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Dreaming or Coveting · Let's Ask the Mamas!

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  Speaker 1: We got a question for American mama's. Dear mama's what's
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  Speaker 1: the difference between dreaming of having a better life and
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  Speaker 1: coveting someone else's life? Well, let's ask our American mama's.
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  Speaker 2: Mama, Mama she said, and joining us now we are
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  Speaker 2: American mama is Terry Nediville and Kimberly Burlison.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the ten commandments thou shalt not covet.
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  Speaker 1: But if you look and you see what somebody else has,
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  Speaker 1: and isn't that nice? Look at how they painted their house,
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  Speaker 1: Look at that nice car that they have, it'd be
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  Speaker 1: nice to have that car. What's the difference?
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  Speaker 3: You know, I'm so curious what you always saw coveting.
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  Speaker 3: So this is like conversation that we've been having because
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  Speaker 3: Sonny is Sonny is in love with a boy. Oh
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  Speaker 3: my gosh, we love him. He is precious. And she
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  Speaker 3: was telling me that they were looking at something or
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  Speaker 3: you know, some home, and he's like, I don't want
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  Speaker 3: to covet that. You know, he wants to build something,
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  Speaker 3: but he doesn't want to covet. And I saw it
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  Speaker 3: as No, that's like dreaming, you know, when you're looking
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  Speaker 3: at you know, you're visualizing what could be, and I
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  Speaker 3: thought coveting and correct me if I'm wrong, is when
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  Speaker 3: you are jealous of what someone has or you don't
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  Speaker 3: want them to have it either.
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  Speaker 1: So the definition is to feel strong or immoderate desire
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  Speaker 1: for that which is another's, or to wish for something
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  Speaker 1: longing though, Oh my gosh, what a synonym desire. So
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  Speaker 1: that is you know when you start the way you
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  Speaker 1: look at it. I mean this is you know words
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  Speaker 1: have meaning, but there's also various degrees. So you could
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  Speaker 1: say to feel strong, I would like something right or
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  Speaker 1: I really want something, and yet both of those ideas
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  Speaker 1: meet the definition.
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  Speaker 3: Of the word interesting. So he's right in what he's saying.
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  Speaker 3: He's correct in.
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  Speaker 1: One way of looking at it. He's right in another
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  Speaker 1: way of looking at it. I think he, I think he.
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  Speaker 1: I think Sunny could also be right, yes, and you
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  Speaker 1: could be right on this that there's I agree. I
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  Speaker 1: don't think there's anything wrong with dreaming. Let me put
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  Speaker 1: it this way. I know this is mama segment, but
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  Speaker 1: I'll just all right. So when I worked in news,
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  Speaker 1: I've told you this a bit before, but when I
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  Speaker 1: worked in news, I got to see how people would
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  Speaker 1: react to things. So I got to see how people
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  Speaker 1: would react when they lost a family member to tragedy
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  Speaker 1: and I had to go talk to him and I
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  Speaker 1: put a microphone in their face and all this other stuff, right,
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  Speaker 1: And I got to see how they reacted. And then
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  Speaker 1: I got to see how other people reacted when they
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  Speaker 1: lost stuff, and more often than not, the reaction was
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  Speaker 1: the exact same. People who lost stuff were just as
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  Speaker 1: devastated as people who lost people. And I decided, looking
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  Speaker 1: at those two things side by side over a couple
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  Speaker 1: of years, I decided that I did not want to
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  Speaker 1: react the same way when I lost people as I
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  Speaker 1: did when I lost stuff. I wanted my eyes I
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  Speaker 1: lost stuff reaction to be kept in perspective. Does that
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  Speaker 1: make sense very much?
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  Speaker 3: Very much?
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  Speaker 4: Is me that that was the response, that that was
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  Speaker 4: what you gauged from that I would have I would
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  Speaker 4: not have thought that, because I'm thinking, if I lost
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  Speaker 4: in as belongings and a house fower would be so sad,
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  Speaker 4: But if I had lost a child.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right, That's what I'm saying.
