Hi friends, welcome back to my channel and a special welcome if you're new here. My name is Jen. I'm a certified weight loss and nutrition coach and I'm on WW personal points. Happy Saturday. It's Saturday, so it is grocery haul day. I have some really healthy groceries, some new food finds, some great recipes for you. So if you're excited, give this video a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not as I would love to have you here. We do a grocery haul every Saturday and I upload five days a week. So subscribe and don't forget to click the bell so you never miss a single video. Check out the description box down below for nutrition coaching where I offer personalized to you macros and calories, definite game changer, as well as one-on-one coaching. If you would like to chat with me directly, links, discounts to my favorite things as well as my Facebook group. Come and over join us there are all down in the description box. So let's jump in to this week's grocery haul. What's for dinner and what's for meal prep? Here is my grocery haul for the week. I ended up going to Fred Meyer, which is my local Kroger store. I have some really yummy recipes for this week. I'm super excited about. So let me show you this week's grocery haul. I did pick up three 12 packs of Diet Coke for Troy, as well as a case of Coors Light, which is not shown because it's already in our garage fridge. The party little bites, mini muffins. These are for Troy's lunch. He likes having these in his lunch every day. The Fairlife 2% milk. This is actually what I've been using in my protein shakes in the morning. What I like about this is it's 120 calories. I believe it's four points, but you also get 13 grams of added protein. So my protein shake can be anywhere between 30 and 40 grams of protein. First thing in the morning and it's just a really good way to start off my day, start off my protein intake. So I picked up some more of the Fairlife. Some Potato Brad. This is for Troy's sandwiches. He's doing ham and cheese this next week. Bertoli Creamy Basil Alfredo. That sounds so good. This is actually for a dinner recipe this next week. A can of pumpkin for my meal prep. This is actually for my dessert recipe. The deli at my Fred Meyer is closed due to staffing shortages. So I wasn't able to get actual deli meat from the deli, but this is the exact same meat just packaged. This is the private selection wildflower honey ham. So I ended up picking up two packs so that there would be enough for Troy's lunches for the week. Two of the Sargento Creamy Cheddar Sliced Cheese. This was buy one, get one free. So I went ahead and grabbed two. Also mozzarella cheese. This is for a couple of dinner recipes. We needed some new pillowcases and these are just so soft. This is from the DIT brand, which I believe is a Fred Meyer Kroger brand. Standard size, kind of a tan color.  This is for a recipe as well as some 99% extra lean ground turkey also for a recipe. I picked this up when I was over in the deli because it was on sale for $3.49.  So there's pepperoni and yellow Vermont cheddar cheese already sliced up. I thought this would be a quick and easy snack with some crackers. I did pick up three frozen pizzas for Troy. This has just been something that's been easy for him to have on nights when I'm not home, maybe out showing houses, or maybe I have something for dinner he doesn't necessarily want.  These were three pieces for $10. Some more of my favorite cottage cheese, the good culture. This is my all time favorite. I forgot to pick up the chip combo pack when I was at Costco doing my big shopping. And so I had to grab Troy some more chips for his lunch. And these were, I think, $9.99, which isn't a terrible deal. And then for produce, I did decide to pick up some grapes, a couple of bell peppers for a dinner recipe, a sweet onion, some kale for my lunch meal prep, some cherry tomatoes for my lunch meal prep. And then this was on sale for $0.99. It's already diced up butternut squash. I'm just going to roast this in my oven today. $0.99 is a great deal. It expires on 2.5, which is still a couple of days. But I thought that this would be a quick and easy side dish for lunch or dinner. So that is everything that I picked up for the week. Last week, I did my huge massive stock up haul. So we just needed the ingredients for our dinner, lunch, and breakfast recipes this next week. So if you haven't seen my massive haul, definitely check that out. But let's go ahead and jump into what I'm doing for dinners for the week and what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. On Sunday, I am making a one pot cheesy chicken Alfredo.  So stay tuned for that. Monday, I'm making cheese stuffed meatballs. We love these. Tuesday's leftovers. Wednesday, I'm doing a steak stir fry. Thursday's leftovers. Friday, we are having a pizza night. And then Saturday, we always go out for dinner or do takeout. And here's what you'll be seeing on Monday for meal prep. So for breakfast this next week, I'm making a Mediterranean bake. So this is an egg kale tomato bake. It sounds amazing. For lunch, I'm doing pizza muffins. Also sounds incredible. And then for a sweet treat, I'm making pumpkin bars protein style. Very, very excited for these. So again, stay tuned on Monday for meal prep for all three recipes. Thank you for joining me for this week's WW grocery haul. She was small, but she was mighty. So if you enjoyed it, give it a thumbs up. Subscribe if you're not. Of course, I would love to have you here and don't forget to click the bell so you never miss a single grocery haul or a single video. Don't forget to check out the description box for nutrition coaching, links, discounts to my favorite things. And don't forget, come on over, join us on Facebook. Happy Saturday, friends. And I'll see you in tomorrow's video. Bye.


