Hi, it's Bridget. Welcome to Above Life Channel. The purpose here is to inspire your spirit and to fill you with hope. Today we're gonna have an afterlife conversation with David Bowie. We haven't spoken with Mr. Bowie for some time. I thought it would be a good time to reconnect with him in the afterlife. I have enjoyed my conversations with David Bowie. You can check out the playlist here on Above Life Channel. He really has an energy of this kind of cosmic consciousness or this cosmic awareness. He's an energy that I have found in the afterlife that is most connected to star seeds or star guide energy. He also is extremely creative, very innovative, and it has almost this like higher not philosophical, but really like higher deeper ascended messaging that he shares through. So that's a little different. He feels different to me than other afterlife guests that I've had. And so maybe you can practice your Claircentian, so your empath energy, and feel David Bowie as we connect in today. All right, it's cold out here. He says, yes, quite. Yes, because he knows because I'm like this. I was like, should we talk inside? Should we talk outside? But I wanted to talk outside because it's beautiful and the energy of the green will help everyone I think renew our sense of wellness, which is exactly what we need during this time. But it is it is a bit chilly out. Yes, that is absolutely true. So but it's nice to connect with you. I've wanted to connect with you, to reconnect with you, to talk to you about the creativity and the innovation energy in particular that I often will feel with you. And I sense that right now because there's been so much intense energy released like big almost like solar flares, but I don't think there is like an astrologically I don't follow astrology necessarily. I think it's a great tool, but it's not like my specialty or anything. So but it feels like that energetically like solar flares and like the solar plexus spirit flares like a lot of energy in the solar plexus, the spirit chakra, which is connected to the sacred chakra, which I find that passion, desire center and the hips and the pelvis, the womb space is creativity, drive, passion, fire energy, which I it makes sense then right that we would talk about creativity and innovation right here right now as these like solar flare energy is coming from the spirit chakra. Can you talk about this energy stuff? And surely I'm not the only one feeling it. And let me just be clear, you guys, you guys, let me be clear. I'm not really productive. It's a kind of an energy that's like kind of zaps me a bit, catalyzes me. It makes me feel a little like, but it's not like I'm not effectively channeling it. You know, I'm not using that energy like that, you know, like a lot of caffeine kind of energy is how it feels. And despite the fact that I'm drinking out of a mug, it's actually really hot water in here because it's later in the day when I'm recording this. So can you give us some insight, David, about the energy and the solar flare spirit kind of lots of energy that I'm personally feeling. I'm sure some of the viewers here are feeling it too. He says, you're referring to astrology and astrological patterns. He says, it is good information. He says, you're quite right. It is a good overlay to understand what's really going on. And he says, I would encourage some of you, if you're interested in astrology, to to do a bit of research and to learn a bit more about it. It does provide a good overlay or what he looks like kind of like a drawing or a blueprint. This is what he's showing me, like literally a plastic piece of kind of paper with some stuff on it overlays upon whatever we're dealing with in our own personal lives.  So for those of us like myself who are not well versed in astrology, what kinds of patterns are you talking about or what kinds of information pieces could be gleaned from this understanding? He says, it's an organization. It's a way to organize things so that you can see a clear patterns and identify more clearly what the sources of the energy that you are receiving.  You're diverting the energy that you're receiving. He says, see, you've made a request. This is David Bowie sharing this, you've made a request and you're receiving energy, but you're diverting it into other places. And if you have an overlay or structuring in which you can identify the different layers or different different parcels, he says, not layers. It doesn't go like this, you guys. It goes like this. So it's like a pie shape, not a linear shape, but a pie shape which does form the energy of kind of a compass. Or the energy for me of, I would say, compass or like a wheel of the year or a clock. So those three things I would identify. But he says, it's astrology. It's like the moon cycles, the houses. He says it's astrology, Bridget. He said it's all the same thing. It's just a little bit different. He says, ecology? Ecology? Like it's the same at the core, but then it's a little different. Way to present the structure. He says the houses. He keeps saying the houses, the houses. Okay. So and 13. 13 houses. That reminds me like the Mayan calendar energy. 13 moon cycles. Oh, I love that. Okay, I'm good with that. He says Mayan. He says, I do like the Mayans. Very good energy for grounding. He says, and actually the sacred chakra with that beautiful, he shows me this like, almost like Sedona orange sand. Yeah, he show I like that. Sedona orange sand. That vibration in your sacred chakra is well served. He says, well suited, well suited. Well suited to this cosmic ground. This cosmic grounding that you desire. So you see, working in the cosmic energy is now the what is possible energy is at the same time grounding the elements is not something that is natural. When you think of it with your mind and a linear thinking or thought pattern. But when you think of it as a cycle or as a pictorial view of things, it makes so much more sense. To you and your senses will appreciate it. So the energy you're diverting to these other parts of you to receive it's not it will go to the places that you are most comfortable utilizing the energy not necessarily the place where it is a best fit. So this is where you are challenged. This is why the solar flares, the solar plexus literally you guys looks like a seen from like Star Wars, chum chum chum out of the solar plexus the belly is like solar that's what I see. He says because you have excess energy you've asked you've amplified the desires and then in order to fully receive the energy that comes into you is received and by you at a level that you're not conscious of. And so when you have these bursts of energy or these excess energy points he says the nodes are not able or prepared to process this level of energy that is being received because it doesn't go in that particular outlet it doesn't fit out he says it would be kind of like trying to plug like you guys the end of the iPhone you know into just an old school like cord plug and outlet like you can't put it in there the USB thing put it into the wall like it doesn't work that way you need what what do you need an adapter you need something in between and he says so this is the in between an overlay he says you can use things like the chakra system you can use a moon calendar a Mayan calendar you can use astrology he says in order to understand that the broader concept of the consciousness that is being received and interpreted he says and turned up like the volume is turned up I use the word amplify but he's saying turning up the volume on it collectively many many many many people are coming into this understanding and are more drawn to the astrological charts and with the very he says of really just a basic like a surface kind of level of understanding and it's actually an effort to create a new structure that allows for scaffolding to support your solar plexus he said your spirit in order to create a broader understanding that's more grounded through that sacral chakra I'm pointing to my necklace because it's actually a carnelian energies which is the sacral chakra which I've been wearing this all day so I didn't lean that so I think about that when I came into session but now I'm looking at it going hey and you're saying in an effort to ground the energies so it's not that the fire is this unruly crazed supercharged ecstatic energy that just doesn't have a purpose like it just goes everywhere because it's just uncontrolled it is this energy of freeing what is already been inside you and catalyzing that with like it's a partnership like they come together like they're in tandem and then they work together to allow for a new kind of a synergy that will support you he says in about the next it's like one to three years ahead which right now I'm recording this the very end you guys won't see this until probably June but it's just the very end of May 2021 and going into June 2021 so it'll be three years from now one to three years from now so June 2022 23 24 like that and he says so it's a pattern one two three and he says beginning middle end and he says the the energy of the past present future it's that energy you guys that he says that's the closest thing that consciousness can get to a linear process beginning middle end like a three part thing one two three kind of a thing it's like morning noon night like boom boom boom interesting that's super interesting I love that number three really kind of has a great vibe for me when I see three it's ascended master number it's also a number of truth this is true this is true this is true hey pay attention this is true some truth coming through here this is truth this is truth very much in alignment energy wow that's like really wow what do you guys think of that I mean hello did you expect David Bowie to be such a I did super duper nose energy super totally nose energy so I'm I guess I'm not shocked by that I appreciate it I appreciate that energy myself so what can what kind of insight can you give us as we are here in during this time of our lives a unique time where we're kind of an in between like leaving an old system or structure of life that we had then we have this collective traumatic experience of the pandemic and now some of us are in different parts of the world that are in different places different phases of this process and so I mean is that what's leading to this kind of it's almost like an eruptions eruptions of energy or conflict isn't even the right word because it feels like there are moments of release that you guys almost like a volcano that's kind of how I experience the energy so like acts of violence like in the United States where I live there is a ton there's all there has been constant multiple times a day news things news updates about mass shootings here and a mass shooting there and a domestic violence situation that results in kids being injured near death or killed or I mean just all these like in