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He is our Provider in the Surrender with Beatrice Garrett · She Speaks Life - Christian Women, Strengthen Your Faith, Bible Study, Grow Spiritually In Christ

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Hi listeners. Welcome to the.
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She speaks live podcast a weekly encouragement where we share our
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God's stories. I'm your host.
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Jamie Elizabeth and I am so glad you are spending time with us
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today to listen. Hey friend.
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Welcome, I'm so glad you chose to listen to today's episode.
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The story. I believe most of us can relate
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to and that sometimes in life, we are living out, our purpose
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and calling and then God intervenes to take us in a whole
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new Direction. I'm here with inspirational
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speaker, Beatrice Garrett. Hi Jamie.
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Thank you for inviting me and hi to your listen.
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So cool, how you reached out to me and talked about how you had
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this affluent, you know, job here as an attorney and then you
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thought you're living out your calling and your purpose.
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And I think so many of us can relate in where we're at in life
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and then all of a sudden, you know, God comes in and says,
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okay this is the New Path. I want you to go on and you just
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think, wow. In a minute I thought this was
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like you know gonna be my thing for years to come here.
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So I love that you showed some obedience in that and some
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surrender and I can't wait for you to share that encouragement
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with us. Well first off, I would like to
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tell you that the surrender and the be obedient with a journey.
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It will ya saying that I did not initially?
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Side. Okay.
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Lower. You want to change the direction
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and trajectory of my life. Okay, I'm down with the plan.
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It was great. It was a process.
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And yeah, when I started working at legal aid, I did not have any
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desire for litigation, so legal aid is one of the largest
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nonprofit law firms, that represents the marginalized, the
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poor children. And so, I envision myself as an
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Need volunteering for organizations like that.
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Not my dream was to be a business transactional lawyer.
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I also have an MBA, so I was, I had a pet.
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I had a path that I have a vision for a, for my life.
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And so, once I pass the bar went to school, I live in Wisconsin
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and I went to school law school in Ohio, so when I came back to
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Wisconsin, move back to Wisconsin.
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I had to take the bar exam to practice law, so, After I passed
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the bar exam, I started looking for employment and so I thought
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well, volunteering is something that is just part of my DNA.
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I just think that it's a Civic text that iOS living on this
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planet and giving back is. So that's very important to me
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to volunteer. So I thought, well, I'm looking
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for a job, I'll volunteer at legal aid and I learned they'll
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give me the opportunity to learn Wisconsin law and then More
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importantly to help people. And so I was looking for a job
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and nothing started to happen is as soon as I like to sew an
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opportunity became available at legal aid, the executive
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director at the time asked me if I would accept this position, I
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said okay well I'll accept the part time as I still had to my
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house holding onto my my dream. I made this investment and I was
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going to I was determined to get a return on that investment.
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So I Accepted the position and I tell you working there really,
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it changed my life. I started off representing
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children. And when you representing
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children, where do you have a child or not?
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There is there's just this instant that comes into you that
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you want to protect them and so that gave me a great opportunity
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to protect children. And also when I had an
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opportunity to talk to the to the parents of these children,
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when they attorney grant me permission, To talk to them.
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And sometimes I also had an opportunity to encourage them as
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well, you know, so that you know, just by, you know, helping
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them to just not wait on someone to do something for them all the
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time. Just how trying to give them a
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little bit more, Aspire them to be, take a little bit more
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initiative that just don't wait for someone to do something for
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you. And so I just, you know, every
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moment that God gave me an opportunity to inspire someone
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that I would do. So, and so there was one story
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like this. Share with your your listeners.
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That I was just really one that really just moved my heart.
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I was assigned the guardianship case and the my client at the
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time was 17 years old and so his his mother was incarcerated in
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her friend filed for petition of her of her evaluation of her son
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and what I like to do in my when I interview my clients are 12
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with love, I always ask them to questions.
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I asked him about school and I What I also asking about their
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dreams and my client told me, he said, well, I'm not in school
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and I said, oh, I was like, oh, you know, I'm not judgmental
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said, well, you know, if you were my house, she could, you
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could live in my house and you did go to school.
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So I just explained to him the importance of an education and
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and he also liked to and talking with my learned that he likes to
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skateboard. And so as rated analogy of maybe
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one day being a business owner and why it was important for him
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to have Reasoning skills, being able to ask stop for questions.
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So, you know, as most typical teenagers he was just there.
