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SC BookGal & Friends Podcast | Spotlight: Reverend Felecia Barrett Tubbs and Crossroad Moments: Where Destiny Meets Decision Vol. I| · DA CREW Podcast

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  Speaker 5: I apologize, y'all. No, I don't apologize, y'all. I am
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  Speaker 5: on a complete high. So welcome to sc Bookalds and friends.
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  Speaker 5: And if you have been here, you just heard my
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  Speaker 5: new intro. Oh like, y'all, So this is my first
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  Speaker 5: time hearing it tonight. Okay, I heard it about maybe
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  Speaker 5: four or five minutes ago. And lord, if you can
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  Speaker 5: only see the look in the tears coming out of
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  Speaker 5: my face. Thank you so much to my producer, my friend,
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  Speaker 5: my bestie, my mentor, Angela Thomas Smith. Y'all don't know
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  Speaker 5: tonight my house is going to be rocking my intro.
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  Speaker 5: I man, you just don't.
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  Speaker 4: Y'all.
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  Speaker 5: I am just so excited all the stuff that's popping
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  Speaker 5: in my head, and I am so excited to have another. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: so let me wheel it in. How how are you guys?
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  Speaker 5: I know this this week was kind of kind of weird,
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  Speaker 5: you know, all all the things that's been going on,
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  Speaker 5: and big ups to South Carolina. We did it. You know,
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  Speaker 5: we got mister Muli and Johnson. Who's gonna be running
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  Speaker 5: for governor, trying to nick massive, chalking up deuces. So
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  Speaker 5: but remember next week we got to run off, you guys.
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  Speaker 5: So some of the races did not have a clear winner.
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  Speaker 5: So next week Tuesday, you might have to do a runoff.
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  Speaker 5: So go win. The show's over or sometime this weekend.
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  Speaker 5: Check your ballots. Make sure that it's complete. It's complete,
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  Speaker 5: You have nothing to worry about. But there are some
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  Speaker 5: races in South Carolina that still have to have a definite,
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  Speaker 5: defined winner. So go check your ballots, see if you gotta. Okay,
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  Speaker 5: other than that, it's today was a nice cool day
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  Speaker 5: in South Lina. Wasn't scorching hot, Thank god. My day
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  Speaker 5: has been kind of quirky. I'm asking you guys to
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  Speaker 5: pray for my family. Got a cousin in the hospital
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  Speaker 5: who's fighting cancer. But because like I said, I know
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  Speaker 5: you got this and God got you. And just saying
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  Speaker 5: nothing but a little a little pebble in your walking life. Okay, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: speaking of walking life, remember them crossroads and I ain't
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  Speaker 5: talk about the one but the own thus hall, you're
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  Speaker 5: not talking about that, and thank you guys, we are
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  Speaker 5: talking about the household in life. What did we do.
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  Speaker 4: Mhm.
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  Speaker 5: When we're at that crossroad. Well, guess what this lady here,
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  Speaker 5: she's gonna talk about it tonight. Welcome off the Felicia,
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  Speaker 5: Felicia Barlin tuggs not.
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  Speaker 4: Eggs, not good evening.
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  Speaker 5: Hello are you, sweetheart?
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  Speaker 4: I am good. Thank you for having me.
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  Speaker 5: No, thank you for coming. Now.
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  Speaker 4: I have to say a little about your intro. I
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  Speaker 4: love your intro song. Yes, y'all, she.
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  Speaker 5: Got to see me in rare fashion. I was crying, y'all.
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  Speaker 5: I was, I was boohoom. I'm just it just touched
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  Speaker 5: my heart. Y'all just don't know. But we talk about
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  Speaker 5: So tell us a little bit about yourself.
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  Speaker 8: Oh, I will tell you first and foremost. I am
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  Speaker 8: a woman of God, love the Lord with all my
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  Speaker 8: heart and so. I am a mother of three, two
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  Speaker 8: living and the forever mom of my son Corey who
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  Speaker 8: passed and twenty twenty three. I am a hands on
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  Speaker 8: grandma of eighteen. Love those grandkids. I serve as an
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  Speaker 8: associate minister at my church, Shallow Baptist Church O Site.
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  Speaker 4: I am a.
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  Speaker 8: Mentor, I am a friend, a sister, an entrepreneur, author,
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  Speaker 8: and a trainer, coach and a wife. I forgot that
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  Speaker 8: and a whole wife. I love to travel, love to
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  Speaker 8: meet new people, love to celebrate people. My sisters love
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  Speaker 8: to celebrate you know, women, especially because we don't often
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  Speaker 8: get celebrated, but all people just love celebrating.
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  Speaker 5: Who Okay, and I see you. You got luck going
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  Speaker 5: on me? How do you find time? That everything.
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  Speaker 4: It's balanced? Balance.
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  Speaker 8: I've learned to say no to those things that I'm
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  Speaker 8: really not supposed to be doing, and unapologetically say no,
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  Speaker 8: but to make sure that I'm able to do the
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  Speaker 8: things that I'm actually called to do and to give
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  Speaker 8: balance to those things I love doing.
