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It Is A New Year · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Happy New Year, Happy twenty twenty six.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Have a Little Faith. My faith, my faith
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Speaker 1: in the Lord Jesus Christ, is the foundation of my life.
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Speaker 1: I don't always have my choices or my decisions in
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Speaker 1: alignment with what I know God would have me to do.
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Speaker 1: My heart is in the right place, but sometimes my
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Speaker 1: decision making is not, and I struggle all the time
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Speaker 1: with that, with that battle, you know, the little angel
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Speaker 1: on one shoulder and the little devil on the other.
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Speaker 1: My devil is so convincing, so incredibly convincing. But anyway,
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Speaker 1: welcome to this episode of my podcast, Have a Little Faith.
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Speaker 1: You know that gratitude is a theme we celebrate all
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Speaker 1: year long, especially this time of year, especially as we
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Speaker 1: are celebrating the new year. We just celebrated the holidays.
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Speaker 1: We are focusing in. We are locking in. We are
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Speaker 1: locking in on what we have gratitude for, who we
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Speaker 1: have gratitude for. In this episode, I want to share
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Speaker 1: some of my favorite calls from this past year, from
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five. So many of you have touched my
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Speaker 1: heart this year. You have trusted me with your stories
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Speaker 1: of love, of laughter, of fear, of grief, of life
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Speaker 1: and for that I am so very grateful. All of
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Speaker 1: your calls have touched me. I just picked out some
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Speaker 1: of my favorites from this past year. First up as
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Speaker 1: Gail eighty five year old Spitfire. Eighty five year young Spitfire,
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Speaker 1: I should say, very young heart, very sweet story from
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Speaker 1: many years ago. She also has a great sense of
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Speaker 1: humor and loves loves to sew her life together, to
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Speaker 1: stitch her stories together. Let's hear from Gail right now. Gail, Hi,
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Speaker 1: happy holidays. What can I do for you tonight?
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Speaker 2: I'll start out by saying, I'm eighty five years old.
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Speaker 2: I listened to you while I sew, and I sew
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Speaker 2: and give away my quilt and things. And what I
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Speaker 2: want to tell people who are younger is doesn't make
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Speaker 2: any difference how much a present cost. I had a
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Speaker 2: twin sister and she died. It will be four years
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Speaker 2: ago on January the fifteenth, and we were in New
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Speaker 2: Hampshire visiting her on Christmas, and it got late and
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Speaker 2: I went in to say goodbye to her, and I
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Speaker 2: leaned over and I hugged her, and my sister had
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Speaker 2: wrapped it on on set rapid declined dementia and you
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Speaker 2: come in and out of things, and you know when
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Speaker 2: they don't recognize anything because they have a totally blank
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Speaker 2: look on their face. But when they're cognizant, you can
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Speaker 2: see it in their eyes.
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Speaker 1: At any rate.
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Speaker 2: I went in there, I gave her a hug, and
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Speaker 2: I said, I love you very much, and she looked
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Speaker 2: at me and I knew she was with it, and
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Speaker 2: she said, I love you too.
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Speaker 1: And that is the sweetest Christmas gift ever.
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Speaker 3: Isn't that great?
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Speaker 1: What a gift to treasure that in your heart until
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Speaker 1: you see her again face to face?
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Speaker 2: Right, best present I ever had.
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Speaker 1: And what's your twin sister's name?
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Speaker 3: Her name was Sheila?
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Speaker 1: So how will I recognize? How will I tell you
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Speaker 1: two a part when when we all get to have them.
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Speaker 2: Well you probably won't because we weren't identical, but we
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Speaker 2: looked alike. My husband couldn't tell us difference between the
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Speaker 2: two of us.
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Speaker 3: My mother could, of course, my.
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Speaker 2: Sister Candy, my brother in law, Sheila's husband could, but
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Speaker 2: a lot of people couldn't. And the reason I think
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Speaker 2: that that people can't tell a difference between twins. Who
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Speaker 2: said that so overwhelmed by the sameness, they don't look
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Speaker 2: for the differences, and there's always a difference.
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Speaker 1: Well, I am sorry for your loss, but what a
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Speaker 1: sweet get the way you're making quilts. You can just
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Speaker 1: wrap yourself up like in a quilt, in the gift
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Speaker 1: of that love that your sister was present. She was there,
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Speaker 1: she was fully aware that it was you. She was
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Speaker 1: probably you know, I think when people developed dementia, they've
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Speaker 1: already started to cross over to be with the Lord.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely.
