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Jesus Calling: Stories of Faith - The Bright Side of Life’s Many Detours: Jaccob and Josiah Slavin & Sara McDaniel · TAKEN TV Podcasts

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  Speaker 1: Life Audio.
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  Speaker 2: Whether you're new to prayer or have been praying for years,
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  Speaker 2: the Jesus Listens by Sarah Young devotional empowers you to
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  Speaker 2: draw near to God daily. Now, you can find this
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  Speaker 3: Just being Christians in the hockey world, it's also just
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  Speaker 3: the daily commitment to living out that saying of, hey,
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  Speaker 3: we love Jesus, and that's first and foremost, but we also,
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  Speaker 3: God has given us the ability to play hockey, and
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  Speaker 3: so we want to play hockey and use it for
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  Speaker 3: His glory.
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  Speaker 2: Welcome to the Jesus Calling Podcast. This week we hear
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  Speaker 2: from hockey-playing brothers Jacob and Josiah Slavin. Jacob, a veteran
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  Speaker 2: defenseman for the Carolina Hurricanes, Josiah, now playing for the
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  Speaker 2: Chicago Wolves in the same organization. They share about the
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  Speaker 2: night they finally played in an NHL game together after
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  Speaker 2: dreaming about it since childhood and how they keep their
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  Speaker 2: personal convictions strong in a challenging environment. Next, we'll hear
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  Speaker 2: from Sarah McDaniel, whose marriage fell apart around age 32,
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  Speaker 2: leaving her angry at God. She shares how a cottage
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  Speaker 2: in Minden, Louisiana, and the social media account she started
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  Speaker 2: to document its transformation became a place to talk about
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  Speaker 2: her story and how she held on to hope through
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  Speaker 2: her father's death and the health scare and job loss
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  Speaker 2: that followed. Let's begin with the Slavin brothers.
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  Speaker 4: My name is Josiah Slavin, and we are both professional
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  Speaker 4: hockey players. I play for the Chicago Wolves in the
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  Speaker 4: Carolina Hurricanes organization.
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  Speaker 3: And then my name is Jacob Slavin. I am Josiah's
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  Speaker 3: older brother. We have four siblings. We all played hockey.
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  Speaker 3: And like Joe said, he's a professional hockey player, so
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  Speaker 3: am I. I've been with the Carolina Hurricanes for 11
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  Speaker 3: years now, going into my 12th year. And last year,
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  Speaker 3: Joe and I got to play our first NHL regular
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  Speaker 3: season game together, and it was super special.
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  Speaker 4: Growing up with five kids in a house and we
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  Speaker 4: all played the same sport, things were very competitive. We
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  Speaker 4: all wanted to beat each other in whatever it is
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  Speaker 4: we were doing.
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  Speaker 1: We were a competitive household. Everything was sports.
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  Speaker 3: Even if it was who got the biggest cookie for
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  Speaker 3: dessert that night, it was a competition to see who
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  Speaker 3: would get the biggest cookie.
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  Speaker 1: And so we had so much fun growing up in
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  Speaker 1: our house.
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  Speaker 4: And our dad, just every morning before school, he would
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  Speaker 4: be at the table in the same spot every single day,
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  Speaker 4: just reading his Bible in front of us and as
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  Speaker 4: a little boy or a teenage boy growing up as well.
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  Speaker 4: You just wanted to be like your dad and you
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  Speaker 4: wanted to pull out your Bible and read next to him.
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  Speaker 4: And I think that was the biggest way that faith
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  Speaker 4: stuck in my life.
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  Speaker 3: He set that example for us of what it looks
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  Speaker 3: like to still actively have a relationship with God while also.
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  Speaker 4: Trying to manage a busy life. Jesus Calling, our mom,
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  Speaker 4: I think, had the devotional growing up. And so we
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  Speaker 4: saw her reading it.
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  Speaker 3: Hockey got really busy. Like I said, we had four siblings.
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  Speaker 3: We all played hockey at the same time and stuff.
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  Speaker 3: We kind of had to figure out what it looked
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  Speaker 3: like to be Christians while also playing hockey too.
