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Holiday Bliss or Blues Let's Chat to Bring Joy to YOU · Wellness Uncensored

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Speaker 2: Hey, good afternoon, and welcome to another episode of Wellness
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Speaker 2: and Censored with Patty G. I'm excited to be here
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Speaker 2: as your host of this next hour and to talk
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Speaker 2: to you about everything focusing on mental wellness, mental health, mind, body, spirit,
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Speaker 2: and just lots of great stuff to share. We're going
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Speaker 2: to take some time today and really talk about things
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Speaker 2: to hopefully get your spirits up, get you lifted, maybe
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Speaker 2: find new ways to celebrate the coming days in maybe
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Speaker 2: a new way. A lot of folks, I think sometimes
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Speaker 2: struggle getting caught up in the hustle and bustle, and
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Speaker 2: it's not always a good or a happy time for
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Speaker 2: a lot of folks. And so how can we make
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Speaker 2: those next couple of days coming into the brand new
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Speaker 2: year more happy and joyful? And I would be remiss
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Speaker 2: if I didn't bring on my dear friend Matt Youngblood,
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Speaker 2: who is an avid podcaster on X I want to
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Speaker 2: welcome that to join us and remind everybody, you know,
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Speaker 2: the whole spirit of this show.
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Speaker 3: Good to see you, Matt, Good to see you, Patty,
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Speaker 3: Thanks again for having me back.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely and you know, the spirit of this show and
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Speaker 2: the whole beginnings of Wellness and Censored is because we
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Speaker 2: wanted to create a way to get timely information out
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Speaker 2: to you that you're not always going to see on
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Speaker 2: the mainstream media. And although I think they do try
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Speaker 2: to put a lot of positive things out and you're
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Speaker 2: going to hear a lot of good stories hopefully over
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Speaker 2: the next coming days and weeks that are out there
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Speaker 2: for everybody. I just want folks to know that there's
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Speaker 2: people like us behind the scenes trying to be on
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Speaker 2: the scenes of just spreading not just good cheer, but
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Speaker 2: the real value and meaning behind the little guys. We're
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Speaker 2: out here on the airwaves and we are just trying
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Speaker 2: to have good conversation, good education, and ways for you
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Speaker 2: to feel like you can tune in and reach somebody.
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Speaker 2: You know, not some big TV screen syndicate or some
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Speaker 2: big news radio. But we're here for everybody who tunes
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Speaker 2: into podcast and so a lot of what we've been doing,
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Speaker 2: it's been our third season on the air, we talk
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Speaker 2: about things related to your mental health, your physical health,
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Speaker 2: and ways to really optimize. And so Matt, I'm just
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Speaker 2: excited we're going to spend this episode talking about different
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Speaker 2: things to try to bring joy and happiness and hope
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Speaker 2: and just different things that you know, we might come
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Speaker 2: across with people and I might share some stories. Matt
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Speaker 2: may share some stories of things that he's come across
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Speaker 2: on his podcast, and so I just want to welcome
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Speaker 2: you all to just a nice, fun and relaxing episode
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Speaker 2: to bring up a cup of coffee or something to drink,
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Speaker 2: and if you decide you want to join in, feel
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Speaker 2: free to text us and we can answer your questions.
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Speaker 2: Youre live, So again, welcome Matt. It's great to see you,
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Speaker 2: and I hope you are as excited as I am
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Speaker 2: to bring in yet another new year and end our
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Speaker 2: year with a wonderful Christmas blessing. So tell us a
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Speaker 2: little bit about about how you're doing and how you're
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Speaker 2: feeling and anything you want to kick us off with.
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Speaker 3: We're doing great, We've got it's been it's been a
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Speaker 3: great year. It's been really you know, this was the
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Speaker 3: first time I've really been hosting Xpasis from January to
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Speaker 3: December on a weekly basis. We've had a lot of
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Speaker 3: great guests, a lot of great conversations ranging from ranging
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Speaker 3: from politics to health. Then you know, it's a pleasure
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Speaker 3: to say that Patty has been on quite a few
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Speaker 3: of those and so so it's really been a heck
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Speaker 3: of a year. And twenty six is uh is just
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Speaker 3: a new beginning and uh and and I'm really looking
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Speaker 3: forward to what the new year brings. It's it's exciting,
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Speaker 3: you know, for some it can be a time to
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Speaker 3: start over for something can be there's always don't ever
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Speaker 3: be afraid to uh to do just that, to uh
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Speaker 3: start over or to uh start something new, a new hobby.
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Speaker 3: Maybe you're maybe you're gonna try to try to read
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Speaker 3: the Bible throughout the year, Maybe gonna maybe gonna read
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Speaker 3: the Bible in a year. I know January is usually
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Speaker 3: a time where people will start doing that. But just enjoy,
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Speaker 3: just enjoy the season though, enjoy the love, the hope,
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Speaker 3: the joy and the peace that h that we that
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Speaker 3: is acknowledged during the advent for those to celebrate it,
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Speaker 3: because I know not everyone does, but for those who
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Speaker 3: acknowledge that, I hope Uh, hope hopefully today we can
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Speaker 3: try to find those things and just take a step
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Speaker 3: back from h from the news for a moment.
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Speaker 2: I agree, you know, I think that's the thing that
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Speaker 2: we get caught up into the holiday shopping, We get
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Speaker 2: caught up into the calendar of days as we approach
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Speaker 2: I've started folks out both in some of the groups
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Speaker 2: that I work with, and I've shared it with folks
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Speaker 2: here just about a week or so ago. But you know,
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Speaker 2: it's kind of like the twelve Days of Christmas, but
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Speaker 2: really about the twelve days to a new beginning, the
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Speaker 2: twelve days to giving thanks, the twelve days to really
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Speaker 2: starting into something that maybe something that you've always wanted
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Speaker 2: to do, you've never done. It's a good time for change,
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Speaker 2: and the way to change is to really look back
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Speaker 2: and reflect. So it's kind of a way as we
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Speaker 2: celebrate what is it that you can celebrate for yourselves
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Speaker 2: for this year? You know, we celebrate the birth of
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Speaker 2: our Lord, we celebrate time together with family, and yet
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Speaker 2: there are so many of you out there that don't
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Speaker 2: feel that desire to celebrate. And I want that to
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Speaker 2: be the message that Matt and I bring to all
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Speaker 2: of you today. Is what can you celebrate? How about
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Speaker 2: looking back and celebrating You've had hope this year, You've
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Speaker 2: had wellness this year. Maybe you've overcome a sickness this year.
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Speaker 2: Maybe you made it through the year, and what can
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Speaker 2: you look forward to in starting fresh in twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 2: I think a lots to be said for gratitude and
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Speaker 2: a lot that we often just don't even stop and reflect.