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Speaker 1: I think they're they're aware of what's on the other
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Speaker 1: side of that veil.
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Speaker 2: Well, I'll tell you one thing that we didn't have
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Speaker 2: in common. We were brought up in a family that
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Speaker 2: we learned, you know, how to embroider, sew, all kinds
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Speaker 2: of things like that. My mother taught us how to
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Speaker 2: do everything. So I taught my sons how to do everything.
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Speaker 2: But when we were seven, we learned to sew. And
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Speaker 2: I sew all the time. I do alterations from the
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Speaker 2: local senior center, in charge them like nothing. And I
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Speaker 2: meet more people than you could imagine. And like I said,
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Speaker 2: I've won prizes for my quilts for the dog clothes
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Speaker 2: that I make. And she hated to sew. Wow, and
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Speaker 2: she never sewed.
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Speaker 1: My sister and I were both taught how to sew
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Speaker 1: by our mother. And my mother was perfectionist. She was
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Speaker 1: a fabulous seamstress. She could do alterations. She could tear
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Speaker 1: a suit apart and put it back together and the
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Speaker 1: lining would be perfect. I am not that kind of seamstress.
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Speaker 1: I can do a great straight stitch. I can sew
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Speaker 1: a great pair of curtains. But if I have to
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Speaker 1: nip and tuck and dart and put a zipper in,
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Speaker 1: forget about it. I hate putting zippers in. My sister
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Speaker 1: is actually probably a better seamstress than I am. But
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Speaker 1: get this, her son, who my mom passed right after
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Speaker 1: he was born. My mom held on, she had brain cancer.
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Speaker 1: She held on for this child to be born, and
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Speaker 1: then as soon as he was here, she said goodbye
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Speaker 1: and she went to be with God. That young man
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Speaker 1: has become a fabulous tailor. He makes his own slacks,
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Speaker 1: he makes his own pants. It's amazing.
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Speaker 3: I think that stuff is in Eugene.
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Speaker 1: Well, definitely inherited, it definitely well.
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Speaker 3: I you know, as I said, I love the quilt.
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Speaker 2: Most of the quilts that I make I called them
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Speaker 2: rescue quilts because people will come into this senior Center,
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Speaker 2: or they has a table at the Guildware that I
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Speaker 2: belonged to. We'll bring in fabric and they just dumping
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Speaker 2: on the tables and you can take what you want.
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Speaker 2: And one woman came into the Senior Center with the
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Speaker 2: squares that were all candle wicking. You know that's French knots,
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Speaker 2: and she said, well, if you don't want them, I'm
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Speaker 2: going to throw them in the trash. I got thousands
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Speaker 2: of hours this person put in on all these things.
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Speaker 2: So I took them home in and washed them and
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Speaker 2: I stabilized them with stabilizer and I made it into
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Speaker 2: a quilt and I called them rest stoop quilts because
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Speaker 2: I rescue the stuff from the trash.
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Speaker 1: So you're keeping stuff out of the landfill while you're
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Speaker 1: creating beauty. Yep, you're my hero for the day.
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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Gail.
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Speaker 1: Do you like to read?
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Speaker 2: Yes, I'm a voracious read if I read all kinds
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Speaker 2: of stuff, mostly Jones, but i'd throw in a few
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Speaker 2: serious ones every now and then.
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Speaker 1: Well, I'm going to send you a copy of my
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Speaker 1: book One Heart of the Time, which I hope is
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Speaker 1: not junk. It's from my heart. I like pulp fiction.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, you and my mom would have been
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Speaker 1: best friends. You and my mother. If you drink black coffee,
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Speaker 1: I swear you two were twins.
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Speaker 3: No, no, I'm a tea person, all.
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Speaker 1: Right, you and I'll have a cup of tea. I'm
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Speaker 1: going to send you a box of tea, a case
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Speaker 1: of Bigelow t that's it is and Cindy Bigelow is
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Speaker 1: a wonderful woman. So I'm going to send you some
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Speaker 1: Bigelow tea and a copy of my book One Heart
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Speaker 1: at a Time and off the air. You're going to
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Speaker 1: give me your address so I can send it to you.
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Speaker 2: Okay, very good?
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Speaker 1: Oh, Gail, I love you. I'm so glad you called tonight.
