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Where Do You Run When Life Shakes with Dr. Ronnie Floyd & Seven Ways to Engage in Biblical Rest with Dr. Saundra Dalton-Smith · Karl and Crew

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  S1: Broadcasting from Chicago, across North America and beyond. It's Carl
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  S1: and crew.
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  S2: Come as you are an experienced guide, overcome what seems
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  S2: impossible and live as you never imagined.
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  S1: Delivering the truth daily.
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  S3: If it were possible to have every worldly gain available.
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  S3: And you're forfeiting your soul. There's no amount of gain
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  S3: that would make it worth it.
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  S4: Our own way never ever works. Because it's apart from
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  S4: the life source, which is God.
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  S5: For me, growing up, love was always conditional and can
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  S5: be taken from you. Christ's love can't. And he went
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  S5: to the cross with my mind and my heart that night.
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  S1: Now from the call of Hope Studios, this is Carl
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  S1: and Crew.
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  S2: How do you stay cool when the summer is hot, hot, hot.
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  S2: How do you do that? The only reason I'm saying
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  S2: that is Chicago's about to get warm. Oh, Nelly, it's
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  S2: about to get warm. Where are you in this world
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  S2: and are you about to warm up? I haven't looked
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  S2: at the United States weather map. Have you guys checked
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  S2: that out?
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  S4: I haven't. No, I have not.
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  S2: Checked that bad boy out. Let's see what it's looking
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  S2: like out there for all the great boom cruisers. We've
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  S2: got some people, though, that are so conditioned to it,
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  S2: they're like, yeah.
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  S5: You're.
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  S2: 110, but it's dry heat.
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  S5: Florida listeners going, come on.
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  S2: The funniest thing happened yesterday. While you're getting those that
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  S2: weather map up, appreciate that young thunder staring intently into
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  S2: a screen.
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  S4: Appreciate trying to read one of these things for the
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  S4: first time.
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  S2: We got a newbie. We got a newbie on the
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  S2: weather map over here. I took blaze out for his
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  S2: first outing to one of these run around free for
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  S2: all dog parks with about ten dogs, and it's the
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  S2: most hilarious thing on the planet. I was more entertained
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  S2: than I've been in a long, long time. I mean,
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  S2: they've got a big dog section and we're talking a
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  S2: big open area where they can just run and sprint
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  S2: and chase, and that's.
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  S5: Good for them.
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  S2: Oh, that was hilarious. It was hilarious, man. It was
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  S2: absolutely hilarious. One of the funniest things I've ever seen
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  S2: in my life. And I mean all the dogs, they
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  S2: come up to him like, hey, there's a new guy
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  S2: and they're sniffing him like, who is this guy? And
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  S2: then he's sniffing them like, who are you? And then
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  S2: they take off sprinting. And I mean, it's just a
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  S2: free for all. And then it's warm out, man. I mean,
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  S2: it's warming up and it's a couple of big old boys.
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  S2: There's big old blue kids play tubs, you know what
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  S2: I mean? Yeah. And and I don't know if these
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  S2: I don't know if this guy's gonna be sick or not,
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  S2: but all the dogs over there, so they're laying down
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  S2: in it. They're taking turns laying down in this thing.
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  S2: And a couple of these boys are humongous. So it's like, well,
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  S2: you don't want to plop down in it. It's like,
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  S2: this is my pool right now. Everybody else.
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  S5: Back away.
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  S2: He gets cooled off and he jumps out and then
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  S2: my dog blaze, he goes over there and he's just
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  S2: drinking that bathwater. He's just drinking it up. I'm like,
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  S2: oh no.
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  S4: They love it. Wow.
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  S2: And it's like he prefers the bathwater to the water
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  S2: that's sitting in a bowl. Yeah.
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  S4: I don't know why.
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  S2: 100ft away.
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  S4: They love it, though.
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  S2: It's just wild, man. All right, what's the weather map say,
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  S2: my man?
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  S4: Yeah. It's, uh, it's interesting. So the northern US seems
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  S4: to be getting the most heat today. South Dakota, North
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  S4: Dakota temperatures of 104 around northern Minnesota's real hot too
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  S4: high high 90s, uh, high 90s up into the Wisconsin area,
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  S4: Minnesota area. But, uh, you know, around Illinois, Midwest, uh,
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  S4: a little more tepid high 80s. And then, uh, over
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  S4: on our East Coast, that's where it looks kind of
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  S4: the nicest, uh, lowest could be around 77, highest in
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  S4: the mid to high 80s. Uh, South Florida is always hot.
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  S4: So you're getting around 95 there, probably real humid as well.
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  S2: Yeah. Well, Florida's always getting warm.
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  S4: And then obviously Arizona right up against the Nevada border 104.
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  S4: They're expected.
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  S5: To.
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  S2: Know what are our folks in Cleveland have today.
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  S4: For Cleveland? You're probably looking around 90 degrees.
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  S2: How about Indy.
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  S4: Indy 88 or. Yeah, 88, 88.
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  S2: Okay. Uh, what about let's go down to Tennessee. What
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  S2: have we got all across Tennessee?
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  S4: Oh classic Tennessee. You're looking probably mid to high 80s,
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  S4: 83 to 87.
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  S2: Okay. Um, so Florida, we got that covered. What markets
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  S2: am I missing here? Come on.
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  S4: Spokane. Spokane. You're a nice day in Spokane. You're hanging around. Uh, well, actually, no.
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  S4: Never mind. That's the west, uh, West Washington. Uh, East
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  S4: Washington is probably around 92 to 95. So real hot
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  S4: over there. Yeah.
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  S2: Go to Lake Coeur d'Alene today.
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  S4: Uh, heavy, heavy, heavy rain from, uh, in a nice
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  S4: strip from Texas to South Carolina. So, uh, Alabama, Georgia, uh, Mississippi, Louisiana.
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  S4: Those ones are all getting hit with some heavy rain today.
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  S2: Yeah. You know, my idea was what we do is
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  S2: we just go chase the cooler weather with our with
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  S2: our show. And we go to locations where the.
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  S4: Where it's nicest weather.
