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OU Softball · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  We got a question for our American mamma. Dear mama, did you see
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  the OU softball team talk about real joy? Well, let's ask our American
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  mama and joining us now, our American mama, Terry Netteville. You showed
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  me these clips. So this Oklahoma University of Oklahoma Sooners won the College World
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  Series of Softball, Yeah, championship, and they were interviewing some of the
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  players after their you know, their victory, and they're they're up there and
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  doing the interview and oh my word. You know we've heard people all glory
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  goes to God, and you've heard those types of things. This was different.
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  This was another level. This was so it elevated God in a way
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  I've never seen a group of teammates do before. One. Yes, yeah,
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  it was. It wasn't just one. It was we have an example.
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  This is just one of them. I guess this is the second person
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  who spoke on this, and this is Jada Collins. Take a listen.
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  I was so happy to win the College I've talked about this before, but
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  I was just so happy that we won the College World Series. But I
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  didn't feel joy. I didn't have I didn't know what to do. The
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  next day. I didn't know what to do for that following week. I
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  didn't feel filled, and I had to find Christ in that. And I
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  think that is what makes our team so strong, is that we're not afraid
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  to lose, because if it's not the end of the world. If we
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  do lose, yes, obviously we've worked our butts off to be here and
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  we want to win, but it's not the end of the world because our
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  life is in Christ and that's all that matters. College World Series champion talking
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  about winning the Chance because this isn't the first time they won. I think
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  it's third time in recent years, and she was saying, we won the
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  College Series. I wasn't fulfilled, right, and then like she did,
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  you know, she kind of piggybacked off of Grace, and then m alyssa
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  Brito teammate of hers, piggybacked off of hers to continue to explain to her
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  the to the reporters kind of like not only validating Jada, right, but
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  but piggybacking. And she said, you know, you'll see usay eyes up
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  and she motioned up like we do this thing where we do our eyes and
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  then we point up and she said we're really fixing our eyes on Christ.
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  And then she's piggybacking on what Jada said. She said, you cannot find
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  fulfillment in an outcome, whether it's good or bad. I think that's why
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  we're so steady and what we do. And then our love for each other
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  and our love for the game, because we know this game is giving us
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  the opportunity to glorify God. Right, And then it goes on and a
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  number of them went on to continue piggy backing off of each other, and
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  I'm just saying, that's like a whole other level of Tebow, you know
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  what I mean, Like we saw we saw Tim Tebow do it, and
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  people like, yeah, okay, that's Tim Tebow. He kneels, Okay,
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  oh great, you know John thirteen three sixteen on his eyes. Okay.
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  This is another level. This is giving their own testimonies in front of
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  the world, and in a time, in a space and an era where
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  it is worrisome to share your faith because you're so afraid of the backlash,
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  you're so afraid of being canceled. To have them come out at this level,
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  to this degree, are linked arm in arm basically with their love for
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  Christ and preaching to the world. And I want to know who is this
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  coach. I want to dig in because they gave credit to the coach of
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  Coach told us this, Yes, Coach told us where joy comes from.
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  That joy really comes from the Lord. If the Lord is our strength,
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  the joy of the Lord is our guide. The joy of the Lord is
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  where we find purpose, the joy of the Lord. They continued speaking about
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  what it meant to have the joy, God's joy in your heart, what
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  that can do for you win or lose. You can win the National Championship
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  and not feel ful field because why, It's like when people say, I
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  don't know. I've got I've got money, I've got I've got my family,
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  I've got friends, but there's something missing. You've had friends that have
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  said that there's something missing. I don't know what it is. We know
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  that that something that's missing can only be fulfilled by God, by connection with
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  God, with a connection to God's right. And I the fact that these
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  young athletes well, and one of them said, I don't remember which one
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  of them said this, but she said this, I think is part of
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  what makes us such a good team because we're not afraid to lose. Yeah,
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  we know, yes, we want to win, but we know that
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  if we lose, it is not the end of the world because we have
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  our joy from the Lord. Yes, that makes us willing to go out
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  and take chances and take risks that otherwise we might not take. If that
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  does not serve our purpose. For these young girls that are watching them,
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  wanting to emulate, I don't know what God is using them. God is
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  using these girls in mighty ways. And I've often said to my own children,
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  your generation is going to turn this thing around. I believe it to
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  my core. And there was another girl that said her name is Jordi Bow,
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  and she said her mindset was to give the game over to God.
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  She said, I just trust that the end's already written. If we could
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  all just do that with regard to our own life and our life journey,
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  just know it is already written. You just completely follow God, trust his
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  plan for your life, trust the path he has you on, and He
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  will provide. And He has written a story and the greatness you are heading
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  towards, a greatness unlike anything you've ever known, because God is the one
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  who's Navie well. And you know, I love this because From the very
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  first show, we have ended every single show from American Ground Radio with the
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  phrase, may your pursuit of happiness bring you joy. These girls get it,
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  they get it me. If you'd like to ask our American Mama question,
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  you can go to our website American ground Radio dot com, slash mama
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  and click on the ask the Mama button. Turn out of ville. Thank
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