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When Your Heart Breaks And Life Still Sends Monday · Get The Hell Out of Your Life with Ron Meyers

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Announcer: It's time now to get the hell out of your life.
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Announcer: A weekly broadcast with real people, sharing real struggles, and offering real hope.
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Announcer: Today's show will encourage, inspire, and empower you to face life's challenges with a bold confidence and renewed hope now.
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Ron Meyers: Hello, my friends, and welcome to Get the Hell Out of Your Life.
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Ron Meyers: I'm your host, Ron Myers, and before I begin, I must ask you something.
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Ron Meyers: Have you had your conversations with Jesus this past week?
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Ron Meyers: We'll talk more about that a little later in the show.
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Ron Meyers: But today's big question is this What do you do when someone you love is gone, but your life keeps moving forward?
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Ron Meyers: Grief is something none of us can completely prepare for.
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Ron Meyers: It doesn't follow a calendar and it doesn't ask permission before showing up.
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Ron Meyers: You may feel strong one day and overwhelmed the next.
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Ron Meyers: A song, a photograph, an empty chair, or a familiar place can suddenly bring everything rushing back.
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Ron Meyers: Now life has taught me that grief is not a sign that your faith is weak.
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Ron Meyers: Grief is the evidence that your love was real.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus never told us that believers would avoid sorrow.
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Ron Meyers: In fact, the shortest verse in the Bible may be one of the most comforting.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus wept.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus understands what it means to hurt.
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Ron Meyers: My guest today is Maria, and we're going to have an honest conversation about grief, what it looks like, how it changes us, and how God can carry us through something we could never carry alone.
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Ron Meyers: This episode also connects with something I'm beginning to share more often, destined for success.
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Ron Meyers: Biblical success does not mean living without pain, it means continuing to trust God, take the next step, and become the person He created you to be, even when life doesn't turn out the way you planned.
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Ron Meyers: So if you're grieving today, you do not have to pretend that everything is okay.
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Ron Meyers: Just take a breath, open your heart, and listen.
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Ron Meyers: Maria, welcome to the show.
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Ron Meyers: What's your story?
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Maria Etheridge: Okay.
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Maria Etheridge: Well, my name's Maria, and I'm from Gulfport, Mississippi.
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Maria Etheridge: I've lived on the coast most of my uh life from a child and then also as an adult.
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Maria Etheridge: And my story is talking about grief.
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Maria Etheridge: What I'd like to share is just some uh background of what's happened in my life with my son Matt.
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Maria Etheridge: And just to let you know that he did pass away in April of this past year.
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Maria Etheridge: And uh let me start by saying first that life is not a bed of roses.
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Maria Etheridge: Of course, God doesn't offer us anything other than life after death and to make our lives the best we can while we have time on this earth, maybe to leave a legacy or maybe not to leave a legacy, but just leave that imprint, knowing that God guided you through all the different things that you might come across in your life.
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Maria Etheridge: So, Matt, when he was younger in his 20s, um when he passed away, he was 43.
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Maria Etheridge: So I had a good time with him, you know, on this earth where I could share my life with him and watch him grow up and have my two beautiful granddaughters.
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Maria Etheridge: But in his 20s, he wound up having a back injury and he got addicted to prescription drugs at that time.
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Maria Etheridge: And it wasn't, it was just hard him growing up and being addicted at the time that he was young and trying to raise his children and keep a relationship going.
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Maria Etheridge: There were times when he would be out on the streets in Kansas after the hurricane.
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Maria Etheridge: Katrina, he and his little family moved to Kansas where my ex-husband was.
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Maria Etheridge: And he wound, you know, going through several different uh storms in his life where he was living on the streets, he was trying to get over the drug addictions.
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Maria Etheridge: And back about four years ago, he moved back to the coast after he got a divorce from his wife and left his two uh daughters up in Kansas.
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Maria Etheridge: So um Matt was a great music person.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, he could play any kind of instrument, he could sing, he wrote music.
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Maria Etheridge: Um, his abilities were just awesome.
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Maria Etheridge: He was I'm not just saying that because I was his mom, but he was just so musically talented.
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Maria Etheridge: And I was hoping that he got some of that from me because I love music.
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Maria Etheridge: I love to sing, and I sing on my praise team at church.