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  Speaker 1: Once I moved away from my family into juniors and into.
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  Speaker 3: Chicago when I was 17 years old is really when
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  Speaker 3: I had to be like, okay, am I going to
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  Speaker 3: kind of continue and follow in and just kind of
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  Speaker 3: like this family faith or am I really going to make.
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  Speaker 1: It my own relationship with Jesus? I knew who Jesus was.
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  Speaker 1: I knew what he had done for me on the cross.
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  Speaker 3: But at the same time, it was a very shallow
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  Speaker 3: relationship with Jesus in the sense that it was very workspace.
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  Speaker 3: So when I moved to Chicago, We had a great
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  Speaker 3: chaplain named Alex. There was a chaplain through Hockey Ministries International.
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  Speaker 3: Josiah had Alex when he was in Chicago. And so
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  Speaker 3: Alex has been instrumental in both of our faiths. But
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  Speaker 3: first year being in Chicago, he really discipled me. And
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  Speaker 3: I really learned what it meant to have my own
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  Speaker 3: personal relationship with Jesus and truly walk with Jesus and
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  Speaker 3: in freedom of what Jesus has done for us.
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  Speaker 4: I kind of have a similar story as Jacob, where
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  Speaker 4: I didn't really learn about having a relationship with Jesus
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  Speaker 4: until I moved out to play junior hockey. That first
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  Speaker 4: year in Kearney, Nebraska, I joined a Bible study and
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  Speaker 4: the guy who was leading told me about how he
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  Speaker 4: prays at Center Ice after games.
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  Speaker 1: That really convicted my heart.
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  Speaker 4: And I was like, I would enjoy praying at Center
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  Speaker 4: Ice after games just to be able to give God.
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  Speaker 1: The glory and just thank him for letting me.
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  Speaker 4: Be able to play this game. So the first year
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  Speaker 4: that I was in Kearney, Nebraska, it was completely fine.
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  Speaker 4: No one ever said anything about it. But then when
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  Speaker 4: I went back for my second year, the GM told
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  Speaker 4: me and one other kid on our team that was
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  Speaker 4: praying at center ice, he said, I don't want you
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  Speaker 4: guys doing that anymore. You can pray off the ice, whatever,
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  Speaker 4: but I don't want you praying at center ice. And
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  Speaker 4: that really convicted me because I was like, no, this
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  Speaker 4: is kind of what God's been calling.
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  Speaker 5: Me to do.
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  Speaker 4: And I had conversations with Jacob and my other mentors
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  Speaker 4: about it, but I just, I was like, God is
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  Speaker 4: convicting my heart that he wants me to continue doing this.
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  Speaker 4: And so the first preseason game that next year, I
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  Speaker 4: took a couple other guys and we prayed at center
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  Speaker 4: ice and a week later I was traded. And so
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  Speaker 4: when I got to Lincoln, Nebraska, where I got traded to,
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  Speaker 4: it was another decision I had to make whether I
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  Speaker 4: was going to keep doing.
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  Speaker 1: It or not.
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  Speaker 4: But I ultimately followed the conviction that God put on
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  Speaker 4: my heart and decided that I was going to keep
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  Speaker 4: praying at center ice and thankfully, the team in Lincoln,
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  Speaker 4: they were very okay with me praying at center ice.
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  Speaker 4: And so I was able to keep doing that. And
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  Speaker 4: I've actually been doing it throughout the rest of my career.
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  Speaker 4: And I still do it after games, even at the
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  Speaker 4: pro level. And so it's been a blessing that I've
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  Speaker 4: been able to go this far and just really just
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  Speaker 4: being able to give God the glory.
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  Speaker 1: After games and still be able to pray at center ice.
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  Speaker 3: I'm one of Josiah's biggest fans and watching his career
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  Speaker 3: and And the work that he's put in, and obviously
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  Speaker 3: I'm five years older than him. And so I've been
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  Speaker 3: able to watch a lot of his hockey and see
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  Speaker 3: the way he's progressed. And to finally be able to
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  Speaker 3: play together last year was something that was so special.
