So many years, maybe a lifetime to go It's pictures of me in my home Sometimes I'm in the sky So you're riding my sweeter baby So you're riding my sweeter baby Sharon, we're extending everything We started off with our expression sessions this morning And I think they're very important They're a very important part of every retreat that we do And they're a very important part of our daily living Those expression sessions I feel like in societies and cultures Where there's a lot of refreshing emotions Talking things through There's a lot of repression and suppression Then there also will be a lot of anger and guilt And even rage that's built up That's like pushed down If there isn't a means for expression And it varies in different cultures As I travel around the world But those cultures where there's open touch Where there's expressing the emotions Are the ones that have the greatest inroads To awakening and to health And to true inner peace And in this world there are mechanisms Like going to see counselors and psychotherapists Periodically But even some of those approaches Can be quite limiting If there's a lot of advice giving If you go to support groups Where there's a lot of cross talk Where you've got things that you really feel You're there to share And you're there to be supported in And then when people start to cross talk Or try to fix It's not an egoic fixing mechanism Where you try to jump in When they hear a few lines and go Look here, let me tell you This is what you should do Get your life in order And you hardly get to say anything And the big fixing, the voice of the fixer And I think with families We've been aware of this through family patterns Sometimes through churches Sometimes through psychotherapists and counselors We encounter these things So in order to have this deep authentic healing You have to have a sense of safety And security in letting up emotions I think even originally In Catholicism when they had a priest Someone you would confess your sins to That was the original intention To have a non-judgmental loving presence Of wisdom and maturity That could be there just to allow These emotions up And these hidden thoughts Because if we don't allow them up And they get turned inward and stuff down And it's not pretty That's where we have disease That I think begins to develop It's a disease in the mind And there's no output for expression So it gets projected onto the body Such as cancer and other types of diseases So we have a regular practice Of expression sessions In fact, for years now When we have had lunches We use the lunches for expression sessions So people will get their food And they'll bring it in to a table We usually have a large table Or a big round table And then there's a spaciousness there For as people are eating For whoever has something bubbling to the surface That really needs to popularize it But the purpose of these expression sessions Is more of the attitude of complete non-judgment Is for everyone to practice being present And letting these thoughts come up And holding, you might say, the light Or holding behind it Which is what you need to allow These emotions to come and pass through And so it takes a while Sometimes it takes a while to develop Because it takes the trust and the safety That history goes stronger and stronger And so we're envisioning a retreat That we did in Nusa, Australia And it was a large group like this And over the first maybe three days of the retreat Everybody started to develop more trust And feel more open-hearted And then a man came in In the middle of the week, maybe like Wednesday And I hope I could join Because I was just joining my man And I loved these expression sessions And everyone cheered him on Come in, come and heal with us We're in the presence of healing And then he got up and expressed all his pedophile thoughts And the people were just like And a lot of women I suddenly had a screen of women in my door For all in one passing session I was really, really excited Come on, come on Oh, God They were pretty extreme And he came right out with them And he expressed them in a whole large group And the whole place just shook a bit But overall by the end of the week People could feel that that was helpful too That that made them look at their thoughts And their judgments of him And all kinds of things And the spirit was with us The spirit is with us with everything And that's what I said in the beginning We have to get to a point where there's nothing to boo There's nothing hidden There's nothing off-limits The power and the strength of God The glory of God can handle anything that the ego can throw And throw it into awareness And that's why we have suppression and denials Because the thoughts are already judged as negative And then they're pushed out of awareness And we have to be willing To come into awareness If we aren't letting them come into awareness Then it's not going to work One time we were at our monastery And we had a husband and wife Who were there from Australia And you know these browsers That you can turn on Something on the browser where it's like history and memory And also when you start typing If you type something from history It will to save time It will come up Well apparently one day I guess they were using the laptop They brought from Australia And the wife was using it And the husband had been on Probably systematically for a long period of time On a number of porn sites And they're all in the history of the browser And more than that They would type something into the browser And misspelled it And it would just go And so She just started screaming At the top of her lungs At our monastery up there The rocks are good for that The rocks are good for that They don't like it They've been here for I mean millions of years So she was screaming And I was in the office And I looked at my friend Lisa And Lisa looked at me and she went Who died? Who got shot? Someone surely had been shot Because then they came in And she was screaming At the top of her lungs And he had this real sheepish look on his face And he was all right then And so we talked For about a half an hour And then it was like We came to the lunchtime expression session And I think I'll sit on The expression session today And it actually triggered For some of the other men that were there They felt, and that was their cue To bring up their thoughts About pornography and addictions And there was a big, you can feel A huge swirling, healing energy going on Like, okay, that was Pornography day at the monastery Every day of the year before We finally came around To have a pornography day, that's good You should have a pornography day It's going to heal the healing of the whole universe We have to have these days Where we allow things Okay, today it's going to move through Okay, this is good And everybody felt that you could feel The energy at the end of the lunch It was like a long session It went on longer than usual For a couple of hours But there was a lot of healing that went on So in working with the Course in Miracles It's designed as a self-study course A self-study curriculum But that's just kind of A lot of people do study them in groups Because it's so deep And it's a bit threatening, obviously To the ego, because it's like Whoa, what is this? This is stirring the pot Stirring the spoon big time And then what you do with it Is you really have to have a big allowance To let the Spirit orchestrate your life Or orchestrate the Course groups And that's what I've noticed over these past 30 years With the Course has been It's been a time of prayer And a time of asking the Holy Spirit And Jesus, what is it that would be Most conducive? What would be most helpful? And even doing a lot of retreats like this Over the years There's certain things that come in Little things, not that work very well That's very helpful We'll remember that These little things that you remember Because you want it to be The most beneficial The most impactful And you want above all else For there to be a feeling of trust and safety That healing can only occur In the presence of trust and safety There was a time, one time When I was thinking of Blue Mountains of Australia And I did like a week long retreat Looking at the Blue Mountains And then at the end I said I'll open it up For one-on-ones And we put out a sign-up sheet And I think there was like 35 or 38 people signed up So I had to do like A seven-minute one-on-one stuff Okay, next But I also said Let's make the best of these seven minutes And so people would come in And they would immerse themselves They would use those seven minutes To get in touch with and express To me the deepest, darkest secrets Sometimes saying things like I've never told another living human being That's not even my parents And boom And it felt good There was a healing energy behind it And what was that all about Was simply they knew that they could speak Anything to me Absolutely anything It could be absolutely anything They could speak it And I would smile at them I would touch them We would feel the grace of God The presence of love right there And the loosening would occur Immediately Because that's what we Need in healing We need to at least Tune in enough in the spirit to get You know how it is If you have a really good friend Who you can talk Tell her anything too And you can laugh with How healing that is How light How loving We need to cultivate that And that's what I have really been Cultivating in my life And those who come to Help me or live with me We're really into Going into the place Of non-judgment Now that is a very Deep state of mind A state of pristine non-judgment It's for most it takes A lifelong of work To come into that presence But there's absolutely no Judgment positively or negatively On anything And so to come into that We've come together We've worked together We've collaborated together We've lived together And we do learn how to pray And we do learn how to Hear the Holy Spirit Because if you get to Remove people of any size Unless you learn to pray together And tune in to the Holy Spirit You're going to have all kinds of Arguments and conflicts And we all know that That's human condition We've been through that with our families We've been through that with our relationships You know, it can be nice For a while but then Just a lot of darkness Can come in and kind of blindside me It's almost like you can just See the sabotage and take over things And for all of us It's been shocking Every time the ego rears its head Every time we have this inner Second peace that comes out Oh, it's just shocking It's not natural to us We were created as love We feel very natural When we're flowing in love And we're connecting Even when I love you a song When everyone starts singing To steal the natural waves of love Just flowing through It's almost like a current that flows It's so natural That's how we were created We were created by God as love And anything other than that love It's shocking to our system And so we gain trust And we gain permission to start to ease back Into that love That feeling of safety That feeling of our first thoughts When we wake up in the morning Of easing into the day Very softly, very gently And having loving thoughts Coming in to greet the new day That's very natural That's a natural way for us To enter into every new day So I feel like that's a big part What we did this morning Is a big part of our retreat And I did hear some expressions That some people had some things to express And they didn't really feel they had an opportunity And even though we're going to use our afternoons Generally for