What's going on guys got Kyle here with Layton sports cards. We are ripping 2022 Donner's optic football This is six box half case number 24 pick your teams We've got Andrew a with the Falcons Anthony p bucks Brent L with the Panthers Brian S has Colts Christopher J Has the Packers Dennis F has Chargers Dylan J with the Titans Eric P. Has Raiders Greg E with the Browns Jared S has Texan Saints Jared T has bills Jason S has Ravens Jeffrey H has 49ers Josh W. Bangles Kareem a with the Chiefs We've got Keith S. Patriots Lansing H with the Dolphins Matt M jets Maximilian H Jags Cowboys Michael B with the Lions Ray V with the Vikings Rob V Cardinals Ryan B football team Steve S with the Eagles Vroom Go birds. We got Tony T with the Rams Trent D with the Steelers to Sufumi You has the Giants Victor feet Victor F. Sorry Victor F. Seahawks Wayne P. Has the Broncos and Zachary a has the Bears Alrighty guys. Good luck on this one. This is six box half case number 24 Let's get it going see if we can keep the low numbers coming from the last half case Got some nice golds in there some black velocity Good luck. Good luck guys lead series rookies Ken Walker got Bree's Hall hollow juju George Carl Loftus Good luck. Good luck guys This is Great Iron Kings of Christian Watson Brian Cook Too many cooks. There's another one. We've got light blue the 299 Bobby trees And we've got James Cook a lot of cooks a lot of cooks in the kitchen. Got diamond hands That's going to be Deontay Johnson hollow to Rick woolen hollow throwback Zach Thomas dolphins Daxon Hill to 199 Antonio Gates Logan Hall Come on. Let's see some low number rated rookies. Let's see that gold vinyl. I put one in the second box I've opened I haven't seen one since There is Kyler Murray to 199 or 299 sorry 299 actually I did see another one. I didn't pull auto It was boy a mafia for the Seahawks ready rookie gold vinyl and then it was Gold vinyl Great Iron Kings insert auto jesson ridder Oh That's a that's a black pandora. This case is just black pandora. It is gonna be Iqwanu numbered to 25 there for the Panthers You go Panthers. That's a beautiful card there for the Panthers super color matched Now one is one of 25 nice hit Panthers on the rated rookie of black Pandora Definitely one of the best parallels they got out there man Pandora's are so clean To 99 we got Mark Ingram Taylor Brits. Oh Here we go to 179. We've got Kenny Pickett so our blue RPA going to the To the Steelers here who we got on the Steelers that is That is Trent D Trent D gonna get a Mac here with the Kenny pick at the 79 can you pick a base right behind it? Congrats Trent. That's a sweet one Nice Kenny got Tony Romo to 199 Jaylin Petrie Very nice Kenny there See some more Let's see some more Kenny. Oh Here we got to 150. We got a gravy gardener auto That is the base first bowman auto for sauce nice hit Jets Jets continuing the Continuing to hit here a really nice sauce there to 150 God Desmond Ritter. Here's a to a number to 65 on the insert Nice one there. That is 44 65. They go Dolphins. Dolphins been hidden out of these two cases pretty well We've got Hassan Haskins optic rated rookie Shot whites. Oh Anna Blazers. Here we go. It's Joe burrow Nice one there for the bangles spot super short print Joe burrow Very nice one there. We'll mag this for the for the bangles got Tressen Ebbner What's up Joe? You say it's gravy gardener now. It's gravy gardener. The Italians call it gravy, dude You know that there's Martin Emerson on the Pink velocity to 79 nice one there for the Browns rated rookie and their sauce Their sauce There's gravy Gravy doesn't flow quite like sauce though Cooper cup a little more thick. There's a Bailey zappy rated rookie Ready box two guys. Good luck. This is case number 24 or half case PYT number 24 Yeah, mom. Come on. Let's see some more sauce Charles cross rated rookie see some more Kenny as well. Let's see some more Kenny. Nice number one. There's a 179 Brett far Brett fadre Who you'll check here Carson strong rated rookie. That's a drink, Brett That's a that's a sip Got a hollow Kyle Duggar Iquanu Rookies insert Garrett Wilson Treat McBride There's a lead series rookies Garrett Wilson Montrell Washington There's the 179 boy a mafia for the Seahawks there on the rated rookie Kyle Hamilton There's hollow to Marcus Lawrence Jerome Ford White hot rookie or sorry red hot rookies. That's Brock Purdy. He's a red hot rookie. He ain't a white hot rookie Kyron Williams Or whatever the difference maybe he is not that he is the other one There's a diamond hands Jay Jetta For the Vikings George Pickens his stadium circles DK Metcalf number two one twenty five Seahawks D-Hawk Seahawks That's a This is Fred Warner on the B's to 65 electricity and A G willy G willy quake Walker.  This case is crazy This time it looks like it is gonna be Kyle Phillips there on the black Pandora rated rookie for the Titans We go Titans number to 25 for a 25 on the KP Nice black Pandora again Drake London. We're all over the black Pandora this case man. It's kind of wild There's Jordan Davis like blue. They go Steve to 2.99. We're a rookie the big man I think big man might be understating it for Jordan Davis the giant. I should say the 2.99 is Alvin cook Villanger clear Shakira rated rookie auto this time it is Nicoby Dean on the The yellow or a pink velocity pink velocity number there to 50 He goes Steve with another Another hit there for the Eagles the birds That's a 1.99 Mike Williams Mike will Skyler Ty Chandler stadium circles to 125 Vikings there stadium circles box three Good luck friends There you go Steve doing pretty well. We're doing pretty well now that uh that hurts that hurts golden. Sorry really will do well for you. I Was looking at the the burrow base one who was going for like 200 a couple days ago I was trying to figure out if I should back those and the answer was yes The answer was yes Dominators Herbert. There's a McDuffie Jake Ferguson Maddie ice Dora. This is Jahan Dotson.  