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Listening, no response, no reaction to what I am.
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Well, that's not it. I'll just take a second
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appointment. I need to meet with both the
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petitioner so I met with my client first again, no no
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response as to what our conversation.
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Well, Willie was in the conversation.
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I was just talking, he was listening.
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So No response. And then when I met with the
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petitioner, the first question she asked me, she said, did he
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tell you? And I was at it, I was close.
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I didn't know what she was talking about.
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She said, I said no and she said he went to the high school on
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his own and register for school. Wow.
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You know what, I just fought God for just bit, you know, being
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there as long as I was with, he does.
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It gave me opportunities like that to just to just to go the
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extra mile and that's just part of my personality just to go the
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extra mile and I knew that it was important for him to know
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and understand the importance of getting an education.
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Now whether you did it or not was just up to him.
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But I just wanted to let him know how important it is for
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him. As he grows older being me, I
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know I had adults that I've met with it, could not read or
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write, and so, you know, it and and they've signed contracts
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having no idea what they say. I so that's why I was just
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explaining to him why it was so important for him to get an
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education and so so good. Because and it just shows like
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when we're talking to people, we sometimes, I mean, I've done
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this, where it's just kind of like, you don't think they're
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taking what you're saying, and really having it resignate,
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right? And their heart, and it just
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shows like, you never know what is going on in the inside.
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Only God knows. And when an encouragement, you
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were speaking life to this young man to go back and get a high
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school education. And speaking through like
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experience, like you're sharing a story of people that you met
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that couldn't read or write and we're signing documents that
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they need even know they were signing and I'm sure that just
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you know, shook them a little bit.
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Like I don't want to be that where, I don't know.
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You know what? I'm Reading or, you know what
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I'm signing? So I love that.
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It wasn't just a, you know, a preaching thing but like, hey,
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this is the what I've encountered, and this is why
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it's important. So cool.
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So, you know, as my time there, I kept asking me, I kept asking
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God you know, you know, why won't you let me put you let me
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go who you know, I mean there were a couple of colleagues and
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I we were Two other colleagues that I work with.
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So we had accountability meetings, we are all looking for
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new opportunities and nothing happened.
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And I was really angry with God and so I decided that God was in
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control and I would just grow up where I was planted and just do
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good work. And the moment I decide to just
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allow God to be God and being controlled he made his move and
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it was so unexpected. I came into work early one
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morning before that, I was coming in, like, a little, like,
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mad. A class is really, you know,
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because I wasn't really like Dad step, two is Matt feeling it
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last time to move on and like I'm burned out.
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So, you know, higher. Yeah.
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You know, and, and so, so I decided, okay, I'll just change
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term turn to lead and I started, you know, so the day that I
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decide, okay, I'm turning newly, I came in early, the executive.
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Our like maybe 15, 20 minutes after I was in the office after.
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I've completed my morning cast. And so as the executive director
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came in and asked me to come into the chief staff attorney's
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office and outside. You know, when you know what you
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said, coming to the chief staff attorney's office and say well
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you know, like if the thoughts that were racing through my
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mind. Right.
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What could I possibly do? You know, what did I do?
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I have possibly done and I'm thinking did I make someone
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magic Cloud? Complain against me?
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Don't miss a case and you know, they call these I was racing
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through my mind. And so, once I got into our
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office and I sat down, they told me that the brat supporting my
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position. Like most profits, they are
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really dependent on philanthropy grants and annual fundraising
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and so they told me, well, the grass is putting her your
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position. We no longer have funding.
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And so I was, you know, I wasn't so taken aback because they had
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previously talked about that for the program.
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I was a part of Of initiative. Or this is one book for Jesus.
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We're really, there were a lot of foreclosures and so there was
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an Initiative Program with a number of Partners within the
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city of where I live to help homeowners to retain their
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homes. And so, there was some talk that
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maybe possibly the funding would not be available, but there was
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some talk, but nothing that was really solid.
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And so when they told me I was had a little mixed feelings.
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I like, okay, well, there's you know, there's it's a big world
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for. There's new opportunities out
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there, but I was really mad with Because I had been looking for a
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job. Nothing came through, no
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interviews. Just maybe I get a
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acknowledgement that we save your application will let you
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know if I'm going to call you in for an interview but nothing
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really, that would give me some hope that we have.
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There's an opportunity that's just looming.
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Is that just can just pursue? And so, that's why I was so mad
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with God because I didn't have any direction.
