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Steve Harvey's Morning Inspiration - 5.20.26 · Daily Inspiration: The Steve Harvey Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: Come on, ah huh, I sure will. Good morning everybody.
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  Speaker 1: You are listening to the voice, Come on, dig me
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  Speaker 1: now one and only see if Harvey got a radio show. Man.
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  Speaker 1: God is in the blessing business. I'm in the receiving line. Man.
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  Speaker 1: That's a good feeling. I thank God for waking me
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  Speaker 1: up in the mornings. I really really do. I thank
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  Speaker 1: God for the spirit that he wakes me up with
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  Speaker 1: because I finally, but I finally figured it out. Such
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  Speaker 1: a blessing that shouldn't be taken for granted. The fact
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  Speaker 1: that you are up today, the fact that you just
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  Speaker 1: got off working, you driving home, the fact that you
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  Speaker 1: got a job to come home from, the fact that
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  Speaker 1: you got a job to wake up too. Whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: the fact that you can see, think, here, smell, walk, talk, rhyme, reason,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, it's a blessing. Man was talking to
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  Speaker 1: a partner of mine last night, and an analogy came
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  Speaker 1: to me last night of what my life has been
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  Speaker 1: like just going over my story with a friend of
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  Speaker 1: mine of all some of the things I had gone through,
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  Speaker 1: and he never knew it because he said, man, you
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  Speaker 1: never told me that we were just talking. One of
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  Speaker 1: the things I remember, and it's kind of equated to
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  Speaker 1: my life. Was when I was a little boy and
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  Speaker 1: she go to the store with my mom and she
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  Speaker 1: would let me buy a jigsaw puzzle. Now, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you, a jigsaw puzzle comes in a box. There
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  Speaker 1: are no instructions. It just comes in a box and
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  Speaker 1: it's simple. You're gonna dump the pieces out in a
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  Speaker 1: pile and you're gonna try to put the pieces together
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  Speaker 1: until it looks like the picture that's on the cover
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  Speaker 1: of the box. That's as simple as it is. Here
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  Speaker 1: is the deal. I would select a jigsaw puzzle based
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  Speaker 1: on the picture that I liked and if I thought
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  Speaker 1: I could do it. Now, if the picture looked too crazy,
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  Speaker 1: if it looked too intricate, I didn't want that puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: you know. And the thing was, back in the day
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  Speaker 1: you got a jigsaw puzzle, you got one hundred piece puzzles,
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  Speaker 1: four hundred piece puzzles. Man, then they say a thousand
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  Speaker 1: piece puzzle. You go ooo. So those were a little
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  Speaker 1: difficult for me when I was a little boy, so
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  Speaker 1: I didn't want that. As I got a little bit older,
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  Speaker 1: I had more challenging puzzles, you know. Four fifty five
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  Speaker 1: hundred piece puzzles, but I always picked a picture of
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  Speaker 1: something I liked. So it's very simple. You get the
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  Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle, you get it home, you open it up,
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  Speaker 1: you dump it out on the table. You flip all
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  Speaker 1: the pieces over so you can see them, and then
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  Speaker 1: I would try to sort them based on the colors
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  Speaker 1: on the box. If it was like a black section,
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  Speaker 1: I'd take all the black pieces and slide them over there.
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  Speaker 1: It was some flowers, I'd try to find all the
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  Speaker 1: pictures with little jigsaw pieces with the little floor, and
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  Speaker 1: I separate them and then I start putting it together.
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  Speaker 1: And the way I started was i'd try to build
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  Speaker 1: a border first, because I knew all the straight edges
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  Speaker 1: had to be side by side at one point. And
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  Speaker 1: it was funny, man, because it's related to my life.
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  Speaker 1: I would start putting the pieces together of the picture
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  Speaker 1: I saw that I liked, and that would be my picture.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people didn't like jigsaw puzzles. As a
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  Speaker 1: matter of fact, none of the boys on the street
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  Speaker 1: liked jigsaw puzzles but me, because they just didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to go through the intricate d tails of figuring that out.
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  Speaker 1: Really go outside and run or something like that. And
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  Speaker 1: so what happened was, as I got older, I wanted
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  Speaker 1: more difficult and challenging puzzles, but I wouldn't go too far.
