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What God Knits Together · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, my friend. Welcome to another episode of Have a
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  Speaker 1: Little Faith with Delilah, where I share some of the
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  Speaker 1: most poignant, most relatable, most faith filled the conversations that
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  Speaker 1: I have had with my listeners. Listeners who call into
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  Speaker 1: my nighttime radio show hoping for direction, hoping to share
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  Speaker 1: a story, hoping to connect heart to heart. Some folks
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  Speaker 1: call in hoping to be able to pray. And in
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  Speaker 1: this podcast, I get to be much more transparent about
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  Speaker 1: the role that my faith plays in my life. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was last week I was explaining that to me,
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  Speaker 1: my faith, my faith in my life is like my
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  Speaker 1: spinal column, my backbone in my body. It's the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of everything. It guides my decisions. It guides the way
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  Speaker 1: I interact with my children, my grandchildren. It guides the
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  Speaker 1: way I conduct my business, the way I conduct my life.
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  Speaker 1: Do I always follow what God's word says I should
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  Speaker 1: do in any given situation? Obviously not. If that were
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  Speaker 1: the case, I certainly wouldn't be divorced time and time again,
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  Speaker 1: I certainly wouldn't struggle. Ninety percent of the things I
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  Speaker 1: struggle with in my daily life are not because of
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  Speaker 1: circumstances visited upon me. Outside of my choices. Maybe when
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  Speaker 1: I I was a kid or a teenager, I didn't
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  Speaker 1: have any choices, so all I had were my responses.
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  Speaker 1: I left home the day I graduated high school, and
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  Speaker 1: I have been making my own choices since that day.
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  Speaker 1: I've gotten no one to blame for my circumstances except
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  Speaker 1: myself pretty much. And when it comes to a lot
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  Speaker 1: of things, especially relationships, I have time and time again
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  Speaker 1: disregarded God's word and God's direction in my life. See
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  Speaker 1: a lot of things you just have to kind of
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  Speaker 1: guess at. But there are so many things that if
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  Speaker 1: you know the Word of God, and you know God,
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  Speaker 1: and you have a personal relationship with the Almighty, you
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  Speaker 1: don't have to guess. It's written down in black and white.
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  Speaker 1: I said to my pastor. I said to Mike mccorko,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why he just doesn't tell me what
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  Speaker 1: I should do in this situation. And he laughed, he chuckled.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Delilah, he does. He does tell us what
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  Speaker 1: to do in just about every situation. You just choose
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  Speaker 1: to ignore that and not listen. And it was true.
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  Speaker 1: It was true. Then it's true. Now the deeper I
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  Speaker 1: dig into the word of God, the more I realize
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  Speaker 1: he gives us a pretty clear map. He might not say,
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  Speaker 1: you know, in July, I want you to leave that
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  Speaker 1: job and go to another job, but he does tell
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  Speaker 1: us how we are to behave in any job that
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  Speaker 1: we're in. He says, work as if you're working under God.
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  Speaker 1: Work not for an earthly boss, but as if I'm
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  Speaker 1: the boss. Work as if you're doing it for me,
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  Speaker 1: not for the person writing your paycheck. Go into work
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  Speaker 1: every day with the attitude that you're doing it for me.
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  Speaker 1: When I do that, I am the best employee on
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  Speaker 1: the face of the earth. When I work as if
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  Speaker 1: I'm working onto the Lord, I don't grumble, I don't complain.
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  Speaker 1: I show up, I get the job done. I go
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  Speaker 1: above and beyond. I do far more than his ask
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  Speaker 1: of me, and I do it with a cheerful heart,
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  Speaker 1: with a great attitude, regardless of what my paycheck looks like.
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  Speaker 1: When I follow his word, I am a much much
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  Speaker 1: better employee. And in relationship, God tells us how we
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  Speaker 1: are to treat one another. Oh my gosh, he gives
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  Speaker 1: us so many words and so many directives on how
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  Speaker 1: to treat one another. He says, love one another, Love
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  Speaker 1: one another, he says, love your inemy, bless those who
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  Speaker 1: persecute you, love one another. And in relationships, he tells
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  Speaker 1: us to be honest, to be faithful, to be kind,
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  Speaker 1: to be present, to put our partner's needs above our wants.
