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God Requires You to Love Yourself · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome to another episode of Have a
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  Speaker 1: Little Faith where we get together and we talk about
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  Speaker 1: things in the supernatural, not in a woo woo sort
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  Speaker 1: of way, but in a real, down to earth. I
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  Speaker 1: believe in a higher power. I believe that higher power
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  Speaker 1: always wants what is best for me. I believe that
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  Speaker 1: higher power created me, created me to love, created me
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  Speaker 1: to have a good life, created me to overcome obstacles,
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  Speaker 1: and to use my gifts and talents and skills that
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  Speaker 1: that creator placed within me to do good, to help people,
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  Speaker 1: to love people, and to love the Creator. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I believe, and I share that with you in this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: This episode of Have a Little Faith is about understanding
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  Speaker 1: that God doesn't just suggest, He pretty much commands us
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  Speaker 1: to care about ourselves, to love ourselves. He loves us unconditionally,
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  Speaker 1: but he needs us to accept his love. Learning to
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  Speaker 1: love ourselves is not about becoming self absorbed, self obsessed,
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  Speaker 1: a narcissist, but about finally understanding the fact that the
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  Speaker 1: Almighty created us with the deepest of love and care.
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  Speaker 1: God made us in love, and he made us on purpose.
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  Speaker 1: We're not an accident. We're not here by accident. We're
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  Speaker 1: not here at this time and place by accident. It's
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  Speaker 1: all by design. So there is no place for self loathing,
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  Speaker 1: self hatred, thinking that we're not enough, that we are
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  Speaker 1: beyond his reach or his love. No, we are here
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  Speaker 1: on purpose and he loves us unconditionally. The first story
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to share with you today is Kimberly. She
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  Speaker 1: is about to make my point for me. Love it
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  Speaker 1: when that happens. This whole podcast is dedicated to self respect,
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  Speaker 1: to self care. Let's hear from this strong young woman
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  Speaker 1: right now. Kimberly, welcome to have a little faith.
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  Speaker 2: I have listened to you since I've little girl, and
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  Speaker 2: I am sitting in my living room that i have
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  Speaker 2: an apartment by myself and I've never been single. Text
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  Speaker 2: I'm writing down my non negotiables for a man on
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  Speaker 2: how will never be treated again.
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  Speaker 1: So you're finally realizing that, hey, I have great value,
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  Speaker 1: I have great worth. I am lovable, I am beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: I am smart, I am tenacious, I am hard working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm generous, I'm kind, i am loving, I'm giving, I
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  Speaker 1: am gentle, I'm tender. I am never going to allow
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  Speaker 1: somebody to walk into my life destroy my peace. Be
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  Speaker 1: a jerk, take advantage of me, throw me scraps of affection,
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  Speaker 1: and expect me to be satisfied with that? Is that
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  Speaker 1: what you're saying?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not ever going to take bread crumbs again.
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  Speaker 2: I am gonna love myself the hard that they're bread crumbs.
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  Speaker 2: They're not going to be it for me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: What brought you to this realization that you deserve the
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  Speaker 1: full meal deal, not the bread crumbs strown about?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, just part of being hurt and part
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  Speaker 2: of being lonely. Whenever I'm with somebody and I think
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  Speaker 2: just knowing I love myself, knowing that I can love
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  Speaker 2: myself more than somebody to love me, and I need
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  Speaker 2: to not accept breadcrumbs anymore. I hope some women out
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  Speaker 2: there just know how valuable they are and that they
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  Speaker 2: don't need a man to bring them down, that they
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  Speaker 2: just need to love themselves more than anyone should ever
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  Speaker 2: love them, and that that's enough sometimes that sometimes all
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  Speaker 2: you need is just to love yourself.
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  Speaker 1: For me, I couldn't even get to the point of
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  Speaker 1: loving myself. I had to first start with letting God
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  Speaker 1: love me. And when I let that happen, then I
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  Speaker 1: could see that I was worthy of love, and that
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  Speaker 1: I was precious. If I'm precious to the almighty who
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  Speaker 1: created the universe and everything in it, I'm pretty dang special.
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  Speaker 3: That is so very true.
