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Unleashing Spirit Man | Episode 223

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Unleashing Spirit Man | Episode 223

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Scott's creative journey reveals how a forgotten teenage superhero comic transformed into a powerful ministry tool two decades later. What began as "Spirit Man"—a campy character in spandex—evolved into something profound when his artistic friend Paul reconnected through a youth mentorship program called Portable Vision.

The reimagined comic follows Martin, a 15-year-old who feels insignificant until his spirit begins projecting into the physical world wearing the full armor of God. Through this supernatural storytelling device, Scott illustrates how spiritual warfare isn't just a quiet, meditative practice but a dynamic reality where believers make genuine difference. Most remarkably, these comics now serve practical ministry purposes in prisons and hospitals, reaching people in crisis situations.

Scott's humility shines throughout our conversation as he recounts directing a church play where everything seemingly went wrong—he tripped in front of the audience, missed giving final instructions to his cast, and fumbled the ending. Yet the audience was moved to tears, teaching him a powerful lesson: "I'm just the vessel, He's the potter, I'm the clay." This perspective has defined his creative approach, whether writing comics or crafting "POV Theater" scripts that have been performed over 300 times by online voice actors.

Perhaps most touching is how Scott's creative work opened doors to meaningful relationships, including "adopting" a voice actress going through tremendous hardship. Their connection began through his scripts and blossomed into a father-daughter relationship that's brought healing to both their lives. Scott's story reminds us that creative gifts, when surrendered to purposes beyond ourselves, can impact lives in ways we'd never imagine.

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Scott transforms his teenage superhero creation "Spirit Man" into a powerful comic addressing spiritual warfare, showing how God works through ordinary people who say "yes" to His calling.

Check out Portable Vision in the St. Cloud, Minnesota area if you're interested in supporting their work with youth through art, music, and mentorship programs.

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Justin Alan Hayes:

Welcome to another episode of the Voices for Voices TV show and podcast. I am your host, founder and executive director of Voices for Justin Alan Hayes. Thank you for joining us, whether you're here in the United States or across the world over 50 countries, 620 cities. We couldn't do this without your love and support. Over the years. We're well over 200 episodes on our way to 300 total by the end of 2025. And we are very, very excited to have our guests with us today, to have our guest with us today.

Justin Alan Hayes:

As you know, I love to learn and to find my new areas of what people do and how they do it, and so we wanted to bring this guest to you to be able to share some of that. I'm going to give a little bit of a little bit of a bio and then we're just going to jump into conversation here, and the interesting part here on the bio of the first slide says that, in a word, he's boring, but we don't think so. He has always been a writer. When he was oh, wow, yeah, his mom taught him to read. When he was two to three, he had an 11th grade reading level going into first grade, which is miraculous. He's always been writing plays and stories in grade school. He's written several Christian plays that he has performed with various small groups. Over time. He's also written a novel that he has been attempting to see if he can get that published in some way. If anybody who's out there can help, please let us know.

Justin Alan Hayes:

He's also written several scripts for what he calls ASMR, but he likes to refer to it as POV Theater, which online voice actors can use if they so choose. His scripts can be found on Reddit. His username you may have heard and know that is edgyscript, which is E-D-G-I-S-C-R-I-P-T, and he has had over 300 fills on these scripts. We'll understand a little bit what a fill is. The scripts are all over the board as far as theme and genre, but he does have a general rule, which is one of the reasons why we're having him on our show is that they all end up well in the end for everyone involved, and he wants them to be hopeful and not dark.

Justin Alan Hayes:

Even if that script does go dark play, it go to dark places in between, and so spirit man, which is well known for, began in junior high, created a character in the full armor of God that was in the physical world, and it began as more of a campy band-ex-wearing superhero that fought over the top villains and he even had a teenage sidekick named Shine, much like Captain America's Bucky or Batman's Robin. He has met Everett Paul Burris although he went by Paul, he didn't realize that was his first name was Everett for years as an artist and he played with the idea of turning this into an actual comic and let's just jump right in. There's so much content, so much experience that he's had, so we want to introduce our viewers and listeners to Scott also goes by Edgescript. Thank you for joining us.

Scott Edgiscript:

Thank you for having me. This is pretty cool. Thank you for having me. This is pretty cool. Thank you for having me on your show. All right, good night, we're leaving. No, I'm kidding, yeah, go ahead.

