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Christmas Celebrations · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's, your mama's, how
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  Speaker 1: are y'all celebrating the Christmas this year?
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  Speaker 2: Well, let's ask our American mamas.
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  Speaker 1: And joining is now we're American mama's. Terry Edville and
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly Burlason. Hey, it's Christmas time. What are you guys
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  Speaker 1: doing to celebrate? You guys, Kimberly, you're always decorating for Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: I mean that's I am done decorating. Do you know
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  Speaker 3: that on Christmas Day? I take it all down? You
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  Speaker 3: take it all down, take it all down. Christmas Day.
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  Speaker 1: You don't even wait till box.
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  Speaker 3: I don't. I don't. It's like Christmas Eve is my
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  Speaker 3: favorite time. We played We Mike plays a guitar, we
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  Speaker 3: sing Christmas carols, we sing, We wake up and we
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  Speaker 3: open our presents and then it's like that's how that's
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  Speaker 3: how it feels, is like, and I'm like, okay, box
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  Speaker 3: it up.
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  Speaker 4: That's how she guys has a little girl too, Like
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  Speaker 4: when is it that day's you know, when you've opened everything,
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  Speaker 4: you're like, oh no, because that Christmas spirit's so wonderful
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  Speaker 4: for the whole month. And then you're like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 4: you have to wait three hundred and sixty five more days.
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  Speaker 4: But you know, our family, like a lot of people,
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  Speaker 4: if you when you get to our age and you've
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  Speaker 4: got children who are out of college, who are they're adulting,
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  Speaker 4: or they're married, they've got their own families, you find
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  Speaker 4: other days to have Christmas. So we had our we
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  Speaker 4: continued our mom's tradition of Christmas soup party where we
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  Speaker 4: would all gather at her house and she would have
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  Speaker 4: three different kinds of soups and all these yummy appetizers
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  Speaker 4: and desserts and all the kids. We'd all go and
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  Speaker 4: you know, we'd have play games. And she died a
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  Speaker 4: couple of years ago, so this was one of those
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  Speaker 4: things that we were like, we got to keep this going.
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  Speaker 4: It's like our big Christmas. So we did that last
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  Speaker 4: weekend and it was just so fun. It's like a reconnection.
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  Speaker 4: So you realize it doesn't have to be on Christmas
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  Speaker 4: Day if you're surrounded by all of the Christmas stuff
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  Speaker 4: and you know, all of our kids went down to
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  Speaker 4: Fort Worth and you know, they got to see the
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  Speaker 4: lives and show the grand baby, you know, all of
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  Speaker 4: the Christmas y stuff you have that spirit type of thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's interesting though right now I feel like nostalgic Christmas
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  Speaker 3: is killing me, you know, like going down memory Lane
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  Speaker 3: and looking on and I don't know if I feel
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  Speaker 3: like right now our culture is being is under attack.
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we are in a spiritual warfare, you know.
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  Speaker 3: I'm watching Christmas markets in Europe where these hate groups
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  Speaker 3: are going in and creating havoc and so and trying
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  Speaker 3: to kill it and so. For the first time, I
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  Speaker 3: feel like I never understood. I thought that we were
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  Speaker 3: tough on nothing could hurt our country, nothing could hurt
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  Speaker 3: anything about us, until twenty twenty showed me that we
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  Speaker 3: are very fragile. We're a very fragile country. Our faith
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  Speaker 3: is very fragile as well. And for the first time,
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  Speaker 3: I feel like I am clinging to my faith. I'm
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  Speaker 3: clinging to what we believe in as a country as Christians,
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  Speaker 3: and I will not let it go because I do
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  Speaker 3: feel like it's under attack and I feel like we
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  Speaker 3: cannot sit. I know this is all about Christmas, but
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  Speaker 3: I feel like we as Christians, we are in a
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  Speaker 3: place in our lives where we need to stand for
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  Speaker 3: Jesus more so than we ever have before because it
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  Speaker 3: is being attacked.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that's a really good point that most
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, ninety five percent of Americans celebrate Christmas,
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  Speaker 1: but less than seventy percent consider themselves Christian. Only half
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  Speaker 1: are going to church all the time. I mean, what
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  Speaker 1: percentage of Americans are actually going to church to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: Jesus at church this time of year?
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  Speaker 3: Very it's little, or there's people that that's the only
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  Speaker 3: time that they do celebrate, right, you know, But don't
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  Speaker 3: you feel the same way.
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  Speaker 4: This is y there is there is a spiritual warfare.
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  Speaker 4: I feel like faith is coming back, so I feel
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  Speaker 4: a little bit more hopeful. And I know that, you know,
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  Speaker 4: right after Charlie Kirk died, there was this big push
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  Speaker 4: and failed to fould it, so then you felt the
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  Speaker 4: enemy come in in attack. So now there's a lot
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  Speaker 4: of fractions.
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  Speaker 1: Which what he does comes immediately.
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  Speaker 4: But more and more, I'm seeing people talk about their
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  Speaker 4: faith outwardly, even if they don't go to church. They
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  Speaker 4: talk about their love for Jesus, their Christian values, and
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  Speaker 4: that's something that we haven't seen in a while. So
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  Speaker 4: I feel like that it's like people are feeling emboldened
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  Speaker 4: because that's their only way to fight back against the enemy.
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  Speaker 3: And I feel excilent. We cannot be silent, I feel.
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  Speaker 4: And I think people are more and more are being
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  Speaker 4: vocal about it, and it is the reason for the season.
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  Speaker 4: You know, that's a kind of one of those cliches,
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  Speaker 4: but it really really is. So I think what Kimerly
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  Speaker 4: is talking about is real. If you're nostalgic about it,
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  Speaker 4: that means you go back in time when it felt
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  Speaker 4: like that everybody felt the same way. We were all
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  Speaker 4: on the same page. We're all you know, right was right,
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  Speaker 4: wrong was wrong? Up was up, down was down. Now
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  Speaker 4: it's just been so turned over that we all craved
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  Speaker 4: that time in our life. Maybe it was us living
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  Speaker 4: in the bubble. Maybe it was that we just were blind,
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  Speaker 4: We had our blinders on. We didn't know what the media,
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  Speaker 4: we didn't know the control of the media add on
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  Speaker 4: us and those in the media. So I'm with you.
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  Speaker 4: I think we all long for it. When you see
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  Speaker 4: those reels come up about a nineteen seventies and eighties
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  Speaker 4: nineties of Christmases and going to the mall, you're like, God,
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  Speaker 4: I want my children to feel this.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, going going to the mall and seeing that
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  Speaker 1: and then also you know, caroling the choirs at Trity.
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  Speaker 1: My uncle was just in a great choir doing a
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  Speaker 1: Christmas service and seeing the Halle Louis course and all
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  Speaker 1: this other stuff, and it was really cool to see
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  Speaker 1: something like nostalgically and singing praises to Jesus. So a
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  Speaker 1: great time in the year to do that. If you
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  Speaker 1: and thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you,