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Inspiration for 2025 | Episode #429 | Encore Edition · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, international
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  Speaker 1: leadership expert and trusted advisor. Welcome to Legacy Living, Make
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  Speaker 1: your Life Count. I am so delighted that you joined
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  Speaker 1: me today. I have an incredible show for you. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to share with you some words of wisdom
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  Speaker 1: that are near and dear to my heart. Today, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to focus specifically on words that inspire, words that
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  Speaker 1: lift us up, words that encourage us. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: ask you to share the wealth. After you listen to
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  Speaker 1: this episode, I want you to tell a friend, and
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  Speaker 1: I want you to come back to this podcast over
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  Speaker 1: and over again when you need some words of inspiration
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  Speaker 1: or words to edify you, words to lift up your spirit.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, if you love inspiring words like I do,
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  Speaker 1: you can go to my website and subscribe to my
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  Speaker 1: Weekly Inspirations. That way you can get a breath of
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  Speaker 1: fresh air in your inbox to start your week. I'll
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  Speaker 1: tell you more about how to do that later in
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  Speaker 1: the podcast. Okay, all right, let's get started. The most
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  Speaker 1: inspiring words come from wonderfully different cultures and different people.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what. Ultimately, all of these words come
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  Speaker 1: from the master Creator God. That's right, the great overall
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  Speaker 1: designer Hope. Hope is powerful why because it inspires us
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  Speaker 1: to do the impossible. Hope helps us carry on during
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  Speaker 1: difficult times. Hope can come in many different shapes and forms.
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  Speaker 1: It may come through our favorite music or a good book,
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  Speaker 1: or even by listening to our favorite thought leaders. However
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  Speaker 1: it comes through, Hope is a powerful presence, a light
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  Speaker 1: to help us navigate through the darkness, a mighty and
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  Speaker 1: beautiful beacon to guide us through the storm. Hope is
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  Speaker 1: the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and
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  Speaker 1: sings the tune without the words and never stops at all.
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  Speaker 1: You may not always have a comfortable life, and you
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  Speaker 1: will not always be able to solve all of the
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  Speaker 1: world's problems at once. But don't ever underestimate the importance
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  Speaker 1: you can have, because history has shown us that courage
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  Speaker 1: can be contagious.
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  Speaker 2: And hope can take on.
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  Speaker 1: A life of its own. Often, what feels like the
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  Speaker 1: end of the world is really a challenging pathway to
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  Speaker 1: a far better place. Although the world is full of suffering,
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  Speaker 1: it is also full of the overcoming of it, For
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  Speaker 1: I consider that the sufferings of this present time are
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  Speaker 1: not worthy to be compared with the glory that shall
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  Speaker 1: be revealed in us. Faith is being sure of what
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  Speaker 1: we hope for and certain of what we do not see.
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  Speaker 2: When you go.
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  Speaker 1: Through deep waters, I will be with you. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what the future may hold, but I know who
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  Speaker 1: holds the future. Listen to the presences inside poems, Let
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  Speaker 1: them take you where they will. Follow these private hints,
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  Speaker 1: and never leave the premises. On the day of your birth,
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  Speaker 1: the Creator filled countless storehouses and stockings with rich ointments,
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  Speaker 1: luscious tapestries, and antique coins of incredible value, jewels worthy
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  Speaker 1: of a queen's dowry. They were set aside for your
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  Speaker 1: use alone. Armed with faith and hope, and without knowing
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  Speaker 1: of the wealth which awaited, you broke through dense walls
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  Speaker 1: of poverty and loosed the chains of ignorance which threatened
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  Speaker 1: to cripple you, so that you could walk a free
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  Speaker 1: woman into a world which needed you. My wish for
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  Speaker 1: you is that you continue, continue to be who and
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  Speaker 1: how you are, to astonish a mean world with your
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  Speaker 1: acts of kindness, continue to allow humor to lighten the
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  Speaker 1: burden of your tender heart. Continue in a society dark.
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  Speaker 2: With cruelty, to let the people hear the.
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  Speaker 1: Grander of God and the peals of your laughter. Continue
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  Speaker 1: to let your eloquence elevate the people to heights they
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  Speaker 1: had only imagined. Continue to remind the people that each
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  Speaker 1: is as good as the other, and that no one
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  Speaker 1: is beneath nor above you. Continue to remember your own
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  Speaker 1: young years and look with favor upon the lost and
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  Speaker 1: the least and the lonely. Continue to put the mantle
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  Speaker 1: of your protection around the bodies of the young and defenseless.
