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Let God Be Your Compass · Have A Little Faith with Delilah

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Speaker 1: Hello, my friend, how is your summer twenty twenty six going.
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Speaker 1: Are you having a good summer? The kids and I
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Speaker 1: I have five minor children at home now. The kids
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Speaker 1: and I have gotten into rock counting big time this year,
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Speaker 1: and we have been having so much fun waiting in
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Speaker 1: streams and going to beaches and looking for beautiful rocks.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes we get a little lost, sometimes we get a
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Speaker 1: little turned around when we're up on a mountain side
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Speaker 1: looking for geodes. But in life we need a compass,
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Speaker 1: we need a direction, We need a GPS that's not
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Speaker 1: going to fail. By the way, welcome to have a
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Speaker 1: little faith with Delilah. Today we're going to be talking
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Speaker 1: about the fact that for me, God is my compass.
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Speaker 1: He is my true north because we all get lost
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Speaker 1: sometimes in life, and for me, the Lord is my compass.
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Speaker 1: Not because he forces my every step, not at all.
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Speaker 1: Trust me. He gives me free rein. But he does
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Speaker 1: provide true direction. The compass, the thing you're using, the GPS,
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Speaker 1: whatever you are using to find your way when you're
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Speaker 1: driving or hiking, doesn't remove the mountain in front of you.
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Speaker 1: It doesn't stop the storms from hitting. Let me tell you,
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Speaker 1: we went on a three week rock hounding camping expedition, myself,
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Speaker 1: four other women, and eight kids, and we had to
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Speaker 1: abandon our original plans because of wildfire, storms, because of
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Speaker 1: a windstorm in Reno, because all these things were happening
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Speaker 1: that our original plans were changed. Having the plan didn't
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Speaker 1: stop the storms of the fires, didn't stop the roads
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Speaker 1: from being difficult. But having a plan or having a compass,
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Speaker 1: points us in the direction we need to be going,
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Speaker 1: no matter what the conditions are. In the same way,
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Speaker 1: when life is confusing or uncertain, or you're lost, having
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Speaker 1: faith in the Lord offers true north and can help
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Speaker 1: get you back on track. Circumstances might change, emotions may change,
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Speaker 1: storms may hit. The path ahead may not always be clear,
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Speaker 1: but God's direction, his guidance, remains consistent. He is everlasting
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Speaker 1: to everlasting, the Bible tells us he is the beginning,
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Speaker 1: the middle, in the end. He doesn't change. We might change,
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Speaker 1: Our circumstances might change, but God's leading, leading us on
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Speaker 1: the path of righteousness, leading us on the path of love,
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Speaker 1: doesn't change. Up first in our podcast today is Abigail.
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Speaker 1: She's a strange from her son right now, doesn't quite
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Speaker 1: know where to turn it is a complicated set of circumstances,
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Speaker 1: but let's let Abigail tell her own story. Abigail, welcome
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Speaker 1: to have a little faith. What is on your heart tonight?
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Speaker 2: Yes, requested for you to pick a song dedicated to
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Speaker 2: my teenage son who is angry with me right now.
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Speaker 3: He won't talk to me. Unfortunately, has been.
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Speaker 2: A long long it's a long story, but it's been
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Speaker 2: a while since he's start talking to me.
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Speaker 3: He doesn't live with me.
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Speaker 2: He lived with his father, who took him away from
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Speaker 2: me when he was eight years old, and that it
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Speaker 2: has been a really really.
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Speaker 3: Rough grow of years. Going to be seventeen.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so he has not lived with you since he
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Speaker 1: was small, but you had a relationship until when.
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Speaker 2: We had a relationship all the way, but it has
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Speaker 2: been really rough.
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Speaker 1: When did he decide he no longer wanted to communicate
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Speaker 1: with Mama Bear about.