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Speaker 2: And I think again for what Matt and I want
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Speaker 2: to talk and share with you all today. You know,
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Speaker 2: this can be the year where you just stop and
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Speaker 2: look back and celebrate. You celebrate your wellness, celebrate your beginnings.
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Speaker 2: Some people have had almost a year of sobriety, A
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Speaker 2: few patients that I'm working with, some people have had
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Speaker 2: all for that, Yeah, it's incredible. Some people have just
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Speaker 2: overcome having had a surgery and they weren't sure going
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Speaker 2: in if they were going to make it out. So
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Speaker 2: let's celebrate you. You've made it through the surgery. Absolutely,
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Speaker 2: praise God for all of that. Maybe it's the decision
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Speaker 2: to either stay where you are or to move in
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Speaker 2: a different direction. So I really want you to put
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Speaker 2: that out as what you are celebrating this year. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'd love to invite folks to just to become more involved,
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Speaker 2: to learn more about your spirituality. But in the meantime
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Speaker 2: of learning about what is it, what are your questions,
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Speaker 2: what are the things that you just can't figure out,
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Speaker 2: let's do a little celebration of what you have done,
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Speaker 2: what you've become, what you've overcome, and just celebrate that
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Speaker 2: you're able to even be here with us today and
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Speaker 2: consider the possibilities. Find something that you can celebrate. It
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Speaker 2: may even be you got a new puppy or you've
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Speaker 2: paid off a bill. What we want to take those
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Speaker 2: moments are really reflect write down if you haven't done journaling.
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Speaker 2: I always tell folks, Matt, it's so important to write
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Speaker 2: your thoughts down. And we can talk a little bit
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Speaker 2: about that too. But we often get caught up in
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Speaker 2: the negative, and it's so easy to say what we
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Speaker 2: don't have. But Matt, what is it that you do
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Speaker 2: that you get caught up and you do to positives
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Speaker 2: and what gives you ideas going forward and what things
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Speaker 2: would you like to to share with people on positive
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Speaker 2: and joy and reflection?
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Speaker 3: Well, you know, I think for me and for you too,
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Speaker 3: because we're both sort of in this line of work,
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Speaker 3: albeit different lanes of it. But we're both sort of
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Speaker 3: we're both in the media space and as a media
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Speaker 3: person to the extent that I even am, I don't
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Speaker 3: really I don't like to. It's like I don't like
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Speaker 3: to call myself an independent journalist, but I have been
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Speaker 3: called that. But anyway, that's okay. When you're in the
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Speaker 3: when you're in this space, no pun intended, it's easy
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Speaker 3: to get caught up in in in a in all
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Speaker 3: the negative because there's even with President Trump in office
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Speaker 3: as one example, or or even even with all the accomplishments,
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Speaker 3: it's it's so easy to particularly on X because you
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Speaker 3: know the way the algorithm works is it is certain things.
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Speaker 3: There are certain things, whether it's clickmait or whatever, that
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Speaker 3: drive content. And if we're not careful, we can get
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Speaker 3: we can get swept up in that and you fun
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Speaker 3: and there's all this other there's all this stuff going
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Speaker 3: on around you. There's all this other stuff being done,
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Speaker 3: but you're fixated on this one issue because you're you're
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Speaker 3: not you're not getting what you want. Now. Granted, there
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Speaker 3: is a difference between between between taking yes for an
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Speaker 3: answer and so and then turning around and saying, but that,
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Speaker 3: but this is an enough that's actually a healthy thing
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Speaker 3: to do. But you but what you can't do is
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Speaker 3: is is is good to one extreme or the other?
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Speaker 3: You can't like you you have to find a way
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Speaker 3: to balance. So you have to find a way to
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Speaker 3: balance those two extremes. So, and that's just speaking for
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Speaker 3: me as as a media person that it's easy to
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Speaker 3: get caught up in the negatives or the things were,
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Speaker 3: the things we're not seeing results on. I don't have
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Speaker 3: I don't have to say anything specifically because I know
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Speaker 3: if you're within the side of my voice, some things
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Speaker 3: already came to mind. So if but if that, if
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Speaker 3: that's you though, if you're in that camp, though, I
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Speaker 3: would encourage you to to look to take a step back,
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Speaker 3: like I said at the beginning, take a step back
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Speaker 3: and look around you and ask yourself, you know, things like,
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Speaker 3: for instance, have you taken anything for granted? You know?
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Speaker 3: And I'm reminded of a conversation I had with a
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Speaker 3: church member who wants told me that of a church
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Speaker 3: sign he saw, and it said, have you thanked God today?
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Speaker 3: Have you thanked God today for all that He's given you?
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Speaker 3: For all that you have for the show, perhaps for Patty,
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Speaker 3: perhaps now doctor Patty, by the way, what have you
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Speaker 3: have you stopped and, like Patty said, had had a
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Speaker 3: little gratitude for the for the things you do have.
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Speaker 3: So I think that I think that's part of it.
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Speaker 3: I think gratitude is a big part of it. And
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Speaker 3: also just staying grounded and just stay staying focused on
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Speaker 3: doing what doing what it is that you do, whatever
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Speaker 3: that may be, and don't get caught in the hype
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Speaker 3: of other things particular and in the case of my
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Speaker 3: line of work, if you will, uh, it's it's whatever's trending,
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Speaker 3: whatever is. It's tempting to hop on that bandwagon and
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Speaker 3: run with it. I don't do that. Yeah, I do
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Speaker 3: my own thing. I tell people all the time. I
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Speaker 3: am my own independent broadcaster. I don't let I try
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Speaker 3: not to let other people tell me what to and
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Speaker 3: to not talk about. So speaking for me, that's sort
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Speaker 3: of how one of the traps that you can fall
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Speaker 3: into doing this, but also one of the ways to
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Speaker 3: avoid it. You have to have a sense of perspective
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Speaker 3: of not only yourself, but of the work that you
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Speaker 3: do and everything around you.
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Speaker 2: Oh, I like that I mean, and you mentioned a
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Speaker 2: couple of really important key points, you know, staying grounded
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Speaker 2: in the moment and not getting caught up with the
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Speaker 2: buzz the media. And I often tell patients this, you know,
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Speaker 2: while we want to stay in the know, plugging into
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Speaker 2: the news can be very unsettling, and really try to
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Speaker 2: create and cultivate your day where you can in between
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Speaker 2: what you have to do, to do things that nurture you.
