Hello and welcome to NewsClick. This is a very special program in which we are going to be talking about history, but of a different kind of history. History normally in India is seen essentially, especially in the last few years, as some kind of a civilizational conflict. Very recently you had the Chief Minister of Haryana advising his advisors or his supporters. The best way to get into history books is by beating up protesters. We are not going to be talking about anything of this kind of history. We are instead, we are going to be talking about history in the context of a very important book, which has just recently come out. The book has been written by Thomas Manuel and it's called the Opium Inc. Incorporated, How a Global Drug Trade Funded the British Empire. First of all, thank you Thomas Manuel for joining us on this program. I'm also joined by the editor-in-chief of NewsClick, Prabhupurakas, who is going to be also giving his perspective on the book and also the subject matter of the book. So let me begin by asking Thomas, what was the importance of opium, the trade of opium in British colonialism in India? I know that in your book you have very succinctly put it, that is your central theme that the British got tea, the Chinese got opium and Indians got colonialism. Can you explain on this a bit? Yeah, so that neat kind of formulation is actually from the historian Tan Cho, who was Indian and Chinese origin. And so the way that I see it is that when we think about the material forces behind the British Empire, we know what their major sources of income were. We know land revenue was important. That is kind of in popular culture. The salt revenue was important. Again, that's kind of like seared into our understanding of history because of Gandhi's March and things like that. But at its peak, the third highest revenue source for the British was opium. And this is something that I think a lot of people don't quite know. So how did the opium trade arise? The way that I see it based on my readings is that essentially the British had this challenge of they had conquered parts of India starting with Bengal. And that's where the opium trade also was started. Yeah, but they had this problem of how to make this Indian colony cash positive. Like how do they make it and their return on this kind of like this huge military cost outlay in conquering more territory and maintaining this country like how to like recoup those costs. And especially because they had this ongoing silver crisis. So what was happening at that time was they were importing tea from China. Now kind of like tea at this point was kind of national obsession for the British. The British government itself almost one tenth of its revenue that point of time was coming from import duties on tea. There was just this huge quantity of tea that was going from China to Britain. And the problem was the Chinese were not willing to accept really like any goods in exchange. They wanted silver. And the British were at a point where almost like their entire physical reserves of silver had almost become zero because they had just given so much of it was just flowing into China constantly. They needed something else to sell to the Chinese in exchange for tea. And at the same time, they had this Indian colony which was growing, which was not really productive in the way that they wanted it to be productive. They were looking at how do we make money off this. And they kind of looked at these two problems and they found their solution in the opium trade, which they started at a huge kind of like mass scale in what is now Bengal and Bihar. And they would, even though it was illegal in China, most of its existence, they would kind of sell it to the Chinese. It is an addictive drug and they kind of smuggled in China, pushed it on the Chinese to some extent. And once the demand for that grew, that was enough for them to continue their own tea habit. Okay, okay. Praveed, your opening thoughts on the importance of opium and its trade, for the rise and the growth and the consolidation of the British colonialism in India. Let's take a little step back. If we look at the entire empire building which came out of a handful of West European countries in this period. It is really the French, the British, the Dutch and even the Spanish and the Portuguese. Now, you will see that there is a link in all of this and the link, as Thomas says, is of course, one part of it is bullion, which comes from the loot of the Americas, Spanish particularly. And then it comes into the European countries through Amsterdam, the Dutch actually. But then how do they get a positive balance? It comes to the balance of trade issue, which is also what is there currently in different countries. But the balance of trade that they had a problem, because they were not able to produce anything that either China or India, the two largest land masses, the populations if we will, required. And they were actually buying either textiles from India and tea and other textiles also from China. How did they balance their books? The Dutch actually started the opium trade first in East Indies, Portuguese to Macau into China. The British, who by the time had got the land revenues of the Bengal, this area, which becomes the Bengal presidency. And then they were funding their military expansion through the land revenue. But they needed something else as well. Thomas says that it is accidentally that opium. So that is how Bengal becomes the first trade. No, it's interesting. Bengal becomes a trading center. But it's grown really from Bihar and UPI. That's the area if you see. Bengal, as you know, becomes the Indigo area as well as Bihar. And Indigo also is something which is known historically, was also used particularly for this kind of purposes. Also salt Peter, but the basic trade balancing with China takes place to opium. And as we know, the British as well as the Europeans fought opium wars, because they wanted to open up China. And the British were doing it for them. And therefore the opium wars are fought for the right to sell opium to the Chinese people, while they did not sell, they in fact banned the consumption of opium, trade of opium into Britain itself. So that is the duplicity of the British if you will. But then we have always known British have been duplicitous in their empire building. So it's also interesting that the history of Western Empire, the mercantile empires of this period is based on slave trade, based on opium, what throaty calls addictive substances. It's not only opium, but he also categorizes, for instance, tea, coffee, tobacco, including sugar as essentially as addictive substances. So this is what the West European empires are based on. And of course, slave trade. Yeah, you look up some. Yes, you were also talking about slave trade. We talk about it a bit later.  Right after that, there was the pandemic. So obviously, there were, you know, limitations of what all you could explore. But whatever little you were able to, you know, read up and whatever you were able to research, you know, Prabir was talking about that though Bengal became the main trading center of opium. It was essentially Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, which became the areas where it was produced. But there were large parts of India also, you know, in completely different geographical area, the Malwa region specifically. And then the Bombay became a major trading center. You know, from you in your book, you have spent considerable time, both on Bombay, as well as on the Malwa chapters of the opium trade, if I can, can you just elaborate a bit on it? Yeah, so the British had declared a monopoly on opium in India. They decided that they were the only ones that had the right to grow it. And this was before they had conquered all of the Indian territory. They were just declaring this monopoly on even on lands that they didn't conquer. So they discovered somewhere around the beginning of the 19th century that opium from India, but that didn't come through them was coming into China and kind of like disrupting their markets and things like that. And then they discovered that there was this kind of growing opium trade out of out of Western India, out of the Malwa plateau, which is sort of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, places like that. And basically, various kingdoms and the Maratha Confederacy at that time were seeing the high price that opium was going for was kind of like participating in this trade. And the British tried to kind of stop it at various times. I think they spent almost like 30 years negotiating treaties with everybody trying to either become the sole buyers of all the opium they produced or telling them to stop growing it, but paying them some kind of like some money to compensate for