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Embracing Change: A Journey Through Life's Transitions · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  So growing up, I've always believed in trying to understand where I want to be in my life.
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  In my 20s, I felt like I knew it. I had all the answers. I always said,
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  I'm going to be this. I'm going to be that.
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  In my 30s, I said, if only I could have done this in my 20s.
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  If only I could have done this in my early 30s.
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  Then when I got into my 40s, I said, well, this isn't too, too bad. I still feel like I'm 20.
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  Well, let me rephrase. I still act like I'm in my 20s. I still feel like I'm
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  in my 30s, but my body knows I'm in my 40s.
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  So, but here's the main question.
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  When you get to like 45, 46, 47, and you know you're about to get into that
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  new journey of life, are you truly understanding where your future is going to be?
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  And are you okay with what is next in your life?
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  Dr. E is back. Half-Faith Let It Begin kicks off a Monday 2025 edition, and it starts right now.
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  Half-Faith Let It Begin was something that I always wanted to do.
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  On June 16th, 2018, a show designed for you, The Daily Commuter, went live.
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  But what I didn't realize, that Half-Faith Let It Begin would become a family.
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  There we go. There he is.
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  After my daughter was born, I was so excited and saying to myself,
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  I can't wait for her to say, have faith, let it begin.
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  Music.
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  And she did. Have faith, let it begin, when it starts right now.
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  When my son was born, forget it, now I have two children. Noah! Hi, Noah. Noah! Noah!
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  Happy birthday, Noah. And I was just as eager to have him say,
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  have faith, let it begin.
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  Can you say, have faith? Have faith. Let it begin. Let it begin. Yeah!
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  A show with motivational topics, inspirational stories, and personal testimony
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  set out to change the world.
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  A weekly show all about faith. Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin.
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  Here's your host, Angel Santana. Three, two, one...
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  Dr. E is back, and he is back from an awesome vacation.
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  We just did an amazing bookend, I'll use his words, of the Kroc podcast,
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  Citizens Reunited to Overcome Cancer, aired yesterday.
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  And I'll tell you, if you haven't had a chance to listen to what Dr.
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  E puts out, I'm telling you right now, I'm going to put two links in our description.
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  You got to watch last, well, we'll call it last season, last year's episode, and this past Sunday.
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  Dr. E, I missed you. Happy holidays, buddy. Happy New Year.
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  Happy New Year to you. And I want to just take a minute, if you allow me to
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  say happy new year to our half faith community and our family,
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  I can't express how much admiration and love I have for you guys.
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  And I just want to make sure you know that I'm really focused on praying for
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  everyone to have an incredible 2025.
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  Absolutely. And as we actually are speaking, I would be remissed if I didn't
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  say happy three Kings Day to all my fellow people that celebrate Three Kings.
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  Today's January 6th and it is Three Kings Day.
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  I will talk more about that and give you more backup information about that
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  and probably more audio as to when Ariel looks under the bed.
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  But anyway, we're going to go back to our main episode.
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  Dr. E, you know, we're about the same age, right?
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  We're about the same age. Yeah, man. Maybe separated by about 25 years,
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  but yeah, we're basically sharing the earth at the same time for sure.
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  But I want to actually, let me interrupt you because I'm rude.
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  No, you're not rude. I want to just say that what you,
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  uh, your introduction to this,
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  today's podcast really hit home for me because I would be curious if,
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  if our half faith people could respond to this question, how many of you guys
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  out there are early bloomers and how many of you are late bloomers?
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  And since I've been a kid.
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  I have been absolutely a late bloomer. I am so far behind everybody.
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  And I believe, Angel, you might be in my same category.
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  I tell the story all the time when my,
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  I want to say maybe my first grade teacher called
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  my mother into school and my mother was thinking I was little Einstein and she
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  gets called in and she's thinking that the teacher is going to tell her that
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  little Tommy is so smart that he's going to skip a few grades and he's going
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  to now go from first grade to sixth grade because that's how smart he is.
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  But instead, you know, and I use words that we used in the sixties, basically Mrs.
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  Whatever her name was, Mrs. Wild told my mother that I was basically mentally retarded.
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  So, you know, my mother came home. Oh yeah.
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  Well, you know, and we were kind of talking a little bit about,
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  you know, kids and how they develop and, you know, being a late Bloomer, I didn't read that well.
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  And I just was having trouble and just with, with not just with my,
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  with my expression and my thinking and my reading, but also,
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  you know, physically not where I needed to be.
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  So I have a lot of, you know, points of contact with, with, with kids like that.
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  Number two is that even throughout school, like, you know, it took me a long
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  time to really get something, but when I got it, you know, I got it probably
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  better than everybody else.