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I didn't know, I knew what I needed to do is fight as an
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attorney by for other languages. Jobs but I didn't know why God
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would just say okay you know here you know become unemployed
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and you know now I have your next opportunity.
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So I just then that was the journey that was when the
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journey I started looking at pi/4 legal jobs and I was also
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also looking for a job. So I live in Milwaukee
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Wisconsin. So I was really interested in
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Chicago and do some networking there.
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And I really like the city, I like the big city feel and I
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would just commute back and forth networking and just
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becoming involved in legal community and nothing happened.
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And every every opportunity that I would pursue guy was like, no,
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it's not it. So I started even looking for
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jobs jobs outside of Wang and I would, I really remember this.
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So clearly, I one morning in prayer.
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I was just bawling boo-hooing. The guy like why are you doing
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this? This to me, I thought I was a
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good person and blob. You know, when we, when we're
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going through and we, you know, we tell God, why you how we
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tried to please him. And what we've done, we just
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kind of a hobby for I'm like, why are you doing this to me?
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Hey, hey in there, we've all been there and so he said to me
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so clearly and so distinctly, he said I'm not moved by your
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tears. I am moved by my room.
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And so, that was the moment that I decided that I would have a
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standing appointment with God in the morning and in the evening.
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And I knew that my like, my I thought, I thought I could just
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just thinking back, like my relationship.
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I said with God was so superficial and so it was like I
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so I started to spend time with him, reading his word and
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prayer, to learn to hear his voice.
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And so, when I started to do that and I but I'm still going
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my My way trying to steal fit the wrong, the circle into the
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square and Freight. Yeah, it was, yeah, it was more
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when I was still hitting these robots and there was one
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opportunity that was really hopeful for I had an interview
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with with the foundation, they're looking for a lawyer and
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their philanthropic services. And so the interview went, well,
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they like me. I like them.
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And then they asked me for to submit a strategic plan that you
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know, where the SUV was the tragic plan.
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They know. That's serious that they I'm
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really interested and so I did that then I received an email
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from the human resource assistant and she said told me
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that the foundation hired agencies that help them with
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their strategic planning and advise them to freeze hiring.
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And so, I was so crushed. Yeah, crash and but this But we
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still maintain an interest in you and so I just continued
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looking for a job and and then I contacted them back, two months
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later and she said, no nothing's changed.
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And so I it was that moment where I said, God I like you.
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Yeah. I said I Surrender I just raise
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my hand up and surrender and said have your way and then
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that's where the journey began. And so I'm trying to figure out
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really. I had no idea what he wanted me
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to do. What was Flying.
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And so it was that time of learning to be still learning to
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shut down the internal noise so that I could hear and I was so
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desperate to hear from God. There was minimal TV.
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Minimum phone contact and I would drive no radio on.
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And so I did that until I heard the whisper inspirational
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speaker. And and then when I heard that
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whisper was like, well how am I going to do this or you know,
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how many get started? And there again to began the
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journey. And so what I did is far as the
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networking for For that, for a legal job was like, okay, well
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this is the same thing is with Excuse me, finding a job.
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So it just doing the network reaching out and so I didn't
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know what my message was with at the time.
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And as I was reaching out networking, I went to an event
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with a with with with the Christian Funk was classic
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Christian Foundation, National Christian Foundation here.
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And I met with with met with a gentleman the presenter and he
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connects me with an attorney who also worked or not.
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Offerings. And she told me about this law
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Association of Christian lawyers.
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So their annual Retreat is here Wisconsin, so I two hours away.
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I went there, I met an attorney, an attorney from Chicago, he
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told me about National career management.
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And so, my heart was so moved by this ministry that I want to
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bring it here to Milwaukee. And I connected with the
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executive director and I got the ball rolling.
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And Jamie, I could tell you, I Never experienced God's favor as
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much as I did in starting this Prayer Ministry and I had no
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pushback from the port, the facilities management, granted
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me permission. I sent them an email in the
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morning and like the next day I had permission to access the the
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county grounds and set up the table with the other volunteers
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and everything just went seamlessly.
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And and so I met with a pastor from the church, two blocks.
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A way I wanted them to find parking for the volunteers.
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And so he was telling me the story about a group of nuns, we
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talked about prayer and he said that they prayed for a broom and
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God, someone put a broom outside the door and that story was so
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significant to me. It's like no matter how
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insignificant we think, are our needs our or concerns,
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everything matters to God. I mean that he will receive it.
