Halloween, Its Origins, Influence, & Traditions

0:21 Thank you. Well, hello. Hello. Do you have your listening ears on? Well, if you do, welcome to another segment of Setting It Straight with Ms. Gray and her fabulous co-host, Ms. Trey, from all the way from Virginia.

1:07 Ms. Trey, how's the weather up there? You know we got to ask. We got to ask. It's a little cool, but it was pretty nice. I think it was 60s. It started out real cool, but it got to 60-something, like 67, something like that. Gotcha. Okay. Good, good, good. Well, huh? Oh, okay. Well, praise God for that. And, um, yeah, it's, it's a mixture down here. It's a mixture. We had some, you know, sprinkles of rain and stuff. So I don't know. We had, you know, I, you just don't know. I have a sweater in the car. I have my raincoat and three umbrellas in the car. That's all I know. I gotta be ready in and out of season, right? In and out of season. But before we go any further, We got to go to the throne room of grace. Father God, we just thank you and we praise you. We give you glory for you alone are worthy to be praised. Lord, I thank you that we've had a safe weekend. I pray that everybody that's listening and checking in and coming on board, they too had a great weekend and a great week, Father God, and that we got even a better week. We're off to a great start, but I have to bind inoperable. any sickness and disease, any disturbances, anxieties, paranoia, not feeling good, low self-esteem, depression states, even thoughts of hurting themselves. I bind it inoperable, Father God. And I ask that you send people along the journey of these other folks, Father God, that are going through, Father God, that are confused, that are anxious, that are upset and concerned and being forced to be anxious and paranoid. about

2:42 the state of our country and the state of the earth as a whole, Father God. I rebuke all of them that do all of that and putting this in false narratives and conspiracy stuff out there. Father God, we don't even know what's the truth and what's not the truth. Father God, we ask, we lose your perfect peace. We lose prosperity in our health. and in our finances, and in our economics. Father God, please give them wisdom, Father God, on how to just function from day to day, week to week, month to month, biannually, quarterly, however that needs to look, Father God. Relieve them of their anxiety. Relieve them of their doubts and their fears, Father God. I rebuke all these illnesses, Father God, that are just popping up out of nowhere. Here in Florida and some other states, we've got this crazy mosquito. Kill it now at the root.

3:37 Just drop him. Just drop it in the name of Jesus. And anything else that's going on that's being released through our foods, released through our beverages, released through in the air, in the atmosphere, through animals and insects and all that kind of stuff, Father God, give us what we need. Direct us as we go to the Home Depots and the fertilizing stores and stuff so that we can properly Feed our lawns and anything else. And even those who have animals, Father God, that we can give us holistic recipes for our animals, because even the dog foods and the cat foods, they're going to be recalled again, Father God. It's all kinds of crazy stuff going on. And we know that it has to work itself out. So we let it, it's going to work itself out for your good, Father God. I thank you for the experiences. I thank you for the memories, Father God. I thank you for the ability to be able to help when you tell me to help, Father God, not because somebody else, because they mismanaged their money. They mismanaged things, Father God. They think that they could seek you out and take advantage of you. I rebuke them and I forgive them, Father God, in the name of Jesus. Now, Lord, we're going to lean in, get behind the cross. And listen to what thus says the Lord in conjunction with the topic and anything else that pops up tonight. Lord, we love you so much. We're forever giving you the praise, glory, and honor in the matchless mighty name of Jesus Christ. Amen and amen. Woo. Wow. Wow. Yeah. Let me talk to

5:10 you nuts out there who think it's funny to be posting all kinds of stuff because we got freedom of speech. You just take, you just really take joy. And causing people to be afraid. And amen. Thank you, Misty. You know, everybody roll call. Check in, everybody. I rebuke you. The foolishness that's going on, the foolishness that's going on in the world. People are believing what you write. We've gotten so far away from the, you know, my word is my bond. You want to just put anything out there to get likes and dislikes and get people. And then those of you who are arguing in the comments, what are you doing? We got people walking around here with thoughts of killing themselves. We got people walking around thinking that there's no hope. There's no nothing. Nobody I can talk to. And all you can say and waste your words is comment on something that's stupid. You got to step back. I've had to tell people this whole week, including an event we went to. Miss Kay and I went to yesterday. Step. You got to step out of yourself for a minute. You got to judge yourself for a minute. You got to think before you speak just for a minute. Is this going to help somebody? Everybody's got a podcast. You could go on TikTok. You can go on anywhere and do a live. If you've got to get something off your chest, go ahead and do it.

