Latest / DA CREW Podcast / TRIVEDA HARRIS | BELIEVE IN THE JOURNEY| FAITH AFTER THE FALL | BOOK DROPS IN 7DAYS 10/29/26

Transcript

TRIVEDA HARRIS | BELIEVE IN THE JOURNEY| FAITH AFTER THE FALL | BOOK DROPS IN 7DAYS 10/29/26 · DA CREW Podcast

• 0:04
  Speaker 1: When my world came crashing down and my feet could
• 0:08
  Speaker 1: barely stand, I cried out in the midnight hour, Lord,
• 0:15
  Speaker 1: please take my hand.
• 0:18
  Speaker 2: Pieces all around me Dreams scattered on the floor But.
• 0:24
  Speaker 1: God stepped in with mercy And opened up.
• 0:28
  Speaker 2: One more door I could have stayed down But grace
• 0:34
  Speaker 2: called my name.
• 0:38
  Speaker 3: I could have let go But God broke every.
• 0:42
  Speaker 1: Chain What looked like the end was part of his plan.
• 0:50
  Speaker 1: He rebuilt my heart with his mighty hand.
• 0:58
  Speaker 4: I chose faith after the fall. I heard Jesus when
• 1:03
  Speaker 4: he called. When life fell apart, he covered me.
• 1:08
  Speaker 3: Turn my pain into victory.
• 1:12
  Speaker 4: I chose faith over defeat. Now I'm standing on my feet.
• 1:19
  Speaker 4: God rebuild what the storm tried to take.
• 1:22
  Speaker 2: I'm still here by amazing grace.
• 1:28
  Speaker 1: They thought I wouldn't make it. They thought my song
• 1:33
  Speaker 1: was done. But the God of resurrection is a child
• 1:38
  Speaker 1: you've only begun. He gave beauty for my ashes, joy
• 1:45
  Speaker 1: for all. my tears now i'm dancing in the promise
• 1:51
  Speaker 1: that carried me through.
• 1:52
  Speaker 3: The years.
• 2:03
  Speaker 2: Turn my pain into victory.
• 2:07
  Speaker 4: I chose faith over defeat. Now I'm standing on my feet.
• 2:14
  Speaker 4: God revealed what the storm tried to take.
• 2:17
  Speaker 2: I'm still here by amazing grace.
• 2:22
  Speaker 3: I'm not broken.
• 2:23
  Speaker 1: I'm becoming.
• 2:25
  Speaker 5: I'm not lost.
• 2:26
  Speaker 1: I'm being led. Every scar is now a witness that
• 2:32
  Speaker 1: my God raised the dead. So clap your hands, lift
• 2:37
  Speaker 1: your voice, let the redeemed say so. If he brought
• 2:43
  Speaker 1: you through the fire, let.
• 2:45
  Speaker 6: The whole world.
• 3:04
  Speaker 1: Bright, joyful, and healing Faith after the fall Sex is
• 3:12
  Speaker 1: with a siren Cry is covered in hope Our souls
• 3:20
  Speaker 1: fade and fall and healing call and response with choir.
• 3:29
  Speaker 4: I chose faith after the fall I heard Jesus when
• 3:34
  Speaker 4: he called when life fell apart.
• 3:37
  Speaker 2: He covered me turned my pain into victory I chose
• 3:44
  Speaker 2: faith over defeat now I'm standing on my feet God
• 3:50
  Speaker 2: revealed what the storm.
• 3:52
  Speaker 6: Tried to take.
• 4:05
  Speaker 3: Good evening and welcome to Believe in the Journey podcast
• 4:08
  Speaker 3: where I have some amazing people with me tonight. As
• 4:11
  Speaker 3: you guys can see in my background, we are going
• 4:14
  Speaker 3: to be talking about the anthology Faith After the Fall,
• 4:18
  Speaker 3: How God Rebuilt Us When Life Fell Apart. This book
• 4:22
  Speaker 3: is something that I will be completely honest.
• 4:26
  Speaker 7: I did not want to do this book, but.
• 4:27
  Speaker 3: God said, listen, I have something for you to do
• 4:31
  Speaker 3: and I need you to do it. And I fought
• 4:34
  Speaker 3: tooth and nail, but as you can see, God won.
• 4:39
  Speaker 3: And before we even get started, we have to go
• 4:41
  Speaker 3: to him in prayer. And then I want you guys to.
• 4:44
  Speaker 8: Meet all of the contributing authors who helped me make
• 4:47
  Speaker 8: this anthology possible because without them, there would not be
• 4:51
  Speaker 8: faith after the fall. But let's go to God in prayer.
• 4:55
  Speaker 8: Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for bringing us together as
• 4:57
  Speaker 8: you do each and every time we are in front
• 4:59
  Speaker 8: of you. You allow each and every person who said
• 5:02
  Speaker 8: yes to be a part of this anthology and what
• 5:05
  Speaker 8: they were able to share and bring to the world.
• 5:10
  Speaker 8: To whoever picks up this book, they will know the
• 5:13
  Speaker 8: power that you have to bring them out of whatever
• 5:17
  Speaker 8: darkness they may be facing. Because as long as we
• 5:20
  Speaker 8: keep you in the forefront, we can continue to walk
• 5:22
  Speaker 8: and see the light at the end of the tunnel,
• 5:25
  Speaker 8: even when darkness is surrounding. So we thank you.
• 5:28
  Speaker 6: We honor you.
• 5:29
  Speaker 7: And we bless your holy name. In Jesus' name we pray.
• 5:32
  Speaker 6: Amen.
• 5:35
  Speaker 3: Now, there are nine authors.
• 5:39
  Speaker 7: Ten makes myself. But God is the 11th voice.
• 5:43
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to explain why I chose the pricing
• 5:46
  Speaker 3: that I did. for the book. I'm going to explain
• 5:49
  Speaker 3: that first and then I'm going to introduce all of
• 5:53
  Speaker 3: the contributing authors and then I want them to introduce
• 5:57
  Speaker 3: themselves as well. All right, first things first. The reason
• 6:02
  Speaker 3: I priced the book at $ 21 is because that's when
• 6:05
  Speaker 3: I started my publishing business, which is Wings of Transformation Publishing.
• 6:10
  Speaker 3: And the 11 is because, like I said, there were
• 6:15
  Speaker 3: 10 of us total.
• 6:16
  Speaker 7: I wanted 10 people to be a part of this book.
• 6:19
  Speaker 3: God makes the 11th voice and his voice is always going.
• 6:23
  Speaker 7: To be in the forefront.
• 6:24
  Speaker 3: So 10 plus one equals 11. So this project would
• 6:29
  Speaker 3: not be possible if it had not been for God
• 6:31
  Speaker 3: giving me the vision. So that explains the pricing. And
• 6:36
  Speaker 3: we have Najit, which she goes by Dee Dee. She's
• 6:40
  Speaker 3: going to get a little upset with me. I seen
• 6:42
  Speaker 3: them little eyes.
• 6:43
  Speaker 5: However, but.
• 6:47
  Speaker 3: I listen. Everybody don't know you by that, so I
• 6:49
  Speaker 3: wanted to make sure I said it. But, you know,
• 6:51
  Speaker 3: we're going to go with Didi in a second. But
• 6:55
  Speaker 3: that's your author name. We're going to go with that.
• 6:58
  Speaker 3: And then we have Miss Aletha. We have Latonya. We
• 7:02
  Speaker 3: have Queen Angela. We have Miss Keisha. We have Miss Opal.
• 7:07
  Speaker 3: We have Mr.
• 7:07
  Speaker 6: Thad.
• 7:09
  Speaker 3: And we have Miss Alma. So these are all of
• 7:13
  Speaker 3: the people. We're missing one person tonight. And that's Miss Jeanette.
• 7:18
  Speaker 3: But if she's able to join us later, it's fine.
• 7:22
  Speaker 3: If not, we still send her the best wishes and
• 7:25
  Speaker 3: we thank her for her yes for being a part
• 7:27
  Speaker 3: of this anthology. And I'll share a little bit about
• 7:30
  Speaker 3: her chapter in the book if she's not able to
• 7:33
  Speaker 3: come on. But I want to take the opportunity for
• 7:36
  Speaker 3: each and every person to give a little bit of
• 7:39
  Speaker 3: a introduction about themselves. And then we'll have a conversation
• 7:43
  Speaker 3: about that. why you decided to say yes to being
• 7:46
  Speaker 3: part of Faith After the Fall. So whoever wants to
• 7:49
  Speaker 3: go first, or do y'all want me to just start
• 7:51
  Speaker 3: naming names?
• 7:54
  Speaker 5: Go in the order you just called.
• 7:57
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 7:58
  Speaker 9: Can I go first?
• 8:03
  Speaker 10: Yes, yes, Ms.
• 8:04
  Speaker 3: Alma, you can go first.
• 8:06
  Speaker 11: I have class tonight, so I won't be on for
• 8:10
  Speaker 11: the whole time. But I am Dr. Minnesota Alma Thomas.
• 8:15
  Speaker 11: I am a writer. I am a minister. I am
• 8:20
  Speaker 11: a motivational speaker. And just in case I'm not on,
• 8:25
  Speaker 11: I decided to join after the fall because a lot
• 8:30
  Speaker 11: of times we talk about what caused the fall and
• 8:35
  Speaker 11: how we went through the fall. But after the fall, after...
• 8:40
  Speaker 11: You grieved after you went through loss. What are you
• 8:44
  Speaker 11: going to do with your life? What is your purpose?