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Maria Etheridge: But he was trying to get his life together, and I could see that he was making that effort.
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Maria Etheridge: And throughout all those times that he was living on the streets and I didn't know what to do because I was down here in Mississippi and he was up in Kansas, God kept compelling me constant prayer and supplication.
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Maria Etheridge: So I followed God's will on that.
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Maria Etheridge: I I knew I there was nothing else I could do because you have no control over another person, especially an adult child.
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Maria Etheridge: So about April 16th, he had had a back procedure done that Monday on the 15th.
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Maria Etheridge: But when he came in town, he was just, he worked over in Panama City and lived over there.
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Maria Etheridge: But he would come in town to visit on the weekends and then go to the doctor's appointments and so forth for his back.
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Maria Etheridge: So about April 15th, he went in the procedure, but he was just he you could tell there was something wrong.
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Maria Etheridge: And so he wanted to go back to work the next day on Tuesday, the 16th, but I kind of talked him out of it.
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Maria Etheridge: And that night, I could tell there was something wrong.
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Maria Etheridge: And I told him, I said, we need to go to the doctor and find out what's going on with you.
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Maria Etheridge: He actually went into cardiac arrest that night at my house.
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Maria Etheridge: At your house.
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Maria Etheridge: Oh, goodness.
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Maria Etheridge: Yeah.
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Maria Etheridge: So I I tried to resuscitate him.
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Maria Etheridge: I checked for pults and did all that.
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Maria Etheridge: And then I called the um 911.
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Maria Etheridge: Of course, the ambulance came.
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Maria Etheridge: It seemed like it took forever.
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Maria Etheridge: But he was in the hospital for a whole week before he passed away.
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Maria Etheridge: But during that time, they kept telling me, you know, that he was not alive anymore, that is, he was brain dead and that, you know, we just needed to make a decision.
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Maria Etheridge: But I had over 3,500 people praying for him and our family, which to me it was just miraculous in itself.
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Maria Etheridge: You know, even if he was to die and we had to pull the plug or whatever, just that miracle of 3,500 people praying, and maybe more than that.
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Maria Etheridge: I don't even know what the, you know, total numbers were, but the more people I kept asking to pray, they kept telling other people.
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Maria Etheridge: So, you know, God had his hand in that part of it.
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Maria Etheridge: The other part was he was an organ donor, and I didn't even know that about my own son.
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Maria Etheridge: And when we did the donor walk, we had we had a donor walk at the Singing River Hospital and Community Road, and there was over a hundred people in the hallways on that day on the uh 15.
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Maria Etheridge: I'm sorry, it was the 23rd.
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Maria Etheridge: And there were over a hundred people in the honor walk for him donating his organs.
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Maria Etheridge: And we were all ready, you know, to go ahead and take the organs once he passed away.
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Maria Etheridge: So we sat in the room with uh doctors and the nurses, you know, waiting on him.
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Maria Etheridge: They had taken him off a life support on the 23rd that afternoon, but he he didn't go.
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Maria Etheridge: And for whatever reason, he wanted to stay longer.
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Maria Etheridge: So my ex-husband and I were in the room.
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Maria Etheridge: My granddaughters were there, but they didn't want to be around that night.
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Maria Etheridge: So that night we just sat with him and prayed and just enjoyed some time.
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Maria Etheridge: My ex-husband and I just sat there as his mom and dad and him.
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Maria Etheridge: And my ex-husband said to me, he said, you know, I think he just wanted it that way.
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Maria Etheridge: Just me and him there, like it started.
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Maria Etheridge: So wow.
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Maria Etheridge: And then it was just phenomenal, though, all of that happening.
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Maria Etheridge: And then he passed away a little bit after midnight on April 24th, 2024, which is kind of a you know, the date itself is just kind of, you know, and my ex-husband said, That's just like Matt to do something like that, you know.
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Maria Etheridge: So it was just, you know, even though it's such a sad and painful thing, I think the only reason that you get through something like that is your faith and hope in God.
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Ron Meyers: Is your faith is what got you through that?
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Ron Meyers: Because I don't know how I could have done that without faith.
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Maria Etheridge: Yeah, and just the support and knowing that people were praying and cared so much about us and what happened with him.
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Maria Etheridge: My my ex-husband's not super spiritual and my granddaughters don't even have a Christian values.