Scott Edgiscript:

I guess I'll start from the beginning, Just to let you know Spirit man, the comic. I, like you said, I created it when I was about 14 or 15. And it was just kind of me and my friend Paul hooked up. I was a writer, he was an artist, and we hooked up. We both were huge comic fans, Always been. Uh, for me, I've always been a Spider-Man fan, uh, as well as several others. But Spidey was my guy and it started kind of as a a GI Joe type of thing. He was going to fight this terrorist organization, Um, and it never really went anywhere. Uh, we, we were. We had high hopes and dreams, but we were a couple of teenage kids and for about a year or two we played with it, we had fun with it, we bonded over it, but we didn't really have any experience. We didn't know what we were doing. How, how do you publish? How do you? How do you get this out? Now, remember too this is really before the Internet.

Scott Edgiscript:

So publishing meant going to Marvel or DC or someplace like that, or maybe an indie marketer or trying to do it on your own. Well, we didn't have funding, we didn't have knowledge, we didn't know what to do. We realized we were in over our heads and it was a fun time. So we each went our separate ways. About 20 years later, paul contacts me Now. We've been in contact here and there every once in a while during that time, but essentially I live in the Des Moines Iowa area. I was in that area at the time. He lives in St Cloud, minnesota. He lived there. He's still there and he calls me up. He's part of this program. Oh, and I don't have it here. Did I include it in the bio?

Justin Alan Hayes:

Portable vision.

Scott Edgiscript:

Portable vision. Thank you, thank you. That's it and I want to give them a shout out to in the St Cloud area, if anyone wants to look them up, that they do amazing work. But it's it's part of a mentorship program for artists and things like that and it was and it's helping, you know, teens in need, troubled youth, things like that, and it was and it's helping, you know, teens in need, troubled youth, things like that, and just sharing the gospel with them through art and and teaching these guys you know how to become artists themselves. And it's grown. Since he talked to me it's been about boy. It's been about 15 years now since he first came back and brought this up. They have grown much, much larger and they do a lot more with. It's not just art now, it's music and other programs. But if anyone is happens to be in the central Minnesota St Cloud area, please look them up if you're interested in joining, but also if you're interested in helping. I know they'd appreciate it. Interested in joining, but also if you're interested in helping, I know they'd appreciate it.

Scott Edgiscript:

But he as a mentor, as an artist, he got to share with the students a little bit about who he was and he brought up the comic and how he he and I had this idea and we were going to do it, but it never got off the ground and the students asked him well, why can't you do it now? And he realized he had no good answer for why not. So he contacted me and he said are you, are you interested in restarting this? And now that he had gone through art college, he had actually been to several comic cons with other work and things like that. He actually had experience creating comics and publishing things. Um, and I told him I said yeah, I'm very interested. But now it's 20 years later. I'm a different person. It's going to be a different story. Are you okay with that? He's like absolutely, I'm bored. You know, you write it, I'll draw it and we'll go.

Scott Edgiscript:

And so Spirit man became less of a comic book, like I said, like you said in the bio spandex superhero type person. He became more of a soldier. So he's the story that we have now is it's Martin. He's a 15 year old kid who basically doesn't think he can handle anything, and essentially he's me, at 15 years old, who thought you know, I want to be used by God, I want to be helpful to people. I want to be out there, but but who am I, by God? I want to be helpful to people, I want to be out there, but who am I? I can't do anything and nobody notices me, nobody cares, I got no skills.

Scott Edgiscript:

And his spirit, man with the armor of God, begins projecting into the real world, and he can't figure out why, and so that's where the comic goes in. So we take that supernatural element, we start blending it into the physical so he can, so he can have these adventures and it's fun, but but also so he can begin to learn just who God made him to be. And that's one of the messages that we have with this comic is that it doesn't matter where you are and who you are, as long as you say, yeah, god, use me, you know he's got the rest, it doesn't. You don't have to have everything set, you don't have to have everything perfect. He is perfect, he's got it. You just need to be willing to let him use you.