I think nice hit for the football team there Ryan B Nice Dotson to 25 That is a lot of black Pandora this case man. Wow Rookies, uh Garrett Wilson Garrett Wilson base some nice color coming out. We've got Daxon Hill orange to 199 Bengals Kway Walker stadium circles to number two 125. We got a doff a away for the uh The Ravens there I had to commit to that one right away for Dylan to look at me There is diamond hands Devo Samuel Hollow there's easy E for the Dolphins number to 179 nice true blue easy Danny Gray, here's Jelani Woods nice one here on the lime green to 35 nice rated rookie there for the Colts There we go Indy 35 of 35 got the book in there for you nice hit for Indy That guy needs to get used a little bit more. He's like a little bit like how it's They're both just monsters Just don't get quite get used enough. There's Darren James the 199 go Knowles Sam Howe So 199 Michael Pittman Romeo dobes Romeo Dobbs Hollow rated rookie Arnold Ebiketti a go into the uh Falcons there. Let's call them the Hawks There'll be a different Atlanta team So 179 Jim Kelly Hey cotton Redemption, who do we have here Dylan? It is the rookie's autographs card 19 of Damian Pierce Damian Pierce going to Texas Damian Pierce on the rookie's insert auto they go Texans Yeah, there was that and then there was the uh Garrett Wilson as well Yeah, very true. There's Jermaine Johnson there to uh, two 99 Jets rated rookie and here is rookie king short print. This one's going to be Desmond Ritter We go on the rookie king short print. I said they're Falcons Falcons doing well Taekwon Thornton They have a little print line, but I think that some of those do have that I think it's that uh that design There is uh, there's a dent on this dam arena That one is dented. We'll send a box with the Miami spot here Louis scene. There is Devontae Smith to two 99 light blue. Alec Pierce Here's box four. Good luck guys. This is half case number 24 Again, we got Sam starting in about an hour. He'll be doing some more group breaks And he has personal's at the end of the night You guys are trying to get involved in some group breaks. Check out our website like the sportscards.com for spots Sauce Garner, Gridiron Kings We are Temmie. We are Justin Herbert lighted up John Michi There's a hollow of David and Joku Alante Taylor rated rookie Come on. Where's the green? Where's the gold vinyl? There's Andrew Booth to two 99 for the Vikings rated rookie. That's gold That is gonna be John Elway going to the Broncos on the retro series gold That one is numbered five of ten. There we go Broncos Nice hit Denver and a Brock Herty rookie base. Nice pack there. There's a my house. Hollow. Can you pick it? Romeo Dobbs rated rookie You like those Steve? I like those uh, I like pretty much all the inserts in this set this year There's mantra Washington to one 99 Broncos again Broncos hitting while this uh, this box. Yeah, I like those throwbacks I like piercerated rookie base It's a 199. We got uh, Nick Bosa. This one's got a big dent in it Oh, you can see right there a whole corner got bent up So we'll send a box with the Niners spot as well Wanda Robinson. Hope everyone's having a good Saturday. Got Sam coming up soon. Oh, wow. They got Drake London on the blue ice Number to 15 There we go Falcons Seven of 15 Boom Very nice hit there for the Falcons. We'll get that one magged Goodness gracious Yeah, these have been some really nice cases of optic, man Here is the 179 Eddie Jackson Maddie Corral. Holy cow, man This case alone is had a ridiculous amount of color. Yeah Here's a this one is Hasan Reddick number to 65 there you go Steve on the subs Keep on tip it out. Hollow radio rookie Aiden Hutchinson another nice card here Jelani Woods Here is the rookie's insert auto. This one's Johan Dotson to 99 You go football team with the uh black Pandora Johan Dotson as well football team doing well Amanda's There's a purple this one is Devin Lloyd number to 50 rated rookie for the Jags Holy cow 13 of 50 all the color seems to be like rated rookies too, man. This is Going well got stadium circles to 125 hundred renfro 100 renfro couldn't do it that's eyes He's too distracted Couldn't keep staring. I had to give it up There's Jalen Tolbert. I'm not quite long enough.  Troy Anderson rated rookie Here's Jeffrey Simmons to uh, 299 hollow Jonathan Allen Commanders Nicobi D Alrighty guys two boxes left. This is case 24. Good luck guys This has been quite a case man. This in the last break There's been crazy numbers out of this case A bunch of Pandoras Golds Keep it going Two boxes left So 299 Tyler Boyd Furious George Redemption again It's time we got rated rookie autographs hollow. That should be to 150 It is Garrett Wilson going to the Jets Jets keep eating man. Garrett Wilson on-card auto to 150 on that one. Here we go Jets to 199 Jair Alexander The pack there is quandre digs on the jazz nice one there I like the jazz. That's cool. Uh, cool parallel hollow Jalen waddle Petrie Dominators Mahomi Rashad Whites Lipsky's up three now. What the heck? We're not paying very good attention. There's bohemafated 299 Seahawks. There's like drastic changes every time we look up Damian Pierce. I guess we did see Matsuyama kind of blow it there. There's a Petrie hollow Rated rookie. There's a rookies Malik Willis probably just the angle I saw it up Desmond Ritter. Ooh nice one here to 299 or 199. Sorry Desmond Ritter Rated rookie to 199 for the Falcons. Falcons doing well again Nice one there on the Ritter Tyrion Davis Price There's T. Higgins purple to 50 T. Derrick Stingley Sorry about that Robert. Yeah, the uh, I think the only rookie is the tight end right