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Radio. Hello, well, good
evening, good evening, good evening,

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and welcome to another segment upsetting it
straight with mss Gray and co hosts.

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We hope that everybody had a fabulous
week. How are you guys doing everybody's

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good good, good, Well,
let's pray, let's pray. Lord.

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We love you. We thank you
so much for your love, your saving

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grace, your mercy. Only you, Father, only you, only you,

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and we just thank you. Thank
you for allowing us to see another

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day in you. Thank you for
allowing us to get from pillar to post,

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from point A to point B and
back to point C and back to

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point A. Thank you for giving
us strength thank you for giving us wisdom

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on everything that we've done, everything
that we've said. We celebrated you definitely

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on Sunday because it was Pentecost,
but every day it's Pentecost. Every day

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is resurrection to us for those of
us who believe in you. Now as

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always, Lord, this is your
show. We're your people, with your

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children. We get behind the cross. You do what you do, say

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what you need to say, because
only you know those who need to be

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set free. All this and more
we asking Jesus' name, Amen and amen.

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Sorry about this light here and this
SI get that light out. No,

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it's gonna get me out. Okay, Well there we go. Y'all

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can see us. You know what
we look like anyway. So ah,

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we're gonna talk about happiness. It's
International Day of Laughter and Happiness. Know,

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we've been talking about it. We've
been skating around it this month a

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little bit, but we're going to
talk about it a little bit more because

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I think some of our guests last
week under the audience was coming, you

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know, alluding to that, you
know, what is it to be happy?

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And how do you how do you
cross that bridge? How do you

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make that connection? And I've got, you know, a few thoughts on

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it, because I had some live
situations that have happened over the last week.

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But one thing the Lord laid on
my heart to make sure I share

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and say, is that there are
people who are not happy. There are

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people who were born not happy,
and it doesn't they don't change. They

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don't see anything wrong with that.
So we have to take that into consideration.

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And when I was inquired one time
back in my hometown, we are

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on TV, we were on the
Christian Network on TV weekly. We're singing

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about the joy of the Lord is
my strength, you know, let everything

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to have breath, praise the Lord, you know, amazing grace, all

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kinds of songs of joy, happiness
and everything else. And one night,

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one Friday night at rehearsal, I
have I know her name, and I'm

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not gonna say it because it's so
unique, it's more unique than my name.

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But she turned to me, she
said, why are you so happy

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all the time. It almost almost
lost my breath. I was like,

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wait a minute, are you serious? She said, yeah, You're always

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happy, You're always smiling. But
we sing about the joy of the Lord,

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who is my strength. I'm happy
and I woke up this morning.

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Let's check the obituaries, you know, because some folks didn't make it.

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I said, you know, so
and so I don't believe you're as the

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Yeah, but you just always saw
have I said, you know what,

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Wow, let's just make sure we
don't sit next to each other anymore,

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because apparently my happiness bothers you.
And if you look at her on TV,

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sure enough, I mean, she
just have to straight face and she's

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singing the joy of the Lord.
Let everything they have breath praise the Lord.

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No, just totally stow it.
It should have scared you if you

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looked at her on TV and the
camera would stay stuck on her for a

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minute. I'm like God, but
it told volumes. But there are some

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people. God reminded me today,
he said, just look back. People

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in my family that I was raised
around, people that I have acquaintances that

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I know about, people at meetings, associates, you know, a fellow

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students, classmates. Folks are just
not There's some people who are not naturally

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happy. And I'm not talking about
skinning and grinning and joking. And there

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are people who can't tell jokes.
That's a whole different show. Okay,

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cause I'm gonna let you know,
don't if you can't tell a joke,

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lead that alone. To lead that
alone, because people like myself will come

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along and make you the joke.
Okay, So just lead jokes alone.

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Leave it alone. Don't quit the
day job or the night job or whatever

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job you got, oh your volunteer
status, don't quit anyway. What are

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your thoughts guys on International Day laughter
and you know, and Happiness Awareness Day

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or a month, what are some
of your thoughts on that anybody? Well,

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I uh, I have to share
with you. You you definitely provided

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some insight yesterday, and that insight
was for someone to be sad or to

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be angry. It's because happiness exists. Joy exists, and when you're doing

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the complete opposite, you got to
think about it. You're doing the opposite

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of what God has designed. Because
if you look at Galatians five point twenty

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two, the fruit of the spirit
is love and the second one is joy.

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So when you have someone who is
not joyful or not happy, it's

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because they know that happiness exists and
they choose to go the different direction.

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So, you know, this is
something that we have to We kind of

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are are lighthearted about it, but
we have to really look at it seriously.

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That people are making choices. This
is why it's called free will.

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They choose to not be happy and
and that's something that that we have to

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understand that we we can we we
make that decision, We make that decision.

