Starting Right
Starting Right is a 5 minute Day Starter to help keep you motivated, encouraged, and focused throughout your day. DannyMac is a pastor, teacher, motivational speaker, husband, and father. His years of leading and training people have given him vast experience in helping individuals to accomplish change in their lives and meet their goals. He can help you set the course for your day by offering practical advice from God's Word in a positive and fun way. There is no better way to begin your day than by Starting Right with DannyMac.
Starting Right
The Funny Things We Learn Growing Up
Parental wisdom often comes wrapped in quirky, illogical packages that somehow still make perfect sense. From "If you're going to kill each other, do it outside—I just finished cleaning" to the classic "Make sure you wear clean underwear in case you get hit by a truck," these sayings might not pass a logic test, but they've shaped generations of children nonetheless.
Join me in exploring how God teaches us through His Word and our experiences, encouraging us not with "goofy instructions" but with love, grace, and mercy as we grow into who we're meant to become.
Good morning and welcome to Starting Right with Danny Mac. I'm going to be here every Monday to Friday to help you get a great five-minute start to your day, so grab your cup of coffee, sit back, relax and let me help you start your day right. I want to share with you an email that I received, called 10 things that my parents have taught me. Now I need to make a disclaimer before I read this list, because this is not my list. You see, I know my mom listens to the podcast and if she hears this list and thinks that I'm talking about her and dad, I will be in big trouble. So this is not about my family, at least most of it Well, some of it. But this list today is just meant for fun and it's meant to help us realize that there are some things that we say to our kids, or that our parents have said to us, that the logic is not really all that great, but we say it anyway, and the kids always know what we mean. So here we go.
Speaker 1:My mother taught me to appreciate a job well done when she said if you're going to kill each other, do it outside. I just finished cleaning. My mother also taught me about religion when she told me you better pray, that will come out of the carpet. My father yeah well, he taught me about time travel. He said if you don't straighten up, I'm going to knock you into the middle of next week. There were many times also that my father taught me logic when he said because I said so. That's why I learned mother's logic when she said if you fall out of that tree and break your neck, you're not coming to the store with me. My mother also taught me to be prepared. She constantly reminded me make sure you wear clean underwear in case you get hit by a truck.
Speaker 1:My dad, he taught me irony. He would say keep crying and I'll give you something to cry about. My mother taught me science, the science of osmosis. She would say shut your mouth and eat your supper. My mother also taught me what it meant to be a contortionist when she would tell me to look at that dirt on the back of your neck. And, mom, she also taught me about stamina when she said you will sit there until all that spinach is gone. Okay, so now, how many of those do you remember hearing when you were a kid? Or, worse yet, how many of those have you said to your own children? This list was just compiled to say these are some goofy things that people say when they're trying to teach us something or make a point that we won't forget.
Speaker 1:It's all part of that learning process when we're growing up, getting information coming at us in different ways, and sometimes it makes a lot of sense. Sometimes it doesn't make sense, but we generally get the meaning of what it's all about. As we look back over these last few years, we all recognize that we face many challenges and many changes. What are some of the positive things that you have learned about yourself, about God, about your family, about where you're going with your lives? Are there some things that God has shown you and taught you? Maybe some of your learning has been on purpose. Maybe you've taken a course or courses, or maybe you've taught a course. Maybe you completed your degree that had been sitting there unfinished for a number of years. But where are you learning and where are you growing?
Speaker 1:God is always wanting us to grow and to learn. We need to learn what he has for us, where he's taking us, what he wants to do with our lives. Hebrews, chapter 6 and verse 1 says Therefore, let us move beyond the elementary teachings of Christ and be taken forward to maturity. In Luke 17 and 5, the apostles said to Jesus Increase our faith, help us to get more of what you're doing and help us to grow more and to know more. Teach us.
Speaker 1:God wants to teach us very specifically and succinctly. He wants to pour into you. He wants you to understand more about Him and about His Word and about His plan for your life, about what strengths you have and how to use the gifts that he's placed within you. Do you know what gifts God has given you and how to use those gifts? He wants to keep us moving forward and growing, and the lessons of God are not hard to understand. He will teach us through His Word and through the time we spend in it, but he will also teach us as we're taking steps of faith to do what he wants us to do.
Speaker 1:It's amazing what you learn when you decide that you are not going to stand still anymore, but you're going to start moving forward, and then God starts to teach us, and he will encourage us, not with goofy instructions, but with love and grace and mercy. Keep growing, keep learning. Know that God wants to pour more and more into you and cause you to move ahead, and none of those things in that list are the way God will talk to you, so you don't have to worry about that. Have a great day, my friends. We'll talk again tomorrow. Thank you for listening today and I invite you to join me Monday to Friday, right here on Starting Right with Danny Mac.
