You Can Call Me Al(ex) [2025 Re-Post] | Praise Podcast

Having an off day? You are not alone . . . Even in Australia!

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00:00:35 --> 00:00:42 Hello, and welcome to Momo 634, motivational moments just for today.

00:00:44 --> 00:00:47 The title of today's episode is a mashup of two things.

00:00:48 --> 00:00:49 The Paul Simon song,

00:00:50 --> 00:00:51 You Can Call Me Al,

00:00:52 --> 00:00:55 a song largely believed to be about a midlife crisis.

00:00:56 --> 00:01:00 The other part of the mashup is from the classic Judith Yorst

00:01:00 --> 00:01:01 children's book,

00:01:02 --> 00:01:04 Alexander and the Terrible,

00:01:04 --> 00:01:05 Horrible,

00:01:06 --> 00:01:06 No Good,

00:01:07 --> 00:01:09 Very Bad Day,

00:01:10 --> 00:01:14 where the protagonist wakes up with gum in his hair and his day

00:01:14 --> 00:01:16 goes downhill from

00:01:16 --> 00:01:16 there.

00:01:19 --> 00:01:24 It's interesting to note that Judith Viorst also wrote books

00:01:24 --> 00:01:25 for grownups by

00:01:25 --> 00:01:25 decade,

00:01:26 --> 00:01:28 chronicling some of the no good,

00:01:28 --> 00:01:31 very bad days that come with aging.

00:01:34 --> 00:01:35 I didn't wake up with gum in my hair,

00:01:36 --> 00:01:42 but I did encounter a series of spectacularly frustrating events.

00:01:44 --> 00:01:46 Given that I'm still working on some sleep issues,

00:01:47 --> 00:01:48 I was tired,

00:01:49 --> 00:01:50 uncaffeinated,

00:01:51 --> 00:01:52 and very cranky.

00:01:54 --> 00:01:57 And it did not seem to reverse course as the day went on.

00:01:58 --> 00:01:58 Now,

00:01:59 --> 00:02:03 you'd think that a woman who has talked to you about Elijah

00:02:03 --> 00:02:04 recently and his

00:02:05 --> 00:02:09 similar need for a snack and a nap or one that goes on

00:02:09 --> 00:02:12 endlessly about toolkits and

00:02:12 --> 00:02:18 prepping for rainy days would breeze or belly breathe through such a day,

00:02:19 --> 00:02:20 wouldn't you?

00:02:21 --> 00:02:24 Well, I did not.

00:02:26 --> 00:02:29 That's why I'm stuck here in the middle with you.

00:02:30 --> 00:02:34 I'm living authentically to let you know that I don't have my

00:02:34 --> 00:02:35 act together.

00:02:35 --> 00:02:38 I catch myself in the middle of mean,

00:02:38 --> 00:02:43 self-deprecating sentences and tell myself that I can't speak

00:02:43 --> 00:02:44 that way because I've

00:02:45 --> 00:02:48 told you that you can't or shouldn't.

00:02:50 --> 00:02:52 So today I prayed a lot.

00:02:53 --> 00:02:58 I asked my tribe to pray and I did read to escape a bit and

00:02:58 --> 00:02:59 also read my Bible,

00:02:59 --> 00:03:02 going over a lesson that we studied last night at Bible study.

00:03:05 --> 00:03:08 It's easy to get frustrated when you're doing all the right

00:03:08 --> 00:03:10 things and still things go awry.

00:03:13 --> 00:03:17 The book of Psalms chronicles both good and bad days for King David.

00:03:18 --> 00:03:23 He also ran the gamut from despondency to dancing, weeping to wellness.

00:03:25 --> 00:03:30 Paul also understood that outward circumstances change frequently.

00:03:31 --> 00:03:33 Philippians 4.12 tells us,

00:03:34 --> 00:03:37 I know how to live humbly and I know how to abound.

00:03:38 --> 00:03:40 I am accustomed to any and every situation,

00:03:41 --> 00:03:43 to being filled and being hungry,

00:03:44 --> 00:03:46 to having plenty and having need.

00:03:47 --> 00:03:51 Long ago, our youth minister taught a lesson I'll never forget.

00:03:53 --> 00:03:54 You can be a thermometer and

00:03:55 --> 00:03:59 reacting to the external pressure and temperatures from the outside,

00:04:00 --> 00:04:02 or you can be a thermostat.

00:04:03 --> 00:04:05 The core temperature is set internally,

00:04:06 --> 00:04:11 and no matter what storm rages around you or how hot the weather gets,

00:04:11 --> 00:04:13 it's going to stay even.

00:04:15 --> 00:04:20 It's God's word and the assurance of salvation that makes this

00:04:20 --> 00:04:21 internal thermostat

00:04:22 --> 00:04:23 run like clockwork.

00:04:25 --> 00:04:27 Our meme for today says,

00:04:27 --> 00:04:28 on good days,

00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 take mental snapshots to preserve the time.

00:04:33 --> 00:04:36 And on bad days, let the clock run down.

00:04:38 --> 00:04:40 So if your day is great, awesome.

00:04:41 --> 00:04:41 Keep it up.

00:04:43 --> 00:04:44 But if it's terrible,

00:04:45 --> 00:04:45 horrible,

00:04:46 --> 00:04:46 no good,

00:04:47 --> 00:04:47 and very bad,

00:04:48 --> 00:04:51 remember that it's just for today,

00:04:53 --> 00:04:54 even in Australia.

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00:05:29 --> 00:05:32 Motivational moments just for today.