Aug. 16, 2025

Jeff & Steph talk about Assumption of Mary, Adoration, and traveling through the seasons of life

Jeff & Steph talk about Assumption of Mary, Adoration, and traveling through the seasons of life
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This week was the Holy Day - Assumption of Mary.  Jeff & Steph talk about Mary, Adoration and the    
Importance of prayer.  They discuss traveling through the seasons of life with God along side you.  They give personal testimonies of how they know god is with them by the works he does, and the peace he brings to their lives.

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You can watch and listen to Stephanie on her YouTube channel - In the Service of the Queen - where she talks about the blessed Mary     https://www.youtube.com/@InTheServiceOfTheQueen

You can catch Jeff on numorous podcasts   https://coolcasts.cooolmedia.com/

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Wait the day night sounds. I'm gotta get to the

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star bugs, get some magic bees, love be on my way.

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Magical plasmas an we don't know there's that today.

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Well, hi everyone, and welcome to these days with Jeff

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and Steph. Of course I am Jeff, and we'll be

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talking to Steph. We're gonna be coming to you from

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the Catholic perspective, and we're gonna be talking about the Bible,

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history and mysticism and all the fun stuff and the

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not so fun stuff. But the Bible is Steph. Out

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of things going out there in Tennessee hot as usual.

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I feel like that's just the standard answer these days.

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Of course, it is August, so that's okay. How are

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things with you in Colorado?

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It's going pretty good. I'm not quite as hot as tendency,

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But now I think the last couple of shows we

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have been telling everybody kind of whining the western half

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western half of Colorado's on fire, not all these forest fires.

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So then all of a sudden we'll be sitting there

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up perfectly blue day and then all of a sudden

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it's hazy from not smoke blown across the mountains. But

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oh man, yeah, whit two minutes. At least we're not

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suffering at the fires like those poor people.

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Over there, right, And we do need to remember to

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pray for everybody. That's true.

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And I was thinking our last show, we kind of

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didn't do our Catholic friends justice. It wouldn't have been

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so hard to actually mention they had a holy day

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of obligation, just to remind them.

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Right.

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We had a holiday yesterday which was so busy at

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the church I went to that I had to park

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in the garage I'm not used to, and then I

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lost my car. Took me a while to get back home.

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But that's okay, all for our blessed mother and honoring her,

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so it's all good, right, right.

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It was kind of funny because when was it. See

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my dad, he's eighty three, and his whole life, you know,

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as a Catholic, for him, you don't even meet Fridays

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and you go to church every Sunday morning. That's he

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doesn't really do anything else, but that's you know, he

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probably gets gold stars for his attendance for all these years.

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I'm going to church on Sunday morning. Well after my

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mom passed, Dad also won't go to church by himself either.

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So he started going with me, well, I go Saturday night.

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So he's like, you don't want to go, now, I'm

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going Saturday night. Okay. So now when he meets people

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from the church and they'll come up to him, We're

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sorry to hear about Ruth and how are you doing

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and all that, first thing he always does is I'm

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going to church. I go Saturday with Jeff. So it's

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going to make sure they go well. So last week

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we came back and I guess it's Sunday. I'm kind

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of looking at what his plans are for the week. Now.

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It's not because I'm being a really thoughtful shun. You know,

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I'm kind of selfish. I don't like to be blindsided,

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you know. During the week, Hey, I thought you were

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gonna help me. So we're talking to his schedule. What

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do you got going on this week? And he goes, well,

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I got a mow one day, and I got a

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water one day. And he goes, that's it. I don't

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have anything to put on the calendar. And I go, well,

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you got church on Friday. And he goes for what

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and I go, it's the Holy day of Obligation. He goes,

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when'd you hear that? Will Father Jeff talk about it

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at Mass? When did he do that? I go, well,

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apparently when you were taking a nap. I wasn't and

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I'm not taking a nap, so I just didn't realize

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what he was talking about. He goes, what is it?

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And I go, it's assumption to marry and all that,

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and he goes, oh, you sure, And I'm sure it's

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probably in the bulletin too. Oh right, And then I

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didn't even think about it again. So Friday, I'm sitting there.

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I did my last podcast for the sports show for

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the week and he hits me up. He goes, so,

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what are you doing. I go nope, I'm done. I

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got all my shows done for the week and everything,

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so we're good. He's okay, what time's church tonight? And

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I go, okay, I know you're confused, but today's Friday

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and we go to church. Tomorrow is Saturday, and it's

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going to be at five o'clock, just like every Saturday.

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And he goes, well, I thought we had to go

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for some holy Mary thing or something. You know, right,

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we do have to go for some holy marry thing tonight.

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I love that some holy Mary thing. Yeah, that's awesome,

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that's hilarious. And just to give our non Catholic friends

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or even actually I just heard this, maybe some Catholics

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don't know that our faith in the assumption of Mary

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is very well founded. That the apostles from the earliest times,

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there's writings, and even in the Eastern Orthodox Church they

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have writings that say all the apostles were supernaturally called

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back to her to her funeral, and Thomas showed up late,

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just like just like he did for the resurrection. So

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when they went the next day to roll the stone

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away so that Thomas could pay his respects, the cave

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was just filled with lilies and her body was gone,

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and there's no way lilies could be growing in a

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dark cave, and it was just filled with lilies and

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the fragrance of lilies. And from the earliest times, you know,

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we have believed and it's been a dogma that Mary.

