May 5, 2025

Shouting Out the Awarenesses, Acknowledgements, & Apprec.

Shouting Out the Awarenesses, Acknowledgements, & Apprec.

acknowledging those who helped you to become who you are, medical, illnesses, founders Setting It Straight w/ Ms. Gray is broadcast live Mondays at 7PM ET and Music on W4CY Radio...

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Good evening, Good evening, and good evening. Welcome to another

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dynamic opportunity night of conversation, excitement, discovery awareness. Thank you,

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Thank you for joining us tonight here on setting it

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straight with Miss Gray. I have Pastor Miguel, our other

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lively co hosts may pop in shortly. Good evening, sir,

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how are you I'm on vacation. Okay, he's on vacation,

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so his answers and responses may be a little different tonight. Amen. Well,

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let's pray. Lord, we just thank you so much. If

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we just for ever give you the praise and glory

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and honor. Bah. We are learning every minute of the

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day that no man knows the hour. We just have

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to extend our prayers out to people who have experienced

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loss and awareness. I'm sending out a special prayer set

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of prayers to the Ray family in Palm Beach County

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who lost a powerful, powerful, powerful voice yesterday evening. My

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former pastor and pastor now Bishop Harold Calvin Ray, sending

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out love and just hope and strength to his wife,

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Pastor Brenda, and their adult children, their grandchildren, the Redemptive

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Life Family, current folks, current members, former members lost. What

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can we say, Lord, We don't know the day of

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they all. We just trust, We just trust you with

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everything we've got. Now, Lord be with us tonight. Do

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what you do best, and that's set your captives free. Please,

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Papa God, we're getting behind the cross now. You lead

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and direct and guide us. We're just going to sit

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in wonderment and in awe of you. We love you

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so much. We're ever giving you the praise, the glory

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and the honor and Jesus matchless, magnificent mighty mighty name.

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Amen and Amen.

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Amen.

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Well good evening, everybody, It's I tell you time hate

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tre tray. Time can really you just don't know in

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a day or an hour. One minute, you're doing things,

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and you're doing things with your family, or you're doing

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things and you're just sitting and next thing you know,

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you're getting a phone call, you're getting a text, and

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someone's life has changed, and a whole group of people.

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My former pastor, Pastor Harold Cavin Ray, passed away yesterday evening.

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I was somewhat aware that he had some illnesses, and

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you know, when you hear things, you pray for people.

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And I have to thank God that when I went

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home in March, one of the three things that God

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had directed me to do was to get in touch

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with him and his wife. And it's been years, years

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and years and years since we spoke, definitely since we've

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seen each other. But I received their phone numbers from

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a friend of mine and I text them and just

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to say hello and hey, I don't know if you

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remember me, and the Lord had me to just tell

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them how important the foundation that they laid for my

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life was and is and it continues to be despite

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what I've done. And of course, you know, with the

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last twenty four hours, I've just been thinking, I've been

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bombarded in my brain with experiences and events of you know,

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when people helped me and people taught me, especially my teachers,

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and that made it a profound effect upon my life.

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I know most of them have passed and now someone

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who laid the found the foundation for me. With Spiritual Warfare,

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we were up and coming. We were what you would

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consider a mini megachurch. You know, we were adding daily

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thousands of people and we were on TVN. We've had

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the greats were well, not the greats. We've had people

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who in their early years of their ministries. Uh uh

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Tim's story, Uh Jesse to plantis Miles Monroe who's passed away,

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Carlton Pearson who's passed away. I mean I can name

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Paula White.

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In their early years. We we had all these people

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come through. T. D. Jakes came through and we were

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learning spiritual warfare and that's that was my beginning, my

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the beginning of my foundation and my knowledge. And I

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text them and just let them know that, you know, hey,

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thank you. I never thought I would get a chance

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to say thank you, but I thank god I did

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and I was obedient. And tonight we're gonna be talking

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about awarenesses and acknowledgments and things that are people are

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celebrating all over, but at the end of the hour,

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I hope that we're thinking, as we're going to call

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out all of these things, and most of them are

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medical things and diseases and disorders, some groups of people

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and things. But think about the people who helped you

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to get where you are today, who helped to shape you,

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to form you. I remember mss Kits. I went to

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a private I mean, yeah, well college prep, high school

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and ms kits senior year taught creative writing. And I've

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never been a writer. I've never been and she would

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we would write in our little blue books. I don't

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know anybody had those experiences, but we'd have a blue

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book and you'd have to write and next thing, you know,

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it would get the things back. You got read inche everywhere.

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But I get no grade. I don't know if any

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of my other classmates think. Some some got grades. Sometimes

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they were like not good grades. But and so you know,

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a couple of more assignments and you know days of class,

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you know, classroom stuff, and I'm like, and I would

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get my stuff back, some marks on some grammatical errors

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or whatever, but no grade, and I, which made me

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stay after class one day. I said, miss kids, I

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don't understand you're not giving me a grade. And she'd

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look at me with her these big bumble bee glasses.

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I said, you could do better. Have a nice day.

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And I'm like what what? And I'm like okay, And

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then back to the class and back to the writing

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writing assignment, and then you know, I managed to get

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a B out of the class. She started putting my

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grades on. She would say, improvement, very good, give me

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a star, give me a check mark. And so I

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went my freshman year to college at Fort and the

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Southern Baptist College at home, and I signed up a

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freshman comp one. That's the class because I just came

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from a college prep high school. And we're in the

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English class and all of a sudden, a runner comes

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in and said, we need the following people to go

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to the registrar. And ironically all of us were black

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and brown skin. We had to leave the classroom, take

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our stuff with us, and go to the registrar. And

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there was Don Harp and he's like, all of you

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own need to be in ESAU or either basic English class.

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I'm like, no, I'm not, No, I'm not supposed to

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be no basic English. I had that my freshman year

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high school. He said, well, you're paying for it to

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be if you fail your classes on you. I said, oh, okay,

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I see you, and I went back to class. The

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teacher said, okay, You're gonna be in his so on you.