6:30 But don't play into this, these antics. And it's going to segue into talking about our topic tonight. Because believe it or not, Hollow Eve started out good with good intentions. And it turned into this darkness, this pervertedness, this sacrifice stuff and all this crazy stuff because that's what the devil does. He is not a genius. He is not an originator. He's a copycatter. He'll take what's good and turn it around for evil, for bad. It's thoughts. It's conversation. Things that started out good, but you leave it up to him. Just give him a minute. Give him an inch. of somebody saying, well, you know, you know, that Trey, you know, she, she always talk about solutions and stuff, but you know, I don't know what she's solving. That's all the devil needs right there to come after her, to come after her, mess with her money, mess with her hours. All of a sudden she's got all this caseload from nowhere. And she's, she's only one person and she's only got maybe a handful of resources. Tell it like so many need to hear. Come on, guys. What if we found out? We'll never know when the earth is going, the world is going to end. We will never, I don't care what pastor, tell a evangelist, tell a pastor, tell a prophet. I don't care who you are or who you listen to. No one knows the day or the hour. No man will know the day. And I don't care how they flip it. Say maybe the donkey will speak, the dog, your pets will start talking. I don't care how they flip it. No man, nothing alive, breathing,

8:02 know the day of the hour. So what if we do? God said, you know what? I'm going to tell everybody the world's coming to an end on Wednesday. What you going to do? Go get high, go drink up all the tequila you can, go sleep around with people. What you going to do? How would you spend your time? What would you really be doing if we gave you, if we count down the clock and told you, okay, this is it, it's over on Wednesday. What are you going to do? On October 28th, we're done. 2026, the world is done. Galactica, Mars, all of them done. Planets are going to fall to, everything falling to the earth. What are you going to, until then, between now and then? Well, live like that now. Those of you, and I'm not talking to our faithful, I'm not talking to you, saying goodbye and letting people know I care about them. There you go. That's what we mostly will do. We'll call everybody we can. I'll tell you just how I feel about you. If I haven't told you already, it'd be good.

9:00 Could not be good. Amen. So the challenge to you all is live like it as if tomorrow is your last day. Start doing that. Live as if we know the countdown. We know the deadline. We know the timeline. Live like that for the rest of your life. I bet you people be cleaning up stuff. We won't have so much pollution. Oh, I mean, we could go anywhere with this. People will go back to school real quick, try to get something, gathering everything together so we can end together. OK, Mickey, there you go. Yeah, that's good. Yeah. But instead of, you know, being driven or being manipulated or forced and you got to feel like you got to say, you know, come on. There are people that are not, that are very fragile right now, emotionally and mentally.

9:50 And these people have not been diagnosed. They're not on psychotropic medication and they're reading this stuff. They're believing these pastors and televangelists and all. And I know who do you believe? Well, you got to go to God. God, you tell me who I need to listen to. When I send people things, videos and YouTube, whatever to watch, that's God telling me who to send it to. First of all, first of all, just because I may like something or I learned something like, Ooh, and then God said, well, send it to Trey, send it over here. Send it over there. It's God. It's not me because I'll keep it all to myself, but I'm not that way. Try to help everyone lift up and pray together until the end. Yes, Misty. Yeah. See, this is good. Somebody's been thinking about it. What if we just, what if? Then we got the majority of the world, you know, I got my mail-in ballot. So I finally opened it up today and I said, okay, now I need to go Google some of these people.

10:42 I just want to look and see what they look like. That's all. I don't want to read your banter. I don't read your commentary. I don't want to read your promises. I just want to know what you look like because I don't know what you look like. And I, you know, I got a little gift there. I can look at somebody and say, yeah, yeah. Or, ooh, okay, refreshing. Somebody new. New energy here. Good evening. Yay! Okay, Tennessee. Louisiana's in the house. Washington is in the house. Amen. Thank you. Come on in, everybody. I know you're listening. I don't know why you don't want to just contribute and say hi, you know, and we see your name. I'm not going to pursue you. I'm not going to, like, send you a pledge, you know, make a donation. We don't do that.

11:26 We're good. Thank you. Amen. So I'm going to stop here because we're going to segue. So Trey, if you want to say anything to that, I'm going to give you that chance, please. We'd love to hear from you. Yeah, I think what you were just saying, you know, because, you know, if we're trying to wait till we hear from God of when our last days are, instead of waiting, try to make it right now, you know, make, make things right and draw closer to him and get into the word. And, you know, um, live like him, you know, more than he's, he's the only one that's perfect, but you know, he does, um, want us to treat others, um, treat others with love, you know, and respect and like he, like he loves us.

12:09 Uh, so, you know, get it right now, get right, get it right. Correctly. Now, I guess that's what I'm trying to, and just, you know, things that you, you, you want to pray about, because like I said, I want to be able to see him and be with him. Oh, Absence from the, what is it? Absence from the body is being present with the Lord. And that's what I want because it's so much wickedness and frightfulness and hatred and all this other stuff, conniving. And people are just, I mean, I said, how can people just continue? How can they do like that? How can they be like that? But then that's a spirit. You know, that's the spirit of hatred, spirit.