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Speaker 2: A month ago. And we have a beautiful relationship. But
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Speaker 2: the things he was taken from me. I couldn't process
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Speaker 2: a lot of things. I still I can. I think
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Speaker 2: I feel like no, you know, I think it was
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Speaker 2: very unfair on just and everything happened gradually, he's going
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Speaker 2: to be transition I guess, and then he thinking his
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Speaker 2: mind that I abandoned him, which is not true at
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Speaker 2: all at all. Things got in this way. You know,
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Speaker 2: I'm just gonna have to trust God.
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Speaker 3: And I don't know.
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Speaker 2: Everybody told me, but my mother told me to just wait,
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Speaker 2: don't worry.
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Speaker 3: This is a stage.
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Speaker 2: He will know the truth eventually one day. But it's
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Speaker 2: harsh because we have a beautiful relationship. He's a very
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Speaker 2: good kids, he's a good young young man.
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Speaker 1: I can tell you here's the thing. The truth will
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Speaker 1: always come out. The truth will always win out. A
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Speaker 1: lie cannot be sustained forever. The truth will come out
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Speaker 1: and love will win.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I agree.
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Speaker 1: In the meantime, especially when we don't know what tomorrow brings.
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Speaker 1: We're not promised to tomorrow, and you want to make
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Speaker 1: sure that he knows that he knows that he knows
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Speaker 1: that he's loved. But if you've tried everything to show
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Speaker 1: that and to display that by your actions.
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Speaker 2: I have tried everything is love and we have a
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Speaker 2: beautiful The reality is that we have a beautiful relationship.
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Speaker 2: But there's a lot of things around and that Yes,
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Speaker 2: I believe that eventually the truth will come out, and
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Speaker 2: I see history repeating itself in my you know, like
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Speaker 2: in my life the same way, like I was taken
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Speaker 2: from my dad, and then I grew up with a lot.
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Speaker 3: Of resentment towards my dad.
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Speaker 2: And then before my dad passed, he tried to make
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Speaker 2: contact with me, but I was so resentful towards him
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Speaker 2: that I will not pay attention. And it turns out
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Speaker 2: that the truth came out, but it was too late.
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Speaker 2: My dad passed and I said to him, listen, I
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Speaker 2: don't want the same, you know, the same story repeating
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Speaker 2: itself again.
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Speaker 3: I'm here. I love you. Whenever you want to talk,
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Speaker 3: I am here.
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Speaker 2: You know, There's so much I can do because I
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Speaker 2: almost lost my mind. He was my baby, like I
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Speaker 2: was with him twenty four seven, homeschooling him and loving him.
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Speaker 2: I mean crazy, but I didn't see this coming, especially
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Speaker 2: from the person.
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Speaker 3: Whom I love.
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Speaker 2: I think he was the love of my life. He
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Speaker 2: actually was a love my life and hurt me in
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Speaker 2: this way. So I right now I feel known like
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Speaker 2: I have no feeling, and all I can do is
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Speaker 2: just trust God is that he will make everything work
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Speaker 2: for the good.
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Speaker 3: That's all I can That's all I can do.
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Speaker 1: But that's enough that right there what you just said,
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Speaker 1: all things work together for the good of those who
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Speaker 1: love the Lord. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Yes.
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Speaker 1: If you believe that, yes I do, then you have
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Speaker 1: to know that God is not going to rest until
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Speaker 1: this is resolved. God loves you, but he loves your
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Speaker 1: son even more. If you can believe that He loves
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Speaker 1: your son even more than you do, yes, and he
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Speaker 1: wants what's best for your son, and this division is
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Speaker 1: not what's best for your son. So God's going to
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Speaker 1: work it out somehow, some way.
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Speaker 3: I believe it.
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Speaker 2: I just hope that the story doesn't repeat I can.
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Speaker 2: You know, like my dad SATs and I didn't.
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Speaker 3: We were not able. He reached out for me so
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Speaker 3: many times.
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Speaker 1: You need to forgive yourself for that, because that fear
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Speaker 1: and that guilt and shame you're carrying towards yourself. You
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Speaker 1: know that your father's forgiven you. He's in heaven with
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Speaker 1: the Lord. Amen.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yes, yes, yes, he what's a good man.
