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17 Dec 2025
Future Voices: Life and Faith Through Teen Eyes

Life is full of twists and turns, and sometimes the only way forward is by leaning on something greater than ourselves. In this episode of Let’s Talk Local, Sarah sits down with her son, Louis, to talk about Future Voices, the weekly column he founded and publishes every Sunday in The Dallas Express.


Louis writes candidly about what’s on his mind and how his faith helps him face life head-on. The conversation also introduces the column’s very first contributor, Cooper Kimosh. At just 14 years old, Cooper shares how prayer guides him through uncertainty and why faith plays such an important role in his life.


Together, they offer a powerful look at life, faith, and perspective through the eyes of the next generation.

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Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Host
Cooper Kimosh
Guest
Louis
Guest

Episode Timeline

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01:40
What inspired Cooper to write his article for Future Voices?
04:45
Cooper talks about his writing process for the article
08:29
What type of student does Cooper envision contributing articles to Future Voices?
12:05
Louis talks about how Future Voices came to be
13:56
Louis talks about his writing process for Future Voices articles
15:52
Looking at some of the Future Voices articles that have published thus far
28:21
What does Louis hope that parents and teens learn from his articles?
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00:00
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Hi. I'm Sarah Zubiate Bennett, and today's episode is especially meaningful to me. I'm joined by two young men I've had the privilege of watching grow into thoughtful driven leaders. One of them is my son, Louis Darazette, who recently launched a new column in the Dallas Express called Future Voices. He's poured his heart and hard work into making it a weekly feature we're all so proud of.
00:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
The very first contributor to Future Voices is also here with us. Kupre Kymosh is someone I've known for years and I couldn't imagine a better person to help kick off a column dedicated to the thoughts, issues, and conversations young people face today and the role faith plays in guiding them. I'm so excited for you to hear from both Cooper and Lewis. Thank you for being here and let's get started. Cooper, I can't tell you how much I appreciate you being the very first contributor to the future voices column.
01:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I mean it's an interesting story as to how it came about, but I'm interested in your thoughts and opinions on many things pertaining to it, but I'm just going to kind of go sequentially just in conversation if So you don't you've always been a super brilliant person as long as I've known you. You've always just been exceptional. But what ignited the desire within you to write about the entire process and struggle of applying to a really competitive private Dallas high school?
01:40
Cooper Kimosh
Well I'm gonna say because I'm gonna say this because there's a lot of people, you know, a lot of people are going through that process every single year and I feel like most of the time Mhmm. Those people are stressed out. So, I felt like I really gotta write something that is gonna I I kinda wanna lift up, you know, people with my writing. So, when I wrote about that, I was speaking and reaching out to those people telling them about, you know, you could speak to God to help you and just I was trying to I was trying to empathize with them. I was trying to like this is this is this is how I struggled and that's how I got through it.
02:18
Cooper Kimosh
So that's why I wanna write about that.
02:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And you have such wonderful perspective in your writing. By the time this show launches, your article will be live, I believe. And so I'm interested, what do you believe your response would have been had you not been accepted to the school of your choice?
02:43
Cooper Kimosh
Well, I'm gonna I I really have to think about that, you know. I I kinda get I'm I could have wrote about the time when I was when, you know, my brother, he's three, know. When he was before, like, right before he's gonna be born, I guess.
03:03
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Mhmm. Mhmm.
03:04
Cooper Kimosh
That that whole time because I was staying at my grandparents house, I I wasn't, you know, with my parents, I didn't know what was going on at all. I was I barely knew what was happening. I had like no information and I thought, you know, something maybe even like went wrong with when he was born because, you know, he had to go into the NICU, think this what it's called.
03:25
Louis Darrouzet
Yep.
03:25
Cooper Kimosh
Because he, you know, he had. So, I was super worried another time. That was another time where I was super worried and super anxious. And I feel like in those moments when I'm anxious or I'm nervous, I feel like my first response is I need to take some time and I just need to ask God about it and I need to think or I need to pray and I need to say, God, please just help me get through this and I will you know, like, help me get through this and guide me to the path that you want me to that you that is your plan, you know? So, that's Mhmm. I probably would have run about that I think.
04:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And got you, got you. But because a lot of these kids that apply to schools like all of these private schools in Dallas, a lot of kids don't get in, right? So they also I guess what you're saying is that they also should trust in God's plan, just
04:22
Cooper Kimosh
the
04:23
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
greater plan, right? Because not everyone's intended to go down the same path in life.