free time And time to immigrate I think that also would be another good use Of the afternoon is perhaps to have a Like an afternoon session If it's felt where people who feel like They had more to share Or that they didn't get the opportunity To fully share and express In the morning sessions Had an opportunity to do that Because everyone should feel How powerful that is Everyone should feel that opportunity And then for those of you Even that felt you did Had an opportunity to share and express If you want to come and practice Your presence Being the loving presence there That can be spoken into That would be wonderful too That's a wonderful experience Sometimes I've done the treats Where we've done what's called diet work Where we break people into twos And when people sit across from someone And basically one person Will start off with expressing In an uncensored way They'll just Almost like a Brody and free association But in an uncensored way They'll just let their thoughts and emotions Come up and verbalize them Vocalize them And then the other person is playing The role of the spirit The presence of unconditional love And occasionally they may have a line Where a work will bless it from the course Periodically just softly come up This is a soft reminder of love and presence And then after a period of maybe 20 Or 30 minutes they'll switch off And then the one who's playing The presence of love will get to express And the other And sometimes even if people have Sprung into mystical experiences From just a very simple exercise like this Because they never allow themselves The opportunity to do that They're a tired life And then when they do They're quite amazed at that That's the power of coming together With the intention to heal Because most human interactions You know we just didn't really realize That that was an option Nobody told us we could do that Nobody told us we could use relationships In that way And it could be very human And couples to have The presence of love sessions You could call it for Bring things up I think a lot of times With relationships too Remember the ego set this world up So when you seem to get into relationships There's a lot of expectations That come in and a lot of roles Like heavy duty roles that come in And almost like overlays that come in And that can really stifle the healing And stifle the unfoldment of love When these pre-conditioned These past-conditioned roles come in And you simply just lock yourself in And fall back into an old default Of how you saw your parents Or how you saw the people around you It's almost like that's the old condition And you slide from this high space down You slide down to this old groove It's just a deeply worn groove in the mind And you just can go for years in a groove Until you see there's something more And then you begin to train your mind To come out of the groove And go higher and higher That's very important It's so easy to get locked in the familiar Where it's a pretty intense world And there's a lot of intense emotions in the mind That's kind of locks in and latches on To something familiar Because it just doesn't know any better And it's just going to go back to what it knows And so what we want to encourage is Expansiveness where you start to See a whole new way of relating Typically when you talk to people about relationships There's typical channels and boxes And concepts that you kind of take off And you talk about them But I think from the movie last night We got the sense that there is Another way of relating By the time she came back around In the very end She basically was willing to Get married more from a purpose standpoint Not from a formal standpoint Because she wasn't marrying into Any kind of form She was marrying into a connection That she felt And she had a funny opportunity To really find that connection And when she did Like this current of this energy She was willing to say marry And then she said When she saw the ring She had prepared the ring long ago So it was in his mind And then she said No, you have to make the other Composed to me And it was really beautiful That's kind of the way my life has gone In the sense that when you Get into the purpose When you give your life over to spirit Then the spirit will send to you The people, the situations Everything that you need In kind of a holographic sense To help you go all the way Into awaiting So it's very much taking you Off the timeline of This begins, this ends All the things that we talk about Typically in terms of relationship When did it begin? How long did it last? How long was the quality of it? What was the good points? What was the bad points?  To let the Holy Spirit Bring people and relationships Into your life In order to serve the whole For example I was a shy guy I was a very shy guy So I didn't even like to travel But my part in the plan Was to travel And do these kind of intimate Sharings and gatherings In many countries, many cultures And I had no inclination David had no inclination for it But it was more like I had willingness Especially after the course came In my life, and I could see There's a much bigger picture here And there's much more going on Than ECI, so I'm willing And then I would have People that would travel with me And then when I started going To countries where I didn't speak The language, then there was Jesus kept sending me translators Which made the experience More helpful for everyone For me to have these gifted translators That were very much linked With me in purpose Then we could get on the stage Even if we never met There was some kind of synergy To get on the stage together And a way we would go Sometimes for hours or days Just being used together Even though we never met We were brought together I think it was Marian too Marian was the one I found you through YouTube And then we did a little chat through there And then that's how you came here And I could probably Write an entire book Over the last 25 years All the singer songwriters That have been brought Into my life That have blessed all these Gatherings and travels that I've gotten And it becomes a different style Of country and folk music And opera singer And it's a whole range Male and female Of ones I remember going to I kept going to Stockholm Over here in Europe And then there was this woman That showed up one time I kept being taken to the same yoga center Every time I would go to Stockholm And she showed up And she was just so deep into All of her presence And she said Could I sing a few songs At the beginning of your gathering She just met her at the event I said sure She got up on stage And I mean she sang three songs And the whole place was dropped Into a deep stillness Now that's orchestrated You meet somebody for the first time And then they show up And she's got such a devotional life That just launched us into A very deep almost like a satsang Experience there And I've had Some that have been able to travel with me They've been able to go on the road And so we go out for periods of time Helen and I We would go for I think in weeks months We would be going on the road for months at a time And Helen had all kinds Of music pouring through her In the early years There was another singer Songwriter who came To this peace house where I lived And she received like 260 250, 260 original songs From the angels She was like an angel song chamber And she'd been Of course a medical student for years And then boom When the channel opened up She would be The angels would even channel songs One time I was giving a talk Right in St. Louis She was there at the beginning She'd disappear with her guitar And she comes out with like A three verse Three or four verse song Channeled from the angels And while she was gone We got into all kinds of issues The song dealt with all the issues The angels streamed a song Down for us For the gathering With her guitar she said Well, she got a download from the angels Everybody had a quiet time She wasn't even sitting with us And the angels were screaming in the song Related to all the issues So we'll talk about how The spirit just wants to Love us with joy And support And it was fun She did so many songs In her own style And Helen took it Her instruments And music The angels of course put no copyright On her songs So that was nice That was a whole room And then as the years went on Helen had all kinds of songs She received herself And her husband Al Receives an amazing amount Beautiful songs Very mystical songs That would turn into mystical gatherings So that's what I mean By, you know, if the ego's in there Going, yeah, yeah A relationship is a relationship Well, not actually If you give your life over the spirit There's all kinds of possibilities All kinds of configurations All kinds of Collaborations that can come in When you make the space for it When you don't pre-define How your life has to go I feel I've had a very full Rich life I've had to travel I've had travel partners I've had I think the first time I went to Argentina I had to leave for like Two weeks I did a huge amount of gatherings I think I did pretty much Gathering every day Or multiple gatherings And I had 14 translators And I hadn't arranged any of them They would show up And they were Spectacular translators And any time the translator Would get kind of hung up on a metaphor Somebody from the audience Would call it out It was almost like a group translating experience Almost like Pentecost Something back in the days of the Bible Where they all were, you know Speaking of experience It was like that feeling Just amazed I was in the middle of one tour Down in Argentina Where An event happened In the world events I think the United States began Dropping bombs on Baghdad During one of my tourists in Argentina And huge Anti-American protests Broke out all over the place And Day after all these bombs were dropped I had to do another one of my gatherings And the first question From This group of Argentinians Was What is your view of your president? I've been talking For weeks on Relationships Overcoming sickness, death All the perennial questions But suddenly got very political Because of one event in the world And on the way to the gathering Of the American president Broke, burned Hanging from a hole In flames And thousands of people Marching in the streets and everything Just went ahead But that was the first question What is your view of your president? I waited for the translation To come to the English I have no president So I went back In Spanish And so this comes back to me What do you mean? You have no president We're all children of God We come from the same source And this source Transcends countries And cultures And religions Definitely politics I definitely have no president And then Suddenly the whole energy room shifted When I began singing John Lennon's song Imagine And everybody in the room They all know the lyrics So there we were all singing together In that whole context Imagine there was no country I wonder if you came Nothing would kill Lord night But I don't know I was like, ooh, it was soft It went from kind of a weird Kind of an angry energy Into a soft John Lennon melody More or less harmonizing Together in English Down in Buenos Aires, Argentina To me, that's That only happens with the Holy Spirit That only happens when you show up In love, with love To extend love And then the Holy Spirit Changes everything Another time I was down in In Miramar, Argentina Down On the ocean south of Buenos Aires And All I knew was There was a female bishop Who was spreading a course of miracles Down through Argentina And she wanted to meet me And she wanted to