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A mother's Love · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend. Welcome, Welcome to have a little faith
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Speaker 1: with Delilah. Today we're going to talk about motherhood. I
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Speaker 1: think motherhood is sacred. I know motherhood is sacred. Being
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Speaker 1: a mom, raising kids closest thing to doing God's job
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Speaker 1: that there is. In my opinion, it's sacred. God loves, loves, loves,
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Speaker 1: loves mamas. He loves blessing us. He loves healing us,
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Speaker 1: he loves empowering us. He loves coming alongside us. Sometimes
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Speaker 1: he loves challenging us. I was blessed to have a
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Speaker 1: mom that loved me fiercely. She was a little Cray Cray. Okay,
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Speaker 1: she was a lot Craig Cray. And the older I get,
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Speaker 1: the more I realize, Man, my mom had some crazy
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Speaker 1: ways of dealing with the pain in her life. Today
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Speaker 1: we've got therapy and support groups and books and talk
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Speaker 1: shows and all that stuff to help you deal with
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Speaker 1: childhood trauma and abuse and neglecting, addictions and blah blah blah.
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Speaker 1: But when my mom was growing up, they didn't have
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Speaker 1: any of that. She didn't have access to any of that.
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Speaker 1: But no matter what, no matter what bad choices my
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Speaker 1: mom might have made, she loved us fiercely, and we
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Speaker 1: knew that every day of our life, my mom loved
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Speaker 1: me more than life. I knew that I never went
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Speaker 1: to sleep a night in my life that I didn't
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Speaker 1: know that. I know that I know that my Mama
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Speaker 1: loved me. I was in my mid thirties when God
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Speaker 1: called her home. I was blessed to have her for
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Speaker 1: those years, thirty five years. But when God called my
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Speaker 1: mom home, I didn't think I would ever recover. I
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Speaker 1: hurt so bad and I missed her so much. She
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Speaker 1: was my biggest cheerleader. She was the person I wanted
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Speaker 1: to call whenever I had great news or good news,
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Speaker 1: or whenever I had bad news and I needed to
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Speaker 1: bounce something off. She was who I called, She was
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Speaker 1: who I turned to, and we certainly didn't always see
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Speaker 1: eye to eye. There was a couple of years I
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Speaker 1: didn't even talk to her. I was so mad. I
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Speaker 1: just shut down. I distanced myself. It took us a
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Speaker 1: lot of work and a lot of tears and a
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Speaker 1: lot of talking to work through that. And thank God
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Speaker 1: that we did before she was diagnosed with cancer, before
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Speaker 1: God called her home. Today, have a little faith with Delilah.
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Speaker 1: We're going to hear from some moms. A few moms
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Speaker 1: that I'm going to share with you in this episode.
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Speaker 1: These women are all in very different situations in life.
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Speaker 1: Up first, I want to share a conversation that I
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Speaker 1: had with Tiffany, who is calling to honor both her
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Speaker 1: son and his birth mom. Let's hear from Tiffany right now. Hi, Tiffany,
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Speaker 1: what can I do to make you a night special?
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Speaker 2: Request? A song for my oldest son's birth mom?
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Speaker 1: How old is your oldest son?
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Speaker 2: He is seven and a half.
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Speaker 1: And how old was he when God brought him into
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Speaker 1: your arms?
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Speaker 2: Away? He brought him home from the hospital.
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Speaker 1: Oh awesome.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I actually called about two years ago and talked
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Speaker 2: to you when we had just gotten our twins. All
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Speaker 2: three of our children are adopted, and so we just
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Speaker 2: I called and talked to you a couple of years ago,
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Speaker 2: and I've called a bunch of times, but she's just
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Speaker 2: really been on my heart. Last week was his Gotcha
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Speaker 2: day what we call it, and I just wanted to
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Speaker 2: call on your quest a song for her?
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Speaker 1: Do you want to share her first name?