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And if God put joy in our
hearts, because that's the fruit of

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the spirit, fruit of the spirit, and we choose not to do it,

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then we're making a decision over what
God has provided us, how God

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designed us. And and I mean, it's just I was thinking about it

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yesterday, day of Pentecost. It's
it's it's a it's a day of celebration

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because Jesus said that I will be
back and everything that he did for us,

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now he's going to come back a
whole new person. He's going to

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be the king. Mm hmmm.
And that's what's going That's what we need

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to look at. Whether that should
give us joy that the day is coming

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where we don't have to see sadness, anger, sorrow, mourning. Those

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are those things that the Lord promised
that we won't have to deal with when

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we are in his presence in heaven. M Well, come go ahead.

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I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I
didn't mean to turn this into a sermon,

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but it's just it's something that we
pastors do for some sort of reason.

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I don't know why, but but
it's just that's how we got to

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look at life. Well, welcome
back, Tray, be ready in and

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out of season, you know,
go ahead, Tray, and I'm gonna

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get make sure we don't country seat
people. Why would someone choose not to

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be happy? Is? I think
that was his question. I think maybe

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because people don't know what that looks
like. You know, sometimes you you

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could be so down in the dumps
for so long and around and in an

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environment that that's like that you don't
recognize it. You know, you don't

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recognize if it's the negativity because I've
seen people. I'm saying, these people

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must be miserable. But some people
are miserable, and the thing is the

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sad part about it is they transfer
that their misery to someone else. You

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know, I'm a person that I'm
affected by my environment, and so I

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have to be very in tune on
how I manage my moods, how I

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control my moods, you know,
my happiness, my sadness, you know,

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things are going to all, you
know, automatically make you sad.

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You know the things that make you
say, greed, flaws, you know,

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financial, medical issues, mental health. Is a lot of things that

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can make you sad. But there's
some also things that can kind of bring

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you out of it. And so
what I try to do is to be

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an environment that uplifts my spirits,
that makes me feel better, be around

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people that make me feel better,
that you know that are are light hearted

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conversations. There's sometimes there's conversation that
said, oh this is too heavy,

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I can't I can't handle this right
now, too much, And so things

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happen that way as well as it's
too much. So sometimes you have to

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know when to remove yourself out of
that for not for safety purposes, but

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but you know, for sanity,
for your your well being and sometimes if

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you stay down. So some people
I think they stay down so long because

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I know a few people I'm like
what, and you know, I want

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to ask, are you? But
maybe they don't. That's them or maybe

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that's their product of their environment.
But you know, I find myself being

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happy when I'm able to be busy, when I'm doing things that I enjoy

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when I'm around people that I enjoy, and I try to focus on things

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that make me happy. Scenic scenic
things, nice music, relaxation, you

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know, things that make me laugh. Trying to find things that make me

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laugh. And so you know,
I've been resorting to a lot of the

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TikTok because TikTok has some funny things
on there. I mean, it's it's

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talking animals, it's people, pranks. I find that's my downtime before I

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go to sleep, you know,
my prayers and my downtown something that makes

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me laugh after a long day.
But I don't know, I just but

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there are some sad, lonely people
and not trying to cast them as miserable

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intentionally, but they appear to be
miserable or don't like themselves or don't like

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the product of their environment. And
so find things that make you make that

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uplitered spirit. Ya. I'm just
looking up the definition of happy, and

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the third definition is enjoying. I'm
listening to the show, but driving I

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pulled over to say, hy,
oh God, bless you. I have

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a car full of kids and they're
listening as well. Thank you for being

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here with us. Go to get
back on the road. This show is

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all right. Enlightenment tonight. Mister
you're awesome. God bless you, and

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may you arrive safely and you all
be happy. Everybody be obedient, be

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caring for one another and looking out
for each other. In Jesus' name,

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we pray for you. Thank you. But I looked up the word happy

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and again the third definition of happy
is enjoying or character or characterized by well

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being and contentment. That's letter A
three B expressing, reflecting, or suggestive

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of happiness, three C being glad, being pleased. In my book Why

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Am I So Angry? I talk
about socially learned, there are times that

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people, because of your environment,
and I gave the example this weekend of

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a student being in class and they're
quiet student, they're pretty introverted, you

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know, they get their work done
and everything. But the kids who act

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out get the most attention. So
if a child is starving for attention or

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is in need of attention, and
they're looking at the classmates and they're getting

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the teacher's attention by being loud,
by doing the opposite, by not doing

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their work, whatever the case may
be, they take on those characteristics at

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times and that's where you look at
Well John. John came in the first

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nine weeks and he was quiet,
and he was, you know, well

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mattered. But now I notice that
he's a little aggressive on the plate,

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you know when we're outside on the
playground and you know, he's talking back

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a little bit and he's a little
rough. Well when did John learn that?

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He's in the classroom for six hours, seven hours with kids, a

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fellows, students, classmates. That
gets the teacher's attention when they act out.

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So that's so, that's what we
call socially learned. They ain't come

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in this world like that, but
if they're around a negative environment and they

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don't know, you know what,
I don't want to be like that.

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I don't want to do that.
I know that that's wrong. It takes

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a lot, especially when you're little
perk people. It takes a lot to

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stand up and take a stand because
you will be wi you will stick out.

