March 27, 2025 • 54 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:16):
Think a.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mock well.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I am
waiting on my special guests for today. I think she
may be having issues getting on. Not sure, but let
me see if I can get her. M that she is.
So I was gonna say if I can get her
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on the line, But there she is. Y'all know we
always have trouble getting on these devices. Technology is something nowadays, y'all,
So bear with me as I bring up my guests.
I'm waiting for her to come all the way in
the studio. For some reason, it's not it's not connecting
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her camera yet. For some reason that she is. Let
me say if I can get her up on the
screen now, and then we're gonna bring on in the
studio and then we're gonna start this conversation. So while
we're doing this, I want y'all to go ahead and
share this out with somebody in your circle of influence.
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You never know what the next person may be in
need of. So I want you guys to share this
out with somebody because somebody may be in need of
what she's gonna share on today. So let me go
ahead and bring my guests on in the studio so
she can introduce herself. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, how are you hi?
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Thank god I figured it out techology. Something I tell
you is, oh my gosh, how are you. I'm doing great.
I can't complain. I won't complain. God is good, Yes
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he is, Yes, he is a Listen. I began to pray.
I'm like, Lord, help me because I don't know what
I'm doing. That guess what the moment I that's that prayer,
and guess what I'm on. Okay, take your time, just
slow down, take your time. Amen. Amen, and he would
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do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Sometime we just we just be moving too fast for
our own absolutely, but welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to
welcome you to the Crew podcast on behalf of Aspiring
Authors magazine and didn't dave us of the Airways. I
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want to welcome you. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. We all celebrating
International Women's History Month. You are also a part of
the one hundred Authors movement, so we got a lot
to talk about back. So I just want you to
sit back, relax, and just decide where you want to
start because we got some time. Okay, okay, all right,
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I'm ready whenever you are. So what is this journey
been like? So you are an author, You're a part
of the one hundred author movement, you are being recognized
tonight as one of the women are part of this
movement for the international Women's History mind. So what has
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this journey been like? An author journey, life period? We
want to hear? Well, first of all, let me say
thank you for your obedience and following the plans that
God has for you and bringing these authors together, being
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able to write and to be able to express that
which I believe when you write that it comes from
the heart. And when you're connected, when you're connected to
for me to God, he allows for things to be
downloaded in your spirit and you're just ready to write
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about it. So this journey has been truly an eye
opener because I get to see an experience just by
in the chats, just by just watching and being seeing
what other other authors are doing and encouraging one another
and be like wow, you know it is some people
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out here doing some great things and really making an impact.
So this journey has been a blessing to my life.
It really has been. And like I said, I'm so
grateful to be a part of it. I'm so grateful
to have met people that are in different states. I'm
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in the state of Maryland and that are in different
states that are doing great things. So I'm I'm looking
forward to what all that God has to do while
I'm on this journey and supporting other authors and supporting
their projects and also allowing them to see what God
is doing in my life as well. So I'm excited
about the journey. Amen, Amen, And this journey is an
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author because I to let people know, you know, they
think that there's a lot of us, and there's so
many of us, and there's so many of us doing it,
but it's not. If you look at the Statisicate Artistics
says that there's only one percent of us that people
that will publish before they leave this earth and a life.
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They say one percent of people will publish in a lifetime.
So you you are part of that one percent. And
then you look around and you see so many other
people like yourself that are on the same journey. It
has to be amazing and to know that you're in
that one percent, that that is that that is so amazing.
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So to authorship, what was the that that turning point
that made you want to say that I really want
to be an author, because I didn't start out saying
I want to be an author. You know, that was
something that never crossed my mind. Yet I have over
one hundred and something publications now and never even thought
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of writing like that was something that I never thought about.
You know, so what what thing in you said, Okay,
this is what I want. This is a niche for me,
This is something that I can do well. The niche
was I never like you. I never thought of myself
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as being an author either. But I love to write, right,
So I love to journal. And in those journals they
produced a lot of a lot of personal stories that
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you know, I've been led to share. Share in having
to navigate through what I've written and what to share
as as I'm being led to do. It comes with,
you know, conquering fear. You know, if are people going
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to want to hear what I have to say? Are
people going to you know understand from the the you know,
understand where I'm coming from in this particular writing or
or or a book or whatever. And so for me,
I I love to journal, journal, but I never thought
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about actually putting it on paper, and putting it in
a book. Uh. And and I just began probably about
several years ago, probably early part uh doing COVID is. Uh, well,
let me let me go back. I published my first
self published book at Keith House of a two right,
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was a self of this book, and it came from
an area of me just writing, just journaling, right. And
then I believe I was led to to release that
to to to help empower young women at that time
that was suffering with silent domestic of semestic violence and.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Too.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It was my therapy to release that book, right. So
when I released it, I didn't think anything of being
a great author, being a great writer or anything like that.
It was a healing process for me. So fast forward now,
anything that I've written, right, it's got to do it's
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been dealing with what's been with how God has been
healing me through writing. So I take those and I
don't take them lightly. But I just I love to write,
and I never just never the thought about being an author.
But there are things that I believe are being helping people,
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which is why I continue doing what I do right
and and and and I thank you for that because
you know, oftentimes people don't understand why they go through
the things that they go through, and they think that
they're the only one like that that you you didn't
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think anybody wanted to hear what you had to say.
You know that that is the majority. That is what
a majority of the people that come in and sit
in the studio, that's what they tell me. This week.
I've heard that three times this week. And I want
people to understand that. You know, if we are the
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one percent, then just think of that other ninety nine
percent that's out there. It's ninety nine percent out there
that that that is not writing, that that is something
because they're not writing and they're needing something to read,
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you know, and there's so many people out there that
are going through things and don't know how to release.
They don't know how to write, don't know where to start,
don't know how to even deal with the things that
they're dealing with. You know, we were fortunate enough to
you know, discover that gift within us. Yeah, it already
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placed in us. Yeah, it is. It's truly a gift,
a gift, a gift and a voice that needs to
be heard. Because if your story impacts just one person
to a draw closer to God, I get to know God,
be help themselves. Then that's that that that becomes an
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increase in that one percent, right, you know, so your
your voice, your voice is needed in areas that that
people are are probably afraid to address. So if there's
a story and if their story, if there's a story
in you, that story needs to come out of you
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so that you will be able to impact and help
someone else exactly. And I want to know on this
journey how hard or easy, because some people say it
has been easy for them to start the process and
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to get these things out. Your first book, I think
you said, dealt with domestic violence, suffering silence and suffering silence,
suffering domestic domestic So yeah, that that that could have
been a topic that could have been sensitive, or maybe
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you may could have relived some things and may have
been triggered. So with a lot of people, how how
was that process for you? Was it an easy process
writing or was it reliving your testimony? It definitely was
not an easy journey. It was not an easy thing
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to do because there was some things that that I
didn't want people to know. But at the same time,
there was some things that the Lord was leading me
to allow people to know through through my testimony, through
what I was living through at the age of six
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ten years old and being a pastor's child, a p K,
a pastor's kid. So it's a lot of things that
were that It wasn't easy because if I felt that
if if the book when it was published, I knew
that my father would get it and would read it.
