WEBVTT 00:04.320 --> 00:07.080 - Hey Marines, Semper Fidelis and keep the faith. 00:07.080 --> 00:08.520 - Keep the faith. 00:08.520 --> 00:09.383 - Keep the faith. 00:11.270 --> 00:14.298 - You know, this year has kind of been a lot like the ocean. 00:14.298 --> 00:16.910 And then this shore down below us, 00:16.910 --> 00:21.470 where one wave after another wave just keeps coming along. 00:21.470 --> 00:23.700 Sometimes you've been able maybe to ride that out 00:23.700 --> 00:26.740 and surf it with some fun and make it through it. 00:26.740 --> 00:28.980 And other times it's just walloped you 00:28.980 --> 00:30.840 and crashed over top of you, 00:30.840 --> 00:33.945 maybe time after time, again and again. 00:33.945 --> 00:36.410 This has been a reason to focus in on 00:36.410 --> 00:40.490 what keep the faith means for you as a Marine or sailor. 00:40.490 --> 00:41.600 And today in a few minutes, 00:41.600 --> 00:42.840 we're gonna have the opportunity 00:42.840 --> 00:45.820 to hear some Marines speak about how they've been able 00:45.820 --> 00:48.480 to keep the faith and how they've been able to tie 00:48.480 --> 00:51.480 into their spiritual fitness and how it's helped them 00:51.480 --> 00:54.060 with their total fitness and their readiness. 00:54.060 --> 00:54.893 Let's listen in. 00:56.060 --> 00:57.690 Hey Marines, thanks so much for being able 00:57.690 --> 00:58.700 to share with us today. 00:58.700 --> 01:01.530 Just a couple of questions about spiritual fitness. 01:01.530 --> 01:03.860 First question I wanted to start with was 01:03.860 --> 01:06.763 what does keep the faith mean to you? 01:08.500 --> 01:10.840 - Chaplain, that's a excellent question. 01:10.840 --> 01:13.340 Keeping the faith to me is I liken that 01:13.340 --> 01:18.340 to guarding our success as Marines, as individual Marines, 01:19.480 --> 01:21.910 by doing the right thing when we're out there on liberty 01:21.910 --> 01:24.740 or doing the right thing just at our jobs. 01:24.740 --> 01:28.440 As a unit, guarding our success by doing the right things 01:28.440 --> 01:32.150 for that unit to protect the successes that we have. 01:32.150 --> 01:34.700 And ultimately, as an institution 01:34.700 --> 01:37.550 'cause we all know it only takes one or two things 01:37.550 --> 01:39.720 to really overshadow that success. 01:39.720 --> 01:44.323 So for me, guarding our success is keeping the faith. 01:45.280 --> 01:46.140 - Thanks Sergeant Major. 01:46.140 --> 01:48.763 Anybody else want to add something to that? 01:50.010 --> 01:53.410 - Yeah, I think that's a really great point, Sergeant Major. 01:53.410 --> 01:56.290 For me specifically, I also like to add 01:56.290 --> 01:58.370 that guarding my success, 01:58.370 --> 02:00.960 of hinging that on my faith in Christ, 02:00.960 --> 02:04.170 and that everything that I do needs to either reflect 02:04.170 --> 02:07.140 or respond to what that faith means in my life. 02:07.140 --> 02:09.210 So that's my sort of firm foundation 02:09.210 --> 02:13.580 for what I, my jumping off point for everything else 02:13.580 --> 02:14.413 that I do. 02:15.481 --> 02:17.770 - Thanks Lieutenant Arthur, appreciate that. 02:17.770 --> 02:19.690 Staff Sergeant, anything you want to share? 02:19.690 --> 02:21.379 - There's just one thing I want to add. 02:21.379 --> 02:23.670 The one thing I would add is that keeping the faith 02:23.670 --> 02:25.950 to me just means remembering those foundational truths 02:25.950 --> 02:28.730 that actually got me to become a Christian. 02:28.730 --> 02:30.800 So just remembering those things and holding true to them, 02:30.800 --> 02:33.200 even when things become hard and when they become difficult. 02:33.200 --> 02:35.170 Just getting back to the basics and remembering those things 02:35.170 --> 02:36.230 that I believe. 02:36.230 --> 02:37.063 - All right. 02:37.063 --> 02:40.580 Hey, thanks for sharing what keeping the faith means to you. 02:40.580 --> 02:43.750 - Marines, remember, stay positive and keep the faith. 02:43.750 --> 02:45.070 - Keep the faith, oorah. 02:45.070 --> 02:47.380 - All right, keep the faith, the Aloha spirit. 02:47.380 --> 02:48.363 - Keep the faith.