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Father Stephen Gadberry
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This week Drew is joined by Father Stephen Gadberry. Not only is Father Stephen a Catholic priest changing the lives of thousands of people he is also a Military Veteran and avid hunter.
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Introduction & Theme
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are listening to the Tricer Podcast, where we talk all things hunting, gear, and the great outdoors. Before we begin, let's start things out right and put God first. Lord Jesus, I thank you for Tricer, and I ask that you can use this podcast as a way to bring joy to all of our listeners. We lay Tricer and this podcast at your feet.
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Welcome to the Tricer Podcast.
Guest Introduction: Father Steven Gadbury
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One more episode. This episode we have a special guest, Father Steven Gadbury from Arkansas. He is a Catholic priest who is also a big game hunter. I'm so excited to have you on and just talk to you and just have another man of God on the podcast and just hear about your life and how you got into hunting. So tell me about you.
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Yeah, thanks for the invite, man. It's always cool to connect with other guys who love the Lord and love God's creation. And hunting is just something that's a passion of mine that's brought me closer to the Lord and helps me. It's been a really cool avenue for meeting other people that then allows me to bring them to the Lord. So it's just so cool. So I look forward to talking a little bit about that.
Hunting as a Bonding Experience
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Yeah, there is so much that connects God to hunting and God to the outdoors. And I find it's a great tool for me to get to talk to people. I think it's a great tool for me with my sons. I have five children. My older boys both hunt. Having them in the truck with me for eight hours driving to another state or even one hour in the morning driving to the local mountains, just getting to talk to them and be with them. There's something about it that is just
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Primal and I feel like it was we were meant to do it, right? I love in a whole narrow level when you get to experience the suck with someone and experience this like miserable thing Out there and be together. There's something that bonds men together right sitting around a fire telling hunting stories I was reading John 21 yesterday.
Biblical Reflections & Spiritual Connections
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I was thinking about you I just finished up John for like the umpteenth time. I read John probably four or five times a year and
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And in John 21, the disciples were out on the boat, and they've now, Jesus has risen again, but they're going back to normal life, and they're going back to fishing. They're out in the ocean, they're just like, whatever, we'll just go back to fishing. And so Jesus appears and says, hey, boneheads, throw your nail on the other side of the boat. And they can't even pull the net in.
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And then Peter realizes, or John says, it's the Lord. And then Peter, he goes, you know, gets his clothes back on, because apparently he's naked on the boat fishing. And he jumps in his swim to Jesus.
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Which is kind of funny because the boat arrives at the same time as Peter has swum, right? So he's just not excited. And by the time they get there, Jesus has a fire going and he's got some fish on the fire already ready for him. So that means the Lord had prepared fish. He had either caught some fish or had some fish, gutted the fish. I'm sure he didn't just snap his fingers, had the fish there.
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there's something about it that he just, you know, wanted to sit around a fire and eat something they caught, right? And that goes so far with our relationships. When I hunt too, I'm not only hunting with Christians at all. I mean, most of my hunting partners aren't Christians, but we're able to go and share an experience that I feel like God created for us in nature.
Connecting with God through Hunting
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And we're able to experience the outdoors, right? You get up on top of a mountain
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And you look out and there's the clouds and the sun rise in and the birds, you know, it's dark and it started to get light and the birds start chirping and the squirrels start running and you start, you know, animals start coming up. Like there's something about that that is just, just God. Everything about it is just, you just feel the presence of God and you see God in all of his creation and, uh,
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I really feel like hunting is a great way to experience God and to share the gospels. So, yeah, there we go. Yeah, St. Augustine refers to
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creation in nature as a gospel. He calls it the gospel of creation. It makes so much sense that it's such a spiritually powerful time for us to be out there. It gets us back to the most primal elements of our life, of who we are, the most basic things of humanity and existence in itself, creation and everything, and it intimately connects us to the circle of life. For us to continue to live, something has to die.
