May 5, 2025 • 46 mins
acknowledging those who helped you to become who you are, medical, illnesses, founders
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good evening, Good evening, and good evening. Welcome to another
dynamic opportunity night of conversation, excitement, discovery awareness. Thank you,
Thank you for joining us tonight here on setting it
straight with Miss Gray. I have Pastor Miguel, our other
lively co hosts may pop in shortly. Good evening, sir,
(01:38):
how are you I'm on vacation. Okay, he's on vacation,
so his answers and responses may be a little different tonight. Amen. Well,
let's pray. Lord, we just thank you so much. If
we just for ever give you the praise and glory
and honor. Bah. We are learning every minute of the
day that no man knows the hour. We just have
(02:00):
to extend our prayers out to people who have experienced
loss and awareness. I'm sending out a special prayer set
of prayers to the Ray family in Palm Beach County
who lost a powerful, powerful, powerful voice yesterday evening. My
(02:22):
former pastor and pastor now Bishop Harold Calvin Ray, sending
out love and just hope and strength to his wife,
Pastor Brenda, and their adult children, their grandchildren, the Redemptive
Life Family, current folks, current members, former members lost. What
(02:43):
can we say, Lord, We don't know the day of
they all. We just trust, We just trust you with
everything we've got. Now, Lord be with us tonight. Do
what you do best, and that's set your captives free. Please,
Papa God, we're getting behind the cross now. You lead
and direct and guide us. We're just going to sit
in wonderment and in awe of you. We love you
(03:04):
so much. We're ever giving you the praise, the glory
and the honor and Jesus matchless, magnificent mighty mighty name.
Amen and Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well good evening, everybody, It's I tell you time hate
tre tray. Time can really you just don't know in
a day or an hour. One minute, you're doing things,
and you're doing things with your family, or you're doing
things and you're just sitting and next thing you know,
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you're getting a phone call, you're getting a text, and
someone's life has changed, and a whole group of people.
My former pastor, Pastor Harold Cavin Ray, passed away yesterday evening.
I was somewhat aware that he had some illnesses, and
(04:00):
you know, when you hear things, you pray for people.
And I have to thank God that when I went
home in March, one of the three things that God
had directed me to do was to get in touch
with him and his wife. And it's been years, years
and years and years since we spoke, definitely since we've
seen each other. But I received their phone numbers from
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a friend of mine and I text them and just
to say hello and hey, I don't know if you
remember me, and the Lord had me to just tell
them how important the foundation that they laid for my
life was and is and it continues to be despite
what I've done. And of course, you know, with the
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last twenty four hours, I've just been thinking, I've been
bombarded in my brain with experiences and events of you know,
when people helped me and people taught me, especially my teachers,
and that made it a profound effect upon my life.
I know most of them have passed and now someone
who laid the found the foundation for me. With Spiritual Warfare,
(05:07):
we were up and coming. We were what you would
consider a mini megachurch. You know, we were adding daily
thousands of people and we were on TVN. We've had
the greats were well, not the greats. We've had people
who in their early years of their ministries. Uh uh
(05:28):
Tim's story, Uh Jesse to plantis Miles Monroe who's passed away,
Carlton Pearson who's passed away. I mean I can name
Paula White.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In their early years. We we had all these people
come through. T. D. Jakes came through and we were
learning spiritual warfare and that's that was my beginning, my
the beginning of my foundation and my knowledge. And I
text them and just let them know that, you know, hey,
thank you. I never thought I would get a chance
(06:02):
to say thank you, but I thank god I did
and I was obedient. And tonight we're gonna be talking
about awarenesses and acknowledgments and things that are people are
celebrating all over, but at the end of the hour,
I hope that we're thinking, as we're going to call
out all of these things, and most of them are
medical things and diseases and disorders, some groups of people
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and things. But think about the people who helped you
to get where you are today, who helped to shape you,
to form you. I remember mss Kits. I went to
a private I mean, yeah, well college prep, high school
and ms kits senior year taught creative writing. And I've
never been a writer. I've never been and she would
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we would write in our little blue books. I don't
know anybody had those experiences, but we'd have a blue
book and you'd have to write and next thing, you know,
it would get the things back. You got read inche everywhere.
But I get no grade. I don't know if any
of my other classmates think. Some some got grades. Sometimes
they were like not good grades. But and so you know,
a couple of more assignments and you know days of class,
(07:11):
you know, classroom stuff, and I'm like, and I would
get my stuff back, some marks on some grammatical errors
or whatever, but no grade, and I, which made me
stay after class one day. I said, miss kids, I
don't understand you're not giving me a grade. And she'd
look at me with her these big bumble bee glasses.
I said, you could do better. Have a nice day.
And I'm like what what? And I'm like okay, And
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then back to the class and back to the writing
writing assignment, and then you know, I managed to get
a B out of the class. She started putting my
grades on. She would say, improvement, very good, give me
a star, give me a check mark. And so I
went my freshman year to college at Fort and the
Southern Baptist College at home, and I signed up a
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freshman comp one. That's the class because I just came
from a college prep high school. And we're in the
English class and all of a sudden, a runner comes
in and said, we need the following people to go
to the registrar. And ironically all of us were black
and brown skin. We had to leave the classroom, take
our stuff with us, and go to the registrar. And
(08:14):
there was Don Harp and he's like, all of you
own need to be in ESAU or either basic English class.
