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US. Hello friends, I'm Kent Skelton
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and I'm so glad you are here. Together we can battle this
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struggle and find freedom from it.
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All Life is continuous and it would be ridiculous to say that
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you or I don't experience those seconds, minutes, hours, or days
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that seem like they'll never end.
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Time continues on regardless of how we feel or what we
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experience. We search longingly for a way to
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handle and navigate through these situations we are
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experiencing. There has to be a way.
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Surely I can find the solution to get rid of these negative
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experiences and periods of despair I am feeling.
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Maybe it's not our own problems but those of family members or
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loved ones that are living in pain.
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These pains may come from alcoholism, addictions, illness,
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grief, boredom and in so many other forms.
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What will we do? Where is that light I'm supposed
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to be able to see at the end of the tunnel?
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When will I see it? When will this end?
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The timing to realize you need help is up to each of us.
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That's you, that's me. We are each individually
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accountable for ourselves. We have to make the change and
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the timing is now. There's no time like the present
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to desire and begin that road to recovery.
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Together, let's reach that freedom from struggle.
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Hey, Eva. Hey, how are you?
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I'm fine. Let's welcome everybody to the
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freedom from struggle at Reds Round Table and we're going to
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be talking about peace today. Love it, love it, love it.
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Finding a little bit of peace. I, I wasn't going to play the
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whole intro. I told you that to begin with.
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I was going to get on here and we were just going to talk, I
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thought and but I just had good news came to me from outside the
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studio and I've got a new got a new little thing.
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I'm going to be playing a little bit later in the show, but I'm
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going to have to get it loaded and stuff.
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So which I'm excited about that. But look, we're thankful
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everybody's here today on the freedom from struggle at Rez
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round table, where we're going to be talking about peace.
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Me and Eve, we're going to talk about peace, how to find peace,
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where to find peace and how simple it really is or how
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simple it can really be to truly find peace.
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And I'm kind of excited to talk about it, you know, because
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it's, we all deserve. I don't know if we deserve it,
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but we're it's. We do deserve peace.
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It's available to all of us. Well, I think for sometimes the
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way I act and sometimes like that, what do I really deserve?
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You know what I mean? That's that's where I was
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getting at, you know, but no, but we are, we are definitely
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it's available to us and it and with the way we're going to be
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talking about it the way I really want to, but the
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perspective I want to share on it is really how simple it
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really can be. And it's not elusive either,
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right? No, no.
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No, no, no. Yeah.
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And it's I just. It's just an amazing thing.
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But hey, we're here on military broadcast radio gives veterans a
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voice. Eva's a veteran.
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I'm a veteran from the Air Force of 20 years.
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And loved every minute of it. And you know, it just, I saw a
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solo video that somebody shared just a few days ago and he had
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just gotten off work. Of course, for him, it might not
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have been the best thing in the world.
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He gets off work on a Friday afternoon.
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I think he got off a little bit early or was getting off, you
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know, maybe an hour early or something like that.
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And guess what? He runs into walking out of the
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building, headed to his car and which he'd never probably leaves
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till two or three hours after everybody else does because he's
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in charge. But lo and behold, it's the
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troops. They're in formation.
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They're marching home from class from all the different classes
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on Keesler Air Force Base, walking back to what they call
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the Trump marching back to the Triangle and he probably caught
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right the first group or two and then so he had to wait for all
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of them they. Trained.
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And they trained a lot of students there at Keesler.
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And so he got to watch it, but he videoed some of it.
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And then when I got to watch that video, it's just like, Oh
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well, I remember all that, you know, and just here, just here
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in the cadence, you know, and here in the little Jodi's and
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stuff like that. It, I don't know, it just always
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brought a little chill over me, you know, 'cause that's, that's
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where we, those folks are being trained to fight for our
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freedom, you know, and to serve, serve the US.
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And what an amazing thing, you know, we've been there, we've
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done that, and we know a lot of folks in our audience have been
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there, and we know others have family members that have been in
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that same thing. And so it's just, I don't know,
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I thought that was pretty cool. I should have, should have
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brought it on here just to play it, you know what I mean?
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I. Will I will sometime.
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I won't share it today because I'm really excited about getting
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this other little thing up. The the president and CEO of
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Fairway Travel is the one that passed the news on to me and I'm
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going to be sharing, we're going to be sharing a little bit
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something, something a little bit later that we're about to do
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this next week. And this is going to kind of go
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hand in hand with it. So yeah, hopefully, hopefully
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we'll like it. Yeah, we'll see.
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And I just had to try to get it. I've already emailed it to my MB
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radio dot US address and we'll see if we get it on there even.
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There's something else I noticed I don't have up here is and
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that's our overlays for the Freedom from Struggle show.
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I'll. See if I can.
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I can't really see see which one it is.
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Nope, that's not it. Let's put it up.
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I'd like to put it up here the way it is normally.
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There's that one. We'll see if you can find that
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while I continue to jabber a little.