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I knew my mother would read it. I knew my
siblings would read it, and uh, you know, at that time,
you know, I was like wondering, well, how were they
gonna feel about what I had written? But at the
same time those what I written was my truth and
how God allowed me to get through those things with
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his help. And I tell people all the time that
when the Lord orders your steps, he does not order
them step your steps for no reason. He orders them
for a purpose. And the purpose is it helps you,
but it also brings forth to help somebody else. So
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it's not not it's not always easy, but then it's
it's necessary because it's it can. Uh. The the writing
helps me and it's my healing. And that's how I
see it. When I write, when I go through difficult things,
I write it and it's my healing, but it's it's
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it brings about not only healing for me, but it's
to also help someone else. H wow. So if you
want to tell us a little bit about your book. Yeah,
so I read. I wrote it in early part of
well two thousand and two, and the name of the
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book was called Understanding the Pain, and it, like I said,
it was self published, uh, self published by a publishing
company called Zuolne Press. And it was my first jabber
ever writing a book. And it was dedicated to two
women who found themselves in bondage to domestic violence, suffering
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silence and domestic violence relationships and and how they still
managed to become overcomers with the help of the Lord.
So in that book, I I I talk about there's
so many people I was going to to college dormitories
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and speaking to the young women who were in college. Uh,
and they they they found one particular chapter in the book.
It was called Praying the Knuckleheads out of Your Life
and uh, we we we couldn't get past that particular
chapter I remember. And that's that, you know. It was
just talking about how how you know when we when
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we when we're when we're thinking we're loving is the
right person and then God shows us it's not. So
how how do you how do how do you break
that cycle of of of of abuse and thinking you're
loving the right person? And for one thing you know,
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and writing this to therapy for me is that I
began to see the real love of God and how
he loves me right, not in the not in the
sight of how man loves, but in the sight of
how He loves. So that particular book was my release
of everything that I had gone through, what I had
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suffered at an early age until the time I left
and I joined the military at twenty one. Wow wow wow,
So what has what was the military like? Military life?
Military life was my escape. It was my escape, and
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it was my escape. It was me. I had to
just depend and trust on the Lord because at that
time I was uh having some technical difficulties. Hopefully she'll
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be able to come back in the studio, her camera
went out, and it was it was God's way of
saving me from what I was into at that time.
It was his way of saving me. So I never
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thought that I would do twenty years in the United
States Navy, but I did, and God's hand was all
over that because he was saving my life, preserving me
for such a time as this. Wow, my nephew's in
the navy. I think he's been in for seven years now. Oops.
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So yes, thank you for sharing that. I think whenever
you knocked your phone down, I think something happened. You
went out. You may have to you may have to
go out and come back in. Let me see you
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a message. Technical. Yes, I don't know what's happened. I
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was telling her she may have to go out and
come back in because I can hear her, but she
apparently cannot hear me. I don't know what happened. But
she blacked out, y'all, awhile, and then she came back in,
So evidently something happened to her volume. So we gonna
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see if she can go out and come back in
or if she can I don't know. We trying to
get it together. We gonna see, y'all. We gonna see
and and y'all know, technology is always, it's always, it's
always doing something. We're gonna say, if we can get
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her back in here so we can get a get
a volume and stuff. We're gonna say, if we can
get her back in here in just a second, y'all.
But nevertheless, y'all, we keep on person, We keep on person.
I'll tell you that has been the concisests. Y'all have
heard the last couple of nights that we've been on
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individuals that have shared their testimony and shared their story
about writing and getting started. It has been the same thing.
So y'all, we got to move past that, and we
got to understand that these journeys, these testimonies that we
have are not just for us, but therefore people that
we're gonna come in contact with, those that may even
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come after us. We may not even be meeting the
people that we're gonna be sharing these these things that
God is allowing us to impart into the world. You know,
we may not meet the people that are gonna come
in contact with these things. But my guess is back
in we're gonna see if we can hear her now,
because I'm sure she has some more things that she
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wants to share, y'all, So let me get her on
back in here. Can you hear us now? Yes? Okay, okay, okay.
I tell you when it get good and and and
and people are really sharing and the enemy is so busy.
It's so busy now, but we don't allow it to
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bother us. We don't allow it to get to us.
We just keep on pressing. We we have learned to
adapt and learn to to move through and to get through,
to get through these things so that we can see
what the other side is gonna be, you know what
I'm saying. So we have learned how to press. So
know that if anything happened, if I jump, if I
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fall off, you just keep on topping. You just keep
doing what you're doing and I come back. You know.
That's what we do. You know, And we cannot We
only can't control what we can control. And we can't
control technology. We can't control the internet, we can't control
this stuff. We all we can do is do the
best that we can do, and that's what we're doing.
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We're coming on here tonight and we're sharing. And I
was just sharing with those that are listening. You know
a lot of the things that we're doing, a lot
of the stuff that we're sharing. You know, it's not
for us. It may be for people that we have
not even encountered, people that are gonna come after us
generations and generations and generations to come, because the Word
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tells us that we shall do greater works. But how
would they know the greater works if we don't put
the greater works in the hands of people that can
utilize it. So we are given the opportunity to share
these things, and we're given the opportunity to be a
voice for those that may think that they don't have
a boy because there were there was a time. I've
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not always been this person that would come on the
and and and openly talk like I had a studying
a stuttering problem. I talked too fast. It was always
something that would make me say, oh, I don't want
to do this. I don't want to do this. I
can't do this. But when when God say, when God
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say you got to do you got to do it,
ain't nothing you can do. All you can do is say, okay,
use me, I'll go, you know, even if you don't know.
And and and that was me. And I tell people
all the time, you know, I didn't know what I
was doing when I started a lot of this. You know,
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I didn't know what God was doing. But I know
God was moving. I know God was directing me to
do these things. So I just begin to do on it.
But back, now that you are back, I want you
to share. You were going to share with the listeners
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a little bit. I think we were talking about your
journey in the military. We talked about your journey in
the military, and then the enemy just don't want her
own here tonight. Don't know why, but we're gonna get
it back on here, y'all. We're gonna get it back
on here. But we keep pressing, We keep pressing, and
what we have learned, and thank you, d D. Thank
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you for a lot of people. I think writing has
become a healing mechanism. It has become therapy, It has
become an outlet for some people to release. So you
were getting ready to share a little bit about your book,
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I think mm hmm, yeah, yeah. I was sharing the
the uh, the concept of the many stories that were
related into my in my book from just experiences from
a teenager and like I said, up till the time
that I joined the military at twenty one years old,
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and how my writing, I believe that it was my
healing process that God wanted me to heal through. So
you know, God can use any number of mechanism to
bring healing to his children. And at that particular time,
like I said, I never I never thought about branching
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out to be an author or make millions being a writer.
But what I wanted to do is, as the Holy
Spirit led me, was to be able to share portions
of my story to not only as I'm healing, but
as I continuing to overcomingness process of learning who God
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created me to be and to stand in who He
created me to be. You said, at one moment time,
you got to stand in who He has created you
to be. So my writing is healing for me and
help for someone else. So understanding the pain, it doesn't
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mean that I understood everything all the whise, that the
why behind everything that I had to go through. But
what it did was it drew me closer to God.
