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From Lukewarm Catholic to All In: Augie's Journey of Faith
What happens when a young man raised in a devout Catholic environment faces the very worldly temptations he's been taught to avoid? Augie shares his compelling journey from double-mindedness and addiction to a life dedicated to faith and service. Augie’s story is a testament to the transformative power of divine grace.
In a deeply personal chapter, Augie recounts his time with Icon Ministry founded by Father Rob Galea. A pivotal homily by Father Rob shifted his entire perspective, leading to a vision that symbolized his struggles and ultimate freedom from addiction. Learn how surrounding himself with faithful individuals and committing to a life of holiness has led Augie to a deeper connection with God, shaping his role in the ministry and his approach to everyday life.
Moreover, Augie's transformation didn't stop there. The profound experience of fatherhood has only deepened his relationship with God. Through the trials of overcoming addiction and the joys and responsibilities of parenting, Augie discusses how the unconditional love he has for his children mirrors God's love for us. The episode wraps up with insights into the power of the Holy Spirit, the importance of unity in the church, and a heartfelt appreciation for the Eucharist.
Welcome to yes Catholic, where real people share their real stories and discover God's grace at work in their lives. I'm your host, david Patterson, and every week we bring you inspiring guests who share how they came to say yes to Jesus and his church. Let's dive into their journeys of faith and see how grace is transforming lives in our world today. Good evening everyone and welcome to yes Catholic. Really excited tonight to welcome Augie and Grisano. Welcome, man, thank you so much for taking the time to share your story.
Speaker 2:Man. I'm just so happy to be here. Thank you for everything you do, david, by allowing people to share their story, you know, and giving people a voice and a platform. I'm so thankful to have the opportunity to share mine.
Speaker 1:So excited for our conversation and just to hear how God's been moving in your life.
Speaker 2:But why don't you share a little bit about yourself before we dive into the rapid fire? Get to know you more. My name is Augie. I'm 29 years old. I grew up in Denver, colorado primarily, but I spent like half my high school years in Dallas, texas. I now live in Melbourne, australia, and I make a lot of content and a lot of different types of stuff. I guess is what I've been busying myself up with past few years.
Speaker 1:Well, let's get to know you more with the rapid fire icebreaker challenge. I'm sure you've done this before. Let's tackle it. Here we go. Describe yourself as a kid in three words.
Speaker 2:I'd say energetic, hopeful anxious.
Speaker 1:Are you a morning person or a night owl? Currently?
Speaker 2:Currently a morning person, but I am naturally a night owl.
Speaker 1:Okay, if you could have any superpower, what would it be?
Speaker 2:Pause time. Just hit pause, Like you know, like the movie Click, Like. I just wish I could just like only have the pause button, not the other stuff that like messed up everything. Just a pause and a play button.
Speaker 1:Go to order at a coffee shop A flat white. Go to short prayer.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go the Our Father.
Speaker 1:If you could have coffee with any saints, who would it be?
Speaker 2:St Padre and Pio Confirmation saint.
Speaker 1:Pray hope and don't worry right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's it man.
Speaker 1:Okay, last one. If you could ask God one question, what would it?
Speaker 2:be? How can I serve you better?
Speaker 1:That's a beautiful question, man. I ask that on a regular basis not on an hourly basis. It's like Lord, how can I serve you better?
Speaker 2:Yeah, all right man.
Speaker 1:Well, you flew through the rapid fire. Let's begin with the opening prayer and then we'll have you share your story. Awesome. In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, amen, amen. Heavenly Father, I just thank you so much for my brother, augie, and Lord, I just thank you for the ways that you have moved in his life. Lord, I thank you for his yes and God, I just pray that you would send your Holy Spirit to be with us in our conversation. Lord, we open wide the door of our hearts to you and Lord, I pray in a special way for everyone listening who will just listen in the future. Lord, I just pray for your blessing upon them. Just, lord, I just pray for your blessing upon them. Just pray for your peace, lord, and we make this prayer in Jesus' name. Amen, amen.
Speaker 1:St Padre Pio, please pray for us Pray for us In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, amen, amen. All right brother, let's dive right in. Where does your story begin.