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And I'm like, what's wrong with y'all. It's college, you know,

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And sure enough I got to be out of the

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course and guess what. I took my little happy hips

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with my report card to the registrar office. Mister Hart

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got to be thank you for your support, you know,

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and not knowing that years, many years later, I'll be

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writing books to motivate and influence people and going through

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experiences that people would want to hear about. I'm just

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so thankful that I was able to talk to Pastor Ray,

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even though it was through text, and he even prayed

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for me through texts and was so proud and he said, wow,

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look at you. And I shared some pictures of my

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book signing and my books and my children how they

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Because he didn't know anything about the twins, Donald was born,

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and the last time I think he saw Donald was

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maybe when he's well up to six years old because

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we moved up here when he was seven. So it's

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a loss, it's a big loss, and that will be

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a funeral. Just just don't know that's going to be

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a funeral because folks are coming from all over. He

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touched a lot of lives and made a big difference.

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A big thank you, thank you missy. Good evening. But anyway,

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you know, and I'm going to slowly segue into all

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of these awarenesses and acknowledgements and things to be aware of.

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Some of it is to celebrate something. You know. If

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I could say anything tonight and we're gonna go ahead

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and go forward with that, please acknowledge, please be thankful

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for those who helped to shape you, helped you, who

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took you as is and said, you know what, I'm

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gonna work with this person, and I'm gonna whether it's

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a student, I'm gonna work with this person. Acknowledge them.

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Think if they's still alive, thank God for them, because

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you none of us will be where we are if

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we did not have these people. And in the experience

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could have been good or could have been ugly. I've

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learned from I've had some bad supervisors, which taught me

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on how to truit volunteers and deal with people in general. Oh,

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I've had some. I've had some doctors who was just

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you know. I've had some influences people, you know, and

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they had to govern my grades and tell me what

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to do, and they had their experiences in the classroom.

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Oh I've been there, done that. But what I did

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was I learned what not to do, how not to

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be and and and that's a valuable lesson. So I

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take you good, bad and ugly, you know. But let's

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let's let's go with some of these. Of course, it's

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Old Americans Month. Of course, we got Mother's Day around

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the corner. We got a Native American Day. We've got

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and and y'all, i'm muting, come on and hop in here.

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And National Nurses Day we've got I'm gonna let pastor

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say this one. I'm gonna let him city. What's the

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one that everybody's celebrating the day We've got World Migratory

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Bird Day, So I guess we got to acknowledge the

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birds of migrating somewhere. They're going from north to south

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or east of I don't know, but it's it's on

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here and you know, International Nurses Day and International Day

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of Living Together in Peace. We got medical stuff out there.

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Come on and help me, guys, come on in because

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I'm all over there now.

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Health huh? Health Awareness Month?

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I think? Is this?

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Is it a military appreciation month?

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A week? I think? Yeah? Oh, let's see.

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You appreciate Did I say teacher appreciate.

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No, that's a good one. That's a good one.

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Teacher week or something?

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Yeah, yeah, I see children Mental Health Awareness Week.

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There you go, there you go, and awareness is I mean?

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And unfortunately, like I said, most of this is medical

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and diseases, you know, and it's a sad day that

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we've got that many. We've got that many. Let me

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go back to my calendar because this Google is not

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helping me.

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Here. Here here's one that the Food Allergy Awareness Week.

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There you go, there you go.

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Something different.

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Yeah, Armed Forces Day, We've got Public Lands Day. We

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got World b Day for your be lovers out there.

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For your day coming up.

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Yes, we got more thank you ahead, what'd you say? Pastor?

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Brain Tumor Awareness mark the month of May.

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Wow, we got law Day. We've got Loyalty Day, and

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we're going to talk about that another time. We had

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the National Day of Prayer. That was a big one.

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That was a big one. World Tuna Day. Who likes

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tuna fish? You know, so acknowledge those. Acknowledging those. I

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know Mother's Day is gonna be oh, National Explosive Ordinance

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Disposal Day. So if you got this, if you got

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stuff in the backyard, it's time to take it. You

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got to take it. So you know what you say, Pastor.

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I was like, wow, okay, explosive, Okay, and dispose it.

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Please dispose it? Can you dispose it?

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Please?

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Okay, don't wait till the fourth of July. I just

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do it now.

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They got the whole block.

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That's just just for a little giggles here. Did you

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know that they do not celebrate single to Mayo in Mexico?

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Oh? I got to sit back on this one. What

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what Wait a minute, wait a minute, what are you saying?

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I came across something real. I mean I didn't get

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a chance to read it all, but it was say, yeah,

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lots of things going on, Missy. I found out that

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think of to Mao is not celebrated by Mexican.

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Mexican they say, there's no reason why.

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Talk about why they don't do that. Wow, we can

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we can research that. That's the beauty. Yeah.

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I think you need to come back with that one

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and give us an idea after your vacation, sir, please,

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because that's that's weird. Oh, we've got the time of

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Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during

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the Second World War. Say that real fast? Three times.

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We got Truman Day. Interesting, Yeah, mickey, it is interesting.

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Military Spouse Appreciation Day, Native American Day, Confederate Memorial Day,

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and we've got Nurses Day, Peace Offered Peace Officers Memorial Day.

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I guess at the end of the hour, what we

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would want to encourage International Tea Day? Did anybody have

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any tea today? Did anybody have tea today? You need

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to just acknowledge and say thank you anybody that's changed

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your life, that's touched your life, even in a negative way.

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I had te today, Thank you, Rebel Reel said she

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had day. Then you go see you're writing in the

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midst of that. Amen, we're all Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Oh,

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there's a group. I think we need to join them

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because we communicate. I think, yeah, I think we need

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to you know, so say thank you. Give folks their

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flowers while they live, if you don't think you'll ever

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see them again, or you don't know if they're still alive. Lord,

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thank you for them, thank you for what the impact

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they made in my life. Because we don't say thank

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you enough. I don't think. I don't think we we

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just let people know how much we do appreciate them.

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And there's never enough of that. There's never not enough

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of that. You know. This weekend, my daughter just we

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did our three day fast and part of that is

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that we go and feed the hunger, hungry and the poor.

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And I gotta work on that. I gotta be able

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to transition that because again, all those who are homeless

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are not poor, and all those are poor not homeless,

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so and hungry, not everybody is hungry. But she said

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this is I said, well, how are you going to

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do it? And she says, well, I'm going to do cheeseburgers, fries,

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and waters. I said, okay, yeah, I'll ride with you.

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And I put an envelope in each bag for people.