the uh Trey McBride. I don't know, they also have another one Yeah, it's just tougher to find them I guess. Well, let's see if we can get some here in the last couple boxes There's Damarino to 79. Pink Velocity for the Finns. Johan Dotson There's a throwback retro series Emmett Smith Treson Ebner Hollow DJ Moore Oh really? You pulled the gold vinyl yesterday? Nice Robert. That's who I was thinking. I'll count the Ingram Nice I gotta start the uh, I gotta start the uh rainbow now White hot rookies Malik Willis hollow There's a gravy gardener Four packs left and we got one box 299 Jay Jetta Bailey Zappy rated rookie Montgomery Brian Cook It's another purple this time. It's Cordero Patterson to 50. This has been a crazy case for the color Cordero Patterson to 50 now for the Hawks or the Falcons. Dang it Save myself the first time now. I'm gonna do it every time. There's a green now. Come on This is gonna be George Carlotis for the Chiefs there rated rookie three of 35 nice hit chiefs This dude is a beast man. He throws himself all over the field Nice green there to 35 Breeze Hall And one pack or one box left. This has been quite a colored case here, man Really nice stuff. Good luck on the last one here guys 299 Buddha Baker. There's a James Cook. It's a 299 Uh, rated rookie blue ice to 99. We've got the rookies insert auto. It's gonna be Kenny Pickett Here we go, uh Steelers Trent D with the Steelers Killing it Trent. That is 49 of 99. We'll get that one back for you too Sam Howell rated rookie. It's a 199 Kyler Murray Trent McDuffie rated rookie. There's a jazz. This one is Matt Ryan on the jazz short print Jake Ferguson, Hollow Harrison Smith We've got a hollow Montrell Washington rated rookie. Yeah, JT. It's not your Sunday I thought it was Sunday here to a 199 Skymore rated rookie. What's going on JT? How you doing? Greg D Jalen Tolbert rated rookie base pack there got Eli Manning now pink velocity to 79 I think this is the second pink velocity Eli Nicoby Dean Fight it up Jalen Hertz, John Michi That is true, Timmy. That is very true. That is true Desmond Ritter the rookies insert Martin Emerson There's a purple to 50 Derek Brown going to the Panthers there Derek Brown to 50 Ken Walker Yeah, doing well JT doing well Got a hollow Cordero Roger McCreary just a couple packs here won't be done for the morning shift And we got Sam coming in at five It's not too long from now Got a retro series Tony Dorsett Kate Otten Pandora that's the one easy. All right This one is diamond hands black Pandora of davante Adams. That is a sick-looking guard Nice one there for the Raiders That is five of 25. There we go Raiders It's a really nice Raiders hit so far That is a sweet-looking one, man That one is clean they do they do have some great ones and they all look good with color The 299 Cam Jordan Calvin Austin just three packs left guys We've got a purple to 50. This is going to be Hollywood For the Cardinals there number to 50 Hollywood Brown Snoop Conner raided rookie and last pack not last pack blue ice of chris olave Boom, there we go saints Last pack magic for the saints that one is five of 15 What a case this was man Great and right there. We'll mag that for you saints the alec pierce on the back All righty really nice case there guys. We'll do a hit recap real quick We started with the rookie king's short print there desmond raider nice hit for the uh for the falcons We have johann dotson black uh velocity 25 or sorry black uh, um pandora That is black pandora cow phillips raider rookie for the titans black pandora equanuk for the uh panthers Got a black pandora davante adams. That is diamond uh diamond hands insert. Those are all the 25 We have gold elway retro series for the broncos Got jets garret wilson on the hollow raided rookie to 150 Um damian pierce texan's auto. We got gravey gardener to 150 on the base raided rookie We've got johann dotson on the rookie's insert to 99 nicobi dean to 50 on the uh pink velocity We had a blazers jo burrow there nice hit on these short print blazers We had blue to 179 kenny picket nice blue there for the uh Steelers we had a kenny picket rookie's auto We had blue ice drake london to 15 and we had chris olave uh raided rookie to 15 blue ice Wow wow wow what a case there guys Really nice break and that will do it for us tonight guys


Hi and welcome to the session, let us discuss the following question, question says, find the shortest distance between lines r vector is equal to 6i plus 2j plus 2k plus lambda multiplied by i minus 2j plus 2k and r vector is equal to minus 4i minus k plus mu multiplied by 3i minus 2j minus 2k. First of all, let us understand that shortest distance between these two lines is given by modulus of b1 vector cross b2 vector dot a2 vector minus a1 vector upon modulus of b1 vector cross b2 vector. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution.  Now comparing these two equations of the lines with the equations of the lines given in key idea, we get a1 vector is equal to 6i plus 2j plus 2k b1 vector is equal to i minus 2j plus 2k vector a2 is equal to minus 4i minus k and vector b2 is equal to 3i minus 2j minus 2k. Now from key idea we know shortest distance between two given lines is modulus of b1 vector cross b2 vector dot a2 vector minus a1 vector upon modulus of b1 vector cross b2 vector. Now first upon let us find out difference of a2 vector and a1 vector. It is given by minus 4i minus k minus 6i plus 2j plus 2k. Now subtracting corresponding components of these two vectors we get minus 10i minus 2j minus 3k is equal to vector a2 minus vector a1. Now we will find cross product of b1 vector and b2 vector it is given by determinant of unit vector i unit vector j unit vector k 1 minus 2 2 3 minus 2 minus 2. Now expanding this determinant with respect to first row we