some of its random with stranger stuff and some of its workplace stuff and it but there's mass shootings like a lot of it is gun violence stuff and without the politics of it I literally feel like there's these eruptions of release and and it's like an angry energy and he says it's resentment he says the closest energy that is being released right now is this energy of resentment which he says is connected to remorse or regretful experiences looking back over your lifetime having this almost like a life review he shows me at the end of life you guys there's often this life review process that happens I can talk about that I think I've talked about it on fairy grasshopper my fairy grasshopper channel if I haven't I'll do a video on fairy grasshopper youtube about life reviews you can I can talk more about that there but there's a kind of this process that happens and you look back over your life and and he says and and that's where you kind of take stock of things and think oh my gosh am I gonna regret this like what I'm doing now am I gonna regret or am I gonna feel like oh I didn't take those opportunities when I had them or what what's going on and he's showing me the word courage he says this is a time for courage because you're facing your mortality while you are living it he says so all the things that are most precious to you that are most dear to you that are most valuable to you like your relationships like maybe with your children or your significant others or your family or even like your work or your friendships or your animals or your pets these are the places where you feel the most vulnerable where there is an opportunity for for a depth of fear to come through and to kind of permeate the the awareness of the relationship that there is some fragility there that it is not permanent that it is temporary and the nature he says a nature of morality or mortality well that's a variance that mortality I didn't see the T there in that one mortality is that understanding that something that's fragile that's so special and important to you is something that you really can't protect like you don't have control to like keep it safe and everything's perfect and nothing's going to ever happen that's bad you know to your kids to your pets to you know I mean it just you don't enter into the relationship to a marriage to to a partnership to workplace to a job to a career thinking oh this is going to be awful eventually I'm going to I'm going to get burned out I'm going to hate this I'm going to get angry I'm going to there's going to be infidelity there's going to be I mean you don't enter into a relationship thinking oh this person's going to disappoint me or I'm going to make bad choices or make mistakes or whatever it might be you don't enter into that knowing that but right now he says because collectively what you've experienced is this understanding of your the fragility of life and how for some it's this this hardening of the fear it's calcifying basically I say this a lot like when I'm talking to people and talk about energy stuff like I'm in sessions I'm like it's calcifying so if you think about something that calcifies in your body it's hard for your body to pass it to detox from it like if you get calcification of like stones in your bladder or stones in your gallbladder or your kidneys or whatever I mean it's like just whoa nobody even wants to think about that no no we don't need that thanks no thanks he says so what you're seeing when he says Bridget you're describing this eruption like this just shh volcano and not really nobody really knows what the impacts of it are going to be it's the the moment where people get to the point where they break wide open and everything that was inside is outside and all the collective traumas that they felt and the people that were in their family before them that inflicted upon them or experiences that they had or they held and they internalized so much they just break wide open and all this fire and fury he says fury comes out he says but it's not fury it's regret it's this devastation of realizing that I had a part of this and it's up to me to work with this whatever my this is even if it's awful and horrific it's not to internalize it it's to integrate the power and to activate the power within me that was dormant before that happened before that situation happened before that trauma was experienced or before I realized I had power and I just let others voices be my reality and be my overlay whether it be a parent or a grandparent or a teacher or somebody that you really cared about and looked up to and they told you something about yourself that you just accepted it's true because there was trust there and now you can kind of see this escape this energy just escapes of realizing that they were human too and therefore their perception is only one view of you so what you've been told about yourself it's only one viewpoint it's only one part of that pie or that circle or only one phase of the moon good analogy only one phase of the moon that one person that teacher that thought you were awesome that coach that told you you sucked that parent that you could never seem to please or couldn't tell you their feelings or didn't seem to nurture or hug you or love you each of those people have only one perspective one phase of the moon of a cycle of your life and what's happening he says is that through this release is there's a release of collective regret that's happening and a lot of many humans do not know what to do with this and you move quickly from regret into remorse so regret is like this disappointment and being angry almost about it and then this remorse is like the feeling of sadness about it so it's a grief so the regret and the remorse is like one is kind of more little more angry and kind of powerful like it's somebody else's fault and the remorse is like taking it and realizing that it's sadness that I missed that chance opportunity I am part of this I have a piece of this even even though I know that I'm not what happened to me but I understand that my higher consciousness my soul is it's a part of that fire transmuting changing energy that's dynamic and that can keep healing on healing not to rehash the pain or the grief but to acknowledge the very real human emotions that we have been ignoring for centuries is what you are connecting to is this ancestral work that has been going on for many people that's a new trendy thing by the way and spirituality people are talking about ancestors working with your ancestry and it's been going on for about three years I'd say I've seen that kind of start to bubble up and come up and that's to prepare us for this now to understand that it's not just us the baggage we carry isn't just our own it's the lineage that we have as well and so that can feel crushing debilitating heavy but you can set it down you can take your part and he's showing me like you have so much choice now and so he says because I so my husband and I were talking about this and I'm like well there's mental health issues there's a lot of mental health stuff we've been stuck indoors for so long and we've been constantly hyper-vigilant and scared that we're going to die that somebody we love is going to die that life is going to be taken from us and then we have to go outside and still interact and get the groceries and do the things and some people have to go to work and then be frontline with people and have masks and all this stuff and then who is healthy and who isn't healthy you don't know like flashing forehead sign that says and there's all these unknowns and uncertainty and it's been this pattern and now it's like okay everything's fine now go out to the world it's like wait a minute where's the trust what kind of pattern are what are we building here this is a new territory this uncharted territory that reminds me my son's yearbook says part of the model that they have at their school for this year for the yearbook stuff it's uncharted territory I'm not going to recount the whole model but it was uncharted territory and I thought wow we can either be pirates or on a pleasure cruise what do you guys want to do and in this conversation that my husband and I were having about all of the violence that's happening and I said well it's pent up everybody's like just people are stuck and people are desperate and they don't know what to do it's like it's not a breakdown it's like a breakthrough almost it's like get it out of your body get it out of your body and all the traditional signals everything's all mixed up and there's not a structure in which to express or a safe way to do that and with all this built up pressure many many people who are already struggled with mental health and mental health awareness don't have the tools or the influences or the money or that they don't have access to the resources and of course this stuff is going to happen when they have access to weapons I guess that you know maybe give them an energy of perceived power that feel like I mean maybe it's just this perception of I need to take my power back and here's how I'm doing it or I need to be seen or I need to be visible I don't even know what's going through their mind necessarily but it's obvious that there's all this stuff happening all at once it's a mental health it's a huge mental health cry out and not because we're going to label people and put them into boxes and go and use a mental health thing as an excuse it's no excuse but it's a level of opportunity for conversation and understanding and it's a relationship it's a relationship that we can have it's a conversation a dialogue that we can have that makes things not so fringe and weird and creepy and sketchy it makes things real human beings need to have feelings and emotions and we need to start having real conversations about that and I'm working on that with my business because we can't have these false images portrayed and expect to live up to filtered images of us anywhere social media youtube instagram snapchat whatever or at work event okay I dress a certain way so therefore I dress this way does that mean I am highly educated very very smart and you should listen to everything I say or is really the highly educated very smart person that has their act together the person that's you know wearing jeans and a t-shirt and they're sitting at the same table and you can't tell like you shouldn't we're making assumptions based on old stuff old patterns that are not even in place and the truth that are not even valid anymore it's like you're using the textbook from 1960 when it's like the 2000s yeah so the emotion and the conversation about emotion needs to be something that is okay where there's not this expectation of I'm gonna just dump on you and you're gonna fix it or you're gonna make it better or you're gonna jump in there with me and get all messy with me and one up me on oh yeah well this is what I'm