October 23, 2024 • 38 mins
Laura Buckley joins us on the Dorsey Ross Show to share her extraordinary journey of faith and her mission to bridge the gap between science and spirituality. Motivated by a deep conversation with her son, who had doubts about his faith, Laura dedicated herself to creating resources that offer tangible evidence and insights into Christianity. A heartfelt compliment from a choir member further fueled her passion for writing, spurring her commitment to provide hope and encouragement to others seeking faith.
Explore five compelling reasons to trust in God, ranging from historical artifacts and the intricacies of DNA to philosophical concepts and miraculous occurrences that defy explanation. Laura and I discuss how these elements serve as evidence of divine creation, while also highlighting the mental and physical health benefits that faith can bring. With personal stories of miracles, including a life-changing car accident during my teenage years, we reinforce the belief in a higher power through extraordinary experiences.
Life's toughest trials often test our faith, and Laura shares insights on building trust in God through ongoing challenges and daily conversations. As she navigates writing about faith amidst self-doubt and external pressure, she finds strength through her relationship with God and support from loved ones. Together, we reflect on personal stories of hardship, including my husband's accidents and the loss of my mother. These experiences ultimately renewed our sense of purpose and resilience, proving that faith can be a guiding light through the darkest times.
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Dorsey Ross (00:00):
Hello everyone, thank you again for joining me
on another episode of the DorsiDRush Show.
Today we have a special guestwith us.
Her name is Laura Buckley, whois a devoted Christian writer
who is committed to exploringthe profound aspects of faith
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and spirituality.
With a deep-rooted belief inthe power of God and an
unshakable trust in his divineplan, laura has a dedicated
literacy learning to sharing theChristian message of hope,
trust and unwavering faith withreaders around the world.
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Raising faith with readersaround the world.
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Laura has embarked on proof toreinforce the reader's
confidence in God's provisionand love.
Laura's unique approachcombines thorough research,
personal reflection and apassion for connecting with
readers on a solid excuse me,whole deep level.
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Her writing seeks to create asafe and welcoming space for
individuals seeking spiritualunderstanding and a closer
relationship with the divine.
Laura, thank you so much forcoming on the show today.
Laura Buckley (01:48):
Well, thank you, Dorsey, for having me.
I appreciate it.
Dorsey Ross (01:51):
Absolutely, and, as my guests know, I always open
up with an icebreaker question,and today's icebreaker question
is what's the best complimentyou ever received?
Laura Buckley (02:07):
Oh, wow, that's a big question.
The best compliment I've everreceived?
Okay, I'm going to have to gowith the best most recent
compliment I've received, one ofthe ladies from my church.
She's in my choir group.
I've been getting her to readthe book for a while.
She said she's going to.
She finally started reading itand she came to me in just
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complete, utter awe it's theonly way I can describe it.
She looked at me and she saidLaura, that is an amazing book.
You've written so insightful,so well-written.
I just I can't believe it.
And I, you know, and part of megoes, part of me goes.
Well, okay, do people not thinkthat I can do that?
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But she was so sincere, soabsolutely sincere, that you
know it's like.
And when people come to you andtell you that you did something
great and wonderful, then youknow it's nothing.
But you know, inspiring tomyself, right.
Dorsey Ross (03:12):
Why are you passionate about what you do?
Laura Buckley (03:17):
I think I'm passionate because of my son, my
son.
So to give you a littleinformation about you know how I
got to where I am with writingthis book, my son, who's a very
loving, kind, big hearted, uh,young man, about six years ago,
when he was about 16 or so, hecame to me one day and he said,
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mom, I don't think, I believeanymore.
And and I'm like, what do youmean?
And it took him a lot ofstrength to come to me and tell
me that and we talked about itfor like a good hour, I would
say about you know what made himnot believe?
And he's gone to church, hewent to religious ed classes.
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You know, he just in his schoolhe was a scientific, you know
type kid and very much intothose type of classes computer,
et cetera and he had classmatesthat just simply didn't believe
and apparently a lot of stuffthat they teach in school is
very non, non, god, non, youknow, supernatural, not any.
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And for him he that's what hewas hearing, that's what he
heard.
So the last thing I told himwas, if I can find information,
he wanted some proof, sometangible proof.
And he goes if I can find yousomething, would you listen to
me?
Would you listen to what I'mtelling you?
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And he goes yes.
So it took me a little whileand I put together some
information for him and got thatinformation in front of him,
including this ginormous book ofscientific proof for him,
because that's what he was into.
But we watched, you know, likea video, and went through some
different basically it was moreof the artifacts type thing and
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where you know all the differentmanuscripts are and the fact
that this stuff is still there,still, you know, tangibly there,
and I guess he only read likeone chapter, one chapter of that
scientific book.
And he ended up going okay, ifthey can write that long of a
book over scientific proof, I'mgood, I'm good.
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So, and that wasn't the startof it, that was just kind of
like okay, that's cool.
But then I realized, with myresearch and with his knowledge,
I was like wait a minute,there's nothing out there for
these young adults to grab ahold of and say out there for
these young adults to grab ahold of and say, in a fairly
short, respectively, attentionspan, to go okay, here's a
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reason to believe, here's areason to believe.
Here's a reason to believeBecause it's just like I said
that big, you know, thick booktype thing on one subject, or
you know just a couple subjectsand these kids just need
something to go.
Should I believe or not believe?
And then at that point then youtake it from there and go okay,
I believe.
Now where do I want to go?
As far as my knowledge andfurther research, I, you know, I
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like this idea, I like what waspresented.
I want to go the scientific way, I want to go the historic way
or I want to go, you know, justyou know, into the church and go
from there.
So, yeah, Was.
Dorsey Ross (06:26):
That was the book that your son read.
Do you remember the title of itand who wrote it, and was it
based on a, on the Christianfaith, or was it just a secular
book that somebody came up with?
Laura Buckley (06:39):
You know, I do not have that book in front of
me, so I apologize, I don't havethat book in front of me, so I
apologize, I don't have that.
It was definitely just a hugescientific book.
You know, for him he said, youknow he understood the first
chapter, but it was really hard,you know, to really understand
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he goes.
You know, there's no waysomebody would just pick up this
book and read this and feellike, hey, oh, that makes sense
to me and as far as you know itwas.
It was I don't know if I wantto say it was Christian based
because, honestly, I didn't readit because it was just too much
for me.
I'm not of that mindset, butyou know, it just kind of proved
that there was a God.
And I think science nowadayshave gone to that point, or gone
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further, to that point of, ohwell, because we cannot prove
that there isn't a God andbecause certain things we cannot
explain in our scientificresearch, there's got to be
something that's larger than,you know, the Big Bang Theory or
whatever they're going with atthe time, that shows that
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there's something out there thatstarted this, that caused this,
that caused at least thatinitial reaction, the initial
start to the universe and ourDNA and how our DNA is made up
and so unique for each person.
You know, three billion letterslong the DNA is.
I mean, you know, this stuffdoesn't just pop out of the air,
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and I think that's what thescientists are now saying.
They're like this kind of stuffwe can't reproduce, we can't
make this happen.
You know, this isn't somethingthat, there's something else
that influenced this and causedthis.
Dorsey Ross (08:25):
You mentioned that you wrote a book and it's called
21 Reasons for Trusting in God.
Can you give us five of thosereasons why we should trust in
God?