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  Speaker 1: That's hard to do when we are as selfish as
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  Speaker 1: I am. If you are half as selfish as I am,
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  Speaker 1: that is so hard to do, to put somebody else's
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  Speaker 1: needs before your wants. I sound like such a nice
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  Speaker 1: person on the radio. I know I do. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: always that nice. I'm not always generous, I'm not always kind.
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  Speaker 1: I have a sharp tongue. God's word tells me there's
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  Speaker 1: no room for that in relationships and in marriage. And
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  Speaker 1: when I apply God's principles to my relationships, my relationship
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  Speaker 1: with my husband, my relationship with my best friends, my
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  Speaker 1: relationship with my siblings, the people that I love, employees,
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  Speaker 1: my kids. When I apply God's principles to those relationships,
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  Speaker 1: I am such a much better person, such a much
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  Speaker 1: more patient person. And when it comes to choosing partners,
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  Speaker 1: I'm glad that I have not been part of the
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  Speaker 1: dating world in almost twenty years, because when it came
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  Speaker 1: to picking partners man, did I miss the mark? Over
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  Speaker 1: and over and over again. I was in a number
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  Speaker 1: of failed relationships that I knew going into them were
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  Speaker 1: not of God. I knew that going into them. I
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  Speaker 1: was twenty six years old when I gave my heart
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  Speaker 1: to God, and I would go into relationships knowing that
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  Speaker 1: it was not God's will and trying to force the hour,
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  Speaker 1: trying to make things work out the way I wanted
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  Speaker 1: them to, and it never worked out. Surprise, surprise, it
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  Speaker 1: never worked out. But when I let Jesus take the wheel,
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  Speaker 1: things get a whole lot easier and a whole lot smoother.
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  Speaker 1: And in today's episode of Have a Little Faith, we
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  Speaker 1: are going to talk to some folks who let God
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  Speaker 1: take the wheel, so to speak, let God orchestrate the situation,
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  Speaker 1: let God bring their person to them, and let God
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  Speaker 1: knit them together. What God knits together is not going
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  Speaker 1: to be torn apart. What God knits together is going
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  Speaker 1: to last. Up, first, we have a story from Glenn Glynn,
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  Speaker 1: who truly understands the vow. Remember those vows. You took
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  Speaker 1: the vows. Most of took the vows in sickness and
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  Speaker 1: in hell. Glenn understood the assignment Hi Glenn, welcome aboard.
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  Speaker 1: You sound like a happy man. What can I do
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  Speaker 1: to add even more joy to your night?
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  Speaker 2: I just I got to share this with you. I
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  Speaker 2: for the first time. I've been listening to you for
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  Speaker 2: thirteen years. I love your show. I went to lallah
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  Speaker 2: dot com on my tablet this morning before I came
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  Speaker 2: to work. I finally saw a picture of you, and wow,
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  Speaker 2: I was impressed with the classy, beautiful lady.
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  Speaker 1: Ah, Thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I just took a chance. What's going to pull up here?
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  Speaker 2: This beautiful picture of you came up and that made
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  Speaker 2: my day. Let me tell you, I'm calling about my wife, Diane,
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  Speaker 2: who we'd been married forty two years. She's just got
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  Speaker 2: out of the hospital bronchitis, going through it, doing better,
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  Speaker 2: home recuperating and she's a love of my life, Delilah,
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  Speaker 2: and just going through a lot.
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  Speaker 1: So you need a song for Diana and maybe a
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  Speaker 1: prayer for complete.
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  Speaker 3: Healing, exactly for healing.
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  Speaker 2: And I'm gonna let you pick out a beautiful song
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  Speaker 2: for forty two years of marriage. I have one daughter
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  Speaker 2: that's grown, no grandchildren, and pick out a lovely song
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  Speaker 2: for her to feel better. And she's doing better, don't
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  Speaker 2: get me wrong. She's sleeping a lot still, Delilah, catching
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  Speaker 2: up on her rest. And she had such a horrible
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  Speaker 2: cough for about two months, a deep cough, and it
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  Speaker 2: affected her sleeping. And now she's starting to eat get
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  Speaker 2: her appetite back. So we're getting better.
