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The Power Of God's Love · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, Hello, welcome back, Welcome back, well, unless
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Speaker 1: this is your first time with us, and then welcome aboard,
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Speaker 1: welcome to have a little faith with Delilah. My mission
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Speaker 1: each and every day, on and off the air is
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Speaker 1: to share the love of Christ with as many people
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Speaker 1: as I possibly can. Not to shove it down your throat,
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Speaker 1: not to convince you that my way of thinking, my
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Speaker 1: way of praying, my way of worshiping is right, but
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Speaker 1: just to share the love with you that God is
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Speaker 1: poured into me, real simple, not trying to convince you
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Speaker 1: of anything. God loves me. He's stinking adores me, and
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Speaker 1: I don't know why. I don't get it. I don't
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Speaker 1: deserve it, and yet He pours his love into me
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Speaker 1: every day. Every day he shows me little miracles, things
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Speaker 1: of beauty birds that lie in the sky. I have
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Speaker 1: a mated pair of ravens that live on my property.
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Speaker 1: And when I go horseback riding, they follow me, They
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Speaker 1: ride with me, They turned circles over me in the air,
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Speaker 1: they do these dive bomb things. I'm like, you're just
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Speaker 1: showing off. I'm feeling cool here on horseback, thinking I'm
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Speaker 1: riding like the wind, and you're riding the wind. God
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Speaker 1: does that for me, and I want to share that
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Speaker 1: love with you, and that's what I do in this podcast.
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Speaker 1: This episode of Have a Little Faith is dedicated to
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Speaker 1: the power the power of God's overwhelming love. Please don't
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Speaker 1: ever doubt his ability to literally move mountains on your
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Speaker 1: behalf up first, as a very young woman named Jolie.
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Speaker 1: Jolie has dealt with a lot in her young life,
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Speaker 1: been through many difficulties, and now she is starting to
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Speaker 1: overcome all that and wants to help others. Let's have
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Speaker 1: her shared this story in her own words. Welcome Jollie
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Speaker 1: to have a Little Faith with Delilah.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Delilah. I've been listening to your show for almost
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Speaker 2: a decade. I'm seventeen years old and you've inspired me
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Speaker 2: so much. I've really struggled with mental health and there
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Speaker 2: were times that I didn't want to be here anymore.
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Speaker 2: In your show kept me here.
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Speaker 1: Jolie, Welcome. I'm glad you fought. I'm glad you kept going.
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Speaker 1: I'm glad you didn't give up. I don't know if
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Speaker 1: you know, but I have a son that changed his
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Speaker 1: address permanently to Heaven because he struggled with that and
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Speaker 1: he chose to leave us. So I am so glad
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Speaker 1: that you are here and still fighting the good fight.
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Speaker 2: I've been trying so hard, and I've been listening to
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Speaker 2: you for so long, like I never had any world
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Speaker 2: connection until like now, and I've always wanted to call
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Speaker 2: you like you were such a great person. I'm telling
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Speaker 2: you you were one of the main reasons I'm still here.
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Speaker 1: Well, I wish my son's story had a different ending,
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Speaker 1: but I did the best that I could with the
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Speaker 1: information that I have, and now that he's gone, I have,
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Speaker 1: sadly so much more information that I didn't have when
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Speaker 1: he was going through his struggles. So tell me what's
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Speaker 1: going on in your life now.
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Speaker 2: Well, I ran away from an abusive household, I've been
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Speaker 2: in multiple families, I have been nine months clean from
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Speaker 2: harming myself, and I'm still here somehow.
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Speaker 1: So that tells me you really don't want to give up.
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Speaker 1: You just can't handle the pain.
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Speaker 2: I'm moving on to better things. I graduated early with
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Speaker 2: a really high GPA. I'm with my biological parents now,
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Speaker 2: and I am studying to become a social worker.
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Speaker 1: God bless you, God bless you. So you said as
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Speaker 1: much pain as I've gone through, and as much as
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Speaker 1: I've struggled, let me help other young people that are
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Speaker 1: going through the same kind of grief.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, because there aren't enough people who are willing to
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Speaker 2: get their hands dirty to actually listen to those children.