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You know, she was without sin, So Jesus wasn't going

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to let his blessed mother without sin suffer death like

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everybody else.

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That's pretty cool. And actually, and our mask yesterday, Deacon John,

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he's really good about just like trying to kind of

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like me when you actually talked miss and all that

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kind of stuff where I kind of come in folksy.

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That's how kind of Deacon John is. He was talking

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about how when he was talking about Mary, he was

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kind to say, he said, you know, people think that

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we pray to Mary, but we asked for Mary's intercession

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and all that kind of stuff. He goes, I always

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tell him, I said, when you were a little kid

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and you wanted something, did you ask Dad or did

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you ask mom? He you asked mom, He goes, because

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you know that mom would know right when to ask

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and she would know how to do it. And then

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when Mom asked that, well then of course you know

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it got done. And he goes, and that's basically what

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we do with Mary. Go to Mary and then she

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knows how to say it, and then she goes on

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for us. I thought that was a pretty good analogy.

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That is, Yeah, that's awesome. And there was a quote

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from Podrey Po. I'm trying to find it. I can't.

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I don't think I have it. But anyway, there was

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a quote from pod ray Po, who is a great

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saying obviously if you don't know him, get to know

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him who said he said something like I posted on

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all my Instagram a long time ago, something like how

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could any of us be so insane to think that

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we could ever get through life without the help of

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our blessed mother Mary? You know something like that? Right,

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She just swings it. She just makes everything. I don't know,

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it's just like, you know, I think it's because God

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gave her the role of mediatrix of grace, and all

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the grace falls blows through her hands.

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No, she accepted it, and by accepting that role, she

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accepted all of us too.

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Right, exactly. And what mom doesn't love her little children

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and want to protect them and help them as much as.

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Possible, right, and only mom can actually look the other

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way in a lot of stuff we do.

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That's true, and that is her role. You know, her

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role is to go to the father and be like, well,

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you know, little Johnny, he got in a fight today,

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just like you know, what's coming to mind is a

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Christmas story, you know, where he got in a fight

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and had his glasses busted up because he just finally

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lost it with that bully. And the dad was like,

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what he got in a fight, And she's like, oh yeah,

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but we talked about it and it's cool, and he's,

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you know, he's not gonna do that anymore, and the

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mom kind of just tried to. And that little boy said,

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me and my mom had a different relationship from that

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day forward.

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That's true. I mean, and I think after you call

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on Mary and ask her you do, and you realize

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that she did step before you do, you have a

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different relationship with her.

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Right because you do see she shows up. She shows

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up for us every single time.

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That's right. Well, like I had told you that I

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grew up Catholics, so that's all I ever knew. But

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my parents, you know, they were good Catholics, but they

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only they didn't do My mom would go to confession,

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but it was pretty much the weekend Catholics where you

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just pretty much just go every you don't eat meat

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on that and you can give up something for land,

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and then you just go every Sunday. There was nothing else.

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And I didn't step away from the church. I just

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stopped going for a long time. And then justify it

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by well, I'm hungover, I don't want to go and

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smell on LNG booze or been drinking. I can't go,

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and all this kind of stuff, you know how you

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can justify it basically anything, right, And so when I

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started going back, it had been over twenty years since

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i'd gone regularly or anything, and he realized, I'm in

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the stuff you kind of forget or you weren't ever

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exposed to. I guess, so I never did iteration or anything.

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I so I had no idea what adoration was. So

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I was sitting there and of course, okay, we got

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adoration Thursday mornings, we got every Friday night and Sunday nights.

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After adoration, they're going to have a pot luck, and

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I thought, well that would be kind of fun. You know,

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it's taking care of helping, hate care of my mom.

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I'll get out of it. I had no idea really

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what adoration was, and that pride thing instead of just

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showing up and learning was kind of like, I don't

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want to look stupid, so I don't even I'm not

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going just for the simple fact I don't know what

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to do with adoration.

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But I know you go quite a bit, right, I do,

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And especially it seems like through transitional phases of my

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life that might be harder than others, which it seems

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like I go through a lot of transitional phases.

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But during those times I go a lot more and

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I really do think it has has given me the

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strength and it changes you. It just changes you. I

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think Fulton Sheen said you can't sit in front of

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the sun for an hour and not get sunburnt. We

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can't sit in front of the sun of God for

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an hour and not have it change you. It's going

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to produce some kind of result.

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Well, why wasn't here to help? And tel like people

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like me or just non Catholics are thinking about it exactly.

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What is atoration? What do you actually do when you

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walk in?

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Well, well, it's a quiet you know, you you're in

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silence and all the all the people there are instructed.

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You know, you try to be as quiet as possible

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so people and it's because of that, you know, it's reverence.

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But it's also I think you hear God. God's always

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you know, it's like that what's that word I'm looking

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for where it's up anyway, it's it's the you hear

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God the best in silence, right, So it's it's you

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know that flip thing. But I don't know, like I've

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had some really I know a lot of people have had.

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So it's the blessed sacrament. It's it's the host that's

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been consecrated, and it's in a monstrance we call monstrants,

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so it's a gold, beautiful thing that we display the

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sacrament in. And you just sit there in front of

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the presence of God, and you know you're in the

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presence of God. You do kneel because of the bibble

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scripture that says all needs shall bend at My presence,

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So you kneel when you walk in. And then you

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sit down and sometimes people read scripture, some people's prayer, rosary,

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some people sleep. I've seen that too, and you just

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spend time with God. And I can't say that I've

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ever left there without you know, something happening. It could

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be miraculous. It could be a hero's voice. It could

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be a journal and I really get clarity, or it

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could be nothing. That could be that you just feel

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when you walk out that I've definitely gone in in

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times of tears and trauma, and at least when I've left,

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I've felt some kind of shift where there's more peace.

