{"id":306576,"date":"2020-11-24T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/%series%\/summit-fever\/"},"modified":"2020-11-24T07:00:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T12:00:05","slug":"summit-fever","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/wp-stage.familylife.com\/www\/podcast\/familylife-today\/summit-fever\/","title":{"rendered":"Summit Fever"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scaling Mount Everest is both extremely dangerous and boldly adventurous! 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He\u2019s not climbing right now.\u201d And the very next time that I got a call from him\u2014here comes chipper Harold on the phone, \u201cHey, honey!\u201d\u2014when he was so excited, I just started bawling; because that fear was: \u201cIs he in a good place? Can I even trust what he\u2019s saying right now? I know this summit fever is so real, and I think my husband has it,\u201d and \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can do at this moment,\u201d and \u201cThis could cost him his life.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>This is <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> for Tuesday, November 24<sup>th<\/sup>. Our hosts are Dave and Ann Wilson; I'm Bob Lepine. You can find us online at FamilyLifeToday.com. When you\u2019re a young wife, and your young husband is on one of the most dangerous journeys on the face of the earth, how do you process that? We\u2019ll find out more today from Rachel and Harold Earls.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAnd welcome to <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Thanks for joining us. Have you ever had a quest\u2014you know, something that you just thought\u2014\u201cBefore I die, I want to conquer\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Bob, you know what my quest would be!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Marry Dave Wilson. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That was your quest?\u2014to just marry David? [Laughter] So you accomplished that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Mine was so much less than that; mine was: \u201cWin the Super Bowl!\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014you know, with the Detroit Lions\u2014but it never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I had a secret dream quest\u2014I guess it was a quest\u2014and that was to climb Mount Everest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Seriously?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I would have <em>loved<\/em> to have done that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She\u2014yes; that\u2019s her quest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Where did this even start?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think I read the book, <em>Everest<\/em>, and then I watched the movie. I always loved climbing. We went to South Africa\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She climbs everything!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We\u2019ll be walking through a park, she\u2019s just up on top of a tree, up on\u2014she climbs everything! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; and when we were in South Africa, my son and I got up at four in the morning\u2014I think he was 14 at the time\u2014and we climbed\u2014it was a mountain people were climbing all the time. We climbed, and we didn\u2019t even tell anybody we left. It was dangerous; it was probably so dumb, but it was <em>exhilarating<\/em>. He and I said, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be awesome to climb Mount Everest?!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>To be in the presence of somebody who fulfilled <em>your<\/em> dream\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014the real deal!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014that\u2019s a pretty big deal; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It\u2019s a pretty <em>big<\/em> deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s not Bob Lepine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>No; that\u2019s right! [Laughter] We have Harold and Rachel Earls joining us, again, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Welcome back, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Thanks for having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>These guys\u2014a lot of our listeners know because of the vlog that you do\u2014the Earls Family vlog that\u2019s on YouTube. You\u2019ve just written a book that tells, not only your story, but the Everest story; it\u2019s called <em>Higher Calling<\/em>. It does walk through something that I guess was a dream of yours that goes back to high school\/junior high?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; how did it start, Harold?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I had this dream when I was a cadet at West Point. I wrote out on my bucket list\u2014I\u2019ll never forget how I was sitting in my barracks room\u2014and I wrote out, from one to ten, the top things I wanted to do in my lifetime. The number one thing was: \u201cClimb Mount Everest.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Why?! Why?!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Where\u2019d that come from?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>For me, I think it\u2019s just the fact that I\u2019m from Georgia. I had never liked the cold; I never liked climbing hills, so I wanted to put myself in a situation to see what I was capable of.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When you wrote that on your list, did you already have this long-distance relationship with your girlfriend when you wrote that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I did, which complicated things; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did you share with her, \u201cHey, I wrote down today I want to\u2026\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014and \u201cThat came before <em>you<\/em>\u201d? [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Yes; not at first. I actually came up with it, and I decided the best time to do it was actually right after graduation, right after we would have gotten married. This will all take place in our first year of marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI actually had a big phone call to call Rachel\u2014I\u2019ll never forget it\u2014I was nervous. I was nervous of: \u201cHow is she going to respond?\u201d\u2014because all it takes is one person to say, especially your spouse, to be like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not a fan of it.\u201d Especially, given the time, I had <em>zero<\/em> climbing experience; right? I called her, and I told her about it. Honestly, I had thought that she would, obviously, be very apprehensive; but maybe supportive, with enough supporting documents and evidence [from me]. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You could talk her into it\u2014is what you thought. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I came prepared\u2014you can imagine, in my barracks room\u2014you know, things written down\/the facts: \u201cHere is what I need\/how I\u2019m going to do to prepare, and climb, and train.\u201d But that\u2019s not how it went.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>We had just previously been planning a trek out to the Maasai tribe out in Africa that we were planning on doing together, but it wasn\u2019t working out. This was kind of the pivot, you know, like, \u201cThat\u2019s not happening, so I\u2019m going to go climb Everest!\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay; I guess!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It\u2019s called a ruse in the Army; it was planned all along. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You were okay with it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>At the time, it really was just like, \u201cOkay; this is kind of a pivot.\u201d I didn\u2019t know how sure he was about it, but I was open to listening about it. Yes; I just said, \u201cOkay.