Laura Buckley (08:39):
Oh, sure, sure, Well, so if you want, like that
proof type thing, there's ahundred thousand artifacts in
existence that will prove thebiblical during the time of
Jesus, that the whole gospel,like it, goes back to different
sections of the gospel andproves the gospel.
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So that's an amazing number ofartifacts that are there and
available.
And I mentioned the DNA.
The DNA is one of the otherthings that kind of proves God's
existence.
Because they can't reproducethat that information is just
unreproducible, so that's agreat one.
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Just unreproducible, so that'sa great one.
One of the things that they talkabout a lot in the
philosophical end of things isthat there has to be a cause.
So if something exists,something caused it to exist.
And this is more of a mentaltwister type thing.
You know that a lot of peopledon't get into, but you know
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some do where, if there issomething that exists, there had
to be a cause.
Therefore, if it does exist,there was a cause.
What was that cause?
And that's kind of a logicalexplanation for God.
Okay, other things are miracles.
Miracles are huge and I don'tthink they're I don't want to
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say in the news enough, butthey're not readily available
enough because they happen on avery regular basis and we just
don't hear about them, don'tknow about them.
Lot of doctors probably maybeyou know know about some of
those that happen, you know, inthe hospital.
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But there's things that happenoutside the hospital whether it
be at Lourdes or just a prayergoing into a church that happen
all the time and there's no wayto explain it.
No way to explain it exceptthat there is somebody larger
than us that is looking out forus, protecting us and caring for
us.
So to me that's a huge proof aswell, because I've had that
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happen in my own life.
And then you know if you wantanother one, it's just
health-wise.
If you don't believe in God anddon't have that trust in
something protecting you andlooking out for you, you can get
really, I think, mentally kindof messed up.
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You know, you can get kind ofreally into your head thinking
about all this stuff and thatcauses physical reactions.
And so they have proven throughdifferent studies that when
people believe in a God, believein his protection, believe in
his love, they calm down, theirblood pressure goes down, they
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accept things better, they feelbetter, they can handle things
better and, honestly, just thepeace that it brings me.
I you know, there's nothingelse that can cause that.
There's nothing else that cancause that.
So those are just some quickoverviews.
I guess that I just gave you,but yeah.
Dorsey Ross (11:55):
You know.
Going back to the artifactsthat you mentioned, that they
found, you know, in the Biblereadings and you know, for the
Bible times, I was doing a, youknow, youth group study on
certain videos and they weretalking about that they haven't
like excavated, they onlyexcavated like 5% of the whole
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area of the Bible.
You know for the Bible times.
Laura Buckley (12:23):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so there's probably so much
more there that we just don'thave in our hands For the Bible
times.
Okay, yeah, yeah, so there'sprobably so much more there that
we just don't have in our hands.
I know they found the cross andthere was a miracle that
happened when they first foundthe cross and it was kind of how
they tested, because there wasthree crosses right, and there's
three crosses there with thetwo thieves and then Jesus in
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the middle, and they all werekind of made of the same
material.
They knew that it was a materialfrom back then, but what they
did is they had a lady who Idon't know what her symptoms
were, I don't remember at thispoint in time sick in some way,
needed some sort of healing insome way, and they touch the
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crosses and when she touchedwhat they now say is Jesus's
original you know, the crossthat he was crucified on she was
healed, and so that's how theyknew.
And there's more healings thathave happened since then.
The cross has actually beensplintered and pulled apart and
I wish it hadn't.
That just makes me cringe alittle bit, but there's pieces
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of the cross that have been ondisplay throughout the world and
you know people have used thatkind of just like touching his
cloak when he was alive orwhatever.
Dorsey Ross (13:36):
So yeah, Tell us about your first miracle at 15.
Laura Buckley (13:42):
Sure, sure.
So this was a big like OK,there's a God, you know, because
I believed in God before that.
I believed through.
You know what my parents taughtme through going to church.
But when I was 15, I was with myfriend in a car.
She was just a driving age.
I didn't have a seat belt onbecause her seat belt didn't
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work.
I tried.
This was when seatbelts werefairly new as well, so it was no
big deal for me not to have aseatbelt on.
But she was driving us back homeand she was talking to me, just
kind of looking at me, and Ikind of looked up and I saw in
front of me the light was redand a car coming through and
there was no time for her toreact.
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We were going straight into thecar.
We went straight into the carand straight into a tree.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I was passed out and
laying on my friend's lap, so Iwas actually over in the
driver's side and these were bigcars back then, not to age
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myself too much here.
But I looked in the window andthis is what I remember.
I looked in the window andthere was a gentleman there and
he just looked at me and he goesare you okay?
And I just kind of respondedyes.
And the next thing I know I waswaking up, saw myself on my
friend's lap got myself, youknow, back together, for
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whatever reason.
My reaction was starting to pickup my purse because my stuff
flew everywhere and you know, wehad then the first.
I could hear the ambulance andeverything coming.
They were quickly coming andthey came up to the window and
they were asking us if we wereOK.
At this point my friend, youknow, kind of came back to and
we're like, yeah, we're okay,where's the guy?
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Where's the guy that was justhere?
This guy was just here and heasked me if I was okay.
Already they're looking aroundand there's nobody else here.
We're the first ones on thescene.
Nobody's standing around.
That looks like the gentlemanthat I described to them, so he
wasn't there.
To kind of further on the story,what really kind of put it at
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home is that when they took thecar in to the junkyard because
the car was totaled our car wastotaled, which neither of us
were injured, by the way, not,you know anything, big, just
sore Took the car into thejunkyard.
The junkyard manager said, hey,I'm so sorry for your loss.
And they're like what are youtalking about?
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And they said, well, thejunkyard manager said, well, the
person that went through thewindshield on the passenger side
, you know, obviously passedaway.
I've never seen anybody live,you know, hitting the windshield
like that and they're like no,she's perfectly fine at home,
just a little sore.
So that just kind of that wholecombination of seeing that
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figure in the window and thenknowing that I hit that
windshield so hard that theythought I should have passed
away, you know, that just kindof really made me feel like okay
, there's somebody watching outfor me and my parents, my mom
even said there's a reason whyyou're still alive.
Dorsey Ross (16:51):
Yeah, now, that person that was by the window
asking you, are you okay?
Could it have been the otherdriver or somebody else from the
other car, or was thatdisproven?
Laura Buckley (17:07):
Yeah, the other car.
There was a lady driving,nobody else, just a lady driving
that car.
She did get in the ambulancebut she was okay in the end.
You know I don't know the wholestory because it was my
friend's car and her driving,but she wasn't, you know, hurt
to the point where she was.
You know she went home thatnight later too, there was
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nobody standing around.
You know, if somebody's goingto come up to your car and say,
are you okay, and you know thefireman, he's like we're the
first ones on the scene, I, youknow there's nobody else here.
They don't just disappear thatquickly.
So you know, and typically ifsomebody was wanting to check on
you, if you're okay, they kindof watch out and stand around
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and you know, yeah, yeah.
Dorsey Ross (17:51):
So I truly believe it was an angel of some sort
your bio and on your websitethat as you got older in your
college years you started todrift away a little bit from you
know from God or from yourbelief in God.