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Speaker 1: You need to forgive yourself and stop that tape from
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Speaker 1: playing over and over and over in your head. You're
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Speaker 1: punishing yourself or you're thinking that this is your punishment
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Speaker 1: for making bad choices with your dad and not being
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Speaker 1: able to reconcile with your dad. But you need to
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Speaker 1: forgive yourself and then you need to ask God to
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Speaker 1: do a miracle so that this pattern will be broken.
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Speaker 4: I do, I do.
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Speaker 2: I actually pray every day every day. God, please find
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Speaker 2: a solution for this.
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Speaker 3: I thank you. I know you're going to do it.
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Speaker 3: I don't know how, but I know his going to
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Speaker 3: do it.
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Speaker 1: He is able, and he so wants families to be reconciled. Yes, division,
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Speaker 1: he doesn't want. Unforgiveness, he doesn't want. But it starts
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Speaker 1: with you forgiving yourself. It starts with you forgiving yourself.
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Speaker 1: Can you do that?
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Speaker 3: Yes? I can, forgive yourself.
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Speaker 1: Ask God to let your daddy know you're sorry, you
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Speaker 1: love him, You'll miss him, you'll see him in eternity,
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Speaker 1: and then say, okay, God, we don't want this pattern repeating.
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Speaker 1: Help my son, help me, help me figure out how
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Speaker 1: to bridge this gap if I can.
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Speaker 3: Okay, thank you so much for Elilah.
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Speaker 1: I know your son loves you, I know he misses you.
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Speaker 3: He's an amazing kid. I'm telling you she.
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Speaker 1: Is Abigail My best words of wisdom, or just focus
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Speaker 1: on your faith in God don't take your eyes or
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Speaker 1: your heart off of the True North. I'm praying for
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Speaker 1: you and your son. I'm praying for reconciliation. I'm praying
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Speaker 1: for healing and forgiveness. If you can manage to hold
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Speaker 1: on to your faith in these really difficult circumstances, God
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Speaker 1: will show you the way. He will. He will show
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Speaker 1: you a way. Hopefully that will bring about the healing,
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Speaker 1: the forgiveness, the reconciliation you are praying for, and if not,
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Speaker 1: He will give you peace in the midst of this heartache.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Ellilah, Oh, it is such a blessing to
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Speaker 2: speak to you.
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Speaker 3: Thank you so much.
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Speaker 1: The next call I want to share is from Dorothy.
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Speaker 1: This call resonates with me so much because I have
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Speaker 1: been where Dorothy is right now. Dorothy, welcome to have
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Speaker 1: a little faith.
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Speaker 5: Well, I'm kind of going through a breakup, but not
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Speaker 5: a romantic breakup. It's with my church that I've gone
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Speaker 5: to for sixteen years, and we don't have any family
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Speaker 5: where we live.
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Speaker 4: This has been our family.
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Speaker 3: And so it just we feel very, very shaken.
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Speaker 5: And the only hope I have is that it feels
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Speaker 5: like a breakup and I've had romantic breakups before, but
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Speaker 5: now I'm very happily married, So I know that there
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Speaker 5: will be another place that we can settle down as
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Speaker 5: a family and feel face and left. But right now,
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Speaker 5: in this moment, it really really hurts.
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Speaker 1: I know about that. I've been asked to leave churches
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Speaker 1: in the past. Uh huh, and the betrayal is real.
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Speaker 1: Like what can I ask? Is it a theological breakup?
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Speaker 1: Is it a difference of understanding the word of God?
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Speaker 1: Or is it like their rule keepers and you're a
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Speaker 1: rule breaker? Like what's the CrOx of it?
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Speaker 3: I think it depends on who you ask.
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Speaker 1: I'm asking you. No, they didn't call me.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 5: I made a Facebook post at the beginning of the
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Speaker 5: year and I just said, you know, I've been getting
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Speaker 5: really discouraged because I see people act one way at
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Speaker 5: church and then another way at home, and it's honestly
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Speaker 5: very tiring to me. Friends, we need to do better.