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Harold, what if she would have said, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I would have liked\u2014this is about to get deep\u2014I would have liked to have told you that I would have said, \u201cOkay; I understand. This is not where we have to be together in this, because that\u2019s what our relationship is about.\u201d I, at the time, don\u2019t think I was mature enough to make that decision. I think that, because my entire life I had focused on me\u2014Harold Earls; right?\u2014\u201cI wanted to go to West Point\u201d; \u201cI wanted to join the Army\u201d: \u201cThis is my life and my future,\u201d\u2014which is natural; right? When you\u2019re single, that\u2019s all you think about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut this was really the first time in my life that I also had someone else to consider. At the time, I think that I probably would have kept pursuing for it; right? Is that the right answer?\u2014absolutely not. I think that, through time and through our marriage, I think that I\u2019ve grown and would be able to have that perspective that I didn\u2019t have back then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When did it dawn on you: \u201cWait; he\u2019s serious about this,\u201d and \u201cOh, I didn\u2019t realize Everest is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cdangerous.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Right; it was a little bit over time, where I would realize he was staying up all night, researching it and stuff. I started asking questions. I think we had just come back from a trip to Canada together; and I just asked the hard questions of: \u201cHow much does it cost?\u201d \u201cHow do you think you\u2019re going to make this happen?\u201d \u201cHow are you going to train?\u201d\u2014all of those questions. He had answers for them; and so I was like, \u201cI have to take this seriously now.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It costs a lot; it\u2019s hard. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; but something to know about Harold is\u2014he is that determined guy. I <em>know<\/em>, if he says he\u2019s going to do something, that he is; so I had to believe him\u2014and also know: \u201cHey, we are going into our marriage, so I can choose to support him through this,\u201d or \u201cIf I don\u2019t, it could be something that easily separates us, right off from the beginning,\u201d which is something I didn\u2019t want to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Something I learned about Rachel\u2014I learned, honestly, about love through her\u2014was she had that choice to make: whether she was going to support me or not. Not only did she say, \u201cHey, I support you,\u201d she said, \u201cHey, what can I do to help make your dream happen? Since this is your dream, this is now my dream as well. I\u2019m going to run this race with you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe stayed up late with me at night, creating logo ideas, to helping with funding ideas. It became our dream together; and honestly, that\u2019s something that we\u2019ve taken with our marriage, from this point forward. When you created your YouTube channel, that was <em>us<\/em> together; because that was your dream. It was like, \u201cOkay; what can I do as a supporting husband to make this possible?\u201d Whether it\u2019s a book\u2014whatever it was\u2014we\u2019ve always had that mentality. I think it\u2019s made us so much stronger in our marriage because of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014instead of going two separate ways\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014it\u2019s easy for couples to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You have to take on the <em>risk<\/em> as well. I\u2019ve never climbed; I\u2019ve never researched it: \u201cWhat is the risk? How many people don\u2019t make it?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Five per cent of the people that summit end up not coming down because they die. That final push\u2014you\u2019re climbing for more than 30 hours\u2014and literally, people will die out of pure exhaustion; their body just stops.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Was there ever a time when you went, \u201cWait; I have a wife now. Maybe I need to just put this dream aside. People die! This is not just me; I have to take care of <em>her<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I wish that I could tell you that I was wise enough to say, \u201cYes\u201d; but that wasn\u2019t my personality back then. On the mountain, they actually call it summit fever\u2014it\u2019s when you have a desire to summit so badly that you\u2019ll do anything to make it happen\u2014I feel like I had that <em>before<\/em> I even got to the mountain; right? At that point, I had put in so many hundreds of hours\u2014there were already news articles about it\/there were so much about it\u2014that I was full-bore ahead, no matter what. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIs that smart?\u2014no; not at all\u2014but I do think that God can take those personal desires and personal quests and turn them into something beautiful along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You were also doing it for a good cause.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It originally wasn\u2019t like that. Originally it was, honestly, out of a selfish pursuit; right? I had a mentor, Command Sergeant Major Todd Burnett, who I look up to more than anyone. He was a command sergeant major at West Point. What I didn\u2019t know is\u2014how much I looked up to him\u2014but he also struggled with PTSD to the point, one day, he was going to take his own life. For me, that\u2019s when it became real; because he said, \u201cHey, why don\u2019t you climb for something more? Why don\u2019t you bring awareness to an issue of PTSD and soldier mental health that is really plaguing our military?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think for me\u2014at the time, at 21\/22 years old\u2014I didn\u2019t really know; but as I got to learn more stories about active duty soldiers and about veterans, who were actually going through that, that\u2019s when I think that our Everest expedition took on a whole new mission. Yes, it started out as something personal; but the moment it got that mission behind it, <em>that<\/em> was our mission.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll never forget\u2014we were in Tibet; we hadn\u2019t even gotten to the mountain yet\u2014it\u2019s about a 14-day excursion just to get out to base camp. We did an interview with Fox News. Our publicist reached out to me; and she said, \u201cHey, I have to tell you this\u2014there was this veteran that just reached out and said, \u2018I need to talk to that man,\u201d \u201cI need to talk to that man.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCommand Sergeant Major Todd Burnett\/he was the one doing the interview for us, on our behalf, raising awareness. What we didn\u2019t know was that veteran that day had planned to take his own life. Sergeant Major Burnett was put in touch with him; and he actually was able to help him\u2014essentially, walk him off the ledge and talk with him, and get him the help he needed\u2014that wasn\u2019t the only time that that happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor me, I think\u2014at that time, at 22\/23 years old\u2014that\u2019s when I learned there is something so much bigger at works here than a kid climbing Mount Everest than an Army team climbing Mount Everest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Rachel, you\u2019re a wife, who wants to love and support her husband, who is also watching him do something that is risky and life-threatening.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I see two competing desires here; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You want to support him; you want to be a part of the team; and part of you wants to say, \u201cDo not do this; please!