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A prayer for a broom and so, you know, he granted the permission
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and the guy told me what talk to this club was a software
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Association, a club for like professionals he said talk to
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the parking manager about parking for the volunteers right
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across the street from the courthouse.
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And so I did that and then the prayer the property manager, he
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was a little hesitant at first about, you know, offering
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Offering some parking parking. And he told me that lawyers that
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belong to the to the club weren't allowed to park when the
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businessman. And you know, of course, me
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being a lawyer, I start advocating for God and then his
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name was Isaac. I said, you know, your name
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Isaac this in the Bible, you know, just really just you know
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just trying to just warm up to the idea but he granted me five
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spots. And so God just he just unfolded
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everything but it was when I when I But with when I when I
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was at The Prayer Ministry that was when the enemy tried to talk
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me out of it like telling you what you know, you have to look
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for a job. Can't spend your time doing this
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and so I just prayed about it. And God told me if you do this,
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how he's treating next opportunity, okay?
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Gotta trust. I'll do it.
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And so once I did that the ministry started, it was well
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received. And so I started, you know, I
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went up every morning Monday morning.
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We were down there at the courthouse.
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Thanks people. And I, you know, I had to come
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back up conversations with guys like okay, Lord, I do it.
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When I told you, I would do it. Like where's this opportunity
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that you promised me, that you would leave me to?
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And, and what I learned was that just because God did not respond
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right away? Didn't mean that.
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He was not going to beat me to the opportunity.
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He was testing, he was testing my faithfulness to the process.
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He was testing my obedience to what he had asked me.
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Do he was also testing me to whether I trusted him to lead me
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to the other side. So I would get up every Monday
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morning as though nothing was happening in my world.
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And I just remember just people, you know praying for a woman and
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just say our, you know, our sister was diagnosed with
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cancer. And after I pray, she says, now
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I have hope and, you know, although I didn't understand why
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God was continue to keep me there, but I understood that he
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was using me to pray for people. And along with the other
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volunteers. And so I continued on and then
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continue praying. And then another disruption
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came, my father became a terminally ill.
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And and so that was that rock my world.
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And I said to God, I said why, why now, you know, the job
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thing, I was a little bit, a little salty that I didn't have
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a new opportunity, but, you know, I was like, well, I was
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looking for a job. Anyway, while working, while I
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was employed there, so I was just Just, I had more time, so I
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thought it was a gift, but when my father became terminally ill,
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that's when it really hit me like a ton of bricks, I didn't
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have much time to to moan and cry because my father was a
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priority. And so that time really, it was
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a blessing that I could spend time with my father and with my
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brothers and my mother and helping to care for him and To
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sit with him as you transition. And I knew that, you know, we
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don't always understand God's plan.
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But when I look back, as you said in the introduction, just
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having the opportunity to be his Advocate to, you know, to go to
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the hospital with them and to advocate for him, that was just
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an opportunity that would not have had if I was working and
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having, you know, caseload and, you know, working on my cases
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and so, you know, although we may not understand God's plan.
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And while we're in the midst of the child, as we get over that
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song by and by will understand. And so it's like, well, we're
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enduring through the trial. What is so important for us is
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to know that God speak tells us in his word that he has plans to
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prosper as he has, he has good plans for us but we have to
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learn to be patient. His timing is that our timing
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and the where we would like to be positioned may not
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necessarily be where he wants us to be position.
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We looking back, I realized that being a lawyer being an advocate
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being passionate, about advocating for my clients going,
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the extra mile that got equipped me for everything that I needed
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to do every day. Just about I was in court.
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So, you know, being a lawyer in court is a very skill.
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That's invaluable, skill learning to think on your feet,
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being able to respond to an argument right away.
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It's such an invaluable skill and being able to relate and
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just The my clients just coming from various race and ethnic
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background being able to relate to different people.
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So that wasn't the self and opportunity that God was using
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me to be an ambassador at the time.
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I, you know, I wasn't really, you know, really understanding
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why God was using me, but I understood that.
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He knew my heart, he knew that that I would go the extra mile
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for Will and to talk and to offer encouragement.
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Where I went, I saw that there was a need to, and, you know,
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especially when people feel like they've been overlooked or when
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people have been rushed along, no one.