04:28
Cooper Kimosh
Of course.
04:29
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I guess, right? So okay, I just wondered what you'd mention as far as that, but I'm interested because people do receive volunteer hours or minutes on the time that they spend writing their articles. How long did it take for you to put your article together?
04:49
Cooper Kimosh
I think I'm going back because I don't even know how this is kind of hard for me to answer. I think that like the time that I spent thinking about it was more time than I spent actually writing about it. Usually, when I write things, the like, what I'm writing about is always the first thing I have to think about before I do anything and then I kind of just go with it. I don't really I don't really revise my stuff or like look over it as much as I should but I spend a lot of time. So, I think I spent around an hour thinking about it and then maybe like thirty minutes just writing with it because I kind of even just write it in my head and then I just type it all out Mhmm.
05:31
Cooper Kimosh
Because I'm I'm really I thought like, I knew it's something important and it's the first one. It's also just my honor Mhmm. For me to be the first one too.
05:39
Cooper Kimosh
And I just wanna say that or I'm saying that when I was thinking about it, I was planning out every like topic I was gonna write about in my head and that's what truly took the hour of thinking but I only did thirty minutes of writing because I already had a like a clear clear thing about what I was gonna write about. So it didn't take as long.
06:01
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
See, and people don't always appreciate how long the writing process can take. And sometimes people have writer's block.
06:09
Cooper Kimosh
Well, will say one thing that that I'm good at
06:14
Cooper Kimosh
Is writing, definitely. Because when I was I don't even know, I could have been like
06:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Always had a journal.
06:22
Cooper Kimosh
I always had a journal. And I was in second grade and you might not know what this is, Lewis probably does. Do you know Dog Man? Like the Dog so
06:34
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It was his favorite.
06:35
Cooper Kimosh
I would love
06:36
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It was his favorite.
06:38
Cooper Kimosh
It was my favorite too.
06:39
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I love that.
06:40
Cooper Kimosh
I would go to my school library and I would always always read Dog Man. And they're basically based off of classic literature. So I'm like, I was kind of curious. I'm like, what is Lord of the Fleas? Because it's it's a dog so Lord of So the I looked it up, it's Lord of the Flies.
07:00
Cooper Kimosh
So I started reading Lord of the Flies in third grade.
07:03
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. Yeah.
07:04
Cooper Kimosh
And so I've been I've been reading and writing a ton. Also, Diary of a Wimpy Kid that taught me to keep or like I would learn from that and I'd write like my own diary and stuff. I still have it. Actually, I don't think I do anymore.
07:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Your mom might.
07:21
Cooper Kimosh
Maybe. My mom's probably she does have it, she's preserving it
07:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
because it is Exactly.
07:25
Cooper Kimosh
It's I would write all the time and I'd I'd love to make and tell stories and I'd make like comic books and display it like show it to my whole class. But I feel like that's probably that's that's a talent that God gave me, I'd say, is writing.
07:41
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I'm getting emotional over here. I'm like, oh no. No. I just I remember. I remember when you were little and you were journaling and your mom would tell me about your journaling and it's just, it's always been something of unique ability to you and agree with you on that.
07:59
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But it's very interesting because Lewis has not been that way. While he's a highly academic person, smart like yourself, he's never been a writer. And so I'm trying to like develop a theme, but I guess my answer is going to be given to me. But I'm going to ask you this question first before I give any opinion. What sort of junior high or high school students do you believe would be inclined to contribute to the future voices column?
08:29
Cooper Kimosh
I'd say anybody who who's creative, you know. If you have this ability or this like passion of making things and showing it to other people or working on these like passion projects and these, you know, where whether it be like drawing or writing or just anything that involves you being creative. It's it's probably you probably like this because I know I did. I really liked writing my whole, what is it? Is it like a passage or my Your article.
09:00
Cooper Kimosh
My article.
09:00
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's I'm an actual article in a newspaper. It will be by the time that this airs but yeah, it's an article. And that's a really cool thing. Also,
09:10
Cooper Kimosh
I feel like now that you mentioned that Mhmm. I feel like anybody who likes to be in like plays or acting would also like that because I feel like they'd they'd be more like comfortable, you know, displaying this whole writing that they've made in their face in front of all these different people. Yeah. Because that's that's what those people that's what that's what they're used to and that's what they enjoy. So, I feel like if anybody fits the bill, you should write.
09:37
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I love that.