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Maria Etheridge: Although my son was Bible versed, he could read the Bible from front to back and tell you every scripture in there.
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Maria Etheridge: He was So he had a relationship with Jesus?
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Maria Etheridge: Yes, he did.
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Maria Etheridge: And that day, that day when he went to the hospital on April 16th, we were sitting in my living room, and he told me that somebody, a lady, came in the house and talked to him.
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Maria Etheridge: He said, I don't know who she was, but she was sitting right here because I was sitting on my couch and he was on my love seat.
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Maria Etheridge: He said, I was sitting on the love seat and she came in the house and was talking to me.
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Maria Etheridge: She was so sweet and so kind, he said.
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Maria Etheridge: So I have have that feeling that the angel came to see him and prepare him for death.
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Ron Meyers: You know, I've done a lot of interviews in my lifetime, and that is something I hear quite a bit.
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Ron Meyers: And it's amazing what God does.
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Ron Meyers: You know, the Bible says that he wishes that none would perish.
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Ron Meyers: And I believe God sends angels, whatever he has to do, to the time that we enter into his rest to just let us know, hey, it's gonna be okay.
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Ron Meyers: You know, I'm here for you.
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Ron Meyers: Wow, wow.
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Ron Meyers: Yeah, that had to be comforting for you as a mom to hear about it.
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Maria Etheridge: Yes, it was, and I kept thinking that's got to be an ad.
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Maria Etheridge: So it took me a couple of months to get everything because it was so traumatic having to try to do that resuscitation on your child.
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Maria Etheridge: He had he coded three times, uh twice at my house and then once when he got to the hospital, once in the ambulance, so it was four times actually.
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Maria Etheridge: But um, he just had this peaceful look on his face, like he was happy.
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Ron Meyers: You and I are talking here in in January of uh 2025, and you have a glow.
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Ron Meyers: I mean, you're a believer, you have a glow on you.
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Ron Meyers: Uh it's just hard for me to see how you can even talk about it.
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Maria Etheridge: It's just something that God's compelling me to do.
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Maria Etheridge: I think he wants me to reach out to others that may have a more difficult time dealing with the pain of death, especially if it's a loved one, a child, because a parent shouldn't be burying their children.
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Maria Etheridge: But we don't have any guarantee on anything.
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Maria Etheridge: He could have taken me first, you know.
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Maria Etheridge: I don't know.
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Ron Meyers: Well, speaking of that, Maria, if somebody out there right now says, Oh boy, she is right, because I just buried somebody very special to me or a child, and I don't know what I'm going to do.
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Ron Meyers: I don't even want to live anymore.
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Ron Meyers: What would you tell that person?
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Maria Etheridge: Well, I I mean there's days that you feel like that.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, there's days you may not want to get out of bed or you don't want to talk to anybody, but you just have to keep that hope and that joy because if not, it'll kill you.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, you'll go just as fast as they went.
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Maria Etheridge: And there's a reason why God keeps us here.
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Maria Etheridge: You know, maybe it's for me to share my experience and share what I feel about Jesus and how he's helped me through it.
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Maria Etheridge: I I just don't think I could have made it without it.
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Ron Meyers: In fact, I'd like to ask my guest, who is Jesus to you?
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Maria Etheridge: Jesus to me is everything.
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Maria Etheridge: I if I don't have him in my life, I just don't know where I'd be.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, he's brought me through so many things, especially the time when Matt was out on the streets and stuff.
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Maria Etheridge: If he didn't tell me to pray, what would I have done?
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Maria Etheridge: There's nothing you can do to control something.
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Maria Etheridge: You can't you can't control death.
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Maria Etheridge: God has the last word on it, right?
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, he's gonna say, or what are you gonna say to him?
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Maria Etheridge: Okay, Lord, I don't want to die today.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, just think how crazy that is.
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Maria Etheridge: Because he's everything.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, he's the way that makes your life every day.
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Maria Etheridge: You get out of bed because of him.
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Maria Etheridge: And and people that don't have him, they have nothing to hold on to.
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Ron Meyers: And a lot of people I hear, especially with this show, ask me, Well, how can you believe in a Jesus when there's so many bad things going on in this world?
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Ron Meyers: And I I don't have all the answers.
