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SEASON 2 DA CREW PODCAST_EPISODE _45 _ HOST MINISTER ALMA THOMAS · DA CREW Podcast

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  Nursing person. All things ain't what they used to Where all the blue Skys
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  but boys in the st blues from the north, somethings wha persons, Oh
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  things at what they used to? Wait, Dallas, what work AA l
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  magazine founded in May of twenty twenty by Queen Angela. Get featured. I
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  don't preaching, but standing No, I ain't preaching. Paying me swarm like
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  I feel. I'll be looking at your face. You know you show me
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  up and I got the little that was day my life with Suka Sho.
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  Gotta tell my family that I get a chance to tell you that I love
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  Hello, Hello, heyo, and welcome to the Crew Podcast. I am
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  the visionary Queen Angela and welcome to season two. I want to thank you
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  for tuning in and for all of your support throughout season one. We're back
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  them divas up the airways, So thank you for joining us tonight. Share
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  this with someone in your circle. Tune in to the All Do Live Again
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  Podcast show with your host, Amma Thomas. Oh God, who love the
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  world that it gave us only begotten son, that whosould ever shall believe,
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  shall not perish. But however, that's evening, and welcome to the Crew
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  Podcast season two. And this is episode forty five, and I am your
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  host, Minister Alma Thomas. Once again I would like to welcome you.
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  Welcome you to the show. Do me a favor, Hit that life button,
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  share in comment, hit that life button, share in comment, and
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  like always, we're gonna start this episode with our prayer. Join me as
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  we pray, Dear Heavenly Father and the President matchless name of your son,
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  Jesus. We thank you on tonight, God, we thank you on tonight
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  for the life of my late great son. I thank you for the time
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  that you lent me. I thank you for the memories that I have.
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  God continue to hold me in your arms and comfort me like no one else
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  can in the precious name of Jesus. And tonight we're gonna be a little
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  different. We usually start with a quote, but tonight we're gonna start with
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  a poem that I dedicated. I didn't write it, but it penetrated my
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  heart, and it's called longing. I miss the sound of your voice filling
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  the silence of this house, the fill of your hug chilling me from life's
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  worries. I miss watching you grow, learning and laughing, reaching milestones I
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  learned to be there for again. I miss your smiles and silly jokes,
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  the chatter of your day, the casual kids as goodbye that I took for
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  granted. Then now the regret floods in with every mile between us, the
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  burden of longing heavy on my heart. Yet I take Sally's knowing you are
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  forging your own path, chasing dreams that call you a far to find your
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  place in this world. So I smiled through my tears. My son proud
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  beyond measure, and I know that every step you take leads you closer to
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  home. My longing will endure, my boy, and tell you that we're
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  re reunited once more. For now I hold you close and memory and love,
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  missing you always, yet grateful you are mine and man, and another
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  one is called forever in our hearts. Our journey together was briefed, yet
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  your fruit footprints remains forever stamped upon our hearts. Through now your pair flights
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  elsewhere, Your spirit lives on, and memories we treasure, always filling the
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  silence of your absence with the echoes of your sweet laughter. The light you
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  will guide us on, reminding us of life's brevity and the power of love
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  songs which outlights even death's dark curtain. So we share your memory with joy
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  and my son ho in the gift you were in your short time among us,
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  holding you clothes forever in our hearts. And this is the last tribute.
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  It's called my guidance Star, my sun, my shining guiding star.
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  Your light now beams from heaven above. The sky seems darker where you are,
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  yet filled with more of your spirits. Love. You lit my world
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  when you were here for laughed and joy with every smile. Now from heaven,
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  you send good cheer to light my way the last mile. Your love
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  remains, though we're apart, living on in my weary heart, shining so
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  bright from the very star, my guiding star that will never part. When
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  skies are dark and I lose my way, I look up and see your
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  light shining down to show me the way, chase away the lonely nights,
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  My guiding star that set so soon unit You now light Heaven's eternal noon.
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  Yet your spirit shines within my heart, My guidance star, We'll never part.
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  And then on tonight I played tribute to the legacy of the late Great
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  Tides Seawan Thomas. Today is his heavenly birthday. He would have been thirty
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  four years old, and I can't believe that sixteen years has passed so quickly.
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  But it all seems to me like it was just yesterday. But his
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  memories I hold close, his laughter and his sarcasm and his sassiness will remain
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  in my heart forever. Let's just have a moment of silence and his honor.
