Happy Father's Day

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W FORCY Radio. Well, good
evening, Good evening, and welcome to

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another show. Another dialogue, another
set of conversation with setting it straight with

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miss Gray and I am Miss Gray. You can tell as you could tell

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I am. It appears like I'm
alone, but I'm really not. Our

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guests is waiting in the wings.
But before we go any further, let's

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pray. Faba God. We just
thank you, We praise you, We

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give you glory, for you alone
are worthy to be praised. We ask

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Father God that you have your way. This is your time. We are

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your people. We get behind the
cross. You do what you do best

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and is setting the captives free.
In Jesus name, we pray Amen and

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amen, well without further ado.
I don't like being on here by myself,

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so I gotta call. But it's
my guests waiting in the wings.

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Can we just bring him up?
Can we just bring him up? And

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here he comes? But said George, and words, hey, George,

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how are you? I'm doing great
this Leia, how are you being?

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I'm doing well. God has been
good all the time. And you know,

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if you want to make God laugh, tell them your plans, tell

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them what you want to do.
Tell you he has a sense of humor.

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George. The reason why I felt
that the Lord m had me to

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ask you if you would come on
is um. I think it was in

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March. We were honoring Armed Services
Day and we were talking about men and

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women in uniform and um sometimes how
people put on clothing or put on titles

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or whatever, and they go through
changes, their personality changes. So I

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brought you up. I said,
I've got an old friend of mine.

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Now that he's old. I didn't
say you were old. I said he's

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an old girl friend. But I
don't think it's a little because George never

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would tell us how old he really
was, so we don't know. But

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George, to my knowledge, has
been in the Navy, and then we

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met back in the I think we
figured it out. It was like eighties,

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late eighties, early nineties at a
store, a retail store called Lurias.

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Now a lot of you young people
may not even have no clue what

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that could be, but excuse me, I'm sorry about get my camera there.

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And it's a combination of a best
Buy store, I think, George,

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you said, circuit city service,
merchandise service merchandise okay, at a

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high ended jewelry store combined in one
store. And we had a great manager.

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But George worked in the warehouse.
I was on the floor, and

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that's how we just became friends.
And when we had to do inventory,

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we grabbed something, even the Wendy's
across the street. He's in Bobbach County.

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He's in my hometown. Um,
but yeah, And then I later

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found out that he left there and
then went to join the sheriff department,

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right, George and nine, okay, And then you went to you got

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on the tactical team or something.
I was on a special response team inside

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the correction, which is a jail, and I stayed there for approximate eight

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and a half years and then I
switched to law enforcement, which was a

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great yes, got you. So
and I. During that time we stayed

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in touch some kind of way,
and um I was working in an after

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school pro after school suspension program for
elementary school. So George and I happened

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to be talking. I said,
hey, you know what, can you

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and some of your officers come by
and scare these kids kind of This is

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before a Scared Straight occurred and all
these other you know, take a kid

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to the tour of the jails,
you know program skate up. He did

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the first one. Okay, we
actually did it, and so Georgia,

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yeah, we'll stopped by it.
So I looked out the window and I

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can see these squad cars come up. I was like, oh, and

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so I gave a few minutes and
then I remember I ran to the door

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and I looked at Georgia was looking
like it was at the space shoot.

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Soon it was just technical stuff and
all this stuff, and the chest was

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out and I'm like, and they
have a comeback boots all and I'm like,

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oh, this is gonna be really
serious. There be a don't forget

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and baby face, I was gonna
say he had a colleague named baby Face

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who's he had to be six five, yes, yeah, but he had

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a baby face. He really did. His physique was huge. And and

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George and and and baby Face off
deputy baby Face or whatever. Y'all came

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in and and uh, I think
he skipped kids kind of straight just by

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being there, and y'all they talked
to him and everything. And over the

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years George and I have kept in
touch and stuff. But I want to

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talk about this is um not only
Father's Day month, um, but which

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is coming up this weekend, but
it's also men's health awareness. And you

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know, I was a daddy's girl. My dad did not like going to

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the doctor unless he had too,
unless he was forced to. So I

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want to talk a little bit about
first, you know, men being in

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uniform and men and women being in
uniform, and you making me, you

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know, the decision to go into
the navy, and and then trans you

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know, transfer that too, you
know later on being part of the deputy.

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You know, the detective. You
will to be a detective too,

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right because you finally retired. Yes, oh god, just so if you

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talk now, I'll tell us about
the time. You know, you know,

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graduating from high school and deciding to
go into the Navy. What was

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that like for you? And then
um, you know did transferring later years

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later and becoming a law enforcement officer. Like you said, when we were

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in high school, it was a
plan of my brother and a friend of

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mine he just recently passed away.
Joe Wilmack and my brother were all planning

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to go to the Marine Corps,
but they graduated the year after I did,

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so I'm like, you know,
they wanted me to wait, But

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then I thought, every time I
got in trouble, I was with those

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two guys. So I decided to
go and look at another branch to go

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into after graduation, in which it
was the Navy, and probably one of

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the greatest career decisions of my life. You know, went in and went

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all over the country, made some
great friends in which I'm still in contract

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with the day we became like a
family. Got out of the Navy,

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and I believe eighty four, and
that's when I, you know, came

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to Glorias and again made some great
friends. You mister Proudo to Burials brothers.

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Just like I said, we had
a great friendship there. We would

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do the inventory together with required a
lot of time. We go get our

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sandwiches from the Wendy's. It was
affordable. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

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And I just remember at first,
you guys trying to invite me into come

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into the break room to eat,
but I chose to eat out of my

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little area. Then eventually I did
come in though I got comfortable and eventually

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came in. But at some point
I wanted to do a career job.

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I wanted something that was gonna be
a career and mister Prado had made me

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the warehouse manager. But when I
told him I was getting ready to leave,

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he called into the office and I
don't know if he ever told you,

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but he said, you guys make
a great team. Do this.

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Do this, you know, probably
get to the store in Miami. And

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I ultimately turned it down. I
turned it down to my cousin Glenn Edwards.

