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Focus On Him, the Rest Falls Into Place · The Wes Carroll Morning Show

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Speaker 1: The news, opinions, commentary, and interviews. You need to start
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Speaker 1: your day, and you're listening to the West Carrol Morning Show.
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Speaker 2: Wednesday morning, third day of December. I'm Wes, thanks for
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Speaker 2: joining me, working our way into this first week of December,
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Speaker 2: powering our way towards Christmas Day. I hope you've made
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Speaker 2: speaking to doorbusters. Going to get to the topic for today,
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Speaker 2: which is about focusing on God this Christmas season this
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Speaker 2: All right. So we're rolling our way into this Christmas
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Speaker 2: season and I've said here on the show many times,
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Speaker 2: and I know there's a few topics we could be
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Speaker 2: looking at getting into today, but there's time for that later.
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Speaker 2: I want to really focus on something now that we are,
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Speaker 2: you know, in the Advent season, and we are, you know,
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Speaker 2: we're in it. We're in December, here we go. And
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Speaker 2: you know, I heard somebody talking the other day about
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Speaker 2: the importance of just really and truly being focused on God.
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Speaker 2: It's one of those things that we should be doing
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Speaker 2: this time of year. We should be doing it year round.
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Speaker 2: But this is kind of a reminder. It's the little
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Speaker 2: reset button. It's an opportunity for us to take a
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Speaker 2: moment and just you know, everybody talks about New Year's resolutions.
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Speaker 2: This is sort of that opportunity to do that in
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Speaker 2: the Advent season as we start really thinking about, you know,
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Speaker 2: the birth and the beginning of the life, that leads
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Speaker 2: to the ministry, that leads to the sacrifice, and the
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Speaker 2: reason embrace is the reason for the season. And I
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Speaker 2: know that's cliche, it's just one of those things that
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Speaker 2: people say. But the reality here is we should be
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Speaker 2: focused on that. And you hear me say often on
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Speaker 2: the show that when you go to church, if your
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Speaker 2: church is putting politics ahead of Jesus, if they're putting
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Speaker 2: politics ahead of the message, if they're making forcing politics
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Speaker 2: into the sermon, if they're forcing it into prayers, if
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Speaker 2: they're forcing politics in and they start with what they're
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Speaker 2: being told by politicians is okay, and they're trying to
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Speaker 2: sort of merge and meld what the message of the
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Speaker 2: church is to fit that, then your church isn't doing
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Speaker 2: it right. And if that's where you're approaching it, then
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Speaker 2: you're not doing it right. It's just the reality. We
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Speaker 2: should not be taking politics and using that to shape
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Speaker 2: what our church is. Our church should be shaping how
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Speaker 2: we feel about the world, right, I mean, we should
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Speaker 2: be viewing the world through the lens of our faith,
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Speaker 2: not even necessarily our church, but our church should be
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Speaker 2: a reflection of what we believe should be a reflection
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Speaker 2: of the actual word of God. This isn't a I know,
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Speaker 2: this isn't a this isn't a you didn't tune in
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Speaker 2: for a sermon today. But I'm just I do inject
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Speaker 2: my religious leanings into the show because it does have
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Speaker 2: an effect on what my politics are. It has an
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Speaker 2: effect on how I vote, It has an effect on
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Speaker 2: how I feel about the world, how I interact with
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Speaker 2: the world, and I think it's important this time of
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Speaker 2: year that we do we take that time to remember
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Speaker 2: that if we shut off all the noise and we
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Speaker 2: shut off the hostility, we shut off the anger. I'll
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Speaker 2: tell you this, and I've had people tell me of
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Speaker 2: this show, of the radio show. I've had people tell me,
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Speaker 2: you know, you just don't you don't lean into it enough.