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and it tends to kind of increase as the day

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goes on. I've noticed that too, Like when you leave,

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you might feel like nothing happened, but when you leave somebody,

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like you were saying, somebody calls you haven't talked to

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in a long time, or do you just feel a

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greater sense of peace as the day goes on. There's

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definitely an effect. Like Felton, she said, there's an effect

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when you when you visit God, he's going to bless

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you obviously, right.

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You don't have to worry about looking stupid or doing

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it wrong, right.

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You don't, because yeah, just come as you are. There's

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a story. Actually I wasn't gonna I wasn't planning on telling,

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but this is a pretty cool story I heard on EWTN.

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There there was a well, I think it was in England,

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and there was a drunk. Since you mentioned like halven

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years of alcohol, So there was this guy that this

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woman was a developed Catholic and she would go to

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adoration every day and she would walk out and there

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would be a drunk on the on the sidewalk, like

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near the doors the steps of the church as they're

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often are, and she would she was kind and she

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would usually bring him food or something, and one day

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she couldn't find him, and she was like, oh, I

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just know that. Oh, and she would notice that he

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would go in every afternoon and he would just sleep

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on the pew, and then she couldn't find him one

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day and she was like, oh, he's I'm sure he's died,

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you know, She's like she started inquiring and someone was like, no,

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he's in the hospital. So she actually went to visit

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him in the hospital and she was like, well, I

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was just worried about you. I was just checking on you.

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She was such a kind woman, obviously from all her years,

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probably an adoration. And he said, yeah, you won't even

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he said, yeah, just you won't believe this. He said,

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but he actually was getting out that day because he

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said he was to the point of death and he

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really thought he was going to take his last breath.

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And then he said, Jesus walked through the door of

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my hospital room, and he said, I can't believe that

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you would come see me. After all these years, all

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I ever did is sleep in front of you. And

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he said, but you came, He said, you visited you

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to you know you want it to come. You actually

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showed up and you were there, and so I'm going

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to I'm there for you, and and he was healed miraculously,

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never drank again, his health was restored. He walked out

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of the hospital with her that day. Yeah, so he

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does appreciate. He takes notice when we come to see him,

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and he really really appreciates it.

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So next time my dad takes a nap that you're taking,

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te him that's okay.

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So yeah, I tell him, I'm probably God would prefer

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he listen, but he's not what he's ninety something, so

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I think he probably gets gets a little bit of

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a pass.

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You got to love Those stories just do not strengthen

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your faith, but kind of like, yeah, cool, that's why

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I do this.

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Right, God is so merciful, so merciful. Well, you know,

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I mean, I know some people have some pretty profound

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stories that the one cool story I have about adoration

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from a mystical point of view, I do hear Him

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speak to me sometimes audibly, and it is easier when

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I think when you're in front of him or like

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right after communion, sometimes I'll hear God's voice clearer. But

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sometimes it's just in your spirit you hear it. Sometimes

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it could be audible, But he speaks to all of

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us all the time. You know. John says that I'm

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the good shepherd, and my sheep here my voice. So

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if you're not hearing his voice audibly, he's speaking to you,

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for sure through different ways. It could be through nature,

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it could be through a song like you said, a

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friend calls, it could be anything. But one time though,

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in adoration, and it was at the church. It wasn't

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I like this little adoration chapel that I go to,

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which is really cozy, and you know you're there alone

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a lot. But this time happened to be at church,

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and you know, the priest was doing adoration and confession

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at the same time. And I kind of have a

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childlike kind of attitude when I'm before God, and I

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was just I was literally saying to him, I wish

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I could sing you a song, but you wrote all

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the songs, and being a songwriter, I guess I relate

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to that kind of thinking. And I was like, well,

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I don't know what song you would want me to

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sing you. I was just saying this in my head,

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and I started hearing the melody of a song that

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I knew very well. But I couldn't think of the words,

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and and I got home and I was asking my husband.

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I was humming it. I was like, what's what's this song?

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And I didn't tell him why. I was just like,

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you know, no, no, no, no, no, no no no no

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no no no, no no no. I like, that was

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that song and he didn't know. So thank God for

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Google search on song, right, So I hugged it well

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enough apparently for Google to understand it, and lo and

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behold it was Curie Laison by that mister mister uh yeah.

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So it was like and I was like, of course,

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Curie a la Zone means Lord have Mercy, and that

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whole song is about I didn't even I've never really

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paid attention to the lyrics of that song. But after

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that I looked him up and it's like, will you

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follow me through the dark night? Will you? You know,

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saying Lord have mercy through the through the road that

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I must travel, Will you follow me? I'm like wow.

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So that was a pretty profound adoration moment.

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It's kind of funny because when the song came out,

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I think it was in the eighties, but of course

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we didn't have Google, and nobody knew what in the

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world meant, so every DJ had to tell everybody what

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curate it curiate.

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Alas, Yeah, isn't that cool though, that they would even

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write a song called that. I'm like, that's that's God.

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I'm sure these I don't think they were probably even Catholic,

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were they?

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Yeah? I don't know, I probably not Catholic. Yeah, it

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was definitely Christian.