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  S2: Because well, nicest weather is relative though, because when Ali
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  S2: comes back, she's, if she's not sweating, she's not happy.
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  S5: I know.
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  S4: Bring us to Tempe 104. I don't want that. Yeah.
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  S2: Yeah. Well, that wouldn't work for Ali because that's dry heat.
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  S5: Even Minnesota, she like in the 90s she must.
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  S2: Louisiana. She wants sweat, sweat, sweat.
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  S4: I don't want that.
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  S5: No.
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  S2: Yeah.
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  S4: I think she just gets out ruled because we all
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  S4: disagree with her on that aspect of things. She she
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  S4: overruled not enough votes.
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  S2: Oh my goodness. Uh, it's a this is a this
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  S2: is a great day. We're we're kicking off a week on.
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  S2: Oh my goodness. I mean, here's the reality. We don't
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  S2: really you could if you're going to do a week
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  S2: of content, you could do the Age of Rage. There's
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  S2: a lot of anger out there. Uh, but the anxious
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  S2: generation that's our topic this week and how to get
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  S2: freed from it. Boy, there's a lot of content there
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  S2: for sure. And it's, um, it's an awesome thing to
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  S2: be able to open up the word of God and go,
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  S2: here's what the Word of God says. And boy, have
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  S2: we got one for you coming up this morning. The
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  S2: anxious generation contextual analysis is important. You might say what
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  S2: the world is that I'll break it down for you
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  S2: and get the application straight ahead. It's an eye popper.
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  S1: He was running from God, but God's love brought him home.
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  S1: Carl is in the crew. It's Carl and crew on
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  S1: Moody Radio.
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  S2: We're talking about the anxious generation. And today, specifically, what
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  S2: really has you exhausted? There's a lot of exhaustion today.
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  S2: And if you look at Psalm 127, and this is
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  S2: a very short Psalm five verses, it is profoundly wise
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  S2: for us today. Now, I want to give you the
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  S2: context of this passage. It's written by Solomon. And a
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  S2: lot of us just jump to application before looking at
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  S2: the context. But the context is important. This is how
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  S2: it begins. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who
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  S2: build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over
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  S2: the city, the watchman stays awake in vain. So what's
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  S2: going on here? Let me be real clear. The direct
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  S2: context of this passage is the building of the house
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  S2: of God, the temple in Jerusalem. That's the house and
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  S2: that's the city. Everybody with me on this one?
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  S5: Yes.
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  S2: And that's not often shared, but that's very important. Now,
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  S2: I'm not saying this doesn't apply because it directly applies
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  S2: to everything we do in life. Whatever we're building, wherever
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  S2: we're building it, there's direct application for us here. So
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  S2: let me go into verse two. It is in vain
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  S2: that you rise up early and go late to rest,
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  S2: eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives to
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  S2: his beloved sheep. This is, this is, this is powerful, guys.
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  S2: So here's, here's what we can take from two verses
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  S2: from Psalm 127. We're all building something somewhere. Uh, whatever
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  S2: it is, you're building something somewhere. And here's, here's what
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  S2: Solomon says in all the wisdom that he had gained
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  S2: over the years. It is in vain that you rise
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  S2: early and go late to rest. In other words, if
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  S2: you're burning the candle at both ends, this is not good.
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  S2: You are eating the bread of anxious toil. Whoa! Eating
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  S2: the bread of ancient. That is vivid imagery.
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  S4: It is. It's almost like this sense of I can't stop.
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  S4: If I stop, I lose everything. If I stop, everything
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  S4: goes wrong. I have to just keep going and going.
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  S2: And there's a lot of you listening right now. This morning,
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  S2: you feel like if I don't keep going, this thing's
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  S2: going to fall apart. But this is the phrase for
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  S2: he God gives to his beloved sheep. Now, we want
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  S2: to be careful with this, because some of us are
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  S2: burning the candle at both ends, but we're burning it
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  S2: on the wrong stuff. We talk about this all the time.
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  S2: As a matter of fact, we're going to go down
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  S2: this rabbit hole tomorrow because social media alone is discipling
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  S2: a lot of us more than Jesus is. That's a
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  S2: real danger. And there's a lot of things that we're
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  S2: saying yes to that are just sinkholes of time. I mean,
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  S2: come on, we can embrace that, can't we, guys?
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  S4: Yeah, 100% we can. It's real.
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  S2: Yeah. I mean, it's real. Is real. Can be. So
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  S2: there's that. We got to be cautionary that we're not
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  S2: loading things into our schedule, staying up late, rising early
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  S2: because frankly we're down of social media rabbit hole. We're
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  S2: we're watching too much Netflix. Come on. The list goes
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  S2: on and on and we all get that. And by
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  S2: the way, we can't just yawn at that. We've got
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  S2: to take an honest assessment of our life and going, whoa,
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  S2: am I getting enough sleep? But another thing is true,
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  S2: and that is that some of us are exhausted because
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  S2: we've not let the Lord order the things that we're doing.
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  S2: We're building. We're buying. And I think the greatest evidence
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  S2: of this is when I listen to Rob West, some
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  S2: of the common things, themes that you hear from Rob
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  S2: and his guests that call in, and they're just up
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  S2: against it and they're anxious and they're toiling, is that
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  S2: people have accumulated stuff or taken on loans, or gotten
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  S2: themselves entangled in ventures that God never intended them to
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  S2: get into. And, Rob, sometimes it's just he's such a,
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  S2: one of the reasons I love Rob West is he's
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  S2: so merciful with people.
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  S4: He is. He's the sweetest guy when it comes to
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  S4: advising through this stuff.
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  S2: Goodness, he's just so great. So I've got a question
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  S2: for you today and I want to hear from you.
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  S2: And it's with a real tenor of humility. But you
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  S2: were exhausted and then you realized I'm working on some stuff.
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  S2: I've got my hands in things that God didn't call
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  S2: me to, and it probably wasn't everything. It was probably
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  S2: 1 or 2 things that you said no to, so
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  S2: that you could say yes to your heart, your well-being,
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  S2: a calmer mind. That's vital, man. Look, all the people
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  S2: that I've worked with and been a pastor to over
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  S2: the years, this is a common issue and you might
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  S2: be feeling it today. You might be driving right now,
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  S2: breaking the speed limit by about 15 miles an hour.