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And these two guys that were so funny. One had

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walked across the street and one was on the embankment

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and he said, hey, Charlie, look at your bag. No,

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he said, I got your bag over here. She said,

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we need to look at the bag. I said, don't

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tell everybody. Everybody all of a sudden that come running

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out what's in the bag? And he was thinking talking

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about food, But like I happened, we made a U

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turn and I'm watching him and he's looking like where

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are they? Where are and we blew the horn and

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then he's like, you know. And one young lady if

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I'm a lady, and she's like, well, I'm going to

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eat for a week. But somebody also brought her a

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plate of food, you know, and a little cover thing,

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so she said, I'm going to be able to eat

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for a week, you know. And you and my daughter

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we just looked at each other like you can't imagine,

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And you know, it's it's just saying the people who

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said thank you, and I believe them they were they

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were appreciative, They weren't trying to they weren't begging for

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anything or anything. They just was there and again we

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had to go find them in some cases. So please

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make sure that you thank the people that's been in

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your life and that made it a profound impact on you.

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And again, even though now I'm wondering what father Mike

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is doing these days, I have to look him up. Okay,

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there you go, there you go, you know, because you

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don't know how many people don't do that. I know.

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When I used to perform at the History Center, I

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was doing Mayor McLeod, Bethune and the Lord and you

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know placed this in my script. I would ask the

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students who's the teacher? And they said, right there, that's him,

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that's her. I said, give them a round of applause,

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and everybody will be clapping, even the volunteers. And I said,

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because you don't know what it took for him or

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her to get you here, to get you to spring

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y'all from school today, you know, And I hope you're

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on the best behavior. And I said, and for the

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adults in the room who can remember their favorite teacher

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they had the most impact on you, just shout them out, Oh,

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third grade miss so and so, Coach so and so

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from high school, all miss so and so from ninth grade,

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I mean. And they were all like happy to do that,

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like they remembered these people who made an impact that

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I said, I want you to know. And I look

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at the teacher, I said, I want you to know.

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They may leave your class, graduating to the next grade

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and never say thank you, but today they're gonna say

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thank you. And I make them say thank you, mister

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so and so, thank you, Miss so and so. And

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the teacher's like, you don't have to do that. Yes

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we do, because that may be the only time you

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get thanked and maybe the only time I think I lived.

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And once I accepted the Lord of my life and

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got rid of the anger towards my biological people, especially

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the grandmothers, I asked God to allow them to stay

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in their right mind long enough so I could say

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thank you. I know one you said, don't bring no

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more babies here, and the other one's like, well, we

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don't even know if it's his, and I know what

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they lived with. They had to live with that, but

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I was able to meet them, they were able to see,

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so I turned out, hey, okay, and I want to

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say thank you for that decision that you had to make,

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because I don't know who I would be today. I

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wouldn't be on here today. I don't know if I

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would have accepted the Lord in my life today, you know,

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And I'm not down on the people they've got. You know,

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they've been interesting people. And I'm like, you know, even

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my family that raised me now just found out one

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of my students maybe related to me. Third third cousin

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removed twice over something like that. I just got an

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ancestry alert and I texted him. I said, are you serious?

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He said, can you believe that? And I said, well,

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we third third cousins removed. That's gonna be funny. That

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is so funny. But just thank people. All right, y'all

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talk tonight. We got some time now because I'm I'm

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gonna be quiet.

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You know. One of the things. One of the things,

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Miss Gray, and you kind of really as I was

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hearing how you were thanking your family members, and I

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was thinking back a while ago when the Academy Awards

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we were the big thing on TV, and how the

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actors when they received their Academy Award, they would go

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and give you a laundry list of who they were

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being very thankful for, and you know, the directors, their

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their their their coaches. And then I don't know when

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it happened, but there was a shift. The shift now

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became I'm going to use this platform to express my

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political feelings, my stance on this, and forget about the

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people that went to the movie and took some time

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to watch your movie. Now you're going to use your

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your fifteen seconds of fame and use that platform to

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express your stance on how you feel of where the

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direction the country is going. Really, it's really disappointing that

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instead of being thankful now you're shifting it for something else.

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What people don't understand is when they see these kind

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of things, it gets programmed into the person's mind. Then

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they start doing the same and then it becomes a

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domino effect. So it really and it's funny because yesterday

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my wife and I were talking. We were talking about, well,

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I guess common sense isn't common anymore. The same thing

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as guess, common courtesy is no longer common because people

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aren't curtious. So it really has shifted to a point

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where people want to be respected and get recognized, but

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they're not willing to say, hey, thank you. And that's

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where people really lose the value of friendship, where they

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lose the value of a relationship, where they lose the

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value of someone that you can talk to your your

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you can fight in because all of a sudden, now

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you're concerned. Who are they going to tell? Mm hmm,

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And it's it's it's it's really sad, really is sad.

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And this is where we have to be thankful that

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we're able to recognize the opportunity. Now we can be

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able to make a difference. All it takes is just

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one person go to one person, say hey, thank you

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for letting me go ahead of you the grocery store. Hey,

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thank you for letting me go ahead because I'm really

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am going to rush. People don't understand the value, the encouragement,

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the uplifting when you say thank you and be sincere

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about it.

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Amen, Amen to that. I think I've shared before that

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you know, there are times a group of deputies will

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be eating lunch and I'll be walking by and say,

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I pray for you all. You all stay safe? Is it?

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Thank you, ma'am? Thank you so much, ma'am, thank you,

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thank you. You'd be safe too. Because I do pray

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for the sheriff Department, my men and women in Green

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I did on my you know, on my prayer point list,

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and because I've always interacted with them whenever I had,

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you know, situations, or when I was a part of PTA,

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the safety officer at the school, you know, it was

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the sheriff deputy. And yeah, I mean we just don't

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say things anymore. We're not courteous anymore. We're not, you know.

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And when we are, I'm like, I look in folks

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eyes and say thank you. I have to think about

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what my answer would be to what teacher made the

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most difference for me? Okay, missy, yeah, you see, you

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have to sit and wonder, like but I remember missus Hoyt,

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you know ms kits mister Keenan, which was an odd fellow.