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Right, that's such a god thing.

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You get such cool things, you know, you talk to

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guy and he puts songs in your head and all this.

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I don't know if you remember a couple of shows ago,

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I said, ever since I was a little kid, I've

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always wanted to see angels, you know, And that's when

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I looked at the priests and I'm looking and looking

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for angels. And then then like the next time I

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went to church after that, I was sitting there and

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I kind of thought about telling you about it. I always

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wanted to see an angel, and something popped in my

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head said, you'd probably freak out.

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Right, he doesn't want to freak us out, So sometimes

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that may be why you're not seeing.

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God.

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She gets I get told them and to freak out,

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and she gets to hear cool songs.

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Right, Yeah, and God talks to us how we relate. Right.

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I grew up with a mom who was a songwriter

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and my mom's birthday was yesterday, ironic. I mean, I

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think that's so cool. For years, and you know, I

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wasn't Catholic, so I didn't realize that my mom's birthday

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was on the feast of the Assumption. But now, how

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cool is that? And she died on December twelfth, which

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is our Lady of Guadaloupe, So my mom was born

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and died on very big Mary days. Yeah, and you know,

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I've always felt like there's a lot of grace that

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comes to me on August fifteenth, and now I know

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it's Mary. But before I was Catholic, and before I

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understood all that, I always thought my mom was just

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sending me graces from heaven, which she might be too,

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She's I'm sure she's praying for me. But I would

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always notice, get I get presents on your i'ld be like,

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what you send me presents on your birthday? That's so cool?

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Like I always tended to have. Really, you know, good

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things happened to me on August fifteenth. So so I'll

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tell you, like last night speaking of songs, and you know,

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I won't go into all of it right now, but

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you know, like personally, I've been through a hard two

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and a half year's a lot of trauma and grief,

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rejection and some deep wounds. And you know, God's been

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speaking to me about like everything's a season and we're

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not meant to stay in pain for forever. When joy

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doesn't last forever, pain doesn't last forever. Everything's a season.

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But he has been speaking a lot, and it's a

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scripture in Isaiah. Can't you perceive it? I'm doing a

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new thing, you know it will you know I put

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springs in the wilderness and you know, rivers in the waste.

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Like he's bringing things back to life for people that

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have gone through a hard season and restoring us and

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not just restoring us and healing us, but also setting

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us free. And I see that, and I feel that

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in the last couple of weeks, I have felt like

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a deeper sense of happiness and joy return to me.

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And that scripture also keeps coming up. I have turned

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your morning into dancing, and you're sorrow into laughter. I

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don't know where that is. I need to know, my

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bibb all better, but that anyway, last night, speaking of songs,

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So I'm walking my dog. A lot of things. God

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seems to talk to me when I walk the dog.

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So I'm walking the dog and I'm just like, really

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feel even though I don't really know where my life's going.

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There's still a lot of uncertainty, but I feel like

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this sense of hopefulness and peace and trust in Jesus.

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And so I'm walking him. His name's Fulton Sheen, by

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the way. He doesn't really live up to it most

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of the time. But I was just like overcome with joy,

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and I start singing to him. And this isn't like normal,

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I don't always do this. I start singing f U

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L I'm like, who's the cutest dog in town? I'll

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tell you who it is? F U L t O

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n sag een. And I'm like that melody is familiar.

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Where do I know that from? And you know what

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that is, don't you? Yeah, Mickey Mouse. It took me

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a minute to remember. I was like, I'm singing him

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Mickey Mouse. But so I just kept on, you know, like,

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who's the prettiest dog in town? I'll tell you who

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it is? F U L t O n sage and

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I was just like soul filled with joy, and God

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really spoke to me like you are in a new season.

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Don't look back, and that that's the prophetic word for

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a lot of people right now, if you've just gone

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through trauma and heartache. I just want to really encourage you.

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He is really stressing, do not look back. The past

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is the past. It's over. I have glorious new things

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planned for you, and I just feel like we're entering

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into a season of miracles and and really being able

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to extol God's glory. That's what I'm getting in you too,

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because you've just gone through a hard season as well.

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When we talk about I don't know why it always rings.

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I've heard it like a long time ago. But you

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know in the song where I walked through the Valley

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of death right and I don't know who it was

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as a preacher or what he said. Now, people, I

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want you to pay attention to that he walked through

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the valley, he didn't stay there, so keep going.

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Right right, And that is actually that that got into

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my head. I started saying it out loud when my

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parents died and I didn't read the Bible. I was

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a Catholic, like, literally, God was speaking that to me,

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and I would say that whole song out loud as

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I was going through the loss of my parents. And

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recently I heard a prophet on TV. And you know

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a lot of people are people. Some people, especially Catholics,

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can be like, oh, these all these prophets on YouTube,

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very humble, very tested and true prophetic voices on TV.

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And the Bible says in the latter days, I'm going

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to all my sons and daughters will prophesy. So I

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feel like he's poor and he has said I'm going

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to pour out my spirit. I see it happening. And

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this one girl that I listened to, who is a

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prophetic voice, she broke down that prayer. She said, that

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prayer is actually talking about the seasons of life that

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00:21:07.440 --> 00:21:09.599
we go through. She said, because if you think about it,

469
00:21:10.160 --> 00:21:12.839
it's the Lord is my shepherd. I shall not want.

470
00:21:13.319 --> 00:21:15.640
So that's when we're in a season of plenty and

471
00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:19.240
we're not wanting for anything. He leaves me beside still waters.

