Aug. 25, 2025

National Civility Month

manners, civil behavior, respect, acts of kindness Setting It Straight w/ Ms. Gray is broadcast live Mondays at 7PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio...

manners, civil behavior, respect, acts of kindness

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We're good evening, good evening, good evening, and welcome to

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another fabulous night of dialogue and conversation and knowledge and education.

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Welcome to another segment of setting it Straight with Miss Gray.

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I have fabulous co hosts on here. You're gonna hear

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some things. We got a great topic tonight, got some

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great updates for you and all that jazz. So just

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stay tuned. But let us take it to the throne room,

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to the feet of Jesus Lord. We just love you

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so so much, and we thank you so so much

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for allowing us just to wake up every day up

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until today, up until today, we got to had a

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chance to make this day to be the most awesome time.

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Buy new things, completing deadlines, making new associates, getting new

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tasks and projects, just regaining our strength, just allowing us

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to take another breath, another exhil and we just thank

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you so much. We're always going to be careful to

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give you all the praise and glory forever for the

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rest of our days. That's the least we can do.

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That's the least we can do. So let's get behind

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the cross. Let's let you do what you do best,

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setting captives free, delivering people left and right, showing them

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that you will make a way out of nowhere. We

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love you so much. All this and more we ask

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in Jesus' name, We pray, ain't men, and ain't men,

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and ain't men? So God, is you just? I just

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can't I if I stop to praise you for just

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Tuesday of last week. Can every day be that good day? Yes,

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every day could be that good day. But you've got

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the purpose it. You've got the purpose it. You've got

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to say, Oh, I woke up this morning, I've got

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a new opportunity here. I can deadline some things, I

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can complete some task I can make a new list.

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I could do. I could start a new chapter, a

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new book. Rather because we keep adding chapters. Some of

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y'all got volumes. This big, bigger than a telephone book,

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and you just keep adding. But no, it's somewhere along

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the way you should have started a new book of

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your life, experiences and everything. So before we go any further,

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Hello pastor welcome back. How are you? How are you doing?

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I'm doing that is so true. Yes, off, And I'm

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wearing a shirt that someone very special gave to me.

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Very good. And you wear well, blue does look good

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on you, sir, Blue really does look good on you.

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You're much amen. Amen. Well, we're just glad to see

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I know Trey Head was in there come in the

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private chat, but hopefully she'll come back and join us.

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I hope things are well. I want to give a

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shout out to two businesses. One is my veterinarian they

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you know, they just really blessed me today. We had

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to do a little unscheduled to visit. They fitted us

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in and the first thing one of the texts said

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to me was, we just enjoy Jazz. We love her.

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She's one of the most well behaved German shepherds that

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we have. So yes, we want to get her in,

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we want to keep her healthy, but we always love

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to see her. And she's you know, she she listened

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to commands and things like that. And then when they

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I also included a nail trim and they trimmed her

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and said how was she because there was other dogs

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in there and they were just barking, yelping, and she

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they said, she just laid down. We have the ability

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to write the pages of our story. Yeah, Mickey's your story.

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It's your story. If you read any of my books,

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it's my story. It's my version, it's my testimony. Yeah,

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but it includes other people. So I give them, you know,

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their rightful praise, but it's my story, you know. And

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so getting back to the bat, they just like, you know,

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she is well behaved, she she's good. Just we've probably

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got some allergies going on here. So I'm very protective

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of my little baby and I want her to be

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the best that she can be. I don't want her

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in pain. I don't want her suffering and things like that.

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So they that just really did my heart good because

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there's some other things going on and I needed to

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hear that to then I told, you know, I put

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my hand on my heart and said thank you. I

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needed to hear that today. Love the fir babies. That's

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Anastasia and that was great. And then of course the

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dog training company itself, Perfection is here in the Orlando area.

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We've got folks coming from Daytona, Deltona, you know, cities

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surrounding cities to be to participate in this like seven months,

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seven to nine month training program. It's really serious and

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they do the job. We could walk away way today.

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We can walk away today. I've got my prayers have

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been answered already because I've got the BA I've got

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the the the dictionary, the wording, i got the training

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commands down, I've got surplus, I got you know, uh equipment.

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I got the hardware to make help my baby be

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the best that she can be. So we can walk away.

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I don't need the bells and other bells and whistles

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that do come along with it. I didn't get into

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it for that. I got into to train her so

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no matter where God sends me, I could bring her

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along with me and I know that she will behave

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and she's she's there, she's there and you know, I'm

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just so thankful and that she's healthy, wealthier and wise. Amen.