that. But eventually in about 1830, they decided that they couldn't stop this smuggling. They called it smuggling. And they basically made it legal. They said, you can export it through Bombay as long as you pay a kind of transit duty at Bombay. And this is huge for Bombay as a city because suddenly all this opium is going through there, Bombay becomes rich. Like all of these like Parsi traders primarily, but also like various other communities like other. There are Muslim, mercantile communities as well. And basically like they become immensely wealthy. And that's kind of like how I came into this, like I was researching the Parsi trader Jamsat Gigi boy for the Hindu, like you said. And the amount of money that this man accumulated in his lifetime in the 19th century is truly absurd. We're talking about like 40 crores and things like that at that point of time, like he becomes the first, like he becomes a full-time philanthropist. He earns himself the title of baronet, like the queen gives him a hereditary title. He's the first kind of like Indian to do that. And the idea that such wealth could be accumulated in India by non-British traders to me is fascinating and under discussed, right? The role of Indian merchants in colonization generally. You also mentioned about philanthropy, the JJ School of Art and the hospital, Praveen, you have also given considerable thought on the various communities which are involved in the OPM trade and also the regions. What are the basic issues or the facts that you have come across which is largely unknown? I think it's interesting because a lot of these facts have been also airbrushed out of history because the Indian bourgeoisie also was not interested in people finding out their antecedents. Just as the English bourgeoisie was not interested in finding out where Jordan Madison's money comes from, it becomes a huge business empire later, still today. How Hong Kong Shanghai Bank is formed. So all those things are also airbrushed out of history. So you also have the Indian bourgeoisie also not willing to talk about their antecedents and a lot of it, as Thomas says, came out of what would be called the Bombay Belt and that was really initially trading. Then the branch out into different things from Label Docks to Steel Plant as Tata's did, but a lot of that money came from OPM wealth that they accumulated and the relationship between the Indian Bombay based industries later and initially merchants and the Hong Kong links are very deep and they really had even offices over there that were operated very closely and Thomas's Hindu article that talks about, talks about how it happened that Jordan meets Tata and that's where it sort of the whole thing starts from. So all of this history is fascinating because also a lot of the Malwa intermediaries become also later on important as industrial houses. So I think that history needs to be... You also got to understand, you talk about the Malwa region, it continues to be a very major OPM growing region in India even now where a large amount of OPM smuggling and illicit trade is also continuing. If you actually try to understand the historical and the social footprint of OPM trade, very little is known about it in India. What can we actually decipher that who are the people who are part of the OPM trade both in terms... I'm not talking only about the export which is going on to China but also about what was the situation as far as domestic consumption was concerned pre-British and during the British period also. I think that OPM was used widely but it was never a major element in terms of what you saw in China for instance. It really mass enslavement to OPM as an economic force of imperialism. So that organized difference that distributed OPM use, gaja, hash and all that. That's been a part of Indian culture that in fact is not the major economic driver. It is the cost of OPM which is what bankrupts China and this huge flow that takes place from China into Europe takes place mainly through the British. So that is the imperialist footprint of OPM in China. That is not so important in India. That's also what Robert says that was also important to register that British grew OPM in the Bengal Presidency, UPNR. Malwa it was decentralized, it was grown locally, it was procured by intermediaries, went to Bombay for export, also goad Daman in view from which it was also smuggled and Bombay. Daman became a major port from where it was and in fact there's a smuggling from Bombay into also into Portuguese ports that take place over there. But the impact on Indian people, OPM as an addictive substance was not there. We already had the British and they were also interested in introducing tea in India from which they made money. So the implications of all this go much deeper. How did British, enslaved China and India, of course China, other imperial countries were also there. So I think that's a very interesting history that we need to bring back because China and India at the time that Manuel talks about were the two richest countries in the world in terms of the trade, what they produced and what goes out to the world. If you see what's called the GDP figures, if we translate them, these are the two largest economies. India gets deindustrialized once cotton extents come from Britain and you get a reverse post industrial revolution but that's a lot later. That's really a part of the industrial revolution if you see takes this in the second half of the 19th century. That's a lot later than the period we are discussing at the moment. So the first part of it really comes from loot of these countries, use of opium and then of course the slave trade. These are the drivers of what we see transformation of mercantile empires then into industrial empires and then reversal of trade from what was buying from these countries selling it to Europe and other markets and then reversal that we then get deindustrialized in India because of the importance of textile. Thomas what we are definitely seeing through in the course of this discussion that the opium trade had devastating effect on the Indian economy and on the lives of the people of this country also. Despite that in the 20th century when the national movement picks up, opium does not in any way cast its shadow on the nationalist discourse which takes place. If we actually look at the major writings and the speeches of various nationalist leaders Gandhi included, we find a fairly strong position on alcohol. It comes from a much more moralistic position on alcohol but it's completely absent as far as opium is concerned. Partly is it because of what Prabir was referring to as being part of a culture. If we actually, I do not know about the rest of the country but at least as far as North India is concerned you know this entire phrase of Afim Chatna is very much part of everyday vocabulary. You know having you know licking of a spot of opium and it's considered to be absolutely normal in many sections of society even now. You have looked at as to why opium and its mention was not there within the nationalist discourse can you just tell us a bit more about it. Yeah like like Prabir said opium was never like its ills were never really felt in India on any kind of mass scale but it was not a commodity in that sense. Here it remained in the realm of like a folk practices things like that. So unlike alcohol which yeah the nationalist movement found used as a very safe way to criticize the British. In some sense the fact that the British had a temperance movement going on in Britain at the same time legitimized that you could use you could criticize the same things in India you know in a way that you couldn't do with other things. So and even when the so the the nationalists discovered the opium kind of like problem very late and even when they do they don't see it as a moral question like they look at that revenue and they see it in the in a very similar logic to the British. They are worried about that loss of revenue like we're going to become this fledgling new nation can we afford to like lose this source of revenue. Are we just bankrupting ourselves on some kind of like you know some sort of like silly model issue and but I think I mean Gandhi to some extent you know does see it as a moral issue kind of later on and he clubs it with alcohol. But I think in the end it is broader international forces it's the fact that China is kind of pushing back against it and you know as the 20th century kind of like moves on there is this there is international consensus that opium is a dangerous drug and should be controlled and things like the beginning of the like the League of Nations and those convention things like that's essentially what it's it's from there that the nationalists take their cue that they can start like talking about. Okay