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What's up guys?
Welcome to Demo with Mo.
I'm your host, monique Simmons.
We'll be discussing dating,engaged and married objectives
from a young Christian'sperspective.
Are you guys ready?
Let's dive in.
Hey, what's up guys?
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Welcome to a new episode ofDemo with Mo.
I am your host, monique Simmons, and today is going to be a
quick and sweet one.
I want to update you guys on afew things.
About six weeks ago or so, I didan episode called Embracing a
New Normal and if you have notlistened to that episode, I
highly encourage you to go backand listen to that episode.
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I think it was a pretty goodone and I may be a little biased
you know I may be a littlebiased but I encourage you to
have some context on what I'mgetting ready to say to
seriously go back and listen tothat episode.
That was episode four from thisseason, embracing a new normal,
but on that episode I talked toyou guys about going in for an
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annual and some things, comingback and having to go see a
specialist and a specialisttelling me how he could treat
certain things, but how I wouldneed to fix the root cause that
was causing the issue that heneeded to treat and how I was
eventually going to go aboutdoing it and how I had been
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living with these issues forbasically years.
And it wasn't because I wantedto live with the issues and the
things that were going on, itwas because I thought it was
normal.
I thought it was because I wasa woman and being a woman of
color that the things that I wasdealing with and the things
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that I was experiencing andfacing these were things that
were going to have to be a partof my life.
I think things that were goingto just have to be my normal,
things that I was just going tohave to learn to live with and
deal with.
And after seeing my doctors andseeing the specialists, I
learned that I didn't have tolive that way and that I could
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have a new normal, that I didn'thave to live that way and that
I could have a new normal.
And this is just me summarizingeverything that happened.
But you really to get the justand to get deep in detail of
that whole experience and all ofthe conversations that I had
with my doctors and all of that,you really have to go back and
listen to that episode and howsometimes we think something is
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normal, even if it's somethingthat's hurting us, even if it's
something that we're sufferingthrough, even if it's something
that's to our detriment, becausewe've been dealing with it for
so long.
We've figured out a way of howto just go through it and push
through it and smile through it,even though it's hurting us.
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We think we have to live thisway.
This has to be our normal.
We have to function throughthis and we don't.
God has given us a way out.
He has provided us a way out.
He has provided us a way ofescape.
We don't have to live this way.
We don't have to go throughthese things, but we choose to
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because we think we have to,because it's always been this
way.
But we can have a new normal,because that's what that
specialist that I saw, which Italked about in that previous
episode.
He told me this didn't have tobe my normal.
I didn't have to live that wayanymore.
And I came here today to updateyou guys because I didn't share
a lot of personal, intricatedetails and I'm still not
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sharing a lot of personal,intricate details, and one day I
will but I'm coming to updateyou because I'm preparing to get
ready to go into fixing thosethings.
I'm getting ready to walk intomy new normal when it comes to
my physical health andwell-being.
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I've taken the necessary stepswith my doctors and the support
of my husband and going throughall of the necessary things and
much prayer and research.
I'm going through the necessarythings to get on the other side
of this and not sufferingthrough anymore and not living
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in what had been normal for mefor so many years and just
dealing with it and smilingthrough and pushing through and
in the midst of sufferingBecause I was suffering.
I will just be honest.
I was suffering through and Ididn't have to.
There was a way of escape forme.
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There was a way out of that.
There was something better onthe other side and I hope y'all
not letting this go over yourhead dealt with something better
on the other side and I hopey'all not letting this go over
your head.
I really hope you're notletting this go over your head.
But I'm preparing for my newnormal.
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So I am getting ready to do thethings to come out of this to
take care of my physical healthand again, I'm really not
sharing a lot because I'm notgoing into my personal intimate
business at this moment, but Ijust want you guys to know, and
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I want you to be encouraged,that you don't have to stay in
what has been normal for you forso long, what has been coming,
what has been what you'vesuffered through and lived
through, because you've been init for years, because you've
learned how to deal with it,because you've put up with it,
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because it's been all you'veever known.
It's something better for you.
On the other side, there's anew normal for you, there's
something better, there's a wayof escape.
God has something so muchbetter for you, and right now
I'm talking about my physicalhealth.
But there have been so manyother areas of my life the past
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few years oh, my goodness, thepast few years.
It has been so many things inmy life where this has applied
for me and especially for thisyear 2024, I have seen this
being on the other side, on thehealthy side, in so many areas
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of my life.
For so long years ago, I was soused to being in dysfunction
Dysfunctional relationships,dysfunction in my finances,
dysfunctional relationships,dysfunction in my finances,
dysfunction with mindsets,dysfunction on my perspective,
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on not wanting to let go ofcertain thought processes
because of how I was raised andso many things.
But now to be here on the otherside, what God had provided for
me and had waiting for me, andall I had to do was accept what
he already had for me, to walkinto what he already had for me.
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And the choice is yours.
He won't make you do anything,he won't force it on you, but
it's yours.
Just like when it came to myphysical health.
The doctors and the resourceswere there, but I had to ask the
questions.
I had to communicate what wasgoing on with my body and the
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things that I was going through.
I had to go to the appointmentsand the visits.
I had to do the research anddecide which way did I want to
go.
I had to agree.
I had to say yes.
I had to make the necessarysteps of what it took to go
through with the processes andagree and talk to my husband and
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have conversations with mychildren on what we're doing
next and where we're going fromhere.
I had to do those things.
There are some steps that we'regoing to have to take, that
you're going to have to takewith any area of your life If
you want to come out, if youwant things to be different.
If you want to do somethingdifferent, there are some things
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that you're going to have to do.
It's not just going to fall onyour lap.
God is not just going to doeverything for you.
There is some work for you tobe.