take me to a lot of small towns And she had an idea She said, I will get up on the stage For like 10 minutes And I will introduce Ideas of the course of miracles And you come up And then you speak For maybe 40 minutes And interact with the crowd I said, well, it's great, we'll do a little tour And I said, yeah, female bishop Apparently she's been blacklisted By the Catholic Church Down there and she called me Constantly to travel with her And go into the group So we could go into a little tiny hall And one time we went into this little cafe And so there's a tiny little stage Maybe like a third of this Just a tiny little stage And you could get a cup of coffee And you could buy things It was a nice cafe But we didn't know that we walked And walked into a hornet's nest Apparently the whole town Was highly charged Because One of the students A female student At the local high school Had been raped and murdered And the whole town was like On high alert and intentions The emotions were running very strong But we didn't know that So she goes and she gets up on stage And I said, I'll get a cup of coffee And just wait till I'm introduced Well, I just watched her I don't know Spanish But I do know what an angry mob Looks like The Spanish Was flying very fast And was very heated And fists were shaking And I think she was trying to Go up there And talk about the teachings of Of course the miracle Nothing happens by accident There is no death So it was all She was probably giving all these sweet roses Thought, but was really high In the physics And this was not the place And so I was just sitting back There having my cup of coffee And the mob got angrier and angrier She was supposed to talk for 10 minutes But they chased her off the stage I could read minutes After she threw both hands in the air And said, I cannot answer all your Questions as the mob mob Was screaming, but there is one here Boom, boom, boom Boom, boom Boom, boom, boom She was always playing I had just begun Sipping my cup of coffee And I was just Watching the whole thing Looks like I'm not going to be drinking that cup of coffee So I came up And I got on the little stage And I sat there and I looked at her And there was probably A 20 sets of glaring eyes They were all Like, glaring God was a man This female student Had been raped and murdered And a man up on the stage And they were all looking at her And one of them They were all teachers at school Those female teachers at the school And they were charged about this whole event And they were staring at me And so One of them I just spoke Very soft Gentle tones came out Because it was like A lot of softness Very soft Very gentle And then I went on for Four or five minutes And then finally I just immediately opened it up Because I felt there was a lot of emotions That needed to Come up and out And one of the women Was aware of the course of the miracles And I think she had picked a book up And she popped open to the introduction So she had read The introduction And including the The thing said Nothing real can be threatened Nothing unreal is this But she kind of still Was learning and she said I have heard This was all translated from the Spanish I have heard That this course is a required course What does that even mean Required? That was the first question And I said well The only thing that is required of us Is forgiveness It doesn't matter what curriculum You read this book Or you never read this book The only thing that is really required of us Is human beings is forgiveness Because that's our gateway Back to love And it's all about love It's all about what we're trying to move on And so she listened It was very short and brief But it was very soft And then As Happened in all these things They were able to Start to ask their questions They didn't start off with the rape and the murder They just started off with What they were feeling in the moment Which is the way you have to deal with it You enter the dress What's felt in the moment There was a lot of anger And heaviness in the room So that was the spirit of work And then as typical of my gatherings As went on You could feel it just got lighter And lighter in the room And then I would say that In South America People are very Normally very festive Lighthearted and celebratory That's like their Norm And quickly went from that heaviness And charge into a very Lighthearted gathering Where there became lots of laughter and joy And then after maybe about an hour Or so They all invited me out to a big Ice cream party So we all went for halalas And we all just had so much joy The joy and the laughter Just replaced that And that's been beautiful For me to watch When I go to some rural areas or whatever And sometimes The group is kind of pensive Or hesitant Or they're withholding But they do Everybody's got all this love And we quickly can find a way to get past that And then the love just burst open And it's just this Slow and gushing love And it's so natural And that's what the spirit can do And that's what really the spirit's Designed to do in your mind In our mind, in our lives Is do that And we practice that over and over Getting into the love Until it becomes really natural Like second nature You don't have to, like when you first write a bike You have to go through some steps But then you know how to write a bike You know how to write a bike And you know how to just be in presence And extending love And then Yeah I had two friends out there Who had been in the same language school When they were 16 They lost touch with each other They re-met one of my gatherings I think they were about 56 years old They ended up being on the sides of me translating And As the spirit Spoke through to this whole group The woman on my left, Patricia She said, I'm She was right behind me She said, I have the best seat in the house I get to sit here With all the faces light up It's like watching a van go painting With the yellows and the oranges And the splats of color Coming in She sees all the faces come to life But it's just the spirit Using the symbols And it's fun to watch the faces light up She was really enjoying translating For me So we can go Into this life With Even if we have heavy emotions We can't push them aside We have to be willing to let them move through But even in terms of How our life's purpose will look Or how our life will play out We can Open up Open our minds up and just say Jesus, just show me the way You know, you use my life Let my life Be a painting for you Let my life be a picture for you You paint the colors You let your brush strokes Come in here Take The form of my life and use it In a way that blesses the whole Of all humanity And not Just a sense of a personal life Live Of a tiny little van between birth and death That's what really does mean You know, this tiny little van Between birth and death You watch nature Receive the birth and death Of animals, and streets, and humans And so forth What kind of lasting meaning Could ever come From all of these temporary things Including the body That we're surrounded by That is in our awareness We all know there's a greater destiny We know there's a very deep calling And To tap into that We're to Give over our future goals And visions and say No, instead of me trying to scribble And write A pencil drawing You give me a full Color painting Of what my full potential Can be You help me Offer my contribution To the plane of awakening And Jesus says that your part is essential So It must be extremely important For us to do this That We can't really wake up Until we complete our part We have to give our part fully Before we can Receive the benefit of that awakening And We would have not one Person left in chains You know, we would give so Fully And have such a fulfilling Of our life's destiny That we have no regrets Wouldn't it be great To reach a point in your life Where you have absolutely No regrets whatsoever No more coulda woulda shoulda Or no more If only Those nagging thoughts From all those thoughts Even when I was growing up When I was a child I would get all excited Watching the Sports channels Or watching different things on television And my grandfather He'd be like in his 70s Or And he would just laugh The more I would get stirred up The more emotional I would get Watching the television And I finally I started to get upset with him Because he was having so much fun I thought it was my expense And I was finally turned over To his, he had a German name His name was Heinrich Hermann Of my school He was in A.J. Shades He was really And I looked at him He would be twinkling His eyes would twinkling And he was a big smile as they said For all this joy and happiness Like And he would hold up One finger to me like this And he would give me instruction He would say Because I would say If only this had happened I was always saying if only If only all the time And he would hold up one finger and he would go If Largest word in the English language Because It was hypothetical I was going on and on and on Always with something that was different And he was pointing out to me The teachings of the Course in miracles For one tiny word In the English language If If Something was different If the referee had a mystic call If my team had scored The If, if, if, if The Holy Spirit was Working me In retrospect even as a child With a grandfather like that Helping me get away from this hypothetical thinking Which is It's like the disease of ego It's the disease of being human Thinking you have control Over things And thinking you have to Figure a way out Plan your life And even worse thinking you could Make your decisions And feeling guilt And regret And thinking you have a whole future Open of these options Which is still hypothetical And there's so much worry and concern About Oh, I've only had so much time When I got to make the best of it And I didn't make the best decisions before So I better make better decisions In the future or else You know, it's like a pressure For this ego So a lot of the movies that I I mean, if you'll be watching this guy from the Lightman are all about Going beyond hypothetical thinking And you throw away the quantum movies Like, like the movie Next Is In my My collection there and It's really spectacular when you watch that With commentary because It's a huge teaching on hypotheticals And sometimes people may say Well, what do you mean Everything in this world Is hypothetical But that just means Like I'm talking about Like, oh, we're sitting here in a room right now But soon We'll go to lunch And the staff Will have prepared We know in line Hypothetically our bodies will be over And we'll have lunch And we'll have a nice lunch That's hypothetical But this This room is not hypothetical This is actual The ego would say we're actually in a room Actually Listening to a talk and so forth But Actually All the time and space Is nothing more than A set of hypotheticals As if the separation occurred This Whole cosmos is hypothetical Because it's as if As if There's something more than love Or as if fear is real As if the separation from God Could occur This everything Including us Listening to a talk in this room Is a hypothetical situation We become addicted To a realm of hypotheticals And truths never happen That love is all that there is And all of this Is a hypothetical As if the separation Of God occurred Once you start to get a grasp of that Then you can begin to smell the roses Then you begin to appreciate Every moment Every person you meet You start to appreciate everything Because you realize it's all about The love and the moment And the connection And you won't waste your time On