09:38
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
So now, I know that you have to volunteer at Jesuit, right? They require you all to volunteer. Lewis is gonna try and go through the process of actually becoming one of the accepted volunteer programs at Jesuit. So I wish him luck in that endeavor because that would certainly cut out a lot of the legwork for him. But do you foresee yourself ever writing or contributing again for volunteer work?
10:09
Cooper Kimosh
I think for this, this was something like I I really enjoyed this. This is a this is a cool thing.
10:17
Cooper Kimosh
I feel like if I ever if I get like an opportunity to do something similar to this, I think I'll do it. Just because this Cool. This whole experience, this is a cool experience.
10:25
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I love that. Yeah. I love that. Well, good. I'm glad.
10:28
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thank you so much, Cooper.
10:29
Cooper Kimosh
Of course, Sarah. Thank you.
10:30
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Of course, my love.
10:31
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I'm happy to have you here. And I wanna congratulate you because you've taken on a lot of work Uh-huh. By starting the future voices column. It's a lot of work.
10:42
Louis Darrouzet
Thank you. Thank you. It has been a lot of work.
10:45
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Did you anticipate it being as much work as it has been?
10:48
Louis Darrouzet
Not at all.
10:50
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
You didn't?
10:50
Louis Darrouzet
No ma'am, not at all.
10:53
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Okay. Well why don't you tell our viewers and listeners a little bit about yourself. Some of the things you like, what drives you,
11:01
Louis Darrouzet
So who you I'm almost 13 but I'm 12 years old and I go to Saint Rita Catholic schools as you probably all know. And I love baseball, that's my main sport. Currently, I'm playing basketball. Mhmm. And I also like football.
11:20
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I know you like football.
11:21
Louis Darrouzet
So, I mean, I go to school. It's long. I'd rather not be in school. But but what really drives me to do this is my faith in God, I guess. That not, I guess, but it's really I mean, it's really what put this all together.
11:50
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Your faith in God. Right. Yeah. And that is absolutely what I think is so different about you. Would you mind telling us how this all came about as you remember it?
12:04
Louis Darrouzet
So it all started probably about a couple months ago when I wanted to share more about God with my friends.
12:13
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's right. And That's right. And you started to.
12:15
Louis Darrouzet
Right. I did. I did.
12:16
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Started Yeah. Walked in on you Telling my friends. Like sharing some pretty heavy topics with some of your friends that were spending the night at the house.
12:26
Louis Darrouzet
Oh I remember that.
12:27
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yep. And I was like, maybe we work on refining this a little bit.
12:30
Louis Darrouzet
Yeah. Because it's I remember that.
12:34
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But okay, so that's right. So you wanted to talk to your friends about it. Yes ma'am. And then where do you recall it going from there?
12:42
Louis Darrouzet
Well, I told my mom about it. So I kinda I kinda I'm his mom. Yes. Obviously. She's her mom.
12:48
Louis Darrouzet
I'm talking to third person's perspective here. Okay. And I told you about it. Mhmm. And so, honestly, I try to pray about it.
12:58
Louis Darrouzet
And, generally, the idea that I got back was I need I need to expand on this. Right? So we we I started brainstorming and my mom I did it with my mom, with you, of course. Mhmm. And my mom came up with a brilliant idea of young voices.
13:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh, yeah.
13:19
Louis Darrouzet
That's what it was called at first. Young voices
13:21
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
would be good and then there were several iterations.
13:24
Louis Darrouzet
Yeah. And then my dad finally came up in it and then it's now future voices.
13:28
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Future voices. That's right. Your dad did.
13:30
Louis Darrouzet
Because so like I'm not sure. Cooper or like anybody older than Cooper would wanna be called Young, you know.
13:36
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's right. That's right. And so now we're here you've written a few articles.
13:41
Louis Darrouzet
Yes, three
13:41
Cooper Kimosh
from And
13:44
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
why don't you talk about what your writing process looks like?
13:47
Louis Darrouzet
My writing process. Okay.
13:49
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
So And I know yours is is different from Cooper's, right? Yes. He he's
13:52
Louis Darrouzet
Mine takes a lot longer than Cooper's. So usually I I will brainstorm probably for thirty minutes to an hour. Mhmm. And then I usually sit down after I finish all my homework, after all dinner. I sit down with my mother, and we'll just start talking about our topic Usually, on like a Monday or like a Sunday or like the weekend or the last day the day it comes out, the past week comes out, we'll just sit down and for a finer topic.
14:24
Louis Darrouzet
We'll get some of our brainstorming ideas.
14:26
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
We brainstorm a lot together.
