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
A Father Weeps, A Child Believes, Hope Rises
Some moments don’t change the facts—they change how we face them. We return to May 2020, when a small business owner named Bill sat in a dark living room, weighed down by closed doors, maxed credit, and a future he couldn’t predict. Then his son came downstairs, wrapped small arms around his dad, and whispered a sentence that reset the room: “We just talked to Jesus and we know everything’s going to be alright.”
From there, we walk through the real pressures small shop owners carried at the height of COVID: shuttered storefronts, uneven supplier responses, and the exhausting maze of emergency aid. We unpack the hard calls—banks that hit lending limits, creditors with little margin left, and the math that wouldn’t budge. And we explore why a child’s straightforward trust can cut through adult anxiety, not by denying reality but by reframing it. Faith becomes more than a slogan; it’s a working definition of resilience, the confidence to act before results arrive.
Along the way, we bring Hebrews 11:1 into the present tense: confidence in what we hope for and evidence of what we cannot yet see. That lens doesn’t pay bills, but it can steady hands to make the next right move. You’ll hear how Bill chose to keep going—calling suppliers with concrete plans, reshaping his inventory, and asking mentors for strict guidance—while letting faith fuel discipline, not denial. If you’ve ever stared at a spreadsheet and felt your chest tighten, this story offers both grounding and lift: a practical path forward and a reminder that courage can grow in the dark.
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Good morning everyone. This is Danny Minnack, and welcome to Starting Right. Today we're going to take a look back and repeat an episode that we presented back on May 26th, 2020. Remember what COVID was like back then? It was really, really scary, and we didn't know how long it was going to last or how bad it was going to get. This is a story of a young man, his wife, and his family trying to cope with the initial impact of the virus. From May 26, 2020, here's the episode Just Because You Haven't Seen It Yet. I want to talk to you today about a young man named Bill. Bill has a family with two young children, two boys and his wife, and Bill owns a clothing store. When the pandemic hit, he had to close down the store along with many other people in the same boat. And over the last couple of months, he has struggled to try and make sure that he gets all the assistance from the government he can, and he's able to pay all the bills that is necessary for him and for his family to be able to survive. He's done everything he could to try to keep it going. Most suppliers have worked well with him and allowed him to defer or delay payments or to send back merchandise that was there. Some have been demanding their money and wanting to get their hands on it right away. As things progressed over the last couple of months, Bill has had to use his savings that he had to be able to make sure that all of his needs are met, and that his business is able to stay afloat. He came to a very difficult decision last week. He had to sit down and talk to his accountant and to his bank, and to try to figure out what to do now, how to move ahead, as the announcement came that we were going to see a reopening of some businesses. The bank was kind to him but told him that he was maxed out in the amount of money they could lend him. His creditors said that they had extended the credit as far as it could go. He came home late last week while his wife was putting the kids to bed, sat down in his living room, in the silence in the dark, and the stress of the situation brought tears to his eyes, and he began to silently weep at the uncertainty and the lack of knowing what's going to happen. His sons had heard him come in. So his eldest son decided he wanted to go downstairs and say goodnight to Daddy. So down he came. He saw his dad sitting there on the couch with his head in his hands. Very quietly his son came to him and wrapped his small arms around his dad's arm and said, Dad, don't cry. Mom and us, we just talked to Jesus and we know everything's going to be alright. Oh, to have faith like a child and to believe in spite of the circumstances we see around us in our world. To know that when we talk to Jesus and Jesus' promises are true, that we can trust him. To be able to say, I talked to Jesus and it's going to be all right. Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 1 says this. What is faith? It is the confidence assurance that what we hope for is going to happen. It is the evidence of things that you cannot yet see. Maybe you need to hear that when we have faith, it is being confident in what we don't yet see. It's coming. But we have to have confidence. We have to have faith and believe that what He said He will do, He will do for us. They have this ability to sense that God will hear them and will answer, and they can put their faith and they can put their trust in that. They don't question, they don't doubt. Our faith is often based upon what we see, not upon what we know to be true. Even in the most difficult and trying of times, God is still with us and for us. I gotta tell you about Bill. Bill's decided to hang on to know that God is there. His faith was strengthened, and he's moving ahead knowing that God's got his hand on him and on his family. How about you today? Do you know that God's got you and your family in his hand? Can you trust him and are you trusting him with everything that you're going through, with everything that you're facing, with the complete mix of good news and bad news that we have seemingly on a daily basis? Can you trust him? And do you trust him? Put your faith in believing that what has not yet come will come, and that God will be faithful to you and for you. Be blessed, my friends. Take care. God is with you, and he is for you right now. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.