anything else I have some degrees That I'm going to represent In the university For five years In the college of Design, art, architecture And planning Planning, but that's what My degree was in Five years back When you plan And then I get to a course of miracles And if you Go into the course If you go into lesson 135 for example Jesus will tell you A healed mind Is the relief of the belief That it must plan Relieved So you can imagine You think you're working hard In five years of money And tuition And exams and projects And all this and this And Jesus gets to hold your mind You know We're going the other direction We're We're not going to be planters I'm going to Come through you with miracles And you're going to be spontaneous To be a spontaneous being Listening to my instructions For a moment Basically when I After ten years of university A couple degrees Basically I gave it all back to Jesus And I said there you go take the whole thing Everything, education My mind, my heart, my soul My body, every Possession, everything I've got You take it all That was a very good moment That was Jesus was like Ah, now we begin We needed that We needed that stage to do our work What about the plan of God The cause of speaking Yeah, but it's interesting That the plan of God Whenever we hear of a plan We do think of Time And I didn't have lunch But you discussed recently and she Had received this writing From Jesus Way back, decades ago And she pulled it out and said here I want you to take this with you And it seemed to Still be as if The separation has occurred Because it was saying that Telling Judy and them They weren't quite ready to Step into their function at the time When the Course first came And they said also It was impossible to explain The plan to them because People were to meet Who had not met yet And there are all these aspects Of this seeming plan That couldn't even be explained Because the people hadn't even met That were going to meet So as I looked at My 30 years of the Course I see amazing Numbers of encounters And collaborations And configurations That have played out So if I hadn't Had that moment with Jesus Where I gave it all over I can't even imagine that I would Have even met these people Or they would have met me And it all played out But it's still comforting For me to think that Even the idea of a plan Is still In the realm of imagination That really what Jesus Is coaxing us to do Is come off of this linear perspective Personal perspective And come in to see That it's simultaneous That the very instant It seemed to happen It was the answer in that very instant So it must be If it seemed to occur In the unholy instant Then the holy instant answered that So perfectly That everything we think Is going to take such a long time It's really just An instant Almost like you're saying that how many angels Can you fit on the head of a pin How many years And millennium can we squeeze From the head of a pin Because the head of a pin is a point And really I feel more now That I'm just in a flow now Where I'm just seeing Holistically that everything That I've received is all the mind It's all in mind And therefore I don't Put a lot of into teaching the plan In a very linear way I can see where That was important for Helen and Bill They were research psychologists But after 30 years of the course I just feel It's all together I feel we are all really together And I see that everything That's curing is the plan It's perfect I see that the presence of love Is behind absolutely Everything And that's why I've got a big smile on my face Because it doesn't matter where I am Or what I'm watching And recently people I'm getting ready to go to China and Japan So I'll start doing teachings in Japan And it's been recently Adversaries of Hiroshima And people I'm sure I'll get some questions about that And I have been getting questions Like when people think of Europe And they think of Nazi Germany And they think of the world wars Or they think of The end of the second world war With the hydrogen bombs Getting dropped over there And Sakhi and Higashima How does that fit into the plan? How was World War I and World War II Or God's plan? That could be a very sincere question I've actually come to the point Like I get little whimmers Was that even with Nazi Germany It's interesting Einstein was from over here Austria Germany area and then Going over to the United States And equals MC Square And splitting the atom And developing nuclear weapons And everything that led up to those Hydrogen bombs being exploded Over there in Sakhi and Higashima It was interesting to me I wasn't fully aware of it That actually Hitler And the Nazis were developing Nuclear weapons So It was interesting to me too That Einstein was quite a pacifist And That Einstein Of all the men on Earth I think Einstein was just Amazing in terms of His intellect And his knowledge But he admired Gandhi Another pacifist And in fact And Einstein was at the same time And I would say Gandhi was more of a pure pacifist He was a pacifist that wouldn't budge On his pacifism In fact, we know from his autobiography In the movie How extreme his pacifism was And I admire that But then when Hitler came along He was like I don't know if I can go with you there Gandhi all the way I don't think pacifism Is going to stop Adolf Hitler So he actually believed that There was some force That could be necessary But Einstein did And then of course Einstein Didn't invent the nuclear weapons He equals MC squared A lot of his discoveries were used In that And it's interesting that he believed There would have to be a force To stop Hitler So I kind of see behind Einstein, behind Gandhi and everything Is there's JC Central Thank God Jesus is in charge of this plan Thank God There's someone who's completed His part perfectly Outside beyond transcendent time and space And now Is capable of Even arranging time and space Says in the Course If you'll do miracles for me I will arrange time and space for you I'm glad Jesus is arranging time and space Even With world wars and everything Where we are in good hands So to speak And this plan cannot fail It's completely been accomplished For us, it's just a For us to take our part in the plan I was Over in Colorado recently And Gary Reinhardt Was going to do a talk one night And I was going to do a talk the next day And Gary's always his whole talk On how Jesus was my leader He was a follower He did his whole talk on his life Where he had put two men And listened to the Holy Spirit And learned to follow the Holy Spirit Every instant in order to Complete His part And I enjoyed the whole talk And the next day I got up and I said And now having accomplished His part perfectly Jesus is now the leader Of the plan to come He's in charge, of course, that is in charge So what does that mean? I like that You don't miss a thing I do You see every move I make I have got the best view of everything And literally Jesus is capable of inspiring miracles We have to be willing But He's the one Who's performing all these miracles I had so many miracles over the last 30 years I couldn't even imagine All the miracles I had Except the removal Raising the dead I had all kinds of spectacular miracles Like Pierre was saying Spectacular miracles Spectacular miracles for 30 years And Jesus has been behind Every one of them Every one of them He's the one who performs the miracles Because he's in a position to perform miracles Human beings don't perform miracles They're just vessels Vehicles When we get out of the way JC Central Kicks it in the ear And when we're in the way He's still there ready And ready to go But we have to be ready to go Miracles cannot be performed in doubt In fear and hesitation It's ready to go It's ready to pour through you But as long as you have doubt and fear and hesitation It's after saying no I don't deserve it I'm not willing To behold it And also He talks about Us being messengers He mentions in the workbook We're messengers But he says Interestingly enough The messenger must first Receive the message for himself Before he gets in the way It's always for our unmind First We don't have to go teach anybody Or tell anybody anything We just have to be willing To be linked in And then when we are, oh mind It's absolutely amazing And it all happens Involuntarily too I realize that I think When Mary Ann was talking about I want to relax I want to be held up a lot But I really want to relax into it To me that's The relax part comes when we start To really feel the involuntary Nature of miracles That they don't really require Any effort Not a part at all It's just for me to just So relaxed That we start to behold them And then we start to Transfer that in our life We start to realize that everything Is involuntary That we've just been fooled Into thinking we have to Consciously be in control And we have to direct things And make things happen And fix this It's sound effects As soon as I say Make things happen And that's the time It's lunchtime It's right in the house Joy miracles It's actually lunchtime Okay Okay Is there any feelings For this afternoon? I guess I'd like to see Yes, we are going to Have more expression sessions In the morning and day after So When I was feeling like People feel that they need that


Russian soldiers become victims of their own mines. Russian troops are being killed, fleeing through their own defensive landmines. The United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense has revealed as Ukraine captured another village from Vladimir Putin's forces according to the Daily Mail. Ukrainian forces are believed to have made good progress in penetrating the first line of Russian defenses in some areas while making slower progress in others, the British Ministry of Defense said. It said over the last 48 hours, significant Ukrainian operations have been taking place in several sectors of eastern and southern Ukraine, tallying with claims by Kiev's forces that they had liberated some villages from Russian occupation. Meanwhile, the performance of Moscow's armies has been mixed so far, the ministry said. Some units are likely conducting credible maneuver defense operations while others have pulled back in some disorder. The Ministry of Defense said it had seen an increase in reports of Russian casualties as they withdraw through their own minefields. The intelligence update corresponded with analysts who say Ukraine has launched its much-anticipated counter-offensive with heavy fighting reported on three fronts, along the 1,000-kilometer frontline separating Kiev's and Moscow's armies. Western analysts and military officials have cautioned any effort to rid entrenched, powerfully armed and skilled Russian troops will likely take months, and the success of any Ukrainian counter-offensive is far from certain.


