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There Is Always A Way · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Welcome back, or welcome for the first time.
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Speaker 1: Maybe you just found this podcast. I'm so glad that
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Speaker 1: you did. And if you are a person of faith,
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Speaker 1: I pray this podcast encourages your faith. If you're not,
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Speaker 1: if you've never committed your heart to the Lord, if
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Speaker 1: you've never raised your hand and said yes, yes, pick me, God,
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Speaker 1: pick me. I will go where you send me. I
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Speaker 1: will do what you ask of me. I will make
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Speaker 1: you the Lord of my life. If you've not done that,
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Speaker 1: I hope this conversation, these conversations encourage you to give
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Speaker 1: God a chance. There is always a way to make
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Speaker 1: it through anything, because with God, all things are possible.
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Speaker 1: Our faith in the Lord gives us the strength to
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Speaker 1: endure everything, even when the path ahead seems way too dark,
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Speaker 1: way too daunting, way too impossible to navigate. When you
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Speaker 1: are facing the hardest time in your life, the most
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Speaker 1: painful thing, When the doctor calls and says I want
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Speaker 1: you to come in, when the police show up at
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Speaker 1: your door, when the phone call comes in the middle
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Speaker 1: of the night. You don't know how you're going to
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Speaker 1: take another step. You don't know how you're going to
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Speaker 1: take another breath. But our faith in God can anchor
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Speaker 1: us in hope. Our faith in God can remind us
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Speaker 1: that most challenges are temporary. Some challenges are forever. They
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Speaker 1: don't go away. When you have been able bodied and
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Speaker 1: suddenly you find yourself unable to walk, or to drive,
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Speaker 1: or to stand, that's not a temporary challenge. That's a
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Speaker 1: forever change. But our faith reminds us there is a
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Speaker 1: greater purpose beyond what we can understand. There's a speaker,
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Speaker 1: an author, an artist named Johnny Ericsontata. Johnny was an
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Speaker 1: able bodied, beautiful teenager when she was involved in an accident.
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Speaker 1: I believe it was a swimming accident, a diving accident
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Speaker 1: that left her paralyzed from the neck down, and she
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Speaker 1: had to learn a whole new way of living. But
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Speaker 1: she didn't give up because of that, not in spite
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Speaker 1: of that, but because of that, she has dedicated her
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Speaker 1: life to making life life better for other people with disabilities.
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Speaker 1: That woman has garnered an army of volunteers who rehab
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Speaker 1: wheelchairs and crutches, and then she takes them to developing nations,
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Speaker 1: to warrant toward nations, to nations where children of lost limbs,
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Speaker 1: and she donates them because of her tragic accident and
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Speaker 1: her tragic circumstances, she figured out how to make life
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Speaker 1: better for thousands of people. There was a greater purpose
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Speaker 1: unfolding that I'm sure at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old,
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Speaker 1: she couldn't see. But now that she's lived a full,
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Speaker 1: rich life and she's been able to see how God
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Speaker 1: has used her to transform the lives of other people
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Speaker 1: and to help bring faith to millions of people, she
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Speaker 1: has touched the hearts of millions of people. I'm sure
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Speaker 1: she understands that God use that tragedy to bless multitudes.
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Speaker 1: There's a greater purpose unfolding. And it doesn't mean that
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Speaker 1: the road's going to be easy. It never is. But
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Speaker 1: God assures us that we're not going to be walking
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Speaker 1: that road alone, or in Johnny's case, not even walking
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Speaker 1: it alone. In the darkest moments, God becomes the light
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Speaker 1: that guides us forward, helping us to rise after every fall,
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Speaker 1: helping us to believe in possibilities when everyone else says otherwise.
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Speaker 1: With God, all things are possible. With God in our hearts,
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Speaker 1: we can find the courage to keep going, one step,
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Speaker 1: one prayer, one day at a time, and right now
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Speaker 1: I'd like you to take the time to pray for
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Speaker 1: my friend Chadroi. Chadrey is a friend I met twenty
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Speaker 1: one years ago in New York City. He was a
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Speaker 1: doctor in his native country, came to America as a
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Speaker 1: young immigrant with his family. Came here legally, did all
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Speaker 1: the right things, but it found out his doctor credentials
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Speaker 1: would not transfer to this country. Unable to attend medical
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Speaker 1: school here, he put his career and his life on hold,
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Speaker 1: went to work driving cars for people so he could
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Speaker 1: support his family, and that's where I met him. He
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Speaker 1: had young children. They're now grown. One of them is
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Speaker 1: a doctor, one of them is an EMT, and one
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Speaker 1: of them is in college. And right now he needs
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Speaker 1: your prayers, desperately needs to be healed. He needs a miracle.