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Speaker 2: If you can step outside, if you can get a
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Speaker 2: good book, if you could take a hot bath, if
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Speaker 2: you can really smell the smells around you. It's those
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Speaker 2: kinds of things that you really do need to settle
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Speaker 2: in with a cup of tea and breathe and pause
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Speaker 2: and get yourself away from some of the craziness. Do
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Speaker 2: you need to go gift shopping? Of course, everybody's looking
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Speaker 2: to get this and that, but not everybody again, like
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Speaker 2: Matt and I were saying, is really in the moment
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Speaker 2: to celebrate. So if you're not in that moment to celebrate,
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Speaker 2: or if you are, take a moment to pause. And
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Speaker 2: if you're not out in that moment to celebrate, because
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Speaker 2: let's just say, your cup is weighing heavy. This year
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Speaker 2: of things that have not gone the way we wanted
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Speaker 2: them to. How do you get out of that to
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Speaker 2: at least give a little balance, And like we were just
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Speaker 2: talking about finding moments to just nurture yourself, and I do.
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Speaker 2: I often talk about journaling, writing your thoughts down, because
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Speaker 2: we get so caught up in ourselves we don't know
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Speaker 2: how to get ourselves out of the cobweb of stress
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Speaker 2: and anxiety. And ways to do that are to pause.
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Speaker 2: If you're in your car, take a moment and pause.
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Speaker 2: If you're home, carve out ten or fifteen minutes, be
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Speaker 2: in a space in your place that feels nurturing. Wrap
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Speaker 2: yourself in a warm blanket, Grab something you enjoy to drink,
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Speaker 2: get out a pen, start a notebook, and start writing
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Speaker 2: down things that you might like to change in the
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Speaker 2: coming year. Write down things that you are actually grateful for.
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Speaker 2: Write down things that you can say do give you
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Speaker 2: joy and make you happy. Because we often are half empty,
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Speaker 2: we have to fill our cup to be more half full.
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Speaker 2: And so doing some of those things I think can
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Speaker 2: be very helpful if you're on a spiritual journey. You know,
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Speaker 2: I have a favorite pastor of mine often said the
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Speaker 2: church gets full for CEO around this time of year,
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Speaker 2: and he calls them CEOs because it's Christmas and Easter
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Speaker 2: only ya.
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Speaker 3: The beginning right.
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Speaker 2: One year, it was Easter Sunday and we were crowded.
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Speaker 2: We actually did our church in an outdoor, live location,
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Speaker 2: and it was such a critical journey. I had attended church.
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Speaker 2: I enjoyed going to church. I felt that I was
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Speaker 2: spirit filled. However, that particular year, that Easter Sunday, it
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Speaker 2: didn't matter whether there were one or one thousand people around.
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Speaker 2: I got a message. That message was so profound to
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Speaker 2: me that I can still speak to it today. And
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Speaker 2: one of the songs that they played was from Tim McGraw,
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Speaker 2: Live Like You Were Dying.
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Speaker 3: And I like that.
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Speaker 2: Because whether it's Easter or Christmas, the concept of living
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Speaker 2: life to the fullest. We always live and then we
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Speaker 2: have these regrets. I should have spent more time, I
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Speaker 2: should have done this, I could have done that? What
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Speaker 2: if only? And I love that song as sad as
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Speaker 2: it was about Tim McGraw and his dad live live,
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Speaker 2: not necessarily live like you're dying, but live Are you
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Speaker 2: all really living? Think about that? And where can we
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Speaker 2: find joy when we take a breath and go I'm alive.
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Speaker 2: I can't worry about the bills. I can't worry about
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Speaker 2: the job, I can't worry about the people don't like me.
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Speaker 2: I can't let those things weigh me down. I'm just
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Speaker 2: going to live, and maybe in living you start to
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Speaker 2: find reasons to have hope. So that's kind of one
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Speaker 2: of the things I wanted to share with everybody today.
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Speaker 2: But I don't know, what do you think, Matt? What
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Speaker 2: else can we tell people?
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Speaker 3: Do you know you mentioned anxiety earlier. I think you'll
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Speaker 3: really I think you will really resonate with this. There's
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Speaker 3: a line in Leana Crawford song Psalm twenty three Still Waters.
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Speaker 3: It says anxiety hates Psalm twenty three, and I thought, why, well, well,
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Speaker 3: if you go and look at what Psalm twenty three says.
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Speaker 3: It says in part that the look the Lord is
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Speaker 3: my shepherd. I shall not want. I mean what meaning
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Speaker 3: you you will, you will know, you will have you,
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Speaker 3: you have all you need. Some translations say that and
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Speaker 3: so and so. It's you are because because going back
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Speaker 3: to what you said earlier about about filling up your cup,
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Speaker 3: you know God, you know, that's that's what God does.
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Speaker 3: He fills our cups until they do run over with him.
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Speaker 3: But in order to do that, you've got it empty
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Speaker 3: out all those things that are there, that that that
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Speaker 3: are taking, that are preventing you from receiving him, and
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Speaker 3: the hope and the and the love and the joy
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Speaker 3: and the peace that he came to bring along with
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Speaker 3: so much more because it is Christmas. It's not Christmas
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Speaker 3: without Christ, right.
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Speaker 2: So that's right, Like, what are we celebrating if we're
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Speaker 2: not celebrating christ birth?
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Speaker 3: Correct? And not just his birth, but but it was
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Speaker 3: his birth that made the way for the cross, as
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Speaker 3: our church choir saying this past Sunday, Uh, he made
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Speaker 3: away in a manger to make a way to the cross.
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Speaker 2: And that story is it's so deep and so telling.
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Speaker 2: And you know, again, I know we have listeners from
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Speaker 2: all walks of life, and what I think the message
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Speaker 2: to all of you is, you know, find a deeper meaning,
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Speaker 2: find a deeper meaning for yourself, find a deeper meaning
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Speaker 2: of why do you do what you do? Why are
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Speaker 2: you here? And if you have questions and doubts, you know,
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Speaker 2: sometimes it starts with something so simple as go to
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Speaker 2: your Christmas service, go step out into a church and
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Speaker 2: look for some answers or bring some questions. I do
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Speaker 2: find that, you know, for the CEOs sometimes the messages
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Speaker 2: that are given on on Christmas and Easter are very
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Speaker 2: good to let people know that it's not always about
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Speaker 2: the the ritualistic things, the churchy things. It's about living
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Speaker 2: and exploring and learning. There is more to life. And
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Speaker 2: if you are lost, or if you're sad, if you're grieving,
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Speaker 2: we want to bring you hope. Hope is what gives life,
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Speaker 2: and without hope, that's what makes it really hard for people.
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Speaker 2: And so I just have to believe you have to
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Speaker 2: have hope. And if you don't have it, Matt and
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Speaker 2: I are here to help you find it, but only
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Speaker 2: start your exploration.
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Speaker 4: My dogs agree, yeah, if only, if only so?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so what about hope?
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Speaker 3: Matt?
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Speaker 2: Do you think about hope and feeling people's cup? Like
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Speaker 2: you mentioned feeling the cop? How can we feel the
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Speaker 2: cop in this time of year, especially if people are grieving.
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Speaker 3: I apologize for being repetitive. You have to, like I said,
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Speaker 3: like I said earlier, you have to It's it's okay
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Speaker 3: to grieve. There's a time for grieving, right. You understand that.