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And this is for the folks riding
with Misty. I'm telling you I

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tried to. I tried to,
you know, fit in, and I

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stuck out more. But I'm so
glad I look back, And the song

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says, my soul looks back and
wonder how I got over. I'm so

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glad that I was an obedient student. I was a mindful student, and

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I wanted to make sure I get
my work done and I had to find

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my happiness. What made me happy
were performing, you know, singing in

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front of our audience, our parents, and acting, you know. And

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I did that as a young person. And I was just telling somebody yesterday

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that's what I pray, you know, I told him today. The only

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thing I can remember as a child
on what I said to myself as a

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child wanted to be was an actor. I want to get back to the

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stage. And I've been able to
do that over the years because that's what

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keeps me balanced. So you have
to find yes, country see, Unfortunately,

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people choose to be happy because and
then you've got your people who just

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don't want to be around. They
don't want to do anything more. Don't

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push me, don't don't nudge me, don't tell me, don't give me

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more responsibility. I don't want to
do it, and you know, and

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they make their decision. And as
Pastor said, that's why we love God

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so much, because he is a
perfect gentleman. He allows us whatever you

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want. To do however you want
to play this out. But for us

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chosen, he waits on us.
He applies a little pressure to let us

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know, I'm still I'm still waiting. I'm right here, I'm still waiting

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on you. And you realize happiness
is you know, you have to find

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that happiness and you've got to you
know, maintain it. But I know

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what the generations coming behind us.
It's more difficult because we're closer to the

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end times. We're closer to the
things being fulfilled out of the Bible.

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We're closer than ever before. We're
right up on it. We're right up

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on it now. And so it's
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you know, the older folks,
you well, back in my day,

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you know, when sugar was five
cents, sugar was fine. What was

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that an alf phone? There's no
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now we got a bag of sugar
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you know, find your happiness and
and and everybody's different. What makes you

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happy? Even though my daughter looks, you know, a lot like me,

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she has parts of my personality.
Full strength ahead, bulls feet ahead

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there still she she knows my story. It's not gonna happen to her.

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She has to find her story.
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So she has to find out what
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at said, that's what y'all are
into now, that's what y'all, that's

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how y'all think now, and I'll
be making all these faces like what is

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the world? But it's what makes
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You have to listen, you know, and be prayerful, praying and say,

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you know what, Lord, I'm
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way. So what can I do
to make myself feel better? How can

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I do better? I used to
have a lot of students on the college

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level talk about, oh, I
want to help people. I said,

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well, why are you getting this
degree? Oh? I want to help

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people? And I will say help
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well, well, you know,
I said no, because what I'm doing

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you're not going to do. So
what do you want to do? What's

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in your mind? Who needs to
help? How much help do you give

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them? How much direction? What
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There's so many things you can do, So you keep saying you're getting the

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degree so you can help people.
So what does that mean? But I

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want to go back to because God
is circling me back to people. Choose.

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You choose what you want of life. You choose how you want your

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life to be. Even even as
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you know what, I'm not gonna
be stuck in this poverty. I'm not

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gonna be stuck you know, helping
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not gonna do. We see things
as kids, we don't say anything,

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but we see and you make your
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I chose not to drink because at
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my mother wakes us up and we
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her brother lived. They're outside three
four o'clock in the morning, in fights

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and everything. I'm scared to death. My uncle raises is Caine, he's

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hitting his own child. The other
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And as an eight year old,
so I'm looking at this like what.

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I don't even want to be around
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get older, I'm not gonna be
doing that. I'm not gonna cause my

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children want to be angry. I'm
not gonna do that. Guys come on

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in talk talk say something. Mh, well, I I just want to

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just pop on something that, as
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something that that we seem to overlook. And sometimes people when they choose not

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to be happy, that's their identity. Uh I. You know, I

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don't want to go real deep here, but you know, if if if

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if that person all of a sudden
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They now they've they've become a new
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Now they have to start from square
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may struggle with that and and that, and it kind of touches on what

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we spoke about last week. Do
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want that's a that's a great question, you know, to the effect of

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what you said, Miss Gray.
Kids are very observant, very observant,

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and and when they may not express
it right away, but then they they

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accept what they see and then they
process it in their own small mind and

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then they can say, well,
I can do it this way, and

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all of a sudden, what's the
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you, because then that that puts
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And that's something that as as a
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way, UH, we we have
to watch what those little ears are absorbing

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because they they are sponges. And
and it's so interesting how my my son

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in law said, well, I
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UH program because she became aggressive because
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And and people don't realize that that
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keeps multiplying and then all of a
sudden they become this individual and you're like,

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where did this person come from?
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really have to understand that if that
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that's they don't want to change because
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and it's sad, it's sad,
but it's just they're not introduced into an

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environment that's going to help them grow, help them see something better. And

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I just find it very sad,
very sad that that people make these kind

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of decisions. Again to what you
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I'm here, pay attention to me. Amen. I remember I had a

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client come h and was port ordered
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And she's a physical therapist, young
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she was like, and I love
it because the clients always come into me

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saying what they're not, Oh I'm
not angry? Oh okay, then well

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what's Can I have your name and
I just have your name or your day

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to birth? That's what That's what
we're going to start, you know.

