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Lessons to Rise Above Any Storm · 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.
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Announcer: Now let's join our host, Ron Myers, the promoter.
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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 Ron Myers, and I need to ask you, have you had your conversations with Jesus this past week?
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Ron Meyers: You know, Jesus isn't waiting for the perfect time or the perfect prayer.
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Ron Meyers: Just talk to him.
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Ron Meyers: One conversation can change the direction of your day.
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Ron Meyers: Today I want to ask you a big question.
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Ron Meyers: What are you believing when everything around you looks destroyed in shambles, just chaos?
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Ron Meyers: You know, I had another show planned for today, but on Monday night I was watching the New Orleans Saints play the Atlanta Falcons for Dome Coming.
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Ron Meyers: It was a remembrance of when the Saints returned to the Superdome after Hurricane Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: And suddenly I wasn't watching history, I was reliving it.
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Ron Meyers: The images, the water, the destruction, the people, the helplessness.
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Ron Meyers: Twenty years disappeared just like that.
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Ron Meyers: And I heard that little voice inside, Ron, you need to tell this story.
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Ron Meyers: Because somewhere today, somebody listening to me is facing their own Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe you lost your job.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe the doctor gave you news you never expected.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe somebody you love walked out.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe your finances have collapsed.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe the dream you've worked on for years has fallen apart.
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Ron Meyers: And maybe you're sitting there wondering, Jesus, what in the world am I supposed to do now?
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Ron Meyers: Well, friends, I've been there, and life has taught me something very important.
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Ron Meyers: Don't write the ending while you're still in the middle of the storm.
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Ron Meyers: Because the storm doesn't get the final word.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus does.
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Ron Meyers: It was August of 2005.
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Ron Meyers: At the time I was the general manager of a Christian radio station on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: I had only been the manager for about 16 months.
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Ron Meyers: On Saturday, August 27th, I was in Mobile, Alabama working with the media team at a Promise Keepers Rally.
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Ron Meyers: Then we started hearing the weather reports.
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Ron Meyers: There was a storm in the Gulf.
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Ron Meyers: Her name, Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: And the people from Louisiana and Mississippi were encouraged to leave and head home.
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Ron Meyers: So I was one of them.
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Ron Meyers: I called my wife and told her to take the kids and the pets and head north to Meridian to stay with her sister.
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Ron Meyers: Now, my plan was a little different.
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Ron Meyers: I had a hotel room there in Mobile, but I was going to go home and stay at the house.
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Ron Meyers: After all, I managed a radio station, and if the storm knocked us off the air, somebody needed to be there to get us back up.
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Ron Meyers: Now that made sense to me, but friends, that quiet little voice inside of me kept telling me, almost yelling at me, not to stay at my house and don't cancel the hotel room.
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Ron Meyers: So I didn't.
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Ron Meyers: I changed my plans and decided I would go home, get some supplies, and come back to the hotel room.
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Ron Meyers: Now looking back, that decision I believed saved my life.
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Ron Meyers: One of the lessons life has taught me is that sometimes God's protection doesn't look like protection when it's happening.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes it looks like a changed plan, a closed door, a delay, an interruption.
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Ron Meyers: We get frustrated because things aren't going according to our plan, but we don't know what God knows.
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Ron Meyers: So don't judge God's faithfulness by what you can see today.
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Ron Meyers: You don't have enough information yet.
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Ron Meyers: After Katrina passed, I started trying to get back to the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: Law enforcement was telling people not to go in.
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Ron Meyers: Fortunately, I had media credentials.
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Ron Meyers: And what I saw when I finally got through, I'll never forget.
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Ron Meyers: It looked like a war zone.
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Ron Meyers: The Mississippi Gulf Coast I knew had been ripped apart.
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Ron Meyers: I had to park several blocks from my house, and as I walked, I noticed something lying among the debris.
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Ron Meyers: It was a photograph.
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Ron Meyers: A mother and a child having a picnic, just an ordinary family picture.
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Ron Meyers: A happy moment, a memory.
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Ron Meyers: I picked it up, and one thought went through my mind.
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Ron Meyers: Did they survive?
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Ron Meyers: I don't know who they were.
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Ron Meyers: I didn't know where that photograph came from.
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Ron Meyers: But standing there holding somebody else's memory made the devastation personal.
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Ron Meyers: Hurricanes don't just destroy buildings, they scatter pieces of people's lives.
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Ron Meyers: I continued toward my house, and my neighbor Kenny saw me and said, Hey Ron, it's terrible.
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Ron Meyers: Well I walked up my driveway to the front door, and for some crazy reason I tried my key.
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Ron Meyers: I don't know why there wasn't much left to unlock.