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Speaker 3: It's like as it being that you you survive the
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Speaker 3: hospital protocols. I'm sure, I'm sure you still have survivors
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Speaker 3: guilt because you survived and other and you know darn
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Speaker 3: well other people didn't. Right, there's a two there's within
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Speaker 3: that there's a time to to feel that guilt, and
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Speaker 3: then there's a time to to to say but you know,
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Speaker 3: but to find purpose and the people when if you
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Speaker 3: go back to to to the Old Testament and you
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Speaker 3: go read some some of the prophecies pointing to Jesus,
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Speaker 3: which by the way, there's over one hundred you those
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Speaker 3: those prophecies were delivered to them, uh, to those people
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Speaker 3: hundreds of years before Christ came. My point in bringing
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Speaker 3: that up is you you should you should have you
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Speaker 3: should hope in him because you should. You should cling
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Speaker 3: because he's something you could you can cling to because
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Speaker 3: he will. Not to get all preachy here forgive me,
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Speaker 3: but but but you wanted me, You're gonna get me,
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Speaker 3: all right, so yourself. He can he cannot. Yeah, so
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Speaker 3: I was making fun of myself at the exact same
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Speaker 3: time too. But nonetheless, he he can, He can really
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Speaker 3: really fear, relieve doubt, and bring and bring you joy, love, peace, patience, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness,
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Speaker 3: self control. But in order in order to receive those things,
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Speaker 3: as you know, you you have to come to the
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Speaker 3: end of yourself. You have to reach a point where
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Speaker 3: you're you're tired of trying to figure this out on
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Speaker 3: your own. And for some people it might take longer
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Speaker 3: to uh to get there than others. But we have,
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Speaker 3: but we have hope that the people of that time
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Speaker 3: had were given and were spoken to about a hope
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Speaker 3: of the coming Messiah, of a coming king. Now, if
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Speaker 3: we fast forward to when Christ did come, uh, we
22:27
Speaker 3: see we see that the people, as prophesied, they would
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Speaker 3: rejected him because they because they did not want they
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Speaker 3: wanted a king who was going to physically deliver them
22:37
Speaker 3: what they did not want. But what they got instead
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Speaker 3: was a king who delivered them spiritually, who forgave their sins,
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Speaker 3: and then and to and to those who accepted him,
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Speaker 3: who received him, as it says in John's Gospel, he
22:52
Speaker 3: gave them right to become children of God. But if
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Speaker 3: you don't, if you don't but if you don't have that,
22:56
Speaker 3: if you don't have that foundation, if you're not clinging
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Speaker 3: to that, I don't know. I don't know what to
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Speaker 3: what to cling to. But but to answer your question,
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Speaker 3: how do people find hope, Well, you can't. You can't
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Speaker 3: find hope until you come to the end of the
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Speaker 3: rope to create a little around there. So you have
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Speaker 3: to come to the end of yourself at some point,
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Speaker 3: and then once you do, then you're open to receiving
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Speaker 3: that hope.
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Speaker 2: No, that's beautiful, and that's true. You know, most people
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Speaker 2: when they are at the end of that rope, that's
23:27
Speaker 2: when they're most open to receive. You know, it's almost
23:30
Speaker 2: like they wait till well, nothing else is working sometimes
23:33
Speaker 2: But you know, right, you are a living, breeding human being,
23:37
Speaker 2: and everyone has a purpose. Whether you know your purpose
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Speaker 2: yet or not. It's really tough to tell. And I,
23:43
Speaker 2: you know, I often get a lot of folks that
23:45
Speaker 2: have stories sometimes of all these things that have happened
23:48
Speaker 2: in their life or all these things that they've done
23:50
Speaker 2: in their life, good or bad, and yet they're so empty.
23:54
Speaker 2: And again it kind of brings us back to this
23:57
Speaker 2: time of year when all the lights and who ha
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Speaker 2: and celebration is kind of upon us, and one on
24:03
Speaker 2: one or two on one people will often tell me
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Speaker 2: this is such a difficult time for them, or maybe
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Speaker 2: you've suffered such a loss that you might be angry,
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Speaker 2: angry and hurting. And you know, a lot of times
24:15
Speaker 2: we work with folks that have had, you know, suffering
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Speaker 2: great loss or tragedy or pain of a loved one
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Speaker 2: and they don't know how to pull themselves forward. Like
24:25
Speaker 2: Matt said, when you are at that end end of
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Speaker 2: the rope, there is a journey for you and you
24:31
Speaker 2: just have to grab hold of that rope and start
24:33
Speaker 2: going forward, one foot at a time, one step at
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Speaker 2: a time, and it probably is the best time to
24:40
Speaker 2: just reach out and say, well, I don't know what
24:42
Speaker 2: else there is, but I need help. And if you
24:45
Speaker 2: need help spiritually, you look to the Lord spiritually, find
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Speaker 2: a place of worship, clinically or you know, organizationally through living,
24:56
Speaker 2: reach out, talk to someone, if you have a friend,
25:00
Speaker 2: if you find that you're alone in life, there's always
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Speaker 2: the nine eight eight ninety eight. Eight is a great
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Speaker 2: place to start if you really are so down, so
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Speaker 2: lost and struggling that you just don't feel like there
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Speaker 2: is a point. And encourage people to remember that number
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Speaker 2: because it's just another person on the other end of
25:14
Speaker 2: the phone that we'll talk to you but why not
25:16
Speaker 2: start with going to a church service this year, do something,
25:21
Speaker 2: do something you might find that you are just It
25:24
Speaker 2: could be the turning point of everything that you've been
25:27
Speaker 2: wanting to understand. And especially and I know Matt, you
25:30
Speaker 2: know this. We work with a lot of tough folks
25:33
Speaker 2: who are just that grieving, that emptiness. They've been going
25:37
Speaker 2: along the last year two three, four five since the pandemic.
25:42
Speaker 2: And for all of those folks who have been suffering
25:45
Speaker 2: through what we've gone through these past five years, reaching
25:48
Speaker 2: out connecting. It's not about the presence or the bright lights.
25:54
Speaker 2: It's about the human connection and rebuilding relationships. And I
25:58
Speaker 2: struggle because people are often will say, you know, well,
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Speaker 2: I can't live without the other person who has gone
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Speaker 2: or past. And while that may feel it may feel true,
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Speaker 2: there has to be a new beginning. And I'd like
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Speaker 2: you to take what Matt and I are sharing today
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Speaker 2: and let's get you to consider what does a new
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Speaker 2: beginning look like? Bringing the love and the peace and
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Speaker 2: the memories of that person with you in your new
26:25
Speaker 2: your new right turn in your journey.