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Bit there it. Is and OK all right that'll work
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and anyway freedom from struggle show at Reds roundtable we're
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right here in military broadcast radio and all kinds of different
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platforms we're we're shooting out to right now and we have
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over how many shows do we have on for MBR now I have.
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Lost count? I don't know.
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I think last I heard it was around 30 or so shows and then,
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but then that's just on MBR talk.
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Then we have MBR Radio, the DJ's that are on there, I saw they
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have a new guy that's managing the DJ's and that's pretty
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interesting. I'm sure people will fight will
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hear about that soon. And so they're playing a lot of
9:33
different music online. And here the big thing is that
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gaming channel, you know, and that they got, which doesn't
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really mean a whole heck of a lot to me because I'm not into
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the gaming scene. I'm not into the.
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Gaming. Maybe they're trying to draw us
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into it. Evil.
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They will have to go in there and show them how.
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I don't know, you know, my Ask my kids.
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I was doing good to play Crash Bandicoot back in the day.
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I remember playing pong, you know, on our.
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Oh yeah, sorry, Crash Bandicoot was my game.
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Doing, doing, doing but. And then Inspiro the dragon.
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Oh. Yeah, there you go.
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That right there, too. So somebody that probably brings
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back some memories for some people and then others like what
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in the heck are those two kids we're talking?
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Well, I'm talking 80s stuff myself, you know, but well.
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That was the 90s. That's.
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You're the 90s, you're talking 90s.
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And my boys played it. They still play it today.
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Grandson's doing it now. But listen, bread, my name's
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Red. Once again, I'm a grateful
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believer in Jesus Christ and I lead to Celebrate Recovery group
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right here in Biloxi, Ms. at First Baptist Church.
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We meet on Thursday nights and you can find a Celebrate
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Recovery near you right on a app or either just go online
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www.celebrate Celebrate Recovery, you know, search
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Celebrate Recovery on your favorite Google or Bing, Bing,
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is it Bing or whatever? What is every platforms you use,
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you know, or search providers you use and they, there's
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meetings all over the US, whether it be for Celebrate
11:10
Recovery, for Alcoholics Anonymous, for any other
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substance abuse type things, just for numerous, numerous 12
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step programs that are around, you know, mental health type of
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classes and stuff you can attend.
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They are out there. And I just urge, if you're going
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through anything, find somewhere to go, because if you don't need
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that, you don't need to be having all that on you yourself,
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you know, at home or just just slipping, tiptoeing through
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life, you know, with problems that you just, you want to get
11:41
rid of, just don't know how to, how to get rid of it, you know,
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and, and Celebrate Recovery. It's such a good deal because we
11:48
have these folks that come together.
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We, we, you know, we, we fellowship together, we eat
11:52
together and, and then we let you know, worship, worship the
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Lord. You know, we listen to music
11:58
together and then actually have lessons and start celebrating
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each person's recovery, you know, whether they're just
12:06
coming into the recovery program or if they've been there for
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years and years. You know, just so I might be
12:14
celebrating recovery or trying to recover, been struggling with
12:17
something right now that I've just put on the table yet.
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I might have been my alcoholism. I've been celebrating recovery
12:24
now from alcoholism, alcoholism for 30 years, you know, but I
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still go to programs about it. And that the reason when I go to
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programs for me on that particular thing, it's not so
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much for me, but Eva, it's for helping others now.
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You know, it's to be, it's be able to be there, you know, and
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you know, just to let them know it that it does work, you know,
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the program works. And of course, celebrate.
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And I'm not, that's right, I'm not alone, but it's a 12 step
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recovery process really works great.
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The way we're looking at it. Celebrate Recovery.
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It's a faith-based 12 step recovery plan, which I always
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share a few things about our our faith-based 12 steps in a
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comparison to the steps that you can find in the Bible.
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And then we'll do that again today.
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But Eva, what what? Let's hear something about Eva.
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What's even got going on? Good.
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What I have going on, good. So, you know, so I'm an Army
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veteran Desert Storm and you know, my book, I'm still working
13:31
on my book is getting closer and closer to getting republished
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with Trinity Broadcasting Network's publishing company
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called Trilogy. So welcome to my people garden.
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The republished version I hope will be coming out pretty soon.
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So that's, that's pretty exciting.
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And then working on my PHDM in the dissertation phase and we've
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got the topic narrowed down to the unfulfilled needs of female
14:01
combat veterans. So this is in the public
14:05
administration realm of things that doesn't.
14:08
So my goal is to find the the things that female combat what
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our unfulfilled needs are that are really like unresearched.
14:21
And by that I mean, it's not homelessness, It's not the stuff
14:25
that the VA already covers with medical and mental health type
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stuff. This is the, you know,
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transition services and you know, any of these other things
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that maybe it's childcare, maybe it's trans, you know,
14:38
transportation. It's just it could be numerous
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things out from the smallest to the biggest I.
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Guess right that that I'm hoping we'll find out when I do the
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qualitative survey later on. All right.
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We're looking forward to hearing more about that.