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If you remember me talking about Glenn. Yes, yes, he was

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at the Sheriff's department and he was
working in corrections and he brought me the

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application. With on that sit for
like several months. Finally, through the

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graceful God and his guidance, you
know, I completed it and was hired

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and the rest was but you gave
his history in regard to working at the

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Sheriff's Department. Great career opportunity.
I started in corrections, but but once

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again I wanted to move further up
into you know, a career, and

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it switched them into law enforcement,
which gave me a lot of avenues to

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go. As far as the career. I got to work with the FBI,

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DA atf UM, work with different
agencies regarding homicide, narcotics. It

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was just it was a great experience, a great experience, and to this

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day, I thank the Sheriff's Apartment
for their you know, trusting me to

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go there and work and everything.
But you know when you talk about the

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guys in uniform, you know that
that is a brotherhood. That is a

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brotherhood. Thank God for that opportunity. A man, and George's just always

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just a laid back type of dude, real quiet and stuff. He and

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and did what he need to do. You know when we got when we

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clocked in, we were on that. You know, we were getting the

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store ready and doing whatever we need
to do. And then to imagine you

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in law enforcement and then you received
Deputy of the Year. A couple of

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times. I think Deputy of the
month a few times too, But you

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know, while you were then,
that snip. But the funny thing is,

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back in the day, I saw
George on the corner, on this

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one corner in Poppy's counting, and
he'd had he had the most, he

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got the most little people and in
fractions every month, and he sat on

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this one corner. I'm like,
how crazy do you have to be?

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You know that he's gonna be there
for eight hours. He sits right there,

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and I was like, are you
serious? But he always had the

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top number. And it's not a
quota. It's just that people were doing,

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you know, disobey in the law. And and you were a deputy

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today, Oh my god, you
just sit on one corner. You'd sit

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on one corner and you would try
to quadruple your numbers every month, you

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know, because the people are just
you know, really out there. Yeah,

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unfortunate. The atmosphere is so so
different now. Um, there are

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so many different challenges for law enforcement
now, uh, different ways. I

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mean everybody back then it was it
the YouTube and you see the people contesting

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like when police officers stopped them and
why do you why do you stopped me

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for why don't have to give you
my license? And and we dealt with

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it a little bit back then,
but not to the magnitude that it is

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now. So yeah, yeah,
it's And I talked to a friend of

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mine son who's out there, and
he says, he said, it is

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totally different. And the guys that
were aggressive and investigations now are more or

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less like a dying breed. There's
that. But technology makes up for it,

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though, when when you know,
before it was all the footwork and

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having to go out and find,
you know, different, these guys and

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investigation. But now technologist. I
was looking to show the other night when

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it's mid of the cell phone just
a person's cell phone, and and then

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you have the rylous cameras all around. Man, it couldn't imagine if we

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had it back then, back in
the eighties, Oh my god. I

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mean the jails, they couldn't even
build enough jails. They wouldn't be able

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to they wouldn't be able to look
at Transformers, which is one of my

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favorite brand of movies. I mean, we just went to see transform as

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a new one with the with the
beasts and with the animals, and but

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again dark of the moon. Um, you know they taught us that they

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you could use the ATM camera,
you can use the streetlight camera, you

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rings, the pole camera, you
know. Yeah, the ring that's a

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camera. Yea, the ring from
them people's home. Now, sir uh

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saw a major part of the crime. Now it's it's it's really something.

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So yeah, with technology has brought
us a long way. And you know

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so now I know with y'all this, you know, let's transfer to now

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today. I know you're keeping busy. What are you up to today?

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And again happy Father's Day ahead of
time? But what are you? What

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are you up to now? And
are you active in your church? What

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are y'all? What's going on there? Very active in church. I wouldn't

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be here to David wasn't for the
grace of God and just you know him

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leading me and guiding me. I
can remember. It's the point of my

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life like two thousand and no,
no, no, I think the late

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late to me at nineties when I
just remember that night or they having a

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conversation with God and asking him to
just you know, change and direct my

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life into a more positive way because
you know, we you know, we

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were young, were the night clubs
and you know, going out partying and

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and coming home getting two or three
hours with to sleep, going to work

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and saying, oh, I'm not
going to do that tomorrow. But the

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next thing came. We did.
But um with age count maturity. And

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I just thank God for having a
relationship with him, and and not only

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having a relationship but listening to him
as well, knowing him as he dies

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and lead me, you know,
and you know, I just thank him

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because he's so precious. She's so
precious. Yea, he is so precious.

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Um, sorry, agreement with him. Well, that's my oldest son

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coming in. So she's got to
greet everybody, you know, she got

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to let everybody know, like we
don't know she's there, but right to

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greet everybody. But uh yeah,
A God is just so precious and how

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he has saved us, He kept
us. He knows his chosen, He

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knows his chosen and he will give
us time to get it right and to

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come to him. He's a perfect
gentleman. He will wait on you.

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I mean my you know, I'll
tell my testimony another time, but I'm

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telling you there's nothing too hard for
God. And he's well, you're his

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he'll wait, Yeah, he'll wait
see you the size, he keeps you

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protected. Oh my god. Um, just the time just to know that,

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you know, and then he knows
when we need to pivot too,

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when you need to, you know, go on and seek that career like

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you, you know, years earlier, you're like, I need a career

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that I can you know, get
promoted and move up in the company or

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whatever, and something that's vital,
something that's going to be important. And

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you had no idea, but talk
about your involvement with your church. You

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know, what, what are you
doing there? Because I know you got

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to be leading somebody, leading somebody. I know you are, even though

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you're an introvert, you're leading somebody. Well. I set up up on

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an awesome pastor, Bishop Randy L. High Tower, Oh my goodness.

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Yes, the whole Power family.
Yeah, a whole budge of them.

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Yes, an awesome man of God. And he provides great leadership there for

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the many, gives us that nudge
and provokes us into you know, just

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doing things. And and I remember
it years when I first while I was

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belonged to the Sister Church originally on
the Bitch of Alexander. Yeah, when

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I went to the military, came
back, Um had that little speak of

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you know, the little wildness and
and and then you know it's like,

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Okay, I'll go to church every
other Sunday, but just an awesome man

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of God who preachers, not only
preachers the Word of God, that lives

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the Word of God. So UM, let's gifts able to come there.