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Speaker 3: And you don't have to you don't you don't have
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Speaker 3: to forget them. God knows you shouldn't because those memories
26:35
Speaker 3: are there for a reason. You think back on those things,
26:38
Speaker 3: you remember how great that person was. But like Patty said,
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Speaker 3: bring them with you. And ironically, Patty, it's it's it's not.
26:47
Speaker 3: It's not about the presence with a t s. It's
26:50
Speaker 3: about the presence with an se of others. Finding that,
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Speaker 3: finding people a community, uh, to connect with who at
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Speaker 3: the very least uh, empathizes with you and understands and
27:09
Speaker 3: can and and and maybe and of course of course,
27:12
Speaker 3: of course you can't. You can't do all this without God.
27:15
Speaker 3: So you know, if you don't, if you don't know
27:18
Speaker 3: the Lord, find a pastor find a church, find Uh,
27:22
Speaker 3: just just open your Bible and and and find and
27:26
Speaker 3: find him. Uh, his characters revealed all throughout and these
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Speaker 3: things we're talking about, the various things that we've already mentioned.
27:36
Speaker 3: You will, you will, you will find them there. But
27:38
Speaker 3: nothing's going to happen if you just and again, I'm
27:42
Speaker 3: not I'm not being judgmental. Uh, I'm certainly not being
27:48
Speaker 3: trying trying to be harsh. I am trying. Patty and
27:50
Speaker 3: I are both trying to be loving when we say this,
27:53
Speaker 3: nothing's going to happen if you just stay stuck where
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Speaker 3: you are.
27:58
Speaker 2: That's very true. And and what you said, Matt, I
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Speaker 2: hope folks you realize I love the connection. Not presence
28:05
Speaker 2: like gifts, but presence. It's being. It's your presence and
28:10
Speaker 2: your being and being in the moment, being in the
28:14
Speaker 2: moment with God, being in the moment in prayer, being
28:17
Speaker 2: in the moment with other people. And you know it,
28:21
Speaker 2: Matt can probably help me here scripturally, but it's being
28:24
Speaker 2: in the presence of where two or more are gathered
28:28
Speaker 2: and what that presence means. And look again, I don't
28:31
Speaker 2: know what everybody believes, but I will tell you if
28:34
Speaker 2: you I think people do believe that there's bad, there's evil.
28:38
Speaker 2: So if you're going to believe in bad and evil,
28:40
Speaker 2: because there is, we all have experienced it. There has
28:43
Speaker 2: been true evil in whatever way you want to describe it.
28:46
Speaker 2: It could be someone who's verbally hurt you, physically hurt you,
28:50
Speaker 2: a life situation that's hurt you. The world can be
28:54
Speaker 2: a cruel place. If you believe in that, then you
28:56
Speaker 2: absolutely have to understand there's good because you cannot have
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Speaker 2: one without the other. It's like darkness and light, you know,
29:03
Speaker 2: you can't have one without the other. So with good
29:07
Speaker 2: being together with two or more, work to find ways
29:11
Speaker 2: to move forward. Like Matt said, being stuck. It's a choice.
29:17
Speaker 2: And while you may not want to light the Christmas tree,
29:20
Speaker 2: you may not want to celebrate, You may not want
29:22
Speaker 2: to get involved in all the like I call the hohohah,
29:26
Speaker 2: while it's all lovely and there are plenty of us
29:29
Speaker 2: who will have some really fun, wonderful gatherings. I have
29:32
Speaker 2: a friend whose daughter's not doesn't know it yet, but
29:36
Speaker 2: she's about to get engaged this weekend and we're hopefully
29:39
Speaker 2: going to help in onuations. Yeah it'll be fun for her,
29:43
Speaker 2: but not everybody can appreciate the true joy of that
29:47
Speaker 2: right now because they're hurting. It could be like I said, physical, emotional.
29:51
Speaker 2: It could be loss of a job, not enough income,
29:53
Speaker 2: or truly the devastating loss of a loved one or
29:56
Speaker 2: even a pet. But just keep that in mind to
30:00
Speaker 2: move forward, to get unstuck, and you need to nurture
30:05
Speaker 2: and filling your cup with ways, reading the Bible, meditating, grounding,
30:12
Speaker 2: nourishing and nurturing and fueling your body. Because Matt know
30:16
Speaker 2: has always got to talk about health and wellness. But
30:19
Speaker 2: you will feel better if you fill your cup with
30:23
Speaker 2: these things that are going to fill your body, nurture
30:27
Speaker 2: your mind, and fill your spirit. So that's why we're
30:31
Speaker 2: here today. We're here to fill your cup.
30:33
Speaker 3: It's like, imagine, imagine waking up and my pastor says
30:41
Speaker 3: this a lot at Patty, I think you'll appreciate this.
30:44
Speaker 3: My pastor says this a lot. Talking about church is
30:48
Speaker 3: like what do people what do people say? Oh, people said,
30:53
Speaker 3: Instead of waking up on Sunday morning and think, oh,
30:57
Speaker 3: I have to I have to go to church today,
31:01
Speaker 3: your attitude instead be no, no, no, I get to
31:04
Speaker 3: go to church today. Likewise, likewise, again it's not not
31:10
Speaker 3: a perfect analogy, but it's home and one I could
31:13
Speaker 3: come up with on the fly. But likewise, you know,
31:17
Speaker 3: your attitude shouldn't be I have to do this. I
31:19
Speaker 3: have to do this. I have to I have to
31:22
Speaker 3: look and see all see all these things around me,
31:25
Speaker 3: like no, you get to your your your love, your
31:29
Speaker 3: loved one, whatever it is, may be dead, but you're
31:32
Speaker 3: still here. You're you're you're still here. As hard as
31:36
Speaker 3: it is to believe you're you're you're still here and
31:38
Speaker 3: you have to you have to you have to live again.
31:43
Speaker 3: It's a lot and like like I talked about at
31:46
Speaker 3: the top, you know, we got a new year coming up.
31:48
Speaker 3: It may it may be a time for a forgive
31:51
Speaker 3: me for the fancy terminology here. It may be time
31:53
Speaker 3: for a paradigm shift. It may it may be time
31:57
Speaker 3: for for that. That may be the time where you
32:00
Speaker 3: decide in the process of your journey, whatever you're going through. Hey,
32:05
Speaker 3: I need I need to change in my life. I
32:07
Speaker 3: need I need, I need to get closer with God.
32:10
Speaker 3: I need to find a community of people who will
32:13
Speaker 3: support me. People I can talk on a daily basis,
32:16
Speaker 3: people I can who understand what I'm going through, people
32:21
Speaker 3: who can or maybe or maybe you just need to
32:23
Speaker 3: branch out so it can look differently depending on the situation.
32:29
Speaker 3: And so there there's a there's always an opportunity, uh
32:35
Speaker 3: for for a new beginning.