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He was a speech teacher and he always sit in

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the back are you're making your speeches, and he would

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tap the desk with his ruler and you would just

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tap his desk, you know. Mister Johnson, he was the

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acting teacher. We put on some great plays. And mister

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Poe uh you know elementary school. Yeah, sit and think

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about that. Who shaped you, who helped you, who helped

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to develop you. The nuns and priests took me under

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their arm, you know, and and the sister Helen Wilson,

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you know, father Curly, but father Lim and Selly And

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now that we see that they're getting ready to vote

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the pope. I don't know if they've done it or not,

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but I think they've gone into the conclave and they're

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getting ready to do that. So we got to see

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if the smoke come out. But who was who was who?

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Yes, Tray, Yeah, I was just because there was a

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cargoing bibles loud. So oh, I mean there were there

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were quite a few people that made a difference. So parents,

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of course, the mother's days coming up. I no longer

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have my parents with me, but I do appreciate the

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things that they instilled in me. So mother was a teacher,

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father military, and you know, different experiences, but similar things,

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you know, with the things that they had. That's four

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girls in our family, so and I fallow number three

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in the category.

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So I mean, I do appreciate it.

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And then their teachers that were helped shape me in

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my life too.

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When my parents went around, it was a different type.

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Of things, so we didn't have all this stuff that

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they have in the school system now, not all this.

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Mess and things you have to continue with in a classroom.

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So you know, I definitely appreciate that the time and

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era that I that I grew up in bullying was

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not like it is now. I mean, it wasn't great

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growing up being bully, but this is taking it to

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a whole different level with guns and all this other stuff.

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I don't understand that. You know, not my time, it

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was fitst fights and let it be it.

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That's it.

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And so I just pray for the children that.

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Have to grow up right now in this area, the

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ones previously maybe the last fifteen twenty years, and the

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ones going through now because it's definitely harder. And I

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just pray right now for the people who I just

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pray for situations right now. You know, there's a human

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side to a lot of things, and though we don't

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agree with the methods that some people came in, but

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I think it's humanity, human side humanity, and just I

468
00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:32.279
just I'm just disheartened that children have to go to

469
00:27:32.279 --> 00:27:36.240
school and worry about whether they're be able to go home,

470
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:38.680
whether their parents will be home when they get there.

471
00:27:39.839 --> 00:27:42.359
I feel bad for the people who are.

472
00:27:42.279 --> 00:27:45.799
Going to places of worship and have to worry whether

473
00:27:45.880 --> 00:27:47.559
or not they're going to be taken out. That there's

474
00:27:47.720 --> 00:27:51.720
like that those who are trying to do it correctly,

475
00:27:52.319 --> 00:27:55.279
and being taken out of the courts right there, out

476
00:27:55.279 --> 00:27:58.519
of the court buildings to wherever I just pray on it.

477
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:02.319
I just I unders stand, but I do believe there's

478
00:28:02.839 --> 00:28:04.759
a human side to this.

479
00:28:05.160 --> 00:28:09.359
You know, it's got to be some humanity, uh, some

480
00:28:09.559 --> 00:28:10.359
type of feeling.

481
00:28:10.599 --> 00:28:12.720
You know, you might not agree with it, but there

482
00:28:12.880 --> 00:28:16.200
is a way to do some stuff. And I'm just

483
00:28:16.319 --> 00:28:19.240
disheartened by some of the things that I've seen, you know,

484
00:28:19.799 --> 00:28:22.880
on the news, some things that I hear on the news,

485
00:28:23.000 --> 00:28:26.440
and I'm just going to keep them in prayer and

486
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:29.640
and and in the direction of this country. I am

487
00:28:29.680 --> 00:28:33.839
fearful of it, you know, for people, for the directions,

488
00:28:33.920 --> 00:28:37.880
and I just pray that we allow God to intervene

489
00:28:38.400 --> 00:28:41.720
and do what's best for everyone. And so that's where

490
00:28:41.759 --> 00:28:45.720
I am as a as a social worker by trade,

491
00:28:46.200 --> 00:28:52.000
as a qualified mental health professional by certification, and I

492
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:53.680
just I'm just.

493
00:28:54.160 --> 00:28:56.359
It's kind of a little melancholy here here.

494
00:28:56.440 --> 00:28:58.920
You I hear you, And prayer is the only thing

495
00:28:58.960 --> 00:29:02.960
we can do. That's the most constructive thing. I'm I'm

496
00:29:03.000 --> 00:29:06.519
I'm getting out of the commentary and and everything. I'm

497
00:29:06.519 --> 00:29:09.920
not I let me pray, Let me just pray this out.

498
00:29:10.000 --> 00:29:13.440
I gotta pray this through. And yeah, I hear you

499
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:16.680
loud and clear, loud and clear. I want my country back.

500
00:29:17.039 --> 00:29:20.119
I want my country back. And well that and that

501
00:29:20.279 --> 00:29:23.079
means that we're doing whatever we need to do inside

502
00:29:23.079 --> 00:29:25.119
this country. That's what we're going to be doing. Let's

503
00:29:25.119 --> 00:29:28.119
do it. And everybody in here, okay, we are still

504
00:29:28.160 --> 00:29:30.440
you know, home with the land of the break home

505
00:29:30.519 --> 00:29:33.400
of the free, and let whatever that is free and brave,

506
00:29:33.799 --> 00:29:38.039
that's us. That is still us. And you know, I

507
00:29:38.480 --> 00:29:42.440
know God's will will be done. And and I really

508
00:29:42.440 --> 00:29:44.720
want one to in the Lord's prayer, you know, on

509
00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.400
earth as it is in heaven. What else is supposed

510
00:29:47.440 --> 00:29:49.720
to come to earth that's in heaven. I want to

511
00:29:49.759 --> 00:29:51.519
live to see that and I want to be a

512
00:29:51.559 --> 00:29:55.119
part of that. So you make decisions, Yes, Pastor.

513
00:29:55.319 --> 00:29:58.759
I was. You know, it's interesting the timeliness. Good good call,

514
00:29:58.920 --> 00:30:06.119
Miss Gray. You. I know, I'm in my last week

515
00:30:06.319 --> 00:30:12.039
of my class work today and we have to write

516
00:30:12.519 --> 00:30:15.839
discussion board in regards to the meaning of the resurrection.

517
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:20.119
And you touched on something that I had already read

518
00:30:20.160 --> 00:30:22.759
and I have it here and I wanted to share

519
00:30:22.799 --> 00:30:25.799
it because I even highlighted it, and it says that

520
00:30:26.440 --> 00:30:33.200
we must learn to cultivate disciplines like prayer and thanksgiving.