dealing with or you're not gonna be like oh tell me what's wrong with you like you're not gonna be my friend slash counselor no it has to be this equal sensitive genuine dialogue he says now you have it it's the rawness the very real part of relationship is the point you why you came here and if you want to retain you you need retention in your relationships and the understanding of your mortality is gonna give you this this sweet the sweetness he says like the nectar of understanding that the fragility and the vulnerability is that's the sweet stuff like that's the best part that's the best part when you can be real it's like that's the best part that's the best part of this human stuff the human thing you know that's the best part so I thought we're gonna talk about creativity and innovation he says well don't you think that's what this is this is a different way this is a intellectual mind conversation about a plus b equals c or a mathematic equation it is a pattern and a rhythm and a cycle but it's about the human cycle and understanding of the motions and the pathways through which you are receiving energy and where you're redirecting it to and where you need it to be and you're definitely in a space where you need the converter so solar plexus energy sacral chakra orange very active so you guys if you've been watching and listening and you're a feeler you're like an energy worker you're sensitive to energy you're in tune with energy or you love the chakras you're like a yoga person hello to you solar plexus and sacral chakra so that spirit chakra at the belly and that low belly that pelvis sacral chakra as well so go ahead and work do some work with that for yourself to help clear shift move detoxify the energy in a gentle way allowing emotions to be able to be received to wherever you need them to be so that you can know what's going on with you instead of internalizing them those are just a couple of the things I think that I'm taking away from this conversation I have to listen back I mean this happens a lot right when I'm doing videos I have to listen back so I can really get into this for myself but all this information is coming from and through the channel of David Bowie in the afterlife so let's give credit to David Bowie in the afterlife very orange right now he's super orange which is a creative energy color so awesome to that for you and thank you for helping us to kind of rebirth ourselves because that's really what we're doing you guys and it's messy and it's not pretty it's not necessarily fun times but it's a real stuff and we can find the sweetness like he said in that fragility or that vulnerability we can find the sweetness in the emotion stuff which is super new territory for me because I although on my furry grasshopper channel and my vlogs I've been crying and stuff which I don't usually do especially not on camera like because I do ugly cries anyway my cries aren't like oh so pretty or anything that's not delicate or dainty at all okay it's like a mother right because that's where I'm at and and the emotional piece is not it's uncharted territory for some of us right it is huh as far as feeling safe and knowing where and having relationships are sacred places where we can actually tap into and connect with our emotions without feeling too overwhelmed or without feeling too vulnerable where we feel just like raw you know gentle and fragile maybe is okay but getting too raw too real too fast and newer relationships is tricky but it's definitely something that I care about for myself and my work for sure definitely alright so hey thanks for watching the above life channel here on youtube where I channel after life celebrity guest to get information for us so that we can live our lives our very real human lives because it's up to you to live your life I can't live for you you've got to live it that's for you right I hope we've inspired your spirit today and filled you with some hope to help you to do just that it's your life after all so live it just live it thanks for being here


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Scratch Sprites. How do you make them draw them upload them and download them? Well stick around because in this tutorial of scratchery basics things are about to get a little bit stinky as we explore Sprites and Scratch together in just a moment Hello world, it's the surfing scratcher here teacher surfer programmer and lover of learning bringing you the goodness of coding through games on This channel we code projects together using video tutorials So if you're new here consider subscribing Be sure to check out the show notes and links in the description below where I list out a bunch of resources and unplugged activities They can help you along on your learning journey. All right, let's get stuck into it All right, so you've pressed that create button and it's taking you here the scratch project editor Let's talk about Sprites so you can find Sprites down here in the sprite pane Sprites are almost always visual and they are the objects that perform actions in our scratch projects Think of them like remote control cars Remote control cars on their own can be pretty awesome But they don't do anything unless we tell them what to do the same goes for Sprites and scratch We can draw the most awesome sprite ever, but unless we tell it what to do it won't do anything So let's now talk about the different kinds of Sprites in scratch The first type of sprite that we can access our Sprites from the scratch library You can just go ahead and scroll this massive long list You can sort it by the labels up here and you can also enter in the search field So if you want to find these bananas here, we can just type in bananas But I'm pretty sure if we also type in fruit, it'll include bananas in that search Which is pretty neat if you go ahead and type in something that you want to fly and you mouse over that It will show a little animation to see if it animates. So that's the scratch sprite library Go down here and you press this button. It will just give you a random sprite from that sprite library Okay, the next type of sprite that you can make is when you paint a sprite So you can just go in and draw into your heart's content and that's pretty ordinary So let's just go ahead and delete that and let's go into our third type of sprite Which is an upload sprite and we're gonna unpack more of the drawing in a second.  Just call it pile of Beautiful. All right, so now we're in our pile of poop emoji. Wow sprite here in the first costume You'll see that it's quite pixelated or a little bit blurry It's not as crisp as you would have seen it at a smaller resolution The reason for that is currently a bitmap and a bitmap is just a grid of pixels Remember a pixel if I just zoom in here is just like a little square on the screen a little square of light So if I were to make this much bigger in our full screen mode You'll see our scratch cat is lovely and crisp still but our pile of poop emoji is quite blurry So how do we get around that? Well, what we need to do is we need to convert our pile of poop emoji to a vector So we've gone ahead and done that now, but that hasn't solved our problem because it's still quite blurry So what we need to go and do now is we actually need to trace over our pile of poop emoji To recreate it using vectors now vectors Just a way of giving mathematical instructions to draw images on the screen. We don't need to know the ins and outs of that We just need to know that once we've created a vector It's gonna look crisp at any resolution as we go ahead and trace this emoji I'm just gonna go through a few of these buttons and tools over here What I want to go ahead and do is get this bitmap and I'm going to copy it and then I'm going to paste it The reason for that is I just want to reference because we're going to be tracing this emoji It's going to be hidden behind our vector. So we want to copy here so we can refer back to it Okay, let's go again and get our paintbrush tool. I'm going to go ahead and get the eyedropper tool So I can get that nice chocolatey brown color. All right Now I've got my paintbrush tool here. We can change the thickness of that tool We can maybe change it down to let's go seven sevens a lucky number, isn't it? And what I'm just going to do now is literally just trace over it now It's okay if it's looking a little bit rough here. That's fine I'm gonna speed this up so you can see it a bit quicker I'm pressing this arrow tool now to select the color or the paintbrush that I just painted I'm going to send it all the way to the back so that it's now behind this bitmap If I press forward it's now you're just going to jump back in front of that bitmap So these are called layers and we can layer our image nicely like that Okay, so as we look over here our pilot poop is looking all right and if we blow it up It's looking pretty good. You can still see the blurriness of the bitmap behind it But it's going all right. So now what we want to go ahead and do is create these eyes I'm just going to do this over this emoji or this bitmap here and we'll transfer across Let's get the circle tool now and the circle tool has a fill and an outline So we're going to pick the color of the outline around the eyes Which is that color there and I want to just increase it to three pixels I'm just going to draw so I'll change that fill to white So we'll go ahead and click that white that is just there Let's go ahead and draw a circle now Just move it across slightly and now let's go ahead and draw a black one Cool. So what I can go ahead and do now is click both the pupil and the eyeball And I can group them. So now if I click off I can just move the whole object I'm going to move that directly across if I hit the shift key It'll drag it in a nice straight line for me So there we go. I'm going to go copy and paste that now And now we have both of our eyes and we can create a googly eye emoji if you wanted to But we'll just leave that one as is Cool. I'm going to go ahead now and we are going to go and create this mouth So let's create our outline and let's go ahead and draw our circle Cool. Now let's go ahead and check out this tool here So if I click on it it's a reshape tool And go ahead and drag one of those points down to change the shape of the mouth Which is pretty neat If I click back to this tool here this is a move tool And it will move the whole shape So if I just nudge that with my keyboard keys We can see now that now we have the mouth of our emoji And I can just bump up that stroke to make it a bit thicker Let's drag that across Cool. And our poop emoji is going pretty good Now you can go ahead and put in some final touches You can put in the gradient there The way that you would do that Jump into your fill with the shape selected You can go ahead and play around with these gradients So let's just make that slightly gray See that's from the bottom