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  S2: Because you're down this rabbit hole, you're up early, going
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  S2: to bed late, and you got your hands in too
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  S2: much stuff. I know this is balanced with the reality
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  S2: that we spend hours and hours of the day on
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  S2: needless things. I get that. But for some of us,
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  S2: we've said yes to too much stuff. My question for
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  S2: you is this. What did you say no to that
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  S2: gave you freedom from eating bread of anxious toil, and
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  S2: you found rest in the arms of God. What did
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  S2: you have to say no to in your life? Something
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  S2: that you had to eliminate. And it's often good stuff
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  S2: to get some margin, but it freed you from hopeless exhaustion.
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  S2: Just need a couple callers in here. 805, five, five, 78, 98.
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  S2: Light em up. Boom! Crew. What did you say no to?
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  S2: Because you were saying yes to God and the peace
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  S2: that was found in him, and getting away from that
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  S2: anxious toil. And your testimony is going to inspire others.
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  S1: Your shot of hope to help you through the day.
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  S1: This is Carl and Crew on Moody Radio.
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  S2: Psalm 127. Unless the Lord builds the house, those who
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  S2: build it labor in vain. Unless the Lord watches over
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  S2: the city. The watchman stays awake in vain. Direct contact
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  S2: to this is Solomon. He's writing about the temple being
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  S2: built in Jerusalem. But the application for anything we're building
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  S2: anywhere is real. We're building a life for ourselves. And
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  S2: are we burned out? Look at what we find in
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  S2: verse two. It is in vain that you rise up
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  S2: early and go late to rest, eating the bread of
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  S2: anxious toil. For he gives to his beloved sleep. He
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  S2: gives sheep sleep. Yeah, that's what God does. God doesn't
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  S2: want us exhausted guys.
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  S4: No, I think about Elijah in the midst of running
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  S4: away because he was scared for his life. because of
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  S4: the Queen. The first thing God does is feed him
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  S4: and give him sleep because he needed it.
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  S2: So I got a question for you. What did you
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  S2: have to say no to? To be freed from hopeless exhaustion?
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  S2: And you found rest in God. Jeanette. First time caller. Kissimmee, Florida.
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  S2: What do you say, Jeanette?
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  S6: Yes. Both my husband and I were working full time.
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  S6: We had a two year old daughter and a nine
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  S6: month old son, and I couldn't do both. I couldn't
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  S6: be a full time mom and a full time good employee.
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  S6: And so after much praying and debating, I stepped down
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  S6: from that job that was providing insurance and a stable
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  S6: income and just stepped by faith to be a full
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  S6: time mom. And then homeschool.
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  S2: And God's blessed it, hasn't he?
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  S6: 19 years ago.
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  S2: God bless that, didn't he, Jeanette?
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  S6: It was it was hard, but it was worth it.
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  S2: Oh, way to go, sister. Good call. Appreciate that a lot.
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  S2: Taking your calls right now. Joe. First time caller. Davenport, Florida.
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  S2: What do you say, Joe?
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  S7: Hello. Good morning and God bless Carl. Yes, I do
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  S7: remember this beginning of the year when I had a
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  S7: godly relationship. It was centered in Christ. However, I was
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  S7: definitely losing sight of my own relationship with God. And
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  S7: so he completely shut that door. And as heartbreaking as
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  S7: it was, it definitely led me to the arms of
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  S7: of our Lord. So it was it was honestly great
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  S7: for my spirituality and it helped me grow immensely.
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  S2: Way to go, Joe. That is a great word, sister.
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  S2: First time caller. Davenport, Florida. And here's I mean, we're
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  S2: getting evidence galore. Evidence galore. Let's go to Patti. First
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  S2: time caller in Chesterfield, Ohio. Patti, you're on with Carl
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  S2: and crew. What do you say?
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  S8: Hi. Yes, um, I gave up. I work full time.
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  S8: I'm 61 years old, and I gave up going to
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  S8: social events every weekend. I would pile myself up to
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  S8: going to dinner, going to a club, going to boating,
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  S8: going boating, going to the islands. Um, I gave that
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  S8: up to get more engaged with God. I make it
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  S8: to church on time. I'm restful and stay home, you know,
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  S8: instead of, oh, I'm not going to make it to
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  S8: church because I went out last night or. And so
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  S8: I gave up social events and just relaxed with my family,
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  S8: do my yard work and, and relax on weekends.
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  S2: Good word. Patty. Really good. First time caller. Chesterfield Chesterland, Ohio.
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  S2: What a great. Here it is. Proof positive. Right, guys?
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  S4: Yeah, it's. There are so many things in our life
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  S4: and I think just stuff that like I love what
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  S4: Patty said just going out going out is seen. Well
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  S4: that's normal. We go out, we go out and we
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  S4: do things and it's like, okay, but can I say
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  S4: no to doing that a little more so I can
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  S4: be at home, get some rest with my family and
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  S4: be more energized, do the things I need to do. Yeah,
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  S4: I think that's really cool.
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  S2: So good. Michaela from Birchfield, Florida. What do you say, Michaela,
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  S2: you're on with Carl and crew.
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  S6: Hey, um, just.
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  S9: Yesterday, actually, I finally gave up social media.
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  S4: That is exciting.
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  S2: Dynamite. How many hours do you think you were spending
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  S2: a day on that? Try to be as honest as
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  S2: you can.
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  S9: Oh. Too many, Carl.
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  S2: Oh, you don't want.
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  S9: To say like, oh, well, probably 4 to 5, if
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  S9: I had to guess. But I'm not really good at
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  S9: that stuff.
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  S2: Yeah. 4 to 5 is what they say. That's what
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  S2: the statistics folks that have studied this say, 4 to
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  S2: 5 hours a day is what people are burning on
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  S2: social media. And here's what's wild. That's like a job.
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  S2: You know what I mean, Michaela? That's like a.
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  S9: Job.
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  S2: Yeah, yeah.
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  S9: Yeah. I would get home from my job and then
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  S9: be doomscrolling until bed. And what was wild is I
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  S9: found myself arguing with people online so it would bring
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  S9: me down anyway.
