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Greetings and Welcome to The 405 Coffee Break with O.K. Solberg
New episodes tend to air over the local KMMR radio station @ 5 minutes past 4PM each M-F. And have been doing so, nearly every week since Sept 2018.
I'm D.J. Rasmussen, O.K.s friend since junior high, possibly your neighbor & this websites maintainer, whom strives to get each episode's show notes written, the transcript proofed and the audio posted to the internet within a few hours of that days KMMR air time. NOTE: recently been publishing most new releases by 4:30PM.
Thanks for visiting and I hope you enjoy the time we can spend together.
I wanna again welcome you to The 405 Coffee Break. Guys, get ya cup of coffee, glass iced tea, a green drink of any kind, and let's see what's happening.
OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.88 a bushel, 550lb steer calf $5 to $5.11 per pound. Butcher hog in Iowa 62ยข a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.85 a pound. But guys, there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:It's Saint Patrick's Day. You're wearing your green. Okay. 1st a bible verse and then the story of Saint Patrick. Our bible verse comes from Psalm 91 verses 11 and 12.
OK Solberg:For he will command his angels concerning you to guard you in all your ways. On their hands, they will bear you up, lest you strike your foot against a stone. Alright. Psalm 91.
OK Solberg:Listen to the story of Saint Patrick and see if that is truly a fitting bible verse. Listen now and I'll quote.
OK Solberg:Long before parades in green rivers, before shamrocks pinned to lapels and stories told over a pint of Irish ale, there was a boy, Not a saint, not a legend, just a boy. His name was Patrick, Saint Patrick, and he wasn't Irish. He was not Irish. Patrick was born sometime around the late fourth century in Roman Britain in a quiet Christian household.
OK Solberg:His father was a deacon, his grandfather a priest, faith was around him but not yet within him. Years later, Patrick would confess with surprising honesty, I did not know the true God, and I was taken into captivity in Ireland. You see, when Patrick was about 16 years old, the quiet life ended.
OK Solberg:Raiders from across the sea, Irish pirates, descended on the coast. Homes were burned, families scattered, and the young boy was captured, chained, and carried away across cold waters to the island of Ireland.
OK Solberg:A kidnapped teenager, a slave, for 6 long years, Patrick worked in lonely fields tending sheep, cold nights, empty hills, an empty stomach, no family, no freedom. But something else was happening in those lonely fields. Patrick later wrote, the Lord opened the understanding of my unbelieving heart and I remembered my sins. He began to pray, not occasionally, constantly. I prayed as many as a 100 times during the day and nearly as many at night.
OK Solberg:The frightened boy became a man of faith. Then one night, after years of captivity, Patrick heard what he believed was a voice in a dream, your ship is ready. So he ran nearly 200 miles across unfamiliar land through forests and marsh and danger until he finally reached the coast. There against all odds, he found a ship willing to take him home back to Britain, back to his family, back to safety. Well, you might well think the story would end there, but the story was only beginning.
OK Solberg:Years later, Patrick had another dream. In it, he heard the voices of the Irish people, the very land where he had been enslaved, calling to him, we beg you holy youth to come and walk among us again. And Patrick did something remarkable. He went back, not as a slave, but as a missionary. Patrick returned to Ireland, the land of his captivity, determined to share the Christian faith that had transformed him on those lonely hillsides.
OK Solberg:Tradition tells us he preached across the countryside, spoke with chieftains, baptized converts, and planted churches. One of his most famous prayers survives today. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me. History records that Patrick spent decades traveling across Ireland, teaching, serving, and building communities of faith. And though many legends grew around his life, the real story may be even more remarkable.
OK Solberg:A kidnapped boy, a forgotten shepherd, a reluctant believer used by God to change a nation. Patrick himself put it simply, I am certain that I was loved by God. And that my friends is a remarkable journey of the man remembered every March 17 on Saint Patrick's Day even some fifteen hundred years later. A boy who wasn't Irish, a slave who became free, and a man who returned to the very people who once held him captive. And now you know the best of the story.
OK Solberg:So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.