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Never Foget Those Who Suffer · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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  Speaker 1: Welcome, my friend. Welcome to have a little faith with
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  Speaker 1: Delilah where we talk about our faith and we talk
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  Speaker 1: about what role faith plays in our lives. It's not
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  Speaker 1: for me, and I'm just talking about me. But for me,
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  Speaker 1: my faith is not something that I put on a shelf,
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  Speaker 1: put in a box on a shelf, and take it
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  Speaker 1: down on a Sunday morning or when it's convenient. It's
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  Speaker 1: not something that I turn to in crisis because I
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  Speaker 1: need God to intervene and be my Genie in a bottle.
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  Speaker 1: My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
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  Speaker 1: It's why I live my life the way I do.
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  Speaker 1: It's why I adopted special needs children. And I say
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  Speaker 1: that because it is. It's not. It doesn't compel me
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  Speaker 1: to do that so that I can earn my way
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  Speaker 1: into Heaven. My faith gives me the strength and the
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  Speaker 1: tools that I need to parent special needs children, even
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  Speaker 1: into my sixties.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 1: My faith is the cornerstone of all that I am.
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  Speaker 1: And as I watch the world grow increasingly dark and
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  Speaker 1: increasingly violent, I lean on my faith and on the
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  Speaker 1: mercy of God all the more. There is so much
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  Speaker 1: violence going on in and around the world, and it
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  Speaker 1: feels like the darkness is growing every single day. We
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  Speaker 1: are inundated, and it could be just because social media.
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  Speaker 1: Mass media makes drama and heartache more accessible. The visuals
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  Speaker 1: are so realistic, and they're in our faces, They're in
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  Speaker 1: our living rooms, they're at our dining tables, they're in
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  Speaker 1: our pockets and our device. Our grandparents, my grandparents went
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  Speaker 1: through World War Two. My grandpa served in World War Two.
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  Speaker 1: But I guarantee you my grandmother, who is in America,
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  Speaker 1: had no clue the atrocities that my grandpa was going
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  Speaker 1: through to the degree that he did, because there were
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  Speaker 1: no cameras there filming and putting it on the evening news.
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  Speaker 1: The evil exists, and it is here in our neighborhoods.
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  Speaker 1: Every time you see another mass shooting event, you get
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  Speaker 1: a little more numb and a little more numb to
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  Speaker 1: the atrocities of violence. Where I live, we are still
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  Speaker 1: lucky enough to worry about are the kids going to
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  Speaker 1: get on the bus, are they going to make it
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  Speaker 1: to school on time? Am I going to make a
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  Speaker 1: great dinner tonight? Or as it left dovers. But in
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  Speaker 1: some parts of the world, folks are just worried about
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  Speaker 1: getting their kids to and from school alive. Some are
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  Speaker 1: worried because their kids can't go to school. In some
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  Speaker 1: places in the world right now, children are attending school
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  Speaker 1: in bunkers, underground, in bunkers to learn to read and write.
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  Speaker 1: In some places in the world, kids have no food,
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  Speaker 1: they have no light, They're losing hope. And if you're
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  Speaker 1: like me, you probably feel pretty helpless to do anything
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  Speaker 1: about it, pretty helpless to make a difference. But you're
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  Speaker 1: not powerless. You have the power of prayer. That is
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  Speaker 1: a powerful tool to send thoughts and prayers to say, God,
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  Speaker 1: please intervene, please help, please be there, Please be a
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  Speaker 1: light in the darkness, Please bring about miracles. You don't
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  Speaker 1: have to be politically motivated or inclined to care about children,
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  Speaker 1: to care about the women and men that are desperately
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  Speaker 1: trying to survive. I would encourage you to drop your
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  Speaker 1: notion of a person saving us. Drop the idea that
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  Speaker 1: a political party or a political figure a king is
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  Speaker 1: going to rise up and everything is going to be fine.
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  Speaker 1: God is the only one who can do that. I
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  Speaker 1: have a call from a gentleman named Max that I
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  Speaker 1: want to share with you. On this episode of Have
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  Speaker 1: a Little Faith he is very much caught up in
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  Speaker 1: the violence and the lack of understanding in his home country.
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  Speaker 1: He's not blaming. He is begging for his family and friends,
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  Speaker 1: his relatives, his loved ones, to be safe, to be okay.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we can all understand that. As a
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  Speaker 1: mom who has adopted children whose parents fled a horrific
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  Speaker 1: civil war in Liberia, West Africa, I have heard first
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  Speaker 1: hand accounts of the atrocities of war and that trauma
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  Speaker 1: has affected my children. I'd like you to meet Max
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  Speaker 1: and hear his story.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, my name is Max.