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Speaker 1: And he has a pure heart, a kind heart, a
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Speaker 1: generous heart, and I'm asking you from my heart to
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Speaker 1: please please pray for him. I have talked with many
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Speaker 1: people who have had or who are going through things
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Speaker 1: that would seem impossible for most of us to stand
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Speaker 1: up under, and this episode is all about that, about
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Speaker 1: bringing light to dark situations. There is a way to
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Speaker 1: get through anything when you have God by your side,
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Speaker 1: not as a crutch, not as a band aid, but
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Speaker 1: as the King of kings, who will lift you up
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Speaker 1: and carry you through the floodwaters. Who will hold on
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Speaker 1: to you when you feel like you're drowning under your tears.
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Speaker 1: Who will reach down from on high and grab you
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Speaker 1: and pull you out of the flames of addiction, the
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Speaker 1: flames of betrayal. Who will set your feet on solid ground.
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Speaker 1: When you think you can't take another step, God will
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Speaker 1: take that step for you and carry you. I promise
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Speaker 1: you that, I promise you that I'm about to speak
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Speaker 1: with Courtney. She has been through a lot, but now
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Speaker 1: she is thriving with love. She might have a pretty
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Speaker 1: strong faith and a fierce mama bear. Let's hear from
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Speaker 1: Courtney right now. Hi, Courtney, welcome. What can I do
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Speaker 1: for you?
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Speaker 2: I was hoping you give a shout out to my mom.
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Speaker 1: Tell me about your mom and what you want to
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Speaker 1: say to her.
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Speaker 2: She is up in Canada and I'm currently down in Pennsylvania.
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Speaker 2: She has been my absolute best friend throughout everything, every
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Speaker 2: up and down, She's guided me and kept my head up.
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Speaker 2: And I just want to make sure that I'm making
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Speaker 2: her proud that I'm doing right with her. She's an
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Speaker 2: amazing woman. She's always given the shirt offer back to
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Speaker 2: others without question, and she's given me everything through life,
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Speaker 2: racing us by herself, and just wish I could give
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Speaker 2: the world.
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Speaker 1: You said, she's been with you through everything. What is
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Speaker 1: the toughest thing that you and Mama have been through
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Speaker 1: and come out of the On the other side.
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Speaker 2: We were separated by a country between us and my
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Speaker 2: ex had put me in the hospital and put me
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Speaker 2: through a lot of court cases, and she couldn't.
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Speaker 3: Be by my side.
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Speaker 2: But every day she was calling, she was making sure
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Speaker 2: I was good, and I know it must have been
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Speaker 2: heartbreaking for her to not be by my side through
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Speaker 2: all of that, and she's just been my complete rock.
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Speaker 1: Okay, hold on, I was expecting you know, when I
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Speaker 1: was twenty one and in college I twisted my ankle
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Speaker 1: and she wasn't there to bring me soup. What the heck?
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Speaker 1: You were in a foreign country and being abused and
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Speaker 1: hospitalized and Mom couldn't get to you. Yeah, this is
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Speaker 1: like a Netflix horror film.
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Speaker 2: I surprised her for her birthday last year.
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Speaker 3: Without warning. I just showed up and surprised her. We
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Speaker 3: had been apart for.
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Speaker 1: Eight years and the man that was hurting you out
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Speaker 1: of the picture now.
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Speaker 2: He took off down the Florida somewhere and I'm living
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Speaker 2: my absolute best life.
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Speaker 1: So no more fear, no more pain.
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Speaker 2: My visual you know, scares here and there. But I
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Speaker 2: talked to Mama Bear and she's got me back to right.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Wow Wow. I want to take my mama bare arms
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Speaker 1: and reach through the airwaves and just give you a
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Speaker 1: big hug. She must have been beside herself while you
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Speaker 1: were going through that.
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Speaker 3: I couldn't imagine. But she just met the man I'm
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Speaker 3: with now.
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Speaker 2: He's three point sixty to what my situation was before,
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Speaker 2: and she adores him.
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Speaker 3: And it's been a blessing that's come.
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Speaker 1: And is it hard for you to open up and
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Speaker 1: trust again after going through that?
