Aug. 29, 2025

Happy Labor Day weekend Jeff & Steph talk about God's blessings in labor and jobs, Steph started a new job

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Happy Labor Day weekend. It is labor day weekend, do we show appreciation to god for having jobs? Are we obidient when working in jobs that we don't like, but God has us there now for a season. Jeff got a God wink and Steph began a new job & is moving. She is experiencing new beginnings. Always trust in God.

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Wait the day night sucks. I gotta get to the Starbucks.

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Get some magic beings, be on my way. Magical, as

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was my pon We Don't Know.

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Says that today, Well, hello everybody, and welcome to these

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days with Jeff and Steph. We I hope you're getting

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ready to have a really great labor day weekend.

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Now.

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I am Jeff, Steph. I are things out there in Nashville.

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Things are great here, Jeff. I actually just got home

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from my first day of actual work training, going to

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the y m C. A facility that's fun. It was great.

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I mean, it's it's cool. I feel like I'm I

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feel like I'm coming out of like this. I realized,

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like I don't know if it's because I'm a songwriter

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and a like a script, right, you know, right, being

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a writer, I think I have to process life through

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the lens of a story, right, And so it's like,

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so this YMCA in Green Hills has been recently remodeled,

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and it looks I love mid century modern. It looks

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like a sixties building. And as I'm walking in, I'm

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hearing the theme song from Mary Toller Moore, and you know,

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like she's gonna make it after.

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All, Well, that's a lot better than hearing the village people.

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Why and.

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Exactly, Well, but it is great. It's like the nicest

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people I've ever worked with, and they're so cool. The

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job's fun. There's like no downside too, there's not It's

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not much money, right, but God keep God keeps saying,

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don't worry about the money. I've got that covered. And

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I think that is gonna like you and I have talked,

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I think that it's going to be coming through through

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some really cool new avenues. And yeah, it was fine.

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I get to go to work wearing shorts and tennis

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shoes now, so that's awesome that.

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Yeah, I think most people will go that and actually,

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you know, people think about going to work again. It's

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kind of nice. Just it's basically like you've been in

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a rut to get out and be in people and

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around people. Even though they might have anny, at least

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you're around them again.

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Yeah, it's great. I mean it just and it seems

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like everybody there just is such a well meaning I mean,

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you're always going to deal with with people right that

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have Like she said, you know, yesterday, the big thing

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was having to explain to having to argue with one

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guy that wanted to be in the hot tape area

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that there's a difference between underwear and a swimsuit. She said,

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you might get these from Tom to tom, but in

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general people are pretty cool and really nice. So yeah,

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that should should be interesting. You had an interesting morning

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and texted me about a little God experience.

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Yeah, I did.

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Well.

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Actually, we're going to have a preface this a little bit.

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So all you who are believe in mysticism and signs

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and all that stuff, Stephan, why don't you tell us

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about your connection with birds.

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So God has been speaking to me through birds for

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a while, and the first time I noticed it was

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about a week before my parents died, and so obviously

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that stands out. They would line up at my window

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and peck and try to get in, and there'd be

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several of them my window at work, and I was like, Okay,

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God's trying to tell me something. I've always been pretty

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in tune like that, and I was like, something's about

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to happen. And then when my mom died and then

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my dad died six weeks later, it was just I

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was like, okay that he was I wasn't really sure

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what the birds were saying. But I was like it

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was a sign that God was trying to get my attention,

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and I guess, let me know I'm here. I really

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think one of my purposes is helping, you know, break

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God out of the box and letting people know God

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loves to communicate with nature. And so lately, when I'm

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going through another big life change, birds have been coming up,

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especially hummingbirds. And even He's so good even to make

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a point that I've heard at least three neighbors literally say,

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I don't know where all the humming birds are this year.

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I haven't seen any. And they have humming bird feeders

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and everything, and they're like, I keep replacing all this

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stuff and them, I've got my humming bird feeders out

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and I just don't see a hummingbird. And I'll have

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like three of them. I'll be sitting on my front

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porch and like three will come up to me and

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they'll just have her around me. And usually when I

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it's usually when I say, come, Holy Spirit, and just

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give me a sign. It's usually when I. I mean,

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I'm always praying and I'm asking for signs, and they

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are supposed to represent sudden change and joy. I think

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they definitely are a sign of joy and that God

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and of God's goodness, and he likes to surprise us,

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he really does. He likes to bring change and blessings

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and joy. I just I definitely feel like that's a

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season that you and I are entering into, right And

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so now.