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Speaker 2: Yes, her name is Samantha.
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Speaker 1: All right, we'll honor Samantha and all the birth bombs
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Speaker 1: letting us have the honor of loving their babies and
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Speaker 1: raising the ones they brought into the world.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, absolutely, And how old are the twins? The twins
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Speaker 2: they're too a.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to the terrific twos.
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Speaker 2: We are very very busy.
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Speaker 1: Very busy, very very busy.
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Speaker 2: Well, the night before the adoption was final, she said
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Speaker 2: she was listening to your show and she heard the
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Speaker 2: Tarzan song and she knew that she was making the
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Speaker 2: right choice. And so that song has always been very
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Speaker 2: very special to us.
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Speaker 1: So God used that song, especially the lyrics of that song,
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Speaker 1: to give her the courage to do what must have
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Speaker 1: been breaking her heart. Yes, ma'am, hmm, now you're gonna
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Speaker 1: make me cry. I'm sorry, aren't we so blessed?
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Speaker 2: I can't even put into words how blessed we are?
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Speaker 2: You cannot even put them into words.
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Speaker 1: Until you've you've built a family through adoption. You just don't.
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Speaker 1: You just don't get it. You're right, you know, I
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Speaker 1: don't remember if I was as naive as other people.
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Speaker 1: But when people say to the me, you know which
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Speaker 1: ones are your real kids?
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Speaker 2: All of them?
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Speaker 1: I'm like, are you kidding me? Or people will they
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Speaker 1: just say such strange strange things. When my son Sammy passed,
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Speaker 1: I lost count of the number of people who said, well,
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Speaker 1: thank goodness, it wasn't one of your real kids.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's yeah. My husband and I have a ministry.
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Speaker 2: We go around and speak to churches about foster care
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Speaker 2: and adoption and you so, I'm sure you've heard some
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Speaker 2: of the same things as well. You would just wouldn't
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Speaker 2: be you'd be shocked to hear some of the things
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Speaker 2: that people say.
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Speaker 1: With thirteen and having fostered as many as I have
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Speaker 1: and adopted ten, we could share, you know, compare notes
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Speaker 1: at the foolish, heartless things that people say. But I
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Speaker 1: choose to believe it's out of ignorance, not out of cruelty, right, absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I don't want to believe that people really is cruel
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Speaker 1: as they come across when they say things like that,
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Speaker 1: I choose to believe that they're just ignorant. Yeah, So
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Speaker 1: thank you for having a ministry to help people understand.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you for yours as well.
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Speaker 1: And when you look back through history, I mean, let's
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Speaker 1: think about it.
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Speaker 3: Jesus was adopted Jesus, you know, Queen Esther Moses.
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Speaker 1: Adoption is at the very heart of how God loves
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Speaker 1: us that we are adopted to be his own. All Right, Tiffany,
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Speaker 1: You'll be my heart for Samantha and all the birth
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Speaker 1: moms listening tonight. The next mom I'm going to share
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Speaker 1: with you is a conversation that I had with Stacy.
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Speaker 1: Her daughter is truly amazing, and Stacy wants to sing
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Speaker 1: her praises right now.
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Speaker 2: Hi, this is Stacy. I cannot believe I got through.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Stacy.
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Speaker 3: I listened to her so like all the time, every day,
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Speaker 3: and I've never got through, never in years and we're
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Speaker 3: not in years.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry you never got through in the past,
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Speaker 1: but I'm glad you're here tonight. What can I do
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Speaker 1: to make your night special?
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Speaker 3: Well, I just wanted a short, little quick thing.
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Speaker 2: I won't go into much detail.
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Speaker 3: But there is my daughter who I had on brain
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Speaker 3: surgery in two thousand and three, and she helped bring
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Speaker 3: me back, like because I had to re learn everything,
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Speaker 3: I mean adding driving a car, the whole business, right,
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Speaker 3: and she took over everything when she was fifteen. Wow,
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Speaker 3: I'm paying the bills. Hi, I'm doing this. Hi, I'm
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Speaker 3: doing that.