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Ron Meyers: No, but Jesus does, and I know he personally saved my life, and he fills me each day with a joy and a peace.
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Ron Meyers: And I don't know what today's gonna bring, but I know he's gonna put me in the right place at the right time, just like meeting you.
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Maria Etheridge: Yep.
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Maria Etheridge: And just like me being here, you know, because maybe I can help somebody else out that doesn't understand the relationship that you need to have.
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Maria Etheridge: I've got some things that I could say about death because I read a lot now, trying to find answers and trying to find the comfort and peace.
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Maria Etheridge: So death is an opportunity for you to see God's glory and be revealed of his promises of everlasting life.
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Maria Etheridge: So I know I'm gonna see my son again, and I have that hope and that promise because God said it, you know, and I know it's true.
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Ron Meyers: Amen.
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Ron Meyers: And that is exactly, I think, of my mom and my dad and friends that aren't here, but I look forward to the day that we're all together.
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Maria Etheridge: Yeah.
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Maria Etheridge: And you know, Jesus cried and suffered through pain and suffering, like when Lazarus was dying or, you know, declaring.
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Ron Meyers: He said Jesus wept.
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Maria Etheridge: And Jesus wept, and he felt bad for Mary and Martha because that was his best friend, apparently, you know, from what the Bible verses say.
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Maria Etheridge: So he was in sorrow, you know, he was sad for them, you know, and that shows how he's, you know, cries with us and he's in pain with us.
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Maria Etheridge: And I know that he's always there.
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Maria Etheridge: And I can't find comfort in people sometimes because everybody's dealing with their own things.
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Maria Etheridge: You know, they all have their own crosses to bear or things that they're trying to work through, or grief may come in a different way.
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Maria Etheridge: They might have lost a relationship or a job or whatever, but the only person, the only thing that you can turn to is the Holy Spirit and Jesus, because there's there's no people that don't have something going on that they're trying to deal with.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I know one of the things that God has put in you since your this experience with your son is your wisdom.
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Ron Meyers: You are sharing some wise things out there that people need to hear.
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Ron Meyers: And what else would you like to tell them about death?
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Maria Etheridge: Just that life and death are temporal.
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Maria Etheridge: You know, we're only here for a short time.
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Maria Etheridge: So what you do with that time is so important.
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Maria Etheridge: And and you need to share love because Jesus was all about love.
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SPEAKER_10: Yeah.
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Maria Etheridge: And love your neighbor no matter what they're going through.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, I have people call me up.
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Maria Etheridge: I still work now, I could be retired, but I think God gave me the gift of and a blessing of being able to still work and have something to do.
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Maria Etheridge: And then I also do volunteer work and I sing at my church and I have a a music ministry that I do.
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Maria Etheridge: It's a karaoke ministry.
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Maria Etheridge: But I find joy in reaching out to others and just sharing some joy in a life that maybe they don't have that, especially in nursing homes and places like that.
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Ron Meyers: I tell people quite often, Maria, that if you know someone that doesn't believe in Jesus and doesn't go to church, maybe perhaps instead of inviting them to church or giving them a Bible right off, why not just share what Jesus did in your life?
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Ron Meyers: Because so many people don't know what Jesus can do.
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Ron Meyers: If people hear enough from us that Jesus did this for me and he will do it for you, it makes people curious.
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Ron Meyers: They want to search.
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Ron Meyers: Okay, wow, he really did that for you.
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Ron Meyers: Would he do it for me?
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Maria Etheridge: Oh, yeah.
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Maria Etheridge: That's the thing about it.
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Maria Etheridge: I I think for non-Christians, they're still searching for something.
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Maria Etheridge: You know, some people call it the universe.
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Maria Etheridge: Well, what's the universe?
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Maria Etheridge: The universe is God.
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Maria Etheridge: I mean, something had to create this massive universe and the planets and people and animals and things.
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Maria Etheridge: When you even look at like the Garden of Eden, for example, there's still prominent things from there.
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Maria Etheridge: The beautiful roses or the beautiful flowers or a loving dog.
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Maria Etheridge: You might have an animal that you love so much.
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Maria Etheridge: There's so many things left God left with us.
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Ron Meyers: So if somebody asked you, with all you've gone through, what's the one thing that's helped you now get through life?
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Ron Meyers: What's one life lesson that you can share with someone?