It drew me closer and to the person that He
created me to be. It drew me closer into understanding
that I don't have to be like anybody else. I
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can just be comfortable and who He has created me
to be and to know for sure that I'm his child.
And it just took a lot. It took it. And
you know what, what I what I love about God
is because he already knew what I was going to
go through, right uh, And he already knew how I
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was going to respond to how what I was going through.
And at the same time, even though I didn't understand
every pain that I went through, I never gave up
on God. I never gave up on him. I never
allowed my situation to keep me in a victim mentality,
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so you know, and it's all through learning, learning God's
word and learning who he says that you are and
you can live and who He says that you are
even while you're going through different things. So writing that,
writing that book in two thousand and two, and even
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going back a few years ago, dusting off, dusting off
of eh, just going back through it. You know, I
don't I don't have that same level of why God,
Why does why this happened to me? I just praise
God and say thank You for allowing me to go
through it so that somebody else can can can heal
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or I can help somebody else make it through the
same things that that that I went through as a
teenager and up to the time I left home. Wow,
that's powerful. That that that that's powerful. I thank God
for you sharing because somebody, somebody needed to hear that
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on tonight. You know, Wow, you know if the if,
it's the it's the devil's job to keep you in
a victim mentality. Mm hm. He keeps you in a
victim mentality. So you're gonna get to know who you
are in Christ mm hmm hm. I'm sorry. I so
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you so you can't live your best life? Right, So
you can't live your best life because as long as
you're holding on to victim, I can't live my best
life in Christ. Hm. Right? You know, and and it's
and it's so true. You know that he he is
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a mender of broken hearts. He is the one that
that that will will will will bring you out of
darkness into his marvelous life. He is that one and
he and he and he longs for you us to
get to a point to where, even in all of
our mess even in in all of our situations, he
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wants us to rely upon him. Wow. Total seven. Like healing,
like you said, healing and standing. Look, healing and standing
and who He has created you to be like that?
That that that that healing part when when we heal,
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we're able to help other people heal because now we
we now we understand, we understand that we can stand
in who has who He has created us to be.
Through that healing process, we have truly learned who we were.
You know, when we understand that healing, we got to
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stop allowing hindrance m HM to cause us to have
egos that allow us to have attitudes that stops us
from moving in love. So when we learn to heal,
we no longer let hindrance houses us to have egos
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and etetudes, and now we can move in love. Yeah,
absolutely absolutely, And the scripture says that love covers a
multitude of suns. Right, So in in my loving you,
I don't see what you used to be. In my
loving you, I don't hold what you used to be
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in my heart. I don't I don't look at those
things that you how how you were right? Because you know,
we're displaying the love of Christ. And the love of
Christ is so important. Uh, even even as we're journeying,
journeying through you know, keep on living and keep on living.
The love of Christ is so important because it takes
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us from from victim to victory. It keeps us in,
It keeps us in a victorious state of mind. Even
though I might be going through hell, I'm still victorious.
Mm hmmmm. From victim to victorious. Wow, Now ain't that something?
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And and and and how do you get there? You
got to go through And people don't understand it's not
that you know, we we have to understand that the
Word tells us that that we we we believe what
we understand that the Word says that these weapons and
these things are gonna come, but he tells us that
they're not gonna prosper. So if we know that they're
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not gonna we should have we we should have some
word down in us. We should have something down in
us that we can stand, that we can that we
can stand and who He has created. Yes, and we
can stand in and in Genesis two and seven that
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breath of life that He breathed in us. That I
truly believe, the positive everything that we needed. So so
we don't have to be out here searching for nothing.
But all we got to do was tap into him
because he's already in us. Yes, breath. All right, we
don't And you said something else that resonated to something
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that I've been saying across the platform, and and and
we we did a we did a conference on it
matters of the heart. You know, God attends to the heart.
You know, the heart was healing, empowering, aligning with a
and trauma.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
No mo.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Part two, Part two is coming in May. Part two
is coming May third. Is gonna be on a Saturday,
May third from eleven a m. To two pm. Definitely,
we would love for you to be a part of that.
One of our hosts, her name is Trevita, she is
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a part of the Crew podcast. She's gonna be hosting that,
So I definitely will put you in contact with her
so that you can connect with her and be a
part of that. We're looking for some hosts, some some
individuals that want to come on and share, you know,
that share their expertise, their their journey, you know, how
they got through whatever, you know, they may have went through,
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if it was feeling that they went through, if it
was an empowerment journey that they was on, if it
was them aligning with their purpose, aligning with that that
God has already called them to, you know, or if
it was a journey of resilience. Because we have the
young lady that did resilience in the last conference. She
had a stroke two and a half years ago and
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it's currently still in in in in bed. She's not
able to walk, she's still not mobile, but she still
had posted a podcast. She's hosted a podcast from bed
for three years. This is her third season and her
first season she had guests. On her second season, she
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said she wanted to go to not having guests, and
this year she's straight inspirational. It's inspirational moments with Prophet
is Teeth and she comes home and she encouraged people.
Even when people want to when they want to gas
like her and do all kind of stuff on YouTube
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and all these different social media platforms, she still pressed.
She still comes on, She still show up. She still
delivered the word of God. I tell you, God is
truly He has truly been moving through this podcast, you know,
because we come through different walks of life, and just
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their willingness, because they were willing and they said, yes,
you know a lot of people we've invited to come
and be a guest, even where you're sitting today, and
a lot of people still afraid to come. But you came.
You were a will in vessel because you knew that
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there was something that somebody needed to hear today. So
I want you to share how can individuals support your platform,
how can they follow you? How can they get your book?
And if you have some new things that's coming up,
what we can look forward for and the rest of
twenty twenty five because we're only three months in, so
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what we can look for in twenty twenty five, how
we can follow you, check out some of the things
that you already have and all of that good stuff. Okay,
you can follow. I'm easily to be followed on Facebook.
I'm on Instagram, my platform, my platform. What I'm working
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what the Lord is allowing me to work on this
coming up fall and that's where my energy is really
going to go toward is as a women's conference, and
it's gonna it's titled Behold Your Beauty Women's International Conference.
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I have to tell you, Alisbrier gave that to me.
The international wasn't in there until January and and and
it is suposed to me just like, no, it's just
not going to be just the average conference. It's going
to be international. So you have to add in Behold
your Beauty International Women's Conference, right, So I'm like, well, Lord,
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I don't know anybody. But if you said that's what
it's going to be, guess what. That's what it's going
to be. So it's a it's a conference that that
that a conference that will speak and empower women and
not not so much. I'm not doing anything new, but
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I'm just doing it as our Holy Spirit leads me
to do it. Because there's so many there, you know,
we have I support other women's conferences, I support other
women's ministries and things like that. And I'm like, you know, why,
why why this particular one? And he was just like,
because I need for I need for my children to
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understand that there is a beauty inside of them that
I have given unto them, and you have to behold
that beauty to continue to live and trust that He
is always with us and that He is for us.