521
00:30:33.599 --> 00:30:37.480
Then we need to identify the things we tell ourselves

522
00:30:37.480 --> 00:30:42.880
that are not only misplaced but merely contribute to our worry.

523
00:30:43.319 --> 00:30:49.599
And lastly, we must substitute anxious anxiousness thought anxious thoughts

524
00:30:49.920 --> 00:30:53.319
for godly ones. So it's interesting how you were able

525
00:30:53.359 --> 00:30:57.400
to incorporate prayer and thanksgiving. And this was something that

526
00:30:57.720 --> 00:31:01.519
I just read from a book by called The Risen

527
00:31:01.640 --> 00:31:05.799
Jesus in Future ho by Gary fer Mass and he's

528
00:31:05.839 --> 00:31:11.880
an apologeticist, apologetic professor actually his name is doctor Habermass

529
00:31:12.279 --> 00:31:16.720
and and really incorporated everything that you just finished saying.

530
00:31:17.279 --> 00:31:22.559
And the theological word of giving thanks is called doxology,

531
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:25.799
and this is where you're you're giving praise, you're being

532
00:31:25.920 --> 00:31:29.240
thankful to God for everything that has done for you.

533
00:31:29.680 --> 00:31:34.039
And and it really begins there for us to have

534
00:31:34.119 --> 00:31:40.039
that that that attitude of gratitude everything, you know, not

535
00:31:40.039 --> 00:31:43.160
not just oh look I got some extra money from

536
00:31:43.200 --> 00:31:45.039
this check and just say oh, thank God, and then

537
00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:46.960
all of a sudden, if you're a little short, you know,

538
00:31:47.759 --> 00:31:50.160
you forget about God about the extra money. And then

539
00:31:50.200 --> 00:31:53.680
when you're short, you remember God, and we got to

540
00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:55.519
be consistent about it.

541
00:31:55.759 --> 00:31:57.640
Like the song.

542
00:31:58.880 --> 00:32:03.359
Line of Judah from Elevation Worship, there's a line that says,

543
00:32:04.000 --> 00:32:08.640
no valley be raised up, a mountain be made low.

544
00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:11.359
So in other words, we're raising the valley so we

545
00:32:11.440 --> 00:32:14.720
can be level and bringing the mountain low so we

546
00:32:14.759 --> 00:32:19.519
can praise God. Not not allow the valleys to distract us,

547
00:32:19.599 --> 00:32:22.359
not the mountains that's in front of us to distract us.

548
00:32:22.440 --> 00:32:26.720
We know who has The answer. Question is are we

549
00:32:26.920 --> 00:32:32.839
willing to submit? Are we willing to repent, turn away

550
00:32:32.960 --> 00:32:38.200
from our old ways and walk the new way in

551
00:32:38.359 --> 00:32:40.559
the in the on the path that the Lord has

552
00:32:40.599 --> 00:32:44.480
given us. Because this is where we have to understand

553
00:32:44.559 --> 00:32:49.599
what resurrection Sunday means. If Jesus did not die, and

554
00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:53.359
if Jesus did not resurrect, we would be a heaping

555
00:32:53.480 --> 00:32:58.759
mess right now. But because of the sadness that Jesus

556
00:32:58.839 --> 00:33:02.920
got crucified, sadness has only lived for a short while.

557
00:33:02.960 --> 00:33:05.960
Because the Bible says that Jesus said that you're going

558
00:33:06.039 --> 00:33:10.440
to turn your sorrow into joyfulness, and it's in the

559
00:33:10.480 --> 00:33:13.079
Book of John, and that's how we have to look

560
00:33:13.119 --> 00:33:17.240
at it. We're facing. If we're facing some challenges, to

561
00:33:17.359 --> 00:33:20.839
thank God that he put the people in our lives

562
00:33:20.839 --> 00:33:23.920
that gives us the encouragement so we can be able

563
00:33:23.960 --> 00:33:26.279
to get through it. And that's when we should be

564
00:33:26.279 --> 00:33:29.559
praising God for the people that he placed in our lives,

565
00:33:29.640 --> 00:33:33.839
because God works through people, and that's so important for

566
00:33:33.920 --> 00:33:37.640
us to understand because God uses everything. And I'm a

567
00:33:37.799 --> 00:33:41.880
quick testimony, quick testimony. I had a knee problem, okay,

568
00:33:42.359 --> 00:33:45.720
and I walked out my front door to go get

569
00:33:45.720 --> 00:33:49.799
the mail and this happened, like in mid march. This

570
00:33:50.119 --> 00:33:53.920
frog showed up out of nowhere and landed on me

571
00:33:54.400 --> 00:33:58.960
and I twisted my bad knee point where I actually

572
00:33:59.039 --> 00:34:00.480
went to my wife. I said, look, you want to

573
00:34:00.519 --> 00:34:03.039
see something funny. Look and I showed her what happened.

574
00:34:03.359 --> 00:34:06.000
Do you believe that frog healed me? I need pain

575
00:34:06.119 --> 00:34:09.119
is gone. I need pain is gone because I'm a frog.

576
00:34:09.480 --> 00:34:09.679
Hey.

577
00:34:09.719 --> 00:34:12.400
I'm like, thank you God for that frog because now

578
00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:14.440
I'm gonna enjoy my trip because I'm not going to

579
00:34:14.480 --> 00:34:21.079
be limping here. Ben Amen's I know, I know it's

580
00:34:21.119 --> 00:34:23.000
a weird testimony.

581
00:34:22.880 --> 00:34:25.920
Hey, but I'm telling you it is. Things are peculiar.

582
00:34:26.320 --> 00:34:28.320
God is not going to do the things that you

583
00:34:28.800 --> 00:34:32.119
That's why don't try to shake shape how God should

584
00:34:32.119 --> 00:34:35.039
bless you. Don't try to shape and try to you

585
00:34:35.119 --> 00:34:37.679
figure it out and you take it to God. Oh God,

586
00:34:37.719 --> 00:34:39.559
now I need you to if you can just get out,

587
00:34:39.639 --> 00:34:41.800
get me out of this debt, what I'll do is

588
00:34:42.159 --> 00:34:45.000
listen to it. Lord, this is your prayer. Lord. You

589
00:34:45.039 --> 00:34:47.320
know I need to make more money on my job,

590
00:34:47.760 --> 00:34:50.679
but I'm also doing the part time job, so I

591
00:34:50.719 --> 00:34:52.880
need more money there. Now, if you could get me

592
00:34:53.000 --> 00:34:55.480
out of this, what I can do is I could

593
00:34:55.480 --> 00:34:58.519
go find another job too, and maybe I could get

594
00:34:58.599 --> 00:35:01.679
rid of this job. So you telling God to creative

595
00:35:01.840 --> 00:35:04.760
all how to bless you. That's like you're telling me

596
00:35:04.760 --> 00:35:07.480
how to teach. You're telling Pastor Miguel how to preach.