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And why was that?
Laura Buckley (18:16):
College years are really hard, I think, you know,
for a lot of people.
You want to, you want to playthe college role, you want to
enjoy yourself, you want to.
You know you're studying,you're meeting new people,
you're trying to get used toliving in a dorm room with
somebody else.
So the last thing you usuallydo is just get up and go.
Okay, I'm going to go to churchthis morning.
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You know, it just doesn't.
I don't know why, you know itdoesn't always connect with
people, but that kind of, youknow, I felt it.
I felt immediately when Istarted doing that I was like,
oh man, I miss that connection,I miss going to church.
And it's an interesting thingbecause you just kind of that
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connection, that community thatyou have at church, dissipates
so quickly if you're not goingon a regular basis.
So I think you know that justreally hit home for me.
I felt like I needed to go andI did try to go.
I think I, you know, tried togo on occasion, went to a couple
activities that they had, youknow, in the social hall type
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thing, social hall type thing,and luckily I found a group of
friends in our dorm that werevery Christian and they helped,
you know, introduce me to music,and we went and visited other
churches and kind of re-centeredmyself to saying, okay, yeah,
yep, I got to keep God, you know, in the forefront, or at least
somewhere nearby, somewherenearby.
Dorsey Ross (19:46):
In your book that we mentioned earlier, you talked
about trusting in God.
How do you personally defineand practice trust in your daily
life?
Laura Buckley (20:00):
Yeah, that's a good question.
I think putting trust in God isreally a long-term, everyday
thing that you have to work on.
It's not, you know, I trustthat he is looking over my
activities and what I do.
Now, I haven't always been thatway.
Now, I haven't always been thatway.
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There was a long time where Ifelt like, okay, I believe in
God, it's good, I believe inJesus, it's good.
But I'm, you know, walkingthrough life like a lot of
people do, just walking throughlife, doing my own thing,
whether it be, you know, work,friends, whatever I'm doing,
family, et cetera.
But at least in those days, Iwasn't giving my all to God, I
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wasn't giving my heart, my soulto God.
And honestly, since I wrote thebook, between the time that I
started writing the book andeven till just within the last
couple of months, I really now,just now, feel like, okay, I
know what it means to trust inGod, because I had to get really
close to him and I feel likepeople need to really realize
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that being close to God meanstalking to him, not just once a
day, not just okay, I'm going tosay a quick prayer in the
morning, the Our Father in theevening and I'm done.
It's a relationship and thatrelationship has to be fostered,
just like any otherrelationship.
It's not that he's not therefor you, it's not that he
doesn't love you and wants tohave that relationship, but you
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have to put that effort in forHim to really for you to hear
Him and connect with Him.
It's your end that can'tconnect sometimes, I think, with
God enough that you can reallyfeel that full trust and that
full love.
It's hard to explain, butyou'll feel it inside.
You'll feel it inside andyou'll know it.
Dorsey Ross (21:51):
You'll know it.
Laura Buckley (21:53):
Every day.
Now I just, you know, I ask himfor his guidance, I ask him for
him to protect me, to show mewhat to do for that day, and
then at the end of the day, youknow, just kind of say did I do
the right thing?
Please help me to do bettertomorrow.
Dorsey Ross (22:10):
Yeah, if you know, for people that are listening
that may feel like they lacktrust in God, how would you?
You know?
What encouragement would you?
Laura Buckley (22:27):
give to them to help them to trust in God more.
Yeah, I mean, obviously as aselfish point, I would say read
the book.
Okay, just because trustingfirst of all comes with belief.
Okay, you can't trust insomebody you know until you're
friends with somebody, knowsomebody.
You don't put your trust inthem completely.
So you have to get to know themfirst.
You have to go through thatprocess of who is God?
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Why should I believe in him?
Now I believe.
What do I do with this belief?
Where do I go with this belief?
How am I supposed to connectwith him?
How does he help me?
Where do I connect?
How do I supposed to connectwith him?
How does he help me?
Where do I connect?
How do I serve him?
Or how do I you know what is mynext steps?
And all this has to come, andit's kind of sequential, I
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believe, and in your life tothen, once you get all those
pieces put together, thatrelationship is really kind of
stronger, because then you know,you know in your heart that, oh
, god is real, I can put myfaith in him, I know he's there
for me.
And you just go through thatprocess of for me and I'm just
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going to be Dorsey.
This was one of the things thatI did.
After I wrote the book I'm likeit brought up more questions and
that's why in the book I sayquite often that's okay,
questions are good.
Questions are good Because Ineeded those questions to
continue my research, tocontinue my journey, to continue
my belief myself.
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Because all these questionspopped up.
So those questions, once I gotyou know, started answering
those questions that I had.
Then I knew, okay, now I got myanswers.
Now I know, now I completely100% in there and I think
everybody has a differentjourney.
Everybody's going to have adifferent you know timeframe in
which they go through, but youhave to go through it.
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You have to keep fighting forit and keep learning and answer
those questions and find thatrelationship with our Lord.
Dorsey Ross (24:28):
What challenges did you face while writing the book
and how did you faith guide youthrough those challenges?
Laura Buckley (24:57):
Hmm.
So challenges, you know, faithhad to be there to write the
book.
So challenges for me werementally am I doing the right
thing?
Am I hearing God?
Is this what God wants me towrite?
I was being challenged, byfriends as well, challenged by
just what was happening in myworld around me, whether it be
finances, trying to find moneyto produce the book, whether it
be just time frame that it tookme to write the book in
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comparison to what I wanted.
And just I felt like I wasconstantly being barraged by
questioning myself, and I don'tknow that it was God questioning
, I don't know.
I think there was other forcesmaking me do that.
Okay, so I think there's, youknow, good and evil in this
world, and the evil didn't wantme to write the book.
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So so, yeah, those challengeswere there and it took actually
my husband.
He finally looked at me and goeswe talked about this, laura.
And it took actually my husband.
He finally looked at me andgoes.
We talked about this, laurathat when you write this book,
that he's not going to like it,that you know Satan's going to
be there and he's going to takeyou on a journey himself, and
that's what this is right now,so go back to God and don't let
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him take over.
So those were the.
You know that was a bigchallenge, right?
Dorsey Ross (26:13):
Tell us about the accident your husband had.
Laura Buckley (26:14):
Oh, you know and this is interesting, dorsey,
because just before we got onthis podcast I'm like that's
right, I forgot because theaccident took over my mind at
the time and two days before.
So it was on a weekend that myhusband went up to see his mom
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and when he went up there he hadstopped and eaten something,
but he had just started a newmedicine and when he got up
there he started feeling bad.
The next day he's like callingme going.
I don't feel good, I've beenthrowing up, I've got something
I don't know if it was the foodI ate, et cetera.
About four hours later I gotthis phone call saying from his
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mom going okay, took him to thehospital because he couldn't
breathe and he was having such asevere allergic reaction that
he went into that anaphylacticshock stage where he couldn't
breathe.
So I thought I lost him then.
And he comes home Sunday nightwe go out to dinner and Monday
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he falls off a ladder twostories high and he ended up
just totally blasting, both ofyou know, in the bottom half of
your leg.
Don't ask me to remember thenames of those two bones back
down there, but right below hisknee.