So it's going to be a phenomenal, fenomenal event. And
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I not event. I don't call an event a time
of wortship, a time of prayer, a time of us
coming together, a time of restoring in a time of
people getting to know who God is in their life
for real, because now is the time that we really
need to know our God. It's now so it's not
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about you know, it's not about being So I'm my God.
You know who's gonna come. He says, don't worry about that.
You just go for and you do what I've given you.
So I've written that He's given me, given me the vision.
I wrote the vision. I'm making a plane, and I
believe that He's going to give me every resource that
I need to carry out this fall in what I
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need to do, and it's going to be. I have
it on Instagram, I have it posted to Facebook. I'm
not sure of all the particulars, but I'm just trusting God.
For the book is Understanding the Pain that was written
in two thousand and two from Zoo Line Press, and
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I believe that if you if you want a copy
of it, just let me know. I'll be able to
get a copy of it. I don't charge for the book.
I give the book away for free because I feel
like it's a it's a it's it's it's it's how
God blessed me to be a blessing to others. So
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I don't charge for the book. I get the book,
and I give the book away for free because the Lord,
he is kind and I'm thankful about that. So I'm
working that particular conference. We're starting to get those things
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in order. So that's that's my number one priority for
the remainder of this year. I also have other projects
and I'm working on writing projects and anthologies with a
couple other amazing women who are writing I love. I'm
supporting this Queen, Queen Angela, She's I see you in Atlanta.
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My daughter lives in Atlanta, so I'm going to be
there in April, so I hope to hope to hope
we can hook up in April when I'm there, just
so I'll get a chance to meet you face to face.
So those are the things that God is allowing me
to do right now in this season. I don't have
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a lot of things going on because He knows me.
So so I got to take things one step at
a time because God knows me, and I will get overwhelmed,
and I don't want to be overwhelmed. I just want
to be able to do which will do that what
she's called me to do. And if I if what
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God allows me to do helps one person, then this
is not in vain. So I'm just thankful to God
about that. I'm also uh I'm also the co pastor
of Kingdom Hope Ministry, So we have a website for
our church, Kingdom Hope Ministry, and we can be founding
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at Gambros, Maryland. I'm just excited about every door that
God is opening and even super excited about the doors
He's closing. So I'm thankful to just being open to
whatever God would have me to do in this season.
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A man, amen that that that that that that was
Look if if they didn't get it, they look, they
get to go back and listen to the replay. They can.
They get to listen to the replay, and that's the
that's the good thing about this is they get to
listen to the replay and they're definitely gonna get to
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hear some clips. So they're definitely gonna get to hear this.
So it's it's it's gonna be heard. But it wasn't.
It wasn't a lot. It was what was need to
have been said. I often tell people you can never
talk about the things that God have you doing too
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much because there's somebody that needs to hear it. There's
somebody that needs to get it. Because if it wasn't
he wouldn't give it to you, you know, so He's
given it to us for a reason. So definitely, you
you keep being that vessel, you keep sharing, you keep
you keep putting it out there so that individuals, you know,
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I often tell people, we sit on these things that
God has given us when he's given us an outlet,
he's given us resources, he's given us everything that we need.
If we just utilize those things, you know, we were
out here searching when it's already in us. Oh my gosh, yes, yeah,
mm hmm, yeah, that is the truth. That is the truth. Yeah,
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And and allow him to bring those things forth, those
gifts that He's given, bring those forth, unafraid and unapologetic
about what God is doing in your life. Unafraid and unapologetic. Now,
I'm not saying that you you go out and you
just be this um uh person. That's that's that has
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that's that has the title. That's that's that's saying your
godly but you're un but have ungodly ways. I would
put it back right. And and we want to we
want to reflect the true image of God in our
lives and everything that we do and everything that He
has allowed us to do. And to be a part
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even with connecting with people. We just want to be
our We just want to be all our best for God.
That's my desire and that's the type of people that
I'm asking God to send into my life, those that
will be able to impact the kingdom and not heard it? Amen? Amen? Well.
I always ask my guests before they leave. I always
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want them to share something positive encouraging that they can
encourage the listeners on whether they're live or if they
hear the replay. On this journey that we call life,
a well, on this life, on this journey that we
call life, we understand that we're going to have ups
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and downs. We understand that there are trials and tribulations
that we're going to go through. But my favorite, one
of my favorite scriptures is that many of the afflictions
of the right is but God delivers them from the
all givers Us from them all. And here is you know,
when we think about our trials, when we think about
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those things that we go through as believers, that we
just don't give up, We just don't throw in the towel.
We stand and stand and knowing that there is a God,
He is our hope. He is our strength. And if
you don't have have that strong connection right now that
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you can pray and ask God to help you with
your faith, help you with your unbelief, whatever that is
that's hindering you from being closer to God. He wants
to hear from you so that He will help you
through it. And not only that, is that we're living
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in such a time that we have to carry the
word of God and also demonstrate the love of God.
So don't frets, don't fret. Continue to just live, continue
to trust God, and continue to live. I'm gonna say
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that one. Just continue to trust God and to live.
And that's my whole thing that I encourage people to do,
even when you can't see it. Just continue to trust
Him and live. Wow, just live, Just live, Just live,
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trusting God for everything because he promised that he will
take care of us. That he did, That's what he did,
and we can live in that promise and we can
trust him and take him for his word. Wow. I
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have truly, I tell you, I have truly been blessed tonight.
I want to thank God for stopping by and sharing
with me.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Hope.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Yes, ma'am. Anytime, anytime you are part of the one
hundred author movements. So know that you know, every opportunity
that I get to share you guys, I will definitely
be sharing you guys every opportunity I get to I'm
putting you on front Street. So get ready, get ready,
to get ready. I love sharing, I love bringing individuals together.
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Those four seeds I'm serious about those four seeds. Connect, collaborate, create,
and community. You know, that's what it's gonna take to
keep That's what it's gonna take to keep going. And
in order for us to be able to leave those
greater works, we gotta be able to connect, collaborate, create,
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and do it as a community. The most important thing
is building that community so that those coming after us
can see that sense of community, because we let that
slip away. But that's a whole nother show. And I
tell you, truly, truly, truly have enjoyed you tonight. So
I want to thank you for joining us. Your work,
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come back anytime, and I look forward to seeing you
around the one hundred Authors movement again. Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you, and God bless amen. Amen,
And I want to thank everyone for tuning in tonight
that has been a part of this, y'all. Please share
this in your circle of influence what the next person
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may be in need of. Y'all, I see you next time.
If you can tune on back in tonight eight o'clock,
the NeXT's gonna be on on them depas. Yeah ways,
y'all come on back love, y'all be blessed bad Back
Think a.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
Mock well.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
Hello, Hello, Hello, Hello, and welcome, welcome, welcome. I am
waiting on my special guests for today. I think she
may be having issues getting on. Not sure, but let
me see if I can get her. M that she is.
So I was gonna say if I can get her
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on the line, But there she is. Y'all know we
always have trouble getting on these devices. Technology is something nowadays, y'all,
So bear with me as I bring up my guests.