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  Speaker 4: So you have to have balance.
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  Speaker 8: You can't allow anything to take up residents too much
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  Speaker 8: so that you can't do all the things.
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  Speaker 5: Learning that I'm thinking I'm coming into an error whereas
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  Speaker 5: balance is starting to present itself because my youngest child
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  Speaker 5: is now eleven and she's going to middle school. So
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  Speaker 5: I do not have to be the hell of talk
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  Speaker 5: to mom, as they may say, I kind of slip
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  Speaker 5: back and give her some responsibility. So I'm starting to
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  Speaker 5: see that balancing being able to do more.
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  Speaker 4: What Yeah, thanks into my.
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  Speaker 5: Crossroads?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 5: What does that word actually need to eat?
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  Speaker 4: Ah?
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  Speaker 8: For me, it's mixed, because when I think of crossroads,
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  Speaker 8: I think of some significant times in my life I
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  Speaker 8: think of, and not all of them bad, but initially
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  Speaker 8: I think of those times in my life where I
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  Speaker 8: had to make a decision, I had to move, I
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  Speaker 8: had to shift, I had to do something. And so
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  Speaker 8: I think of all of the crossroad moments that I've had,
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  Speaker 8: and some that I actually share in the book that
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  Speaker 8: were difficult moments. But one of the things that God
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  Speaker 8: showed me earlier on that there is life after these
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  Speaker 8: crossroad moments and not to get afraid when you find
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  Speaker 8: yourself in one of those situations. And so with that
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  Speaker 8: I've learned to lean into them. You know, some people
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  Speaker 8: back away, some people get scared, and they get stuck.
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  Speaker 8: And I think, for me, I've always been fascinated with
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  Speaker 8: why do some people go through the.
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  Speaker 4: Same things in life?
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  Speaker 8: Right, Because some of us have some of the same experiences,
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  Speaker 8: but some people get stuck and some people are able
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  Speaker 8: to move on and not only just move on, but
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  Speaker 8: thrive afterwards.
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  Speaker 4: And so.
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  Speaker 8: Just always looking at that and realize and that it's
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  Speaker 8: not the circumstances that we go through, but it's how
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  Speaker 8: we go through them, right, And for me, I've decided
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  Speaker 8: every crossroad moment, everything I go through, I want God
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  Speaker 8: to get the glory.
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  Speaker 4: So then it shows up.
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  Speaker 8: I show up differently right, because it's not looking at me,
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  Speaker 8: it's looking at the God and me.
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  Speaker 5: Love. I love the fact that you said that. And
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  Speaker 5: when I was reading the sum this is a thing
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  Speaker 5: you said. Crossroad movement speaks to readers navigating life changes,
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  Speaker 5: personal turning points, and seizes of decisions. Rather the Crossroyd
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  Speaker 5: peered through relationships, purpose, faith, career, loss, or renewal, The
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  Speaker 5: serious affirms the meaning is often revealed not after the decision,
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  Speaker 5: but the moment of choosing what it thinks about that
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  Speaker 5: moment that was very mind going. And when I was
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  Speaker 5: talking about speaking to you to Mike, I made sure
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  Speaker 5: to mention that because I was like, we always talk
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  Speaker 5: about the before, we always talk about the actor. We
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  Speaker 5: ever talk about that moment when we decide what we're
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  Speaker 5: gonna do. Tell us about that moment, like how important
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  Speaker 5: is that moment?
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  Speaker 4: That moment?
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  Speaker 8: And it just reminds me too of when we're talk
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  Speaker 8: when we talk about and I'm gonna focus because it's
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  Speaker 8: not only just people of faith, but I have to
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  Speaker 8: speak from it from those lenses, because that's where I'm
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  Speaker 8: coming from. But we talk about faith. This is substance
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  Speaker 8: of things hopeful with the evidence unseen. Right, And so
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  Speaker 8: it's in that moment when chaos has taken place, maybe
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  Speaker 8: all hell has broken loose around us with burden, hearts broken,
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  Speaker 8: and it's in that very moment that we can't see
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  Speaker 8: beyond this thing, right, we can't see beyond what is
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  Speaker 8: happening right now. But it's in that moment that that
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  Speaker 8: faith has to kick in where we say it's gonna
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  Speaker 8: be okay, I can do this.
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  Speaker 4: God got me. I'm coming through this.
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  Speaker 8: There is life after this, and for me, it's in
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  Speaker 8: that moment that we got to push beyond. Yes, we
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  Speaker 8: know that after this it's a process, things do get better,
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  Speaker 8: but it's in that moment that we decide to move,
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  Speaker 8: that we decide to take action.
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  Speaker 4: And that's very pivotal.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's that that decision, that one moment. And I
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  Speaker 5: know we all say that moment can can change your
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  Speaker 5: whole life, your whole life and everything, but I really
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  Speaker 5: don't think we even take chance to think about that moment.
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  Speaker 5: What inspired you to write Crossroads Moment? What inspire you
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  Speaker 5: to bring this book to life.