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  Speaker 1: And when I finally got that through my head, everything changed.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've been I've struggled with my face my whole life,
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  Speaker 2: and I think these last couple of months have I
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  Speaker 2: think God has been talking to me, and my faith
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  Speaker 2: is coming back. My self love is coming back, and
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  Speaker 2: I'm just I couldn't be more proud of of where
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  Speaker 2: I'm at today and the fact that I'm sitting in
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  Speaker 2: my bedroom writing a non negotiable list for everything. It's
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  Speaker 2: just I never thought that I would be here in
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  Speaker 2: my life, and I'm so very proud.
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  Speaker 1: I'm proud of you for writing the list, But maybe
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  Speaker 1: you should write the list not for a future boyfriend,
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  Speaker 1: future guy, but just for yourself and say, I am
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  Speaker 1: never going to treat myself like this again. I am never, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 1: ever going back to the person I once was who
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  Speaker 1: allowed other people to wipe their feet on me.
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  Speaker 2: I think you're one hundred percent right, because.
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  Speaker 1: With or without a partner in your life, you deserve
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  Speaker 1: to be honored and respected and that starts with you.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't set those boundaries with yourself and say,
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  Speaker 1: never again am I going to consider myself less than
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  Speaker 1: I am a child of God, I am a daughter
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  Speaker 1: of the God Most High. I am a daughter of
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  Speaker 1: the King of Kings. I'm royalty, and I am not
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  Speaker 1: going to allow myself to ever, ever, ever, ever be
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  Speaker 1: treated like trash again.
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  Speaker 2: Never again am I going to allow that. That's what
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  Speaker 2: my list is going to be.
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  Speaker 1: That's your non negotiable. Everything flows from that. Thank you,
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  Speaker 1: So straighten up your crown, girlfriend, but your shoulders back,
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  Speaker 1: go enjoy the solitude of your room, and I will
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  Speaker 1: play a song for you, the princess, the queen that
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  Speaker 1: you are. Thank you, God, bless you, honey. Up next,
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  Speaker 1: we have Jamie. Jamie is at work right now. She's
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  Speaker 1: on her break. There is echo on the phone line.
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  Speaker 1: But we're gonna work with this because what she has
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  Speaker 1: to share, what she has to say is important. Try
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  Speaker 1: to hear beyond the echo, beyond the annoyance of the
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  Speaker 1: technical problem to Jamie's heart. Jimmy, welcome to have a
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  Speaker 1: little faith. I know you're at work, I know your stress,
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  Speaker 1: but what do you want to share with us tonight.
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  Speaker 4: I just want you to know that you're a word.
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  Speaker 3: I'm hurt everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: I'm at work right now and.
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  Speaker 3: Marry crying.
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  Speaker 1: Oh Jamie, I wish I could give you a big hug.
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  Speaker 1: Why are we crying?
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  Speaker 4: I've went someone for twenty one years and I had
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  Speaker 4: a situation where I'm just like trying to find myself much.
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  Speaker 4: I have seven kids. I did not burn seven kids.
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  Speaker 4: I took my twin fift for kids, so that on
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  Speaker 4: three in for kids.
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  Speaker 3: On how my mind?
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  Speaker 4: Four kids and they all don't name it anymore, like
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  Speaker 4: they are not all of them the little I'm they're
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  Speaker 4: about coming up on the leaven end, can you know
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  Speaker 4: what I mean?
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  Speaker 3: But they don't need me anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Listen to me. I got twice as many as you,
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  Speaker 1: and I just got three more. Whoa, that's what I have,
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  Speaker 1: fifteen children, and the Lord just brought three more grand
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  Speaker 1: babies into my house that the courts took, so I
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  Speaker 1: got three more. Okay. They always need a mama.
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  Speaker 4: And absolutely, I absolutely will always believe that. And I
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  Speaker 4: always tell them and in your home you've been always
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  Speaker 4: come back here.
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  Speaker 1: Even when they don't come back, they call, they called,
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  Speaker 1: they call my adult children have trackers on my phone.
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  Speaker 1: They follow me. Why are you going to that store? Mom?
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  Speaker 1: What'd you get at that store? I'm like, you're a
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  Speaker 1: thousand miles away from me, How do you know what
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  Speaker 1: store I was in?
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  Speaker 4: My friend is just like that, and like, no fact,
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  Speaker 4: she has like the three thick five on her kid
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  Speaker 4: and she only has one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, this is my kids have it on me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no, craps.