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  Speaker 3: I know my mom and dad have been waiting for
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  Speaker 3: that moment to happen. And so when Joe signed the
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  Speaker 3: Hurricanes two full seasons ago now, that was the dream.
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  Speaker 3: It was like, okay, this is it. We're finally going
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  Speaker 3: to get to play together. Because growing up, we never
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  Speaker 3: got to play together. So when that game finally came,
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  Speaker 3: it was against Utah. And my parents were able to
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  Speaker 3: come out. My sister and her husband came out. And
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  Speaker 3: one of Joe's best friends from childhood came out. And
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  Speaker 3: so it was one of those things that was just
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  Speaker 3: so fun because the family's there with us. We're enjoying it.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the moment we could both take it
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  Speaker 3: for what it was, which was an awesome moment that
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  Speaker 3: God just kindly gave us. And we were just able
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  Speaker 3: to enjoy it and be able to be out on
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  Speaker 3: the ice for a couple shifts together, kill a couple
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  Speaker 3: penalties together. I mean, just what we both dreamed about
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  Speaker 3: from kids growing up. So it was a special moment
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  Speaker 3: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: For me, with Jacob being five years older, I've always
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  Speaker 1: been trying to play catch up.
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  Speaker 4: And so just for us to finally get that moment,
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  Speaker 4: it took five years into my career for that moment
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  Speaker 4: to become a reality. And just so thankful that God
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  Speaker 4: blessed us with that moment. It really was a dream
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  Speaker 4: come true because we had been dreaming about it since
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  Speaker 4: kids as soon as Jacob had.
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  Speaker 1: The chance to play in the NHL.
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  Speaker 4: We were like, one day we want to be able
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  Speaker 4: to play together. It was very special to share it
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  Speaker 4: with family and friends and just each other. I remember
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  Speaker 4: after the game, we gave each other the biggest hug
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  Speaker 4: and it was really special.
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  Speaker 2: To learn more about Jacob and Josiah Slavin, follow them
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  Speaker 2: on social media and be sure to tune in to
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  Speaker 2: the Carolina Hurricanes and Chicago Wolves games this season. Stay
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  Speaker 2: tuned to Sarah McDaniel's story after a brief message. Enjoy
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  Speaker 2: abundant gratitude this fall as you reflect on God's overflowing blessings.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Calling, Harvest of Blessings, can help you focus on
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  Speaker 2: your blessings and cultivate a gratitude mindset, allowing you to
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  Speaker 2: center your mind more on Jesus and less on stress
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  Speaker 2: and anxiety. This inspirational full-color devotional includes stunning autumn seasonal photography,
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  Speaker 2: Bible verses, and words of hope from God's heart to yours,
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  Speaker 2: Sarah Young's bestselling, Jesus Calling. This volume is perfect for
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  Speaker 2: families who want to cultivate a tradition of counting blessings together,
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  Speaker 2: those who are looking to deepen their experience of trusting God,
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  Speaker 2: and those who want to walk closely with Jesus and
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  Speaker 2: begin daily habits of expressing thankfulness. Be inspired to walk
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  Speaker 2: the blessings He has put in your life. Find Jesus Calling,
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  Speaker 2: Harvest of Blessings at your favorite retailer. Our next guest
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  Speaker 2: is Sarah McDaniel, a real estate investor and content creator in.
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  Speaker 4: Minden, Louisiana.
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  Speaker 2: She bought a broken down cottage after her divorce and
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  Speaker 2: began sharing how restoring the house mirrored restoring her life,
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  Speaker 2: which led to a Better Homes and Gardens cover and
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  Speaker 2: appearances on HTTV and Magnolia Network.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Sarah McDaniel, and I am a full-time real estate
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  Speaker 5: investor and content creator in Minden, Louisiana. I got married
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  Speaker 5: at a very young age. I was barely 20 years old,
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  Speaker 5: and I grew up in the church. I just, for
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  Speaker 5: some reason, thought my entire life I should go to
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  Speaker 5: high school, graduate, go to college, get married, have a career, children, retire,
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  Speaker 5: and die, basically. I was on that trajectory. until things
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  Speaker 5: went very, very wrong when I was about 32 years old.