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Speaker 1: And at fifteen. Yeah, I have a fifteen year old
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Speaker 1: daughter I'm just trying to picture her taking over something
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Speaker 1: like I don't know, open end feeing out the dishwasher. Well, yeah,
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Speaker 1: that doesn't happen. I'm like, honey, put away the dishes. Honey,
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Speaker 1: please put away honey? Can you please put a put
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Speaker 1: away the dishes?
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Speaker 2: I just you know, people come along in your life.
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Speaker 4: I truly believe this.
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Speaker 1: It's save you.
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Speaker 3: And by that, I don't mean like they give their
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Speaker 3: life over you know what I mean for you and
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Speaker 3: do everything, but they help bring you to be a
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Speaker 3: better person, you know, and me so much. And I'm
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Speaker 3: I'm just so proud of her and I love her
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Speaker 3: and I think she's fantastic. And you know, one day
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Speaker 3: your mom can do all the billing and the next
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Speaker 3: Dacey's like what what what?
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Speaker 1: So why did you have brain surgery? Can I ask?
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Speaker 4: Yeah?
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Speaker 2: I had a brain tumor.
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Speaker 3: It was acoustic neuroma that had grown out of the
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Speaker 3: right side of my ear and onto the brain stem
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Speaker 3: and was basically taking all the blood out of the
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Speaker 3: like the jugular vein back there. And now you're okay,
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Speaker 3: I'm good. I'm really good. I'm really good. Lots of therapy,
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Speaker 3: I mean, five years of physical therapy, and then I
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Speaker 3: had some like therapy, so I didn't open my big mouth,
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Speaker 3: because when I got out of surgery, I had a
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Speaker 3: very big mouth. I had no frontal guidance at all, whatsoever.
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Speaker 1: No no filter.
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Speaker 3: Nope.
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Speaker 1: Do you want to know what's amazing, what's happened. I've
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Speaker 1: never had brain surgery, and I struggle with the same problem.
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Speaker 1: A thought forms in my head and it spills out
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Speaker 1: of my mouth before I can stop it.
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Speaker 3: Well, sometimes that happens, but you know, I mean, there's
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Speaker 3: for me, there's moments that I don't have to like
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Speaker 3: intentionally like hurt somebody just because I can say.
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Speaker 2: It, you know.
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Speaker 3: Anyway, She just she's been so great to me, and
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Speaker 3: she's done so much for me and helped me learn
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Speaker 3: how to handle money again and how to do all
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Speaker 3: these things. And I'm just amazed.
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Speaker 1: And how old is she today?
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Speaker 2: Thirty five?
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Speaker 5: Wow?
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Speaker 1: So you guys have been through it. You have been
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Speaker 1: through it.
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Speaker 2: She's amazing.
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Speaker 3: She's amazing, and you know, there's ups and downs and
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Speaker 3: give and take, and but we always find a way
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Speaker 3: to make it.
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Speaker 1: What's her name, Stacy, Her name is Caitlin.
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Speaker 3: And you know what, I just want you to know
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Speaker 3: your So it's so newt right now, and at least
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Speaker 3: for me, I feel like it is because I don't
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Speaker 3: watch the news then, you know what I mean. I
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Speaker 3: listen to the stories and the music and you know,
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Speaker 3: and that helps put me in a better headspace than anything.
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Speaker 2: I love it. So it works for me, and I
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Speaker 2: love it.
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Speaker 1: If you watch the news, honey, you're gonna get scared
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Speaker 1: to death. It's terrifying.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm like, you know what, uh huh, that's I
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Speaker 3: can't have that in my head.
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Speaker 2: So, but she's wonderful.
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Speaker 3: She's just the best, I mean, just the best, the best.