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I'm still gonna try to talk to some of my

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sheriff deputies and see if I can, you know, get

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her on the payroll over there. And uh, just she's

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she's used to be a suited up, so uh I

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get her best to see how that goes. But anyway,

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so I wonder again care Vets and also Perfection, and

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they're getting ready to gear up for a whole new

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training class starting in mid September. So give them, you know,

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give them a shout if you're interested, if you're nearby

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and you have a little dog. And that's one thing

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the technician at the Vets said. She goes, I don't

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understand especially any dog, really, she said, but these dogs

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are the train The owners are not trying to train them,

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just basics. You know, they're jumping all around and everything else,

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and they're all over the place and you know, we

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can't control them. And I was like, really, yeah, she said,

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And now that you've told us the Jazz is in training,

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she was already good, you know, but she's really received

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the difference in her So I'm just thankful for that

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and when you got good people around you know, that's

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carrying and everything. It's really good and it's so funny.

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But tonight our topic is on you know, civility, and

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hang on just a second and we get back to that.

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So I can said exactly, you know, and stability. I'm

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gonna go over that, but I also it's gonna lead

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me into something else as well, So be patient. It's

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National Civility Month acts and that means acts of respect

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and good manners and consideration all the year long. So

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that's where we're going with this because we're gonna need to.

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We're gonna need to. There are things that life is

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getting ready to roll out. We've got one of the lead.

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The more you bring them around people, the more they

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get used to used to the people they get. Wait,

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the more you bring them out around people, the more

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used to people they get. Correct. That is correct, especially

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if you have a house dog. If you have a

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house dog, you got to get them out in public

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so the day can be able to She's not worried,

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she's fine with people. It's other dogs and she don't

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forget stuff. There was a dog. There was a dog

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owner who stepped on her tail from another group. She

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don't forget that, and so any time she's seeing this

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person coming close, she's reacting. And I think I shared

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with you early on. I did not know. My baby

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boy looked this up that when he was doing his

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research on German shepherds that she's her type. Her breathe

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full blooded one hundred one thousand percent is known as

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an aggressive greeter. An aggressive greet So, yeah, she jumps

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up on you, so of course you're gonna shrink away.

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But she's really hotails waggon, you know, and she's she's

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she's looking at you, but she's she's got an issue

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with other dogs she you know, so they're training her.

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Other dogs have to come around me. And that was

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kind of cute. And Jaz was like, yeah, yeah, I

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see him and I'm looking at mine. Mind you all right,

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you know, But it's it's I'm learning a lot. We've

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got a plethora of information ranging from critters that crawl

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on them to their K nine teeth and all that

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kind of stuff. It's not just somebody you know you

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got to meet once a week or whatever. Hey, tray tray,

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tray tra. I'm just giving a shout out to two vendors,

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two of my merchants to my character part of my

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family team and my bet and Perfections a training company.

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So just doing that. But yeah, tonight we're talking about civility,

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how you need to be acting. We just had an

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incident over the weekend in a controversial neighborhood. On top

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of that with the deputy shot the person, the homeowner

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that was calling for help. Civility. I don't understand that one.

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I never will understand it. We've got death all around us,

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we got shootings. I don't think it was a fatal shooting,

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but you know, I think we needed we got to

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go back to some basics. Now, you got to go

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back to the training board and understand. But let me

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tell you what civility means. It's the act of showing

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regard for others by being polite, like the civility you

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showed in speaking kindly to someone who has hurt your feelings.

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Civility comes from blacklist, meaning relating to public life, befitting

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a citizen. In other words, being friendly and nice to everybody.

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And that is a hard one. That's hard, especially when

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somebody has hurt you, when somebody has stepped on your foot.

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Somebody takes their shopping cart and roll over your foot

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when they accidentally bump you, or somebody in you know where,

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a car accident situation, when your feelings are hurt. Your

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feelings are hurt and it's hard to bounce back. I

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know some great people who are good at that and like,

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oh no, But I also know some people say, oh no,

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it's okay, and then they talk about your body at

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the next Christmas gathering. Other things. You remember a little bit,

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did we tell you not to bring that stream Beingcastle North?

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You thought we were joking. No, nobody's gonna eat that,

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you know, you know, you gotta listen to those things.