Speaker 2:It starts with just sharing that I did grow up in a very Catholic environment. As a child I was brought to youth group, was very involved in parish life. As I reflect on my journey as a young Catholic, as somebody who was just always going to church and was always a part of the youth group, sometimes I look back and I question how much of that was just like a social aspect and it was just a place that I knew that I could kind of people had to be nice to me because they were Christian and we were moving around a lot as a family and so any time that we, like you know, moved, I had that element of oh, I'll just like connect with the youth group and it was more of a social thing for me and my faith was just kind of hit with the practice of just being double-minded. Ever since I was about 13 years old, you know, I would claim the faith, yet I was exposed to pornography and marijuana at about that age, 13, 14 years old, and I'm clean now and God's really showing me. You know where, you know where my heart needs to be. But like this entire journey has just been stricken with just double mindedness and saying one thing but really doing another, and saying one thing but really doing another. And that kind of followed from 14 years old all the way to going to college.
Speaker 2:And it was around that time like I just was pretty confused with what I wanted for my life and where I was going, and my dad is a Catholic speaker, and so I just decided to go that route as well of just trying to be an artist and be a speaker and, you know, trying to constantly refine my desire to do so, like why do I want to be on the stage, why do I always want to be in front of the camera and all that stuff. And it really is like it's less and less so as I continue to grow and as I continue to do so and I pray that God still uses. You know the efforts and the time that I've spent to, like, master the craft of writing a song or, you know, learn how to jump behind a camera and create content. But it was very ego driven and it was very just wanting people to accept me and just to tell me how awesome I was. And you know to gain that. You know that that social acceptance I was, and you know to gain that, you know that social acceptance. And so you know, around like 20 years old, I like stopped studying and I came to Australia to serve with an organization called Youth Mission Team Australia, which was an amazing experience. And you know, with all of this, you know like I still can find God, still working through my life and giving me gifts, even though I didn't deserve them, through this struggle of I don't know just my heart being half in, half out with this faith and really walking it. But the best and the most amazing gift that I have been given was meeting my wife.
Speaker 2:You know, that year we were serving, you know I flew out to Australia and you know I was doing this whole year. I was going to go and I was going to be speaking in schools and I was going to be like I was going to spend that time like write some music and, just you know, hone in on my craft of just being a speaker and being a songwriter. And you know I met the best person for my soul, the best human for my soul that I've possibly have came around, and that's my wife Emily. I just looked up to her for her hard work ethic. You know I was somebody who kind of I always was scared of hard work. I feel like I kind of had the spoiled mentality of just being like, oh well, someone else should do it, because I deserve more. And then just to see that this woman just serves and loves and works so hard, and I was like man, I need that in my life, because I need to be more like that and her purity I already had lost my virginity and I've already gone through that, just that journey of drinking the world's Kool-Aid and thinking that purity wasn't it. And I got really, really hurt. On the other side, you know, like my heart was hurt from feeling like I gave something away that I'd never be able to give back. And this woman was just incredibly like pure, like she saved herself for me, for her husband, and it was something that I was just like you know, wow, like I'm just so grateful, and I was also just so amazed to see how she was able to love with such less fear than what I was, you know. And so you know, meeting her was was huge, you know, and, and so that's why I'm over here now. You know, I saw I met this girl and I was like, wow, like this is somebody who's really going to help me get from A to B. And maybe in that, in that mind, I was like A to B, you know, like success in business or this or that, but really I know God is like nah A to B of becoming a saint too.
Speaker 2:And first and foremost, we've been married six years now. We have three children. You know there has been times in our marriage where, you know, I had to be really honest with her and I wasn't entirely, like you know, honest on the day of that, you know, when we got on the altar to tell her that, you know, I didn't tell her that I was still struggling with pornography. I didn't tell her that I still had this massive like addiction to drugs and to alcohol, and it was really painful for her. And I remember the first time that I really opened up about my struggle with pornography, still, I had this extreme excitement because I thought I finally did what I was supposed to do, I confessed and I got that off my shoulders and it was out of the dark. But I didn't really love her in that moment and see that it just completely shattered her entire existence and her view of me as a person. But I was like I did it, I confessed Woo and she was like yo, like this, really hurt. And I think that maybe my reaction to that was more so that I don't know if my heart was truly sorry. I don't think my heart truly understood the gravity of what this does to a marriage and I just really think that that's just been my lack of trust that Jesus is going to be the one that's going to heal that side of me and he's the one that's going to be the solution and the comforter of my soul.