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Speaker 3: I was amazed that I got through.
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Speaker 1: Well, you have a great night, and I'm going to
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Speaker 1: be sending these out to you in the next few days.
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: When I focus on gratitude, even the simplest moments feel
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Speaker 1: rich layered with goodness. Could be as random as the
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Speaker 1: morning of sunlight. I took a video of the sunrise
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Speaker 1: through the fog this morning because it was so stink
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Speaker 1: and beautiful. A cup of tea, which I'm enjoying right
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Speaker 1: now in the studio. A kind word from a friend.
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Speaker 1: It's not the big events of the big vacation. It's
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Speaker 1: recognizing what we already have. It's cherishing every single moment
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Speaker 1: of the day. It's a practice. The more you practice gratitude,
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Speaker 1: the happier you will become. In today's show, I have
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Speaker 1: several conversations with wonderful people, But boy, this next call
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Speaker 1: just grew my heart. Like my heart felt like it
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Speaker 1: was growing in my chest. Remember the Grinch, how his
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Speaker 1: heart grew. This is a little guy named Max. I'm
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Speaker 1: not sure if I've ever been more touched by such
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Speaker 1: a gentle and sincere soul. I'd love to talk to
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Speaker 1: Max's mom or dad and say, man, did he did
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Speaker 1: he come this amazing into the universe? Or did you
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Speaker 1: help foster this, encourage this. Here's Max to share a
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Speaker 1: lesson gratitude right now. Hi, good evening, Welcome to the
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Speaker 1: Delilah Show. Who is this?
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Speaker 4: I am Max and I am eleven years old.
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Speaker 1: Hi Max, I'm Delilah and I'm sixty five years old.
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Speaker 1: I got a few years on you.
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Speaker 5: Yep.
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you? Max? Who's eleven?
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Speaker 4: I wanted to say something to you.
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Speaker 1: I'm listening. What do you want to tell me.
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Speaker 4: You know, when you say you're here to warm people's hearts.
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Speaker 1: That's what I try to do every night. I try
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Speaker 1: to share love and grace and positive comments to let
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Speaker 1: people know they're not alone.
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Speaker 3: Yep, you really do warm way heart.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, You're welcome. Are you in fifth grade or
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Speaker 1: sixth grade?
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Speaker 4: I am in sixth grade.
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Speaker 1: And are you like one of those really good students
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Speaker 1: who excels at math or science.
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Speaker 4: I am a homeschooler, so you.
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Speaker 1: Are one of those really good students that excels because
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Speaker 1: most kids who are homeschooled are like decades ahead of
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Speaker 1: other kids.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: And does mom do the homeschooling or do you have
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Speaker 1: a tutor that helps.
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Speaker 4: My mom is the main teacher. An I go to
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Speaker 4: kat Kalmazoo Area Tutoring and I take you a couple
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Speaker 4: of classes there.
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Speaker 1: I think homeschooling is awesome and I wish I were
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Speaker 1: better at it, Yeah, because I have five kids right
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Speaker 1: now that are in school, and I wish that I
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Speaker 1: had the capacity to do that, but I don't. I've
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Speaker 1: done it in the past and I just wasn't good
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Speaker 1: at it.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, but that's fine.
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Speaker 1: That's fine. They're doing great, and they love going to
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Speaker 1: their school and it's a very small school, so they
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Speaker 1: get lots of one on one And I'm doing great
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Speaker 1: because I get to do my job and then spend
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Speaker 1: my days loving on my kids. So life is good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's very so that I get to call.
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Speaker 1: You, it's very special I get to talk to you.
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Speaker 1: You sound like an amazing young man. You sound like
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Speaker 1: the kind of person that I would love to come
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Speaker 1: and have be friends with my kids.
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Speaker 4: And I love animals.
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Speaker 1: Ah, you would love my farm. Do you know how
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Speaker 1: many animals I have on my farm? Acts?
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Speaker 3: How many animals?
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Speaker 1: I have no idea. I would have to count them,
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Speaker 1: but probably one hundred and twenty one hundred and fifty.
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Speaker 4: We have a lot of animals.
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Speaker 3: And I have a horse.
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Speaker 1: I rode my horse today. What kind of horse do
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Speaker 1: you have?
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Speaker 3: I have a half Arab, half paint, so.