• 8:48
  Speaker 11: What is your why? So I decided to join after
• 8:52
  Speaker 11: the fall because I've had many falls in my life,
• 8:56
  Speaker 11: but I am still standing. God is still awesome. I'm
• 9:01
  Speaker 11: pleased to be a part of this anthology, and I'm
• 9:05
  Speaker 11: sorry I can't stay the whole night, but I have
• 9:08
  Speaker 11: to go to class.
• 9:10
  Speaker 6: I'm working on.
• 9:10
  Speaker 11: My second doctorate degree. So here I am in my bed.
• 9:15
  Speaker 11: If you notice, I'm in my bed stricken by a stroke,
• 9:20
  Speaker 11: but I'm still doing what God has.
• 9:23
  Speaker 12: Called me to do.
• 9:25
  Speaker 11: So if you have any excuses that you might have fell,
• 9:28
  Speaker 11: you might have been disappointed, you might have faced rejection,
• 9:32
  Speaker 11: but God still has purpose for you. And after the fall,
• 9:37
  Speaker 11: after this, See what God is going to do with
• 9:39
  Speaker 11: your life. Everybody have a good night and God bless.
• 9:42
  Speaker 12: Yes, ma'am.
• 9:43
  Speaker 3: Thank you, Miss Alma.
• 9:47
  Speaker 5: All right.
• 9:49
  Speaker 3: Listen, you can't have no excuses. If Miss Alma can
• 9:52
  Speaker 3: do what she does, you can do what God is
• 9:56
  Speaker 3: calling you to do without the limitations and without the hesitancy.
• 10:00
  Speaker 3: it may be a moment of fear where it's it's
• 10:04
  Speaker 3: in there because we're human we're gonna be fearful of
• 10:07
  Speaker 3: something new but god always if he gives you that
• 10:10
  Speaker 3: vision he's gonna provide all of the provision for you
• 10:13
  Speaker 3: to see it through you just have to trust him
• 10:15
  Speaker 3: as if you know it's going to be good on
• 10:18
  Speaker 3: the other side because God is not going to lead
• 10:20
  Speaker 3: you somewhere. He's not going to provide you the way out.
• 10:25
  Speaker 6: So Ms.
• 10:27
  Speaker 3: Alma is doing what she's doing because God has a
• 10:29
  Speaker 3: plan and a purpose for her life and she's being
• 10:32
  Speaker 3: obedient to everything he is calling her to do. So
• 10:35
  Speaker 3: leave the excuses at the door because there's other things
• 10:39
  Speaker 3: that you got to be doing. If God gave you
• 10:40
  Speaker 3: the vision, come on, let's get started.
• 10:43
  Speaker 10: All right, Ms.
• 10:43
  Speaker 7: Diddy, come on, let's know who you are.
• 10:49
  Speaker 3: We can't hear you.
• 10:50
  Speaker 13: You on mute?
• 11:11
  Speaker 6: Oh, my bad. Okay, I'm here.
• 11:14
  Speaker 7: Okay, there we go.
• 11:16
  Speaker 14: My bad, people.
• 11:17
  Speaker 3: Sorry.
• 11:20
  Speaker 6: Okay, yet again. My name is Najit D. Scott.
• 11:26
  Speaker 14: This is my third anthology. It's not my first time
• 11:30
  Speaker 14: working with Sazita, but I enjoy working with her, so
• 11:32
  Speaker 14: I was definitely willing to sign up. Didn't plan on,
• 11:35
  Speaker 14: like she said, I didn't plan on leaving because I
• 11:38
  Speaker 14: had just published my.
• 11:40
  Speaker 6: And I was like, I'm not writing any books, father.
• 11:43
  Speaker 6: I'm done.
• 11:44
  Speaker 13: I'm good.
• 11:45
  Speaker 6: I'm in school, too. So I'm actually missing a class today,
• 11:48
  Speaker 6: but it's okay. It's all good.
• 11:49
  Speaker 4: I got to choose.
• 11:50
  Speaker 6: But it still remains. I'm like, father, I don't want
• 11:52
  Speaker 6: to do that.
• 11:53
  Speaker 14: So like you just said, you got to do what
• 11:55
  Speaker 14: the father says. You're not going to win, but you
• 11:57
  Speaker 14: can't ask to go back. But that doesn't mean we're
• 12:00
  Speaker 14: going to win. So yeah, this is my third anthology,
• 12:03
  Speaker 14: and I'm just honored to be a part of this
• 12:05
  Speaker 14: faith after the fall.
• 12:08
  Speaker 3: Well, thank you for saying yes.
• 12:11
  Speaker 6: What's more?
• 12:13
  Speaker 3: All right, Ms.
• 12:14
  Speaker 5: Aletha. Okay, so I'm Aletha.
• 12:19
  Speaker 3: I also did a book through Trevita.
• 12:25
  Speaker 10: Beautiful, amazing way that the Father allowed us to meet.
• 12:32
  Speaker 10: We did not plan to meet, but he had plans
• 12:35
  Speaker 10: for us to meet. Faith After the Fall, she spoke
• 12:39
  Speaker 10: to me about it. And I was probably one of
• 12:42
  Speaker 10: the initial people that heard her say.
• 12:45
  Speaker 3: Uh-uh, I'm going to do it.
• 12:48
  Speaker 10: And I also was there when the father told her, yes, she.
• 12:52
  Speaker 3: Is going to do it.
• 12:56
  Speaker 10: So she asked me about it, and I ain't going
• 12:59
  Speaker 10: to lie, I was on the other end after we
• 13:01
  Speaker 10: hung up the phone, like, I'm not doing anything.
• 13:05
  Speaker 6: But, um.
• 13:09
  Speaker 13: Like Ms.
• 13:10
  Speaker 10: Alma said, you know, after the fall, the faith after
• 13:14
  Speaker 10: the fall is what really guides us into being who
• 13:20
  Speaker 10: we were born to be, who we were planned to be,
• 13:22
  Speaker 10: who we were created to be. And even we go
• 13:29
  Speaker 10: through things daily. We go through things all the time.
• 13:32
  Speaker 10: You know, you're not going to go through life having
• 13:35
  Speaker 10: twists and turns, ups and downs. but just allowing the
• 13:39
  Speaker 10: Father to really use you in a way, because I'm
• 13:44
  Speaker 10: even going through some things in my life, but just
• 13:48
  Speaker 10: being able to be a part of this and be
• 13:50
  Speaker 10: able to have someone read what we have been through
• 13:56
  Speaker 10: in our lives and help other people and let them
• 14:00
  Speaker 10: know that they're not going through the things that they're
• 14:02
  Speaker 10: going through in their lives alone. means a lot that
• 14:06
  Speaker 10: means so much and um to be honest with you
• 14:10
  Speaker 10: um i felt a lot more fulfilled um i want
• 14:15
  Speaker 10: to say that trevita and even miss angela she don't
• 14:19
  Speaker 10: even know but i really really appreciate just having like
• 14:24
  Speaker 10: they are even if you don't want them to come
• 14:26
  Speaker 10: help or talk to you or encourage you They.
• 14:29
  Speaker 13: Do it anyway.
• 14:32
  Speaker 10: So not saying the faith after the fall, you still
• 14:35
  Speaker 10: go through things. And I'm, you know, I'm blessed to
• 14:39
  Speaker 10: be able to have people in my corner. So it's
• 14:42
  Speaker 10: been a blessing to be able to be a part
• 14:44
  Speaker 10: of this.
• 14:45
  Speaker 3: And I'm thankful.
• 14:47
  Speaker 10: I thank you again, Trevita, for allowing me to be
• 14:50
  Speaker 10: a part of faith.
• 14:52
  Speaker 5: After the fall.
• 14:53
  Speaker 3: Thank you for saying yes.
• 14:55
  Speaker 10: All right, Ms.
• 14:56
  Speaker 3: Angela, we're going to go to you because I don't
• 14:58
  Speaker 3: know what happened to Tanya, so we're going to go
• 15:00
  Speaker 3: to you next.
• 15:03
  Speaker 5: I'm glad I'll say that from back home, but I am, I.
• 15:10
  Speaker 12: Don't know.
• 15:10
  Speaker 5: I wear a lot of hair.
• 15:14
  Speaker 9: One thing I do is I love to share, you know,
• 15:21
  Speaker 9: things that God has done in my life because I
• 15:23
  Speaker 9: know that this journey that I've been on it was
• 15:26
  Speaker 9: not just for me, but it was for people that
• 15:29
  Speaker 9: I was going.
• 15:30
  Speaker 5: To come in contact with.
• 15:32
  Speaker 9: In the book, I share a traumatic experience that I
• 15:37
  Speaker 9: don't wish on anyone, but it's something that I carried
• 15:41
  Speaker 9: inside for a long time. I didn't tell nobody. It
• 15:45
  Speaker 9: happened right before my mom passed, and I just felt
• 15:49
  Speaker 9: like nobody wants to hear it because I know the
• 15:52
  Speaker 9: first thing they're going to say is, oh, she just
• 15:55
  Speaker 9: And I just didn't want to be that person.
• 15:57
  Speaker 5: So I carried it for a long time.