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  Speaker 4: This has been.
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  Speaker 8: A baby. We talked about books being our babies. I
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  Speaker 8: carried this baby for some years. You hear me, and
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  Speaker 8: God shifted it different ways. But I think for me
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  Speaker 8: it was just a way to show other people because
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  Speaker 8: in my life, I've been through a lot of things
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  Speaker 8: and some of us we've all been through things, right,
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  Speaker 8: but in some instances it's been many things and some
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  Speaker 8: traumatic things, back to back to back to back.
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  Speaker 7: Right.
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  Speaker 8: Sometimes I felt like, Okay, I got through this crossroad moment,
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  Speaker 8: I weathered this storm.
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  Speaker 4: I'm a survivor.
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  Speaker 8: I did it, and then something else came and took
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  Speaker 8: my breath away, right. And so this is just a
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  Speaker 8: testament to others that you can come out of different
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  Speaker 8: things that we find out I was in and just
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  Speaker 8: to help other people recognize my sisters and I. It's
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  Speaker 8: an anthology and so these amazing women, my sisters, my
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  Speaker 8: biological sisters, as well as my best friends. These women
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  Speaker 8: are phenomenal. But we share the stories, some of our
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  Speaker 8: stories that things that we've been through in life that
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  Speaker 8: could have taken us away. The title of my particular
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  Speaker 8: book in the anthology is I could have given up then, right,
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  Speaker 8: because it's some things. And in the book, I just
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  Speaker 8: hit on a few things because it's an anthology, but
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  Speaker 8: the book, my book, it says some of those things
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  Speaker 8: that I encountered as a woman, a young woman, and
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  Speaker 8: I just want to encourage other people that life is hard.
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  Speaker 8: You know, we talk about how life be life, and
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  Speaker 8: it's hard, but you can get through it. And so
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  Speaker 8: not wanting to see anybody give up, not wanting to
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  Speaker 8: see another sister call it quits. In our community we
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  Speaker 8: had some suicide, and not wanting to see another person,
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  Speaker 8: young or old, get so overwhelmed by things that they're
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  Speaker 8: encountering that they give up. There is a way to
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  Speaker 8: get through these crossroad moments, whatever they are. So that
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  Speaker 8: was my inspiration and then as a legacy to my
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  Speaker 8: children and my grandchildren to remember that no matter what
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  Speaker 8: will come at you, because things will. We live long enough,
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  Speaker 8: things will happen. Stuff is going to happen, People will
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  Speaker 8: be people, life will life. Things will happen. But you
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  Speaker 8: can come out of this and not just come through.
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  Speaker 8: You know, my desire is that people see me thriving
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  Speaker 8: after this.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 8: I went through cancer and you know, it was one
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  Speaker 8: of the biggest fights of my life. I had stage
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  Speaker 8: three brust cancer and it was one of the biggest
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  Speaker 8: fights of my life. But I fought through it by
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  Speaker 8: the grace of God, with my family, wonderful friends. And
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  Speaker 8: not only was I determined when God said, yes, the
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  Speaker 8: cancer diagnosis is real, what the doctor said is real,
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  Speaker 8: but you will get through this. Once I heard that
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  Speaker 8: in my spirit, then the fight was on because I
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  Speaker 8: was like, let's go. Okay, let's go, because there isn't
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  Speaker 8: after this. So no matter what I look like at
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  Speaker 8: the end when they ring the bell, I'm getting through.
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  Speaker 8: And so I've been determined to thrive. And thriving looks
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  Speaker 8: different for everybody, but for me, thriving and still being
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  Speaker 8: being able to be thankful, to be grateful, to show
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  Speaker 8: others that they can, to encourage other people, to make
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  Speaker 8: space for other people, to celebrate other people, and regardless
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  Speaker 8: of whatever I go through, not to give up my joy.
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  Speaker 5: You don't say a whole whole whole lot, a whole
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  Speaker 5: lot of nuggets and truth and all good looks. You
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  Speaker 5: just said so much, and it makes so much sense
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  Speaker 5: because when we're going through things, and even when we
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  Speaker 5: make that decision, there's so much going on that we
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  Speaker 5: sometimes don't look ahead like that road is it's clearing up.
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  Speaker 5: Like when you're in the middle of the storm, you
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  Speaker 5: don't know when the sun's gonna come out. You just
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  Speaker 5: know there's lightning, thundering and things are all over the place.
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  Speaker 5: And I think some I don't. I'm gonna say personally,
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  Speaker 5: I know that I forget it, that the storm can't
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  Speaker 5: last all the time. All raing have to rain theirselves out,
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  Speaker 5: they're going to dry out, they're going to go away.
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  Speaker 5: And sometime when you're in the midst of it, you
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  Speaker 5: don't think past that defining moment.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, that's true.
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  Speaker 5: It's that defining moment. It's where a lot of people
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  Speaker 5: lose mm sight scared. Let me take a second.
