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The Seven Candles of Christmas | Episode #426 · Legacy Living with Dr. Gloria Burgess

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  Speaker 1: Hello, and welcome to today's show, Legacy Living, Make Your
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  Speaker 1: Life Count. I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess, passionate
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  Speaker 1: inspirational speaker, author, poet, and entrepreneur. Good morning, and welcome
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  Speaker 1: to Legacy Living, Make Your Life Count. I'm delighted that
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  Speaker 1: you joined me today. Today's show is a very special one. Well,
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  Speaker 1: they're all special, but today's show is extra special. Why
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  Speaker 1: because it is devoted to you, my dear listeners, and
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  Speaker 1: it's devoted to the reason for this season, this amazing season,
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  Speaker 1: which is of course, the season of Christ, our Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I can't wait to share it with you. But first
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  Speaker 1: I want to be sure to give a great big
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  Speaker 1: thank you to those of you who are listening in today.
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  Speaker 1: I also want to give a great big shout out
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  Speaker 1: to all of you listening all around the world. I'm
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  Speaker 1: delighted and so grateful that you tuned in. I hope
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  Speaker 1: you're having a fabulous day and that you're enjoying a
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  Speaker 1: fantastic week, because you know what, in the grand song
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  Speaker 1: of the universe, life is so very very short. It's
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  Speaker 1: short and sweet and oh so precious. So I hope
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  Speaker 1: you're making a difference in your own life because when
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  Speaker 1: when you do, you also make a difference in someone
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  Speaker 1: else's life. You know, a lot of folks want to
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  Speaker 1: know how to make their life count for something, and
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  Speaker 1: they ask me, doctor Gloria, how do you do that? Well,
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  Speaker 1: it's really very simple, very simple. You make your life
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  Speaker 1: count day by day, step by step, moment by moment,
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Three sixty five twenty four seven. That's
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living, Make your Life count is all about.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can learn more about legacy living make your
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  Speaker 1: life count by visiting the doctor Gloria Burgess website. That's
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  Speaker 1: g l O r I A B as in boy
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  Speaker 1: PH D. Forward Flash. Now, let's turn our hearts toward
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  Speaker 1: one another as we celebrate this holy season, as we
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  Speaker 1: celebrate light. Today's show is all about light. It's about
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  Speaker 1: seeing the light and letting it guide you in the
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  Speaker 1: choices you make. It is about walking in the light.
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  Speaker 1: It is about being the light to be a candle
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  Speaker 1: for others. It's about lighting up our world. Sometimes in
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  Speaker 1: our life, a feeling, a feeling just comes over you,
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  Speaker 1: a feeling when you settle in, when you settle into
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  Speaker 1: the absolute delight of the Christmas season. A few nights ago,
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  Speaker 1: I had such a feeling. Imagine listening to the beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: heartwarming singing of a one hundred voice choir, a choir
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  Speaker 1: singing Christmas songs. I was in one of the most beautiful,
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  Speaker 1: and I must say, one of the most acoustically perfect
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  Speaker 1: concert halls in North America, probably in the world, in
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  Speaker 1: beautiful ben Roya Hall right here in Seattle. Now, usually
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  Speaker 1: I'm the one on stage singing, so it was particularly
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  Speaker 1: enjoyable and satisfying to be in the audience along with
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of other folks, friends of the choir and the orchestra,
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  Speaker 1: and so many others who gathered to just be family together.