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Speaker 2: It is, it is, But he's been nothing but patient
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Speaker 2: and understanding and wonderful.
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. I don't even know you, and
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Speaker 1: I'm proud of you. What's your mama's name, Kathy? Are
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Speaker 1: you held the chairs back this whole time? You got
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Speaker 1: through the whole conversation and now just picturing her face
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Speaker 1: and you become a puddle.
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Speaker 3: Yes, I know, But what I'll do without her.
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Speaker 1: Well, let's never find out, Okay, I hope not h Courtney.
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy for you, and I'm so happy for
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Speaker 1: your mom. I know those were rough, rough years, but
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Speaker 1: I'm glad they're in the past and you're moving forward. Courtney,
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Speaker 1: you are so fortunate to have a mama bear that
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Speaker 1: loves you fiercely. You are even more blessed to have
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Speaker 1: a fierce, strong faith. I wish you continued recovery and
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Speaker 1: life filled with love. Up next, we have Anastasia. She
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Speaker 1: has a story of overcoming generational trauma. It doesn't get
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Speaker 1: much harder than conquering meth amphetamines, but Anastasia is absolute
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Speaker 1: proof you can get through anything when you give your
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Speaker 1: life to God. Come aboard, Welcome to the Delilah Show. Anastasia.
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you?
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Speaker 3: Hi?
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Speaker 4: I just wanted to let you guys know on Earthie,
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Speaker 4: I've been listening to your show for twenty three years.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. Whose I was thirteen years old?
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Speaker 1: And what do you do now? Are you working? Are
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Speaker 1: you in school? What's well?
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Speaker 4: We just me and my fiance just moved back to Springfield, Missouri.
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Speaker 4: We were in Kansas City for five years. We got
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Speaker 4: a house here in Springfield now and we are block employed.
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Speaker 1: And still listening at night. Oh yes, oh yeah, thank you.
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Speaker 1: I got lots of people in Springfield, Missouri.
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Speaker 3: That's awesome.
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Speaker 1: All my mama's family lives there. So what can I
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Speaker 1: play for you tonight? My old friend, Well.
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Speaker 4: I do not have a song. Were our idea bus
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Speaker 4: song for our wedding And I was hoping that you
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Speaker 4: could kick one out.
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Speaker 1: And big wedding or small wedding.
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Speaker 3: It's gonna be. It's gonna be kind of small.
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Speaker 1: And tell me about the one you love.
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Speaker 4: Oh he's absolutely amazing. He is funny and outgoing and
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Speaker 4: he's really helped me. I was a drug addict for
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Speaker 4: most of my childhood and he got me out of
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Speaker 4: a very dark spot in my life. And our anniversary
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Speaker 4: is actually my clean date.
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Speaker 1: That is amazing. Usually when people get clean within you know,
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Speaker 1: a relationship, as soon as the relationship has problems, there
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Speaker 1: goes the sobriety.
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Speaker 4: Well, we have our problems, you know, every relationship does.
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Speaker 4: But we get through it everything.
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Speaker 1: And you get through it without using, Yes, we get.
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Speaker 3: Through it without using. I have not I have not
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Speaker 3: had a desire to you. Probably in two years. Good
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Speaker 3: for you?
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Speaker 1: Good for you? What was it about this man that
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Speaker 1: made you go? You know what? I would rather see
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Speaker 1: the world through through clean and sober eyes.
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Speaker 3: Well, there's a little backstory there with a He was
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Speaker 3: with my best friend for three years and we had
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Speaker 3: built over our friendship.
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Speaker 4: And my best friend actually died January twenty first of
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Speaker 4: twenty eighteen, which was about four months before we got together.
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Speaker 1: What did you lose your friend too?
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Speaker 3: She had comjes of heart failure. How old she was,
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Speaker 3: going twenty six?
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Speaker 4: She was born with it, and they told her that
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Speaker 4: she was not going to live past thirteen, and she
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Speaker 4: grove them along and she went to be twenty six
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Speaker 4: before it finally took her.
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Speaker 1: Wow, I'm so sorry.
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Speaker 4: During all that, we kind of, you know, mourned together
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Speaker 4: and it was kind of unexpected.
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Speaker 3: And yeah, I put away to drugs.
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Speaker 1: Forever for good.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, forever.
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Speaker 1: Now you were supposed to say Delightah, you know, it's
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Speaker 1: only one day at a time. I'm not going to
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Speaker 1: say forever.