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Speaker 5: And so people at my church took as a direct
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Speaker 5: insult to my church, and I said, well, I was
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Speaker 5: kind of just generally talking about church in general, but
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Speaker 5: if you were offended by it, maybe there's a reason.
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Speaker 5: And so I was actually told to stop serving in
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Speaker 5: the worship team, and I was still told to come
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Speaker 5: to church and sit next to my husband, so I
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Speaker 5: did that, and we just received the letter yesterday that
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Speaker 5: said our family is no longer welcome at this church.
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Speaker 5: And it's just really confusing because our daughter was going
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Speaker 5: to go to kids camp next week and now I
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Speaker 5: don't know how to break it to her because I
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Speaker 5: don't want to ruin her for life for church. So
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Speaker 5: I'm just praying. But also I'm going to sit in
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Speaker 5: this hurt for a bit because it's very valid and
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Speaker 5: very real.
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Speaker 1: It is very valid, it is very real. But I
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Speaker 1: think God is doing you a huge favor. This is
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Speaker 1: such a gift, and right now you don't see it
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Speaker 1: as that. But can I tell you what I see
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Speaker 1: just in the two minutes and fifty four seconds that
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Speaker 1: you shared that with me, Can I tell you what's
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Speaker 1: really happening? Yeah, what's really happening is you are a
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Speaker 1: faithful person. You are the kind of person that if
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Speaker 1: you and I were friends and I told you my deepest,
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Speaker 1: darkest secret and if I was doing something I shouldn't
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Speaker 1: be doing, you would lovingly hold me accountable, but you
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Speaker 1: would not stop loving me, because you are a faithful
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Speaker 1: committed person. And because you are that way, you are
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Speaker 1: committed to this organization, this group, this building, these people.
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Speaker 1: You are, your husband is, your kids are. And if
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Speaker 1: a meteorite struck that building and burned it to the ground,
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Speaker 1: you would be the first person there rebuilding with your
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Speaker 1: saw and your tool and your hammer. And so God
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Speaker 1: knows that about you, and he knows that you would
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Speaker 1: never voluntarily choose to walk out those doors and not
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Speaker 1: walk back in right. And because he knows that there
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Speaker 1: is a better place for you and your family, he
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Speaker 1: sadly had to grab you by the arm and walk
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Speaker 1: you out the door and then close the door behind you,
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Speaker 1: knowing you would say no, no, no, no, no, I
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Speaker 1: want to go back through that door. And He's like, no,
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Speaker 1: just like Lot's wife, don't look back, do not look back.
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Speaker 1: Keep going, keep going, keep going. I'm not comparing them
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Speaker 1: to you know, Sodom and Gomora at all. I'm not
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Speaker 1: judging them at all. It might be a lovely place
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Speaker 1: that there might be some really good people there.
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Speaker 3: I believe so yeah.
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Speaker 1: But the fact that he made it final, I believe
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Speaker 1: he's trying to say to you, there is a better plan,
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Speaker 1: another plan that you would never choose on your own
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Speaker 1: because you are so incredibly faithful and committed, And so
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Speaker 1: I go sadly, I have to move you out that door,
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Speaker 1: and it's going to hurt. But when you see what
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Speaker 1: I am unfolding for you, and how wonderful it is,
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Speaker 1: it'll all make sense.
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Speaker 4: Wow, thank you so much.
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Speaker 5: I'll call you back in a couple of years when
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Speaker 5: I'm at that place.
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Speaker 1: It's not even going to be a couple of years
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Speaker 1: because he's moving quickly. His spirit is moving quickly. Things
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Speaker 1: are changing quickly, and he is setting you up for
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Speaker 1: a divine appointment, a divine mission, a place where your
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Speaker 1: gifts and talents and skills, Although right now they may
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Speaker 1: have been recognized and appreciated to a small degree, they
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Speaker 1: will be life transforming in the next chapter.