I'm going to swap that around so it's from the top now There we go. We've got that little gradient in there now So I'm going to go ahead and delete that bitmap And we can delete the bitmap that is behind it now And we can also delete our cat sprite And you can see we've got our poop emoji And there's a couple of little holes in there that we could go ahead and fix All right and then we have our poop emoji Which is in a vector form now So we can increase the size of this up to 200 And it is looking pretty good Although your head is still a little bit wonky On the size there but that's just down to my drawing If we make that really tiny it's going to look pretty cool as well There we go There are also some awesome websites out there Where you can draw your own sprites And I'll link to them in future videos All right there's also another way that we can upload a sprite And the way that we can do that is we can take a photo with the camera So here is surfing scratcher right now Here I am talking, let's go ahead and take a photo All right there we go It's pretty dark where I am right now It is nighttime and wow we are really zoomed in We can even go further in We have a bit of super zoom action But no let's go right all the way out All right so I've got rid of that screenshot And I just want to talk now about how to download a sprite or export it There are two ways that you can do this If I right click on my pile of poop emoji down here This sprite you can export it Now if you export that option it will export a sprite prefile And that you can import into other scratch projects The other type of export that you can do is When you right click on a costume So I'm going to do that now and export on a costume And that exports an SVG which is a scalable vector graphic And what that does is you can import that into programs like Adobe Illustrator Or it can be a graphic that you use on the internet So they are the two types of ways that you can download and share your sprites The last thing I want to touch on are sprite packs Sprite packs are scratch projects where people have created A whole heap of sprites for you to use in your personal projects They are not for commercial use They are just for personal use So let's go ahead and click on one of these to see what they look like inside Okay so we are in this Super Mario sprite pack now And as you can see the nuclear duck has gone ahead And created a whole bunch of sprites for us That we could use in our scratch projects Which is just unreal So thank you nuclear duck You can go ahead and google scratch sprite packs And find more for yourself Alright it's time for a scratchy question I want to know how do you make your sprites in scratch? You might have a favorite website out there that we don't know about So you can drop a URL in the comments section below So we can go check it out Or link to a scratch project if you have a sprite pack Shout out to vecteasy.com As I use some of their vectors to create this video Thanks for checking out this tutorial Subscribe, bring the bell if you're new around here And have a scout of all my other content Which is on the screen right now If you can't get enough then head on over to my Patreon page Where you can join a membership tier for access to exclusive content But until then I'm off to go find a way I'll catch you in the next one


Welcome church family and it's good to see everybody and welcome to our time of interviewing with Pastor David and Marie and it's always a joy to have you guys with us and joining us and being able to Talk and share with the church Things regarding to marriage things regarding to relationships and it's always great to hear from you guys both So welcome. It's good to have you guys with us here today. Good to have a place to be. Yes. Yes Really is You know, I've asked us now three weeks in a row. How are you guys doing? We're doing good. I mean, I don't I don't I'm not enjoying the fact that we can't come to church and see our our body And have services here, but we're doing okay. I'm looking forward to to win this all and and looking forward to Coming to church coming be with the body of Christ It's gonna be one of those glorious things where we get back together and and everybody's excited and and See being with one another, you know, as you mentioned pastor, we've been here Marie you've been here as well. We've come on Sunday mornings. You're here on Sunday mornings to greet people and and It's interesting. It's cool to see the people that are coming in just recently this last week We saw people more people coming and wanting to spend time and chit chat and pray And so that's just a small Sample size of what's really what people really wanted to come back.  So Yeah, Marie and I are doing doing well. Yeah, she just said and Yes, we both we both miss being able to be with our congregation with our church family an awful lot We miss it a lot and For for us. I think that ultimately It's helped us to value Relationships more than we had in the past. I think you can take for granted the things that have always been there Yes, and when they're removed from you and the way that this has been removed from us it makes you think and Makes you appreciate and I'm assuming that I might be speaking for most most of my church and maybe most people To be forced into isolation is not a good thing. And so I Look forward to being able to be back Going back to minister in the way that we do in a personal level I can see that I'm going to be more involved on a personal level with people than I have been in In some time I can see that and I look forward to to being able to interact with people to visit with them and Yeah, when we were able to finally get back together. It's going to be like a family reunion and we're Looking forward to it John as soon as possible. Yeah, it's go ahead. Marie. I'm sorry No, I'm just agreeing with him. We're already figuring out what we want to do and the first time Our church opens back Things that we want to have Here You know one of the things that you're mentioning When you when we do come back Were there things that you thought about that you would do different when you came back? You know one of the things I've been even looking Within the ministries that I've been blessed to oversee is so what are what am I going to do different? that it's going to be effective and and going to be just I Was caught off guard. I think all of us were caught off guard by this whole thing and It's allowing me to prep and be better prepared in case anything like this happens again Well, I suspect that some of the things that have occurred Since we haven't been able to meet will continue as I've been mentioning We have seven day a week church now seven day a week John as you know Monday I our young adults is broadcast and I know our junior high and high school have been broadcasting our Tuesday men's study has been broadcasting online. We've been doing more Facebook live I do Facebook live on Tuesday and on Thursday. We have our Wednesday night You know online. We have a Friday a Q&A with Marie and me on Saturday. We have our Marriage and family series that we're doing right now. We do our two morning services on Sunday online We added a two o'clock service online. We do our Sunday night so So many things the kid the kids ministry has been putting on things for for our children So we we really came out of the you know, we came out of the box if you will we we We should have been doing this all along but there was no real need for it all along and There is now and what I expect is that we will continue Doing these kinds of things will continue having online nights of worship continue to have a variety of things that that are still in the planning stages as Well as resuming the normalcy of our church so You know, we've been seeing quite a number of responses for from our viewers listeners from our church and I Would encourage any who are listening to this right now to contact us Let us know that you're listening to share these things with your friends Let them know that there are things that are that are happening in your fellowship right now that Would be a benefit to them because I really believe and we and I together have believed all along That the things that that God's word has for us are things that we need to be in every day And so there are options and opportunities that that this virus if you will have given us opportunity to respond to and So as I've been saying and this is the thing that the Lord laid on my heart But the enemy meant for evil God intended for good and we're seeing good from this How has it for both of you personally? How has this been a benefit for you? In terms of have you looked at within yourself as it increased your faith Has it this whole time because there was a time when this all went down this whole corona virus. There was a moment where Thoughts crossed of man the church can shut down and And now we see what the Lord is really doing Has there been a benefit To all of this to your faith. I think so John I think that we have to trust the Lord, you know I you know, do you do you I trust him? I mean, you know, I think the question is do you trust him in this? Whatever may happen and I and and I I think that Dave and I both have fully trusted in the Lord to to do a new thing a good thing and and I Think through the ministry different ministries that have started here, you know reaching out to the community on Facebook YouTube and all that even in the women's ministry Devotions, you know, we're putting out devotions. We're putting out We're doing exercises, too, you know, we have one of the get a couple of the gals leading exercises, you know Connie and I are talking to people through the internet and You know, so it's it's been it's been a good thing and Because you get different perspectives too as you as maybe you interview different people, you know I've been trying to do some of that interviewing and asking people what are you doing? What how are you doing and what's going on and but it has I Never in my day would have thought anything like this. We came straight back Straight home from Israel and all of a sudden more corn, you know, basically, you know Pastor for you has it has it been a benefit for your faith? you know, it's it's been a reminder and in in some ways, it's been a Purifier because as I mentioned recently on a Wednesday night Bible study I Was watching the news On a weekend and my son Joseph and his wife Karina and our baby Olivia my grandbaby Our granddaughter I had just moved in to the house, you know Because they were doing some work in their home and so they vacated their home and you know We had room for them So they came and lived with us while the construction was taking place Which for me is a great blessing to be able to have you know, Joseph and Karina and my my Olivia our Baby girl and so for us, it's a pleasure and a joy for them to be with us and and all of