Praveer I would like your views on this you know the complete absence of opium you know and the negative impact it was having on Indian people and society and in the economy from the nationalist discourse you know and as what Thomas was saying you know that national cities are actually worried that if you actually take a position we are if you become independent we are going to lose this major source of revenue. You see at that point of time even for the British opium had ceased to be a major source of revenue because in the early 20th century the Chinese had pushed back and even within Britain there was an anti opium there was a very strong move strong anti opium movement talking about China. So but that didn't have an effect on India. No I'm coming to you. So if you take both of this together opium trade has falls off drastically and also there is Chinese opium coming into the market and that pointed them. They start growing. They start growing. So all of this put together it became not a major issue for the British but when you talk about alcohol alcohol is a major economic issue particularly for the middle class because they get bankrupted with the alcohol addiction not with opium or gaja addiction. So I think there's a big purely because of costs involved. I think there is a large element of cost involved because the middle class is small middle class. If they start getting addicted to alcohol it's a very big part of their income because it is still not really Indian made foreign liquor. So that that cost of alcohol compared to their household budget was still quite large. So this addiction was seen to be an economic danger for the middle class households. I still have anecdotal reference to my grandmother father's talking about these kind of things. I'm sure so do you. So given all of this I think it was seen to be much more of a middle class economic issue and not so much as an addiction moral issue as the others might be thinking about it later. What we are talking about is much later that you start getting a pushback on all of this. India signs all of these agreements lot later. In fact now that we have illegalized gaja. So there's a huge set of issues that how do you really handle all of this and while it is being now legalized elsewhere. So we are going in the opposite direction. So to say so all of these things I think the economic issue whether it is opium whether it is in alcohol. I think the economic issues really dominated a lot of this discourse and the manifest itself into moral issues only because the way movements are built up later on. I want to move away a bit away from the central opium issue in something which struck me while I was reading this book. This is something which I'd like to sound out Thomas also. We're talking about alcohol and it struck me suddenly that in India there has been a fairly strong history of agitations against alcohol in various parts of India. You had the Chief Minister of Bihar for instance very successfully running a prohibition program in Bihar. You talked about Praveed that how alcohol has affected the middle classes. Thomas this is something purely from one journalist to another one writer to another. Any ideas to actually look at this in a slightly more broader perspective in future? Let me try before Thomas comes in. I will talk about Gandhi and the national movement when it's a middle class issue. Now it's also the issue. It's also the working class. It's also the working class also the poor because with Indian made foreign liquor as well as the desi liquor that is a much bigger issue and let's not forget it's industrial scale production while all others are still not industrial scale production therefore they're decentralized so that's why it's become a more economic issue. I think to some extent it has always been a working class issue because not just alcohol but all of these addictive substances. It's not just the British who like learned how to use them. There is this sense of say plantation workers. There is this like sensory long practice of plantation workers that you fire them.  You dock it from their wages and at the end of the month it turns out that they're in debt to you rather than you having to hold them a salary so there is this long tradition of using addictive substances as ways of like extracting value from working class people. That's very important also when you come to West Indies for the Caribbean because that was also the role of molasses and ram and that whole thing on cycle is also there so I think that's a very important element that this is a way of also enslaving court and court the workers but Thomas, plantations, they really come with colonial discipline. It is not older than that this cycle of plantation and plantation workers. We have to also start winding up this discussion and I do not think Thomas it would be very appropriate on our part to not talk about opium in the present global context especially because of the centrality of opium and the crucial issue which is there in the world that is that of terrorism at that particular in this current situation. So would you tell us as to how you see the opium trade globally now? I know that we are all aware of how Afghanistan has become a major center of illegal opium production and how is it looking ahead? Yeah, like you said I think the understanding is that currently Afghanistan is responsible for about 90% of illegal opium production and opium is the raw material for drugs like heroin. Not all opioids are derived from opium many of them are synthetic but heroin for example is one that is and yeah I think over the last 30 years the keys areas of where opium has been produced and has been kind of like integrated into terrorism global kind of organized crime like has shifted at one point. They used to call it the golden triangle which was near Thailand, Myanmar and then you know they used to talk about the golden near Iran and places like that but yeah now it's Afghanistan and there is this sense that that kind of arose out of the vacuum that was left after CIA and kind of like American funding I'm going to interrupt you here because the rise of actually opium accompanies the American incursion into Afghanistan in the 80s. I'm talking about much more recent than that post 2011 because they support the warlords who were very much into opium trade actually stopped it in its first phase. The warlords. So the resurgence of opium that we see internationally and from Afghanistan comes from because of American policies in the last 20 years. American support to warlords. It is basically blessed by the Americans as a cheap way of controlling Afghanistan and alliances, local alliances they're forced there but I would like to go back even earlier when you talk about Thailand and those areas a lot of people was out of the Vietnam War because again the CIA is involved in all of this drug trade is there as is also the narco trade in America. Other part of it is in fact when you talk of opiates and Thomas referred to opiate issue today has also shifted to the drug companies. I'm not talking of Coca-Cola. The pharma companies. Pharma companies are not talking of Coca-Cola here who initially also sold cocaine mixed dish in Coca-Cola it is said but it is that's why it was named for but the point that comes up is the fact that it is also the opiate crisis in the United States because this industrial scale production of opiates but so therefore this becomes a much larger issue but let's be very clear Afghanistan both in the at the time of what was called the soviet incursion 1980s when Americans and the last 20 years. 20 years the Americans have been deeply implicated and blaming Afghanistan without taking cognizance of this would be wrong. So we are seeing you know a continuity that in the 18th and 19th century it was British imperialism and now it is American imperialism which is behind the globalization of the opium trade is that the right way of saying it I would say yes and the other part of this it cannot be fought in the way this is talked to be this is being fought we have to think of different ways of looking at how to fight addiction and I think that's a different that's a completely different thing that's not something you can have today. You're concluding comments Thomas on this what Praveer has said you know especially about and how we concluded by saying you know that imperialism to a certain extent has been behind the widespread nature of the opium trade. I think it the sort of the cloak of secrecy that kind of shrouds the American intelligence agencies makes it hard to talk about these things but yeah undoubtedly you can see their fingerprints in so many of wherever opium is involved in the modern day for sure so yeah it is and like Praveer said there's a question of like how generally like these drugs are thought of today in terms of like the medical paradigm of seeing them as addiction and then criminalizing it especially in India like in India there is a certain amount of opium that can be legally produced and yet we still sort of like we have we have some kind of epidemic in places like Punjab and things like that which has been kind of like handled extremely badly a lot of people like find themselves in jail without any kind of like recourse for long periods of time so yeah this is also like a justice issue. Right well thank you very much for having participated in this discussion congratulations on your book and wish you the best luck for it thank you Praveer also for you know being very illuminative in these in this discussion and coming up with very sharp points I hope that you have enjoyed this discussion and found it particularly enriching thank you very much