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Speaker 2: You're not you know, really getting in there, and you
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Speaker 2: don't get into the controversy. That's not who I am.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if you're listening and you've been listening for
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Speaker 2: a long time, and bless you, thank you for that,
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Speaker 2: but you know, I'm not going to dive into the
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Speaker 2: You know, Michelle Obama is a man, and the and
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Speaker 2: the French. First, lady is a man. I got other
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Speaker 2: stuff to do. I got other stuff to focus on.
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Speaker 2: I'm not going to dive into a lot of the conspiracies.
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Speaker 2: I understand that there are some conspiracies that, you know,
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Speaker 2: we've learned they were true, and just telling us that
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Speaker 2: they're conspiracies, you can't force them to be untrue, like
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Speaker 2: they ended up being the case. I've talked about the
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Speaker 2: fact that when when we went through COVID and I
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Speaker 2: was covering COVID on the radio and on podcast.
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Speaker 3: I was doing something I had never done before.
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Speaker 2: And no one really, I guess, had done it before.
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Speaker 2: When you're covering a pandemic of that size and it's
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Speaker 2: just kind of thrown at you, and we all had questions,
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Speaker 2: and we all had to figure out how we were
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Speaker 2: going to navigate it ourselves. We all had to figure
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Speaker 2: out what our strategy was and what was best for
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Speaker 2: our family. Now we were being told that the government
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Speaker 2: and the experts and the science knows what's best for
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Speaker 2: your family, and that they were telling us to do
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Speaker 2: certain things. And as they were telling us to do
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Speaker 2: certain things, there was a couple of ways that a
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Speaker 2: lot of media handled it. Some decided that they were
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Speaker 2: going to handle it by you know, we're going to
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Speaker 2: use this fear of all of this to drive home
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Speaker 2: the point of you know, you should be scared, you
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Speaker 2: should be afraid to go in and vote. You should vote,
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Speaker 2: you know, through these mail in ballots, and we'll send
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Speaker 2: someone around to pick them up from you and make
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Speaker 2: sure that your ballot gets mailed and gets taken care of,
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Speaker 2: you know, whatever it is. Some people did that, and
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Speaker 2: we know how this election went in twenty twenty.
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Speaker 1: It was.
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Speaker 2: It was crazy, and more people than ever voted and
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Speaker 2: then haven't voted since. And it's crazy for us to
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Speaker 2: sit back and think someone was using a pandemic to
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Speaker 2: drive the way that that election took place, and that
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Speaker 2: was the intention. There were politicians who said that.
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Speaker 3: That was the goal. This is our way to get
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Speaker 3: rid of Trump.
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Speaker 2: Some of them said that, and you know I and
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Speaker 2: then some just basically said, it's all nonsense. We're not
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Speaker 2: going to do anything. We're not going to do anything
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Speaker 2: at all to take care of ourselves. We don't need it,
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Speaker 2: We're not going to do it. And you know, I
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Speaker 2: covered it as a journalist as best I could. I
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Speaker 2: don't consider myself a journalist by any means. You know,
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Speaker 2: I do opinion on here, but in the topic of
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Speaker 2: a pandemic when we really didn't have the answers a
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Speaker 2: lot of speculation, I had my opinions, but my job
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Speaker 2: wasn't to share my opinions that My job was to
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Speaker 2: tell you what we were being told by the health officials.
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Speaker 2: I passed along that information. That's how I covered it.
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Speaker 2: I was diplomatic about it, and I told you repeatedly
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Speaker 2: on radio and on podcast, you need to talk to
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Speaker 2: your doctor. You need to make up a decision with
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Speaker 2: your doctor, consult with them. And I say that because
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Speaker 2: when people tell me, I'm not controversial and I don't
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Speaker 2: dive into it. And I wasn't telling people to not
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Speaker 2: get the vaccine, and I wasn't telling people not to
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Speaker 2: wear their mask, and I wasn't telling people to do
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Speaker 2: all of these things. That wasn't my place, that wasn't
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Speaker 2: my role as a broadcaster. In that time, I wrote,
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Speaker 2: my job quickly went from opinion to journalists and then
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Speaker 2: back to opinion. And that's the reality of it. That's
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Speaker 2: what I've needed to do over the course of doing
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Speaker 2: this job. And my point is I could have been controversial.
