Erica-ism of the Day | Use Your Resources

In her Erica-ism of the Day, “Use Your Resources,” encouraged listeners to steward what they’ve been given—whether time, talents, or opportunities—to their fullest potential. 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Real, so real. Jog the erica Ism of the day
on Get Up Mornings with Erica Campbell. All right, guys,
time for the erica Ism of today and today for
my erica Ism. I want to talk about my sweet
niece Leah. Listen. She has always been my super cool niece.
She's always been aware of her environment. She's always had
common sense. You know how some kids you can trick

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them and you know, tell them certain things, and then
she'll go, know that that's not true, that's not right.
She was always paying attention and that's why she's always
the niece that if she's there, everybody's happy about it.
It's a few of the cousins in my family that
if they're there, the aunties and the mamas and the
uncles are always like, we know, we cool because we
know they gonna make good decisions. Well, that's my niece Leah,
and she is going away to college and we're super

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excited about it. But I thought was so beautiful yesterday
We got together as a family and we just loved
her and prayed over her and you know, remembered the
things that she did. Her friends were there, church, family,
some aunts and uncles, my mom you know. So she
has her grandmother and everybody just praying over her and
speaking life over her. But the really cool thing was
the younger cousins who talked about what a good big

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cousin she is. Now she's turning twenty two this year.
Many of you may have watched her on the Mary
Mary Schelle. She's Tina's their second baby and just a
real blessing, a real light. But man, I'm a Missleya.
When the older ones say, hey, mom, were going out,
I'll be like, is Leah going? If Leah's going, I'd

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be like, okay, all right. Not that the others won't
make good decisions, but she just watches in a different way.
And I am so proud of her. She took a
year off of school. Family and life and money and
all that stuff happens. And you know what we try
to do with my family is once they get to college,
just make them responsible. So you know, they have to
figure out their money and they have to figure out things,

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which ain't easy when you're twenty something years old. But
she has handled it with such care. She's handled it
with integrity. Not that she's been perfect, who is what
is perfect? But she's always honest, and I just think
that's so beautiful. So I am wishing my niece well
and she goes off to college with what I think
is really great. In addition to that is how the
younger cousins are seeing what affirmation looks like, what it

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looks like to have your village. One of the deacons
from our church came, Deacon Taven Jones, who we love
so much, and he told her he said, every school
has a resource center, right, and she said yes. He said,
the resource center is where your resources are, where you
can go and get what you need or find out
what you need or find out where you can get it.
He said, this room is also your resource center. So

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when you are low on joy, and when you are
low on love, and when you are low on encouragement,
tap into this resource center. He was like, everybody in
here is a source of joy and inspiration and motivation
and sometimes correction too, So don't forget to tap into
your resource center. And that's my message for you today.
There is a resource center for you. And maybe you've

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told yourself, I don't have nobody and anybody here from
ya city. Is this somebody rooting for you, cheering for
you and wanting you to win. Don't you let the devil.
We'll spread your ear and tell you nobody cares and
it's there. It's not their business. And here's the one
of everybody love using. I don't want to be a bother?
What does that mean? When you love people and you
do life together. Make a phone call if you need
to make a phone call. If you're not feeling well,

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if you're not feeling well in your mind, say something.
Speak up. There are people who care about you. Even
if you don't say nothing, but hey, pray for me.
It's a tough time. It's a tough season. I need
a little extra prayer power, y'all. I do it all
the time. When I feel overwhelmed, I will go through
my phone. I'll just put in prayer warriors. About six
seven people come up, I'll send them all the text.
Rough day, say a prayer, Struggling, say a prayer. Tap

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into your resources. Listen. We even got a hotline if
you need to call and say, hey, y'all, just pray
for me. We can do that too. You got resources,
You have people who love you, so make sure you
tap into the resources. And just in case you don't
have the new hotline number. It is nine seven two
three three one five five seven zero. This is not

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the number where you call and say Ericar, I want
to write a song for you. That's not that n number.
Nine seven two three three five five seven zero. Tap in,
y'all use your resources. We got your back.