What does the Bible say about divorce and remarriage? Remember, the Bible does say in Malachi that God does hate divorce. As a matter of fact, throughout the Old Testament, we see different laws concerning divorce. In particular, we see laws governing when a person commits adultery. God understands and knows better that the people that he's dealing with are completely unfaithful. Whether we're speaking about believers, Christians, or we're speaking about people who are not believers, people by and large tend to be unfaithful. And I wanna use that word unfaithful for a reason because I wanna see if this is the true meaning of another text that we're gonna look at in a second. All throughout the Old Testament, we see God has his laws concerning divorce, as well as even laws concerning remarriage, even the things that may cause a divorce such as adultery. So to be clear, divorce is a sin. As a matter of fact, to be clear, getting remarried is a sin. And even more so, that's also, to make to the point, having or being in an adulterous relationship is also a sin. Why is that important? Because all three of these things seem to take place throughout the economy from the Old Testament to the New Testament with God's people and even those who are not, even including people who are not believers, who happen to be married to people who are believers, Christians marrying non-Christians, Jews marrying non-Jews. Interestingly enough, God even uses this kind of imagery when speaking to the prophet Hosea and telling him to take a woman of harlotry, an adulterous woman. And the picture of this is God being married to Israel who is an adulterous nation. And so what does he do? He even makes a statement about possibly or potentially divorcing Israel, but we see him being married to Israel, but not just Israel, but also the church. So even in adultery, God is trying to make it clear that reconciliation is of the utmost importance and that even if something has happened in a relationship such as adultery, God still wants there to be reconciliation because after all, we are the adulterous people whom God, even though he doesn't have to or probably shouldn't, out of his love still reconciles us to him. And so it should be understood that more than anything else, God would like for the two that have been joined to stay joined. But however, I say that God recognize that we are unfaithful people. And so what happens when there has been a divorce and then that divorce couple, that divorced person wants to get remarried? Jesus says that it was never intended for a man to divorce his wife. However, he permitted it so under the old, but in the exception of infidelity in chapter five, verse 32 of Matthew, he says, but I say to you that everyone who divorces his wife, except for the reason of unchastity, which is the Greek word prenea, which is immorality, sexual morality, makes her commit adultery and whoever remarries a divorced woman commits adultery also. And then the same thing is brought up again in Matthew 19.9. And I say to you, whoever divorces his wife, except for immorality and marries another woman commits adultery. So the question is after divorce, if the person remarries, does that remarriage constitute a sin? Well, sure it does. But the question is, is that remarriage, is that an act of sin or will that be a state of sin? In other words, is this remarriage a perpetual act of sin or perpetual sin that God will hold over them forever? Or is there forgiveness and the person can live in peace as long as they have a repentant heart? In 1 Corinthians 7.8, Paul makes this statement. He says, but I say to the unmarried and to the widows that is good for them if they remain even as I am. But if they do not have self-control, let them marry for it is better to marry than to burn it with passion. Does this include the person who is not married but has once been married? Well, let's go a little further and see. Verse 10, but to the married I give instructions, not I, but the Lord that the wife should not leave her husband, but if she does leave, she must remain unmarried or else be reconciled to her husband. And the husband should not divorce his wife. Well, that part is clear. Verse 12, but to the rest I say not the Lord that if any brother has a wife who is an unbeliever and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. And a woman who is an unbelieving husband and he consents to live with her, she must not send her husband away. For the unbelieving husband is sanctified through the wife and the unbelieving wife is sanctified through her believing husband. For otherwise, your children are unclean but now they are holy. Yet if the unbelieving one leaves, let him leave. The brother or sister is not under bondage in such cases, but God has called us to peace. So the question is going to be what is meant here? What's the full understanding? Well, I want to enter in something that sometimes we may not consider that I think we may want to consider. The word here for believing for the person in the relationship is he speaking of a unbelieving wife? The word that's used here is the word epistas which is unfaithful or unbelieving. The question is, is this in reference to salvation or is this referencing to the marriage? The reason why I used earlier the word unfaithful because again epistas means believe or faith. So the question is, should this be properly taken as the unfaithful person? Because the question is going to be asked what if the person who leaves is a believer? In other words, what if the person is a professed Christian? Does that ever happen? Well, sure, again, we see all throughout the Bible. There are people who are of the Lord who disobey and who are unfaithful. We can think of David. We can think of other people possibly in the scriptures that have made decisions that show that they are not totally faithful but are still called God's children. Because again, that's just how we are naturally even though the Spirit is working in us. And so is it ever possible that a Christian, a believer could leave? Well, if that's the case, then where are the scriptures pertaining to that person? So maybe it could possibly be that first Corinthians seven when it's speaking of the unbelieving, it's probably better to see this or render this as the unfaithful, it's the same word, but the unfaithful. So now let's go back and look at this and see if that makes a little bit more sense. To the rest, I say verse 12, not the Lord, that if any brother has a wife who is unfaithful, I think there's that word, I pissed on, and she consents to live with him, he must not divorce her. So in other words, so let's say if she has been unfaithful or he's been unfaithful, but she decides to stay, the Bible says that he must not divorce her. And a woman who has a unfaithful husband and he consents to live with her. Now, in other words, they agree to stay together, he should not divorce her or she should not divorce him in any way. For the unfaithful husband is sanctified through the wife. In other words, she's kept, set apart, kept, he or she's kept by the one that is faithful. In this case, we're speaking about a spouse who is faithful and one who is not faithful. Now, it could be that it should be taking this unbelieving in terms of salvation. The reason why the different thought can be brought up in this, because again, what about a person who is a believer who is who has sinned? This happens, all believers are gonna sin in some capacity and God knows that we are unfaithful people. Though God is himself faithful, and so maybe he's trying to show us a picture of his faithfulness compared to our unfaithfulness and how he still desires to have this reconciliation. Now, I don't wanna get into all the different reasons for why a person might divorce. Again, the Bible seems to only give an exception for those who have been unfaithful. Sexually speaking, there are those who in Matthew 5 and 19 think that it's only referring to someone who is in the engaging period. I don't think that's the correct application. But a person, now that you see that these divorces, no-fault divorces or irreconcilable differences, those were never ever to be an exception for someone to get a divorce. Again, if you are struggling in your marriage, a person, for most, God wants it to be reconciliation. He does not like for there to be divorce. However, if there is divorce, is there forgiveness in the Lord? Sure there is. Is there forgiveness, however, if a person has been divorced and then gotten remarried?  