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Speaker 1: Let me tell you, I have five minor children that
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Speaker 1: are at home, None that are mine biologically, but kids
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Speaker 1: that God has brought into my life, and a few
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Speaker 1: of them struggle with mental health issues. There are so
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Speaker 1: much trauma and exposure to drugs and alcohol, you know,
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Speaker 1: in utero and all sorts of stuff, plus just the
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Speaker 1: trauma of not being with your biofamily and all that.
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Speaker 1: Do you know It's taken six months to get an
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Speaker 1: appointment with a specialist for one of those children. Six months.
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Speaker 1: That's how booked up the hospitals and the doctors are.
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Speaker 2: It shouldn't be that way.
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Speaker 1: It shouldn't be that way. The minute you're in crisis,
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Speaker 1: there should be help available.
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Speaker 2: I grew up not having that. I grew up having
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Speaker 2: you as a therapist.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not. I am not a therapist. I am
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Speaker 1: not a licensed counselor. I don't have the education you're
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Speaker 1: about to embark upon. I have a lot of love.
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Speaker 1: But we need doctors, we need counselors, we need social workers,
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Speaker 1: we need therapists. We need speech therapists and play therapists
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Speaker 1: and art therapists and people that love children and want
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Speaker 1: them to have a better time, a better life. I'm
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Speaker 1: so proud of you, Gosh. I wish I could reach
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Speaker 1: through the phone lines and give you a hug.
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Speaker 2: I really appreciate that. Like, I know you don't have
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Speaker 2: long because you have like a million dollars, but you
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Speaker 2: want to say. My advice to people who are struggling
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Speaker 2: with staying here and not harming themselves is to remember
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Speaker 2: that at the end of the day, the person you
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Speaker 2: had is.
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Speaker 1: You, Amen, and God doesn't make mistakes. He made you
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Speaker 1: on purpose. He made you for a reason. He made
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Speaker 1: you to thrive, not just survive, not just survive, but thrive.
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Speaker 2: Everyone deserves better than that. Everyone deserves to feel loved
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Speaker 2: and feel happy with themselves.
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Speaker 1: So how old were you when the depression took hold
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Speaker 1: of your soul?
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Speaker 2: I started self harming when I was six years old, So.
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Speaker 1: Trauma, abuse, abandonment, like what causes a baby to choose
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Speaker 1: to hurt themselves.
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Speaker 2: I grew up thinking that I was never going to
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Speaker 2: be good enough. Because I was in so many different homes,
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Speaker 2: bosed and there was a lot of drugs, alcohol, and
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Speaker 2: other things that happened with family. I was so used
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Speaker 2: to if I'm abused, that's normal. Like I can't go
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Speaker 2: and find a significant other without it being a lot
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Speaker 2: like the situation I was in. And it's going to
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Speaker 2: take a lot of healing for me to understand that
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Speaker 2: I do deserve love and I do deserve better than that.
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Speaker 1: And are the people that you're with now? Are they
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Speaker 1: clean and sober? Are they working a program? Are they
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Speaker 1: not doing the crazy chaos that you were raised in.
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Speaker 2: They have been clean for almost ten years now, and
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Speaker 2: I am extremely proud of them. Because everyone has an addiction.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't matter if it's drugs, it doesn't matter if
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Speaker 2: it's hurting themselves, sexual activity, doing the same thing over
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Speaker 2: and over. That isn't necessarily healthy. We all have to fight.
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Speaker 2: If we don't fight for ourselves, no one else is
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Speaker 2: going to.
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Speaker 1: Julie, You're going to be a fabulous, fabulous caseworker.
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Speaker 2: Kids deserve better than what they are given.
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Speaker 1: You were born for this role. You have everything it
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Speaker 1: takes to save lives. You were born for such a
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Speaker 1: time as this, everything you've been through, everything that still
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Speaker 1: brings you pain and shame and makes you feel like
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Speaker 1: you're less than Those are the things that are going
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Speaker 1: to save lives. Those are the things that are going
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Speaker 1: to help you understand, like nobody else can, what kids
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Speaker 1: are going through. You were born, Jolie, for such a
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Speaker 1: time as this, remember that. Okay, I really really appreciate that, Jolie.
