An Interview with Scott Molgard
Q:
So Scott, what did you first think of Linnea when you met her?
A:
Good smile… I was intrigued, but I didn’t actually think we’d ever talk again.
Then you called the next day.
I was kind of excited.
I couldn’t remember what you looked like.
Q:
What drew you back to Linnea after a year and a half of not seeing her?
A:
Something primal.
Wasn’t a conscious thing.
Probably a mixture of God and testosterone.
Q: Anything else?
A: I was excited, overwhelmed, tired of so many people, but completely confident that marrying Linnea that day was what God wanted, it was the right thing to do.
Q: How has your first year of marriage treated you?
A: From June 4 to June 4?
It was awesome.
There are a lot of mistakes that new couples do that we didn’t do, like go into debt, lose priorities, be totally self-centered.
Q:
What kind of insight can you give from the male point of view of marriage to all the World Racers?
A:
I need God more now more than ever before.
God has entrusted me with one of His princesses.
I believe it’s my God given duty to lead us, every thing we can be together.
And it’s not easy to go against the flow of American Christian culture.
I can’t think… I need to pee.
Go ahead, come on back so you can finish imparting…
Q: What’s the hardest part of your role as a man, especially as a married man?
A: On the World Race or in life?
In life, or the World Race… however you want to answer.
A.
(Long pause, scratches his head) Might just be staying true to who God made me to be.
I think, breaking the ties of family for both of us, starting our own, or creating our own thing.
It shakes people up when we do things differently.
I thkn that’s the toughest when trying to wlak the trail that God has for us when so many people have hopped off it, or quit.
To push on when Satan uses people to fill your head with doubts.
To search for a tribe of your own, to search for the tribe where you belong, where your heart comes alive.
To not compromise.
Q:
What is your favorite thing about your wife at this point in your marriage?
A:
I’d have to say, the easy questions that she asks.
Her vulnerability, compassion, passion, patience.
And I can trust [her], and she sticks by me with all my hair-brained ideas.
She’s scared to death and cries because she thinks she’s not supposed to be scared.
I have a wife who’s truly alive and truly living.
I always dreaded the “black widow” that would sink her fangs into me and suck the life out of me and nag me and make me feel like a failure.
So far, so good.
I so married up, married out of my league.