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  Speaker 4: They do have it on me, and so they know
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  Speaker 4: where I'm at at all times. And so I'm at
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  Speaker 4: work right now, but I hear your radio. My boss
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  Speaker 4: plays it twenty fourth don so I hear you all
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  Speaker 4: the time. And I just want you to know that
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  Speaker 4: I have four children. I'm my own, that i'm birds,
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  Speaker 4: and I have three that I raise that are my
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  Speaker 4: twin sisters.
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  Speaker 3: I raised them eighteen years.
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  Speaker 4: But at the same time, I am trying to figure
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  Speaker 4: out who I am now, because like it's been so
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  Speaker 4: long that I haven't had any kids or anything, or
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  Speaker 4: that I haven't one hundred weak I thought about my kids.
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  Speaker 4: Now it's something to think about myself, and I don't
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  Speaker 4: even know what to do it myself anymore.
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  Speaker 1: Once you're a mom, you are always a mom, and
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  Speaker 1: you are always going to think about your kids, and
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  Speaker 1: you're always going to worry about your kids. But figuring
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  Speaker 1: out what you want and what you need and have
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  Speaker 1: to get your needs met and what your passions are,
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  Speaker 1: that's a lifelong journey.
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  Speaker 4: And you know what, Actually, I don't want to contribute,
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  Speaker 4: you know, to the household, the house to make sure
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  Speaker 4: we don't lose the house and all that stuff, And
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  Speaker 4: that's what I'm trying to do at this point, you
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  Speaker 4: know what I mean. And so I'm going back to
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  Speaker 4: work and everything. But my husband, he's you know, not
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  Speaker 4: east to me being all the time. So now it's
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  Speaker 4: really a difficult situation for him as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because he's spoiled and he's used to having you
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  Speaker 1: there to carry all the emotional way of the family.
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  Speaker 1: So where is the love in any of this? I'm
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  Speaker 1: trying to find it because I'm not hearing it. I
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  Speaker 1: am not hearing love, i am not hearing respect, I'm
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  Speaker 1: hearing control, I'm hearing threats.
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  Speaker 4: That's exactly what I can try to convey to him.
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  Speaker 4: In the long situation of Delilah, Do I even a
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  Speaker 4: hold lot anymore? So? I don't know lot in do
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  Speaker 4: my own thing or should I just.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know the answer to that because I've never
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  Speaker 1: walked in your shoes. But do you know who does
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  Speaker 1: know the exact answer to that?
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  Speaker 4: Lord needs right?
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  Speaker 1: Amen? God knows exactly what you need to do, when
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  Speaker 1: you need to do it, and how you need to
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  Speaker 1: do it. God also hates when his children are abused
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  Speaker 1: and manipulated. And it sounds to me like there's not
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  Speaker 1: a whole lot of love, but there is manipulation.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that he's not a good man,
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  Speaker 4: like I mean, there is not a lot of men
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  Speaker 4: out there that was Kate Hara three kids for their
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  Speaker 4: whole life?
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  Speaker 1: Would he consider going to counseling with you and working
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  Speaker 1: through things?
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  Speaker 3: I think?
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  Speaker 4: Though I'm not wonder protector.
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  Speaker 1: Can I ask you a question? Honey, Yeah, you got
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff going on with this kid and with
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  Speaker 1: this kid and with your sister and blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 1: What do you do to take care of you?
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  Speaker 3: I don't really have anything.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to write down three suggestions I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to give you. I want you to make time to
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  Speaker 1: exercise at least a half an hour every day, either
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  Speaker 1: at a gym or in your home or on a walk,
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  Speaker 1: but consistent exercise waits and walking or running at least
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  Speaker 1: half an hour to an hour and a half every day.
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  Speaker 3: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, that for myself to keep my body healthy.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, I want you to start making healthy choices
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  Speaker 1: when it comes to your food.
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to become aware of everything you eat
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  Speaker 1: and drink. Stop drinking sodas, stop drinking very much coffee
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  Speaker 1: or tea, Start drinking a lot of water, cut out
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  Speaker 1: any processed foods, and start taking care of you. And
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  Speaker 1: number three, every day, I want you to write down
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  Speaker 1: a list of gratitudes, a list of things you are
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  Speaker 1: grateful for. Okay, okay, so do those three things and
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  Speaker 1: start taking care of you, okay. Absolutely, And pray because
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  Speaker 1: God knows exactly what you need to do and exactly
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  Speaker 1: when you need to do it. Sure, Okay for your
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  Speaker 1: word adly, And I'm going to say a quick prayer
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  Speaker 1: for you, Father God. I thank you Lord for allowing
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  Speaker 1: this young woman to reach out. I pray God your
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  Speaker 1: hand upon her. I pray Lord God, you would give
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  Speaker 1: her wisdom, give her direction, illuminate the path you want
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  Speaker 1: her to be on. Father. I pray for her family.