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Speaker 3: I knew when she was born that she was special,
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Speaker 3: and I just didn't realize how special. You know. She's
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Speaker 3: just and never belittled me or made me feel bad.
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Speaker 3: She's the best person ever, like ever, like better than me,
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Speaker 3: a hundred million times better. So I went great things
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Speaker 3: for her.
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Speaker 1: Let me play that song for you. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: calling you have a great night.
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Speaker 2: You too, Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: You know. One of the things I love most about
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Speaker 1: doing this show is the fact that it is a
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Speaker 1: generational show. What do I mean by that? I mean
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Speaker 1: parents listen, grandparents used to listen or still listen if
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Speaker 1: they're here. Kids listen now grandkids are listening, and I
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Speaker 1: love that. I love when people say, oh my gosh,
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Speaker 1: you remind me of my mama because we used to
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Speaker 1: listen when I was a kid in the car, and
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Speaker 1: now I've got my own kids or my own grandkids.
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Speaker 1: I love sharing words of wisdom or encouragement with generations.
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Speaker 1: I love being a part of your family. And in
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Speaker 1: just a moment, I'm going to celebrate with a sweet
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Speaker 1: woman who is thinking and appreciating her mama. She is
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Speaker 1: so appreciative of the time that she has despite the
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Speaker 1: challenges with her sweet mama. That call and song are
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Speaker 1: coming up next. Hi, Angela, Welcome to the Delilah Show.
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Speaker 1: Who is on your heart tonight?
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Speaker 4: I don't have a.
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Speaker 5: Lot of people, but one in particular, which is my mom.
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Speaker 5: She battles every day with short term memory, and every
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Speaker 5: time I see her, I just thank God for letting her.
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Speaker 4: See me still the way a mother should see their child.
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Speaker 5: And I mean, it's heartbreaking to see her drift slowly
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Speaker 5: with her memory, but I know it's the way life
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Speaker 5: is when you're a certain age.
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Speaker 1: So has your mom got dementia?
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Speaker 5: She has short term memory. I mean, she takes medicine
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Speaker 5: for it to slow it down a little bit. But
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Speaker 5: I'm just very blessed to still have her on earth
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Speaker 5: with me and just share many memories.
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Speaker 1: So you're close with Mama, and it's breaking your heart
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Speaker 1: to see her struggle with the short term memory, but
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Speaker 1: you're enjoying and rejoicing in the blessing that she's still alive.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask how old your mom is? Early eighty? Wow,
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Speaker 1: So you are very blessed, Angela. What's her name, Karen?
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Speaker 1: I will play a song to let her know how
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Speaker 1: much you cherish her and thank you for being grateful
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Speaker 1: for every moment. I wish and I wish more people
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Speaker 1: had that attitude if they only knew how everything can
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Speaker 1: change in an instant.
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Speaker 5: Oh yeah, and some of us go through just wondering.
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Speaker 5: And it's not even just wondering, it's just you love
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Speaker 5: the people like your parents, like I do with my mom.
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Speaker 5: I mean, she she says, I'm so sorry I'm a
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Speaker 5: burden to you. You're not a burden.
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Speaker 1: You took care of me. Now it's my churn to
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Speaker 1: take care of you. Well, I'm going to play a
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Speaker 1: sweet song for your Mama, you have a great night.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for calling. The last color I want to
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Speaker 1: share is a woman named Linda. While she always had
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Speaker 1: the love of her kids, she found herself in a
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Speaker 1: whole lot of trouble. Linda chose love, Linda chose God.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear her remarkable story right now.
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Speaker 4: It's for Grenda. How you doing?
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Speaker 1: Like Hi, Linda, I'm wonderful. What can I do for you? Oh?
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Speaker 4: I listened to you like forever and I don't believe
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Speaker 4: I finally got through. I try every night on my
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Speaker 4: boy coming home from work. But I'm glad I got
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Speaker 4: through tonight because I just like to send a song
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Speaker 4: out to my door. She's my inspiration, She's my everything.