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  Speaker 8: Decision, trees, like, we have to decide, right, and I
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  Speaker 8: don't think I'm a superwoman. And before I go any further,
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  Speaker 8: I have got to say hello to one of my sisters,
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  Speaker 8: Pamela Johnson Nance Johnson.
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  Speaker 4: She is on the line.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 4: She is an amazing support us sister. Friend. Just wanted
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  Speaker 4: to say hello to her.
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  Speaker 8: She encouraged you to get Yes, she is definitely an encourager. Yes,
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  Speaker 8: but we have to decide, you know, like in preparation,
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  Speaker 8: we have to make a decision, you know, how we
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  Speaker 8: going to live this thing called life right and just
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  Speaker 8: making that decision that and for me, the decision is this,
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  Speaker 8: that God will get the glory right, and so no
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  Speaker 8: matter what it is, what it is that makes me
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  Speaker 8: have to line myself up and stay in position so
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  Speaker 8: that God gets the glory out of it, no matter
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  Speaker 8: what it is. And it's been some rough, tough things.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 8: Some in the book I share about the loss of
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  Speaker 8: my son, and that one took me. So when you
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  Speaker 8: talk about I could have given up then, I literally
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  Speaker 8: could have given up then. But the one thing I
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  Speaker 8: said when I got that knock on the door and
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  Speaker 8: those two policemen stood there telling me that my baby
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  Speaker 8: was gone, immediately I was like, God, you got to
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  Speaker 8: get the glory out of this. You've got to get
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  Speaker 8: the glory out of this, right, you got to get
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  Speaker 8: the glory out of me.
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  Speaker 4: His death cannot be in vain.
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  Speaker 8: And so with that I had to line up with
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  Speaker 8: what I said, right, So I had to begin to
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  Speaker 8: line up with what I asked for God, get the glory,
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  Speaker 8: meaning show me and show other people what you want
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  Speaker 8: us to see in this moment, and that's just what
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  Speaker 8: I do. I'm just decided that be it a good time,
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  Speaker 8: a happy time, a sad time, God will get the glory.
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  Speaker 4: Right when I'm.
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  Speaker 8: Acting silly, God, get your glory out of this. Right
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  Speaker 8: when I'm sad, God, get your glory out of this.
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  Speaker 8: Right show other people that even in the midst of
• 21:56
  Speaker 8: us breaking and life lifing on us, that we still
• 22:00
  Speaker 8: got joy because we got hope, and we got peace,
• 22:03
  Speaker 8: and we got that peace that surpasses all understanding, and
• 22:07
  Speaker 8: that comes from God. And so as long as I
• 22:10
  Speaker 8: have God with me, I am determined that God will
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  Speaker 8: get the glory. And no matter what it is, you know,
• 22:18
  Speaker 8: people will see hope in it. You know, you got
• 22:20
  Speaker 8: to see hope in all things. And so some people
• 22:24
  Speaker 8: ask me that police, how did you see hope in
• 22:27
  Speaker 8: losing your son? Well, God blessed me with him for
• 22:32
  Speaker 8: thirty two years. I had thirty two wonderful years of
• 22:36
  Speaker 8: memories of my son.
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: He was an amazing young man. He has five children.
• 22:43
  Speaker 8: So I have those memories, right, And in the midst
• 22:46
  Speaker 8: of all of that, God changed some lives around as
• 22:49
  Speaker 8: a result of that. And so yes, yes, God got
• 22:53
  Speaker 8: the glory and yes I still smile, do I cry,
• 22:57
  Speaker 8: I still cry miss him, I still miss him. But
• 23:02
  Speaker 8: God gets the glory out of it. I didn't go
• 23:05
  Speaker 8: to jail during that time, right because I could have
• 23:10
  Speaker 8: the circumstances of my son's death. I could be sitting
• 23:14
  Speaker 8: in jail right now, but God kept me. And so there,
• 23:20
  Speaker 8: that's that's the that's the hope in it. That's the
• 23:23
  Speaker 8: joy in it, seeing God's hand move even in the
• 23:27
  Speaker 8: most difficult of situations, being able to identify God in
• 23:32
  Speaker 8: that moment. And so that's what I've decided in cross
• 23:35
  Speaker 8: road moments, looking for God in all these things.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: M H.
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  Speaker 5: And that's crazy because a lot of people lose that
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: hope in God MHM. When we are up against the wall,
• 23:54
  Speaker 5: we sometimes lose that hope. And I will say I
• 23:57
  Speaker 5: have I have done that. He is real and be
• 24:00
  Speaker 5: like cool, I know me and God we have conversations
• 24:02
  Speaker 5: like we just two different people. I know God, be like,
• 24:06
  Speaker 5: listen here, gess mean to call it? Doesn't call it
• 24:10
  Speaker 5: a dummy. And and I've been in for you before.
• 24:13
  Speaker 5: I'm like, yeah, God, but you know this one of
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: the kind? Did I foresee? Haven't I always been there?
• 24:19
  Speaker 5: M Yeah, God, you've been there, So I sit down,
• 24:21
  Speaker 5: line you've been and let me do my thing, because
• 24:24
  Speaker 5: God has to show you He is God. He's gonna
• 24:26
  Speaker 5: get you no point of impossible for you to see
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: that He is the one that made it possible.