472
00:21:19.440 --> 00:21:21.680
He restores my soul. So that's when you're in a

473
00:21:21.759 --> 00:21:25.559
season of restoration, right, he's restoring you. Everything is being

474
00:21:25.599 --> 00:21:28.079
brought back to you that you've lost. And then you know,

475
00:21:28.160 --> 00:21:30.160
you go through these seasons where he's making a table

476
00:21:30.240 --> 00:21:33.000
in front of your enemies. He's bringing you vindication. He

477
00:21:33.359 --> 00:21:35.200
always does that for his children. If you feel like

478
00:21:35.240 --> 00:21:39.079
you've been wronged, he's going to bring vindication and set

479
00:21:39.119 --> 00:21:41.200
a table before your enemies. And then, like you said,

480
00:21:41.240 --> 00:21:43.839
the Shadow the valley of the Shadow of Death, Like

481
00:21:44.440 --> 00:21:47.519
it's the shadow of death. That's what she pointed out.

482
00:21:47.599 --> 00:21:50.119
You're not in death, it's the shadow of death, and

483
00:21:50.200 --> 00:21:53.279
he's with you. So he's going to comfort you during

484
00:21:53.319 --> 00:21:55.400
that season. And yeah, then you're going to go back

485
00:21:55.440 --> 00:21:58.480
to the beginning. The Lord is my shepherd. I shall

486
00:21:58.559 --> 00:22:02.799
not want. I think it's just this endless cycle of seasons.

487
00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:05.119
I think that song has so much that you could

488
00:22:05.440 --> 00:22:06.240
really meditate on.

489
00:22:06.799 --> 00:22:09.440
Yeah, and those those moments like singing your dog and

490
00:22:09.519 --> 00:22:11.839
all like new. I think those silly seasons, that's kind

491
00:22:11.880 --> 00:22:14.240
of that's the good thing about life because at that

492
00:22:14.400 --> 00:22:15.920
moment everything was just right.

493
00:22:16.400 --> 00:22:18.400
Yeah. I was so happy last night, you don't even know.

494
00:22:20.880 --> 00:22:22.920
I haven't been giddey and silly in a long time,

495
00:22:22.960 --> 00:22:24.039
and it felt good to be silly.

496
00:22:24.519 --> 00:22:27.279
That is That is cool. Kind of odd that he

497
00:22:27.359 --> 00:22:29.039
was singing a song that was out before you were

498
00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:31.319
ever born. But okay, when did that.

499
00:22:31.359 --> 00:22:33.440
Song come out? Maybe I was born earlier than you think.

500
00:22:33.799 --> 00:22:37.799
Oh no, this was like in the fifties with Frankie was.

501
00:22:37.759 --> 00:22:41.799
A frank And yeah, yeah, you're right, I wasn't born.

502
00:22:41.920 --> 00:22:46.960
But this wasn't just in Timberlake and Britney Spears time. No,

503
00:22:47.240 --> 00:22:48.119
this was black and white.

504
00:22:49.240 --> 00:22:50.920
I do have a love for Disney, though, and I

505
00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.920
have been several times. There's just something magical. It's so true.

506
00:22:54.960 --> 00:22:58.279
There is something magical about Disney, I think. But yeah,

507
00:22:58.359 --> 00:23:00.799
it felt good to be silly and just have that faith.

508
00:23:01.119 --> 00:23:03.039
And I think that was also a gift from the

509
00:23:03.079 --> 00:23:06.039
blessed Mother on her assumption and from my mom for

510
00:23:06.160 --> 00:23:09.319
her earthly birthday. I don't know, it's just like August

511
00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:11.039
fifteenth's always been a really good day for me.

512
00:23:11.519 --> 00:23:13.839
Well good, need to string a bunch more than besides

513
00:23:13.839 --> 00:23:16.240
August fifteenth for you now now that you're now that

514
00:23:16.279 --> 00:23:18.000
you're out of the season, right.

515
00:23:17.880 --> 00:23:20.319
Now that I'm out of the sorrowful season. So how

516
00:23:20.359 --> 00:23:21.519
often do you go to adoration?

517
00:23:21.720 --> 00:23:22.039
Do you do?

518
00:23:22.119 --> 00:23:22.160
You?

519
00:23:22.240 --> 00:23:25.799
Are you going now, no, that's why I have can't

520
00:23:25.799 --> 00:23:26.680
you tell me how to do it?

521
00:23:27.119 --> 00:23:29.680
Oh? Okay, well yeah and so and no shame. I

522
00:23:29.759 --> 00:23:32.240
mean for years, like I said, I was in the

523
00:23:32.319 --> 00:23:37.160
New Age and didn't know anything, didn't do anything. But yeah,

524
00:23:37.160 --> 00:23:39.519
I encourage you to go to adoration because that it

525
00:23:39.680 --> 00:23:42.480
is really powerful. I will say this, I don't I

526
00:23:42.480 --> 00:23:44.480
don't think time heals all wounds. I think it's what

527
00:23:44.559 --> 00:23:45.359
you do with the time.

528
00:23:45.680 --> 00:23:48.440
Right, that's a good point. See, I thought adoration was

529
00:23:48.480 --> 00:23:50.960
really solemn and real serious. And then like you said that,

530
00:23:51.000 --> 00:23:52.960
you see people sleeping and all that kind of stuff.