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Speaker 3: It's post me one day at a time. It is
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Speaker 3: actually sometimes one second of the time. But you know,
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Speaker 3: it is difficult.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you.
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Speaker 3: It was definitely a hard road, for sure. So can
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Speaker 3: I ask quite your drug of choice was not comphetamines?
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Speaker 1: Wow? And you didn't burn your brain out?
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Speaker 3: No, you are blessed, I know, because I've lost a
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Speaker 3: lot of friends along the way.
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Speaker 4: And my uncle he's still alive, but he's not right
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Speaker 4: in the head like it fried him.
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Speaker 3: Now that I look back in her thing, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's what I see.
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Speaker 4: And a lot of my fuld friends are so amusing
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Speaker 4: and it's sad, but I have to you know, I
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Speaker 4: don't talk to learn anything anymore. I had to cut
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Speaker 4: everybody off, you know, out of my you know, out
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Speaker 4: of my social.
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Speaker 1: Life, people, places and things. If you don't change the people,
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Speaker 1: places and things, you don't change exactly.
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Speaker 4: And I guess you know, I tried to get clean
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Speaker 4: off and on for probably like two years before I
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Speaker 4: actually finally did it.
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Speaker 3: But my problem was I didn't want to get rid
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Speaker 3: of my people.
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Speaker 1: So you thought, you you could stay clean but just
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Speaker 1: hang out with users.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's exactly how it was. And then I thought,
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Speaker 3: oh well, and then it was just.
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Speaker 4: That one time and everything, you know, Oh yeah, well
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Speaker 4: I can just do it off and on everything, you know,
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Speaker 4: here and there.
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Speaker 3: Then it'll be okay.
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Speaker 5: No.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, have you ever.
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Speaker 1: Met a meth head who could just do it off
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Speaker 1: and on? Ever? Ever?
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Speaker 3: Ever, ever, Nope, you will never.
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Speaker 1: Never. And so many people think that it's that it's
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Speaker 1: willpower that gets you clean. It's not. It's willpower that
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Speaker 1: keeps you using because you think you can do it,
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Speaker 1: You think you got the power to control it. You don't, no, ma'am.
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Speaker 3: And it's sad.
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Speaker 4: It's really sad watching you know, people arrouved you just
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Speaker 4: drop dead, they're gone.
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Speaker 1: We lost my stepson in twenty nineteen, and he had
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Speaker 1: been clean for a couple of years, but convinced himself
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Speaker 1: that you know, I can, I can control this.
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Speaker 4: You know, me getting clean actually inspired my little sister
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Speaker 4: to get clean as well, and she has a year
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Speaker 4: and ten months on her own.
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Speaker 1: Now, how did your family like, are your folks addicts.
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Speaker 3: Or my whole family was addicts? Yeah?
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Speaker 4: I grew up with, you know, a broken family, you know,
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Speaker 4: my mom taking care of us and yeah so but yeah,
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Speaker 4: all my mom said, family, all.
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Speaker 3: My uncles and everybody nursing.
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Speaker 4: Were all drug addicts, got it, And they weren't just
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Speaker 4: drug addicts, they were cooks.
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Speaker 3: Like it would you know, I give it supported in
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Speaker 3: our family.
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Speaker 1: Yep, it was a way of life, Yes it was.
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Speaker 3: But I wrote the generational curses.
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Speaker 1: Amen, amen, amen, and amen.
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Speaker 4: And I get it from my sister as well, because
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Speaker 4: we get when I mean, I was going with her
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Speaker 4: role model. You know, I'm the oldest of there's three.
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Speaker 3: Of us studying. My brother never got into drugs. He
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Speaker 3: was never, he never. He watched me in my SIPs
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Speaker 3: a book down in the dark hole. My sister was away.
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Speaker 4: My shadow pretty much joys followed me every you know
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Speaker 4: me down my car and she funk really bad and
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Speaker 4: her thing into it. And when I got clean, it
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Speaker 4: was hard for me to stand back and watch her,
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Speaker 4: you know fully pretty much kill herself and her thing.
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Speaker 4: And she finally, finally, she is now a year and
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Speaker 4: ten months clean, thanks to watching how.
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Speaker 1: I have developed, thanks to God getting her attention and saying, hey,
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Speaker 1: if your big siss can do that, look look.
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Speaker 3: What And now she uh got her CNA license.