that And so Joseph was sitting You know with me as I was watching the news and and they said everything is shut down all churches are shut down and That hit me hard John it hit me hard because as you know, our church is built on Jesus as the chief cornerstone and so we call him our our foundation, of course the word of God and Jesus Christ himself revealed in the word of God as our chief cornerstone But we built our fellowship on a philosophy of ministry that included what we called our four pillars The word of God worship of God the witness we invented a word witness for a W speaking of fellowship and and then the witness because we believe that God's word and worship Contribute to the reality of a community that is a Jesus people community that takes his word out and Becomes a witness right and so those four pillars have been the center of our Church's philosophy and activity for 39 years as I was Here waiting as Marie was sharing and I was thinking now But what I share I began to think about that because our church actually has been meeting together Before we called ourselves by the name of the church called Calvary Chapel Cina Valley for 39 years We celebrate our 39th Sunday morning service in July But we were already meeting as a group of people prior to that on Wednesday nights So for 39 years We've been meeting together with people who became our church and the very first Sunday morning in July that we gathered together I laid out that we would be a new thing I I taught out of Isaiah 43 18 and 19 and God tells us don't remember the things of the past behold They do a new thing and in that new thing as I was sharing with our church I said we're gonna have four pillars and those four pillars I just mentioned and so community to me a fellowship. It's extremely important and So our church has been built on Jesus Christ or chief cornerstone and these four elements of biblical living That have made us into a group of people that are more than than people who show up on a Sunday We're a family in many ways because the church is broken down into groups and subgroups. We have so many women's groups We have many men's groups. We have children's ministry events. We have name it We've got all these various kinds of ministries that break this this megachurch into small groups and so All of a sudden we don't have community anymore. And so I was sitting there watching the news when When they said churches are now locked down. Nobody can meet on Sundays and With the lack of information and not knowing what's really taking place and even right now after several weeks Nobody really knows yet because you get such conflicting reports And it really depends on the political bias of the reporter at that time as to whether or not they see value in the church Value in community because we see that we see that abortion clinics are still open because that's necessary and and that marijuana dispensaries are Necessary and drive-in theaters are necessary. They're essential and liquor stores are essential and and all of that We see all this stuff that this is essential But the gathering together as a group people to worship God and have community. Oh, that's not essential You can go to a bowling alley in some places and you're actually going bowling But you cannot be too close to another believer in Christ and for us, you know I I don't see that as a direct attack from from people who hate Jesus Christ I really don't I see that as just the way the world thinks and when the world begins to think of what means something What is valuable the church is normally not in that mix We live in a society that values nurses more than they value clergy and because that's true You know, I was there aware that what is happening is an undermining of one of the pillars of what Christianity is Which is getting together like it says in Acts 2 42 through 47 You know to remain constant steadfast and in fellowship and doctrine and breaking of bread and prayer all of that are essentials So I was sitting there and they said the churches are locked down and I turned to Joseph and when I turned to Joseph He said dad, it's going to be okay. Well, my son knows these things. He's been raised in faith. He loves Jesus Christ He's he knows but I said you don't understand Because what this is is really an attack on the essentials of what a Christian is and what a church is and I said in Son, I said you don't understand how that's going to impact my church Because we are built on community community that is around Christ Now we can't meet and I I teared up. I mean anybody who knows me Knows that when something matters to me The emotions are very real and they will well up and my eyes watered and it bothered him quite a bit to see his father So upset and I was and why wouldn't I be you know, I'm thinking About it and I told them I said son I said I knew and I know that that the Lord will will one day remove me from ministry I know that I will no longer be the pastor of this church. I have Awareness of that. I know that I'm not opposed to that. I want God to do what God wants to do son I said but I didn't know that this could be the way that I was removed from ministry I said and I said I'm greatly concerned over what's going to take place in my fellowship And the church God gave to me and I teared up in front of him and he got very quiet And I went to bed later on and I was praying, you know, I you know the scripture says to pray Without ceasing and and that's not just getting on your knees at certain times. It means they have a constant communication a constant prayer life talking to God and I Pray without ceasing. I'm constantly Forming prayers in my heart and mind and sharing with the Lord. This is what I'm thinking This is how I'm feeling. What am I supposed to do? That's my way of life And so I was about to go to sleep and I was praying God you've got to give me peace. You've got to direct me I don't know what we're gonna do. I don't know what to do So I woke up in the morning and as I was driving to the office The Holy Spirit reminded me of what he told me in my own heart through a prayer time I had with him 38 years ago when we were looking for some property We had to find a place to go There was nothing on the horizon that I could see and I was crying out to the Lord as I have for so long for this church And I said to him I don't know what we're gonna do. We don't have a place to go The kicking us out of the building that we've been renting. I don't know what we're going to do what's going to happen and His still small voice spoke to my heart in a way that I'll never forget. He said I did not raise you up to let you fall It's funny that that's the same kind of thing He said to my own pastor Chuck Smith when Chuck was concerned about some property They were buying in Costa Mesa and they didn't have the finances for it and and he said God We don't have the money and God told him, you know I'll take care of that need and that's when they sold a corner piece of property there that became a gas station And the money that they received for that corner a lot just a portion of the acreage finished off what they needed in order for them to complete their building project and so The Lord spoke to my heart in a similar way. He said I didn't raise you up to let you fall Philippians tells us in chapter one. I believe for six, you know, he who began a good work will continue it and complete it and so I Got I got peace in my heart and I came into the office this happened on the way to the office and I got came into the office with a new attitude and And though we didn't have church services and and all the following week the Lord has shown himself faithful to us in every way and every way that has Has been needed and he meets our need. And so what have I learned? I relearned I have relearned that God raised this church up at the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, you know I relearned that and and I also learned something else that Marie has been trying to convince me of for For many years. She said I she said David. She says your church loves you Because I haven't I Haven't thought so for a long time And so when she said that She says your people love you and I've seen that to be true too. So those are things that I've learned Yes, and and to yes church family, you know how much we love our pastor and Marie. It's just amazing, but me more I Don't know if people really see The work that you both put in behind the scenes weekend and week out for our church and Being able to be blessed to be a part of this staff. I I do see a portion of it and how you Travelling and and over the scriptures and wrestle the scriptures to produce Godly people in our church to give the word leading the women You know and and all the things that you guys go through that a lot of people don't see because of your love for the church Being able to see that on a small scale Allows me to appreciate and love you guys as much as I do And so just remember my birthday's March 1st, you know, you can give me some gifts right pastor You're still around You know Marie You know the week before last we spoke about marriage and and I want to just highlight some of the things that we spoke about that week before last and You were sharing Marie about the role of the wife giving husbands Undivided attention and listen to them Not speak badly of him But rather with respect. Can you share a little bit more about? that About how important it is that the husband the wife is on the same team of the husband Oh, I think it's very important You can either you can either build your husband up or you can tear him down through your through the use of your language and And the way you speak to him and I'm thankful.  I You know, I love my husband.  Let me honor my husband and and the way that he is the head of the home after all You know, that's important in Proverbs 31 it talks about The husband's heart safely trusts in her or she holds her husband's heart in her hands And that's so important when you know and you know this pastor you've been married almost three times the time I've been married But to know when you're you can safely trust in your wife and that that you have a wife that supports and is behind and encouraging You know the Proverbs talks about the contentious woman Continual dripping, you know and or on the corner of a rooftop How encouraging it is to To have a wife that is just encouraging and supportive, you know, I I married a very good woman John and It's just true, you know, I married a very good woman and Marie's mama Marie's mama is a very sweet woman. I love her very much And her grandmother Marie's mother's mama Was an amazing woman. So there is a trait In Marie's heritage of godly or sweet women. I'll put it that way sweet woman women who have gentle spirits and kind dispositions So when I met Marie, you know, she came from that heritage in it and it shows In the way she thinks in the way she acts And I know that I have a wife that is Very unusual.  