• 16:00
  Speaker 9: But as I began to deal with my mental health
• 16:04
  Speaker 9: and my wholeness, wanting to be whole inside and out,
• 16:09
  Speaker 9: wanting to be healed, truly healed, I knew that I
• 16:13
  Speaker 9: had to deal with some of those underlying things that
• 16:17
  Speaker 9: bring about procrastination, that bring about doubt, that bring about
• 16:22
  Speaker 9: a lot of things that we experience. growing closer to
• 16:29
  Speaker 9: God and the spiritual journey that I have been on,
• 16:32
  Speaker 9: it has allowed me to truly share some of the
• 16:36
  Speaker 9: experiences that I had because I've come to realize that
• 16:40
  Speaker 9: our experiences Or some of the things that other people
• 16:45
  Speaker 9: need to help them through. Because a lot of people
• 16:48
  Speaker 9: are not going to church, traditional church. A lot of
• 16:51
  Speaker 9: people are not getting it. And a lot of people
• 16:53
  Speaker 9: want to see examples. They want to see.
• 16:56
  Speaker 5: And live in color these things.
• 16:59
  Speaker 9: And they want to hear from people truly how they
• 17:03
  Speaker 9: overcame and how they got through. So being able to
• 17:07
  Speaker 9: tell somebody how you picked yourself up and dust yourself off.
• 17:10
  Speaker 9: You hear that scripture in the Bible that a righteous
• 17:14
  Speaker 9: falls seven times.
• 17:16
  Speaker 5: And we hear that all the time.
• 17:18
  Speaker 9: But people be believing, well, how can I fall all
• 17:20
  Speaker 9: these times and get up? But they dust themselves off
• 17:23
  Speaker 9: and they got up. So we are examples. We are
• 17:26
  Speaker 9: non-examples of people that may have failed at something.
• 17:30
  Speaker 13: Come on now.
• 17:31
  Speaker 5: But we were able to.
• 17:33
  Speaker 9: Dust ourselves off, pick ourselves up and carry on and
• 17:37
  Speaker 9: be an example to somebody else that may be going
• 17:39
  Speaker 9: through the same thing. There may be another angel out
• 17:42
  Speaker 9: there experiencing the same thing. It may be a DD
• 17:44
  Speaker 9: out there experiencing what I've been through or what one
• 17:47
  Speaker 9: of the other co-authors went through. But the ability for
• 17:52
  Speaker 9: us to be able to share these things and allow
• 17:55
  Speaker 9: them to come forth, it just brings him glory because
• 18:00
  Speaker 9: he said that.
• 18:02
  Speaker 9: He's given us gifts and talents. We got to understand
• 18:05
  Speaker 9: that he knew everything about us. He knew every fall
• 18:07
  Speaker 9: that we was going to face. And he knew what
• 18:12
  Speaker 9: we needed to get through those things. So the gift
• 18:16
  Speaker 9: of writing, the gift of being able to express yourself
• 18:20
  Speaker 9: is one of the things that he placed in us
• 18:21
  Speaker 9: so that we can be able to do that, so
• 18:23
  Speaker 9: that we can be able to tell somebody else. We
• 18:28
  Speaker 9: are ministering in our own special way.
• 18:32
  Speaker 5: Without being ministers.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 18:36
  Speaker 9: And that's one of the things. We operate in these
• 18:38
  Speaker 9: gifts and these talents. So that's why I said yes,
• 18:42
  Speaker 9: because I just felt like that was just one of
• 18:46
  Speaker 9: the things that I had to do. The calling that's
• 18:50
  Speaker 9: on my life is so huge that I feel like
• 18:54
  Speaker 9: every opportunity I get to bring him glory, I have
• 18:58
  Speaker 9: to do that.
• 19:00
  Speaker 5: So that's why I shared in this book.
• 19:03
  Speaker 9: And I thank God for Trevita's obedience. I don't know
• 19:10
  Speaker 9: why I was going to say Trevita, but Trevita's obedience
• 19:16
  Speaker 9: in doing this book. And for every co-author that shared,
• 19:22
  Speaker 9: thank you for being obedient. Thanks.
• 19:26
  Speaker 5: That's it.
• 19:28
  Speaker 3: Thank you for saying yes. Okay, there goes Tanya. Now
• 19:31
  Speaker 3: we need your introduction and why you said yes to
• 19:34
  Speaker 3: being part of this anthology.
• 19:38
  Speaker 15: This is a lot of static where you are.
• 19:48
  Speaker 6: Okay. hear you now.
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: Try to go out and come back in. Okay.
• 19:56
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 19:56
  Speaker 13: Ms.
• 19:56
  Speaker 16: Keisha?
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: Hi.
• 19:59
  Speaker 3: Can you guys hear me?
• 20:02
  Speaker 16: Yeah, what's your name?
• 20:04
  Speaker 10: What's your name?
• 20:06
  Speaker 15: How are you?
• 20:09
  Speaker 6: So.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: I'm here. Sorry, my phone is in the way.
• 20:14
  Speaker 7: No, we can barely hear you.
• 20:18
  Speaker 16: You can barely hear me?
• 20:19
  Speaker 3: Go out and come back in. Okay.
• 20:21
  Speaker 7: There we go.
• 20:22
  Speaker 6: Okay, go ahead.
• 20:23
  Speaker 7: Sorry, Ms.
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: Keisha.
• 20:27
  Speaker 16: Good morning. I mean, good evening, guys.
• 20:30
  Speaker 17: Hey.
• 20:31
  Speaker 16: So, my reasoning is why I say yes was It
• 20:38
  Speaker 16: was a quick opportunity from Ope when she brushed it
• 20:41
  Speaker 16: by me one day. And I was like, what's that?
• 20:45
  Speaker 16: What's an anthology? I never did anything like this. It
• 20:49
  Speaker 16: was something, I guess, to just get out of my
• 20:51
  Speaker 16: comfort zone. I had another, something else I wanted to
• 20:56
  Speaker 16: talk about. I have a bunch of stories in me,
• 20:59
  Speaker 16: but because I'm a little shy, I'm kind of quiet.
• 21:02
  Speaker 16: I talk a lot, but only to people that I know.
• 21:05
  Speaker 16: So I know I need to let it out, but
• 21:08
  Speaker 16: I figured a book would be good because then they
• 21:10
  Speaker 16: can't one-up me on my story or, you know.
• 21:14
  Speaker 4: Right.
• 21:15
  Speaker 16: I mean, we all have a story, but for some reason,
• 21:17
  Speaker 16: growing up, whenever I did talk, I think I seen
• 21:21
  Speaker 16: somewhere where it says adults who talk a lot now
• 21:24
  Speaker 16: is because they weren't allowed to speak when they were children.
• 21:27
  Speaker 16: So all of my stories, I'm like, I'm just going
• 21:29
  Speaker 16: to put it in a book and then they can
• 21:30
  Speaker 16: either open it up or sit it down so we
• 21:32
  Speaker 16: don't have to worry.
• 21:33
  Speaker 3: But at least I let it out. Right.
• 21:35
  Speaker 16: So during the time I was going to, do it
• 21:38
  Speaker 16: I had that incident at my job and it overcame
• 21:42
  Speaker 16: like my mindset and everything something that I thought was
• 21:45
  Speaker 16: really minute and so I had to get it off
• 21:48
  Speaker 16: my brain right there just to kind of so I
• 21:50
  Speaker 16: kind of did a dump so that's what this was
• 21:53
  Speaker 16: this was like a little dump just so that I
• 21:55
  Speaker 16: can get into writing and just see how it goes
• 21:58
  Speaker 16: see how this kind of works out to get out
• 22:02
  Speaker 16: of my you know get out of my comfort zone
• 22:04
  Speaker 16: to see if this is something I want to continue
• 22:06
  Speaker 16: to do I've never done anything like this before. So
• 22:11
  Speaker 16: we'll see how it goes. But I really, really appreciate you.
• 22:14
  Speaker 16: And thank you for even giving me the opportunity to
• 22:17
  Speaker 16: do so.
• 22:18
  Speaker 3: You're welcome. I'm glad you said yes. And I definitely
• 22:22
  Speaker 3: understand how it is when it's the first opportunity for
• 22:27
  Speaker 3: you to actually share your work with someone else outside
• 22:31
  Speaker 3: of close people.
• 22:32
  Speaker 18: So.
• 22:34
  Speaker 3: You're not the only first author in this anthology. So
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: I want to say thank you for saying yes.
• 22:43
  Speaker 12: Ms.
• 22:43
  Speaker 5: Opal?
• 22:53
  Speaker 17: Good evening, everyone.
• 22:55
  Speaker 6: Hey.
• 22:56
  Speaker 17: Hey, so I said yes to this anthology because I
• 23:01
  Speaker 17: had a life-changing event. That occurred suddenly, unexpectedly. And for me,
• 23:10
  Speaker 17: it seemed to come right on time to participate in
• 23:14
  Speaker 17: this one. It came when it was much needed.
• 23:19
  Speaker 5: I said yes.
• 23:20
  Speaker 17: Because I felt that I could help someone else out
• 23:22
  Speaker 17: that was going through something similar because I know I'm
• 23:26
  Speaker 17: not the only one that has experienced what I went through.
• 23:30
  Speaker 17: And it is the encouraging part of this is, you know,
• 23:35
  Speaker 17: the collaboration we have as co-authors on this project and
• 23:39
  Speaker 17: that we didn't let the fall finish us, that we
• 23:42
  Speaker 17: kept going and that we do see what is possible
• 23:48
  Speaker 17: with God after our tribulations and after our trials. And
• 23:54
  Speaker 17: this is my second anthology that I'm a part of,
• 23:57
  Speaker 17: but I'm glad to be a part of this project.
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Thank you. All right. What's your, um, introduction and the
• 24:06
  Speaker 3: reason you said yes. I can't hear you.
• 24:14
  Speaker 13: Since I don't know if I got an introduction. I mean,
• 24:16
  Speaker 13: you know, y'all got to pray for me.
