March 23, 2026

Ever Increasing Faith Pt.2

Ever Increasing Faith Pt.2

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welcome one and all. Thank you for joining, thank you

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for tuning in, thank you for leaning in. Thank you

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for wanting to be a better person today, tomorrow, the

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next day. You're at the right place at the right time.

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Good evening, and welcome to another segment of Sitting it

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Straight with Ms. Gray and I have fabulous co hosts.

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We're going to get into it, but let's take it

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to the Throne of Grace. Lord. We just thank you

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so much for your saving grace and your mercy, your

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unconditional love, your peace that passes all understanding. Thank you

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for forgiving us before we even forgive ourselves. Thank you

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for guiding us and comforting us. Thank you, and when

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we don't deserve it and we don't even know how

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to comfort ourselves, Thank you for teaching us what self

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care is all about. Thank you for teaching us what

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diversity is all about. Thank you for teaching us how

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culture plays a role and it's not it goes beyond

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the color of our skin. We just love you so much,

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Father God, because you're the one that made all the

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cricket places straight. You're the one that have of course

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corrected us over time. It tickles me when man thinks

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that they've discovered something or they have something, and they

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come up with these new buzzwords and things. But I

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can find them in your word, and I thank you,

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Father God, for rightly dividing the truth. Now, Lord, this

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is your night, This is your time to speak to

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your people. Unlike ever before, times are really, really hard.

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Now there's no going back, there's no taking shortcuts, there's

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no going around things. Now we've got to meet it,

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face it, deal with it, pray about it. Head on,

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we get behind the cross. We'll let you do what

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you do best, and that sets your people free, all

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this and more. We asked in Jesus's name, Amen, and

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the church said amen. Man, Okay, y'all real quiet now,

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I said the church, saying, y'all got to lead in.

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Get to the microphone. Roll co on, come on, y'all,

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come on now, everybody, come on in, Come on in.

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Haller Loujah, haller Lujah to your name. So ms tray

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all the way. Virginie. What we're doing up there? How

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things going getting warmer?

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It's getting warmer.

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It was like eighty yesterday and it was nice Saturday.

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It was a little cooler today. But I'll take it.

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We'll take it, amen, We'll take it. Even though I

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was dressing in my sweatshirt and my daughter said, Mama,

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you know it was gonna be about seventy by the

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time you get to the stop side. I said, yeah,

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but I got to wear my social work, you know,

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sweatshirt todays. You know we end in the month. I

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got to end it strong, so I'll sweating, sweating. But

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it was okay. It was okay. But God is good.

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And miss k you just came back from a world

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wind vacate, little Mini Vaca. You're looking good. There, you're

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looking good and all the things, and now you're back

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in the real world. Now we're back, we're back, and

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you got to hit it, hit it strong. I'm counting down. Okay,

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we counted it down. We counted it down. Market it

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off the calendar, Ali Louke, thank you, Jesus so thank you.

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And I know how that feels when you're nearing that corner,

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you're nearing the end. I know how that feels, and

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you just can't hardly wait. Let's go, let's go, let's go,

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you know, let's go, let's go. I am tied of

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the foolishness and everything else. But we're not gonna talk

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about that until in September. I have a whole set

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of four weeks of talking about college life anyway, and

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name and names, but anyway, we're gonna do that to

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my viewers. Apparently somebody had a question about a scripture

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that was in Psalms forty two, but we're not quite

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sure the chapter, I mean the verse. I'm sorry, so

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it Psalms forty two and seven. So if anybody would

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like to put that up there, we will revisit that

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because we're talking about ever increasing your faith, ever increasing

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your faith. I was talking to one of the elders earlier,

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and I was saying, you know, I'm just so glad

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that I'm on the track of identifying and helping the

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chosen that don't know that they're chosen, to know that

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they're chosen, and that they're not crazy, and that they're

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not gonna be left out or they feel some kind

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of way, and whatever the case may be of they're

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delaying what was styll inevitable. And I met a few

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people when we went out of town. Theydn't mean to,

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you know, I just try to stay in my lane

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because this is really the spotlight was on that little

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thing over there. But where was as Okay, well, palm beach,

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excuse me, my mother's home time. Yes, yes, near the water,

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near the real water water, ocean water, Okay, okay. We

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saw a couple of dolphin out there. Somebody was swimming

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out there. I hope it wasn't anything else madmals stuff,

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but it was brushing up against and we didn't realize.

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I hate to admit this.

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I wouldn't even share what you about to share.

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You already know, you already know. I didn't realize. I

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thought it was strange that I chose a hotel in

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Lake Worth, in Palm Beach, Palm Beach area of Lake Worth. Well,

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I didn't know until we were leaving to go to

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dinner and we were coming down on that backstretch A

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one A, and all of a sudden we ran into security.

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And I said, oh, oh.

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To be specifical, who he ran into, not just any

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type of security, the Secret Service.

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The Secret Service. Yeah, so we were on the back

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on the other side, on the side of it. It was

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next door, okay, Yeah, we were next door to the

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fellow who is in charge of the country right now.

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And I didn't know until we saw all the security.

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And I can see rather so they're so upset because

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all the roads are blocked off. It's one way in

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and one way out literally, and it's security deputies armed

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a one fifties whatever they call uh yeah, and they

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were looking real serious and and all that. She's four

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years old. Yes he jazz that thing now, boy, But yes,

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we were next door and people were they were partying

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or something. They were having something there because they had

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to take the little trolley across the road to get

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to the area. So sorry about that. My son's coming

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in and Jazz got to go greet him like she'd

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never seen him before. But anyway, but yeah, that was interesting.

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So I was like, oh wow, it was supposed to

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be a special trip, but I didn't know how special

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it was going to be. And I wanted to pull

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over and go talk to him, you know, see if

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I could get in, but my daughter was like, you

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don't stay in this car and roll your at the

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time to them, I think one of our servers, uh well,

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a servet at the hotel. She was like, oh, you're

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a social work. I said yeah, because so am I.

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And I'm like really she said yeah, and I was

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like oh, okay, wow, and she said yeah. You know,

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you know, he took away our discipline, he took away

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our course work. And I was like, well, no, he

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can't take away anything. He may not want to acknowledge

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it anymore. She said, yeah, I think it's liability insurance

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of some sort of something that she's not not They're

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not recognizing the field of social work. And I said, well,

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no one, I don't care who they are can refer

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people like we can. No one can create non traditional

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resources like we can. So you know, let him try,

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but you can never take away who we are, who

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we do, what chosen profession we have. He can say

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whatever he wants to say. That just gives you. That

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will prompt you to be more creative, to think about

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things differently. And I told her about a couple of

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jobs she could do with her undergrad degree here. Because

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I didn't even know that. I said, there you go.

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I said, look into this and this is who you call.

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She said, I will do that. I said, you can

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use the library. You don't need an office and don't

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have anybody come into your home. Use the library library room,

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you know, to do the evaluations or not evaluations, but

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due to course, you know, the classes and stuff like that.

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So she was very thankful for that. She goes, you

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know a lot, I said, I've been around for a minute.

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I've been around for a minute. That's all I know.

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And so talking to one of the elders again, Trey

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and I was talking. I was telling her about the

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server and being the social work and what we do.

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And had another young lady, my goddaughter, goddaughter slash spiritual daughter,

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ended up in the hospital for the past few months

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and the past few weeks rather and so I was

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telling them, okay, go ahead, and when you know, when

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she was conscious enough, I said, you know, reach out

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and ask for your discharge planner. She goes, nobody's coming up.