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How\u2019d you process all of that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Well, I will say I\u2019d been hoping that he found a little bit more purpose there, and I had been praying the whole time that God would use the expedition for something more than he knew. When it started to take on that mission, it was giving me that sense of peace; I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the plan is here; but I trust God that, if this was placed on his heart, then okay; there\u2019s something here that we don\u2019t see yet.\u201d I mean, clearly\u2014now, we\u2019ve written a book about it\u2014we have the opportunity to share with thousands of people. I think it\u2019s really cool that God really did have His hand through all of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>You think of the verse, Proverbs 16:9: \u201cIn his heart a man plans his ways, but the Lord determines his steps.\u201d I can\u2019t think of more evidence in my own life and through that journey of God doing that. I thought I was headed in one direction\u2014yes, it was technically, in that direction\u2014but God had such bigger plans for my life than I could ever possibly see from the vantage point that I was at.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Was there ever a point on the mountain\u2014or before or during\u2014for either one of you, where you were like, \u201cBad idea! [Laughter] What am I doing right now? I\u2019d love, if I could, to turn back, or even go back three weeks and say, \u2018I wish I\u2019d never taken this step.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; I definitely do have conflicting ideas in my head of: \u201cWas it the best idea for me to fully support him?\u201d or \u201cShould I really have told him, \u2018This isn\u2019t the best idea\u2019?\u201d I still don\u2019t really know the answer to that. I like to believe that the best decision was to support him, because we\u2019re here now; but I don\u2019t know, because something still could have happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was that moment, right before Harold went on the summit push, he had just previously gotten sick up there. Altitude sickness is really common. He had called me on the phone, and just crying about it\u2014I mean, they were supposed to leave that day, I think\u2014saying that he wasn\u2019t going to be able to climb.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn that moment\u2014maybe I\u2019ll let him talk about that in a second\u2014I felt heartbreak for <em>him<\/em>, knowing everything he\u2019d worked for, but then a little bit of relief, \u201cOkay; he\u2019s not climbing right now, so I can breathe for this moment.\u201d I still wanted him to have the opportunity, because I <em>knew<\/em> he was the type of person that might try to do it again; and I didn\u2019t want to relive that moment; I couldn\u2019t handle that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe hardest part for me was the very next day. I had been living in that moment of: \u201cOkay; I\u2019m good. He\u2019s not climbing right now.\u201d The very next time that I got a call from him\u2014here comes chipper Harold on the phone, \u201cHey, honey!\u201d\u2014after I had just heard that devastated voice before\u2014telling me that he\u2019s leaving to climb to summit Everest in the next ten minutes. I\u2019m thinking, \u201cYou\u2019re just throwing up everything in your body. How on earth are you capable of going?!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen he was so excited, I just started bawling; because that fear was: \u201cIs he in a good place? Can I even trust what he\u2019s saying right now? I know this summit fever is so real, and I think my husband has it,\u201d and \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can do at this moment,\u201d and \u201cThis could cost him his life.\u201d That was definitely the moment that I was like: \u201cDid I make a horrible decision here?\u201d\u2014or thinking that my husband would <em>never<\/em> be overcome by summit fever\u2014and that just isn\u2019t the case\u2014we\u2019re all human, and we are susceptible to bad things and making bad choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>What did you say to him?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>I asked him over and over, \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re okay?\u201d Over and over, he said, \u201cYes,\u201d\u2014and he didn\u2019t have summit fever, and he was better\/that his body was able to climb. I was petrified; but then I just told him I loved him like four times, over and over.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Were you really better?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>No; no\u2014not at all, actually. I\u2019d say I was probably about 80 percent. I think it\u2019s interesting\u2014in life, especially for me at that moment, I had focused so much on that dream, it was more like, \u201cHey, God, are You following me?\u201d\u2014not\u2014\u201cAm I following You?\u201d I was full-bore ahead; I was willing to essentially sacrifice <em>everything<\/em>. I mean, quite, literally, everything\u2014our future. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s hard for me to even think now: we have a two-year-old and a one-year-old little boy. Especially, during writing that book, and then having to write those moments, and relive those moments, and hear our two-year-old run around and crawl on us, it made it very difficult; and it made it very revealing to me. Sometimes you can get in situations that you\u2019re in an all-or-nothing mentality. That\u2019s not the right way to be. I wish to say that I would have thought about it differently, but that wasn\u2019t the case.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I mean, would you do it today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>No; no, I would not. Am I thankful for the moments that I had?\u2014am I thankful for the experience?\u2014undoubtedly. It has shaped me as a person, as a leader, in my faith in ways that I would not be the same man that I am today. But would I go back and relive those moments if I had the opportunity\u2014especially knowing what I have now and all the risk still on the table today?\u2014no; absolutely not.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Ann, if you\u2019re talking to a wife, whose husband gets fueled by risk kind of behaviors\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I have a son that does that; yes. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and the wife is just scared every time he\u2019s off to do something where a bone could be broken, or worse could happen, do you just tell her, \u201cYou just have to pray and trust the Lord\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s hard. I know that Dave was, and still is a little bit, a <em>total<\/em> daredevil\u2014like <em>stupid<\/em> kinds of things. One of our first dates, he went to the top of this\u2014you were on this little mountain on rollerblades\u2014he goes, \u201cThis is going to be <em>awesome<\/em>!\u201d He had never even rollerbladed before! He goes <em>straight<\/em> down this hill\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s not quite Everest, but\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis is just dumb!\u201d; you know? He just wanted to <em>beat<\/em> every record and do everything that somebody else <em>couldn\u2019t<\/em> do. I remember, in my mind, thinking, \u201cI could control this, and be this badgering, nagging wife\u201d; but part of that was who he was. I see that in our sons too. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs you guys were talking, I was thinking, \u201cGod puts a dream in us.\u201d And I think that, many times, it is from God. But God also\u2014I liked how He <em>shaped<\/em> your dream. Our dreams\u2014when He puts it in us\u2014it usually isn\u2019t just for <em>us<\/em>; it\u2019s usually for <em>impact<\/em> for other people; it shapes us. That\u2019s why I love Harold and Rachel, just that\u2014you guys, it became bigger than just you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, for Dave\u2014if I were talking to another wife\u2014I would say, \u201cFirst of all, pray your guts off!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tRachel, I bet you were praying nonstop\/praying without <em>ceasing<\/em>\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014I\u2019m sure you were, too, Harold.