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Eva, thanks for sharing. And I'm really interested, you
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know, with the with the books and stuff you that you probably
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get published. And that's exciting, I know.
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That. Is you always you know so I
15:05
hadn't gotten that gotten to that level yet.
15:06
I understand that we have somebody in the military
15:09
broadcast radio community that's started coming up with some
15:12
things of their own that they've been getting online, and I'm
15:16
sure we're going to be continuing to hear more about
15:18
that. I don't know if I have anything
15:20
to show, but I know they'll be seeing it some places because
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I've heard some talk about it. I guess I don't know what you're
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talking about. Well then you're going to find
15:29
out too, but that's OK. Some animation type stuff you
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know. Oh, I did hear about that.
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I did see. The MBR duck is going.
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They got. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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And. Everything now and they're going
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public. They're going.
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Right. I think it's like a coloring
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book or something. I don't.
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Know yeah, I definitely think there's a coloring book and
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there's a bunch of other things I believe but that you know that
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we're we're right here we're going to come back We have to go
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to break here real quick and we're come back and then when we
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come back we'll talk about some of those faith-based steps that
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I was talking about and and in my mind that they helped lead
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towards peace and that we're going to me and Eve are also
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going to discuss a little bit, you know, how how ways you can
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find peace and and maybe even why we need to find peace.
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OK and but we'll be back real quick and if you'll stand by
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This on the web MB radio dot US. Hey, MJI, saw you waving hello.
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Me and Eva said hello right back to you.
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Happy Saturday. No doubt about it.
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Hey, I did try to. I was going to pull up that over
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while we were on break. Man, You know when you're when
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you're sitting there crunched for the time, You know when
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you're sitting there in between a commercial breaks, Boy, it
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seems like it just flies by. It does.
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I was sitting there singing that song and I was like, man, I
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can't believe I've already sang that song all the way through
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yet the red, white and blue. But we had it's.
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A really good song. It really is.
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It really is. I'm fixing to pull up our 12
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steps and their comparisons real quick so we can talk about that.
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And Eva, when when we speak of peace, when we what, what off
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the top of your head? I mean, we hadn't talked about
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this. What is why do we need peace?
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Do we need peace? Of course we need peace.
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You know, it's, it's mentioned in the Bible a whole lot.
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I think that's probably one of the reasons why I like going
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hiking is I get to shout out all of the noise from the world, you
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know, and just enjoy being with God, being with, you know, being
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with him. And you know, that that
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meditation factor, if you will, that and that's probably
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something that's not spoken of very much is Christian
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meditation and being able to, you know, be at peace.
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Because if you're always in a state of anxiety or you know, a
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state of anxiousness or a state of movement, right, right.
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When, when do you relax? When do you settle and just be
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at peace? And a lot of people think it's
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elusive, but I don't think it's elusive because I know where I
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go find it in the woods because I can shut out all of the noise,
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all of the microwaves, all of these the frequencies that are
23:29
that MJM JS probably love. And then I'm talking about this
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stuff. But I love going out there
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hiking because I can just, I can settle.
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Right. That makes sense and.
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Yeah, it does, I thought. And hear the green noise.
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I could you know it's green noise is a thing.
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Right. Yeah, I don't know, Green.
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Noise. Oh yeah, I love it.
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I love that noise. You do when you go hiking that.
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I mean, would you go hunting? But I bet you that's why you
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like going out there so much. I really do.
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I and that is, it's not all about going out there.
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I mean, I love to see the wildlife, don't get me wrong,
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OK. And every once in a while I like
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to take, take, take a little that wildlife, you know, put it
24:10
on the table. But not all the time, you know,
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you see a lot of times you see you, you keep watching them, You
24:16
know, same with fishing. You know, you might sit out
24:18
there fishing and out on the Gulf and wherever, you know, and
24:23
it's quiet, there's no traffic, there's no other noise.
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And you're just sitting out there and, you know, you might
24:29
catch a fish and you throw it back in, you know, catch and
24:32
release or, or just simply you're sitting there fishing.
24:36
But you see the water's clarity is good enough.
24:38
You can see the other fish swimming around and everything,
24:41
man. And it's just I'm in in a real
24:44
world aquarium, you know, I mean in a real life in the aquarium,
24:49
you know, of the sea, right? And that's pretty neat to be
24:52
able to do that. But same way with, like you
24:55
said, being out in the woods, whether you seeing squirrels,
24:58
whatever the kind of wildlife, but just hearing the wind blow,
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you know, and Oh my goodness, what's.
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Oh, so MJ, she's saying it's Shinrin.
25:08
Yoku, translated as Forest bathing, is a Japanese practice
25:13
of spending time in nature, particularly forests, to promote
25:16
physical and mental well-being. It involves using all 5 senses
25:20
to experience the poorest environment and to reconnect
25:23
with nature. Chinron Yoku is not simply a
25:25
walk in the woods, but a mindful immersion in the natural sound
25:29
surroundings. I like that.
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That's a, that's a great definition of that, no doubt.