32:37
Speaker 2: I absolutely agree, and I want to share. You know
32:40
Speaker 2: a lot of times I pull stuff up as as
32:42
Speaker 2: we're talking sometimes and here's the thing, right, and not
32:46
Speaker 2: to sound dramatic, but this is how quickly, in the
32:49
Speaker 2: blink of an eye, literally the blink of an eye,
32:51
Speaker 2: things can change. What happens if this is the last
32:55
Speaker 2: moment that you're here, what happens? If I'll do it tomorrow,
32:59
Speaker 2: I'm just nobody understands my pain. I'm just grieving, literally,
33:04
Speaker 2: just I guess. It was about an hour ago. And
33:07
Speaker 2: I don't know if anybody's heard about this yet, but
33:09
Speaker 2: the former NASCAR driver Greg Biffle, he took his family
33:13
Speaker 2: and they were flying and they were landing in Statesville
33:16
Speaker 2: at the regional airport and the plane crashed. And I
33:18
Speaker 2: don't know how many people were on that plane, but
33:20
Speaker 2: it said he and his family. So literally, folks, this morning,
33:25
Speaker 2: Greg Biffle and his wife and children had plans family,
33:30
Speaker 2: probably going to see people Christmas. Less than two hours ago,
33:34
Speaker 2: as he was landing, the plane crashed and it doesn't
33:36
Speaker 2: appear that they're survivors. Wow, don't wait, don't wait. Your
33:42
Speaker 2: loved one may have died, and that is tragic. But
33:46
Speaker 2: what can you do to help someone else? What can
33:50
Speaker 2: you do to help yourself? You were here and you
33:52
Speaker 2: have a journey. You may not like your journey, but
33:55
Speaker 2: I promise you, I want to know that I'm not
33:59
Speaker 2: waste a moment of my time not doing something that
34:03
Speaker 2: I really could be doing or should be doing, because well,
34:07
Speaker 2: what's the point. Here's a big point. Each one of
34:09
Speaker 2: you impacts someone and you just might not know how.
34:14
Speaker 3: As Matthew West wants saying, Patty, and I think you'll
34:17
Speaker 3: resonate with this. I want to know. I got to
34:20
Speaker 3: know what ifs.
34:22
Speaker 2: That's right, No wish I did, could have, should have,
34:24
Speaker 2: would have. Just do it, like Nike says, just do it.
34:28
Speaker 2: Get out there. You may be the one person I have.
34:31
Speaker 2: People tell me this all the time, why do I
34:34
Speaker 2: need to do something? I don't really have any value?
34:37
Speaker 2: You know, somebody else has value, but I don't. You
34:41
Speaker 2: just don't realize the people that come across your life,
34:44
Speaker 2: you don't.
34:45
Speaker 3: I literally say that all the time. I literally say
34:48
Speaker 3: that all the time. Like if I were to disappear
34:50
Speaker 3: and stop hosting x spaces, there's no reason somebody, somebody
34:54
Speaker 3: who's better, watier, smarter or whatever couldn't do what I do.
34:58
Speaker 3: But yet I'm doing it anyway. I've made all these
35:01
Speaker 3: connections that I've made anyway, and it's regardless of whether
35:05
Speaker 3: I think those things are not. You know, that's I'm
35:07
Speaker 3: convinced at this point that that's the journey that the
35:09
Speaker 3: Lord has laid out.
35:11
Speaker 2: For me, what a great journey. And you know what,
35:14
Speaker 2: while the tragedy of a pandemic and all that we
35:18
Speaker 2: went through, there's so many of this now that have
35:21
Speaker 2: so many better connections of people that we feel like
35:24
Speaker 2: we've impacted or people have impacted us. That has been
35:28
Speaker 2: a wonderful way of connecting with people well outside our circle,
35:33
Speaker 2: our comfort zone. And and yet through all of that,
35:37
Speaker 2: I know there's been tragedy, but I don't know. I
35:40
Speaker 2: just feel like I'm the kind of person that I'm
35:42
Speaker 2: going to make some noise. And for me, the gift
35:45
Speaker 2: of life and getting out of the ICU was to
35:48
Speaker 2: make as much noise and make Anthony Fauci as mad
35:51
Speaker 2: as possible and let the world know that there is
35:55
Speaker 2: a whole lot more going on that nobody knew about.
35:58
Speaker 2: And look, I'm only one person, but do you know
36:01
Speaker 2: how much is going on today that is exposing things.
36:06
Speaker 2: I don't know what role I played in it, but yeah,
36:09
Speaker 2: there's the book they call me Harriet. You can read
36:12
Speaker 2: the deep down, dirty dive into what really went on
36:14
Speaker 2: behind the scenes in the hospitals and all the lies,
36:17
Speaker 2: the misinformation, and so think about that. My voice I
36:21
Speaker 2: know at least twenty other people that we were sort
36:24
Speaker 2: of underground and trying to get the word out, and
36:27
Speaker 2: maybe between all of us it helped to get to
36:30
Speaker 2: the right person that now there's investigations and there's studies,
36:34
Speaker 2: and there's things that are changing. They're now investigating. I
36:37
Speaker 2: just saw this on one of the news outlets that
36:40
Speaker 2: they're investigating over seven eight hundred troops of military folks
36:46
Speaker 2: that were let go for not getting the vaccine. Praise
36:50
Speaker 2: God for that.
36:51
Speaker 3: Praise God for that, and.
36:53
Speaker 2: Thank God God for that. Yeah, you know, and that's happening.
36:58
Speaker 2: They've now just made the hepatitie B vaccine not mandatory
37:02
Speaker 2: for babies. Praise God for that. What have we all
37:06
Speaker 2: done that gave those kids those vaccines? I don't know,
37:10
Speaker 2: but I do know that vaccine they have discovered and
37:13
Speaker 2: they've it's been put out there that vaccine is not
37:16
Speaker 2: an essential vaccine at birth. Okay, no judgment. I vaccinated
37:21
Speaker 2: my kids at birth, but they didn't need to the
37:24
Speaker 2: tightest B vaccine, but I gave it to them. I
37:27
Speaker 2: didn't know. But now we can offer better healthier options
37:31
Speaker 2: to our kids. So yeah, I take that very seriously.
37:35
Speaker 2: That by me not dying in that ICU. I got
37:38
Speaker 2: to shake the hell up out of the dark side.
37:40
Speaker 3: And I don't I thank god we did.
37:43
Speaker 2: It's it's you know, I'm just a little piece of
37:46
Speaker 2: the picture. But what a what a you know, fired
37:49
Speaker 2: up piece. My husband knows. Don't ever make Patty go phillyer.
37:51
Speaker 2: It might not go so well. And I went philly
37:55
Speaker 2: on on Anthony Fauci and all the lies, the bs,
37:59
Speaker 2: the nonsense. A lot of it's in the book, but
38:02
Speaker 2: there's even more. So I think it's so important that
38:05
Speaker 2: we just shake up, wake up, and let you all know.