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  S2: Yeah, that's a great word, sister. We got a question
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  S2: for you today. Way to go, Mikayla. Boy, we got
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  S2: good folks all across the nation here. What did you
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  S2: have to say no to? To be freed from hopeless
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  S2: exhaustion and find rest in God? Oh my goodness. Andrew.
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  S2: First time caller. Chattanooga, Tennessee. What do you say, Andrew?
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  S10: Um, yeah, I was actually going to say, uh, you know, I,
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  S10: I gave up actually ultra processed foods, uh, actually for
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  S10: health reasons. And it turns out that I actually can
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  S10: actually think more clearly now. And, uh, it's drawn me
• 19:30
  S10: a lot closer to God and the benefits are so
• 19:34
  S10: much more. And now I'm doing carnival like I'm on
• 19:37
  S10: carnivore and, um, you know, it's like, it's like rocket
• 19:43
  S10: fuel right now. Like I can just do so much
• 19:45
  S10: more and clearly. Thank so amazingly.
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  S2: Yeah, a lot of people don't think about this, Andrew,
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  S2: but you bring up a good point. First time caller
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  S2: from Chattanooga, Tennessee. I love you, man. Thanks for calling in.
• 19:58
  S2: It's interesting. You know, I feed blaze raw food, right?
• 20:06
  S2: I feed them raw food. Can I tell you something?
• 20:09
  S2: People comment all the time. They say, man, his coat
• 20:11
  S2: is so shiny. And he, he's just, he, he's, he's
• 20:17
  S2: packing good weight and he looks so healthy. And sometimes
• 20:26
  S2: we feed our animals better than we feed ourselves.
• 20:32
  S4: You're not wrong about that.
• 20:36
  S2: And does it directly relate to this tangentially? We find
• 20:43
  S2: ourselves short on sleep and the sleep we can find
• 20:47
  S2: in God and what he promises in Psalm 127, one
• 20:50
  S2: and two is to build the house, putting the good
• 20:55
  S2: stuff in the temple. If you know what I mean.
• 20:58
  S4: Amen.
• 20:59
  S2: Yeah, man, this is good. A lot of good feedback
• 21:01
  S2: here today. So I got another question for you. And this,
• 21:05
  S2: I just want text feedback because I want to kind
• 21:07
  S2: of pull you the boom crew. The Spirit of God
• 21:13
  S2: is calling you to say no to something in your life.
• 21:18
  S2: What is that that he's calling you to say no
• 21:21
  S2: to so that you will experience? The sleep that God
• 21:29
  S2: calls you, the beloved ones. You're going to get sleep
• 21:34
  S2: from God. You're not going to burn the candle at
• 21:38
  S2: both ends. You're going to find yourself refreshed and renewed
• 21:43
  S2: and healthy. Part of the reason we have an anxious
• 21:48
  S2: generation is that we're exhausted, doing too much. What is
• 21:54
  S2: the Spirit of God telling you? You got to say
• 21:57
  S2: no to this. Just text me 805 557898. This is
• 22:03
  S2: helpful because here's what happens. You just thumb that text
• 22:09
  S2: into us here. I'm not going to shout out any numbers, names, nothing.
• 22:13
  S2: I'm just going to get a smattering from all around
• 22:16
  S2: the world here this morning. What's God telling you? And you,
• 22:19
  S2: you can listen to the Spirit of God. Those of
• 22:21
  S2: you that are truly born again, the Spirit of God
• 22:23
  S2: indwells you, convicts of sin missing the mark, and he
• 22:27
  S2: shows you this has got to go. And you've probably
• 22:31
  S2: had this in the back of your head, if not
• 22:33
  S2: at the front of your head now for some time
• 22:34
  S2: and you're like, yeah, this is this has got to change.
• 22:37
  S2: Text me right now. I want to know 805 557898
• 22:43
  S2: 805 557898.
• 22:49
  S1: She's a choreographer extraordinaire and everything is Greek to her.
• 22:54
  S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
• 22:57
  S1: on Moody Radio.
• 23:00
  S2: Reality is when we look at issues in our life,
• 23:03
  S2: sometimes we get into a fight mode, I gotta go
• 23:05
  S2: get it. And that fight turns into failure because we
• 23:08
  S2: actually run away from the grace of God. On the
• 23:11
  S2: flip side of that high ridge of experiencing God's grace
• 23:15
  S2: is flight. And we think that, oh, what I've got
• 23:19
  S2: to do right now is I'm just checking out one
• 23:23
  S2: is dogged resolve. The other one is no resolve at all.
• 23:28
  S2: It's actually resigning ourself that well, might as well check
• 23:31
  S2: out on this one. I've got a guest right now
• 23:33
  S2: that I think has some secret sauce for how to
• 23:36
  S2: take hold of this grace of God, and it's the
• 23:39
  S2: issue of rest. Sandra Dalton Smith, sister, it's so good
• 23:44
  S2: to have you with us this morning. I want to
• 23:45
  S2: explore this one a little bit, because this has been
• 23:48
  S2: near and dear to my heart ever since I started
• 23:50
  S2: studying Sabbath rest, that it's not what we stop doing.
• 23:54
  S2: It's resting into the one who gives us perfect rest.
• 23:58
  S2: This is why we sometimes come back from vacations more
• 24:00
  S2: fried than ever. Right, Sandra?
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  S5: Absolutely.
• 24:03
  S2: Explain that a little bit. What is rest as you've
• 24:06
  S2: studied it? You're an expert on this topic.
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  S11: I think for many of us, we think of rest
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  S11: and we just think of those, as you mentioned, cessation activities.