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I said, ask for her. That person. They need to

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come to you so you could kind of give them

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an idea of what you're gonna need upon discharge. So

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I was telling sharing that with the elder. Janet's just

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now and she said, you know what, just listening to you,

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pastor great, I really appreciate social workers even more now.

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And I was like, well, yeah, I mean this is

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who we are. This is you know, I was talking

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about U trade and you know, we we came from

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that case management field, and you know, and whether it

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was mental health, whether it's domestic violence, your substance abuse,

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you know, this is what we do. And right now,

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you know, I'm kind of glad that, you know, I

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was able to step back now out of the field

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because I wouldn't know where to refer people to now

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and I can't even come up with non traditional things

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right now, just to try to keep people, you know,

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hope alive or keep them happy for just a minute.

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It's not even daily or weekly now I'm just trying

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to keep you happy for just a minute, shed some

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light on some hope, but just a minute. And it's

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a sad day we're in emotionally, and and like I said,

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with lack of resources now and telling my daughter was

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saying something about the expiration date on the meats and

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stuff like that, it was no need in getting stuff

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because it's gonna expire tomorrow and we're just getting it

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and they're just putting it out today, you know type

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of thing. And and it's sad. I was, you know, sharing,

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you know, earlier with the elder. Also, you know the

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store called bash Pro outlet up here down here, and

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it's all the you know, all the fit sports like

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stuff and fishing and stuff like that, that type of store,

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sporting goods store, thank you Lord. And they're in their

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camping section. They do have I guess freeze dried foods

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or whatever for campers who really go out and do

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you know, do the rough and tough stuff and be

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out there, you know, uh, in the field and in

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the wilderness and the forests and stuff. And so I

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was gonna go take a look at it because now

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I can't just go stock up on tuna tuna in

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the cans on the packages any more because it's stale

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or it's expired. I just got I like that store, Okay, Charles, Yes,

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it was real cool. My first time going, I was

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doing it as a mystery shopper, and I was so

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overwhelmed because I had no idea what that type of store.

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I just stood at the little gate there and I

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was like, people do fishing, people do golfing people? Oh

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my god, lacrosse. You got every sport in here, every

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sporting thing you can, guns, rifles, the archery store part

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is in the back. I just stood there for a minute, like,

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how am I gonna do this? Because I gotta remember

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names as a certain department departments I have to go to,

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I gotta remember their names. I gotta make sure it's

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how am I gonna put all this? Because I was

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really overwhelmed, and I've never gotten that overwhelmed before. But

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now I enjoyed going to the store because it's it's

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rare stuff that you can find. But I need to

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go take a look and see the freeze drive package

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pre package stuff that they have for campers, because the

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stuff of the store is not even you know, it's

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just crap. And I know in public, public says they're

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putting more stuff out in the front now, and that's

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nearly expired stuff and it's not nothing hardly on the shelves.

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So you know, we gotta I'm praying and asking God

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where to go and to get things. I think, Yeah,

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there's a fish tank is in the back. It's kind

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of a long one.

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I might be the standard of people in there. I

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think the big fish tanks.

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I think that's like a staple in the store, a

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big fish tank.

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I think they have it.

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But what I was going to say, I think it's

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MRIs that you're talking about ready meals, ready.

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To eat or something like that. I think that's what

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they're called. And they also use them in the service,

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you know.

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I think that's what they use in the service, especially

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if you're you're you know, going to be in like

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ranger school or you know, going to be away from

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where you can prepare meals. But also they have like

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prepackaged water, but you have to look at the like

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it's certain provisions like the water you can't it's certain specifications.

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emergency backup.

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You Maris, and we have the package water that comes

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in like a pre sun package something like that, which

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is a little lighter than carrying like cases of water.

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But you have to read and make sure that you

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follow the directions on that, so you know, I was

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glad to say that. And the other thing is is

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people need to look in especially and I was thinking

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about your spiritual daughter.

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I think that's you're saying.

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We're talking to the social work or for your discharge

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planning a lot of people you have to kind of

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think outside the box of what you think you might

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need because then sometimes they don't think of it, you know,

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if and I'm not saying this because I don't know

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your spiritual daughter like that, but people need to think

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of when you're discharging, or if you're discharging a loved one,

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what that looks like, what they might need, because if

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you have Medicare, Medicare might not pay for some of

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the things like in home health care, or if it does,

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it's very little, or might not pay for your what

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we call APUs adult protective units, which are or your

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adult adult diapers for lack of a better word for it,

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or the padding for your bed good evening okay, or

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the padding for your bed, you know, especially if there's

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issues with you know, incontinence, you need to really look

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at and be specific because they're and it's almost like

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you have to research it because some social workers know

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about it and some might not know to mention and

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if you don't, so you have to kind of know

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what to mention that you need someone to and be

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specific of what you need help with. If it's someone

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to come in and help cook your meals, you need

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to say that. If you're having trouble or issues going

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to the bathroom on your own, unassistant, you worry about falling,

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you need to say that because then they can implement

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occupational therapist or PT or aid. But you have to

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be specific and don't be afraid to ask because it's

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easier to get it on the beginning end and ask

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for it then in the middle of us so where

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you didn't ask for that. So be specific on what

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you need to do and identify backups people who are

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going to be your backup people to help you in

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the home, family, relatives, friends, church members, whomever, volunteer places.

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Because start looking and see what your insurance will cover.

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Start looking to see what you need to know that,

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and we were very fortunate with my dad. My dad

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had Medicare and he had I think it's Track Care

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for Life, which is the military insurance.

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Right veterans insurance.

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So if you're a veteran, check and see what you're

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entitled to, and you need to ask for everything you need.

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Don't leave anything out walker, you know, whatever that is.

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You need to be specific.

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And I'm saying that because a lot of people are

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getting older now they don't know what to ask for

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and they're getting into situations I find why my insurance

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won't pay that.

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Or you got you know, you have all people, all

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ages now, ending up in the hospital with life threatening

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diagnosises and they don't know what to do, like what

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do I do? I don't even know what to ask for.

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And a good discharge planner will have a whole little

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script like okay, who do Okay, it looks like you're

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gonna need a walker. Do you have any any equipment

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at home? No? I never had equipment. Okay, do you

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have relatives or friends or uh? Do you go to

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a particular church because you're gonna need somebody that maybe

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do some prep meals for you for at least a week.

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You're not gonna be able to just get up and

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go to the kitchen and handle things and and you know,

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so they'll know and and let them ask the let

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them ask the questions. If they don't ask the questions,

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and say, you know what, I think. What I'm gonna

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need is I need home health. I need a nurse

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coming out at least a couple of days a week.

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And I may need in home pet, physical therapy or

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occupational therapy. Also, I'm gonna need a way to get

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home because I haven't I drove. I didn't even drive you.

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I ubered here, you know. And I don't have anybody.

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I don't have family up here. I'm not a member

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of a church.

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You know.

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I have my coworkers, but you know, I don't want

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to bother them. I don't want them knowing where I live.

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You know that type of thing. So you need to

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have that conversation with them so that they're already jotting

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it down. Said, Okay, you know patient A is going

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to need in home care. Patient B is going to

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need transportation going home. Okay, so let me go ahead

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and hook these up, because you don't want to be

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discharged and you try to put services together. It will

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make you go crazy. It really will because you won't

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have to pad it words to prove that you need

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it and the nurse.