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  Speaker 1: I wanted some nice stuff to happen. I had a
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  Speaker 1: picture of what I wanted for my life, but I
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  Speaker 1: didn't want to go too far because it was so
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  Speaker 1: challenging and difficult. I couldn't see myself with all of that,
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  Speaker 1: and I didn't have the time, the knowledge, the expertise
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  Speaker 1: to figuring all the intricate details. And I discovered something
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  Speaker 1: when I was talking last night. That's what happens in
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  Speaker 1: life to a lot of people. You get bogged down
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  Speaker 1: with the details of coming up and trying to create
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  Speaker 1: the picture that you want for yourself. You put it
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  Speaker 1: to the side, you say, oh, that puzzles are crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Next thing, you know, you crumb it up and put
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  Speaker 1: it back in the box. So you go halfway and
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  Speaker 1: you get stuck, and you get to the part where
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  Speaker 1: it ain't a lot of different colors. It's all the same,
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  Speaker 1: and that's a little bit more challenging. So that may
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  Speaker 1: stop you. But it's somewhere in the jigsaw puzzle that
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  Speaker 1: it gets very difficult and challenging the bigger the picture
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  Speaker 1: you want, but then what all happened in your life.
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  Speaker 1: It's just like what happened in the jigsaw. Once you
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  Speaker 1: get comfortable and you don't mind the challenge, you could
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  Speaker 1: get a bigger picture. But here's the key to it, though,
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  Speaker 1: if you put God in your mix, See, the picture
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  Speaker 1: that I saw for myself as a boy is not
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  Speaker 1: the picture that has happened to me as a man.
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  Speaker 1: Because along the way from boyhood to manhood, from the
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  Speaker 1: time I was telling you understand what happened along the
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  Speaker 1: ride in there was I started putting God in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: And so now the picture that I have now is
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  Speaker 1: not the picture I saw. It's the picture that God saw.
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  Speaker 1: So what I'm saying this analogy is the picture you
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  Speaker 1: have may be difficult to complete, but if you were
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  Speaker 1: to include God in your life, put God in your
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  Speaker 1: jigsaw puzzle, God will not only help you complete the puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: and he gonna add some pieces, he gonna do some favors,
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  Speaker 1: he gonna show some mercy, and you gonna look up
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  Speaker 1: and the picture that you're able to end up with
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  Speaker 1: will be totally different and much more complete, much more beautiful.
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  Speaker 1: A bigger picture than the one you had. Because there's
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  Speaker 1: no way that I could have sought a life that
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  Speaker 1: I have today back when I was a boy. And
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  Speaker 1: it amazes me when I hear people say I always
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  Speaker 1: saw this for myself. Ah, I didn't do that. I
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  Speaker 1: didn't quite see this for myself. I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you can have the ability to see what God really
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  Speaker 1: has for you. But man, he's a master for jigsaw. Man,
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  Speaker 1: he's an incredible puzzle completed. So if you got a
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  Speaker 1: puzzle that's challenging to you, maybe you need to see
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  Speaker 1: what's the picture that God has for your life. If
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  Speaker 1: God were in your life, if you complete it to puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: what would it look like. It'll be a far more
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  Speaker 1: extensive puzzle, and it would be a far more beautiful
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  Speaker 1: piece of scenery than you could have ever imagined. Tears
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  Speaker 1: come in my eyes because I can't believe God bought
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  Speaker 1: me this far. I can't believe that when I opened
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  Speaker 1: up and accepted him and started talking to him, that
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  Speaker 1: he would add all these pieceles to my jigsaw puzzle,
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  Speaker 1: and my jigsaw puzzle would look like this. And I
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  Speaker 1: can tell you I ain't got a whole lot to
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  Speaker 1: do with what out and turned into. It's mostly favor
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  Speaker 1: and blessings and grace and mercy of God. And I
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  Speaker 1: looked up and I just got a much bigger jigsaw
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  Speaker 1: puzzle completed. And guess what, He ain't through with me yet.
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  Speaker 1: That's what's amazing and exciting about a relationship with God.
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  Speaker 1: God could take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it into
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