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And, and you, you need to immerse yourself in it, you
25:37
know, just get lost. Well, because otherwise we're
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staying immersed in the worldly side of things.
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So but Eva, but when you get off work when, when everybody would,
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you know, everybody gets off work.
25:50
And I'm talking about veterans and I'm talking about, you know,
25:52
our parents, our kids that are working, anybody in the work
25:56
environment school, OK, And just everybody and anybody, whether
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civilian or military, American or other countries.
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Well, I mean, don't you get to drive home?
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Don't you have some peace on that commute home or when you're
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riding that bus? When I'm riding that bus and
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you're. Holding on to that train, you
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know, isn't that And you're walking through, walking down
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the streets of New York, isn't that peace it?
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I guess it can be if you can tune that stuff out.
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Some people think it is. I don't think, I don't think you
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can really ever say a drive when you're out there any type of
26:34
traffic or. Anything.
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Yeah, because your mind is still active on what's happening on
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the road. Possibility.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, you find a
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little piece right here doing this in therapy in a sense, but
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you're busy. You're busy, right?
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Busy thinking. You're busy thinking what other
26:55
people might be hearing or what you think they want to hear or
26:59
what, what, what you're going to say next.
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So it's real. That's no peace.
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It may be a little therapy, maybe a little therapy, right?
27:08
Giving veterans a voice. Chair yoga Have you tried chair
27:13
yoga before? Myself.
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Yeah. If I did, I.
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If I did, I wasn't doing it right.
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Well, it was this, it was this thing where when I went through
27:26
it, they were literally were like, start it, start it like
27:30
your toes and you're only thinking about your toes.
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And then you think about, you know, the, the, the sole of your
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foot. Anyways, the whole process is to
27:41
go piece by piece by piece on your on your body and only think
27:47
about so it when you're thinking about, let's say your little
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toe. Right.
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You're not thinking about anything else but your little
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toe, whatever your little, you know, you're just concentrating,
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sitting there with your eyes closed, your hands, you know,
28:03
flat on your legs and thinking about my little toe in a way
28:09
that can bring you some peace. Because it's, it does shut out
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the rest of the noise of whatever else that can cause you
28:17
to be frustrated or anxious or whatever.
28:23
But it's a but it is a way of being able to help retrain your
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brain. Retrain the brain.
28:29
To to stop the other noise. That's what I right.
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If it's peace, what's the opposite of that noise?
28:37
Right, right, right, right. Yeah, that so that, that peace
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and relaxation right there and that.
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Yeah. And and what so that's different
28:45
ways we have peace and we of course, we know MJ was able to
28:49
throw on a few ways or talked about that forest piece.
28:53
And I was thinking to say I don't know if she showed
28:55
anything. Oh, come.
28:58
On Ride the train and Ride it up.
29:00
Isn't that a song? And I don't know what you mean
29:03
by this comment. I don't know what this.
29:07
Is about come on, ride the train.
29:09
Is that like a sex swing? I don't understand.
29:12
What that comment was about hey, let's.
29:15
Knock where this show? Before we before we get off on
29:18
that even we we had pulled up one Bible verse.
29:21
That we wanted. To share and talking about what
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is peace, you know, and I don't know if if folks can read it,
29:30
what what's I can't even read it.
29:31
But I need to make it bigger. If you can't, but anyway Psalms
29:36
2911 right, the Lord will give you will give strength and to
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his people. The Lord will bless his people
29:45
with peace. Who who is the Lord's people?
29:51
What I believe that's I think the Lord's people is meant to be
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for everyone and that he, he wants to give us this peace.
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But I think you're missing some words there.
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The Lord will give. Strength will give.
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Strength will give, right? Because give is a gift.
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It will. He will give a strength.
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I think that's important to remember.
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He gives it. He gives this give this strength
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to his people. Strength, right?
30:23
And they will be blessed with peace.
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Yep. Look, let's, let's go, let's
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slip right over there to those few verses real quick that I
30:31
talked about for let's see. Let me throw it on there real
30:35
quick. The first step is we admitted we
30:38
were powerless over our addictions and compulsive
30:41
behaviors, that our lives become unmanageable.
30:44
And which Romans 718 says, I know that nothing good lives in
30:49
me. That isn't my simple nature, for
30:51
I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out.
30:54
Romans 718 And in Step 2 it says we came to believe that a power
31:00
greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.
31:06
OK. And as we do that, Philippians
31:10
213 says, For it is God who works in you to will and to act
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according to his good purpose. And then finally in #3 which
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there is 12 but in #3 it says we made a decision to turn our
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lives and our wheels over to our wheels over to the care of God.
31:28
Romans 12/1 says therefore, I urge you, brothers, and view of
31:31
God's mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice,
31:35
holy and pleasing to God. This is your spiritual act of
31:39
worship. And you know, when I, when I sit
31:42
there and say as a spiritual act of worship, the Lord wants us to
31:48
have peace. And, and when I say, how can we
31:53
have peace, well, you know, we, we do that we have peace, peace,
31:57
not war, right, peace. And you know, we're peace, we're
32:02
at peace with our neighbors, we're at peace with the our, our
32:05
fellow employees, our peers. We're at peace with our boss.
