Episode #8: GIRL, GET UP! Random Thoughts!

Processing and musing on random thoughts

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Episode Transcript

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M. Have you ever had thosemoments when you're just sitting not really focused
on anything, and these random thoughtsstart to show up, and you don't
capture them in the moment, Youjust wonder what is that all about?

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Well? Today, that's what thatis all about, random thoughts. This
is a woman's place. Get up, girl, and I'm donna. Yes.

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Today is about random thoughts, justrandom thoughts. I was going through
one of my formerly blank books,and I call it a formally blank book
because it's filled with notes taken fromeverywhere. Some of them are mine,
and some of them are notes Itook when I was listening to someone and

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I didn't give them credit. ButI know they're not my thoughts because that's
not how I write, that's nothow I speak, And some of the
references in some of the pieces thatI'm reading through, I know it's not
me, and I am just kindof low to share it without being able
to give credit to someone else.But I'm going to share with you my

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random thoughts as I go through myformally blank book listen. I have a
thing about blank books. It isdangerous for me to go into a stationary
store because I a blank book Iwant a journal full of crisp pages,
lined pages that are just screaming forwords to be written on them, screaming

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for thoughts to be captured, screamingfor whatever is going on in my head.
And so I do my best tostay away from stationary stores, or
from the aisle in a Walgreens ora Target, or any place that has

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blank books and has tablets and hasnotebooks and has pens. I do my
best to stay away because I knowI'm going to walk out with something that
I absolutely do not need, butit makes me so happy. See that
was a random thought right there.All right, let's get to these random
thoughts I came across in my formerlyblanket, And thank you for the applause.

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First random thought, Help me tobe the me you created me to
be. This is my call toGod, Help me to be the me
you created to me to be,Not the me I think I should be,
not the me that others think Ishould be, but the me you
created me to be. Well,what does that take? That takes taking

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time to really get to know you, to get to understand how you wire
the strengths and your weaknesses. Notdoing the comparison shopping. As I've said
before, compared yourself to others,but just being who you are a father,
God, help me to be theme you created me to be.

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I want to walk in that pack, no matter how long in the tooth
I may be. For those ofyou are not familiar with that phrase,
no matter how old I may be, I still want to be the me
you created me to be. Iwant you to dive into everything you have
created for me to dive into.I want to use every bit of whatever

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you wired into me. Help meto be the me you created me to
be. And I throw that outfor whoever's listening. Sit down and have
that conversation with God. Who amI in you? What is my mission
based on your plan? Help meto be the me you created me to

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be. Other random thought I loveyou is always in order. Perhaps some
of us were raised in homes wherewe rarely heard I love you, and
so it's very difficult for us tosay I love you to someone else.
It's almost like you have to justpress it out. There's someone who's waiting

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to hear your I love you tobling a mother, a father, a
child, a friend, even thoughthey may have never said it. To
you. It kind of opens thedoor and gives permission to the one who's
receiving the gift of I love youto then begin to reciprocate and give it

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back to you. So I loveyou as always in order and I'm sorry
is not a sign of weakness.If you're genuinely sorry for something you've done.
Pentif is that a word you've repentedof the decision you've made, or
someone brings to you an offense,I'm sorry. It is not a sign

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of weakness. It is not asign of weakness. If you study the
word meekness, you will discover meeknessis strength under control, strength under control
of power under control. So I'msorry. It's not a sign of weakness.
If you did it, on upto it, and if they don't

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receive it, that's on them.But at the least be honest and open.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Iam so sorry. Please forgive me.
I'm sorry. He's not a signof weakness. Name yourself. Third
random thought, Name yourself and noone else will be able to define you.

