Jan. 7, 2025

World Braille Day; Eyesight &

World Braille Day; Eyesight &

physical blindness and its impacts, braille

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physical blindness and its impacts, braille

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Well, good evening, good evening, good evening, Happy New Year,

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Again and again and again. We're it.

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This is it, we are in it, in the thick

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of it all. Welcome to another segment of setting it

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straight with Miss Gray and her fabulous co host. But

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before we get any further, go any further.

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We have to take it to the throne. Let's go,

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Father God, We just thank you.

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Ah, it's another year and we're not gone. Thank you

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for the strength and the mercy. Thank you for your grace,

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your peace, thank you for everything. We have to just

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give you thanks. We have to give you thanks. We

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have to give you thanks. We glorify you, Lord. We

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edify you, We exhort thee. We take nothing for ourselves.

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We love you so much. Thankful, We're so thankful.

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Lord, be with the.

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Families, folks who have lost people this week, over the weekend.

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My God, it's just all over the place. Lost is everywhere,

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death is everywhere. And with this weather, the death of

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our few of the vegetation and animals were can only

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imagine what's going to be on the other side. But

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we just plead your mercy. We plead your mercy for

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such a time as this. Now we get behind the

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throne and we get behind the cross.

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This is your show.

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We're your people. We love you.

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We forever give you the praise, glory and honor. Speak

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to us, Speak to us, endow us with your wisdom

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on this round. We forever give you the praise and

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the glory and the honor. In Jesus' name. We pray,

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and the church said, Amen, Amen and Amen, Well, glory to.

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Be the God. How are my co hosts over there?

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Good?

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It's short, it's a short day.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we're wearing shorts today, last day of summer before

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we get the winner.

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Yeah.

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Oh oh oh oh oh, that's all. I'm gonna say.

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We weren't expecting that, y'all. You know, we're an unscripted show.

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Unscripted so we go, Okay, here.

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We go, Here we go.

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Well, God's got an interesting topic for us tonight. And

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we started off by the fact that it's.

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World Braill Day, World Braill Day.

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And he's probably wondering, why would y'all talk about that? Well,

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I was wondering that myself and God just put this

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all together, you know, because I say.

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Self self said, huh, what are we doing?

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What we doing?

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Okay, God, it's on you, It's on you. So we're

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talking about, oh, to be born again?

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You all right, Tray?

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Yes, I am okay. Where Hey, this is a new year.

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We're new people, We're new in Christ. Here we go.

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I hope you'll still love us in the morning. All elujah.

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Well what is it about? What is it like to

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be born blind? What is it like to be born blind?

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And every time I'm thinking about this, this whole weekend

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and even today, I'm thinking about the movie where Jamie

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Fox portrayed Ray.

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Charles, and when he Ray was mister Charles, excuse me,

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was a little boy, and the doctor.

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Told his mother, you know, that he was going blind.

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He's gonna be blind.

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And he was walking and she's standing at us quite

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as she cans. He's calling out, he's crying.

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But Mammy, where are you? Mama, Mama, I can't see.

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But she knew she had to.

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Distance herself because he had to learn, he had to grow,

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and he had to know Salmon, hear this man, this

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young boy turned into one of the most fabulous pianist

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and musician and singer that no one could touch it,

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no one could.

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Touch it, but he knew sounds.

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And if you saw the movie with Jamie Fox, how

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he taught Jamie. I don't know if you've seen any

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excerpts after that or before during that while they were

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making the movie, but Jamie was like, I mean, he

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was it just it just just to work with him

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impacted him and he said, you get on that piano.

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I'm getting on this and he said, oh man, he said, man,

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what you doing. That's not the but you gotta listen

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for the this. You gotta go ahead and go.

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Be flat do this. I mean, it was just, you know,

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so when.

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I saw when we saw a world braid day, we

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labeled it further with a colon eyesight and its importance

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and being born without physical and spiritual sight. I'm not

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sure if you've ever heard me say it, but we've

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said it before. Whatever ailment you have in your body,

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compare it to your spiritual self. Like if my knee

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is hurting, it is what's affecting the way I walk.

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I would then into the spirit realm and said, what

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is affecting the way I walk?

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Spiritually?

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My eyesight and my eyes get blurry, and I would

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call out to Jesus, my eyes are getting blurry in

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my right eye and my left eye. I got pressure

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over here, pressure over there, and then I would quickly say,

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what is the devil trying.

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To prevent me from seeing? In the spirit?

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I parallel it real quick, real quick, and Jesus heals me,

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and then I may I go looking. I go further,

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what is it that I'm not seeing? And the rest

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of our conversation is said, you know, especially when the

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enemy is hiding in playing sight, he's right there, he's

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right there going through using people that we love and

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we know and everything else, and we want to get

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mad at the person.

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And that's one of my flaws.

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I first get mad at the person, how dare you

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allow the devil to use you?

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How dare you?

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You can't think that these thoughts that you have against

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me or against this person, that that's not coming from

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the devil. That's what hurts me. That's what hurts me.

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And I take it to Satan. Then I go and

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plead the blood and bleed and plead fire take him out, revealing, exposing,

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And I also pray that that person gets exposed to

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themselves to give them a chance to repent and try

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to live out a decent life.

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I really do.

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So.

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Last night, a daughter and I did Bible study and

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God wanted to talk about the colors, what colors have

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been more depicted in the Bible and their scriptures. So

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I was like, so this morning, he said to me,

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you talk about colors tonight. I was like, okay, well

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I can understand. You know, because somebody born blind cannot

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see colors. So they take they just take the advice

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of whoever and trust whoever's getting helping them to get

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dressed that they are decently dressed because they cannot choose

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a color. They can't choose an outfit without them having assistance.

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What color is this shirt? Or striped brown?

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And white.

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Okay, Rodney, my khaki shorts or my khaki pans. I

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can imagine Stevie Wonder. I can only imagine you see

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the outfit Stevie Walmer. But he's got an assistant, he's

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had the wives and things like that. Hey, George, there's

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a difference in being born without and losing it through life.

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Thank you, Charles. You're absolutely correct. You're absolutely correct.

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You're being born with your fingers, your hand, your toes,

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and then later in life you lose them. You born blind,

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So your whole training, your whole everything changes. Yes, sir,

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you're absolutely correct. And so we're going back to colors.