I'm waiting for her to come all the way in
the studio. For some reason, it's not it's not connecting
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her camera yet. For some reason that she is. Let
me say if I can get her up on the
screen now, and then we're gonna bring on in the
studio and then we're gonna start this conversation. So while
we're doing this, I want y'all to go ahead and
share this out with somebody in your circle of influence.
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You never know what the next person may be in
need of. So I want you guys to share this
out with somebody because somebody may be in need of
what she's gonna share on today. So let me go
ahead and bring my guests on in the studio so
she can introduce herself. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, how are you hi?
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Thank god I figured it out techology. Something I tell
you is, oh my gosh, how are you. I'm doing great.
I can't complain. I won't complain. God is good, Yes
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he is, Yes, he is a Listen. I began to pray.
I'm like, Lord, help me because I don't know what
I'm doing. That guess what the moment I that's that prayer,
and guess what I'm on. Okay, take your time, just
slow down, take your time. Amen. Amen, and he would
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do just that.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Sometime we just we just be moving too fast for
our own absolutely, but welcome, Welcome, Welcome. I want to
welcome you to the Crew podcast on behalf of Aspiring
Authors magazine and didn't dave us of the Airways. I
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want to welcome you. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome. We all celebrating
International Women's History Month. You are also a part of
the one hundred Authors movement, so we got a lot
to talk about back. So I just want you to
sit back, relax, and just decide where you want to
start because we got some time. Okay, okay, all right,
(07:44):
I'm ready whenever you are. So what is this journey
been like? So you are an author, You're a part
of the one hundred author movement, you are being recognized
tonight as one of the women are part of this
movement for the international Women's History mind. So what has
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this journey been like? An author journey, life period? We
want to hear? Well, first of all, let me say
thank you for your obedience and following the plans that
God has for you and bringing these authors together, being
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able to write and to be able to express that
which I believe when you write that it comes from
the heart. And when you're connected, when you're connected to
for me to God, he allows for things to be
downloaded in your spirit and you're just ready to write
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about it. So this journey has been truly an eye
opener because I get to see an experience just by
in the chats, just by just watching and being seeing
what other other authors are doing and encouraging one another
and be like wow, you know it is some people
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out here doing some great things and really making an impact.
So this journey has been a blessing to my life.
It really has been. And like I said, I'm so
grateful to be a part of it. I'm so grateful
to have met people that are in different states. I'm
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in the state of Maryland and that are in different
states that are doing great things. So I'm I'm looking
forward to what all that God has to do while
I'm on this journey and supporting other authors and supporting
their projects and also allowing them to see what God
is doing in my life as well. So I'm excited
about the journey. Amen, Amen, And this journey is an
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author because I to let people know, you know, they
think that there's a lot of us, and there's so
many of us, and there's so many of us doing it,
but it's not. If you look at the Statisicate Artistics
says that there's only one percent of us that people
that will publish before they leave this earth and a life.
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They say one percent of people will publish in a lifetime.
So you you are part of that one percent. And
then you look around and you see so many other
people like yourself that are on the same journey. It
has to be amazing and to know that you're in
that one percent, that that is that that is so amazing.
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So to authorship, what was the that that turning point
that made you want to say that I really want
to be an author, because I didn't start out saying
I want to be an author. You know, that was
something that never crossed my mind. Yet I have over
one hundred and something publications now and never even thought
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of writing like that was something that I never thought about.
You know, so what what thing in you said, Okay,
this is what I want. This is a niche for me,
This is something that I can do well. The niche
was I never like you. I never thought of myself
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as being an author either. But I love to write, right,
So I love to journal. And in those journals they
produced a lot of a lot of personal stories that
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you know, I've been led to share. Share in having
to navigate through what I've written and what to share
as as I'm being led to do. It comes with,
you know, conquering fear. You know, if are people going
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to want to hear what I have to say? Are
people going to you know understand from the the you know,
understand where I'm coming from in this particular writing or
or or a book or whatever. And so for me,
I I love to journal, journal, but I never thought
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about actually putting it on paper, and putting it in
a book. Uh. And and I just began probably about
several years ago, probably early part uh doing COVID is. Uh, well,
let me let me go back. I published my first
self published book at Keith House of a two right,
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was a self of this book, and it came from
an area of me just writing, just journaling, right. And
then I believe I was led to to release that
to to to help empower young women at that time
that was suffering with silent domestic of semestic violence and.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Too.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
It was my therapy to release that book, right. So
when I released it, I didn't think anything of being
a great author, being a great writer or anything like that.
It was a healing process for me. So fast forward now,
anything that I've written, right, it's got to do it's
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been dealing with what's been with how God has been
healing me through writing. So I take those and I
don't take them lightly. But I just I love to write,
and I never just never the thought about being an author.
But there are things that I believe are being helping people,
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which is why I continue doing what I do right
and and and and I thank you for that because
you know, oftentimes people don't understand why they go through
the things that they go through, and they think that
they're the only one like that that you you didn't
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think anybody wanted to hear what you had to say.
You know that that is the majority. That is what
a majority of the people that come in and sit
in the studio, that's what they tell me. This week.
I've heard that three times this week. And I want
people to understand that. You know, if we are the
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one percent, then just think of that other ninety nine
percent that's out there. It's ninety nine percent out there
that that that is not writing, that that is something
because they're not writing and they're needing something to read,
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you know, and there's so many people out there that
are going through things and don't know how to release.
They don't know how to write, don't know where to start,
don't know how to even deal with the things that
they're dealing with. You know, we were fortunate enough to
you know, discover that gift within us. Yeah, it already
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placed in us. Yeah, it is. It's truly a gift,
a gift, a gift and a voice that needs to
be heard. Because if your story impacts just one person
to a draw closer to God, I get to know God,
be help themselves. Then that's that that that becomes an
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increase in that one percent, right, you know, so your
your voice, your voice is needed in areas that that
people are are probably afraid to address. So if there's
a story and if their story, if there's a story
in you, that story needs to come out of you
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so that you will be able to impact and help
someone else exactly. And I want to know on this
journey how hard or easy, because some people say it
has been easy for them to start the process and
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to get these things out. Your first book, I think
you said, dealt with domestic violence, suffering silence and suffering silence,
suffering domestic domestic So yeah, that that that could have
been a topic that could have been sensitive, or maybe
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you may could have relived some things and may have
been triggered. So with a lot of people, how how
was that process for you? Was it an easy process
writing or was it reliving your testimony? It definitely was
not an easy journey. It was not an easy thing
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to do because there was some things that that I
didn't want people to know. But at the same time,
there was some things that the Lord was leading me
to allow people to know through through my testimony, through
what I was living through at the age of six
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ten years old and being a pastor's child, a p K,
a pastor's kid. So it's a lot of things that
were that It wasn't easy because if I felt that
if if the book when it was published, I knew
that my father would get it and would read it.