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But with two with the home health aids, if it's

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a nurse and nurse, and it depends on the skill

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of the nurse, so you might have if you have

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a wound, you need a nurse to be able to

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tend to that. But what I was, what I'm looking

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at you is something like your personal care aids or

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home health aids that were coming and do they can

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do light meals like like housekeeping, you know, help you

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too in front of the bathroom, your sisters, you know,

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activities a day living, help the feed if you need

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so that you need to understand which the services are

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because a nurse might come in and check certain stuff

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like the vitals or whatever. But that but that other

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piece is that person that you might need to answer

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the door if you have people coming to bring your

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meals if you can't get to the door. That's that

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person that you want to say a home mouth aid

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in the morning when I need to get up and

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once I'm up and stuff like that, then I can

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and I can manage until something this is good for.

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Me at our church. Yeah, you need to have that,

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as you know, because you all are doing a lot

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of communities outreach right now, even more so up there

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in Tennessee. So you need I mean, we're not trying

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to make your social workers, but we can do basic

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case management, which is okay, you already got your food

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pantry going, and you're gonna have the clothing pantry going,

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and you know, just little things like that. And also

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find out what resources are still available in your community.

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Here we have what three one one two one one

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you could call, but you need to call them almost

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on a weekly basis now because you don't know what's

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available anymore, you really don't. So you got to you know,

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somebody like you said, you know l the K you

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know in the church, you need to make that call

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to your wherever your resource or reference resource is and

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see what's going on. You know, are they paying light

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bills right now? Are they paying utility bills right now?

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What's going on with that? So it's gonna be you know,

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you need to do that, and every church you need

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to do that. If you're a physical church and you

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receive tithe and offering. Let me just make that real clear.

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You need to have a resource person in there knowing

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where you could direct your parishioners to if you're not

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providing the service, and if.

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I can interject least I'm going back to where we

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were doing it.

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And especially with churches, have a you can have like.

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A resource day or community day and have various resources.

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They will come out and do it for free.

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A lot of times all you got to do is

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ask because people are not asking about that. So you

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can get people from a representatives from three one on one,

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or food pantries or or or home health AI you

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can never have too many, or health insurance somebody to

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explain about that where people can go around to different

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stations or tents or tables and gather information and preparation up.

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So these are things that churches can do pretty much

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free of charge, because you know, if you want to

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charge your resource to come out, you can. But if

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you just really want to have something to be able

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to help your congregation and your community members, just ask

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for law enforcement. Sometimes they have UH intervention and prevention program.

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Locks for seniors and stuff like that.

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Your AARP, you know, all agency on agency agency agency.

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On agency an agent. Yeah, right, you want to find

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out what's happened.

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Yeah, they will come out for free. And all you

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got to do is tell you plan a day. A

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couple of hours, may free, four hours. You can have

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light snacks, maybe chips and a drink or something like

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if you want to make it a bigger thing. But

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it doesn't have to be expensive. All you and all

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you have to do is ask folks mentoring programs, mentorship programs,

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girls plub, boys and Girls club, all the things that

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you think your your congregation will need. Just ask them

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to come out, and I'm pretty sure they will do it.

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Yeah, yeah, and they'll do it for free. And they'll

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bring things too, because we went to one. I went

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to one and I was telling I was telling someone

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a person who was there at the event. We were

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at the sheriff department table and they had all kinds

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of goodies and I said, they don't want to take

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this stuff home, and one of their deputy said, no,

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we do not. We not taking this back to the office.

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So I said, I'm getting I'm just gonna collect a few.

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He said, take as many as you want. And they

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had a nice little trinks because even the thing that

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cover your your iPads or camera, so nobody can you know,

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be you know, doing that. They had this little clip

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thing and it's for to cover the iPad, camera and stuff.

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So it's just you know, little things like that and

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pens and it's and they'll bring their stuff. You can

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tell them the goodies. They will bring that and and

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you'd be surprised at what I can show you a

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bag of what I got from that event, you know.

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And you're right, Trey, you know, just and you have

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to ask and just say, hey, can we have a

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community day? Just find out what resources? You know, call

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your mayor's office. They'll send somebody out, or they can

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link you to some other people other resources that you

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may not even know that you have that is available

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in your community. So they just say, yeah, we're having

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a resource fair and we just like to have somebody.

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Is anybody y'all would recommend, you know, and they will

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do that, or see if one of your representatives is

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in town, would they come out, you know, for the

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just to talk about and listen to the needs of

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the community on a grassroot level. Okay, so you got

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to do that, now, did anybody I don't know what, mickey, Oh,

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go ahead.

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Not just and this is the last thing I'm going

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00:23:45.400 --> 00:23:48.200
to offer this, but the one thing too about with

465
00:23:48.200 --> 00:23:51.720
with your faith based organizations. You do have people, I

466
00:23:51.759 --> 00:23:53.319
know a lot of people don't want to hear it,

467
00:23:53.640 --> 00:23:58.160
are intimidated by coming inside a church, a formal church.

468
00:23:58.640 --> 00:24:01.039
We might want to if you do, if it's your

469
00:24:01.119 --> 00:24:03.400
church function or your faith based function.

470
00:24:03.599 --> 00:24:06.119
Have it on the lawn. You're more visible.

471
00:24:06.160 --> 00:24:08.559
People will see a tent and say, Okay, I don't

472
00:24:08.599 --> 00:24:11.200
have to worry about having to fit a certain criteriity

473
00:24:11.359 --> 00:24:14.799
to go inside my heart or what I'm doing is

474
00:24:14.839 --> 00:24:16.720
not right you. I mean, you have people that struggle

475
00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:18.319
with that. But if you have something that on the

476
00:24:18.359 --> 00:24:20.680
ground with tents, they don't have to worry about a

477
00:24:20.680 --> 00:24:24.960
long time from in the parking lot, and it's a

478
00:24:24.960 --> 00:24:26.359
lot visible to a lot of people.

479
00:24:26.400 --> 00:24:28.799
You can and also you can bring your firefighters.

480
00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:32.440
You know, you will bring the truck. They will bring

481
00:24:32.480 --> 00:24:37.599
the truck exactly so yep, they will bring the truck.

482
00:24:37.839 --> 00:24:41.200
Your your light company will bring the big vehicle and

483
00:24:41.319 --> 00:24:44.640
explain and keep the kids entertained that way. Yeah, oh

484
00:24:44.720 --> 00:24:46.680
they'll do that, you know, and bring candy, you know,

485
00:24:46.720 --> 00:24:49.279
whatever but you have to ask them and plan it

486
00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:52.559
and make sure another little thing now because it was notorious.

487
00:24:52.599 --> 00:24:56.640
Here you've got the people planning events on the same

488
00:24:56.839 --> 00:25:00.680
Saturday and it's about hours and you're like, wait a minute,

489
00:25:00.720 --> 00:25:03.359
but you were over here at Barnett Park and now

490
00:25:03.400 --> 00:25:06.200
you're over here at Rosemont Center and you're over here,

491
00:25:06.759 --> 00:25:09.680
and they were all good stuff, but you can't leave one.

492
00:25:09.759 --> 00:25:11.599
I couldn't leave one and go to the other one.

493
00:25:11.759 --> 00:25:13.680
I had to stay at the one because it was

494
00:25:13.720 --> 00:25:17.480
a four hour event. Five hour event. And so do

495
00:25:17.559 --> 00:25:20.000
somebody need to be you know, coordinated with calendar's as

496
00:25:20.079 --> 00:25:23.160
much social media to reach out to people, all you

497
00:25:23.160 --> 00:25:25.119
have to do is say, hey, we're having a resource fair.