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  S11: We just think of stopping. But if we really look
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  S11: at Sabbath, Sabbath is about restoration. It's about pouring back
• 24:21
  S11: into the places of depletion. It's a it's a posture
• 24:24
  S11: of receiving. And it requires us to then look at
• 24:28
  S11: what are the things that we need poured back into
• 24:31
  S11: our lives, and it allows us to. Then, rather than
• 24:34
  S11: just thinking, I just need to sit around on the
• 24:37
  S11: weekend and call it a Sabbath. What parts of my
• 24:39
  S11: life need to be poured back into. Do I need
• 24:41
  S11: to be poured into through the word and through time
• 24:43
  S11: in his presence? Maybe I need to be poured into
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  S11: by spending time out in nature, or being poured into
• 24:49
  S11: with relationships that remind me of the beauty of who
• 24:53
  S11: God is and that bring me into community and into
• 24:57
  S11: times of fellowship. We have to realize that there's so
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  S11: many aspects of us that get depleted in our lives,
• 25:04
  S11: and that's what God wants to pour back into us
• 25:06
  S11: and restore.
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  S2: Yeah. Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith is a doctor. And so
• 25:11
  S2: she's done a lot of research on this. And she's
• 25:14
  S2: speaking internationally. She's board certified internal medicine physician CEO of
• 25:20
  S2: restore and Workplace Wellbeing Consulting Agency. That's what it is.
• 25:25
  S2: And it helps organizations and people just like you avoid burnout.
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  S2: I want to go back to this. I'm so glad
• 25:30
  S2: you've got a biblical worldview. Otherwise this could turn into,
• 25:33
  S2: I really believe this rest without an awareness of the
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  S2: presence and power of God to fill us, does turn
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  S2: into checking out from the fight that we're in day
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  S2: to day, and it turns into flight. Why is it
• 25:47
  S2: so different with God filling us up, as opposed to
• 25:51
  S2: us just doing nothing?
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  S11: Because in that situation, you you start realizing that rest
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  S11: is not the thing you do at the end of
• 25:58
  S11: the work, but rest is actually where you begin. You
• 26:02
  S11: start in this posture and really this is scriptural. It
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  S11: comes from Genesis. We hear that on the sixth day,
• 26:09
  S11: mankind was created. On the seventh day God rested. Well,
• 26:13
  S11: we also hear that God never slumbers or sleeps, so
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  S11: why does he need rest? It was showing us a
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  S11: pattern of how to be, because that first full day
• 26:22
  S11: for mankind on the earth wasn't the sixth day. We
• 26:25
  S11: came in halfway through that day. The first full day
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  S11: was the day of rest. And so if we start
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  S11: off our fullness of our day with resting, it empowers
• 26:35
  S11: us to go do the work God's called us to do.
• 26:38
  S11: Rather than thinking we have to earn our rest through
• 26:42
  S11: working more, doing more, accomplishing more, striving more. That's what
• 26:46
  S11: the world's trying to teach us. And all it does
• 26:49
  S11: is it leads us into a place of desperation. Because
• 26:52
  S11: we can't. We can't accomplish things of the spirit in
• 26:55
  S11: our own power.
• 26:56
  S2: This is a huge aha moment for a lot of
• 26:59
  S2: people because when I when I first heard a preacher
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  S2: probably 30 years ago say, Sabbath rest is not about
• 27:06
  S2: what you don't do. It's about moving toward the God
• 27:09
  S2: who can fill you in that day, that season like
• 27:13
  S2: no other can. Gets real practical here. Coming up here
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  S2: in a little bit, we're going to break down these
• 27:18
  S2: seven different ways in which we can rest. But just
• 27:22
  S2: on this concept of rest alone, I think a lot
• 27:24
  S2: of people get confused still. We say, okay, take a
• 27:27
  S2: day where we're resting and they think, okay, good. I
• 27:29
  S2: get to watch the my favorite football team or I
• 27:32
  S2: get to Olympics are coming, good ice skating. And that
• 27:36
  S2: could be rest, but it might well not be. And
• 27:38
  S2: certainly social media isn't rest, is it?
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  S11: It's not resting in the way that we go about it.
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  S11: And that most of the time it's just pulling us
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  S11: away from the things of God.
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  S2: Okay, so how many doctor of your patients, people that
• 27:52
  S2: you met with try to put a percentage on it?
• 27:54
  S2: I mean, committed Christ followers that have experienced the grace
• 27:57
  S2: of God. How many have learned what biblical rest is
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  S2: and are taken hold of it? What is give us
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  S2: our prognosis here or analyze this for a second, if
• 28:06
  S2: you would.
• 28:07
  S11: Oh this question. Oh my. It's not good. So many
• 28:10
  S11: of my patients that were coming to me in a
• 28:13
  S11: state of burnout were pastors, which I think says a lot.
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  S11: How can the shepherd lead the flock if they are
• 28:20
  S11: in a place of burnout? It's a toxic situation. And
• 28:23
  S11: so I think it's such a it's such an important
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  S11: topic within the church because it it has to be
• 28:28
  S11: something that we're all viewing as God's best for us.
• 28:33
  S11: We oftentimes treat Sabbath as if it's a punishment. Like
• 28:36
  S11: God says, go sit in the corner. I'll come get
• 28:39
  S11: you when you're ready, you know, and it's, and it's not.
• 28:42
  S11: It's actually supposed to be a gift. But many of
• 28:45
  S11: us are refusing the gift. It's no different than someone
• 28:49
  S11: who doesn't know the grace of Christ, to help them
• 28:52
  S11: be able to come out of their sin. It's no
• 28:56
  S11: different than that. It's a gift we have to receive.
• 28:59
  S2: I'm sold. Sister. This is so good. Such an important topic. Okay,
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  S2: coming up here, doctor Sandra has identified seven types of
• 29:06
  S2: rest found lacking in many of her patients. And how
• 29:11
  S2: we can turn this thing around. Hang on. More with
• 29:13
  S2: Doctor Sandra straight ahead.
• 29:16
  S1: Romans eight brought her to Jesus while broadcasting traffic overnight.
• 29:20
  S1: Super di is in the crew. It's Carl and crew
• 29:24
  S1: on Moody Radio.
• 29:25
  S2: Doctor Sandra Dalton Smith. My guest right now. Amazing stuff.
• 29:29
  S2: All right. Let's pick up where we kind of left off.
• 29:32
  S2: But I don't want to leave what we already covered hanging.
• 29:35
  S2: Let's get it nailed down. Doc, biblical rest is not
• 29:39
  S2: doing nothing. It's moving into the one and his presence.