I mean every person has influence. Every wife has influence over the husband It's not as if she doesn't exert her womanly influence. She does But she has learned how to exert it in a way That doesn't make me feel threatened or controlled Or dominated You know, she's learned she's she's learned How to say this is what I want or this is what I need In a way that makes me want to To meet that need If she were demanding we'd have an entirely different relationship Because I'm hardheaded, you know as every husband I know is You know to some degree and so I was raised in a home prior to my mom coming to faith in christ I was raised in a home with a an angry mother You know, I loved my mom with all my heart But mama was angry And my mom was very controlling And very dominating And it took a long time For her to finally begin to change and it came after 25 years of being married to my father And so I grew up with this Sense that I will not allow someone to have that kind of Domination over me my father was a very quiet man very kind man Get to a certain point and You've already crossed the line. That was my dad But my dad had a very great amount of patience. I would say with my mom And I didn't have that patience and so when Marie and I first were Married wasn't when we're dating. It was usually you learned some things after marriage, you know And so when we first got married within the first year Marie would try and explain to me in the way she did How she felt But I told her and because I was a young man also I said that isn't the way That you approach me with those things because if you're looking to have an argument Then I am more than willing to have that Because you are not my mother and I actually said that I said I married a woman not my mom And that I didn't know how else to say it. I'm very plain spoken I've learned since then how to gently speak but at that time I'm just learning No excuse just that's the way it was And so Marie began to adjust towards me. How can I tell him What I need and me I began to adjust saying I need to hear what she has to say eventually what it became was a A I'd get a little quiet and let her talk Then I go in another room and I think what is she saying Because I might be in disagreement And I would I would think about it. She learned that I think about what she's saying Then I'd come back out and I'd say I can see your point You know and we learned to discuss things that way So over time after all of these years We kind of like are aware of where we're going even when when something feels like it's going somewhere And and I might I might say you know where this is going to go you want to rephrase that And she'll say yeah, and because I know she doesn't intend to But it's just me. I sometimes come home from a stress-filled day or whatever and it's me It's not her most of the time And so that's what has happened over time. She is uh You know again as a husband When the scripture says dwell with your wife according to knowledge It's Peter's way of saying Don't make your house into a hotel or a motel Know what's going on know the affairs of the home And get to know your your wife's language the way she speaks what she intends what those words mean And because some men are very good at telling you what the their favorite sports team is all about and their history and And their one-loss record and all of that and there are a lot of guys that you know and I know Who can tell you about their favorite golfer or they can tell you about their favorite Baseball player and they know all about them, but they don't know their wives And so I just made a decision that And we used to say it kind of like this I used to say And I said it to the church before one of these days I'm going to retire I will be out of full-time ministry one of these days And I want to know the woman that I'm living with I don't want to get to know her After I've retired and discovered there are things about her I didn't know So I dwell with my wife according to knowledge. She is my chief study. She really is outside of God's word I study my wife.  I really study my wife and she can tell you that because even in our house We have the kitchen area And we have the a sofa and a tv and I'll be at the tv And my son has been saying to me dad you need to turn The turn around and put the tv set over the fireplace And he wants to redecorate for me, you know And I tell him I can't do that son. Well, why not? I said because when I'm sitting right where I'm at right now I can look directly at your mom And I can see her and I can talk to her and I can just look and see that she's there and watch her I said and if my back is to her and I'm looking at a tv screen. I'm not looking at her All right, so that's me. That's how I live, you know again There is there There's nobody more important to me in this entire world More than you know, that my wife outside of Jesus Christ. That's a fact. I mean, that's not just saying it That's that's a fact, you know, and I was just we were just talking yesterday About this just yesterday because we talked about deep things John. We don't just kind of we talk about life That's another advantage I have with her And and I'll tell and I tell her let's take care of ourselves because I don't want to be without you I don't want to be alone Without you. Let's take care of our health And I want the same thing Let's take care of each other Two little old people bouncing around in the house taking care of each other what you guys meant Marie was 22 I think so I was 24. Wow Wow Right. I just to turn just to turn 24 Just to turn 24, you know, one of the things that you mentioned Marie, you said it and then pastor you reiterated it was the adjusting And uh, I'm no expert in marriage But I can see a lot of times when I've met with couples that the willingness to adjust to one another Isn't there And they're they're set in their ways in a way where well, I'm not going to adjust and I'm not going to Because it's my way or the highway whether that comes from the husband or the wife But the importance I've heard you both speak about it even just now That there's a time where it's almost denying yourself To adjust and allow ourselves to study our wives or our husbands And that's what we're supposed to do to deny ourselves To put one another above each other one another, you know, you know, put them first Yeah You know Marie last the time before last you you shared a quote With me Yes, and can you share that and speak a little bit about It's a quote from Michelle Sullivan. And yes, I thought it was I enjoyed the I thought it was interesting It said her quote was on marriage if you meditate on all things your husband does wrong Eventually you will find yourself married to someone you don't you do not like And I think so many unfortunately women just Allow themselves to just Just beat their husbands down verbally and You know with their with their tongues. Would you would you say that would stem some from Taking one another for granted Oh, sure that can happen. Oh, I think you but if somebody's taken the other one for granted There's exactly what Oh, oh, of course. I think you know, yes, you can take some. Yeah, you can think oh, they'll never leave me, you know um, I can I can act any way I want with my you know To my husband tell them all that all these things that are unbecoming and and and that are That are cruel and then think the the next moment Things are just great, you know Which I don't wouldn't I don't get I don't I don't get People who can just turn like that on one another though. I have seen it, you know Yet, uh, what kind of marriage is that? It's very sad Very sad and some people do do stay, you know Because they think they have no other place to go frankly You know before the interview we're just sharing about a scripture in Ecclesiastes We're using it as a ministry principle. But again It's a it's a scripture that's used for marriage all the time two chords Are better than one three is not easily broken. Yes, and how has that been? A verse that has been applied in your lives in terms of I mean, there's so many obstacles that for all the years that you've been married in And keeping your focus on christ in the center of your marriage I'm sure there's a lot of obstacles a lot of things that have come down your way where It's been difficult. How has that verse really been true in your marriage? Let first Because Marie's you know sharing the quote she just shared talking about Not taking each other for granted We shared a little bit about adjusting all those tie into To being able to not only look out for How we can better ourselves for our marriages, but it also looks at and you said it perfectly Marie How do I put my husband before me? in terms How does that work in your marriage being married for so long?  You know, I'm just not I mean you can have you know You know men are from this planet and women are from that all those books people love the easy handy dandy guides to relationships, but Though there may be some value in the insights these people give each couple is different You know, that's why when people ask me what is a Christian marriage You know they're they're asking They're asking me to define what they're supposed to have and then to put into some little box in many ways You know certain ingredients that will make them happy with whatever it is that they have and I I believe that that Somebody once said that marriage may be made in heaven, but it's worked out on earth there is a There is a learning That you have that you have to go through in order to To understand what the two becoming one is and so I think for marie and me and I speak it for myself But I think she's in agreement with this Um, we know that we're better together than we are apart We know that uh, we have chosen each other I I chose her and she chose me And and we see that god God is the one orchestrated that choosing I've never had john. I've never had um A sense That I married the wrong woman I thought at one point she married the wrong man, but I've never felt that I married the wrong woman um Her goodness is is made me want to be a better man And and marie's kind of saying that in some ways when she's Sharing her heart with you marie doesn't understand How a woman cannot love her husband. She doesn't understand that She doesn't she doesn't understand and I'm speaking for her. I'm just repeating though what she said just a moment ago She doesn't understand how a woman can put down her her husband no matter you know She she I'll put it this way. She shouldn't say things publicly some things Sometimes they need to talk about get private counsel and all of that. I'm not saying that's not necessary sometimes, but But in real life, I mean you stood before god in witnesses and you promised to love one another And for us an oath to god matters and and maybe for some other people john Maybe they don't know what that means Maybe they didn't realize that when they said before god in witnesses, I will love you until the day I die They didn't understand that We did You know, my oath was not made to witnesses and it wasn't simply made to marie My oath was to god And I mean that I mean that I I was nervous on our wedding day Because I thought am I able to keep this oath To love and to cherish Until death there was part Am I able to be that man? And by god's grace I have been and so Neither she nor I Really came from a background Where divorce was an option And we didn't come from a background Where fighting was normal and being mean to your children. It was just a way of life We did not come from that background.  