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Somebody looking at you. But when that scirt. I like

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the way you dressed, but I don't understand it ain't

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that old. You know. I've been able to get away

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with some stuff. I have trade laugh, laugh, trade to

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go think, oh lord, don't let me have to get

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on a plane. Get on the next plane. But you

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know people do that, people like you know, you know,

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and we're not being nice to one another. Now, Oh

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oh no, come back, trade, please come back there you are,

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that's all okay, But you know, okay, you know I

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just you know, it's being kind and right now. If

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we have ever needed to be kind and respectful of

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one another, despite our differences, despite my opinions, despite your

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opinion onions, despite my faith preferences, despite your faith preferences,

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if we ever needed it, we need it now. We

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need it now. And there's a lot more going on,

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and just around the corner. September is next week. It

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starts Monday. We're in a whole new month. We've got

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some celebrations, some holidays that we need to we're gonna acknowledge,

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and everything else that needs to roll out for the

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remaining of this year is getting ready to roll PI

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Mens flying by, Yes, ma'am, Anna Stasia it is. It's

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not waiting for nobody. And how productive are you? What

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are you doing with the time that you have every

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minute of the day. I you know we're gonna I'm

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gonna jump around a little bit, so hosts, you know,

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please be patient with me this weekend. Well, last month

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I went to storage and went to pay my bill.

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That's the only day I have because I'm storing these

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books that I received from a publishing company because I

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can't get them to Africa, like we've been doing, and

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all of a sudden they went up like thirty dollars

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and I'm like, wait, no, what what what? And they're like, yeah,

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you know, And I said, no, I've never been in

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this environment before with storage. It's been years, but I

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don't recall it jumping month and month like that. They said, well, yeah,

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that's what we do. I said, oh, I said, that's

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why everybody's back. The line was backed up. People were

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coming in and out getting their stuff and close of

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those units. So I said, okay, God, this was something

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I didn't really look forward to doing. And I'm like, okay, Lord,

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do I bring them to the house or do I

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take them to my office building. If I take them

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to my office building, I got to cut the air

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condition on and let it run because the books cannot

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be in a heated situation environment. And I'm going back

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and forth. So then I said, you know what, that's it.

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I got to get to this because I have it

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until before the twenty sixth of this month. To get

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it done. I'm I got to pay that high fee

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again and I don't have the money to do that.

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So I got my son, and I mean I had

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to push myself to do this, even though I know

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it has to be done. And I said, well, Lord,

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what door do He said, donate them to your good will?

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I said, okay, he said, just split them up between

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Salvation Army and Goodwill. I've got a good will will

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right around the corner. Literally. So I went and we

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got the first batch of books. Well, I thought it

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was twelve boxes. It really looked like twelve boxes, but

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it ended up being thirty boxes. I don't know how

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I missed, but it looked like the way we stacked it,

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it was just twelve boxes, and it was thirty boxes.

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And I went, I took the firs. We got to

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jump on giving. We have. We made it, donated twice

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and have more coming. Amen. Okay, nice? Nice? And so

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I went and got a nice young lady at the

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place and I was like, so do you all accept

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children's books? Was the first thing, and she said, yes, ma'am,

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we do. I said, now, explain where I got them

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from and everything. And I said, I've got several boxes,

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and I didn't count how many books were in each box,

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and so she I said, but they've got a censor

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on it. But then so I looked at it. It's

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just a bar code. And I was able to take

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the bar code off, and I'm like, God, if I

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got to go through these boxes the books and take

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this sent the bar code off, oh my god, I'm

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gonna be here all day. And I just peeled it

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off and God said, no, take it. Let her know.

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So she said, well, let me take it to my supervisor.

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I said, my manager. I said, okay, great. So she

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takes it and she comes back. She goes, we'll take them.

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I said, huh, she goes, we'll take them and we'll

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take care of the bar code. I said, okay. So

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we my sons started any little buggy thing, and I'm like, this,

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this is what you got? You think this gun because

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I don't know. So we opened up a box and

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I counted how many books were in this particular box,

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and it was seventy five books in one box. So

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we're trying to keep up with it. We dropped off

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the first night seventeen boxes. Then we dropped off another

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seventeen boxes, and then the last were nineteen boxes, seventy

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five books each kind of told thirty nine hundred books.