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Speaker 1: You are a shining example of what it means to
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Speaker 1: trust in the Lord and to understand how much each
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Speaker 1: and every one of us matters going to be checking
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Speaker 1: in on you. But in the meantime, please never forget
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Speaker 1: that God's phone lines are open twenty four to seven,
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Speaker 1: mine are not. He wants to hear from you twenty
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Speaker 1: four seven.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, Delilah.
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Speaker 1: You have a great night. In our next story, I
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Speaker 1: want to share, you're going to hear from Kristin. She
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Speaker 1: has two kids, a loving husband, and they have recently
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Speaker 1: fallen on hard times. They are currently unhoused and living
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Speaker 1: in a motel. Both mom and dad have found jobs.
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Speaker 1: They're trying very hard to pull themselves up by the bootstraps,
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Speaker 1: but it turns out that's not so easy. Let's hear
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Speaker 1: from Kristin right now, Kristin, welcome aboard. What can I
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Speaker 1: do to make you a night special?
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Speaker 3: So I need something like uplifting because my family right
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Speaker 3: now is homeless then living in a motel with two
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Speaker 3: young children, and pretty much every single day I'm out
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Speaker 3: doing door dash and instacart, just you know, trying to
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Speaker 3: make money to say afloat because it is not cheap
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Speaker 3: and I am tired. But every time I think I'm
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Speaker 3: going to fail or give up, oh God shows up.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so back up, back up, back up, take a
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Speaker 1: few steps back and tell me your story from the beginning.
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Speaker 1: Who is us? Who is in your family that you
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Speaker 1: guys are all together solve.
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Speaker 4: My fiance and our daughters that are nine and four.
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Speaker 1: And what happened that you lost your former home. We
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Speaker 1: were in like.
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Speaker 3: A low income type housing and we had like the
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Speaker 3: recertification for our lease and we both had gotten promotions,
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Speaker 3: and turns out we then made too much money to
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Speaker 3: qualify and didn't get much of a notice to move out,
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Speaker 3: so we didn't have much time to save money to
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Speaker 3: find a new place.
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Speaker 4: And now it's just next to impossible to find something.
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Speaker 1: Tore in. So you were working hard, struggling to get
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Speaker 1: your head above water, and both of you were working,
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Speaker 1: and you made too much money to qualify for the
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Speaker 1: low income How much time did they give you before
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Speaker 1: they gave you the boot? And you don't have family, parents,
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Speaker 1: nobody you can lean on for a few months while
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Speaker 1: you get your act together.
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Speaker 3: No, his mom is in a nursing home and I
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Speaker 3: am estranged from my mother. So we've just kind of
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Speaker 3: been keeping on as long as you know, our girls
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Speaker 3: have a roof over their head. It might not be
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Speaker 3: the best scenario, but they're with us and they have
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Speaker 3: a roof over their head, clothes on their back, food
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Speaker 3: in their stomachs, they're happy, they're healthy. We drive two
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Speaker 3: challenges over to bring them to school every single day,
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Speaker 3: and doctor's appointments and everything.
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Speaker 1: So, and where were you working when you lost your place?
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Speaker 3: I was a manager at Dunkin Donuts and Colby he's
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Speaker 3: an assistant manager at a gas station.
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Speaker 1: And is he still working?
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Speaker 3: He is, Yeah, he's still working there. But with my availability,
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Speaker 3: and you know, the girls don't have busses anymore, just
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Speaker 3: we're not staying in the same city. I have to
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Speaker 3: transport them to and from school, and him to and
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Speaker 3: from work, so my availability is extremely limited, so I
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Speaker 3: can't have just a regular, you know, nine to five job.
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Speaker 1: You know what you need, Kristen, You need a miracle. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: you need a miracle. And I happen to know the
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Speaker 1: God that's in He's in the field of miracles. That's
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Speaker 1: like his specialty.
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Speaker 3: He's pretty impatient.
