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The Tragedy of Youth Crime · The Slippery Slope

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  Sorry, I come from a very large extended, very large family, my
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  extended family, and my mother is the youngest of 13.
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  You know? It was My grandparents had 13
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  children. My mother was the youngest I've
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  got something like just first cousins.
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  You know, this isn't it. I've got like 60, 60, something
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  think first cousins. A few quite a few years ago.
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  I think well over a decade ago, we had a family reunions and the
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  you, the reunions was just for the descendants of my
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  grandparents down, my grandparents, have passed away
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  my nan, we always called Nana power.
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  Last name is power. Yes, she passed away when my son
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  and my daughter and when they were they were both born but
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  they were really little. I think she was she was in her
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  late 80s, I think she was. Anyway, so my my family, my
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  grandparents, my great-grandparents war is very
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  heavily involved. In Christian Church, my
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  great-grandparents Whoo-hoo Jack and talk to.
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  Yeah. So we'll help they helped in the
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  building of the what was the AOG church here in Berlin?
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  My nana my memories of Nana growing up.
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  She would when she when I'd go visit her when would be, you
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  know, we she'd be there. Making making a pumpkin scones,
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  let's say she had a Wood-Fired stove oven, you know, house and
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  she'd be making pumpkin scones. But she'd always next to the
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  pumpkins gone. And she'd always have her her
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  Bible open, and she'd be reading the Bible as she's making
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  scones. And she'd be telling us kids or
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  grandkids stories about her childhood about her.
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  You know, telling us stories about because she is like South
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  Sea, Islander descendant. Descendants of NACA slaves.
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  Telling us stories about her childhood.
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  What it was, like, living up with that heritage.
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  Also relating things back to God and the Bible and how.
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  Now now she serve God now her life was you know, that was her
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  life, she realized that God of the Bible was the answer, it
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  wasn't, it wasn't the culture that she'd seen when she was
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  younger, when she was little it wasn't the the things that they
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  brought over. Whoo-hoo ancestors had brought
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  over from the islands, the culture from the islands, it
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  wasn't that culture. It wasn't some of those black
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  magic beliefs cultures things that they did.
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  She realized her and obviously her husband my granddad and her
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  parents knew that the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  This was this was the way this was the truth and they'd they'd
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  yeah they beyond the dis. Was the way in which you should
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  be serving. This was the truth in life and
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  she'd walked away completely from that that Island culture in
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  a way. Anyone telling me this because
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  it's trying to explain this is the large This is why I have
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  such a large extended family. So, a few years ago, we'd had,
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  was probably over a decade. Now, we'd had this, this family
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  reunions, and we'd there was several hundred of us because
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  there's, like I said, my mother's the youngest of the 13.
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  I've got 60 something first cousins, so there was just
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  direct descendants from my grandparents are still, I think,
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  well over 300. So ever since then we done every
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  year or every second year around Christmas time, we done what our
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  family had was together like our family.
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  They call it Family Fun week or family festive week something
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  like that. Everyone generally comes to
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  Bone. I think it's once every second
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  year they'll come to Bowen and we just have a week of just
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  activities just, you know, games on the beach talking about
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  stories just sharing stories from Hold hoods getting to your
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  listening to some of the elders, all the other descendants of
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  Nana. And Granddad, listen to her.
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  What they did have, they grew up, you know, they have even
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  things like car, competitions on who can cast, who can throw a
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  net fishing net, the farthest and the best who has the best
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  style, you know, my family's a lot of my mad fisherman, you
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  know, things like that. So, sharing culture, but
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  culture. That's of worth, not not talking
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  about culture of Dead. Dead culture dead ancestry
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  culture very in the whole the whole week.
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  Also revolves a lot around around Christian are around our
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  Christian upbringing and reflecting on how this is what
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  their grandparents taught us. This is what our parents have
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  taught us. And, you know, trying to remind,
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  right? Remind the generations that That
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  the we have a, we have a Heritage, we have such a strong
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  Heritage that believes that has such a strong work ethic and is
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  also respected in the communities that we live in
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  because because we, because we have a, because we do have such
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  a strong work ethic, but because we have good morals.
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  And this has been instilled in us because of the Christian
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  values that our grandparents and great-grandparents and killed in
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  there in those Generations. And anyway, I was reflecting on
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  some of these things and I was reflecting on one of the last
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  ones that we'd are one of the last festive fun weeks that we'd
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  had. And at the end of these fun
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  week, we generally do a concert now.
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  Nearly everyone in my family, sings plays the guitar.
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  Plays an instrument of some sort.
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  And it was just last week, I think I was thinking about about
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  one, my cousin's daughter, she'd gotten up with her husband,
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  they'd got nothing. They sing this song A couple of
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  songs of leaving. It was a really nice worship
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  song, Christian worship song. And and then she she was telling
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  us the whole family at this concert how you know, her
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  husband were going way. They were going to be studying
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  to do youth work and Aunty Christian Ministry to become
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  husband will become a pastor or something.
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  So, you know, they'll both going into this Christian, Ministry to
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  go and serve. And I was just thinking about
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  her. And last week was last week of
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  the week before, I was just thinking about these family
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  festive times and I thinking about her and what she's telling
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  us and thinking and I was so awesome that my grandparents who
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  great-grandparents. Yeah, we can Help pay out.
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  They would be I suppose a out who grandfather be one?
