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God on the Go by AllMomDoes - Brave Enough: To Be Kind · Shine FM

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  Speaker 1: Your life, God's purpose. Listen at Purposely.com. The driver in
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  Speaker 1: front of me was going so fast. slow. And it
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  Speaker 1: was frustrating me. We certainly had room within the speed
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  Speaker 1: limit for them to go a little bit faster and
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  Speaker 1: to make some decisions a little bit earlier as they
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  Speaker 1: were driving. And I could just feel myself getting more
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  Speaker 1: and more irritated with what was going on. My son
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  Speaker 1: was in the front seat with me as I was driving.
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  Speaker 1: And I said, what is going on with this driver?
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  Speaker 1: And he looked at me and he said, well, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe they're a new driver, a student driver. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I've just come through learning how to drive and I
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  Speaker 1: certainly took things slow and I was cautious and kind
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  Speaker 1: of moving a little, you know, a little hesitantly when
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  Speaker 1: I was first learning how to drive. And I thought, oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a really good point. I'm Julie Lyles-Karr. I'm the
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  Speaker 1: host of Got On The Go, part of the Purposely
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  Speaker 1: Podcast Network. And our whole goal is to be with
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  Speaker 1: you in those little slivers of time to help you
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  Speaker 1: make the moments matter with the conversations that matter the most.
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  Speaker 1: That's my youngest son. He is one of the kindest
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  Speaker 1: people I know. And his willingness to look at something
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  Speaker 1: from a different angle, his courage to be brave enough
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  Speaker 1: to be kind in spite of maybe how something feels
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  Speaker 1: is something that I really admire. Today, I think that
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  Speaker 1: there is such an opportunity for us to be brave
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  Speaker 1: enough to be the people who go first to be kind.
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  Speaker 1: Let's face it, we live in a world today where
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  Speaker 1: people are often really fast to point out what's wrong
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  Speaker 1: or to criticize or to make fun of somebody, which
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  Speaker 1: means that it takes even more courage to be the
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  Speaker 1: person who says, no, I'm not going to be mean.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to be irritated. I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: point out everything that's wrong. I'm going to be brave
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  Speaker 1: enough to be the person who is simply kind. Now,
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  Speaker 1: here's something very cool about the way that God put
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  Speaker 1: us together. Do you know what happens in your brain
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  Speaker 1: when you do something that's kind? When you have an
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  Speaker 1: act of kindness, you open a door for someone or
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  Speaker 1: you give someone a compliment or you simply are encouraging
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  Speaker 1: to someone who's feeling down. Guess what happens? Your brain
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  Speaker 1: gives itself a little reward. God put our brains together
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  Speaker 1: in such a way that when we are kind to
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  Speaker 1: each other, it gives us a sense that we've received
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  Speaker 1: this amazing gift. And so that is one of the
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  Speaker 1: beauties of when we're brave enough to be kind. Proverbs 3.3 says,
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  Speaker 1: Let love and faithfulness never leave you. Bind them around
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  Speaker 1: your neck. Write them on the tablet of your heart.
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  Speaker 1: What that verse is saying is that when we are
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to be people known for being loving, for
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  Speaker 1: being faithful to God, for being kind, that that becomes
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  Speaker 1: how we live our life, that that kind of bravery
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  Speaker 1: becomes part of who we are. There's someone in the
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  Speaker 1: Bible who really shows us what it is to be
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  Speaker 1: brave enough to be kind. Her name is Ruth. We
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  Speaker 1: learn about her in the Old Testament. And Ruth had
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  Speaker 1: been through some tough stuff. She lived in the land
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  Speaker 1: of Moab, and she married a man who came over
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  Speaker 1: from Israel. And he came over with his brother and
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  Speaker 1: his mom and dad. But then her husband died. And
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  Speaker 1: then her mother-in-law's husband, her father-in-law, also died. And Ruth
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  Speaker 1: went with her mother-in-law, Naomi, back to Naomi's home country
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. Ruth was really good to her mother-in-law. She
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  Speaker 1: helped take care of her. She helped make sure they
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  Speaker 1: had food. She was encouraging to Naomi when Naomi was
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  Speaker 1: really down about everything that had happened in their lives.
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  Speaker 1: Ruth was quietly kind. She was quietly brave. Sometimes when
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  Speaker 1: we talk about being brave enough, about having courage to
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  Speaker 1: do the hard thing, We think that it has to
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  Speaker 1: be something big, like running into a battle or fighting
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  Speaker 1: a big fight or doing something super scary, jumping off
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  Speaker 1: a building with a parachute or something like that. But really,
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  Speaker 1: being brave enough? There are these quiet moments where we
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  Speaker 1: make these decisions about having courage. There are these quiet
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  Speaker 1: little ways in which we decide that we're going to
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  Speaker 1: do something different than the world around us. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people would have understood if Ruth had left her mother-in-law.
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  Speaker 1: And instead, Ruth decides to quietly be brave. She decides
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  Speaker 1: to be brave enough to be kind to this woman.
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  Speaker 1: And it makes such an incredible difference. Because check this out.
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  Speaker 1: Through her courage, quiet bravery, through her quiet courage, through
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  Speaker 1: her quiet kindness, ultimately, Ruth becomes one of the ancestors
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. That's how important quiet bravery, quiet courage really is.
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  Speaker 1: them out. We're so grateful for them. And I will
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  Speaker 1: see you next time on God on the Go.