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Speaker 2: I could have said the things that I was thinking
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Speaker 2: during that pandemic, in that phase of it and ultimately
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Speaker 2: have been right, but that wasn't my job. That's not
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Speaker 2: what I was there to do. And I say that
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Speaker 2: because I try not to be that noise here.
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Speaker 3: I try not to.
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Speaker 2: Sure. I have my opinions, and you know which side
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Speaker 2: I'm on about most issues. Sometimes I call out even
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Speaker 2: the side I tend to vote for when they do
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Speaker 2: things that I go in. I don't know about that,
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Speaker 2: and that's because my opinions are rooted in my faith
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Speaker 2: and we have to shut that noise out sometimes, and
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Speaker 2: I try not to be that noise. I try not
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Speaker 2: to do that. There's times where I'm sure I fail
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Speaker 2: at that, but I try not to be that noise.
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Speaker 2: I'm not here to incite. I'm not here to anger.
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Speaker 2: I'm not here to scream things.
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Speaker 3: Like we're gonna have a civil war and things like that.
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Speaker 3: I don't that's not pray to God.
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Speaker 2: We don't get to that. I don't think we're as
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Speaker 2: close to that as people say. I know sometimes it
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Speaker 2: feels like things could be rough, but I pray.
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Speaker 3: And when people say it like yeah, we're gonna have
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Speaker 3: a civil war.
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Speaker 2: And I just think, do you know how horrible that
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Speaker 2: would be even stop to think about it. So back
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Speaker 2: to the point of this is just to say, try
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Speaker 2: to shut out the noise, focus on your faith, focus
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Speaker 2: on God. Take the time to do that this holiday
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Speaker 2: season and think about what's important. Is it really that
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Speaker 2: important that you stand up for something that you don't
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Speaker 2: really fully know or understand, but you're willing to right
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Speaker 2: now in the midst of anger, lay down and die
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Speaker 2: for it. Maybe take some time to really understand it,
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Speaker 2: or maybe just take some time to say, you know what,
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Speaker 2: this can wait until January, this can wait until the
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Speaker 2: midterm season gets started, and let's just take time to focus,
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Speaker 2: maybe learn a bit more. But if you're gonna be
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Speaker 2: angry about it, wait till next year. Put the anger
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Speaker 2: off till twenty twenty six. I want to quickly say
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Speaker 2: this because this is just an example of something that
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Speaker 2: if we truly take time to focus on God and
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Speaker 2: listen to him when he talks to us. I've had
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Speaker 2: a number of moments in my life where you can
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Speaker 2: feel God pulling on you to do things. You can
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Speaker 2: feel him, you can hear him pointing you in a direction.
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Speaker 2: Something I just learned about yesterday. And I don't know
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Speaker 2: if I should say the name of the person, but
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Speaker 2: someone that I know was going through a surgery and
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Speaker 2: recovery at about the same time.
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Speaker 3: That I was. And I knew that he was going
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Speaker 3: through a surgery.
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Speaker 2: He'd actually had a surgery and then needed to actually
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Speaker 2: go back and have this surgery again. There was an
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Speaker 2: issue with the surgery, something to do with how things
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Speaker 2: healed up, and I knew he was dealing with that,
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Speaker 2: and God compelled me just to reach out to him
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Speaker 2: and ask how he was doing.
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Speaker 3: And we were regularly in touch.
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Speaker 2: He would ask about my next surgery recovery, I would
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Speaker 2: ask him about his back.
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Speaker 3: It was back and.
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Speaker 2: Forth, and you know, there were days when I would just,
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Speaker 2: you know, send him a text, man, how are you feeling,
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Speaker 2: how's your back doing? And you know, he would let
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Speaker 2: me know and tell me thanks, and ask about mine,
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Speaker 2: and we would go.