14:28
Louis Darrouzet
And you come up with an idea usually on Sunday. And then we usually call or I'll I'll start elaborating on it. And I will
14:39
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
You can you can come up with some writing pretty quickly though.
14:42
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But then faster.
14:43
Louis Darrouzet
I have. I have. This is a big a big upgrade. It is a big upgrade. So usually we talk about it and I she's like the grammar.
14:55
Louis Darrouzet
She she helps with a lot of grammar. Because I'm just gonna tell you straight up, writing is not my subject like at all. I'm just a math brain.
15:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. He's he's a strong math brain and so the writing component, it's it's been a
15:11
Louis Darrouzet
It's been a
15:12
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
struggle. I didn't want to say a struggle. It's been it's been a lot of work.
15:17
Louis Darrouzet
It
15:17
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
has. And I'm actually I was super proud of you for coming up with this entire idea and breathing life into it because again it's not like Cooper who has been doing this easily from the time that he was little. But what I want to do is pull up some of the articles that you've written in the past and I'm going to voices.dallasexpress.com because this is on the Dallas Express. But one of the I guess more poignant pieces or moments of my life with you being your mother it's gonna make me cry. It's about it was from your article about gratitude and giving thanks when you don't want to or cannot.
16:11
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh my goodness. Okay. I'll tell that story in a minute but Long story. It is a long story but in this particular article you talk about how saying thank you can mean stepping out of your comfort zone, but people say it as if it's the easiest thing in the world. But what you write here is is really powerful.
16:36
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
You say and sometimes people are going through pain we can't even imagine, like my old second grade teacher Mrs. Harbour who lost both of her daughters in the floods on July 4. When someone is carrying that kind of grief, gratitude doesn't always come easily. And then later this was the moment that I was referencing, this happened but I'm going to read what you wrote. The night of the floods I held my mom's hand and told her that if I ever died young, she had to promise me that she would thank God the very next day.
17:16
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
She didn't answer at first but eventually she promised after crying a little bit more than she already was. Not because it would be easy but because staying faithful matters even when everything hurts. That I think was a moment for me when I realized that you have a much deeper faith sometimes than I do as your mother. And that was a really hard night. We were all crying.
17:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But can you tell me a little bit about why, what put that on your heart? And I know that at first I was like, that's not gonna happen. And then you said you don't know that. And what put that on your heart to even utter words like that to me about hoping that I would give thanks to God the very next day and worship him and thank him for my time with you?
18:19
Louis Darrouzet
Because it's always a necessity of thanks. And as you can as I said, even when we don't want to, it's part of what we do as Christians. Mhmm. And even in the deepest, darkest, most horrible, traumatic moments ever, even if you're in a jail cell, even if you're, like No. I'm being serious like a jail cell or like
18:47
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
went to jail. This is a story I wanted to tell but keep keep But you're right. You're right.
18:52
Louis Darrouzet
Like even in the worst moments Uh-huh. You have to be thankful for what you have. When you're not humble, there's God has a quick way of turning that around. And that humb that being humble can turn into arrogance, and that arrogance can turn into you being in a bad place. Right?
19:16
Louis Darrouzet
So I'm not saying you, like like, you weren't in a bad you weren't being arrogant, but, like, you everyone has to be thankful for the for every single moment we have, every day, second we live. That even the things we don't realize we have and think that are necessary for giving thanks. We still have to give thanks. So for for for example, I can be thankful for let's say, I'll just give, like, a common example that kids like, for my PlayStation five. I can be thankful for that.
19:56
Louis Darrouzet
Right? Then one day one one hour later, you you could be locked up in a jail cell. I'm being serious. You you or, like, you could be in solitary confinement because and what next? You don't you don't have what what are you thankful for?
20:16
Louis Darrouzet
Like, you're asking yourself that same question. Oh, I I don't know what to be thankful for, But you you can know for your life, for your for your breath, for you having all your limbs, for you not being sick. Things that a lot of people don't have and things that people suffer with day in and day out. So, It just gives you a piece of humility.
20:48
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
A piece of humility within gratitude. Yes. You can find humility within gratitude. Yes. Okay.
20:56
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
This article was written or published on the November 30 when I was in New York. I read this article and it was positively profound even though I had helped him edit it. It takes a lot of editing, a lot of passes on the editing side. That's why he says it's a lot of work, it really is.
21:17
Louis Darrouzet
Yes.
21:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
But to help the the thoughts flow coherently and well, I guess just in a space that's able to be understood. But this particular day I was boarding a flight or I was going through TSA in JFK to fly back to Dallas. And I was given brass knuckles here in Texas because they're legal here. And as I was packing to go to New York I was like okay, you all know that I like my my self defense weapons or my self defense tools. System.