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo pray\/to ask God: \u201cHow can I support my man, and who he is, and who You\u2019ve created him to be, and be beside him in his dream, but still talk some sense?\u201d or just talk about your concerns.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; and I think, you know, being\u2014again, I didn\u2019t climb Mount Everest\u2014it\u2019s like, you know, the summit and rollerblading down a little hill\u2014but that risk-taking spirit that I think God puts in a lot of us\u2014and sometimes we hold it back; other times we express it\u2014Ann celebrating that in me, allowed me to start a church. She didn\u2019t say, \u201cDon\u2019t do it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cThat\u2019s not safe.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It was almost as risky\u2014I\u2019m not going to lose my life\u2014but\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014financially.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She did ask questions, like, \u201cHow are we going to get paid?\u201d\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d \u201cWhat if nobody comes?\u201d\u2014\u201cYes, they might not.\u201d But it was: \u201cOkay; let\u2019s go. We\u2019re going to the top of a mountain,\u201d\u2014\u201c Why?\u201d\u2014\u201cBecause God\u2019s calling us there. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, but we <em>have<\/em> to take this risk.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I think it\u2019s a mindset thing; right? I think so many times we see, especially in the Christian world\u2014and I am totally to blame with this\u2014you sit back and you say, \u201cI\u2019m going to wait and see if God opens this door for me,\u201d rather than saying, \u201cHey, I\u2019m going to go and see if that door is open.\u201d My prayer is: \u201cGod, lock that door and change my direction, along the way,\u201d rather than just sitting back; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s how God wants us to live our life. He wants us to passionately pursue the passions He puts in our heart; right? He doesn\u2019t want people to remain dormant; that\u2019s not the Christians that He wants. He wants people that are on the frontlines, that are pushing and following their dreams, and impacting people, and allowing Him to steer them along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think\u2014and I\u2019ve said this many times from the pulpit\u2014I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m right or wrong\u2014but I\u2019m like, \u201cYou hear these testimonies up here; and you\u2019re like, \u2018Why doesn\u2019t God ever do that in my life?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018When you take a step, you\u2019re going to be up here, telling your story.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, I\u2019m not saying everything works out the way we want; but to climb a mountain, you have to take the first step.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>To start a church[or] to change your marriage <em>today<\/em>, you don\u2019t wait for your spouse; you take a risky, scary, \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen\u201d step, and God will meet you right there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>A guy, who would have a passionate dream for something where there is risk involved, and his wife is saying, \u201cI am petrified; this scares me to death. I don\u2019t know if I can sleep at night if you do this,\u201d would you tell that guy, \u201cBe true to your dream,\u201d or would you say, \u201cYou need to die to self and honor your wife in this\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think I\u2019d honor my wife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think you would too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think you want to be on the same page.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I mean, you didn\u2019t get a motorcycle when you were 25. [Yes]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; I wanted to get a motorcycle at 25\/28; she said, \u201cNo.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Because we had three kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I was like: \u201cCome on,\u201d \u201cCome on,\u201d \u201cCome on\u201d; and then at 50, she said, \u201cGo get a motorcycle.\u201d [Laughter] I can die now, I guess! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think the other thing that\u2019s really important is\u2014like with our one son, who\u2019s a climber\u2014he climbed last year. He said, \u201cOh yes; there was this avalanche.\u201d What I said is, \u201cI hope you have a prayer team; at least, call <em>me<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cHave a prayer team of people that are supporting you,\u201d because that is having people behind you with a lot of strength of seeking God on your behalf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think God is ever going to put that desire in your heart that is in direct conflict with your spouse. Now, I think what it may be is the timing is not right\u2014or there may be another thing; right?\u2014but I think what you do is\/I think you\u2019re exactly right\u2014you go to prayer; and you say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s come around this in prayer and see what the bigger message is. I feel this passion, but you [spouse] obviously feel something different. Let\u2019s pray around this and see if there\u2019s a bigger message here.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So true. All I know is\u2014in 2021, I\u2019m climbing Everest. [Laughter] Just letting you know right here, honey! Are you in?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think I would <em>die<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Actually, <em>she\u2019s<\/em> going to climb Everest! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I would <em>love<\/em> to! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, I think there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all answer for how you approach these kinds of things; but I think what you\u2019ve said: spending time together in prayer; seeking wise counsel; making sure you\u2019ve <em>heard<\/em> one another, that you\u2019re not just running <em>past<\/em> one another; that if your fears\/analyze your fears\u2014\u201cAre those rational or irrational fears?\u201d \u201cWhat do other people say?\u201d\u2014analyze your ambition and say, \u201cIs this selfish, or is this something God\u2019s really put on my heart?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou guys, in telling your story in the book, take us into how you process these things, and give us an example of how a couple can do this, and what the outcome of those decisions can be. The book that Harold and Rachel have written is called <em>A Higher Calling: Pursuing Love, Faith, and Mount Everest for a Greater Purpose<\/em>. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to get your copy of the book, or call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; the book is called <em>A Higher Calling<\/em> by Harold and Rachel Earls. You can also order the book by calling 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, in this week, when we are thinking about things for which we are thankful, one of the things that comes immediately to mind for us is how thankful we are for you, listeners, who tune in every day and who connect with us\/we hear from you. Sometimes, it\u2019s when you hear something you don\u2019t like on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, and we appreciate the feedback. We also hear from you when God uses this program in a significant way in your life; and of course, that\u2019s very encouraging to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThanks to those of you who listen, and thanks to those of you who also support this ministry. <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is completely listener-supported. If it weren\u2019t for listeners, like you, who make either an occasional donation or who donate monthly as Legacy Partners, we could not continue to do all that we do. 