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  Speaker 1: Continue to take the hand of the despised and diseased
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  Speaker 1: and walk proudly with them in the high street. Some
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  Speaker 1: might see you and be encouraged to do likewise. Continue
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  Speaker 1: to plant a public kiss of concern on the cheek
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  Speaker 1: of the sick and the aged and infirm, and count
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  Speaker 1: that as a natural action to be expected. Continue to
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  Speaker 1: let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to
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  Speaker 1: say your nightly prayer, and let faith be the bridge
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  Speaker 1: you build to overcome evil and welcome good. Continue to
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  Speaker 1: ignore no vision which comes to enlarge your range and
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  Speaker 1: increase your spirit. Continue to dare to love deeply and
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  Speaker 1: risk everything for the good thing. Continue to float happily
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  Speaker 1: in the sea of infinite substance, which set aside riches
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  Speaker 1: for you.
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  Speaker 2: Before you had a name.
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  Speaker 1: Continue, and by doing so, you and your work will
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  Speaker 1: be able.
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  Speaker 2: To continue eternally.
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  Speaker 1: All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed.
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  Speaker 2: In a single word.
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  Speaker 1: Freedom, justice, honor, beauty, mercy, hope. Healing may not be
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  Speaker 1: so much about getting better as about letting go of
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  Speaker 1: everything that isn't you, all of the expectations, all of
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  Speaker 1: the beliefs, and becoming who you are. Love is infectious
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  Speaker 1: and the greatest healing energy. I have been a seeker,
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  Speaker 1: and I still am. But I stopped asking the books
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  Speaker 1: and the stars. I started listening to the teaching.
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  Speaker 2: Of my soul.
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  Speaker 1: Come new to this day. Remove the rigid overcoat of experience,
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  Speaker 1: the notion of knowing, the beliefs that cloud your vision.
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  Speaker 1: Leave behind the stories of your life. Spit out the
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  Speaker 1: sour taste of unmet expectation, Let the stale scent of
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  Speaker 1: what ifs waft back into the swamp of your useless fears.
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  Speaker 1: Arrive curious without the armor of certainty, the plans and
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  Speaker 1: the planned results of the life you've imagined. Live the
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  Speaker 1: life that chooses you knew every breath, every blink of
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  Speaker 1: your astonished eyes. A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite
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  Speaker 1: the imagination, and instill a love of learning, love one another,
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  Speaker 1: and help others to rise to the higher levels simply
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  Speaker 1: by pouring out love. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination,
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  Speaker 1: and in the courage of those who dare to make
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  Speaker 1: dreams into reality. The very least you can do in
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  Speaker 1: your life is figure out what you hope for, And
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  Speaker 1: the most you can do is live inside that hope,
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  Speaker 1: not admire it from a distance, but live right in
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  Speaker 1: it under its roof. You are not here merely to
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  Speaker 1: make a living. You are here in order to enable
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  Speaker 1: the world to live more aptly, with greater vision, with
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  Speaker 1: a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here
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  Speaker 1: to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you
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  Speaker 1: forget the Errand there is in every person an inward sea,
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  Speaker 1: and in that sea there is an island, and on
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  Speaker 1: that island there is an altar, and standing guard before
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  Speaker 1: that altar is.
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  Speaker 3: The angel with the flaming sword. Nothing can get by
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  Speaker 3: that angel to be placed upon that altar unless it
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  Speaker 3: has the mark of your inner authority. Nothing passes the
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  Speaker 3: angel with the flaming sword to be placed upon your
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  Speaker 3: altar unless it be a part of the fluid area
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  Speaker 3: of your consent.
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  Speaker 2: This is your crucial link with the eternal.
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  Speaker 1: For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself
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  Speaker 1: from within. I couldn't decide what to do, unable to see.
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  Speaker 2: I heard my name being called.
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  Speaker 1: Then I walked outside. The breeze at dawn has secrets
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  Speaker 1: to tell you. Don't go back to sleep. You must
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  Speaker 1: ask for what.
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  Speaker 2: You really want. Don't go back.
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  Speaker 1: To sleep. People are going back and forth across the
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  Speaker 1: doorsill where the two worlds touch. The door is round
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  Speaker 1: and open. Don't go back to sleep. Barns burnt down.