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And, you know, in a real way where there's vegetables or fruit that were plucking off the vine or the tree or an animal that we're harvesting. And the same is true for love, you know, rather like if a real love is a sacrificial love. And so there's that death to self. And so it's just this element of creation and hunting. I think it really forces us to stand toe to toe with the sacrificial nature of love.
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and the value of life and the cost of love. Man, it ain't cheap. It ain't cheap.
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Tell
Finding Calmness in Hunting
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me about your, I guess, your parish, right? Yeah, so right now I'm in Little Rock. The city of Little Rock is in the center of the state. I just moved here about a year ago. We've got around 9,000 people here at the church, about 90% Hispanic. We got a preschool through eighth grade, a school with pre-Kinder through eighth grade.
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Man, it's just rocking and rolling. There's a lot going on. I was ordained a priest in 2016 after about an eight-year program of preparation of school, four years in southern Louisiana with some monks, a bunch of Benedictine monks. So we just worked and prayed and studied all day. And then four years in Rome, Italy, which is cool, good food, cool people, and just a lot of history.
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But now I'm here in Little Rock doing this, and in my free time, I love being in the woods. It's a ministry, it's such a busy, busy thing of always putting stuff out, you know, like giving to people, giving in service, continual pouring out. And it's always loud, and there's always stuff going on. So hunting, being out in the woods is a great time just to be still. I know that God is God, you know, as the Psalm says.
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Yeah, I, uh, I'm in ministry, nothing like you, but I'm in ministry three days a week with Bible studies and youth groups and church and whatever. I'm on the board and there's always something going on. And then I've run all these businesses. There is something to be said about going on a hunt where you have no cell phone service and you can just be out there and not have people pulling at you. And I couldn't imagine being you with all those people underneath you. It's you, uh,
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You do kind of have to, I mean, I know you give it to God, but you get to hear all the problems and everybody's coming to you and it's, that is a heavy load to bear. I know you're doing it with God, but getting out there, I can imagine that being pretty, you know, cathartic for you and pretty, you know, peaceful. Oh, it's man, it's necessary. I mean, a ministry, there's a lot of great times. I mean, don't get me wrong, there's so many amazing, beautiful, grace-filled moments, but
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A lot of ministry is people coming up at the worst moments of their life.
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Most people don't call the office to make an appointment with me and to bring in their whole family.
Ministry Challenges & Hunting as an Escape
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You're my dog. But they won't call the office to make an appointment with me and bring in their whole family just to say, hey, we just want to tell you life is great. Little Susie here is getting straight A's in school. Little Timmy, he's on the all-star baseball team. He makes his bed every day. Usually they're coming in saying, hey, my marriage is falling apart. My kid's in trouble.
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I am one thing after another and getting out of the woods is a good time to just decompress. So I don't know if it's common for a priest to be hunters in avid outdoorsman. So when I saw you and I think you followed me.
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you like one of my ads or something and so I hit you up and I said hey man I'd love to have you on this is to me it seems a little taboo maybe I'm wrong maybe all you guys are just killers out there just chasing elk and doing stuff but how did you become a hunting priest yeah yeah it's not too common there are a number of guys that I know that do it number of priests that do hunt but yeah you're right it's not common
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And, uh, so I started in 2017. That was the first time I really went hunting. I grew up on a farm in the Arkansas Delta. So I was familiar with firearms and the outdoors and hard work familiar with all that, but we just didn't hunt. We'd go shoot turtles or snakes or, you know, you know, birds flying by or something like that. Squirrels just what boys typically do. Um,
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did that growing up, but it was in 2017 that I went hunting for the first time. I got there at the church, had some land and said, hey, come on out and just get your deer. We have a ton of whitetails here in Arkansas, a ton. So he said, come on out. So he put me up in his little box stand with his 270 and he said, if any of them that you want, you can take. And then sure enough, about an hour later, Doe walks out and I experienced just the
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that heartbeat going
Persistence in Hunting & Spiritual Growth
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up and then the excitement and just boom, you know, took it and it was an amazing experience. And I said, this is kind of fun. I think I may look into this. I picked up a bow, a cheap little kid's bow just to see if I would enjoy it. So I shot a little kid's bow all summer, that following summer. And then in October of 2018, got my first buck, first buck ever. And it was my first deer with a compound bow.