Speaker 2:And I've been working with Icon Ministry for about a year now. You know Icon is founded by Father Rob Galea, who's an amazing man, you know, the best boss and hopefully the last boss I'll ever have. I think, being in this environment. What's really helped me a lot to just grow in holiness is this job has forced me to be around people who are really walking it. And that's where this double-mindedness just kind of started to tear and it was like well, you got to choose.
Speaker 2:You know like I'm in this role now at Icon Ministry and there's no hiding, there's. You know, we have a Catholic priest and we're doing Catholic things every day and kind of put in this place where it's like, well, you know, I love this job and I loved this work and all this stuff and I really didn't. I couldn't think of anything else that like I want to be doing besides. You know the stuff like that I get to work on here. But then I was just kind of put in this juxtaposed position where it was just like are you going to keep being double-minded and, you know, being half in, half out? And so you know it was maybe painfully at first, but just slowly having to just decide like, okay, I can't live like this anymore.
Speaker 2:And man, it's just been such a journey, I think, through being around people who really walk it.
Speaker 2:So I have an example of like, okay, it is possible, has been really really helpful.
Speaker 2:So I have an example of like, okay, it is possible, has been really really helpful. And I also think man, like, actually diving into the word and actually diving into the sacraments has really led to this massive boiling point where I just really feel the grace of God, just kind of cut the ties of those things in my life and I just think growing closer to how Jesus loves me and how good he's been to me. There's a bunch of factors, like Father Rob. One time we were doing this, we were filming all these masses and Father Rob was giving a homily and he was saying, hey, man, you have Jesus inside of you If you still feel like you're addicted to something, whether it be smoking, whether it be be like I don't know what it is and it just kind of it kind of felt like you know, while he's talking this, he's just kind of peeking up behind the camera, like felt like it was very much like this felt like he was talking directly to you, right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, he did.
Speaker 2:And maybe you know, maybe he was, maybe he wasn't, I don't know, we've never talked about it, but it felt like it was like okay, like this is, this is for me. And he just said you know to pray for, for freedom from this, like like walk in the freedom that Jesus offers you. And and I never get images, but while I, like after I received the Eucharist, I went and I kneeled down and I prayed and and I felt like at first I saw it was like it's like there was these ropes tied against my hand and it was like bringing me forward and it was kind of like you know, like that scripture of you know, one day someone will grab your hand and take you where you don't want to go. And but I just kind of had this image of it was God just kind of like gently pushing me forward, like hey, come on, like I got something cool for you. But then in the back I saw this like this black, like arrow spear that was just like going through my back and then just like wrapping around all my organs and just like squeezing and pressing. Oh, wow.
Speaker 2:But as I like prayed in that moment, I just saw this like water come down and like, just like the thickness and the hold that this like darkness had on me, that was just like literally trying to kill me from the inside out just started to kind of deteriorate and and I walked away from that thinking like, okay, like I got to stop smoking, you know, like, like my lungs and this and that conviction, yeah, yes, and I went to confession and like, like the next day and honestly I've just been walking in freedom sense, yes, and I went to confession, yeah.
Speaker 2:And like, like the next day and honestly I've just been walking in freedom since man, and that's just kind of like my story of just somebody who was just super lukewarm, like, when I really look back, I was just just a lukewarm Catholic who says it, you know, says that they go and go on Sundays and go, just enough, you know, to be like hey, like no, I'm fitting in in this social construct, sure, but then still trying to fit in into the world's social construct and I've tried, I've touched the stove enough of what the world has to offer to realize that I choose Jesus and I choose Amen, I choose holiness.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know. Hopefully that made sense chronologically, but that's my story.
Speaker 1:It was brutally honest and I think that a lot of people relate to it in the fact of just struggling with right, Like the, the world is trying to bring us closer and we're trying our best to to draw closer to Jesus, but the world is also saying, hey, come over here. You know, and I think I talked to so many people who are like, how do I actually be all in for Jesus? Do you have any thoughts on that of like what's helped you?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I think it's just by, first of all, your time, things really, that feeling of hearing God's voice and like being led to repentance and everything honestly just started with me being willing to open up my Bible in the morning and just like start to pray, you know.
Speaker 2:And so you know, I, I just think, yeah, giving them your time and and now, like the, the rollercoaster wave of choosing him has ever being like awesome and like Whoa, this crazy experience, like it's died out. And now it's just like I'm just walking it now and and honestly, I, I, I think it's just figuring out like what turns your heart away from him. And you know why is your heart not fully in? And you know, for me, I realized that I put a lot of people on a pedestal. That shouldn't be. You know, opinions of people and certain things in my life or maybe they're good, but my heart is actually. Certain aspects of my heart that God wants are actually directed towards, like the desire to be an artist, the desire to have like the following, or to be like accepted by this or that person and this and that, and it's just, it's just being aware of that and then, however painful it is, you know, just repenting and turning back to God.
