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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, come on
dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Man o man, oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I think about all the things God has done for
me as overwhelming at times, and I want everybody to
have that feeling and to sharing that feeling of completion
and satisfaction. And the only reason I got this, and
this the thousandth time I've said it, is because I
formed a relationship with my creator. Period. That's it. That's it.
(00:37):
I can't tell you as anything else else. You know,
I've always had a strong work ethic. My father put
that in me. My father's conversation with me growing up
was always constantly about work hard, don't be lazy, be
a man, do what you say you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
YadA YadA, YadA, YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Man. I was so tired of my father at times.
I was going, Man, what is with this dude?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Man, every time we have a conversation, it's got to
be about work. It's got to be about, you know, man,
doing your best, trying hard, you know, working and being honest,
do what you say you're gonna do. But that was
his mission. I can't tell you how much I appreciate
that now. I can't even I can't even put it
(01:19):
into words when I think about my old man and
what he was to me, and I just, man, I'm
so grateful for that balance I had in my life.
And then my father was a fighter. If he fought
on the weekends. You know, my father used to come
home with his with his clothes toe off of him.
(01:41):
He put a fresh shirt on, and he go back.
My mom used to talk about my father fighting all
the time. Nick, while you're always fighting. You know a
little bit of that rubbed off for me too. You
know that kind of got into me, and I didn't
understand that either. But then on the same turn, my
mother was a Sunday school teacher for forty years, so
her conversation was never about fighting anything. It was all
(02:03):
about love and understanding and doing another that you would
add and do unto you. My mom was a Sunday
school teacher, so I learned about faith. I had to
go to Sunday school, prayer meeting, Bible study, young people meeting,
choir rehearsal. You know, I was a churchman so much
I was actually looking as there's got to be an
alternative to this. You know, I want you know I
(02:24):
was a little kid even I was thinking at one point,
maybe out of looking al because there's got to be
something cooler than this going on every day. It had
got that crazy for me. But the balance between those
two people created who I am today. And I want
you to understand that the things that you are in
your past have helped create who you are today. If
(02:46):
you view it the right way, everything that has happened
to you in your past has happened to you for
a reason, and it's usually for the good if you
view it that. But if you, on the other hand,
are a type of person who can't move forward because
(03:07):
you are allowing your past to stop you from having
your future, then you, my friend, are doing a disservice
to your life. You are not honoring God's blessings. You
are not taking advantage of the gay, knowledge, wisdom, and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Experience of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Example, if you are a woman and you are always
talking about a former relationship what he did to me.
If he had not did this to me, I wouldn't
be in this place today.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I thought I had a man. Now I ain't got
no man.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Ah Allah lah lah lah lah if I you know,
he came along and I was doing just swell.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
He just came in and he just.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Lied to me. He lied to me. Now that he
did this to me. Then he cheated, then he left.
All of that that you say can very well be true.
Have you thought that maybe maybe somewhere in God's infinite wisdom,
(04:21):
that he knew that you had made a mistake in
picking him anyway? Maybe he knew you had made a
mistake in saying yes or I do to him anyway,
or come on, move in?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And so what he did was.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Based on your decision now to say yes, I do
or come on, let's move in together. That was your decision.
You ain't go to him about this one. You made
this decision based on that decision, and all the negative
things that started happening.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He allowed you to get away.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now how you got away from it, it's always not
the choice of ours. See, you stuck on the fact
that he left, that he walked out. But let me
share this with you. When he was there, How good
was he to you? How good was he for you? See,
you got to stare at you got to look at
the blessing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The blessing is Now you are on your own.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Now you walk in your house, ain't nobody in there
with a disruptive spirit. Now you go home. You could
take your clothes off, walk around like you want to.
Now you go home, you can sit down and look
at TV or catch your breath if you want to.
Your kids don't have to see y'all arguing all the time.
(05:47):
Have you looked at the blessing in it? But now
if you gonna keep looking at the negative, then guess what.
Now you can't move forward because you keep allowing your.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Path to keep you from moving forward.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
If God has brought you through it, why don't you
move on from it? Look, you got through it. He gone, Well,
he ain't coming back. He got somebody else. So you
gonna sit there and just keep tripping costs? He gone
and he got somebody else. Hey, pick yourself up. Thank
God for the blessing. It didn't feel like a blessing.
(06:24):
Why you was going through it and all the pain
of him leaving and the divorce and all that messed
you up?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
When you get through it all of that, You ain't
the first one being left. You ain't the first one
being divorced. You ain't the first.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
One been in a bad relationship.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Pick yourself up, thank God for the blessing, and move
forward in your life, because maybe when you quit complaining,
maybe you'll find out that God has something in store
for you that he wants you to have, but he
can't give it to you if you ain't grateful. So
God gives you blessed, but because you don't see it
(07:02):
as a blessing, you ain't grateful for it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Now, guess what, You steady asking God to do.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Something for you, but you ain't thanking him for what
he's done for you, but you steady wanting him to
do more.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
How does that work? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Man? That he should keep on giving you things when
you ain't even working with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He didne gave you. And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And I'm just using that one example. It could go
for me and two vice versa, and on and so forth.
I'm just using that as an example. Now, why I
laid on that one so long?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You have to take that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Over God, That's all the sweet I ain't pointing fingers
a nobody in nothing because I've been guilty on both
sides of the coin.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Who am I? But I'm just sharing with you what
I had to do.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I had to learn to stop allowing my past to
interfere with my future.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You're listening to The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
Good morning everybody. You're listening to the voice, come on
dig me now, one and only Steve Harvey got a
radio show. Man o man, oh man.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
I think about all the things God has done for
me as overwhelming at times, and I want everybody to
have that feeling and to sharing that feeling of completion
and satisfaction. And the only reason I got this, and
this the thousandth time I've said it, is because I
formed a relationship with my creator. Period. That's it. That's it.