We are under the lights this evening as we get you set for another edition of baseball on the show coming up We've got a good matchup in store between the New York Yankees and the St. Louis Cardinals the Yankees enter the day with their winning streak of 10 games. They'll try to extend it next Miles Michaelis gets the start for St. Louis in this one then please act. What's the word on him? Hey, this guy is one of the better pitchers in the league and one stat that jumps out Take a look at that strike out the walk ratio. That's about as good as it gets and look for him to dominate in this one Stepping into the box Brett Gardner, and we are set for baseball here this evening Ready to deliver here's the first pitch Strike one to start the at bat First pitch No ball in a strike and fellas we take a look at the Redbirds entering play here tonight They come in not exactly setting the world on fire as they've dropped five of their last eight ball games Yeah, Maddie these players got in their cars today to drive to the stadium focused on one thing Not who was going to be the hero just the fact that they needed a W and that one of their teammates whether It's them or someone else has to come up with a big knock into the corner and slicing foul Game time temperature a comfortable 76 degrees Try again one two Hit to third carpenter is there And there's one gone to start the night So the base is empty here with one away and that will bring up glaver Torres First delivery to him on the way Fastball right back to the mound And he'll just put this on the first for the second out of the inning Digging in now for the Yankees Aaron judge having a very nice year Currently second in the American League in batting average entering play There's no way you could have forecasted this kind of season from this guy not to take Anything away from it, but I don't think many people in baseball considered him to be one of the league's Best hitters for average coming into this year And of all one and all so let's take a peek at our umpire and crew in this one working the plate is Larry Bullard Hey D-roll Larry Bullard. He's pretty much right down the middle You see very few managers and players getting into very many Confrontations with Larry. Yeah, Larry lays in a weed stand doesn't try and make it about him And that's what the players love. He's got a pretty consistent strike zone and he's approachable Two out nobody on now a drive by judge deep left fielder O'Neill has to retreat to the track, but he has it to retire the side One two three go the bombers and now the Cardinals get their first shot at it here No score Eric Cole the California born right-hander is on the mound then please act What do you got kind of a strange outing in his last one that was able to pitch into the sixth inning Wasn't able to complete the inning it kind of got away from him in the sixth It'll be interesting Matt to see how he bounces back in this one now with the play Colton Wong It'll leave things off here in the bottom half of the first And as the Yankees get started here tonight guys all you can really say is they've been on one heck of a run Maddie, this is the best team in baseball right now Just a double-digit winning streak that I mean maybe happens to two or three teams a year you get this hot This team is rocking in all facets right now, and they're a fun watch And the throw will be too late. So it's a bun single to get him started here Here's Dexter Fowler now as he'll look at a fastball too high for ball one his career line against Garrett Cole He has seven hits in 31 tries. He's also hit a couple of home runs against him drive to center field And that'll get down out there near the wall and they've really got something going here runners at second and third to start the Ending Dan after that base hit right there We're talking about two full weeks of finding a way to be productive and get enough to think about that You think how hard it is to get a base hit in a professional baseball game? And for him to be able to do it 14 consecutive days in a row as a pitcher you have to just tip your cap to this guy The next to bat for St. Louis Paul Goldschmidt He'll look to pad that RBI total a bit here as he enters play eighth in the National League in that category Well, he's right in the prime of his career and clearly that is resulting in big things for him It's coming here. It is And this pitch is taken on the inner half for strike one Well, he's in a bit of hot water in this first inning But if he can start throwing his slider effectively like that, he has a lot better chance of settling into this game One strike now from Cole That's over, but low. It's a ball in a strike Long on third Fowler stands at second no outs and that's a base hit in the left field Hunter from second is in to score. It's a two-nothing ball game Hey, one of the things you want to do Striked early and they've done just that with a big hit driving into yeah, dad great to grab an early lead right there Especially when you could throw up a crooked number for your pitcher. Here's Matt carpenter as he'll take a look at ball one He comes in with that average down in the 240s 17 home runs and 43 RBI's The one and no delivery Nobody outrunner on first one and two now is that one's fouled off working for the punch out and the offering Ain't gonna miss on the fastball and that's the first out Well his struggles continue. It's been a rough goal of it at the plate with him been watching this at bat It's clear to me that his rhythm and timing they're just all off Even as a pitcher like I was you can tell these things and exploit them Paul DeYoung digs in next and she'll take a look at the pitch too low It's ball one the average not so hot down at 210 for the season 11 home runs and 44 RBI's Misses for the second ball DeYoung. It's a strong defender playing up the middle in the infield He's got great hands good range the big arm and those skills are not lost on his teammates as coaches or his front office for that matter Yeah, he has the ability what I love about this ball player. He's got such a great internal clock It seems like it's bang bang at first every time but the guy's out He's got sure hands and an accurate throwing arm He set here's the 3-0 There's a fastballed on the inner third taken for a strike runners on first with one down He loses him on ball four Wow, he's looking awfully shaky to start this game guys That's three hits in a walk and there's no doubt that he's fighting himself right now See if he can get this train back on the rails here Now at the plate the out of your Molina and as you check out his righty left He splits no surprise that he hits better against south pause than he does against right-handers from the stretch And look out is that one read in and got him Some people in the crowd don't like that but believe me He did not want to hit a guy in the first thing We'll see if he can regain his control or if his control becomes an issue Tyler O'Neill and there you see his righty left he splits and how they've played out so far this season Here comes the first pitch now a swing and a fly ball And it's a foul ball Still only one out in the inning crowds him a bit with a fastball there and it's to one-on-one Pretty good pitch right there fastball in off the plate one of things you want to do as a pitcher try to stand those hitters up Now the one-on-one pitch takes a pass and misses that strike two cold or the cold train as he's frequently called This is year one of a new nine-year deal that he signed recently So it looks like he's here to stay for a long time Lock this one down now the two-two the at-battle continued bases are loaded with only one out That misses ball for a run will come in to score Man when you're trailing you hate to give up any runs But walking one in is especially painful now the lead is extended and a base hip could blow the lid right off this thing Coming to the plate now Lane Thomas and a great chance here for the Cardinals to add on in just the first inning set and the pitch Fastball to start things out here not close. It's a ball and no strikes. I think this inning could have far reaching effects in this game They're really making him work and unless he dials it in it's probably going to limit how deep he goes into this game The 1-0 Is in there for strike one Not the ideal location for a changeup up in the zone, but he got away with it one one To me it looks like he just doesn't trust himself out there on the mound It's like he's fighting his body on every pitch and as a result We're seeing a lot of balls from him early on in this game of the two one Taken for strike two That's a pitch he'd like to have back. You're not going to see very many pitches like that from a picture of this quality I'm sure he'd like to have that one back to take a swing at it and this is swung on and missed Oh a huge punch out there as the bases remain loaded with two away now Now to play the pitcher Miles Michaelis another first inning RBI opportunity for him here Full sets. Here's his offering Even though we're still in the early going I think this game's at a tipping point right now They've got a chance to put this game out of reach But if they can't score anymore here the other guys feel like the door still open the set and the 1-0 And he fires in a strike this time to make it one ball in one strike the set and the one one Takes a look at a change up there and it's a ball in two strikes now He's got a chance to ring up back-to-back case here and that would be huge in this situation And he strikes him out here, so he's able to stop the bleeding a bit as the side is retired So all in all they're fortunate to give up just three in the inning as they wind up escaping the bases loaded jam One inning in the books here. It's the Cardinals three and the Yankees nothing Next will be the cleanup hitter Gary Sanchez. You'll get us started in the top of the second We're still in the early stages in this one They're only down by a couple of runs, but it's really key for this lead-up guy to try to get on and get a big inning started Hard-Hit ball to short. Oh look at the sliding stop. It's in time Now batting Mike Tuckman. You'll get to take his first cuts here. It's the outside corner It's strike one Tuckman Stands 6-2 as you see him in the left-handed batter's box He was taken in the 10th round back in the draft of 2013 I know this guy wouldn't go into the category of superstar But to grind out the career he has being drafted where he was my hats off to him 1-1 popped him up Molina over to his left And he brings it in for the second out of the inning Here's the second baseman DJ LeMay here and he's a guy looking to break out in a big way Hasn't been getting the results he or his club have been hoping for Now here's the pitch In on the hands of it with the fastball. It's one on own Now a pitch runs in on him here and all he can do is flare one fouled off to the right side one one home Hit hard to the right side foul It's softly down the line at first, but this is a foul ball as the count holds steady at one and two Pitch on the way nine towards center field that gets down and the inning continues So good work on a one and two count to get on base Well, this was a good start from the pitcher first five guys five up five down But the number six hitter proved to be a little bit more difficult and that's a bullet. Yeah Yeah, absolutely right there Dan just a nice a B by the six-hole guy after watching his first five brother and take a seat Here's Miguel and a hard now She'll take a look at a slider here that finds the zone for strike one the average sitting right at 270 on the year 13 home runs and an even 40 RBI 01 on its way This is skyed out toward right Fowler giving chase He gets there to make the catch and that ends the inning one left for the Yankees They trail it here three to nothing to the top of the order now and that'll bring up cold One of the keys to securing a win They want to keep the pressure on and try to build that lead as much as they can moving into the later innings Fastball over the outside but in there for a strike a swinging strike and now it's 0 and 2. Oh I love facing pitchers like this. He's leaving nothing to the imagination coming to get him some Into the wind up here comes the 0-2 pitch And this is swung on and missed for strike three and adding insult to injury that pitch hit him as well But there's one away And again now Dexter Fowler as he will look at a first pitch