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Ron Meyers: I finally kicked the door down, and mud was everywhere.
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Ron Meyers: The refrigerator was upside down, the French doors were gone, and there was a water line about eight feet high inside our home.
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Ron Meyers: Eight feet.
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Ron Meyers: We had lost practically everything.
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Ron Meyers: And in that moment, friends, I cried.
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Ron Meyers: At that moment, I wasn't the radio guy.
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Ron Meyers: I wasn't the promoter.
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Ron Meyers: I wasn't the guy who was supposed to have an answer.
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Ron Meyers: I was just a man standing all alone in the wreckage of his home.
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Ron Meyers: But right in the middle of the destruction, I saw something I will never forget.
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Ron Meyers: On our kitchen table was a bowl of Cheerios.
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Ron Meyers: And somehow it was dry.
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Ron Meyers: The water had apparently lifted the table and put it back down.
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Ron Meyers: Now I'm not going to build a theology around a bowl of Cheerios, but I'll tell you what it did.
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Ron Meyers: It made me stop.
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Ron Meyers: In the middle of complete chaos, sometimes there are little things that make you wonder.
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Ron Meyers: So I gathered whatever clothes I could salvage.
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Ron Meyers: They were muddy and soaked.
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Ron Meyers: And I decided I had to go back to Mobile.
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Ron Meyers: I needed to find a laundromat and get a prepaid phone because there was no communication on the coast.
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Ron Meyers: I still hadn't talked to my wife in Meridian.
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Ron Meyers: It had been a few days.
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Ron Meyers: So I went back to Mobile.
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Ron Meyers: I bought a prepaid phone so I could finally call my wife.
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Ron Meyers: And what a conversation that was.
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Ron Meyers: Then I found a laundromat.
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Ron Meyers: And there I sat watching my muddy clothes go around and around in that washing machine.
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Ron Meyers: Everything in my life felt like it had been thrown into the same violent spin.
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Ron Meyers: But I knew three things.
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Ron Meyers: I was alive, my family was alive, and Jesus was still Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes faith looks like sitting in a laundromat with what you've salvaged in a basket and saying, Jesus, I don't know what happens next, but I'm still here.
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Ron Meyers: There was another kind of loss that is even harder to explain.
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Ron Meyers: Have you ever thought about how many memories are attached to places?
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Ron Meyers: You know, weddings, graduations, birthdays, family reunions, restaurants where you celebrated, places where you laughed with friends, homes where children grew up.
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Ron Meyers: Driving along the beach after Katrina was very difficult for me.
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Ron Meyers: I'd look for a familiar place connected to some beautiful memory, and it wasn't there.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes there was nothing but a foundation.
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Ron Meyers: The building was gone, the trees were gone, and sometimes the entire neighborhood was gone.
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Ron Meyers: But if Katrina taught me something, it taught me that losing the place that's special to you doesn't mean you lose the memory.
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Ron Meyers: A storm can take a building, it can't take the birthday you celebrated there.
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Ron Meyers: It can't take the wedding, it can't take the laughter, it can't take the love.
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Ron Meyers: Some things are stored somewhere no hurricane can reach.
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Ron Meyers: Well, eventually I made it back to the radio station.
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Ron Meyers: And here's something incredible.
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Ron Meyers: The building, a little White House built in the 50s, had survived.
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Ron Meyers: And after the most destructive hurricane to ever hit our area, we only lost one shingle.
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Ron Meyers: One.
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Ron Meyers: Engineers from Tupelo were already on site working to get us broadcasting on generator power.
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Ron Meyers: And suddenly that little Christian radio station became much more than a radio station.
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Ron Meyers: It became a gathering place.
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Ron Meyers: People slept on the floors.
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Ron Meyers: We cooked breakfast outside.
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Ron Meyers: Supplies came in, teams went out.
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Ron Meyers: People would tell us what they needed, and we would put that over the radio.
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Ron Meyers: And these wonderful Gulf Coast people responded.
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Ron Meyers: Our station's theme was the light of the Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: After Katrina, those words meant something completely different.
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Ron Meyers: Because when everything around you was dark, light matters.
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Ron Meyers: Then a man came in to my office and said something that changed the way I looked at my past.
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Ron Meyers: He started talking about everything that I had done before becoming the manager of the radio station.
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Ron Meyers: Promotions, events, organizing people, public relations, solving problems, getting things done.
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Ron Meyers: And basically he said, Ron, God has been training you for this time in your life.
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Ron Meyers: Wow.
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Ron Meyers: I never thought about it that way.
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Ron Meyers: All those years of promoting, producing events, all the pressure, all the problems, all the times when something went wrong and I had to figure it out.