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And uh, he just put us
in places that you know, he just

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uh poured out our leadership and the
men and and yeah, we have a

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Men's Building Men organization there that we
do where we mentor not only the older

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men, but men younger men as
well. We go out and we talk

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to the younger men's. We we
have the Men's Retreat, which we do

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in Orlando. We did it last
year and we're gonna be doing it,

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not this but next year. We
do it every other year. The Men's

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Building Men where we go there and
just have different leaders coming to speak to

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the men. Um Um. I'm
I'm an ordained deacon there going across the

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Church of God in Christ Cheerful Street, and um also organized the Men's Choir

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which I cannot see. So that's
that's why I stand up in front with

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my back and I direct this okay, awesome thing, um, and to

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just work under the leadership of a
great man who's under the thumb or hand

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of God. Amen. Amen.
Yes, yeah, so amen, Well

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that's good. I was just talking
with someone, um with an naacp up

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here earlier, and UM, my
my project and you know, my my

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love is for my Black American elderly
And I'm in school now getting my doctorate

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and uh my project paper. But
when you get in doctorate, you have

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a project paper. When you get
in an DHD, you have a dissertation.

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So it's a twenty to thirty page
paper and you're gonna bring it up

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to the point where you're gonna go
out in the community. You don't do

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that part, but you're gonna bring
it up to that part. So,

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Mike, I'm gonna be talking about
the healthcare disparities a Black American men and

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women, elderly men and women.
So she we were talking and I said,

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you know, one thing, she
brought up the church in some kind

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of way. And then I said, you know, but this is what's

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bothering me. And it's been I've
been in Orlando for twenty two years now

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this year and I noticed before I
left home from who I left Palm Beach

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County, a lot of the elderly
I've been watching when up a senior pastor

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retires or he you know, he
retires, or he's no longer in the

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position, and a younger pastor comes. The first thing, for some reason,

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and I've noticed it in black churches, the first thing they do is

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sent down the elderly. If they're
teaching Sunday school, if they're over a

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women's guild or whatever, they're the
deacons, you know, the mother's corner.

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You sit them down, they're not
even teaching anymore, and you honor

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them once a month. Are you
serious? And for some of our elder

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this is all they have. You
know, they've outlived their family, they

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outlived their spouses, and this is
all they have to be able to go

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to church, to this physical building. And the first thing you do,

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instead of to get to know how
that church functions and what does it do,

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and then identify some gaps or services
that are needed or reach outreaches that

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are needed, you sit, you
sit the elderly down. Wow. And

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I and it's going on, and
I'm like, are you serious? They're

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the pillars of the church. They're
the ones that will pray day and night.

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You got to teach other people how
to pray that they will automatically pray

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day and night. And that just
hurts my heart because then they have nothing

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else to do but sit in their
houses and just waste away. And I've

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watched RelA tips just waste away.
They have to sell the house because they're

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getting older, they're using you know, they're my steady on their feet.

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So all of a sudden, the
family comes swarming in and say, well,

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this is what we're gonna do.
We're gonna we're gonna sell the house.

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And well we're gonna, you know, you gotta move. We go

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stay with somebody else. And and
you just you stand there and you watch

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your stuff being packed up and and
and you wonder like, where's that?

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I mean, how did that make
you feel? Until you walk through that

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door? Yeah, until you cross
that bridge, you know, and and

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I I you're growing up in church. Some of my greatest mentor with the

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older men, my grandfather being one
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And my mom just told me how
when he was in the church and

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how he just always was in the
church always had a part in the church.

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And then as I became older,
uh, men like Deacon James Wright,

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and and and Deacon um Um uh
with other deacon's name is um Whittaker,

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and all those guys, they would
the leadership of the church. Even

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though we had an awesome pastor.
Those guys were the leadership. They they

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they that the programs, they did, the money of the church to cleaning

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other church. And I just remember
them grooming as young man. Deacon James

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Wright had me and my brother he
would pick us up on Sunday on Saturdays

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and we would go clean the church. He paid us, I mean,

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and the little money was good and
he would even he would even um on

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Sundays asked my mom and my dad, you know, can't we you know,

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could he take us out to dinner
on Sundays? And we would most

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time on Sunday we would go to
stay at that house and go back to

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nighttime service. And you don't even
see that in more. That's hard.

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That's hard enough time for the men
that this room, these younger men.

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And and the conversation with my pastor
of the week was like, man,

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we're getting old and we can't do
all this physical stuff that we used to

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you don't like, you know,
setting up chairs, and you know,

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we're getting older, our bodies can't
do it anymore. But they're so such

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a lock of the young men in
the church. And we were wondering why,

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because sometimes we don't show them that
attention to groom them like we were

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groom growing up, you know.
And the men and and the men and

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women automatically did it. They automatically
were corrected, they automatically and we dare

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not talk back to and we didn't
dare not roll our eyes at them,

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you know, but they automatically did
it. They felt that that was their

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job, that was their responsibility,
you know. And that's what what it

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took a village, not what's going
on today. Everybody wants to take um,

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take use of the cliches and the
little adages from the days of old,

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but you don't really know what a
village really looks like. Yeah,

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it's not having you know, eighteen
agencies involved with a family, right,

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that's not a village, right.
That's the neighbor knowing that, Okay,

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this is a strange car and the
driveway I've never seen the car before.

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And they're watching a little bit now
being knows it, but they're watching.

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That's how we grew up. You
know what I'm saying that you know,

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you knew your neighbors, you knew
when something wasn't wrong. Years ago,

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there was a story in the news
where this family. This is when when

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they first started killing the animals too. They robbed the house. They would

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kill the people that they start killing
the animals, and I can't wrap my

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head around it. The neighbors saw
the owner, the homeowner pull up,

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she opened up the trunk and she
had the back door open of her car.

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She went in the house and never
came back out, but the trunk

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up, the doors are opened and
never came back out. Right then and

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there, I've got a camera.
I'm facing the opposite side of the street.

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I Am going to notice something and
I'm gonna say that does not look

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great, and I'll call non emergency
nine one one and ask can you do

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a drive by. I'm not sure
what's going on, but it's just an

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odd situation, a strange car and
many cars. The deputies would get here

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or get to the place where I
was and find out that the car was

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stolen. It ran out of gas, and so they had to park it

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in our development or their parket in
our neighborhood. And that's many times people

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would stolen cars. Yeah, but
I could not get my head around that

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the car, the trunk was open, the grocery was you can see the

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brown grocery bags sticking out of the
trunk. Room. Yeah. There was

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a billboard that was placed up a
long time ago by West Palm Beach Police

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and says you have the right to
remain anonymous but not silent. Amen.