498
00:25:25.319 --> 00:25:28.680
Is anybody doing anything in April? Is anybody doing anything

499
00:25:28.759 --> 00:25:31.920
on a Saturday in April? Okay? Or do it during

500
00:25:31.920 --> 00:25:33.839
the midday. You've got people who are not working, you

501
00:25:33.880 --> 00:25:36.319
got people who work at later hours and stuff like that.

502
00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:38.880
You know, you got to meet the needs of the

503
00:25:38.920 --> 00:25:41.680
people as best as you can. We can't always get

504
00:25:41.680 --> 00:25:45.000
it right. But you know, I had to have PTA meetings.

505
00:25:45.039 --> 00:25:47.680
I had to have breakfast PTA meetings, I had lunch

506
00:25:47.720 --> 00:25:50.160
PTA bets. Then I had the one in the evening

507
00:25:50.480 --> 00:25:53.079
same day. Like I said, everybody here and all the

508
00:25:53.160 --> 00:25:55.519
information at one time, because I did a lot of

509
00:25:55.599 --> 00:25:58.440
legislative updates stuff because parents, I know, my parents didn't

510
00:25:59.279 --> 00:26:02.000
watch the new Who's Net loan know what was going on.

511
00:26:02.079 --> 00:26:04.519
They barely voted, so you know, they didn't know what

512
00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:06.519
was going on. I was like, guys, I got to

513
00:26:06.559 --> 00:26:08.799
give you this legislative update. This is what this is

514
00:26:08.839 --> 00:26:11.640
all about. Here's a little slip of new laws that

515
00:26:11.680 --> 00:26:16.160
are coming into play. Go ahead to get your a uh,

516
00:26:16.319 --> 00:26:19.400
what's the nutrition bar? What is it called the granola bar?

517
00:26:19.440 --> 00:26:21.000
Over there and get you some warner and have a

518
00:26:21.079 --> 00:26:24.440
nice day. We had a Dad's and donuts day because dad,

519
00:26:24.480 --> 00:26:26.039
you know, and you had the We only gave it

520
00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:28.279
to people, parents who were dropping off their kids and

521
00:26:28.319 --> 00:26:30.319
a lot of weir dads, and they kept asking, are

522
00:26:30.359 --> 00:26:32.799
we how much is it? No? No, no, this is free.

523
00:26:33.079 --> 00:26:34.680
One of the kids saw the verse on a sign

524
00:26:34.720 --> 00:26:36.480
over the weekend and want to ask what it meant.

525
00:26:36.599 --> 00:26:38.359
I'll have to ask them again next time I see them.

526
00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.079
Listening to the show has helped a lot of kids

527
00:26:40.079 --> 00:26:44.240
and their families notice things as they are out and about. Amen,

528
00:26:44.359 --> 00:26:47.440
mister thank you, thank you, thank you. See that's how

529
00:26:47.440 --> 00:26:50.599
you reach people. We don't have to go throw them down, Missy,

530
00:26:50.680 --> 00:26:53.519
don't have to go pass out crosses and little miniature

531
00:26:53.559 --> 00:26:55.960
Bibles and it ain't about that. It's just you know,

532
00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:57.799
having it on the radio and then you don't know

533
00:26:57.839 --> 00:27:01.000
the kids are listening. That's what you're how you reach people.

534
00:27:01.279 --> 00:27:05.119
You don't brown beat them. Trust me. I love to dance.

535
00:27:05.480 --> 00:27:08.079
I loved to dance. This is like three four years old.

536
00:27:08.119 --> 00:27:10.599
I could. I love to dance. My mother always told

537
00:27:10.599 --> 00:27:12.319
me that I would. They turned on the stereo in

538
00:27:12.319 --> 00:27:14.480
the living room and I go to town. So as I

539
00:27:14.480 --> 00:27:16.799
got older, I like to go to the club to dance.

540
00:27:16.880 --> 00:27:19.160
I wasn't going to meet anybody. I like to go

541
00:27:19.200 --> 00:27:21.880
to dance. And then I read that scripture where David

542
00:27:22.640 --> 00:27:24.960
King David danced out of his clothes. He was so

543
00:27:25.000 --> 00:27:27.279
happy with God and just over Joey, and I was like, wow,

544
00:27:27.279 --> 00:27:29.160
what that would be something to dance at to close

545
00:27:29.559 --> 00:27:31.440
And then I went to that club that one night,

546
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.720
the last time I ever went to a club. They're

547
00:27:33.759 --> 00:27:38.279
playing a gospel song, which freaked me out. I grabbed

548
00:27:38.279 --> 00:27:40.799
my keys and I'm praying all the way home, Lord, Jesus,

549
00:27:40.839 --> 00:27:42.279
please you know, I know you come in to night.

550
00:27:42.519 --> 00:27:44.720
I pray that I'm in rights stand. I'm just talking

551
00:27:44.720 --> 00:27:47.240
to God, just talking to Jesus. Well, needless to say,

552
00:27:47.319 --> 00:27:49.759
Jesus didn't come that night, but I didn't go back

553
00:27:49.759 --> 00:27:51.799
to a club because I was like, oh, y'all messing

554
00:27:51.839 --> 00:27:54.240
with stuff now. That is really I don't know what

555
00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:56.680
you're trying to do, but God will not be mocked.

556
00:27:57.079 --> 00:28:01.319
Years later, I'm at a church and I'm I have

557
00:28:01.400 --> 00:28:03.720
to transparencies with the music the words of the of

558
00:28:03.799 --> 00:28:06.799
the praise songs on it, and thank god we stayed

559
00:28:06.799 --> 00:28:09.680
on that one song. I didn't know anything. I saw

560
00:28:09.720 --> 00:28:12.680
the usher, a male usher was was way away from me.

561
00:28:13.119 --> 00:28:15.799
He turned around real quick and I was like, oh wow,

562
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.319
he's feeling the spirit. And then one of the mothers

563
00:28:18.359 --> 00:28:20.160
came dancing over to me. I mean, we were the

564
00:28:20.200 --> 00:28:22.359
spirit was high, we were dancing, people were just all

565
00:28:22.400 --> 00:28:25.160
over the place. And she went and she hooked her arm.

566
00:28:25.200 --> 00:28:28.359
I've already told the story, but it fits right here.

567
00:28:28.599 --> 00:28:31.319
She hooked her arm under mine and made me walk,

568
00:28:31.519 --> 00:28:34.440
try to walk backwards. I couldn't move because my skirt

569
00:28:34.599 --> 00:28:37.319
was on the ground. Thank God, I had black, black

570
00:28:37.400 --> 00:28:40.920
opaque stockings. Okay, you can't see nothing with those. And

571
00:28:41.000 --> 00:28:44.759
I didn't know, I said, oh my god, nobody noticed it.

572
00:28:44.759 --> 00:28:46.759
I don't know how she noticed it because I'm behind

573
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:49.119
a projector, so I don't know how she noticed it,

574
00:28:49.160 --> 00:28:51.640
but she did and got man, she had the largest

575
00:28:51.759 --> 00:28:54.640
baby safety pit I've ever seen in my life. I

576
00:28:54.640 --> 00:28:57.680
don't know why she would have that on her waiting

577
00:28:57.720 --> 00:29:00.400
there and got it out her dress and tape be up.