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I knew my mother would read it. I knew my
siblings would read it, and uh, you know, at that time,
you know, I was like wondering, well, how were they
gonna feel about what I had written? But at the
same time those what I written was my truth and
how God allowed me to get through those things with
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his help. And I tell people all the time that
when the Lord orders your steps, he does not order
them step your steps for no reason. He orders them
for a purpose. And the purpose is it helps you,
but it also brings forth to help somebody else. So
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it's not not it's not always easy, but then it's
it's necessary because it's it can. Uh. The the writing
helps me and it's my healing. And that's how I
see it. When I write, when I go through difficult things,
I write it and it's my healing, but it's it's
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it brings about not only healing for me, but it's
to also help someone else. H wow. So if you
want to tell us a little bit about your book. Yeah,
so I read. I wrote it in early part of
well two thousand and two, and the name of the
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book was called Understanding the Pain, and it, like I said,
it was self published, uh, self published by a publishing
company called Zuolne Press. And it was my first jabber
ever writing a book. And it was dedicated to two
women who found themselves in bondage to domestic violence, suffering
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silence and domestic violence relationships and and how they still
managed to become overcomers with the help of the Lord.
So in that book, I I I talk about there's
so many people I was going to to college dormitories
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and speaking to the young women who were in college. Uh,
and they they they found one particular chapter in the book.
It was called Praying the Knuckleheads out of Your Life
and uh, we we we couldn't get past that particular
chapter I remember. And that's that, you know. It was
just talking about how how you know when we when
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we when we're when we're thinking we're loving is the
right person and then God shows us it's not. So
how how do you how do how do you break
that cycle of of of of abuse and thinking you're
loving the right person? And for one thing you know,
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and writing this to therapy for me is that I
began to see the real love of God and how
he loves me right, not in the not in the
sight of how man loves, but in the sight of
how He loves. So that particular book was my release
of everything that I had gone through, what I had
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suffered at an early age until the time I left
and I joined the military at twenty one. Wow wow wow,
So what has what was the military like? Military life?
Military life was my escape. It was my escape, and
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it was my escape. It was me. I had to
just depend and trust on the Lord because at that
time I was uh having some technical difficulties. Hopefully she'll
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be able to come back in the studio, her camera
went out, and it was it was God's way of
saving me from what I was into at that time.
It was his way of saving me. So I never
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thought that I would do twenty years in the United
States Navy, but I did, and God's hand was all
over that because he was saving my life, preserving me
for such a time as this. Wow, my nephew's in
the navy. I think he's been in for seven years now. Oops.
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So yes, thank you for sharing that. I think whenever
you knocked your phone down, I think something happened. You
went out. You may have to you may have to
go out and come back in. Let me see you
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a message. Technical. Yes, I don't know what's happened. I
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was telling her she may have to go out and
come back in because I can hear her, but she
apparently cannot hear me. I don't know what happened. But
she blacked out, y'all, awhile, and then she came back in,
So evidently something happened to her volume. So we gonna
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see if she can go out and come back in
or if she can I don't know. We trying to
get it together. We gonna see, y'all. We gonna see
and and y'all know, technology is always, it's always, it's
always doing something. We're gonna say, if we can get
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her back in here so we can get a get
a volume and stuff. We're gonna say, if we can
get her back in here in just a second, y'all.
But nevertheless, y'all, we keep on person, We keep on person.
I'll tell you that has been the concisests. Y'all have
heard the last couple of nights that we've been on
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individuals that have shared their testimony and shared their story
about writing and getting started. It has been the same thing.
So y'all, we got to move past that, and we
got to understand that these journeys, these testimonies that we
have are not just for us, but therefore people that
we're gonna come in contact with, those that may even
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come after us. We may not even be meeting the
people that we're gonna be sharing these these things that
God is allowing us to impart into the world. You know,
we may not meet the people that are gonna come
in contact with these things. But my guess is back
in we're gonna see if we can hear her now,
because I'm sure she has some more things that she
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wants to share, y'all, So let me get her on
back in here. Can you hear us now? Yes? Okay, okay, okay.
I tell you when it get good and and and
and people are really sharing and the enemy is so busy.
It's so busy now, but we don't allow it to
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bother us. We don't allow it to get to us.
We just keep on pressing. We we have learned to
adapt and learn to to move through and to get through,
to get through these things so that we can see
what the other side is gonna be, you know what
I'm saying. So we have learned how to press. So
know that if anything happened, if I jump, if I
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fall off, you just keep on topping. You just keep
doing what you're doing and I come back. You know.
That's what we do. You know, And we cannot We
only can't control what we can control. And we can't
control technology. We can't control the internet, we can't control
this stuff. We all we can do is do the
best that we can do, and that's what we're doing.
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We're coming on here tonight and we're sharing. And I
was just sharing with those that are listening. You know
a lot of the things that we're doing, a lot
of the stuff that we're sharing. You know, it's not
for us. It may be for people that we have
not even encountered, people that are gonna come after us
generations and generations and generations to come, because the Word
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tells us that we shall do greater works. But how
would they know the greater works if we don't put
the greater works in the hands of people that can
utilize it. So we are given the opportunity to share
these things, and we're given the opportunity to be a
voice for those that may think that they don't have
a boy because there were there was a time. I've
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not always been this person that would come on the
and and and openly talk like I had a studying
a stuttering problem. I talked too fast. It was always
something that would make me say, oh, I don't want
to do this. I don't want to do this. I
can't do this. But when when God say, when God
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say you got to do you got to do it,
ain't nothing you can do. All you can do is say, okay,
use me, I'll go, you know, even if you don't know.
And and and that was me. And I tell people
all the time, you know, I didn't know what I
was doing when I started a lot of this. You know,
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I didn't know what God was doing. But I know
God was moving. I know God was directing me to
do these things. So I just begin to do on it.
But back, now that you are back, I want you
to share. You were going to share with the listeners
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a little bit. I think we were talking about your
journey in the military. We talked about your journey in
the military, and then the enemy just don't want her
own here tonight. Don't know why, but we're gonna get
it back on here, y'all. We're gonna get it back
on here. But we keep pressing, We keep pressing, and
what we have learned, and thank you, d D. Thank
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you for a lot of people. I think writing has
become a healing mechanism. It has become therapy, It has
become an outlet for some people to release. So you
were getting ready to share a little bit about your book,
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I think mm hmm, yeah, yeah. I was sharing the
the uh, the concept of the many stories that were
related into my in my book from just experiences from
a teenager and like I said, up till the time
that I joined the military at twenty one years old,
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and how my writing, I believe that it was my
healing process that God wanted me to heal through. So
you know, God can use any number of mechanism to
bring healing to his children. And at that particular time,
like I said, I never I never thought about branching
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out to be an author or make millions being a writer.
But what I wanted to do is, as the Holy
Spirit led me, was to be able to share portions
of my story to not only as I'm healing, but
as I continuing to overcomingness process of learning who God
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created me to be and to stand in who He
created me to be. You said, at one moment time,
you got to stand in who He has created you
to be. So my writing is healing for me and
help for someone else. So understanding the pain, it doesn't
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mean that I understood everything all the whise, that the
why behind everything that I had to go through. But
what it did was it drew me closer to God.