32:09
We came in on time. We're not.
32:11
The goal, the goal is always peace.
32:13
The goal is always peace and and that so, so we're not having
32:18
any, any friction. We got peace.
32:20
We're not having any. We're not conflicting in any
32:23
way, but the Lord wants us to have peace.
32:26
And it's a different price type of peace and being just
32:29
satisfied at work because you were on time, you've done your
32:32
work well, you've gotten a good reviewer performance report.
32:37
It's more to it than that. And yet it is really, really
32:42
that simple. Not to worry.
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The Lord wants us to confide in Him.
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He wants us to confide in him. He wants us to repent of the
32:53
things we do wrong and not do it wrong anymore, which we were
32:57
talking about something earlier today even before we came on the
33:00
air. And it's something that I just
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want to get out, get away from and you know, cry uncle, hey, I
33:07
can't do that but give it to the Lord and not do it anymore.
33:10
Not mess around with that, OK, Not do that, not do that wrong,
33:15
that sin, if you will. Because when I sit there and say
33:18
this, 12 steps aren't only for the alcoholic.
33:21
There aren't only for the drug addict.
33:24
There are not only for the anxious, not only for the
33:29
depressed, it's for anyone with any type of hurt, habit or hang
33:33
up. It's for anyone and everyone
33:36
because we are all sin, whether we know it or not, is for all of
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us and we are all of God's people.
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We were created in His image and from the beginning.
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We're we're perfectly imperfect. We're perfectly imperfect and
33:53
but in his eyes we are perfect. That's right.
33:56
We are we, but we are just plain perfect.
33:59
And but he wants us to, like I said, be with him, you know,
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have have that peace, have that inner peace not to worry, you
34:08
know, don't be anxious. There's so many verses we can be
34:11
pulling up all these different verses about not worrying about
34:15
not being anxious about just give it to the Lord and then
34:21
doing his will and we can have peace and it's, and that's the
34:26
kind of peace I'm talking about folks.
34:28
That's how simple what I was talking about truly, when it all
34:34
boils down to this, it's it's that decision we have.
34:38
We we, we decide to be peaceful or we decide to be angry, to not
34:46
to be peace, to have peace or to be to be not, not have peace, be
34:50
mean, be mad. You know the way I look at it,
34:53
right? It takes a lot of energy to be
34:57
angry. You know what, I actually, and I
35:02
sit there. Hey, I watched this video.
35:04
I saw this, I heard this, I read that, but you know, it's it's
35:08
because I'm not the expert on everything and I do watch other
35:12
things and I Billy Graham, I was listening to something with
35:16
Billy Graham. It was just recently.
35:20
And when it when it goes with what you were just saying, you
35:23
know, if you're angry and there's anger in you, it's not
35:27
peace. It's and it does take that it
35:30
does take a huge it. Takes a lot of energy.
35:36
And what he was sitting there saying what he said, if I can,
35:39
if I can help make make sense out of what I he said.
35:44
But like Eva, like if I, if I'm sitting here, whether it be with
35:49
my kids, with my wife or, or just in a daily activities,
35:53
whether it be work or whatever, you get angry.
35:59
You know, if you get angry, you're, you're tough, you're
36:02
strong, you're, you're, you're in control.
36:05
You know, you know, I said this and I said that and I'm going to
36:09
win this thing. I'm the man.
36:10
I'm you know, and and I'll, you know, that stuff truthfully, you
36:16
don't have to have that. I mean, because we, we should be
36:19
able to just sit here and talk normal, you know, Hey, we can do
36:21
this and do that. We don't have to be angry.
36:24
I mean just talking. I'm going to put in the chat a
36:28
different verse. OK, all right.
36:30
Please do. Please do.
36:31
And I think you'll like this one.
36:33
So it's First Corinthians 1433. Say it again. 1st Corinthians
36:40
1433 OK God is not the author of confusion, but of peace, as in
36:46
all churches of the Saints. How about that?
36:50
Right, That's God's not the author of confusion.
36:54
So who's the author of Confusion?
36:56
Be but just the daygum opposite like the devil.
36:59
Yeah, Satan. He's the author of peace.
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God is the author of Peace. The author of Peace the the, the
37:11
deliverer of Peace and the one that makes it available.
37:16
And like I said, he wants it. We've read earlier in Psalm 2911
37:19
and he wants that for all his people, you know, and and all we
37:25
have to do really truthfully to have that peace is to to truly
37:28
believe in him, repent of our our wrongdoings and, and turn to
37:32
the Lord, you know, and turn to God and and turn to God.
37:36
And it's when she do that and you do that with all your, all
37:42
your mind and all your heart and he asked him into into your
37:46
heart, you truly can start finding that peace and seeing
37:52
what that peace is really about. Not that you understand
37:55
everything that moment that you say it, but that's when you can
38:00
truly start realizing peace and, and might be in the in it might
38:07
be what you find in your daily readings or your daily
38:10
activities when you're staying with the Lord.
