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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Come on, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody, y'all listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me now one and only see if Harvey got
a radio show man. God is in a blessing business.
I'm in the receiving line.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's a good feeling. I thank God for waking me
up in the mornings, I really really do. I thank
God for the spirit that he wakes me up with
because I finally, but I finally figured it out. Such
a blessing that shouldn't be taken for granted. The fact
that you are up today, the fact that you just
(00:41):
got off working, you driving home, the fact that you
got a job to come home from, the fact that
you got a job to wake up too.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Whatever it is, the fact that you can see.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Think, here, smell, walk, talk, rhyme, reason, whatever it is,
it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Talking to a partner of mine last night, and an
analogy came to me last night of what my life
has been like, just going over my story with a
friend of mine of all some of the things I
had gone through, and he never knew it because he said, man,
you never told me that we were just talking. One
of the things I remember and it's kind of equated
(01:21):
to my life was when I was a little boy.
As she goes to the store with my mom and
she would let me buy a jigsaw puzzle. Now, for
those of you, a jigsaw puzzle comes in a box.
There are no instructions. It just comes in a box
(01:42):
and it's simple. You're gonna dump the pieces out in
a pile and you're gonna try to put the pieces
together until it looks like the picture that's on the
cover of the box.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's as simple as it is. Here is the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I would select a jigsaw puzzle based on the picture
that I liked and if I thought I could do it. Now,
if the picture looked too crazy, if it looked too intricate,
I didn't want that puzzle, you know. And the thing was,
(02:25):
back in the day you got a jigsaw puzzle, you
had a hundred piece puzzles.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Four hundred piece puzzles. Man, then they say a thousand
piece puzzle. You go ooo.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So those were a little difficult for me when I
was a little boy, so I didn't want that. As
I got a little bit older, I had more challenging puzzles,
you know. Four fifty five hundred piece puzzles, but I
always picked a picture of something I liked. So it's
(02:56):
very simple. You get the jigsaw puzzle, you get it home,
you open it up, jump it out on the table,
You flip all the pieces over so you can see them,
and then I would try to sort them based on
the colors on the box. If it was like a
black section, I'd take all the black pieces and slide
them over there. If it was some flowers, I'd try
(03:18):
to find all the pictures with little jigsaw pieces with
the little floor, and I separate them and then i'd
start putting it together. And the way I started was
i'd try to build a border first, because I knew
all the straight.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Edges had to be side by side at one point.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And it was funny, man, because it's related to my life.
I would start putting the pieces together of the picture
I saw that I liked, and that would be my picture.
A lot of people didn't like jigsaw puzzles. As a
matter of fact, none of the boys on the street
(03:54):
liked jigsaw puzzles but me, because they just didn't want
to go through the intricate detail of figuring that out.
Really go outside and run or something like that, And
so what happened was, as I got older, I wanted
more difficult and challenging puzzles, but I wouldn't go too far.
I wanted some nice stuff to happen. I had a
(04:16):
picture of what I wanted for my life, but I
didn't want to go too far because it was so
challenging and difficult. I couldn't see myself with all of that,
and I didn't have the time, the knowledge, the expertise
to figuring all the intricate details. And I discovered something
when I was talking last night. That's what happens in
(04:39):
life to a lot of people. You get bogged down
with the details of coming up and trying to create
the picture that you want for yourself. You put it
to the side, you say all that puzzles are crazy.
Next thing you know, you crumb it up and put
it back in the box. So you go halfway and
you get stuck, and you get to the part where
it ain't a lot of different colors. It's all the same,
(05:00):
and that's a little bit more challenging. So that may
stop you. But it's somewhere in the jigsaw puzzle that
it gets very difficult and challenging the bigger the picture
you want, but then what will happened in your life.
It's just like what happened in the jigsaw. Once you
get comfortable and you don't mind the challenge, you could
(05:23):
get a bigger picture. But here's the key to it, though,
if you put God in your mix, See, the picture
that I saw for myself as a boy is not
the picture that has happened to me as a man.