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Speaker 4: I've been through a lot, but she's always always always
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Speaker 4: been there for me to everything I have to her
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Speaker 4: through my kid is through. I mean, she was always
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Speaker 4: there and I just want to send a specially out
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Speaker 4: to her.
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Speaker 1: All Right, Linda, what's your daughter's name, Lashan? And what
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Speaker 1: is the toughest thing that you say you said you
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Speaker 1: put them through. What's the toughest thing they had to
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Speaker 1: go through? Mama bear, I've been do that and back.
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Speaker 4: I'll put it like that I've been them back and
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Speaker 4: I've been cleaned for like fifteen years. And through those
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Speaker 4: times before I got clean, I mean I took them
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Speaker 4: through Helen back and my daughter was always there with me, always,
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Speaker 4: and she just stood buy me. I believe in me.
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Speaker 4: And if it wasn't for her, I don't know where
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Speaker 4: I would be right now.
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Speaker 1: So how old was your your daughter when you got clean?
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Speaker 1: When you came back.
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Speaker 4: She's forty now, so I guess around twenty nine thirty.
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Speaker 1: And is she loving having her mama back?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 5: She loved it.
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Speaker 4: We talked twenty four hours, seven days a week, and
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Speaker 4: she tells me everything, and I tell her, Lashan, you
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Speaker 4: don't have to tell me everything. Just teach some things
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Speaker 4: to yourself, you know. But I mean we have the
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Speaker 4: greatest relationship. You know, so many people envy us because
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Speaker 4: they wish they had a relationship like my daughter and I.
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Speaker 4: But you know, through the time when I did get clean,
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Speaker 4: I mean it was still with some rough patches to
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Speaker 4: go through, and you know, but like I said, she
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Speaker 4: was there every step of the way. She's just she's
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Speaker 4: my everything, She's my be ups up. I mean, it's
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Speaker 4: like she's my heart and I love her so much.
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Speaker 1: I had someone say to me when I was when
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Speaker 1: I was young and uh, making crazy decisions. And I
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Speaker 1: had a little boy, he's he's a police officer. Now
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Speaker 1: he's all grown up. But I had somebody say to me,
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Speaker 1: he is your little rudder. And I said what. And
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Speaker 1: they said, a ship, a huge ship, has a tiny
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Speaker 1: little rudder that helps them to steer. And without that
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Speaker 1: little rudder, the ship would run aground or crash. And
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Speaker 1: they said, your son is your rudder. God gave you
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Speaker 1: that child was such a good heart to be your
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Speaker 1: rudder to make sure your life was steering in the
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Speaker 1: right direction. And it's true, and it sounds to me
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Speaker 1: like like this, this this daughter was a gift from
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Speaker 1: God to be your rudder.
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Speaker 4: She is she is, I mean, she's my everything. She's
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Speaker 4: every my heart. And you know what the worst part is,
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Speaker 4: I have two other kids and and they just they
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Speaker 4: just been there, you know, just as much as my daughter.
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Speaker 4: But there's something about my daughter. It's just like I
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Speaker 4: just can't describe, you know. And now she's got a
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Speaker 4: daughter on her off her on she's five years old,
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Speaker 4: you know, and she's a teacher, and you know, she
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Speaker 4: just she's just so inspiration to me. She's my everything.
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Speaker 4: I mean, I look up to her. It should be
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Speaker 4: the other other way around, but I look up to her,
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Speaker 4: and she just she's always, always, always there, you know.
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Speaker 4: And and if I can give her the world, I
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Speaker 4: will give her everything in this world that her heart,
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Speaker 4: her heart desire. I mean, you just don't know how
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Speaker 4: my heart grew up to her, you know. And you
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Speaker 4: know she's she's doing good. She's a teacher, she got
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Speaker 4: her own little you know daughter now, which she'll be
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Speaker 4: turning five pretty soon. And you know, she's everything to me.
