What Ireland Gave Me

I told you in Episode 1 I'd come back to Ireland. Today I keep that promise — and I'm more honest in this episode than I've been all season.

This is the episode about what Ireland actually gave me.

My boys — Brendan discovering he's braver than he knew, ordering food he'd never try at home in an 800-year-old castle, reading better than we knew. Liam was quietly becoming a young man, carrying himself like he understood we were doing something sacred with his grandparents.

My wife Kelly, who is my rock — and who I haven't always made it easy to be married to. I'm intense. I'm driven. I'm a lot to live with. And she has stood next to me through every version of me: the bypass, the loss of my parents, the late-night doubts, the decision to build. I get to go all in because Kelly makes all in survivable.

And on Wednesday, I came home. The day after the most spiritually significant week of my life, I was let go from my position. I've been calling it "the door that closed" all season. Here's what it actually was — and why I believe God opened it at exactly the right time. Not a day earlier, when I would have panicked. Not a day later. The exact moment I came home from Ireland with more clarity than I'd had in years.

The setback was a starting gun. That's not a coincidence I can explain away. That's grace with impeccable timing.

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CHAPTERS:

0:00 — A Promise Kept

0:15 — Coming Back to Ireland

2:30 — The Boys: Brendan and Liam

8:00 — Kelly: My Rock