Scott Edgiscript:

And part of what we were trying to do with it, too, was show anyone. A lot of people say this is a teen, you know, oriented thing. It's not. We didn't write it for anyone in particular Anyone. You know I'm 54 years old. You know this is, this is a story. I want to read this story. I want to. You know I'm writing it because it's story for me, but it's just to me. It was kind of sharing the excitement and the reality of spiritual warfare and how you really do make a difference. It's not just a quiet, pleasant, calming, meditating thing. You're really making a serious difference and that's part of what we were trying to get across with that.

Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, and it's the fact that you're kind of going to that next level, into the spiritual. There's obviously a lot of battles that we all go through. Should I do this, should I not? Oh, I messed up here and so if I have a chance, should I try this again. And so just giving, giving the audience the ability to think further helps, helps them on a deeper level than just the aesthetic side.

Scott Edgiscript:

Yeah, yeah, if you tell someone, like the Bible says, we should pray unceasingly. But what does that mean? Does that mean I'm supposed to fold my hands, get on my knees, hide in a room and, for 24 hours a day, never do anything else and just lock myself away and just be in continual prayer? No, it means that prayer is a conversation. We should continually be in that place, you and I. Right now, we're having this conversation, but we can still be in a place where God is invited in and I should be continually asking God into my life, talking to God about everything. It's not a formal ritual, the way a lot of people think it is, it's just. I mean, prayer for me is very often hey, god, how's it going? You know how you doing, you know how awesome you are. I mean that's prayer. You know it doesn't have to be. Oh dear Lord, please give us these 19 things in order. It's not. It has to be worded this way. It's talking, just like you and me are right now.

Scott Edgiscript:

So this when you tell someone about the power of prayer, most people don't get it because they just see the quiet, reflective, boring side of it, quite frankly. And so with the comic, we wanted to show the real power going on. I mean Ephesians talks about we fight against. We don't. Our fight is not against flesh and blood. Our fight is against spiritual forces in high places. Our fight is against wickedness going on in the spiritual realm and prayer and spiritual warfare makes a real difference. But it can be difficult to see and understand and that's what we were hoping with the comic it would make it more real, make people go. Oh Now, obviously it's comic, it's fictional, but we were hoping it would help people go. So that's what's happening, that's what's going on. Just kind of give them a better grasp of that kind of thing.

Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, from just taking a step back. How's that? How's it make and the ink that goes on is reaching somebody in potentially a place where they do just need that encouragement. Yeah.

Scott Edgiscript:

It's amazing, it really is. And I can't I don't want to sound like I did this for me I really felt doing this was being obedient to the division God put on my heart. But I got to be honest. You know, I, when we started this, me and Paul I said I'm not going to pay attention to results, I just want to be obedient. God's got the results. Whatever happens happens If we touch one person, if we touch a million, whatever happens, if God said do it. I just want to.

Scott Edgiscript:

One day I'm going to stand before him, I'm going to stand before the throne and I want him to say good job, good job, you obeyed my good and good job, good job, you obeyed my good and faithful servant. Well done. That's what I was interested in. But I got to admit, yeah, one day Paul sends me I mean, we were probably two or three years into this and we'd gone to a few comic cons with this comic and I've connected with people here and there about you know about it and things like that and gotten some responses but one day he just sends me an email and said I thought you should see this, and it's just comment after comment after comment about how much we touch them and how much we reach them. And yeah, I got to admit it made me tear up and it was like, wow, I'm actually reaching somebody. And we've received uh letters from uh prison chaplains. Uh, they're using it. And we've received in hospital chaplains people who come in uh to the hospital that are suicidal or going through other difficulties and they said it's it's really helping them and it's really reaching these people in these situations, and that to know that it really actually is having real effects on people is is overwhelming to me and that's a Testament of who God is, not who I am, because I'm I mean, in all seriousness, I'm an incompetent boob. I am too yeah, I mean I and I embrace that. I don't say that to say to talk about how worthless I am and get this false sense of self-righteousness. Honestly, a lot of people do that. Oh, I'm terrible. What they're really looking is for you to go. No, you're not, you're wonderful. You know, I'm not looking for that. I'm trying to be honest and say I can't handle this, those results. In no way in my history and my experience, my education, should this be happening. This is truly god and I want to give you a brief, if it's okay. Uh, a brief example. Um, uh, you read in the bio that that I had written several plays and, uh, I performed one one time. This is an example what I'm talking about. Uh, I performed one one time. This is an example of what I'm talking about.