fastball for ball one One for one has he reached base with a double his first time up and that's into the corner of foul ball and right One app nobody on Fowler behind a ball in two strikes And here's a change-up in there for a called third strike and that's the second out of the inning He's really on a roll right now in the mound back-to-back strikeouts to wrap up the last inning And now who started this frame with the same story for straight strikeouts at all Paul gets the sign. Here's the first pitch Outside target here and he hits it for strike one Hey, I got to really commend this pitcher right here was able to regroup in between in and something happened in a dugout Cuz he's on point coming out for the second the wind up here comes the 0 and 1 Swing and a miss and he's in the hole 0-2 now Wow, that's four straight K's. He's knocking them down. He's looking for number five right here You can tell this guy on the mound. He is pitching with a whole lot of confidence in this one Breaking ball below the zone. That's ball one Classic strikeout pitch right there on 0-2. It's the one we know he loves going to but great recognition to lay off in that spot Looking to set down the side on strikes here. It comes Short hit hard takes care of him and the ending is over down in order go the Cardinals But they're on top by a count of three to nothing look boy as they'll look to get something going here and even this game up First pitch coming here it is This one's outside quite a bit off the plate that time looking at his lifetime numbers boy It is carrying around a sparkling slugging percentage up over 500 obviously a huge threat every time he grabs a bat That evens it up one and one Here's the pitch and he comes back with a fastball one and two now He lays off a pitch outside as they draw even at two and two and now pitch on the way Swung on and miss really fooled him that time for the first down Wow, this guy's mowing right through this lineup right now But that's what happens when you don't get a chance to see a pitcher very often That's one of the things that are helpful when you're pitching in interleague games It's always a good advantage for the pitcher because the hitters don't get to see that guy very often the box now Garrett Cole He grounds it sharply to third taken in by carpenter for gets him to down So here's the veteran Brett Gardner over one here in the early going first pitch on its way now the 1-0 Space line, but this will get foul. It's a ball in two strikes the 1-2 Looked at for ball number two Wow fastball up in I'm not sure it was intended to be that far up in that far in but message sent beware Swing and a miss he struck him out with a two-seamer and the inning is over So the Yanks go one two three they trail in this one three nothing Welcome back to Bush Stadium as we send it down to Heidi Thanks, Matt in between innings I was able to catch up with the manager of the Cardinals to discuss his thoughts on his lineup so far and overall He's really happy with the out that's they're putting together They've been able to push across three runs to this point, but they've also made the opposition work extremely hard He's thrown a lot of pitches and they think they're gonna have a good opportunity to push across a lot more runs as he Tires or as they get into that bullpen Okay, thank you, Heidi Digging in now will be Matt Carpenter as we move on to the bottom of any number three in field in the over shift here Now the pitch And he squares up on this one deep to straight away, right? He'll scale the wall here and did he catch this he did That was a pretty spectacular catch right there a lot of guys miss time that jump because they're worried about the wall coming on But he got it just right and hold it in great stuff Digging in for his second at bat all the young pitch on the way Good deception on the slider there as he's way out in front Bases are empty one man out fastball misses inside. It's even at one Just off the outside that time laid off for a ball in there two and two Two balls two strikes a crucial count for both pitcher and hitter So Dan what was your approach on the mound in that county is still pitch for the strikeout here action pitch right here To do the last thing you want to do is to fall behind the count three two full count now three two pitch Let's him off the hook there is this isn't even close for ball for now Well, he's really laboring in the early going here. That's his third walk of the game already We'll see if he can get it together or if this is just one of those days where he's gonna have to grind his way through this start Yachty Molina digging in now fastball as he gets the swing and a miss That was a pretty good fastball after he walked the hitter previous. There was a little angry on that heater Nothing in one count here. It comes one and one and here's a slider for a cold strike and he's behind one and two now Runner at first here one man out and a swing and a miss and another punch out here six already And that's out number two a classic slider down in a way for the strikeout there Not a whole lot to say about that pitch that hasn't been said a million times already That's just a real tough pitch for a hitter to pick up out of a pitcher's hand So they end up chasing when they're in protect mode to the box Tyler O'Neill as he swings and misses at a first pitch Fastball 0-1 O'Neill just 24 years of age. He's in his third season as a major league player Pull sets coming at him with the 0 and 1 slider laid off for a ball Great game plan so far by this offense. They're not chasing any of those breaking balls out of the zone and there's ball to now It's one thing to get hit around but it's far worse when you're getting yourself into trouble by not throwing strikes Every pitchers been there, but it doesn't make it any less frustrating or unacceptable the count now with two and two They're on first with two away. They're working the outer half here, but that one's wide for ball three Good spot for an RBI put the ball in play with the runner in motion. He could score all the way from first 3-2 pitch is a swing and a miss that strike three One left for the Cardinals. They lead it three to nothing Standing in Torres as we begin the top of the fourth He's ready. Here's the first offering Hey, there aren't too many power hitters in the game that would let that pitch go by the wind up and the 0-1 A swing and a ground ball to third Throw to first in time one gone here in the fourth Now that so with that let's call on the guys in the graphics department to put up the pitch speed comparison for the two Starters and boy, which of those two numbers leap out at you there. How about the 100? My goodness Here's big Aaron Judd So far 0 for 1 with a flyout almost Maddie almost went deep his last AB Certainly just missed it with this guy's big power. He's feeling pretty good at the dish look for him to try and get on Something and drive it out of the yard this AB And he'll just sneak past his outstretched arm a base hit Boy, dear, what's about time they got something brewing here first pitch single and maybe now they can start to get some traffic on the basis Yeah, absolutely Dan ambush tactics not always the play you want to drive that pitch count up and get into that bullpen But sometimes desperate times call for desperate measures So now to the plate Gary Sanchez As he will take a fastball in there at the knees for strike one He's 0 for 1 after grounding out in his only trip to the plate so far Over to the bag I'm set and the oh one Here's a late swing and a miss strike two Hey, that's the modern game right now north south elevate that high fastball and bury stuff in the dirt completely Different from the east west we came up playing And a swing and a misses they got him with the slider there two away really good late bite on that slider right there The best ones have that late action that just darts at the last minute might they're so tough to get the bat on And when you've got that good slider going, it's a great strikeout pitch. Now Mike Tuckman Lifted down the line and left and that will end up a foul ball over one after a pop out in foul Territory is first time through one count. Here's the pitch and there's ball one Breaking ball that time that misses out of his own no runs two hits and no errors for the Yankees so far Sent in the air out to straight away central And he'll get there in plenty of time to put this one away and that ends the inning Yanks leave one still down three nothing left to do Stepping in for the Cardinals Lane Thomas. He'll leave things off against Garrett Cole First delivery to him on the way Well behind that fastball. It's a swinging strike Well, he kind of tipped his hand right there. His approach is obviously sitting on the off speed because he was so late on that first pitch eater One ball one strike to count Now the one and one pitch And he checks his swing did he go around? Yes says the first base umpire strike to Looking to punch him out again the pitch Timing just a tick off there as this one's fouled off to the right Lucky he got a piece right there. He was definitely late on that pitch after seeing a previous off speed pitch And he'll try to get him fishing there, but he won't offer in the dirt and it's back to even a two and two And he misses this one inside and that'll run things full three and two You can bet they love ball for here That gives the pitcher on deck an obvious Bunt situation to move the runner into scoring position And he struck him out good pitch there as he registers his eighth punch out of the ball game a lot of Indecision there on that check swinging. That's something you see quite a lot on three and two when the difference between Striking out and drawing a walk in can be an inch or two. It's pretty understandable why guys aren't always Aggressive with their swings and they start him out with a slider good spot, but he doesn't get the call one and oh Up top it's two and oh Can't fall behind against the pitcher need to minimize pitch count against the easy outs And this is certainly one of them calls delivery two oh and a good comeback fastball There it's two balls in a strike three runs three hits and no errors so far for the Redbirds To two and two now Oh, he's really got the strikeout pitch working now as he not just number nine in the ball game Well, he's really rolling on the mound right now. All you have to do is look at the last four hitters for evidence All four of them have gone down on strikes as you're seeing here That's not easy to do so you know he's not going to get the ball out of the game That's not easy to do so, you know, he's got to be pretty dialed in out there Here's Colton Wong now as he looks at a fastball that misses off the plate for ball one He's working on a one for two games so far Cole gets the sign here. It comes on one oh He may be down two and oh after those first two pitches in this a B But those are pitches he can feel pretty good about they did miss by a whole lot So it's not like he's all over the place three and oh to him now and this one misses inside a ball He walked him and they've got themselves a two-out base runner So a runner at first with two away and that'll bring in the switch hitting outfielder Dexter Fowler First pitch of the at bat on its way To out with the man at first Throw over to the bag runners back was just sizzling up there one and one Pitch taken several inches below the zone in fact the good pitch there had him stretching to get out there And it's two and two now Usually you see chases outside the zone on off-speed stuff like sliders breaking balls and change-ups But to chase up