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And I didn't know if y'all knew this, but the

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main colors depicted in the Bible are white, red, purple, black, blue, brown, gold,

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and yellow. I didn't know about yellow until I saw

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it after getting ready as I was getting ready for.

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The Bible study. And we have scriptures, scriptures that go in.

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The five colors, getting even Missdeve different picture. Oh oh oh,

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she's changing it up. Different picture. Okay, five colors of

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Christianity called. They had this little piece here and it's

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your greens, reds, your whites, white, gold white slash gold

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white and gold, violet, purple and black. And I thought

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that was interesting. And then we went on to find

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the scriptures that went along with it, because in the

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Old Testament talked a lot about silver and scarlet as well.

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So I thought that was interesting and colors and what

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they stand for. And I know not no one on

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this show, of course, but I've known people that I knew.

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I know somebody had the snicker at the fact that

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I say, when I want money to come find me,

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I wear green. I put on green, and it works.

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It works for me as a man, thinking it is

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so if I feel that if I wear green today,

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money is going to find me, or favor is going

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to find I wanted to talk about. I thought, oh,

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this is let me feel it purple. So then we

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went to looking at the colors and what they meant.

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So give me a minute here.

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Because I was I thought that was interesting. When it

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talked about purple.

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They're coming out of the Book of Acts, chapter sixteen

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and fourteen talking about the Lydia who was in the church,

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and she was a seller of purple goods. But purple

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also means not only majesty and royalty, didn't Earl Nightingale

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say that?

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Who named Mickey Earl Nightingale? I don't know. I'm not familiar,

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not familiar, but that's a good point. We'll look that up.

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Thank you.

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Do some more research on that, Mickey, let me know

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what that is. So but also when I'm looking at

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the definition of purple, it also said preparation. So that

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segue my thought to the Royal family. They are born,

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every child is born already set with a set way

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of training them up, that in the way that they

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should go, because when they're old, they're not going to

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depart from it. There's a segment of people, a culture

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of people, mainly the Queen of England and the whole gang,

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that are chosen, and there are certain colors, there's certain

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garments you have to wear, certain ornaments you have to wear,

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you know, and all accessories and everything, and it's very

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And then my mind went back to there's a black

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and white feature of Queen Elizabeth where I think she

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had just married a husband and they went on a

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honeymoon or went on vacation, and their fire trying to

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find her because her father passes away. So hear these

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car people trying to find her and get her to

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the airport, because now you're the queen of England. And

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there's a more if you see that, watch the documentary.

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She her husband's walking alongside her. As they're walking towards

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the plane, she goes and a a wall person kind

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of steps and stops him to let her board the

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plane by herself. So before she touches the handrail, she

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looks and I can only imagine I just got that,

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and I remember God brought it back to me today

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just as she I mean, I came here as a wife,

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daughter of the king, and now I'm getting ah, Glory

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to God. As she touched the handrail, she looked at

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a husband. He looked at her like and I don't

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know what their thoughts were, but I can only imagine

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our lives will never be the same.

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And even they had a role, and.

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They put on her as she ascended the stairs of

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the plane, and then he was allowed to go behind her.

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She's the Queen of England. Aren't we all born into

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such a way? Just not all well off, We're all

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born in such a way. I have listened to Earl

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Nightingale too, okay, and a stage okay, And yes, how

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we're born with sight.

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I've watched people who drive fancy cars and they're older.

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they don't.

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But some of this, you know, happy go lucky, got

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their leather shoes on and coach shoes under them. I'm

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looking at them and the way they present themselves, the

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way they are, and I remember the Queen. I know

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there are a lot of people are not fond of

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the Queen, but I just thought she was a bad

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young lady because I mean she had the world on

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her shoulders literally, and how she acted and how she

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behaved and even touched her grandchildren, her grandsons in particular,

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saying telling Harry, now, Harry, William, don't you all fly

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together as a family. You know that's the rule. We

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didn't raise you that way because if that helicopter, that

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plane go down with all of y'all, there goes one

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side of the family. And she admitted that she threatened it.

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If you don't stop it, you won't inherit anything. Harry

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will be the next in line, said it set it

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in an interview. That's how se so training up that child,

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training up, knowing that and watching it as a parent.

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You're watching your child. You know what they're good at.

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You know what.

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They're they stumble at. You know what they're they're hindered at.

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You watch these things. And going back to Ray Charles's

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mother no place in life, I guess people knew how

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to behave somewhat. Yeah, And you should still always know

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how to behave because some of the behavior that look

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at people say, who raised you? Even wolves have order

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the king of the of the of the kingdom, you know, the.

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Alliance of the king. Just looking at her, I was

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looking at my dog and I'm gonna get back on here.

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But I was watching my dog because we let her

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out in the mornings and there's a dog in the backyard.

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But we've got a high wooden fence, so they can't

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see each other, and the fence is laid over each other,

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but they could smell each other. My dog is leaping,

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she's making lunches, and they're going up and down the

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fence together.

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Don't know what each other to look like. We don't

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know what kind of dog it is. They don't know

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what kind of dog she When they get my high.

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goes in the screen door. If they continue to stay outside,

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they'll see her. We can't see their dog. But the

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nature of my dog is that her dna is a

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German shepherd, was a herder.

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He heard it.

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They heard it.

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Shee and she she rounds things and she'll gather up things.

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And the way she was lit.

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I don't know my dog it if she if she has,

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if she could do it, she could actually jump the fence.

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I believe she if she ever gets a running leap,

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she'll just leap and she'll cover the fence. She'll she'll

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go right over.

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And it's very hot, very high. So getting back to

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being able to see and in some movies and even

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you know, Ray Charles learned that he was listening to

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his surroundings.

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He was listening for where he was. What do you hear?

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I just watched Will Smith's movie where his son was

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in the movie this Earth of this Something. It was

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called just If just came on the other day.

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I didn't want to watch it, but the Lord circle

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me back around.

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It was nothing on TV, so I watched it and

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I just sat there and he trained his son Listen

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to your surroundings.

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Feel where you are, and he was on his back

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at that point.

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Feel where you are, what are you touching, what's touching you?