38:09
Speaker 2: You have got to seize the moment, take this season
38:13
Speaker 2: and consider what do you need to do to fill
38:17
Speaker 2: your cup? It may not be about the presence, like
38:20
Speaker 2: Matt said, but maybe it's about the presence. Put your
38:24
Speaker 2: presence in a place your being. Put your being in
38:28
Speaker 2: a place where not only do you fill your cup,
38:31
Speaker 2: but maybe you'll make a difference in somebody else's life.
38:34
Speaker 2: How cool is that? Anybody have ideas? Where can you
38:37
Speaker 2: make a presence? Matt? I think I know one big place,
38:39
Speaker 2: But where do you make a presence?
38:41
Speaker 3: On ex Every Friday at seven pm Eastern, Just like
38:46
Speaker 3: Patty makes hers right here on this station, on this
38:51
Speaker 3: broadcast at reaping them on Thursdays and as well as
38:55
Speaker 3: with their patients.
38:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's it. You know, Matt's got a wonderful
38:59
Speaker 2: pod cast that he's out there. He hosts every Friday night.
39:03
Speaker 2: And you know, folks, I don't know if you even
39:05
Speaker 2: know the nature of what has happened. By getting the
39:08
Speaker 2: free airwaves back back, people like Matt can get out
39:12
Speaker 2: there and start having great conversation with people from all
39:15
Speaker 2: over the world, people like you and me, people that
39:19
Speaker 2: are out there that you're never going to get on
39:22
Speaker 2: you know, I don't know TV, TV box News and
39:28
Speaker 2: to heck with them, right, it's fake news anyway, Get online,
39:32
Speaker 2: you know, online with real people like us and have dialogue.
39:35
Speaker 2: Now we don't get to share, you know, our lovely faces.
39:37
Speaker 2: We're all just like basically on the on the phone.
39:40
Speaker 2: But you can, you know, and it's very cool and
39:44
Speaker 2: you can multitask because you can listen in. You can
39:47
Speaker 2: bebop around. But I encourage all of you to explore X.
39:51
Speaker 2: Explore Matt's podcast on Fridays at seven pm. How do
39:55
Speaker 2: they find you Matt on X Because some people are
39:58
Speaker 2: new at it.
40:00
Speaker 3: My ex handles actually in in the you can actually
40:03
Speaker 3: see it. It's at Underscore the young Blood and we
40:08
Speaker 3: we Uh, that's how you can find me. Just watch
40:10
Speaker 3: for A good thing to do is turn notifications on
40:13
Speaker 3: for not necessarily my account, but any other account you
40:17
Speaker 3: find that that that you that you that you like,
40:21
Speaker 3: I want to interact with. You can turn For instance,
40:24
Speaker 3: you could turn notifications on for Patty if she reposts
40:26
Speaker 3: a space or or or a study or an interview, uh,
40:32
Speaker 3: anything she put you want to see. You want to
40:34
Speaker 3: turn notifications on for Patty, go right ahead. It's at
40:37
Speaker 3: well miss Patty. Guh right there on X. Uh. So
40:41
Speaker 3: that's that's a good way to to keep up and
40:44
Speaker 3: to keep in touch with, not with not only myself,
40:48
Speaker 3: not only Patty, but anyone else you find and resonate with.
40:52
Speaker 2: There are so many cool people that I've met on X.
40:54
Speaker 2: And that's the other thing. When you guys get on,
40:57
Speaker 2: you can listen, you can ask to speak so you
41:00
Speaker 2: can be a part of it, or you can just
41:01
Speaker 2: tune in. But I mean we've had some people on.
41:04
Speaker 2: I haven't had a LOM, but Matt's had some people on.
41:06
Speaker 2: I mean, there is actually some pretty interesting and pretty
41:09
Speaker 2: well known people that do tend to jump in here
41:12
Speaker 2: and there from time to time. And these are people
41:15
Speaker 2: like us, But there's also people that are voices in
41:17
Speaker 2: the mainstream, and sometimes when they hear things that you
41:20
Speaker 2: have to say and share, it could just be the
41:23
Speaker 2: opportunity for them to investigate something and maybe help to
41:26
Speaker 2: bring more truth to light. Because there are people out
41:28
Speaker 2: there that we've connected with that really have taken a
41:31
Speaker 2: lot and spread the word and that's how we build
41:34
Speaker 2: layer upon layer of getting the truth out there. So
41:37
Speaker 2: be a voice, maybe fill your cup with getting out
41:41
Speaker 2: there and tuning into other things besides the fake news.
41:46
Speaker 2: And also too, don't think about everything that we see
41:49
Speaker 2: out there. We are such a little microcosm. There's a
41:53
Speaker 2: lot of stories going on right now. There's a lot
41:55
Speaker 2: of big places and people. A lot of it is
41:58
Speaker 2: not ever going to necessarily directly affect us. Should we
42:01
Speaker 2: be aware, absolutely, but don't let that steal your joy
42:06
Speaker 2: or increase your anxiety. To nurture yourself and put yourself
42:11
Speaker 2: first to heal and grow and fill your cup. And
42:16
Speaker 2: I did want to give a quick shout out too,
42:18
Speaker 2: because if you are grieving, if you lost a loved one,
42:21
Speaker 2: especially during the pandemic. The BETRAYALUSA dot org, the pro
42:27
Speaker 2: Ohtrayal Project, how to kind I forget the project, the
42:30
Speaker 2: Betrayal Project USA. It's Betrayal Project USA. I think it's
42:34
Speaker 2: the bottom of our screen dot org because it's a
42:37
Speaker 2: five five O three CIV. They are the ones that
42:42
Speaker 2: have a group that is growing and growing and growing,
42:45
Speaker 2: and so you're not alone. Join into the group. They've
42:48
Speaker 2: got lots of topics on their web page. They have
42:51
Speaker 2: groups that are available almost every night, and you can
42:54
Speaker 2: tune in and again, like Matt and I are sharing,
42:57
Speaker 2: you're not going to be alone. You can find other
42:59
Speaker 2: people have lost loved ones during the pandemic that are grieving,
43:03
Speaker 2: and there are voices of people that will understand. So
43:07
Speaker 2: many in our group don't understand have loved ones or
43:10
Speaker 2: people that don't understand. You know, why are you still grieving? Well,
43:14
Speaker 2: because it's such a significant loss in their life. So
43:16
Speaker 2: I encourage you, guys Betrayal Project USA dot org. Tune
43:21
Speaker 2: in to their website and join in if you find
43:24
Speaker 2: that that is a group of interest to you. Also survivors.
43:27
Speaker 2: You know, that's how this whole thing got started. Five
43:30
Speaker 2: years ago is just about eight of us got together
43:32
Speaker 2: and started a zoom call. And from there I grew
43:36
Speaker 2: into a couple of different groups. And now we've got
43:39
Speaker 2: the Betrayal Project USA dot org that's alive and flourishing.
