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Parking Lot Drama and the Power of Prayer · HAVE FAITH LET IT BEGIN®

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  Who?
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  Dr. E, it's Christmas Eve, Eve.
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  We just got done doing the Kroc podcast that actually aired yesterday.
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  Fast forward. Now we're on a Monday. Dr. E, we got to talk about something that happened to me.
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  It transpired in the parking lot of the ShopRite Plaza where I was looking for a parking.
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  I went to turn, and I oversaw a woman park into a handicap sticker,
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  I mean, sorry, into a handicap parking,
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  which she had a sticker for, only to be met by another handicapped person who
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  laid down the horn. You'll never believe what happens next.
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  Have faith, let it begin. Starts right now.
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  Have faith, let it begin. When it starts right now.
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  Music.
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  Welcome to Have Faith. Let it begin. Here's your host, Angel Santana.
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  Ariel, can you say, have faith? Let it begin. Let it begin? Let it begin. Say, have faith.
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  Let it begin. Let it begin. No. No? No? Okay. Hi, Noah. Noah! Noah!
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  Oh, Jesus. Happy birthday, Noah! Okay, then. I'm doing amazing. Can you just get us that?
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  No. This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it. Try.
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  This little light of mine, I'm gonna let it. Try.
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  This little light of. My. I'm gonna let it. Try. Let it. Try. Let it.
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  Try. Let it. Try. Yeah.
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  Dang, I'm so excited. But I have one question. What's your question?
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  Are you going to be a pastor or a minister?
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  Good question. I don't know, but it is all in God's hands. Good morning.
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  You're listening to Have Faith Let It Begin, and it starts right now.
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  Hello, everyone, and welcome to Have Faith Let It Begin.
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  It is a Monday. It is Christmas Eve, Eve, and Dr. E is back.
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  Listen, we got to get into it.
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  Dr. E, happy holidays. Merry Christmas.
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  Are you ready for this doozy? oh i can't wait
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  and i'm actually can't wait for uh the candy cane episode
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  on have faith let it begin that's like my favorite episode of
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  the year uh but i'm i'm wondering if we're gonna
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  have like wheelchair wars coming up are we
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  gonna have like a battle like like with two wheelchairs coming
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  at each other with their you know with the what with jousting with their big
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  poles and knocking This is a crazy story And I do not Recommend anyone do what
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  I did But here we go So the woman parks in,
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  The guy with his wife lays down the horn. I mean, I'm talking the horn.
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  It was there. It must have been 40 seconds.
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  Now, here's the problem. When she parked,
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  he is purposely now right behind her, but in an angle, which prevents me from.
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  Getting into that area so that I can park elsewhere.
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  So much now that neither the
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  side of the traffic from each direction can go anywhere
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  because he is a still honking
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  the horn b trying to
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  get the attention of the young lady who is clearly a little
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  hard of hearing because she didn't realize he
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  had laid the horn down until she came out of
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  the car and that's when she realized the gentleman
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  was yelling at her and using
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  profanity and what i was hearing because
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  i obviously i turned my window down he was
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  claiming that that was the spot that he always parked
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  in but it was clear that the woman a
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  did not see that he had put his signal light on but
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  guess what he couldn't have claimed it because she
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  was parking from the front of him and not
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  from a different angle so she didn't steal the parking he
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  just wanted his do you want to
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  know what happens next i hope that you
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  brought him the lord angel well
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  i decided because i had my son with me it would
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  be in my best interest to not get involved so i put i pulled around and i figured
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  it would be over but i overheard the woman say i am so sorry if you want i would
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  be more than happy to trade and get out of the spot the guys just started yelling
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  she He ignored him and went into the store.
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  It just so happens that the store that she went into was the same store that I was going into.
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  And she looked frazzled. She looked upset. She looked distracted.
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  She looked as if she couldn't even complete her shopping or pick up her prescription.
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  I began to pray for her. But this is where it actually turns for the worst.
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  As I leave the store, she was still in there. And as I was getting ready to
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  go to my spot, I noticed that the gentleman was still parked with the car on,
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  with the blinker on, awaiting his spot.
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  Yes, he didn't move.
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  So I got into my car, I warmed it up, and I figured I'd stay and watch the rest.
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  What did I see next? The gentleman got out of his car, and I thought he was
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  going to key that woman's car.
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  No, he decided to go to another person who was parked into a handicap sticker
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  spot and walk up to their window.