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We'll talk about the rest later.
So I and the Lord was, you

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know, talking to me, you
know, along the way, and he

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was telling me, so, I
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It talks about substance abuse. You
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And she's like, well, yes, but I'm not an alcoholic. And

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I said, well, do you
know the definition of alcoholism? And she

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said no, I don't. I
said, well we'll get into that a

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little later, I said, And
so I stopped. I said, tell

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me something. When you come in
after you've picked your boys up from school

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and you've had a hard day at
work, what do you do walk me

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through you coming through the door,
just a typical afternoon evening. So she

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said, well, I come in, and well, I go over to

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my little thing, you know,
and I poured me a little something,

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and I sit down, and I
said, and what do you tell your

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sons? What do you what do
you talk? What are you telling them

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from the car to walking in to
the apartment of your house. Well,

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mommy got a headache, so y'all
be quiet. Y'all be quiet, And

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so then you walk over to your
little stand and you pour yourself this funny

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smelling beverage and you sit on it. You tell your boys, I'll be

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with you a minute. You go
do something else or whatever. So they're

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watching you. They heard you say
you have a headache. They watch you

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walk over. Do you change your
clothes? Do you change into something else?

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Do you head to No, I
head straight to my little and I

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pulled myself a drink. I said, okay, And then after a while

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you start, what do you do
next? Well, I feel a little

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better, I said, do you
tell them that? And she said yeah,

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I said, what do you say? What do you I'm just curious,

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what do you say? Well,
Mommy's feeling better, My headache is

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gone now, I said, okay, and then what you do, well,

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then I'll get up. I'll go
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and fix dinner. I said,
okay, let me stop you in the

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middle. Here, you've got two
boys. You're the first image of a

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woman and of a mother that they
see. You're the first image, you're

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the first example, you're the first
role model, so they see. And

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here almost every day that they fail
you go to work that you're coming in

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with a headache. You're dismissing them
for a minute. You're pouring out of

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this little thing over your little stain, all nicely decorated over there, with

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these funny colored looking things. And
they probably smell. You know. That's

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one of the reason that the little
sidebar here. I can't drink beer.

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I don't drink red stuff because the
smell it go get past my nose.

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I can't drink it. But anyway, so and then you tell them you

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have a headache, You take a
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okay. I said, do you
know the definition of alcoholism? An alcoholic

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is one that cannot go without any
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I don't care if it's two percent
five percent. I don't care. I'm

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talking about the wine coolers and everything
else, beer, cough syrup, all

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of that. You can't go two
weeks without it. And she looked at

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me and the tears and she put
her head down and she said, I

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guess I'm an alcoholic. I said, now, this is what I'm gonna

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This is the only homework I'm gonna
give you. After a while, one

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of your little fellows is gonna be
having a bad day at school, gonna

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have a hard day at school,
you know, And all he's gonna think

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about is if I can get home. When I get home, I'm gonna

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get me some of that because it
always makes mommy feel better. So I'm

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gonna get it. And now I
say, if you start noticing your liquor

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is decreasing, don't you beat him. Don't you punish him. Don't you

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do nothing but say I'm sorry because
I taught you that. I taught you

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that, and for that, I'm
sorry. I've had adults former nail tech

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whose son was court ordered substance abuse. She came in with him and she

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wanted to come into the session,
and I was like, you sure you

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want to come in? Yeah?
I want to come in, okay,

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And of course I'm asking my questions. Do you smoke? Well, yeah,

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I smoked marijuana, okay. And
she's I can't believe you did that,

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he said, I don't know why
you do it. I was like,

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okay, I'm dropping a pin.
I dropped my pen. What would

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happen if they got into the drink? That is a scary thought, yes,

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country see, but but look at
what would lead up to it.

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They would have to have a not
a good, not so good day.

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They may have a headache because it
had too much sugar in the after school

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program, you know whatever. But
that all they know is when mommy is

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having a headache, she goes over
there. She don't get on her knees.

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She don't grab our hands and say
let's pray, let's ask God to

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help. She's got that sitting out
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her know that you don't discipline your
children. Don't do discipline those boys.

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If you start to see that decrease, that that liquor, the beverage,

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the fluid in that bottle decrease with
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sorry, so really you need we
really do need to do what we teach.

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you teach them, because they look,

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they're listening. They're listening. Okay, why and a child will ask

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why, And I know most parents
get tired of that, especially the younger.