get 8i plus 8j plus 4k is equal to b1 vector cross b2 vector. Now we will find out modulus of b1 vector cross b2 vector it is given by square root of 8 square plus 8 square plus 4 square. Now simplifying further we get square root of 144 adding these three terms we get 144. Now square root of 144 is equal to 12. Now we will find b1 vector cross b2 vector dot a2 vector minus a1 vector. Now we know b1 vector cross b2 vector is equal to 8i plus 8j plus 4k dot a2 vector minus a1 vector is equal to minus 10i minus 2j minus 3k. Now we will find dot product of these two vectors by multiplying corresponding components. Multiplying 8i by minus 10i we get minus 18. Similarly multiplying these two components we get minus 16 and multiplying 4k by minus 3k we get minus 12. Now simplifying further we get this is equal to minus 108. Now we get shortest distance between the given two lines is equal to modulus of minus 108 upon 12. We know shortest distance between two given lines is given by this formula and clearly we can see we have just found numerator of this formula is equal to minus 108 and denominator is equal to 12. As shown in these two expressions now simplifying further we get shortest distance between two lines is equal to 9. So this is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


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Webican, great defense today. Mary Mark, you saw the great goal. She scored just a great day in general. So let's start with Taylor on my right. Talk a little bit about what your coach, coach Kathy Rayleigh was talking about. You know, three losses to start. The big win today, the team stayed together and I think you showed that today. Yeah, I think the big reason for our win today was our energy. That was something we were lacking in keeping it all 60 minutes of the game. And but today we had great energy all 60 minutes and we were just rooting. Even if you made a mistake, we were just rooting for each other. We had each other's backs. Us, the sideline especially, we couldn't have won without the sideline and our fans and it was just great energy all around. So they hadn't played a game yet this year, but did you watch a film of them from last year? So you were aware of this offensive juggernaut that this team was last year? We studied their plays really well. I think we do great with watching film and we go outside of practice to watch film and like text each other or text your teammates and just make sure that we, you know, know their plays. Like I think today we scouted them perfectly. We knew their plays, we knew what they were doing and we knew how to stop them. All right, so I'm gonna turn over here to Mary Mark for just a minute. Huge goal for Mary on a fast break off a great clear from the goalkeeper, Sophie Shikofsky. Just talk about your effort today and about the team's effort. I think we went from the past couple of games being very individual to using our emotions and using each other. I feel like before we were kind of just depending on two people, you know, McKenna and Carol. And I think those two bring giving everyone else a chance to go to goal and use each other really, really helped us a lot because then we all had faith in each other. And once we got into the groove a little bit you had faith in your teammate that they would catch that ball, that they would score off that, that their shot placement would be great. So I think it was just having faith in everyone and when everyone made a mistake, building them up after that mistake and helping them figure out how they can fix that mistake. So your coach was talking about Fun Mary, okay? And that you enjoyed the game she thought and I think you would agree all 60 minutes today. How did that happen? Like what happened to you today? I think 100% was the energy coming to locker room. I was coming down the elevator. I could hear the music from the elevator downstairs which you know it's really loud if it was. You came in, the music was on from like, we went out at 11 for a shoot around till 12 o'clock when we went out for warmups and we continued that energy dancing whatever out onto the field. Our whole warmup was such high energy. When somebody made a mistake we rallied around them and the next play they did great in the warmup and then I think that energy just kind of carried in whereas our other games it was kind of, it was some people were having good energy but other people weren't coming up with them but I think today 100% across the board everyone was on the same page about energy. Let me turn it over to Taylor here for a second. Talk about the week of practice. You were coming off an 0 and 3 against three top 10 teams, playing another top 10 team today. Was practice different this week at all? I think it was different because we always knew that we could do it. So we, I feel like we practiced more of like trying to calm down, calm ourselves down, let those losses like light a fire under us and just get it going. We did, one thing I think that was awesome was we did a team dinner before this game and I think we should do it before every game because yeah it obviously works and just the team chemistry I feel like got a lot better this week. We did a lot better at lifting each other up after you make a mistake. Like I don't even know how many mistakes I had in a game because there was no like you make a mistake and you just keep going and I feel like everyone who played today could say that. Well, I gotta tell you, it was the first women's game that I've called for Stevenson this year and I'm coming back next week, okay? Because these guys are awesome. Taylor, thank you so much. Mary, coach, everybody, awesome job today. 11-10 the final over a tough St. John Fisher team and we will see you next time right here on Go Mustang Sports.tv.