578
00:29:00.440 --> 00:29:02.400
And I went back and we were still in this

579
00:29:02.480 --> 00:29:04.119
on the same song, and I was like, God, I

580
00:29:04.160 --> 00:29:06.440
thank you, I thank you. Didn't the pastor she changed

581
00:29:06.440 --> 00:29:08.599
the song. I was right there with her. Nobody knew

582
00:29:08.640 --> 00:29:13.640
except that young man the mother sitting up the front row.

583
00:29:14.000 --> 00:29:17.960
So you know, so you did. And so I still

584
00:29:17.960 --> 00:29:20.160
love the dance like I still I danced at the church.

585
00:29:20.200 --> 00:29:22.000
I still love the dance. You know I'm gonna get

586
00:29:22.319 --> 00:29:24.400
you know, I just love it. But you know you

587
00:29:24.440 --> 00:29:26.400
can't tell me. You couldn't come along and say, you

588
00:29:26.400 --> 00:29:28.759
know what, you can't dance no more because God don't

589
00:29:28.839 --> 00:29:31.119
like you dance it. I got scripted to back me up,

590
00:29:31.440 --> 00:29:33.440
and thank god, nobody you know, you know, try to

591
00:29:33.519 --> 00:29:36.599
check me that way. So you leave people alone ministering

592
00:29:36.880 --> 00:29:40.160
to people. You don't go stepping into their space telling

593
00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:43.319
them what they're doing wrong. You will run somebody away

594
00:29:43.319 --> 00:29:46.599
from you and run yourself, or run somebody away from God.

595
00:29:46.960 --> 00:29:49.359
You don't do that, you said, you know what's this?

596
00:29:49.920 --> 00:29:51.839
You look like you're a little heavy. This this weekend,

597
00:29:51.880 --> 00:29:54.200
we had an event and the young lady came over

598
00:29:54.279 --> 00:29:56.559
to me, and Belisi had to tell me later she

599
00:29:56.599 --> 00:29:58.160
could mind, you know. She said, it's nice to see you,

600
00:29:58.200 --> 00:30:01.279
and I was like, remember her. She looked familiar because

601
00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:03.400
we've been to a few, you know. So when she

602
00:30:03.480 --> 00:30:05.920
came back over to the table, I said, so, how

603
00:30:05.920 --> 00:30:09.279
are you? She said, and she just she lost it.

604
00:30:09.359 --> 00:30:12.200
And I'm sitting there like no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

605
00:30:12.759 --> 00:30:14.720
oh God, She's crying and I'm like, oh my God.

606
00:30:15.000 --> 00:30:16.880
And I'm like, you know, I'm trying to hear from

607
00:30:16.880 --> 00:30:20.319
God like and God said, just hold the space for her,

608
00:30:20.519 --> 00:30:22.920
hold that space, let her have that moment. And I

609
00:30:22.920 --> 00:30:25.759
said can, I ask is there anything that can change

610
00:30:26.079 --> 00:30:28.640
the situation? She said, no, I just have to go

611
00:30:28.720 --> 00:30:31.000
through the grief. I said, okay, I'm here with you,

612
00:30:31.440 --> 00:30:35.200
and nobody came around the table nobody noticed it, and

613
00:30:35.279 --> 00:30:38.440
I was. I just sat there and just nodding. It's okay,

614
00:30:38.720 --> 00:30:41.720
it's okay, it's okay. God be with her. I'm beginning

615
00:30:41.720 --> 00:30:44.119
to pray, God be with him. This is a public event,

616
00:30:44.160 --> 00:30:47.160
but God be with her. Hold the Lord, help her,

617
00:30:47.440 --> 00:30:49.119
get her to the next level, get her to the

618
00:30:49.160 --> 00:30:49.640
next step.

619
00:30:49.720 --> 00:30:50.000
Lord.

620
00:30:50.319 --> 00:30:52.559
She's just crying. She goes like, I can't stop crying.

621
00:30:53.000 --> 00:30:56.680
It's okay, you're safe right here, You're safe. And she

622
00:30:57.240 --> 00:30:59.559
next thing, I know, I got a customer. She got

623
00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:01.880
ac custom She walked away, but she was. You know,

624
00:31:02.359 --> 00:31:04.640
so you gotta be ready in and out of season.

625
00:31:04.920 --> 00:31:07.079
You gotta be ready in and out of season. And

626
00:31:07.079 --> 00:31:10.160
that scripture so you know, you don't have to go

627
00:31:10.359 --> 00:31:14.680
and and and and make somebody feel guilty about you know,

628
00:31:14.759 --> 00:31:17.000
the choices and stuff like that. Trust me, you feel

629
00:31:17.000 --> 00:31:20.920
guilty enough, okay. If you have any desire to be

630
00:31:21.880 --> 00:31:25.799
holy and be right in God's eyes, you feel you

631
00:31:25.880 --> 00:31:29.359
get convicted. You convict yourself. You sitting there eating, you know,

632
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:32.000
you you at the buffet and and and you're getting

633
00:31:32.039 --> 00:31:34.559
all your pate plate full of food. First you get

634
00:31:34.559 --> 00:31:36.319
a big old salad. Then you try to put the

635
00:31:36.400 --> 00:31:39.079
ribs on it. You know, you could come back. I don't.

636
00:31:39.240 --> 00:31:42.720
I've never understanding the mentality and the personality of people

637
00:31:42.759 --> 00:31:45.359
at the buffet. At a buffet, I'll never understand it.

638
00:31:45.440 --> 00:31:46.759
And if I want a good laugh, I'm gonna go

639
00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:49.400
to go to graul and just watch people. And I mean,

640
00:31:49.400 --> 00:31:51.759
you set the big old salad is piled up to here,

641
00:31:51.920 --> 00:31:55.000
here's the plate, here's the plate. Who piled up the here?

642
00:31:55.079 --> 00:31:57.759
And you get a diet coat? Who are you fooling?

643
00:31:57.960 --> 00:32:00.880
Who are you fooling? Okay, thank you? Anyway, I'm not

644
00:32:00.920 --> 00:32:03.960
gonna talk about that, but you you feel convicted because

645
00:32:04.039 --> 00:32:09.079
everybody looking at you, like, really, dude, Philly, where we going?

646
00:32:09.319 --> 00:32:11.480
You know, because you could get a little you know,

647
00:32:11.799 --> 00:32:14.240
you can portion your food if you go back for

648
00:32:14.319 --> 00:32:16.799
three places? Were not watch it. You're not bringing your

649
00:32:16.839 --> 00:32:21.960
attention to yourself. Okay anyway, but ever increasing faith, I

650
00:32:22.000 --> 00:32:24.799
will you know, as I've gone. It was so funny

651
00:32:24.799 --> 00:32:27.440
because I was like, Okay, I can't take my calendar

652
00:32:27.880 --> 00:32:30.799
of my scriptures because I look through the scripture or

653
00:32:30.839 --> 00:32:32.480
wait for the Lord to lay on me, you know,

654
00:32:32.480 --> 00:32:34.480
because right now I'm going through the Book of Proverbs

655
00:32:34.759 --> 00:32:37.200
with because it's all about wisdom and stuff. So I

656
00:32:37.279 --> 00:32:41.519
choose one one verse out of it, you know, and

657
00:32:42.599 --> 00:32:45.920
and then I highlighted on both on my iPad. And

658
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:48.759
then later on, but while I was home, you know,

659
00:32:48.880 --> 00:32:51.200
back in Palm Beach, I had my phone, so I

660
00:32:51.240 --> 00:32:54.559
was like, okay, okay, today is Proverbs twenty two. So

661
00:32:54.680 --> 00:32:56.759
let me go to Proverbs twenty two. And then I

662
00:32:56.799 --> 00:32:58.599
highlighted on my phone. So I said, when I come

663
00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.640
back home, I put it on my calendar that I

664
00:33:00.720 --> 00:33:03.079
sit in front of it. I do every morning. And

665
00:33:03.160 --> 00:33:06.039
so I've just subscriptures. I wanted to share with y'all

666
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.519
because it just really warmed my heart. All of it's good.

