Andy Stanley’s book on minimizing regrets by making better decisions gives several questions to ask before making important choices [Better Decisions, Fewer Regrets]. They’re all great questions, but this one – what story do you want your life to tell – is profoundly halting for anybody who attempts a genuine response. It’s comforting to comprehend that God has actually given us agency over the story ourlives will tell. It’s humbling to imagine that one day the people who love us most dearly will answer this question in a different tense – what story did his/her life tell.

In this episode we will hear from many who had the courage to share their answers to this regret minimizing question and we will celebrate a life that told an epically beautiful story through action.

DEDICATION: The Ridiculous Hour Foundation’s 69th Mobile Mission is lovingly dedicated to Rebecca Miller Webner [April 1952 – August 2025] and to her friend group, the Elephant Sisters, who like elephants in the wild, chose to surround the one in need kicking up dirt to distract predators.

JOIN US: If you would like a free set of the equipping pieces listed in this episode, visit www.theridiculoushour.com and they will arrive in your mailbox within 30 days. If you'd like to receive them every 30 days, tell us. We'll get you started.

Sometimes you need to know how lost you are before you want to be found; want to be rescued. That's what Spencer Silverglate discovered on a dusky evening while lost deep in the woods of North Carolina on his trusty Mountain Bike.

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at the Ridiculous Hour Foundation as she launches the Audible version of the Foundation's 68th Mobile Mission called, Find Me. If you choose to join us on this month's 30-day responsiveness challenge, you'll be joining individuals in 18 countries, 48 states and territories and 440 cities! All are welcome.

If you would like a set of the equipping pieces described in this episode, pop on over to TheRidiculousHour.com and we'll get a set out to you right away.

All are welcome.

Pliny the Elder, a first century secular naturalist, is often quoted for the principle that you cannot appreciate the magnitude of redemption until you glimpse the depth of the darkness from which it came. He says it this way: “The depth of the darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.” Exact measure? Aspire to reach? Laura Starsoneck’sstory of redemption takes Pliny’s seemingly high bar and explodes the ceiling off it.

When a lie snowballed out of control, Laura found herselfsurrounded by people intent on compassionately walking with her through restoration. While her book, Single-Handedly Blessed, hints at the back story to her journey to life as a single mom, the deeper back story makes the redemption shine blindingly bright for all who think they have gone too far to be blessed by God.

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Projectat The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for the organization’s 67thmission story and wildly creative responsiveness challenge. To receive the “equipping pieces” referenced in this podcast for free or to receive monthly mission packs in the mail, go to the contact link at www.theridiculoushour.com.

We never mean to carry someone poorly through loss. We don't plan to drop them or miss a step in how we show up. Nor do we plan to push people away when we are in the pit, but we aren't sure how to let ourselves/others be THAT vulnerable. THAT messy. THAT exposed.

We either move quickly to the "bright side" to avoid lament or we create distance out of a sense of discomfort over what is coming out of the hurting person's mouth. Join The Ridiculous Hour Foundation's Founder, Kat Silverglate, as she shares a series of vignettes that led to "equipping pieces" for those who are grieving, and for those who seek to be a source of comfort to others.

If you would like to receive the equipping pieces mentioned in this podcast [free], contact us at theridiculoushour.com.

The name her birth parents gave her included a Bassa tribal word that means "God's Power." Nobody could know in 1950's Liberia how she'd come to depend on that power. Born into impossible odds to a traditional father who declared, "girls have no value," she contracted polio at two losing the full use of her right leg. Her mother refused to give up on her, taking her from bush doctor to bush doctor to find a cure.

When a missionary couple offered to give her the care she needed and raise her as their own, everything changed. Everything. She would become strong spiritually, intellectually, physically and emotionally. And then she would be foisted into the middle of a civil war that would require her to mother others.

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundations, as we hear the story of Rosana Schaack, former Liberian representative and founder of THINK Liberia, a mission designed to create safety-nests for the care of Liberian girls recovering from war and abuse.

This Episode announces the content of The Ridiculous Hour Foundation's 65th Mobile Mission. To receive a free mission pack, contact us at theridiculoushour.com.

Ever play that worst case scenario movie in you head? Thinking about what might go wrong? Ever let that movie affect the way you choose to live?

In our story this month, we'll meet Uri Melendez, a woman who appeared to the casual observer as fearless in her approach to life, undaunted by hard challenges and filled with confidence. The choice to do a competition that included swimming -- when she didn't know how to swim -- brought her face to face with those movies and the past traumas [earthquake, flood, death, etc] that got them started.

Learning the phrase "stop the movie" and the biblical underpinning that supports such a bold command, moved her through the race and post-race life with healing and freedom.

Curious? WE sure hope so! Join Kat Silverglate, Founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for the release of the organization's 64th Mobile Mission. For more information about the Mobile Mission Project, visit www.theridiculoushour.com.

We often hear that expectations are the enemy of joy, but could it be more nuanced than that? After all, when the seed of something is planted in a heart, or a womb, don’t we begin to think about what could be for this potential creation? What should be? Aren’t those good things? Most certainly! But when the unplanned confronts our expectations, we need a holy shift that keeps us from living under the weight of disappointment.  

Curious? We sure hope so!

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation as she celebrates the release of the organizations 63rd Mobile Mission and story called Ridiculous Hours. It’s a celebratory message for all who are laboring to birth the things the Lord has called then to... and hopefully some hope for those who are feeling the crush of dashed expectations.  

Learn more at TheRidiculousHour.com. 

Ever seen one of those videos of a baby with total hearing

When a NICU nurse did all she knew to do to move past her

Curious? We sure hope so!

If you'd like a set of the equipping pieces referenced in this podcast, contact us at theridiculoushour.com. We'll get them out to you...

So much is written about the danger of expectations. But the reality of our life in Christ is built on promises that command hopeful expectations. Like a symphony where instruments enter and exit at appointed times, so to do we experience God's presence through others who are responding to His pokes, prods and nudges to fulfill His great purposes. Do we expect this? Look for it? Delight in it? Do we see ourselves as an instrument in God's great love affair with the people we meet on the battle field of life? Are we expecting to enter the score at any moment? Can we set the tone for 2025 with Symphonic Expectations?

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation for the organization's 61st Mission story and challenge called Symphonic Expectations.

To participate in this mission for free, contact us at www.theridiculoushour.com. We are serving individuals in 17 countries, 46 states and hundreds of cities across the US.

In many ways, we are living arrows, pointing others in various directions. Whether we speak up or stay silent, our action and inaction both point, sometimes in subtle ways, toward or away from potential help. When subtlety isn't what Abigail Wallace needed in the winter of 2014, she learned through a seemingly planted-for-her-to-find-at-just-the-right-time podcast on meekness, to recognize her Up Club. To see in the rear view mirror those who chose to point her heavenward, rather than dish out toxic empathy or sympathy or "Hopium" -- [Abigail's word for hope in thin things and airy promises].

Join Kat Silverglate, founder of the Mobile Mission Project at The Ridiculous Hour Foundation, for the December 2024 true story and Mobile Mission called Up Club. If you'd like to receive the signature equipping pieces discussed in this message and join us for the responsiveness challenge issued at the end of this episode, head on over to www.theridiculoushour.com. They are free!

NOTE: In this episode, we inadvertently left off a chapter citation for Galatians. The fruits of the Spirit are found at Galatians 5:23. Thank you for grace!