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  Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jesus. I thank you
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  Jesus for letting him kill me. Uh huh, Angela, can you play
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  a commercial? Can we go to commercial break for a minute? Have you
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  ever lost a brother or somebody you love? Wait that I'll get your tumor
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  getting summer bo. I do preach you on these beats, but I swear
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  the saying no, I ain't preaching on these bees. But I just speen
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  your home. I got too much paining me. Swirl like I feel,
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  I'll be looking at your face. I get this ship really go to show
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  you know you're funding out When I got the Lord, I was just that
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  day day my love with Suka sus. Gotta tell my family that I love
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  fun and get a chance to share my testimony with you and the reason why
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  I do what I do. I know there's some people who see me on
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  different podcasts than my podcast, and they're wondering why I why I still continue
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  to do this while I'm in my bed. Why do I continue to show
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  up even though I'm in mobile at the at the moment. Why do I
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  continue to show up? The reason why I continue to show up, it's
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  because of the legacy of my son. Even on tonight, I could have
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  called Queen Angela and said, I don't feel good because my body is racking
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  in pain right now. But I made a commitment to empower and motivate people
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  despite of the obstacles I've faced, despite of the challenges, despite of the
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  things that come my way, I made a commitment to show up to show
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  people that sometimes we make excuses. We stubby told it's raining outside, and
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  we won't. We don't give excuses for not doing what God has caused us
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  to do. But after all I've been through, You'll see when I tell
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  my story why I continue to show up in spite of and I might get
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  a little teary eyed, but I'm not sad. These are tears of joy
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  that I made it that despite all that I have been through, I have
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  managed to soar like an ego above my circumstances. My son passed away on
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  February thirteenth, two thousand and nine, and on April seventeenth, two thousand
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  and nine, I consider it it was the day that my son was born,
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  but it was the day of my rebirth because on April seventeenth, two
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  thousand and nine, the year and my son passed away on his first birthday
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  in heaven, I wanted to unlive myself. Not because I wanted to be
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  unlive, but because I wanted to be with my son on his first birthday,
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  I wondered, I said, I wonder if my grandma is bacon tie
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  a cake today on his birthday. I wonder if my uncle and the angels
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  are singing Happy birthday to him. And then I said to myself, nobody
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  can celebrate your child's birthday like you can. So I took all of my
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  high brow high blood pressure pills and I poured him into my hand. And
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  I was gonna end it all and be with my son, because what mother
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  doesn't want to be with their son. And I poured all the pills in
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  my hand, and I heard a still voice say, if you do it,
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  you'll never see him again. And I put the pills back into the
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  bottle, and I remember crying and saying, God, if I'm gonna make
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  it, you're gonna have to help me. I said, because everybody is
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  saying, oh, you're so strong. I wouldn't be that strong if it
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  was my son. He's in a better place, And and my mind was
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  saying, if it's such a better place, why won't you just trade places?
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  Send little Johnny to the better place and send Tie home to mommy.
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  And I said, God, you gotta help me. And you know,
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  in the African American communities and churches, they feel there's a tap against mental
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  health. You can say you have to take blood pressure pills with your blood
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  preacher, you have to take diabetes medicine. But when you say that you
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  gotta take anxiety medicine, you gotta take panic medication, you have to take
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  depression medication, when you have to take schizophrenia, whatever mental health issue you
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  have, and you have to take medication. They feel that if you just
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  love God and believe God, that everything is gonna be all right. But
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  everything wasn't all right for me. Sunday after Sunday, I came in with
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  the same problems and I left out the door just a little oilier, but
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  with those same problems, and I realized I had to get some help.
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  I had to talk to somebody. I realized on that day that is okay
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  not to be okay. I don't care what titles you hold in the church,
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  that your first instinct is to be human and you have to talk to
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  somebody who is prepared and equit to deal with mental INSes. So I called
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  the EAP from my job and we talked about the stages of grief and that
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  you don't go through the stages of grief like I'm in stage one, now
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  I'm going to stage two. I'm angry now getting ready to bargain. Now
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  I'm depressed. Now oops, I got to acceptance. It doesn't work like
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  that. You fuck wait between the stages until you finally get to the point
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  where you accepted. And being in the church all my life, I knew
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  that being absent from the body is to be present with the lords. But
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  you can't accept that at the moment your heart can't accept it. Yes,
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  I'm a minister, but before that I was a minister, I was a
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  mother. And so things went all right for a couple of years, and
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  then the apartment building that I lived in corner on fire. My apartment didn't
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  burn, but all my stuff got word damaged and smoke damaged, and they
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  condemned that whole section of the apartment building. So now I find myself homeless
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  and going through the system, having worked all my life, and now I
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  needed some help. So I went through the system, and the way that
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  you were treated, they wanted to make you give up, even if you
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  are eligible for help. They wanted to make it so hard that you give
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  up. The first night they after being there all day long and having to
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  bring my daughter and all our stuff down there, they put this in a
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  bed bug hotel and we were there for about an hour and we had already
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  got bitten four times. So I called my sister and I went back to
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  my mom's and my mom has a one bedroom senior citizen apartment and we all
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  had pile up in there until I was able to find a place. And
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  then I made a permanent decision. While I was in a temporary place,
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  I got married to a man that I thought was one way and I found
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  out after I said I do, I said who did I get married to?