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Smell in hell, exhale. Getting to know and use your

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other senses when you have a loss in one.

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Versus when you're born. You don't know you're gonna use

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them automatically anyway.

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You're born without your sight. So I've got to listen.

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I got to hear who's coming. Oh, I recognize voices,

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and you have to be trained that way, not somebody

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feeling sorry for you. And I'm gonna say this last

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piece and then I want my co host to jump in.

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We're in it now. We're in the thick of things

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right now. Everything the Bible has said it was going

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to happen, we're here. We're just gonna put a name

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on it. We'll see it as an event.

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It's going to roll out. It's here.

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What are your senses telling you spiritually? What are you

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What are you hearing now from the Lord? What are

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you sensing right now when you do go outside? Today

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I went out and I heard the news all week,

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weekend long. It's going to be cold here in Orlando.

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So I went out with three sets of clothing on.

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Because I'm a native Florridian. I can't come nowhere. I

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can't go nowhere else.

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I can't go nowhere. I won't make it turn the

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neck and off.

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So I'm driving that.

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When I left the house it was forty something. I'm

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driving just a feuge, not even a.

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Mile, and it was going up to sixty eight. I

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was like, wait, what okay, and I'm driving. I had

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the windows down a little bit and I begin to smell.

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I smelled freshness. I smelled crispiness, if I could say that.

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It was just a crisp, fresh smell. And then I

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felt I smelled and felt the.

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Heat and I looked at my temperature thing and it

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was seventy six.

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I said, yeah, I can't turn around, but I could

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strip some of this.

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I had a cape on, you know, shawl on someone

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in the car taking step off, you know. And I

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was like, God, you could change things in a twinkling

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of an eye. You could change things in a twinkling

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of eye. Even the seasons, even the weather listens to

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you for your command.

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And I'm just I was just in awe of just that.

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Moment and I'm getting ready to sweat because I think

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I'm ending menopause right now, so I'm sweating anyway.

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It's not fun but World Braille Day. But they're just

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using this as a day.

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But their folks whose lives are impacted when you lose

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your vision. And for those of us who are speakers

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and talkers, if we lost our voice, those who are

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in therapies or therapists or pastors, if you lost your hearing,

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those of us who are.

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Case managers or social workers or whatever.

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Lost our hearing, I can't hear. You lost on so

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many levels, and you have to activate. But look, God good,

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God is and last sentence. God is so good that

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our flesh, our humanness, goes into action, It goes into

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action all of a sudden. And I know most people

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you can't, but you won't believe it.

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I know you.

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But I can feel my left hand in my arm.

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And that's what we call, you know, the era. They

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call it phantom pain. It's not pain for me, it's

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just sensations. I can feel my whole hand. There's my pinky,

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there's this finger here, there's a middle finger, there's a corner,

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and the thumb is laying on this hand that don't exist.

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And for a while there I didn't use my arm

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at all.

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I forgot all about it because I'm like, you're partial,

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What can I.

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Do with this?

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And I was in therapy and I said, miss Gray,

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you know you could still You got an elbow here

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you can.

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Hold and I hold things.

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I hold my cell phone here, and I'm doing this.

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And when I'm talking and when I'm texting people, I

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hold it just like this right here.

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I forgot I could use it because I didn't think.

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I thought the functionality was gone too, and it was.

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It's right here. And now I'm in martial arts and

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my self, hon says.

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To me, you know, you know this is one of

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the hardest bones and you will be using it.

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And I accident.

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I didn't know.

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She wasn't ready, so she had the board.

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I hit it, broke it and pushed her back with

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this come on, now, come on now, I'll take it

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from me.

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Well, the elbow is also considered a deadly weapon because

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if you hit the person striking up and put the

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nose into the person's brain, the person goes by bye.

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So yeah, this is this is a serious weapon. I

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learned that to the martial arts. Here's a little sidbit.

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I'm colorblind. I yoh, yeah, surpries. I was training to

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be a pilot.

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And one of the back in that particular era, they

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give you an eye test and they have you look

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at numbers that are in.

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Circles, and those circles are in different colors, so you

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would have to identify the number that's in there. So

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I was able to identify.

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Three of the twenty and they told me you can't

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be a pilot.

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And one of the things that I've learned, I mean,

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I do see colors, but there are some colors that

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look the same.

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The blues, the purples kind of look the same. The

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traffic light they say it's green, but I see white,

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I see red. I see yellow, but don't the green

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looks white. Yellows and greens.

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When you put them side by side to me, they're

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pretty much the same.

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So yeah, it's called adapting, it really is. And you're

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working on your other senses. And just to touch.

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On what you were referring to regarding the color purple

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in the Bible, when Jesus was being crucified after they

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gave him the crown of thorns, they gave him a

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purple cloak, and they're saying.

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Well, you're the king of the Jews. Here are here,

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you are, King Jesus.

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So purple has a major significance there in the Book

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of Matthew, it touches on the color scarlet.

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Well, and if you remember the book the starlet letter

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that identified the woman as that identified a woman that

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was walking in And.

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I think I'm going to give you a triple word

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score on crispiness because that crispiness.

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That's a triple word score for those who play travel.

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I like that.

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But one of the things that and it's so interesting,

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it's so interesting. This is how amazing the Holy Spirit is.

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This is world World Braille Day and the importance of sight.

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And in my Bible study on Thursday, I'm going to

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be talking about John chapter nine, and it is the

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story about the man that was born blind and oh.

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Yeah, oh yeah, yeah.

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You look at it it's gray, look at it's grey,

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getting all happy and see, I'm telling you the Holy

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Spirit's on point.

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But here's the thing. Many people will claim that when

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people are born with these ailments, that it's because God

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is punishing and what we have to understand something that

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we have to look at. And I'm going to use

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the term that Ms.

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Gray used.

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We have to look at things in a spiritual realm.

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Because you've heard of the saying you give them eyes,

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but they cannot see. That's a metaphor that's used, and

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that's exactly how the Pharisees looked at this blind man.

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But no, I want you to I'm going to and

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so happens.

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It's right there.