667
00:33:10.640 --> 00:33:13.920
All of it's good, you know. In Proverbs twenty and

668
00:33:14.079 --> 00:33:17.680
for Proverbs twenty one and twenty one, he that follow

669
00:33:18.119 --> 00:33:24.000
after righteousness and mercy finds life, righteousness, and honor. He

670
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:27.720
that follows after righteousness. So their homework this week is

671
00:33:27.759 --> 00:33:33.319
to look up the word righteousness and mercy, finding life, righteousness,

672
00:33:33.359 --> 00:33:36.279
and honor. So look up the word righteousness to see

673
00:33:36.279 --> 00:33:39.480
what that means. Again, that's Proverbs twenty one and twenty one.

674
00:33:39.960 --> 00:33:42.559
Let me go back to Proverbs twenty because we left

675
00:33:42.599 --> 00:33:45.359
here on the eighteenth. So let me go back a

676
00:33:45.400 --> 00:33:51.599
couple Proverbs eighteen and verse four. The words of a

677
00:33:51.680 --> 00:33:56.200
man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well spring

678
00:33:56.240 --> 00:33:59.799
of wisdom as a flowing brook. So we have to

679
00:33:59.880 --> 00:34:02.799
be careful about what we say, not only to others,

680
00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:05.720
but to ourself. The scripture said, as a man thinketh,

681
00:34:05.880 --> 00:34:09.519
he is if you think that you are overweight, if

682
00:34:09.559 --> 00:34:12.320
you think that you are ugly, if you think that

683
00:34:12.360 --> 00:34:16.519
whatever you're thinking, as a man speaking, that's what as

684
00:34:16.559 --> 00:34:19.440
you think it is coming out of your mouth. Eventually,

685
00:34:19.800 --> 00:34:23.159
I'm no good. I'm not worth anything. Who said that

686
00:34:23.280 --> 00:34:25.920
to you? You're still here? Do you know? There are

687
00:34:25.920 --> 00:34:27.920
at least five people that woke up they didn't wake

688
00:34:28.000 --> 00:34:31.119
up this morning. You're here. You're not in that number.

689
00:34:31.519 --> 00:34:34.480
So how can you make today different? He made? And

690
00:34:34.519 --> 00:34:37.480
now you look at that. Words of a man's mouth

691
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:41.280
are as deep waters. Yeah, because this little member here

692
00:34:41.800 --> 00:34:44.239
can give life or it could give death. You can

693
00:34:44.280 --> 00:34:48.639
speak life into somebody, and you can speak death into somebody. Okay,

694
00:34:48.840 --> 00:34:52.440
So I'm gonna just go and share it through Proverbs nineteen.

695
00:34:53.039 --> 00:34:57.159
Let's see what this. Oh, here's one seventeen nineteen and

696
00:34:57.239 --> 00:35:00.320
seventeen verse seventeen. He that have pity upon on the

697
00:35:00.360 --> 00:35:04.360
poor lendeth unto the Lord. And he that which and

698
00:35:04.599 --> 00:35:08.159
that which he hath given, will he pay him again?

699
00:35:08.280 --> 00:35:10.639
Now I want to give you revelation on that one.

700
00:35:10.800 --> 00:35:12.440
I say, because Lord, you know, I got a whole

701
00:35:12.440 --> 00:35:14.199
lot of people out there that like to give to

702
00:35:14.239 --> 00:35:16.440
the begging people on the street, and they think that

703
00:35:16.480 --> 00:35:19.199
they're doing your will. But check this out. He that

704
00:35:19.320 --> 00:35:22.840
has pity upon the poor and lendeth upon the poor,

705
00:35:22.960 --> 00:35:25.960
lendeth unto the Lord. It doesn't say he that giveth

706
00:35:26.280 --> 00:35:29.679
to the poor, he that have pity upon the poor.

707
00:35:29.800 --> 00:35:32.079
You look at somebody on the street and you're like, God,

708
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:34.480
I don't know their story. I don't know how they

709
00:35:34.599 --> 00:35:38.159
got here. I don't know what led them here. But

710
00:35:38.280 --> 00:35:41.440
if there are of you, Lord, please keep them safe

711
00:35:41.440 --> 00:35:43.880
and make sure they find their way back to you.

712
00:35:44.280 --> 00:35:46.840
Whenever we used to go and give out food, if

713
00:35:46.840 --> 00:35:49.320
heed the folks on the street, we don't ask them.

714
00:35:49.360 --> 00:35:51.719
Do you know, God, have you ever been in a church?

715
00:35:52.039 --> 00:35:56.559
What's your religion? Nah? Are you hungry? Are you hungry? Yes, ma'am?

716
00:35:56.639 --> 00:35:59.159
I am, well, thank you. I haven't that, gentleman. We

717
00:35:59.199 --> 00:36:02.559
haven't eaten to days, thank you so much. We had

718
00:36:02.599 --> 00:36:05.000
a little seed offering in there for him as well,

719
00:36:05.239 --> 00:36:07.519
and I pray that he didn't go and spend it

720
00:36:07.519 --> 00:36:10.159
on liquor or beer or whatever. They went and bought

721
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:12.079
some drinks for he and his wife so they could

722
00:36:12.440 --> 00:36:15.119
enjoy that. And he pulled it up the bag and

723
00:36:15.199 --> 00:36:17.519
took it wherever he's going to go to take her

724
00:36:17.760 --> 00:36:20.840
son to split it with her. Heither have pity upon

725
00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:24.239
the poor, lend it unto the Lord, and he have,

726
00:36:24.800 --> 00:36:29.280
and that which he hath given, will he pay him again.

727
00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:31.880
That's why you want to make sure that when you

728
00:36:31.960 --> 00:36:35.280
are given to somebody, a poor person, that God has

729
00:36:35.360 --> 00:36:39.360
led you to do that, because God will pay you again.

730
00:36:39.760 --> 00:36:43.199
That's scripture. But you see the difference on you just saying, oh,

731
00:36:43.239 --> 00:36:45.960
I just give to the people on the street. Why,

732
00:36:46.639 --> 00:36:50.639
why what you're getting? What are you getting? What does

733
00:36:50.679 --> 00:36:52.559
that do? And I know for some people it makes

734
00:36:52.599 --> 00:36:54.800
him feel better. It just makes them feel like, oh,

735
00:36:54.840 --> 00:36:57.480
I'm doing the Christian thing. Well, no, you need to

736
00:36:57.559 --> 00:37:01.119
find that in a scripture for me. Okay, okay, let

737
00:37:01.119 --> 00:37:06.039
me go. I did twenty alrighty already, oh Proverbs twenty

738
00:37:06.079 --> 00:37:09.320
and verse seven. The just man walketh in his integrity,

739
00:37:09.719 --> 00:37:13.920
his children are blessed after him. A good, a just

740
00:37:14.199 --> 00:37:18.039
man walketh in his integrity, and his children are blessed

741
00:37:18.079 --> 00:37:21.480
after him. So your children are watching. What kind of

742
00:37:21.559 --> 00:37:24.360
role model are you? And if you didn't do things

743
00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:26.800
the way you should have done it, did you apologize?