• 29:42
  S2: Who can do everything. Is that fair?
• 29:44
  S11: Absolutely.
• 29:45
  S2: How do we do that? And what have you learned?
• 29:48
  S2: What are the seven types of rest you find lacking
• 29:50
  S2: in people? And as you're listening to these guys, I
• 29:54
  S2: want you to listen to the Spirit of God say, bang!
• 29:57
  S2: That's me right there. What do you say, doc?
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  S11: Yes. And let me say this. These seven types came
• 30:02
  S11: from me looking at the scripture in the life of Jesus.
• 30:05
  S11: So there they are, science backed, but they're spiritually based.
• 30:10
  S11: The seven include physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory, and creative.
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  S11: And if we take any one of those and look
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  S11: at the life of Jesus, everything from the times when
• 30:22
  S11: we see him sleeping, physical rest. The times when he.
• 30:26
  S11: We see him setting some very secure boundaries around how
• 30:29
  S11: he's going to function and that there are times when
• 30:33
  S11: he was with his smaller group. There are times when
• 30:35
  S11: he's with the masses. He. He had limits and boundaries
• 30:39
  S11: around these things. He had people in his life for
• 30:42
  S11: emotional rest. The three who are with him on the
• 30:45
  S11: Mount of Transfiguration, as well as in the Garden of Gethsemane.
• 30:49
  S11: He had a real practical application of these seven. But
• 30:55
  S11: we oftentimes miss it. And we wonder, how can someone
• 30:58
  S11: accomplish so much in their life in 33 years? Who
• 31:02
  S11: was all human? He was all man and all God
• 31:07
  S11: at the same time. So that means that this is
• 31:09
  S11: an example we can follow. We can't. We can't just say, well,
• 31:12
  S11: that was Jesus. We can't do that. That is the
• 31:15
  S11: exact opposite. We can accomplish the same thing if we
• 31:19
  S11: apply some of the same principles.
• 31:21
  S2: I love this man. We're gonna have a link for
• 31:23
  S2: you guys in just a moment, doctor. Sandra Dalton Smith
• 31:26
  S2: is my guest right now. Okay, doc, I got to
• 31:28
  S2: tell you, this fires me up. And here's why I
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  S2: think we have given spiritual disciplines to the church that
• 31:38
  S2: actually fight against rest. And it promotes activity, busyness, and
• 31:44
  S2: we've missed the most essential discipline. So here's my contention.
• 31:47
  S2: I think we've given get to small group, get a
• 31:49
  S2: Bible reading plan, do this, do that. And those are
• 31:52
  S2: all great. But if they flow out of a restored heart,
• 31:55
  S2: they've got power. If they flow out of an exhausted heart,
• 31:59
  S2: they're just more shame and condemnation. You hit this one mental.
• 32:03
  S2: The ability you. This is your definition to quiet cerebral
• 32:07
  S2: chatter and focus on things that matter. You know, I've
• 32:12
  S2: been doing something early every morning. Did it this morning, early,
• 32:16
  S2: early going to Psalm 139 going God, search me, know me,
• 32:20
  S2: try me. See if there'd be any hurtful way in me.
• 32:22
  S2: And lead me in the way everlasting. Doctor, I gotta
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  S2: tell you. I have found this to be revolutionary for me.
• 32:28
  S2: I am being quiet first thing in the morning. Listening
• 32:31
  S2: to God and the stuff he's telling me is filling
• 32:35
  S2: my soul. Sometimes it's convicting, but it's this mental rest.
• 32:40
  S2: Me not thinking, how am I going to tackle this day?
• 32:42
  S2: It's me asking God to search me and tell me
• 32:44
  S2: how to tackle the day. How am I doing, doc?
• 32:47
  S11: I think you're setting some foundational things in place that
• 32:50
  S11: give God room to move in your life. And I
• 32:52
  S11: feel like that's what a lot of us are not doing.
• 32:54
  S11: We are so busy doing things that we think will
• 32:57
  S11: please him when he just wants us. I find so
• 33:00
  S11: often someone will, especially if I say something like spiritual rest.
• 33:04
  S11: They're like, well, I have a Bible reading plan and
• 33:07
  S11: you know, I read through the Bible in a year. Yeah.
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  S11: And I'm like, well, that's fantastic. I think it's great
• 33:12
  S11: to read the word of God. But sometimes I think
• 33:14
  S11: the word of God needs to have room and space
• 33:17
  S11: in our lives to read us and to tell us
• 33:20
  S11: and to be quiet enough before God to hear what
• 33:23
  S11: he's saying. Prayer is not supposed to be a one
• 33:25
  S11: way conversation, where we just recite our list of stuff,
• 33:29
  S11: and silence and solitude and time in his presence has
• 33:34
  S11: been cheapened. Why? And I feel like it's hurt us.
• 33:37
  S2: Why have we done that? We have cheapened that we have. I,
• 33:40
  S2: I think it doesn't comport with the American dream, which
• 33:43
  S2: is get up and go. You know what I mean?
• 33:45
  S11: Yeah, I think that's a big part of it. We're
• 33:48
  S11: so productivity focused. And I say that laughing because I'm
• 33:51
  S11: that way too. Yeah. You are too focused. But I
• 33:55
  S11: realized there is no satisfaction in productivity unless we know
• 33:59
  S11: the purpose behind it. Unless we know God's heart positioning
• 34:02
  S11: behind why we're doing the things he's called us to do.
• 34:05
  S11: It just becomes more busy work. And that's where we.
• 34:08
  S11: We struggle.
• 34:10
  S2: Okay. Physical, mental, spiritual, emotional, social, sensory, creative. And we're
• 34:15
  S2: going to have a link for you here in a moment. Guys.
• 34:17
  S2: I'm telling you this is gold. What are the biggest
• 34:21
  S2: ones of those seven that you see? I can see
• 34:24
  S2: where they touch all of us. They all touch all
• 34:27
  S2: of us. But what are the big boys that were
• 34:29
  S2: really missing it in, would you say?
• 34:31
  S11: You know, the one that I found? It was interesting
• 34:33
  S11: after the book came out many years ago, and it's
• 34:36
  S11: just been an ongoing study with me and God. But
• 34:39
  S11: one of the things that really I felt like had
• 34:41
  S11: to go another level was the emotional rest aspect of it.
