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Baby, Get the Book: Psalm 91 at My Grandmother's Bedside · Heart Copy Journal

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  SPEAKER_00: Baby, get the book.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's how it started.
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  SPEAKER_00: Mom would say it from the bed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I'd stand there because I didn't know which book she was talking about.
• 0:15
  SPEAKER_00: Hi, I'm Liza Nicole, and this is Heart Copy Journal.
• 0:19
  SPEAKER_00: Today, my grandmother, a book I didn't know how to find.
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  SPEAKER_00: And a psalm I read out loud to her over and over without understanding a single word.
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  SPEAKER_00: When my grandmother was in hospice, I went to see her every day and it or as close to every day as I could.
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  SPEAKER_00: And every time she'd say, Baby, get the book and read to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: The first time I had to work it out like the book.
• 0:56
  SPEAKER_00: Okay, the Bible?
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  SPEAKER_00: Like I took it down and she said, Read Psalms 91 to me.
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  SPEAKER_00: I knew nothing about the Bible.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't know a psalm from a proverb.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I'm flipping through it again and again.
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  SPEAKER_00: Where is Psalms 91?
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  SPEAKER_00: I went to the table of contents, I flipped, I flipped, and finally found it.
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  SPEAKER_00: The room is kind of cold.
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  SPEAKER_00: Smells a bit because we were like in this twin single bed hospice room.
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  SPEAKER_00: And here's the thing.
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  SPEAKER_00: I had no idea really what she needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: And really what I was reading about.
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  SPEAKER_00: But it meant something very important to Mama.
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  SPEAKER_00: I could tell even without knowing why.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't really understand she was going through.
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  SPEAKER_00: I didn't understand it, but she did.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there was a comfort that I couldn't provide her with my presence.
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  SPEAKER_00: But she was very clear about what she needed.
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  SPEAKER_00: She knew exactly how I could help.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I go and get the word and I'd read to her.
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  SPEAKER_00: What I understand now is that it was a seed.
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  SPEAKER_00: She had planted it for me long before I knew even what it was.
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  SPEAKER_00: It was being cultivated in the middle of her adversity in the hospice and at the end of her life.
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  SPEAKER_00: I thought I was holding a book, and she was the one who knew what was in it.
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  SPEAKER_00: But Psalms ninety one was a love letter from my heavenly father.
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  SPEAKER_00: He gave to my grandmother, and now I give to you.
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  SPEAKER_00: He who dwells in the shelter of the most high will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.
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  SPEAKER_00: I will say of the Lord, You are my refuge, my fortress, my God in whom I trust.
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  SPEAKER_00: Surely he will dwell, deliver you, surely he will deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the deadly plague.
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  SPEAKER_00: He will cover you with his feathers under his wings.
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  SPEAKER_00: You will find refuge.
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  SPEAKER_00: His faithfulness is a shelter and a rampart.
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  SPEAKER_00: This week's verse in Psalms ninety one, write it slowly.
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  SPEAKER_00: Let it read you.
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  SPEAKER_00: If you'd like to write along, the free seven day copy work challenge starts with the psalm.
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  SPEAKER_00: Psalms ninety one and Psalms twenty three.
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  SPEAKER_00: You'll find it at Heartcopyjournal.com.
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  SPEAKER_00: Quiet your mind, trace the truth.
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  SPEAKER_00: Commune with God.