What about someone who has had multiple husbands? Well, we see Jesus literally dealing with someone and showing forgiveness and reconciliation to a woman who had had multiple husbands, the woman at the well in John 4. In John 4, 16, he said to her, go call your husband and come here. The woman answered and said to him, I have no husband. Jesus said to her, you have answered correctly, I have no husband. Now, in verse 16, Jesus answers the question and says, as she answers the question, she says, I have no husband. The way she says is, Luke echo under, I would just say, I have no husband. But Jesus' response in the English looks the same, but the Greek is different. He says, Andra, Luke echo. He puts the word Andra, husband or man in the front, indicating that yes, husband, you do not have and the one that you're with now is not your husband. What does Jesus say? Does he condemn her? No, he still wants to be reconciled to her even though not only has she been divorced and remarried, she's been divorced, remarried, divorced, remarried, divorced and remarried. This is a pattern in her. And so we can still see even in this that there is reconciliation and God is not holding her as a perpetual sinner after reconciliation, after repentance. And so what does she do? She understands who he is. As a matter of fact, goes and tells other people in her town, in her village and they come back to him as well. So it should be clear that reconciliation with God is possible for anyone. Divorce is not a perpetual sin nor is remarriage a perpetual sin. Should a person get divorced? Absolutely not. But if they do, it is a sin. But if they do, then what? Should that person who is remarried get divorced from the person that remarried? Well, again, God still does hate divorce, even the second divorce or the third divorce. You don't compound a sin, try to rectify it by doing another sin, which is getting divorced again. Remember, there is no command in the scriptures where God tells a remarried person to get a divorce. As a matter of fact, the Bible doesn't even explicitly say that God hates remarriage. Is that remarriage a sin if it's done in the wrong way? Sure, but what does God want you to do? To be at peace and to continue in the order of being reconciled to him? That's first and foremost. Now, if a person is not reconciled to him, it doesn't matter if they're divorced, remarried or anything in the other sin, because that sin is preeminent. That is that you have not placed your faith in Christ and been reconciled to him. Everything else pales in comparison. But if a person is and they've fallen, they've had struggles, they've sinned, what have you, but they are at a moment in time where they want to be reconciled with an amen. God still grants that. And we look at that in Deuteronomy 4 as we look at some of these provisions when the person has a divorce, but then about a person remarried, God literally gives instructions on how to remarry in Deuteronomy 4 and the way it should be done and how the person should be treated. So is that to say that God is for a person getting divorced if they can handle whatever's happening in the marriage? No, to get a divorce and then get remarried, that's not what I'm saying and that's not what God is saying. However, if this has happened, first and foremost, be reconciled to God, whatever state that you're in, whether you are single, whether you are married, whether you have been divorced, whether you have been divorced and remarried, be reconciled to God and live in a way that is fitting for him that brings him glory. I do not believe that that particular sin is a perpetual sin. I believe that it was an act of sin, but not a state of sin because that would mean that the blood that cleanses us, the cross that reconciles us, is of no effect to people who have been remarried. So I hope this helps those. Again, many people have been divorced, unfortunately. Many people have been remarried. The Bible is clear though that he loves each and every one of those individuals and his only goal is to see us all reconciled to him. Amen.


Travel time everyone, welcome back to the channel, welcome back to outdoor greatness. In order to get to outdoor greatness, we have so many miles to cover. The greatest adventure I've ever known, besides these two right here. These two have been my greatest life adventure. Just know what to say. Especially you, sweet pea.  Daddy is going away for a long time. It's like, daddy's going to prison. Yeah, we were just talking about this. Like I think this is one of your longest trips. I don't think it's going to be as long as the South America situation, because I went to Mexico and Brazil. That's true. And it was just quite the excursion. But this is going to be even more remote and more wild. Wish your daddy luck, sweet pea. I wonder like when you get back, I wonder if she's going to be like walking. She'll probably have another tooth, I think.  Okay, until I get back, if you do, I'm just going to have to punish you. Well, she's already said, dad, dad and mommy. Yeah, but it's not a gold medal status. I mean, we're not going to be that family that's like, just go ahead and give her a plaque for saying, dad, she didn't really. I'm still proud of her though, honey. Such goals high. OSG and Emmy are taking me to the airport. This journey involves two days of travel. So I'm leaving right now and I'm going to get to the airport. My flight takes off about 5.30. I won't get to Christchurch, New Zealand, until two days later. It's so weird, like looking on my flight information. So this by far is going to be the longest flight I've ever taken. In fact, doubles any flight I've ever taken. And my buddy that I'm going with, you guys are going to meet.  He is a very, very passionate hunter. He's the one that invited me on this trip. He's already left and he's got even longer flight. So I'm going to get there before him. He's got more layovers and stuff like that. It's absolutely insane. And then there's a whole another adventure. Just get to where we're going then. We've got like a half a day's drive. We've got a whole day's hike on foot just to get. We're talking like four and a half days just to get to where we're hunting. It is just absurd y'all. So the adventure starts right now. Let's get to it. Got to make time for one last Chick-fil-A stop. I don't know if there's Chick-fil-A in New Zealand, but... Probably not. You don't think so? You don't think so? I would gamble to say no. You would gamble to say no? How much would you gamble? Are we taking bets here? A couple hundred dollars. A couple hundred bucks? Yeah. Really? I kind of just want to go against you and just hope that there is.  Because I want it. And no, I'm just saying if you're a Kiwi out there, New Zealander, let me know if there are any Chick-fil-As, even if there's one on the island. I feel like I'm having Reish on Vu about this. Really? Yeah. It's meant to be.  No, I just remember having this conversation with you like filming and everything. It's that kind of dream. It's okay. You've driven me to the airport for quite a few adventures, honey. I think you need to go on one of these one day. I do. Like we need to...  We're just going to go. You've been in like straight mom mode for a long time now.   Make you feel more alive. I feel like this is right where I'm dropping you off. Is it? I don't even think this is close to my gate. You don't think so? Let's keep going. Okay. All right. Just don't run anybody over. Don't need any casualties before I take off. Well, you know how cautious of a driver I am. You were very cautious. You always got a plan for an extra 10 minutes in the car. She just had 10% on. She takes her safety serious and she should. She's got a little Amy Bob back there. Ironically though, I probably have the most tickets out of the both of us. It's back in your younger rebel days. There's a whole rebel side of OSG I don't even know about. She went from like rebel to mom. Just bam! I did. It happens. Zero to 60. Okay, sugar. Bye. Love you. Love you too. All right. Goodbye, Amy.  