• 34:45
  S11: It resulted in me writing another book titled Being Fully
• 34:48
  S11: Known The Joyful Satisfaction of Beholding, becoming, and Belonging. Because
• 34:53
  S11: I feel like that is the aspect of emotional rest
• 34:56
  S11: many of us are struggling with. We stay in this
• 34:59
  S11: place of dissatisfaction, so we're constantly searching for something that
• 35:03
  S11: will fill up the places that feel empty, that'll fill
• 35:07
  S11: up the areas of our life where we show up
• 35:09
  S11: in performance and striving. And it begins by beholding him,
• 35:14
  S11: allowing that to be the area where we start. And
• 35:17
  S11: then from what we're seeing in him becoming more like
• 35:21
  S11: Christ as we behold him. And I noticed for myself
• 35:25
  S11: that that has just been transformational in the level of
• 35:29
  S11: peace and satisfaction in my life, because then I stopped
• 35:32
  S11: trying to be everything to everyone. And it allows me
• 35:36
  S11: to give God the room to tell me who I
• 35:39
  S11: am to him, show me where I'm supposed to be
• 35:42
  S11: spending my time and my energy not just to produce,
• 35:45
  S11: but to be in purpose and on purpose for him.
• 35:49
  S2: Here's what's interesting about what you just said. And we're
• 35:51
  S2: going to the prophet Jeremiah, who said, you've carved out
• 35:54
  S2: for yourself broken cisterns, which all that is, is you've
• 35:58
  S2: carved out a life for yourself that can't hold water.
• 36:00
  S2: It seems to me that that emotional rest is the
• 36:04
  S2: very thing that allows us to identify what is happening,
• 36:09
  S2: that we're on this treadmill of performance, trying to please
• 36:12
  S2: other people, or sometimes even trying to please God when
• 36:16
  S2: he loves us dearly as we are. What are your thoughts?
• 36:19
  S11: Yeah, that's been my battle for most of my life.
• 36:23
  S11: I grew up in a situation where I fell in
• 36:26
  S11: love with Jesus as a teenager, but I had this
• 36:29
  S11: broken theology. I loved Jesus and I loved him because
• 36:33
  S11: he could understand how mean the father could be. Okay,
• 36:37
  S11: so I had no relationship with the father, right? And
• 36:40
  S11: it was years of God mending that back together. When
• 36:45
  S11: you have this thought of, oh, I've offended God in
• 36:49
  S11: some way, we then start to try to fix it
• 36:52
  S11: with our own works. That is not what Grace looks like.
• 36:54
  S11: And I think for a lot of us, we do
• 36:57
  S11: this because maybe we had a sin when we're not
• 36:59
  S11: sure if he's forgiven us of whatever that sin is
• 37:01
  S11: or something's happened in our life. And, and these systems
• 37:04
  S11: get broken in so many different ways, but we have
• 37:08
  S11: to accept the grace of God to be the, the
• 37:12
  S11: glue that mends it all back together makes me think
• 37:15
  S11: of and I can't remember the culture. I think it's
• 37:17
  S11: a Japanese culture where you have this broken vase or something,
• 37:22
  S11: and they mend it together with gold. And I feel
• 37:24
  S11: like that's what God does. Oftentimes in our lives. He
• 37:27
  S11: brings the goodness of everything he has in the mending part.
• 37:32
  S11: But we have to be willing to receive. And for myself,
• 37:36
  S11: one of the things that has really helped me is
• 37:38
  S11: I started to have this mindset. Jesus paid the price
• 37:42
  S11: for me to receive this healing I'm going to receive
• 37:45
  S11: on his behalf. Even if I don't feel worthy, I
• 37:49
  S11: will never be worthy, but he is worthy so I
• 37:52
  S11: can receive every good gift of God on behalf of Jesus.
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  S2: I love it doctor Sandra Dalton Smith guys, we got
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  S1: Helping you take the next step in your walk with Jesus.
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  S1: You're listening to Carl and crew.
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  S2: So I love to talk about the great Alaska earthquake.
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  S2: Good Friday back in 1964. I survived that thing with
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  S2: a good bunch of other people in Anchorage, Alaska. It
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  S2: was scary. But the aftermath of that, what was the
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  S2: magnitude on that quake? Again?
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  S4: It was 9.2.
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  S2: Yeah. And what's amazing about it, not only was it
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  S2: a whopper earthquake in in seismic scale, it lasted for
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  S2: over three minutes.
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  S4: Which doesn't seem like a long time, but earthquake is
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  S4: very long time.
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  S2: Oh, let me tell you something, man. It's it's a
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  S2: long time. The aftermath for me was I had PTSD.
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  S2: I guess we didn't call it that back then, but,
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  S2: I mean, if anything would tremble in the house, like
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  S2: dad would bump a garage. I mean, I, I would
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  S2: react by on occasion being a little 4 or 5
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  S2: year old kid. I'd run and hide under my bed.
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  S2: I would get nervous. Um, at night in my sleep,
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  S2: I'd wet my bed. But I learned in short order
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  S2: that one of the greatest gifts that God gave me
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  S2: was a dad whose loving arms, when I ran to them,
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  S2: would embrace me. And all that anxiousness evaporated. Ronnie Floyd
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  S2: with me right now. It's a pretty cool gift my
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  S2: dad gave me as a five year old boy, wasn't it, Ronnie?
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  S13: Yeah. It's remarkable. And what a story. And, you know,
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  S13: it's just all about what even the Lord Jesus said
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  S13: when he said, come to me, all of you who
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  S13: are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
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  S13: Praise God.
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  S2: Praise God for that. Why do we run to Jesus sometimes?
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  S13: Last is a great question.
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  S14: You know.
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  S2: Why do we do that? And I'm talking about the
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  S2: we out there. I'm talking you and me, Ronnie.
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  S13: You know, our goal should be that running to God. And,
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  S13: you know, the power of prayer should be our first option,
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  S13: not our last option. And I think if we can
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  S13: discipline our lives, Carl, to think that way, we will
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  S13: be much more prone to live that way.