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Ron Meyers: What if that wasn't just my past?
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Ron Meyers: What if it was preparation?
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Ron Meyers: I call it God's boot camp.
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Ron Meyers: You may be looking at something in your past right now and thinking, what a waste.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe it wasn't.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe God will use something you learned 10 years ago for something you can't even see today.
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Ron Meyers: I have discovered that some lessons don't make sense while you are learning them.
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Ron Meyers: They make sense when you finally need them.
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Ron Meyers: What looks like punishment today may become preparation for tomorrow.
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Ron Meyers: So don't prejudge your circumstances.
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Ron Meyers: God can use all of it.
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Ron Meyers: One day after Katrina, I went to my home church, Trinity United Methodist Church in Gulfport for a hot meal.
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Ron Meyers: And friends, there was a line out the door.
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Ron Meyers: And in that line were bank presidents, lawyers, teachers, construction workers, even a Mississippi Supreme Court judge.
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Ron Meyers: People with money, people without money, people with impressive titles.
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Ron Meyers: Katrina didn't care.
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Ron Meyers: Everybody needed the same thing.
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Ron Meyers: A hot meal.
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Ron Meyers: Hurricane Katrina was the great equalizer.
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Ron Meyers: We spend an awful lot of our lives worrying about things that don't matter nearly as much as we think they do.
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Ron Meyers: Titles, status, possessions, who's important, who has more.
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Ron Meyers: Then life happens.
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Ron Meyers: And suddenly we remember we're all human.
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Ron Meyers: We all need grace.
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Ron Meyers: We all need each other.
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Ron Meyers: And every one of us needs Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: And then something beautiful started happening along the Gulf Coast and into New Orleans.
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Ron Meyers: People began arriving from all over America.
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Ron Meyers: Not an army carrying weapons, an army carrying food, water, tools, supplies, campers, and love.
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Ron Meyers: People told me.
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Ron Meyers: They were in their kitchen cooking or watching TV and they felt God nudging them.
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Ron Meyers: Go help my children.
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Ron Meyers: And they came and they came and they came.
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Ron Meyers: One ministry brought camper after camper to the Gulf Coast.
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Ron Meyers: More than 20 were eventually given to ministers and families who needed somewhere to live.
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Ron Meyers: A couple from Kentucky brought a camper from my family.
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Ron Meyers: They put it in our driveway and then they handed me the title.
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Ron Meyers: This is yours, Ron.
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Ron Meyers: Friends, I'll never forget that.
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Ron Meyers: The Bible tells us not to forget to show hospitality to strangers because some of us have entertained angels without knowing it.
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Ron Meyers: Well, I don't know who all those people were who came to the Mississippi Gulf Coast after Katrina, but I'll tell you what I do believe.
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Ron Meyers: I believe God sent us a host of angels.
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Ron Meyers: Some drove pickup trucks, some pulled campers, some carried cases of water, some cooked meals, some cleared debris, some prayed, some hugged people who had nothing left.
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Ron Meyers: They didn't have wings that I could see, but they showed up.
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Ron Meyers: It was Jesus with work gloves on, Jesus behind the wheel of a truck.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus handing somebody a bottle of water.
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Ron Meyers: Friends, God is so good that sometimes when you go through a storm, He sends people right into the middle of it with you.
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Ron Meyers: And don't get so focused looking for a miracle that you miss the person God just sent to your door.
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Ron Meyers: Here's something I want you to understand.
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Ron Meyers: While all of this was happening, I was hurting too.
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Ron Meyers: My home was destroyed, my family was displaced.
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Ron Meyers: I was rebuilding a radio station while trying to rebuild my own life.
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Ron Meyers: But every day I went on the air, I had to give people hope.
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Ron Meyers: I had to encourage them.
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Ron Meyers: I had to tell them we're going to get through this.
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Ron Meyers: And you know something, my friend?
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Ron Meyers: A lot of those days, I was actually talking to myself.
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Ron Meyers: I needed to hear it too.
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Ron Meyers: That's another lesson Katrina taught me.
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Ron Meyers: You can be hurting and still be useful.
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Ron Meyers: You don't have to have everything figured out before God can use you.
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Ron Meyers: You don't have to be completely healed before you can encourage somebody else.
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Ron Meyers: Helping somebody through their storm gives you the strength to keep walking through yours.
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Ron Meyers: Now, during the aftermath, I said something on the radio that shocks some people.
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Ron Meyers: I said, I think one day we may thank God for Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: Now listen carefully, I wasn't thanking God that people died or thanking God that homes were destroyed.
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Ron Meyers: And I wasn't thanking God for suffering.