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: That's right, that's right, that's right.
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  Speaker 8: I think for me to even looking at that, all
• 24:38
  Speaker 8: the things that I've went through in life and not
• 24:40
  Speaker 8: that it's just about me just looking at people and
• 24:43
  Speaker 8: seeing things other people have went through, and seeing how
• 24:47
  Speaker 8: God has showed up, you know, over my life, watching
• 24:50
  Speaker 8: my parents and seeing how God showed up in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 8: most difficult times. It's made me one of those crazy
• 24:58
  Speaker 8: type of Christians right where I just believe, call it crazy,
• 25:02
  Speaker 8: I just believe God can do all things, right. I
• 25:05
  Speaker 8: just believe that when we stand with God and we act,
• 25:10
  Speaker 8: you know that we have the ability to do things
• 25:14
  Speaker 8: that we couldn't do on just our own. And so
• 25:18
  Speaker 8: it's made me one of those people that's like, let's
• 25:21
  Speaker 8: do it, let's try it.
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: You know, Oh we can do that, Oh you can
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: do that.
• 25:26
  Speaker 8: Because I've seen God move in such amazing ways that
• 25:31
  Speaker 8: I'm just like, well, if he did that, God, if
• 25:33
  Speaker 8: you did that, surely you could do this, right, God,
• 25:38
  Speaker 8: if you kept me through that, then I know you're
• 25:41
  Speaker 8: gonna keep me through this right.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: And it's just that building on to our faith walk.
• 25:47
  Speaker 8: So it has made me and some of my friends
• 25:50
  Speaker 8: know that when I come up with things, I'm always
• 25:54
  Speaker 8: the one that be like, let's do this, and they
• 25:56
  Speaker 8: look at me like Felicia, and I'm like, no, really,
• 26:00
  Speaker 8: let's do this, and then they all line up like Okay,
• 26:03
  Speaker 8: let's do it.
• 26:04
  Speaker 4: Let's do it.
• 26:05
  Speaker 8: But it's just that I've seen God move in such
• 26:08
  Speaker 8: an amazing way. I've seen him open up doors that
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: were closed, you know, I've seen Him allow me in
• 26:16
  Speaker 8: spaces that I never imagine possible. And so for that
• 26:20
  Speaker 8: I continue to give him glory. I continue to just
• 26:23
  Speaker 8: want to you know, it's us telling our stories, right,
• 26:27
  Speaker 8: but it's us magnifying the Lord. So it's an extension
• 26:31
  Speaker 8: of a ministry for us, because it's not that Felicia
• 26:35
  Speaker 8: kept Felicia right.
• 26:37
  Speaker 4: It's God kept me.
• 26:39
  Speaker 8: And so it's just an extension of ministry for me
• 26:43
  Speaker 8: to share these stories and to proclaim that I know
• 26:48
  Speaker 8: that God is a keeper. And if there's anybody out
• 26:51
  Speaker 8: there who is at one of these crossfold moments that
• 26:54
  Speaker 8: we discussed, knowing that there's a way out, there's an
• 26:57
  Speaker 8: after this. Hold on, don't get up, don't quit, just.
• 27:01
  Speaker 5: Stay and even if you just gotta stand there for
• 27:04
  Speaker 5: a moment, because there's been times at that crossroad I
• 27:07
  Speaker 5: couldn't do anything right. All I could do is stand
• 27:10
  Speaker 5: for a minute and catch my breath and saying, and
• 27:13
  Speaker 5: I think that's what God wants.
• 27:15
  Speaker 8: He wants us to know that I can't move in
• 27:18
  Speaker 8: this moment, God, but you can.
• 27:21
  Speaker 4: I can't.
• 27:22
  Speaker 8: I'm tired, i can't do anything. I'm confused, I'm hurting.
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 27:26
  Speaker 8: Which step to make, But God, you do. And so
• 27:30
  Speaker 8: it's us taking for me as a woman, taking that
• 27:33
  Speaker 8: pressure off of me that we as women have all
• 27:37
  Speaker 8: the time. We have pressures, you know, to keep the
• 27:40
  Speaker 8: family together, to work, to do all the things. But
• 27:43
  Speaker 8: me taking the pressure off of me and just being like, Okay, God,
• 27:47
  Speaker 8: we're at that moment, do what you're gonna do. I'm
• 27:50
  Speaker 8: gonna stand here and wait for direction. You do what
• 27:52
  Speaker 8: you're gonna do to lead.
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: Me, guide me right, but really just encourage people.
• 27:59
  Speaker 5: So I ain't very glad that you used and you
• 28:04
  Speaker 5: said those words, because guess what we're gonna go into
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: those funny questions. I was talking, Okay, let's go. So
• 28:16
  Speaker 5: you know, God like to come in and he like
• 28:18
  Speaker 5: to show up with God. So he said, we love
• 28:24
  Speaker 5: this book. We feel that this book needs to be
• 28:28
  Speaker 5: brought to life.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Mm hmmm.