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  Speaker 1: I pray for the man that she loves. I pray
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  Speaker 1: you would weave them together with chains of love that
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  Speaker 1: cannot be broken if that is your will. If it
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  Speaker 1: is not your will, God, then I pray you would
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  Speaker 1: give her peace and open the door for her to
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  Speaker 1: be able to exit that Father, I pray for her
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  Speaker 1: children that you would bless them and watch over them,
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  Speaker 1: protect them, Lord God, and raise them up to be
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  Speaker 1: godly young leaders. I pray God that she would find
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  Speaker 1: that path of peace. In your name, Christ Jesus, I
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  Speaker 1: asked this, Amen, Amen, Jamie, you have all the tools
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  Speaker 1: you need to figure this out. I'm not a counselor.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not a therapist. I am a woman who's been
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  Speaker 1: in your place. Please do seek counseling from somebody who
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  Speaker 1: is who is licensed to do that. Try to work
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  Speaker 1: this out with someone who can guide you objectively. If
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  Speaker 1: you're not able to do that, remember this. Okay, take
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  Speaker 1: this nugget and tuck it in your heart. God is
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  Speaker 1: available twenty four to seven and his services are free.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying do not seek counsel Please hear me correctly.
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  Speaker 1: Please do do seek professional counseling. You are only thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven years old. You have your whole life ahead of you,
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  Speaker 1: so why not spend the rest of it loving yourself,
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  Speaker 1: respecting yourself, cherishing and honoring yourself as the Good Lord intended.
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  Speaker 1: Something to think about. God, bless you, honey, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much. A blast we have Rich, he is appropriately
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  Speaker 1: named Rich. Rich is completely grateful for his life and
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  Speaker 1: despite some very big challenges, he knows how blessed he is.
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  Speaker 1: He's dealing with a lot, but he feels like the
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  Speaker 1: richest man on the planet. Let's hear from Rich right now, Hi, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to have a little faith with Delilah. What is
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  Speaker 1: on your mind tonight?
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  Speaker 3: I'm eighty four years old. I have the most beautiful
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  Speaker 3: love story ever told.
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  Speaker 1: Oh this I got a here, Rich. Congratulations first uff
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  Speaker 1: on having such a sweet love story to share, and
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  Speaker 1: secondly for being here to share it at eighty four.
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  Speaker 3: I must tell you. The ending is I lost this
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  Speaker 3: young lady six years ago to Ovarian. But she walked
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  Speaker 3: in a classroom when I was eleven. I looked up,
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  Speaker 3: I looked across at my dearest friend, my buddy at
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  Speaker 3: the time. I said, I'm going to marry her.
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  Speaker 1: Wait wait, wait, wait, wait, So you were eleven. How
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  Speaker 1: long did it take you to find out her name?
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  Speaker 3: Well, but two days later I ran by her on
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  Speaker 3: the playground and told her I was going to marry her.
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  Speaker 1: And did she accept your proposal then? Or did you
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  Speaker 1: have to wait a few years?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? No, no, no. By by the end the sixth grade,
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  Speaker 3: going in seventh, we were tight.
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  Speaker 1: So you really did fall in love in sixth grade?
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  Speaker 1: What's her name?
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  Speaker 3: Rich? Jan?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? So by sixth grade, the end of sixth grade,
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  Speaker 1: you and Jan were sweet on each other. And how
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  Speaker 1: many years did that last?
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  Speaker 3: Sixty seven? We were never apart.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So you fell in love with your best friend
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  Speaker 1: and your soul recognized each other when you were eleven.
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  Speaker 1: That's crazy.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, now think about this. I married an angel.
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  Speaker 3: Never saw her angry? Never raise your voice to me,
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  Speaker 3: I say to you, We never had an argument? How
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  Speaker 3: about that? Never?
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  Speaker 1: Never was she that mellow with everybody or just with you?
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  Speaker 3: Like?
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  Speaker 1: Did she raise her voice? Did she scream at other people?