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Speaker 4: Well, yes, I hope.
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Speaker 5: So.
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Speaker 1: Do you think when a worm crawls up the stock
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Speaker 1: and starts to form a cocoon it has any clue
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Speaker 1: what it's going to look like as a butterfly?
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Speaker 3: Nope, just does it?
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Speaker 1: It doesn't. And while it's in that cocoon, it's probably thinking,
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Speaker 1: what is going on? I feel weird, I miss my
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Speaker 1: little legs. What's going on?
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Speaker 4: Yeah? And then it's beautiful.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and then it can fly. It's no longer earthbound,
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Speaker 1: it can fly. God knows your gifts, your talents, your skills,
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Speaker 1: He knows your hearts. He knows you. He formed you,
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Speaker 1: he knit you together in your mama's womb, and he
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Speaker 1: knows the plans he has for you, plans for a
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Speaker 1: hope and a future, plans to prosper you, not to
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Speaker 1: harm you, not to harm you. And this is all
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Speaker 1: a part of the plan.
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Speaker 3: Oh, thank you so much. Yes, I needed that reminder.
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Speaker 1: When he opens the door that he's going to open
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Speaker 1: and when he reveals to you but it is, he's
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Speaker 1: going to have you doing. It's going to blow your mind,
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Speaker 1: just like the butterflies, like, dude, check out my wings. Whoa,
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Speaker 1: this is amazing. And the little worms are down on
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Speaker 1: the ground screaming, get back down here, get back down here. No, no,
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Speaker 1: you don't know. You don't belong on the ground anymore.
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Speaker 1: You're gonna fly, You are going to you are going
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Speaker 1: to soar.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, and whatever it is he's got planned for you,
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Speaker 1: do call me back because I want to hear. I
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Speaker 1: want to hear you know, the next chapter, but this
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Speaker 1: chapter you think it's a time to mourn and a
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Speaker 1: time to be sad, and they're sadness, there's grief, you
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Speaker 1: love people, but no, no, this is a time to
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Speaker 1: rejoice and say, Okay, if I thought I was happy
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Speaker 1: on that worship team, if I thought that's where we belonged,
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Speaker 1: and God clearly said no, I got another plan here.
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Speaker 1: I can't wait to see what it is.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm ready now.
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Speaker 4: Thanks.
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Speaker 3: I'm going to call you all the time. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: You can call me anytime. Every time he's closed a
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Speaker 1: door for me, every single time, because like you, I
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Speaker 1: would never quit a job. Every time the door he
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Speaker 1: opens is so much better, so much better.
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Speaker 3: That's right, that's right.
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Speaker 1: I then and I was asked to leave a church.
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Speaker 1: And because I had brought some women to church who
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Speaker 1: had really rough past and were actively addicted, and one
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Speaker 1: was in a profession that was not good to her
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Speaker 1: or for her, I was told that this church had
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Speaker 1: no room for me and my kind of people. Well,
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Speaker 1: that's crazy, Dorothy. The Lord is taking you in a
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Speaker 1: different direction right now. And I hope you understand that.
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Speaker 1: I know you understand that. I also know that it hurts.
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Speaker 1: It hurts, and deeply when people you shared time with,
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Speaker 1: dinners with memories with, shared your faith with, let you
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Speaker 1: down or betray you. Best thing you can do is
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Speaker 1: forgive them, pray for them and walk away from them.
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Speaker 1: When someone is toxic, when someone is manipulative, when somebody
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Speaker 1: is cruel, pray for them, Pray for them and walk
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Speaker 1: away from them.
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Speaker 4: Wow.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Up next, I have a conversation with Cheryl. Cheryl had
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Speaker 1: to make a difficult decision recently. She clearly knows that
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Speaker 1: God asks us to make tough decisions, sometimes really tough choices.
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Speaker 1: Let's hear from Cheryl right now, Cheryl, welcome aboard. How
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Speaker 1: is summer twenty twenty six treating you thus far?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Not too bad? Right now, it's pretty good.