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And I was hooked. I was hooked. Since then, I've been in and over my head with archery and rifles and all sorts of game. So isn't shooting a bow, there's something about that that's kind of meditative too. For me, I'll have a stressful day and I can walk outside and fling 15, 20 arrows and it's like,
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Man, it's just great. That is one of those things, too, where it is like a self-reliant thing, too, with archery, where it's all on you. If you miss, it's on you. If you shoot it great, it's on you. There's something about it that I just love that really kind of disconnects me from my days. It just puts me into a focused time. I can pray during that time. It's just a good time to think and meditate and get along with God. Yeah. I mean, it requires focus and attention, but not in a
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It's just such a good thing, yeah, repetitive and it's almost like hypnotic, not like a weird way, but it's just like you kind of get this little like in the zone kind of state. And that's, I mean, that's what intimate prayer is like. When you have those intimate prayer moments with the Lord, it's that same flow state, if you want to call it that, whatever you want to call it.
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Some clicks, everything's going, and it's like, whoa, wow, I'm deep in the word with the scripture. And then you can read it, read it, read it. But every now and then you'll get to some passages and just something happens. You get in that state of just like big intimacy with the Lord. Archery is the same thing. And you can shoot arrows over and over. Bullets are kind of hard to shoot again once you shot them once. You got to reload them.
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I got a I have a funny this is kind of off really off topic, but I have a friend from India He's a pastor and he comes over here and teaches my Bible study and we support a little bit
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He was a Hindu, and he's a rich man, he's a Hindu, and he was worshiping cobras, do all this stuff. And he said, somehow, I grew up with how he got the Bible. He got the Bible, and he said he read Matthew, and he rolled a joint, and he smoked Matthew. And then he read Mark, he rolled it and smoked it. And then he read Luke, he rolled it and smoked it, and he goes, then I got to John, and John smoked me.
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So he hit that state. He hit John and the guy just got good and saved and now he's got like 20 churches all over India and his providence. And he's like, yeah, so that's where he was at.
Father Gadbury’s Hunting Adventures
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He's like, I literally smoked it. I made cigarettes with it. Then I got to John and John smoked me. That's always stuck with me. I've met him, I've known him for about probably 10 years now. He's a little bit longer, probably longer actually. That's always stuck with me. John smoked me.
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Cool. So another thing that's kind of cool is you've got some grit, obviously, right? You grew up on a farm. You're hard-working.
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And then you went into the military, which again, I don't, I don't, like for some reason I just don't, it doesn't, it just doesn't transcend for me right now. You're a hunter. So, and then you've got, you've run this giant, you know, this giant 9,000 person parish. I think that has a lot to do with your grit and your hard work ethic. And how does that transcend to you from being, from a hunter to being a father? Yeah. So just, I mean, as you know, as a father yourself, as a dad yourself,
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Um, you know, I don't have any biological children. I got a ton of kids here at the school and the family and every, you know, all the members of the church, the majority of life is you just got to show up and keep punching the clock. I mean, things don't happen if you don't show up. So you just keep showing up and, and, um, you know, hunting of course pulls that out. I love, uh, working out. I love fitness. And so that's another way of kind of testing my limits. But, um, with, with ministry.
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It's cool. I've reflected a lot on this before. You don't finish it. You never get it done. As men, we like to start mowing the yard and get the yard mowed. We like to build stuff and we get it done. But ministry is tough because
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It doesn't finish like it, you don't get it done. So it's not so much a matter of getting these tasks done, but rather participating in this big story of salvation, right? Getting it, jumping into this, this thing with the Lord and participating with him. And, um, and man, it's a grind sometimes, but, but it's when you're, you've been grinding for so long and then just so beat down and worn out that like,
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There's an aspect of surrender that comes about, and then the Lord can really work. He's like, okay, are you done trying to fix all this? Now let me in and let me do it. And so he comes in, but yeah, it's a grind.