38:13
You know, whether it's Bible study, whether like I said, it's
38:16
just actual reading, but even in prayer.
38:19
Yep. And hey, hey, strange boy, you
38:25
rock. You were the rocker.
38:26
And Jose? Jose.
38:28
Jose, love to see you. So you saw my wave.
38:32
I'm going to give a shout out to Jose.
38:34
He's going to be on my show tonight.
38:36
OK, what time is that? So that's at six Eastern, so you
38:41
know when this I have a little bit of break to go and eat some
38:45
dinner before my show starts, but Jose's going to join me.
38:49
I'm so, so excited it he's he hasn't been on for a minute, you
38:53
know, so he's going to Co host with me.
38:55
We're going to catch up and talk about resilience.
38:58
Resilience. That's a good word, right?
39:01
So and then we've got Fair and Dozier popping in saying hi and,
39:08
and MJ explained earlier she posted in the comment that it
39:13
was about chair yoga. Oh, OK, OK.
39:17
Yeah, I was trying to find peace.
39:19
It's fine trying to find peace. But we had a we had a hay from
39:24
Amber. She gave us some Purple Hearts
39:26
earlier and Matthew, she said. We were on fire.
39:30
Right, right. Oh, OK all.
39:32
Right, wanted to make sure we covered all those great
39:34
comments. That's, that's pretty neat.
39:37
You know, I, I had that Navy chaplain was on talking about
39:40
Purple Hearts and I know we have AI know we have a lot of Purple
39:43
Heart recipients. You know there's many and
39:47
thankful for what they do to continue to do.
39:50
There's a there's a guy back in Texas, the world, I think he's a
39:54
World War 2 veteran. Mr. Woody is 100 today.
40:00
So shout out, shout out to my North Texas peeps who have been
40:06
celebrating Woody's birthday. And if any of y'all are Cowboy
40:11
fans, there's this great guy Frenchy.
40:16
Frenchie, you've seen him on TV before, You didn't know?
40:20
But he always wears the big bright orange clothes and he's
40:24
he's one of the biggest fans for the Cowboys today.
40:28
I think it's today is his birthday too.
40:31
So shout out to Frenchie. Yeah, he always gives me a happy
40:35
birthday. But he's a veteran also.
40:39
Hey Eva, look I've I've just looked at the time.
40:42
It's 40 after the hour. We've.
40:43
I know. 40 minutes. We're going to play another
40:46
quick song, folks. There's no coming on we'll.
40:50
Have to talk to him after we come back from the.
40:52
Break. Because right now we're going to
40:55
hear a Little Soldiers Prayer by John Michael Okey Doke.
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All right. Welcome back, folks.
44:15
I was. I was just thinking so much for
44:17
a short show today. Yes, already 3:45 but folks, we
44:25
wanted, we just want, we really wanted to come in and, and I'm,
44:29
I'm going to be traveling said I was going to share something a
44:31
little bit later, man, I have AI have a new little commercial
44:37
spot that's going to probably be popping up on military broadcast
44:41
radio pretty soon. And what it is is I I'm going
44:46
headed to Sandals. I'm headed to Saint Vincent in
44:48
the Grenadines and that's way out China, you know, and those
44:54
southern and southern Caribbean, the eastern most southern
44:58
Caribbean islands pretty much and just northeast of Grenada,
45:02
which some of our military folks remember Grenada.
45:05
But anyway, it's going to be a a great week.
45:09
We're flying down there and we're going to Sandals Saint
45:13
Vincent. But the cool thing, and it's
45:16
part of the American Society of Travel Agency and you know, you,
45:21
you as a agent yourself, you know, we can I've I've got
45:25
fortunate enough to have this invite to go to it.
45:27
OK. And it's very limited.
45:30
It's limited. I say limited.
45:32
Each location is limited. However, there'll be a lot of
45:35
agents that are there Sandals and Beaches, you know, advisors
45:39
and but it's going to be a neat opportunity to be there.
45:44
For one thing, they're going to also be at the other Sandals and
45:48
beaches locations, whether it be the Turks and Caicos, whether it
45:51
be the Bahamas or Jamaica, St. Louis, you know, all the
45:56
different places. Alessian Beach, Oh my gosh,
46:01
where I can't even think of all the names right now, you know,
46:04
but they're, they're Cura Sal and wow.
46:08
I mean, there's there's, there's Easley 17 to 22 locations where
46:12
people will definitely be at OK, and they'll have sandals.
46:17
When I say sandals, they'll have their sandals.
46:20
The, the big folks, you know what I mean?
46:22
The, the directors, yes, yes, the senior staff as obviously as
46:29
the staff, the local staff and managers and resort managers
46:35
there. But it's going to be a pretty,
46:38
pretty big deal. And we're going to be.
46:41
And, and here's the cool thing. Everybody likes to vacation.
46:45
I know people like to vacation. Sandals is a great vacation
46:51
destination. It's luxurious, it's romantic.