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Speaker 1: You hesitated there, and you didn't sound very convincing. Tell
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Speaker 1: me what's going on and what I can do to
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Speaker 1: make your night brighter.
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Speaker 6: Well, I'm just having a little hard time with my
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Speaker 6: My mom has gotten older, she's eighty seven now, and
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Speaker 6: they just had to put her into a nursing facility,
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Speaker 6: and it's very hard on me and my siblings. We're
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Speaker 6: a very close family and it's just a little difficult
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Speaker 6: for us.
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Speaker 1: All right, Now, a little difficult. That's the understatement of
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Speaker 1: the century.
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Speaker 3: Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Is mom still still there cognitively?
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Speaker 3: Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yes, Mom has the smartest mind.
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Speaker 6: She can tell you everything, and you know she's everything's good.
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Speaker 6: She just have trouble with her legs and you know,
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Speaker 6: they just don't work well. So she's having a little
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Speaker 6: hard time. But other than that, you know, she's pretty good.
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Speaker 6: And that's I think, what's really bothering us, you know,
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Speaker 6: but there isn't much we can do.
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Speaker 1: Is she close enough that you can still spend time
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Speaker 1: with her?
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Speaker 4: Oh?
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Speaker 6: Yes, she's very close to all of us, you know,
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Speaker 6: and we each go there's five of us, and each
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Speaker 6: one of us go different times and try to you know,
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Speaker 6: be up there with her, so she, you know, never
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Speaker 6: feels alone. But she does participate in things. She loves
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Speaker 6: her bingo and she loves to play yachtzie. So she's
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Speaker 6: pretty good with that. So we you know, gives us
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Speaker 6: a little more comfort knowing that she is doing okay there.
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Speaker 1: And did she have to leave a home that she loved.
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Speaker 4: Oh yes she did. She actually stayed with my sister.
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Speaker 6: My sister took her in for a while, and I
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Speaker 6: appreciate everything my sister did for her, but she you know,
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Speaker 6: knew that it was coming to this and it was
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Speaker 6: very hard for her. So you know, it's like I said,
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Speaker 6: it's hard for all of us, but we're just trying
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Speaker 6: to do the best thing for her and be there
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Speaker 6: for her because she was always there for.
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Speaker 4: All of us.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you don't want her to fall if she's
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Speaker 1: having problems with mobility and falling as a risk, that's
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Speaker 1: the last thing in the world you want.
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Speaker 4: Oh, absolutely, that's what we said.
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Speaker 6: So you know, we're kind of, you know, like I said,
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Speaker 6: a little more at ease knowing that she's being cared for,
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Speaker 6: like twenty four to seven, So you know, that's a
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Speaker 6: good thing.
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Speaker 1: So the seasons are changing, and you are trying your
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Speaker 1: best to celebrate the good times and hold on to
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Speaker 1: the memories.
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Speaker 4: Exactly exactly right.
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Speaker 1: Tell me mama's name.
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Speaker 4: Mama's name is Ethel, all right.
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Speaker 1: Tell me something that your mom did every year to
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Speaker 1: make summertime so special for you kids. You said, there's
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Speaker 1: five of you, Yes.
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Speaker 6: Yes, Mom always she just always made our summers very
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Speaker 6: you know, whether she took us to the park or
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Speaker 6: to the swimming pool, you know, maybe on a picnic,
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Speaker 6: you know, just with five kids, and growing up with
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Speaker 6: five kids.
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Speaker 4: It was a lot.
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Speaker 6: So we were just grateful for what we had. And
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Speaker 6: I was just grateful that we had my mom with
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Speaker 6: us to you know, try and do what was best
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Speaker 6: for all of us.
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Speaker 1: Were you kids the kind of kids like my siblings
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Speaker 1: and I were where you didn't have to come home
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Speaker 1: until the street lights came on? Oh?
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Speaker 4: Yes, that was the good days, right.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we knew we had to come home, and we
23:35
Speaker 6: didn't have cell phones, so if we weren't in by
23:38
Speaker 6: you know, the street lights, we were in trouble, you know.