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  Speaker 1: So can I say a quick prayer with you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am? I would love that, Yes, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: Father God, I thank you Lord for allowing Glenn to
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  Speaker 1: get through on the phone lines tonight. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: God for his unconditional, unending, sweet love for the bride
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  Speaker 1: of his youth. Thank you God for her healing. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you God that she's home. Thank you God that you
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  Speaker 1: are the great physician. Father. Nothing is too difficult for you,
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  Speaker 1: certainly not a cough. You're the one who who raised
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  Speaker 1: a Lazaruth from the dead. A cough is nothing. So
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  Speaker 1: I pray you would put your loving hand upon her
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  Speaker 1: chest right now and put every cell, every cell in
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  Speaker 1: her lungs, every cell in her heart, every cell of
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  Speaker 1: her blood. Put everything into perfect order, perfect order, Father God,
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  Speaker 1: that everything would would flow, that she would be able
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  Speaker 1: to breathe without complications, that she would be able to
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  Speaker 1: sleep and have sweet dreams. I ask that you would
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  Speaker 1: knit these two together even stronger than ever, Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: and that these years and these days that they're enjoying
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  Speaker 1: would be the sweetest days of their marriage. I ask
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  Speaker 1: this in your precious your holy name. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, Delilah, Oh, I'll never forget this conversation. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: so much from the bottom of mine.
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  Speaker 1: You are welcome, my friend. You sound like a loving,
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  Speaker 1: wonderful husband.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, thank you, Delilah.
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  Speaker 3: You made my night.
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  Speaker 2: Have a wonderful night.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, bybye. I loved Glenn. He clearly understands what
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  Speaker 1: being there, being there, being present for someone means. If
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  Speaker 1: you're feeling like you need advice in your marriage, look
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  Speaker 1: to people who have made their relationships last. Sherry, tell
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  Speaker 1: me about your hobby.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, He's my rock.
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  Speaker 4: He is the greatest support that God could have ever
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  Speaker 4: given me. I've had a lot of health issues and
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  Speaker 4: I've been three years now, I've gone through some major
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  Speaker 4: changes and he has been my support and my rock
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  Speaker 4: and I couldn't have done it without him.
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  Speaker 1: Tell me what is your favorite quality about his character?
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  Speaker 4: He, to me, resembles what Jesus would resemble. You know
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  Speaker 4: when it says how Jesus is your bridegroom, and my
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  Speaker 4: husband treats me as I believe Christ would treat me.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, that might be the kindest, most loving thing I've
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  Speaker 1: ever heard of.
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  Speaker 4: Wife say, yeah, I truthfully do not think of any negatives.
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  Speaker 4: I tried to stay away from negatives. I don't want
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  Speaker 4: to be focusing on negatives, so I can't tell you those,
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  Speaker 4: well except one, he's a procrastinator, but that's the only one.
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  Speaker 4: Other than that, I tried to just focus on his
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  Speaker 4: positive qualities, and he, to me, resembles how Christ would
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  Speaker 4: treat us.
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  Speaker 1: How did you meet? Tell me how you found this
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  Speaker 1: gift from God?
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  Speaker 4: Actually on a dating site on the Internet was called
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  Speaker 4: at that time One and Only. And he was a
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  Speaker 4: college professor, probably two hours away to college, two hours
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  Speaker 4: away from me in the state I live in. And
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  Speaker 4: we communicated via email for a while and then phone conversations,
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  Speaker 4: and then we finally met. But then we had a
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  Speaker 4: long distance relationship and we were engaged long distance. We
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  Speaker 4: planned our wedding when he was in Idaho and I
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  Speaker 4: was here.
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  Speaker 1: And then finally you got to combine your lives as one. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: So tell me something that has changed in your spirit
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  Speaker 1: since God brought him to you.
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  Speaker 3: That's a good question.
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  Speaker 4: I think he's helped me try to love myself more so,
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  Speaker 4: or I could change what I needed to change to
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  Speaker 4: get my health back on track.
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  Speaker 1: It sounds like he's very nurturing. Yeah, the few things
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  Speaker 1: you've said, he's a professor, right, he was a professor.
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  Speaker 1: He was so That means he loves young people. He
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  Speaker 1: loves pouring into them, he loves teaching.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, he does.
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  Speaker 1: Well. I am going to play a wonderful song for
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  Speaker 1: you too. Thank you for calling and sharing your love story.
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  Speaker 1: Congratulations on finding somebody with a heart like the Lord's.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, took me a while to find him, but I'm
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  Speaker 4: so glad I was patient and just waited on God's Timey.