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They are, well why, well, no, you can't have a

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cookie right now before dinner? Why
because I said so? But why,

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Well, it's gonna take away you
want to not wanting to eat your vegetables

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and the meat that the dinner.
And if you're not full after you eat,

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then you can have a half a
cookie. But when I go to

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Rachel's house, we eat all the
time, we eat whatever. Well,

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that's Rachel's house. You know.
You have to you just you got to

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know how you're gonna raise your kids, and you do your best, but

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you have to stay prayerful. There
are scriptures and things like that, and

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having Bible study with your children weekly. Don't wait to go to church.

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You can have Bible study in the
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far as what you're saying on well, just being a good representation. I

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always told myself. Me and my
significant other has talked about having kids in

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the future and how we would want
to mirror in front of them. But

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like how my mom acts today,
I would want to be that way with

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my children, taking us on dates
and stuff like that, individually, not

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doing things all together as a family, but you know, taking each kid

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out and showing them what they would
want to mirror in the future as an

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adult as well. Like just being
a good representation. I feel like that's

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important. A lot of parents,
they are you in front of the kids.

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They call each other out, their
names, et cetera, et cetera

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of kids, and they wonder why
they do the same thing as they grow

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older and stuff like that. So
just being a good representation we mirror,

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We mirror our parents, and we
swear for down I'm not gonna be like

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my mother, not gonna be.
But to this day, even I have

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twins that are twenty one and my
oldest son is twenty nine. They could

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be across the room and if they're
not hurrying up or something, or they're

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not doing what I think they should
be doing, they know to look back

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and they see my face. My
oldest son is six' five. He

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still does that today if you look
at me and say almost wrong, what

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happened? What happened? What did
I do? Did I do something wrong?

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You know, how was your appointment? They're watching them and having doctor's

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appointments this week. How was the
appointment when you're gonna get the results?

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Because they know that's you know that
kind of you know, the devil's trying

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to mess with me and my health. So it's like, you know,

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I'm like, oh, I'm okay. So I have to watch my face

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because they know my body language,
they know my facial expressions. But you

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want to be your best and do
your best. I've known of people who

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are not in healthy families and they
still turn out. I have to use

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Ben Carson as an example, raised
by a single mom in New York,

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in the ghetto area, the poverty
area. What made him want to become

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a heart surgeon? What told him? Who told him he could become that?

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And before all this other stuff that's
recently happened, he was the first

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black African American, black American heart
surgeon. I think his first surgery was

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he separated conjoined twins. I think
that was one of his things his successes.

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But what made him what drove him
to say, oh, no,

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I'm not staying here anymore. I've
got to be better I've got to do

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better. So, yes, we
have to be careful of what what we're

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directing people. Neurologists, thank you, thank you. Yeah, parents,

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we are examples, were the role
model. We're the first example of what

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they see. And if you're not
happy, and you know, my book

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Why Am I So Angry? Have
been purchased by adults. It's a book

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for teenagers and tweens. It's a
spiritual warfare book to understand why you are

419
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going through anger issues. And I
talk about DNA, I talk about socially

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learned, I talk about you know, generational curses just on their level.

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But I have most I say ninety
eight percent of the folks that are purchased

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by book are adults. So my
thing is because they'll say to me,

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oh I need this, and I'm
like, well, but you've five years

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old. You mean to tell me
you've been walking around angry as long.

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I got a problem with that.
That's the that's my therapist hand. I

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got a problem with that. What
you know, the book is for teenagers,

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it's not for those, but a
does by it, and they're being

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delivered because they had to take a
look at themselves and say, oh wow,

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my father was an angry person,
and that's the best way he can

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00:35:25.639 --> 00:35:31.280
express himself, was talking really loud, really fast, and throwing up things.

431
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You know, anybody else, y'all
come on in here now. I

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will just piggyback and on what you
you said. I think taking a look

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at generation, you know, how
things were your previous generations or what you

434
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know, some things are just cyclic
too as well. When you're talking about

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learned behavior, kids marrying, mirroring
you know, what they see uh of

436
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their parents. But but it's generational. It's gotten so ingrained that sometimes people

437
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don't even recognize that it's pattern and
so. And I think one of the

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things that I've learned through the course
of my career is, uh, the

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00:36:17.320 --> 00:36:22.159
genogram. You know, the genogram
is something that kind of helps you identify

440
00:36:22.199 --> 00:36:29.079
our families, identify you know patterns. You know, uh, single family,

441
00:36:29.760 --> 00:36:34.840
uh, single parent, poverty,
you know, homelessness, you know

442
00:36:34.960 --> 00:36:38.440
all of these things, mental health. You can kind of identifify some of

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00:36:38.480 --> 00:36:45.320
these things that could be a higher
risk if you don't recognize it because it

444
00:36:45.440 --> 00:36:49.559
sometimes things just happen all the time
and you don't you don't pay attention to

445
00:36:49.599 --> 00:36:53.000
it because you're you're part of the
You're part of the circle. And so

446
00:36:53.119 --> 00:36:57.079
unless you stop and say, you
know, why am I on this married

447
00:36:57.119 --> 00:37:00.800
go round? What is going on? If you take the time to do

448
00:37:00.840 --> 00:37:04.000
that. But you have to really
take the time to do that, separate

449
00:37:04.079 --> 00:37:10.039
yourself from your daily routine and just
kind of have some me time to figure

450
00:37:10.039 --> 00:37:15.280
out what it is that's going on. Have conversations with God, you know,

451
00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:19.280
ask him to kind of show you
the way of what's going on.