• 24:21
  Speaker 19: I don't have so many ups and downs, so many trials.
• 24:27
  Speaker 13: Um, This was, I guess it was fitting. Sis had
• 24:33
  Speaker 13: been on me about writing.
• 24:34
  Speaker 19: I guess that's just something that she and I both
• 24:37
  Speaker 19: had picked up over the years with some of the
• 24:39
  Speaker 19: childhood trauma that we've endured. Just being in our space
• 24:43
  Speaker 19: confined that we just had to figure out a way
• 24:46
  Speaker 19: to unpack.
• 24:47
  Speaker 13: Some of the things that we was dealing with.
• 24:49
  Speaker 19: I think it was one of my sixth grade teachers
• 24:52
  Speaker 19: that told me to stop being mad and to express
• 24:56
  Speaker 19: my feelings in writing. So I guess mine started back
• 24:59
  Speaker 19: in middle school. But it's just been a journey. Some
• 25:07
  Speaker 19: of the visions that I have about things that God
• 25:10
  Speaker 19: is telling me to be.
• 25:11
  Speaker 13: Obedient to, to move.
• 25:13
  Speaker 19: It was just fitting for Faith After the Fall because
• 25:17
  Speaker 19: I've had some real trials and tests over these years,
• 25:22
  Speaker 19: whether it was health issues from injuries when playing ball
• 25:26
  Speaker 19: or divorce or setbacks and jobs and just trying to
• 25:31
  Speaker 19: figure out what my life was going to be like.
• 25:34
  Speaker 19: And just turned it over to God and let him lead.
• 25:37
  Speaker 19: So it's just been an amazing ride. So that's just
• 25:42
  Speaker 19: me in a nutshell. From being a father, a therapist,
• 25:47
  Speaker 19: a coach, to taking a whole different path to going
• 25:52
  Speaker 19: into banking.
• 25:53
  Speaker 13: So kind of a jack of all trades, a master
• 25:55
  Speaker 13: of none.
• 25:57
  Speaker 3: Well, why did you say yes to being part of
• 26:01
  Speaker 3: this anthology?
• 26:04
  Speaker 19: I guess it was time for me to move outside
• 26:06
  Speaker 19: of my comfort zone to share. I started writing my
• 26:10
  Speaker 19: prayers and sending out. It started with just close family.
• 26:15
  Speaker 19: And that was in 2016 when I started doing that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 19: And now it's blossomed to well over 300 and something
• 26:21
  Speaker 19: people that my prayers go to daily.
• 26:23
  Speaker 6: Wow.
• 26:24
  Speaker 19: And so in this season, man, it's just time for
• 26:27
  Speaker 19: me to move into what God is saying, to be obedient,
• 26:30
  Speaker 19: to be called, be all that I can be for him.
• 26:32
  Speaker 19: Part of my reasoning to saying yes.
• 26:38
  Speaker 3: Well, I thank you for saying yes. I didn't have
• 26:40
  Speaker 3: to push too hard.
• 26:42
  Speaker 6: All right, Ms.
• 26:46
  Speaker 3: Jeanette, why did you say yes and give us a
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: little introduction about you?
• 26:57
  Speaker 5: You're on mute, Sinead. Sinead, you're muted.
• 27:15
  Speaker 3: Well, while she gets unmuted, I'm just going to introduce myself.
• 27:21
  Speaker 3: And as you guys know, I'm Trevita. I am the
• 27:24
  Speaker 3: host of Believe in the Journey podcast. I'm also the
• 27:28
  Speaker 3: visionary behind Faith After the Fall. And I was also
• 27:33
  Speaker 3: the editor and publisher of Faith After the Fall. So
• 27:38
  Speaker 3: I wear very many hats. And when I say I
• 27:43
  Speaker 3: did not start my writing to just become a publisher,
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: that was not even in my vision card. That wasn't
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: even in my basket. of cards that I have for myself.
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: But when you have God as the head of your life,
• 27:59
  Speaker 3: he's going to show you things and he's going to
• 28:02
  Speaker 3: provide visions and all of these things. And you, I,
• 28:07
  Speaker 3: a few times I'll be honest with you. I told God,
• 28:10
  Speaker 3: he kept sending those visions to the wrong address. They,
• 28:13
  Speaker 3: they didn't belong to me. They, he needed to send
• 28:15
  Speaker 3: that to somebody else, you know? Cause he got my
• 28:19
  Speaker 3: address mixed up with somebody else. And he like, I
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: know who I'm talking to and I know who I'm
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: dealing with. And this is for you. And so the
• 28:28
  Speaker 3: first book that I did was some poetry. I put
• 28:31
  Speaker 3: 26 of my favorite poems together and I went from
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: there and I was like, God, if this is what
• 28:38
  Speaker 3: you want me to do, then so be it. And
• 28:42
  Speaker 3: I put them in that book. And when I tell
• 28:43
  Speaker 3: you the book didn't look like much, but I tell people,
• 28:49
  Speaker 3: because I had somebody tell me that they would have
• 28:51
  Speaker 3: never put their name on that assignment. And I told
• 28:55
  Speaker 3: them that wasn't your assignment. God didn't give it to you.
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: So your name should not be on what was assigned
• 29:00
  Speaker 3: to me. So therefore it ain't yours to put your
• 29:04
  Speaker 3: name on. And I did what God told me to do.
• 29:07
  Speaker 3: He didn't tell me to make it perfect. He said
• 29:09
  Speaker 3: to do it and he would do the rest. And
• 29:12
  Speaker 3: I've been obedient ever since. So, Whenever God gives you something, yes,
• 29:19
  Speaker 3: if you like me, I know he be putting me
• 29:21
  Speaker 3: on hold and I don't got a whole music song
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: and a whole playlist of whole music that he has
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: for me whenever I call and start asking questions. And
• 29:33
  Speaker 3: he be like, uh-uh, not today.
• 29:34
  Speaker 7: I'm not dealing with you.
• 29:35
  Speaker 3: Go on hold. I'll be back with you in a
• 29:37
  Speaker 3: couple of minutes or maybe even tomorrow. Because we not
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: doing this today. I gave you an assignment. Go on,
• 29:43
  Speaker 3: do what I said to do. If you ain't doing it,
• 29:45
  Speaker 3: don't call me back. and of course call them back
• 29:49
  Speaker 3: because I got.
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: Questions you got questions yeah I.
• 29:52
  Speaker 3: Got questions and I need a little bit of clarification
• 29:54
  Speaker 3: that's all I'm trying and God is like I don't
• 29:58
  Speaker 3: need to clarify what I just told you to do
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: just do what I said and so yeah but Ms.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: Jeanette why did you say yes and give us a
• 30:08
  Speaker 3: little bit of information about.
• 30:10
  Speaker 12: You well good evening everyone my name is Jeanette Johnson
• 30:15
  Speaker 12: and Actually, this is my first time.
• 30:21
  Speaker 13: Working.
• 30:22
  Speaker 12: No, I'm not going to even say first time because
• 30:24
  Speaker 12: I had worked with Trevita on podcasts. I'm a podcast
• 30:30
  Speaker 12: host over there on the crew podcast. I have written
• 30:34
  Speaker 12: in Angela's anthologies, but no one else's. I've written a
• 30:42
  Speaker 12: book about what I've been through. And just like Trita said, that,
• 30:47
  Speaker 12: you know, I just didn't think my book wasn't, you know, like,
• 30:52
  Speaker 12: you know, what everybody was looking for. But it was
• 30:58
  Speaker 12: what God had me to share, put it out there.
• 31:03
  Speaker 12: The reason why I said yes, I just, we had
• 31:08
  Speaker 12: just finished with the rebirth journey, the journey of rebirth.
• 31:13
  Speaker 12: series with, um, was it a series? No, I think
• 31:16
  Speaker 12: it was anthology, but, um, and doing that, doing, um,
• 31:24
  Speaker 12: that one we wrote on, um, she had us break
• 31:28
  Speaker 12: down rebirth and we gave, uh, we did a poem
• 31:32
  Speaker 12: for each letter. And so, you know, I was going
• 31:37
  Speaker 12: through my, you know, going through the changes and stuff.
• 31:40
  Speaker 12: And when I seen your post, I strolled by it.
• 31:46
  Speaker 12: Then I came back and I looked at it.
• 31:49
  Speaker 10: Then I was like, nah.
• 31:52
  Speaker 12: And then God just kept telling me, yes, this is
• 31:57
  Speaker 12: what you're going to do. And I was like, no. So,
• 32:00
  Speaker 12: you know, um, I reached out to Trevita and I
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: was praying that she didn't respond, but her little fingers
• 32:10
  Speaker 12: respond quick. I'm like, why did I just send her
• 32:15
  Speaker 12: an email? Is she just sitting by the computer? Just like,
• 32:20
  Speaker 12: what's going on? She typed real fast. And so I said,
• 32:25
  Speaker 12: Oh Lord. Okay. So, you know, I began to, think
• 32:31
  Speaker 12: about it because my fall came my fall began November
• 32:37
  Speaker 12: 10th 2023 when I found my son unresponsive and that
• 32:44
  Speaker 12: took a lot out of me I went into a
• 32:47
  Speaker 12: depression um and I lost who I was as a
• 32:53
  Speaker 12: person I literally changed my name I changed my name
• 32:58
  Speaker 12: to grief grief I will go on Facebook and you know,
• 33:04
  Speaker 12: on Facebook, you find a lot of, um, groups and
• 33:09
  Speaker 12: you'll see the mothers grieving mothers. I don't know why
• 33:12
  Speaker 12: that fell into my, um, algorithm, but that's, you know,
• 33:17
  Speaker 12: and I joined, I was joined on the groups, you know,
• 33:20
  Speaker 12: so I'm taking on their identity. I didn't have no
• 33:24
  Speaker 12: problems looking at, um, mortuary um videos and stuff with
• 33:32
  Speaker 12: how they embalm the body you know this is the
• 33:35
  Speaker 12: stuff that i was dealing with and i couldn't share
• 33:39
  Speaker 12: that with nobody else so i'm taking on all of
• 33:43
  Speaker 12: these identities and i forgot about myself and so um
• 33:52
  Speaker 12: you know i wanted to break free from that because
• 33:57
  Speaker 12: i know who my son was, and I know where
• 34:03
  Speaker 12: my son is resting at. He's resting in the bosom
• 34:07
  Speaker 12: of his father. And so it was like, Sinead, it's
• 34:14
  Speaker 12: time for you to get back to living. You have
• 34:18
  Speaker 12: to live. So when I went to, after, now we
• 34:24
  Speaker 12: in between the books.