531
00:23:53.279 --> 00:23:55.319
Or one day he goes in there on adoration and

532
00:23:55.440 --> 00:23:57.880
he plays like religious trivia on his phone.

533
00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:02.119
Right. And if I'm in their loone, I mean, I'll

534
00:24:02.200 --> 00:24:04.000
just talk to God. You can do I mean, got

535
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.000
to be quiet obviously if you're in there with other people.

536
00:24:06.039 --> 00:24:09.160
But if I'm in there, loone, I just I mean,

537
00:24:09.200 --> 00:24:12.880
I'll either pour out my heart, I'll yell yeah, I'll

538
00:24:12.960 --> 00:24:14.319
just be real. I think God wants us to be

539
00:24:14.400 --> 00:24:15.920
real with them, like why are you letting this happen

540
00:24:16.000 --> 00:24:18.119
to me? Or you know, sometimes I'll just be silly.

541
00:24:18.400 --> 00:24:20.680
There's times I actually have been silly, like, you know,

542
00:24:20.920 --> 00:24:23.559
just like God, look at those those butterflies and those flowers.

543
00:24:23.880 --> 00:24:26.839
There's just awesome, Like you just created some awesome things,

544
00:24:26.920 --> 00:24:29.839
and sometimes I just feel like praising them. And you know,

545
00:24:30.000 --> 00:24:32.240
sometimes you do get sleepy. I won't lie like you.

546
00:24:32.640 --> 00:24:34.400
I think it's like the peace that you feel when

547
00:24:34.440 --> 00:24:36.400
you're in front of God that maybe you let go.

548
00:24:37.000 --> 00:24:38.519
I have a lot of stress you've been carrying, so

549
00:24:38.640 --> 00:24:40.720
sometimes maybe you do need to take a nap.

550
00:24:41.160 --> 00:24:44.480
Yeah, and if it's it works for that drunk guy,

551
00:24:45.079 --> 00:24:48.799
right exactly. So what were you teasing me about? You

552
00:24:48.920 --> 00:24:49.799
have a flower story?

553
00:24:50.240 --> 00:24:53.119
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. So I just wanted to say

554
00:24:53.160 --> 00:24:55.079
for anybody who's not a Catholic, because you know, one

555
00:24:55.160 --> 00:24:58.559
time I wasn't Catholic and God, definitely we don't want

556
00:24:58.559 --> 00:25:00.400
to come across as we're saying, you only get grace.

557
00:25:00.960 --> 00:25:03.079
Of course, I think he wants everybody to be Catholic

558
00:25:03.160 --> 00:25:07.039
because there are aqueducts of grace that he created in

559
00:25:07.119 --> 00:25:09.200
the sacraments, and he wants everybody to receive all that.

560
00:25:09.720 --> 00:25:12.440
But he's so merciful that I just wanted to share

561
00:25:12.480 --> 00:25:15.279
this story because even before I was Catholic, I wasn't

562
00:25:15.279 --> 00:25:18.319
even baptized, and I was going through a transitional period.

563
00:25:18.559 --> 00:25:20.920
I had just lost my parents and I was in

564
00:25:21.200 --> 00:25:24.200
a part time job. And I relate this back to

565
00:25:24.240 --> 00:25:25.960
the Blessed Mother. So it's cool we're saying this. The

566
00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:30.279
day after her assumption. I was having to I was

567
00:25:30.359 --> 00:25:32.400
living by faith. I did have faith in God, and

568
00:25:32.920 --> 00:25:34.640
I was in a part time job. I didn't know

569
00:25:34.720 --> 00:25:36.440
what I was going to do as far as getting

570
00:25:36.440 --> 00:25:38.640
a full time job where I was going to move.

571
00:25:38.880 --> 00:25:41.279
I was kind of in a real transition period like

572
00:25:41.359 --> 00:25:44.039
I am now. And in my bank account was like

573
00:25:44.119 --> 00:25:46.200
a little bit negative by the time I got to

574
00:25:46.440 --> 00:25:49.519
every payday, and I would let it get a little negative,

575
00:25:49.559 --> 00:25:51.240
knowing that the next check was coming. I would only

576
00:25:51.279 --> 00:25:52.920
buy what I needed. I would try to buy food

577
00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.200
that was like cheap. You know, you're living on spaghetti

578
00:25:55.200 --> 00:25:57.799
at that point, or beans and rice. And I never

579
00:25:57.920 --> 00:26:01.119
minded that like I've always been. I don't know, just

580
00:26:01.240 --> 00:26:04.359
like I don't mind just getting by and getting through

581
00:26:04.440 --> 00:26:06.400
a hard season because I've always had faith. I know

582
00:26:06.480 --> 00:26:09.440
it's this season and it's gonna change. So anyway, I

583
00:26:09.680 --> 00:26:12.640
was at the grocery store there, and life had been

584
00:26:12.720 --> 00:26:15.240
so desolate that all I really wanted was there was

585
00:26:15.279 --> 00:26:17.759
this little bunch of pink flowers. They were three dollars,

586
00:26:18.279 --> 00:26:20.039
and I really really wanted them, and I just thought,

587
00:26:20.079 --> 00:26:21.960
I just need to buy these for myself. I've been

588
00:26:21.960 --> 00:26:25.240
through a hard time. And then my logical mind was saying,

589
00:26:25.759 --> 00:26:27.759
but you're negative in your bank account. You just need

590
00:26:27.799 --> 00:26:29.720
to buy food. You don't need to be blowing your

591
00:26:29.720 --> 00:26:31.920
money on these pink flowers, even though they were just

592
00:26:31.960 --> 00:26:34.920
three dollars. So I walked around the store arguing with myself.