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Speaker 6: But we used to play outside and just have a
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Speaker 6: good time, and you know, ride our bikes and play
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Speaker 6: with other kids, and you know, no computers, no nothing.
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Speaker 6: So we we just made the best of what we
23:54
Speaker 6: could do outside with our siblings and our friends.
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Speaker 4: You know.
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Speaker 1: I bought a farm in two thousand and one because
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Speaker 1: I wanted my kids to have that kind of childhood.
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Speaker 1: I wanted them to grow up with neighbors that they
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Speaker 1: knew and loved. I wanted them to be able to
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Speaker 1: stay out late, especially in the summer, and not have
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Speaker 1: to worry about them. That was my entire motivation for
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Speaker 1: buying my farm.
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Speaker 6: Oh you yeah, and you were wonderful. And I know
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Speaker 6: that you've adopted a lot of children and you know
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Speaker 6: you're you just did wonderful with them. And we just
24:35
Speaker 6: need more people like you in the world, because you know,
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Speaker 6: there's so many kids out there that need somebody.
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Speaker 1: You know, there are a lot of kids. There are
24:44
Speaker 1: four hundred and eighty seven thousand children in foster care
24:48
Speaker 1: right now, and I can't adopt them all. So I
24:51
Speaker 1: sure hope other people decide to step up to the
24:54
Speaker 1: plate because I just got three more and I'm tapped out.
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Speaker 6: Oh I know my son and my daughter in law,
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Speaker 6: the little girl, and she was five years old and
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Speaker 6: she's now going to be eighteen and graduate in high school.
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Speaker 1: Ah, that's exciting. So that tradition of love that your
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Speaker 1: mama established is being carried on for generations exactly. I
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Speaker 1: love that. I've often heard it said, don't leave an inheritance,
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Speaker 1: leave a legacy of love, And your mom did that.
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Speaker 4: She did. That's something she did.
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Speaker 6: You know, she's a wonderful person and remarkable person, and
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Speaker 6: everybody that you know talks to her just loves her.
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Speaker 6: You know, even the people in the nursing home they're
25:37
Speaker 6: just like, we love your mom. She's so sweet and
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Speaker 6: and nothing. You know, she doesn't complain about anything, and
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Speaker 6: she's just she's just a wonderful person. And I'm just
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Speaker 6: glad to call her my mom.
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Speaker 1: Cheryl, you know that you and your family made the
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Speaker 1: right choice for your mom. Giving real love and support
25:57
Speaker 1: doesn't always end up the way you want it, but
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Speaker 1: with God, it always reveals itself. Please know my prayers
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Speaker 1: are with you and with your sweet mama.
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Speaker 4: Thank you you too, Delilah.
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Speaker 1: As we wrap up this episode of Have a Little Faith,
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Speaker 1: remember this. When we lose our way, the answer is
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Speaker 1: not always a clear map. It's not always delineated that way.
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Speaker 1: Just as a traveler trusts a compass to stay on course,
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Speaker 1: we got to trust God to lead us with wisdom, purpose,
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Speaker 1: and hope. His direction may not always be the easiest route,
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Speaker 1: but it is the one that leads us towards growth,
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Speaker 1: towards peace, and towards life rooted in His love. Having
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Speaker 1: a compass being able to read a compass that only
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Speaker 1: helps us when we choose to follow it. Likewise, having
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Speaker 1: faith invites us to see God's direction daily, trusting that
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Speaker 1: even when we cannot see the destination he is laying
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Speaker 1: out for us. The Lord always knows the way, and
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Speaker 1: his word tells us he will never leave us nor
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Speaker 1: forsake us, never ever ever. As always, thank you for
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Speaker 1: spending this time here with me. I never take that
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Speaker 1: for granted. I appreciate your love, your kindness, and especially
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Speaker 1: I covet your prayers until next time. Remember, all you
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Speaker 1: need in this life is a little mustard seed of faith.
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Speaker 1: God bless you, Deve