Both of those bones just werecompletely shattered to the
point where they couldn't countthe pieces when they were in
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there trying to put them backtogether.
He had carp, carp, carp oh, Icannot say the word carp where
you the carpmental syndrome,where they, you know, like
inside your body, it tries tokill that part of your body
because it's just too much foryour body and it says, okay, I'm
going to get rid of that partof my body.
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And so they had to go in and doa first surgery just to take
care of that.
Three weeks or two weeks laterthey finally had him put back
together.
They had a bunch of you, bunchof pieces of metal in him.
Put him back together, okay,great.
So he had a long haul trying toheal and he was starting to go
to get his therapy and the nextthing, you know, he has an
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infection and the infectionmeant that they had to take out
all those pieces of metal in him.
And the doctor at this time hadbeen talking to me beforehand.
But you know, kind of, really,at this particular stage, stage,
said Laura, we're likely goingto have to remove his leg
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because it's just it's not goingto heal properly.
There's too much, there's somuch damage, there's so much
pain that he's going to havebeing able to walk.
It's going to have being ableto walk.
Is going to be a struggle.
Just letting you know to beprepared for this.
But of course we didn't tell myhusband, because why would you
tell somebody that that mighthappen to them?
Right?
You know you want them to fightas best they could.
So he thought, fought throughit.
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And to all of us, including thedoctor, our surprise is that he
walks basically normal.
I mean, you know, if you don'treally look for it, you don't
know.
It's there, right, he'sprobably.
There's a separation betweenhis right knee and his left knee
as far as height goes, butright now it's not affecting him
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.
Tons of scars, obviously, onhis leg, but he can walk
normally.
And the doctor said no, there'ssomething higher, something
bigger, looking out for you,because there was no way that
that was me.
Amen, yeah.
Dorsey Ross (29:44):
You've been through a lot in your life and your
family's been through a lot intheir life.
You know your family Things doa lot in their life.
Yet you still grew closer toGod when someone would or would
you know, maybe would even walkaway and say you know, god's not
real, god's not in this.
You know why is he throwingthis all at me at one time.
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I can't handle this anymore.
Throwing this all at me at onetime.
I can't handle this anymore.
Why was it that?
Laura Buckley (30:19):
you grew closer to God.
Yeah, and it's true, and Ithink a lot of people would.
And I was there, I was there, Iwas almost there.
So I think it's hard, dependingon where you're at.
You know, god gives you justenough things and gives you
enough strength to get throughthings right, and my things were
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not as bad as other people's.
I mean, I just can't imaginesome people's trials that they
go through, but the trials arethere for a reason and I knew it
after my husband fell off theroof and when he was healing, I
was like there's somethingbigger, something bigger.
God's testing us right now andhe's preparing us.
And I think that the breakingpoint was when my mom
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unexpectedly passed.
At that time we were just overCOVID.
We were just over COVID, so youweren't going to church, we
weren't doing the things likeyou normally do, and I kind of
just probably like a lot ofpeople, kind of fell away from
God a little bit then too,because I just you just didn't
have that community, you justdidn't have that constant
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reminder and practice andactivity.
And I was there.
I was there.
I had lost not only my mom, butmy dad has Alzheimer's,
dementia, heart issues, so heneeded a lot of care, so we were
taking turns caring for him.
My sisters got angry at me,which we were all angry at the
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time, obviously but I felt likeI lost everything between, you
know, covid, and not being atchurch, between my mom gone my
dad really wasn't there, youknow as far as being able to
talk to my sisters, not beingupset with me, and we had moved.
We had moved too, so I hadmoved away from friends and
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people that I knew.
I thought I lost everything.
I thought why, why, god, why,why am I going through this?
Why is this happening?
There is no, I can't handlethis.
I just can't handle this, andI've never said this before.
I'm not sure I feel comfortablesaying this, but I was
seriously there where I thoughtabout running off the road, I
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thought about taking my own life, I didn't and I sat on the side
of the road crying, shaking,and I had two people pull over
why, I don't know.
God was putting them in my lifeand they talked to me.
They were very kind, verylistening, and I just went home
and I'm like, okay, god, I giveit all to you.
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I'm done.
I can't Tell me where to go.
It's up to you.
You have to control this.
I can't, I can't do thisanymore.
And that was it.
That was the change.
It wasn't until I surrenderedcompletely to him and said I
can't do this, you do this, Ican't do it, that.
I that God just immediately,and I felt so much better
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immediately.
That was like a relief.
You know that that weight wastaken off my shoulder Right.
That weight was taken off myshoulder.
Dorsey Ross (33:30):
Right.
Can you share with us amemorable story from your own
life that illustrates the powerof faith and trust in God?
Laura Buckley (33:41):
Oh, a rememberable story.
You know there's a lot ofstories, obviously, that were
very impactful in my life.
You know I'm going to have touse something that happened more
recently than not.
So one of the things that mademe just trust in God is that I
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was in there with my dad aftermy mom had passed that night and
my mom had.
I don't know if you've ever seenor heard of those like little
dolls that are like cats anddogs and they're sitting on a
little mat and they're breathing, you know, and they're purring
and whatever.
They're just, you know,mechanical things, whatever.
So this little cat hadn'tpurred in years.
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My mom could not get it to purr.
It basically was done, you know, mechanically, was done.
That night I heard this soundand my dad said I said what is
that sound?
And he goes it's the cat, it'spurring.
I'm like what are you talkingabout?
It hadn't purred in years.
You, you know, and I felt likethat was, you know, mom doing
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that, my mom doing that for me,and she did it for my sisters
too, because it stopped by thenext morning.
It wasn't, you know, purringanymore, wasn't moving anymore.
That next night it did the samething for my sisters.
They were there and it startedpurring.
The same thing for my sisters.
They were there and it startedpurring and it hasn't purred or
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breathed since then.
So you know, it's just theseawesome things that happen in
your life and it doesn't have tobe that big.
It can be something small, likeyou just look up and you see
the beauty of the glistening ofthe icicles on the tree, or you.
You know that you're lookinglike I love trees.
I'm looking at, I'm like, oh,it's a beautiful big tree.
You know, you know God madethese things.
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And just those those littlethings, those little hints of
hey, I'm here, you know, and Ilove you, and I'm here, and you
don't see him unless you, youbelieve in him.
And then all of a sudden it'slike all these lovely things
just happen to you.
Dorsey Ross (35:53):
Yeah, well, as we get ready to end, I always ask
my guests to give my listenersan encouraging word about you.
Know, whatever you feel led tohere, mm-hm.
Laura Buckley (36:10):
Yeah, I guess you know my encouragement is for
specifically, you know, forthose that are either
questioning their belief or arenot believers, is to make sure
you do the research, becausewhen you do that research and
you see both sides, that's whenyou learn, that's when you grow,
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that's when you startquestioning more and can find
out more about God and faith andlove, and that's what God is.
God is love and I justencourage you to, if you have
questions, continue to followthose questions and find answers
.
Talk to somebody, go to your,go to your church pastor and
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just talk to somebody about itand keep searching and praying.
You'll get your answer, amen.
Dorsey Ross (36:58):
Thank you so much for coming on the show today.
We greatly appreciate havingyou.
Laura Buckley (37:04):
Oh well, thank you, dorsey, I'm so glad I came
on.