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  And you can see him gesturing, get out of the spot.
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  That person, out of fear, decided it was time to leave.
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  As he was pulling into the spot, he started to have a smile,
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  but an angry smile. That's when
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  I got in my car, drove up very slowly past him, and opened up my window.
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  I looked at him and I said, sir, you seem like you could use a prayer.
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  He looked at me with such anger and looked at me and said, mind your own business.
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  To which I replied, no, this is my business.
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  I am going to pray for you because you have a lot of anger, son.
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  And out of respect for my elders, I will not disrespect you.
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  Like you respect, disrespected the last woman.
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  Let us pray. He looked at me out of anger and said, pray all you want.
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  I'm always angry. And I drove away.
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  There's a message here. Help me. And the message is this.
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  There's a lot of anger happening right now in this world. There's a lot of people that are upset.
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  We don't know what transpired to this gentleman. So I'm not going to label him the villain.
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  What I am going to say is there are a lot of us that need prayer.
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  There are a lot of us that are dealing with a lot of things.
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  And if you heard yesterday's episode on the Crock podcast, Citizens Reunited
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  to Overcome Cancer, you will hear a remarkable story about a miracle that took place.
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  It's about a woman named Mary. And no, I'm not talking about the Mary,
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  but she comes pretty close.
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  And to hear her story and then to actually come back
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  and then label this story as the man who
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  thought the parking spot was his only to reject the prayer reminded me of what
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  we are dealing with in this world dr e as a doctor i know you see it too i know
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  you're seeing a lot of anger this is the time of year that we need to come together wouldn't you agree.
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  Absolutely. And then reactivity and anger. Angel is not, you know,
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  sadly is, is operative in all of us. It's part of our human stain.
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  I, as a soon to be 65 year old person.
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  So I'm officially going to be in, in a, a senior citizen.
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  I can say that in my entire life of the thousands and thousands of times that
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  I've gotten angry or reactive, I can tell you that I have never had one episode that I've been proud of.
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  And even Jesus had one episode of what was called righteous anger when he got
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  angry at the peddlers at the temple that were trying to sell their wares.
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  And he went in and disrupted the tables and things. And that's different.
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  That's righteous anger, that's different.
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  But I don't know, you know, I know that all of us are human.
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  So we don't have that righteous anger and we have instead the other.
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  So I think that the moral of the story from my perspective is that everyone
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  out there who's listening and all of our half faith family, you know,
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  every, the next time using this Christmas week is especially as an inspiration to us.
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  Let's try to take a breath. The next time something angers us and next time
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  we become reactive, just create some space and really, really investigate and
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  look within ourselves to see if it's really worth it.
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  And I think that in honor of the birth of our Lord, I think the answer will be no.
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  Yeah. And just a last minute thing before I go into prayer, I want to remind each of every one of you.
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  You know, we're living also in an era where you got to be careful too.
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  And I realized that after, you know, I said, man, you know, you don't know if the guy has a gun.
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  And I say that respectfully, you know, I, I, I gotta be careful and I gotta choose my time.
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  I didn't have to really open my window and say something. What I just should
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  have done. What we can all do is just pray about it. And I will do that in the future.
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  But in honor of the story and honor of the Citizens United to overcome cancer.
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  Dr. E and I would like to take this opportunity to wish each and every one of
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  our listeners a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.
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  We will return for the brand new seasons and brand new years coming up.
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  The story of the candy cane will be around.
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  Citizens United to overcome cancer returns in two weeks and we will have more
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  and more episodes to give you and I will continue on as well.
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  So let's pray. Heavenly Father, we thank you for all that you give us,
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  the amazing stories, the miracles.
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  We thank you for the ability to come together on this holy week.
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  And we ask all of our people to remember that as we celebrate the birth of Jesus
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  Christ, we also have to remember there are other people out there that will
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  celebrate other holidays.
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  Like our Jewish friends, we celebrate Hanukkah and we honor and respect all
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  the religions out there that have different beliefs.
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  May all of us come together, unite as one, and may God bless each and every
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  one of us every single day.
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  On behalf of all of us here, never forget, faith let it begin there, baby. Merry Christmas.
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  Merry Christmas, Noah. Bye-bye. Say Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas.
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  Join us tomorrow for the annual tradition of the story of the candy Cain,
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  led and hosted by the man himself, Santa Claus.
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  It'll air tomorrow morning at 7 a.m.
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  Music.