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We hope to hear from you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWe also hope you can join us, again, tomorrow. Harold and Rachel Earls will be back with us. We\u2019re going to talk about their decision to live life out in the open, online, through their vlog\/their video blog, and explain to you, not only <em>why<\/em> they made that decision, but some of the challenges associated with that choice. I hope you can tune in for that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI want to thank our engineer today, Keith Lynch, along with our entire broadcast production team. On behalf of our hosts, Dave and Ann Wilson, I\u2019m Bob Lepine. We will see you back next time for another edition of <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is a production of FamilyLife of Little Rock, Arkansas; a Cru<sup>\u00ae <\/sup>Ministry. Help for today. 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Have you ever had a quest\u2014you know, something that you just thought\u2014\u201cBefore I die, I want to conquer\u2026\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Bob, you know what my quest would be!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Marry Dave Wilson. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>That was your quest?\u2014to just marry David? [Laughter] So you accomplished that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Mine was so much less than that; mine was: \u201cWin the Super Bowl!\u201d\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014you know, with the Detroit Lions\u2014but it never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Never happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I had a secret dream quest\u2014I guess it was a quest\u2014and that was to climb Mount Everest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Seriously?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I would have <em>loved<\/em> to have done that.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She\u2014yes; that\u2019s her quest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Where did this even start?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think I read the book, <em>Everest<\/em>, and then I watched the movie. I always loved climbing. We went to South Africa\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She climbs everything!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>We\u2019ll be walking through a park, she\u2019s just up on top of a tree, up on\u2014she climbs everything! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; and when we were in South Africa, my son and I got up at four in the morning\u2014I think he was 14 at the time\u2014and we climbed\u2014it was a mountain people were climbing all the time. We climbed, and we didn\u2019t even tell anybody we left. It was dangerous; it was probably so dumb, but it was <em>exhilarating<\/em>. He and I said, \u201cWouldn\u2019t it be awesome to climb Mount Everest?!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>To be in the presence of somebody who fulfilled <em>your<\/em> dream\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>\u2014the real deal!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014that\u2019s a pretty big deal; isn\u2019t it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>It\u2019s a pretty <em>big<\/em> deal.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s not Bob Lepine.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>No; that\u2019s right! [Laughter] We have Harold and Rachel Earls joining us, again, on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>. Welcome back, guys.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Thanks for having us.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>These guys\u2014a lot of our listeners know because of the vlog that you do\u2014the Earls Family vlog that\u2019s on YouTube. You\u2019ve just written a book that tells, not only your story, but the Everest story; it\u2019s called <em>Higher Calling<\/em>. It does walk through something that I guess was a dream of yours that goes back to high school\/junior high?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Yes; how did it start, Harold?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I had this dream when I was a cadet at West Point. I wrote out on my bucket list\u2014I\u2019ll never forget how I was sitting in my barracks room\u2014and I wrote out, from one to ten, the top things I wanted to do in my lifetime. The number one thing was: \u201cClimb Mount Everest.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Why?! Why?!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Where\u2019d that come from?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>For me, I think it\u2019s just the fact that I\u2019m from Georgia. I had never liked the cold; I never liked climbing hills, so I wanted to put myself in a situation to see what I was capable of.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When you wrote that on your list, did you already have this long-distance relationship with your girlfriend when you wrote that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I did, which complicated things; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Did you share with her, \u201cHey, I wrote down today I want to\u2026\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014and \u201cThat came before <em>you<\/em>\u201d? [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Yes; not at first. I actually came up with it, and I decided the best time to do it was actually right after graduation, right after we would have gotten married. This will all take place in our first year of marriage.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI actually had a big phone call to call Rachel\u2014I\u2019ll never forget it\u2014I was nervous. I was nervous of: \u201cHow is she going to respond?\u201d\u2014because all it takes is one person to say, especially your spouse, to be like, \u201cNo, I\u2019m not a fan of it.\u201d Especially, given the time, I had <em>zero<\/em> climbing experience; right? I called her, and I told her about it. Honestly, I had thought that she would, obviously, be very apprehensive; but maybe supportive, with enough supporting documents and evidence [from me]. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You could talk her into it\u2014is what you thought. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I came prepared\u2014you can imagine, in my barracks room\u2014you know, things written down\/the facts: \u201cHere is what I need\/how I\u2019m going to do to prepare, and climb, and train.\u201d But that\u2019s not how it went.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>We had just previously been planning a trek out to the Maasai tribe out in Africa that we were planning on doing together, but it wasn\u2019t working out. This was kind of the pivot, you know, like, \u201cThat\u2019s not happening, so I\u2019m going to go climb Everest!\u201d I was like, \u201cOkay; I guess!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It\u2019s called a ruse in the Army; it was planned all along. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You were okay with it?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>At the time, it really was just like, \u201cOkay; this is kind of a pivot.\u201d I didn\u2019t know how sure he was about it, but I was open to listening about it. Yes; I just said, \u201cOkay.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Harold, what if she would have said, \u201cAbsolutely not.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I would have liked\u2014this is about to get deep\u2014I would have liked to have told you that I would have said, \u201cOkay; I understand. This is not where we have to be together in this, because that\u2019s what our relationship is about.\u201d I, at the time, don\u2019t think I was mature enough to make that decision. I think that, because my entire life I had focused on me\u2014Harold Earls; right?\u2014\u201cI wanted to go to West Point\u201d; \u201cI wanted to join the Army\u201d: \u201cThis is my life and my future,\u201d\u2014which is natural; right? When you\u2019re single, that\u2019s all you think about. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tBut this was really the first time in my life that I also had someone else to consider. At the time, I think that I probably would have kept pursuing for it; right? Is that the right answer?\u2014absolutely not. I think that, through time and through our marriage, I think that I\u2019ve grown and would be able to have that perspective that I didn\u2019t have back then.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>When did it dawn on you: \u201cWait; he\u2019s serious about this,\u201d and \u201cOh, I didn\u2019t realize Everest is\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014\u201cdangerous.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Right; it was a little bit over time, where I would realize he was staying up all night, researching it and stuff. I started asking questions. I think we had just come back from a trip to Canada together; and I just asked the hard questions of: \u201cHow much does it cost?\u201d \u201cHow do you think you\u2019re going to make this happen?\u201d \u201cHow are you going to train?\u201d\u2014all of those questions. He had answers for them; and so I was like, \u201cI have to take this seriously now.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It costs a lot; it\u2019s hard. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; but something to know about Harold is\u2014he is that determined guy. I <em>know<\/em>, if he says he\u2019s going to do something, that he is; so I had to believe him\u2014and also know: \u201cHey, we are going into our marriage, so I can choose to support him through this,\u201d or \u201cIf I don\u2019t, it could be something that easily separates us, right off from the beginning,\u201d which is something I didn\u2019t want to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Something I learned about Rachel\u2014I learned, honestly, about love through her\u2014was she had that choice to make: whether she was going to support me or not. Not only did she say, \u201cHey, I support you,\u201d she said, \u201cHey, what can I do to help make your dream happen? Since this is your dream, this is now my dream as well. I\u2019m going to run this race with you.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tShe stayed up late with me at night, creating logo ideas, to helping with funding ideas. It became our dream together; and honestly, that\u2019s something that we\u2019ve taken with our marriage, from this point forward. When you created your YouTube channel, that was <em>us<\/em> together; because that was your dream. It was like, \u201cOkay; what can I do as a supporting husband to make this possible?\u201d Whether it\u2019s a book\u2014whatever it was\u2014we\u2019ve always had that mentality. I think it\u2019s made us so much stronger in our marriage because of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014instead of going two separate ways\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes!\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014it\u2019s easy for couples to do.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>You have to take on the <em>risk<\/em> as well. I\u2019ve never climbed; I\u2019ve never researched it: \u201cWhat is the risk? How many people don\u2019t make it?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Five per cent of the people that summit end up not coming down because they die. That final push\u2014you\u2019re climbing for more than 30 hours\u2014and literally, people will die out of pure exhaustion; their body just stops.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Was there ever a time when you went, \u201cWait; I have a wife now. Maybe I need to just put this dream aside. People die! This is not just me; I have to take care of <em>her<\/em>.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I wish that I could tell you that I was wise enough to say, \u201cYes\u201d; but that wasn\u2019t my personality back then. On the mountain, they actually call it summit fever\u2014it\u2019s when you have a desire to summit so badly that you\u2019ll do anything to make it happen\u2014I feel like I had that <em>before<\/em> I even got to the mountain; right? At that point, I had put in so many hundreds of hours\u2014there were already news articles about it\/there were so much about it\u2014that I was full-bore ahead, no matter what. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIs that smart?\u2014no; not at all\u2014but I do think that God can take those personal desires and personal quests and turn them into something beautiful along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>You were also doing it for a good cause.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>It originally wasn\u2019t like that. Originally it was, honestly, out of a selfish pursuit; right? I had a mentor, Command Sergeant Major Todd Burnett, who I look up to more than anyone. He was a command sergeant major at West Point. What I didn\u2019t know is\u2014how much I looked up to him\u2014but he also struggled with PTSD to the point, one day, he was going to take his own life. For me, that\u2019s when it became real; because he said, \u201cHey, why don\u2019t you climb for something more? Why don\u2019t you bring awareness to an issue of PTSD and soldier mental health that is really plaguing our military?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think for me\u2014at the time, at 21\/22 years old\u2014I didn\u2019t really know; but as I got to learn more stories about active duty soldiers and about veterans, who were actually going through that, that\u2019s when I think that our Everest expedition took on a whole new mission. Yes, it started out as something personal; but the moment it got that mission behind it, <em>that<\/em> was our mission.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI\u2019ll never forget\u2014we were in Tibet; we hadn\u2019t even gotten to the mountain yet\u2014it\u2019s about a 14-day excursion just to get out to base camp. We did an interview with Fox News. Our publicist reached out to me; and she said, \u201cHey, I have to tell you this\u2014there was this veteran that just reached out and said, \u2018I need to talk to that man,\u201d \u201cI need to talk to that man.\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tCommand Sergeant Major Todd Burnett\/he was the one doing the interview for us, on our behalf, raising awareness. What we didn\u2019t know was that veteran that day had planned to take his own life. Sergeant Major Burnett was put in touch with him; and he actually was able to help him\u2014essentially, walk him off the ledge and talk with him, and get him the help he needed\u2014that wasn\u2019t the only time that that happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tFor me, I think\u2014at that time, at 22\/23 years old\u2014that\u2019s when I learned there is something so much bigger at works here than a kid climbing Mount Everest than an Army team climbing Mount Everest.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Rachel, you\u2019re a wife, who wants to love and support her husband, who is also watching him do something that is risky and life-threatening.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>I see two competing desires here; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; right.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You want to support him; you want to be a part of the team; and part of you wants to say, \u201cDo not do this; please!\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>How\u2019d you process all of that?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Well, I will say I\u2019d been hoping that he found a little bit more purpose there, and I had been praying the whole time that God would use the expedition for something more than he knew. When it started to take on that mission, it was giving me that sense of peace; I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t know what the plan is here; but I trust God that, if this was placed on his heart, then okay; there\u2019s something here that we don\u2019t see yet.\u201d I mean, clearly\u2014now, we\u2019ve written a book about it\u2014we have the opportunity to share with thousands of people. I think it\u2019s really cool that God really did have His hand through all of it.