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Who are you? Which kind ofties back to help me to be
the me you created me to be? Who are you? Name? Yourself.
Name yourself, and no one elsewill be able to define you.
Teach people who you are. Don'tallow them to tell you who you are,

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or to try to mold and shapeyou into an image that is not
you, something with which you're notcomfortable, declaring, Oh, you're this,
you're that, You're the other,while inside you are saying, no,
I am not that's not what Iwant, that's not what I like,
I cannot be. And I understandthat this happens with parents and children.
Rather than nurturing the gift that isevident in the child, they instead

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work hard to instill a gift,a talent, a skill that the child
is nowhere near open to but compliant, which opens up the door to days
and weeks and months and years ofdoing that thing that is so not what

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they love, so not what theyknow about themselves. So, no matter
where you may find yourself, nowname yourself, and no one else will
be able to define you. They'restill tried, but you'll be able to
say, no, that's not me. Let me introduce you to myself.

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Embrace the power of your voice withoutapology. Embrace the power of your voice
without apology. Write your own story. And I don't mean literally sit down
and write your own story, butwrite your own story and share your story.
There are pieces of your story thathas value. Your story may be

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the key to someone else's freedom.Embrace the power of your voice. And
I don't mean aggressive, I don'tmean angry, I don't mean vengeful.
I mean be bold enough to speaktruth. Not your truth that's beginning dead
on my nerves. Your truth,your authentic self. I don't know what

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that is. When someone says I'mpresenting to you my authentic self, how
am I supposed to know what yourauthentic self is? But individually we should
present ourselves. Speak the truth andlove is what the scripture says. Share
who you are and don't apologize forthe strength of your voice. And I

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don't mean the tone of the volume, but the confidence that you bring to
a conversation. Are the questions youbring to a conversation, of the clarity
you seek in a conversation, orwhat you share in a conversation, all
from a point of truth or asincere curiosity. But embrace the power of

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your voice without apology. Do you, whoever you are? Do you?
And it may not seem like youto the onlooker who says, oh,
that's so not them. Then theydon't know you. Maybe you haven't always
shared that part of you too them. Last week was the end of school

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and they had a school dance.Now I went there just to show support
for the students. And while Iwas there and never playing some songs that
I kind of knew. This musicis totally out of my generation. Have
they been playing motown, I wouldhave been right there. But a lot
of the songs I kind of knewsome of the music, and it was

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really from watching videos and reels andTikTok videos and the same music being used
over the same song trending. SoI kind of had a sense of some
of the songs, but most ofthem I didn't know. And a couple
of times I just kind of didmy old school dance, you know,
wave your arms, swinging your hipsfrom side to side. And then one

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song came on that the singer rapperin the song don't know what you would
call them, gives a direction slideto the left, slide to the right,
now jump now jump three times.Don't know the name of the song.
Have never tried it before because I'mnot at the age where I can
really jump, but I did itand it was kind of fun. And

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then later oh, they came onwith the song that I do know,
Cupid Shuffle. I know it's old. No one else really knew how the
steps were. I did, andin that moment I did donald because I
loved to dance back in the daywhen my body cooperated with the movements,

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and I was doing the Cupid shufflethe way I do the Cupid shuffle when
I'm with a group of my people. I was not embarrassed. I was
not self conscious. To the left, to the left, to the left,
to the left, to the right, to the right, through the
right, through the right. NowI'll kick now, I'll kick, I'll
kick now. Now walk. Ilike that that. It's back in the

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day when we used to do theslide or the stroll. That's what it
was called, the stroll. Sokeep it. Shuffle kind of takes me
back to my strolling days and thepoints I'm trying to make it. Just
do you don't be embarrassed about beingYou stay in the comfort of who you
are, and every nine then letyour hair down. It's good for others

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to seeze that side of you.And it's good for you to just have
some fun and do no harm,do no harm. Oh my goodness,
Oh my goodness. I know thereare times when we feel as though we
have the right to say a thing, or we have the right to react
in a way. Maybe we've beenoffended, maybe an individual someone has pushed

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the button. But do your bestnot to do any harm or to bring
any harm to anyone, even ifyour heart tells you they deserve it.
Just be that individual that I'm sorry. I don't know why the crowd got

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so excited here, But be theindividual that is kind, and when you
can, then have the conversation aboutthe offense. But do your best not
to bring any harm to anyone,not in a reaction, not in a
word. Sometimes I will say somethingand then when I said, I think