• 34:26
  Speaker 13: I just finished reading.
• 34:28
  Speaker 12: The rebirth book I went to to Denver I flew
• 34:34
  Speaker 12: to Denver because you know my husband is incarcerated wrongfully
• 34:38
  Speaker 12: out there that's a whole other subject and his bishop
• 34:43
  Speaker 12: was doing his mass baptism they didn't want to baptize
• 34:50
  Speaker 12: in a church they wanted to go to we went
• 34:53
  Speaker 12: to a reservoir in Denver And I said, you know what?
• 35:01
  Speaker 12: I just came off of doing the rebirth. Now it's
• 35:07
  Speaker 12: really time for me to be rebirthed. I can't go
• 35:12
  Speaker 12: back in the womb, but I can be rebirthed. So
• 35:18
  Speaker 12: I went July 20th. I rededicated myself to the Lord,
• 35:23
  Speaker 12: to God. And I was reborn again. And I felt
• 35:27
  Speaker 12: his spirit fall on me. And this felt good to
• 35:33
  Speaker 12: finish the faith after the fall because I changed my identity.
• 35:41
  Speaker 12: And I related to Naomi and Ruth 1 and 20.
• 35:47
  Speaker 12: When Naomi said, don't call me Naomi, call me Marta
• 35:52
  Speaker 12: because God has dealt with me bitterly. And if you
• 35:56
  Speaker 12: guys know what she was referring to, she lost her
• 36:00
  Speaker 12: husband and her son and she changed who she was.
• 36:05
  Speaker 12: And God asked her, who told you to change your name?
• 36:12
  Speaker 12: That ain't what, that ain't who I called you to be.
• 36:16
  Speaker 12: And so God told me, he spoke to me through
• 36:20
  Speaker 12: that message. And I changed my name. So now I'm
• 36:30
  Speaker 12: re-changing my name to who God called me to be.
• 36:36
  Speaker 12: And so that's the reason why I said yes, because
• 36:39
  Speaker 12: I don't want a mother or a father to forget
• 36:46
  Speaker 12: their identity that who God chose you to be because
• 36:51
  Speaker 12: we're on assignment.
• 36:53
  Speaker 19: Yes.
• 36:54
  Speaker 12: And I don't want them to go like I went looking.
• 36:59
  Speaker 12: You know, boy, because I'm telling you, I can look
• 37:02
  Speaker 12: at stuff from the morgue. You know, all that stuff
• 37:06
  Speaker 12: I never could look at because I was afraid of.
• 37:09
  Speaker 12: But I opened the door for Satan. I gave Satan
• 37:12
  Speaker 12: a way to come in to change me. I walked
• 37:16
  Speaker 12: away from fellowship. And I had to get back. toward
• 37:25
  Speaker 12: to who God who I was meant to be in
• 37:29
  Speaker 12: God and that is I was he said I'm perfectly
• 37:35
  Speaker 12: made he said I'm seated in a royal priesthood I
• 37:41
  Speaker 12: am the daughter of the most high that's who Sinead
• 37:47
  Speaker 12: is I am a warrior yes ma'am and so That's
• 37:54
  Speaker 12: the reason why I said yes. And Trevita, I am
• 37:58
  Speaker 12: so thankful to you for allowing me to participate among
• 38:03
  Speaker 12: these wonderful authors. And Angela, I thank you for constantly
• 38:09
  Speaker 12: pushing me. If you want somebody, a younger sister to
• 38:13
  Speaker 12: whoop on you, talk to Angela. Cause your boy, she would, she,
• 38:18
  Speaker 12: she know how to say some things to you and
• 38:21
  Speaker 12: she ain't knowing that she's talking to your spirit. But, yeah,
• 38:24
  Speaker 12: she know how to say some things. I'm sorry I
• 38:27
  Speaker 12: can't stay with you guys longer, but I will be
• 38:29
  Speaker 12: listening to you. I have to get ready to go
• 38:32
  Speaker 12: to work tonight. I work two jobs. I go to
• 38:35
  Speaker 12: two schools. And I'm a mother of four. My son,
• 38:42
  Speaker 12: my only son, passed away. I have four grandsons. And
• 38:46
  Speaker 12: I do a podcast called Let's Talk About It with
• 38:49
  Speaker 12: Angela on Wrongful Convictions. You guys, don't never forget your identity.
• 38:56
  Speaker 12: Stay on your assignment. What God has for you is
• 39:01
  Speaker 12: for you.
• 39:03
  Speaker 6: Yes, ma'am.
• 39:04
  Speaker 12: To God be the glory. That's all I can say.
• 39:07
  Speaker 3: Yes, ma'am. I thank you for saying yes. And I
• 39:12
  Speaker 3: thank you for your testimony tonight. And anyone who picks
• 39:17
  Speaker 3: up this book and reads your testimony inside this book,
• 39:21
  Speaker 3: is going to be moved by it.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: Trust and believe, because I know I was just.
• 39:27
  Speaker 3: Reading it and editing and doing all of that with
• 39:31
  Speaker 3: all of you guys' story. You know, I had to,
• 39:35
  Speaker 3: some days, I'll be honest, I had to put it
• 39:37
  Speaker 3: down while I was editing so that I could get
• 39:40
  Speaker 3: myself together so that I can see to do what
• 39:43
  Speaker 3: I was doing because the tears were there. And so,
• 39:46
  Speaker 3: you know, it's a beautiful experience and I'm grateful to
• 39:50
  Speaker 3: each and every person who shared their most vulnerable moments
• 39:54
  Speaker 3: with me and allowed me to put this in a
• 39:57
  Speaker 3: book for others to be able to see the power
• 40:00
  Speaker 3: that God has if you just be obedient and trust
• 40:03
  Speaker 3: him to move in your life.
• 40:05
  Speaker 7: Now, I got a couple of questions that I want
• 40:07
  Speaker 7: to ask.
• 40:09
  Speaker 3: As a group and whoever wants to answer first, just
• 40:13
  Speaker 3: go ahead and answer.
• 40:14
  Speaker 7: But the first question.
• 40:18
  Speaker 3: Yes, OK honey, go ahead.
• 40:20
  Speaker 7: We we need we need.
• 40:22
  Speaker 3: Joe introduction and why you see.
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: Mm hmm.
• 41:16
  Speaker 3: Well I thank you for saying yes because it's not
• 41:19
  Speaker 3: always easy to say yes and to open yourself up
• 41:23
  Speaker 3: to be vulnerable for other people and to put yourself
• 41:28
  Speaker 3: in that space I say thank you to everybody my
• 41:32
  Speaker 3: question is Have you ever experienced a season of preparation
• 41:38
  Speaker 3: that felt like punishment?
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: I have.
• 41:45
  Speaker 5: I can say that I have.
• 41:48
  Speaker 20: During my separation and divorce, I felt like maybe I
• 41:55
  Speaker 20: was supposed to be by myself for the rest of
• 41:57
  Speaker 20: my life. It was instilled in my head that Nobody
• 42:04
  Speaker 20: would want me because of a disability. And that took
• 42:08
  Speaker 20: me to a place of thinking back to my adoption.
• 42:13
  Speaker 20: You know, thinking, you know, maybe that's the truth because
• 42:17
  Speaker 20: my biological parents gave me up for adoption. And just,
• 42:22
  Speaker 20: you know, maybe I'm just too much to handle. But
• 42:26
  Speaker 20: God told me that I am enough.
• 42:30
  Speaker 12: Oh, goodness.
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: Yeah.
• 42:32
  Speaker 20: God said that I'm enough and you know, that's, that's
• 42:34
  Speaker 20: something that I take with me.
• 42:37
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 42:38
  Speaker 3: Anybody else want to answer that.
• 42:42
  Speaker 12: One?
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll answer that. Uh, I feel like I'm currently
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: been in it for a while.
• 42:47
  Speaker 7: Okay.
• 42:48
  Speaker 13: Okay.
• 42:49
  Speaker 6: I was, uh, uh, like Latonya, I was married as well,
• 42:52
  Speaker 6: but I was married for almost 21 years.
• 42:53
  Speaker 14: I was with them for almost 25 years.
• 42:56
  Speaker 6: Got out of the marriage, uh, And in November 17th,
• 43:00
  Speaker 6: which is ironic.
• 43:02
  Speaker 14: Because that was actually the date my mom, my adopted
• 43:04
  Speaker 14: mom passed.