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  Speaker 1: It was positively awesome. I don't recall ever having such
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  Speaker 1: choice seats. A friend blessed me with a lovely gift
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  Speaker 1: of front row box seats mercy positioned with a full
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  Speaker 1: view of the choir and the orchestra. I thought I
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  Speaker 1: was dreaming. I had to pinch myself. I quickly looked
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  Speaker 1: through the program for the evening, and I was pleased
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  Speaker 1: to see so many of the songs were well known
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  Speaker 1: favorites Carol's and hymns I learned long ago when I
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  Speaker 1: was a little girl, and some of the songs were
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  Speaker 1: totally new to me. I scanned the lyrics for each
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  Speaker 1: of the songs, and as I did, I imagined. I
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  Speaker 1: imagined that I was lighting a candle, a candle for
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  Speaker 1: each song. That's what I'm imagining to day, one candle
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  Speaker 1: for each song. Now join me in imagining the light
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  Speaker 1: of many, many candles, many candles to light our way
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  Speaker 1: and to light up the world. And I want you
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  Speaker 1: to join me as we light specific candles. Seven candles, yes,
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  Speaker 1: seven candles, to honor this holiest seasons. The first candle
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  Speaker 1: is for love, for God so loved the world that
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  Speaker 1: he gave us his only son, his only begotten son.
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  Speaker 1: The second candle is for joy, the third for peace,
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  Speaker 1: and another candle for light his love, his joy, his peace,
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  Speaker 1: his light. And the remaining three candles are for glory, blessing,
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  Speaker 1: and honor for Christ, who is the reason for this season.
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  Speaker 1: The remainder of today's show will include songs and stories
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  Speaker 1: to honor this holy season. I invite you to imagine
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  Speaker 1: the moments captured so beautifully in the lyrics to Candlelight
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  Speaker 1: Carol by John Rudner. How do you capture the wind
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  Speaker 1: on the water? How do you count all the stars
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  Speaker 1: in the sky? How can you measure the love of
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  Speaker 1: a mother? Or how can you write down a baby's
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  Speaker 1: first cry? Candlelight, angel light, firelight and star glow shine
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  Speaker 1: on his cradle till breaking of dawn, glow Gloria, Gloria.
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  Speaker 1: In ex Chelsea's Dayo, angels are singing, the Christ Child
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  Speaker 1: is born. Shepherds and wise men will kneel and adore him.
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  Speaker 1: Seraphim round him, their vigil will keep. Nations proclaim him
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  Speaker 1: their Lord and their savior. But Mary will hold him
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  Speaker 1: and sing him to sleep. Candlelight, angel light, firelight and
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  Speaker 1: star glow shine on his cradle till breaking of dawn. Gloria,
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  Speaker 1: Gloria in Exchelsea's Dao, angels are singing, The Christ Child
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  Speaker 1: is born. Find him at Bethlehem, laid in a manger. Christ,
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  Speaker 1: our Redeemer, asleep in the hay, Godhead, Incarnate and hope
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  Speaker 1: of salvation a child with his mother that first Christmas Day. Candlelight,
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  Speaker 1: angel light, firelight and star glow shine on his cradle
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  Speaker 1: till breaking of dawn. Gloria, Gloria in ex Chelsea's Day. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: the angels are singing. The Christ Child is born, that
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  Speaker 1: baby Jesus, Jesus, the Christ Child. That baby's story is
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  Speaker 1: told in so many ways, isn't it? The one I
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  Speaker 1: love and cherish the most comes from my favorite book.
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  Speaker 1: It's the story as told by Saint Luke and his Gospel.
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  Speaker 1: But before I share that scripture, I want to share
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  Speaker 1: a very special story that some one sent me many
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  Speaker 1: years ago. I loved it so much that I included
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  Speaker 1: it in one of my books, a book called Dare
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  Speaker 1: to Wear your Soul on the outside, Live your Legacy. Now,
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  Speaker 1: talk about legacy. How many of you know that that
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  Speaker 1: God has a sense of humor. He enjoys making a smile,
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  Speaker 1: and sometimes sometimes he presents himself not as himself, but
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  Speaker 1: comes to us through others. This is a story about
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  Speaker 1: an angel of light, A story about Darlene and her
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  Speaker 1: two young sons. After divorcing her husband, Darlene moved into
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  Speaker 1: a small trailer home with her two young boys. Christmas
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  Speaker 1: was fast approaching, but she had no extra money. As
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  Speaker 1: she stared at the floor of her of her tiny
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  Speaker 1: living room, she thought, this will definitely be a year
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  Speaker 1: without presence for my boys. She could give them her
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  Speaker 1: love and that was all. Knowing that they were too
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  Speaker 1: young to understand that love is what Christmas should be
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  Speaker 1: all about, she also knew that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: have to learn. Little did Darley know that her sons
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  Speaker 1: would learn about love and a whole lot more. In
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  Speaker 1: her own words, Darlene says, on Christmas Eve, we had
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  Speaker 1: a record snowfall. My boys went outside to shovel our
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  Speaker 1: walkway and driveway to keep up with a quickly falling snow.