So I grew up with this this sense of there's got to be something better than this Then mama then I got saved I led my mom and dad to faith in christ and mama's anger and stuff Began to be dealt with by the holy spirit and my dad became more warm and loving because christ changes people and um But I already knew in the back of my mind that what I did not want what I would not be You know, I had to learn to work that out But I knew what I wasn't going to be so god gave me marie And so when marie loved me and and and oh this and and god knows I wasn't aware of the depth another person can really have of love for you Till I married this woman and then she she's for all these years john She's she's loved me. She's never done anything, but loved me How can that not change me? And why would I give something like that up? for what or what You know what I mean, and so We're we're from that background. We you know We just we just know that All things are possible through christ. We know that We know that we're sinners who got married and But with him working together that you know that that three fold chord jesus being the one that keeps us together john we know that's true and There's never been an option Either one of us have ever entertained That that our life would be better without one another It would not be better and uh And that that's just that's just that's how a lot of people thought john That was the environment we grew up in when when I When I was a kid I only knew out of all of the neighborhood and all the kids I knew I only knew two people from a divorced home I only knew one person whose mama was working and that was me In my neighborhood every mama stayed home And they took care of their families and they made dinner for husbands and they had sunday dinners In my home my mama was ill and and daddy was spending all of his money on doctors bills and Mama went to work and basically left me alone with my sisters for years and my brother got out of the house at 15 You know, so I knew what I didn't want and when I met this girl here You know and she was a girl to me. She's still I still call it my girl You know, but when I met this girl here and she She Loved me And I knew that god gave her to me That's how you make it You know, jesus christ in the center of everything We take what we have if there's a difference and again, I it's true when I say this john We have our differences. We're not the same person. We all have her, you know, she has ideas I have ideas But when we combine those ideas They make a better us And if that idea won't make me a better person and won't make us a better person together Then it's not worth it. That's how we are And I don't know how to explain that but it's just true. My kids can tell you that's true um I'm better with her and She's better with me. That's right and somehow it worked but it's because There is one who brought us together who we honor and fear and that's that's my lord Both of us And dave is the one that brought me to christ You know sat under sat under is teaching all this time I was asking pastor about that Uh, I don't know if you're in the office marie went out asking I asked pastor is marie Is she would she call you pastor? first or your husband And uh, we had discussed we had talked about that because she was saved under your ministry. That's uh That that is cool. What is it the answer for that? Am I your pastor or your husband? you're both Here that's what you said Oh, yeah, you're both you're both you're both You don't see a difference when I went to bible study, you know, I was learning under him, you know Maria's never had another pastor. She's never had another man. She called pastor. No There's been pastors of the church. She attended But she's never had another pastor. I've always been that and I've always Always tried to live up to that as long as we've been married. I've tried to live up to that that I am I am that you know Here's the thing you were talking about this the other day You know how that when we were in israel and I walked by marie and I were walking by a synagogue on shabbat And we see the children in a playground and the the wives are The mothers are watching the children and then you look through the Windows and you see all the men and the rabbi And I asked my guide. This is when we first went to israel and I asked my guide How come the women and the children are in a courtyard the kids are playing And the husbands are Are in the room getting instructed. Why aren't the women there? He said that's an orthodox Congregation he said the responsibility of the father Is to lead the home in the ways of the lord So they receive the instructions And they take those instructions and impart them to wives and children And they play the role of the rabbi of the home Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? You know, you have a woman's Event and all the women want to show up. You have a woman's retreat And you have to stop sign-ups because the women, you know, this is true You have to stop you limit sign-ups Then you have a men's retreat And they're you're talking to the last week to the men And and we wonder sometimes why america stinks like it does We really do we wonder why america doesn't have any Real men it seems sometimes I like the uh Like the women are more masculine than the men We've feminized men because they're afraid They're afraid to stand up and say this is who I am This is what I do. This is what I feel. This is how I lead And we end up with a bunch of feminized men You know and um That isn't the way god designed us God has designed men to have a strength That the the the wife can look to And trust and and know that she's secure and know that she's cherished and and know that she's protected You know she needs to know that My wife knows that she knows that from the time i was young I would lay my life down for her, you know to this day and That's just life and she knows that john and i'm telling you that That she deserves a man who knows the word she deserves that she's a godly woman And a godly woman wants a godly man And so any single man right now ought to be growing in grace and godliness and And any woman who's looking for a man should not should not Settle for anything less than the best that god has for her Because if she just gets married because she's lonely she's it's possible to be lonely in marriage It's it's possible to make bad decisions, you know And so for me it was a matter of and for marie it became a matter of This is the right person I am i am better with this person than i've ever been with anybody else And the qualities that this this young woman had when i met her her kindness and her her She for some reason For some reason she she thought i had something she needed. I didn't get it. I'm serious I didn't get it. She thought I had something she needed And and she believed in me and she needed me and and I didn't know what that meant john. I really didn't He takes care of me Yeah We enjoy being together It's and it's I mean and we can just sit here on a couch and just enjoy just Yeah Any last word you'd like to say to our church before we wrap this up today I think that if you're struggling in your marriage to the ladies I would say Go before the lord and take it to him and pray Seek the lord out That seek him in a way that That you would pray for your husband Whether if your husband's not walking with the lord or whether he's walking with the lord But there may be some areas in your lives that You're struggling in and and I would ask that you go before the lord and keep him in prayer Give those things to the lord. You don't necessarily have to give them to Share them with other people. I think sometimes women make a mistake of telling another friend of all the Sins of their husbands, you know, and I think take him to god, you know, that's the best place to To do is take him to the lord and and ask and ask him While you're praying for him that god would do a work in your heart That he would give you love for your husband that he would renew your relationship with him and that That he may give you ways to show Your husband how much you love him and Many many women have been many men have been won by a woman who Encourage and loves her their husband Many men aren't won by a wrathful Wrathful words They're only diminished And so let's let's build our husbands up and and love them and encourage them in the things of god I can tell you that I Have in in in many years of ministry experience john That that when I have met a man who Who reads the bible with his wife? When I have met a man who reads the bible prays with her And agrees with her to do what god says Uh, I've met men Who don't have problems in their marriage The ones that I have Seen problems in are the ones who don't spend time in the word together don't spend time in worship together Don't spend any time in prayer together Who aren't leading and so These two carnal natural individuals Are gonna live natural lives without christ as if the spirit doesn't even exist So for marie and me, what has been the key the key has been That together we agreed that we would learn to serve god in his word Together Because if there's a disagreement with god Well, i'm the one with the problem So if i'm trying to lead my wife and we just read something together about whatever We we have a blueprint now. We we we will agree. Let's do what this says And not what i'm feeling and no let's do what this says And so that really has i mean again people might not believe that and it's it's okay But um It's the truth You know, she and i both have decided That we'll do the best we can To be obedient to what we know Jesus said if you know these things blessed are you if you do them?  I learned lessons from my mom. My mom approached me one time After she got saved john and she approached me and she says david Your dad's just not a spiritual man My mom was kind of quick to to to let me know who was spiritual and who wasn't that was my mom She says you're your dad's not spiritual. He doesn't lead me the way He's supposed to lead me my father my father to me was a good man. The fact that he put up with her He was a good man, you know, so when she when she said that to me I looked at her and I said, what do you want him to do? What do you want him to do?  