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Because I was preparing the Bible study. The disciples asked Jesus, Rabbi,

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who's sinned this man or his parents that he was

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born blind. Here's what Jesus said, and this is where

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we this is the this is Wanda Maronda. I can

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feel the spirit. And here is what I rea. This

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is what Jesus answered, neither this man nor his parents sin,

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but that the the works of God should be revealed

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in him. Okay, so here we see.

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Here we see that whatever we're facing, Okay, whatever we're facing,

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if you love God, I'm going to refer you to.

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Romans eight twenty eight, and in Romans eight twenty eight,

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it says that whatever we face, and if we love God,

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whatever difficulties we face, he will make it good. I'm

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not quoting the scripture verbatim, but I'm giving you the paraphrase,

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and I want you to understand even though I'm I

476
00:25:43.200 --> 00:25:48.240
call it color ignorant or color blind, I know how

477
00:25:48.279 --> 00:25:51.799
to work with it. That's why I'm a loving wife.

478
00:25:51.839 --> 00:25:55.240
Hey does this match and She'll go, yeah, Then I

479
00:25:55.319 --> 00:25:58.519
know not to wear it. See. So this is why,

480
00:25:59.200 --> 00:26:05.000
this is why we adapt. We are the only creatures

481
00:26:05.839 --> 00:26:09.720
in on Earth that can adapt. And a great example

482
00:26:09.720 --> 00:26:12.279
of that taking this cold weather thing. Why do you

483
00:26:12.319 --> 00:26:16.200
think geese fly south for the winter because they get

484
00:26:16.240 --> 00:26:20.400
away from cold and they go to where the warmth is.

485
00:26:20.599 --> 00:26:23.759
Because they're adapting. And that's what we're able to do.

486
00:26:24.400 --> 00:26:29.599
And even though we're facing challenges, we have to understand

487
00:26:29.680 --> 00:26:32.960
that we serve a greater God and whatever we're facing,

488
00:26:33.039 --> 00:26:36.359
He's going to use that. In fact, the apostle Paul

489
00:26:36.559 --> 00:26:41.079
said it in his letters when he asked God to

490
00:26:41.160 --> 00:26:45.759
remove the thorn in his side. And what did he say?

491
00:26:46.319 --> 00:26:50.559
That in your weakness, you will see my strength. And

492
00:26:50.599 --> 00:26:54.160
that's why it's so important that if we take the

493
00:26:54.279 --> 00:26:58.880
situation and remove the focus of us and put it

494
00:26:58.920 --> 00:27:02.960
on God, are going to see how the Holy Spirit

495
00:27:03.599 --> 00:27:07.119
manifests in a way that you give glory to God

496
00:27:07.519 --> 00:27:12.359
through your actions and and you and you're going to

497
00:27:12.400 --> 00:27:16.680
think I'm weird on this. When you're complaining to God.

498
00:27:17.400 --> 00:27:20.400
And this comes straight from the book of Job. Some

499
00:27:20.519 --> 00:27:26.240
people say, Job, when you're complaining to God, that is

500
00:27:26.279 --> 00:27:31.960
a form of worship. And people don't understand that because

501
00:27:32.079 --> 00:27:36.400
Job complained to God. But while Job was complaining to God,

502
00:27:36.599 --> 00:27:40.920
he was worshiping him. And Job lost it all in

503
00:27:41.000 --> 00:27:44.319
one day, lost it all in. So we really have

504
00:27:44.440 --> 00:27:49.839
to really understand that when we're facing challenges and we

505
00:27:49.920 --> 00:27:53.160
don't agree with it, complain to God, and that is

506
00:27:53.880 --> 00:27:58.599
your form of worship, your form of praise, and God

507
00:27:58.720 --> 00:28:01.240
will recognize that and blesh.

508
00:28:01.480 --> 00:28:04.359
Then it's just to run alongside of you on this.

509
00:28:04.920 --> 00:28:07.319
And I want you all to really really.

510
00:28:07.279 --> 00:28:13.160
Hear this as well. He designed us, He created us

511
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.480
in his image.

512
00:28:15.000 --> 00:28:18.279
I have the gift of laughter because God is really funny.

513
00:28:18.319 --> 00:28:21.640
Sometimes he can make me laugh, but just by saying

514
00:28:21.680 --> 00:28:24.200
look over there, and I'm like, I'm looking over there, God.

515
00:28:24.400 --> 00:28:27.319
You know, I already out. Oh Lord, God, why you

516
00:28:27.359 --> 00:28:28.559
had to show me that, you know?

517
00:28:28.640 --> 00:28:32.759
And we're laughing, we're laughing. I want you to understand.

518
00:28:33.480 --> 00:28:35.880
Yes, you could be a Lewis, you can be Aloma Rena,

519
00:28:36.039 --> 00:28:38.400
you could be an Abnuer, you could be a grade,

520
00:28:38.839 --> 00:28:42.480
but God made you personality DNA.

521
00:28:42.640 --> 00:28:43.400
Yes I may.

522
00:28:43.359 --> 00:28:46.680
Look like her, but I look like him too, And

523
00:28:46.759 --> 00:28:52.119
he downloaded everything I needed, my personality, everything, my therapist,

524
00:28:52.200 --> 00:28:54.720
my physical therapist, my prosthetic folk.

525
00:28:54.759 --> 00:28:56.079
I was just there last week because I had to

526
00:28:56.079 --> 00:28:58.400
go on for a tune on my cosmetic arm all

527
00:28:58.440 --> 00:29:01.640
these years I'm calling a cosmic arm because it's just

528
00:29:01.640 --> 00:29:03.079
for show what it's.

529
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:03.720
Called a passive.

530
00:29:04.880 --> 00:29:08.599
It's called a passive, you know, prosthetic because it does nothing.

531
00:29:09.079 --> 00:29:13.559
And there was an intern there and so Stephanie says, oh,

532
00:29:13.559 --> 00:29:14.640
you haven't met miss Grey.

533
00:29:14.839 --> 00:29:15.640
This is miss Grey.

534
00:29:16.119 --> 00:29:18.039
And the girl just was like she couldn't even.

535
00:29:18.079 --> 00:29:21.599
She wasn't even. She said, you're so. I said, well,

536
00:29:21.640 --> 00:29:24.000
this is who I am. I've always been this way.

537
00:29:24.160 --> 00:29:25.920
She said, but you're so healthy for me.