12:49 Of evilness, spirit of, you know, conniving. You know, it's all these different spirits that, that people are possessed with. And sometimes you might see the person and think, Oh, why they like that? But that's a spirit. And, and unless the person prays that away, you know, get right with God. I don't want to be like this Lord. I want to change. I want to do better. And, you know, just segue into, to, to, to my walk. I've never been an evil person. I've always tried to treat people with respect and dignity and, you know, kindness. And, and like I said, I had to learn some things. Oh, oh, the ways of the world that weren't right. You know, my, my potty mouth had a potty mouth and a lot of people wouldn't know it cause I wouldn't pull it out. I wouldn't pull it out around.

13:35 I knew when to do that. And so it wasn't, and it wasn't, you know, sometimes it was like joking man, not necessarily cursing people out over. I have done that if I've gotten that angry, but that's not me anymore, you know, and you want people to know you by your actions and, you know, um, You want people to know or see the godliness in you. And so my thing is trying to treat, like I said, I've always treated people the way I wanted to be treated. But some, you know, there are people that take me there and I said, you know what? You keep coming for me. Here you go. Try this on facade. Now leave me alone. And unfortunately, that's the way it was. You know, so if you've never seen that side, anybody who's ever seen that, if you've never seen that side, then that's a good thing.

14:21 And I've known some people for years and never knew that side. Never. Because I didn't, there was. No reason to do it. And not to say it was a reason then, but I would say, okay, you're stepping back up now. It's time. Leave it alone. And if it got to the point where I'm coming back, that's not a good thing. But I don't handle stuff like that anymore. And people will try you. People try to get right to the edge. I said, I feel it. I said, uh-uh, back down, back down, back down, back down, back down. And you have to self-talk, but get it right. Just get it right. Get it right with God and just do what he would have us to do. And that's where the words prophecy came from, or you're in my space, or you stay in your lane. That's where that all originated from.

15:10 I don't know if the audience picked up your cues when you said I had a potty mouth. That goes to testament. I've known Alicia for a lot of years. She's never seen that. She's shocked because that was my life then. There was no reason to entertain that. I never heard her talk loud. I never heard her talk loud. Ever. I'm like, She's going to talk loud. And here to be a domestic violence advocate, you know, and she didn't force herself on you. She didn't force her opinion on you. She's going to say or she's going to speak what she needs to speak. She'll take that.

15:52 She'll take the room for that. But no, I've never heard her speak out of term or call somebody by their name. So if she do that, I'd be like... Oh, the world is coming to an end. Okay. Better go get my rake or something. Let me go, you know, let me, let me get my broom. Wait a minute. Wait a minute. My broom. And you know, do you, everything's a weapon, man, you know? So if that comes to the trade, call me and say, at least I can't take it no more. I'm going to get on the next thing. Smoke. I'm going to get to it. I'm going to get to her, send her a ticket, say, get to Orlando. Now you come to me. Now your sister tell everybody, they can come down here, but you come to me now. Don't let me for you. No, I don't have my sensei anymore. So he, You know, he's passed away, but he would get on. He come find you with other ninjas. He would. You got to have a team. You got to have a team. So, you know, you just got to step outside yourself. And I love change. And I did not realize how much I was a change agent until a client walked out of my office. And I watched the transformation right in my office when I was doing a court ordered class or session. And I'm like, I like change. Now, I don't like all changes, but I like for the majority.

17:02 I like change. And I take pride in changing myself, changing myself. I've got a load of clothes getting ready to go. I'm getting ready to take the goodwill because I'm changing my style now. I'm finding the right shoe outside of my crock now. You know? Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, it's just when it's time for you to pivot. I love the pivot because I know it's going to be for the better. At the event we went to yesterday, I wore green and the host said, oh, I like that green. I said, yeah, money needs, I need some money and money need to find me. So I'm wearing green. And she said, oh, you still don't get it. You've been around me for a minute. You still don't get it. No, I live this. This is what I live. There's no superstition.

17:42 There's no conspiracy in that. There's no, there's nothing to that. No. Because guess what? It works for me. It works for me. You know, what works for you? You know, I just recently, purchased a pocket tape recorder. You found one? You found one? You're ancient now. I went on Amazon. No, I went to one, just the one, just the little pocket one, something I can carry. And the reason is because now that I feel like my creative juices are coming back, sometimes I don't have a piece of paper or I can't just pull it out. And I think this one is voice activated. I can make a voice activated. So as things come to my mind, I can actually speak into it and record. And so, you know, something you just said too, when you recognize your gifts, a lot of you, a lot of us have gifts that we do not recognize or, or, or passions or things that God has instilled in us.