(00:37):
I can't tell you as anything else else. You know,
I've always had a strong work ethic. My father put
that in me. My father's conversation with me growing up
was always constantly about work hard, don't be lazy, be
a man, do what you say you're gonna do.
Speaker 2 (00:52):
YadA YadA, YadA, YadA YadA.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
Man. I was so tired of my father at times.
I was going, Man, what is with this dude?
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Right here?
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Man, every time we have a conversation, it's got to
be about work. It's got to be about, you know, man,
doing your best, trying hard, you know, working and being honest,
do what you say you're gonna do. But that was
his mission. I can't tell you how much I appreciate
that now. I can't even I can't even put it
(01:19):
into words when I think about my old man and
what he was to me, and I just, man, I'm
so grateful for that balance I had in my life.
And then my father was a fighter. If he fought
on the weekends. You know, my father used to come
home with his with his clothes toe off of him.
(01:41):
He put a fresh shirt on, and he go back.
My mom used to talk about my father fighting all
the time. Nick, while you're always fighting. You know a
little bit of that rubbed off for me too. You
know that kind of got into me, and I didn't
understand that either. But then on the same turn, my
mother was a Sunday school teacher for forty years, so
her conversation was never about fighting anything. It was all
(02:03):
about love and understanding and doing another that you would
add and do unto you. My mom was a Sunday
school teacher, so I learned about faith. I had to
go to Sunday school, prayer meeting, Bible study, young people meeting,
choir rehearsal. You know, I was a churchman so much
I was actually looking as there's got to be an
alternative to this. You know, I want you know I
(02:24):
was a little kid even I was thinking at one point,
maybe out of looking al because there's got to be
something cooler than this going on every day. It had
got that crazy for me. But the balance between those
two people created who I am today. And I want
you to understand that the things that you are in
your past have helped create who you are today. If
(02:46):
you view it the right way, everything that has happened
to you in your past has happened to you for
a reason, and it's usually for the good if you
view it that. But if you, on the other hand,
are a type of person who can't move forward because
(03:07):
you are allowing your past to stop you from having
your future, then you, my friend, are doing a disservice
to your life. You are not honoring God's blessings. You
are not taking advantage of the gay, knowledge, wisdom, and.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
Experience of your life.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Example, if you are a woman and you are always
talking about a former relationship what he did to me.
If he had not did this to me, I wouldn't
be in this place today.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I thought I had a man. Now I ain't got
no man.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Ah Allah lah lah lah lah if I you know,
he came along and I was doing just swell.
Speaker 2 (03:58):
He just came in and he just.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Lied to me. He lied to me. Now that he
did this to me. Then he cheated, then he left.
All of that that you say can very well be true.
Have you thought that maybe maybe somewhere in God's infinite wisdom,
(04:21):
that he knew that you had made a mistake in
picking him anyway? Maybe he knew you had made a
mistake in saying yes or I do to him anyway,
or come on, move in?
Speaker 2 (04:38):
And so what he did was.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
Based on your decision now to say yes, I do
or come on, let's move in together. That was your decision.
You ain't go to him about this one. You made
this decision based on that decision, and all the negative
things that started happening.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
He allowed you to get away.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
Now how you got away from it, it's always not
the choice of ours. See, you stuck on the fact
that he left, that he walked out. But let me
share this with you. When he was there, How good
was he to you? How good was he for you? See,
you got to stare at you got to look at
the blessing.
Speaker 2 (05:22):
The blessing is Now you are on your own.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Now you walk in your house, ain't nobody in there
with a disruptive spirit. Now you go home. You could
take your clothes off, walk around like you want to.
Now you go home, you can sit down and look
at TV or catch your breath if you want to.
Your kids don't have to see y'all arguing all the time.
(05:47):
Have you looked at the blessing in it? But now
if you gonna keep looking at the negative, then guess what.
Now you can't move forward because you keep allowing your.
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Path to keep you from moving forward.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
If God has brought you through it, why don't you
move on from it? Look, you got through it. He gone, Well,
he ain't coming back. He got somebody else. So you
gonna sit there and just keep tripping costs? He gone
and he got somebody else. Hey, pick yourself up. Thank
God for the blessing. It didn't feel like a blessing.
(06:24):
Why you was going through it and all the pain
of him leaving and the divorce and all that messed
you up?
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Got it?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
When you get through it all of that, You ain't
the first one being left. You ain't the first one
being divorced. You ain't the first.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
One been in a bad relationship.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
Pick yourself up, thank God for the blessing, and move
forward in your life, because maybe when you quit complaining,
maybe you'll find out that God has something in store
for you that he wants you to have, but he
can't give it to you if you ain't grateful. So
God gives you blessed, but because you don't see it
(07:02):
as a blessing, you ain't grateful for it.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
Now, guess what, You steady asking God to do.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Something for you, but you ain't thanking him for what
he's done for you, but you steady wanting him to
do more.
Speaker 2 (07:14):
How does that work? How does that work?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Man? That he should keep on giving you things when
you ain't even working with the stuff.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
He didne gave you. And I don't know.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
And I'm just using that one example. It could go
for me and two vice versa, and on and so forth.
I'm just using that as an example. Now, why I
laid on that one so long?
Speaker 2 (07:35):
You have to take that.
Speaker 3 (07:36):
Over God, That's all the sweet I ain't pointing fingers
a nobody in nothing because I've been guilty on both
sides of the coin.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Who am I? But I'm just sharing with you what
I had to do.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
I had to learn to stop allowing my past to
interfere with my future.
Speaker 2 (07:53):
You're listening to The Steve Harvey Morning Show.
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