538
00:29:26.200 --> 00:29:30.039
She was just, you know, she said, you don't complay.

539
00:29:30.119 --> 00:29:32.039
And then when I say something, most of the time

540
00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:34.839
it's funny sounding, but I am serious, so I get

541
00:29:34.880 --> 00:29:37.160
away with it. But that's what each you know, we

542
00:29:37.160 --> 00:29:39.599
were made in his image, so there's nothing, And there's

543
00:29:39.640 --> 00:29:44.559
nothing he don't know about. There's nothing you can't fool God,

544
00:29:44.680 --> 00:29:46.200
you can't surprise God.

545
00:29:46.440 --> 00:29:48.640
He just waits to see what you're gonna do. Do

546
00:29:48.759 --> 00:29:49.440
she believe me?

547
00:29:49.839 --> 00:29:51.839
And even when though I was in the hospital, y'all

548
00:29:52.279 --> 00:29:55.839
ninety seven days, three weeks of a coma, dying twice,

549
00:29:56.440 --> 00:29:57.720
Good still said.

550
00:29:57.519 --> 00:29:59.400
To me, you don't really believe me. I'm gonna get

551
00:29:59.400 --> 00:30:02.000
you out of here. You don't really believe me. I'm like,

552
00:30:02.160 --> 00:30:05.000
are you said I don't believe God?

553
00:30:05.079 --> 00:30:05.359
Come on?

554
00:30:05.440 --> 00:30:09.079
You said you really don't believe me?

555
00:30:09.559 --> 00:30:11.359
All I could do is do this when I have

556
00:30:11.519 --> 00:30:14.440
my limbs and I'm wrapped up in bandages. He said,

557
00:30:14.480 --> 00:30:18.039
it's okay, because that's where your ten percent humanness come in.

558
00:30:18.440 --> 00:30:20.839
But I got your ninety two and I'm just talking

559
00:30:20.839 --> 00:30:24.880
to my IT person, insider, my web page, and I said, Quita,

560
00:30:24.960 --> 00:30:27.559
if I had not had the faith going in, you

561
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:29.920
would have never seen me again. And I just finished

562
00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:32.640
my fourth book, just edited it, getting me ready to

563
00:30:32.640 --> 00:30:35.160
put the graphics in place. Come on here, holy ghosts,

564
00:30:35.799 --> 00:30:37.319
Come on, holy ghosts.

565
00:30:37.559 --> 00:30:37.960
Come on.

566
00:30:38.480 --> 00:30:42.480
What's stopping you, what's hindering you, what's holding you back?

567
00:30:42.720 --> 00:30:45.440
Don't let your delay, the denial be the reason for

568
00:30:45.480 --> 00:30:49.359
your delay. What's your what's your what's your excuse? What

569
00:30:49.400 --> 00:30:53.680
would you tell Jesus if he came tomorrow eleven forty five?

570
00:30:54.079 --> 00:30:56.359
What would you telling? Well, God, now you don't know,

571
00:30:56.599 --> 00:30:58.920
what'd you telling. I want you all to think about.

572
00:30:58.960 --> 00:31:01.559
That's your homework over these next few days. And don't

573
00:31:01.559 --> 00:31:03.359
stay there too long. I don't need you going into

574
00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:05.440
ballot too long, but I need you to dip to

575
00:31:05.519 --> 00:31:06.200
the ballot for them.

576
00:31:06.200 --> 00:31:09.519
And they say, what is my excuse? If I say

577
00:31:09.599 --> 00:31:11.920
that I believe in the most high gone.

578
00:31:12.359 --> 00:31:15.200
Just like the scripture Pastor just talked about, Romans aid,

579
00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:18.559
all we are and we know that all things work

580
00:31:18.599 --> 00:31:22.720
together for good to them that love the Lord, to.

581
00:31:22.759 --> 00:31:26.759
Them who are called according to his purpose. You can't

582
00:31:26.799 --> 00:31:29.559
play with him, you can't. You can't be lukewarm anymore.

583
00:31:29.559 --> 00:31:31.519
You can't be on both sides of the fence. You can't.

584
00:31:31.680 --> 00:31:32.839
It will not work.

585
00:31:33.160 --> 00:31:36.279
And if you don't believe, believe me, try um and

586
00:31:36.359 --> 00:31:39.720
see try him and see I was doing the kids work.

587
00:31:40.119 --> 00:31:40.319
Tray.

588
00:31:40.359 --> 00:31:41.960
You want to say something, I want you to hop

589
00:31:41.960 --> 00:31:43.559
in there. If you want to say, look like I'm

590
00:31:44.119 --> 00:31:44.880
she's frozen.

591
00:31:46.160 --> 00:31:46.759
How's the weather.

592
00:31:49.799 --> 00:31:55.400
Do we really want to go? Great?

593
00:31:55.519 --> 00:31:59.160
Thank you Vickie, Thank you guys.

594
00:31:57.799 --> 00:32:02.559
Say as you see me, I'm doing this because I

595
00:32:03.119 --> 00:32:06.519
can't read without my glasses. But so what I was

596
00:32:06.559 --> 00:32:10.880
going to say, we talked about the sight. And so

597
00:32:12.240 --> 00:32:15.160
I was born with a lazy eye. Well I say

598
00:32:15.240 --> 00:32:19.359
lazy eye. What it was. They determined that my left

599
00:32:19.359 --> 00:32:24.240
eye had extra muscle in it eyelid. And so when

600
00:32:24.279 --> 00:32:27.720
I was very young, because my eyes weren't coordinated, you know,

601
00:32:28.000 --> 00:32:32.160
like they blinked together sometimes they flip flop, and so

602
00:32:32.920 --> 00:32:34.559
they had to take extra muscle out. I think I

603
00:32:34.640 --> 00:32:38.799
was four five something like that, and so having to

604
00:32:38.839 --> 00:32:41.759
wear glasses and so you know when you go to school,

605
00:32:41.880 --> 00:32:43.920
kids tease you, and so I didn't want to wear

606
00:32:43.920 --> 00:32:47.279
the glasses anymore. So I think I remember my seventh

607
00:32:47.359 --> 00:32:53.440
birthday present was fair glasses. I wanted something fun, but

608
00:32:54.079 --> 00:32:55.960
I knew they were to help, and they were to

609
00:32:56.000 --> 00:33:01.599
strengthen the left eye. So, but myde is better numbers,

610
00:33:01.799 --> 00:33:04.319
so where one less, the other one would pick up.