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I always just have this conversation recently with a guy who goes on Bible study, and he's got good and saved about a year ago, and he's just struggling with some stuff. And I was talking about sanctification. And so, you know, you get saved. It isn't like you get saved, and it's over. It's just starting. It never ends. Sanctification is the process of growing more and more like Christ. And you never could be Christ. You could do that until you die. You're going to be sanctified and going through things and doing things. And I think that is true, too, what you're saying about
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You just show up and so much of that transcends into hunting as well. A lot of times your success in hunting isn't so much the skill. There's skills part of it. A lot of it is just you not being willing to quit. You not going back to the tent or the cot to lay down at lunchtime, but you staying out at one o'clock and all of a sudden the bull stands up.
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You know, our deer stands up and you kill that deer because you didn't quit. And that really does, depends on everything from hunting to life to business. It's when you get kicked in the teeth and you get back up and keep going. It's when you really see success in ministry and business and hunting. It's when you get, when things are going all wrong and the weather's bad and you decide to pack up and go home. You know, I've never stayed for the whole length of a hunt and regretted it. Yeah, I agree.
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I have left a day or two early and regretted it. Once you leave, you're not getting that tag back. You have that tag and you quit two days early because you're just beat up and tired and you're not seeing anything. You can't get this back. I just want to stay the whole time and to give it everything I had in me.
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to make sure I'm successful. I tell people all the time when they ask me like, how are you successful in business or these things or ministries? And I just say, I'm too dumb to quit. I think God really just gave me something where it's just like, he just made me too stupid to quit. I don't know. And through those things, you keep getting punched in the teeth and getting knocked down. But I mean, think of a bad shot that you've made. I've had my fair share.
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And then I go home at night, I'm thinking, gosh, did I hit that deer or not? I couldn't find blood. Or you lose a blood trail and you just go through this over and over and over and over in your head and you analyze it and pick everything apart and you go back to the drawing board, you know, like it's almost when things go wrong and you stop and wrestle with it and analyze it and grow from it, that you become a better hunter much more than when everything goes perfect. You walk out in the first 20 minutes, an animal comes double lung and then then it's in the back of your truck, you know, like,
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Yeah, I mean that's pretty sweet don't get me wrong, but you didn't grow much in that you were you were really blessed in that but when you struggle through a hunt and Badshot whatever it is and you learn
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Back to the archery thing. I mean, the words in scripture in Old Testament, Greek in the Hebrew and Old Testament, also in the Greek and the New, both of the words for sin, you may know this, it's called missing the mark, khatah, the word in Hebrew is the word khatah, that means to miss the marks, to sin. And it's the exact same word that they used for like in
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In hunting, if you miss your bullseye, you miss your archery target, you miss your animal, you hunt that, you miss the mark. And if you're zeroing in your gun, zeroing in your sighting in your bow, you have to be willing to shoot, miss the bullseye, like no one that you're dialing it in. I'm gonna miss the bullseye, but I gotta see if I'm on paper. You take it, you evaluate where it hit, how far off, make an adjustment, and you shoot again.
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and you just inch it closer to the bullseye. So for that thing to sanctification, and that's what it is. It's being willing to knock another arrow, adjust your sight, take another shot, and just keep getting to the bullseye, keep getting to the center, keep getting to Christ. Yeah, that's awesome. That's really good. So,
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I want to hear some of your hunting stories. You're getting out west a little bit now, too, right? You're not just out in Arkansas, hunting whitetails. I see you're like wearing Kuyu, and you're coming out west now, and you've really got the bug. Yeah, man. What do you choose? A little bit everything, man. A few years ago, went on elk hunt out there, which was absolutely amazing. I've gone back every fall since with some friends. I got one elk
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last year on a big ranch out there but still haven't gotten a public land elk so that's what i'm really wanting to grind through and that's tough man elk black bear got an antelope a few years ago in new mexico a friend out there has a big ranch and i was just able to get one of their landowner tags there in northeast new mexico and i'm so new to hunting so i go out there to smoke just a booner of an antelope
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And it was only after the fact that I realized that that's like a 25 point unit to get them tags. It's just crazy. So just smoked a sweet antelope. Ton of whitetail here in Arkansas. Love that. Of course, waterfowl. But I love the big game. And yeah, so it's just fun, man, chasing them all. I've got a hunt planned for October in Idaho.