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  So the third point I want to make, and this is to you, Angel,
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  again, my homage, my honoring of you is that, you know, I look at life a lot
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  differently than most people because, you know, maybe it's just me.
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  Maybe it's because of my training as a physician, but I see us all in a very tiny.
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  Bubble, you know, in this small little bubble, like when you're blowing,
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  you know, a little bubble, like as kids get that, that little detergent and
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  they blow a bubble and it kind of floats and then it pops, you know, that's what our life is.
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  It's this very, very quick and we think it's long.
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  And even if we live a hundred years, it's just a drop of sand.
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  It's one grain of sand. And I say to people, you know,
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  that think they're too old to do things and they think that they've passed the
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  point where they're useful or they think that, you know, they can't achieve
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  something and that they have wasted their lives and it's too late for them to turn it around.
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  And I'm going to tell you.
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  That's not true. I'm going to tell you that what God wants us to do is to do our best.
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  And even if we're on our deathbed and we have this fantasy or this desire or
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  passion to go to law school, let's go to law school while you're on hospice.
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  Who cares? What's the difference?
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  My kid tells me maybe I'm too old to go to medical school.
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  I go, well, what else are you going to do? We're all just here waiting for God to take us back home.
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  Let's fill that time to the best of our capacity to really accentuate the gifts that God gave us.
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  And now back to my homage to you, Angel, is that now you in your 40s,
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  mid 40s, going toward that big 5-0 soon in a couple of years,
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  you're starting a new endeavor.
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  You're going to become a pastor. You're starting on Monday, as a matter of fact.
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  I don't know if you did a podcast about that, but you should.
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  And how much admiration do I have?
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  How much admiration do all of us have for you setting the example of what this person,
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  this specific podcast is, is to give everyone the right and the inspiration
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  to know that they can be anything they want to be.
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  They can do anything they want to, as long as they pray about it,
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  as long as they have God's blessing.
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  And as long as they put in the effort, I hope that I know it was a long answer,
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  but I hope it was what you were looking for.
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  It's actually perfect because it was a great segue to conclude it.
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  And how I was going to say was, you know, a lot of this came from the back of
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  my mind because yes, we're recording this for the record.
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  We're recording this on a Friday night. It's going to air on Monday.
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  And the reason why I did that is because technically I will be in school for
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  the first day of ministry school.
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  So my follow-up will be on Tuesday to tell you all how I'm doing.
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  It was something that was just festering inside my heart, inside my butterflies
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  that, you know, wow, I'm 46 years old, going to turn 47 this year.
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  And I'm starting quote unquote school.
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  However, at the same time, I say that in the same sentence, in the same breath,
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  I feel at peace about it because it is something that I know it was time to do.
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  If I were to go back and say, I was going to be a pastor at 20,
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  it wouldn't have worked out.
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  And I know that it wouldn't have worked out. I probably wouldn't have known
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  that then, but I know now it wouldn't have worked out.
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  In my 30s, I had too much going on.
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  In my early 40s, it wasn't the time.
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  It's so amazing because we talk about miracles from the last episodes where
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  you and I have done in the Croc podcast.
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  We've talked about the what ifs. We've talked about all these things and it's in God's time.
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  And it's amazing to be a part of that, to be front and center when you know
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  that he has literally taken his hand and he has then said, okay, angel, it's time.
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  And, and you can pray about it. You can think about it, but when it is God's time, you just know.
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  So let me close by saying this.
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  Dr. E makes a great point. That's why we have him on here and having Dr.
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  E part of the show and being my friend and my mentor is not an accident.
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  It was God saying, it's time for these two guys to come together.
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  Well, whoever's hearing today's message, it's now time for God to tell you the same.
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  May not be while you're listening to this, but it's starting to creep up and
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  it means that God is just about ready to tell you it's your time.
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  So think about that as you go about your day.
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  May God bless you. May he keep you. May he shine his light upon you and grant
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  each and every single one of you peace on earth.
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  And remember to pray all of us for those that are finding their way.
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  We'll continue to pray for the families that have lost loved ones in New Orleans.
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  We pray for those of the tragedy and mass shooting in Queens, New York.
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  And we continue to lift up in prayer all of our government officials.
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  May they find a way to get along. Find a way to put all this kindergarten,
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  first through fifth grade mentality.
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  Get along and figure it out. And that's what today's episode is all about.
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  God bless you and never forget.
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  Have faith, let it begin, baby. See you guys tomorrow. Thank you for listening
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  to Have Faith, Let It Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.
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  have this show with you, my love.
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  Huh? Yeah, you know you can.
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  you a new topic, a new story each and every day, right? Isn't that right, Ariel? Yeah.
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  And we... She's smiling at me. Guys, enjoy your day.
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  Thank you for listening to Have Faithful Begin. We'll be back tomorrow.
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  Music.