• 28:31
  Speaker 5: Who would you want to play yourself in this book?
• 28:38
  Speaker 5: But but, but but they have to be a gospel singer,
• 28:47
  Speaker 5: Yolanda Adams, Yolanda Adams.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: I ain't had nobody say your MoMA, Yolanda Adams.
• 28:58
  Speaker 5: Why are Yamanda? Because she would be you see how
• 29:04
  Speaker 5: she sing right and how she blow and so it
• 29:08
  Speaker 5: would have to be somebody that come across like that, right.
• 29:12
  Speaker 8: Because sometimes people tell me I come across like wooh,
• 29:15
  Speaker 8: this whole whirlwind.
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: Right. Yr Landa Adams, she would be the one.
• 29:21
  Speaker 8: She would hit those notes because I can't sing, but
• 29:26
  Speaker 8: just her presence, I feel like she if she could
• 29:29
  Speaker 8: portray it the way she sing it, it would.
• 29:33
  Speaker 4: Be done good.
• 29:34
  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, So a Crossroad Moments, Volume one, we
• 29:39
  Speaker 5: have Missus Tubbs being played by your Landa. All right,
• 29:45
  Speaker 5: your Loanda Adams. Guess what this is? Greed?
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: All right?
• 29:50
  Speaker 5: But every good movie or podcast we say needs a
• 29:56
  Speaker 5: theme song.
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: Y'all heard my earlier.
• 30:00
  Speaker 5: What would be your theme song? But we're gonna take
• 30:04
  Speaker 5: it back in the day. We need a good choir.
• 30:08
  Speaker 5: The Baptist choir with the sopranos told the tennis you know,
• 30:14
  Speaker 5: just like John P. Keith, hez a kaya walk. Oh
• 30:18
  Speaker 5: lord me excited? Who what song would it be? And
• 30:23
  Speaker 5: why did you choose that song to be the theme song?
• 30:28
  Speaker 5: A cross road moments one?
• 30:30
  Speaker 8: Okay, I don't know the choir that sings with him,
• 30:36
  Speaker 8: but I.
• 30:37
  Speaker 4: Know Pam does. She's on here, so she's gonna come
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: up with what.
• 30:40
  Speaker 8: But I told the storm to move.
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's it.
• 30:51
  Speaker 5: That's what I think of because at that moments right,
• 30:54
  Speaker 5: I'm not standing here. You know, we love move the way.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: So that would be it.
• 31:03
  Speaker 8: And the choir that I think if I had to
• 31:07
  Speaker 8: combine the song with the choir Mississippi mass choir, I
• 31:12
  Speaker 8: think that might be Mississippi.
• 31:14
  Speaker 5: So I'm not sure my grandma used to play that song.
• 31:19
  Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I don't know about y'all, but I would
• 31:23
  Speaker 5: love for that era to come back in. I have one.
• 31:28
  Speaker 5: Oh my god. I used to love to go to
• 31:31
  Speaker 5: church just to hear the choirs back in the day
• 31:33
  Speaker 5: in the rooms. I don't know why. It was just
• 31:38
  Speaker 5: it was like, I can't even explain it. I just
• 31:42
  Speaker 5: love it. I love it. I love it. Okay, I
• 31:49
  Speaker 5: told the story, mister theme song, we got your Mama
• 31:52
  Speaker 5: Adams playing Missis Tubbs. But guess what we need a
• 31:57
  Speaker 5: co producer. We need a cold producer. What male gospel
• 32:06
  Speaker 5: artists would you want to be the co producer? Why
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: did you choose that?
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: Oh?
• 32:20
  Speaker 8: Okay, let me say you got me on that.
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: And it could be it could be anyone, Okay.
• 32:30
  Speaker 8: So I'm gonna tell you that this is gonna sound weird, right.
• 32:40
  Speaker 8: Does it have to be a famous one?
• 32:43
  Speaker 4: Not somebody?
• 32:44
  Speaker 5: Okay, it could be any anybody who you choose.
• 32:49
  Speaker 8: Okay, I would choose this is okay, Ti Triviat, right,
• 33:03
  Speaker 8: And I'm gonna say that because Ti Triviatt has a
• 33:06
  Speaker 8: lot of energy.
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: Right, He's you know, he came across years ago.
• 33:11
  Speaker 8: He was really popular. I'm dating myself now, right, but
• 33:14
  Speaker 8: really popular. But he came across with that energy, right.
• 33:18
  Speaker 8: He had that energy to make people get up and
• 33:21
  Speaker 8: move and you know, and so I would want Tie
• 33:25
  Speaker 8: to co produce this with me, right, because We wouldn't
• 33:28
  Speaker 8: want this book to just be one that somebody put
• 33:30
  Speaker 8: on the shelf. Right, I wanted to come alive. I
• 33:33
  Speaker 8: want the people to feel the energy of the book
• 33:35
  Speaker 8: and the stories of my sisters and I as we
• 33:39
  Speaker 8: shared those moments. So it would have to be somebody
• 33:42
  Speaker 8: that bring a whole lot of energy to it. So
• 33:46
  Speaker 8: Ti Triviat, y'all, remember Ty Triviat. He will bounce across
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: that stage.