It drew me closer and to the person that He
created me to be. It drew me closer into understanding
that I don't have to be like anybody else. I
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can just be comfortable and who He has created me
to be and to know for sure that I'm his child.
And it just took a lot. It took it. And
you know what, what I what I love about God
is because he already knew what I was going to
go through, right uh, And he already knew how I
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was going to respond to how what I was going through.
And at the same time, even though I didn't understand
every pain that I went through, I never gave up
on God. I never gave up on him. I never
allowed my situation to keep me in a victim mentality,
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so you know, and it's all through learning, learning God's
word and learning who he says that you are and
you can live and who He says that you are
even while you're going through different things. So writing that,
writing that book in two thousand and two, and even
(32:56):
going back a few years ago, dusting off, dusting off
of eh, just going back through it. You know, I
don't I don't have that same level of why God,
Why does why this happened to me? I just praise
God and say thank You for allowing me to go
through it so that somebody else can can can heal
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or I can help somebody else make it through the
same things that that that I went through as a
teenager and up to the time I left home. Wow,
that's powerful. That that that that's powerful. I thank God
for you sharing because somebody, somebody needed to hear that
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on tonight. You know, Wow, you know if the if,
it's the it's the devil's job to keep you in
a victim mentality. Mm hm. He keeps you in a
victim mentality. So you're gonna get to know who you
are in Christ mm hmm hm. I'm sorry. I so
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you so you can't live your best life? Right, So
you can't live your best life because as long as
you're holding on to victim, I can't live my best
life in Christ. Hm. Right? You know, and and it's
and it's so true. You know that he he is
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a mender of broken hearts. He is the one that
that that will will will will bring you out of
darkness into his marvelous life. He is that one and
he and he and he longs for you us to
get to a point to where, even in all of
our mess even in in all of our situations, he
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wants us to rely upon him. Wow. Total seven. Like healing,
like you said, healing and standing. Look, healing and standing
and who He has created you to be like that?
That that that that healing part when when we heal,
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we're able to help other people heal because now we
we now we understand, we understand that we can stand
in who has who He has created us to be.
Through that healing process, we have truly learned who we were.
You know, when we understand that healing, we got to
(35:38):
stop allowing hindrance m HM to cause us to have
egos that allow us to have attitudes that stops us
from moving in love. So when we learn to heal,
we no longer let hindrance houses us to have egos
(36:02):
and etetudes, and now we can move in love. Yeah,
absolutely absolutely, And the scripture says that love covers a
multitude of suns. Right, So in in my loving you,
I don't see what you used to be. In my
loving you, I don't hold what you used to be
(36:25):
in my heart. I don't I don't look at those
things that you how how you were right? Because you know,
we're displaying the love of Christ. And the love of
Christ is so important. Uh, even even as we're journeying,
journeying through you know, keep on living and keep on living.
The love of Christ is so important because it takes
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us from from victim to victory. It keeps us in,
It keeps us in a victorious state of mind. Even
though I might be going through hell, I'm still victorious.
Mm hmmmm. From victim to victorious. Wow, Now ain't that something?
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And and and and how do you get there? You
got to go through And people don't understand it's not
that you know, we we have to understand that the
Word tells us that that we we we believe what
we understand that the Word says that these weapons and
these things are gonna come, but he tells us that
they're not gonna prosper. So if we know that they're
(37:31):
not gonna we should have we we should have some
word down in us. We should have something down in
us that we can stand, that we can that we
can stand and who He has created. Yes, and we
can stand in and in Genesis two and seven that
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breath of life that He breathed in us. That I
truly believe, the positive everything that we needed. So so
we don't have to be out here searching for nothing.
But all we got to do was tap into him
because he's already in us. Yes, breath. All right, we
don't And you said something else that resonated to something
(38:14):
that I've been saying across the platform, and and and
we we did a we did a conference on it
matters of the heart. You know, God attends to the heart.
You know, the heart was healing, empowering, aligning with a
and trauma.
Speaker 1 (38:35):
No mo.
Speaker 3 (38:37):
Part two, Part two is coming in May. Part two
is coming May third. Is gonna be on a Saturday,
May third from eleven a m. To two pm. Definitely,
we would love for you to be a part of that.
One of our hosts, her name is Trevita, she is
(38:57):
a part of the Crew podcast. She's gonna be hosting that,
So I definitely will put you in contact with her
so that you can connect with her and be a
part of that. We're looking for some hosts, some some
individuals that want to come on and share, you know,
that share their expertise, their their journey, you know, how
they got through whatever, you know, they may have went through,
(39:19):
if it was feeling that they went through, if it
was an empowerment journey that they was on, if it
was them aligning with their purpose, aligning with that that
God has already called them to, you know, or if
it was a journey of resilience. Because we have the
young lady that did resilience in the last conference. She
had a stroke two and a half years ago and
(39:41):
it's currently still in in in in bed. She's not
able to walk, she's still not mobile, but she still
had posted a podcast. She's hosted a podcast from bed
for three years. This is her third season and her
first season she had guests. On her second season, she
(40:04):
said she wanted to go to not having guests, and
this year she's straight inspirational. It's inspirational moments with Prophet
is Teeth and she comes home and she encouraged people.
Even when people want to when they want to gas
like her and do all kind of stuff on YouTube
(40:25):
and all these different social media platforms, she still pressed.
She still comes on, She still show up. She still
delivered the word of God. I tell you, God is
truly He has truly been moving through this podcast, you know,
because we come through different walks of life, and just
(40:46):
their willingness, because they were willing and they said, yes,
you know a lot of people we've invited to come
and be a guest, even where you're sitting today, and
a lot of people still afraid to come. But you came.
You were a will in vessel because you knew that
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there was something that somebody needed to hear today. So
I want you to share how can individuals support your platform,
how can they follow you? How can they get your book?
And if you have some new things that's coming up,
what we can look forward for and the rest of
twenty twenty five because we're only three months in, so
(41:29):
what we can look for in twenty twenty five, how
we can follow you, check out some of the things
that you already have and all of that good stuff. Okay,
you can follow. I'm easily to be followed on Facebook.
I'm on Instagram, my platform, my platform. What I'm working
(41:52):
what the Lord is allowing me to work on this
coming up fall and that's where my energy is really
going to go toward is as a women's conference, and
it's gonna it's titled Behold Your Beauty Women's International Conference.
(42:13):
I have to tell you, Alisbrier gave that to me.
The international wasn't in there until January and and and
it is suposed to me just like, no, it's just
not going to be just the average conference. It's going
to be international. So you have to add in Behold
your Beauty International Women's Conference, right, So I'm like, well, Lord,
(42:35):
I don't know anybody. But if you said that's what
it's going to be, guess what. That's what it's going
to be. So it's a it's a conference that that
that a conference that will speak and empower women and
not not so much. I'm not doing anything new, but
(42:58):
I'm just doing it as our Holy Spirit leads me
to do it. Because there's so many there, you know,
we have I support other women's conferences, I support other
women's ministries and things like that. And I'm like, you know, why,
why why this particular one? And he was just like,
because I need for I need for my children to
(43:24):
understand that there is a beauty inside of them that
I have given unto them, and you have to behold
that beauty to continue to live and trust that He
is always with us and that He is for us.