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  Speaker 3: If you met Jan, you loved her. Couldn't help.
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  Speaker 1: I can't make it through a day without screeching, Rich,
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  Speaker 1: How did she make it through a lifetime without it?
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  Speaker 3: I I feel when we were young I said, don't
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  Speaker 3: you ever get depressed. No, it's not my nature. She
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  Speaker 3: lived and help other people.
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  Speaker 1: You really did marry an angel I did.
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  Speaker 3: And in thank goodness I knew it. We had an
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  Speaker 3: amazing romantic relationship. We knew each other. We rode vice,
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  Speaker 3: we went out in the country, we swam in the
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  Speaker 3: local pond. We we just did everything together. Everything all
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  Speaker 3: our first were together, grand canyon, hiking, camping, writing, four wheelers.
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  Speaker 3: Oh amazing, My students called me. I tried for forty
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  Speaker 3: four years. I had roughly thirteen thousand students coincidentally listened
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  Speaker 3: to how this worked. One of them, a girl. A
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  Speaker 3: lady lost her husband about three months before Christmas, and
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  Speaker 3: a man lost his wife a week before Christmas. And
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  Speaker 3: sixty years later they called mister Matta because we knew
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  Speaker 3: you would understand. When we first started teaching the kids,
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  Speaker 3: we had them in our home, we listened to music.
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  Speaker 3: We lived in the forty five dollars a month house,
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  Speaker 3: had a front yard. Decided that two football fields lived
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  Speaker 3: in the country in central Illinois, and the kids would
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  Speaker 3: drop by. It felt comfortable. And the boy said to me,
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  Speaker 3: mister Mauda, I hope this doesn't offend you, but your
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  Speaker 3: wife is a fox.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, mister Maude, you had a blessed life. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you write this story down. Did you and Jan have children?
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  Speaker 3: I had a boy or girl, and our son died
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  Speaker 3: of forty six of cancer. Jan, you know seventy eight
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  Speaker 3: and I have stage four cancer in my spine, among others.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, it's just it's life.
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  Speaker 1: You have stage four cancer, now, yes's in my spine.
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  Speaker 1: You sound so healthy and so strong.
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  Speaker 3: My other collegist said, you're the healthiest. Look at sick
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  Speaker 3: man I've got.
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  Speaker 1: You sound so incredibly healthy. Are you in pain? Does
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  Speaker 1: it cause you pain?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 3: Thank goodness No. I walk or do my mini traveling
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  Speaker 3: seven days a week. I have a wonderful exercise machine
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  Speaker 3: that I bought through Costco. I have left and think
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  Speaker 3: about this since I was fifteen years old. I swear
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  Speaker 3: this to be the shoot. I work out Monday, Wednesday
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  Speaker 3: and Friday. I've never missed. We moved here, we moved there.
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  Speaker 3: I went to school working on my PhD. Here du
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  Speaker 3: dah da da, and I took my weights with me.
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  Speaker 3: Or I found the gym and I will work out
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  Speaker 3: tonight and I will do my trampoline later on, never
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  Speaker 3: miss never never.
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  Speaker 1: So what is your phdn Music.
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  Speaker 3: Degree in biology, degree in drug counseling. I've counsel kids,
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  Speaker 3: and you know and so on. Please write this down.
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  Speaker 3: Go to YouTube and type in can one teacher make
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  Speaker 3: a difference?
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  Speaker 1: Can one teacher make a difference?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, I taught forty four years, had never had a
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  Speaker 3: student talk back to me. I never sent a student
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  Speaker 3: to the dean. I love them and I told him
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  Speaker 3: that every day.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, you have the kind of love that most of
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  Speaker 1: us mortals only dream about.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you know how many people have said to me,
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  Speaker 3: you know, rich I'm really sorry about you losing jam,
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  Speaker 3: but do you know what people would give to have
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  Speaker 3: one day with our spouse that you had every day
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  Speaker 3: for sixty seven years? Man? That woman was just yeah, goodness,
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  Speaker 3: was she something else? And she left me well, and
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  Speaker 3: she said before she passed, she says, you know, you
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  Speaker 3: should go first because I'm so used to the daily
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  Speaker 3: things and that you're not going to be used to
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  Speaker 3: and you'll be more overwhelmed.
