallic. Thanks again for checking out the video. Remember to like, subscribe, and share.


The first one is a simple YouTube downloader. The functionality is just it downloads the required video, just constructs a playlist so that you can view it later, even without an internet connection. The second one is called People. It's called People Purpose Graph. It's like constructing a network of people around you for some purpose. For example, one of your friends could be an electrician. This friend could be a programmer. So in case you need a programmer, you can reach that programmer through your electrician. Because he knows another guy. So that kind of network we are going to use. It's just you can add people as simple as possible. For example, just scan a space to say his name. That's all. Then say what he is. What purpose he is going to serve. What space to contact say. That's it.