got him looking and that'll do it the inning is over Cards leave one, but they lead it three nothing Welcome back Heidi Watney standing by as we get set for the top of the fifth Thanks Matt. I talked with Yankees manager Aaron Boone during the break about the team's offensive performance so far And he told me he's pretty unhappy with their discipline at the plate in this one He said their pitch selection has been the main reason for their struggles today as far too often They've been swinging at pitches outside the strike zone. That's leading to a lot of soft contact and easy outs So the focus going forward is on shrinking the zone and forcing the opposing pitching to throw more strikes Thank You Heidi And that sends DJ LaMahieu into the box a base hit in his first trip tried to check it in its own one Here's one that misses high It's one and one and this is taken for a called strike. Oh, that's a tough call now one and two Here's the pitch Throwing the ball great up into this point don't want to allow a lead-off walk needs to just focus in on his mechanics right here Fastball call strike three and there's the first out of the inning So still nothing against him on the scoreboard here in the fifth as we check out the league leader board for team ERA and we see there that they're currently ranked third best in that category in the NL Into the box now Miguel Anduhar Flied out in his first at bat so make him all for one so far. He's gonna find the seats strike one One out nobody on Maybe too much break on the slider two and one I Don't blame him for not coming over the heart of the plate He circled this guy on the lineup card when he got to the yard today He's been swinging one of the hotter bats in the game and the sliders in the dirt as he lays off it for a ball Team's been struggling on offense. Let your D work for you right here pound the zone High in the air down the right field line Fowler on the run. He's got it a nice play there two away Striding into the box look boy over one for him here in this one. He's ready Here's the first offering now a big fastball and he's well behind it with the swing Bases are empty here with two men out and this misses the outside corner. So it's knotted up at one and one Well out in front of the breaking ball there for a strike Hey offense needs to check itself right here. They need to make this starter a little bit more uncomfortable One strike away from five shutout innings a fastball, but that's easy to lay off and it's back to even it two and two Slow roller down the third baseline But a foul ball as it holds it two and two again. He sends it out of play Tutu one more time The throat of first the defense on display on this beautiful diving stop at short We're back to Friday night baseball on the show After this bottom of the inning now and self to go as the veteran first baseman of Paul Goldschmidt Here is you'll take a look at ball one one and oh and tight awfully tight two and oh now Two balls and a strike to the St. Louis leadoff hitter Great job of doubling up with a fastball inside a lot of times You'll see a pitcher go in there, but they won't go back in there a second time This guy's not afraid to pitch inside There's a swing and a high drive in the left center field Gardner going back to the track Boom goes the ball Goldschmidt 29 home runs for him on the year and with it the Cardinals have increased their lead for to nothing You're going to give up a towering blast one of the best players in their lineup It's better to do it with no one on base It's staying sure but a solo shot isn't going to be the siding factory game He will take strike one on the fastball here. No balls in a strike He's over two in the ballgame so far. I'll tell you if he wants to turn things around that pitch is one He's going to have to start locating a lot better now the one-and-one pitch and Right into the shift and he'll step on first himself for the With the plate called the young it was a walk in his last trip field shaded a bit to left center the first pitch Breaking ball drops right in the chute for a strike He's been getting lit up all game and there's a common denominator He keeps missing right down the middle of the plate case in point with that last one do young in an 0 and 2 hole here Obviously, he's not fatiguing whatsoever Still in the mid to high 90s with his fastball these guys got to stay on the attack if they're gonna have a chance The next oh two And he founds this one off bases are empty one man. It's fouled away He struck him out and their strikeout number 11 in the ball game This inning didn't get started the way he'd hoped with that home run But I've got to give him credit for flushing it and coming back here to get strikeouts on the last two guys He's acting like it didn't even happen before Here's the catcher yada your Molina as the first pitch to him is in there for a called strike one and here in Just the fifth inning this will be pitch number 100 here boy pitch count up near 100 right now Dero and this is when you try to get to a good starting pitcher right now looks like he's running on fumes Yeah, the manager's got to get a couple people up in the bullpen right now one ball hits the gap They get runners in scoring position this game could be at a commission He's got another one here 12 punch outs now in the ball game and that'll end the inning But the cards add on just a bit courtesy of this solo home run. We're through five innings here tonight It's now for nothing st. Louis You're shella will grab a bat and leave things off here in the top of the six number one Mind in the right a base hit Hey guys, I like the execution by the batter there. He got a hanger in the middle of the plate He could have come on glued, but he didn't he stayed focused and drove a line drive base that here's Brett Gartner now As he'll go after the first pitch to him and comes up empty. It's strike one Man, this guy's been incredibly efficient so far in this one mostly because he's getting ahead 70% of the batters he's faced he's thrown the first pitch strike to Hard hit ball to second taken in by Wong the second for one on the first to double play Two away now in the Yankees sixth and that will bring up the exciting middle infielder Glaber Torres First pitch on its way This year against right-handed pitching Torres carries a batting line little over the 260 mark the 1-0 a Swing and a miss. That's the first strike Well, obviously somebody was hooting with the owls last night this entire roster They've showed up for the first game of this road trip and are getting absolutely boat raced Hit softly on the ground to third Pro on to first gets him and the side is retired down in order go the Yankees They're down for nothing in the bottom of the six lead off for the redbirds here in their half of the sixth inning First pitch of the at bat on its way A 1-0 home fly ball out to straightaway right judge will wait on it one down The center fielder number 35 ready for another shot now Lane Thomas He looked to bounce back after striking out his last time up Yeah, and kind of shocked he got blown away with a fastball You could tell he was laid on that one and we'll see if he tries to cheat to something this a big windup and the 01 Here's a fastball at the knees good spot good pitch and it's Owen to hopped up And do harm as a play and that's the second out of the inning Next to hit will be the pitcher miles Michael us he struck out swinging in his last trip to the plate First delivery to him on the way a ball of no strikes Facing right-handed pitching so far this season Michael less hitting better than 200 Which is really pretty exceptional for a pitcher. Yeah, Matty. He's well aware of it runners in scoring position That's where you need to be on your game. He's just expanded his own entirely too much in these situations Cardenas pitcher up there with a one and two count and it's two balls and two strikes now Two out nobody on and he struck out again. That's the third time. He's gone down on strikes in this one One two three go the Cardinals, but they're in front four to nothing I'll set for the start of the inning and next it'll be the outfielder Aaron Giants Like it doesn't look very promising so far in this one as we move into the later innings down by a bundle It's time to get some base runners and hopefully a long ball to get them back into this one We ground her down the line at third and the throw to first is in time So the leadoff man has gone here to start inning number seven Gary Sanchez he's grounded out and struck out in his two trips to the plate ready to deliver. Here's the first pitch Tried to check it in its own one ball way off target here, and it's even at one One out nobody on fall behind now to one and two Trying to send them packing for the second time and a sliders in the dirt as he lays off it for a ball So a full count now a pitch home high and deep to straight away right back goes Fowler Still ranging back Leap at the wall by Fowler, but he'll come up empty. It's a home run It's a solo shot here for Gary Sanchez 24 home runs for him on the season as they get on the board. It's four to one now When this one left the bat, I thought it was going to be an easy out to right But it just kept caring and caring and the right fielder gave it a great effort and almost brought it back But no dice To the plate now Mike talking And it's belted high and deep in the right center And that'll get down out there for extra bases Around second now and headed for third the relay throw, but he is in there with a triple Yeah, first a home run out at a triple and if the pattern holds the next And it will rope a double to bring another run home here. We shall see DJ LeMayhew Oh, and this is hit high and deep out to left and this is gonna get down extra bases and they're starting to make some inroads here When this thing left is bad, I started thinking it might have enough to get out of here didn't quite carry now But it does one hop the wall off the track and he cruises in the second with an RBI two-bagger You'll take that every day of the week and that'll bring up Miguel and do hard As he can't catch up on a fast ball to letters and it's strike one Hey, it's always key getting early strikes in the count This guy's been awesome at it so far more than 70 percent of his first pitches have been in the strike zone Slider and that's in there for strike two Well, he's done a real nice job with that breaking ball in this start That's not the first time he's locked a guy up with it Not a bad pitch there with two strikes, but it misses one and two Right guy right spot. This is one of the better hitters in their lineup Just the guy they want to see coming up now to get this in and going the one two Skied into straight away right Fowler has a read on it to God Point he was a ground-out victim last time up. He's ready. Here's the first offering In there oh and one this year against right-handed pitching point is a batting line residing in the 230s He'd be the first to tell you he's not happy with the batting average on the season But he's found the way to get on base more than 350 work and walks with an unbelievable eye at the fish behind 0 and 2 now Waved at and missed for the third out not much of a chance at hitting that one in the inning is over So it's two runs on three hits no errors in a runner left on Seventh inning stretch time here at the ballpark the Cardinals lead it four to two It's half of the seventh year and that'll give way to the veteran second baseman Colton Wong First pitch coming here it is Double barreled action in the Yankee bullpen now a lefty and a right-hander start to get loose First two