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Speaker 1: It's beautiful but also likes to go fast. It is calm,
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Speaker 1: calm Arab. Never heard of.
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Speaker 3: This half Arab gough and half paint.
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Speaker 1: So the paint got the calmness? Did the paint get
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Speaker 1: the beauty? Is it? Is it very colorful?
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Speaker 4: He's beautiful?
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Speaker 1: And do you ride? Do you ride? Western or English.
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Speaker 4: I ride with a Western saddle.
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Speaker 1: And do you compete or do you just ride for fun?
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Speaker 3: I guess you ride for fun at home.
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Speaker 1: Well see, we're perfect to be friends because I love
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Speaker 1: riding horses. There's very few things in life I enjoy
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Speaker 1: doing as much as riding my horse.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I really like riding more horsecus. Then it like
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Speaker 4: really calms me.
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Speaker 1: A lot me too. All be still my heart, that
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Speaker 1: sweet young man Max. Anyone who's listening to this podcast
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Speaker 1: that believes in pray for this gentle soul that he
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Speaker 1: will be protected as he grows up. A lot of
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Speaker 1: times when boys are that sweet, that kind, they're bullied.
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Speaker 1: They're bullied and they learn to hide their tender heart.
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Speaker 1: I'm praying that Max always knows how loved and beautiful
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Speaker 1: his heart is. Okay, Next, I want to share a
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Speaker 1: call from Kelly. Kelly's a young woman who feels very
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Speaker 1: stuck in this feeling very down, and we're going to
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Speaker 1: listen to Kelly right now.
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Speaker 6: Oh hello there, Delilah.
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Speaker 1: Hi Kelly, welcome. What can I do for you?
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Speaker 6: Thank you so much? So I was I'm just shocked.
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Speaker 6: I'm so glad to talk to you. Of all the days.
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Speaker 6: You know, I don't know even know where to begin,
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Speaker 6: but you want the nutshell version.
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Speaker 1: You just start at the beginning. How's that?
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Speaker 6: Oh well, I think I need my own show if
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Speaker 6: I started at the beginning. So but but I'll try
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Speaker 6: my best.
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Speaker 3: I woke up today.
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Speaker 6: I don't know, it's just a weird day. I woke
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Speaker 6: up and just with this complete sense of dread and
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Speaker 6: I don't know why. And you know, I've just been
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Speaker 6: doing a lot of soul searching lately. I turned forty,
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Speaker 6: and it is such an honor and a privilege to
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Speaker 6: be here. But I just I don't know. I just
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Speaker 6: I can't seem to, you know, all the boxes. And
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Speaker 6: I've struck out in the love department the last two times, one,
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Speaker 6: you know, consecutive after another, and it was just I
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Speaker 6: don't know. I just I'm at a loss. And I
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Speaker 6: thought I would be somewhere so different at this point
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Speaker 6: in my life. I always said, oh man, i'd have
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Speaker 6: ten kids by now, and I don't. And it's really sad.
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Speaker 1: I'm chuckling to myself, not because I'm laughing at you,
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Speaker 1: but I was crying. On my fortieth birthday, some friends
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Speaker 1: had a surprise party for me at a Chinese restaurant,
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Speaker 1: and I couldn't stop crying. It was like I was
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Speaker 1: nowhere that I thought that I should be and someplace
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Speaker 1: I did not want to be. And I had all
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Speaker 1: these expectations of myself and I had failed all of them.
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Speaker 1: Like I'm worthless nothing, I'm worth nothing. What am I
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Speaker 1: even doing here?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 6: I get that. I just I feel like I'm just
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Speaker 6: that revolving door kind of feeling. And I was like, well,
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Speaker 6: you know what's next, but there's got to be something
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Speaker 6: exciting around the corner. And I'm a good hearted person
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Speaker 6: and I was raised.
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Speaker 5: Right and.
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Speaker 6: I trust in God's plan for me. I don't always
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Speaker 6: understand it, but I trust it, and I just I
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Speaker 6: just don't know. I can't wrap my head around it.