Scott Edgiscript:

I performed one one time called the Executioner and it was about and I did it with a youth group, with a church youth group, and we went to a place and performed it and it's about a guy who he is saved, he knows Jesus, but he's not really living it and he doesn't really care and he's not chasing God. And so an angel comes and basically gives him a message, says God's going to reveal to you how, just what he did for you, and why you shouldn't take this for granted. And the guy goes back in time and it turns out he is the executioner of Jesus Christ. So he didn't, he nailed, he nailed Jesus down personally. And when it comes back to the very end, he goes, he meets these people, he connects with people. It turns out he's he's the guy who actually has to. And when he does, he slams his hand on the ground on stage three times. On the last one, he stays down and everything goes dark. And as it comes back up, the angel comes back out and the character's name was Jack and he says Jack, you're back. And Jack is just bawling and he says I nailed him, I nailed him down. And the third time he says it, he screams I nailed Jesus Christ to the cross. And the angel's last line is everyone has Jack, everyone has.

Scott Edgiscript:

Now we're performing this piece in front of a church. It was the first time I performed it with this group and I'm the drama director for these kids and I'm watching through the whole thing and, of course, I'm the director and I'm seeing oh, they did that wrong. Oh, he said that wrong. Oh, he should have been turned here. Oh, the blocking was wrong. I'm seeing all the errors. I'm saying, oh, we're going to have to correct this in practice. And so my time is coming on to perform.

Scott Edgiscript:

I get up from, I'm in the audience. I get up quietly because I got to go around to the back. I'm going to come in from the back and there's a cord on the floor and I didn't see it and I trip, wham, I hit the ground and I'm down on the ground. I wouldn't, didn't hurt myself, but I'm thinking, oh no, everyone's looking at me. And so I stayed down as long as possible. So I looking at me, and so I stayed down as long as possible till I figured everyone in the audience turned back and is focusing on the stage. And then I ran out to the back, I do, I come in, I do my part, and then I tell jack, you've got to be the one to nail him. You do it and I leave, I'm in the back, I'm, I'm in a hidden room.

Scott Edgiscript:

We're waiting for the last part to be done. And there was another person back there who had a part earlier and he goes what are we supposed to do when it's all done? And I realized, oh no, I didn't tell anyone. I didn't tell anyone what we're going to do when we're finished. So I said, I said just follow me. We're. I hear them, I listen for the last line. We give it a couple of beats, they exit the stage. I said follow me. We walk out on stage. And I realized we haven't done, I haven't prepared anything. The audience might think this is part of it. So I just look at the audience and I kind of go. That's it. You know, really anticlimactic, you know, and all I'm thinking is myself is oh, we screwed up so bad.

Scott Edgiscript:

I go and I sit down, the pastor comes up to the front and there's dead silence for about 45 seconds and what's going through my mind is oh man, they're trying to find something good to say. They're trying to find something good to say. They're trying to find some way to salvage this. And when she starts talking, her voice is cracking and she's stuttering and stammering. And it suddenly hits me oh my goodness, she's been overwhelmed. And when she can finally speak, she says crying. She says I hope you understand what a blessing you've received this day. And then afterwards people are just crying and coming up and hugging us and thanking us for coming, and all I could think of is I sat there and I just went.

Scott Edgiscript:

God, thank you for this experience, because this is you. All I could see was the errors. All I could see was the blunders. All I could see was the. We are incapable, we screwed up so bad. I mean, I hit my face, I messed up the end. I was like and this, we got this result and and people are genuinely touched and and I just I thanked him because I said that was just a reminder to me I'm just the vessel, he's the potter, I'm the clay. Anything good that has come out of my life he gets credit for. And and I just appreciated that experience.

Scott Edgiscript:

And with Spirit man 2, I had that experience because of the fact that, you know, I created Spirit man. Right, I'm the creator, I'm the writer, it's mine. No, I appreciated that 20 years later I had given it up, it was gone, it was never going to happen. When Paul came back to me, I just had this feeling that, god, this is yours. To me it was dead and gone, but you wanted it to happen, so you made this happen. So I don't consider myself the creator of Spirit man anymore. I consider myself God's steward. It's his, he owns it, he's just put me in charge of it for a time.

Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, that's very powerful, and I have similar experiences where I go through a particular experience and all I'm looking at is the fault and what can do this, and I should have done that and I should have talked to this person or whatever that may be.

Scott Edgiscript:

and then when it's easy to do, isn't?

Justin Alan Hayes:

it. It's so. Yeah, that's the easy part is where a lot of us are. You thought, with corporate america and everything of you know you have your goals and did you meet them and didn't you?

Justin Alan Hayes:

And so much time is focused on the negative of oh well, you're doing great, but there's these other things over here that you could do much better, and I think, just in general as a society, as human beings, we spend more time just reflecting on the positives that we would have a better, uh, let's say better, uh, better perspective on on ourselves.

Justin Alan Hayes:

That's like okay, well, yeah, I may have screwed this up or this might not have worked. Um, but look at all these other things that I I've done and and that's part of what, uh, it landed me kind of in the psych ward in 2017, at rock bottom, mental health wise, and and it was all about the, the, the things I didn't do, that I didn't. I could have done better that you know, the relationships I've treated, people and and instead of going, oh, my gosh, like I'm, well, I'm not the nobody's perfect, I mean God's perfect. Yeah, so I shouldn't be expecting that every single thing that I do, every single step of the way, uh, right, it's going to be like that and I think that that's helpful and that that, and then, after all, that it was probably one of the best feelings you had once you kind of thought about it and as she was speaking to the audience, because it's a very freeing feeling to know God's got it, he's in charge.

Scott Edgiscript:

He only is asking you to obey. He's not asking you to be perfect. He says I'm perfect, just let me work through you.

Justin Alan Hayes:

Yeah, uh, so you do also a voiceover.

Scott Edgiscript:

Work Is that right, I don't do voiceover work myself. What I do is, um, I've I started to write scripts online for ASMR artists, on YouTube primarily. I mean they can be other platforms, but it's primarily YouTube. There's a long story with that too, and it's an amazing tale too, because this is not directly Christian in nature. They're just cute stories. They're just fun stories that I wrote. Christian in nature, they're just cute stories. They're just fun stories that I wrote. They do have.

Scott Edgiscript:

Now there's a long explanation of how I got to you know point Q, but I don't want to take you through you know A, through what you know, all the way through. That'd be too boring for one thing, uh, but I was writing these scripts for fun and, like I said, uh, you said, I always want to keep them positive and hopeful. A lot of scripts that other people write just end dark and depressing and uh, uh, very much, as some of them are, you know, very horror oriented, which you know. It's like, ok, you want to write that, that's cool, but I'm not going to go that route. Everything in mind has, you know, they tend to be a little romantic. You know, the guy gets the girl in the end. He's not, not just left like nope, everything stinks and you shouldn't put all this effort in, because you know your life life is a tragedy. I didn't want to go down that road, um, so I started writing these scripts and I started building a little bit of a following. Uh, and different voice actors online were picking up my scripts. So, like you said, I've had about 300 fills now, which means a voice actor has taken my script and actually performed it on YouTube or somewhere else. So that's what a fill is. They filled my script. Now, what in the middle of all this? This is also where the novel came from. So I wrote one script for voice actors.

Scott Edgiscript:

When I got done with it, it kept haunting me. It was like I, in this, in this short 30 minute script, I felt like I created a much bigger world, and so I went. It kept driving me. I was just obsessed by this. I would come home from work and it was like I had to focus on the script and I wrote this novel and and I and I kind of kept going back to god like why, what? Why do I feel so driven to do all of this? And, and it again is one of those things where I'm just trying to be obedient and I don't, in my logic, my my perception, I don't know why I'm here. Um, this didn't seem to be something that made a lot of sense, but I've made connections in this world and I've touched certain people that I can. I'm starting to see.

Scott Edgiscript:

I think God in his sometimes we never know, sometimes, honestly, we never know God says I want you to go here, I want you to do this thing. We do it, we walk away. We never see the fruit, we never see the result. We just have to go on faith. That says God. You put me there. I don't know why, but I was obedient. But I believe God has allowed me to start seeing some of the fruit, and one of them in particular.