I really appreciate it.
It was a very nice conversationwith you, absolutely.
Well, guys and girls, I'm soglad I came on.
I really appreciate it.
It was a very nice conversationwith you, absolutely.
Dorsey Ross (37:11):
Well, guys and girls, thank you so much for
coming on and for listening.
Please like and share thisepisode and please continue to
listen, and we'll put a link toalso her website so you can
connect with her.
And until next time, god bless,bye-bye.
Hello everyone, thank you again for joining me
on another episode of the DorsiDRush Show.
Today we have a special guestwith us.
Her name is Laura Buckley, whois a devoted Christian writer
who is committed to exploringthe profound aspects of faith
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and spirituality.
With a deep-rooted belief inthe power of God and an
unshakable trust in his divineplan, laura has a dedicated
literacy learning to sharing theChristian message of hope,
trust and unwavering faith withreaders around the world.
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Raising faith with readersaround the world.
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Laura has embarked on proof toreinforce the reader's
confidence in God's provisionand love.
Laura's unique approachcombines thorough research,
personal reflection and apassion for connecting with
readers on a solid excuse me,whole deep level.
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Her writing seeks to create asafe and welcoming space for
individuals seeking spiritualunderstanding and a closer
relationship with the divine.
Laura, thank you so much forcoming on the show today.
Laura Buckley (01:48):
Well, thank you, Dorsey, for having me.
I appreciate it.
Dorsey Ross (01:51):
Absolutely, and, as my guests know, I always open
up with an icebreaker question,and today's icebreaker question
is what's the best complimentyou ever received?
Laura Buckley (02:07):
Oh, wow, that's a big question.
The best compliment I've everreceived?
Okay, I'm going to have to gowith the best most recent
compliment I've received, one ofthe ladies from my church.
She's in my choir group.
I've been getting her to readthe book for a while.
She said she's going to.
She finally started reading itand she came to me in just
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complete, utter awe it's theonly way I can describe it.
She looked at me and she saidLaura, that is an amazing book.
You've written so insightful,so well-written.
I just I can't believe it.
And I, you know, and part of megoes, part of me goes.
Well, okay, do people not thinkthat I can do that?
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But she was so sincere, soabsolutely sincere, that you
know it's like.
And when people come to you andtell you that you did something
great and wonderful, then youknow it's nothing.
But you know, inspiring tomyself, right.
Dorsey Ross (03:12):
Why are you passionate about what you do?
Laura Buckley (03:17):
I think I'm passionate because of my son, my
son.
So to give you a littleinformation about you know how I
got to where I am with writingthis book, my son, who's a very
loving, kind, big hearted, uh,young man, about six years ago,
when he was about 16 or so, hecame to me one day and he said,
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mom, I don't think, I believeanymore.
And and I'm like, what do youmean?
And it took him a lot ofstrength to come to me and tell
me that and we talked about itfor like a good hour, I would
say about you know what made himnot believe?
And he's gone to church, hewent to religious ed classes.
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You know, he just in his schoolhe was a scientific, you know
type kid and very much intothose type of classes computer,
et cetera and he had classmatesthat just simply didn't believe
and apparently a lot of stuffthat they teach in school is
very non, non, god, non, youknow, supernatural, not any.
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And for him he that's what hewas hearing, that's what he
heard.
So the last thing I told himwas, if I can find information,
he wanted some proof, sometangible proof.
And he goes if I can find yousomething, would you listen to
me?
Would you listen to what I'mtelling you?
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And he goes yes.
So it took me a little whileand I put together some
information for him and got thatinformation in front of him,
including this ginormous book ofscientific proof for him,
because that's what he was into.
But we watched, you know, likea video, and went through some
different basically it was moreof the artifacts type thing and
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where you know all the differentmanuscripts are and the fact
that this stuff is still there,still, you know, tangibly there,
and I guess he only read likeone chapter, one chapter of that
scientific book.
And he ended up going okay, ifthey can write that long of a
book over scientific proof, I'mgood, I'm good.
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So, and that wasn't the startof it, that was just kind of
like okay, that's cool.
But then I realized, with myresearch and with his knowledge,
I was like wait a minute,there's nothing out there for
these young adults to grab ahold of and say out there for
these young adults to grab ahold of and say, in a fairly
short, respectively, attentionspan, to go okay, here's a
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reason to believe, here's areason to believe.
Here's a reason to believeBecause it's just like I said
that big, you know, thick booktype thing on one subject, or
you know just a couple subjectsand these kids just need
something to go.
Should I believe or not believe?
And then at that point then youtake it from there and go okay,
I believe.
Now where do I want to go?
As far as my knowledge andfurther research, I, you know, I
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like this idea, I like what waspresented.
I want to go the scientific way, I want to go the historic way
or I want to go, you know, justyou know, into the church and go
from there.
So, yeah, Was.
Dorsey Ross (06:26):
That was the book that your son read.
Do you remember the title of itand who wrote it, and was it
based on a, on the Christianfaith, or was it just a secular
book that somebody came up with?
Laura Buckley (06:39):
You know, I do not have that book in front of
me, so I apologize, I don't havethat book in front of me, so I
apologize, I don't have that.
It was definitely just a hugescientific book.
You know, for him he said, youknow he understood the first
chapter, but it was really hard,you know, to really understand
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he goes.
You know, there's no waysomebody would just pick up this
book and read this and feellike, hey, oh, that makes sense
to me and as far as you know itwas.
It was I don't know if I wantto say it was Christian based
because, honestly, I didn't readit because it was just too much
for me.
I'm not of that mindset, butyou know, it just kind of proved
that there was a God.
And I think science nowadayshave gone to that point, or gone
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further, to that point of, ohwell, because we cannot prove
that there isn't a God andbecause certain things we cannot
explain in our scientificresearch, there's got to be
something that's larger than,you know, the Big Bang Theory or
whatever they're going with atthe time, that shows that
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there's something out there thatstarted this, that caused this,
that caused at least thatinitial reaction, the initial
start to the universe and ourDNA and how our DNA is made up
and so unique for each person.
You know, three billion letterslong the DNA is.
I mean, you know, this stuffdoesn't just pop out of the air,
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and I think that's what thescientists are now saying.
They're like this kind of stuffwe can't reproduce, we can't
make this happen.
You know, this isn't somethingthat, there's something else
that influenced this and causedthis.
Dorsey Ross (08:25):
You mentioned that you wrote a book and it's called
21 Reasons for Trusting in God.
Can you give us five of thosereasons why we should trust in
God?
Laura Buckley (08:39):
Oh, sure, sure, Well, so if you want, like that
proof type thing, there's ahundred thousand artifacts in
existence that will prove thebiblical during the time of
Jesus, that the whole gospel,like it, goes back to different
sections of the gospel andproves the gospel.
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So that's an amazing number ofartifacts that are there and
available.
And I mentioned the DNA.
The DNA is one of the otherthings that kind of proves God's
existence.
Because they can't reproducethat that information is just
unreproducible, so that's agreat one.
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Just unreproducible, so that'sa great one.
One of the things that they talkabout a lot in the
philosophical end of things isthat there has to be a cause.
So if something exists,something caused it to exist.
And this is more of a mentaltwister type thing.
You know that a lot of peopledon't get into, but you know
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some do where, if there issomething that exists, there had
to be a cause.