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  Speaker 1: We could all take a lesson from that. Yes, you
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  Speaker 1: have a great night, honey, God bless you you too.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, Delilah.
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  Speaker 1: Up next, we have a conversation with Kimberly. Kimberly who
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  Speaker 1: is literally waiting up for her hero husband. He is
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  Speaker 1: a hero to come home from work. Let's listen to
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  Speaker 1: Kimberly right now.
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  Speaker 5: Hi, Delilah, this is Kimberly.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Kimberly, do you have a cute little heart shaped
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  Speaker 1: face to match your darling voice.
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  Speaker 3: Oh you're so sweet.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. You do, don't you. You have one of
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  Speaker 1: those really cute darling faces. That doesn't matter if you're
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  Speaker 1: fifteen or fifty five. You look adorable.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to think.
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  Speaker 5: So I just turned forty, So.
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  Speaker 1: What can I do for you tonight?
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  Speaker 5: I'm thinking of my husband. He is a firefighter on
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  Speaker 5: duty right now, and hope that he's staying safe. I'm
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  Speaker 5: so blessed to Hatton in my life. He really is
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  Speaker 5: the greatest gift that I could have asked for.
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  Speaker 1: What's your hero's name, Ricky? How long have you been married?
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  Speaker 5: We've been married now for almost six years, together for
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  Speaker 5: nine two beautiful children who were very bless.
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  Speaker 1: Best quality outside of the fact that he's a hero
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  Speaker 1: and has compassion and wants to save others and save
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  Speaker 1: the world. Best quality about Ricky that we might not
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  Speaker 1: notice just meeting him for the first time.
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  Speaker 5: He is a big teddy bear, a big teddy bear,
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  Speaker 5: and the compassion that he has, Oh, it just smelts
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  Speaker 5: my heart.
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  Speaker 1: So after six years still nine years? I guess you said,
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  Speaker 1: nine years together still melt in your heart?
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  Speaker 5: Obviously I still get excited when he walks through the door.
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  Speaker 5: I still get so happy to see his name pop
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  Speaker 5: up on the color ID.
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  Speaker 1: I will play a song for your whole family. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for calling and sharing your gratitudes. Thank you so much,
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  Speaker 1: tell Ricky, thank you. Thank you for Karen about us will.
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  Speaker 1: Wildfires are a constant thing right now. This past weekend
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  Speaker 1: I went to see my half brother and his family
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  Speaker 1: and have a barbecue and driving home about a two
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  Speaker 1: hour drive, the air was heavy with smoke from wildfires,
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  Speaker 1: even in places you wouldn't expect. Kimberly's story is a
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  Speaker 1: very important reminder for us to pray. Pray for firefighters,
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  Speaker 1: Pray for those who put themselves purposefully put themselves in
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  Speaker 1: harm's way to help people, to save people, to save
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  Speaker 1: pets and homes. They are angels on this earth. Joseph
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  Speaker 1: the Jeweler Joseph is in his eighties and he is
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  Speaker 1: still very much in love with the most precious jewel
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  Speaker 1: in his collection. Let's talk to Joseph the Jeweler right now. Hi, Joseph,
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  Speaker 1: what can I do to make your night all the sweeter?
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  Speaker 3: I am eighty years old. I listen to you a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and especially when I'm going to sleep at night. Diane
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  Speaker 3: and I have been married for forty eight years. We
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  Speaker 3: know each other fifty three years, and I'm still deeply
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  Speaker 3: in love with her.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Okay, So when you met Diane, what was it?
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  Speaker 1: What was it about her personality, her appearance, her countenance?
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  Speaker 1: What made you go, oh my gosh, I could love
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  Speaker 1: this girl forever.
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  Speaker 3: I can answer that even after all these years. The
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  Speaker 3: night that I met her, the dress that she had
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  Speaker 3: on was black or Floyd de Lys and I looked
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  Speaker 3: at this woman and I said, she is beautiful. And
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  Speaker 3: then we dated for a year or two. But unfortunately
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  Speaker 3: I was very immature at that time, and I admitted openly,
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  Speaker 3: and we kissed and we went on our own ways.
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  Speaker 3: We met again in three years, and then we married
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  Speaker 3: six months later.
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  Speaker 1: So during those three years, Joseph, you had an opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to grow up and realize what a prize you had.