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Speaker 3: On about it.
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Speaker 2: And it meant a lot to me when he would
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Speaker 2: reach out to me, because I knew we were kind
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Speaker 2: of going through this together. What I did not know
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Speaker 2: and I learned yesterday was there was a period of
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Speaker 2: time during his recovery I guess from the second procedure
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Speaker 2: where his wife was not in town. She was out
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Speaker 2: of town for something. He didn't tell me what it was,
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Speaker 2: but he told me face to face you yesterday, he said,
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Speaker 2: I just want to tell you something. Your text message
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Speaker 2: has really meant a lot. He said, my wife was
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Speaker 2: out of town. She wasn't there. I was home alone
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Speaker 2: with the dogs, and you know, getting your text was
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Speaker 2: letting me communicate with somebody, and it meant a lot
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Speaker 2: that you were checking on me. Now, this was something
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Speaker 2: I could have easily ignored. I could have easily just
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Speaker 2: blown off and gonea I've sent him some texts, but
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Speaker 2: I really felt God compelling me. And now I understand
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Speaker 2: why I didn't know he was home alone. I had
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Speaker 2: no idea. I was just checking in on another person
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Speaker 2: who was dealing with something similar to me. So my
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Speaker 2: encouragement to you not only to focus on God over
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Speaker 2: the course of this month and maybe beyond that, but also,
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Speaker 2: you know, really listen, really really listen when God is
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Speaker 2: giving you a nudge or pointing you in a certain direction.
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Speaker 2: The reason that He'll do that for us if we
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Speaker 2: just listen, and sometimes it means the world to someone
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Speaker 2: and you don't even know that that's happening, and it
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Speaker 2: was great for me to hear that. It was very encouraging,
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Speaker 2: and it was just kind of one of those you know,
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Speaker 2: like I just I felt God smile at me when
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Speaker 2: I realized it, and He's like, see, I had a
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Speaker 2: plan for that. And I just say to you, listen
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Speaker 2: for God's voice, listen for those nudges, and look for
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Speaker 2: The Oxford University Press has named its work of the Year.
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Speaker 2: It's actually two words, but it's kind of one thought.
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Speaker 2: It's rage bait. According to Oxford, use of the term
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Speaker 2: has tripled in the last year. They say that the
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Speaker 2: fact that the word rage bait exists and has seen
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Speaker 2: such a dramatic surge in usage means we are increasingly
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Speaker 2: according to Casper Grathwall, President of Oxford for Languages. He
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Speaker 2: the Oxford University Press word of the Year. A rarely
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Speaker 2: heard boy's name has rapidly risen in popularity, and the
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Speaker 2: name is Truce. According to the Social Security Administration's latest date,
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Speaker 2: a Truce jumped from the twelve ninth most popular name.
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Speaker 2: That seems high even for before. I mean, I've never met.
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Speaker 3: A truce.
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Speaker 2: For boys in twenty twenty three up to number nine
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Speaker 2: hundred and ninety one in twenty twenty four. According to
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Speaker 2: Sophie Kim, editor in chief of baby naming site name Barry,
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons for the name's popularity right now
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Speaker 2: is a collective yearning for peace. The popularity of the
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Speaker 2: name Truce is a direct result of the fatigue parents
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Speaker 2: right now.
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Speaker 3: According to Kim, I mean I like it in spirit.
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Speaker 2: It's it's kind of you know, Kumbaya for me. But
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Speaker 2: just think if your name truce, maybe your goal, one
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Speaker 3: Might not exist. What is this nonsense?
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Speaker 2: He might be fictional. Leo ran to his mom for help,
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Speaker 2: I still believe in Sanna. Don't listen to Google, she
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Speaker 2: told him. Leo's belief in his mom and and Santa
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Speaker 2: sure you get all that nonsense straightened out, Google, We
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