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Speaker 1: Think of how many other people if you reach out,
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Speaker 1: if you keep working the program, if you reach out
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Speaker 1: to newcomers and say, look, here's where I was, here's
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Speaker 1: where I am, and I can I can shine the
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Speaker 1: light on the path for you, if you want to change,
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Speaker 1: if you want to get healthy, if you want to
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Speaker 1: make positive choices.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I really like that.
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Speaker 4: Used to be my My desire was to be a
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Speaker 4: life coach or.
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Speaker 3: Addict.
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Speaker 1: I can't think of a better person to coach people
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Speaker 1: who are stuck in darkness than somebody who's been in
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Speaker 1: the darkness and come out on the other side.
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Speaker 3: That's a good pestimony right there.
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Speaker 1: Who better than you to light the path for somebody
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Speaker 1: who's struggling tonight.
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Speaker 3: You're right, that's very inspirational.
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Speaker 1: I think you need to think about going back to
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Speaker 1: school and becoming a drug and alcohol counselor.
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Speaker 3: I will give that a very very heart filled thought.
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Speaker 1: It's destroying our nation, you know that.
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Speaker 3: I know it is. Maybe it is, and it's only
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Speaker 3: getting worse.
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Speaker 1: Yep, every day, day by day, step by step.
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Speaker 3: You know, this is like amazing.
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Speaker 4: I've been able to actually talk to you, and it
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Speaker 4: is like been my dream for a long time to
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Speaker 4: be able to get out of phone with you.
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Speaker 1: So tell me about your fiance. He inspired you to
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Speaker 1: get clean and sober. You're starting your life together, yes,
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Speaker 1: and love of your life kind of thing or you
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Speaker 1: said you were friends first.
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Speaker 4: Yes, we were friends first, and it kind of just
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Speaker 4: happened like we just fell him up.
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Speaker 3: We just we just I don't know, it just quite
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Speaker 3: it just sparks. We got to spark.
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Speaker 1: There a friendship that caught fire. Yeah, and he clearly
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Speaker 1: supports you in your sobriety.
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Speaker 3: Yes he does. He's my biggest support system.
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Speaker 4: Him and his mom and his sister have been my
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Speaker 4: biggest supporters for the last six years.
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Speaker 1: God bless you. Thank you for calling. I am so
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Speaker 1: proud of you. And tell your little sister I'm so
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Speaker 1: proud of her too.
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Speaker 3: I sure will.
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Speaker 1: Hopefully the rest of your family will take notice and go, hey,
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Speaker 1: you know what, this this clean and sober thing is
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Speaker 1: working out pretty good for the girls. Maybe we should
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Speaker 1: try it. Yes, what do you think?
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Speaker 3: I definitely think that's amazing.
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Speaker 1: You've broken generational curses. Keep going, I sure will. You
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Speaker 1: have a great night. Me, Phil, Each night I open
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Speaker 1: up the phone lines so that I can talk to you,
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Speaker 1: so that I can listen to you and hopefully be
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Speaker 1: an encouragement to you. My goal is to make sure
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Speaker 1: that anybody who gets through on my phone lines has
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Speaker 1: a good experience, feels uplifted when they hang up, even
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Speaker 1: if I veheimously disagree with your decisions, which I do sometimes,
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Speaker 1: and I tell you that honestly, I hope I do
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Speaker 1: it in a way that you know I love you,
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Speaker 1: I respect you. I can disagree with you and still
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Speaker 1: respect you. But sometimes I have to be very careful
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Speaker 1: when people call and they're in pain, because I never
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Speaker 1: ever ever want someone to be hurt potentially by anything
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Speaker 1: they share with me on the air. In just a moment,
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Speaker 1: I'm going to have a conversation with a young woman
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Speaker 1: who's going through some tough stuff, and I'm going to find,
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Speaker 1: hopefully a way to encourage her heart and maybe speak
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Speaker 1: hope into her situation. Stay tuned for that coming up next. Danielle,
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Speaker 1: Welcome aboard. What can I do to make your autumn
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Speaker 1: night a little brighter?
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Speaker 3: Mile?
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Speaker 6: I would love a song to just show strength for
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Speaker 6: myself and my children?
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Speaker 1: How many kids?
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Speaker 3: Five children? Three are grown and two are still young.
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Speaker 1: So Mama bear is used to a very full plate, yes, ma'am,
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Speaker 1: And you're going through this alone. It's just you raising
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Speaker 1: these littles.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is there a song that is on your heart or
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Speaker 1: you would like me to pick one that can become
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Speaker 1: your anthem.