Don't be too sassy while I'm gone. Be safe. Okay. Love you. Love you too. Customers seated in rows 51 through 61 to board now. Just coming off hold is a 14 hour flight go. But we are here in Auckland. We still have one more to go. This is an odd situation right here. So I've got in here. I had to put all my stuff through customs. And the things that they took were my boots. They checked my food. And then they also have looked at my tent thoroughly. In fact, they told me to wait here by this door. And they gave me a little ticket. And they said just press this little button over here. Just press that. And I guess your tent comes through there. It says press the buzzer once. I already pressed it once. I don't know. I don't know how long I'm supposed to stay here. Keep pressing this button. But I dang sure need my tent for this trip. Such an odd, odd scenario. But they do take their wildlife very seriously. A lot of people come here to hike and climb. So they're checking boots. They're checking outdoor equipment. They check my knife. They asked me if I'd clean any animals with it. They're just trying to make sure that no bad journeys are getting in to the New Zealand. Let's try it again. Getting our first look here had a New Zealand morning. It was a Peaches guy. I just texted Steph. Checked in with her. It is, I think, 1.30pm back in Texas. And it's like 6.30 in the morning here. So this is all new to me. Brand new experiences. Looking at all these crazy cars, too. They're all so small. Their trucks are tiny. Looked like a mix between a Subaru and something that tried to be a Tacoma or something like that. Air smells fresh here. Even at a crummy place. I can't wait to get up at the mountains and feel it for real. I'm excited, y'all. Brand new. It feels like you're just going on another planet, at least for me, because I haven't traveled very much. We're the land of great outdoorness. I can tell we're really close to the ocean right now, too. The humidity, the big clouds. It feels good. It's like 62 degrees. We've got to get away from all these different vehicles, though. We've got to get up into the mountains to experience some real outdoor greatness. Anyways, we've got one more flight to make. A couple hours till we've got to be over there. I don't even have a watch. I just looked at my wrist. And this is my cue to go, right here. We are here in Christchurch. And I'm waiting on my buddy, JT. I can't wait for you guys to meet JT. Currently trying to find some internet at its halfway piece, and I haven't been able to do that. I've edited two videos since I've been here in Christchurch, and I'm trying to upload them somewhere. I don't think the planet's never going to stand in their view, but I'm not really sure.  I've been trapped in vessels and inside buildings. I encountered no peanuts on this travel exertion. And that is amazing. Thank you to New Zealand Airlines and United for helping me out on my quest for peanut-free flight experience. Ladies and gentlemen, we have arrived to the Airbnb. And that right there is a red deer. And this right here is my red-bearded friend. What's up, buddy? John Thomas Earl Larkin. Welcome back to the channel. Man, do you remember the last video we filmed? I think Night Fishing. We did a Night Fishing video on Great... Oh, I forgot about that. It was like three years ago. Was that with the brightest lights ever? Yes, yes. The bright light Night Fishing video. That was a fun night. Yeah, it burned our retinas out. We only traveled what, like 30 hours to meet up here? You traveled 30 something hours. I traveled like 28. You took the long way. We're finally here though. The digs here at the Airbnb in New Zealand. It's all fancy. It's a lot fancier than what I was expecting. I'm not sure what's happening with the heads. Have you noticed the heads around here? I've noticed that Asian theme up here. It's very multicultural. There's a Buddha thing happening out here. We're about to head to a... What is it called? It's literally called Hunting Fishing New Zealand. That's the name of the store. We have to turn the camera on and go see what's in the store. We've got to get some fuel for our stoves. Stuff like that. Weird mannequins. Hopefully that's nothing strange going on there. We've got to introduce Miss Wendy. This is one of my favorite people. Miss Wendy. This is one of my favorite people in the world. A legendary cooker of moose hearts. Did you know that you still made the best meal I've ever had in my life? Wow. I've been told. It is known. JT, he actually met Todd on a moose hunt. And Wendy. And Wendy. So that's the biggest animal you've ever taken. That's her bow. This is probably going to be the most challenging. You can ask Wendy how big that moose was. Because she helped us coordinate. How big is a moose heart? Really. How big is a moose heart? Did you eat it all? Yeah. Did you feel like Daenerys Stormborn eating the heart in Game of Thrones? I don't watch Game of Thrones. What? I guess I should have downloaded it before my 30 hour flight. Lee, I cannot believe that. I can't believe I'm hunting with you. As you guys can see the traffic flow is the opposite direction than what we're used to. It's my first time in the city with the car. Miss Wendy's from Canada. One of my favorite places to fish. Starting route to hunting and fishing. Beautiful trees. It's so great. It's so weird all these trees are losing their leaves and all ours are just growing them. Isn't that beautiful? Yeah, it's amazing. That is a park in New Zealand. Look at that. That is amazing. Got a place to practice golf. Got rugby fields. Scooters. If they came to America and saw our parks, I could just our average park. Be super disciplined and be very disappointed for them. It's going to be so romantic to come there in the mountains due to you. Because you'll be huddling together as they want. That's why I got a nice red bearded man partner. That's a cricket. Look at these handsome fellas and ladies here. Everyone's so fit and in shape on these billboards in real life actually. Wagers that there's any fishing freaks in here? We have arrived at the hunting and fishing store. I've always looked for one of those. Look at that. What is this? Is this a red deer? That's a fellow. Getting real excited right there. He's a man with a tar. He looks like John Snow right there. Look at all the heads on the wall over there. Different fauna. Tons of fishing stuff too. If we were here for a little bit longer, we'd be doing some brown trouts. Getting on that egg game.  This, I hope, is going to work with what I've been doing. It's going to be a great day. It's going to be a great day. It's going to be a great day. This, I hope, is going to work with what I've got. But it should. I've never seen someone rock. No, no, no. Hotel California is so hard in my life. That's a New Zealander that loves its eagles right there. Heck yeah! America! We have made it in for the night after listening to some hotel California out on the streets. And some odd Moroccan food. It was kind of like a Chipotle, but not Chipotle. So we went to the sporting goods store. I asked the guy behind the camera, I was like, what do I need to get? I need to feel me some New Zealand. He said, you got to have a good meat pie, sir. Didn't talk like that. I can't get the New Zealand thing down. It kind of feels like a good old, just a crisp, Texas morning going out and getting yourself a kalachi with some coffee. It's a good way to start out the outdoor day. I'm equating it to over here. You got to get a meat pie in the morning. Tomorrow, y'all. This is the journey. We're going to meet up with JT's buddy, Todd. Todd is a guy out here, and I've never met him. Nothing vlog-worthy. Nothing vlog-worthy? Had your free shipping code there. I can't even show that. I'm going to be in trouble. About 1-800 get me out of the doghouse. JT has ordered flowers for his wife while we're gone. Very smart. You should do that during hunts. You got to prepare when you're gone that many days. You're good. I'm going to get some bottles of wine, though. I'm going to get those shipped back. I saw you can do that on the airplane. She'll never expect it, so I'm going to be okay. Dude, Todd's awesome.  We're going to have three red beards out there. And Wendy's going with us, too. We're all going up there into the mountains together.  So we got to get our packs ready to go. Probably going to be some rain. It's going to be the case of the wet butt. I'm going to brush my teeth. I feel like an old possum right now. We haven't brushed our teeth in like a day and a half, because we've been literally traveling for that long. We have been talking about this for, I don't know, how many months preparing. Texting each other just about every day. We're at the moment. We're at the crest. It's time to go deep into New Zealand.  Come on, baby. Let's do it. All right, guys. Love you. We'll see you on the next episode. You don't want to miss it. Subscribe right here. We'll see you then.