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Our local well just got. And the young lady was

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so kind. She was so sweet, I said, she goes, Yeah,

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I've got a coworker that wants she always come by

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and she asked she come down, and she said, do

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you have any more children's books? I said, oh, just

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tell her back of car up. Now. You ain't even

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got to put several of those boxes out. I don't

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know what she did them for. And this is what's

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going to get you, I said, got me. The Lord

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had already told me when by the time I was

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making my second trip back, the plants a seed for

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her and I said, I don't know what. I don't

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know what made her think. I was going to give

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her cash, but she said I can't accept cash. She said,

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but if you have a book you could put it in.

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That is a big donation. Miss Yes. And I was

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able to go to the front and nobody was in

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there at that break. I called it one hundred them. No,

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we closed in the unit. It's done. Ain't nothing in them,

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you know. They're like, oh, okay, we got you, got

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checked this out. Okay, we got you. I can hear it,

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make it all this, we got you. It's already done.

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I said, okay, thank you so much. So the young

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lady said to me, She said, but I can't you know,

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I can't accept cash. I said, oh, my problem. And

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then she said, well, if you got a book, and

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I think she was trying to be she was being funny, right,

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but if you got a book, you know you want

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to put something in there, you know. I said, oh, boy,

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do I have a book? And I just loaded up

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some of my new books in my little travel by

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the bag and I planted to see and I asked her,

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I said, the Lord wants me to ask you what

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bill needs to be paid today? Wow? And she said,

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you that this is good? Make you laud she said

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my storage bill.

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I was.

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And so I said, do you know how much of this?

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She goes, No, I don't. She said. I said, would

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you mind calling them? She goes, we yeah, they're across

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the street. And I'm like, okay, well could you call

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them and just to get a you know, God already

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told me what to give. So I was already getting

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my book out and I was just doing a little

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autograph and she came back. She said, was it's my

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husband's name and they won't give it to me on

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the phone. But the guy said, you could give them

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a call and he'll tell you. Okay, you ain't gonna

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tell them. I didn't even try to pursue that. I said,

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you ain't gonna tell that's the wife, but you're gonna

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tell me. So But anyway, I said, never mind. You know, God, God,

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that's fine. Don't worry about it. God's got this. Trust

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me handing her my book we made Once we made

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the last drop off, which was nineteen boxes of books,

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and she said wow, and another coworker came out because

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they couldn't believe it. So they were helping, you know,

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they just pushed the card in and stuff. So anyway,

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I said, you all to do whatever you need to.

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These books are, you know, pretty outdated, but these are

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the second This is the original copies, second copy of

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all the originals of this from this publisher company. They

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have the originals in their vault even though they've gone digital.

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But this is, you know, and I hope it will

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help somebody. She's, oh, it's gonna help, you know, So

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I don't know how that's gonna look. I was tickled,

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I was blessed, I was thankful, but the fact that

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here I am trying to empty out storage and she

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needed to pay a storage bill. And I was like,

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you know, cause first I was just gonna treat everybody

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to lunch or whatever. And I said, now, I ain't

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got done for that. Guy said no, just give her

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the seed. And I said, yes, sir, and so seed offering.

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That's how that works. God tells you what to do,

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You do it. You don't want the hots coming back,

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You don't wonder what, you don't want to nothing, You

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just and next thing I know, I think I've shared

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with you or I belonged to two grant clearinghouses for grants,

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and it was so funny. Over the weekend after this happened,

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I get an email saying, you know, you have about

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six thousand matches of grants that we qualify for six thousand.

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I said, oh, okay, I need to do some homework

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and let me look into that. So, you know, but

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being nice, and she was smiling, and she was just

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so she was just so nice and you know, very

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just shy, and and I prayed that minister to her.

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I didn't have to go in there with, you know,

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with a big old Bible and a big old cross

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on and all that. Of course I had my you know,

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my my bracelets. But you know I didn't go, oh

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the Lord tell me no, no, no, it don't it.

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Don't take all of that. If you don't look like

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a child of God, then you have to go back

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to the threshing floor. You don't have. Jesus never defied

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himself unless somebody pushed them, like and you know, hey, Peter,

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who you say I am? Matthew? Who y'all y'all been

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whirling with me for a minute. Who do you say

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I am?

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Well?

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You you're well? Okay, I see. If I was a disciple,

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I'll be like, okay, he going with the trick questions. Now,

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if we go to have pop quiz, what was it?

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I couldn't have been a disciple. I've been like uh

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uh uh. But they said you are, this is who

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you are. And many people still wanted to say, oh,

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you belong to John, or you belong to Paul or

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