46:55
The food is oh oh man, exceptional and they have all,
47:01
you know, your drinks and stuff that are supplied.
47:03
It's always all inclusive. You know you can't even unless
47:07
you have like a Butler, a Butler room and the.
47:13
Upgrade. Or if you're yeah, yeah, yeah.
47:15
Or if you're using the spa, you know, certain things in the spa.
47:19
That's about the only two instances that you really make
47:24
pull, really pull money out of your pocket and tip anything
47:28
else. Everything else that sandals the
47:31
normal, I said the normal rooms, whether it's being the luxury
47:35
rooms or the club level rooms, it's all it's, it's, it's all
47:39
inclusive. And like I said, you do, people
47:42
do tip, but tend to tip their butlers and it's accepted.
47:46
Same with the spa, right? But you.
47:51
Would do that even on a cruise or anything.
47:53
It wouldn't matter where you're at, right?
47:55
You wouldn't do it. You would do that, but anything
47:59
else, you're just going up. You're not giving your room
48:01
number, you're not giving, you know, oh, here's my credit card
48:04
or here's this. It's just including you just go
48:07
up there and you know, you may meet the person and it it might
48:10
be likely that they, they recognize you from one the time
48:13
you were there before. You know, I'm talking about
48:16
maybe gotten a drink or something earlier or anything.
48:19
You've been visited the same restaurant or location to eat.
48:23
They've already seen you and served you.
48:25
So they might know you there, but they know show you by name,
48:29
but you're not going around just giving your name.
48:31
You know, you're just, you're not giving your room number out.
48:34
You just walk around and here, here, here, here.
48:37
Yeah. You know, it's just like, wow,
48:39
enjoy it, enjoy yourself. It's it's the great, a great
48:43
destination location. When you go to Sandals, when you
48:47
go to beaches Sandals, it's not only for couples.
48:50
It is a it is a couples type thing basically, but you did not
48:55
have to be a honeymoon couple or a married couple.
49:00
It could be girlfriends, guys, you know, that might be joining
49:05
coming down to the location to play the local golf course.
49:09
It may be, like you mentioned earlier, might be a bunch of
49:11
girls that are there for Bachelorette type deal.
49:14
You know, that's it's not, but it's what I'm saying.
49:18
It's not just for the the couple you know.
49:23
Good. Because I don't have.
49:24
I don't have, you know. Yeah, but but yeah, you and your
49:27
best friend can go, you and your sister, you know what I mean?
49:31
Yeah, y'all go and and have a great time.
49:34
Enjoy yourselves and the people that and once you go the I say
49:40
the people that go there. Once you go there, you probably
49:43
don't want to go back though, because it's just the service.
49:46
Everything is impeccable and it's just that good, you know?
49:49
Have you been to this location? Before I have not been to Saint
49:53
Vincent yet, so this is how first time we'll be going to
49:55
Saint Vincent and I will just throw in there They're going to
49:58
be well, anytime you know Eva, we can we can secure somebody's
50:04
vacation for $98. OK.
50:07
And when I say secure that vacation, we can secure no
50:12
kidding, a vacation for $98 and it requires a little bit more
50:17
within the next two to three weeks, $400.00 deposit total
50:22
secures an actual Yeah, that that right there.
50:30
You know, it's it's covered. The $98 will cover you know,
50:34
we'll secure that vacation with specials that might be offered.
50:38
And I believe we're going to have a lot of nice specials this
50:41
next week that are going to be offered with sandals and through
50:45
the ass. Wow, you have to keep me posted
50:47
so I can. I will.
50:48
Keep you posted We will try to keep everyone in our audience
50:52
military broadcast radio posted and let people know about it.
50:58
So. So the 98 is kind of like a mini
51:01
layaway of the main deposit. Yeah, that $98 is you're going
51:06
to make sure you get whatever they're offering, whether
51:09
they're offering, you know, a, a.
51:11
It's a whole. Dinner on the water, or a
51:13
catamaran cruise, midnight cruise, or whatever it might be
51:17
that they're offering. You know what it might be a $500
51:21
spa credit, you know that if you book during that little window,
51:25
So what they'll be, they'll have a window and what we want to do,
51:29
we want everybody to reach out to us and so we can tie them
51:33
into it and get that secured. And then you gives you like I
51:37
said a couple more weeks to get the full deposit in.
51:39
And this is for travel that's at least to the calendar end of
51:44
2026. It may even step slip into 27.
51:48
OK. And then you get, you get there,
51:51
you secure that, that the special you put your deposit
51:55
down on your room. And then if it for some reason
51:58
we need to change something later on, there's no change fees
52:01
and stuff like that. So, you know, cuz you're, we're
52:05
asking you to come down with a date pretty darn quick, you
52:07
know, Hey, I want a seven day, seven or seven night vacation or
52:11
six night vacation. I want to go in August, you
52:14
know, of 25 or August of 2026. And but then you Oh my gosh, I
52:20
can't get time off. OK, well, we just we'll just
52:23
have to choose another date. You know, when and we do that.