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Awful, Amen, Oh, it
doesn't cost anything to pick up the phone,

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Like, hey, I don't know, but this is this doesn't seem

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right, this is what's going on, you know, and exactly helps?

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I mean, because what if somebody
is doing an act of crime and and

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you're you're witnessing it, but that
you know, I'm I'm gonna stay out

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people business. You have that right
and remain anonymous, but call, at

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least call you would want, you
would hope, you know you can.

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You can only trying to think that
put yourself in that person's shoe, you

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know, what would you do?
What would you do? And and people

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and we're way away from that now
today that we're way away. People don't

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want to get involved. On Facebook
that there was a young man, black

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young man standing out it looked like
a balmark and had a side said I

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just need a hug today. I
just need a hug today. And people

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just walk past and walked past them. And after a while people stopped and

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they would pray for him. They
hug him and they said thank you so

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much. And then other people stood
and waited till till they can hug.

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But so many people just they read
the side and kept walking. They read

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the sign and kept walking. The
Bible said, you don't know who you're

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entertaining, angels unaware, you don't
know if you're entertaining. Yeah, and

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even Jesus Christ as he walked on
earth, he had such a spirit of

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humility and compassion. I mean,
we're there are times that we were walking

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two or three hundred thouars in our
pocket and we see a guy that says

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he's hungry, and we'll be like, oh, we quit the judge,

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Oh he ain't hungry. He just
trying to scam me. But if he

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is, God would deal with that. But right, it takes but five

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dollars and buying a little Delhi sandwich
or or a soft drink five ten dollars

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at the most. And you you
don't know how much, ever was and

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expending. This is that one morning
I had just got off on a Saturday

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morning. I was tired. I
had worked all night, got off that

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six, had to be back to
work at twelve. So I'm back forty

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fifth Military trail. It's homeless day. And then I'm just looking straight ahead

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and he just starts going off on
me. I know, you see me

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and everything, and I look on
what NA see, sir? I said,

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I used to give. I don't
have anything. I'm tired and going

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home, and that was that was
my excuse. And both we were yelling

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back and forth, this this,
this, And there was months later.

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I see the same guy. I'm
at the gas station putting gas in my

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car. He has no clue who
I am, but I remember him.

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And in the store I bought him
several sembities and some drinks, and I

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gave him to him. God would
deal with us. He'll he'll touch our

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hearts and and bring back to our
remembrance these people. And we had to

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sometimes put that anger aside, or
that that that that moment of bickering aside

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and bless them, you know,
when we were down and we were doing

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crazy stuff. God then forsake us. Yeah, there was a club on

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Military Trail, just been little village
boulevard when you come down past red Lobster

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and you make that right was on
the left hand side. I forgot what

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it was called. But my co
workers and I went out one night and

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I had my favorite little rests on
and every my little lavadis shoes and match.

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You couldn't tell me nothing right because
I grew up looking older than what

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I was. Guys wouldn't ask me
to dance, so I go on the

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dance floor by myself. So I
went on to dance floor. I'm just

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dancing and music was good and everything, and all of a sudden they started

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playing Tremaine Hawkins. I wake up
in the morning time singing Hallelujah. I

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stopped and I'm trying to and you
can't see the DJ, but I'm like,

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what are you doing? That's a
gospel song? Are you crazy?

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I ran? I ran by the
table my co work, where are you

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going about? And grabbed my keys
and my beeper kept going. I was

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like, the Lord Jesus and the
name of Jesus. I don't know what

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to say, but I know you're
coming back tonight. I know you coming.

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This is it. I'n't even get
married. I have a child,

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but I guess not. And old
Lord Jesus, just be with me.

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So I got made it quietly into
the house when parents were sleeping, and

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I just I just I didn't even
change it and went straight to my top,

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my shoes off, went straight to
my knees, just praying, Oh

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Jesus, I don't know what else
is say, but Lord, please give

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in. I shouldn't been out tonight
and I'm just so I'd never really had

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no other than ill and ted.
I just wanted to go dance and oh

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my God, please forgive old Jesus. Well needs is to say. Jesus

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ain't come back yet, But I
just knew he was coming back there because

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you're playing a gospel song. But
I didn't know then that that's a possibility

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of maybe reaching somebody where they're at. That's that's the social workers creed.

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We meet a client where they're at. That means you've come into my office

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and I'm gonna do an assessment.
What's going on brought you to me,

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and so I meet you right there. And you could come and say,

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well, I'm not an angry person, and I'm you're frowned all up and

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00:29:41.680 --> 00:29:44.519
you got your little fist balled up. Well, he's trying to look a

411
00:29:44.559 --> 00:29:47.440
little angry to me, and I'm
just asking what's your day? Right?

412
00:29:48.160 --> 00:29:52.079
So, but that scared me half
to death. And you know, um,

413
00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:55.519
and I've just been running for Christ
ever since. I just say,

414
00:29:55.599 --> 00:29:57.079
no, I'm not not getting back
into that, and I ain't going And

415
00:29:57.200 --> 00:30:00.519
I never went back to a club, but ended up dancing for the Lord.

416
00:30:00.920 --> 00:30:03.839
Yeah, when we're doing praise of
worship in the church, you know,

417
00:30:04.519 --> 00:30:07.880
yeah, And when you say that
leadership, it's just it's just so

418
00:30:08.279 --> 00:30:12.000
funny on you know, you look
back on it and you laugh, because

419
00:30:12.880 --> 00:30:18.839
man can't go into every place and
get you or preach to you, but

420
00:30:18.079 --> 00:30:22.039
God can. Because I remember the
same thing. I remember going down to

421
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Minding Knights and my way back home
that night, the Holy Spirit just just

422
00:30:27.880 --> 00:30:33.039
pouring down on me just I mean
to the point that I even remember getting

423
00:30:33.319 --> 00:30:38.279
back home. I just remember the
conversation. I just remember the Holy Spirit

424
00:30:38.359 --> 00:30:44.519
saying, is this where you want
your life? To be and and it

425
00:30:44.680 --> 00:30:48.200
wasn't. And and I went back
to the clubs afterwards. But it was

426
00:30:48.599 --> 00:30:53.039
a subtle change to even the point
that the guys that were we were at

427
00:30:53.079 --> 00:30:56.319
that time, I was in the
technical unit jump out squad, yeah,