744
00:37:27.119 --> 00:37:31.400
Did you say I'm sorry? I just I made some

745
00:37:31.480 --> 00:37:34.119
mistakes and I prayed that I didn't hurt you or

746
00:37:34.119 --> 00:37:36.639
it didn't scar you that much. Do you know how

747
00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:40.079
many adults I have counseled over the years that are

748
00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:44.039
in their seventies and still have issues from their childhood

749
00:37:44.440 --> 00:37:47.199
and how they were treated as a child by role

750
00:37:47.280 --> 00:37:51.760
models that they want to look up to. Let's see, Oh,

751
00:37:51.840 --> 00:37:54.320
here's a good one. Proverbs twenty two. Oh, I got

752
00:37:54.360 --> 00:37:57.159
five minutes. See, the time is going by really fast.

753
00:37:57.199 --> 00:37:57.519
Guys.

754
00:37:57.559 --> 00:38:00.639
Please please find your way to the Lord and sit

755
00:38:00.760 --> 00:38:04.039
and lock yourself into him. This is crazy, I'm telling

756
00:38:04.079 --> 00:38:07.519
it was just seven thirty three and nine seven forty one, okay,

757
00:38:08.039 --> 00:38:11.920
Proverbs twenty two and four. By humility and the fear

758
00:38:12.039 --> 00:38:16.559
of the Lord. By being humble and fearing God are

759
00:38:16.760 --> 00:38:22.119
richest and honor and life riches honor and life because

760
00:38:22.119 --> 00:38:25.679
you're putting your trust in him, not the man or

761
00:38:25.719 --> 00:38:28.320
woman in the pulpit, not the sister that's been going

762
00:38:28.360 --> 00:38:30.960
to church for fifty years and could cuss people out Monday,

763
00:38:31.000 --> 00:38:33.960
dude through Saturday. Not No, you put in your trust.

764
00:38:34.119 --> 00:38:36.519
You are fearing the Lord. And you need to look

765
00:38:36.599 --> 00:38:40.239
up definition number two, the word fear. Look it up

766
00:38:40.280 --> 00:38:42.480
what it meant in the Old Testament, and look it

767
00:38:42.559 --> 00:38:45.519
up to see what it means in the New Testament. Fear.

768
00:38:45.800 --> 00:38:48.320
Fear is not being scared of God, but yet because

769
00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:50.800
I am scared of God, I don't want and the

770
00:38:50.880 --> 00:38:54.320
scare is for me. I don't want to disappoint him.

771
00:38:54.480 --> 00:38:56.639
I don't want to disappoint him. He's been too good

772
00:38:56.639 --> 00:38:58.800
to me. So I want you to look up righteousness,

773
00:38:58.800 --> 00:39:01.079
and I want you to look up fear, because of

774
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:03.199
course by be reading that, by humility and the fear

775
00:39:03.199 --> 00:39:04.639
of the Lord. Oh my God, we gotta be scared

776
00:39:04.639 --> 00:39:06.280
of him. No, you don't to be scared of him,

777
00:39:06.400 --> 00:39:09.320
because he'll never leave you. He don't drop us. He

778
00:39:09.360 --> 00:39:12.840
don't let us go. You let him go, you walk away,

779
00:39:13.239 --> 00:39:16.280
you turn your head. He don't do that. He waits.

780
00:39:16.440 --> 00:39:19.360
And guess what, no human being can do this He

781
00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:22.559
already knows what you're gonna do. He's just waiting to

782
00:39:22.559 --> 00:39:25.599
see what choice you're gonna make. You would raise your

783
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:29.280
mother likes go steal it out the store, taught you

784
00:39:29.320 --> 00:39:32.199
how to boost, how to steal, So God is watching you.

785
00:39:32.320 --> 00:39:34.440
Then you decide you want to go to church, you

786
00:39:34.480 --> 00:39:36.840
want to find God, you want to hear scripture. So

787
00:39:36.880 --> 00:39:39.880
he's watching you because you in in their favorite store

788
00:39:40.320 --> 00:39:42.519
this Christmas time, and y'all you're used to your mom

789
00:39:42.639 --> 00:39:45.599
stealing the Christmas gifts. He taught you how to do it.

790
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:48.199
God knows what you've been taught, and he's watching to

791
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:50.199
see what you're gonna do. Are you gonna go and

792
00:39:50.199 --> 00:39:52.840
pay for those items? Are you gonna walk out the store?

793
00:39:53.559 --> 00:39:55.599
He knows what you're gonna do. But I won't. I

794
00:39:55.639 --> 00:39:58.440
wouldn't play him that close. I wouldn't play with him

795
00:39:58.480 --> 00:40:02.039
that closely like that. Oh, God already know he's my

796
00:40:02.079 --> 00:40:05.679
favorite one. Well, you know I'm human. That's almost kryptonite

797
00:40:05.679 --> 00:40:07.639
to me when you say that to me, because I'm like,

798
00:40:07.840 --> 00:40:11.440
so what, that's an excuse because you flesh? Who are

799
00:40:11.440 --> 00:40:14.639
you fooling? And then you're expecting things of God. Humans

800
00:40:14.679 --> 00:40:16.880
won't do that humans are not gonna do that. You

801
00:40:17.159 --> 00:40:20.360
ain't gonna play play with humans, and they do. They like,

802
00:40:20.400 --> 00:40:26.480
oh it's okay. Today's word in chapter twenty three, verse eighteen,

803
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:29.920
for surely there is an end, and thine expectations shall

804
00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:33.039
not be cut off. Surely is an end. The scriptures

805
00:40:33.079 --> 00:40:36.039
that weep may endure for a night, but joy comes

806
00:40:36.039 --> 00:40:38.360
in the morning. You just happy to be a lie.

807
00:40:38.480 --> 00:40:40.880
You made it through. Now. I'm sure you all heard

808
00:40:40.960 --> 00:40:43.880
over the weekend Chuck Norris passed away. But what was

809
00:40:43.960 --> 00:40:47.239
Chuck doing? He was working out, that gloves on and

810
00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:49.239
everything he was working out. He's oh, I feel great.

811
00:40:49.599 --> 00:40:52.519
Then his time was up and he's done a lot.

812
00:40:53.000 --> 00:40:56.039
That funeral will be well attended by a whole bunch

813
00:40:56.039 --> 00:40:58.639
of people if there's still a lot not only from

814
00:40:58.679 --> 00:41:02.760
the martial arts world, from the movie world, but foundations

815
00:41:02.760 --> 00:41:04.880
and stuff like that, you know, things that he did

816
00:41:04.920 --> 00:41:07.920
for people in the community. My question to you, and

817
00:41:07.960 --> 00:41:10.480
I'm gonna let the nice ladies pick the last five,

818
00:41:11.079 --> 00:41:13.960
is when your time is up, what would God find

819
00:41:14.039 --> 00:41:17.400
you doing? Where would he find you doing it? At?

820
00:41:17.719 --> 00:41:18.760
Ladies take it from here?

821
00:41:19.360 --> 00:41:22.679
Can you want to jump in? No problem, No problem,

822
00:41:22.679 --> 00:41:25.719
I know I've been silent. I've just been falling along

823
00:41:25.760 --> 00:41:26.159
with word.

824
00:41:26.320 --> 00:41:31.400
But yeah, I mean even when you fall short, it's

825
00:41:31.400 --> 00:41:34.519
all about getting back up and just leaning on him

826
00:41:34.519 --> 00:41:37.679
and trying your best to you know, fight against some tation,

827
00:41:37.880 --> 00:41:40.239
fight against whatever is, you know.