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Speaker 1: He is pretty amazing that he's given you a good attitude,
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Speaker 1: and that he's given you a heart of gratitude. I
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Speaker 1: can tell you, or just naming off all the good things,
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Speaker 1: the fact that your kids have food, and they have
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Speaker 1: a place that's safe, and they have parents that love them.
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Speaker 1: The fact that you can count those blessings instead of
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Speaker 1: looking at the mountain of problems in front of you.
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Speaker 1: That speaks volumes about your character and about your faith
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Speaker 1: in God.
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Speaker 3: Even today, I had seven dollars and eighty three cents
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Speaker 3: left after buying them dinner, and I went to go
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Speaker 3: put it in my gas tank, and the guy at
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Speaker 3: the register says, you have kids, and I said, yeah,
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Speaker 3: I have two, and he handed me a twenty five
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Speaker 3: dollars gift card for gas today. So it's God always
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Speaker 3: always shows up and my tank was on empty like
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Speaker 3: the light was on.
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Speaker 1: Are you sure that was a person and not an
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Speaker 1: angel in disguise?
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Speaker 3: I don't know. It could have been, but there's been
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Speaker 3: a lot of angels, and he's been sending them my
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Speaker 3: way every day.
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Speaker 1: Can I say a prayer for you absolute Please, Father God,
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Speaker 1: I lift Kristin, her fiance and their children up to you,
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Speaker 1: and I pray your hand of mercy upon them. Father.
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Speaker 1: I thank you Lord for keeping Kristen's attitude good. I
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Speaker 1: praise you God for all the blessings you're pouring out.
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Speaker 1: I praise you that the girls are in school, that
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Speaker 1: they have a roof over their head, that they have
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Speaker 1: food in their bellies, and that they have a mama
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Speaker 1: that loves them more than life. I pray, Father God
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Speaker 1: for financial blessings. I pray for a door to open up,
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Speaker 1: for a home to open up for this family. I pray, Father, God,
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Speaker 1: that you would just bring peace to their hearts, peace
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Speaker 1: to their homes. Father, I pray that you would shower
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Speaker 1: them with your grace. Your word says the righteous shall
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Speaker 1: not go begging bread, and Father, that righteousness doesn't come
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Speaker 1: from our behavior, but from our faith in You. And
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Speaker 1: I pray Lord that you would multiply Christen's faith in
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Speaker 1: you in a powerful way. I pray you would bless
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Speaker 1: her tonight and always God, and that miracles would unfold
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Speaker 1: in front of her, and that you would know that
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Speaker 1: it's you at work. I ask all these things in
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Speaker 1: your precious and holy name. Amen is good, so he
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Speaker 1: is all the time. Well, I'm going to keep praying
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Speaker 1: for you. You got this, Mama.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: I mean that God's going to take care of you,
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Speaker 1: and you are doing awesome. Thank you, Kristin. I know
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Speaker 1: the system isn't set up to actually help those who
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Speaker 1: are legitimately trying to help themselves. I won't get into
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Speaker 1: that too deeply or share my feelings about that, but
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Speaker 1: I am going to tell you to keep going, keep going.
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Speaker 1: I know you're not alone in this journey. There are
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Speaker 1: so many out there that are truly looking for a
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Speaker 1: hand up like you are, not a handout. And I'm
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Speaker 1: so so proud of you, and I'm going to be
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Speaker 1: in touch.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: Bye, bye up. Last in our have a little faith
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Speaker 1: journey today is lindsay. Our conversation might be the best
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Speaker 1: example of the power of God's love This story includes love, forgiveness,
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Speaker 1: and reconciliation. Let's jump into this story right now, Lindsay,
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Speaker 1: welcome to have a little faith.
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Speaker 4: Hi Delilah, this is Lindsay.
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Speaker 1: How are you, Lindsay? I am wonderful. How are you?
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Speaker 4: I'm doing great? Actually I am. And I've listened to
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Speaker 4: you since I was a little girl. My dad, who
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Speaker 4: was no longer here, used to rock me and my
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Speaker 4: brother to sleep to your radio show. I recently reconnected
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Speaker 4: with my mother after not talking to her for fourteen years,
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Speaker 4: and it's been such a positive shift in my life
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Speaker 4: and so amazing.