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  Who's my uncle? Her father, my cousin how proud
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  he would be to see that this next Generation going along,
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  still serving, God not just serving God but also going out
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  into the community and and saying, well here my God, what
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  can I do? I want to serve my community.
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  I want to help the young people, her and her husband, nice guy.
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  So I was just thinking about at them the other week and
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  wondering how they were going and thinking there's such a good
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  thing seeing that other generation go long and there's
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  others in the family to who I know are doing good work within
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  their communities, still serving God in their, in their own way
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  and You know, and I think it's a I think it's any, I would be
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  lost for words today. Anyway.
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  So I fairly yesterday that this, this young girl, who was the
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  daughter of my, my first cousins that she was killed in the car
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  accident with the 13 year old boy, who stole you stole that
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  Mercedes in Mirror bar. So obviously the
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  thirteen-year-old steals car he goes on a bit of a wild Rampage.
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  Rams, another car kills a nurse 52 year old nurse.
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  I think it was kills a think of 17 year old girl and killed
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  Mike. My cousin's daughter.
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  So I found that out yesterday. I was thinking You know, sort of
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  being devastated. And I think I can't, I can't
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  comprehend. How am I?
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  My cousin feels for losing his daughter.
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  My uncle feels for losing his granddaughter how her husband
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  feels and their two young children and But you know what
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  I'm saying? All this this morning Today's
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  Tuesday, the the second just happens to be my daughter's
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  birthday today. I sent her a message video
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  message just making sure she knew just how much I loved her
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  and how much I missed her. And in the reason why I'm saying
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  all this today and I'm not I had did have a thought ugh, I tried
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  already plot out what I wanted to say.
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  The thoughts was trying to reflect without getting too
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  carried away. But what I'd really like people
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  to remember is that you know, our actions Always the cause and
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  effect of the things that we go out and do in their everyday
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  lives. We had a young girl, a young
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  lady, sorry with, you know, a young husband, very young family
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  that were going out trying to affect the lives of others, with
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  their, with their youth work with their Christian Ministry,
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  trying to serve their Community, trying to show the love of God.
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  To the community. Yeah, it had a nurse working
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  within a community who've, you know, nurses by default.
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  I suppose tend to show generally tend to show a lot of compassion
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  and love because they are, they're helping people just in
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  their work. I was thinking about this young
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  girl, this young lady and her husband and her life being taken
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  so, thoughts lie. So such a reckless manner.
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  I was thinking, you know this this young kid is gone out and
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  thinking, well, I'm going to go and steal a car 13 years old.
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  No, you're still a car so pointless and yet he doesn't I
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  bet you that no point. Did he ever reflect on what his
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  actions? How they might affect the lives
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  of others? And it's too late to go back.
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  Now lives lives have been lost. He is going to pay a price a
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  person. I'm not sure.
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  It's not sure. It's going to be high enough.
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  He's only 13 Hill and he is only a certain amount of time.
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  He can be held as he's so young. Held in jail on me.
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  Lucas, I struggled to think about.
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  I struggle to do this, this podcast, I didn't want to, I
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  don't want to say anything that's Will be disrespectful to
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  my family members cousin and his family.
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  The husband of the young lady that was killed, but all all the
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  one to say is we all go out in our lives and we we make
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  decisions along the way. And if there's any young people
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  that listen to this podcast, I don't know.
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  And you're thinking of doing silly things because, I mean, I
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  know, I did some absolutely things when I was a kid in the
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  only bought the grace of God. I believe that I did not hurt
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  someone or seriously hurt myself or die.
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  Give some thought to your actions before you do them.
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  And how they can affect other people how they can affect your
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  life. Do you really want to be sitting
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  in agile? The 20 years.
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  Because you've stolen a vehicle and killed other people by
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  accident. Because you want to go for a
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  joyride in a vehicle that wasn't even yours. some things that we
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  think is just me having some fun for for an hour, being a bit of
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  a, being a bit of a prick to the police because, you know, Screw
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  the police That's not giving any thought.
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  To the consequences. but I think, looking at the bigger
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  picture, this is what happens when you have a nation that
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  pushes God aside I come from a family where my great
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  grandparents my grandparents embraced God embraced Biblical
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  teaching. They knew that they were
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  Children of God, and they served the Lord Jesus Christ, and they
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  prayed for their family and for their families family.
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  They prayed for the generations to come and I'm both.
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  I believe that, you know, three, four generations later.
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  We still see the benefits. All those grandparents and
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  great, grandparents praying. Praying for Generations.
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  But I believe also that this nation is seeing such a
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  skyrocketing skyrocketing in youth crime.
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  Because we have a nation. We have politicians that decide
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  that we need to push. God aside, we need to push
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  Biblical teaching aside the we can make decisions, you know,
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  we're better off without God. We're better off without the
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  family unit. That's described in the Bible.
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  That we can we can decide all these things.
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  We're better off doing these things on our own.
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  This is what happens, I believe. When you push God aside.
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  You deny God. Anyway.
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  I got nothing more to say. Feel a little bit little bit
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  heartbroken today, very heartbroken for my cousin and
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  his family but in all them. Anyway.
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  Peace, be to you and yours be blessed.
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  So, I'll finish with this. Number six says the Lord bless
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  you and keep you the Lord. Make his face shine upon you and
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  be gracious to you. The Lord lift up his countenance
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  upon you and give you peace. Thanks for listening.