we're so glad that you're joining us here on Hope Today. Did you know that your God is pursuing your heart right in this very moment? There is so much hope as we lean into the love of our Savior. I'm Anna and I'm here with Sydney today and Sid, we've got a powerful story and a guest today. We truly do and I love Anna how you said it's just time to lean in to God because he is passionately pursuing you and you don't wanna miss our upcoming conversation with one man who was saved from the grip of addiction and a near-death experience on a cliff. Author and speaker Michael J. Hale will be joining us today to share God's relentless pursuit to save how God saved his life and how he changed and turned his life around. I know so many of you, you know, you may have family members, loved ones, maybe even yourself are battling through addiction, struggling through addiction and we just wanna take this time and bringing this story to you to provide hope, to provide just a safe place to just understand what people are walking through and going through but we truly believe this is going to be a transformational story that is truly going to inspire you and to encourage you and to give you that love that you need today. Yeah, absolutely. He definitely has a story that will bring you so much hope because I know there are many of you watching who you have a child who is not walking on the path that God has laid out for them that they are going a different direction, that they're doing their own thing. They're like the prodigal son that we read about in the Bible. And as you listen to Michael's story, you will just be reminded of how God is a God who constantly has his eye on the one that has gone astray. He will leave the 99 and go after the one.  It truly is going to be good because we know addiction, it just doesn't affect us here in Pittsburgh and there's across the country, it affects so many families, so many flies. And that's why we're so grateful for our guest today who says drug addiction numbed the pain of his hopeless worldview. Say from the group of substance abuse and a near death experience, Michael Hale is on a mission to support anyone facing addiction, helplessness, depression, suicide, or lack of purpose. In his book, Pursuit, he shares his unique experience and spiritual journey of overcoming the power of addiction. Michael, we are so happy that you are with us today. Thank you, Sidney, I am so grateful to be here. Yeah, and it's truly a miracle that you are here. And so before we, we're gonna dive really deep into your story, but can you first tell us how did addiction start for you? It started just with weed. The first time I tried weed, I thought that it was something that I could try and not need. And my friends were doing it and it gave me an immediate social group. And when I did it after that first time, I needed more and more and more and at some point I couldn't function without it. And that's the tricky thing with addiction is it enslaves us. Is the more we have, the more we need. It poses as an answer to our questions, to our problems, but it never delivers what we're looking for. Yeah, it never delivers what we're looking for. So right, and weed is like a gateway drug and so there was other drugs that came into the mix. What other things did you fall into? So after I got addicted to weed, whenever I couldn't find it, I would use alcohol, I would use prescription pills, I would use over-the-counter pills. And before long, I got arrested. I got arrested a series five times in five months and I was in the system. And so then you're still addicted, but you're trying to use drugs that don't show up in your system. So then you start on the hard drugs because those get out of your system quicker. And at some point you really can't function without anything. I was on meth or heroin was my drug of choice, cocaine, ecstasy, acid, all of it. Every day that I would wake up and the first thing I would look for was some sort of substance. You know that, I know that's so true for so many of those who struggle with substance abuse. And so just wanna ask you, Michael, was there ever a point when you realized you're like, you know what, I have completely spiraled out of control in the midst of your addiction? There were dozens of points like that and surprisingly hitting rock bottom couldn't wake me up. I was too stubborn because I believed the lie that this world tells us that this life is all we have and that we need to live it to its fullest. And I thought that drugs and partying and hooking up were the way to do that. That's what the world told me, that's what Hollywood told me. And so I just flew after those things. But the more I got, the more messed up I was. And at some point when I was getting paid to party, I was getting, I had everything you could want and look for and people around me were envious because I had all the hookups and all these worldly pleasures. And yet at night when I went to sleep, I would hit myself in the face. I just felt so empty and broken. You know, Michael, I feel like what you're sharing is sometimes I don't think a lot of us who have struggled with substance abuse understand that hopelessness and that shame.  You know, you're getting high, feeling good, sleeping with the ladies, and then you're by yourself in your room. What was that like, those moments for you? In those moments, I didn't have something to numb me. And the reality of my situation was everything I'd based my life on was fleeting and temporary. I'd based my life on other people who were just as insecure as I was. And I'd based my life on hedonism, a feeling in my brain, a dopamine dump. I had based my life on popularity and all of those things were temporary. And what I was looking for, what I needed was hope for something longer than this life. I needed God's hope to break into my darkness. Just like it's so, like that darkness just to penetrate into your heart.  And you mentioned earlier that, you know, you said there was five times that you were locked up behind bars. And one thing I love that you wrote about is just this moment you really had with God, just being on that concrete slab. Can you take us to the, even that moment of just being behind bars and the reality of what your addiction brought you to? Yes, absolutely. I had just gotten arrested or stealing and disturbing the peace and trying to evade arrest because I tried to run from the cops. And this police officer, there was several police officers who had me in room interrogating me. And when they finally pulled me to the station, he was saying, look kid, with a record like yours, your life is over, you're going to prison. And your life is done. And there's not really anything you can do about it. And when I went into that holding cell, I just wept because I had felt like my life was over, even before it started.  