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  Speaker 4: Old.
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  Speaker 5: I had big hopes and dreams of being a mother,
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  Speaker 5: being a grandmother one day, but all of that got derailed.
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  Speaker 5: When my marriage fell apart, it was absolutely devastating. And
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  Speaker 5: I was completely convinced that my life was over, that
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  Speaker 5: I would never be happy again. Just being completely honest,
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  Speaker 5: I was very, very angry at God. I had served
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  Speaker 5: Him faithfully my entire life. I'd Been on the mission
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  Speaker 5: field for him, taught Sunday school, served in several different capacities.
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  Speaker 5: And I was the good little Christian girl, you know,
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  Speaker 5: the pastor's daughter. And this was not supposed to be
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  Speaker 5: my life. So at the time, I absolutely could not
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  Speaker 5: understand and fathom anything. how I would ever be happy again.
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  Speaker 5: Every hope and dream I had held since I was
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  Speaker 5: a little girl came crashing down. Everything I believed to
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  Speaker 5: be true was over. And it was the most difficult
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  Speaker 5: season of my entire life. Jesus Calling has been my
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  Speaker 5: lifeline for so many years. It really became a crucial
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  Speaker 5: part of my healing during my divorce. Even to this day,
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  Speaker 5: it's part of my morning devotion every single day. But
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  Speaker 5: I feel like Sarah.
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  Speaker 5: It's uncanny how when I read this devotion, I feel
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  Speaker 5: like that it was written just for me at just
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  Speaker 5: the moment in time where I am. And there's obviously
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  Speaker 5: like no way to explain that other than she was
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  Speaker 5: God ordained to write this book. And so it has
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  Speaker 5: been instrumental in my healing and continues to be instrumental
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  Speaker 5: in my life all of these years later. One night
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  Speaker 5: I was in Laredo, Texas, and I was having dinner
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  Speaker 5: with clients and I got in my car to go
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  Speaker 5: back to the hotel. And as soon as I got
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  Speaker 5: in the car, I audibly heard the Lord tell me
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  Speaker 5: it was time to move home to Louisiana. This was
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  Speaker 5: years after my divorce had been final. I wanted to
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  Speaker 5: stay in Texas where I was currently living, but he
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  Speaker 5: wouldn't let me let that nudge or that notion go.
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  Speaker 5: And so I began to explore, like, where would I
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  Speaker 5: live if I decided to move home to Louisiana? So
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  Speaker 5: fast forward about 10 months after that initial call, I
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  Speaker 5: was driving through Mendon, Louisiana. And I saw this beautiful, cozy,
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  Speaker 5: broken down cottage just on the edge of the historic
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  Speaker 5: residential district. And all I know to say is that
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  Speaker 5: I knew in that moment that that house was supposed
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  Speaker 5: to be mine. There's this whole story about how I
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  Speaker 5: acquired the house. It took about 22 months. It wasn't abandoned,
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  Speaker 5: but no one was living there. And it had been
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  Speaker 5: in the ownership of this family for about 90 years
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  Speaker 5: at that time. And so they had this strong emotional
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  Speaker 5: attachment to it. But basically, I just kind of wooed
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  Speaker 5: and pursued them and just felt in my spirit that
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  Speaker 5: this house was supposed to be mine, not understanding then
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  Speaker 5: how it was going to alter the course of my life.
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  Speaker 5: So eventually I get the house and I start social
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  Speaker 5: media accounts and a blog, Simply Southern Cottage, just to
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  Speaker 5: document the process. I thought my mom will click, my
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  Speaker 5: sister will click, and the good people of Minden, Louisiana
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  Speaker 5: will want to follow along. But what happened is that
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  Speaker 5: I slowly started sharing more and more about my personal journey.