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Maria Etheridge: Just hope and believe.
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Maria Etheridge: I think if you have that hope and you believe that you're gonna go one day too, we don't know when that is, but we just need to trust that God knows it all.
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Maria Etheridge: Wow and that he's got a plan for you while you're still here, then make the best of it.
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Maria Etheridge: Why would you want to be depressed and not live in your life?
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Maria Etheridge: Your children wouldn't want my son wouldn't want me to be that way.
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Maria Etheridge: And I know my family, you know, they worry about me and everything, but they always tell me, You're doing so good.
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Maria Etheridge: Even my church group, you know, people at church said you still have the joy.
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Maria Etheridge: And I said, Well, I'm still alive.
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Ron Meyers: The joy of the Lord is your strength.
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Maria Etheridge: That's right.
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Ron Meyers: Well, we're almost out of time, but before we go, would you just pray for our listeners and whatever the Lord puts on your heart?
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Maria Etheridge: Yeah, and I I'd like to also welcome them to contact you if they need prayer, because I'd love to pray for them.
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Maria Etheridge: Uh, even if you're not a believer, just pray for your heart and just to give you some comfort somehow, some way.
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Maria Etheridge: Sometimes somebody else praying for you, even if you're not a believer, can give you some comfort.
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Maria Etheridge: So I just want to pass that on to your listeners.
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Maria Etheridge: But dear Jesus, we're just so thankful for this time here with Faron and um his ministry, Father.
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Maria Etheridge: He's he's spreading your word out to so many people, even believers and non-believers alike, Father.
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Maria Etheridge: So just bless him.
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Maria Etheridge: Continue to uplift this ministry.
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Maria Etheridge: And we also pray for those that have lost loved ones, especially those that have lost young children, father, to uh sickness or disease, father.
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Maria Etheridge: That's got to be so heartbreaking because they had so little time with them to love them and care for them.
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Maria Etheridge: So I'd like to lift up those parents that have lost little children, parents that have lost uh their children, whatever age they are, father.
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Maria Etheridge: It's still painful.
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Maria Etheridge: We want to offer them the peace and comfort that only you can give them, Father.
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Maria Etheridge: Just love on them.
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Maria Etheridge: Give them a sense of hope and peace, Father, that only you can do.
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Maria Etheridge: And we just ask that you continue to uplift all those that are suffering from grief, Father, whether it be from the loss of a loved one, from the loss of a job, from the loss of a relationship.
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Maria Etheridge: No matter what it is, Father, you know how to handle it.
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Maria Etheridge: You know what to give them to help them cope with it, Father.
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Maria Etheridge: And you just know how to love them, Father, like no one else can.
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Maria Etheridge: We just ask that you're with them, that you continue to uplift them and bless them and keep them in your care, Father, forever and ever.
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Maria Etheridge: And we pray in your precious name.
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Ron Meyers: Maria, thank you so much for trusting us with your heart and your story.
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Ron Meyers: Conversations like this remind us that grief is not something we simply get over.
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Ron Meyers: We learn how to carry it.
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Ron Meyers: Over time, with God's help, what once felt impossible to carry can become part of a story that comforts and strengthens someone else.
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Ron Meyers: My experiences have taught me that healing does not mean forgetting.
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Ron Meyers: Healing means the memories no longer control every part of your life.
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Ron Meyers: You can remember, honor, cry, smile, and still keep living.
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Ron Meyers: That is important because some people feel guilty when they begin laughing again.
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Ron Meyers: They feel guilty when they enjoy a good day or start thinking about the future.
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Ron Meyers: They wonder, if I move forward, does that mean I am leaving the person I loved behind?
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Ron Meyers: No, it doesn't.
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Ron Meyers: Moving forward is not moving away from love, it is learning to carry that love with you into the life that remains.
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Ron Meyers: And this is where destined for success connects with Maria's story.
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Ron Meyers: Success with God isn't measured only by accomplishments, titles, money, or applause.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes success is getting out of the bed when your heart is broken.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes it is asking for help.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes it is making it through another anniversary, walking into church again, or choosing to believe that your life still has meaning.
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Ron Meyers: You can be grieving and still be destined for success.
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Ron Meyers: You can have unanswered questions and still trust God.
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Ron Meyers: You can miss someone deeply and still believe that God has more life for you to live.