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Seriously talks to them Smiles with them, talk to them, with
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respect with the with dignity. And then when you have someone
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that, you know, interacted with you, like sometimes people just
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like, you know, it's kind of caught him off guard a little
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bit. Bit, you know, but then as they
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got to know me and just being personal, then that's where the
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magic happens, that's when they open up.
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And that's when they the trust begins.
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When they know that you're genuine and sincere.
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So you never know when we're meeting people that just, you
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know, asking God to give us that patients that the understanding
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that you just never know how he's going to use you.
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And how I words and what we do for someone can impact their
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lives and being showing a little - to someone can go a long way
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and, you know, and your encouragement and not may be
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giving up or may be feeling. Like there's no one in the world
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that really cares about them. So, you know, it's just those
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words that those, you know, that just that little time that we
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can offer, someone that can be make such a difference in
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someone's life. So yeah, it's so true and to
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back up a little bit. I love hearing how intimate you.
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He came with the Lord during your hardest times and isn't
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that true when we're going through that desert or the
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Wilderness and the storms in life, hit us?
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We are grasping onto what we know is the only hope and that
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is our lord Jesus, right? And so when we come to God and
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we're really leaning in pressing in and really wanting to get
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close to Emmet, that's what he wants.
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He wants us to get to know him in a relationship, and sometimes
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he just allows those hardships to happen.
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He doesn't cause them, but he'll allow them to enter in so that
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we can learn more of who he is. Learn more about who, you know,
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we are in Christ and know. Oh that he's the only one that
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stays the same and everything else and the world changes and
26:04
we get so dependent. I think on worldly things and
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you. No.
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Are you no jobs or income or people and and, you know, he
26:17
wants to show up and go. No.
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Like I am your steadfast like I am the one that will never leave
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you and never change. Change and and it's such a good
26:31
lesson to for us to know, like our joy isn't dependent on our
26:34
circumstances and I kind of could pick up when you said you
26:39
walked into your job that one morning.
26:44
You felt like you turned to leave and it was almost like you
26:49
went in there and you went from burnout to oh well I better you
26:55
know. You kind of had this Joy
26:58
regardless of going back into that same office, and it was
27:04
just a change of a heart posture for you.
27:07
And then that was the day that they said, hey, we gotta let
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people go and, you know, that surrender and just going, okay?
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Lord, I don't know what that plan B is so many times.
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We want to know what that plan B that next step.
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I mean, we're just human, that's our Last and God.
27:29
That's where he's got us in that hallway and we're just kind of
27:34
going. All right, Lord, I'll just be on
27:37
my knees, right? I mean, prayer until you open
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that door and has so hard, it's easier to say, or to, you know,
27:47
maybe express that to somebody else because you've experienced
27:50
that. But, you know, once somebody
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experiences that and then sees that open door, it's Like, oh my
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gosh, my my fate. It's all about that Faith,
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right? That's what it comes down to is
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just, you know, faith is being, you know, devoted to God's Will
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and waits for us to just be in commitment and devoted to his
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will and then in his timing like you're saying, you know, we just
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need to be patient and his timing is not going to be ours
28:23
and he will reveal what that is. But he's waiting for our, our
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little heart to line up with his and are, you know, character to
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grow to be more like him and everything else.
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I would like, share this with your listener, listeners.
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What I learned. Is that what we think is working
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against us? Is really working for us.
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And it says, if we just get out of the complaining and the
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whining stage and just tell God, this is how it is.
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I don't like it. You know, just now that acting
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our circumstances, there's the first thing and and when we can
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accept it and then once we can accept it, that we don't have to
29:04
like it. We just need to accept it.
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We just need to allow God to be God, yeah, to be God.
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Yeah. And then once we accept it, then
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the second process is surrendering to it and allowing
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God to lead you, because the most terrifying thing is to just
29:20
get up and not know where you going in the morning.
29:24
How you going to pay your bills and right, well, we Just start
29:28
to think about who God is. He's giving us the opportunity
29:33
really to intimately know that he is our provider that he is
29:39
our way maker and that he always provides a way in the wilderness
29:44
and the desert Seasons. So God provides a way of Escape
29:48
but if we can just learn not to panic when it?
29:51
Oh, and it's even said like it's easier to say than death easier
29:56
said than I'm done when we have bills to pay, we have children
29:59
to take care of or or if it's a health or whatever, the issues
30:03
may be, that we're dealing with, but if we can just allow him to
30:08
be God and to trust them and then that he knows what we need.