597
00:35:08.000 --> 00:35:11.159
You're telling Trey how to do her job. And you've

598
00:35:11.159 --> 00:35:14.840
never done our job before. Go and let God truly

599
00:35:15.519 --> 00:35:20.480
just cut it and hasn't worked. How much more suffering?

600
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:20.599
Now?

601
00:35:20.679 --> 00:35:23.719
The whole world is suffering. Before it was just you,

602
00:35:24.320 --> 00:35:27.480
not the whole world. And there's no antidote, there's no

603
00:35:28.000 --> 00:35:32.719
there's no answer is coming. It's already here. I can't.

604
00:35:32.719 --> 00:35:36.119
This is the last pleading from me. It's the last,

605
00:35:36.280 --> 00:35:38.559
because Heaven's windows is gonna close up for a little bit,

606
00:35:38.880 --> 00:35:42.559
because he's gathering his chosen, his remnant within the remnant,

607
00:35:42.800 --> 00:35:45.639
because he's got some promises he made to us, and

608
00:35:45.679 --> 00:35:48.920
we're gonna reap that. We're gonna live in that. You

609
00:35:49.159 --> 00:35:53.519
try it your way forever. Nothing worked. You went down

610
00:35:53.599 --> 00:35:56.239
rabbit holes that you weren't supposed to go down. You

611
00:35:56.440 --> 00:35:59.760
you delayed all your blessings. Nobody delaying them. I've got

612
00:35:59.760 --> 00:36:01.599
some folks and my clothes telling about the white man

613
00:36:01.599 --> 00:36:03.920
got his foot on my neck. No he don't. You

614
00:36:04.000 --> 00:36:07.599
came at him ignorant. You came at him hood who.

615
00:36:07.800 --> 00:36:10.039
I don't want to hire you. I'm not gonna have

616
00:36:10.199 --> 00:36:13.280
my answer the phone for my my business. Hello? Who is?

617
00:36:14.320 --> 00:36:17.119
Come on? Now? Come on? I used to do trainings

618
00:36:17.159 --> 00:36:20.119
and tell people don't hire your relatives. Well, I gotta

619
00:36:20.159 --> 00:36:22.440
do something mable she got to come up. Can Mabel

620
00:36:22.679 --> 00:36:26.480
answer the phone like, Hello, Jackson, Jackson nursery? How can

621
00:36:26.480 --> 00:36:30.199
I help you? Can Auntie say that? No she answered

622
00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:36.159
for Hello, No, she ain't here. Your mask person can

623
00:36:36.199 --> 00:36:39.719
make you up breaking what you say? Trey call him

624
00:36:39.719 --> 00:36:46.039
back later. I'm mapping my lunch. Click hang off the phone.

625
00:36:46.519 --> 00:36:48.800
But can I leave a passage? Who is this? No,

626
00:36:48.840 --> 00:36:52.800
you can't what a pant? I don't see nothing? Just

627
00:36:52.840 --> 00:36:53.719
called back click?

628
00:36:55.559 --> 00:36:58.800
But you forgot you forgot? I forgot you forgot all? Lord?

629
00:36:58.840 --> 00:36:59.599
Where's that pen?

630
00:37:05.559 --> 00:37:08.079
I tell people when I do training on business and

631
00:37:08.079 --> 00:37:11.559
and and and and and courtesy and customer service, your

632
00:37:11.599 --> 00:37:14.599
front person will make or break you. Who's ever sitting

633
00:37:14.639 --> 00:37:16.760
at that desk when I walk in that office, They're

634
00:37:16.760 --> 00:37:18.920
gonna make or break you. Be like, hey, how you

635
00:37:18.960 --> 00:37:22.159
doing fine? How you doing? Oh? I mean just the

636
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:26.280
whole how you doing well? I'm here having eleven o'clock?

637
00:37:26.320 --> 00:37:27.760
Well you early? Okay?

638
00:37:28.639 --> 00:37:32.559
Yeah, you go to a restaurant, act like you're inconvenience

639
00:37:32.599 --> 00:37:34.639
and now, yes, yeah.

640
00:37:34.480 --> 00:37:37.039
We were having a service. She was scared to that.

641
00:37:37.039 --> 00:37:39.559
She I guess, I think she's new to the waiting

642
00:37:39.679 --> 00:37:49.559
staff business. So I say, I'm fine, how are you okay? Lord?

643
00:37:52.760 --> 00:37:55.960
So I had the dollar back, and Lord, have mercy,

644
00:37:56.199 --> 00:38:04.199
you're having a nice day. I Belisa, please just leave alone,

645
00:38:04.239 --> 00:38:10.440
I said, But she got I gotta bring her out

646
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.400
a little bit more. Come on that. And then when

647
00:38:13.440 --> 00:38:16.239
she saw I knew the boss, the owner, that really

648
00:38:16.280 --> 00:38:17.760
just didn't make her day. I don't know what she

649
00:38:17.880 --> 00:38:20.800
was thinking. I know the lady jomped all over you know,

650
00:38:20.960 --> 00:38:24.079
I mean, come on now, let go and let gone

651
00:38:24.159 --> 00:38:28.639
and really live this. That's a real thing. And don't

652
00:38:28.719 --> 00:38:32.159
hire your relatives, especially when you're born of directors. It's

653
00:38:32.199 --> 00:38:34.599
seven of y'all. You got five people who don't like you.