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  Speaker 1: Now I can see the moon. Life isn't about waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the storm to pass. It's about learning to dance
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  Speaker 1: in the rain. Now I know in part. Then I
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  Speaker 1: shall know fully even as I am fully known. And
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  Speaker 1: now these three remain faith, hope, and love. But the
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  Speaker 1: greatest of these is love. A dream is the bearer
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  Speaker 1: of a new possibility, the enlarged horizon, the great hope.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people have their big dreams and get
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  Speaker 1: knocked down and don't have things go their way. But
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  Speaker 1: you can never give up hope, and you just really
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  Speaker 1: hold on to it hard work and perseverance. You just
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  Speaker 1: keep getting up and getting up, and then you get
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  Speaker 1: that breakthrough. Darkness comes in the middle of it. The
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  Speaker 1: future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't
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  Speaker 1: you are in good company. You will argue with yourself
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  Speaker 1: that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing
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  Speaker 1: is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels
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  Speaker 1: out of the pits than you can conceive. Wait, pray
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  Speaker 1: without ceasing Hope. Hope is the companion of power and
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  Speaker 1: mother of success. For whoso hopes strongly has within them
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  Speaker 1: the gift of miracles. Hope begins in the dark, the
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  Speaker 1: stubborn hope that if you just show up and try
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  Speaker 1: to do the.
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  Speaker 2: Right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch
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  Speaker 2: and work.
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  Speaker 1: The past is a source of knowledge, and the future
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  Speaker 1: is a source of hope. Love of the past implies
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  Speaker 1: faith in the future.
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  Speaker 2: But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength.
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  Speaker 1: They will soar on wings like eagles.
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  Speaker 2: They will run and not grow weary. They will walk
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  Speaker 2: and not be faint.
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  Speaker 1: Inspirations. I just love these inspiring words, words that have
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  Speaker 1: brought so much gratitude, encouragement, hope and joy into my life.
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  Speaker 1: I sure hope these words have inspired you as well. Inspiration,
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  Speaker 1: you know what. We all need a daily dose of
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  Speaker 1: it to keep us energized, edified, and encouraged, to keep
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  Speaker 1: us lifted up, looking forward, and on the path to
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  Speaker 1: be all we are meant to be. Here's what I know.
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  Speaker 1: Inspiration is something we can joyfully pass on to those
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  Speaker 1: around us, our family, our friends, our neighbors, and our coworkers.
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  Speaker 1: Now you all know how much I love that word inspire,
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  Speaker 1: which comes from the Latin inspirare. That's right in spirrare,
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  Speaker 1: which means to breathe into or to breathe upon. So
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  Speaker 1: my prayer, my prayer, is that you let these words
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  Speaker 1: just breathe into you. Let these words inspire you to
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  Speaker 1: new life, new hope, new energy, and new joy. And
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  Speaker 1: as they breathe into you, as these words minister to you,
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  Speaker 1: be sure to share the wealth, share your blessings at
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  Speaker 1: somebody else's table. That's how you do it. That's how
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  Speaker 1: you make your life count. If you want to be
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  Speaker 1: the change you seek. Remember this, how you live is
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  Speaker 1: how you lead, It's how you do everything right now,
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  Speaker 1: you have the power to make our world a better place.
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  Speaker 1: You have that power within you.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Once again, I want you to be sure to
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  Speaker 1: You can also find me on the TEDx site and
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  Speaker 1: my name to find me there. Before I close today,
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  Speaker 1: I want to thank each of you for tuning in
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  Speaker 1: to today's show for allowing me to share a bit
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  Speaker 1: about my journey with what legacy living is all about,
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  Speaker 1: not just living and learning, but living and learning and
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  Speaker 1: serving so that you make a difference in your own
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  Speaker 1: life and in the lives of others. It's about being
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  Speaker 1: on purpose every single day. Three sixty five twenty four seven.
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  Speaker 1: Legacy living is a powerful way to make your life count.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, I want to thank you for joining me
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  Speaker 1: for today's show. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess,
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  Speaker 1: and this is Legacy living. Make your life count. Please
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  Speaker 1: join me again next time for another episode of Legacy Living.
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  Speaker 1: Make your life count. Don't just count the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life.
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  Speaker 2: Make the days in.
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  Speaker 1: Your life count. That's what Legacy Living is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Have a fantastic day and remember make the days in
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  Speaker 1: your life count. God bless you. That's our show today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll
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  Speaker 1: join me again next time. Until then, don't just count
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  Speaker 1: the days in your life. Make the days in your
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  Speaker 1: life count. That's what Legacy Living is all about. Here's
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  Speaker 1: to you. Have a fantastic day and be sure to
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  Speaker 1: make it a yes kind of day. Remember to celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the music of your life. Make the days in your
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  Speaker 1: life count.