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  S2: Yeah, there's no question about it. Uh, Ronnie Floyd, my
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  S2: guest right now. Let's go ahead and just read that text.
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  S2: I'm going to read it in full. Come to me.
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  S2: All who labor and are heavy laden. I'll give you rest.
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  S2: Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for
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  S2: I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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  S2: find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy
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  S2: and my burden is light. There's a lot of people
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  S2: anxious right now. I think the interesting thing about this
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  S2: little teaching of Jesus here is that he doesn't say
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  S2: that there's no yoke. He says it's a different yoke.
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  S2: What do we need to take away here, Ronnie?
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  S13: I think it's really important that we, you know, obviously
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  S13: remember who Christ is. I mean, I think that one
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  S13: of the things that we must understand, Carl, is that
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  S13: is that this passage even says that Jesus is lowly
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  S13: and humble in heart, and in him you will find rest.
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  S13: And so whatever is challenging us in life, whatever is
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  S13: the burden, whatever is even the blessing, because the blessing
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  S13: can become a challenge at times, because it's so demanding
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  S13: of your life. And you've experienced that in your life.
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  S13: I mean, you're a blessed man. And with that, it
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  S13: comes back to, to us understanding that we can't live
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  S13: life on our own and we have got to be
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  S13: able to lay it all down to the father and
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  S13: just trust him and do everything we can to throw
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  S13: ourselves upon him every day. Um, 100% all in that
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  S13: I am going to believe God for whatever goes on today.
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  S13: I'm going to believe God and I'm going to respond
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  S13: to God first. Yeah. Rather than respond to my my
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  S13: preference at times, my weakness at times, or even to the,
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  S13: the trauma of panic or whatever it may be that
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  S13: someone's dealing with. Uh, God is able to see us through.
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  S2: Ronnie Floyd, my guest. You know, you live in and
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  S2: I've spent some time in with Robert Louis, five years
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  S2: down there in little Rock. And he told me when
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  S2: I arrived, he goes, hey, listen, you've heard about the
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  S2: Bible Belt. This is like the belt buckle right here.
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  S2: We're right here in the belt. Buckle up. One of
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  S2: the things that I learned there, and it's not just
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  S2: in the South, it's all across evangelicalism in the West
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  S2: and beyond, because I think we exported it. I think
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  S2: a lot of times people feel like when I'm anxious,
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  S2: when it comes to spiritual things, we get into religious
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  S2: actions rather than spiritual disciplines, really, of the soul. And
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  S2: so we assume the fix is, I got to get
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  S2: more busy for God. I got to get into a
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  S2: small group. I got to do this, got to do that.
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  S2: What Jesus is saying here is you got.
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  S12: To get into the arms.
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  S2: Of God.
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  S12: And we never talked.
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  S2: About that a lot when I was a kid growing up. Ronnie,
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  S2: what have you learned?
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  S13: Well, I've learned that we need to do just what
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  S13: you did with your dad in your description of the
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  S13: earthquake and the aftermath of that in your life. And
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  S13: I think that is such a dynamic illustration because it
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  S13: shows so many things to us. And that's really where
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  S13: we need to be in life pretty well every day.
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  S13: And I, you know, I run to the father early
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  S13: in the morning. Uh, I try to run to the
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  S13: father throughout the day. And I think that when we
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  S13: place a discipline in our life, for example, like a
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  S13: time with God every day, then we are much better
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  S13: prepared to run toward God throughout the day and experience
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  S13: that matter of being sheltered, as the old gospel song
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  S13: would say. Uh, in the arms of God. because he
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  S13: is our shelter and he is our shield, and that
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  S13: is where we must live and do everything we can
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  S13: to get there every day.
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  S2: I love it. Ronnie Floyd, my guest here, Ronnie, to
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  S2: the person that has a really distorted view of they
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  S2: might hear my story about me running into my dad's
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  S2: arms and you hear Jesus saying, come on to me.
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  S2: Come on, bring it in. I get to bring it
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  S2: in time for a hug. And it's like, yeah, I
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  S2: got no perspective. And the only kind of only person
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  S2: that told me to bring it in for a hug
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  S2: was a pervert. And that's not a joke, Ronnie. There's
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  S2: a lot of people like that. What do we what
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  S2: do we say to those folks today?
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  S13: Yeah. I say, uh, you know, the sinfulness of man
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  S13: is so obvious in our culture today. And it has
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  S13: been for years and years. And there are times when
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  S13: those horrible and horrific moments happen. But people that walk
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  S13: through that. Just like you were marked through the earthquake
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  S13: and all that that involved. Those people are marked for
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  S13: many years in relationship to their memory, relating to what occurred. Uh,
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  S13: in those, you know, ungodly, terrible demonic moments. Because sin,
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  S13: as you know, it affects all people. Yeah. And those
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  S13: things that we don't understand like that, those horrible experiences
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  S13: of life that happened to some people, you know, it
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  S13: just breaks my heart. I mean, I, all I can
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  S13: tell them is I am so very sorry. And I
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  S13: grieve with you through your hurt and your pain and
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  S13: everything you have been through. And, you know, try to
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  S13: pray them through in those matters. But it will it
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  S13: will be an everyday battle for them to walk and
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  S13: believe that God will be faithful to them. Yeah. They cannot,
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  S13: or anyone who did not have a great dad cannot
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  S13: limit in their mind the power of sovereign God who
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  S13: is nothing like us. Uh. As dads, he is the
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  S13: Heavenly Father. He is the above and beyond, uh, King
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  S13: of Kings and Lord of Lords. And. And to him,
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  S13: we're trusting him. He always has our best in mind.
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  S13: He always calls us to be more what he wants
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  S13: us to be. And he has promise and hope and
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  S13: a future for us, even when we have been marred
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  S13: by the sins of other people that affect all of
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  S13: our lives sometime. And then those times when we make
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  S13: our own mistakes in life, and we have scars that
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  S13: may show that.
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  S2: Ronnie Floyd, I'm glad you went on a riff there, man,
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  S2: because there's some listening right now. You just needed to
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  S2: hear your heart poured out. And that's beautiful. Some of
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