18:42 That just seems like it's just normal. Seems like it's no effort. It's effortless and it's genuine and it's natural. And so, um, recognizing what you're capable of doing and sharing your skills and your mindset. And I know you were talking about the solution. One of the things is, and Ms. Gray knows that I'm very, try to be very solution oriented. And sometimes I have to remind myself, okay, but what that does is focusing on a solution instead of the problem. You know, okay, if you have this issue, what can you do to make it different? Or what can you do? And it's relying on your personal strength. And that's, it's, actually solution focused. It's depending on your strengths because some of the people that we work with, especially in social service field or the case management field, people have been resilient.

19:33 They have been resilient. They got to where they were utilizing whatever resources there were, but they're not recognizing that that's how they got through something. And so sometimes you have to remind people, how did you get through homelessness? How did you get through drug addiction? How did you get through alcohol abuse? How did you get from doing, you know, all these other things? How did you get through sexual abuse? How did you get through that? How do you, you know, what did you rely on to do that? And then once you start talking about, oh, and then you're telling people, then you're recognizing the power that they have within. And so sometimes we don't recognize the powers that we have within or something that God is instilled with us because we're too busy focusing on the woe is me and this is not going to work.

20:19 And I'm talking to myself too. I'm talking to myself because I always have to put a reminder in. But when we're talking about this, I just want people to recognize that. And God has laid it to me to tell you, rely on the strengths that you have, the skill set. And if you have to write it down, if you have to get a little pocket recorder or something that you can carry, say, oh, because I thought of something today. I didn't have my recorder on me. I was at work today. Now I can't remember what it was I was thinking. And so that's one of the things that I have to kind of try to do for myself, make sure I have a handy. It's not that big. I bought a case for, and just as I think of. Things and in that way, when my mind is a little clear, I can focus on, okay, now God, what do you want me to do with it?

21:02 Amen. And you got to do that. I, going to the event. I was not the invitee. I went along and because the host asked if I would come and just be in the audience praying. And I said, sure, I can, I can do that. And then the event that turned into me doing the center's repentance prayer at the end. And also if anybody wanted prayer and I'm like, okay, I kept telling them I'm not here to say anything. You know, this Ms. Kay is up as a panelist here. So I'm here for support, but yeah, I'm, But I could not help it that I know these are young people. I speculate on the audience and I brought notepads. I brought notepads with pens because I have gone to speak in a church where people are trying to grab an envelope so they can take notes. And so ever since then, I was just like, and they were totally distracted. They couldn't hear the message because they're trying to find something to write with. And they're talking to somebody, you have some paper, give me a piece of that paper. And I'm like, okay. So I couldn't handle it anymore. That's how that originated. So if I come out to Virginia or we come out and wherever y'all at, and I'm going to bring pads and pins with me. Okay. Because I can't take that because most of the time people don't know to bring it. And of course the host was like, Oh, that was so nice. I said, no, cause this is my stash here. Now, you know, I like, and I take, you know, and some of you all have received gifts from us from, you know, so, you know, I'm very particular about that kind of stuff too, believe it or not. So, And I love my stores that accommodate me. Amen. You know, and I love that because I mean, why? Because I know everywhere I used to go ever since I started attending my first meeting, even

22:34 if it's a meeting with your director or staff meeting, I've got pad and pen or pencil in those days. So I did that. So I know. And I was like, OK, God, I don't want people. I don't want, you know, a host. I had to I want to walk her through everything I was doing because I didn't want. And then the Lord impressed upon me to bring a gift for the host. So I had her daughter give it to her. Um, and then gifts for the panelists, you know, and even though Belicia has purchased all my books, so I, she didn't need a book of mine. So I create, and she had a creative bag, you know, but she didn't know anything about it, but that's just me. You know, I'm just want you to feel like you're welcomed and everything. And, and everybody, I was looking around and everybody had the pads and they had the pen and they were writing down notes, you know, and stuff like that steps or how to, um, but that's who I am. But I evolved into that because it was what a need. And this is a quick solution. I get it. Y'all don't go out and buy steno pads and journals and notepads and be prepared to take notes. But even on a podcast, even if I'm a student for a workshop online, I've got paper and pen in front of me. I got all kinds of colors of pens over here. I got one, two, three, four, five cups with pens in it. Just this weekend, the Lord said, you need to go ahead and Get rid of all the old pens that you've had for years sitting in those cups. And I did that and replaced it with the new pens because I've been going out to these health fairs and we get pens. So, you know, just something a little like that. I didn't do much this weekend, but he told me to get rid of