Speaker 1:It's so interesting you talk about this because I actually you kind of talked about images, right, and with my spiritual director I was kind of being led through this time of prayer and I used to have a cottage growing up and there was a dock with a beautiful lake and immediately I kind of had this image of having like one foot on the dock and one foot on the boat. What immediately came to me was the idea of double-mindedness, right, and Jesus was in the boat and was calling me, but there was like one foot on the dock, kind of like one foot on the world, one foot on the dock, you know, and just kind of making that decision of like I'm just going to get in the boat, you know, and then just asking Jesus to give you the grace to just be all in. It was a powerful prayer but, if I'm being honest, right, like I prayed that with all my being, but it's like you know, luke 923, pick up your cross daily and follow me.
Speaker 2:It's like that daily decision of like showing up even when you don't feel like it, you know it's it's hard, yeah, and with addiction, you know as well like just wanting to be comforted, like I cut marijuana and nicotine out, like at the same time, and it's just truly like going up to the like, the Eucharist, and just being like, ok, I go to adoration and I go, you are my, everything, you know. And so there's days where I have to run to that instead and I run into the adoration chapel and I just go.
Speaker 1:I choose you, you know, I choose you despite the discomfort you know, yeah, even for me, I mean, in university, like I had a, I had a really rough drinking problem where I was drinking like three, four nights a week before I gave my yes to Christ.
Speaker 1:And even after I gave my yes to Christ, yeah, I was falling, yeah, I was falling back into it, you know, and I was begging God to to take it from me. And it wasn't until I had told myself like a thousand times I'm not going to go to a bar, I'm not going to get drunk. And what did I do? I went back to the bar and I got drunk and we were like walking home and I didn't even realize where I was. But I was walking up the steps and I and again, like I said, I had already given my yes to God and I was walking up these steps and I fell flat on my face and I looked up and I didn't even realize but I was on the property of a Catholic church. Wow, and the conviction, when I realized where I was, that I broke down and it was kind of like that was one of the moments right Of like I can't keep doing this, yeah, man, like I need to be all in right, but it's a journey, I think.
Speaker 2:You know, I know all things work together for the greater good of those who love him and I don't know why I had to go through those things. But what I do know now is, after falling on my face so much and making the decision now to get up, my heart is so like ready for the all-in choice. Because, like I don't know, it's like my heart was just led, I don't know. It's like roaming around in the desert and just choosing the wrong thing over and over and over again, and over and over again, and now it's just like, ok, I get it, like this is not it and I'm all in now because it just it's not been working.
Speaker 1:I think, too right, because God is in the business of bringing beauty out of ashes. And so the fact is like even our falls the Lord can use to help us realize that we actually can't stand on our own, but to help us realize that we actually can't stand on our own, but it's only his grace that will keep us standing. It's like even our falls the Lord can teach us humility in that, which is kind of bringing good out of it, right, which is not fun, but it's not. I mean trying to pray the litany of humility, right, Like that's not an easy prayer to pray. How powerful of a prayer it is right Just to to ask the Lord for, for, humility. You know that's how you was.
Speaker 2:I heard St Augustine I saw a quote the other day was to grow in holiness you need first humility, second humility and third humility. And just so you know, there is more besides humility, but the first three are humility. Wow, it's good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's true. Yeah, god is so faithful. What has helped you in the midst of you kind of spoke about like mental health and addiction, what's really helped you in the midst of those challenges?
Speaker 2:I think, finding healthy outlets.
Speaker 2:You know, like I am more and more aware, especially after the experience that I shared in my testimony, that there is a very real spiritual element to like what I was experiencing.
Speaker 2:And there was times where I just felt like, oh, this is just extra mean, like this, this, this season of struggling. But, that being said, going to the sauna, like working out, choosing to eat healthier, just making better choices and instead of running to unhealthy things, you know, to soothe my pain, I kind of have an arsenal of a few like I have like five or six health, like I can go for a walk, I can go to the gym, I can go to the sauna, I can go to daily mass. Like just make, just continue to just build up an arsenal of healthy things. And you know, I always keep in mind that, yes, it is, it is a spiritual walk, you know, like we're spiritual beings living in a body, you know, and so there is a spiritual element to it. But there's just some very practical things you can do as well to make the dip not so intense.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's really good advice. I was thinking just kind of came to mind about the fact of being a father and a husband. You have three kids now. I'm just curious, like how being a father impacted your relationship with God.