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Speaker 3: I would love for you to pick one to become
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Speaker 3: my anthem. You have.
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Speaker 6: I'm forty. I've listened to you since I can remember.
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Speaker 6: I've had many trips back and forth and you've kept
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Speaker 6: me awake and you've listened to you, and so I
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Speaker 6: would love for you to pick one.
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Speaker 1: I know the perfect song. I'm going to play it
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Speaker 1: for you and the kids, and it can become your anthem.
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Speaker 1: It's by a beautiful young lady. She's been here on
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Speaker 1: the show with me a couple of times and on
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Speaker 1: my podcast. Her name is Rachel Platton and it's ten
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Speaker 1: years old now, I think. But it's called the Fight Song,
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Speaker 1: and when you listen to the words of it, it
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Speaker 1: is an anthem for anybody going through tough times, but
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Speaker 1: especially a DV situation.
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Speaker 3: Thank you. That's actually my boy's favorite song.
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Speaker 1: See see how God is.
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Speaker 3: Yes, he works in mysterious ways. So thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You know what that was?
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Speaker 3: That was?
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Speaker 1: Some people call him God winks you know where He's
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Speaker 1: just winking at you saying I got you, I see this,
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Speaker 1: I acknowledge this. He knows what your heart needs. Mama.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, I've been trying to get through to you for
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Speaker 3: forty years. So I totally agree.
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Speaker 1: So I would totally say that whatever it is you're
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Speaker 1: going through right now, it's a bigger fight than you're
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Speaker 1: acknowledging to anybody, or he would not have let you
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Speaker 1: get through tonight, and he wouldn't have put that song
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Speaker 1: on my heart.
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Speaker 3: I fully agree with you, Delilah. Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: So I want you to hear me. Don't just listen
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Speaker 1: to me, hear me.
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Speaker 3: I'm hearing you.
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Speaker 1: God is with you. He will never leave you nor
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Speaker 1: forsake you. When you pass through the waters, you will
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Speaker 1: not drown, you will not be overcome. God has got you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much I needed to hear that today.
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Speaker 3: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Can I say a quick prayer for you before you
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Speaker 1: hang up?
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Speaker 3: Absolutely?
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Speaker 1: Father God, I thank you Lord for allowing this caller
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Speaker 1: to get through. And I thank you God for putting
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Speaker 1: Rachel on my heart. Even before she started talking, You
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Speaker 1: just put that song in my head. And God, I
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Speaker 1: thank you. I thank you that you are the one
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Speaker 1: that battles for us, that we don't have to go
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Speaker 1: into battle, that you do it the same way you
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Speaker 1: did it for David when he stood up against a
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Speaker 1: ten foot tall giant Goliath, and you said, here, just
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Speaker 1: take a rock. That's all you need, one smooth stone.
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Speaker 1: Thank you God that you're going to fight these battles
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Speaker 1: and that this family is going to come out on
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Speaker 1: the other side unscathed. I pray you would give my
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Speaker 1: sister peace, the peace that surpasses all understanding. Whatever is
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Speaker 1: tormenting her right now and causing her to be anxious
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Speaker 1: and have fear, to take it away, wash it away
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Speaker 1: like leaves floating down the river, and give her that
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Speaker 1: perfect peace that comes from you. I asked this in
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Speaker 1: your holy name. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Amen, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You're going to be awesome.
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Speaker 7: Mama, thank you because I woke up the night that
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Speaker 7: I had called my pastor back in North Carolina to
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Speaker 7: see if she could do prayer with me over the
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Speaker 7: phone that she wasn't available, So I kind of went
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Speaker 7: through the whole day.
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Speaker 3: I did it with you. It couldn't have been any.
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Speaker 1: Better, all right, God, bless you.
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Speaker 3: Here too, Delilah.
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Speaker 5: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: The last call I want to share is from Danny.
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Speaker 1: Danny actually had God speak to him, and the beautiful
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Speaker 1: thing about that is that he listened the first time
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Speaker 1: let's hear from Danny right now. Hi, good evening. You
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Speaker 1: called it Elilah, show who is this it is?
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Speaker 3: Danny.
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Speaker 5: I wanted to share my story with you. I can't
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Speaker 5: believe I got through. I tried it for years.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you made it through. Welcome aboard. Tell me
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Speaker 1: your story.