24:05 those pens. And I got rid of those pens and found something, a couple of trinkets that I had. Didn't even know I had tucked away somewhere in these cups. So it's just little things. It's just, you know, what's going to help me? What's going to help you to be a better person? That's your homework. You need to write in your journals or on your vision board. What's going to help me be a better person? We don't have to discuss it, but I want you to look at that. I want you to write down a few things and I want you to close it, tuck it away. And in about two days, I want you to go back and look at it and say, wow, oh, this is what I was thinking. Well, I didn't mean that. I meant this. Watch. You will have at least one change on it. But right now, even tonight, I'm going to challenge y'all tonight. Tonight before midnight, I want you to write down at least three things that will help.

24:51 What can help you be a better person? Whatever that means to you, because everybody's going to receive that differently. For me, what's going to help me be more independent? Well, basically taking over some of the household chores. Actually not waiting until somebody is folding the laundry or the towels or whatever or hanging. There's another thing I did normally, you know, my oldest son, I would tell him I got some clothes. If you can hang them up for me and stuff like that, because my my the top hanger area is kind of, you know, I have to, you know, get up there and get it because I got high ceilings in this house. I got high doors in this house. and stuff. So even my closet. So I would have him do it, but he's not, you know, he's not here. And I don't want to depend on the kids because they'll let me, they'll look at me like, you can't hang up your clothes. These, these two here will say that to me. You can't hang up your clothes.

25:40 So what I started doing, I lay them on my bed and I got to lay down eventually. So when I'm going in my bedroom, I'm putting them on the hangers. I started BJ to doing that for me. Can you just put the clothes on the hanger for me? I'll hang them up. And after a while, I'm like, no, because I know the Holy Spirit is like, what you doing? You got it off the hanger and put it on the bed. Why can't you put it back on the hanger, put it back online? That's what I'm doing now. All right now. So and I know to most, that's no big deal. But for me, it is. It is. So what I need, I need to be more independent. And I appreciate it. There was a person that attended the event and he was kind enough to say, do you need me to help you? I said, no, no, no, I got it. I said, thank you. I got it.

26:25 So at least three things that's going to help. What do you need to help you to become a better you? Y'all are already fabulous. If you're watching this podcast, you're already fabulous in my book already. But I know you could take it further. You could take it further and you'll feel better about it. And money is not involved. People are not involved. What can help you be a better person? And I don't know if my little ones are listening, but you all have that homework as well. You all think about it as well. How can you be a better son or daughter to your parents? How can you be a better neighbor? How can you be a better grandchild? Whatever that is to you. How can I be a better person? What would I need? What would I need? And now we've been telling you for years, if you're an entrepreneur, you're good at baking or you're good at creating textile. You're good at doing that. You need to go ahead and get that rolling. We've been telling you. And now we're here. The world is here now where we're being threatened by this mechanical stuff that they can step in and do this. OK, I need this. OK, I'll look at you. Yeah, you need this elder K.

27:36 Because I mean, you could go and visit all the sick, all your neighbors. You need to check on them. You got a whole ministry. Nobody need to release you to do that. I'll release you. Anybody got a problem, you tell them what Ms. Gray told me to do this. Give them my number. You know what I'm talking about. Go for it. You can bake. But you're good at ministering to people who are sick and feeling downtrodden. You use the word of God. Because again, I've said this to you all before. When God does come back, When Jesus does come back, oh my God, a company was going out of business. They had two cups of promotional pens. They were about to throw out. We asked if we could have them instead of throwing them away. We paired them with a little notepad and handed out to some kids at a trunk or treat this weekend. And we put the rest on the homeless packs. We give out to people in need. I'm done with you, Misty. I'm done with you. That's what I'm saying.

28:25 I'm coming to visit. That's what I'm saying. I'm coming to visit you and I'm going to be outside your house. And you have to explain to the neighbors who I am. OK, I have a T-shirt on. That's what I'm seeing. That's what it is. That's it. That's it. I went to a prominent person last week and I asked them to become a sponsor of my nonprofit. And she said, well, you know, I don't have a whole lot of money. I said, oh, no, no, no. It won't take money. I said, actually, I'm doing this project with this facility. We're going to do it. We're going to we're asking for slightly used decorations. She said, oh, my God, we're going to clean up my mother's garage. She's got loads of Christmas stuff that she never uses. I said, as long as there's no dust on it, put it to the side. I'll come get it done.