• 33:51
  Speaker 5: Yes, you on top of somebody who loves him, try
• 33:57
  Speaker 5: really loved Yeah. There was sometimes in the morning during
• 34:02
  Speaker 5: the school year she would just want to watch his videos,
• 34:04
  Speaker 5: watching get I love it. That's another yeah, that that
• 34:10
  Speaker 5: is he is nothing but a ball of energy. We
• 34:13
  Speaker 5: missed him when he came down here for Charleston, but
• 34:17
  Speaker 5: there was a friend of mine who went. She said
• 34:20
  Speaker 5: he had energy from the minute he walked on that stage.
• 34:23
  Speaker 5: In a minute he walked off, I said, I know
• 34:25
  Speaker 5: he sleep good at night. Yeah he bring the energy. Yeah, yes, man, Yeah,
• 34:32
  Speaker 5: that's come to it. You wanted to come alive, right,
• 34:36
  Speaker 5: you wanted to come. I don't want these our stories
• 34:40
  Speaker 5: and I got to do a shout out to my sisters.
• 34:42
  Speaker 4: So I'm gonna do this. My Sister Daniels, Mary Edwards.
• 34:49
  Speaker 8: Charie Shan Chandler, Vanessa Netto's, Wanda Greer, Jessica Anderson, and
• 34:56
  Speaker 8: my very own biological sister, Ava Jackson Stewart. All of
• 35:01
  Speaker 8: these women for when they had to trust me with
• 35:05
  Speaker 8: the process and trust God. And in the midst of
• 35:08
  Speaker 8: this they were they were sharing some intimate pieces of
• 35:12
  Speaker 8: their lives. And so with that, we don't want this
• 35:14
  Speaker 8: book to just be put on your shelf. Right, We
• 35:18
  Speaker 8: wanted to have energy. We want people to open it
• 35:22
  Speaker 8: and see themselves and know that they can get through it.
• 35:26
  Speaker 8: And so with that it has to be energy. That's
• 35:29
  Speaker 8: why I said, ty Trippet, because we wanted to move
• 35:32
  Speaker 8: right when you finished reading the book. You see somebody
• 35:36
  Speaker 8: going through, give them the book, let them have it,
• 35:39
  Speaker 8: you know, keep it moving.
• 35:41
  Speaker 4: That's that energy.
• 35:45
  Speaker 5: See you just answered my last question. My question was
• 35:48
  Speaker 5: going to be what would you want your readers to
• 35:52
  Speaker 5: take away? But if you want to do it again
• 35:54
  Speaker 5: and say it differently, I guess.
• 35:58
  Speaker 8: I just want readers who read Cross Road Moments to
• 36:03
  Speaker 8: one first and foremost. When we're going through certain things
• 36:07
  Speaker 8: in life, we think it's only us right, and sometimes
• 36:11
  Speaker 8: that could isolate us, right and make us.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Feel it's only me.
• 36:16
  Speaker 8: People won't understand or you know, and you hold it in.
• 36:20
  Speaker 8: But we wanted people to look at it and say,
• 36:25
  Speaker 8: other people go through things in life, and you can
• 36:29
  Speaker 8: come out of this, right, you can come out and
• 36:32
  Speaker 8: not look like what you've been through.
• 36:35
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 36:35
  Speaker 8: I don't look like I've been through a fire and
• 36:38
  Speaker 8: been burnt, right, but I have. And so that's what
• 36:42
  Speaker 8: we want people to know with this. Uh, I'm gonna
• 36:46
  Speaker 8: say piece of ministry, because this is a piece of
• 36:48
  Speaker 8: ministry for us that, for one, you don't have to
• 36:54
  Speaker 8: look like what you've been through and what you're going through.
• 36:56
  Speaker 8: There isn't after this and you can after these crossroad moments,
• 37:03
  Speaker 8: and that's what we would want people to get out
• 37:06
  Speaker 8: of this.
• 37:07
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's beautiful. That is so beautiful. But now we've
• 37:14
  Speaker 5: got to tell them how we can get the book.
• 37:16
  Speaker 5: So tell us how we can get the book, how
• 37:19
  Speaker 5: we can follow you on social media? Just give us
• 37:23
  Speaker 5: the rundown.
• 37:24
  Speaker 8: Well, you can get the book. You can purchase the
• 37:26
  Speaker 8: book from Amazon. It is on Amazon. You can come
• 37:30
  Speaker 8: to any of our sites. We have a Crossroad Moment
• 37:34
  Speaker 8: sites where you can see some of the movement of
• 37:37
  Speaker 8: what we do. But looking at the book, all the
• 37:39
  Speaker 8: authors that I named, they all have separate you know,
• 37:44
  Speaker 8: social media, so it's not just me, but it is
• 37:48
  Speaker 8: eight of us and we are hitting the area.