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Speaker 1: You are a blessed, blessed woman.
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Speaker 4: Yes, I am towe, blessed, chewing blessed, and I just
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Speaker 4: want to send out aspicious soul for her, you know,
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Speaker 4: and just let her know I love her so much.
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Speaker 4: I love all of my kids. I love I love them,
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Speaker 4: I love them.
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Speaker 1: God bless you, honey. I'm so glad you found your
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Speaker 1: way to sobriety.
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Speaker 4: Yes I am too. I will never turn back from
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Speaker 4: not at all. And then like I'm going to school
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Speaker 4: now to be a counselor so that I can chose
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Speaker 4: somebody and tell somebody they don't have to live that life.
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Speaker 4: They don't have to be out there struggling. You know,
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Speaker 4: if I can give somebody that's strungth and hope, like
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Speaker 4: you know people have given me, to let them know
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Speaker 4: they can believe in themselves. And if I can make
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Speaker 4: this through daycare, because I was there and back and
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Speaker 4: up the corner, down the corner, down the street, up
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Speaker 4: the hill, every which way possible, and I'm here. You know,
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Speaker 4: I got a good job, I got my own place.
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Speaker 4: I mean, you know, if I can do it, they
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Speaker 4: can do it. Now. If I can encourage somebody to
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Speaker 4: give them that strength, I want.
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Speaker 2: To do that.
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Speaker 1: So if one of my listeners, Honey is listening right now,
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Speaker 1: who's struggling with addiction, alcoholism, drug addiction, crack, math, oxy porn, gambling,
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Speaker 1: what would you, as somebody who's been around the block
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Speaker 1: and came out alive, what would you say to them?
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Speaker 4: Don't give up, don't give up that there is glory
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Speaker 4: around the corner. You just don't give up. You know
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Speaker 4: it may not look good today, but tomorrow it's going
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Speaker 4: to be an awesome day. You know it's going to
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Speaker 4: be a great day. Don't they think I could say
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Speaker 4: don't give up, please just keep the face.
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Speaker 1: So what what got you to that point where you
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Speaker 1: decided that you were tired of sick and tired of
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Speaker 1: being sick and tired?
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Speaker 3: You know.
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Speaker 4: It's strange because the person that I was with, they
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Speaker 4: was getting, you know, and getting high to it, and
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Speaker 4: somehow God made it away so that they had to
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Speaker 4: go to jail. And my daughter she came to the house.
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Speaker 4: She said, Mama, getting you out of here now. And
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Speaker 4: I don't think if that person went to jail, I
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Speaker 4: would or not have came out. But my daughter came
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Speaker 4: and she said, she put me on a plane, she
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Speaker 4: brought me here to tex and here I am. That's
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Speaker 4: what got me in. I had turned back since I
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Speaker 4: haven't been back since.
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Speaker 1: So maybe it was an angel that led your partner
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Speaker 1: to jail, that opened that door so you could think
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Speaker 1: clearly yes, And do you know if they have gotten
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Speaker 1: their act together?
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Speaker 4: I don't know. I really don't know. I the less
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Speaker 4: I heard they were trying, but I don't know how
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Speaker 4: far they have gotten. But all I know is I'm
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Speaker 4: not never ever gone back, you know, And if I
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Speaker 4: can encourage that person to stringen up their act and
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Speaker 4: you know, be strong, and you know, there's nothing out there.
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Speaker 4: You know, there's nothing out there for you. And if
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Speaker 4: I can tell them that, I would, so I'd rather
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Speaker 4: stay a distance from that person.
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Speaker 1: Good for you. Wow, you have got a whole lot
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Speaker 1: of wisdom to share.
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Speaker 4: God that brought me so far, you know, and like
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Speaker 4: I said with my daughter, be my inspiration to you know. Oh,
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Speaker 4: I've got a story that I know, I got a
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Speaker 4: testimony that could change a lot of people's lives. And
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Speaker 4: like I said, I'm born to school. Now. Hopefully you know,
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Speaker 4: I can reach out to at least one person, that's all.