So cutting straight to the chase, no hold up. This glitch which is for flak only allows you to literally destroy it all in a matter of seconds and all it takes is money. How's it going guys? My name is DPG and today I've been doing another Borderlands 3 video. If you do enjoy it leaving a like really helps me out and subscribe if you want to see more. On screen now you can see my weekly giveaway along with last week's winner. To be in with a chance of winning this yourself simply make sure you are subbed and have notifications turned on. Drop a like on this video and leave a comment down below. Okay so there's been a glitch floating around the cyberwebs for some time now and that is extra projectiles being fired from literally any weapon. I was initially told about this and how to do it by a friend but after looking online and seeing a few videos on it because I did have a feeling it had been covered already I found the first person to post this was Osterberg who in my opinion deserves full credit so credit to him and he and his channel can be found linked within the video description. So what this glitch does is basically allow you to start projectiles from any weapon in the game while the ones I've tested which range from pistols, SMGs and assault rifles. Now this doesn't require any specific class mod, shield anointment or rt fat. All this requires is money because you have to respect a bunch of times. So on flak and flak only at the moment this is how you get this done, head to sanctuary and grab any weapon of your choice. I would demonstrate this with elution school as I love this thing and it also as we know returns and more back to the magazine which is a benefit for sure. So respect using the quick change vending machine then go into your skill trees and spec down into twofang and make sure you apply five into this. What twofang does on a five spec is give you a 25% chance to fire an extra projectile. So spec down into this then you want to empty your weapons clip and let it reload just to make sure the perk has indeed activated itself. Then you want to respect again after you've respect again spec into that twofang's perk and then it's all about a rinse and repeat process just basically keep doing this with your weapon of choice and each time you respect you seemingly gain an additional projectile and this stacks literally for as long as you want to sit here doing this. So the process respect spec five into twofangs empty your weapons clip let it reload respect spec five into twofangs empty your weapons clip let it reload rinse repeat and like I said you can do this for an unlimited amount of times. A few rules though you can't quit to the main menu as you lose the stack but you can fast travel around and even die. It works as far as my testing went on one weapon at a time and once you've achieved a number of extra projectiles you think is necessary you can go ahead and rebuild your setup. Doing this for a little over five minutes you can see the effects it had on illusions cool. The thing just absolutely melts. This is mayhem 4 by the way again after five minutes of doing this imagine what it would be like if you sat there for 20 minutes absolutely ridiculous. So yeah guys this is literally a way to kill everything the game offers in mere seconds. Now this current method this quicker process is only available to do on flak at the moment but there is another way to do this on all of the vault hunters which I covered a few days back. I will play a clip from that video on how this is done but it does require a few different things which you still haven't heard of 5th of December to actually get so check out that clip on screen now. Now what this glitch allowed you to do was literally make any weapon with a certain common terror anointment an absolute machine capable of killing all things this game offers in mere seconds. The glitch literally consists of two things to make it super efficient. A shield or grenade mod with the terror anointment of on action skill end apply terror to yourself every five seconds for the next 18 seconds so having a grenade with this on or a shield is absolutely perfect. I will state the shield or grenade can be of any rarity it does not matter as when you achieve this glitch you can switch to your favorite shield and grenade mod afterwards anyway so rarity does not matter as long as they have this anointment on them. Then all you need is a weapon that you are happy using and it has to have this anointment on it while terrified you have a chance to fire an extra projectile per shot the more terror you have the higher the bonus it helps having a weapon that won't run out of ammo quicker either my illusions call is perfect as crit hits return bullets back to the mag but again here any weapon with this anointment works and of any rarity as long as you are happy with a weapon you are using so with this weapon your weapon of choice equipped with this anointment equip any other weapon it doesn't matter what it is so for now only be using two weapons just to make this easier then what you want to do is to make sure that shield or grenade mod is equipped with the anointment of applying terror to yourself and action skill cooldown then within sanctuary or anywhere else activate your action skill now on zane you can simply press the action skill button then press your inventory button this applies to yourself but doesn't take away your action skill ability so you can keep spamming this and keep gaining that terror effect and that's what i'm doing in this video if you are wondering when you see me quickly pull up my menu this could work under the vault hunters too but because i only play zane i can't guarantee that but i'm pretty sure i have seen people do this on other vault hunters either way using your action skill or not it doesn't change the effect just being able to cancel it and actually getting the terror effect just makes it a little quicker so on action skill you will notice your gain that terror effect then what you want to do is fire that weapon with that extra shot anointed until the clip is empty then mid reload switch to the other weapon of choice which will switch wait about a second then switch back in my case back to dilution school and then let it reload then empty its clip again then again during reload switch to that second weapon wait a second then switch back this has to be done while you are under that terror effect what this does is stack extra projectiles meaning the more you do this the more projectiles you actually fire and the crazy thing about this is people even when the terror effect is vanished you keep the extra projectiles per shot me doing this for a little over two minutes i gained so many extra projectiles on my lucian school it was absolutely crazy and you can see the effect this has on that test dummy now my lucian school and my doc both have this anointment so i was literally taking turns applying this effect to both these weapons and while the apcom even of the doc after just doing this for a short time is pretty damn crazy damage wise and you can do this for an unlimited amount of time guys it doesn't matter and the end result is a weapon which can literally kill everything the game throws at you in mere seconds so yeah guys this crazy glitch allows you to mount everything this game offers on all mayhem modes enjoy this while you can but on that note we have come to the end of the video if you guys enjoyed it leaving a like really helps me out if you're new around here you want to see more borderlands videos be sure to subscribe and if you never want to miss a video i upload you can turn notifications on by hitting that bell button but guys thanks as always for stopping by hopefully you enjoyed the video and hopefully i will see you on that next one