593
00:26:35.279 --> 00:26:38.160
Finally my soul went out because my soul was saying,

594
00:26:38.319 --> 00:26:40.720
you need those pink flowers. And I want to encourage

595
00:26:40.759 --> 00:26:42.480
people to listen to your heart and your soul more

596
00:26:42.519 --> 00:26:46.079
than your mind, because you know that's where God lives.

597
00:26:46.200 --> 00:26:48.640
He lives in our heart, in our spirit, and not

598
00:26:48.759 --> 00:26:51.880
in our logical mind. And so anyway, I want a head.

599
00:26:51.920 --> 00:26:54.079
And I put the pink flowers in my cart, and

600
00:26:54.200 --> 00:26:56.119
as I was walking off, the guy that was like

601
00:26:56.160 --> 00:26:58.400
putting out the flowers, he was like, hey, hey, wait

602
00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.799
a minute, and he was like, do you eat those?

603
00:26:59.839 --> 00:27:01.720
Do you? I want to take these too, And he

604
00:27:01.839 --> 00:27:04.720
had like two or three bunches of dozens of white

605
00:27:04.880 --> 00:27:07.599
roses and he was like, these, you know, have broken stems.

606
00:27:07.640 --> 00:27:09.480
I can't put these out, you can just have them.

607
00:27:09.759 --> 00:27:12.279
And I immediately felt the presence. And like I said,

608
00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:14.720
that was after the time I already had started buying

609
00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:17.640
rosaries and writing songs about Mary. I felt connected to Mary,

610
00:27:18.079 --> 00:27:20.119
and I had already had the experience with Mary. So

611
00:27:20.559 --> 00:27:23.119
I just felt like it was her blessing me and saying,

612
00:27:23.279 --> 00:27:26.000
don't limit God, you know, don't limit him. He wants

613
00:27:26.079 --> 00:27:29.039
to bless you. And if you will receive, because you

614
00:27:29.200 --> 00:27:31.480
chose to receive the pink flowers for yourself, I'm going

615
00:27:31.559 --> 00:27:33.519
to give you more. And I think that was the message.

616
00:27:34.079 --> 00:27:36.559
He wants to give us more. His dreams are bigger

617
00:27:36.640 --> 00:27:39.160
for us than what we have planned for ourselves. And

618
00:27:39.279 --> 00:27:41.440
so I was like, thank you so much. I took

619
00:27:41.640 --> 00:27:43.880
the three bouquets and I'm like put them in my cart,

620
00:27:44.400 --> 00:27:46.519
and as I'm getting to the checkout line, I kid

621
00:27:46.599 --> 00:27:48.799
you not, he comes up with like six more does

622
00:27:48.960 --> 00:27:51.079
He was like, all these have broken stems too. I

623
00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:53.200
can't use any of these, you know, not one of them.

624
00:27:53.279 --> 00:27:55.359
I could not find a broken stem on any of them.

625
00:27:56.000 --> 00:27:58.680
And he gave me so many flowers I didn't even

626
00:27:58.759 --> 00:28:02.759
have room in my car literally, and the cashier was like, wow,

627
00:28:03.039 --> 00:28:05.440
you have Wow, what beautiful flowers. You have a lot

628
00:28:05.440 --> 00:28:10.359
of beautiful flowers. And I was just like overwhelmed in

629
00:28:10.480 --> 00:28:12.359
that moment. That was one of the biggest God moments

630
00:28:12.359 --> 00:28:15.680
in my life. I was just overwhelmed with like him saying,

631
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:18.559
just just Stephanie, would you just open up your heart

632
00:28:18.640 --> 00:28:19.400
to let me bless you.

633
00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:20.119
Yeah.

634
00:28:20.920 --> 00:28:22.759
Yeah. I walked out of the store with more flowers

635
00:28:22.799 --> 00:28:27.000
than I could literally carry that day because of all

636
00:28:27.039 --> 00:28:30.240
because yeah, I decided to. I decided I deserve some

637
00:28:30.319 --> 00:28:31.519
little pink flowers.

638
00:28:33.039 --> 00:28:36.400
Cook because obviously, see I'm giving you this now.

639
00:28:36.920 --> 00:28:40.680
Stand back, Yes, exactly. And that's what God does. I

640
00:28:40.759 --> 00:28:43.400
see it so often in other people. I see it everywhere,

641
00:28:43.519 --> 00:28:46.039
like when we like, how can he give us anything

642
00:28:46.079 --> 00:28:48.319
when our hearts are closed off to receive?

643
00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:50.640
And that's the key right there. You have to open

644
00:28:50.680 --> 00:28:51.480
your heart to him.

645
00:28:51.720 --> 00:28:54.039
Right right. You have to open up to receive and

646
00:28:54.359 --> 00:28:56.160
to know that he loves you and he's a good

647
00:28:56.200 --> 00:28:58.559
God and he's not here to hurt you or harm you,

648
00:28:58.680 --> 00:28:59.680
and he wants to bless you.

649
00:29:00.319 --> 00:29:02.880
And you also have to just realize that he, like

650
00:29:02.960 --> 00:29:04.519
you said, he does want to bless you on that.