So it's going to be a phenomenal, fenomenal event. And
(43:50):
I not event. I don't call an event a time
of wortship, a time of prayer, a time of us
coming together, a time of restoring in a time of
people getting to know who God is in their life
for real, because now is the time that we really
need to know our God. It's now so it's not
(44:16):
about you know, it's not about being So I'm my God.
You know who's gonna come. He says, don't worry about that.
You just go for and you do what I've given you.
So I've written that He's given me, given me the vision.
I wrote the vision. I'm making a plane, and I
believe that He's going to give me every resource that
I need to carry out this fall in what I
(44:40):
need to do, and it's going to be. I have
it on Instagram, I have it posted to Facebook. I'm
not sure of all the particulars, but I'm just trusting God.
For the book is Understanding the Pain that was written
in two thousand and two from Zoo Line Press, and
(45:01):
I believe that if you if you want a copy
of it, just let me know. I'll be able to
get a copy of it. I don't charge for the book.
I give the book away for free because I feel
like it's a it's a it's it's it's it's how
God blessed me to be a blessing to others. So
(45:21):
I don't charge for the book. I get the book,
and I give the book away for free because the Lord,
he is kind and I'm thankful about that. So I'm
working that particular conference. We're starting to get those things
(45:42):
in order. So that's that's my number one priority for
the remainder of this year. I also have other projects
and I'm working on writing projects and anthologies with a
couple other amazing women who are writing I love. I'm
supporting this Queen, Queen Angela, She's I see you in Atlanta.
(46:06):
My daughter lives in Atlanta, so I'm going to be
there in April, so I hope to hope to hope
we can hook up in April when I'm there, just
so I'll get a chance to meet you face to face.
So those are the things that God is allowing me
to do right now in this season. I don't have
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a lot of things going on because He knows me.
So so I got to take things one step at
a time because God knows me, and I will get overwhelmed,
and I don't want to be overwhelmed. I just want
to be able to do which will do that what
she's called me to do. And if I if what
(46:49):
God allows me to do helps one person, then this
is not in vain. So I'm just thankful to God
about that. I'm also uh I'm also the co pastor
of Kingdom Hope Ministry, So we have a website for
our church, Kingdom Hope Ministry, and we can be founding
(47:12):
at Gambros, Maryland. I'm just excited about every door that
God is opening and even super excited about the doors
He's closing. So I'm thankful to just being open to
whatever God would have me to do in this season.
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A man, amen that that that that that that was
Look if if they didn't get it, they look, they
get to go back and listen to the replay. They can.
They get to listen to the replay, and that's the
that's the good thing about this is they get to
listen to the replay and they're definitely gonna get to
(47:58):
hear some clips. So they're definitely gonna get to hear this.
So it's it's it's gonna be heard. But it wasn't.
It wasn't a lot. It was what was need to
have been said. I often tell people you can never
talk about the things that God have you doing too
(48:19):
much because there's somebody that needs to hear it. There's
somebody that needs to get it. Because if it wasn't
he wouldn't give it to you, you know, so He's
given it to us for a reason. So definitely, you
you keep being that vessel, you keep sharing, you keep
you keep putting it out there so that individuals, you know,
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I often tell people, we sit on these things that
God has given us when he's given us an outlet,
he's given us resources, he's given us everything that we need.
If we just utilize those things, you know, we were
out here searching when it's already in us. Oh my gosh, yes, yeah,
mm hmm, yeah, that is the truth. That is the truth. Yeah,
(49:03):
And and allow him to bring those things forth, those
gifts that He's given, bring those forth, unafraid and unapologetic
about what God is doing in your life. Unafraid and unapologetic. Now,
I'm not saying that you you go out and you
just be this um uh person. That's that's that has
(49:28):
that's that has the title. That's that's that's saying your
godly but you're un but have ungodly ways. I would
put it back right. And and we want to we
want to reflect the true image of God in our
lives and everything that we do and everything that He
has allowed us to do. And to be a part
(49:49):
even with connecting with people. We just want to be
our We just want to be all our best for God.
That's my desire and that's the type of people that
I'm asking God to send into my life, those that
will be able to impact the kingdom and not heard it? Amen? Amen? Well.
I always ask my guests before they leave. I always
(50:13):
want them to share something positive encouraging that they can
encourage the listeners on whether they're live or if they
hear the replay. On this journey that we call life,
a well, on this life, on this journey that we
call life, we understand that we're going to have ups
(50:35):
and downs. We understand that there are trials and tribulations
that we're going to go through. But my favorite, one
of my favorite scriptures is that many of the afflictions
of the right is but God delivers them from the
all givers Us from them all. And here is you know,
when we think about our trials, when we think about
(50:57):
those things that we go through as believers, that we
just don't give up, We just don't throw in the towel.
We stand and stand and knowing that there is a God,
He is our hope. He is our strength. And if
you don't have have that strong connection right now that
(51:19):
you can pray and ask God to help you with
your faith, help you with your unbelief, whatever that is
that's hindering you from being closer to God. He wants
to hear from you so that He will help you
through it. And not only that, is that we're living
(51:39):
in such a time that we have to carry the
word of God and also demonstrate the love of God.
So don't frets, don't fret. Continue to just live, continue
to trust God, and continue to live. I'm gonna say
(52:02):
that one. Just continue to trust God and to live.
And that's my whole thing that I encourage people to do,
even when you can't see it. Just continue to trust
Him and live. Wow, just live, Just live, Just live,
(52:25):
trusting God for everything because he promised that he will
take care of us. That he did, That's what he did,
and we can live in that promise and we can
trust him and take him for his word. Wow. I
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have truly, I tell you, I have truly been blessed tonight.
I want to thank God for stopping by and sharing
with me.
Speaker 2 (52:57):
Hope.
Speaker 3 (52:58):
Yes, ma'am. Anytime, anytime you are part of the one
hundred author movements. So know that you know, every opportunity
that I get to share you guys, I will definitely
be sharing you guys every opportunity I get to I'm
putting you on front Street. So get ready, get ready,
to get ready. I love sharing, I love bringing individuals together.
(53:19):
Those four seeds I'm serious about those four seeds. Connect, collaborate, create,
and community. You know, that's what it's gonna take to
keep That's what it's gonna take to keep going. And
in order for us to be able to leave those
greater works, we gotta be able to connect, collaborate, create,
(53:40):
and do it as a community. The most important thing
is building that community so that those coming after us
can see that sense of community, because we let that
slip away. But that's a whole nother show. And I
tell you, truly, truly, truly have enjoyed you tonight. So
I want to thank you for joining us. Your work,
(54:00):
come back anytime, and I look forward to seeing you
around the one hundred Authors movement again. Thank you, thank you,
thank you, thank you, thank you, and God bless amen. Amen,
And I want to thank everyone for tuning in tonight
that has been a part of this, y'all. Please share
this in your circle of influence what the next person
(54:20):
may be in need of. Y'all, I see you next time.
If you can tune on back in tonight eight o'clock,
the NeXT's gonna be on on them depas. Yeah ways,
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