43:43
Speaker 2: So there's just so much you can do to fill
43:46
Speaker 2: your cup. We've only got just a four minutes five
43:51
Speaker 2: minutes left. But Matt, what other things did we want
43:53
Speaker 2: to share with folks about really being blessed this holiday season?
43:57
Speaker 2: Find your joy, find your hope? What are things should
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Speaker 2: we share with folks? Anything come to mind?
44:04
Speaker 3: Just just make sure that you take the time and
44:10
Speaker 3: just embrace the embrace the joy. Don't take it for granted.
44:17
Speaker 3: Just but but you have to find it. You have
44:19
Speaker 3: to find that in the Lord, because, like I said earlier,
44:22
Speaker 3: again apologies for being repetitive, you will find if you
44:26
Speaker 3: find the Lord, you will find the joy and the
44:29
Speaker 3: peace and the love. Because of his love is the
44:33
Speaker 3: reason why he did and he does all that he does,
44:38
Speaker 3: the same should go for us. And once you, once
44:43
Speaker 3: you take all that, take all that in consideration, if
44:46
Speaker 3: you find that, you find that, you will find the
44:50
Speaker 3: rest the rest of it. You will find you will
44:53
Speaker 3: be at peace with God. You may not you may
44:56
Speaker 3: you may not be you may not be at peace
44:59
Speaker 3: for now, but you know there's going to come a
45:02
Speaker 3: day when when when we're we're all dead and gone,
45:05
Speaker 3: we're going to you know, if your loved one knew
45:08
Speaker 3: the Lord, you're going to see him or her again.
45:14
Speaker 3: You're you're going And so that is a hope to
45:18
Speaker 3: cling to that if your loved one knew the Lord,
45:20
Speaker 3: you will see them again. So yeah, it is. It
45:24
Speaker 3: is tragic, but circumstances, but there is a silver lining.
45:28
Speaker 3: But there's something else, you know, I'm reminded of. We
45:31
Speaker 3: talked a little bit about personal reflections earlier. Earlier this year,
45:35
Speaker 3: I had a conversation with Karen Kingston and one of
45:37
Speaker 3: the things we got into was, uh, what was she
45:41
Speaker 3: She reflected on how she used to she used to
45:44
Speaker 3: basically be like a put put herself out there as
45:47
Speaker 3: like I know it all and arrogant, and over time
45:49
Speaker 3: she realized, you know what, not everyone's at the same
45:52
Speaker 3: place this zion. And the reason I bring that up
45:55
Speaker 3: is because not everybody's on that same journey as as
45:59
Speaker 3: you are. But if you are on that journey, please
46:02
Speaker 3: get plugged into the Betrayal Project support groups. There's a
46:06
Speaker 3: place on their website you can check you can get
46:09
Speaker 3: get involved and sign up. You know, I'm I'm I'm
46:13
Speaker 3: on the support groups on on on Monday nights. I
46:17
Speaker 3: wasn't in there. I'm just there to have make my
46:19
Speaker 3: presence be known that I support and stand with those
46:23
Speaker 3: But but that's that's among the among with among what
46:29
Speaker 3: I can, uh the things that I do for for
46:33
Speaker 3: for that, for that group and for Patty and as
46:35
Speaker 3: well as as well as being on our show. So Patty, thanks, Patty,
46:38
Speaker 3: thanks so much for having me. Yeah.
46:40
Speaker 2: No, absolutely, Matt, and again it's great that you're part
46:42
Speaker 2: of the group I wanted to share with everybody. You know,
46:45
Speaker 2: Matt just gives of his heart, his time is just
46:49
Speaker 2: you know, the phenomenal understanding of the Lord and the
46:52
Speaker 2: Bible and helps to bring all kinds of great resources
46:56
Speaker 2: and support to all of us. And so that's why
46:57
Speaker 2: I love having them on our show. And I just
47:00
Speaker 2: want to remind you all as we kind of have
47:02
Speaker 2: to close out this episode today. You know, next week
47:05
Speaker 2: will be Christmas. The week after we'll be New Year's.
47:08
Speaker 2: So I encourage all of you to line yourselves up
47:11
Speaker 2: to get ready for the start of twenty twenty six.
47:14
Speaker 2: We are going to be focusing forward on your mental
47:17
Speaker 2: health and wellness. I encourage folks if you need any
47:20
Speaker 2: help and you want to reach out to us here
47:21
Speaker 2: at Magnolia Behavioral Wellness, you can always text us at
47:25
Speaker 2: nine oh four three seven seven one one nine six.
47:29
Speaker 2: It's nine oh four three seven seven one one nine six.
47:32
Speaker 2: Text are great because if you don't want to ask questions,
47:35
Speaker 2: you can just send us a question and we can
47:37
Speaker 2: text you back and help you to find a link
47:39
Speaker 2: or a resource in your area. But we're here to
47:42
Speaker 2: help a lot of great things that we've talked about
47:44
Speaker 2: this year and closing it out with just some of
47:46
Speaker 2: the cell patches, peptide therapy and all kinds of things.
47:52
Speaker 2: The cell patches are available to you at magnoliasell patch
47:55
Speaker 2: dot com. And I want to make sure that if
47:58
Speaker 2: you are looking for a great gift and you're not
48:00
Speaker 2: sure what to give someone, give them a pack of
48:02
Speaker 2: stem cell patches and let them feel better through the
48:05
Speaker 2: Christmas holidays and maybe that will help your mood, your energy,
48:09
Speaker 2: your motivation. I always recommend the X thirty nine's and
48:13
Speaker 2: they're available you can pick them up on the website
48:15
Speaker 2: Magnoliasell patch dot com. But again, thank you to everyone.
48:19
Speaker 2: I'm closing out the year. We're gonna have some great
48:22
Speaker 2: broadcast for you in the next two weeks. You can
48:24
Speaker 2: tune into some really great shows. We will be home
48:27
Speaker 2: with our families, as I hope all of you are
48:29
Speaker 2: with yours. Find your joy. It may not look like
48:32
Speaker 2: what your holiday looked like last year or the year before.
48:35
Speaker 2: Make it a new year for you to start a
48:38
Speaker 2: new beginning in twenty twenty six. Be well, be blessed.
48:42
Speaker 2: Matt look forward to seeing you in the coming days,
48:45
Speaker 2: and you all have a great and blessed holiday. Fill
48:48
Speaker 2: your cup, stay grounded, Merry Christmas, and I wish you
48:53
Speaker 2: all the best into the coming new year. Tune into
48:55
Speaker 2: US three pm Thursdays every week. We are here live.
48:58
Speaker 2: Take care, everybody, have a one wonderful holiday.
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Speaker 3: M HM.