452
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So, but I think people are
not recognizing that they're passing something some things

453
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down and like I said, environment
somebody must have gotten to doctor Carson or

454
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something that impacted him that made a
big enough difference for him to say,

455
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I'm gonna do differently than what I
see. But you're gonna have to remove

456
00:37:45.199 --> 00:37:47.559
yourself. And I think sometimes people
are afraid to move away because they don't

457
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want to seem like they're coming across
as better than or more than or whatever.

458
00:37:52.679 --> 00:37:57.039
But it's a matter of self preservation. If you keep going in this

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pattern and you see everyone around you
doing the same things, that's leading them

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to destruction. If you don't do
something differently, you can find yourself doing

461
00:38:07.360 --> 00:38:12.440
the same thing or being in the
same position. And so you know,

462
00:38:12.519 --> 00:38:15.679
look at Judge Matthews, same thing. He said, he was in a

463
00:38:15.719 --> 00:38:22.440
gang. Now he's a judge.
And so I think it's starting early,

464
00:38:22.960 --> 00:38:30.199
starting early with setting boundaries with kids. And though I'm not a parent,

465
00:38:30.159 --> 00:38:36.679
trust me going into the homes with
working with kids whose social emotion behavior issues.

466
00:38:37.320 --> 00:38:40.360
He said, Okay, yeah,
I see, I get it,

467
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you know, because sometimes you have
to. You know, little Johnny was

468
00:38:45.400 --> 00:38:49.679
not born to be like that.
He picked it up from somewhere and you

469
00:38:49.719 --> 00:38:54.519
sit there long enough said okay,
I understand. And so that's the importance

470
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of incorporating family and family sessions as
well to kind of bring it in and

471
00:39:00.480 --> 00:39:04.039
say, hey, look, mom, dad, whoever have you ever noticed

472
00:39:04.039 --> 00:39:08.400
it? Yeah? I noticed it, But what does something look like what

473
00:39:08.480 --> 00:39:12.719
you used to do at this age, or you know, just getting them

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to kind of understand some of the
things that their child is doing, the

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things that, like you said,
Lisia, that they're doing. So if

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I may, I'll give you a
quick testimony. I grew up in a

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home where my father was an alcoholic, and I did witness a lot of

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00:39:38.599 --> 00:39:47.079
the anger that came from the alcoholism, and at fifteen and this is where

479
00:39:49.480 --> 00:39:57.960
I warned. At fifteen, I
decided to have my own party with my

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00:39:58.199 --> 00:40:07.639
best friend and we kind of downed
a half of a leader of Scotch whiskey

481
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at fifteen, and I don't remember
much. I do remember playing street football

482
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in the street of New York City
in that condition, and all I kept

483
00:40:25.320 --> 00:40:30.519
saying was, this is what my
dad does every day. And it kind

484
00:40:30.559 --> 00:40:36.519
of makes you start asking questions,
is this really what it's meant to be?

485
00:40:37.639 --> 00:40:45.079
And I didn't grow up in a
Christian home, but I saw what

486
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was going on. And the more
I kept seeing it, and the more

487
00:40:49.880 --> 00:40:55.719
I kept witnessing what my father was
doing, That's when I said, Okay,

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00:40:58.519 --> 00:41:04.639
this is not for me. I
I really wasn't didn't become dependent on

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00:41:04.719 --> 00:41:09.039
it. I I did have my
bouts. I did have my my temptations.

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00:41:09.920 --> 00:41:17.760
But today I can say it's been
a while. It's been a while,

491
00:41:19.519 --> 00:41:24.079
and and and I know what it
can do. And this is why

492
00:41:24.320 --> 00:41:31.719
I stay away from it because I
know what it can do. So it's

493
00:41:31.760 --> 00:41:37.559
it's something that, uh, there
you go. I agree, total happiness.

494
00:41:37.079 --> 00:41:40.280
Yeah, I miss the I know
you're driving, but I put my

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00:41:40.320 --> 00:41:45.840
dog jumped up on my daughter,
and so she made her debut on the

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camera. So that's why. But
thank you, pastor, and you brought

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00:41:51.599 --> 00:41:55.599
up something and it's a great segue, real quick, uh, knowing what

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00:41:55.760 --> 00:42:00.480
not to do and making that decision
not to do it, and that's a

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00:42:00.519 --> 00:42:04.880
hard one, you know. So
I was always as a student in my

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books. I was adopted at birth. I learned my biological folks and everything.