There is some work to be done.
There are some choices to bemade.
There are some things thatyou're going to have to come out
of.
There are some people you'regoing to have to stop dealing
with.
There are some things you'regoing to have to let go of.
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There are some forgiveness thatyou're going to have to give.
There are some resentment thatyou're going to have to let go
of.
There are some choices thatyou're going to have to make.
There are some things you'regoing to have to begin to walk
in an obedience to somesacrifices, some things you're
going to have to say somesacrifices, some things you're
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going to have to say yes to.
Some things you're going tohave to say no to.
Some things you're going tohave to walk in and walk out of.
There are some choices to bemade, and I'm not saying this
from a person that don'tunderstand.
I'm not saying this from aperson who does not get it.
I'm not saying this from aperson or a place, of somebody
who has not had to sacrifice,who has not had to give up, who
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has not had to lose anything.
I have lost relationships.
I have lost relationships withpeople that I love.
I'm talking about people that Ilove.
But if it ever comes between myrelationship with God and
having to walk away or choosingsomething else, even if it's
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something or somebody that Ilove, and it hinders my walk
with God, my relationship withGod, I have to choose God, and
everybody is not ready to makethat choice.
Everybody is not ready for that.
The word of God says you have totake up your cross and follow
me.
Everybody don't want to take upa cross.
You like to call yourself aChristian.
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You like to say you're abeliever.
You know you want to wear thattitle, but do you really know
what that means?
Do you really understand whatthat comes with?
Do you really understand theburden that you will bear?
Do you really know what itmeans to have to take up your
cross?
I want you to picture JesusChrist when he had to carry his
own cross to die and suffer on.
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So imagine the cross that youhave to bear when he says you
have to take up your cross andfollow me when you following
after Jesus Christ.
There are some things thatyou're going to have to bear and
carry that won't feel good.
There's going to be some peoplethat don't like you just
because they don't like you.
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They don't like the light thatshines through you.
They don't like Jesus gloryshining from your life.
There's going to be some thingsyou have to through you.
They don't like Jesus' gloryshining from your life.
There's going to be some thingsyou have to give up that you
don't want to give up becauseyour flesh loves it and desires
it, but you're going to have togive it up.
There's going to be some timesyou have to humble yourself
before people you don't want tohumble yourself to because your
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pride says don't let it go, theyain't right, you didn't do
anything wrong.
But God says to humble yourself.
There are going to be somethings that you just don't want
to do.
There are going to be somethings you want to do that you
can't do or you shouldn't do.
Take up your cross and follow me.
Are you ready for that?
Do you love him that much?
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His word says if you love himthat much.
His word says if you love me,keep my commandments.
I love you, lord, but I don'tknow about keeping no
commandments.
You know we like to fix it andwe like to justify, but God's
word is true.
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God's word is clear.
God means what he said.
So are you ready for that?
Are you ready for that, thisnew normal?
It's available to you.
You don't have to keep doingthings the same way.
You don't have to stay whereyou've been.
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You don't have to keep doingthings the same way.
You don't have to stay whereyou've been.
You don't have to keepsuffering through.
There is something better onthe other side.
I promise you it is somethingbetter on the other side, and
I'm not talking about waiting toget to heaven, waiting to get
the glory.
You know People say that, butpeople that say that they don't
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have a full understanding, eventhough heaven is going to be a
beautiful place to get to.
I can't wait to meet Jesus, Ican't wait to meet my father,
but God has so much availablefor us on this side, you don't
have to wait.
It's available on this side.
So do you want that?
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And if so, it's available toyou.
Joy, peace, good relationships,peace of mind.
You can't buy that kind ofstuff with money.
You know money is good to have,it's a great resource, don't
get me wrong.
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But you can't buy that stuffwith money.
I wouldn't trade any of thatstuff.
When you get that kind of stuff, you wouldn't trade it Because
if you've ever been without it,when you get it you don't want
to lose it.
You don't want to be without it.
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And I've been on the other side.
I've been without peace andI've been without joy and I've
been without a peace of mind andI've been where I've been
worried about everything andwondering how things are going
to work out, and I've been there.
So if you're ready for your newnormal, you want that new normal
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.
You're tired of being where youthought that was normal and you
thought that was the way yourlife had to be.
And this is the only way it canbe and it can't get no better
than this.
This side was for my mama, mydaddy, my grandparents and
generations and generationsbefore I'm.
I'm a, I'm a witness, a livingexample.
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Things can change with you.
Things can change with you.
Things can change with you.
You can make the choice thatit's going to be different with
me, but you have to make thatchoice.
Nobody else can make it for you.
God won't force it on you.
You have to make that choice.
It won't always be easy.
It won't always feel good.
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Everybody won't like you,everybody won't agree with you.
It may be rocky sometimes.
Sometimes you may feel lonely.
You may feel like you all outthere, by yourself, and I'm
telling you, it feels that way,it just feels that way.
But you keep going.
You're not alone.
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God is with you.
The people that really love you, that really rise for you,
they're with you.
So I say this is gonna be quickand sweet.
I hope it was sweet.
I don't know if it was quick,but y'all, I'm ready to get to
the other side when it comes tomy physical health and I'm
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almost there.
So hopefully I can update youguys soon on everything.
Thank you for rocking with me,for supporting me.
If you are a praying person, ifyou are a Christian and believer
, and call on the name of JesusChrist.
If you are a praying person,please call my name.
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Just, god already knows, healready knows, he already knows
about his child.
Just call my name.
Sincere prayers.
Please just call my name, and Iappreciate you.
I hope you enjoyed today'sepisode.
Remember I love you, but Godloves you so much more and I'll
see you guys next week.
Bye, I hope you guys haveenjoyed.
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