651
00:29:04.839 --> 00:29:06.240
And I think a lot of people they won't open

652
00:29:06.319 --> 00:29:10.960
the heart because they just won't accept the fact that, oh, well,

653
00:29:11.160 --> 00:29:12.759
he's not gonna forgive me for this, He's not going

654
00:29:12.799 --> 00:29:13.440
to forget Yeah you.

655
00:29:13.519 --> 00:29:18.319
Will, right, Yeah, as long as you're not abusing the forgiveness, like, yeah,

656
00:29:18.920 --> 00:29:21.880
that's that comes from the enemy. And so any kind

657
00:29:21.880 --> 00:29:24.839
of guilt and shame. You know, the Holy Spirit will

658
00:29:24.839 --> 00:29:26.799
convict us of our sins, but he never does it

659
00:29:26.880 --> 00:29:28.640
in like an accusatory way.

660
00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:31.960
Right, that's the whole whole thing. He's just got. You know,

661
00:29:32.480 --> 00:29:34.759
God will forgive you. See, I forgive yourself. You have to.

662
00:29:35.240 --> 00:29:36.839
If you don't forgive yourself, you're not gonna be able

663
00:29:36.839 --> 00:29:38.000
to accept what He's going to give you.

664
00:29:38.319 --> 00:29:41.759
Yeah, exactly exactly, And I mean it can like I

665
00:29:41.960 --> 00:29:43.920
just relate it back to something as simple as breathing

666
00:29:44.000 --> 00:29:46.160
in and breathing out, Like you can't breathe out all

667
00:29:46.240 --> 00:29:48.960
the time. You have to breathe in and and let

668
00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:53.039
God replenish you. Literally, you are replenishing yourself when you

669
00:29:53.119 --> 00:29:53.440
breathe in.

670
00:29:53.680 --> 00:29:59.119
So so you're a football fan, not really, not so much.

671
00:29:59.119 --> 00:30:01.240
I mean I grew up watching Cowboys of course because

672
00:30:01.279 --> 00:30:04.720
my dad did. But that's about it these days. How

673
00:30:04.759 --> 00:30:05.079
about you?

674
00:30:05.640 --> 00:30:08.640
Yeah, I played it, you know when I was a

675
00:30:08.680 --> 00:30:10.039
little kid and all that kind of stuff.

676
00:30:10.079 --> 00:30:12.559
And of course you're following and do what position did

677
00:30:12.640 --> 00:30:12.960
you play?

678
00:30:13.240 --> 00:30:17.039
I was like outside linebacker? Okay, but it's a getting

679
00:30:17.359 --> 00:30:21.960
football seasons starting this year and for me, and mostly

680
00:30:22.119 --> 00:30:23.960
I love football and all this kind of stuff, but

681
00:30:24.119 --> 00:30:26.559
I always kind of like, uh, the simple fact that

682
00:30:26.599 --> 00:30:27.400
I means summer's over.

683
00:30:28.079 --> 00:30:28.279
You know.

684
00:30:28.440 --> 00:30:32.839
It's like when football season starts in summers, when school starts, right, what.

685
00:30:32.960 --> 00:30:33.680
Team do you follow?

686
00:30:33.680 --> 00:30:34.759
The Broncos?

687
00:30:35.039 --> 00:30:38.880
Okay, gotcha, But you have a cool didn't something happen

688
00:30:39.119 --> 00:30:42.160
like with the fantasy football thing? Kind of a god

689
00:30:42.240 --> 00:30:42.759
moment for you?

690
00:30:43.359 --> 00:30:45.960
Yeah? Because I was staying help and take care of

691
00:30:46.039 --> 00:30:47.359
my mom for a couple of years, I kind of

692
00:30:47.400 --> 00:30:49.279
lost track of all my friends, you know, and of

693
00:30:49.319 --> 00:30:51.960
course everybody's married and everything, and you know, and I

694
00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:53.680
hadn't even talked to him for a couple of years.

695
00:30:53.680 --> 00:30:56.119
And obviously they caught in touch with their mom died.

696
00:30:56.160 --> 00:30:59.200
But I, you know, and I can't really just say, hey,

697
00:30:59.240 --> 00:31:01.119
I haven't talked to you years, I know, but hey,

698
00:31:01.160 --> 00:31:02.599
what's up? You know, do you want to go do

699
00:31:02.759 --> 00:31:04.680
something or anything? So I didn't know how to reach

700
00:31:04.759 --> 00:31:06.559
back out to him. Then as they called me up

701
00:31:06.559 --> 00:31:08.079
and asked if I want to play fanties football with

702
00:31:08.160 --> 00:31:09.519
him this year, just out of the blue.

703
00:31:10.240 --> 00:31:12.480
That's awesome. And you hadn't talked to these guys and

704
00:31:12.559 --> 00:31:12.920
how long?

705
00:31:13.200 --> 00:31:14.119
At least three years?

706
00:31:14.640 --> 00:31:19.039
That's awesome. Yeah, that's a God God moment, just to

707
00:31:19.279 --> 00:31:23.359
his graciousness. Well, the next show, maybe we get into

708
00:31:23.559 --> 00:31:26.079
maybe we there's a lot to say about Mary. Maybe

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we go that way, but we'll just let the Holy

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Spirit lead us like we always do.

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Sound good. So well, all of you who are out

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there listening, thank you for catching another episodes of These

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Days with Jeff and Steph.

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I'm step and he is Jeff, and I just want

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you all to remember we're all in it together in

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these Days