Speaker 1: I write in a forest because I go there to listen.
What started at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North
Carolina has evolved into a lifelong journey. I believe that
we've all got something moving through each and every one
of us. It's your calling. These aren't my words, These
are the lyrics from Billy's Forest, chapter number three hundred,
January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two. Waking up to yet
another snow covered forest floor. It's always a gift blessed
by a physical god, a god that believes in forward emotion.
This is three weeks in a row with all of
this snow. This while my family up in Montana, where
snow is usually plentiful, they aren't receiving anything this season.
Dear future reader, if only you could see how beautiful
the stream is while the sun is waking up to
a blanket of blizzard white. It allows the inner core
of challenge, guilt, doubt, and fear to calm down for
a moment, to take it in, to embrace the elegance
of what's one dred percent natural versus man made. The
only prince found in the snow belong to the deer
and the eighty bitty bird seeking seeds that the human
eye can't see, like an etch a sketch. God will
remove all that is frozen to let us see the
next painting. Amazing is this force that which I call
home to truly view it through the eyes of a
silent wolf. It invites unbelievable spiritual growth and healing. Being
from the State of Montana doesn't mean that I automatically
love a great snowstorm. That's not true. That's the reason
why I left the State of Montana because as that
young adult becoming an older adult, I didn't want to
deal with it anymore. I had it my entire life.
I needed to grow forward. But now that I'm in
my sixties, you sit there and you take a moment
three weekends in a row where there is snow, and
you go, what can I learn from this? In fact,
in everything that I do, it is a choice. What
can I learn from this? In September of twenty twenty,
right there in the middle of the pandemic, the lockdown,
I need it to be with people because my heart
was telling me go to where the people are. It's
a pandemic, dude, Why do you have to have this
feeling go to where the people are. The only thing
that was open was a grocery store, so I decided
I want to work there because I want to learn.
There's something in your every day that is given to you.
And my question to you is, what is your choice
of wanting to learn something today? What is in your
moment of right now that can be used for a
tool not necessarily right here, but like I spoke in
the writing on January twenty ninth, twenty twenty two, dear
future reader, what if you're the one that's been called
to carry something forward to get to a generation not
yet here and yet because you took the time to say,
what am I going to learn today? You helped out
this moment of now by building a stronger foundation. You
know when you're given something, you know when you're sharing it,
you know when it's been received. I'm Erril. These aren't
my words. These are the lyrics from Billy's Forest