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  Speaker 5: And I was realizing that there was a very strong
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  Speaker 5: parallel between the renovation of this house and the restoration
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  Speaker 5: of my life post-divorce. And so I began opening up
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  Speaker 5: about my story. And when I would talk about slowly
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  Speaker 5: putting the house back together, I would draw this parallel
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  Speaker 5: about how the Lord was healing my heart and slowly
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  Speaker 5: putting me back together also. I remember one night I
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  Speaker 5: was out in West Texas working in Midland, Odessa, and
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  Speaker 5: all of a sudden my phone starts blowing up with
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  Speaker 5: Instagram notifications. And I was like, what in the world
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  Speaker 5: is happening here? And so when I went to check,
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  Speaker 5: Better Homes and Gardens had shared my before and after.
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  Speaker 5: And it was the first time that a large national
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  Speaker 5: magazine account shared had shared my home. And honestly, I
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  Speaker 5: just could not believe it. My initial career, I was
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  Speaker 5: a teacher. I later became a technology director and then
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  Speaker 5: assistant principal, and then later became an educational sales rep.
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  Speaker 5: But I was not an interior designer. I was not
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  Speaker 5: a home renovator. I simply just took this broken down
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  Speaker 5: cottage and paralleled the restoration of it alongside my wife.
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  Speaker 5: And What's so crazy is that it started happening over
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  Speaker 5: and over and over. Southern Living Magazine shared, then Cottages
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  Speaker 5: and Bungalows shared. Eventually, I ended up with a legit
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  Speaker 5: Better Homes and Gardens photo shoot. My house was actually
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  Speaker 5: on the cover of Better Homes and Gardens Cottage Style.
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  Speaker 5: It was all happening so incredibly fast. And I seriously
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  Speaker 5: just could not believe it. I could not believe, number one,
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  Speaker 5: that this little girl from Louisiana who's doing these renovations
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  Speaker 5: caught the attention of magazines that noted national interior designers
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  Speaker 5: are a part of. But then just realizing that the
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  Speaker 5: Lord was increasing my platform so that I could continue
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  Speaker 5: to tell the story of restoration and grace, hope, mercy,
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  Speaker 5: and redemption, and how He can take beauty from ashes.
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  Speaker 5: Slowly after the magazine attention started happening, I was on
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  Speaker 5: an episode of Hometown Kickstart with HGTV. And then later,
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  Speaker 5: I was on an episode of In with the Old
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  Speaker 5: on Magnolia Network. Halfway through filming of our episode, I
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  Speaker 5: got a call one morning from my mom that said
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  Speaker 5: that my dad had collapsed. And so our world just stopped.
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  Speaker 5: They lived about 45 minutes away from me. And so
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  Speaker 5: I got in my car, flew up there. And long
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  Speaker 5: story short, he goes out for a three-mile run literally
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  Speaker 5: every day. And on his way out to a run,
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  Speaker 5: he actually collapsed from a brain bleed. It was about
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  Speaker 5: a two-week journey. And we did end up losing him, unfortunately,
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  Speaker 5: right in the middle of filming that episode. And I
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  Speaker 5: was so just taken aback by how the production team
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  Speaker 5: handled that entire situation. Not that I expected them to
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  Speaker 5: handle it differently, but they were like, do whatever you
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  Speaker 5: need to do. We will stop production. This is about us.
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  Speaker 5: being with your family and remembering your dad and his legacy.
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  Speaker 5: And they waited on me. And so if you know
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  Speaker 5: my dad, he lived life to the fullest. And he
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  Speaker 5: would not have wanted us to wallow in pity for
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  Speaker 5: too long over him. He celebrated life. He loved others well.
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  Speaker 5: And so we pretty much jumped right back into production.
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  Speaker 5: But our amazing producer, Christine Johnson, who also was responsible
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  Speaker 5: for writing season one of Fixer Upper, weaved in the
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  Speaker 5: story of my dad into our episode. And it was
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  Speaker 5: such fun. a beautiful way to honor him, to take
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  Speaker 5: note of what happened during filming, but to share the
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  Speaker 5: legacy that he left behind. And I could not have
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  Speaker 5: asked for it to have been more beautiful. It was
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  Speaker 5: very hard to cling to hope through all of these trials.