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Speaker 1: Well, you probably have an ipending feeling of doom because
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Speaker 1: crazy things are going on and we are in very
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Speaker 1: dark days and God is telling us time's up. You
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Speaker 1: got to get right with me now, like now, like
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Speaker 1: you don't have any more time. Now is the time
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Speaker 1: that you need to be right with me. So that's
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Speaker 1: probably where the doom and gloom comes from. But the
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Speaker 1: rest of it, the expectations you've put on yourself or
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Speaker 1: society is put on you, Honey, let them go, Let
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Speaker 1: them go. You are right where you're supposed to be,
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Speaker 1: doing exaus exactly what you are supposed to do in
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Speaker 1: this moment. And God has great plans for you. And
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Speaker 1: I can say that with confidence because He doesn't lie.
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Speaker 1: God cannot lie. And he says, I know the plans
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Speaker 1: that I have for you, Kelly. I know the plans
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Speaker 1: I have for you, Plans for a hope and a future.
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Speaker 6: Oh, Deliah, you'd just made my day. Thank you so
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Speaker 6: so so much.
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Speaker 1: He knows the plans that he has for you, honey,
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Speaker 1: Plans for a hope and a future, Plans to prosper you,
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Speaker 1: not to harm you.
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Speaker 6: I am taking all of this and I'm running with it. Delilah.
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Speaker 1: Well let's do this. Can I say a quick prayer
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Speaker 1: for you? Then you're going to give me your contact
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Speaker 1: info so I can send you some tea. Absolutely yes, Father, God, Lord,
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Speaker 1: I thank you for Kelly getting through on the phone
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Speaker 1: lines tonight. I thank you Lord for whatever you did
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Speaker 1: and however you work that out. I thank you God
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Speaker 1: for her life. I thank you God for curing her cancer.
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Speaker 1: I thank you God, that she's cancer free. I thank
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Speaker 1: you God for her passion for living. Father, I thank
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Speaker 1: you for her faith in you and her knowledge, her knowing,
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Speaker 1: and the core of her being. That you do have
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Speaker 1: good plans for her. Father, She tells me her heart's
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Speaker 1: desire is to have a partner, somebody to love, someone
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Speaker 1: to cherish, Somebody who will respect her and see her
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Speaker 1: for who she is. I pray, Father, God, that you
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Speaker 1: would bring that person into her life. Do not tarry, God,
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Speaker 1: don't terry. Bring the person into her life to build
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Speaker 1: a family with. Father. I pray that it would be
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Speaker 1: so glaringly obvious that your fingerprints would be all over it.
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Speaker 1: I pray God that there would be no missteps, No
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Speaker 1: people with red flags and addictions or commitment phobias or issues.
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Speaker 1: Keep them far from her. Bring someone to her who
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Speaker 1: is honest and kind, faithful and true, who loves you
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Speaker 1: Lord more than life. Somebody who is handsome, somebody who's
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Speaker 1: funny and charming, Somebody who will bring joy every single
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Speaker 1: day of her life. Somebody who will recognize her worth.
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Speaker 1: I ask this in your precious and holy name. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Men.
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Speaker 6: Oh wow, I am oh, I am just I'm crying,
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Speaker 6: but like good tears, like like, I feel so relieved
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Speaker 6: right now. And really, the thing that's resonating the most
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Speaker 6: is you saying you got to get right with God.
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Speaker 1: That's what this is for.
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Speaker 6: And you're right, You're absolutely right.
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Speaker 1: And you know how long that takes? That long? That long,
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Speaker 1: a snap of a finger, the blink of an eye,
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Speaker 1: is how long it takes for you to say, I
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Speaker 1: give everything to you, I give it all to you, God,
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Speaker 1: everything is yours, I give it all.
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Speaker 6: Well, I am just I am just so thrilled right now,
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Speaker 6: and thank you for turning this pretty kind of dreadful
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Speaker 6: day around for me. God blessed uh. Thank you so
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Speaker 6: so much, and thank you for all the wonderful work
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Speaker 6: you do.
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Speaker 1: That conversation with Kelly touched my heart so much much.