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  Speaker 4: So it wasn't well in response.
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  Speaker 1: Other people other people all the time, it was immedly
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  Speaker 1: and I never wanted to be that way.
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  Speaker 4: Well, yeah, I'm just so surprised by this.
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  Speaker 1: So I think there's a way of saying, I can
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  Speaker 1: see what someone else has in their life and go,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, I think that's something I would like
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  Speaker 1: to have in my life. If you're doing it in
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  Speaker 1: a positive way, Does that make sense?
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  Speaker 3: You know what I was when we went to a church.
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  Speaker 3: We went to church Saint John's. We are going to
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  Speaker 3: do a building. They're trying to do this. Strike up
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  Speaker 3: this building fund because they wanted to build a brand
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  Speaker 3: new building, you know, next to the church. And they
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  Speaker 3: asked my dad to speak so that he could raise
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  Speaker 3: help raise the money. And one thing he did in
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  Speaker 3: the church is he's told there's these big glass windows
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  Speaker 3: to the on one whole side of the church, and
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  Speaker 3: you could see the area they wanted to build on.
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  Speaker 3: And my dad told everybody to look to their right
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  Speaker 3: and look out those windows, and he began to talk
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  Speaker 3: about weddings being under this tree and this happening, about
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  Speaker 3: the kids playing on this and you know, he started
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  Speaker 3: to plant this vision visualized. Well, they raised the most
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  Speaker 3: money the church is ever raised, and it was because
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  Speaker 3: he planted the vision inside of people's heads, and when
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  Speaker 3: they could see the vision, they wanted to be a
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  Speaker 3: part of the goal, right, a part of making it happen.
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  Speaker 1: They can see the way.
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  Speaker 3: So to me, I guess that is what I'm seeing.
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  Speaker 3: If there's something that I want or desire or I'm
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  Speaker 3: happy with my life, I am content with this, with
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  Speaker 3: a simple life, but I have visions of what could be,
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  Speaker 3: and I don't feel that's coveting. I feel like it's well.
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  Speaker 4: And I have a memory too, and it involves dad.
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  Speaker 4: I was in high school and my best friends were
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  Speaker 4: twins and every fall they would get to go on
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  Speaker 4: these excursions to get new clothes, and so they would
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  Speaker 4: call me to drive over to go look at that.
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  Speaker 4: They would do a style show and show me, and
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  Speaker 4: I would in their you know, in their room. I
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  Speaker 4: was like, oh, you know, just that's beautiful, and I
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  Speaker 4: would inside I was like, ah, you know that I
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  Speaker 4: had to babysit and make the money to get guest
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  Speaker 4: jeans myself. But I remember one day I came home
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  Speaker 4: and Dad said, what's wrong with you? And I said,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so tired of them. You know, they call me
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  Speaker 4: every year to come look at their clothes, and I
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  Speaker 4: go over there and I have to tell them how
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  Speaker 4: great it looks. But I'm so tired of it because
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  Speaker 4: I don't get to have all that. And my dad said, oh,
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  Speaker 4: I'm so disappointed in that, and it shocked me. I
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  Speaker 4: thought he'd be like, yeah, you know, he said, I'm
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  Speaker 4: disappointed because part of what makes you so great is
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  Speaker 4: that you are that friend that they can call to
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  Speaker 4: go over there and be excited with them. Instead of
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  Speaker 4: being jealous and coveting what they have. You're the one
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  Speaker 4: they can call. And I'd rather be that person. Terry.
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  Speaker 4: I'm just kind of disappointed. I never ever thought that
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  Speaker 4: way ever again.
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  Speaker 1: Let me throw one other thing out. Sure, if you're
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  Speaker 1: looking at something that you want that in your life
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  Speaker 1: and you want to make sure you're not coveting, don't
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  Speaker 1: want it. If God doesn't want it for you, his will,
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  Speaker 1: not mine, And that's how you avoid being covetous. BINGO
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  Speaker 1: Terry Needeville can't really brother, listen. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you