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That you guys are all caught up, so I've been

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hearing her talking about the birds, and I haven't been

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discounting it or anything. I've just been, oh, that's cool,

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you know. And I've been going on around. Well, today's

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sitting there and dealing with my cloud or cats, and

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all of a sudden they hear this tap tap chap

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on my sliding glass door. Looking around, tap tat. I

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looked on, all the cats are inside, so one can

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be outside. And what that there's a hummingbird trying to

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get inside in the door, going back and forth. And

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I was going, what did he pray for?

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Exactly? And you and I just talked about doing the

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Nolvena just for you know, our success to Saint Joseph.

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And I'm telling you, when you invoke the company of

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Heaven and angels, You're gonna see miracles. Your life is

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going to change. Just open your eyes, open your heart,

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because it's just there's so many God moments I see

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throughout the day, and I mean it's just awesome because

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I've literally gone through and also I think you have

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to go through these seasons. I've gone through a season

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just like you have a lot of tears, a lot

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of darkness, a lot of pain, a lot of suffering.

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But it's it's a tangible shift that's happening now where

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I feel joy again. I feel you know that Bible

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verse where God has turned my sorrow into dancing, He's

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turned my morning into laughter or something like that. I

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feel like that's happening. It's just really happening right.

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Now, right And so we are doing the novena for

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Joseph one day. We sorry first SEMy burden in Colorado,

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And if you're wondering here, I'm on the eastern plains

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the color out on the mountains, there's plenty of but

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out there on the plains, you don't see home embirds.

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So that's what it was kind of, Yeah, you don't.

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You don't see hummingbirds in your area, do you?

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And you want to know of God's son that you

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you do good for another person she is getting ready

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to move, and uh, so I looked up and the

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patron Saint of moving is Saint Anne. So I told

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her I was doing a uh prayer for Saint Anne

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for and if you listen to the other show, it's

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kind of a little tie in there.

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Yeah, it's crazy. So I get I get the text

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from you as I'm going to my first day of

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work saying that I am, you know, prayed to Saint

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Anne for you and your move. And she's the patron

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Saint of moving and I didn't even know that. And

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I'm a parishioner of Saint Anne's. That's literally where I'm registered.

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And the priest that I had lunch with was it yesterday.

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My days are kind of flowing together. I don't know

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yesterday of the day before was the priest at Saint

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Anne's and that's his parish, and it's not normal for

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he and I to even have time to get together.

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We had already postponed it twice, like literally, we were

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supposed to start with. This lunch was supposed to happen

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in July, and it's finally just happened the weekend I

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was about to move. And so some people might just

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overlook that. It's like, oh, that's nothing, that's a coincidence.

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But no, it's not a coincidence. That's just God showing

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up in your life saying, you know, I'm just in

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my representative of price to comfort you, to uplift you.

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To He did inspire me. He always inspires me. And

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just to let you know, I'm with you in this

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move and I totally feel his presence with me in

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this move.

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Well, you can think about what you're going through. You're

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going through a move and a new job on the

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same weekend.

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That's kind of yeah, and saying goodbye to home, my love,

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and you know, even even my animals. Ashes 've talked

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about Tico and Samba, my dog and my cat that

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I had for sixteen and eighteen years. It's a long

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time to have two pets. They were, you know, my

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best friends, and you know, even saying goodbye to them

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like literally because I'm gonna I haven't told him yet,

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but I'm going to leave them here, the ashes here,

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and hopefully my ex husband will bury them because I'm

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not strong enough to dig a grave, but I just

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feel strongly. Number one, I'm not one that thinks you

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should just carry around people's remains with your animals remains,

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which you like. Some people might want to do that,

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but for me, it's like, no, they're gone. They're in

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my heart, they're in my memory, and it just seems

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to me like they need to stay with the house.

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They don't. This was their home, you know, this is

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where they died. And I don't think I need to

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take them with me.

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No, I think, And that's part of what you just

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were talking about a new beginning. You can't be carrying

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ashes figurlatatively and literally. You can't be bringing the dead

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with you as you're moving on to a new lifetime.

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That's a really good point. That's while i've you're my

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co host, you make these points, I don't even think about.

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That's And do you hear I don't know if you

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can hear I'm outside? Can you hear the wind chimes? Uh? Huh?