And I felt like I had ruined everything and there was no coming back. And I just fell on the ground and wept until there was snot dripping from my nose. And I couldn't stop weeping. And I had no air in my lungs and all of a sudden I felt God enter that jail cell. And I was crying out to him. I just said, God, I've ran from you my whole life. And I don't know what you look like or if you're there, but I need you, I need something right now. And I felt him break into that jail cell. And there's this beautiful verse in Titus that says, you once were enslaved to various passions, but the grace of God has broken into your life and it has changed everything. And it says this grace is not deserved by you and it's not given because of your works or because of anything you've done. It's given by God's goodness alone because he cares for you. And then it goes on to say he will wash you clean through the renewing of his Holy Spirit and give you a new start. And I really felt like that's what he did in that jail cell, but the hard thing was I didn't know how to stop doing all these addictions. I built up all these habits over years and years and stopping was something I didn't know how to do. And I also didn't know how to learn more about God because I always thought church was not the place to find him. You know, Michael, I just like love what you're sharing of that, just even that visual just seeing you like, I mean, I don't think a lot of us can understand of just being in that concrete slab, just asking God just to come and feel that dark place in your life and that his grace discovered you and he was pursuing you all along.  Can you talk to us about that? Because on this journey that you've been through, I know like an NA and AA, there's a talk of higher power, but for you it was like, there has to be a distinct difference between who your higher power is. Can you talk to us about that? Absolutely. As I mentioned, I was so hesitant to consider the God of Christianity. I don't know why. It's a spiritual warfare thing. It's, I was willing to accept any other explanation other than the God of the Bible. And so I was looking for what my higher power is. And in NA and AA, they talk about your higher power, can't be an inanimate object. It can't be yourself. It can't be your toothbrush. It has to be something real and something concrete. And I tried all these different religions and I tried Buddhism, but I realized I wasn't good enough to follow the eight-fold moral pathway. And Buddhism promises if you're good enough then you might attain some form of peace, maybe if you do everything right. And I couldn't do that. And I believed in karma. You get what you deserve. But then I realized I had messed up so much.  And I looked into the Greek gods and the Norse mythology and I saw they murdered their father and used his blood to create the universe. And I realized that's really gruesome. And I don't want to worship someone like that. The Greek gods basically are giant versions of us that they're drunkards and they're rapists and they're no better than us. And none of those alternatives were worthy of worship. So I kept looking at all these different places and I tried positive psychology. Just you are what you think. And the reality was my thoughts are sometimes awful and sometimes discouraging. And if I was happy all the time I would be delusional because that's not real life. Real life is hard. And Jesus says in this life there will be much tribulation but do not fear for I've overcome this world. And everywhere I looked, there wasn't an answer. There wasn't a real God who was concrete and tangible and could answer my prayers.  That is the definition of Christianity. We are all guilty, every one of us. And He breaks us free anyway because He loves us that much. Even though we don't deserve it, even though we'll never deserve it. He has set His eyes on us. He has determined to pursue us and He will not ever let us go. It is His love that He loves to chase us down with His love. And Michael, you also had a really powerful encounter and experience it. You had a near death experience and encountered the rock of ages. Can you share that testimony and that part of your story with us? Yes, so as you said, God kept pursuing me and I kept looking at all these other places. So in college, my first night in college, I met three born-again Christians and they would not stop talking about Jesus. And I'd never seen anything like it. And they believed in speaking in tongues and they believed Holy Spirit heals. And meeting these people, my mind was open to this world. Wow, maybe everything written in the Bible is real and it still happens today. That was the first time I had that realization. God is here and He's still doing these things. And everywhere I went on campus, we had a campus of over 30,000 students. I kept seeing these same three people and they kept inviting me to Bible studies and I couldn't shake them. I couldn't avoid them. And none of us had the same majors. It was just God working it out. And their influence on me just made me realize they had something I'd always been looking for. They had Jesus.  And His peace lasts. Everything in this world is fleeting and temporary. And as soon as it's gone, we need more. And it doesn't actually carry us through the storms. It numbs us and makes us incapable of facing our problems in life. And so as these people spoke into my life, I found God's hope and I realized he was everything I needed and wanted. And during that time I had an accident. I shattered my femur on a boulder in the back country. My leg was detached from the rest of my body and the bone was hanging diagonally about to protrude out of my flesh. And in that moment, I was weeping and screaming and I felt like I was dying. I wanted to die to escape the pain, but as I sat there, I prayed, I said, God, I know that if you want to, you can help me, but if not, thank you for everything you've ever done in my life. And at that moment, two white crosses in a background of red descended on me on that steep mountain cliff. And it was two ski patrol who had an hour long lunch break and God sent them right where I was at the moment I needed them.   So here I am on a mountain. I think I'm dying.  And I just remember a passage that my friend had sent me that morning that said, Jesus will be the strength in your weaknesses. And I just kept clinging to that. I just kept saying the name of Jesus over and over again. And every time I said his name, he lifted the pain. And I thought, I can survive this. I can fight through this.  It takes 1800 pounds of pressure per square inch to break your femur. And it takes only two pounds of pressure per square inch to break those arteries. So 1800 pounds of pressure tore apart my bone, cutting it diagonally. They tore apart my muscles, my tendons, my ligaments, everything in my leg, but not even one to two of those pounds of pressure touched my artery. And so God was protecting me. And all I knew was he should have let me die because I'd lived my whole life in rebellion to him.  