me particularly hard. I remember being in the hospital on oxygen with a feeding tube, IV drip, and physically devastated, crawling through the valley of the shadow of death, when I realized whether he heals me or not, He is still good.
[ Tim ] Come on. Yeah.
[ WM ] And the experience also taught me empathy, just like you said in the movie. I’ ve written about this. Cancer was a better teacher to me than any sermon I’ ve ever heard. And the hospital scene in the film made me cry because I’ ve been there. God is unbelievably good.
[ Tim ] For sure. Yes. Yes. Once again, yes and amen. Milo playing me was a real treat. Milo and I have become really close friends. And just to go back, when Milo and I first met, we were doing a FaceTime. We’ re 45 minutes in, and all of a sudden he said a few strong expletives, and I’ m like,“ What?” And he turned his camera around, and his whole backyard was just filled with smoke because he was in the Palisades. And so, his house burned down that day. I mean, crazy. And then they had a baby two weeks later. So, when he’ s doing these scenes and talking about in the fire, he was emotional because he was living this pain.
I think, I mean, everybody who’ s reading this in some way knows some kind of sorrow. And if you don’ t, my dad always said,“ Wait a week; it’ s coming.” And for me, cancer’ s not my story. That’ s the dumbest story ever. If people say,“ Hey, what’ s your story? Well, I’ ve got cancer.” I was like,“ Nope, that’ s a stupid story. Cancer’ s dumb.” But Jesus is in the midst of it, and we are joining him in the midst of it and watching him invite us into so much more. One of my songs is called“ This Is the Day”. And in the bridge, it’ s“ I’ ll sing for Joy, Joy, Joy in the valley where it grows.” And I really believe that. I’ ve never grown and been a more awesome, beautiful human on the mountaintop. It just doesn’ t happen. The only place I’ ve been refined is when disruption happens, whether that’ s when I disrupt my eating or I disrupt my workouts to actually work out, or if life disrupts things.
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