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But anyway, I kept my head
in my books. Even though I

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00:42:14.360 --> 00:42:17.000
was an extroverted person. I was
the loudest person. I was chosen to

503
00:42:17.039 --> 00:42:22.000
be captained a lot. Still,
I was kind of shy and and you

504
00:42:22.039 --> 00:42:24.119
know, didn't want to do it, but I did it because you know

505
00:42:24.119 --> 00:42:28.679
I was supposed to do. We
got to move along here and and that's

506
00:42:28.679 --> 00:42:31.360
how that's the work ethic was.
It was always a hard worker. And

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like I said, I kept my
head in the books and I decided what

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00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:38.840
I wasn't going to do at an
early age. And I want to tell

509
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the students there, the kids in
school there who's listening, that God can

510
00:42:44.400 --> 00:42:50.519
help you with your tests. That's
I accepted Jesus. Uh. My junior

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year in college, when I was
studying for two psych exams and He helped

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00:42:53.960 --> 00:42:57.800
me pass those exams the very next
day, and I've been running for the

513
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Lord ever since. I made a
promise to him, if you help me

514
00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:05.159
pass my two psych exams, I
will I will run for you and never

515
00:43:05.199 --> 00:43:08.679
look back. And so you make
some decisions. You make some decisions on

516
00:43:08.760 --> 00:43:12.559
what you're gonna do, how are
you gonna be? What kind of life

517
00:43:12.639 --> 00:43:15.320
do you want to be? Have
you know? What kind of person do

518
00:43:15.400 --> 00:43:20.639
you want to be? And you
set out to find out, do your

519
00:43:20.639 --> 00:43:24.199
research. How does okay? How
can I become this way? How do

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00:43:24.239 --> 00:43:28.079
I do this? Because you know, and my family, we don't have

521
00:43:28.199 --> 00:43:30.719
that. I don't have a role
mode in my family. Well you know

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00:43:30.800 --> 00:43:35.360
what I'm gonna look at maybe some
of my teachers or some of you know,

523
00:43:35.440 --> 00:43:38.159
somebody with good influence, and be
careful with that, be prayerful with

524
00:43:38.280 --> 00:43:43.159
that. And parents, you that
are listening, you need to pray over

525
00:43:43.239 --> 00:43:46.920
your children and your grandchildren, your
nieces and your nephews, especially if you

526
00:43:46.960 --> 00:43:52.920
know that there's no one actively praying
in the family, and make sure your

527
00:43:52.960 --> 00:43:58.320
prayers get past the ceiling. That's
what my second book is about. But

528
00:43:58.480 --> 00:44:00.679
we've been warrior. I pray for
everybody pray for all kinds of people,

529
00:44:00.719 --> 00:44:05.360
things, situations, events and things. But who's strong enough to pray for

530
00:44:05.440 --> 00:44:12.159
me? And I've got some special
people that are around me that I know

531
00:44:12.280 --> 00:44:15.519
can indecede and their prayers get to
Jesus. Feed. Jesus is real.

532
00:44:15.760 --> 00:44:20.920
God is real, Angels are real, the Holy Spirit is real. They're

533
00:44:20.960 --> 00:44:23.880
waiting right there for you. They're
waiting right there for you. God is

534
00:44:23.920 --> 00:44:30.760
no respective person. He calls people
and he chooses people. And right now

535
00:44:30.880 --> 00:44:35.119
that's my quest, my journey for
the rest of my days. I say,

536
00:44:35.199 --> 00:44:38.239
God, send me to the people, to the chosen who don't know

537
00:44:38.280 --> 00:44:45.320
that they're chosen. That's the only, that's the only, that's that's my

538
00:44:45.480 --> 00:44:51.159
plight, that's my plight. And
God is real, Jesus is real.

539
00:44:51.519 --> 00:44:54.119
Things are going to be happening.
I heard about the mediaite that I think

540
00:44:54.159 --> 00:45:00.880
they saw in not Palestine but one
of the countries or yesterday over the weekend,

541
00:45:01.280 --> 00:45:07.079
a real meteorite. Of course,
you all have heard that the president

542
00:45:07.119 --> 00:45:13.360
of Iran was died in a helicopter. We're presuming we keep you in Oh

543
00:45:13.400 --> 00:45:16.599
thank you, Oh God, bless
you country, thank you so much.

544
00:45:16.920 --> 00:45:20.559
And I could feel when you're praying
for me. I could feel when the

545
00:45:20.639 --> 00:45:23.320
audience is praying. I got some
new folks out there, you know,

546
00:45:24.400 --> 00:45:28.119
But you know, we don't know
what this is going to bring us.

547
00:45:28.239 --> 00:45:31.440
We don't know what this is going
to bring us. They've got the vice

548
00:45:31.480 --> 00:45:37.280
president, former vice president of Iran, he's now the president. They've installed

549
00:45:37.320 --> 00:45:40.239
him or whatever right now, and
they're making some decisions. We've got to

550
00:45:40.280 --> 00:45:44.519
stay prayer for well. I don't
know what's going on in Israel right now,

551
00:45:44.760 --> 00:45:47.440
and you know that whole war.
And we've got wars right here in

552
00:45:47.480 --> 00:45:52.480
our own country, right here in
our own states and in our own cities.