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  Speaker 5: I was very upset with God for letting my marriage
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  Speaker 5: fall apart. thinking my life was never going to be
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  Speaker 5: happy again. But the further I got away from that
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  Speaker 5: situation and the more that I leaned into Him and
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  Speaker 5: His plan for my life and the promise of Romans 8, 28,
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  Speaker 5: that He is going to work all things for good,
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  Speaker 5: I started to realize that there is a bright side
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  Speaker 5: on the other side of this pain. The divorce is
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  Speaker 5: only one part of my story. I walked through a
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  Speaker 5: health scare where I almost died. I lost an amazing
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  Speaker 5: six-figure job unexpectedly, kind of all in sequential order. Just
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  Speaker 5: when you thought the worst thing has happened to her,
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  Speaker 5: something else happened, but the Lord was so faithful to
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  Speaker 5: redeem and I held on to Ephesians 3 20 that
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  Speaker 5: he promises infinitely and abundantly more than we can ever
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  Speaker 5: ask or imagine and I He made good on that promise.
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  Speaker 5: It almost sounds braggadocious about all the incredible things, but
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  Speaker 5: it is totally bragging on our Father and just the
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  Speaker 5: proof that He can bring a bright side to the
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  Speaker 5: other side. I'm reading from Jesus Listens, November 6. Dear Jesus,
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  Speaker 5: help me to lead a victorious life by living in
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  Speaker 5: deep dependence on You. I used to associate victory with success,
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  Speaker 5: not falling or stumbling, not making mistakes, but being successful
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  Speaker 5: in my own strength made me vulnerable to going my
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  Speaker 5: own way, forgetting about you. It is through problems and failure,
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  Speaker 5: weakness and need that I am learning to rely on you.
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  Speaker 5: I realized that true dependence is not simply asking you
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  Speaker 5: to bless what I have decided to do, It involves
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  Speaker 5: coming to you with an open mind and heart, inviting
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  Speaker 5: you to plant your desires within me. Sometimes you instill
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  Speaker 5: a dream in me that seems far beyond my reach.
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  Speaker 5: I know that my own resources are inadequate for attaining
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  Speaker 5: such a goal. Thus begins my journey of profound dependence
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  Speaker 5: on you. It's a faith walk taken one step at
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  Speaker 5: a time, leaning on you for strength and guidance. This
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  Speaker 5: is not a path of continual success, but a way
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  Speaker 5: of multiple failures. However, each failure is followed by a
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  Speaker 5: growth spurt, nourished by increasing reliance on you. I want
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  Speaker 5: to enjoy the blessedness of a victorious life by deepening
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  Speaker 5: my dependence on you. In your victorious name, amen.
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  Speaker 2: To learn more about Sarah McDaniel, visit simplysoutherncottage.com. And be
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  Speaker 2: sure to check out her new book, The Bright Side
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  Speaker 2: of the Other Side, available at your favorite retailer. If
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  Speaker 2: you'd like to hear more stories about how we can
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  Speaker 2: build something new after difficult times, check out our interview
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  Speaker 2: with Jenny Mars. Next time on the Jesus Calling Podcast,
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  Speaker 2: we hear from Chris Edmonds. Chris shares how his father,
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  Speaker 2: Master Sergeant Roddy Edmonds, risked his life during World War
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  Speaker 2: II when he was held as a POW And he
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  Speaker 2: protected hundreds of Jewish American soldiers from being executed by
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  Speaker 2: their Nazi captors.
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  Speaker 6: I cherish the scripture that says all that's been accomplished,
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  Speaker 6: the Lord has done, Isaiah 26.3. And I've done nothing
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  Speaker 6: except try to follow God and discover what he wanted
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  Speaker 6: me to know. And so everything that's happened from dad
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  Speaker 6: being saved in that camp and all of his boys
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  Speaker 6: getting out safe, that's all the Lord's doing.
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  Speaker 2: Finally, you can find encouragement, resources, and more on the
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  Speaker 2: Jesus Calling website at JesusCalling.com.