• 37:52
  Speaker 4: We have our sister here, Pamela.
• 37:55
  Speaker 8: I think we're gonna have to give her an official
• 37:57
  Speaker 8: title because she is definitely keeping us moving and letting
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: people know about us. And so just go to my
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: site for Alicia Buried Facebook, you'll see some of the
• 38:11
  Speaker 8: things we do. We're trying to list those things where
• 38:13
  Speaker 8: we're going to be at. If you ever want us
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: to come and talk, reach out to me, we would
• 38:19
  Speaker 8: be more than happy to come.
• 38:20
  Speaker 4: Talk, teach, preach, encourage.
• 38:24
  Speaker 8: The only thing I won't do is sing, but reach
• 38:29
  Speaker 8: out and we would be wanting to collaborate with anybody.
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: And this, if you notice it's at value one, there
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: is more to come. I'm already working on volume two
• 38:41
  Speaker 8: and three. Volume two is a men's story, and these
• 38:45
  Speaker 8: brothers that are on this book that are working now,
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: I've seen the drafts.
• 38:50
  Speaker 4: It's a story and men need to hear that.
• 38:52
  Speaker 8: They find themselves at Crow Moments two and the third
• 38:57
  Speaker 8: volume is Course Road Moments through Our Eyes only, and
• 39:01
  Speaker 8: it is through the story of youth. Young people, and
• 39:05
  Speaker 8: some of my own grandchildren will share some of those
• 39:08
  Speaker 8: moments where they found themselves at a crossroad that they
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: had to move and and and allow God to do
• 39:17
  Speaker 8: something or do something different. So I'm excited about that.
• 39:22
  Speaker 8: I'm excited that God has chosen me for this season
• 39:25
  Speaker 8: to write to to talk about it and just to
• 39:29
  Speaker 8: continue to encourage people.
• 39:35
  Speaker 5: This is awesome. So you guys, you know what you
• 39:38
  Speaker 5: need to do. Write it now, grab your copy, grab
• 39:43
  Speaker 5: your homegirl a copy. How about y'all just do a
• 39:46
  Speaker 5: little girl's night for gentman Knight with some wings and
• 39:53
  Speaker 5: in some some some mock tails, y'all. Now we do
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: the church fund, you know, the serving and the mind
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: desprite mixed together. Yeah, they get together nice, a little
• 40:06
  Speaker 5: girl power, a little devotional time, you know what I'm saying.
• 40:09
  Speaker 5: Because we've got to get back and supporting each other's sisters.
• 40:13
  Speaker 4: Yes with you.
• 40:14
  Speaker 5: I'm not saying that we don't do it. But lately
• 40:17
  Speaker 5: the girl power thing, the coming together as friends and
• 40:21
  Speaker 5: just being with each other, I've seen a lot of
• 40:24
  Speaker 5: that and I'm loving it. Yes, yes, you think about it.
• 40:31
  Speaker 5: If you read the book and you're done. I know
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: you're going to see somebody that you meet that may
• 40:37
  Speaker 5: need this book. Take it to a shelter, Take it
• 40:40
  Speaker 5: to a hospital, because we wanted to reach people who
• 40:45
  Speaker 5: really made need some encouragement.
• 40:47
  Speaker 8: Take it to the jail. I'm trying to get it
• 40:50
  Speaker 8: in our jail so that they can see it, because
• 40:52
  Speaker 8: we want people to know that are going through that
• 40:55
  Speaker 8: you can come out of this. So look in unusual
• 40:59
  Speaker 8: places to bless people with this book.
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: Blessing boxes. People remember the little blessing boxes that are
• 41:09
  Speaker 5: from the schools and churches and stuff like. Yes, go ahead,
• 41:13
  Speaker 5: I know the library where I work. We don't we
• 41:16
  Speaker 5: don't call it blessing. We call it a book box.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: And it's right.
• 41:21
  Speaker 5: Where all of the bus terminals is. They're always having
• 41:26
  Speaker 5: to REFULLI it.
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 41:29
  Speaker 5: You would be shocked somebody is gonna pick up a
• 41:31
  Speaker 5: bookazar reading mm hmm. And then it looks like this
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: is encouraging, especially in the days and the age that
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: we're in right now.
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: Mm hmm.
• 41:42
  Speaker 5: Orange Man and the Seek.
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: Yes, this is what we need encouragement definitely.
• 41:48
  Speaker 5: And it's easy read.
• 41:49
  Speaker 8: It's an easy read. You know, you could put it's
• 41:52
  Speaker 8: really an easy read. I sat and read it and
• 41:54
  Speaker 8: I was like, this is I read straight through. It's
• 41:57
  Speaker 8: an easy read and it's so encouraging. If you know anybody,
• 42:01
  Speaker 8: If somebody's sitting here or you know someone and you're like,
• 42:04
  Speaker 8: this would be good for them, but they don't have it,
• 42:07
  Speaker 8: please reach out to me and I will make sure
• 42:09
  Speaker 8: to put this book because we wanted to go in
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