428
00:30:56.839 --> 00:31:02.160
and so like I was leaving in
the Union of Arrest, and so everybody

429
00:31:02.200 --> 00:31:04.039
wanted to jump any ride with me. And so those guys would get in

430
00:31:04.079 --> 00:31:08.160
there because I took all my my, my, my, my hip hop

431
00:31:08.279 --> 00:31:11.400
music out of the car and I
remember playing golfap music, and I remember

432
00:31:11.440 --> 00:31:17.359
the guy who's a lieutenant now and
one was the captain, and they said,

433
00:31:18.000 --> 00:31:21.759
and so they said, hey,
you playing gospel music and I said,

434
00:31:21.839 --> 00:31:25.839
yep, said anybody with you?
And I never forget that. I

435
00:31:26.079 --> 00:31:30.799
never forget that when my life started
to change, nobody think that they didn't

436
00:31:30.799 --> 00:31:34.720
want to go any what with this. And it wasn't like it wasn't a

437
00:31:36.000 --> 00:31:40.920
big sudden change where I went from
like this day, I was like this

438
00:31:41.079 --> 00:31:44.160
way the next two days later,
I was wearing a white robe or anything.

439
00:31:45.279 --> 00:31:48.599
Again. He began to subtly deal
with me. He began to subtly

440
00:31:48.759 --> 00:31:51.559
I said, I didn't want to
go out to the clubs anymore. And

441
00:31:51.759 --> 00:31:53.200
my best friend to this day,
he said, he comes to me with

442
00:31:53.319 --> 00:31:56.319
it. He said, man,
you know, we ain't been out about

443
00:31:56.359 --> 00:31:59.759
six months. Where he say't say
we, he said, you have not,

444
00:32:00.000 --> 00:32:04.920
And I'm like why, And I
didn't miss it. I didn't miss

445
00:32:04.960 --> 00:32:08.279
it. God just started to this
God with the delivery. Like you said,

446
00:32:08.279 --> 00:32:12.599
you haven't to club. He just
starts to you know, work in

447
00:32:12.839 --> 00:32:15.400
subtly, you know, and and
that, And to me, that's just

448
00:32:15.559 --> 00:32:21.440
so awesome the way God just works, yeah, to remove the things that

449
00:32:21.599 --> 00:32:27.200
we thought were so great and that
we couldn't because if you told me forty

450
00:32:27.279 --> 00:32:30.440
years ago, George, you can
do without the club, I told you,

451
00:32:30.559 --> 00:32:34.079
oh no, you're crazy. I
have to I have to go out

452
00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:36.880
now I can't and when I get
on work, I can't get home quick

453
00:32:36.960 --> 00:32:44.440
enough. And I remember those days
and it's just like you said, I

454
00:32:45.279 --> 00:32:49.279
can't tell you when it stopped.
I knew that night. I was scared.

455
00:32:49.839 --> 00:32:52.240
I was scared because I knew Jesus
was coming because you're playing this gospel

456
00:32:52.359 --> 00:32:58.680
music in the club. But over
time it just didn't matter because then you

457
00:32:58.799 --> 00:33:00.440
start studying word and that's one of
the thing, you know. The last

458
00:33:00.480 --> 00:33:05.799
few minutes we could talk about.
You know, you cannot clean yourself up.

459
00:33:06.119 --> 00:33:10.359
You cannot find the nicest cologne or
the nicest smelling a perfume to clean

460
00:33:10.400 --> 00:33:14.440
yourself up, to give yourself to
God. You cannot do it. You

461
00:33:14.599 --> 00:33:17.720
have to just once you make up
a conscious decision. I'm going to do

462
00:33:17.920 --> 00:33:21.160
this. I could do this,
but God, we need your help,

463
00:33:21.279 --> 00:33:24.079
Jesus, I need your Holy Spirit, please guide me. He's there right

464
00:33:24.119 --> 00:33:28.119
there. They know it's gonna be
hard. They know you don't have to

465
00:33:28.160 --> 00:33:30.119
tell God, Oh I'm human.
He's like, who are you talking to?

466
00:33:30.759 --> 00:33:34.680
You're talking to the you know,
that's like telling the GE people.

467
00:33:35.039 --> 00:33:37.400
You know, okay, um,
you can't fix this stove even though it's

468
00:33:37.400 --> 00:33:42.759
a GE while I was trained to
work on GE products, and that's talking

469
00:33:42.839 --> 00:33:45.400
it. Yeah, that's why Christ
says. Yeah. He says, I

470
00:33:45.480 --> 00:33:50.720
would pray to the Father that he
would send you an advocator, a comforter,

471
00:33:51.519 --> 00:33:55.839
because he knew that there's there's days
I'm talking the passage. I don't

472
00:33:55.839 --> 00:34:01.440
feel like praying. I don't I
don't feel like studying. But the Holy

473
00:34:01.759 --> 00:34:08.079
Spirit were just just it just ushers
you into that point of praise. To

474
00:34:08.159 --> 00:34:12.719
that point of worshiping God. And
right so now I'm like like when I

475
00:34:12.800 --> 00:34:15.360
go to work on Monday nights and
I'm and so then I'm sitting there,

476
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:17.280
they'll be like, I have my
eye pad and it'll be a movie coming

477
00:34:17.360 --> 00:34:22.840
on. But that's Holy Spirit with
just thought itching that word into you.

478
00:34:22.000 --> 00:34:28.079
That it just it just it's just
a burning desire to to to study that

479
00:34:28.159 --> 00:34:30.840
scripture, to study that that chapter
in the Bible. And and I just

480
00:34:31.320 --> 00:34:37.360
it's so awesome. I can't it's
going to die. But it's amen.