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Ron Meyers: What I meant was that there may be a day that we can look back and recognize what surviving that storm produced in us resilience, compassion, courage, perspective, faith.
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Ron Meyers: We discovered we could lose almost everything and still get up tomorrow morning.
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Ron Meyers: We discovered possessions can disappear, but purpose doesn't have to.
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Ron Meyers: We discovered life can change overnight, but Jesus doesn't.
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Ron Meyers: Twenty years later, I have the evidence.
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Ron Meyers: Evidence that tells me, Ron, you have been through storms before.
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Ron Meyers: God was there then and he will be there again.
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Ron Meyers: That's why I asked you at the beginning of the show, what are you believing when everything around you looks destroyed or in shambles?
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Ron Meyers: Because circumstances will talk to you, fear will talk to you, your bank account will talk to you, the doctor's report will talk to you, the empty chair will talk to you, the termination letter will talk to you, but those things don't get to decide what you believe.
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Ron Meyers: Here's something from my signature series on belief that I want you to remember.
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Ron Meyers: I cannot see what God is doing is not the same thing as God is not doing anything.
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Ron Meyers: That's a biblical optimism.
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Ron Meyers: Biblical optimism doesn't pretend everything is wonderful.
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Ron Meyers: Realism says this is difficult.
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Ron Meyers: Belief says, okay, what's my next step?
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Ron Meyers: What can I learn?
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Ron Meyers: Who can I talk to?
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Ron Meyers: What haven't I tried?
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Ron Meyers: What is my next move?
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Ron Meyers: And most importantly, Jesus, what are you trying to show me?
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Ron Meyers: So, friends, don't let a temporary circumstance become a permanent belief.
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Ron Meyers: Don't let yesterday right tomorrow, and don't let fear make decisions that belong to faith.
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Ron Meyers: Now let me fast forward 20 years, because there's another part of this story I couldn't have possibly known in 2005.
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Ron Meyers: Remember that little White House, my little safety net, my light of the Gulf Coast job, the radio station that survived Katrina, the place where we broadcast hope, where supplies were coordinated, where so much ministry happened.
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Ron Meyers: Well, in July of 2025, American Family Radio practically gave me that little White House.
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Ron Meyers: Think about that.
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Ron Meyers: Twenty years later.
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Ron Meyers: Today, those are my offices.
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Ron Meyers: I record my podcast and radio show there.
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Ron Meyers: It's also where I work on my Christmas City gift show.
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Ron Meyers: Ministry, radio, podcasting, promotions, Christmas City, so many pieces of my life somehow came full circle right back to this beautiful little white house I'm in right now.
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Ron Meyers: If you had told me while I was sitting in that mobile laundromat with all my muddy clothes, I wouldn't have believed you.
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Ron Meyers: If you had told me while I was standing in eight feet of flood damage, I couldn't have imagined it.
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Ron Meyers: But that's the point.
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Ron Meyers: Only God knew.
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Ron Meyers: That's why I don't want you to make a permanent judgment about your life based on what it looks like today.
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Ron Meyers: You don't know what God knows.
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Ron Meyers: Sometimes you have to live long enough to look backward and finally understand what you could never see looking forward.
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Ron Meyers: So here's Ron's next step for this week.
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Ron Meyers: I want you to identify your Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: What's the storm you're facing right now?
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Ron Meyers: Name it.
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Ron Meyers: Don't pretend it doesn't exist.
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Ron Meyers: Then have a conversation with Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: No fancy prayer, just talk.
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Ron Meyers: Tell him you're angry, tell him you're scared, tell him you're confused.
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Ron Meyers: Tell him, Jesus, I don't know what to do.
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Ron Meyers: Then ask him one question.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, what's my next step?
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Ron Meyers: Not how is this whole story going to end?
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Ron Meyers: Just what's my next step?
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Ron Meyers: And when you see it, take it.
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Ron Meyers: Because belief requires movement.
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Ron Meyers: Believe, move, learn, adjust, and believe again.
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Ron Meyers: My friends, I'm going to take a short break, and when I return, I want to talk directly to the person who's standing in the middle of a storm right now.
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Ron Meyers: Because when you're standing in the wreckage, the chaos, it's almost impossible to imagine that one day you may look back and see something you simply cannot see today.
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Ron Meyers: If that's you, don't go anywhere.
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Ron Meyers: I'll be right back.
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Announcer: You're listening to Get the Hell Out of Your Life with your host, Ron Myers.
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Announcer: Real stories, real struggles, and real hope.
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SPEAKER_06: Here's a refreshing word just for you today.
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SPEAKER_06: It comes from the book of Hebrews, chapter 13, verse 8.