I said, this is a man who's not gifted and capable of giving you bible studies mom Because my mom had opinions about everything. I said, but this is a man Who does what the bible says? I said my dad loves you And my dad puts into practice the things that he learns from scripture I said, you have a very good husband mama You just want to be married to a bible teacher and you can't make him into a bible teacher So you need to accept him for the man that he is And when you accept that you'll be happy But as long as you try and change him into what you think he's supposed to be My father will never be that Why don't you allow god to mold him into his own image? And why don't you pray for him because you've got a very good husband And my mama did my father was a very good man. He loved her to the last breath of his life My dad loved that woman and over time Mama realized that she was just trying to shape him into the image of the man She thought he's supposed to be because my mom actually told marie that she told marie Honey, you've got to form your husband into the man. He's supposed to be you remember that Yeah, and marie knew better than trying that with me. That's right That's not gonna work So how does a woman change a man? She changes the way the man is by changing herself Because men have a tendency In general have a tendency of responding to the wife. We respond to one another So if marie wants me different She approaches me differently If she tells me something I may not listen If she treats me differently, I have a tendency of responding to the way she's treating me And so it's not manipulation Is simple wisdom to know how to dwell with one another in harmony And I've learned that with my girl, you know, um, I can tell her and I'll tell her blah blah You know and and she'll listen because she's a very respectful woman to me. She will But I've also discovered if I show her my heart if I reveal Me to her Sometimes with emotion sometimes the tears I will say this is who I am and and this is how I feel And this is what is valuable to me because she loves me She takes it before the lord. I know she does And she adjusts to the things that are important She really does so john, I really think that this area of controlling and You know, that's what destroys But when we learn that the greatest in the kingdom is the servant When when we begin to esteem others more highly than ourselves When we learn to to die to ourselves to pick up that cross to love our neighbor as our self When we begin to do those things to treat one another as we would be treated all these things We know we learned them in sunday school and in church services when we begin to practice those things Things change Things change so husbands love your wives dwell with them according to knowledge and wives submit your husband and respect them Thank you guys so much today for joining us and I always enjoy these conversations. It's just more organic, you know And the wisdom that you both are that you both share with our church And again the model that you guys are to a lot of us Who are married and so thank you guys so much And we do look forward church joining us soon joining us together And and thank you pastor and marie for coming in and spending time with us


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Hello and welcome to NewsClick. Spain is going through a spate of political protests by mostly the youth in various cities in the country. Even as the country is going through a financial crisis, it is still not recovered completely from the financial crisis. We have with us Marco Berlinger, a prominent journalist and a left-particle activist who is based out in Barcelona now and with whom we shall discuss this issue of the so-called indignates protests in Spain. Featuring youth protesting in droves by encamping in public places on squares, on municipal property and so on. Now is this a result of the severe unemployment problem where close to 20% of the workforce and even nearly 40% of the youth is unemployed and is this an anger against the mismanagement of the financial situation by the government? Yes, of course the basic conditions which created this movement are related with the crisis, particularly the crisis for the youth here and the absence of perspectives that young people perceive in a situation. But also other factors are heavily affected by the crisis. Here in particular it is very important the situation which affected many families about the crisis on their capacity to pay the mortgages and so they are suffering attempts to eviction and it is also very speculative the law that protects the banks compared with the clients etc. But there is a big problem of unemployment and of absence of perspective and also public cuts, public edges of cuts that are starting to affect component services and part of the welfare state in Spain. This is one part. I would say that the second part is a structure that is growing between society and political system. So that's another fundamental source of this movement and probably that is the most impressive character of this movement because this movement has been quite transversal in terms of political belonging. So people of left or center right both participated or sympathized with this movement exactly because of this trust they have with the political system and also because of this sense of exactly of indignation that they generated also because as we know now the financial crisis has been managed in a way which is scandalous now in terms of who is going to be saved and who is going to pay and that is something that created a sense of scandalous in all the populations. Here in Spain for some reason all these produce these very very interesting unexpected and impressive mobilization of the people. Right, so as you pointed out yourself one assessment of the protest is that it is a reflection of the disenchantment against the established two-party system where power alternates between the conservatives who are now in opposition and the socialists who have been in the helm through the economic crisis in Spain. Now is there a political alternative that is emerging out of the protest or is it emerging at all or what kind of political message is coming out from this protest? It's not easy to articulate the demands of this movement because it's very very dire in its composition and it came out without any organization. So these squares, crowds of people were impressive in terms of it gave you a sense of the original function of the squares in the old cities in the greeks times. In terms of where people meet and start to discuss about common issues but so at the beginning was also very difficult to systematize and to select the issues and to converge on the priorities etc. What I would say in general is that they are trying to articulate many different proposals and they systematized along this process different documents and they are mainly I would say working either with the reform of the political system trying to get a more democratic and representative and accountable political system and on the emergencies that as I said you for example the situation in the mortgages crisis and they are also intervening actively blocking the attempts to evict people from their home. So these are the most visible and the most advanced proposals and interventions. Then it's like if this movement opened a space where to rethink the society and the future because I would say that this is the sense that is common in the people the sense that one system is exhausted and the establishment is not able to provide solutions so we have to change but we have to develop a thinking and organization so it's a hard work and just at the beginning and there is this awareness of a kind of long-term work that has to be done in the future. Let's talk specifically of the you know the the political process in Spain as of now. Now you know in one sense you could say that the so-called left politics of social democracy in Spain is now threatened by the poor handling of the economy by the socialist party. Now so is Spain headed this Scandinavian way where you know the right has emerged as a major force in countries like Sweden. So despite the protests that are taking place with respect to the indigenous movement the popular perception is that the right the the PPP party is going to gain the conservatives is going to gain. So Spain is also headed the Scandinavian way in that sense could one make an assessment in that fashion. Yeah that's true and we exactly in the way of the energy of the movement we had the local election here in Spain and they have been won in an unprecedented way by the popular party so the right wing party. It won almost everywhere including the towns and regions where traditionally always govern the socialist party and so that's true what you say there is a kind of also of a paradox because in in some way you could say that even if this movement is not easily representable through the traditional political parties there is a kind of progressive clear progress in the tendency that is dominant in the movement and in its composition but I would say that first the socialist really disillusioned its own their own electorate so their station mainly affected the socialist party and and second probably the people want to see a change you know you know in this kind of system where you have two parties so one face you change but the protest of the people was exactly about this kind of very limited alternative you have attends in this system because in the fundamental policies at the end there aren't so many differences in the two parties so you change the people but you don't expect a big change in terms of policies no and so it's a it's a bit trapped you know the system and that was part of the of the reasons of the movement they they call they tried no in the in the squares in the demonstrations you don't represent us right meaning you all know so that it was this kind of sense of distance from the political system as such not to one specific political party so so in the demands are they asking for some kind of a proportional proportional representation system an open-list system to ensure that independence and other smaller smaller organizations would also get the chance at articulating their views in the political system yeah that's a specific and and explicit request because here in Spain as in Italy as in other countries we have a majoritarian system which in some way the form not the the the expression of the of the votes and and advantage the the majoritarian parties no and and in Spain it's very strong this kind of advantages that the majoritarian parties get from the electoral system and there is a request of having a kind of much more proportional form of representation of the votes in so much more space for the smaller parties