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probably shouldn't have said that. Andit wasn't hurtful. It wasn't intentionally a
hurtful statement, but it was justsomething that didn't need to be said.
I was somehow thinking I need todefend Donna. Didn't need to say it.
And if the individual had said,well that's offensive, I would have

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said, you are so right,I'm sorry. Every day when you get
up through the day, speak atleast one sentence of gratitude. One sentence
of gratitude. My knee decided toact out, probably from during the Cubid
shuffle last week. My knee said, oh, you think you're getting away

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with this. You're not getting awaywith this. I'm just gonna wait until
next week. It's over the lastfew days it has been on one.
But I got up this morning gratefulto be able to move, even though
my knee is in protest against medoing the Cupid shuffle. So every day,

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speak one sentence of gratitude. Iwould say, speak more than one's
sentence of gratitude. You step outinto the day, It's a beautiful day.
Thank you Lord. I'm grateful forthis day. I'm grateful for toothpaste
in my cabinet, a toothbrush.I'm grateful for whatever it is I have
to eat. I'm gratefu that Ican stand, I can move, I

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can drive, I can see,I can hear whatever is in place.
Be grateful, be grateful rather thanfocusing on what is it, celebrate what
it is and be grateful. Behard. There will not always be great
days. I celebrate the sunshiny days. That we see even though it's still

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a little chilly, because I rememberthe days of rain and rain and more
rain and more rain and more rain. Now I'm one who likes rainy days.
I prefer to have them at homewhere I can just crawl on the
bed and go to sleep. Buteven at work, and I could see
out through the front door and hasglass panes in it, you could see
the rain coming down, and itjust it just seems so peaceful to me.

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That was grateful for the rain,plus we needed it. We've been
in a drought season. Grateful,grateful, grateful, but I'm also grateful
for the sunshine. So every dayspeak at least one sentence of gratitude.
That I guarantee you, as youmoved through the day, you will speak
more than one sentence of gratitude.As I was driving home today, I
turned the corner and they're on acorner across the sidewalk, there's the house,

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and then there's a sidewalk, andthen there's a little piece of grass
before the curve, and were thesebeautiful yellow roses. And I drive down
a little further and there's these beautifulred roses and these orange flowers and they're
they're they're not in the yard ofthe home or the house. They're across

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the sidewalk. And I'm thinking,did the homeowners plant those? Because I'm
really thinking I'd like to go andyou know, cut me out for a
few of those flowers, but Idon't want to to trans trespass on anyone
else's property. But the flowers areso beautiful. As I'm driving down the
street that turned the corner and Isee these flowers that I'm grateful for.

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However those flowers came into being,whether the city did it or the home
o owner did it, I'm gratefulthat I could see I could see the
beauty of those the work that hadbeen put into planting those flowers. So
every day, speak at least onesentence of gratitude, but you'll probably speak

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more than one. Finally, justthese thoughts every day, each day,
speak in affirmation. God created theunique me. I am. I am
created, I am intelligent, Iam fearfully and wonderfully made. I have

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a sense of humor. I amGod's treasure. I'm a daughter of the
most High God. I'm black,and I'm not ashamed. Actually, I'm
proud to be who I am justthose kinds of things, affirmations. These
were, you know, intertwined affirmations, but you get the drift, just

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affirmations, just declaring the goodness ofthe Lord. What is it that CC
wine has sing all my life?You have been faithful Father, all my
life. You have been so sogood. Every breath that I am able,
I will sing, I will speak, I will declare, I will
celebrate, I will bless the goodnessof the Lord. Some twenty seven,

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the writer says, I would havefaded had I not believed to see the
goodness of the Lord in the landof the Living. Well, hallelujah,
somebody. So that's just this broadcastfor today, this podcasting just random thoughts.
Hey, here's the thought. Whydon't you capture your random thoughts,

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those things that cross your mind.Capture them and then go back and look
at them and process them, linethem up against God's word and see just
what God is saying to you inthose random thoughts, in that random moment,

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at that random time. Well,that's it for today. Thank you
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get up. Until next time,God bless,