Oh man, I couldn't I couldn't do this while I was injured on my left foot because it basically hurt too bad and I missed it. I missed it just like and it's good to go slow And off we go as exciting as the mountain run was yesterday I know I got to be careful so heading back to the grass soccer fields gonna do my loops be smart Do the little things that make a difference for staying healthy and getting as fit as Possible which correlates of course directly to running and running consistently and running often and running at decent volume So it's all about those little things. So anyway, I'd love to just run straight from my house here after work But I I'm making the effort to drive, you know, it's only 10 minutes But drive to the soccer fields and get on that soft surface Just because yesterday was a decent day. It was almost 13 miles 4400 feet of vertical gain in the Salming trail fives Which the more I think about the shoes the more they're growing on me And yes, I did give a first impression Yesterday afternoon if you haven't seen it and you're interested in an obscure running shoe company That is not very popular in the United States at least at this point. I check it out up a right-hand corner All right onward and upward Everyone we've got the hoko ring cons with me today And yes, they're available down below if you're interested in buying from running warehouse. There's a lot of buzz I don't know if you've noticed but on social media a lot of buzz happening about these shoes right now And if you're into maximalist well cushioned shoes Watch out. I have a feeling this might go down as one of the top shoes of 2019 with respect to the well-cushioned maximalist shoe Category so anyway, I'm excited to take them out again And I'm going to go between a couple different fields here in south Denver. So all right, let's lace it up Actually, no I take that back not lacing up. I'm doing the little things the little things So I'm actually going to stay barefoot right now and go walking. Okay. I'll explain what I'm doing here in a minute Just walking around barefoot. All right, come on all right, shout out to my brother For uh, he encouraged me to walk around barefoot in my house more which I'm Starting to do now that the foot is healed. I've been avoiding putting too much pressure on it and putting it too far Yeah, just pushing it too hard. So now that it's healed and after yesterday's run. I truly believe it's healed Now it's time to build rebuild strengthen So that's what I'm going to do start doing today by simply walking around barefoot on this grass field But another option for you Is to find a say if you live by a high school go to the sand pit where they do the long jump And walk it that's even better like walking around in loose sand or if you live by the beach And just walk barefoot to strengthen all those little ligaments tendons Muscles in your feet and just making them more Nimble to different movements that can happen in spikes, you know, if you're racing cross country in the fall It's good to get your foot used to Different positions and landing on different surfaces depending on the the courses that you're racing on So that is the beginning of the process right now So you can just watch me walk barefoot and believe it or not It's I'm not saying it's hard But I have to retrain myself to trust That my left foot is completely healed because it was in the boot for so long and uh, it is a process to come back from Any injury so that is what we are doing today I can sense that the foot is healed, but that it's a little awkward a little Probably weak and it's just like I need to get it back to full Um, almost like hand-eye coordination just making sure everything is firing correctly down there below the ankle This feels really good. I can't say I've ever done this before you figure out things every day But this is like stretching out the ankles and the toes and oh that feels good All right My left leg definitely feels weaker and just not snappy just not snappy and that's okay It'll come back, but it's just gotta you gotta wake it up. You gotta wait. It just doesn't happen You gotta You you gotta snap it Little glute activation All right. It's all in those glutes for that strong powerful knee drive Don't forget your arms. It's all about those arms as well, especially in trail running late in races man Road running too running in general But man, I I notice in trails if I can focus on my arms Makes a difference Some rock climbers working on that hip flexor with this one Oh, haven't done this in a while All right, just a just a few shots there on the run not too much Kind of in a hurry to go get a little food for the family But we're gonna have another spring energy here in a second the long haul. Oh man, they are tasty Oh man I couldn't I couldn't do this while I was injured on my left foot because it it basically hurt too bad And I missed I missed it Just like and it's good to go slow. Sometimes I forget that when you're using the foot log, but it basically just a nice massage kind of I know it's doing some good Good for the foot, but it also just feels good. It's like especially after a long run Oh, man, it is toasty everybody All right, giving this other This is the spring long haul version Oh, wow That's interesting Oh It's like a peanut butter. Oh, wow Oh So this is designed for I would say like long races like ultra races is is what they're advertising it as. Oh my my Oh, that's tasty. Oh, man, it's like a It sounds weird, but it's peanut butter Then it kind of sat kind of has like a little apple Yeah, a little apple taste mango taste mixed in. Whoo. Nelly Hmm Oh It's really tasty. Wow Hmm Okay, that's really good That is what I'm talking about. All right, everybody. Here we are. It is toasty in Denver very warm Hence the water probably not as warm as where you're living like We people in We people in colorado we get a little spoiled here being at higher elevation So anything in the 90s feels very hot, but it's a good day. It was a great day Just finished up a dinner on the patio with true love just had some salad delicious. Remember Little I wanted a burger, right? I wanted a burger, but I chose a salad with some salmon, right? Get some good vitamins and minerals in the body. So I feel good about that decision And today's run in the hoca rincans So hard to say that hoca rincans eight miles Or 12 kilometers. I think it was about seven to seven 15 per mile So picking up the pace a little bit feeling good Just waking up those legs as you saw with the the uh the form drills just the baby baby stuff But little form drills just to get the legs moving a little bit So I feel good about that and in addition I feel like I've made a shift since this last injury Paying attention to the little details the little action items that I can take every single day In order to train at a high level a high volume And stay healthy. Okay, so today out on the field doing those little things. However One of my goals today was to get to the gym and to go into the pool and to do some Stretching and core work and lifting in the gym. I didn't it didn't happen life got too busy So again, this is where the schedule comes into it comes into play Just getting down on paper or however you do your training Plan making sure that you stick to your plan and for me I love to write it out and then I eventually plug it into a spreadsheet But I missed it today and I feel a little bad about that not getting into the gym So therefore I will make sure I get into the gym tomorrow when you're watching this on Thursdays And so what I'm saying is that because I'm healthy It is now time to recommit To the training plan and to the tasks at hand commit to the process It's all about the process as runners. Okay, we're going to open up this box from running warehouse here in one second But first the question of the day What is one little action item that we can learn from you about? Whether it's paying attention to the details of our training Staying healthy in our training. What do you do? But make it small? Okay, because sometimes we get big Ideas like for example today walking around a grass field barefoot I feel like that's something that's pretty simple and small and something that we can all do So what is one idea that you have for this youtube running family to help us all meet our goals By staying healthy and doing the little action items. All right sound good. Okay. Here we go. Oh, man I cannot believe we're doing this right now. I was not going to do this today. I was going to save it But I can't wait. I cannot wait and you I'm not going to open shoes without you.  Oh my goodness I've been waiting for this for a long time and shout out to running warehouse. Thank you for this pair of shoes All right. Are you ready? Oh man? You probably just saw it. I can you make a guess can you make a guess? What is in here? New balance. Oh, but what new balance, you know, you know, what new balance it is. Oh, this was my 2018 Running shoe of the year. You better believe it. The beacon is in the house.  Okay, let's take this out. Hold on. Let me see how heavy this feels Oh, yeah, wow, that's strong. Okay, so this is the new balance beacon v2 Oh my goodness nimble malleable Wow Wow Okay, this is exciting very exciting very similar outsole pattern. Okay. I'm gonna stop there. I love you guys Thanks for being here. Thanks for watching this channel Pay attention to the little action items that we can take every single day and yes, go learn Don't go learn from me go learn from this youtube family down in the comments because that is the wisdom We've got people watching this channel who've been running for 30 years 40 years 50 years runners, so I know you're out there veterans out there share your wisdom with us Oh, it's all good. I can't wait to go down and read the comments as well And I'll do my best to chime in as much as possible. All right seek beauty work hard And love each other