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Speaker 1: Okay, wait, wait, wait, wait, you can't throw that out there.
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Speaker 1: You can't spill a whole cup of tea in my
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Speaker 1: lap and then just keep on going without like grabbing
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Speaker 1: a teatowel to wipe it up and explain yourself.
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Speaker 4: To make a long story short, my parents didn't have
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Speaker 4: a very good divorce, but they loved each other very much,
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Speaker 4: and my mom and I had to be a part
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Speaker 4: for several years to kind of I guess heal. And
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Speaker 4: my father passed away five years ago and it gutted
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Speaker 4: me and I needed to heal from that, and my
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Speaker 4: mom and I it actually just kind of happened like that.
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Speaker 4: It's very strange, but I'm embracing it and taking it
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Speaker 4: day by day and going.
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Speaker 1: Well, okay, So how old were you when folks divorced?
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Speaker 4: I was nineteen and my brother was seventeen.
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Speaker 1: And how old were you when you stopped your relationship
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Speaker 1: with mom?
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Speaker 4: When I was a teenager, so I would say around
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Speaker 4: fourteen was when everything started to kind of fall apart.
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Speaker 4: And we stopped talking when I was about twenty.
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Speaker 1: Wow, And did she reach out to you? Did she
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Speaker 1: try to make a connection, did she try to make amends?
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Speaker 1: Did she try kind of.
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Speaker 4: A funny story, she texted me and I thought I've
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Speaker 4: misread the text and thought she was telling me she
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Speaker 4: was terminal. So I just was like, are you dying?
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Speaker 4: She's like, oh my god, no, no, I'm sorry. I
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Speaker 4: didn't need for you to interpret the text that way.
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Speaker 4: And then ever since then we've been talking and hanging out.
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Speaker 4: She's down here and it's just been so great, and
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Speaker 4: I'm so much I'm all the good pieces of her,
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Speaker 4: and I'm all the good pieces of my dad, and
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Speaker 4: I'm just so happy, like in this moment with her,
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Speaker 4: and then I'm truly blessed, and I don't want to
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Speaker 4: say that I don't deserve it, but I do because
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Speaker 4: I've healed and I continue to heal, and now I
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Speaker 4: have my mom back in my life.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 1: God does miracles every day.
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Speaker 4: If you would have asked me five years ago if
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Speaker 4: I was going to happen, I would have been no way.
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Speaker 4: But Juliah can't tell you how happy I am.
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Speaker 1: I can't tell you how happy I am for you.
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Speaker 1: My dad and I were estranged. My dad was racist
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Speaker 1: and I married a black man, and we were estranged.
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Speaker 1: And then a couple of weeks before my dad passed,
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Speaker 1: he reached out and we began a relationship or a conversation,
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Speaker 1: I should say, And then he passed. He knew he
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Speaker 1: was terminal. But I am so looking forward to eternity
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Speaker 1: when we get to make up for all that lost time.
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Speaker 4: Yes, my dad, I just I can't say enough good
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Speaker 4: things about him. He was such a great father. And
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Speaker 4: like I said, my best memories are of him rocking
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Speaker 4: me to sleep through your radio show. And look at
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Speaker 4: me now, I'm driving home from my mom listening to
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Speaker 4: your radio show, so all road read to home, and
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Speaker 4: I'm it's great and.
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Speaker 1: I get to be a part of all of that.
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Speaker 4: I love that, Delilah, thank you so much. This made
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Speaker 4: my I don't know my whole year, but I'm kind
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Speaker 4: of tearing up right now. And I just text my
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Speaker 4: mom and I said under dedicated song to you, and
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Speaker 4: She's like, Okay, see her. I didn't think she actually
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Speaker 4: thought I would get through. And then as students I
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Speaker 4: texted or it got through.
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Speaker 1: Can I ask you if I can say a prayer
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Speaker 1: for your family.
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Speaker 4: I welcome any positive vibes you're blessing.