611
00:33:04.400 --> 00:33:07.440
So my right eye is my stronger eye. The glare

612
00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.319
bothers my left eye, especially night vision. Now now I

613
00:33:10.440 --> 00:33:12.880
was getting older, so it was the glare of the sun,

614
00:33:13.519 --> 00:33:17.400
you know, night vision, the glass from the car. So

615
00:33:17.720 --> 00:33:20.720
long story short, I'm gonna say this is funny. I

616
00:33:20.799 --> 00:33:23.640
was in Florida and so one of my coworkers at

617
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.359
the time wanted me. They're from West Palm and I

618
00:33:26.440 --> 00:33:28.759
was living in the Glades, and they asked, can I

619
00:33:28.799 --> 00:33:31.119
show them whether the DMV was or whatever they call

620
00:33:31.160 --> 00:33:33.799
the motor vehicles down there, and I said sure. She said,

621
00:33:33.799 --> 00:33:36.720
I need to change my address on my license, and

622
00:33:36.759 --> 00:33:40.039
I said, you know what, Okay, I'm gonna change mind

623
00:33:40.319 --> 00:33:44.400
while i'm here, now, mind you. I'm always panicked when

624
00:33:44.400 --> 00:33:47.799
it came to vision tech because I knew I would

625
00:33:47.799 --> 00:33:51.039
struggle somewhere along the line. So I was always fearful

626
00:33:51.039 --> 00:33:55.960
of not passing. The long story shorts. So the man said, well,

627
00:33:56.000 --> 00:33:58.480
if you're going to change your address or your driver's like.

628
00:33:58.440 --> 00:33:59.559
Said, just a couple of streets.

629
00:34:00.039 --> 00:34:03.319
Need to do the eye test. I said, huh. He

630
00:34:03.319 --> 00:34:05.359
said yeah, I need you do the eye test. So

631
00:34:05.440 --> 00:34:09.280
I'm reading along. He said read this, and he said, okay,

632
00:34:09.800 --> 00:34:13.159
now read the third line. Not thinking, I said what

633
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:17.039
third line? The man said, you can't see there's a

634
00:34:17.199 --> 00:34:18.079
third line.

635
00:34:19.840 --> 00:34:20.639
Oh my god.

636
00:34:21.239 --> 00:34:22.679
I couldn't see it. I didn't know it was the

637
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:28.199
third line, and so he said, well, unfortunately, you need

638
00:34:28.239 --> 00:34:30.840
to go get a vision test. And so I went

639
00:34:30.920 --> 00:34:33.960
to the doctor and the doctor said, since I was

640
00:34:34.039 --> 00:34:37.519
born like that, you know, I forgot what he determinology.

641
00:34:37.559 --> 00:34:41.239
He said, just whenever you go get your driver's license, renew,

642
00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:45.320
just and handlem this this form. You can see, but

643
00:34:45.440 --> 00:34:48.159
it's just strained on that particular eye. And what it

644
00:34:48.239 --> 00:34:51.000
came to learn was that he said, did you were

645
00:34:51.000 --> 00:34:53.800
you on a computer all the time? And I was

646
00:34:54.280 --> 00:34:57.840
so basically that affected it as well. So just telling

647
00:34:57.920 --> 00:35:01.840
folks moving forward, you know from the screen, you know,

648
00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:05.760
even kids are glued to the phones. This stuff could

649
00:35:05.760 --> 00:35:08.760
affect your eyesight. And that's what I learned when I

650
00:35:08.800 --> 00:35:11.960
went to the doctor after I couldn't see the third

651
00:35:12.000 --> 00:35:14.000
line and he's saying that, He said, are you on

652
00:35:14.039 --> 00:35:17.719
the phone? Are you on your computer? I said, yeah,

653
00:35:18.400 --> 00:35:20.159
I said pretty much most of the day because most

654
00:35:20.199 --> 00:35:22.559
of my work was on the computer, and that does

655
00:35:22.599 --> 00:35:25.800
affect your eyesight the lights from it. So I had it.

656
00:35:25.840 --> 00:35:28.760
One recently, I had to do an eye test get

657
00:35:28.840 --> 00:35:32.079
my license, and it was a little different. So, like

658
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:35.079
I said, two together are great, but they also did.

659
00:35:35.199 --> 00:35:38.280
When I couldn't see the one side it was a

660
00:35:38.960 --> 00:35:41.559
they did something a blink on the right side. They say, well,

661
00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:43.880
can you see the blinking light? So I guess to

662
00:35:43.880 --> 00:35:47.280
make sure my peripheral vision. So, needless to say, I

663
00:35:47.320 --> 00:35:50.960
walked out there with flying colors and so. But but

664
00:35:51.039 --> 00:35:54.000
you know, hindsight looking at the importance of your site.

665
00:35:54.360 --> 00:35:57.400
And I do depend on my right eye more because

666
00:35:57.440 --> 00:36:00.400
that's the stronger eye, so I can see that. And

667
00:36:00.440 --> 00:36:03.880
when I went to do an eye exam, I could

668
00:36:03.920 --> 00:36:06.639
see very good distance. I can't see close up. So

669
00:36:06.679 --> 00:36:09.679
when I met on the screen that's what I'm doing,

670
00:36:09.760 --> 00:36:11.760
I can't see things like really close up to me.

671
00:36:11.840 --> 00:36:14.920
So I had to further distance driving. I could see

672
00:36:15.079 --> 00:36:18.599
signs further down than some folks. So DA's a plus.

673
00:36:18.639 --> 00:36:21.320
But you know, just taking care of your eye. And

674
00:36:21.360 --> 00:36:28.079
when Pastor was talking about you know, adaptation or adapting

675
00:36:28.280 --> 00:36:31.280
or something like that, and I wrote down period of adaptation,

676
00:36:31.880 --> 00:36:34.880
and so this is where I think I'm in my

677
00:36:35.000 --> 00:36:39.400
period of adaptation. You know, things have changed couple years.