52:27
We can we can do that. You.
52:28
Know good because I can't plan my next trip until I graduate
52:32
from my PhD, so same thing my big That could be the.
52:36
Same. It could be the same thing, you
52:38
know, coupler going together. Well, what we're not together.
52:43
For my graduation, present is okay.
52:48
Sandals Vacation and so folks, it's easy to do, but they got so
52:55
many things to offer the Sandals like I said, it's for couples,
52:57
adults only and the Beaches locations are for anybody and
53:01
everybody. All you got to do is get your,
53:04
we'll get there, get your $98 this coming week, we'll get that
53:08
$98 from you and we'll secure a spot with all the specials that
53:13
they're offering all the so. How do people need to reach out
53:18
to us? How do they need to reach out
53:20
to? US well, you know it's easy.
53:22
They can always reach out to. Do you have a e-mail address of
53:27
MB radio? US address.
53:29
Eva at MB Radio dot. US OK right there so you can
53:33
talk, you can. They can reach me while you're
53:35
gone. Eva at MMB radio dot US because
53:38
we'll be in connect in contact with each other or you can do
53:41
red at MB radio dot US and I'll tell you what you you call you
53:48
just call MB radio you get in touch with anybody at MB radio,
53:52
they get in touch with me or Eva and we'll have them we'll have
53:55
we'll be right back in contact with yourselves and.
53:59
They could always say messenger me.
54:02
Yeah, Right, right, right. That's right, that's right.
54:07
I like it. So we'll just talk it up and,
54:09
and there's always something goes back to military broadcast
54:12
radio because that's where the station is giving veterans a
54:15
voice. That's where Fairway Travel is
54:17
affiliated with and we're thankful for that.
54:20
We want to help continue to help support military broadcast radio
54:24
in any way we can And and. That's why people need to join
54:28
us on the cruise in November. Too Exactly once again that
54:32
Veteran's Day cruise you need to get in contact with us now
54:34
because the special I got that prices locked in up until I
54:39
believe it's May 12th or 15th. So so this even either way, that
54:44
Veteran's Day cruise, the sandals thing would be a great
54:47
think about couples, you know, a Mother's Day vacation, you know,
54:51
for a Mother's Day present, not a Mother's Day.
54:54
That would be nice. I'll be lucky if I get a meal.
54:57
You know, some, some, some of you young folks out there, you
55:01
know, you might want to be giving your mom and dad a a nice
55:04
little sandals vacation or, or maybe the whole family wants to
55:07
go a Mother's Day gift to get the deposit down and have these
55:12
specials at one of the beaches locations for the entire family.
55:16
And that's, I mean, they got, they got the rooms, obviously
55:19
that'll, that'll hold multiple people.
55:22
But they have got homes basically.
55:25
They're basically homes like 3 and 4 bedroom units and with a
55:30
full kitchen in there. I don't know why anybody needs a
55:32
kitchen out of sandals, but sometimes you want to cook up
55:35
something on your own, I guess, or if you have a Butler that
55:37
might be preparing something for you right there.
55:39
I don't know, but but they do have that available.
55:42
And look, let's let's share the serenity prayer real quick
55:46
because we're we're, we're never about doing a whole show, 60
55:50
minutes show. Let's do the serenity prayer
55:53
real quick. Let me see if I can pull that up
55:55
and share that to the screen and if I can read, I believe I got
56:02
it right there. If everybody can see that, let
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me make sure that's I've got it just like it's supposed to be.
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And I believe I do. I believe I do.
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But anyway, so if everybody, if you're driving or something like
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that, not safe, don't be bowing your heads, closing your eyes
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right now. I.
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Don't know before you get into that.
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Hold on. You can say that.
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Can you see it? Yeah, but hold on.
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Joel says the best way to kiss your in laws heinie, just
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saying, is to do the vacation thing.
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You need a prayer for that. That's our station manager.
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OK, look, look, folks, real quick, before we close out, no,
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kid, we're going to have a little word of prayer, and
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that's in the serenity prayer. And it's God grant me the
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serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to
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change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Living one day at a time, enjoying one moment at a time.
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Accepting hardship as a pathway to peace.
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Taking as Jesus did the simple world as it is, not as I would
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have it. Trusting that you will make all
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things right if I surrender to your will so that I may be
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reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with you
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forever in the next. And that's the serenity prayer.
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It was written many years ago and a lot of folks that are in
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12 step programs, they, they see that or, or read those first 3
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or 4 lines, not necessarily the whole prayer and but that's the
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whole prayer right there. And it's a pleasure for me to be
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able to share that with y'all. Remember veteran's day crews are
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going to throw that back up here one more time real quick.
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All right folks, thanks for tuning in today.
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We are blessed to have had you and we'll see you again next
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week. Eva's got your show coming up in
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one hour, is that correct? That's right, one hour trip.
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Y'all be safe, OK? OK, with Jose, where we'll be
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right there with. Jose Yep.
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Alright mindset, come and join us.
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All right, OK folks, have a good week and we will see you next
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