Because along the way from boyhood to manhood, from the
time I was telling you understand what happened along the
(05:45):
ride in there was I started putting God in the mix.
And so now the picture that I have now is
not the picture I saw. It's the picture that God saw.
So what I'm saying this analogy is the picture you
have may be difficult to complete, but if you were
(06:06):
to include God in your life, put God in your
jigsaw puzzle, God will not only help you complete the puzzle,
and he gonna add some pieces, he gonna do some favors,
he gonna show some mercy, and you gonna look up
and the picture that you're able to end up with
will be totally different and much more complete, much more beautiful.
(06:30):
A bigger picture than the one you had. Because there's
no way that I could have saught a life that
I have today back when I was a boy. And
it amazes me when I hear people say I always
saw this for myself. Ah, I didn't do that. I
didn't quite see this for myself. I don't know how
you can have the ability to see what God really
(06:50):
has for you. But man, he's a master for jigsaw. Man,
he's an incredible puzzle completed. So if you got a
puzzle that's challenging to you, maybe you need to see
what's the picture that God has for your life. If
God were in your life, if you complete it to puzzle,
what would it look like. It'll be a far more
(07:12):
extensive puzzle, and it would be a far more beautiful
piece of scenery than you could have ever imagined. Tears
come in my eyes because I can't believe God bought
me this far. I can't believe that when I opened
up and accepted him and started talking to him, that
he would add all these pieceles to my jigsaw puzzle,
(07:33):
and my jigsaw puzzle would look like this. And I
can tell you I ain't got a whole lot to
do with what out and turned into. It's mostly favor
and blessings and grace and mercy of God. And I
looked up and I just got a much bigger jigsaw
puzzle completed.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And guess what, He ain't through with me yet.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's what's amazing and exciting about a relationship with God.
God could take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it to
The Steve Harvey Morning Show
Come on, I sure will.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Good morning everybody, y'all listening to the voice, Come on,
dig me now one and only see if Harvey got
a radio show man. God is in a blessing business.
I'm in the receiving line.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Man.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
That's a good feeling. I thank God for waking me
up in the mornings, I really really do. I thank
God for the spirit that he wakes me up with
because I finally, but I finally figured it out. Such
a blessing that shouldn't be taken for granted. The fact
that you are up today, the fact that you just
(00:41):
got off working, you driving home, the fact that you
got a job to come home from, the fact that
you got a job to wake up too.
Speaker 1 (00:49):
Whatever it is, the fact that you can see.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
Think, here, smell, walk, talk, rhyme, reason, whatever it is,
it's a blessing.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
Man.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Talking to a partner of mine last night, and an
analogy came to me last night of what my life
has been like, just going over my story with a
friend of mine of all some of the things I
had gone through, and he never knew it because he said, man,
you never told me that we were just talking. One
of the things I remember and it's kind of equated
(01:21):
to my life was when I was a little boy.
As she goes to the store with my mom and
she would let me buy a jigsaw puzzle. Now, for
those of you, a jigsaw puzzle comes in a box.
There are no instructions. It just comes in a box
(01:42):
and it's simple. You're gonna dump the pieces out in
a pile and you're gonna try to put the pieces
together until it looks like the picture that's on the
cover of the box.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
That's as simple as it is. Here is the deal.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
I would select a jigsaw puzzle based on the picture
that I liked and if I thought I could do it. Now,
if the picture looked too crazy, if it looked too intricate,
I didn't want that puzzle, you know. And the thing was,
(02:25):
back in the day you got a jigsaw puzzle, you
had a hundred piece puzzles.