Scott Edgiscript:

I just want to, if it's okay, to give a shout out. Yes, one voice actor in particular I I'm debating whether I should say her name because I haven't got her permission. Yeah, but no, I'm going to go ahead. I think she'd be okay with it. She goes by the name Dragon's Tower. She's online as Dragon's Tower and she puts out very wholesome pieces, but she does what I call POV theater, where that most of all these people do, where it's like the listener is an active participant, so so it's point of view. It's like if I'm talking to you hey, how are you going, how are you doing today? And then there's silence in the script because the listener is supposed to be responding and then the speaker will say that's good to hear, wow, I'm glad, and it'll keep going that way. So it's a dialogue, but one of the parts is silent because the listener is supposed to be that part. So you're talking to the person who's actually listening to the presentation, person who's actually listening to the presentation.

Scott Edgiscript:

And someone took one of my scripts and did it and she was amazing and this was like her first or second script she had done period. And I was like, wow, this is incredibly professional, this is amazingly well done. So I started a communication with her Thank you for doing my script and and and and. Initially it was just very much, you're amazing, no, you're amazing, patting each other on the back, doing all that kind of thing.

Scott Edgiscript:

But as it went on, she did a few of mine and we started to connect personally and I started to find out more and more about her, and I won't go into details because, like I said, I haven't got her permission to share everything. But she, I found out she was going through some really, really hard times in her life and and, uh, a relationship, you know, someone left her, someone was abusive in their relationship, uh, a family relationship that was incredibly destructive and then, on top of this, a medical situation that was just devastating. And it was like one thing after another kept piling on. But with me she was always smiling and upbeat and cheerful and I was like this person is amazing. And I had been praying for her. I had been, I had been communicating with her as best I could.

Scott Edgiscript:

My you know Christianity, you know my beliefs, started to come into this conversation. I leave it out at the beginning, not because I'm embarrassed about it, but I truly believe nobody cares about what you think until nobody cares about what you know, until they know that you care. And I wanted to genuinely love these people and and, and this person in particular. My heart just went out to her and one day I just commented, I just sent her a text and I said look. And one day I just commented, I just sent her a text and I said look, I've adopted you. I said just, I want you to know you're my daughter now and she didn't have any parents at that time. They had died. And I just said, well, you're my daughter and I don't care. And I wanted to be genuine, but I was.

Scott Edgiscript:

I was playfully, uh, expressing it and said, and I don't care what you say, you have no say in the matter. Uh, I'm, I'm taking you. You know it's kind of jokingly. I was saying like I'm kidnapping you. Uh, you're, you're my long distance. Um, now, are you familiar with a?

Scott Edgiscript:

Yandere is no, no, okay, it's, it's a, it's a, it's a thing going on. It's, it's an old trope, but right now it's become fairly big in anime and in Japan. Yandere is Japanese for ill love, so it's those stories about someone who is so psychotically obsessed, obsessively in love with you that they'll do things like kidnap you and lock you in their basement so no one else can have you, and that kind of thing. So some of my stories have gone along this yonder day theme, uh, but, like I said, uh minor, uplifting and wholesome. So it's always it's either like the person has like a tragic past or something that they've gone to this length, and then you find out about it and then the listener like actually steps in and helps them through it, or something like that.

Scott Edgiscript:

So I had played around with these Yandere themes and so I jokingly I said you're my Yandere long distance daughter. You have no say in the matter, I'm just taking you and I just wanted her to know I'm going to be there for you. I just wanted her to know I'm going to be there for you. You've got a lot of crap going on in your life and and you're on my heart and I'm going to love you and my.

Scott Edgiscript:

My biggest worry when I sent that out was she was going to respond with this is creepy. I'd rather you never contacted me again, that kind of thing. But she came back calling me dad and and I got to tell you. You know, I, I started crying when she did that. I mean I and, and to this day now we've known each other for about since that happened, we've she's been my daughter for about seven months now. Every morning, I, I, I, I send her a discord. You know, uh, um, you know, good morning Uh, my, you know my wonderful, amazing daughter. Uh, I've been sending her Bible studies. Uh, she has received a new man in her life that is a wonderful man of God and has been helping her too, and I'm just rejoicing over everything that's been happening in her life and the fact that I can be there for it. And in the middle of all this, I sat back and went God, is that why I'm here? Is that what?

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