481
00:34:37.519 --> 00:34:39.840
Amen. I fall in love with
the Lord every single every minute of the

482
00:34:39.960 --> 00:34:44.519
day, every second because I'll just
think on him and I'll just and I'm

483
00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:47.559
in this tearful state right now and
I'm not and I'm I'm thinking that it's

484
00:34:47.639 --> 00:34:52.440
just it's just the overwhelmingness of the
way the world is going, yeah,

485
00:34:52.719 --> 00:34:55.639
you know, and and people who
turning their backs on God. And I

486
00:34:55.800 --> 00:34:59.320
think that's what it is. I
don't be thinking about it, but in

487
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.679
an just come over me. And
I've got tears in my eyes and I'm

488
00:35:02.719 --> 00:35:06.239
like, Lord Jesus, you know, I don't know what more I can

489
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.119
do? What more can I do? What more can I what can I

490
00:35:09.239 --> 00:35:14.519
pray. You know, sometimes you
cannot pray. Sometimes you just cannot bring

491
00:35:14.599 --> 00:35:17.440
yourself to grab the Bible, the
Book of Psalms, it's our great scriptures

492
00:35:17.480 --> 00:35:22.000
to pray, pray those songs.
The Uncle David. Everybody in the Bible

493
00:35:22.239 --> 00:35:24.400
is related to me. So that's
Uncle David, cousin Solomon, if a

494
00:35:24.519 --> 00:35:28.480
first cousin Solomon, those are my
people, you know, first cousin Josh

495
00:35:28.639 --> 00:35:31.760
or that's my people. Yeah,
So I'm like Uncle David knew how to

496
00:35:31.840 --> 00:35:37.519
pray, he knew how to repent. David went from the Book of Samuel,

497
00:35:37.599 --> 00:35:39.480
first Samuel, when we are introduced
to him as a kid in the

498
00:35:39.599 --> 00:35:44.559
field, to all the way into
the Book of Hebrews, not chapter one,

499
00:35:44.760 --> 00:35:49.199
not chapter five, chapter eleven,
under the archives of faith. Yes,

500
00:35:49.519 --> 00:35:52.760
a man after God's heart, And
no Bible scholar student can tell me

501
00:35:52.840 --> 00:35:57.800
how many years? Yeah that is, from First Samuel to Hebrews eleven.

502
00:35:58.000 --> 00:36:00.760
No, you know, nobody can
tell how long that was. But David,

503
00:36:00.880 --> 00:36:05.000
God in God's mind, David is
you know, because God and David

504
00:36:05.079 --> 00:36:07.519
knew how to do what he knew
how to get to a cave, fall

505
00:36:07.639 --> 00:36:10.360
on his knees. Sometimes he stripped, sometimes he didn't, but he fall

506
00:36:10.400 --> 00:36:15.280
out repenting. So that's the key
to your steps of your righteous repenting.

507
00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:21.559
Between studying to show yourself a proof
repent meditator his word day and night.

508
00:36:21.719 --> 00:36:27.360
Repent, fast, repent, pray, repent, watch and pray, repent,

509
00:36:27.760 --> 00:36:30.679
you know, enter his cakes with
gates, with thanksgiving and praise,

510
00:36:30.840 --> 00:36:35.280
repent, fast, pray, give
her your tide and your first fruit,

511
00:36:35.519 --> 00:36:40.039
your harvest. I mean, and
repenting is the key here. The repenting

512
00:36:40.199 --> 00:36:44.239
is the key for this lifestyle.
And you can do it. You can

513
00:36:44.360 --> 00:36:47.760
do it, you know, and
go ahead. No, I just want

514
00:36:47.760 --> 00:36:52.039
to say, I just I say
that I do a prayer of repentance every

515
00:36:52.280 --> 00:36:58.039
night before I closed my eyes,
every night before I close. I never

516
00:36:58.159 --> 00:37:02.480
want the spirit of God apart from
me. I never wanted to wake up

517
00:37:02.599 --> 00:37:08.480
like I don't feel the spirit.
I amen. Every night before I closed

518
00:37:08.519 --> 00:37:12.840
my eyes, I repent. I
say a prayer of repentance. And sometimes

519
00:37:12.840 --> 00:37:15.000
I wake up in the middle of
I'm like, did I pray that I

520
00:37:15.079 --> 00:37:16.480
prayed? And I'll go into a
prayer for pain. Say it again,

521
00:37:16.599 --> 00:37:22.840
yes, going back to sleep again. You know you can be never be

522
00:37:22.000 --> 00:37:27.360
in conversation with God enough. I
can't say it enough. You can never

523
00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:30.119
be in conversation with him enough.
I'm yere. I mean just you know,

524
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:36.039
sometimes people might think you're crazy.
When they're gonna think it, they're

525
00:37:36.039 --> 00:37:38.760
gonna think it because they're gonna say, this is just to live a lifestyle

526
00:37:38.840 --> 00:37:45.440
of holiness, and and and and
and studying the Word and committing to the

527
00:37:45.519 --> 00:37:47.320
Head and committing to the Lord.
They're doing the best, and not reminding

528
00:37:47.360 --> 00:37:51.920
God, I'm I'm not perfect.
There's no scripture in the Bible that talks

529
00:37:51.920 --> 00:37:54.840
about perfection. So guess what that
that moves him not? You don't have

530
00:37:54.920 --> 00:37:58.880
to remind God. Well, Lord, you know I'm not. I'm not

531
00:38:00.440 --> 00:38:02.599
perfect. And it's like, okay, and I'm not you know, I'm

532
00:38:02.639 --> 00:38:07.039
just human. I'm human. And
that just gets if it gets on my

533
00:38:07.159 --> 00:38:07.719
nerves. I know, God be
like, oh, I know. The

534
00:38:07.800 --> 00:38:13.079
angels be like do we wreck this
down? What do we do? I

535
00:38:13.199 --> 00:38:21.920
know, my angels they're like Jesus. I'm like, hey, hey,

536
00:38:22.000 --> 00:38:25.599
hey, I heard you. Yeah. But one of my prayers, I'm

537
00:38:25.639 --> 00:38:31.199
I could I find myself being a
prayer warrior. I'm a little um uh,

538
00:38:32.000 --> 00:38:38.440
I'm a little different when I pray
than your average intercessor and the Lord

539
00:38:38.599 --> 00:38:43.800
in the last few months taught me
another prayer and at the end of if

540
00:38:43.840 --> 00:38:45.880
you're if it's a petitional prayer that
you're saying, Lord, if you can

541
00:38:45.960 --> 00:38:50.280
help me guide me, and if
it's something specific like that, if it's

542
00:38:50.320 --> 00:38:52.920
a bill that needs to be paid
and you can't work enough to make that

543
00:38:52.039 --> 00:38:54.880
bill, you know that payment.
God, if you don't do it,

544
00:38:55.000 --> 00:38:59.440
it won't get done. Yeah,
God, if you don't do it,

545
00:38:59.599 --> 00:39:01.719
it won't get done. And he
showed me. Then one day I said

546
00:39:01.760 --> 00:39:04.639
that, I said, God,
if you don't do this, it won't

547
00:39:04.679 --> 00:39:08.079
get done. And he showed me. First, your flesh shuts down,

548
00:39:08.239 --> 00:39:12.559
your mind shuts down, your brain
says, she gave it to God.