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  Speaker 3: That's right.
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  Speaker 1: Did she wait or did she just like pass the
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  Speaker 1: time with somebody who didn't capture her heart quite like
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  Speaker 1: you did.
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  Speaker 3: I was just a typical immature guy, and I knew
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  Speaker 3: that I loved this woman, but I knew it wasn't
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  Speaker 3: I would not make a good husband at that point,
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  Speaker 3: but God gave us a gift that we were able
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  Speaker 3: to meet again. And when we met, we talked and
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  Speaker 3: she asked me, she said, would you like to go
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  Speaker 3: to a Christmas body with me? And I said absolutely.
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  Speaker 3: We were already in love, but what was the right
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  Speaker 3: time in life? And here we are. I'm mad and
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  Speaker 3: she's seventy eight and we're still together.
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  Speaker 1: Favorite thing to do together? Like, how do you like
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  Speaker 1: to spend perfect evening spent with your beloved? What would
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  Speaker 1: you do if you could take her anywhere? Do anything?
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  Speaker 1: Where would you go? What would you do?
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  Speaker 3: I like sitting with her and talking to her, and
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  Speaker 3: that we'd laugh, and we still joke. I still whisper
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  Speaker 3: in her ear and she laughs. I'm still a little
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  Speaker 3: bit devilish, which I'm glad I am.
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  Speaker 1: So is she trust me?
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  Speaker 3: So is she?
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  Speaker 1: In fact? If you ever lose that devilish quality, I
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  Speaker 1: don't know if she's going to stick around for the
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  Speaker 1: next forty or fifty years.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think she will. There's a song that wish
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  Speaker 3: I could think of it right now, and I can't
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  Speaker 3: because I can't even believe I got through to you.
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  Speaker 3: Is that about Diane and I being with each other
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  Speaker 3: for her that I love you forever. I love you
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  Speaker 3: for her. There's a song that it said, I love
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  Speaker 3: you forever.
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  Speaker 1: I will find and I love you forever Diane's song.
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  Speaker 3: I am in Boca Atone.
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  Speaker 1: Because this is not a Boca Ratone accent. Let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you, dude, no it's not.
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  Speaker 3: I was born in Rhode Island, but I lived in
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  Speaker 3: Boc Latone for forty years. I'm a jeweler and I've
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  Speaker 3: been around. I've been here for and I still work.
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  Speaker 1: Oh and I bet your wife has the prettiest jewelry
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  Speaker 1: in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah she does, Yeah she does. A very lucky guy.
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  Speaker 3: It's at eighty years old when you're still in love
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  Speaker 3: with your wife. You're in good shape.
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  Speaker 1: You are in great shape. I can't think of a
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  Speaker 1: happier place I would like to be than at eighty
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  Speaker 1: years old, still in love with my hobby.
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  Speaker 3: I enjoy your show very very much, and I'm sitting
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  Speaker 3: here listening to you. My wife is in the other
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  Speaker 3: room because she's raising money for symphony officers and for hospitals.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm just sitting here relaxing and listening to your
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  Speaker 3: show and you're a really nice lady, because you really
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  Speaker 3: have a great show, and you do touch people's livescape
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  Speaker 3: you do.
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  Speaker 1: There's a very old book that says he who finds
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  Speaker 1: a good wife finds a precious thing.
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  Speaker 3: It's the biggest jewel or gem in the world. You
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  Speaker 3: can make money, you can lose money, you can do
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  Speaker 3: all kinds of things. But when you're marry the right
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  Speaker 3: woman by the right man, it will bring you to
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  Speaker 3: the highest heights you've ever believed. I just got lucky,
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  Speaker 3: that's all.
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  Speaker 1: No, you didn't. When you find a wife that you
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  Speaker 1: are still madly in love with after fifty three years,
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  Speaker 1: that is a blessing. Thank you all right, you have
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  Speaker 1: a great night, honey. Thank you for calling.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Joseph clearly married a Proverbs thirty one woman. Look up
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs thirty one. This passage describes a woman who is
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  Speaker 1: hard working, who is wise, who is kind, who is
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  Speaker 1: a wrong manager of her household and her own finances.
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  Speaker 1: She's not portrayed as flawless, but as someone who diligently
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  Speaker 1: works to improve herself, to provide for her family, to
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  Speaker 1: improve her circumstances with God's guidance. Proverbs thirty one is
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  Speaker 1: my guiding light. Up next in this podcast is Marissa.