30:12
And so because he knows I personality, he knows where we
30:16
are best suited, he knows the relationships that are best for
30:19
us. He knows the job position that
30:23
that are that will fit well with our temperament.
30:26
We can, he can work through us. So it is sometimes letting go of
30:32
our plans is like what you were saying in the introduction.
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It really is, is allowing God to show you a grander plan that he
30:39
has for your life. And that our plans will be.
30:42
Look at God's plans, they really are little bit small and because
30:46
he has, he has infinite. He has infinite thoughts about
30:50
us, and we are so finite and I thought and I capacity but God
30:55
know better where you are? He I make you skip from the
30:57
bottom of the line, all the way up.
30:59
He can Elevate us all the way up to the top of the line.
31:03
And so when we just say, God, I will just trust you to be God
31:08
and help me in my unbelief. Help me when I just all I see is
31:12
the chaos. All I see is a turbulence
31:15
because I know that you speak peace to the winds and the
31:18
waves. So if I just stay in the boat, I
31:21
know you won't let me travel over.
31:22
I know you won't let the wind. Just take me out of this phone.
31:26
I'll hold on. You because you're going to
31:28
leave me, God God knows our in from a beginning, he knew he
31:32
knows the Book of Life on us. So we're just living it out and
31:36
what happens to us, it's new to us but to God, yes, you're right
31:40
onto your right on schedule. I knew.
31:42
Yes. This was what happened on this
31:44
day. You know.
31:45
Go ha ha. I'm not panic about it, you
31:47
know? And we really feel like God has
31:49
abandoned us for now, God knew was gonna happen and he just
31:53
wants to his test is gives me his silence.
31:56
It is our chance. What will we do?
31:59
What we panic and what we find is what we say.
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Thank you, Lord, although I may not see what you taking me but I
32:06
know because you're leading me. I know I can't get lost and and
32:10
when that and we were in that and that site, when he got is
32:13
not moving seemingly in our life, that women can learn to
32:17
praise them and we can learn to worship him.
32:19
And I I really understood how when we appraising on, we're
32:24
going through the most terrible in tough times of Miser?
32:27
What we just give it all to God and we can soar above our
32:31
problems in in prayer and worship is like there's no other
32:35
high. When you come down for you feel
32:37
fortify you can just shake it off the doubt the fear because
32:41
you know that God does not mean anything to harm has.
32:45
He has plans for our good we can trust him.
32:49
He's not like not like humans where he will lie.
32:52
He's not he's not man he will not change his mind.
32:55
So what we just Say God just help me to just trust.
32:59
You a walk with me. Holy spirit, let me be obedient
33:02
to your instructions. And when we are obedient to the
33:05
instructions, we won't find ourselves in the pit.
33:08
We will find ourselves going into the Roblox and the, the
33:12
winding roads are finding ourselves going in circles,
33:15
because we're Allowing God, to lead us.
33:18
The one who has our plans. And when we do that, I can tell
33:23
you that from my experience. I've never imagined that I would
33:26
be an inspirational speaker. I never imagined that God would
33:29
give me a download for the chapters of a book, what I
33:32
understood. And what I wrote A Little Love
33:34
Letter in my book to the region is that it was through my, my
33:38
trials and do my portrayals, it was through the vicissitudes of
33:43
life, that brought me to my knees.
33:46
And I learned the power of brand and I learned that God's plans
33:50
are so much grander than our own.
33:53
And if we can just Chop trust him during that, that middle
33:57
part that messy middle that the Gap.
34:00
Well, that what we we've already, we've gone through
34:03
that, the end of that season of disruption, we're trying to get
34:07
on the other side of it, but if we can trust them during that
34:10
period, that bridge that takes us over to the blessings to the
34:15
break room. And while we're going over
34:18
through that process, that's what we can let go of those
34:21
variants. That's what we can.
34:23
Let go of the hurt. But those that people that may
34:27
have betrayed us, we can let all of that go in that little middle
34:32
space of the cap. It come out better, come out
34:35
wiser, come out fortified in our faith.
34:39
The braking is not comfortable, it hurts is painful, it is and I
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would love what you said about praising God in that pain.
34:53
I mean, I went through a really dark time Over the summer and
34:57
all I did was praised him. Even if I didn't feel like it, I
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took what David did and I Just Praise them and it just that's
35:09
that's the remedy. That's the medicine right there.