29:08 And guess what? You're a sponsor now. So you get all the freebies and anything else we do for our sponsors. All you have to do is say something. There's a song that says, open your mouth, say something. Open your mouth, say something. Open your mouth, say something. Hallelujah. It does exist. It really does exist. Okay. Open your mouth and say something, especially if you have a pure heart. You have no ill intent. You're not trying to get and be greedy. There's always something we can repurpose underneath. You know what? I was going to put my repurpose plaque up. but I was afraid because I just put the sticky things up. I thought it may fall. So I said, no, I ain't going to do it yet. But I've shown you all my repurpose plaque and frame that my wound care nurse daughter made for me. We're using butterflies and my favorite colors and stuff like that. So yeah, repurpose. free purpose. You can always use something. And that's why I tell you all, go to the community, your health fairs and stuff like that.

30:07 You could go on Facebook, look up your city, look up your state, and you can find what's going on in your city in case you don't have access to that information. And they're going to always give you a pen or a pencil that's unsharpened. Always. Always. We got bags now we haven't unloaded yet from the weeks we went to do, you know, two weekends ago, a weekend ago. We haven't even, I said, okay, I got to take the pins out now because I have no pins. I got to get fresh pins in these cups. So anyway, I just, I need y'all to really understand that. Oh, I got to go to April. Okay, no problem. You know, God is good and he will give you, and guess what?

30:47 Like I said, it's never too late. It's never too late. Now I want to talk to our family with Washington, Mississippi, Louisiana. I want you to be thinking about some items that you want to get to me so we can sell in the Christmas store down here. OK. All right. So y'all be thinking about that. I'm not. I'm not. I don't even. And the one thing I love about that crew, I don't have we don't have to assign a team leader to get along. So we think. If they, if I said, we don't know about it, but they get along. Somebody come up with an idea, say, yeah, let's do it. They say, you know, they're done. What are you going to do? What are you going to do? When, when do you need them? Um, if we can get them by the end of the month, the end of November, that'd be great. Cause I'll go, I'm going to open up the store the week before Christmas. Okay. And we're going to just go and set them up as is, and we're going to sell them. Okay. And all the proceeds, the Lord told me this to go to the facility for their emergency fund. You know, so if the folks need something, you know, I start to say, yeah, we split it. I said, no, I don't want to go through the hassle. They can keep it, whatever they're going to, you know, earn. Then I don't have to buy nothing.

31:53 You go. Okay. So, yeah. And I want some more crocheted stuff. You know, I know y'all may be waiting for my birthday, but, you know, I can use some more crocheted stuff, some more crocheted items in the color of forest green or purple, darker purple. I'm just saying. See, you have not because you don't ask. And I don't have to say anything else. I just put it out there. They're going to take it and run with it. Amen. And amen. So now we're going to jump onto the topic of the hour. I know you all been waiting with bated breath. Well, she's going to talk about Halloween and that we need to listen. Yeah. Because guess what? Halloween actually started out as All Saints Day. All Saints Day. It came out of medieval Christianity. And the word hollow is derived from the middle, an old English word for holy. Are the items themed for the sale or anything? No, just holiday festive.

32:48 And it don't have to be Christmas stuff. It don't have to be red or white or green or, you know, it don't have to be, you know, related to if it's some things that you all haven't used. And you say, you know what, let's see if we can get that down. It is not breakable, too breakable or whatever. And you can really package it well. Just send it on down to us. Okay. Okay. Because one of my spiritual daughters, she's going to be doing, she's cleaning her cupboards. She don't watch the show, so she don't know what I'm saying. So some of that, I'm going to put it into the store, into the event. You know, fine china. Who don't want fine china? She's got some good stuff that she's not used. And I can only imagine what our new sponsor is going to be giving us. done we're done i got i won't have to shop much because i'm gonna use the things that were donated to us through you all through the sponsors and everything else if somebody gives me you know a gift card to go get stuff i'll go do that i was walking around dollar general today i'm already seeing i'm collecting my cvs points um so right now i i got over 120 some dollars worth of points so you know bonus bucks and stuff like that and and you know if you uh If you buy, you get $ 30 off, you know, if you buy. So I can't read it right now.

34:03 But anyway, you know how CVS works. Someone mentioned we're going to set up an Amazon. People can go and get straight from you. Yes, Charles, I'm thinking about that. I don't want I don't want it to be so out of priced. You know, it's a great idea, but I'm trying to keep the selling pieces of it. To like three to five dollars because these people don't really have much. And even the facility, my contact person said to me last week, she go, well, we're going to use some monopoly money for people who don't have money. And I'm like, oh, I don't even think about that. So, you know, but that's it. You can use monopoly money. That's fine. I'm fine with that. You know, we'll make it, we'll make it happen. So I just want to, but I hear you about that. The Amazon thing is really great. Now, if we're doing maybe something on a bigger scale, like if we're going to donate to, and likewise, vice versa, I don't know if I've ever said this, but if you all got an event or a situation, you know, a group, a facility up your way in your state, in your city that could use this partnership, let me know.