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  Speaker 1: Hi'm Max. Why do you sound so stressed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm always stressed, to be honest, I'm very glad that
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  Speaker 2: I've finally made it through. And I wanted to say
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  Speaker 2: that I love your show and very much and thank
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  Speaker 2: you for being And I don't want to take a
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  Speaker 2: lot of time.
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  Speaker 1: Max, do me a favor. Take a deep breath, leave
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  Speaker 1: the stress, leave the stress wherever you want to lay
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  Speaker 1: it down. But you're in no rush. I'm in no rush.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I understand, but I also think that there's so
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  Speaker 2: many people who want to reach out, you know, and
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  Speaker 2: talk to you, and I just don't want to be
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  Speaker 2: in the way, just want to be quick?
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  Speaker 1: Wow, So do you feel that intrusive always with other people,
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  Speaker 1: like you're a bother?
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  Speaker 2: No?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, good, because I love my job and I love
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  Speaker 1: talking to people, and I don't like being rushed when
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  Speaker 1: I'm in the middle of a project or the middle
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  Speaker 1: of doing something. So why would I want to rush you?
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  Speaker 2: Well, thank you for that. And the reason why I
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  Speaker 2: decided to call in addition to talking to you, of course,
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  Speaker 2: is because I wanted to ask you to put on
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  Speaker 2: the song called The Hanging Tree by Jennifer Lawrence.
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  Speaker 1: Such a sad song, such a very sad, very dark song.
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  Speaker 1: Why do we want to hear this tragic song?
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  Speaker 2: Well, to be honest, I would like to dedicate that
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  Speaker 2: song to all those who have lost their lives in
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  Speaker 2: the battlefield and specifically in Ukraine, and for that matter,
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  Speaker 2: to anyone who actually lost their life in the battlefheld
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  Speaker 2: while resisting the tyranny.
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  Speaker 1: I think that applies to just about every square foot
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  Speaker 1: of this planet. Yep has faced tyranny and slaughters and
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  Speaker 1: horrific genocides forever.
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  Speaker 2: Well, at least for now. I would like to dedicate
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  Speaker 2: that song to all those people who find it somehow
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  Speaker 2: in themselves, you know, to stand up and fight and
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  Speaker 2: not to give up, regardless of how big the force
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  Speaker 2: is opposing them.
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  Speaker 1: What's the hardest battle you've ever had to fight?
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  Speaker 2: Philosophically, I say the hardest battle is always fighting yourself,
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  Speaker 2: you know, facing yourself, if we'll say in practice, I
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  Speaker 2: guess the hardest one was when I was losing somewhere,
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  Speaker 2: when I couldn't do anything to help. When you know,
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  Speaker 2: you see a person just fading in front of you.
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  Speaker 1: That's a pretty halicious battle to have to fight.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I will.
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  Speaker 1: Play that song. I will say a prayer for folks
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  Speaker 1: in Ukraine, folks everywhere, folks right here, because who knows
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  Speaker 1: what the future holds, but it's looking a little terrifying
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  Speaker 1: right now.
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  Speaker 2: Yah.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I'm sorry if I so, how long have you
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  Speaker 1: been here?
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  Speaker 2: I'm here for nine years so far. But I have
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  Speaker 2: my family back there and many friends and doing what
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  Speaker 2: I can, sending money and helping in some other ways,
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  Speaker 2: because I'm sure there'll be folks who would say, hey,
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  Speaker 2: if you care so much, why are you're not in
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  Speaker 2: the battlefield? Well, because not everyone's a built to actually fight,
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  Speaker 2: but any help is helping. Anything that can be done.
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  Speaker 2: Is one more brick in the wall that stands between
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  Speaker 2: the freedom and the evil. So and if anyone can
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  Speaker 2: do you know that matters?
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  Speaker 1: And do you have family and friends here that you
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  Speaker 1: can lean on when you're feeling exhausted and weary.
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  Speaker 2: I have my family here, yes, but my mom and
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  Speaker 2: my brother and his family and some other relatives and
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  Speaker 2: many of the friends are still there. Wow.
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  Speaker 1: So you go to sleep with the very real reality
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  Speaker 1: that you may not speak to them again tomorrow ever.
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  Speaker 2: Say today. For a little over three years now, and
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  Speaker 2: every time the folly dinks, you never know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: You know, we're so spoiled. Except for those of us
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  Speaker 1: that have family or friends in the military serving in
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  Speaker 1: the military, we have forgotten what that's like. You know,
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  Speaker 1: our grandparents knew my grandpa served in World War Two.
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  Speaker 2: But oh yeah, that's a good thing. One of my
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  Speaker 2: friends told me, like, why do you especially when the
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  Speaker 2: world just started and I was here and he was there,
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  Speaker 2: and I said, you know, it's so weird to see
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  Speaker 2: people just going about their day. And he said, while
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  Speaker 2: being there, he said, what do you expect them to do?