21:56
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Because yes my systems because I'm five nothing and anyway so in New York I packed these brass knuckles with me to go to New York. Was using them the day before, not using them, I was walking around with them in my pocket or in my purse the night before in Manhattan. I forgot to remove them from the purse that I had them in. So TSA found them and I was literally cuffed and taken out. And so I was cuffed in the airport and I went to jail.
22:35
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
So now I'm having to hire an attorney to help me get this hopefully dismissed because and I went to jail. And it was in this jail cell where I was like you know what I'm gonna sit here and I'm gonna thank God for all of the wonderful things that I have within this jail cell within this situation. And this was very front and center for me because of this article that was published this day. But it's pretty profound stuff because you're a little guy Mhmm. But some of the things that you say sometimes just shakes me to my core.
23:15
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And in ways that I guess pastors or priests or you know people who speak often do or speak about faith for their life's work. And so this particular day this really helped me, that's why he keeps saying if you find yourself in jail, it's
23:35
Louis Darrouzet
I'm because I found myself not just in saying it because of you. It's like generally though.
23:40
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's okay. Nope, I I understand. It's a good analogy, it's just I want people to understand that you're not obsessed with jail but that your mother was actually in jail. Yeah. Anyway, back over to your articles.
23:53
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Another one I wanted to talk about is Popularity is Not the Point.
23:56
Louis Darrouzet
Oh that's a good article. I like that one a lot.
23:59
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Glad you like your article. What is your favorite part about this article?
24:06
Louis Darrouzet
That's a good question. Probably just the main idea of it.
24:11
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
The main idea. And so I'm going to just start reading some pieces from this one. Last week I wrote about feeling invisible, of course this is you writing it. When people feel that way they sometimes try really hard to make everyone like them by either cracking jokes, dressing in a certain way, laughing at things they don't even find funny or acting in ways that don't line up with their values. When you're young popularity can seem like the ultimate goal, but honestly it's not nearly as important as it looks.
24:39
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And then you talk about how you had considered, I guess I'll just continue with what you write. A few years ago I started wondering if I wanted to be one of those popular people even though I already had a solid group of friends. But when I pictured that version of me I didn't recognize him. I could almost feel myself slipping away in my imagination, my confidence, my peace, the quiet sense of who I was. So I stopped chasing it before I even started.
25:12
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And you said I realized that that wasn't the path God had for me. But then you hit on something that I think is really important. You write here's the truth, we all want to be seen, but chasing other people's approval is like trying to hold water in your hands, it just leaks out. When we look for validation outside of ourselves and outside of God we basically hand someone else a remote control to our worth. And the next person who ignores us or talks behind our back can suddenly change how we see ourselves.
25:43
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
That's not how we're designed to live. Right. Can you expand upon that? Like What is it that makes pleasing God? And yes, you're absolutely right in all that you've written and reflected upon, but how is it that you're 12 and you're able to make that decision and say, okay, I see myself going down this road, I choose this path.
26:18
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
What is it really? I know you always say that if people need to fear anything they need to fear God. Right. But people do fear I guess being disliked or not being cool but that doesn't really occur to you. Do you have any idea why?
26:39
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Prayer. Prayer.
26:43
Louis Darrouzet
Prayer.
26:46
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Got you. It makes me wanna cry every time. Yeah, yep that's a good answer. That's not
27:00
Louis Darrouzet
even the true answer.
27:01
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
No I know, I understand. It's just yeah so that's what people often forget that people ask or wonder what do I gain from praying? Because it takes time out of your day, out of my day. It takes a lot of time but you just have a stability about yourself that I've always admired. Not just because you're my kid but just as who you are as a person.
27:26
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Okay so it's prayer. You feel much more stable and un, what is it, unshakable in your faith?
27:42
Louis Darrouzet
Well, sometimes I get that little feeling, oh, like this, do that. Like, I kinda have to it takes a little bit of power just to shake it off because it's like a it's a fly. Sometimes they just keep coming back, but you just gotta keep shaking them off and then you gotta actually just find it, you know?
28:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Find it, stop it. Mhmm. Got you. I love that. What do you hope that teens and parents learn from these articles, if anything?
28:20
Louis Darrouzet
That's a great question. Obviously I want them to learn something. There to be a main theme here. So there's this verse. So my stepdad usually, Poppy, we call him Poppy.
28:33
Louis Darrouzet
He makes me memorize the verse Mhmm. Every month.