35:07 Cause I can, I can go, I'm universal. And I'm international as well. So we can go, we can do whatever we need to do. All I need to do is make a phone call. I did do, I think it was last year. Um, the homeless coalition down here was, and they had an Amazon account type thing. So they said what they needed, how many pairs of pants, how many steel toe boots for people that are trying to get back to work and stuff like that. So I did, I made a donation that way, but that would be on that larger scale like that. Um, but cause Amazon still hasn't brought those little prices down. They've got this new, uh, piece on Amazon called Haul. But the only thing is with H-A-U-L is that you can only get one item.

35:48 Can people send store gift cards for you to get the items for sale? Yes. Yes, Charles, that'll be fine. And I'll mark that down and we can use that. And because we're a nonprofit, I can give you a receipt for whatever you donate. Give me a price and I'll send you a receipt. Okay, you can take that off your taxes if you are itemized, for those of you who itemize, okay? Okay, oh, and I need to talk about the Bible study. Thank you, because that was reminded gently about that coming on. It was my original intent to... be live on Wednesdays at 12 noon, because I know of people who eat lunch in their car. They try to get away from the noise and stuff like that. So they'll bring their own lunch and they eat it in the car. They'll warm it up and then they eat it in the car. So I know they already listening to their music or whatever they're listening to, but I thought that would be a great way to do it. Well, the devil, and as always, you know, even my Gen Zers were just challenged on trying to just upload and then get it to where it needs to get to the YouTube and get the music and I mean, it was really, and thank God they have just patience and they have patience. Thank God. So I'm able to upload it. So what I'm going to be doing is early in the week, I'm going to, you know, and I'm not showing my face. So I kind of like that. You just hear my voice. You've got a PowerPoint up as well. So you can follow. Like I would like for you to subscribe only so it can remind you that a new one is up.

37:07 Okay. Because you won't know until you go to the page and see that, oh, there's two more. lessons on here. I do a lesson each week. We're talking about the steps of the righteous. Okay. And I'm taking it one step each week at a time. And I've got, you know, and then you have homework at the end as well. All right. Some people have liked it and things like that. So I appreciate that, but that's what I'm doing. So by Wednesday, 12 noon. It's up. It'll be up after midnight, probably after Tuesday night, it'll be up. So I don't have to remind you, just go to the page, And hopefully if you're already subscribing to it, it's going to notify you that there's a new one up. Okay. So if y'all could do that, that would be great.

37:48 All right. But I really had that intention. You can listen to it. You can go back and listen to it. You want to listen to it, you know, all the way straight through without taking notes, then go back and take the notes and copy down the homework, do the homework in that journal underneath that date. Okay. So you can stay, that helps you to stay in order and become organized. Okay. Okay. So let's get back to Halloween. So the English, the word hollow stands for, it's an old English word for holy. It's holy. Okay. And so then, you know, and then someone Pope or somebody came along and changed it and say, okay, this is going to be a Christian holiday. So we're going to know it as All Saints Day. Okay. Okay. And then they were called Hallows Day, All Hallows Day. See, mankind can't make up their mind. But whoever's in, who's ever got power and authority and people listen to them, it was mostly popes, the Catholic popes changing this name.

38:46 and the meaning of this, all right? And then it's all Hallow's Eve. And then eventually it got shortened to Halloween. Where the ween came from? Where did the ween come from? How did it get shortened? That's a longer word than Hallow's Eve. So you got to always, you know, do you, you know, and then it talks about this. There's a lot of research out there and you could talk about the Celtic and the Gaelic and all that kind of stuff. But then eventually, as evil does, took it and said, you know what? Let's twist this around. It's not going to be about saints. Let's talk about evil, the darkness of this. How that flipped, I don't know. I'm not reading it because I don't care. But it flipped. Nobody calls it on all saints day nobody This is Halloween.

39:31 And my heart goes out to the churches. I know y'all have trunk or treat. You're trying to, you know, still appease the kids with the candy and everything. All you're doing is adding cavities. I get it. I don't know if you're helping the families who don't have dental insurance. I'm just saying. But I don't need to, you know, I know that they're doing it for whatever reason. They have trunk or treat. And a lot of places have that. And they try to modify. Maybe some of them do know the background history. of Hallow's Eve and All Saints Day, and they try to keep the Christianity piece in there, okay? All I'm concerned about is the people of darkness and what they do, and they're sacrificing, and all kinds of crazy stuff. And how do I know that? There are people who have given their life, who are in the craft, in the cults, who've given their life to Christ, and they're spilling the beans. They'll tell you everything that they do if you're ready to handle that. That's heavy. I walk in spiritual warfare. That's not unusual for me. The first time I read my first book from a witch, a woman who was a witch, practiced witchcraft, was in the church, laying hands on people, cursing them and everything else because of the position they gave her. I started reading the book and I had to put it down.