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Speaker 1: Her vulnerability, her honesty was palpable. It's very hard to
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Speaker 1: be in a place where you feel like you are stuck,
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Speaker 1: the waiting place I call that. God has had me
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Speaker 1: in the waiting place so many times. But I promise
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Speaker 1: you you are never stuck. God's timing can be hard
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Speaker 1: to wait on. When I say wait, I don't mean
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Speaker 1: just go sit down on the couch. You have to
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Speaker 1: live your life fully. You have to reach out to
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Speaker 1: family and friends, make new friends, use your gifts and
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Speaker 1: your talents to help others. The more you use yourself
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Speaker 1: your love to help others, the sooner you're going to
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Speaker 1: get out of the waiting place. I promise you that
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Speaker 1: the point being putting yourself in healthy places is where
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Speaker 1: you're going to find what you're looking for. Not rescuing others,
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Speaker 1: but using your gifts and your talent and your skills
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Speaker 1: to make this world a better place. You know, I
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Speaker 1: hear from a lot of folks who have reconciled with
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Speaker 1: someone from their past, those wonderful sweetheart stories. We dated
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Speaker 1: in junior high, we dated in high school, and then
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Speaker 1: folks go their separate ways. Life happens, and sometimes they
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Speaker 1: find their way back to each other. And just a moment,
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Speaker 1: we are going to hear from a listener who found
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Speaker 1: her way back to somebody that she might have had
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Speaker 1: a crush on back in the day, but daddy wasn't
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Speaker 1: having any part of it given their age difference. We're
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Speaker 1: going to find out how that is going today. Stick
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Speaker 1: around for that and so much more. Hi, Megan, welcome,
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Speaker 1: What can I do for you tonight?
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Speaker 5: I was wondering if you could dedicate a thought to
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Speaker 5: my better half for me?
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Speaker 1: Who is your better half and what makes them better?
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Speaker 5: He and his name is Brandon, and we've been together
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Speaker 5: for about fourteen months now.
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Speaker 3: But we were old high school sweethearts.
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Speaker 5: And ended up separating over time, and twenty five years
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Speaker 5: later we got back together.
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Speaker 1: How did you find your way back to each other
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Speaker 1: after a quarter of a century.
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Speaker 5: I think it was God's plan, a little bit of
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Speaker 5: his mama and my daddy knowing what they need to.
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Speaker 3: Do to put us back together.
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Speaker 1: Okay, well that's very romantical and very sweet, but practically
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Speaker 1: what happened.
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Speaker 5: I went through a divorce after twenty years and he just.
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Speaker 3: Hit me up on Facebook one day.
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Speaker 1: Ah ah, so social media and he's like, hey, hey,
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Speaker 1: I remember you. Do you remember me? Yes, ma'am? And
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Speaker 1: you said, as a matter of fact, I do, yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: So what grade were you in when you were dating?
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Speaker 5: We were in our teens. He was seventeen and I
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Speaker 5: was fourteen. So of course back then that's like a
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Speaker 5: ten year gap.
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Speaker 1: That's a big no no with the mom and dad.
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Speaker 5: Yes 'am, Mom said no, And we went our separate
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Speaker 5: ways and twenty five years later, made our way back
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Speaker 5: to each other.
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Speaker 1: What was your mascot when you were in high school?
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Speaker 5: The Greyhounds?
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Speaker 1: The Greyhounds. Did Brandon run fast back then from you?
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Speaker 1: Or he's running fast to you?
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Speaker 5: If he ran to me really fast, he probably.
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Speaker 1: Ran fast away from you when your father found out
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Speaker 1: he was seventeen.
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Speaker 5: Yes, ma'am.
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Speaker 1: My daddy did not appreciate when I would be talking
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Speaker 1: to somebody and then he would he found out one
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Speaker 1: guy was a fireman. He's like, how can he be
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Speaker 1: a fireman? And when he's in high school? And I'm like,
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Speaker 1: uh about that? That did not go over well with dad.
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Speaker 5: No, my dad would a fireman too.
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Speaker 1: I will play a song for you and the one
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Speaker 1: that you have reconciled with. Call me back in a
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Speaker 1: few months and let me know how it's going. Yes, ma'am, Meghan,
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Speaker 1: I am so glad you were willing to take this
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Speaker 1: chance at another try with your guy, with your man.
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Speaker 1: Listening to your story only reaffirms from me that God
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Speaker 1: doesn't make mistakes. You are always meant to be with him.
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Speaker 1: The fact that both of your parents confirm that from
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Speaker 1: heaven is so sweet. What a great confirmation Meghan, thank
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Speaker 1: you for sharing your story. You have a wonderful night.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for calling.
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Speaker 5: You're to do Islah, thank you.
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Speaker 1: In just a moment, we're going to talk with a
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Speaker 1: listener who thought she was calling a locksmith to change
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Speaker 1: the keys to sell her house. Little did she realize
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Speaker 1: he would end up unlocking her heart. He had the key,
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Speaker 1: and now she's missing him. We're going to play a
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Speaker 1: song to keep their hearts locked together across the miles.