553
00:45:52.000 --> 00:45:57.039
We have to be praying. Make
that your prayer point. And just

554
00:45:57.079 --> 00:45:59.960
as a side, how do I
pray? How do I know what the

555
00:46:00.039 --> 00:46:04.920
pray? What bothers you the most? What bothers you the most? If

556
00:46:04.960 --> 00:46:08.719
you if money wasn't an object,
and if if you had no boundaries,

557
00:46:08.760 --> 00:46:13.840
nobody to tell you yes or no, what would you go? What would

558
00:46:13.880 --> 00:46:17.639
you do? What would you provide? How would you help? What's your

559
00:46:17.639 --> 00:46:23.599
who's your target population? When my
students, when my kids were taking the

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00:46:23.719 --> 00:46:29.079
FCT, that notorious test every year, the first two things we would do.

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00:46:29.239 --> 00:46:34.360
We would take a tea spoon of
honey and we would pray for everybody

562
00:46:34.400 --> 00:46:39.559
in each class to pass. It
was it about us, It's about praying

563
00:46:39.599 --> 00:46:45.639
for others. So you pray for
others. If you have a classmate that's

564
00:46:45.800 --> 00:46:50.000
in a wheelchair or they're using crutches
or whatever, pray for them, Lord,

565
00:46:50.079 --> 00:46:58.320
please be with them, Please be
with them. Any other questions or

566
00:46:58.360 --> 00:47:07.360
anything else you guys want to Well, I'll close out with this this thought

567
00:47:07.440 --> 00:47:13.800
that that was that I heard yesterday
and it really impacted me. And when

568
00:47:13.880 --> 00:47:19.639
we're when we're facing situations where it's
not making a smile, where we're hurting,

569
00:47:19.760 --> 00:47:24.840
where where we're dealing with a crisis, a challenge, and what was

570
00:47:24.880 --> 00:47:34.559
said was how we deal with our
crises determines the God we serve. And

571
00:47:34.880 --> 00:47:40.679
I found that to be very impactful
because there's nothing too great or too big,

572
00:47:40.920 --> 00:47:46.360
or too wide or too deep that
our God cannot get us out of.

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00:47:47.400 --> 00:47:52.440
And if we go to if we
wake up every morning thinking of God,

574
00:47:53.000 --> 00:47:57.880
that controls our day. But if
we wake up in the morning thinking

575
00:47:57.960 --> 00:48:04.239
about our problems, the problems now
become our God. If we go to

576
00:48:04.320 --> 00:48:10.519
bed thinking of our schedule for tomorrow
that becomes our God, and that's what

577
00:48:10.599 --> 00:48:17.880
we really have to determine. Our
God is bigger than our problems, and

578
00:48:17.920 --> 00:48:24.679
he will open the door for us
to have the solutions because he has all

579
00:48:24.679 --> 00:48:34.239
the solutions. Well, we're blessed
to hear that, because what we're blessed,

580
00:48:34.239 --> 00:48:37.760
we're going to give to you,
and that that's where the blessing comes.

581
00:48:39.239 --> 00:48:43.639
And you also, you all are
at a point where you're like,

582
00:48:43.800 --> 00:48:47.679
Okay, I'm tired of kind of
I'm tired, So God, I'm going

583
00:48:47.760 --> 00:48:52.280
to give it all to you.
Now, that's the last thing I'm going

584
00:48:52.360 --> 00:48:54.119
to say. That's what it was. Lord, I'm tired of trying to

585
00:48:54.119 --> 00:48:58.559
figure it out. I can't work
it out. I can't work out enough

586
00:48:58.639 --> 00:49:01.639
jobs. I can't. I'm tired
of robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'm

587
00:49:01.719 --> 00:49:06.320
tired. Lord, I know there's
more to me. So you know what,

588
00:49:06.440 --> 00:49:09.559
I'm gonna give it to you.
Because you made everything, Genesis won,

589
00:49:10.079 --> 00:49:15.039
You created us. You know what's
gonna happen. So I'm giving it

590
00:49:15.079 --> 00:49:17.480
all back to you. And Guys, I'm telling you, there is nothing

591
00:49:17.760 --> 00:49:22.000
like waking up knowing that God's got
a plan for you that day, even

592
00:49:22.039 --> 00:49:25.800
if it's just to sit at home
and to think on him and to worship

593
00:49:25.920 --> 00:49:30.519
him. So sing your happy songs, find your happiness, pray about it.

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00:49:31.119 --> 00:49:35.079
We won't see you next week.
We is Memorial Day weekend, so

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00:49:35.159 --> 00:49:37.519
we're giving the staff. The staff
has got to take a little break.

596
00:49:37.559 --> 00:49:40.079
We will have a rerun show.
We will see you again in June,

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00:49:40.119 --> 00:49:45.039
though at the same time and on
the same station. Y'all be blessed.

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00:49:45.039 --> 00:50:42.320
We love you, guys, and
we're praying night sh