09/11/2025
My Oil Is Costlyā¦ Is Yours?
As I start my morning in preparation for the State of the Ozarks , I am reminded how much work goes into what we do. Owners Dale Grubaugh & Joshua Heston definitely have their hands full with this monumental 8th year event.
Yes, there are bragging rights for people who can build something from the ground up, master a craft, learn an instrument, and produce something thatās not manufactured in a factory, but in fact we remain gracefully humble.
Iāve been asked so many times is what Iām doing legal? Iāve been questioned if I make all of these things myself? āNo actually I donāt. It is time to confess Iām a fraud. Iāve got my grandma locked in my basement and she slaving away. And if you tell on me, you might be down there with her.
Does that appease the masses?
Then, we have those who do not desire to work hard to achieve what youāve achieved. You work hard to figure out the dynamics, the ins and outs of your craft or business. Youāve had to go through the ups and down of what works and what doesnāt, youāve had to work out all the kinks and process through times of difficulty. Youāve done the gritty messy part of it.
I was speaking with another SOTO member not too long ago. She spoke of how she had worked hard at her aerial performance and she spent tons of money, did all of the work, and all the classes. Sheās had people approach her and ask her to share what she had learned for free. Give free classes. What a slap in the face?
This isnāt Boyz In Da Hood. If I struggled to make it out alone and furthered myself in life, youāre not apart of that. I donāt owe you ANYTHING.
Because what Iāve learned isā¦
There is hungry & there is starving.
People that are hungry are picky, choosy, and snobby. People that are starving will eat and clean the plate that is put in front of them.
Wellā¦clean your plate child. Oh right, youāre hungry, not starving.
Please, do not let someone cheapen your craft because they lack creative ability or they have a lackadaisical view of life.
No effort, no time, no investment, no endurance, and no grit. Only doing what is easy and sadly people buy into this foolishness.
Get rich quick schemes consume our society.
If everything comes easy then how will you endure when things get hard?
I never understood the term āGet Your Own Oil, until I started having to use it.
People will suck you dry using your resources, emotions, knowledge, wisdom, experience, etc; just so that their lives can be easier. They will have no shame at succeeding off the labor that was produced on your back.
Letās not confuse exchanging mutual knowledge, wisdom, and resources. āAs iron sharpens iron, So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend.ā
āāProverbsā¬ ā27ā¬:ā17ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
Mmm maybeā¦donāt stand alongside someone bringing a spoon to a sword fight because you will lose.
So excited to see Order of the Red Boar @ the SOTO Fest at (HOLLISTER, MO) ā Countdown begins to StateoftheOzarks Fest ā25, Saturday, September 13, 10AM-6PM, Historic Downing Street, Hollister, MO. Event is free to the public.
StateoftheOzarks Fest is a one-day celebration bringing community together in a heightened street fair filled to the brim with food, art, craftsmanship, and uproarious fun, all tied to the history and culture of our land. Downtown. 11am & 3pm. Donāt miss it.
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Do you really want to know how hard it is to do what I do? Go and do it and then come and talk to me about some of the trials that youāre going through. Then I can help you navigate and work through those trials. Iām not giving you the blueprint to my business model, the recipe to my products, or the troubleshooting.
Get Your Own Oil! Just scream that right now, even if youāre in the middle of Walmart. Okay, maybe donāt, thereāll probably be some startled old lady in there clutching her pearls. Scream it internally perhaps and get out of the leech infested waters of life.
Hard work builds character and just based on the sudden passing of Charlie Kirk, character is needless to say lacking. He was conservative. He had morals, perspective, and character. He had oil. Do you? Or is someone begging for yours?
I tell my children you appreciate the things that you worked for more than the things I buy for you. Get your own oil is a parallel to the passage in the Bible about the 10 virgins. Five of them were prepared and five of them were not. The synopsis of the parable was they wanted the other five virgins that were prepared to give them some of their oil.
Breif History of Olive Oil:
Producing olive oil was a labor intensive process that yielded little. So in those biblical times before manufacturing oil in factories, if someone asked for oil for cooking, they were asking for a lot.
The 5 virgins oil was the oil from The Holy Spirit through their relationship with God. Their commitment, dedication, and refining. Get your own oil is a term that can be used in the natural as well as the spiritual. You need to reach for God, using someone elseās relationship with God will never get you the results youāre looking for. You will run out of oil again, but letās hope itās not when He decides to return.
āThen the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. Now five of them were wise, and five were foolish. Those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. But while the bridegroom was delayed, they all slumbered and slept. āAnd at midnight a cry was heard: āBehold, the bridegroom is coming; go out to meet him!ā Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the wise, āGive us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.ā But the wise answered, saying, āNo, lest there should not be enough for us and you; but go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.ā And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the wedding; and the door was shut. āAfterward the other virgins came also, saying, āLord, Lord, open to us!ā But he answered and said, āAssuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.ā āWatch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.ā
āāMatthewā¬ ā25ā¬:ā1ā¬-ā13ā¬ āNKJVā¬ā¬