654
00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.599
They can vote you out of your old stuff. Just

655
00:38:37.679 --> 00:38:41.000
a little commercial, just a little commercial. But you know,

656
00:38:41.679 --> 00:38:44.000
all these awarenesses, and like I said, most of them

657
00:38:44.000 --> 00:38:47.280
are diseases and disorders and and people who had to

658
00:38:47.320 --> 00:38:50.800
fight to get the recognition. And you know, you're not

659
00:38:50.960 --> 00:38:53.599
talking to people, you're not thanking people, you don't even

660
00:38:53.639 --> 00:38:57.599
some people you forgot common courtesy. And two ladies held

661
00:38:57.639 --> 00:38:59.039
the door open for me. And I was gonna be

662
00:38:59.119 --> 00:39:00.960
okay because I was gonna use these hips and there's

663
00:39:01.079 --> 00:39:02.840
u haul to get out the post office door. I

664
00:39:02.840 --> 00:39:05.400
had a box in my head. I'm okay, I'll make it.

665
00:39:05.440 --> 00:39:08.199
I'll make it. And then oh, so sorry, because they

666
00:39:08.280 --> 00:39:10.559
just let the door. I was like, okay, I ain't

667
00:39:10.599 --> 00:39:13.000
saying nothing. And they both took two of them to

668
00:39:13.039 --> 00:39:15.239
open up the door. I said, thank you both, and

669
00:39:15.480 --> 00:39:17.559
God bless you have a great day to day. The

670
00:39:17.639 --> 00:39:20.599
salespeople have a great day to day when they when

671
00:39:20.639 --> 00:39:23.800
they package up your stuff. It don't hurt you to

672
00:39:24.000 --> 00:39:26.079
just be courteous, you know.

673
00:39:26.159 --> 00:39:30.119
I think that it's lost somewhere because everybody is on

674
00:39:30.360 --> 00:39:34.880
their phone. It's it's almost av I mean, it's it's

675
00:39:34.920 --> 00:39:39.000
avoidance at I've seen people in restaurant on dates we're found.

676
00:39:39.159 --> 00:39:43.199
Everybody's on the phone looking down people crossing the street,

677
00:39:43.360 --> 00:39:46.599
down people walking in the park, down, child in astroler

678
00:39:46.719 --> 00:39:52.679
to die. And it's no connection. It's a big disconnect.

679
00:39:53.079 --> 00:39:55.239
And some of that if I you know, I'm no

680
00:39:55.679 --> 00:40:01.039
child psychologists or you know, familiar with our development in

681
00:40:01.079 --> 00:40:05.079
that way, but they get it. It really gets attached

682
00:40:05.079 --> 00:40:08.079
where you are. It seems like addicted to it, you know,

683
00:40:10.320 --> 00:40:14.079
right right. And so growing up we had to be creative,

684
00:40:14.519 --> 00:40:16.639
you know, get bred, go read a book, you know,

685
00:40:17.119 --> 00:40:19.559
or go do this. And we didn't have things, not

686
00:40:19.800 --> 00:40:23.039
very many things that require a battery. Battery and you

687
00:40:23.039 --> 00:40:25.599
can play with them, and the remote control. We had

688
00:40:25.639 --> 00:40:28.159
to make things move. We had to make things talk,

689
00:40:28.639 --> 00:40:28.920
you know.

690
00:40:29.079 --> 00:40:31.079
Even if it had a sealed mouth, you and make

691
00:40:31.159 --> 00:40:32.960
it tell. You have given us things.

692
00:40:32.719 --> 00:40:36.119
To think about. Oh, a station. Manners need to come back.

693
00:40:36.119 --> 00:40:38.559
They could come back. You're right, misty, because.

694
00:40:38.239 --> 00:40:41.800
People don't recognize man a simple thing. People walk across

695
00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:45.000
you by your foot in your personal space. I was

696
00:40:45.079 --> 00:40:49.159
always taught say excuse me when you're walking past, and

697
00:40:49.199 --> 00:40:51.079
don't walk so close like it looks like you're gonna

698
00:40:51.079 --> 00:40:53.960
step on their foot. Excuse me when you do this type,

699
00:40:54.039 --> 00:40:57.079
cover your mouth when you're cough. You know, those types

700
00:40:57.119 --> 00:40:59.320
of things we learned. Thank you, have a nice day,

701
00:40:59.400 --> 00:41:01.079
good morning. People don't.

702
00:41:01.159 --> 00:41:05.320
They don't do that anymore, and so it's disheartening.

703
00:41:07.280 --> 00:41:09.480
I don't know, and I'm not here to teach you

704
00:41:09.559 --> 00:41:13.039
to do this. I'm going I choose when I leave

705
00:41:13.119 --> 00:41:16.440
my house, I choose to be a certain way that day.

706
00:41:16.880 --> 00:41:19.039
I want people to see Jesus Christ. I don't want

707
00:41:19.079 --> 00:41:20.800
them to see me. And I know, you know, with

708
00:41:20.880 --> 00:41:23.840
this little added here, they're gonna sit and stay on standing.

709
00:41:24.400 --> 00:41:26.760
Many times I have to say, look up, look up,

710
00:41:26.840 --> 00:41:29.880
somebody's coming straight at me on the phone. I'm like,

711
00:41:29.920 --> 00:41:32.559
look up, look up, and then I'm sorry, and I'm like,

712
00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:35.400
if you would be you know, because I promise you

713
00:41:35.400 --> 00:41:37.920
you knocked me over, you're going with me. I can't

714
00:41:37.960 --> 00:41:40.039
you know you're going with me? You're gonna hit me

715
00:41:40.079 --> 00:41:42.280
with the basket. I'm like you, and hurry you want

716
00:41:42.280 --> 00:41:44.519
to go? You all right? And a girl I was

717
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:47.159
at CBS. She had her baby, and now we started

718
00:41:47.159 --> 00:41:49.559
the line where the line's supposed to be. She went

719
00:41:49.599 --> 00:41:51.719
over there and she looking at him, and she grabbed

720
00:41:51.719 --> 00:41:53.760
the baby. And I mean, there's a basket. You could

721
00:41:53.760 --> 00:41:55.360
have put the baby in the basket. And you tried

722
00:41:55.400 --> 00:41:57.880
to carry stuff, which was really strange to be. You

723
00:41:57.920 --> 00:41:59.760
had a little the little cart thing, I mean a

724
00:41:59.760 --> 00:42:03.400
little you know, basket too. And so she gets she

725
00:42:03.559 --> 00:42:05.719
comes and the guy in front of me ain't moved.