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Speaker 4: I need, one person so that one person can spread
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Speaker 4: it to another person. And God knows where this world
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Speaker 4: would be with a lot of people that's out there using.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to say a prayer that God opens
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Speaker 1: those doors that you're able to do that counseling, because
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Speaker 1: I can tell your joy is infectious.
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Speaker 4: Yes, thank you.
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Speaker 1: Your joy, your hope, your hope for the future. God says,
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Speaker 1: I know the plans that I have for you. I
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Speaker 1: know the plans plans for a whole but in the future,
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Speaker 1: plans to prosper you. You you not only know that
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Speaker 1: you live it.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, like my daughter always tell me, Mom, because
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Speaker 4: I heard, like you know, I we talking about certain
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Speaker 4: things that happened in the past, and she said, Mom,
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Speaker 4: I'm glad that you went through what you went through,
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Speaker 4: because maybe I wouldn't be where I am today. Like
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Speaker 4: I said, she's a teacher, you know, she's adulter, she's
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Speaker 4: doors great, she got her daughter into gymnastic and dance
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Speaker 4: and you know, and she say, everything happened for a reason.
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Speaker 4: I had to go through what I had to go
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Speaker 4: through in order to be where I am right now today.
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Speaker 4: So you know, like I said, she's so expirational to me,
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Speaker 4: and I just want to continue to inspire everybody else,
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Speaker 4: you know, just every day, every day, every day, every day.
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Speaker 1: God bless you, honey. Thank you for calling and sharing
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Speaker 1: your hope with others.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, and the a lot of you
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Speaker 4: are awesome. I don't believe I finally got through. I
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Speaker 4: don't believe it. But thank you so much and keep
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Speaker 4: doing what you're doing.
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Speaker 1: Wow, just wow, Well what do you say? Oh my goodness,
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Speaker 1: Linda and her kids an absolute miracle, What an inspiration
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Speaker 1: Linda is. Thank you God for her life. Before we
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Speaker 1: close this episode, I want to acknowledge that many of
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Speaker 1: you listening, do not have a loving relationship with your mom? Maybe,
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Speaker 1: like Wilmadine, my mom, she's gone to be with God.
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Speaker 1: Maybe she isn't a part of your life because of abuse,
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Speaker 1: because of mental illness, because of addictions. I want you
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Speaker 1: to know, I understand, I really do, how painful that is.
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Speaker 1: I also want you to know that the Lord loves
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Speaker 1: you so very much, so much, even with that huge
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Speaker 1: mother wound in your soul. With prayer, with faith, turn
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Speaker 1: that pain into purpose to all the moms out there,
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Speaker 1: and the dads that have to be moms that have
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Speaker 1: chosen to take on this role of love. I know
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Speaker 1: how much you give of yourself, the sacrifices you make.
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Speaker 1: I know I know the sacrifices you make, the tears
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Speaker 1: you cry, how you close the door and don't want
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Speaker 1: your children to hear you sobbing, how you put on
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Speaker 1: a happy face so they never know the weight that
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Speaker 1: you are under. It is all worth it. I promise you.
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Speaker 1: There is no stronger love on this earth than the
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Speaker 1: love of a mother. Lord. Bless all of you. Thank
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Speaker 1: you for joining me today, and remember, if you want
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Speaker 1: to share your story, if you want to share your faith,
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Speaker 1: if you need a prayer. Call me in the evening
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Speaker 1: Monday through Friday one eight eight, eight, six, three, three,
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Speaker 1: five four or five to Two'll find me in my studio.
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Speaker 1: I will be back next week. But until then, remember
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Speaker 1: the Lord loves you even more than your mama does,
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Speaker 1: so never forget to have a little faith
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Speaker 3: Delight