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And, uh, that's, that'll be the last Western hunt for this season. What, what tag is that? It's really cool. It's an elk tag, but the way that this particular tag works is I can use it for an elk or I could use it for a bear wolf or, or a, uh, uh, uh, mountain lion.
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So if any of those things come, I can punch the tag on any of those. So basically an elk or any lesser or lower price tag underneath. You could use it for a mule deer as well, right? I don't know for a mule deer. I'm not sure. Okay. Oh, I can't remember. I
Alligator Hunt Story
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had a hud up there and we flew in and we got dropped off and we spent eight days back there and it changed my life. It just ruined me. All I want to do is go on these big adventures now and just
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It was so neat. I didn't even kill anything. My buddy killed a bull. We ended up getting two deer down as well. There's four of us. And it was just incredible, man. That's God's country up there. If it wasn't so cold, man, I'd seriously consider moving out with. So I got thin blood, man.
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And one of the coolest hunts actually happened two days ago in Southern Louisiana. I went on my first gator hunt and man, that is wild. It's wild. It's such a social thing. You're talking and everything just hanging out. And we were running ditches is what we were at a big crawfish farm. And they're just gators all over the place. You run some set hooks and then you go back through and check your lines and then pull one up. And, you know, if there's, you know, first one on there, you take it.
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And, uh, we got two seven footers and 11 footer. And, uh, I got mom with a recurve, which is really a cool experience. And those things they got, they got two speeds. It's just like almost asleep in the water or going after your neck. And they, and when they flip that switch, they just go, they are mad at the world. Them, them gators. But yeah, I got mom with, uh, with his, um, with that recurve, but another buddy got his with the compound.
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That 11 footer was the last one we got. And last hook we checked, even. We pulled up and big old water hole. It was muddy. We knew there was one on there. We walked up there. It was four of us, two guys from Louisiana, a couple of us from Arkansas. And my buddy pulls on the line, and as you can see, his face changed. He said, y'all get ready. It's a big one. So we knock arrows, and he's pulling up. And this was like a movie, because it looked like chocolate milk or coffee with milk in it.
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And you just see this dark shadow, like getting darker and darker as the head's coming up to the, coming up to the top of the water. And then that sucker's head breaks the water and then my eyes are just looking at us and she is kicked. And as soon as we saw that buddy with the compound released his arrow, just went out, glanced the skull. It didn't even.
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It just didn't do anything. I didn't even take a shot because it's like, I'm not going to mess with it. And we immediately pulled out the firearms and had, you know, took care of her. But it was about six feet in front of us right down this steep, steep bank into the ditch. So she's down. She's, she's not moving. So I climbed down there with a big rope to tie up to her and I bear hug her to get, get under armpits and everything. They got it wrapped around my arm and I'm standing on their other ropes.
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that the bait hook was set on. As soon as I start to tide it down, she starts doing that death roll thing. Boy, I was out of that ditch like a cartoon man, Tom and Jerry. I came running out. Do you shot her? You shot her and she was still alive. Yeah. These gators, something will come up to the water to drink and they'll just bite onto whatever they can, a leg, a nose, a tail, and just start spinning.
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And that kind of, they pull the animal in the water, drowned it and they eat it. So they'll do that whenever they're killing something. And also whenever they die, all their muscle spasms just does that same thing. And so we got the 600 pound gator ropes all around her and I'm tangled up in these ropes. And she could have, she could have twisted me up like spaghetti, but I'm luckily got my hand and foot out of it. So man, yeah, it was, it got intense for a second.
Lessons from Hunting: Resilience & Bonds
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I bet they were laughing pretty hard. Oh, guys, them Cajun boys are so fun, man. They are fun people, yeah. Yeah, so that was probably... Yeah, they're... It was fun, huh? Yeah.