678
00:36:39.599 --> 00:36:42.480
But and Lisia, I know you've loaned me for a

679
00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:45.320
long time and you knew me when I was like

680
00:36:45.559 --> 00:36:48.039
at my best, but there was a time where I

681
00:36:48.159 --> 00:36:50.639
was not and I had to do some I had

682
00:36:50.639 --> 00:36:53.599
to do some altering and some changing of things. And

683
00:36:53.679 --> 00:36:58.599
so moving forward, I think God is telling me it's time. Now,

684
00:36:59.320 --> 00:37:05.039
it's time to get out there, and removes the distractions,

685
00:37:05.119 --> 00:37:09.679
the negativities, you know, listening to me more and I

686
00:37:09.760 --> 00:37:12.880
connect with nature a whole lot. I don't really like

687
00:37:12.960 --> 00:37:18.039
the cold weather. It's dreary, gets dark, quicker, colder, but

688
00:37:18.239 --> 00:37:22.199
I fly from sunshine and so moments and I think

689
00:37:22.239 --> 00:37:26.079
I talked about it before. Moments with nature is very

690
00:37:26.119 --> 00:37:30.360
important with me. To me, the sounds of ocean waves,

691
00:37:30.760 --> 00:37:34.480
the watching of the waves, the looking at the clouds,

692
00:37:34.519 --> 00:37:37.239
trying to figure out if I can identify any shapes

693
00:37:37.280 --> 00:37:40.840
of recognizable shapes, or making shapes out just the clouds.

694
00:37:41.239 --> 00:37:47.079
And even in Virginia when we do get snow, I

695
00:37:47.119 --> 00:37:49.639
have gone to the back window and just open the

696
00:37:49.679 --> 00:37:52.719
window to listen to the snowfall. And people say, well,

697
00:37:52.719 --> 00:37:55.079
how do you hear snowfall? You can hear it if

698
00:37:55.119 --> 00:37:58.679
it's quiet and there's nothing you can actually hear, whether

699
00:37:58.719 --> 00:38:03.719
it's hitting services is. It's the most peaceful sound. Watching

700
00:38:03.840 --> 00:38:08.000
snow at night and listening to it I don't know

701
00:38:08.000 --> 00:38:10.840
how to describe it, but that is the beauty of

702
00:38:10.880 --> 00:38:13.559
God and what he has created. When I say that's

703
00:38:14.239 --> 00:38:17.519
a peaceful thing, I think I've taped it years ago

704
00:38:17.559 --> 00:38:19.840
when we got our snow and I just looked out

705
00:38:19.840 --> 00:38:22.280
the back window and was just listening, and I stood

706
00:38:22.320 --> 00:38:25.760
there for a little while, but marveling at what God

707
00:38:25.880 --> 00:38:28.440
has for each and every one of us. And if

708
00:38:28.440 --> 00:38:31.760
we just allocate time to him, praise him for all

709
00:38:31.840 --> 00:38:34.800
that he has done, you know, he will help us

710
00:38:34.840 --> 00:38:38.920
find our strength. And I also say too, I don't

711
00:38:39.000 --> 00:38:43.159
know which sense would be more detrimental to me should

712
00:38:43.159 --> 00:38:45.960
I lose it, because I enjoy both. But one thing

713
00:38:46.079 --> 00:38:48.960
that I do marvel is my ability to think, the

714
00:38:48.960 --> 00:38:54.599
ability to make decisions, the ability to explore. You know,

715
00:38:55.840 --> 00:38:58.880
it's the mind. Nobody can take that away from you

716
00:38:59.000 --> 00:39:03.599
pretty much. God can. Situations can, but the ability to

717
00:39:03.760 --> 00:39:07.760
think is very important as well as sighting here. But

718
00:39:08.320 --> 00:39:11.400
you know, my thought process, I think that's what I'm

719
00:39:11.440 --> 00:39:14.000
marveled at. I've known you.

720
00:39:14.119 --> 00:39:17.000
I was thinking about that today. Oddly enough, I think

721
00:39:17.039 --> 00:39:19.199
I guess it was gonna come up. I have been

722
00:39:19.239 --> 00:39:21.280
in Orlando for twenty three years.

723
00:39:21.559 --> 00:39:23.639
I think I worked at Children's No which I met

724
00:39:23.679 --> 00:39:25.599
you when I was at forty fifth Strip Street Mental

725
00:39:25.599 --> 00:39:28.719
Health Center because we were coming to the inter agency meetings.

726
00:39:28.800 --> 00:39:31.000
You would come over from the wild, we would go

727
00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:34.159
to the y and we meet over there every three months.

728
00:39:34.440 --> 00:39:39.079
So if I'm dating that, that was before nineteen ninety two.

729
00:39:39.360 --> 00:39:43.199
Little aft, it was after a little older. It was

730
00:39:43.239 --> 00:39:45.840
after because I yeah it was. It was a little

731
00:39:45.880 --> 00:39:49.519
after a few years because I moved to Florida ninety three.

732
00:39:50.039 --> 00:39:55.159
I think I met you ninete evenish, ninety eight ish. Yeah,

733
00:39:55.239 --> 00:39:58.000
come mere in the coworker k and that's when you

734
00:39:58.119 --> 00:40:00.400
made the biggest impression on me. And I think I

735
00:40:00.400 --> 00:40:02.320
told her I can't see it without my glasses, so

736
00:40:02.320 --> 00:40:02.679
I don't know.

737
00:40:02.840 --> 00:40:05.679
That is a moving story. Thank you for sharing with us.

738
00:40:05.840 --> 00:40:06.880
You see how God is.

739
00:40:07.400 --> 00:40:08.760
We'll let you. This is beautiful.

740
00:40:08.800 --> 00:40:11.719
Thank you, Mickey, you see how God is. We're just

741
00:40:11.920 --> 00:40:13.719
celebrating World Braille Day.

742
00:40:14.119 --> 00:40:16.159
And I was gonna say, I've known you for over

743
00:40:16.599 --> 00:40:20.679
thirty years at least, and I never knew the story

744
00:40:20.719 --> 00:40:21.440
about her eyes.