pitches off the mark here. It's 2-0 shot to second base and handled for the first out Stepping in Dexter Fowler field shifted well to the right. Here's the first pitch And he'll hold off on the slider here to start the ad bat. It's ball one Can't sit back long enough in the count evens up at one and one Seventh inning here at the ballpark for to our score and he pumps the fastball by him here one and two now Here's the pitch bouncer to the left side Throw on the first will get him score it 5-3 on the putout though It looked more like a 6-3 ground wall or nevertheless there are two away now not a lot You can do with that pitch that fastball just ate him up inside and gets the soft grounder for the out And that brings up Paul Goldschmidt he's two for three and looking for more here First offering on its way bases are empty here with two men out and two and oh is this one's taken low Talk about certain guys in a lineup that you want to be really careful with this guy right here is one of those and you Can tell he's pitching awfully cautiously the two oh on the way Hit on the ground after short or is brings it in And that will conclude matters here in the seventh down in order go the Cardinals But they still eat this one four to two Jordan Hicks has been summoned from the bullpen as he'll do so to start the age John Carlo Stanton is gonna be asked to get things going here as a lead off the top of the A This pitch at the ending here misses down and in for a ball. It's one and oh He'll enter play here with an average just over 250 27 homers and 66 driven in in there one and one here's the pitch On the run this one in on him and he can't connect so he finds himself down one and two now Don't too much bite on the breaking ball that time as it's well off the outside John Carlo swings and this ball is hit well into left field Gone to lead off the inning a Solo shot here to left as it's trimmed to a 4-3 game now Well, this guy's been unhittable all year, but eventually you knew somebody would get to him That's the first home run. He's given up all year, but like all good relievers He has to have a short memory and put it behind him this gets a piece of it strike one He's hit listen three at bass to this point bases are empty here. Nobody out two balls in a strike down to the Yankees lead-off man Looks like this guy's afraid to throw the ball in the strike So we gave up that home run earlier in the inning needs to get back to being aggressive and in by Goldschmidt And they'll take it to the bag himself for the out Cardinals are into their bullpen now as there are the final numbers for their starter And he was really in command on the mound throughout the evening Matty V really a solid performance seven strong innings pitched in line for the win Need some help for the bullpen to close this one out and that'll bring up labor torrent The sinker to him finds the zone for strike one. He could really use a knock here over three in the game so far one pitch Swinging strike and now it's own two In my opinion one of the toughest pitches in the game to square off just a heavy sinker with good downward action Two quick strikes and now the O2 and the slider gets him swinging to God Another strikeout for him on the mound and boy is it fun to watch him go about his business No doubt Matty. He's one of my favorites mostly because of the stuff You know he can absolutely dominate on any given day because of what he offers up there It's just nasty. There aren't many hitters that like to see this guy on the mound and that'll bring up Aaron judge As he rips it on the ground a second first in time and that ends the inning all back a bit Thanks to the home run on now to the bottom of any number eight. It's the Cardinals four and the Yankees three Tommy Keenley is on to pitch out of the bullpen in the bottom half of the eight Number 48 Ready now Matt Carpenter he's hit listen three at bats to this point I think he's forgotten about sometimes Matt Carpenter when we talk about the best hitters in our sport I think he's one of the more underrated offensive players Come set. Here's the nothing and nothing pitch with the O2 It looked like the fastball got away from him there That's a good take on a fastball out of the zone Hey, I get it. He's looking for a ball to drive, but that ball was a little bit too far up in the zone That's one you normally pop right up another one-two delivery Oh, and they pulled a string on a good change up there as he swings and misses and he set down on strikes for the second time tonight Tight game here for three our score as we take the opportunity to compare the performances turned in by the two starters So that brings in the power hitting middle infielder Paul de Young a couple of walks for him thus far First pitch of the at bat Obviously the game plan wasn't to let this guy beat you right here He's already walked twice and that pitch added the zone tells me they want nothing to do with him the 1-0 Drilled on the ground is short and that's through for a base hit make him one for two in this one That's got to be frustrating for the pitcher right there He's well aware of who's having great seasons and who's having the tough seasons at the plate for the opposition This guy put him in the tough season bucket He just gave up a knock the out of your Molina as he'll take a look at an off-speed pitch here That misses for ball one Oh for two for him to this point. He's running and he popped him up long run for the left fielder And no one will track it down the 1-1 On the left field line and deep and this is gonna get down. It's a foul ball He's set. Here's the 2-2. He struck him out the third time. He's fanned in the game It's been a rough night at the yard for him. That's three times. He's gone down on strikes in this one So they've really figured out how to attack this guy Hey Tyler O'Neill in the center field line drive base hit to extend his hitting street Yeah, and he was staring at his last at bat right there Probably his last at bat would have been tough to get him another AB in this one But he's able to get it done. Hey better late than never and I'm sure when he walked in and had batters box right there He's thinking this very well Could be my last AB of this game So if I'm gonna keep this streak alive gonna have to do it right now looking to keep this a one-run game the pitch And he starts the number eight hitter with a strike nothing in one Four three our score here as we play the eight hits this one hard the other way Love by Lamec you on the first and the Redbird rally goes for naught as that ends the inning Hard strand a couple, but they hold on to a four three lead Now the skippers on his way out toward the home plate area and I believe that means we're gonna have a double switch here Giovanni Gallegos takes the ball now in inning number nine looking to close the door Number Set to start the ninth in this one and now it'll be the catcher Gary Sanchez Tough situation down one here on the road trying to score up one of the game's top closers. They've got the work cut out for Ready with the first pitch here it comes Ninth inning underway now as the first pitch is taken for a cold strike a Great job pounding his own strike one when you got a great hitter in the box got to get ahead count leverages a must He's ready. Here's the 0-1 Swing and a miss and he's in trouble now 0 and 2 And it's a pitcher you have to love pitching 0 to multiple ways up down in and out throw the breaking ball a lot of Different ways to get guys out Filed away ready. Here's the 0 to pitch. I love the fact that the hitter was able to foul that pitch away I always thought with two strikes You give the pitcher that inside part of the plate and you do your best to cover away. It comes 0 and 2 There's a fastball well off the plate inside Interesting sequence of pitches right there a real ugly swing on a ball away And it looks like the batter has a much better idea of what he's looking for after that second pitch Three comes on a ball and two strikes Line to the right side But that's a foul ball a good pitch here But this is taken for a ball as the count moves to two and two now on the Yankee catcher pitch on the way And he can only battle for so long as he's finally set down here after an eight pitch at bat So the leadoff man gone to start the top of the ninth as we take a look at league saves leaders entering play And as you see he's right up there among league leaders in that department So striding in Mike Tuckman, he made it to third on a triple in his previous appearance. It's coming here It is Starts him out with a slider for a strike With the 0 and 1 Maybe a little jumpy there as he swings through the fastball It's not easy to get your barrel to a pitch that high That can be an effective location as long as he keeps it above the letters Comes on nothing in two One run game here in the top of the ninth makes him out as well So make it back-to-back punchouts here to the first two men he faces out of the bullpen Well, you have to feel pretty confident about the way this one's gonna end up as a manager two hitters two strikeouts from the Closer there's not a whole lot more he can do to instill confidence that he's going to wrap this thing up without any problem Trying to pick things up where we left off DJ LeMay here He'll try to follow up the double in his last at bat with another big hit right here Well, he got a good pitch to hit last time up looked for it up in the zone and didn't miss it Those are the pitches you only get maybe once an AB maybe once a game Maybe once a week so he certainly capitalized on it last time tying run at the plate the 0-1 Gallegos is about as stingy as they come in terms of a bullpen arm He's proven very difficult to hit and it's a rarer thing still to see multiple hits against him Yeah, Matty being it. You know wonder why it's so hard to score off of this guy He's nearly impossible to get three or four hits in an inning to score run He keeps his walks per night innings are really down and you look at his hits per nine innings pitch It's no wonder why this guy's one of the top relievers in the game right now And not an easy pitch to lay off of but he did somehow and he's got it to three and one Time to narrow your focus up there at the plate in a one-run game. He doesn't want to walk you so there's a good chance He's gonna get something to handle right here Two out nobody on and this is swung on and missed so now they find themselves down to their final strike tonight When you get yourself to a 3-1 count and you get a fastball Those are the ones you really want to punish couldn't get the bat on it So we'll see if that comes back to haunted last chance for the Yankees Full count still Proud of over 39,000 on their feet Shot down the line, but this will get foul. So they'll do it again three and two Bases are empty here with two men out the front there as this one's pulled off to the left side Has them down to their final strike here. It comes Tart on the ground Taking the opener here at home as this ballgame is over always nice to get the first game of the series But even more so when it's in front of the home crowd it seems to energize everybody the rest of the series And it's a 4-3 finish in this evening's ballgame The cards posted a three-run first to propel them to the win Miles Michaelis earns his sixth winning decision in this one Garrett Cole racked up 12 strikeouts, but still ends up taking the loss Giovanni Gallegos earns the save out of the bullpen his 32nd of the season So that's a wrap here tonight from Marco Rosa Dan, please act and Heidi Watney. This is Matt Vaskersen. You've been watching MLB the show