28:35
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Mhmm.
28:36
Louis Darrouzet
And one of my top verses that I love, I said in my popularity is not the point article, which I think is a great article. Mhmm. If you haven't seen it, I think you guys should read it. Romans eight twenty eight. I think it's a great verse.
28:50
Louis Darrouzet
I'll just Yes. I'll I'll say it for you guys. And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. I just think it's a great verse and it really it really it it it that he God doesn't That's right. God doesn't look for the the flesh or like the skin, but he looks for the soul, the heart.
29:15
Louis Darrouzet
And I think that's a big part. That's beautiful. Thank you.
29:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yeah. That's that's a great answer, Lewis. Thank you. Do you think part of the reason you have this type of stability or calling, let's just name that for now, right? This calling to really get to know God differently than other people because is it because you have this person in your life who's requiring you to memorize verses?
29:50
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Is that why?
29:50
Louis Darrouzet
That's definitely a big help. It's a help. It's a big But ever since I was introduced to God Mhmm. And or Jesus And I realized, like, really what the point of our religion was to try to make it to heaven. I mean, you kinda look at our world in a different view, a different perspective.
30:21
Louis Darrouzet
Why am I doing this? Is this gonna help me get to heaven? Like, what is the point of this? Like, I'm not I'm not helping God in any way. I'm just ignoring him.
30:37
Louis Darrouzet
Worshiping another God, technically. But what most people don't understand is that a lot of things you put your time into, like, say, for instance, your phone or like a like a a game or like a game console, it's you worshiping an idol, technically. Like, an image that is false because you spend so much of your time into that, like worshiping or like just spending time with it.
31:19
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Oh, you spend your time. So you're equating spending one's time to like a level of devotion to something.
31:29
Louis Darrouzet
Well, that's like a way not not what I do, but Mhmm. It's a way like people see it. No. Don't see it, which how they should. A good book that I'm reading right now, Screwtape Letters, it kinda sees what I like what is what different things that like the common day things like phones or doing this or doing that, how they actually communicate to God or to the devil.
31:54
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
And The Screwtape Letters by CS Lewis is a pretty profound book. Yes. And it was your Thea and uncle Tanner, myself, we were talking about it.
32:05
Louis Darrouzet
Right. And I wanted to read it. But really, devotion to God is really just spending time with him and following his two laws. Yeah. And his two main commandments, Jesus' two main commandments.
32:23
Louis Darrouzet
Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, strength and mind and love your neighbor as yourself.
32:30
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I love that. I thank you for expanding upon these things. Sorry I cried. Sometimes as a mother it's hard to wrap my brain around it. But let me ask, how does your relationship with God help you in the way you interact in sports?
32:52
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I know you love baseball, you love baseball, you love people so much. You genuinely care about people sincerely. Right. How how does your walk in faith help you?
33:13
Louis Darrouzet
Well, first of all, I try to I try to put like, the sport as a way to get closer to God. Does that make sense? Mhmm. Because baseball takes patience.
33:29
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
It's so hard. And The failure rate of baseball is
33:32
Louis Darrouzet
so grueling. And the amount of failure it take like, it takes, like, the best hitters hit three out of 10 in in MLB. And it is just failure after failure after failure, and then comes success eventually. But it helps me to, like, realize, like, not to get as easily angered or stressed and just generally to be more calm about it and kinda just to take something, like kind of go to both ways, kind of like a trade. Not really a trade but how my walking with faith helped me with baseball and baseball helped me with my faith.
34:22
Louis Darrouzet
I love And just my overall life.
34:24
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Yep. It does. And I see that in you every day and every season. I'm proud of you.
34:31
Louis Darrouzet
I love baseball.
34:33
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
I know you do buddy, I know you do. That's why it's always been a priority of mine to support you and your sister and Luky and Jack as much as I can and the things that you're passionate about.
34:47
Louis Darrouzet
Right.
34:48
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Because I do believe that we're all given talents and desires for certain reasons and we have to use our time, our soul, our spirit
35:03
Louis Darrouzet
Yes.
35:04
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Everything about us. Yep, to help honor God you believe that. Okay, well thank you for being here. I love having you in that seat. You're fun, you're a kid yes, you're 12 not even 13 yet, but you're inspiring.
35:22
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Thank you.
35:22
Louis Darrouzet
Thank you.
35:23
Sarah Zubiate Bennett
Love you.
35:23
Louis Darrouzet
Love you. Bye.
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SARAH ZUBIATE BENNETT
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