Therefore, if it does exist,there was a cause.
What was that cause?
And that's kind of a logicalexplanation for God.
Okay, other things are miracles.
Miracles are huge and I don'tthink they're I don't want to
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say in the news enough, butthey're not readily available
enough because they happen on avery regular basis and we just
don't hear about them, don'tknow about them.
Lot of doctors probably maybeyou know know about some of
those that happen, you know, inthe hospital.
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But there's things that happenoutside the hospital whether it
be at Lourdes or just a prayergoing into a church that happen
all the time and there's no wayto explain it.
No way to explain it exceptthat there is somebody larger
than us that is looking out forus, protecting us and caring for
us.
So to me that's a huge proof aswell, because I've had that
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happen in my own life.
And then you know if you wantanother one, it's just
health-wise.
If you don't believe in God anddon't have that trust in
something protecting you andlooking out for you, you can get
really, I think, mentally kindof messed up.
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You know, you can get kind ofreally into your head thinking
about all this stuff and thatcauses physical reactions.
And so they have proven throughdifferent studies that when
people believe in a God, believein his protection, believe in
his love, they calm down, theirblood pressure goes down, they
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accept things better, they feelbetter, they can handle things
better and, honestly, just thepeace that it brings me.
I you know, there's nothingelse that can cause that.
There's nothing else that cancause that.
So those are just some quickoverviews.
I guess that I just gave you,but yeah.
Dorsey Ross (11:55):
You know.
Going back to the artifactsthat you mentioned, that they
found, you know, in the Biblereadings and you know, for the
Bible times, I was doing a, youknow, youth group study on
certain videos and they weretalking about that they haven't
like excavated, they onlyexcavated like 5% of the whole
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area of the Bible.
You know for the Bible times.
Laura Buckley (12:23):
Okay, yeah, yeah, so there's probably so much
more there that we just don'thave in our hands For the Bible
times.
Okay, yeah, yeah, so there'sprobably so much more there that
we just don't have in our hands.
I know they found the cross andthere was a miracle that
happened when they first foundthe cross and it was kind of how
they tested, because there wasthree crosses right, and there's
three crosses there with thetwo thieves and then Jesus in
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the middle, and they all werekind of made of the same
material.
They knew that it was a materialfrom back then, but what they
did is they had a lady who Idon't know what her symptoms
were, I don't remember at thispoint in time sick in some way,
needed some sort of healing insome way, and they touch the
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crosses and when she touchedwhat they now say is Jesus's
original you know, the crossthat he was crucified on she was
healed, and so that's how theyknew.
And there's more healings thathave happened since then.
The cross has actually beensplintered and pulled apart and
I wish it hadn't.
That just makes me cringe alittle bit, but there's pieces
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of the cross that have been ondisplay throughout the world and
you know people have used thatkind of just like touching his
cloak when he was alive orwhatever.
Dorsey Ross (13:36):
So yeah, Tell us about your first miracle at 15.
Laura Buckley (13:42):
Sure, sure.
So this was a big like OK,there's a God, you know, because
I believed in God before that.
I believed through.
You know what my parents taughtme through going to church.
But when I was 15, I was with myfriend in a car.
She was just a driving age.
I didn't have a seat belt onbecause her seat belt didn't
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work.
I tried.
This was when seatbelts werefairly new as well, so it was no
big deal for me not to have aseatbelt on.
But she was driving us back homeand she was talking to me, just
kind of looking at me, and Ikind of looked up and I saw in
front of me the light was redand a car coming through and
there was no time for her toreact.
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We were going straight into thecar.
We went straight into the carand straight into a tree.
I didn't realize it at the time, but I was passed out and
laying on my friend's lap, so Iwas actually over in the
driver's side and these were bigcars back then, not to age
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myself too much here.
But I looked in the window andthis is what I remember.
I looked in the window andthere was a gentleman there and
he just looked at me and he goesare you okay?
And I just kind of respondedyes.
And the next thing I know I waswaking up, saw myself on my
friend's lap got myself, youknow, back together, for
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whatever reason.
My reaction was starting to pickup my purse because my stuff
flew everywhere and you know, wehad then the first.
I could hear the ambulance andeverything coming.
They were quickly coming andthey came up to the window and
they were asking us if we wereOK.
At this point my friend, youknow, kind of came back to and
we're like, yeah, we're okay,where's the guy?
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Where's the guy that was justhere?
This guy was just here and heasked me if I was okay.
Already they're looking aroundand there's nobody else here.
We're the first ones on thescene.
Nobody's standing around.
That looks like the gentlemanthat I described to them, so he
wasn't there.
To kind of further on the story,what really kind of put it at
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home is that when they took thecar in to the junkyard because
the car was totaled our car wastotaled, which neither of us
were injured, by the way, not,you know anything, big, just
sore Took the car into thejunkyard.
The junkyard manager said, hey,I'm so sorry for your loss.
And they're like what are youtalking about?
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And they said, well, thejunkyard manager said, well, the
person that went through thewindshield on the passenger side
, you know, obviously passedaway.
I've never seen anybody live,you know, hitting the windshield
like that and they're like no,she's perfectly fine at home,
just a little sore.
So that just kind of that wholecombination of seeing that
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figure in the window and thenknowing that I hit that
windshield so hard that theythought I should have passed
away, you know, that just kindof really made me feel like okay
, there's somebody watching outfor me and my parents, my mom
even said there's a reason whyyou're still alive.
Dorsey Ross (16:51):
Yeah, now, that person that was by the window
asking you, are you okay?
Could it have been the otherdriver or somebody else from the
other car, or was thatdisproven?
Laura Buckley (17:07):
Yeah, the other car.
There was a lady driving,nobody else, just a lady driving
that car.
She did get in the ambulancebut she was okay in the end.
You know I don't know the wholestory because it was my
friend's car and her driving,but she wasn't, you know, hurt
to the point where she was.
You know she went home thatnight later too, there was
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nobody standing around.
You know, if somebody's goingto come up to your car and say,
are you okay, and you know thefireman, he's like we're the
first ones on the scene, I, youknow there's nobody else here.
They don't just disappear thatquickly.
So you know, and typically ifsomebody was wanting to check on
you, if you're okay, they kindof watch out and stand around
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and you know, yeah, yeah.
Dorsey Ross (17:51):
So I truly believe it was an angel of some sort
your bio and on your websitethat as you got older in your
college years you started todrift away a little bit from you
know from God or from yourbelief in God.
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And why was that?
Laura Buckley (18:16):
College years are really hard, I think, you know,
for a lot of people.
You want to, you want to playthe college role, you want to
enjoy yourself, you want to.
You know you're studying,you're meeting new people,
you're trying to get used toliving in a dorm room with
somebody else.
So the last thing you usuallydo is just get up and go.
Okay, I'm going to go to churchthis morning.
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You know, it just doesn't.
I don't know why, you know itdoesn't always connect with
people, but that kind of, youknow, I felt it.
I felt immediately when Istarted doing that I was like,
oh man, I miss that connection,I miss going to church.
And it's an interesting thingbecause you just kind of that
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connection, that community thatyou have at church, dissipates
so quickly if you're not goingon a regular basis.
So I think you know that justreally hit home for me.
I felt like I needed to go andI did try to go.