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  Speaker 1: As evening came, they went next door and helped our
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  Speaker 1: elderly neighbor, Jim, shovel his driveway. When they came inside,
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  Speaker 1: I suggested we see Christmas carols and then each of
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  Speaker 1: us would tell a story about our best Christmas ever.
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  Speaker 1: We had a good time just being together. Neither of
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  Speaker 1: my sons asked why we didn't have a tree this year.
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  Speaker 1: That night, when I was sure my sons were sound asleep,
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  Speaker 1: I sat on the couch in our tiny living room
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  Speaker 1: and just wept. I cried for me, I cried for
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  Speaker 1: my sons. I even cried for my ex husband. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I cried tears of sadness. Sometimes I wept for joy.
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  Speaker 1: I finally went to bed and cried myself to sleep.
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  Speaker 1: The next morning, on Christmas Day, I got up bright
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  Speaker 1: and early. I peered outside and saw that the snowstorm
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  Speaker 1: had passed. The sky was a bright, bright blue, and
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  Speaker 1: everywhere you looked snow white, sparkling new fallen snow. The
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  Speaker 1: boys would love to make snow angels. I thought they
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  Speaker 1: both loved to be the first to make footprints in
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  Speaker 1: the fresh snow, and they loved making snow angels. Sometimes
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  Speaker 1: they'd lay down head to head in the snow and
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  Speaker 1: make a double angel. I don't know why, but I
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  Speaker 1: opened the door of our trailer to check our mailbox.
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  Speaker 1: No one, not even the mail truck, could have made
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  Speaker 1: it through all that snow, but I checked anyway. To
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  Speaker 1: my surprise, there was a note inside. My boys had
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  Speaker 1: told our neighbor Jim that Santa Claus wouldn't be visiting
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  Speaker 1: our house this year because we had no money. I
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  Speaker 1: turned the note over and taped to the back was
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  Speaker 1: a crisp clean one hundred dollar bill. Wow, Jim had
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  Speaker 1: given me enough money to buy the boys exactly what
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  Speaker 1: they wanted, baseball mits, and there was enough left over
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  Speaker 1: to restock the base basic groceries we needed. Jim's only
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  Speaker 1: request was that, when I was able to do so,
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  Speaker 1: that I helped others as he had helped us. That morning,
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  Speaker 1: when my sons got up, I told them about the
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  Speaker 1: one hundred dollars Jim had given us for their Christmas gifts.
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  Speaker 1: They looked at each other with surprise and glee. Then
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  Speaker 1: they abruptly stopped their celebration as they realized the significance
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  Speaker 1: of Jim's gift. You see, Jim wasn't well off either.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, the utility company had shut
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  Speaker 1: his power off once already that winter because he couldn't
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  Speaker 1: pay his bill. The boys quickly put on their coats
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  Speaker 1: to go next door to thank Jim for his generous gift,
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  Speaker 1: but they stopped. They stopped short when they opened the
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  Speaker 1: trailer door and saw a perfectly formed adult sized snow
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  Speaker 1: angel right in front of our steps. The snow angel
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  Speaker 1: surprised them, but there were absolutely no footprints in the snow,
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  Speaker 1: just the angel. We never did find out who made
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  Speaker 1: the snow angel. Jim said there was no way he
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  Speaker 1: could or would get down in the snow and slap
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  Speaker 1: his arms and legs like that. But we know, we
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  Speaker 1: know an angel brought us quite a blessing that Christmas.