726
00:42:06.079 --> 00:42:08.440
So she's like, hum, I can hear her, and so

727
00:42:08.480 --> 00:42:11.119
she walks. She comes around me, but she stands like

728
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:14.360
right here. So I give it a look, like where

729
00:42:14.400 --> 00:42:17.000
you going? We ain't together. We ain't together. I don't

730
00:42:17.000 --> 00:42:18.159
care if you got a baby in your hand. We

731
00:42:18.199 --> 00:42:21.320
ain't together. I'm not gonna feel sorry for you, you know,

732
00:42:21.920 --> 00:42:24.039
and where you're going? And I get will you give

733
00:42:24.039 --> 00:42:26.480
it a look again? Now? This time she said, what

734
00:42:26.599 --> 00:42:28.280
they ain't got no matter? People here? I didn't give

735
00:42:28.320 --> 00:42:29.440
it a look then, No, I ain't gonna get in

736
00:42:29.519 --> 00:42:31.760
your conversation. I don't want to get I'm praying at

737
00:42:31.760 --> 00:42:34.960
this place, this CBS location, to stay open, So no,

738
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:38.239
I'm not saying nothing. Didn't give her nothing. She piped down,

739
00:42:38.280 --> 00:42:41.800
and I moved shifted myself to the right. I had

740
00:42:41.800 --> 00:42:44.039
a basket because I'm like, no, I want I don't

741
00:42:44.039 --> 00:42:46.119
want nobody to think you and how together, because you

742
00:42:46.119 --> 00:42:49.960
ain't gonna go up to the registrate with me, you know,

743
00:42:50.119 --> 00:42:52.320
and then she gonna ask this question, y'all will take quick.

744
00:42:52.480 --> 00:42:55.360
I had to hold myself. I had to hold myself.

745
00:42:56.000 --> 00:42:58.000
And the other gentleman, he must have been a manager,

746
00:42:58.039 --> 00:42:59.679
he said, no, we've never taken it. When the lady

747
00:42:59.719 --> 00:43:01.880
told me you took what you told me that yesterday.

748
00:43:02.320 --> 00:43:05.119
I just Lord, help me to keep my face. I

749
00:43:05.119 --> 00:43:07.679
have my mask on. I was not going to get

750
00:43:07.679 --> 00:43:10.880
in the conversation. I'm like, okay, you just got to

751
00:43:10.960 --> 00:43:12.639
just come out and you I don't know what you

752
00:43:12.679 --> 00:43:15.000
were hoping for, but you ain't going there today, you know.

753
00:43:15.519 --> 00:43:17.519
So and then there was a cashier guy. He was

754
00:43:17.599 --> 00:43:20.599
just as nice, and you know, and he's like wick.

755
00:43:20.679 --> 00:43:26.400
I said, no, no, no, leave that alone into the college. No, no, no,

756
00:43:26.480 --> 00:43:29.079
leave that alone. He said, I said, oh, my number

757
00:43:29.239 --> 00:43:33.320
is for seven, you know. Oh okay, no, no, no, get

758
00:43:33.360 --> 00:43:36.320
out of that. You don't know she's dragging you. And

759
00:43:36.400 --> 00:43:38.639
I'm not gonna be a part of that, you know.

760
00:43:38.719 --> 00:43:42.840
So tonight, if anything, we want to say just thank you.

761
00:43:42.920 --> 00:43:49.440
We thank our loyal listeners, We thank our it, our engineer,

762
00:43:49.519 --> 00:43:53.480
our producer, our girl around in the background. We know

763
00:43:53.559 --> 00:43:57.280
she's there. We thank her forever. Just I know it's

764
00:43:57.280 --> 00:43:59.480
her job, but she goes out of her way. I

765
00:43:59.519 --> 00:44:02.039
can't speak for nobody else, but she goes out of

766
00:44:02.079 --> 00:44:04.559
a way to make sure we're on point. She calls

767
00:44:04.639 --> 00:44:08.639
us out, she keeps us. Thank you, Thank you listeners.

768
00:44:09.000 --> 00:44:12.360
You get to your phones, you get to your however

769
00:44:12.400 --> 00:44:15.239
your viewing us, you say thank you, you know, and

770
00:44:15.559 --> 00:44:17.920
that's saying thank you to us. You don't have to

771
00:44:17.960 --> 00:44:20.280
ever say thank you for coming on. No, we thank

772
00:44:20.320 --> 00:44:23.199
you for coming on. And to my loyal coworker co

773
00:44:23.280 --> 00:44:26.360
host here, thank you. And I'm gonna thank you forever

774
00:44:26.840 --> 00:44:31.239
because you take your human you make the time. Okay,

775
00:44:33.039 --> 00:44:35.840
thank you because we couldn't do it without you. We

776
00:44:35.880 --> 00:44:37.880
couldn't do it without you, and we wouldn't want to

777
00:44:38.159 --> 00:44:41.280
because we kinda like y'all. We kinda like y'all, you know,

778
00:44:41.639 --> 00:44:44.800
and we really do. We like each other. We kind

779
00:44:44.800 --> 00:44:47.679
of like each other no matter, you know. That's mcguil

780
00:44:47.679 --> 00:44:50.920
will talk about his knee, the frog, the knee at

781
00:44:50.920 --> 00:44:53.599
the frog. There you go, my knee and the frog.

782
00:44:53.719 --> 00:44:56.039
That's a book day.

783
00:44:57.559 --> 00:45:00.280
I see. We got one minute, just real quick. Thank

784
00:45:00.280 --> 00:45:04.400
Go to Mayo is celebrated in Puebla, Mexico. Is not

785
00:45:04.679 --> 00:45:10.239
a national holiday like Mexican Independence Day, so it is

786
00:45:10.360 --> 00:45:17.000
not observed as a holiday, so schools and businesses remain

787
00:45:17.159 --> 00:45:21.320
open on Cinco de Maya. The only city that actually

788
00:45:21.360 --> 00:45:24.599
celebrates it is Puebla, Mexico and.

789
00:45:24.679 --> 00:45:32.079
New Jersey and Florida. Yeah, there we go. Okay, that's it.

790
00:45:32.519 --> 00:45:35.039
That's it. Thank you guys, We love you, We got

791
00:45:35.079 --> 00:45:37.360
you at our prayers. You'd be safe out there and

792
00:45:37.440 --> 00:45:41.599
we'll see you next week, same time, same station, Night night.

793
00:45:42.400 --> 00:46:09.880
Thank you as poss