I think I, you know, tried togo on occasion, went to a couple
activities that they had, youknow, in the social hall type
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thing, social hall type thing,and luckily I found a group of
friends in our dorm that werevery Christian and they helped,
you know, introduce me to music,and we went and visited other
churches and kind of re-centeredmyself to saying, okay, yeah,
yep, I got to keep God, you know, in the forefront, or at least
somewhere nearby, somewherenearby.
Dorsey Ross (19:46):
In your book that we mentioned earlier, you talked
about trusting in God.
How do you personally defineand practice trust in your daily
life?
Laura Buckley (20:00):
Yeah, that's a good question.
I think putting trust in God isreally a long-term, everyday
thing that you have to work on.
It's not, you know, I trustthat he is looking over my
activities and what I do.
Now, I haven't always been thatway.
Now, I haven't always been thatway.
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There was a long time where Ifelt like, okay, I believe in
God, it's good, I believe inJesus, it's good.
But I'm, you know, walkingthrough life like a lot of
people do, just walking throughlife, doing my own thing,
whether it be, you know, work,friends, whatever I'm doing,
family, et cetera.
But at least in those days, Iwasn't giving my all to God, I
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wasn't giving my heart, my soulto God.
And honestly, since I wrote thebook, between the time that I
started writing the book andeven till just within the last
couple of months, I really now,just now, feel like, okay, I
know what it means to trust inGod, because I had to get really
close to him and I feel likepeople need to really realize
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that being close to God meanstalking to him, not just once a
day, not just okay, I'm going tosay a quick prayer in the
morning, the Our Father in theevening and I'm done.
It's a relationship and thatrelationship has to be fostered,
just like any otherrelationship.
It's not that he's not therefor you, it's not that he
doesn't love you and wants tohave that relationship, but you
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have to put that effort in forHim to really for you to hear
Him and connect with Him.
It's your end that can'tconnect sometimes, I think, with
God enough that you can reallyfeel that full trust and that
full love.
It's hard to explain, butyou'll feel it inside.
You'll feel it inside andyou'll know it.
Dorsey Ross (21:51):
You'll know it.
Laura Buckley (21:53):
Every day.
Now I just, you know, I ask himfor his guidance, I ask him for
him to protect me, to show mewhat to do for that day, and
then at the end of the day, youknow, just kind of say did I do
the right thing?
Please help me to do bettertomorrow.
Dorsey Ross (22:10):
Yeah, if you know, for people that are listening
that may feel like they lacktrust in God, how would you?
You know?
What encouragement would you?
Laura Buckley (22:27):
give to them to help them to trust in God more.
Yeah, I mean, obviously as aselfish point, I would say read
the book.
Okay, just because trustingfirst of all comes with belief.
Okay, you can't trust insomebody you know until you're
friends with somebody, knowsomebody.
You don't put your trust inthem completely.
So you have to get to know themfirst.
You have to go through thatprocess of who is God?
(22:51):
Why should I believe in him?
Now I believe.
What do I do with this belief?
Where do I go with this belief?
How am I supposed to connectwith him?
How does he help me?
Where do I connect?
How do I supposed to connectwith him?
How does he help me?
Where do I connect?
How do I serve him?
Or how do I you know what is mynext steps?
And all this has to come, andit's kind of sequential, I
(23:12):
believe, and in your life tothen, once you get all those
pieces put together, thatrelationship is really kind of
stronger, because then you know,you know in your heart that, oh
, god is real, I can put myfaith in him, I know he's there
for me.
And you just go through thatprocess of for me and I'm just
(23:34):
going to be Dorsey.
This was one of the things thatI did.
After I wrote the book I'm likeit brought up more questions and
that's why in the book I sayquite often that's okay,
questions are good.
Questions are good Because Ineeded those questions to
continue my research, tocontinue my journey, to continue
my belief myself.
(23:56):
Because all these questionspopped up.
So those questions, once I gotyou know, started answering
those questions that I had.
Then I knew, okay, now I got myanswers.
Now I know, now I completely100% in there and I think
everybody has a differentjourney.
Everybody's going to have adifferent you know timeframe in
which they go through, but youhave to go through it.
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You have to keep fighting forit and keep learning and answer
those questions and find thatrelationship with our Lord.
Dorsey Ross (24:28):
What challenges did you face while writing the book
and how did you faith guide youthrough those challenges?
Laura Buckley (24:57):
Hmm.
So challenges, you know, faithhad to be there to write the
book.
So challenges for me werementally am I doing the right
thing?
Am I hearing God?
Is this what God wants me towrite?
I was being challenged, byfriends as well, challenged by
just what was happening in myworld around me, whether it be
finances, trying to find moneyto produce the book, whether it
be just time frame that it tookme to write the book in
(25:17):
comparison to what I wanted.
And just I felt like I wasconstantly being barraged by
questioning myself, and I don'tknow that it was God questioning
, I don't know.
I think there was other forcesmaking me do that.
Okay, so I think there's, youknow, good and evil in this
world, and the evil didn't wantme to write the book.
(25:41):
So so, yeah, those challengeswere there and it took actually
my husband.
He finally looked at me and goeswe talked about this, laura.
And it took actually my husband.
He finally looked at me andgoes.
We talked about this, laurathat when you write this book,
that he's not going to like it,that you know Satan's going to
be there and he's going to takeyou on a journey himself, and
that's what this is right now,so go back to God and don't let
(26:04):
him take over.
So those were the.
You know that was a bigchallenge, right?
Dorsey Ross (26:13):
Tell us about the accident your husband had.
Laura Buckley (26:14):
Oh, you know and this is interesting, dorsey,
because just before we got onthis podcast I'm like that's
right, I forgot because theaccident took over my mind at
the time and two days before.
So it was on a weekend that myhusband went up to see his mom
(26:35):
and when he went up there he hadstopped and eaten something,
but he had just started a newmedicine and when he got up
there he started feeling bad.
The next day he's like callingme going.
I don't feel good, I've beenthrowing up, I've got something
I don't know if it was the foodI ate, et cetera.
About four hours later I gotthis phone call saying from his
(26:56):
mom going okay, took him to thehospital because he couldn't
breathe and he was having such asevere allergic reaction that
he went into that anaphylacticshock stage where he couldn't
breathe.
So I thought I lost him then.
And he comes home Sunday nightwe go out to dinner and Monday
(27:17):
he falls off a ladder twostories high and he ended up
just totally blasting, both ofyou know, in the bottom half of
your leg.
Don't ask me to remember thenames of those two bones back
down there, but right below hisknee.
Both of those bones just werecompletely shattered to the
point where they couldn't countthe pieces when they were in
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there trying to put them backtogether.
He had carp, carp, carp oh, Icannot say the word carp where
you the carpmental syndrome,where they, you know, like
inside your body, it tries tokill that part of your body
because it's just too much foryour body and it says, okay, I'm
going to get rid of that partof my body.
(27:59):
And so they had to go in and doa first surgery just to take
care of that.
Three weeks or two weeks laterthey finally had him put back
together.
They had a bunch of you, bunchof pieces of metal in him.
Put him back together, okay,great.
So he had a long haul trying toheal and he was starting to go
to get his therapy and the nextthing, you know, he has an
(28:21):
infection and the infectionmeant that they had to take out
all those pieces of metal in him.