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  Speaker 1: Jim passed away the following spring. My boys and I
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  Speaker 1: still think about that special Christmas and how Jim gave
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  Speaker 1: without asking for anything in return, just that we help
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  Speaker 1: others as he helped us. We've made a point of
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  Speaker 1: doing just that, and we have faith that we're touching
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  Speaker 1: others lives just like Jim touched ours. And now, as
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  Speaker 1: promised the story of Jesus birth as told by Saint Luke,
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  Speaker 1: whose name means like, and it came to pass in
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  Speaker 1: those days that there went out a decree from Caesar
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  Speaker 1: Augustus that all the world should be taxed. And this
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  Speaker 1: taxing was first made when Cyenius was governor of Syria,
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  Speaker 1: and all went to be taxed, every one into his
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  Speaker 1: own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out
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  Speaker 1: of the city of Nazareth into Judea unto the city
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  Speaker 1: of David, which is called Bethlehem. Because he was of
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  Speaker 1: the house and lineage of David to be taxed with Mary,
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  Speaker 1: his espoused wife, being great with child. And so it
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  Speaker 1: was that while they were there, the days were accomplished
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  Speaker 1: that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her
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  Speaker 1: first born son and wrapped him in swaddling clothes and
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  Speaker 1: laid him in a manger, because there was no room
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  Speaker 1: for them in the inn. And there were in the
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  Speaker 1: same country shepherds abiding in the field, keeping watch over
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  Speaker 1: their flock by night. And lo, the Angel of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord came upon them, and the glory of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: shone round about them, and they were were sore afraid.
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  Speaker 1: And the Angel said, unto them, fear not, for behold,
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  Speaker 1: I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall
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  Speaker 1: be to all people. For unto you is born this
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  Speaker 1: day in the city of David, a savior, which is
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  Speaker 1: Christ the Lord. And this shall be a sign. Unto you,
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  Speaker 1: ye shall find the Babe, wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying
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  Speaker 1: in a manger. And suddenly there was with the Angel
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  Speaker 1: a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God God and
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  Speaker 1: saying glory to God, Glory to God in the highest
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  Speaker 1: and on earth, peace good will toward men. And it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass. As the angels were gone away from
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  Speaker 1: them into heaven, the shepherd said to one another, let
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  Speaker 1: us now go even unto Bethlehem and see this thing
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  Speaker 1: which has come to pass, which the Lord hath made
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  Speaker 1: known unto us. And they came with haste and found
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  Speaker 1: Mary and Joseph and the Babe lying in a manger.
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  Speaker 1: And when they had seen it, they made known abroad
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  Speaker 1: the saying which was told them concerning this child. And
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  Speaker 1: all they that heard it wondered at those things which
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  Speaker 1: were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all
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  Speaker 1: these things and pondered them in her heart. And the
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  Speaker 1: shepherds returned glorifying and praising God for all the things
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  Speaker 1: that they had heard and seen, as it was told
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  Speaker 1: unto them. This amazing story that we just heard from
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Saint Luke is also told through the
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  Speaker 1: Negro spirituals. In spirituals such as Mary had a baby,
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual by the name of Sister Mary had but
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  Speaker 1: one child and another called rise up, Shepherd and follow,
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  Speaker 1: and so many others. This is a Negro spiritual called
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  Speaker 1: go tell it on the mountain, Yes, go tell it
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  Speaker 1: on the mountain over the hills and everywhere. Go tell
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  Speaker 1: it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born. While
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  Speaker 1: shepherds kept their watching or wandering flocks by night, behold
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  Speaker 1: throughout the heavens there shone a holy light. Go tell
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  Speaker 1: it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born.