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Speaker 5: You were talking a while back about jobs and how
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Speaker 5: home and how they all to be with a person,
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Speaker 5: but they're going families. I got caught up with the
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Speaker 5: wrong clouds and I was addicted to cocaine.
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Speaker 3: The family didn't know what's going on.
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Speaker 5: I was more like a functional addict and they had
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Speaker 5: to drive me to the adversity room. They didn't know
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Speaker 5: I was overdose things. Thank God I made it through,
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Speaker 5: and I tell God talk to me and said, Daniel, I.
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Speaker 3: Love you, but this is matter of me. This has
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Speaker 3: to go and coming up will be four years clean
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Speaker 3: and sober.
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Speaker 1: And how does the world look through sober eyes? Danny.
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Speaker 5: It's not being behind the cloud, it's not lying to
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Speaker 5: the world. It's about on and when you people see
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Speaker 5: your virtue and see your truth sell without hiring anything.
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Speaker 5: You can open up to everybody. You could show everybody
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Speaker 5: God's love, the love you have and you see their love,
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Speaker 5: and I think it's wonderful.
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Speaker 1: And have you been able to repair the relationships that
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Speaker 1: the cocaine that the drugs stole? Have you been able
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Speaker 1: to rebuild bridges?
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Speaker 3: Everything came full circle.
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Speaker 1: So everything is being restored.
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Speaker 3: Yes, and I changed my life all around.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you. I wish I could reach
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Speaker 1: through the phone lines and give you a big congratulatory
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Speaker 1: hug and a four year coin.
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Speaker 5: Now I'm getting a little motion on the caring a
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Speaker 5: little bit because I'm still here and I know I
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Speaker 5: have a purpose and I know God has the path
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Speaker 5: lit up to me, and it's incredible.
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Speaker 1: I'm so proud of you, Danny. God bless you and
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Speaker 1: watch over you and keep you safe. You have a
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Speaker 1: good night, my friend.
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Speaker 3: Thank you Eliah too, God bless you.
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Speaker 1: Wow, Danny, you hit it right on point. Addictions don't
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Speaker 1: just ruin the addict, They destroy families. I am currently
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Speaker 1: experiencing that truth in my family right now. Some people
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Speaker 1: that I love very much are in the grip of addictions.
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Speaker 1: Three of the people that I love so much are
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Speaker 1: in the grips of addiction, and they refuse to submit
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Speaker 1: their will to God. They don't want to go to meetings,
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Speaker 1: they don't want to go to church, they don't want
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Speaker 1: to pray, they don't want to read the Bible. They
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Speaker 1: want to have the joy and the thrill of their addiction,
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Speaker 1: and they want to pretend like it's not killing them
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Speaker 1: and their children. If you are in the throes of
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Speaker 1: bad choices, self sabotage, addictions, alcoholism, whatever it is that's
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Speaker 1: causing you to lie, to live a lie, please know
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Speaker 1: that God is desperately trying to get your attention, desperately
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Speaker 1: screaming I am here, I love you. Turn to me.
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Speaker 8: I will save you, I will rescue you, I will
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Speaker 8: pull you out of this mess. All you have to
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Speaker 8: do is ask, So ask, Please, ask, and I will
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Speaker 8: pray for you. Father, God, have your hand upon anyone
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Speaker 8: who is battling addictions of any kind, anyone who is
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Speaker 8: battling any stronghold, any generational trauma. Have your hand upon them, Lord,
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Speaker 8: and set their feet on solid ground. And please, God,
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Speaker 8: have your hand upon my friend CHADRAI Please, God, reach
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Speaker 8: down from on high and touch him in his hospital bed,
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Speaker 8: and heal him completely, increase his faith a millionfold, and
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Speaker 8: let him see your face. Let him see you in
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Speaker 8: his dreams. Let him see you when he awakens, Let
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Speaker 8: him see you and know know that you are the
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Speaker 8: King of kings, the Lord of Lords. Thank you Jesus Amen.
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Speaker 1: Wow, that was a powerful episode, at least for me.
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Speaker 1: Hope it was for you. I am so moved by
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Speaker 1: people who are so willing to share their stories, to
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Speaker 1: be transparent, to be vulnerable, to be honest. I mean,
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Speaker 1: transparent is the popular word, but the truth is they're
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Speaker 1: just being real, They're being honest. If you would like
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Speaker 1: I will talk to you until next time. Remember, my friend,
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