745
00:40:22.119 --> 00:40:24.559
We never brought it up. I noticed some things, but

746
00:40:24.880 --> 00:40:28.000
you know, for her, she was in her prime. She's

747
00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:30.159
still in her prime. This girl is bad to the

748
00:40:30.199 --> 00:40:31.760
bone when it comes to domestic violence.

749
00:40:31.800 --> 00:40:35.679
Now come to dealing with her clients getting resources to them,

750
00:40:35.960 --> 00:40:38.480
She's she is bad to the bone.

751
00:40:38.679 --> 00:40:41.960
She's just missing her bachelor's degree in social work. That's all.

752
00:40:42.000 --> 00:40:44.320
She missed, a master's degree in social work. That's all

753
00:40:44.360 --> 00:40:44.800
she missing.

754
00:40:45.719 --> 00:40:48.400
Let I will walk alongside her any day of the week,

755
00:40:48.679 --> 00:40:52.320
so she'll find it. She'll find the resources or create one.

756
00:40:52.719 --> 00:40:55.960
But all these years, Trey, I never knew about your eyes.

757
00:40:56.239 --> 00:40:57.360
I never knew the bat you know.

758
00:40:57.960 --> 00:41:00.320
Yeah, And it's you know, growing up, kids can be rule,

759
00:41:00.679 --> 00:41:03.159
you know, and and it got to the point, you know,

760
00:41:03.480 --> 00:41:06.159
I can see my mommy and dad used to always

761
00:41:06.480 --> 00:41:09.199
you know, assure me, you know, growing up in that times,

762
00:41:09.239 --> 00:41:13.199
and you know, kids were bullying, and they got to

763
00:41:13.239 --> 00:41:15.760
the point that and I think that's why I try

764
00:41:15.800 --> 00:41:19.760
to be passionate about helping vulnerber folks. To me, I don't.

765
00:41:20.280 --> 00:41:23.639
I actually sometimes I forget about it until I maybe

766
00:41:23.679 --> 00:41:26.239
see a picture or you know, I'm looking in the

767
00:41:26.239 --> 00:41:29.280
mirror and doing some stuff. But it got to people, people,

768
00:41:29.400 --> 00:41:31.400
what's wrong with your eye? What's wrong with your eyes?

769
00:41:31.840 --> 00:41:35.079
And I'm thinking, and I would have to I would

770
00:41:35.119 --> 00:41:37.159
do the spear. I did operation that would operation, and

771
00:41:37.199 --> 00:41:38.880
it got to the point where when they say, well,

772
00:41:38.920 --> 00:41:41.719
what's wrong with it? I say nothing. The looks on

773
00:41:41.800 --> 00:41:44.480
their eyes that were puzzling. Now that was that was

774
00:41:44.519 --> 00:41:47.239
worth it to me. Nothing. Well what I said, what

775
00:41:47.280 --> 00:41:49.480
do you mean? Nothing's wrong with them? So they would

776
00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:51.599
have to tell me what they think was wrong with

777
00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:53.480
my eyesight? You know what I mean? We all my

778
00:41:53.559 --> 00:41:56.239
eyes at the time. But I just try not to

779
00:41:56.719 --> 00:41:59.119
focus on it, because sometimes people could point out the

780
00:41:59.199 --> 00:42:02.480
obvious to you, Like, you know, you have limps. You know,

781
00:42:02.920 --> 00:42:04.760
you know some of your limbs. You don't need anybody

782
00:42:04.840 --> 00:42:07.320
telling you you're missing that. You know that, you know,

783
00:42:07.360 --> 00:42:10.719
you don't need people pointing out things that you already know.

784
00:42:11.280 --> 00:42:13.800
You know, you're like you're having you said, I know,

785
00:42:13.920 --> 00:42:15.760
why are you telling me that I know this?

786
00:42:16.679 --> 00:42:20.920
I don't. I don't need you pointed it out. Since there,

787
00:42:21.840 --> 00:42:22.639
what are you trying to do?

788
00:42:23.199 --> 00:42:23.360
Right?

789
00:42:23.559 --> 00:42:25.239
Right? So what do you are you trying to say

790
00:42:25.239 --> 00:42:28.079
something to help me or hurt me? What? What's what's

791
00:42:28.119 --> 00:42:31.079
the question for? And I think sometimes moving and humanity,

792
00:42:31.400 --> 00:42:34.239
we all just need to be more conscientious about that.

793
00:42:35.280 --> 00:42:37.440
And when you look at your situation and that's that

794
00:42:37.559 --> 00:42:41.800
scripture for pastor you mentioned sometimes my father just have

795
00:42:41.880 --> 00:42:45.480
to get the glory sometimes, and so I look at

796
00:42:46.000 --> 00:42:50.639
people who are born with disabilities neurological behavioral, I said,

797
00:42:50.679 --> 00:42:53.440
sometimes God has got if we could connect the parent

798
00:42:53.519 --> 00:42:56.599
back to God, or what a day of celebration they

799
00:42:56.639 --> 00:42:59.440
will be, because it'll be a whole new ball game.

800
00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:03.800
So just remember this, guys, everything we said tonight, we

801
00:43:03.880 --> 00:43:06.400
take it right back to the heavenly host. We take

802
00:43:06.440 --> 00:43:08.880
it back to Jesus, we take it back to the

803
00:43:08.920 --> 00:43:09.480
Holy Spirit.

804
00:43:09.599 --> 00:43:12.320
Yeah you're gonna have your questions, and yeah you're gonna

805
00:43:12.320 --> 00:43:14.639
have your little pity party, but don't stay there long.

806
00:43:15.039 --> 00:43:19.760
We go to the valley, recoup, restrengthen, get yourself revived, yourself,

807
00:43:19.760 --> 00:43:22.119
and get back on that mountaintop because we need everybody

808
00:43:22.480 --> 00:43:26.639
on the mountain. We need everybody in position, praying, and

809
00:43:27.159 --> 00:43:27.920
that's our time.

810
00:43:28.280 --> 00:43:30.840
Thank you all so much, We love you all so much.

811
00:43:31.199 --> 00:43:34.400
Thank you. We'll see you next week for sure, same time,

812
00:43:34.880 --> 00:43:39.800
same station. Bye bye, right n night.