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Ron Meyers: The Bible says in Psalm 34:18, the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.
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Ron Meyers: Notice that it doesn't say God watches the brokenhearted from a distance.
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Ron Meyers: He says he comes close.
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Ron Meyers: Here's Ron's step for this week.
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Ron Meyers: Give yourself permission to tell Jesus the truth.
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Ron Meyers: You don't need polished words.
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Ron Meyers: Tell him what hurts.
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Ron Meyers: Tell him what you miss.
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Ron Meyers: Tell him what makes you angry, afraid, or confused.
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Ron Meyers: Then ask him one simple question.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, what is my next step?
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Ron Meyers: Now don't demand the entire plan.
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Ron Meyers: Just listen for the next step.
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Ron Meyers: It may be calling a friend, it may be joining a grief support group, it may be going for a walk, returning to church, helping someone else, or simply allowing yourself to rest.
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Ron Meyers: Whatever the next step is, take it.
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Ron Meyers: Your grief is part of your story, but it does not have to be The final chapter.
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Ron Meyers: God is still writing, and your life still has purpose.
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Ron Meyers: I'll be back in just a minute to wrap up today's show.
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SPEAKER_07: Shop the magic, find the joy at Ron Meyer's Christmas city.
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SPEAKER_11: The craft, when it came down from the sky, irradiated an intense heat.
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SPEAKER_11: UFOs.
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SPEAKER_01: Obviously, something was out there that night.
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SPEAKER_11: Life on other planets.
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SPEAKER_11: Did thousands of Phoenix residents see an extraterrestrial craft?
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SPEAKER_11: Do you believe?
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SPEAKER_11: The first reports came from the Northwest.
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SPEAKER_11: The Bible is silent on the subject of extraterrestrial craft.
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SPEAKER_11: Either they don't exist, or God considers them so irrelevant to life on Earth, He doesn't bother mentioning them.
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SPEAKER_00: And it moves slowly, not fluaway, slowly, toward Houston.
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SPEAKER_11: God is not concerned with your belief in UFOs.
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SPEAKER_11: He cares if you believe in his Son, Jesus the Nazarene.
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SPEAKER_11: They would fly in formation and they would disappear off of NATO radar.
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SPEAKER_11: In eternity, what you decide about UFOs will be irrelevant.
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SPEAKER_11: What you decide about Jesus will directly affect your destiny forever.
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SPEAKER_01: There will always be UFOs as long as there's anything in this universe we don't understand.
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SPEAKER_01: We want to know the truth.
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SPEAKER_11: He who has the Son has life.
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SPEAKER_11: He who does not have the Son of God does not have life.
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SPEAKER_11: Do you believe?
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SPEAKER_10: You don't like where your head is rearranging.
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SPEAKER_10: Sake the beer let down.
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SPEAKER_10: If you walk and turn your life around, if you want to stop new life, get the hell out of your life.
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Ron Meyers: So, my friend, if you are walking through grief today, please remember this.
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Ron Meyers: You are not broken because you are grieving.
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Ron Meyers: You are not failing because healing is taking longer than you expected.
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Ron Meyers: No, there is no deadline for grief.
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Ron Meyers: Be patient with yourself and stay close to Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Make it a habit to begin your mornings with a conversation with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Before the news, before social media, before the demands of the day begin, take a few moments and say, Jesus, I'm here.
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Ron Meyers: Walk with me today.
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Ron Meyers: Those daily conversations with Jesus are healthy.
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Ron Meyers: They can set the tone and direction of your day.
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Ron Meyers: They remind you that even when you feel alone, you are never walking alone.
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Ron Meyers: If today's conversation with Maria encouraged you, would you share this episode with someone who may quietly be carrying grief?
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes the greatest gift we can give is letting another person know I thought about you and you are not alone.
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Ron Meyers: Your story may be exactly what someone else needs to hear.
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Ron Meyers: I will be back next week with another grace-filled episode of Get the Hell Out of Your Life available wherever you listen to podcasts.
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Ron Meyers: Until next time, keep having those conversations with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Keep taking the next step, and keep believing that with God your life still has purpose, and you are still destined for success.
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Ron Meyers: Remember, you were created on purpose for a purpose by a God who loves you more than you can imagine.
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Ron Meyers: Now go live like you believe it.
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