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  Speaker 1: The shepherds feared and trembled when lo above the earth
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  Speaker 1: rang out the angel chorus that hailed our Savior's birth.
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  Speaker 1: An angel came from glory to hail the Savior's birth.
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  Speaker 1: And then a light from heaven shone on the holy place.
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  Speaker 1: Go tell it on the mountain, over the hills and everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: Go tell it on the mountain that Jesus Christ is born.
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  Speaker 1: M m mm hmmmmmm mm hmmm, m.
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  Speaker 3: Hm hmmmmm.
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  Speaker 1: Mmm. So many wonderful veries love those negro spirituals. And
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  Speaker 1: what is our response? What is our response when we
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  Speaker 1: witness what the prophet Isaiah foretold about the coming king,
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  Speaker 1: who would be called wonderful counselor Prince of peace. What
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  Speaker 1: can be our only response to the Messiah. Would we
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  Speaker 1: be afraid like the shepherds, would we be joyous like Mary?
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  Speaker 1: And Joseph maybe a combination of both. I think one
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  Speaker 1: of our responses would be Hallelujah, Hallelujah, hallelujah. Enjoy this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful chorus by George Frederick Handel along with me, and
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  Speaker 1: then stay tuned for our closing.
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  Speaker 3: Mcas and.
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  Speaker 4: They got no.
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  Speaker 5: Pay and.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, wow, oh my goodness. As we settle more deeply
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  Speaker 1: into this holy season, I sure hope your days are
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  Speaker 1: filled with hallelujahs, with all the love and joy and
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  Speaker 1: grace and light that the Christmas season brings. I also
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  Speaker 1: want to invite you to tune into my show again.
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  Speaker 1: Next time I'll be doing another very special show. You
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  Speaker 1: don't want to miss it. You can listen live, or
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  Speaker 1: you can always nab the recording by simply downloading it
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  Speaker 1: so you can listen to it and be inspired anytime.
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  Speaker 1: Three sixty five, twenty four to seven.
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  Speaker 1: Living and Legacy Living is all smushed together. L E
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  Speaker 1: before I close today, I want to wish you all
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  Speaker 1: a very wonderful Christmas. A merry Christmas, and thank each
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  Speaker 1: of you for tuning in to today's show for allowing
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  Speaker 1: me to share a bit of the light of Christmas
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  Speaker 1: with you and to share my journey with you with
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  Speaker 1: what legacy living is all about, not just living and learning,
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  Speaker 1: but living and learning and serving so that you can
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  Speaker 1: make a difference in your own life and in the
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  Speaker 1: lives of others. It's about being on purpose in lighting
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  Speaker 1: up the world, not just once in a while, but
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Legacy living is one of the many,
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  Speaker 1: many ways to make your life count. Before I close
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  Speaker 1: today's show, I want to thank you for joining me
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  Speaker 1: here today. Christmas Blessings everyone. I'm your host, doctor Gloria
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  Speaker 1: Gloria Burgess. This has been Legacy Living, Make your life count.
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  Speaker 1: Please join me again next week right here on Talk
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  Speaker 1: Network Radio for another show of legacy living. And remember,
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  Speaker 1: don't just count the days in your life. Make the
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  Speaker 1: days in your life count. That's what legacy living is
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  Speaker 1: all about. Have a fantastic day and remember, make the
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  Speaker 1: days in your life count. God bless that's our show today.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, doctor Gloria Gloria Burgess. I hope you'll
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  Speaker 1: join me again next week. Until then, don't just count
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  Speaker 1: the days in your life. Make the days in your
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  Speaker 1: life count. That's what legacy living is all about. Here's
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  Speaker 1: to you have a fantastic day. Be sure to make
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  Speaker 1: it a yes kind of day, and remember celebrate, celebrate
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  Speaker 1: the music of your make the day in your life's account.