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  He turned from Doctor Jekyll to Miss the Hide overnight. I found out
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  that he was a substance abuser. He was a functional crackhead. He was
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  still in our stock. And finally had to say, you don't want any
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  help. He was denying that he was on drugs, and I was like,
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  you don't want any help it as well as you're denying it, I
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  can't help you. So we got a so I saying, then life was
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  going on great until or April twenty four, two thy and twenty one.
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  That's when I suffered a massive stroke and my whole right side was affected.
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  My right side is the hand that I use. So after being in a
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  rehab and being abused and neglected for two years, I came home still not
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  able to use my hand, and I'm still not able to use it.
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  But I haven't given up that I'm holding on to. I know that God
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  has a plan and a purpose for my life. That this stroke wasn't for
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  me, but for me to inspire and motivate someone else that might be going
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  through some bad chapters in their life not to give up. See. I
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  compare myself to that clown in the carnival that you take the ball and you
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  throw it real hard, and that clown goes all the way down. So
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  in my life I had some hard ballstone at me and I went all the
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  way back, and just when you ready to claim your grand pride, that
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  clown bounces back up again. Well, they put something in that clown that
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  makes it bounce back. Well, God plays something in me that I call
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  the bounce back spirit. Every time I am hit hard with a curved ball.
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  I go all the way back like I'm about to fall, and just
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  when the devil thinks he had me, I bounce back up again. So
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  on tonight I found it fitting to share my testimony of why I do what
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  I do, not for me, not for nobody to feel sorry for me,
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  but to motivate somebody else that might have given up. I'm reminded of
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  Peter in the Bible, and you know the story. Excuse me, you
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  know the story. Peter had fished all night and in the morning, Jesus
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  said, can I use your boats? See when God gets into your circumstances,
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  your life has to be transformed. You have to change your situation can't
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  stay the same. So Peter went from an empty net, he told Jesus.
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  He said, Jesus, I've been fishing all night and I didn't catch
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  anything in. In other words, she was saying, I'm an avid frisherman.
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  Jesus, you're a caverner. I know when it comes that you might
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  know what it is to build things, but I know what it is to
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  fish. And I know it's not time right now to throw my net in.
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  And I've been fishing all night and I'm just ready to go to bed.
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  I'm sure him and the boys were ready to call it a night and
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  go to bed and try again in the morning. And Jesus, after he
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  had used Peter's boat, he said, Peter, launch out in the deep,
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  throw your net out. And Peter said what I said, He'd been
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  fishing all night. And Jesus said, at my word, do it again.
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  So I came by tonight. And if you're listening to this on the
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  replay, and you started that business and it just didn't work out. You
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  tried to write a book and it just didn't work out. You tried to
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  go back to school and it just didn't work out. And now you feel
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  like you failed, You feel rejected, overlooked. I came by tonight to
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  tell you to dream again, one more time, one more time, dream
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  again, because this time is gonna be different. This time, that business
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  is gonna flourish. This time, that book is gonna be a best seller.
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  This time, your marriage is gonna be great. This time, your
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  children are gonna be great. Just do it again, at my word,
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  don't give in, don't give out, and don't give up. In my
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  clothing, I want to say, do you know when we were children and
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  we used to dare each other to do things like I'll hit you and say
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  I dare you to hit her. I dare you to whatever it is that
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  we used to dare you to do, and you would take that dare because
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  you didn't want anybody to think that you were a scaredy cat. So on
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  tonight, I double dog dare you to dream again. Whatever dream you have
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  rocked the sleep, whatever God has promised you dream again. This time is
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  gonna be different. Join me now in a word of prayer. Dear heavenly
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  Father, in your precious son Jesus' name, we thank you for our gifts
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  and talent. So on tonight, God, we ask that you stir up
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  our gifts and talent, but you open up our creative portals in the name
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  of Jesus. Anything that we touch, God, Ah, make it shine
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  like gold. In the name of Jesus. We believe you God, because
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  you are not men that you should lie, or the son of men that
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  you shall repent. But every word that preceded out of your mouth will accomplish
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  what it was sent to do. We love you and we adore you.
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  In Jesus' name, I pray a man and a man and a man.
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  Thank you, thank you for joining me on this special special day, my
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  son Thomas's birthday, and I have established scholarship in his name, the tie
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  On Thomas Friends and Family Scholarship, and as of today, we have given
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  our seventeen scholarships to African American boys of single parents who have been accepted to
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  college and they might just need a little help with transportation or books or whatever.
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  So if you want to be a part of the type Shaw Thomas Friends
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  and Family Scholarship, you can catch at it to me at Dallas sign alma
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  THO. Once again, if you want to be part of this scholarship that
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  I plan to give out again this year, you can cash at me at
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  Dallas sign a L M A T h oh. Thank you, thank you
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  for joining in. Remember remember to like, share and comment. Subscribe to
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  my channel if you want to know the next time that inspirational moments where Property's
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  teeth will be on. I'll see you again in two weeks. Be blessed
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  and remember that I love you and it ain't a thing you can do about
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  it. Good night, Oh mercy, Oh things ain't what? Thanks you
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  stupid where all the blue sky, blue up the nor something supers