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>You think of the verse, Proverbs 16:9: \u201cIn his heart a man plans his ways, but the Lord determines his steps.\u201d I can\u2019t think of more evidence in my own life and through that journey of God doing that. I thought I was headed in one direction\u2014yes, it was technically, in that direction\u2014but God had such bigger plans for my life than I could ever possibly see from the vantage point that I was at.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Was there ever a point on the mountain\u2014or before or during\u2014for either one of you, where you were like, \u201cBad idea! [Laughter] What am I doing right now? I\u2019d love, if I could, to turn back, or even go back three weeks and say, \u2018I wish I\u2019d never taken this step.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes; I definitely do have conflicting ideas in my head of: \u201cWas it the best idea for me to fully support him?\u201d or \u201cShould I really have told him, \u2018This isn\u2019t the best idea\u2019?\u201d I still don\u2019t really know the answer to that. I like to believe that the best decision was to support him, because we\u2019re here now; but I don\u2019t know, because something still could have happened.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThere was that moment, right before Harold went on the summit push, he had just previously gotten sick up there. Altitude sickness is really common. He had called me on the phone, and just crying about it\u2014I mean, they were supposed to leave that day, I think\u2014saying that he wasn\u2019t going to be able to climb.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIn that moment\u2014maybe I\u2019ll let him talk about that in a second\u2014I felt heartbreak for <em>him<\/em>, knowing everything he\u2019d worked for, but then a little bit of relief, \u201cOkay; he\u2019s not climbing right now, so I can breathe for this moment.\u201d I still wanted him to have the opportunity, because I <em>knew<\/em> he was the type of person that might try to do it again; and I didn\u2019t want to relive that moment; I couldn\u2019t handle that. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThe hardest part for me was the very next day. I had been living in that moment of: \u201cOkay; I\u2019m good. He\u2019s not climbing right now.\u201d The very next time that I got a call from him\u2014here comes chipper Harold on the phone, \u201cHey, honey!\u201d\u2014after I had just heard that devastated voice before\u2014telling me that he\u2019s leaving to climb to summit Everest in the next ten minutes. I\u2019m thinking, \u201cYou\u2019re just throwing up everything in your body. How on earth are you capable of going?!\u201d \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tWhen he was so excited, I just started bawling; because that fear was: \u201cIs he in a good place? Can I even trust what he\u2019s saying right now? I know this summit fever is so real, and I think my husband has it,\u201d and \u201cThere\u2019s nothing I can do at this moment,\u201d and \u201cThis could cost him his life.\u201d That was definitely the moment that I was like: \u201cDid I make a horrible decision here?\u201d\u2014or thinking that my husband would <em>never<\/em> be overcome by summit fever\u2014and that just isn\u2019t the case\u2014we\u2019re all human, and we are susceptible to bad things and making bad choices.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>What did you say to him?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>I asked him over and over, \u201cAre you sure you\u2019re okay?\u201d Over and over, he said, \u201cYes,\u201d\u2014and he didn\u2019t have summit fever, and he was better\/that his body was able to climb. I was petrified; but then I just told him I loved him like four times, over and over.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Were you really better?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>No; no\u2014not at all, actually. I\u2019d say I was probably about 80 percent. I think it\u2019s interesting\u2014in life, especially for me at that moment, I had focused so much on that dream, it was more like, \u201cHey, God, are You following me?\u201d\u2014not\u2014\u201cAm I following You?\u201d I was full-bore ahead; I was willing to essentially sacrifice <em>everything<\/em>. I mean, quite, literally, everything\u2014our future. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tIt\u2019s hard for me to even think now: we have a two-year-old and a one-year-old little boy. Especially, during writing that book, and then having to write those moments, and relive those moments, and hear our two-year-old run around and crawl on us, it made it very difficult; and it made it very revealing to me. Sometimes you can get in situations that you\u2019re in an all-or-nothing mentality. That\u2019s not the right way to be. I wish to say that I would have thought about it differently, but that wasn\u2019t the case.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I mean, would you do it today?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>No; no, I would not. Am I thankful for the moments that I had?\u2014am I thankful for the experience?\u2014undoubtedly. It has shaped me as a person, as a leader, in my faith in ways that I would not be the same man that I am today. But would I go back and relive those moments if I had the opportunity\u2014especially knowing what I have now and all the risk still on the table today?\u2014no; absolutely not.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>Ann, if you\u2019re talking to a wife, whose husband gets fueled by risk kind of behaviors\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I have a son that does that; yes. [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>\u2014and the wife is just scared every time he\u2019s off to do something where a bone could be broken, or worse could happen, do you just tell her, \u201cYou just have to pray and trust the Lord\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think that\u2019s hard. I know that Dave was, and still is a little bit, a <em>total<\/em> daredevil\u2014like <em>stupid<\/em> kinds of things. One of our first dates, he went to the top of this\u2014you were on this little mountain on rollerblades\u2014he goes, \u201cThis is going to be <em>awesome<\/em>!\u201d He had never even rollerbladed before! He goes <em>straight<\/em> down this hill\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It\u2019s not quite Everest, but\u2014[Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I\u2019m thinking, \u201cThis is just dumb!\u201d; you know? He just wanted to <em>beat<\/em> every record and do everything that somebody else <em>couldn\u2019t<\/em> do. I remember, in my mind, thinking, \u201cI could control this, and be this badgering, nagging wife\u201d; but part of that was who he was. I see that in our sons too. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAs you guys were talking, I was thinking, \u201cGod puts a dream in us.\u201d And I think that, many times, it is from God. But God also\u2014I liked how He <em>shaped<\/em> your dream. Our dreams\u2014when He puts it in us\u2014it usually isn\u2019t just for <em>us<\/em>; it\u2019s usually for <em>impact<\/em> for other people; it shapes us. That\u2019s why I love Harold and Rachel, just that\u2014you guys, it became bigger than just you.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think, for Dave\u2014if I were talking to another wife\u2014I would say, \u201cFirst of all, pray your guts off!\u201d [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tRachel, I bet you were praying nonstop\/praying without <em>ceasing<\/em>\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Rachel: <\/strong>Yes, yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014I\u2019m sure you were, too, Harold.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tTo pray\/to ask God: \u201cHow can I support my man, and who he is, and who You\u2019ve created him to be, and be beside him in his dream, but still talk some sense?\u201d or just talk about your concerns.