• 43:05
  Speaker 6: It was like God and mom had a discussion until
• 43:07
  Speaker 6: we sent her out. Okay, okay.
• 43:10
  Speaker 14: But it also turned out that I was also sick
• 43:13
  Speaker 14: and didn't know it. I was busy being a nurse,
• 43:16
  Speaker 14: a caregiver and all of that. And God said, yeah,
• 43:19
  Speaker 14: that's enough. And one day he told me, it's over.
• 43:21
  Speaker 3: It's over.
• 43:23
  Speaker 17: I mean, it's over.
• 43:24
  Speaker 6: And he said, it's over. And he told my husband's
• 43:28
  Speaker 6: face across my eyes. And I said, not my marriage.
• 43:31
  Speaker 6: There's no way. I said, did you honor marriage? He said,
• 43:34
  Speaker 6: I honored those I put together. I didn't put y'all together.
• 43:37
  Speaker 7: It was so time to go.
• 43:38
  Speaker 3: That's a hard pill to swallow, too.
• 43:41
  Speaker 7: And that's a deadly one.
• 43:45
  Speaker 3: But that's always a thing that you have to be
• 43:47
  Speaker 3: mindful of.
• 43:49
  Speaker 7: If God is putting you together, there is no, no.
• 43:52
  Speaker 12: Yes.
• 43:53
  Speaker 3: No signs and signals. There's no hesitation. There's none of
• 43:56
  Speaker 3: those things.
• 43:58
  Speaker 14: And then when we got together, I had just lost
• 44:00
  Speaker 14: my adoptive mom.
• 44:01
  Speaker 6: So I was really still grieving. So when I.
• 44:05
  Speaker 14: Got with him, I was still in the grief mode.
• 44:08
  Speaker 14: And the Lord told me, he said, I kept you
• 44:10
  Speaker 14: all together because you kept praying. So you stopped praying.
• 44:12
  Speaker 14: I had stopped praying for like three years because I
• 44:14
  Speaker 14: wasn't your wife.
• 44:15
  Speaker 6: I was a nurse.
• 44:16
  Speaker 7: I wasn't your daughter's cook.
• 44:17
  Speaker 6: I wasn't your wife. So why am I going to
• 44:19
  Speaker 6: pray for a marriage that I really didn't feel like
• 44:20
  Speaker 6: I was in it? So, obviously, what I got to now,
• 44:23
  Speaker 6: I can tell you, it's really going down.
• 44:25
  Speaker 14: That was my walk of faith. I had never done that.
• 44:27
  Speaker 14: I flew two planes and had a broken stunt and
• 44:30
  Speaker 14: was not supposed to fly.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: Yeah, that's not.
• 44:33
  Speaker 6: I was not supposed to fly.
• 44:36
  Speaker 3: But God was in the midst of that.
• 44:38
  Speaker 7: God was in the midst of a situation.
• 44:40
  Speaker 3: If you trust and believe, because I know that all
• 44:44
  Speaker 3: too well. Just even with the situation with my children
• 44:48
  Speaker 3: just recently as they were coming back from the beach.
• 44:51
  Speaker 3: And they had a tiger to blow out.
• 44:54
  Speaker 7: From the time my son first called.
• 44:57
  Speaker 3: Me at 1 a.m., the first thing I began to
• 45:01
  Speaker 3: do was pray. And when I tell you, I prayed
• 45:04
  Speaker 3: until I got to my children. And the thing of
• 45:08
  Speaker 3: that is they said that they had two sheriff's officers
• 45:17
  Speaker 3: or whatever. Drive past them, did not offer them any
• 45:21
  Speaker 3: assistance or anything. And my prayer was, God, do not,
• 45:26
  Speaker 3: because they were in the, in my opinion, it probably
• 45:32
  Speaker 3: may have been a little sundown town or whatever. But
• 45:35
  Speaker 3: I prayed and I was like, God, don't let my
• 45:39
  Speaker 3: children be harassed by the police. Keep them safe and
• 45:43
  Speaker 3: keep them protected until I'm able to get there. And
• 45:46
  Speaker 3: when I got there, it was a sheriff's officer that
• 45:50
  Speaker 3: literally drove past us, staring back out of his window,
• 45:55
  Speaker 3: looking at us. Did not stop. Did not ask, you know, anything.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: But I know God covered and protected my children. Because
• 46:03
  Speaker 3: it wasn't until 630 the next morning until I could
• 46:08
  Speaker 3: get to them. And they were safe and they were protected.
• 46:12
  Speaker 3: But I know God covered my children.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: So.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: If you believe in God and you trust him, he's
• 46:20
  Speaker 3: going to answer your prayers and he's going to keep
• 46:22
  Speaker 3: you covered, even in the midst. The problem is we
• 46:26
  Speaker 3: get so hung up on when things go wrong in
• 46:29
  Speaker 3: our lives, we automatically assume that that's the devil attacking us.
• 46:33
  Speaker 3: And nine times out of ten, it's the result of
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: the decisions that we've made and we put ourselves in them.
• 46:39
  Speaker 3: And then we want to blame the devil. No, you
• 46:42
  Speaker 3: can't blame the devil for that.
• 46:43
  Speaker 7: You made that choice.
• 46:44
  Speaker 3: Just like when we put stuff into our GPS and
• 46:47
  Speaker 3: it is rerouted. We have gone the wrong direction. God
• 46:51
  Speaker 3: did not even put us in that direction. We think
• 46:54
  Speaker 3: that we know better than him sometimes. And it's like rerouted.
• 46:58
  Speaker 3: I said, I didn't tell you to go that way.
• 47:00
  Speaker 3: You chose your free will and you did it anyway.
• 47:02
  Speaker 3: So now you got to deal with the consequences of that.
• 47:05
  Speaker 3: I'm still going to be here, but I'm going to
• 47:07
  Speaker 3: be reprimanded because I told you not to do it
• 47:09
  Speaker 3: in the first place.
• 47:10
  Speaker 7: So it's one of those situations. Guys, GPS is never wrong.
• 47:14
  Speaker 3: He's going to get you to your destination. You just
• 47:16
  Speaker 3: got to trust and believe that the way he's taking
• 47:19
  Speaker 3: you is the way that you don't have to go.
• 47:21
  Speaker 3: Is it going to be a straight path? Absolutely not.
• 47:24
  Speaker 3: Because when you're praying and asking God for something, he's praying,
• 47:27
  Speaker 3: he's he's preparing the situation for you. And some of
• 47:31
  Speaker 3: those hard situations are giving you the lessons and the
• 47:34
  Speaker 3: tools that you need to get through. And to be
• 47:36
  Speaker 3: on the level that he's preparing you for. And so
• 47:39
  Speaker 3: if you're not paying attention, you think, oh, the devil
• 47:42
  Speaker 3: just attacking me. No, that's your preparation for the prayer
• 47:45
  Speaker 3: that you pray and that you ask God for. And
• 47:48
  Speaker 3: in order for him to give you where you gotta go,
• 47:51
  Speaker 3: it's a thing that I say, pray, prepare, and position.
• 47:54
  Speaker 3: God is preparing you for the position that you pray for.
• 47:57
  Speaker 3: But if you're not in the mood to get to
• 48:00
  Speaker 3: where you want God to take you, then stop praying
• 48:03
  Speaker 3: and asking him for it. Because God is God all
• 48:05
  Speaker 3: by himself. He don't need nothing from us but obedience.
• 48:09
  Speaker 3: And when we're obedient to what he's telling us to do,
• 48:11
  Speaker 3: we're going to arrive at the destination that he has
• 48:14
  Speaker 3: with our names on it. Because he gave you the vision,
• 48:17
  Speaker 3: he's going to give you the provisions and the plans
• 48:19
  Speaker 3: to get there. We just got to be obedient and
• 48:22
  Speaker 3: do what God said to do.
• 48:23
  Speaker 7: All right, y'all.
• 48:25
  Speaker 6: Come on, Tess. You better go ahead and.
• 48:27
  Speaker 3: Test us out.
• 48:28
  Speaker 13: Preach, ma'am. Preach.
• 48:31
  Speaker 6: Advantage is in the building.
• 48:35
  Speaker 9: That comes with understanding that God already knows everything that
• 48:40
  Speaker 9: we're going to endure. And if we are really believers
• 48:43
  Speaker 9: of the word and we read the word, it's in there.
• 48:47
  Speaker 5: You know, everything that we're going to endure.
• 48:49
  Speaker 9: We have to understand that the things that the people
• 48:52
  Speaker 9: in the Bible days endure, we're going to endure those
• 48:55
  Speaker 9: similar things in our way because we have a journey.
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: So we're going to endure those things. But he's given
• 49:02
  Speaker 9: us the blueprint. He's given us things that we can
• 49:05
  Speaker 9: apply to our lives, those things that we can activate.
• 49:08
  Speaker 9: That's why it's important that we pray. It is important
• 49:11
  Speaker 9: that we fast. It is important that we spend time
• 49:15
  Speaker 9: with Him to listen and to hear. See, some of us,
• 49:17
  Speaker 9: we get ahead of Him. because we want to do
• 49:20
  Speaker 9: a free will and we get ahead of Him. So
• 49:23
  Speaker 9: sometimes we have to go through those things. And then,
• 49:26
  Speaker 9: Like Job, he knew what Job could bear. He knew
• 49:30
  Speaker 9: that no matter what he went through, Job was not
• 49:33
  Speaker 9: going to turn his back on God. So he would
• 49:37
  Speaker 9: allow us to have those Job experiences just so that
• 49:40
  Speaker 9: we can get to who he has already called us
• 49:44
  Speaker 9: to be, who he's already mapped out. Jeremiah 29 and
• 49:47
  Speaker 9: 11 say he declared that.