549
00:39:13.000 --> 00:39:15.679
There's nothing we can do. There's
nothing we can do. She gave it

550
00:39:15.760 --> 00:39:17.840
to God. Then another time he
showed me. I said, Lord,

551
00:39:17.920 --> 00:39:22.079
if it don't if you don't do
it, it won't get done. And

552
00:39:22.239 --> 00:39:23.719
I shed it a little tear and
I was just like, I'm done with

553
00:39:23.840 --> 00:39:28.280
this. I'm done with this,
And you do it. Your shoulders are

554
00:39:28.320 --> 00:39:30.360
bigger. You know this, and
you know this day an hour was gonna

555
00:39:30.440 --> 00:39:32.760
come. If you don't do it, it won't get done. And then

556
00:39:32.800 --> 00:39:39.119
I saw a vision of God quieting
heaven down says my daughter needs me.

557
00:39:40.039 --> 00:39:45.480
Ah wow, oh my God.
I was like God, and He's like,

558
00:39:46.679 --> 00:39:51.519
my daughter needs me. And so
I know he is on guard,

559
00:39:51.679 --> 00:39:54.679
he is on standby, he is
right there. You call out to him,

560
00:39:54.920 --> 00:39:59.320
it's coming. You got to have
the patience. But whatever that prayer

561
00:39:59.400 --> 00:40:02.360
requested, it's coming. It's going
to happen. It's going to happen,

562
00:40:02.920 --> 00:40:07.480
you know. And when he breaks
up, when we're like just broken before

563
00:40:07.639 --> 00:40:13.159
him, and then just to have
him to know that he's coming there and

564
00:40:13.239 --> 00:40:17.480
he's not unless he's rubbing your back, but he's lifting you up. He's

565
00:40:17.559 --> 00:40:22.599
lifting it up. And you can
tell the difference when you know your sharity

566
00:40:22.599 --> 00:40:27.880
of things. One of my favorite
chapters of the Second Grantings the fourth chapter

567
00:40:28.559 --> 00:40:30.480
when it tells that we're gonna be
per placed and we're gonna be in despair.

568
00:40:30.679 --> 00:40:35.400
But and then it goes on to
say in the seventeen six sixteenth and

569
00:40:35.440 --> 00:40:40.440
the Clothing life, don't get caught
up in things that are temporal, but

570
00:40:42.360 --> 00:40:46.960
your soul, your position with God, salvation, uh, the rewards that

571
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:53.079
He's gonna give you for being diligent
and committed. Those things overcome everything else.

572
00:40:53.280 --> 00:40:58.239
When you when you're praying and you're
saying, you know, I know

573
00:40:58.360 --> 00:41:00.360
I'm here on this world and I
know I have to do this and this,

574
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:06.079
but Lord God, you are a
priority. You are from the worst

575
00:41:06.280 --> 00:41:10.320
and foremost. And and he that
spirit that I don't know if you've ever

576
00:41:10.440 --> 00:41:15.199
not been broken like when you know, and and he just comes there and

577
00:41:15.360 --> 00:41:19.039
just to just soothe you. I
mean, that is just to me.

578
00:41:19.599 --> 00:41:22.360
He won me over. Yeah,
he won me over. I just I

579
00:41:22.400 --> 00:41:25.480
mean when he said when I remember
those times, so I was going through

580
00:41:25.519 --> 00:41:30.199
trials and tribulation, even sickness,
and to know that my heavenly father,

581
00:41:30.840 --> 00:41:37.039
who was a creator of all things, stood up on his seat and the

582
00:41:37.159 --> 00:41:39.000
thrones of the heaven of heaven,
and like you said, he says,

583
00:41:39.039 --> 00:41:45.559
hey, my son needs me.
Yeah. Yeah, he's right there.

584
00:41:45.719 --> 00:41:49.199
He's right there, and he's no
respect to a person. And you know,

585
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:52.079
and you got to work towards that. When you know, when you

586
00:41:52.239 --> 00:41:54.639
feel that there's a calling, there's
a towards him. Not a calling to

587
00:41:54.719 --> 00:41:58.559
be a minister, not a calling
to being a possible or whatever I'm not

588
00:41:58.599 --> 00:42:01.559
talking about, but you feel that
you have a sense that warmth comes over

589
00:42:01.639 --> 00:42:05.599
when you think about the Lord.
Yeah, you could be chosen. Many

590
00:42:05.639 --> 00:42:08.960
are called, yea, many are
called. Every woman I've ever known,

591
00:42:09.159 --> 00:42:14.639
whether she if she knew that there
was life growing in her, and even

592
00:42:14.679 --> 00:42:17.280
if she decided not to keep the
baby, they were already naming. She

593
00:42:17.280 --> 00:42:20.639
would already name. Well, if
it's gonna be a girl, I'm gonna

594
00:42:20.679 --> 00:42:22.000
name her this. If it's a
boy, I'm a name. And this

595
00:42:22.599 --> 00:42:27.039
my biological mother. When she found
out she was pregnant, she already had

596
00:42:27.119 --> 00:42:30.039
my name. It's not the name
I have now, but she already had

597
00:42:30.079 --> 00:42:32.840
my name. Yeah, even though
she knew she was not going to be

598
00:42:32.880 --> 00:42:39.480
able to keep me. Many are
called everybody's called, but few are chosen.