And that changed everything. Just, I feel like just listening to your story, I just feel like we're just all so touched about just how God stepped in. And he said, my son, not yet. I have so much more for you to do. Michael, can you just take a moment and to pray for that person that really can resonate and connect with your story and what you've walked through. And they may be in that situation right now. Can you just take a moment and to pray for them? Yes. Lord, thank you so much that you are the God who loves us, even when we are incorrigible, even when our brokenness is so big.  God, you are the God of breakthrough.   I am the life. I am the way. And the truth will set you free. I will set you free. That's you, Jesus. You are everything. You are our hope and our deepest pit of despair. And I just pray, Lord, for anyone listening to this right now that you would meet them. I pray that you would comfort them and encourage them and let them know they do not need to live as a slave, that you can set them free. That no matter how dark it is, that you are bigger, that you can cure, that you can heal, that you are a God who cures diseases. And even if alcoholism or any other thing is afflicting us and infecting our minds that God, you are greater. So we submit our hearts to you. Lord, you are our answer. You're everything we're looking for. Please help us come to you. Please help us find community. Please help us share our brokenness with the people around us and plug in instead of pulling away. And we pray, Lord Jesus, guide us in your precious name, amen. Amen. We shall know the truth and the truth self set us free. Michael, thank you so much for sharing your story, your journey and inspiring those that are in the grips of addiction and hopelessness we know today that hearts were truly touched, transformed and changed. Thank you also for all that you do in the kingdom because God is using you all around the world to share your story. So we're so grateful you took the time to share your story with us today. Thank you, Sydney. You're welcome. And we just encourage all of you. This book is called Pursuit. God's Relentless Pursuit and a Drug Addicts Journey to Finding Purpose. Michael Hale, we'll have a link on our website at ctvn.org so you can find out more about Michael and a link to this book. And we will be right back in and I. We wanna speak right to your heart if you're dealing with hopelessness and need a little spiritual pick me up. We're right here with you. We'll be right back. Every now and then life gets the best of us and we need a reminder to keep calm and trust God. Simple but striking, the keep calm and trust God box of blessings provides messages of reassurance to help carry you through tough and challenging times. 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And today I just, I want to encourage you to never stop praying for that loved one who you think is too far gone, who has hit rock bottom so many times and you think that there's no more hope or if you're struggling with depression or suicidal thoughts that we see this epidemic among teenagers where they're struggling with that and has such a strong grip. And yet as we heard Michael talk about how God put three Christians in His path the first day that He got to college, how in each place that He was, He didn't have His parents with Him to rescue Him. No, God was there to rescue Him through strategic people that God placed in their lives and it does give us so much hope. Yeah, as you're talking and I just think about the one that you feel like your backup is up against the wall, that you feel so hopeless and so downtrodden and you just feel like I don't want to do this for another day. That maybe you've heard those thoughts of suicide, maybe you've had those deep dark nights of the soul and you're like, God, do you see me? God, do you hear me? But I am reminded of one of my darkest seasons in my life of a scripture that God revealed to me as I was crying out to Him on my knees is that there's a scripture in Psalms and I can't remember exactly where it is but it says that God is near to those who call out to Him. So every time that you let out that scream, every time you feel like you can't move another step, He is the God that is right near to you. And in those moments where you feel like you can't breathe or you don't know how things are gonna take or turn, just take a step, take a moment to pause, to breathe and to receive the breath because that's the Holy Spirit that is inside of you. And if you have breath still in your body and your lungs, there is still purpose for you. And also we encourage you, do not go through anything alone. Call out for help. Maybe today that you are in that place, maybe you are that person that is struggling with addiction or maybe you have a different situation. Give us a call at our prayer line at<PHONE_NUMBER> because the one thing we know is that I think about the Trinity. God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, they don't operate alone and they created us and their image and so we are not called to function alone. We are here for you. There truly is power in community and being brave and just taking that first step to talk to someone that is near to you that you know is a safe person and who will help you show you just even that very next step to take, to walk into freedom. We wanna just bring you the scripture for today because it reminds us of how God uses the foolish things of this world to shame the wise of this world that in God's kingdom, he is not looking for somebody who has it all together, the best and the brightest. Listen to this scripture from 1 Corinthians 1 27 through 29. It says, but God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise. God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. God chose the lowly things of this world and the despised things and the things that are not to nullify the things that are so that no one may boast before him. So today, if you feel like you're in the category of foolish or weak or despised or lowly, well, guess what? You're exactly who God is after. His salvation is a free gift and it doesn't matter how far you've gone away from his will, how much you've messed up. God is the God of making masterpieces out of dust, out of nothing, out of brokenness. In fact, when you're broken, that's when God can best use you and build you back up to make you the person that he created you to be. And as you were speaking, I just saw this vision of talking about being broken. God loves a broken and contrite spirit and I just saw this light of like, it's like, you're like split open, but the light comes in. And I think of this song from Stephanie Gretzens or if you have a chance, looking up on YouTube, it's so beautiful. It's like, open up and let the light in. Let the light in of God. Let the light shine on those hurt places, those dark places, those broken places. Let his light permeate every part of your being.  Have a good one. Cornerstone Television wishes to thank all our faithful viewers, whose consistent prayers and financial support have made this program possible.