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Well that is what a friend sent to me. That's

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my Teaco wind chimes that literally has a dog's paw

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and a person's hand and a Paul print on it.

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And she sent that to me after Teko, after I

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had to put him down. It's just like a you know,

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a gift to commemorate his memory. And it's been the

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wind has been blowing the same the whole time we've

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been talking, and it just started ringing just now when.

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Him Yeah, okay, well this is the holiday weekend and

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we hope you all have a fun and safe fun.

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We want to bring a little bit up because we're

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all celebrating Labor Day and everything. Let's be honest, nobody

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really likes to work. I mean, like Steph's starting her

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new job, so she's all excited and on it. We'll

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see how happy she is in about three months, right,

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But you know, but you have to realize, trust me,

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I'm not above this at all. This me too. You

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get in this job and oh man, I don't want

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to go. I don't like the people there and all

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this kind of stuff, and you know, oh man, but

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you have to think about how much there is to

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be grateful for having that job. One you have a job,

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you know, and think about all the people out there

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who would love to have your job. I'll take it,

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you know. And not only that, it helps build you

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and strengthen you. You're not going to get that on

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your own. You need the communal support by being on

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the public kind of stuff, even though they can drive

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you crazy. I mean, I don't think they should think

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it's smart to sit in a hot tub and nonwork.

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But okay, right, some people have to write on the

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little school bus too.

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You know that's true.

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So when you're doing that as much as you're dragging

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and you don't want to, just remember, you know, be

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grateful for the job that you have. I mean, there's

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nothing wrong with trying to improve. If you don't like it, well,

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then like would you have to do thirty hours of

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training to get this job?

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Yeah, it was insane. I'm a professional rescuer now I'm certified.

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There was a lot of training. I still have to

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go do the in persons CPR class. You have to

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do that in your first thirty days. So if you're

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a member of the YMCA anywhere, you can rest assured

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people are very well trained to help you if you

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pass out or whatever might be going on. Because it

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was a lot more than just CPR. It was like,

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you know, recognizing child abuse, child neglect, cardiac issues, poisoning,

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heat exhaustion. It was a lot, but it was pretty cool.

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It was actually interesting, and you know it was it

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was more interesting than other training I've been through at

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all these corporate jobs where you're just sitting there watching

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videos on policy and stuff, at least you're learning how

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to save someone's life and help someone.

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wood or I don't know what kind of sceint we

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impreed you on that, but hopefully won't need it. But

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I mean, look by going through this, who knows maybe

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a year down the road, she's somebody's gonna need her

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to know this.

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You never know, Yeah, you never know. Actually that's a fear.

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I thought, Well, now that I know this, God's going

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to make sure that people that you know, I just

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see the way he orchestrates everything, and I'm thinking, you know,

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he's probably going to have somebody who's been trained in

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the general vicinity if somebody does collapse or you know,

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get injured and need help, and I hope it's not me, but.

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If it is all help, exactly, thank you guys for

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thening me get that. I know really well, But give

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somebody else the glory.

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Exactly, you get the glory. Yeah, and uh yeah, I

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mean it's just it's just I feel I just feel

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God's light and there's just we are coming these times.

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we are coming into times where you're gonna see mighty

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miracles and blessings and God's move will be equal to

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the shakings and the tribulations that are probably going to

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be happening too.

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And when we're talking about this too, well, I'm sitting

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there be happy for your job and you're like, yeah,

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but you don't know my job not Well, actually, have

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you asked God for another one? And have you actually listened?

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I mean you might not like it, but maybe have

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you ever just said, hey, God, you know, I'm ready

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to move on, you know. And I think if you

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do that and you actually listen, you'll either get a

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feeling in your gut that you know you're stuck there

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for right now doesn't mean forever, or he's like, well, okay,

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do something about it, you know, go online and take

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some classes, you know, go put in and it's kind

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of like winning the lottery ticket lottery. Well, if you

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don't buy a ticket, you can't win the lottery. If

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you don't put in applications, you can't get a better job.

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it's so important to be surrendered to God and also

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to be listening to God. And he will let you hear.

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tell you or somebody will walk up and say something

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to you. But so my personal story, I had journaled

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back in January when I was journaling in the Adoration Chapel,

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he had said, this job you're in, I'm going to

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be breaking you free of it. I had forgotten I

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wrote this. So's why it's good to write things down.