Speaker 2:Man the other day, one of like my biggest fears, like I literally went and learned how to say if, like my kid chokes, like I did. I took a class, I'm like how to do it, because it's one of like my biggest fears and so I learned. You know, this is what you do if they're not responding turn them over, start pounding on the on their backs and stuff like that. And I've never had to use it until like a couple weeks ago, where my oldest willow, you know, she just all of a sudden looked at me and she just was choking and and I just was like I like freaking out man.
Speaker 2:And then I like when I did everything I was supposed to do and you know, praise God, like it got cleared, but I like had like like a panic attack, like afterwards, and it was like freaking out and I had to like go upstairs. I walked upstairs and I just like went down on my knees and I was just like God, I just love my kids. Man, I just love my kids so much Like, please, like, please, like, help me take care of them. And it was like in that moment God was like that's how much I love you, but like even more, like, even more than you know. And I just think like there's just so many moments like that, like when I have two girls and then I have my first son. You know he's 10 months old now and you know it's just something so special, just like holding my son and thinking about how God gave his only son. Like dude, I would never Like are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:Get out of here, and so it's the love that I have for them just shows how radical his love must be in adoration and immediately he showed me my kid.
Speaker 1:Wow, you know, and he's like the way that you look upon your child with love. That's exactly how I see you. Wow, man, and it was just like a total game changer.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's crazy, I can't even fathom it. You know, like that's something I need to sit with more and more, you know, just seeing God as father, you know, is it something that I I haven't really reflected on a whole lot, you know. And there was like we're talking about images, you know, like I don't get like again, like I don't get a lot of images I it was that image that I gave you with the arrow. But there was another one, when actually I decided to like throw away my vape, like get rid of nicotine, there was like I had an image of God the father for the first time where it was weird. It was like I was just praying and I was reflecting on, you know, I was just, I don't know, I was just praying God, like okay, like you know, should I get rid of this too, you know, and the answer was yes, but in that moment I just kind of like saw this, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I was like on a beach and I wanted to like hug God. Then I actually wanted to go on a walk and hold his hand, but then I was like this feels weird, dude, just feels weird for me because we're eye level. And then God was like, ok, how about this? And then I shrunk to a toddler in the image and then I was maybe the size of my daughter and then he was looking up at me and he was like, how about this? And then I was holding his hand and I was like when we were walking and that was like I honestly, and then it just kind of stopped there and I've just been sitting with that. I just realized like man, I really need to like view God as father more and I'm just really thankful that I was kind of given that, that like distinction and that image of like, hey, man, I'm your dad too, you know, and just how much you know how you look at your kids, how I look at you, viewing God as Father is a very healing image for me.
Speaker 1:Have you ever reflected on the footprints, Paul?
Speaker 2:It sounds so familiar, Like there's the two in the sand and it's like oh, but I've been with you. Look like that.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I've heard of it. So his life is stretched completely across the sky and there's two sets of prints in the sand. But when the man looks at his life and sees the worst moments of his life, he only saw one set of prints right. So to him he's kind of like you left me in my worst hour, like where were you? He basically calls Jesus out and Jesus responds with the reason you only saw one set of prints in the sand is because those were the times when I was carrying you, that I was holding you so close to my heart, right, and I'm paraphrasing, obviously, but just that idea that, like he is, he's carrying us in those moments of, of those trials, when we feel so alone, which is beautiful. And I got to say too, man, like this morning was so interesting as I was working on the graphics for the scripture verse, right, and the Lord brought that up for me it's like it's got to be a beach with footprints on this edge.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I posted it today, so I thought it was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:Great, that's kind of confirmation for me.
Speaker 1:I'm getting confirmation.
Speaker 2:We just getting confirmed.
Speaker 1:Come on, holy Spirit, let's go.
Speaker 2:That's awesome man Praise bro. Come on, Holy Spirit, let's go. That's awesome Praise, bro. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, no, it's good, good to hear that Crazy how the Holy Spirit works.
Speaker 1:Last question that I always love to ask everyone that I have share their story, and it's what is your hope for the future of our church?