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  Speaker 2: They live their lives And that's good, that's really great.
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  Speaker 2: That they don't have to go through that. They don't
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  Speaker 2: see it, they don't hear it, they don't have you know,
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  Speaker 2: their children recognizing what exactly is flying just by the
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  Speaker 2: sound of it, whether it's a drone or a missile,
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  Speaker 2: and what kind of missile they can tell now. And
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  Speaker 2: he said, that's good. Let them live their lives. You know,
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  Speaker 2: they're happy, and that's good. And that's when I realized,
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  Speaker 2: and yeah, I mean, it's our tragedy. It's not like
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  Speaker 2: it's someone else's tragedy, right, I mean in any other country,
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  Speaker 2: because people well, they can't care, but they don't have
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  Speaker 2: to think about it all the time. It's not their job.
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  Speaker 2: They have their own lives and they have to live
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  Speaker 2: them to the fullest.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. I have three children. I have six children total
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  Speaker 1: that are adopted out of Africa, but several of them,
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  Speaker 1: three of them have a mother, that have mothers that
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  Speaker 1: escaped to civil war in Liberia and everybody in their
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  Speaker 1: village was slaughtered, exterminated except for a couple of people.
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  Speaker 1: A couple of children escaped and you know, they were seven, eight,
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  Speaker 1: nine years old when they witnessed their whole village being exterminated.
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  Speaker 2: That's a lot imaginable, to be honest, it's so hard
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  Speaker 2: to imagine that.
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  Speaker 1: And they made it on foot to Ghana, West Africa,
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  Speaker 1: and they made it to a refugee camp and they survived,
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  Speaker 1: but they were not capable of parents the children that
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  Speaker 1: they gave birth to, and so I have adopted some
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  Speaker 1: of them.
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  Speaker 2: Very very nice of you, and I can't imagine what
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  Speaker 2: they had to see. And it's unforgettable, pretty much like
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  Speaker 2: you know, if anywhere in the world, and I can
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  Speaker 2: speak about Ukraine because I know that in the eastern part,
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  Speaker 2: which is closer to Russia, children are actually studying underground.
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  Speaker 2: They've built schools there for them and they study underground
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  Speaker 2: so they don't see the light, you know, the sunlight.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, so they don't have to be bombed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, So they stayed underground and because that area
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  Speaker 2: there is being bombarded like like hell on a daily basis.
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  Speaker 2: Just the other night there were almost a little over
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  Speaker 2: five hundred drones and a little close to fifty miss
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  Speaker 2: overnight all over your crime. And that's like a normal
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  Speaker 2: Sunday or Monday, whatever does really matter?
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  Speaker 1: Wow? Can I say a prayer with you?
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  Speaker 2: Sure?
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  Speaker 1: Father God? I thank you Lord for allowing Max to
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  Speaker 1: get through on the phone lines tonight. I thank you
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  Speaker 1: God for his generous, kind, generous spirit. Lord. I pray
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  Speaker 1: for his family. I pray for his friends. I pray
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  Speaker 1: for his country. I pray for his loved ones. We
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  Speaker 1: stand up against tyranny, control, manipulation everywhere, everywhere, the sins
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  Speaker 1: that are being committed, the lives that are being destroyed,
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  Speaker 1: and the children that are being terrified and are suffering
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  Speaker 1: and hurting and dying everywhere. Father, God, come quick, Marianatha.
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  Speaker 1: We need you. We need your peace, the peace that
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  Speaker 1: surpasses all understanding. I pray God that you would shelter
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  Speaker 1: us and blanket us with that peace in Jesus' name. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: What a gentle man you are. I wish I could
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  Speaker 1: give you a big hug.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I would love that, and thank you. I just
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  Speaker 2: try to be me.
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  Speaker 1: You know you're a good man. So we keep praying
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  Speaker 1: and believing. Yes, by all names, all right, I'll be
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  Speaker 1: in touch. God, bless you, honey, Thank you, Thank you man.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you Max for your vulnerability, but mostly your ability
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  Speaker 1: to remain loving and kind throughout all of this. I
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  Speaker 1: am going to check in with you. Often, but I
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  Speaker 1: want you to know that you and your family will
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  Speaker 1: be in my daily prayers because love matters. Loving people,
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  Speaker 1: reaching out, being generous, being kind, that matters. It matters
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  Speaker 1: when you go above and beyond in unselfish love. That
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  Speaker 1: is my best best words of advice for you tonight.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for giving me your time today. I do
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  Speaker 1: not take that for granted. Call me this evening, any
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  Speaker 1: evening Monday through Friday, and we will talk about it
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  Speaker 1: and we will pray about it. One eight eight, eight, six,
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  Speaker 1: listen to your podcast. I will be back next week.
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  Speaker 1: Until then, remember to have a little faith, be love,