599
00:42:39.960 --> 00:42:44.760
Yes, few are chosen. So
we had three more minutes. George,

600
00:42:44.760 --> 00:42:47.800
would you just mind giving an encouraging
word to our audience. It buries

601
00:42:47.960 --> 00:42:52.239
and we have all sorts of people
that go back and listen to the reruns

602
00:42:52.320 --> 00:42:55.000
and the recorded messages and stuff.
But if you could, just if you're

603
00:42:55.480 --> 00:43:00.920
you're talking to an audience, what
would you say for people? Because the

604
00:43:00.000 --> 00:43:05.800
world is getting ready to flip and
flip again, and people go ahead the

605
00:43:05.960 --> 00:43:08.239
first moment. I just thank you, Lysia for your calling in life and

606
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:15.039
your commitment, your commitment in your
walk. We met years ago, and

607
00:43:15.159 --> 00:43:17.000
whoever we thought we would be at
this point in our lives where we're serving

608
00:43:17.079 --> 00:43:24.119
God and and and just just just
honoring Him and and and when you called

609
00:43:24.159 --> 00:43:29.480
me into about the different the walk
and my journey with the uniforms, those

610
00:43:29.559 --> 00:43:34.239
uniforms can't even fit me anymore.
I can't fit them. But God clothed

611
00:43:34.320 --> 00:43:38.559
me also, and that would he
clothed me with is eternal. And I

612
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:43.679
just like to say that you know, we live lived this life. God

613
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the calling is always there, like
you said, many a call. We're

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all the call. And and when
we give ourselves to Him, when we

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when we just confessed and believe in
our hearts and give our lives to Him,

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and that commitment and obedience, there's
no era and anything that he says,

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any of this word, there's no
erra. And so I just just

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to serve him, just you know, in our communities, just begin to

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say worth of encouragement to others and
just trusting God always. And again,

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Alicia, thank you so much for
your commitment, for your dedication. We

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haven't seen each other, Like I
said, thirty years. It's been a

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long time. But you know,
God has brought us to that path,

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back to you know, gather to
serve him again, and I'm just honored

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and I just thank him and give
him all praise. Amen. Well,

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I thank you for staying healthy and
staying keeping your right mind and having the

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activities if you live with the past
when you're a kid and you get the

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past and say hey, oh,
you know as everybody all minds are clear,

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and I'm like I'm looking around like
everybody gonna challengeing on this, and

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then the other one is okay,
we have the Lord. We just thank

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you. We have the activities of
you know, I lived, and we're

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in our right mind. And I'm
like, you'd laugh at that as a

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kid, but here I am.
You know, five years ago laying up

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in the hospital, went in there
with a stomach ache and woke up.

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It was in October when I went
in and then woke up, and it

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was a couple of days before thanks
getting wow, and I'm like, oh,

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and then I couldn't move my arms
and my hands were bandaged, my

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feet were bandaged, and I could
not move even into bed. Wow,

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and I'm like, activities, okay, what days to day? And I

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had to make them write the date
up and then the day of the week,

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and I'm looking at I'm trying to
fight to see it, and I'm

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like, you know, to wake
up. So then I had to laugh

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on in my nurse cabage co forbody, you're laughing about it, And I

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said, when I was a kid, the people at the church, we

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don't even know where they were,
you don't even nobody went and ran and

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got the microphone. They had just
started talking acapella and singing right, and

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somebody said, Lord, we just
thank you. Halla and Louis were just

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thank you. I'm in my right
mind. And I'm like, thank you,

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Jesus, I am in my right
mind to day's date. It's this,

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this is the year, and I
have the activity Well, I can't

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move lords, So Jesus, you're
gonna have to help me here. You've

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got to help me wrap my mind
around this. And you know, so

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yeah, and those things that the
older folks and the things that probably we're

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saying now, I've got some of
my sayings on T shirts. Now,

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you know, if God don't do
it, if God, if you don't

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do it, it won't get done. And you know, and then God

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is so precious. God is so
precious, and he loves us as he

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created us. He created everybody,
He created good and evil for himself.

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That's scripture. Yeah, he created
He know, he knows what he's doing.

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He knows what he's doing, you
know, and he's kept us and

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it kept us in our right mind
and we're able to go out and help

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people. And you're out to help
people, and you've always been that way

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because I mean back at Luria Is, I mean, there are times we

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would be slammed. And that's in
the day where you have to put the

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ticket in the tube and it goes
all the way to the warehouse. And

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I came over and looking for some
stuff, my customer stuff, and at

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the back that little air belt was
pulled and the cashiers or getting upset.

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So I walked through and I just
peeked my head around and I'm like,

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no, no, because you had
like five tickets in your hand, and

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I'm like you're like what you need? What you need? I said,

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no, no, you go no
what you came to me? And I'm

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like, okay, So I just
stand there, I go back out,

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and I'm like the things that we
went through and how he held us.

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We didn't have people coming in the
store trying to stick it up. We

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didn't have no robberies, and we
didn't have crazy stuff. We had,

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you know, personality issues. But
where where won't you have those? You

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know, you know it's other people. You're like, you know Rose who

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was in customer service and she was
trying. She'd hate it that mister Proudo

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put me over there. But that
was my last position in the store,

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which was right next to the exit
door. And I said, from there,

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I went on to get my degree
in psychology because I knew that people

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were crazy. Yes, people were
crazy, and drove me right into psychology

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and into social work. And I
have a therapist today. And people are

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still google for coca pumps. But
anyway, oh and they don't know it.

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These are people I'm talking about who
don't don't But yeah, you know,

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God is just good. Also,
I have the Lord had us to

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create what we call care circles because
we were so concerned about, um,

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you know, what's going on in
the world and things, especially since twenty

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twenty end, and most people who
have been hurting themselves and some achieve it

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and some don't. All had the
same comment that they were, you know,

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not um. They don't feel that
they had anybody to talk to.

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So we created care circle support and
nobody's taking me up on it. I

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even gave it to my prosthetic people, my foot surgeon people, my hand

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00:48:38.239 --> 00:48:43.079
surgeon people, you know, but
they have my cards in their lobby and

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and flyers. But people won't take
you up on it. But let's tell

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you that they don't have anybody to
talk to, and this is free.

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Just just call the number email me, you know chaplain Grade sixty three is

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Gmail and I put you on a
zoom call and you could talk to me.

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You can talk to me. That's
what I do for a living.

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But nobody will take you up on
it. So it's all good. But

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I do what God tells me to
do, and that is the key.

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Do what God tells you to do. Yes, don't you put no,

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no, don't you own nothing.
God told me to do this, So

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it's back on God and he will
increase it, he will plan, he

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will water it, he will do
whatever it needs to be done. So

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anyway, that's our time. I'm
gonna say thank you so much, thank

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you so much. I appreciate you, and prefully I may see you this

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week as you may be in my
backyard to so you'd be blessed and thank

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00:49:36.119 --> 00:49:38.719
you so much. I really appreciate
you. Thank you, blessing, Thank

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you guys for joining us. Have
a good night, take care like night.