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Speaker 1: Coming up next.
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Speaker 3: Hi, Delailah, this is Lisa.
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Speaker 1: Are you in your car? Are you driving and listening
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Speaker 1: to the radio? Now?
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Speaker 3: I'm homes in my bedroom listening to the radio and
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Speaker 3: miss my.
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Speaker 1: Boyfriend, Missing your honey. What's his name?
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Speaker 3: Eric? And I've when I first met him, going on
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Speaker 3: seven months ago, It's like God send him to me,
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Speaker 3: and we see each other and talk to each other
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Speaker 3: every day on the phone. But I haven't seen him
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Speaker 3: in two months. So I miss him right now and
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Speaker 3: I'm hoping to see him soon.
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Speaker 1: So seven months long distance relationship and how's it going?
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Speaker 1: Scale of one to ten? How is the How much
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Speaker 1: joy is Eric bringing and how much sadness? And missing him?
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Speaker 3: He brings me a lot of joy and I miss
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Speaker 3: him a lot.
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Speaker 1: And do you have in your life keeping you tied
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Speaker 1: to wherever you are right now?
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Speaker 3: Yes, I had to take care of some situations where
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Speaker 3: I am now, Yes, but I have got it all
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Speaker 3: finished pretty much.
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Speaker 1: So you don't have children in school, you don't have
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Speaker 1: a job, you can't leave.
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Speaker 3: No, it's just I had to sell a house, so
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Speaker 3: I got that taking care of now, and now I
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Speaker 3: can leave again. I just miss them and I want
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Speaker 3: to go up there.
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Speaker 1: So, Lisa, you realize you're talking to a woman who
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Speaker 1: had a long distance marriage for the last fifteen years. No,
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Speaker 1: my husband and I lived in different states until September.
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Speaker 1: The only time we've lived together was during COVID. So
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Speaker 1: I have empathy for you, and I know how hard
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Speaker 1: it is when you're missing someone. But I also know
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Speaker 1: you're going to be just fine.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, Daniliah.
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Speaker 1: So where did you meet he's my locksmith? How did
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Speaker 1: you need a locksmith? What circumstances brought him into your life?
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Speaker 3: Well, I had a change the locks at the house
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Speaker 3: that I sold. I had to change the locks, so
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Speaker 3: I had to call a locksmith, and I thought I
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Speaker 3: was I called his brother and ended up being Eric him.
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Speaker 3: Oh I met Eric instead, and Eric has been the
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Speaker 3: love of my life since then.
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Speaker 1: So he not only changed the locks, he unlocked your heart.
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Speaker 3: Yes he did.
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Speaker 6: Well.
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Speaker 1: Wherever you end up, I pray that it is soon,
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Speaker 1: because I hear the longing in your voices driving you crazy.
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Speaker 1: And I will play a song to keep those hearts.
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Speaker 1: That heart that he opened, that he had the key
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Speaker 1: to that, I'll play a song to keep your hearts connected.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much to Elaiya Lisa.
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Speaker 1: I am so excited that you're taking a chance to
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Speaker 1: be with the man that literally and figuratively unlocked your heart.
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Speaker 1: You are brave, and I am praying for both of you.
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Speaker 1: As we've left twenty twenty five in our dust, we
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Speaker 1: left it in the dust. We're beginning this new year,
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Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Do not leave behind what you have learned,
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Speaker 1: even if the lesson was hard. Everything we go through matters.
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Speaker 1: Trust me on that. I am not a person who
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Speaker 1: makes resolutions stop doing that probably forty years ago. But
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Speaker 1: I am a person who sets goals, who sets goals
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Speaker 1: and believes in discipline and commitment to reach them. And
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Speaker 1: my personal goals this year include continuing my health journey,
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Speaker 1: so I can be there for all the littles I'm
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Speaker 1: taking care of. Mostly, I want to grow closer to God.
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Speaker 1: I want my faith to be stronger than ever, and
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Speaker 1: I want to share that with you. Happy New Year,
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Speaker 1: my friend. I look forward to connecting with all of you.
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Speaker 1: I want to remind you how very grateful I am
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Speaker 1: that you share your time, your love, and your very
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Speaker 1: precious stories here with me, Little Faith, and I will
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Speaker 1: see you next time on the radio.
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Speaker 5: Del