Speaker 1 (02:28):
Four hundred piece puzzles. Man, then they say a thousand
piece puzzle. You go ooo.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
So those were a little difficult for me when I
was a little boy, so I didn't want that. As
I got a little bit older, I had more challenging puzzles,
you know. Four fifty five hundred piece puzzles, but I
always picked a picture of something I liked. So it's
(02:56):
very simple. You get the jigsaw puzzle, you get it home,
you open it up, jump it out on the table,
You flip all the pieces over so you can see them,
and then I would try to sort them based on
the colors on the box. If it was like a
black section, I'd take all the black pieces and slide
them over there. If it was some flowers, I'd try
(03:18):
to find all the pictures with little jigsaw pieces with
the little floor, and I separate them and then i'd
start putting it together. And the way I started was
i'd try to build a border first, because I knew
all the straight.
Speaker 1 (03:30):
Edges had to be side by side at one point.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
And it was funny, man, because it's related to my life.
I would start putting the pieces together of the picture
I saw that I liked, and that would be my picture.
A lot of people didn't like jigsaw puzzles. As a
matter of fact, none of the boys on the street
(03:54):
liked jigsaw puzzles but me, because they just didn't want
to go through the intricate detail of figuring that out.
Really go outside and run or something like that, And
so what happened was, as I got older, I wanted
more difficult and challenging puzzles, but I wouldn't go too far.
I wanted some nice stuff to happen. I had a
(04:16):
picture of what I wanted for my life, but I
didn't want to go too far because it was so
challenging and difficult. I couldn't see myself with all of that,
and I didn't have the time, the knowledge, the expertise
to figuring all the intricate details. And I discovered something
when I was talking last night. That's what happens in
(04:39):
life to a lot of people. You get bogged down
with the details of coming up and trying to create
the picture that you want for yourself. You put it
to the side, you say all that puzzles are crazy.
Next thing you know, you crumb it up and put
it back in the box. So you go halfway and
you get stuck, and you get to the part where
it ain't a lot of different colors. It's all the same,
(05:00):
and that's a little bit more challenging. So that may
stop you. But it's somewhere in the jigsaw puzzle that
it gets very difficult and challenging the bigger the picture
you want, but then what will happened in your life.
It's just like what happened in the jigsaw. Once you
get comfortable and you don't mind the challenge, you could
(05:23):
get a bigger picture. But here's the key to it, though,
if you put God in your mix, See, the picture
that I saw for myself as a boy is not
the picture that has happened to me as a man.
Because along the way from boyhood to manhood, from the
time I was telling you understand what happened along the
(05:45):
ride in there was I started putting God in the mix.
And so now the picture that I have now is
not the picture I saw. It's the picture that God saw.
So what I'm saying this analogy is the picture you
have may be difficult to complete, but if you were
(06:06):
to include God in your life, put God in your
jigsaw puzzle, God will not only help you complete the puzzle,
and he gonna add some pieces, he gonna do some favors,
he gonna show some mercy, and you gonna look up
and the picture that you're able to end up with
will be totally different and much more complete, much more beautiful.
(06:30):
A bigger picture than the one you had. Because there's
no way that I could have saught a life that
I have today back when I was a boy. And
it amazes me when I hear people say I always
saw this for myself. Ah, I didn't do that. I
didn't quite see this for myself. I don't know how
you can have the ability to see what God really
(06:50):
has for you. But man, he's a master for jigsaw. Man,
he's an incredible puzzle completed. So if you got a
puzzle that's challenging to you, maybe you need to see
what's the picture that God has for your life. If
God were in your life, if you complete it to puzzle,
what would it look like. It'll be a far more
(07:12):
extensive puzzle, and it would be a far more beautiful
piece of scenery than you could have ever imagined. Tears
come in my eyes because I can't believe God bought
me this far. I can't believe that when I opened
up and accepted him and started talking to him, that
he would add all these pieceles to my jigsaw puzzle,
(07:33):
and my jigsaw puzzle would look like this. And I
can tell you I ain't got a whole lot to
do with what out and turned into. It's mostly favor
and blessings and grace and mercy of God. And I
looked up and I just got a much bigger jigsaw
puzzle completed.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
And guess what, He ain't through with me yet.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
That's what's amazing and exciting about a relationship with God.
God could take your jigsaw puzzle and fix it to
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