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There is something to set about, like there's experiences you get hunting like that, this near death experience with a gator. Yeah. That I think only hunters really understand it, right? Some of these miserable hike outs we do or these, you get stuck in a storm or you're climbing on the side of a, you know, shale face and one wrong step, you're going to roll to your death. There's something about it that is just primal, right? Like even the Bible talks about David's mighty man, like climbing down into ditch and killing a lion.
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Yeah. Just for the fun of it? Yeah. There's something about it that just is manly and meant to be. Yeah. Who was it in the Old Testament? I don't remember Joshua. I could be totally wrong. I don't remember who it was. One of them, the boys were taunting him and making fun of him. Basically said, I'm going to pray down some bears on you. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Man, those tough haunts, though, really forged friendships.
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and deepen our identity and who we are as people. Some of the best memories I have are in ministry through terrible times. But being with people through those tough times, like at the foot of the cross is what it is. And the same thing, some of the best memories I have have been just going through the hardest grinds with some of my best friends in the woods. We were hunting elk a few years ago. It was middle of September. We woke up, it was pretty chilly in the mornings.
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uh, you know, high thirties or so early September. Wait. So by the time, you know, sun come up in 10, 10 o'clock or so rolled around, it was in the mid sixties and then a storm cloud comes in and by noon it's snowing. And by the, by the time the sun goes down, there's 10 inches of snow.
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And we had about a three mile hike back out of it through all that snow. And it was just bizarre and it was terrible, but it was some fun memories on that one too. Yeah. I love a type two fun. It's definitely takes a different breed of person, right? Like my hunting partners, they have to enjoy type two fun. Like there's a lot of people who want me to take them hunting, but I won't, I won't take them hunting because they just want me to take them to kill something. Yeah.
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What I look for in a hunting partner is somebody that when that snowstorm comes in, they just deal with it and enjoy it. Or when it's raining, they're still out there hunting with me in the rain, looking for those elk or looking for those deer. It's a different breed of person that goes out and hikes through three miles of snow and says that was a fun experience. Yeah. One of my good buddies, hunting buddies, he's got a bison farm. His little slogan is into the storm.
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Yeah, that's kind of what it's like. Just head down into the storm. That's awesome, man. Well, I think that kind of brings us to an end there. What else you got for us? Anything you want to leave us with? Man, just keep showing up is one thing I would say. I'd share that with everybody.
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And whatever you show up to, give it everything you got. Saint Ignatius of Loyola was saying he's the one that founded the Jesuits, a religious order, you know, would focus on preaching and teaching just all over the world. And, but Ignatius of Loyola, for his brothers in this group that he had, he had this phrase that he would tell them. It was aji quote ajis. It's actually, it's said in one part of the movie Tombstone. But the phrase is aji quote ajis.
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It means literally do what you're doing. But the sense of the phrase is be all in. Whatever you're doing, do it 100%. And that's what I would tell people. So if you're gonna go hunting, give it everything you've got. And that's gonna give glory to God. If you do arts and crafts at home, give it everything you've got. If you're going to work or you got your first kid and you're trying to figure it all out, you're not sleeping because your baby's up all night.
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Well, give it everything you got. And just there's a lot of grace in that. If people that are all in, people that are, give it their whole heart, man, God can do some great things with that. So keep
Final Encouragement & Closing
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showing up and be all in and just trust that the Lord does so much with that. Yeah. That is awesome, man.
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Let's have you wrap us up with a prayer. You know how to pray? Yeah. Pray a lot? Saw it on YouTube. Saw it on YouTube once. All right. Let's wrap us up. Thank you. Cool.
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got a mercy and love. We just give you thanks for this day and the gift of life. We give you thanks for loving us into existence and allowing us to love you through creation. Just through all, through anyone that listens to this podcast now or tomorrow or 20 years from now or anybody
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that is connected to it in any way. Just fill them with your love and your grace and give them a deeper appreciation for the gospel of creation that spreads you. Bless Drew and his family so that he can continue to be a conduit of your love. Be with me and my ministry as well. And above all, let us do all things for your glory.
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