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Steele's Wedding · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Let's get to our American mama. Question. Dear mama, how is your
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  son's wedding? Well, let's ask our American mama. Mama, mama,
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  and joining us now our American mama, Terry Netterville. This was the wedding.
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  I went to the wedding, and I can answer this question. It
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  was great. Next question, No, No, it was, it was
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  really, it was really really. Of course the church is beautiful, Um,
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  you know the I love the pipe organs and stuff. I mean it
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  was really great. Steele and Tristan got married. I'm not sure I've ever
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  seen a groom more enthusiastic to get married. Yes Steele, oh yeah,
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  afterwards he really did did a fist pump when he's got married, got his
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  girl. Um. But all right, for I know you right right,
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  and you like to have things planned out and your your house is a great
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  place to entertain people, and you had been working so so hard to have
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  the house set up to entertain the whole bride and grooms. Yeah, team
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  I wanted she wanted Tristan, my son's wife wanted. Yeah, my daughter
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  in law, she wanted all thirteen bride'smaids at our house to get ready so
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  we were they were gonna we werenna have a rehearsal dinner, spend the night,
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  everybody spend the night I had, and then the next day they were
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  going to get ready at my house, so I bought fourteen of those Hollywood
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  mirrors. We had all set up like a bridal heaven. The next day
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  the storm came through. So we had a massive storm, a derecho,
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  that's what the weather termed for it. And it came through and basically it
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  was one hundred mile hour winds for several counties in Paris's wide, knocked out
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  power to a quarter of a million people, including you. Yeah, we
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  had trees down. We had one tree that crushed my daughter's boyfriend's car.
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  We had the tractor was under trees. We had about seven live oaks down,
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  uprooted. It was devastating. And my first thought was, Tristan,
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  we were just to have a luncheon. I was thinking of, oh my
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  gosh, this is her weekend. So I know we don't have a lot
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  of time. So I'm just gonna try to cut to the part that really
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  was the most meaningful In times like this. You know, we we've heard
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  mister Rogers say that his mom once told him that during the hard part stirring
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  tragedies, look for the people who help. Look for the helpers. Look
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  for the helpers. In this weekend, we discovered God's grace through friends and
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  family. And I am going to try really hard not to cry. But
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  people came together on the rehearsal dinner. They did it by candlelight. The
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  one restaurant that kept their doors open. They bought box fans. They had
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  candles everywhere. The flowers were beautiful, so we had candle light. And
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  then I was praising God. In the moment, I was praising God.
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  We were in the kind of in the dark, and I said, I
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  thank Him for allowing us to have this place in the electricity comes on em
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  bosure at that moment, so we had air for the rest of the time.
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  But Tristan is my She's who I want to be when I grow up.
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  She's everything. You know. They've dated for about nine years since they
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  were kids in high school and um. But she called me that morning when
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  she found out that the trees were that we were not going to have the
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  Bible luncheon anymore at her aunt's house because they also had trees down, no
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  power. Everybody did. Nobody had power for us. So she called and
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  she was muffling her cry, and she was like, I'm just sad.
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  And I said, it's gonna be okay. You know, you do what
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  you're what moms do, so it's gonna be okay. We're going to figure
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  this out, I promise you. And about and she had tears. She
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  said it's gonna be okay. About thirty minutes later, she called me back
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  and she said, it's tear I just want to apologize for crying and acting
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  like a baby. I said, Tristan, what, yes, I said,
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  you are human, and this is your wedding week, and you planned
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  this for a year, right, and it's been any yes, and things
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  have happened. Circumstances happened. She said, Well, I just wanted She
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  said, well, I want you to know that it is going to be
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  okay. At the end of this weekend, I will be married to your
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  son. I will be Tristan Neverville, and it's going to be okay.
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  So we hung up. I cried. I went outside by our pool and
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  I told my sisters and my whole family's in town. Of course, I
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  went outside and I just wanted some time with God, and I just told
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  him, I said, God, please help me, guide me, direct
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  me in a way that I will be able to handle what's happening for this
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  weekend, for both of these kids, and to make it as special as
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  we can. Just please guide my steps and put a piece in my heart,
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  which he did in that moment. Still came from his place, from
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  his house to help start, you know, chopping with the chainsaw, to
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  start, you know, doing the type of stuff that Steal does. Yeah,
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  yes, yes, yes, clear. In our driveway, we had
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  trees across our driveway, right, And so he came out there and and
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  I looked up and he had tears in his eyes, and he opened his
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  arms and he hugged, enveloped me into his arms. And I said,
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  it's going to be okay, Steel, And he said, Mom, she
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  deserves more, she deserves everything. I'm so sad for her. I said,
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  let me tell you something about her. And I told him the story
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  that I just told you, and I said, Steal, what you have
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  which you are getting, you're seeing a glimpse of the kind of woman you're
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  going to have by your side for your wife, right, and you're having
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  a glimpse into who she will be as a mother to your children exactly.
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  And so you can see the two of them have made good choices together.
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  Yes. And the one last thing, there's a picture of you and Steel
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  about to enter the church, and you said, in that moment he turned
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  over to you and said what. He looked up at the heavens, and
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  he looked at me. He looked at the filled pews, and he said,
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  God, I'm so blessed mom. Right before he starts his wife and
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  we walks forward, and he ended it with a fist pump. I mean,
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  can you get any better than that? God is? I'd like to
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