• 49:49
  Speaker 5: I mean, he had a plan for us.
• 49:51
  Speaker 9: It was impossible for us not to harm us, but
• 49:54
  Speaker 9: for us to have hope in the future. Now, hope
• 49:55
  Speaker 9: in the future.
• 49:56
  Speaker 12: Lies in Him.
• 49:57
  Speaker 9: But we have to learn how to trust Him. And
• 49:59
  Speaker 9: we have to learn how to listen to Him. But
• 50:02
  Speaker 9: sometimes we'll pray. We get the answer because He.
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: Hears our prayers and He answers them.
• 50:10
  Speaker 9: But the answers don't always be what we want. So, oh,
• 50:14
  Speaker 9: the enemy coming against us, this and this and this.
• 50:16
  Speaker 9: But just listen. Be patient and listen. Sometimes we'll pray
• 50:22
  Speaker 9: and get right up and go on about our day
• 50:24
  Speaker 9: instead of just.
• 50:24
  Speaker 5: Taking a moment to listen and allow him to lead, guide,
• 50:29
  Speaker 5: and direct us.
• 50:30
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 50:31
  Speaker 9: Because he already told us that he would never leave
• 50:34
  Speaker 9: us nor forsake us.
• 50:36
  Speaker 5: We got everything we need.
• 50:37
  Speaker 9: In Genesis 2 and 7, when he breathed that breath
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: of life into us, everything we needed was deposited in us.
• 50:44
  Speaker 9: Ain't nothing that we can experience or anything that we
• 50:46
  Speaker 9: can go through that we're not equipped for. That's why
• 50:51
  Speaker 9: he give us gifts and talents. We got to learn
• 50:54
  Speaker 9: how to tap into us. He said he made us
• 50:57
  Speaker 9: in his image.
• 50:58
  Speaker 5: So if he made us in.
• 50:59
  Speaker 13: His image, guess what?
• 51:01
  Speaker 5: Everything. He spoke things into existence.
• 51:04
  Speaker 9: We got to be able to speak to that mountain
• 51:06
  Speaker 9: and let that mountain be moved. We got to stop
• 51:09
  Speaker 9: trying to overtake the mountain. We got to stop trying
• 51:12
  Speaker 9: to climb the mountain. Because when we start trying to
• 51:15
  Speaker 9: do all these different things, that's when things start happening.
• 51:19
  Speaker 10: Yep.
• 51:20
  Speaker 5: We just got to trust him and know that he'll
• 51:22
  Speaker 5: never fail us. He will never fail us. We always
• 51:27
  Speaker 5: got to have faith. We always got to have faith.
• 51:31
  Speaker 3: One question that I have for everybody and that is
• 51:35
  Speaker 3: before we get ready to close out. What would you
• 51:38
  Speaker 3: say to someone who believes that their past has disqualified
• 51:42
  Speaker 3: them in wherever they are in their life right now?
• 51:48
  Speaker 3: If they're going through a hard season and they feel
• 51:51
  Speaker 3: like they can't even get to the next phase because
• 51:56
  Speaker 3: they feel stuck and they feel like they're disqualified, what
• 51:59
  Speaker 3: would you say? What advice would you give to them?
• 52:02
  Speaker 3: Because as we know, the fall didn't finish us. God
• 52:06
  Speaker 3: rebuilt us during that time. So this is a question
• 52:10
  Speaker 3: for everybody. I want everybody to answer.
• 52:12
  Speaker 5: One by one. Everybody needs to answer that one.
• 52:15
  Speaker 20: Your yesterday does not define your tomorrow. There's that time
• 52:22
  Speaker 20: in between where God is working and doing a work
• 52:25
  Speaker 20: within you. And if you're just doing as he demands
• 52:31
  Speaker 20: of you, then you'll get to where you need to be.
• 52:36
  Speaker 20: You know, your past does not define you. You You
• 52:40
  Speaker 20: have so much more ahead of you and you can't
• 52:42
  Speaker 20: just wallow in what was. You have to pick up
• 52:47
  Speaker 20: the pieces and move forward.
• 52:52
  Speaker 19: It goes back to embracing your process. A lot of
• 52:55
  Speaker 19: people are afraid to embrace their process. A lot of
• 52:57
  Speaker 19: people are afraid to be vulnerable. I got a client
• 53:00
  Speaker 19: in their whirlwind right now too, but I constantly continue
• 53:03
  Speaker 19: to encourage her. Your darkness ain't defining your character. You
• 53:08
  Speaker 19: got to push through. You got more life in front
• 53:11
  Speaker 19: of you than behind you. So you got to live
• 53:14
  Speaker 19: each day. Stay focused. I've had my dark days where
• 53:17
  Speaker 19: I didn't feel like doing nothing. But I had to
• 53:21
  Speaker 19: remember that it's a whole lot of people depending on me.
• 53:23
  Speaker 19: So I got to keep it moving.
• 53:24
  Speaker 13: Got to keep pushing.
• 53:29
  Speaker 10: I would say that the first gift he gave me
• 53:33
  Speaker 10: was a fight. I was fighting for my life.
• 53:36
  Speaker 6: Yeah.
• 53:37
  Speaker 10: And that fighter never died. That's what he built me
• 53:41
  Speaker 10: to do, was to fight. And I'm still in the
• 53:44
  Speaker 10: fight right now. You know, sometimes even, you know, me
• 53:50
  Speaker 10: trying to talk to somebody or tell somebody, you know,
• 53:55
  Speaker 10: about how to get through. I'm still going, do I
• 53:58
  Speaker 10: go through every day? This, the battle that I go
• 54:01
  Speaker 10: through every day.
• 54:02
  Speaker 5: I.
• 54:04
  Speaker 10: Notice it every day, right?
• 54:06
  Speaker 6: So.
• 54:07
  Speaker 10: You read my chapter, you'll understand what I mean. So
• 54:13
  Speaker 10: the fight, just fight. Don't give up. The fight is
• 54:18
  Speaker 10: not just about you. Like somebody said, the fight is
• 54:22
  Speaker 10: really for other people. What we did in this book
• 54:26
  Speaker 10: is for other people. It's not for ourselves. Now you
• 54:29
  Speaker 10: can't heal from being able to speak about what you've
• 54:33
  Speaker 10: been through, the things that you've overcame, and how you
• 54:38
  Speaker 10: feel in the midst of it. But literally going through
• 54:42
  Speaker 10: it has never been for us or about us. It
• 54:45
  Speaker 10: has always been about his will and to help his people.
• 54:54
  Speaker 5: Next.
• 55:05
  Speaker 6: Mm-hmm.
• 55:09
  Speaker 12: He knew everything that you was going to go through
• 55:14
  Speaker 12: before he blew the breath into your lungs. While he
• 55:18
  Speaker 12: was molding you and shaping you and talking to you,
• 55:23
  Speaker 12: you got to remember that.
• 55:27
  Speaker 5: He knows everything.
• 55:29
  Speaker 12: He knows the beginning and he knows the end. We
• 55:33
  Speaker 12: just don't know. Just hold on. It's just like a
• 55:39
  Speaker 12: plane up in the air and you hit some turbulence.
• 55:43
  Speaker 12: Hold on because you're going to come in on a
• 55:47
  Speaker 12: smooth landing because God got you. He has us. And
• 55:51
  Speaker 12: that's what I forgot when I laid my son to rest.
• 55:58
  Speaker 12: My journey is still beginning. I'm still on assignment. I
• 56:04
  Speaker 12: don't know what tomorrow may hold. But I know I'm
• 56:08
  Speaker 12: going to keep running to see what my outcome comes.
• 56:13
  Speaker 12: What God has for me, I'm going to keep running
• 56:17
  Speaker 12: because I'm going to the finish line all the way.
• 56:28
  Speaker 3: Who's next?
• 56:29
  Speaker 6: Well, I'll just say that as somebody with a.
• 56:32
  Speaker 14: Disability as well as Tanya and wanting to unalive myself,
• 56:37
  Speaker 14: Many times.
• 56:39
  Speaker 6: I know that God had a plan for me. And
• 56:41
  Speaker 6: I know that the very, very last time I tried
• 56:43
  Speaker 6: to do that, the father said, no, because I love you.
• 56:48
  Speaker 6: The father loves you.
• 56:49
  Speaker 14: If you were the only one to believe of Jesus,
• 56:53
  Speaker 14: he would have still came and died for you. That's
• 56:55
  Speaker 14: how much he loves you. That's how much he cares
• 56:58
  Speaker 14: about you. So you got to keep going. You got
• 57:01
  Speaker 14: to keep fighting. You got to keep letting God use
• 57:04
  Speaker 14: you because he gets the glory.
• 57:06
  Speaker 6: Out of it.
• 57:06
  Speaker 14: It's not about us. It's not about what we feel
• 57:10
  Speaker 14: about us. It's not about if we're going to be obedient,
• 57:12
  Speaker 14: we got to be obedient fully. Even if we have questions,
• 57:16
  Speaker 14: we still got to be obedient fully.
• 57:17
  Speaker 6: Because why?
• 57:18
  Speaker 14: Because God knows it from the other side of our obedience.
• 57:21
  Speaker 14: And so being obedient is what he's calling us to do.
• 57:25
  Speaker 6: He loves you.
• 57:26
  Speaker 14: He wants you to have the best life you can have.