Speaker 2:And I would love for all of us to be under one roof, you know, not like a million different denominations and everything. Yeah, unity, yeah, I think just like worshiping or I guess. Unity and just a newfound love for the Eucharist. You know just what would the world look like if we truly believed in like presence of the Eucharist. And every time we went to mass, you know, every single heart in there wasn't, wasn't just in tune to like, yo, this is actually Jesus coming into this room. Yeah, and you know how different would our world be.
Speaker 1:And so it's crazy spiritual reading and how it just makes it come alive, you know, when you go to mass soon after and it's like it's truly Jesus on the altar right now. It's pretty, it's pretty amazing.
Speaker 2:It's something that I'm just hoping that I understand myself. And I was honest with, like I was doing an interview for work or something with somebody who just was like when I just go up, I just am in awe of the fact that I'm about to receive Jesus, and he said something. He was like, you know, when Forrest Gump says I'm not a smart man, jenny, he was like I feel like that's why I go to Mass. You know, it's like I'm not a smart man, but that's why I go to the Eucharist, because that's they say, that's where the grace is. And I was just in awe of like him and I decided to be honest with myself and I was like, dude, like I'm 29. I've been Catholic like my whole life and I don't get that yet, like I don't get that, walking up and being like, wow, this is Jesus, and like I'm on that journey now, you know, of trying to understand it and I just think the more that we do, the more powerful it can be in our lives.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and recognizing the fact, too, that we are all on different journeys and the Lord speaks to us in very unique and different ways. Right, like that image that the Lord gave you, with the water pouring over you and just setting you free, like that's, that's what the Lord needed to show you for you, you know what I mean. And so just kind of trusting that the Lord is with us and speaking to us, and in the details, which is pretty pretty amazing. Well, on that note, brother, I just want to thank you so much for your yes to Jesus and his church. It's been such a gift man I was. I was looking forward to this, honestly, just to be able to turn the tables because you asked me to share my story. I'm like, all right, it's time we're going to have you share yours.
Speaker 2:So I'm so thankful, man, and honestly, I'm a little like I have a hangover of the choice from just being like I'm gonna be extra vulnerable. You know like this is the first time I've shared this testimony and I don't know. I just felt like it was good to you know, because I want to set in stone what God just did for me in my life.
Speaker 1:Well, man, I just want to thank you for being vulnerable and you're the real deal and the fact of like listen, I don't have it all together, but I want to be all in for Jesus and I think so many people are going to listen to that and be like me too, man, and thank God, I'm not alone, right, because a lot of people are trying, and I think that's what the Lord asks is that we just keep trying to get back up and keep walking when we fall. People want to connect and learn more about Icon Ministries.
Speaker 2:How can they do that or connect with you? You can go to Icon Ministry. You know, on Instagram, If you play Roblox, we have a video game called.
Speaker 1:Meta Saint.
Speaker 2:That's yeah, it's just really great. You know, if you have kids, it's just awesome to play that game with your kids and just break open ideas or just conversations about God. You can find me at siraugie, on pretty much all platforms, and I've released some music, you know, in the past and I don't know if that's kind of I don't know, I'm just going to be creating stuff, I'm going to be speaking. I don't know if it's going to be music, I don't know if it's going to change, but if you like the music, you're welcome to go check it out and just kind of subscribe to the journey.
Speaker 1:And I can check it out by going on Spotify Apple.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yes, yes, yeah everywhere, yeah available on all platforms. You'll definitely hear the walk of changing, you know, closer to holiness and being a little farther away from holiness to moving towards holiness. It's kind of all documented there. Yeah, man.
Speaker 1:If you like it, you can check it out. Awesome. Well, do you want to close us in prayer tonight? Yeah, man.
Speaker 2:Thanks again, man. No, no worries. In the name of the Father, son, holy Spirit, amen. Lord God, we just pray that you just come to anyone who says yes, says yes to you and says yes to the faith, and we just pray that you build them up, you encourage them, you empower them. We pray for people who have already said yes in our walking. Maybe they're in a season of complete utter joy for that decision, or maybe they're in a season of growth and of needing Jesus to carry them a little bit and to help them just solidify that yes even more. We just pray for them too, and I just pray for everyone who's listening that they just grow closer to you today and I just thank you for yes, catholic, and for David and their ministry. Just pray it reaches as many people as it possibly can, amen.
Speaker 1:In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen Amen.
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