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had written, I'm going to be breaking you free of

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this job in April, and literally I left that job

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April third because I was written up for a bunch

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of stuff that was actually lies about me and false

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and not true. And I just didn't go back because

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I was like, exactly what he said. And then I

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was without a job for four months. I was applying

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for jobs, and I knew that there's probably people who

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looked at me and judged me and thought she's not

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even trying or whatever. But I was applying for at

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least three to four five jobs. A teacos of green

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his wing chilms are going a week. And like all

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the jobs that I was qualified for, like apartment jobs

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and even places where I knew somebody, nobody would even

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call me back. And I would hear God every time

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I would apply. He would be like, Nope, you're not

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going to get that one. Nope, I don't want you

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to have that one. And then a friend of mine

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who's you know, really spends a lot of time in prayer,

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she said, God told me today he is going to

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put you exactly where he wants you, and you're not

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going to get a job a minute sooner. And then

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the day I got this job offer. And it's also

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important to be obedient to God because I'm paying. So

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I had I had journaled that morning. I had written

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down take the job offer, it is from me, and

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I knew that it was Jesus talking to me. Take

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the job offer, it is from me. Well, that morning

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I did not have any job offers, and so by

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the time I got to the Adoration Chapel, I had

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gotten the email from the YMCA, and I had a

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job offer, and I had two other job offers come

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through later that day, but the YMCA was the only

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official I'll offered. The other two were like, you know,

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people texting me saying, yeah, you can come work here,

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private owners something like that. But the YMCA was the

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least amount of money. But because God said take this one,

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and I knew he was saying, this is the one

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I want you to take, and He's like, I'm going

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to take care of the money in a different way.

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And so sometimes you just have to trust him because

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if you really want happiness, obedience is so linked. And

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when the Bible says, oh, blessings come after obedience, so

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I know that God's gonna bless me because I was obedient,

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I already feel blessed. These are great people to work with.

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It's a fun job. It's a flexible job. I can

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kind of works as little or as much as I

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want to. It's real easy to like put up your

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shift if you don't want it, and other people put

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up their shifts and if you want it, you can

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grab one. So it's very flexible. I love that. And yeah,

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and I just know that the money's going to come

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hopefully from us doing this podcast, but who knows what

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God has planned that's right for Yeah, So I mean

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it's because I listened, and I was obedient, and that's

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that's why, literally he changed me into a whole new

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industry that really aligns with me a lot more. Even

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the mission statement, like some of the training we had

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to listen to how our loyalty to Jesus Christ was

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part of the mission and the foundation of this organization.

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And that was like such a breath of fresh air

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from the last job I had, where you weren't even

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literally allowed to talk about religion or I tried to

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put it, put a cross on my desk and they

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told me to take it down. So it was nice.

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It's nice. I feel like he's moved me into position

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in all areas of my life to really just to

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be in more of an in alignment with him and

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who he's called me to be.

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so we're friends. We're not that close or anything. So,

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but if the whole thing is when she's talking about

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obedience and following God and all that kind of stuff,

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and it's kind of like, well, if she's doing all

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that and we're on the same show, and I can

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ride her coat tails by her obedience, So remember that

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in your marriages too. When you guys are a lot closer.

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If one of you is really obedient and all that,

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don't discourage it, you know, just let them basically break

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the trail for you and just tag along.

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Yeah, it's so cool that you just can't make this

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stuff up, because I actually just watched a prophetic video

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that said exactly what you just said. Her whole message

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was that sometimes one person, sometimes you know, one person

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is called to step out and kind of be a

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trail blazer, and sometimes we don't want to, and we'll

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miss opportunities because we're like, oh, my partner's not really

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there yet, or they're not ready or they or this

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friend or this business partner or whatever it is. But

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sometimes if we'll just follow God and be obedient and

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be the trailblazer and like go the path he's calling,

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then it will actually inspire the other people connected to

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us to get on board, and then they'll end up

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going along God's plat that he wants them on too.

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So remember that. So we've got hummingbirds and prophecy everything

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for you on this holiday weekend.

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I'm telling you it's going to be a glorious September.

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Oh and another thing. My birthday is coming up in September,

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and it was the front desk girl's birthday today and

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then all through and it was like the girl that

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trained the girl that's training me, my boss is actually

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a personal trainer, and she even told me she'd helped

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