And the doctor at this time hadbeen talking to me beforehand.
But you know, kind of, really,at this particular stage, stage,
said Laura, we're likely goingto have to remove his leg
(28:43):
because it's just it's not goingto heal properly.
There's too much, there's somuch damage, there's so much
pain that he's going to havebeing able to walk.
It's going to have being ableto walk.
Is going to be a struggle.
Just letting you know to beprepared for this.
But of course we didn't tell myhusband, because why would you
tell somebody that that mighthappen to them?
Right?
You know you want them to fightas best they could.
So he thought, fought throughit.
(29:04):
And to all of us, including thedoctor, our surprise is that he
walks basically normal.
I mean, you know, if you don'treally look for it, you don't
know.
It's there, right, he'sprobably.
There's a separation betweenhis right knee and his left knee
as far as height goes, butright now it's not affecting him
(29:27):
.
Tons of scars, obviously, onhis leg, but he can walk
normally.
And the doctor said no, there'ssomething higher, something
bigger, looking out for you,because there was no way that
that was me.
Amen, yeah.
Dorsey Ross (29:44):
You've been through a lot in your life and your
family's been through a lot intheir life.
You know your family Things doa lot in their life.
Yet you still grew closer toGod when someone would or would
you know, maybe would even walkaway and say you know, god's not
real, god's not in this.
You know why is he throwingthis all at me at one time.
(30:07):
I can't handle this anymore.
Throwing this all at me at onetime.
I can't handle this anymore.
Why was it that?
Laura Buckley (30:19):
you grew closer to God.
Yeah, and it's true, and Ithink a lot of people would.
And I was there, I was there, Iwas almost there.
So I think it's hard, dependingon where you're at.
You know, god gives you justenough things and gives you
enough strength to get throughthings right, and my things were
(30:40):
not as bad as other people's.
I mean, I just can't imaginesome people's trials that they
go through, but the trials arethere for a reason and I knew it
after my husband fell off theroof and when he was healing, I
was like there's somethingbigger, something bigger.
God's testing us right now andhe's preparing us.
And I think that the breakingpoint was when my mom
(31:01):
unexpectedly passed.
At that time we were just overCOVID.
We were just over COVID, so youweren't going to church, we
weren't doing the things likeyou normally do, and I kind of
just probably like a lot ofpeople, kind of fell away from
God a little bit then too,because I just you just didn't
have that community, you justdidn't have that constant
(31:23):
reminder and practice andactivity.
And I was there.
I was there.
I had lost not only my mom, butmy dad has Alzheimer's,
dementia, heart issues, so heneeded a lot of care, so we were
taking turns caring for him.
My sisters got angry at me,which we were all angry at the
(31:45):
time, obviously but I felt likeI lost everything between, you
know, covid, and not being atchurch, between my mom gone my
dad really wasn't there, youknow as far as being able to
talk to my sisters, not beingupset with me, and we had moved.
We had moved too, so I hadmoved away from friends and
(32:08):
people that I knew.
I thought I lost everything.
I thought why, why, god, why,why am I going through this?
Why is this happening?
There is no, I can't handlethis.
I just can't handle this, andI've never said this before.
I'm not sure I feel comfortablesaying this, but I was
seriously there where I thoughtabout running off the road, I
(32:33):
thought about taking my own life, I didn't and I sat on the side
of the road crying, shaking,and I had two people pull over
why, I don't know.
God was putting them in my lifeand they talked to me.
They were very kind, verylistening, and I just went home
and I'm like, okay, god, I giveit all to you.
(32:55):
I'm done.
I can't Tell me where to go.
It's up to you.
You have to control this.
I can't, I can't do thisanymore.
And that was it.
That was the change.
It wasn't until I surrenderedcompletely to him and said I
can't do this, you do this, Ican't do it, that.
I that God just immediately,and I felt so much better
(33:20):
immediately.
That was like a relief.
You know that that weight wastaken off my shoulder Right.
That weight was taken off myshoulder.
Dorsey Ross (33:30):
Right.
Can you share with us amemorable story from your own
life that illustrates the powerof faith and trust in God?
Laura Buckley (33:41):
Oh, a rememberable story.
You know there's a lot ofstories, obviously, that were
very impactful in my life.
You know I'm going to have touse something that happened more
recently than not.
So one of the things that mademe just trust in God is that I
(34:07):
was in there with my dad aftermy mom had passed that night and
my mom had.
I don't know if you've ever seenor heard of those like little
dolls that are like cats anddogs and they're sitting on a
little mat and they're breathing, you know, and they're purring
and whatever.
They're just, you know,mechanical things, whatever.
So this little cat hadn'tpurred in years.
(34:30):
My mom could not get it to purr.
It basically was done, you know, mechanically, was done.
That night I heard this soundand my dad said I said what is
that sound?
And he goes it's the cat, it'spurring.
I'm like what are you talkingabout?
It hadn't purred in years.
You, you know, and I felt likethat was, you know, mom doing
(34:53):
that, my mom doing that for me,and she did it for my sisters
too, because it stopped by thenext morning.
It wasn't, you know, purringanymore, wasn't moving anymore.
That next night it did the samething for my sisters.
They were there and it startedpurring.
The same thing for my sisters.
They were there and it startedpurring and it hasn't purred or
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breathed since then.
So you know, it's just theseawesome things that happen in
your life and it doesn't have tobe that big.
It can be something small, likeyou just look up and you see
the beauty of the glistening ofthe icicles on the tree, or you.
You know that you're lookinglike I love trees.
I'm looking at, I'm like, oh,it's a beautiful big tree.
You know, you know God madethese things.
(35:36):
And just those those littlethings, those little hints of
hey, I'm here, you know, and Ilove you, and I'm here, and you
don't see him unless you, youbelieve in him.
And then all of a sudden it'slike all these lovely things
just happen to you.
Dorsey Ross (35:53):
Yeah, well, as we get ready to end, I always ask
my guests to give my listenersan encouraging word about you.
Know, whatever you feel led tohere, mm-hm.
Laura Buckley (36:10):
Yeah, I guess you know my encouragement is for
specifically, you know, forthose that are either
questioning their belief or arenot believers, is to make sure
you do the research, becausewhen you do that research and
you see both sides, that's whenyou learn, that's when you grow,
(36:30):
that's when you startquestioning more and can find
out more about God and faith andlove, and that's what God is.
God is love and I justencourage you to, if you have
questions, continue to followthose questions and find answers
.
Talk to somebody, go to your,go to your church pastor and
(36:51):
just talk to somebody about itand keep searching and praying.
You'll get your answer, amen.
Dorsey Ross (36:58):
Thank you so much for coming on the show today.
We greatly appreciate havingyou.
Laura Buckley (37:04):
Oh well, thank you, dorsey, I'm so glad I came
on.
I really appreciate it.
It was a very nice conversationwith you, absolutely.
Well, guys and girls, I'm soglad I came on.
I really appreciate it.
It was a very nice conversationwith you, absolutely.
Dorsey Ross (37:11):
Well, guys and girls, thank you so much for
coming on and for listening.
Please like and share thisepisode and please continue to
listen, and we'll put a link toalso her website so you can
connect with her.
And until next time, god bless,bye-bye.
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