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Speaker 1: Breathing in, breathing out, Recognizing miracles, recognizing the power of love,
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Speaker 1: recognizing the red thread that runs through families and runs
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Speaker 1: through lives and weaves us together. Recognizing that the universe,
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Speaker 1: the universe is in exists stints, and we are a
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Speaker 1: part of it because of love. God is love, and
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Speaker 1: recognizing that and honoring it and celebrating it and just
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Speaker 1: saying yes, saying yes to love, Yes to God, Yes
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Speaker 1: to possibilities, Yes to new beginnings, Yes to relationships, yes
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Speaker 1: to healing, Yes to forgiveness. That's a whole lot of
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Speaker 1: forgiveness you got going on there, girlfriend, Yes, Yes, I
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Speaker 1: want to explore this. Yes, I want to let go
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Speaker 1: of expectations and accept what he is. That is all faith.
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Speaker 4: And I am so blessed to live this life. I
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Speaker 4: truly like when you look around and everything and not
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Speaker 4: even looking around, just concentrating on yourself. I have a
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Speaker 4: great life. I have a mother that loved me unconditionally
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Speaker 4: and from far away. And I am grateful.
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Speaker 1: Father, God, I thank you. I thank you for allowing
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Speaker 1: this young woman to get through on the phones. I
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Speaker 1: thank you, in a selfish way, God, that I've gotten
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Speaker 1: to be a part of her life from infancy to now,
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Speaker 1: a part of this journey, this miraculous, beautiful, messy but
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Speaker 1: exciting journey. I pray God that the journey would continue,
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Speaker 1: and that the vistas would be even more beautiful, that
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Speaker 1: the views from the mountaintop would be even more breathtaking
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Speaker 1: as she continues on this path that you have laid
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Speaker 1: out before her. I pray that you would give her
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Speaker 1: peace in mourning her father, and that you would give
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Speaker 1: her even more joy, even more forgiveness in reconciling with
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Speaker 1: her mother. I ask all these things, Lord, in your
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Speaker 1: precious and holy name.
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Speaker 4: Amen, Amen, Jilila, my mom was born. I'm not going
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Speaker 4: to tell you what decades she was born in, But
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Speaker 4: she was born in the late nineteen fifties. Could you
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Speaker 4: play something from her era, something super happy and upbeat,
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Speaker 4: make Chris think about the good time.
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Speaker 1: Late nineteen fifties. Well, I was born few days later,
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Speaker 1: because I was born in early nineteen sixty So Mama
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Speaker 1: and I are right there together. Yeah.
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Speaker 4: But I saw your picture on the website and you
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Speaker 4: haven't aged a bit, So what's going on?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 1: But I have, honey. I was just looking. I was
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Speaker 1: holding my camera up to do a selfie for TikTok,
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Speaker 1: and I'm like, what what happened to my neck? Where
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Speaker 1: did my neck go? And why is this turkey neck here? Instead?
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Speaker 4: You've aged so graceful in You've helped so many people.
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Speaker 1: Thank you.
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Speaker 4: You know what, It's all memories and we have one life.
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Speaker 4: I can't tell you how grateful I am to be
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Speaker 4: back talking to my mom.
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Speaker 5: It's such such a good feeling. Like I said, it
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Speaker 5: shifted me so positively in so many ways. And I
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Speaker 5: know my dad would want this. I'm sure he advocated
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Speaker 5: for this up there somewhere wheeling and dealing.
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Speaker 1: Lindsay, I am so very inspired by your story. I
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Speaker 1: wish more people understood the power of forgiveness and reconciliation.
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Speaker 1: Thank you for your vulnerabil your honesty. Please know you
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Speaker 1: are in my prayers.
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Speaker 4: Thank you so much, Jelilah, have a great night.
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Speaker 1: As we close this episode of Have a Little Faith
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Speaker 1: with Delilah, please understand that God speaks to you whether
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Speaker 1: you believe it or not. Even when you don't believe
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Speaker 1: in him, God believes in you. Every time you choose
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Speaker 1: to act in love and act in kindness and respect,
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Speaker 1: you are in fact choosing God.
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Speaker 3: Delve