• 57:30
  Speaker 14: But he wants the life that he planned for you,
• 57:32
  Speaker 14: not the one he planned for yourself. Because it might
• 57:35
  Speaker 14: not go the way you think it's going to go.
• 57:37
  Speaker 14: So trust and believe that God's got you. He loves you.
• 57:41
  Speaker 14: And there's nothing in this world you can't do. I
• 57:44
  Speaker 14: am a disabled child currently getting ready to get my
• 57:46
  Speaker 14: associate's degree in business administration. There is nothing you can do.
• 57:51
  Speaker 14: I was a child left in the hospital, a baby left.
• 57:54
  Speaker 14: Nobody wanted me at the time. So I know that
• 57:58
  Speaker 14: God had a.
• 57:59
  Speaker 6: Plan for me.
• 58:00
  Speaker 14: God had a serious plan for my life. And I'm
• 58:02
  Speaker 14: thankful that I'm still here because There were many times
• 58:05
  Speaker 14: I didn't know if I'd even be here. I'm almost
• 58:07
  Speaker 14: 50 years old.
• 58:08
  Speaker 6: Almost 50. I didn't think I'd be here. So I'm thankful.
• 58:24
  Speaker 10: What this, just being on here tonight did, I'm going
• 58:29
  Speaker 10: to be honest with you.
• 58:31
  Speaker 5: Um it took a lot for me to come back.
• 58:34
  Speaker 10: And be on this like just you know what i'm
• 58:36
  Speaker 10: saying like this it took a lot and i want
• 58:41
  Speaker 10: to thank you because i think that this was what
• 58:45
  Speaker 10: i needed to to do you know what i'm saying
• 58:49
  Speaker 10: this this is pulling me back into my purpose it's
• 58:52
  Speaker 10: helping me to understand more and more even talking to
• 58:56
  Speaker 10: you of course but you know what i mean yeah
• 58:59
  Speaker 10: you know this is helping me to understand my purpose
• 59:03
  Speaker 10: more because i fell back and i was like maybe
• 59:07
  Speaker 10: it's not right maybe this ain't what I'm supposed to
• 59:11
  Speaker 10: be doing. Maybe I kept second guessing. I've been second
• 59:14
  Speaker 10: guessing for.
• 59:15
  Speaker 13: A minute now.
• 59:16
  Speaker 3: So yeah, thank you so much.
• 59:19
  Speaker 10: Thank you for asking me about this, meaning the book
• 59:22
  Speaker 10: and also asking me to be present here on the podcast.
• 59:26
  Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
• 59:26
  Speaker 6: Absolutely.
• 59:28
  Speaker 3: Absolutely. OK, I'm just going to go ahead and say
• 59:37
  Speaker 3: this to close out so that we don't go too
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: far over in time. The one thing that I want
• 59:45
  Speaker 3: people to take from when they pick up this book
• 59:48
  Speaker 3: and they get to reading that you're never disqualified. God
• 59:53
  Speaker 3: has gave you everything that you have ever needed. Man's
• 59:57
  Speaker 3: word has no power unless you give it the power
• 1:00:02
  Speaker 3: over God's word. God is going to lead you and
• 1:00:05
  Speaker 3: he's going to prosper you if you allow him into
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 3: your space. The problem is you're saying that you can't
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 3: hear from God, but have you actually sit and be
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 3: still so that you can hear when he's speaking to you?
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 3: Because God is not going to bombard his way into
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 3: your life.
• 1:00:23
  Speaker 7: He wants an invitation.
• 1:00:25
  Speaker 3: And when you invite him in, he's going to come
• 1:00:28
  Speaker 3: in and he's going to do what he has been
• 1:00:32
  Speaker 3: trying to do from the beginning. Those prayers that you
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 3: have been praying and saying, God didn't hear me. God
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 3: didn't hear me. God heard every prayer that you pray.
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 3: Even the silent ones. He hears your thoughts. He knows
• 1:00:44
  Speaker 3: what you're going through. He knows what you're going to
• 1:00:47
  Speaker 3: go through. He knows it all. But you have to
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 3: be willing to allow him into your life. and to
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 3: be obedient to what he's telling you to do. Everything
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 3: that I have always said and done has.
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 7: Been connected to what God has told me to do.
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 3: Everything about who I am is because of what God said.
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 3: The name of this podcast, Believe in the Journey, God
• 1:01:14
  Speaker 3: gave me that. The name of my business, Wings of Transformation,
• 1:01:18
  Speaker 3: That is what God gave me, and I was using
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 3: both of those without any idea of God using those
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 3: to connect what I am doing. I'm a shy person,
• 1:01:29
  Speaker 3: but nobody believes that I'm shy in any capacity because
• 1:01:33
  Speaker 3: they believe that I'm going to talk to anybody at
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 3: any space. And this was not something I wanted to do.
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 3: But as I started to understand, because people were coming
• 1:01:43
  Speaker 3: to me to tell me their stories, and I'd be
• 1:01:45
  Speaker 3: trying to sit in my space and talk. have the meanest, nonchalant,
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 3: please don't come bothering me, please don't come talking to
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 3: me kind of face. And they still come and share
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 3: their whole story with me. And I'm like, God, look here,
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 3: what you trying to do? I don't want to talk
• 1:02:00
  Speaker 3: to these people. I'm over here in this space trying
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 3: to stay as small as I am and mind my business,
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 3: but you putting me in their business. You know, I've
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 3: learned that when God wants you, it don't matter what
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 3: man says about you. God is going to qualify you
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 3: for every position he puts you in. So continue to
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 3: trust him. Continue to know that you are not unworthy.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 3: You are qualified to do whatever God says. And your
• 1:02:28
  Speaker 3: name is being mentioned in rooms and spaces and places
• 1:02:31
  Speaker 3: that you have yet to walk into. You just have
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 3: to be obedient and say, God, I'm going to show up.
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 3: Whatever you send me, I will go. And when you
• 1:02:40
  Speaker 3: do that, you are always going to be where God
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 3: is calling you to be. I had somebody get upset
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 3: with me because I said, listen, if God didn't put
• 1:02:49
  Speaker 3: it on my calendar, it ain't for me. And they're like,
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 3: what do you mean? If God didn't put it on
• 1:02:54
  Speaker 3: my calendar, it ain't for me. And if something happens
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 3: and I don't show up, it's because God didn't put
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 3: it on my schedule. So I'm never going to be
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 3: out of place. I'm always going to be where God
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 3: calls me to be in the time when.
• 1:03:09
  Speaker 7: He calls me.
• 1:03:10
  Speaker 3: So I'm going to close this by saying what I
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 3: always say, and that is stay out of God's business.
• 1:03:19
  Speaker 3: The only thing he needs you to do is be
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 3: obedient to what he's called you to do. I thank
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 3: each and every one of you for saying yes, for
• 1:03:26
  Speaker 3: being part of this anthology. And I thank me for
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 3: saying yes, even when I wanted to say no. But
• 1:03:32
  Speaker 3: God would not let me say no. I could say it,
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 3: but it didn't mean a doggone.
• 1:03:37
  Speaker 10: Thing to him.
• 1:03:38
  Speaker 7: Because he was like, I heard you. But you did
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 7: what I said do.
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 3: And I am grateful because it has been a true blessing.
• 1:03:48
  Speaker 3: And for each and every one of you who said
• 1:03:51
  Speaker 3: yes and shared your stories and entrusting me to bring
• 1:03:57
  Speaker 3: what you brought.
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 7: So that the next person can see you. That their fall.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 10: She went up.
• 1:04:09
  Speaker 13: You went out.
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 12: Up.
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 13: You back up.
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 5: That last sentence. We missed it.
• 1:04:18
  Speaker 3: I said just trust God. Because he knows exactly.
• 1:04:22
  Speaker 7: Where he's positioning you to be.
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 3: So love where you are. And that fall.
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 7: Did not finish you. It is just your beginning. So
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 7: get up. I love y'all. Thank you.
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 15: Love you too.
• 1:04:37
  Speaker 10: Thank you.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 18: Thank you. Sova, Ace, Mauricio, Anthem for Trivita Harris. Inspired
• 1:04:50
  Speaker 18: by the life, voice, and mission of Trivita Harris. Author,
• 1:04:54
  Speaker 18: motivational speaker, privileged, stroke survivor, advocate, and host of the
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 18: Believe in the Journey podcast. Some people survive the storm,
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 18: but some become a lighthouse in it.
• 1:05:05
  Speaker 5: Some people carry scars.
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 13: But turn them into wings.
• 1:05:08
  Speaker 18: This is for the woman who kept rising, kept believing,
• 1:05:11
  Speaker 18: kept speaking life.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: Trivita Harris.
• 1:05:16
  Speaker 1: You remind us to believe in the journey.
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 18: She's got a story written deep within her soul. Pages
• 1:05:25
  Speaker 18: full of battles only heaven knows.
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 12: Through the pain, through the process.
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 13: Through the tears she had to cry.
• 1:05:31
  Speaker 5: She found strength in the valley and lifted her eyes.
• 1:05:35
  Speaker 18: South Carolina roots, but her voice travels wide. Calling dreamers forward, telling.
• 1:05:40
  Speaker 16: Fear to step side with every word she speaks somebody
• 1:05:43
  Speaker 16: learns to stand because she knows what it means to
• 1:05:47
  Speaker 16: be held in god's hand she could have stopped
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 18: When life got heavy could have bowed beneath the way
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 18: but grace gave her courage and purpose opened the gate
• 1:06:01
  Speaker 18: believe in the journey believe in the climb