40:44 It scared me half to death. I finally got through it, read her other book. And I'm like, oh, you walk amongst us. Long before 2020, long before President Obama was elected, when all the evil really started coming out. Long before that. They walk amongst us. They sit in the church with you. They work alone with you. They drive alone with you. Some of them show it. Some of them still don't. So just govern yourselves accordingly, please. It's up to you. It don't bother me. If you believe in it, that's you believe in it. But how does it work for you? How does it work for you? And those are the people who got third eyes, six eyes and all that kind of stuff. And I still, you know, how does that work for you? Who have you talked down off the ledge recently? That's all I got to say. How do we know you? Even the legions, the demon, legion of demons, when they were trying to heal, the disciples were trying to heal. They said, Paul, we know. Jesus, we know. Well, who are you? And the disciples, they're talking to the disciples that walked with Jesus. Not one year, not six months, but three years. Paul wasn't even part of the apostles. He wrote this alone. And I understand him more than ever. You just can't take everybody with you.

41:53 You can't have everybody around you that's up and down and hot and cold and all that kind of stuff. No, I'd rather travel. When I have to go do something spiritually, I'd rather be alone. Not that I know everything, not that I'm all high and mighty. No, no, I'm just a servant of just a child of God. But the demons said to the disciples, Who are you to tell us to come out? And they couldn't exercise the demon. And Jesus was like, okay, I got to do this. Oh, ye of little faith. He wasn't talking to the people. He was talking to the disciples. And study your word for yourself. I'm not making this up. And that's what the devil does. He's not an originator. Even though he was up there when God was forming everything. He does nothing original. Nothing. He takes what he sees and perverts it.

42:41 Make it nasty. Turn it dark. All of a sudden now, you know, you got your kids wearing, the goth people wearing black and grays and, you know, and got the triple eyeliner and all that. And for what? You want attention? How do you feel about yourself? That's where we, that's where we go. Are you feeling OK? What's on your mind? I'm not here to change you. Like I said at the facility, when the lady came over and she said, well, she she she worshiped this goddess and she's been worshiping this goddess for over, you know, since she was 20 years or whatever. And she's like 70 some 80 something now. And I didn't blink. What you trying to scare me? You trying to scare me? She goes, I don't want nobody.

43:22 I appreciate you don't preach to us and you don't try to disciple. I said, no, I'm not here. I'm here to motivate you. Am I motivating you? She goes, yes, you are. I said, I've done my job. If we never speak again, I've done my job. That's the only reason why I'm here. And they help tell them to hold on because we still need you. We still need you. I love my aging people, my elderly people. I love them. That's my heart. I grew up around them. And I just want them to know you may have another word. You may have a word that you need to say that will help somebody along the way. That's why you're still here. And real quick, I found out, I was talking to the executive director and just running some updates by him and stuff, some good news and stuff. And he told me, he said, oh yeah, Mr. So-and-so who always gets a little sleepy and he'll leave before I think we finish up. And I was like, why is he leaving? You know, and I wanted to go, I mean, personally, I wanted to tell him, you know, tell the staff, you know, he don't have to come. Cause he gets, you know, he starts to fall asleep and you know, it's okay. And then, you know, he just gets up and, you know, we got to stop and let him, you know, and I started to tell him and the Holy Spirit said, no, no, no, no.

44:24 How about he goes and he's complained to the executive director that the staff walks through the room while Ms. Gray is talking to us. That is rude. I said, so-and-so, are we talking about so-and-so? Andrew said, yes, ma'am. He is really upset about that. He said, so he said, I had to announce in the staff meeting Don't, on Wednesdays, from this time to this time, do not walk through that, the day room. Every other Wednesday, do not walk through the day room. I'm like, wow, look at that. Look at that. And he's not only done it once, he's done it a couple of times till the director mentioned it in the staff room, in the staff meeting. Wow. OK, so you all could go and do some more research on Halloween and all that kind of stuff if you want to. But I just want to let you know, I guess the main thing God wanted me to let you all know that there's nothing new under the sun and the devil is nothing but an imitator. He don't care about his legion or his followers. He'll throw the rock and hide his hand and hide behind you and you get blamed for it. Amen. All right. That's it.

45:28 By the time we see you next time, time is going to change and we're going to be in a new month and we're going to have some exciting conversation next month because we're going to have guests. Yes. I don't have to talk. Thank you, Jesus. I love you all. We love you all. Y'all be safe. And until next week, same time, same station. Music. Music. Music. Music. so so Thank you.