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  Speaker 1: But I just think you are such a sweetheart. I
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  Speaker 1: don't even know you, and I love you, and I
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  Speaker 1: love jan I can't wait to get to heaven and
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  Speaker 1: meet her. I'm going to say, I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: you went through life without screaming, because I can't make
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  Speaker 1: it through a day without holler. And I'm such a yeller.
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  Speaker 3: Oh Jan would just you could just see or she could.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know if she can internalize it. It wouldn't
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  Speaker 3: have better. So I all know those your belt. Nobody
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  Speaker 3: can heal your dignity without your permission.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, So can I say a prayer for you?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Father God. I thank you Lord for allowing this gentleman,
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  Speaker 1: such a renaissance gentleman, Lord to get through on the
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  Speaker 1: phone lines and bless my heart tonight. Thank you God
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  Speaker 1: for the love that he shared with his beloved for
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  Speaker 1: almost seven decades. Lord, thank you God for the oneness
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  Speaker 1: that you created in them. I pray Lord that you
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  Speaker 1: would strengthen him, that if it be your will, you
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  Speaker 1: would heal him. The world needs musicians, the world needs teachers,
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  Speaker 1: the world needs leaders, the world needs people that understand
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  Speaker 1: dignity and respect. But I know his heart needs his
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  Speaker 1: beloved and so I don't know what your plan is,
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  Speaker 1: but whatever it is, I pray you would strengthen him.
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  Speaker 1: I pray you would take away every cancer, a sell
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  Speaker 1: in his body, that you would do a miracle. I pray,
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  Speaker 1: if it'd be your will, you would grant him wartime
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  Speaker 1: here on earth. And if you're going to call him
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  Speaker 1: home to be with his family, I pray you would
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  Speaker 1: do so without pain, without suffering, without Lord, God prolonged misery,
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  Speaker 1: but that it would be quick Lord, in an instant,
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  Speaker 1: in the twinkling of an eye, that he would be
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  Speaker 1: with you and with jan and with their family. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I pray God, that you would give him the peace
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  Speaker 1: that surpasses all understanding. And when his heart is breaking,
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  Speaker 1: when the grief is so overwhelming he cannot breathe, Breathe
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  Speaker 1: for him, Lord, breathe for him. I ask all these
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  Speaker 1: things Jesus and your precious and holy name.
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  Speaker 3: Amen, and yeah, thank you Dalilah. I was sweet.
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  Speaker 1: As we wrap up this episode of Have a Little Faith,
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  Speaker 1: I want to leave you with the few thoughts. A
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  Speaker 1: person who cannot receive love inwardly cannot truly give it
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  Speaker 1: share it outwardly. So perhaps when God shows you love,
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  Speaker 1: you should stop and think about that. If you can't
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  Speaker 1: receive love from the Almighty and from others, then you
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  Speaker 1: cannot give love. You cannot give away that which you
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  Speaker 1: do not have. Love was never meant to be given out,
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  Speaker 1: but never received. It doesn't stop at other people while
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  Speaker 1: bypassing your own need for it. Real love is reciprocal.
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  Speaker 1: Love is a two way street. Don't get me wrong.
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  Speaker 1: There's a difference between pride and healthy self worth. Pride
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  Speaker 1: says unhealthy pride says I am better than others, But
• 24:52
  Speaker 1: self love, real self love says I am worthy of
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  Speaker 1: love simply because God says I am. I don't have
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  Speaker 1: to earn it. Being a flawed human does not disqualify
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  Speaker 1: you from being deeply loved by others. Did you know
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  Speaker 1: that just because you have character defects, trust me, I
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  Speaker 1: have a lot of them, that doesn't disqualify you from
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  Speaker 1: giving and receiving love. Try to see yourself through the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of the almighty heavenly Father who created you, instead
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  Speaker 1: of through fear or comparison. Comparison kills joy. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you that regret, rejection, all those things kill joy
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  Speaker 1: and prevent you from being able to love yourself and
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  Speaker 1: truly love others. I will be back next week. In
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  Speaker 1: the meantime, if you want to share your faith share
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: a prayer, or offer support to someone else. Call me
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  Speaker 1: Monday through Friday evening one eight eight eight six' three
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  Speaker 1: three five four five. Two you might make it on
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  Speaker 1: the air to my radio. Show you might make it
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  Speaker 1: on the air here and have a little faith and
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  Speaker 1: do me a. Favor take some time out of your
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  Speaker 1: busy some summertime schedule to slow down and love. Someone
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  Speaker 1: del