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  Speaker 1: Marissa is celebrating an anniversary. She is married to a
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  Speaker 1: true partner in life. She and her husband have built
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  Speaker 1: a beautiful family. Let's hear from Marissa right now. Hi Marissa?
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  Speaker 1: What can I do to make your night more special?
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  Speaker 1: More special?
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  Speaker 4: I don't know. I just want to say how grateful
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  Speaker 4: I am as it's going to be me and my
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  Speaker 4: husband's anniversary, soom wedding.
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  Speaker 1: How many it's going to be?
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  Speaker 4: Nine years married and thirteen years together?
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  Speaker 1: And what's your hobby's name, Brian? Marissa? One more year?
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  Speaker 1: If you make it one more year, then you call
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  Speaker 1: me back and I will sing for you the world
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  Speaker 1: famous Happy Anniversary song. But you got to make it
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  Speaker 1: ten years. That's the that's the threshold.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, I don't think I'll have a problem with that one.
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  Speaker 1: How many kids picks? WHOA? You have a full quiver?
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  Speaker 1: You have been blessed exactly? What are the ages of
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  Speaker 1: the kids?
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  Speaker 4: Twelve, ten, nine, four, three and one and a half.
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  Speaker 1: And how many hours a night? Mom? Do you get
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  Speaker 1: to sleep?
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  Speaker 3: Well? I'm pretty lucky. I get to get a good
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  Speaker 3: seven hours.
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  Speaker 1: Really, yes, ma'am twelve, ten, nine, four, three, and one
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  Speaker 1: and a half. Are we praying for more? Or is
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  Speaker 1: the one and a half year old the baby?
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  Speaker 3: She's gonna stay the baby.
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  Speaker 1: That's what you think. If you'd love having a big family,
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  Speaker 1: God might have other plans.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we love it and we're made for it.
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  Speaker 1: And what song can I play for this beautiful, beautiful
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  Speaker 1: family you've woven together.
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  Speaker 3: I'll let you choose it, Okay.
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  Speaker 1: I will find a beautiful song for you and Brian
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  Speaker 1: and all of your babies. Congratulations, Give them all hugs
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  Speaker 1: and make sure they each have a radio in the
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  Speaker 1: room going to sleep at night. They do.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: I've spoken with a few people on this podcast today,
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  Speaker 1: some that are older like Joseph and his gem his jewel,
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  Speaker 1: some who are younger. Look for the people in your
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  Speaker 1: life that have endured in their marriage, who have made
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  Speaker 1: it through the rough spots. They will guide your way,
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  Speaker 1: bonds from God that can never be broken. Look to
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  Speaker 1: those people and ask them for wisdom and direction. As
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  Speaker 1: we wrap up this episode of Have a Little Faith,
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  Speaker 1: remember this what God has knit together, let no man
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  Speaker 1: tear apart. Remember there are many things we choose to
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  Speaker 1: knit together that are not God's handiwork, not his doing,
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  Speaker 1: not his yarn or his thread that he wants woven together.
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  Speaker 1: Don't do what I have done in the past and
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  Speaker 1: try to force things to be the way you think
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  Speaker 1: they should. Instead, look to God, read his word, apply
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  Speaker 1: it to your life. Pray constantly, and look to others
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  Speaker 1: who have wished wisdom and can lead you until next time.
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  Speaker 1: Lord bless you richly. May the Father in Heaven shine
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  Speaker 1: his light upon you. I pray for you God's wisdom
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  Speaker 1: in your relationship, in your marriage, and your family, in
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  Speaker 1: all that you do. God bless you. I am so
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  Speaker 1: grateful that you join me today. If you have a
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  Speaker 1: story to share, you need an ear, especially if you
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  Speaker 1: need a prayer, call me this evening, any evening Monday
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  Speaker 1: through Friday one eight, eight, eight, six, three, three, five
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  Speaker 1: four or five two, and we will talk about it
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  Speaker 1: and we will pray about it. Follow and subscribe right
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  Speaker 1: now on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcast, or wherever you
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  Speaker 1: listen to your podcast, and I'll be waiting for you
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  Speaker 1: until next time. Remembermember to have a little faith.
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  Speaker 3: Delve