35:12
I mean that yeah, that's fill me up so much and then I just kept
35:17
doing it again and oh well, this is why King David did this, you
35:21
know. Like this is why you know, it's
35:23
in the Psalms is that If this actually does work and I love
35:28
that you mentioned, praise because its power prayer and and
35:32
praise. And sometimes we miss that preys
35:36
part and it really does work. It brings us that that Joy back
35:41
into our soul, it does. And, you know, it brings us and
35:45
it brings brings the joy in our soul and then it reminds us who
35:49
we are. We have the privilege of going
35:52
into God's, cause we have the Privilege of thanking him and
35:56
allowing him that he will, we can, we are praising him.
36:00
We can take out that Garment of heavy and put on that Garment of
36:04
Praise. And then we think about how
36:06
faithful he is then how he has never left us.
36:09
That he will see past our faults.
36:12
And see I'm means and he will you know he will get even when
36:16
we are Unfaithful. He was still blessed and that
36:19
Mercy that he has for us the grace that he is stands for us.
36:23
And so when we, when we I recognize what all we are are
36:28
two when we are in his presence that just gives us a little bit
36:32
more Authority and boldness to tackle whatever it is and then
36:36
we're less likely to allow the enemy to start playing those
36:39
Seasons out to letting us know that although it may have been a
36:43
long time where you may have been a doing this but the trial
36:46
of the Season that you're in for a while.
36:48
But we know we have a certainty with God even though the what
36:52
we're going through it may seem uncertain but there's still Gee
36:55
whiz past. He hasn't been affected in, he
36:57
has a plan for us so we just have to have that confidence and
37:02
trust that while we're going through, we're not we're going
37:05
through to something, to get to something better.
37:07
God has a reason for it and that when we were going through the
37:12
difficulty, there's a cost that we pay.
37:15
There is a cause that was Associated that caused this pain
37:18
that cost may be losing ourselves to find ourselves.
37:22
It may be able to find God in a new away and a new life.
37:26
And so there's so many benefits that we we definitely will
37:32
receive when we're going through.
37:34
But we can't see it as we're going through because all we can
37:37
see is well why is God doing this to me?
37:41
Is he punishing you? Why did this spouse?
37:43
Leave me? Or why is this diagnosis in we
37:47
you know, to on the Mountaintop experiences of life.
37:50
We really don't need gap because everything is going fairly well.
37:55
But as well weird in the background while we're walking
37:58
through and we don't even know how we're going to make it then
38:01
God shows up that week. He gets the glory.
38:04
We see a physical manifestation of his glory of his spirit with
38:09
the healing for breakthrough or whatever, we are believing him
38:12
for. And so if we can just allow
38:15
ourselves to just this allow God to just take this.
38:20
On this journey, I like to call it an invitation that just
38:23
accept this invitation, you know, there are some there are
38:27
some little fine print that, you know, we don't know how long
38:30
that will this. This, this journey will will
38:33
last nor do we know if it'll get worse before it gets better but
38:38
it's an invitation to go on a journey.
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Yes. Oh God.
38:43
All right. Well, I think those were like
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ten takeaways here, but I know that the end.
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I like to voice. Hey, leave.
38:50
What's the takeaway? So if you just have a few words
38:53
here, we'll finish up with a takeaway and then let us know
38:58
where we can connect with you. And the book you mentioned to
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anyone who is, who is experiencing disruption right
39:05
now, you may not understand. You may not like it.
39:09
But what I would like to say to you is to just accept what guys
39:13
allowing in your life right now that he's not trying to punish
39:16
you was not trying to hurt you. That there is an expected in for
39:21
you. God has the wow factor, he will
39:24
blow your mind. Just trust him, allow him to be
39:27
God, allow him to lead you and just trust and have confidence
39:32
in his plan and also trust yourself and have confidence in
39:37
yourself. You'll have to know the answers.
39:39
The holy spirit will give you what you need to get through.
39:42
So good. Thank you Beatrice and where can
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we find you? Well I am you can find me on my
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website. Www that DHS Garrett.com and
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there you can connect with me on my other, my other sex social
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platforms. And I have a little ebook that I
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have right now since the Overcomer in you, and then if
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your readers would really like to sign up by, on my email list,
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button on my life and so that should be released in early
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spring. I appreciate you speaking life
40:18
to us and Encouraging us that God is good, and he is faithful,
40:24
no matter what? Our circumstances look like.
40:27
So appreciate you Beatrice for coming on here.
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Thank you so much. Thank you so much for listening
40:36
today. I trust that God has encouraged
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