828
00:41:40.800 --> 00:41:43.480
Playing with their flesh and stuff like that. Our flesh

829
00:41:43.519 --> 00:41:44.519
is not within our.

830
00:41:44.400 --> 00:41:48.519
Favor always so, and it's it's always common when you're

831
00:41:48.840 --> 00:41:51.800
establishing that relationship with God to fall short of his glory,

832
00:41:52.280 --> 00:41:55.840
and that's when it's time for you to you know,

833
00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:59.119
really get into your word, really just kind of isolate

834
00:41:59.159 --> 00:42:03.119
yourself to not have those distractions that would you know,

835
00:42:03.760 --> 00:42:06.599
leads you into being worldly and everything like that. So

836
00:42:06.960 --> 00:42:10.000
I think it's just important to just if anybody needed,

837
00:42:10.039 --> 00:42:13.599
that's just you know, get back up and just stay

838
00:42:13.639 --> 00:42:16.679
within him because he will help you. He will renew

839
00:42:16.719 --> 00:42:18.960
your mind, renew a right spirit within.

840
00:42:18.760 --> 00:42:20.920
You and everything like that.

841
00:42:21.039 --> 00:42:24.800
So that's what I had to share, and I agree

842
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.239
with everything that was said, but you know.

843
00:42:28.239 --> 00:42:31.480
You just have to you know, just jumping back with

844
00:42:31.519 --> 00:42:35.119
what mss Gray said about how you use your mouth

845
00:42:35.159 --> 00:42:39.119
and what you say out of it. You know, I

846
00:42:39.559 --> 00:42:42.000
laugh because people say, well, how you doing today, And

847
00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:45.440
I said, I'm fine, And my coworkers said, you said

848
00:42:45.480 --> 00:42:48.519
that too quickly, And I said, I have to say

849
00:42:48.559 --> 00:42:51.440
I'm fine even if I'm not fine. I have to

850
00:42:51.519 --> 00:42:54.400
because you could, you could, you could stay there, you

851
00:42:54.400 --> 00:42:56.199
can stay in it. When I say that, so I'm

852
00:42:56.199 --> 00:42:59.480
not doing good, and then that's open the door to say, well,

853
00:42:59.480 --> 00:43:02.360
what's wrong. Then you're saying a whole lot of stuff,

854
00:43:02.679 --> 00:43:04.480
and it's in your mind, it's in your ears and

855
00:43:04.519 --> 00:43:05.119
your thoughts.

856
00:43:05.440 --> 00:43:08.559
And so for me to say that I'm fine.

857
00:43:08.320 --> 00:43:12.119
I'm doing good, I lean more towards that, you know,

858
00:43:13.280 --> 00:43:15.519
because I know what it's like to be dark. I

859
00:43:15.599 --> 00:43:18.679
know what it's like to feel like you're in a

860
00:43:18.760 --> 00:43:22.079
dark space, and grief and loss can do that to you.

861
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:24.840
And so just being transparent.

862
00:43:25.320 --> 00:43:28.559
So learn to say I'm good, I'm good, because I'm

863
00:43:28.599 --> 00:43:31.559
gonna work towards being good whatever that means to get

864
00:43:31.559 --> 00:43:33.920
through to that day. If I need to talk to

865
00:43:34.000 --> 00:43:35.880
some folks, if I need to call them as gray

866
00:43:36.079 --> 00:43:38.599
or call some other folks and say, look, I just

867
00:43:38.679 --> 00:43:41.960
need to talk. You know, it's it's stuff because you're human,

868
00:43:42.360 --> 00:43:45.079
but you also want to lean lean out onto your

869
00:43:45.079 --> 00:43:48.119
own own understanding and then trust God, pray about it.

870
00:43:48.519 --> 00:43:51.239
Whatever's going to give it to him. Just have that conversation. Lord,

871
00:43:51.280 --> 00:43:52.159
look not.

872
00:43:52.159 --> 00:43:55.760
Feeling it today, Help me with this, you know as

873
00:43:55.800 --> 00:43:59.000
I walk through work, as a walk through life, as

874
00:43:59.039 --> 00:44:02.440
I you know, as our interact with people. So you

875
00:44:02.599 --> 00:44:05.440
just have to really just trust God to know that

876
00:44:05.559 --> 00:44:06.559
he's got you.

877
00:44:06.920 --> 00:44:08.679
He's got you. Just have to reach out there and.

878
00:44:08.800 --> 00:44:12.599
Ask Amen and amen. We're just setting things straight for you,

879
00:44:13.079 --> 00:44:16.159
helping it, helping you to think a little clearer. Just

880
00:44:16.280 --> 00:44:18.599
look at everything. Let's look at some things all the

881
00:44:18.599 --> 00:44:22.199
way around instead of just one negative viewpoint, because you're

882
00:44:22.199 --> 00:44:24.239
always gonna have something negative in front of you to

883
00:44:24.320 --> 00:44:27.239
keep you distracted. You're always gonna have something negative in

884
00:44:27.280 --> 00:44:30.119
front of you. It's gonna make you get off balance.

885
00:44:30.719 --> 00:44:34.639
It's always something. It's waiting. It's waiting. It's waiting even

886
00:44:34.920 --> 00:44:38.519
within us, our subconscious it's waiting. But you need to

887
00:44:38.599 --> 00:44:41.239
rise above it. Truth be told. Thank you ladies.

888
00:44:41.320 --> 00:44:44.039
Okay, so true.

889
00:44:43.920 --> 00:44:47.239
Yeah, just rise above it. You can help. Is on

890
00:44:47.360 --> 00:44:50.239
the on the other side, the horizon, the rainbow, whatever

891
00:44:50.639 --> 00:44:53.840
is on the other side, and that's gonna be our time.

892
00:44:55.039 --> 00:44:57.519
One more Monday in the month, and we're in April.

893
00:44:57.679 --> 00:45:00.280
We're in April, whether you like it or not. So

894
00:45:00.599 --> 00:45:05.320
please stay focused, stay safe out here. People are changing

895
00:45:05.360 --> 00:45:08.519
in our communities. We got extra people in the communities

896
00:45:08.639 --> 00:45:13.400
and all that policing and all that stuff. Just be mindful,

897
00:45:13.800 --> 00:45:16.559
keep your head on a pivot. Make sure that you're

898
00:45:16.559 --> 00:45:18.800
doing what you need to. Be strategic in your moves.

899
00:45:19.199 --> 00:45:21.559
Be prayerful, Say your prayers in the morning, say your

900
00:45:21.559 --> 00:45:24.880
prayers before you go to bed. Study your scriptures. Okay,

901
00:45:25.280 --> 00:45:27.960
don't try to memorize anything. Just study and you keep

902
00:45:28.039 --> 00:45:31.000
meditating on it. It becomes a memory. It gets in

903
00:45:31.039 --> 00:45:33.760
your memory. Okay. Sing up to the Lord of new song.

904
00:45:33.880 --> 00:45:37.079
Make sure you've got your gospel music playing, playing and

905
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:39.599
encouraging you. We love you so much. We're praying for

906
00:45:39.639 --> 00:45:42.039
each and every one of you. You all be at peace,

907
00:45:42.599 --> 00:45:46.360
Be safe. See you next week, same time, same stay.

908
00:45:46.400 --> 00:45:48.039
Shine music

909
00:46:06.639 --> 00:46:41.519
Has a