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SPEAKER_06: Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever.
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SPEAKER_06: Be refreshed today.
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SPEAKER_01: Hi, this is Candy Anderson Ferris, bringing you a message of hope.
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SPEAKER_01: One of my favorite verses that speaks to God's forgiveness is found in Romans.
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SPEAKER_01: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Because through Jesus Christ, the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
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SPEAKER_01: No matter what you've done, Jesus died for you.
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SPEAKER_01: As his child, you and I are forgiven.
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SPEAKER_01: There was a precious example, one of those battle preach moments that happened several years ago when my twin grandbabies were just little itsy bitsy things.
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SPEAKER_01: Bodhi had hit his sister Tegan, and she just stood him up, put his face in her hands, and said, Look at me.
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SPEAKER_01: What did you do to me?
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SPEAKER_01: She said again, what did you do to me?
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SPEAKER_01: And he said, I hit you.
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SPEAKER_01: And she said, That's right.
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SPEAKER_01: Now are you sorry?
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SPEAKER_01: And he said, Yes.
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SPEAKER_01: And at that very moment, she took him in her arms, wrapped him up, and said, I forgive you.
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SPEAKER_01: While we were yet sinners, Christ Jesus died for us.
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SPEAKER_01: His grace, his forgiveness, his mercy is unfailing.
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SPEAKER_01: He knew we were sinners.
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SPEAKER_01: He knew we were depraved people.
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SPEAKER_01: But yet he died for us and he takes us in his arms and he wraps us up in his precious grace.
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SPEAKER_01: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and he is just to forgive us of all our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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SPEAKER_01: Remember today, you are forgiven.
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SPEAKER_03: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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SPEAKER_03: Get on your knees and cry out to the Lord.
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SPEAKER_03: He hears you right where you are.
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Announcer: How to get the hell out of your life?
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Announcer: Well, yeah, replace it with Jesus.
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Announcer: We gotta be born again, born of the Spirit, and that's by trusting Jesus Christ, turning from our sins and trusting Jesus.
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Announcer: How do you get the hell out of your life?
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Announcer: Oh gosh.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.
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Ron Meyers: Welcome back, my friends.
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Ron Meyers: And before we go, I want to talk to the person who feels like life has just knocked the wind out of you.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe your Katrina isn't a hurricane.
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Ron Meyers: Maybe it's a diagnosis, a divorce, a death, a termination, a financial disaster, a dream that didn't happen.
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Ron Meyers: And right now, you're looking at the wreckage thinking, how can anything good possibly come from this?
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Ron Meyers: Now I don't know how your story will unfold.
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Ron Meyers: I can't promise when the circumstances will change, but I can tell you what my experiences have taught me.
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Ron Meyers: Don't write the ending while you're still in the middle of the storm.
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Ron Meyers: Twenty years ago, I couldn't see today.
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Ron Meyers: I couldn't see that little white house becoming mine.
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Ron Meyers: I couldn't see myself sitting there years later recording a podcast and radio show that goes around the world.
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Ron Meyers: I couldn't see the full circle.
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Ron Meyers: But God could.
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Ron Meyers: So don't prejudge the middle of your story, my friend.
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Ron Meyers: Right now, all you may see is mud, but God sees farther than you do.
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Ron Meyers: And here's where I've landed after all these years.
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Ron Meyers: When you have Jesus, you have everything you ultimately need.
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Ron Meyers: You are accepted, you are forgiven, you are cleansed, you belong.
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Ron Meyers: He lives in you, he's with you twenty-four hours a day.
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Ron Meyers: He's not going to divorce you, he's not going to kick you out of the family, he's not going to wake up tomorrow and decide he's finished with you.
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Ron Meyers: No, Jesus is your anchor, he's your rock.
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Ron Meyers: And when the storm comes, grab onto that rock.
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Ron Meyers: Have those conversations with Jesus every day, especially when you wake up in the morning.
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Ron Meyers: And before the world gets your attention, give Jesus yours.
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Ron Meyers: And when you can't understand what he's doing, remind yourself, well, I can't see what God is doing.
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Ron Meyers: It's not the same thing though as God is not doing anything.
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Ron Meyers: My friend, storms pass, lives get rebuilt, scars become stories, stories become testimonies, and testimonies give somebody else the courage to believe.
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Ron Meyers: If God brought them through it, he can bring me through it too.
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Ron Meyers: That's why I tell my story.
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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: And remember this: 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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Ron Meyers: And one final thought from a guy who has lived through a lady named Katrina.
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Ron Meyers: The storm may change your life, but with Jesus, the storm doesn't get to write the ending.
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