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; and I think, you know, being\u2014again, I didn\u2019t climb Mount Everest\u2014it\u2019s like, you know, the summit and rollerblading down a little hill\u2014but that risk-taking spirit that I think God puts in a lot of us\u2014and sometimes we hold it back; other times we express it\u2014Ann celebrating that in me, allowed me to start a church. She didn\u2019t say, \u201cDon\u2019t do it.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cThat\u2019s not safe.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>It was almost as risky\u2014I\u2019m not going to lose my life\u2014but\u2014\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u2014financially.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>She did ask questions, like, \u201cHow are we going to get paid?\u201d\u2014\u201cI don\u2019t know.\u201d \u201cWhat if nobody comes?\u201d\u2014\u201cYes, they might not.\u201d But it was: \u201cOkay; let\u2019s go. We\u2019re going to the top of a mountain,\u201d\u2014\u201c Why?\u201d\u2014\u201cBecause God\u2019s calling us there. We don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen, but we <em>have<\/em> to take this risk.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I think it\u2019s a mindset thing; right? I think so many times we see, especially in the Christian world\u2014and I am totally to blame with this\u2014you sit back and you say, \u201cI\u2019m going to wait and see if God opens this door for me,\u201d rather than saying, \u201cHey, I\u2019m going to go and see if that door is open.\u201d My prayer is: \u201cGod, lock that door and change my direction, along the way,\u201d rather than just sitting back; right?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tI think that\u2019s how God wants us to live our life. He wants us to passionately pursue the passions He puts in our heart; right? He doesn\u2019t want people to remain dormant; that\u2019s not the Christians that He wants. He wants people that are on the frontlines, that are pushing and following their dreams, and impacting people, and allowing Him to steer them along the way.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think\u2014and I\u2019ve said this many times from the pulpit\u2014I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m right or wrong\u2014but I\u2019m like, \u201cYou hear these testimonies up here; and you\u2019re like, \u2018Why doesn\u2019t God ever do that in my life?\u2019 I\u2019m like, \u2018When you take a step, you\u2019re going to be up here, telling your story.\u2019\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tAgain, I\u2019m not saying everything works out the way we want; but to climb a mountain, you have to take the first step.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>To start a church[or] to change your marriage <em>today<\/em>, you don\u2019t wait for your spouse; you take a risky, scary, \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen\u201d step, and God will meet you right there.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>A guy, who would have a passionate dream for something where there is risk involved, and his wife is saying, \u201cI am petrified; this scares me to death. I don\u2019t know if I can sleep at night if you do this,\u201d would you tell that guy, \u201cBe true to your dream,\u201d or would you say, \u201cYou need to die to self and honor your wife in this\u201d?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think I\u2019d honor my wife.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Yes.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think you would too.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I think you want to be on the same page.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I mean, you didn\u2019t get a motorcycle when you were 25. [Yes]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Yes; I wanted to get a motorcycle at 25\/28; she said, \u201cNo.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>Because we had three kids.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>I was like: \u201cCome on,\u201d \u201cCome on,\u201d \u201cCome on\u201d; and then at 50, she said, \u201cGo get a motorcycle.\u201d [Laughter] I can die now, I guess! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think the other thing that\u2019s really important is\u2014like with our one son, who\u2019s a climber\u2014he climbed last year. He said, \u201cOh yes; there was this avalanche.\u201d What I said is, \u201cI hope you have a prayer team; at least, call <em>me<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>Exactly.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>\u201cHave a prayer team of people that are supporting you,\u201d because that is having people behind you with a lot of strength of seeking God on your behalf.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Harold: <\/strong>I don\u2019t think God is ever going to put that desire in your heart that is in direct conflict with your spouse. Now, I think what it may be is the timing is not right\u2014or there may be another thing; right?\u2014but I think what you do is\/I think you\u2019re exactly right\u2014you go to prayer; and you say, \u201cHey, let\u2019s come around this in prayer and see what the bigger message is. I feel this passion, but you [spouse] obviously feel something different. Let\u2019s pray around this and see if there\u2019s a bigger message here.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>So true. All I know is\u2014in 2021, I\u2019m climbing Everest. [Laughter] Just letting you know right here, honey! Are you in?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I think I would <em>die<\/em>.\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Dave: <\/strong>Actually, <em>she\u2019s<\/em> going to climb Everest! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Ann: <\/strong>I would <em>love<\/em> to! [Laughter]\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\t<strong>Bob: <\/strong>You know, I think there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all answer for how you approach these kinds of things; but I think what you\u2019ve said: spending time together in prayer; seeking wise counsel; making sure you\u2019ve <em>heard<\/em> one another, that you\u2019re not just running <em>past<\/em> one another; that if your fears\/analyze your fears\u2014\u201cAre those rational or irrational fears?\u201d \u201cWhat do other people say?\u201d\u2014analyze your ambition and say, \u201cIs this selfish, or is this something God\u2019s really put on my heart?\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou guys, in telling your story in the book, take us into how you process these things, and give us an example of how a couple can do this, and what the outcome of those decisions can be. The book that Harold and Rachel have written is called <em>A Higher Calling: Pursuing Love, Faith, and Mount Everest for a Greater Purpose<\/em>. Go to FamilyLifeToday.com to get your copy of the book, or call us at 1-800-FL-TODAY. Again, the website is FamilyLifeToday.com; the book is called <em>A Higher Calling<\/em> by Harold and Rachel Earls. You can also order the book by calling 1-800-358-6329\u2014that\u2019s 1-800-\u201cF\u201d as in family, \u201cL\u201d as in life, and then the word, \u201cTODAY.\u201d\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tYou know, in this week, when we are thinking about things for which we are thankful, one of the things that comes immediately to mind for us is how thankful we are for you, listeners, who tune in every day and who connect with us\/we hear from you. Sometimes, it\u2019s when you hear something you don\u2019t like on <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em>, and we appreciate the feedback. We also hear from you when God uses this program in a significant way in your life; and of course, that\u2019s very encouraging to us. \n\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t<p>\n\t\t\t\tThanks to those of you who listen, and thanks to those of you who also support this ministry. <em>FamilyLife Today<\/em> is completely listener-supported. If it weren\u2019t for listeners, like you, who make either an occasional donation or who donate monthly as Legacy Partners, we could not continue to do all that we do. 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