I'm like, no, I'm not, No, I'm not supposed to
be no basic English. I had that my freshman year
high school. He said, well, you're paying for it to
be if you fail your classes on you. I said, oh, okay,
I see you, and I went back to class. The
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teacher said, okay, You're gonna be in his so on you.
And I'm like, what's wrong with y'all. It's college, you know,
And sure enough I got to be out of the
course and guess what. I took my little happy hips
with my report card to the registrar office. Mister Hart
got to be thank you for your support, you know,
and not knowing that years, many years later, I'll be
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writing books to motivate and influence people and going through
experiences that people would want to hear about. I'm just
so thankful that I was able to talk to Pastor Ray,
even though it was through text, and he even prayed
for me through texts and was so proud and he said, wow,
(09:18):
look at you. And I shared some pictures of my
book signing and my books and my children how they
Because he didn't know anything about the twins, Donald was born,
and the last time I think he saw Donald was
maybe when he's well up to six years old because
we moved up here when he was seven. So it's
a loss, it's a big loss, and that will be
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a funeral. Just just don't know that's going to be
a funeral because folks are coming from all over. He
touched a lot of lives and made a big difference.
A big thank you, thank you missy. Good evening. But anyway,
you know, and I'm going to slowly segue into all
of these awarenesses and acknowledgements and things to be aware of.
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Some of it is to celebrate something. You know. If
I could say anything tonight and we're gonna go ahead
and go forward with that, please acknowledge, please be thankful
for those who helped to shape you, helped you, who
took you as is and said, you know what, I'm
gonna work with this person, and I'm gonna whether it's
a student, I'm gonna work with this person. Acknowledge them.
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Think if they's still alive, thank God for them, because
you none of us will be where we are if
we did not have these people. And in the experience
could have been good or could have been ugly. I've
learned from I've had some bad supervisors, which taught me
on how to truit volunteers and deal with people in general. Oh,
I've had some. I've had some doctors who was just
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you know. I've had some influences people, you know, and
they had to govern my grades and tell me what
to do, and they had their experiences in the classroom.
Oh I've been there, done that. But what I did
was I learned what not to do, how not to
be and and and that's a valuable lesson. So I
take you good, bad and ugly, you know. But let's
(11:09):
let's let's go with some of these. Of course, it's
Old Americans Month. Of course, we got Mother's Day around
the corner. We got a Native American Day. We've got
and and y'all, i'm muting, come on and hop in here.
And National Nurses Day we've got I'm gonna let pastor
say this one. I'm gonna let him city. What's the
one that everybody's celebrating the day We've got World Migratory
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Bird Day, So I guess we got to acknowledge the
birds of migrating somewhere. They're going from north to south
or east of I don't know, but it's it's on
here and you know, International Nurses Day and International Day
of Living Together in Peace. We got medical stuff out there.
Come on and help me, guys, come on in because
I'm all over there now.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Health huh? Health Awareness Month?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think? Is this?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it a military appreciation month?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A week? I think? Yeah? Oh, let's see.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You appreciate Did I say teacher appreciate.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
No, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Teacher week or something?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, I see children Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There you go, there you go, and awareness is I mean?
And unfortunately, like I said, most of this is medical
and diseases, you know, and it's a sad day that
we've got that many. We've got that many. Let me
go back to my calendar because this Google is not
helping me.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Here. Here here's one that the Food Allergy Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Something different.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, Armed Forces Day, We've got Public Lands Day. We
got World b Day for your be lovers out there.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
For your day coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, we got more thank you ahead, what'd you say? Pastor?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Brain Tumor Awareness mark the month of May.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Wow, we got law Day. We've got Loyalty Day, and
we're going to talk about that another time. We had
the National Day of Prayer. That was a big one.
That was a big one. World Tuna Day. Who likes
tuna fish? You know, so acknowledge those. Acknowledging those. I
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know Mother's Day is gonna be oh, National Explosive Ordinance
Disposal Day. So if you got this, if you got
stuff in the backyard, it's time to take it. You
got to take it. So you know what you say, Pastor.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I was like, wow, okay, explosive, Okay, and dispose it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Please dispose it? Can you dispose it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Okay, don't wait till the fourth of July. I just
do it now.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
They got the whole block.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That's just just for a little giggles here. Did you
know that they do not celebrate single to Mayo in Mexico?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh? I got to sit back on this one. What
what Wait a minute, wait a minute, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I came across something real. I mean I didn't get
a chance to read it all, but it was say, yeah,
lots of things going on, Missy. I found out that
think of to Mao is not celebrated by Mexican.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Mexican they say, there's no reason why.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Talk about why they don't do that. Wow, we can
we can research that. That's the beauty. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think you need to come back with that one
and give us an idea after your vacation, sir, please,
because that's that's weird. Oh, we've got the time of
Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during
the Second World War. Say that real fast? Three times.
We got Truman Day. Interesting, Yeah, mickey, it is interesting.
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Military Spouse Appreciation Day, Native American Day, Confederate Memorial Day,
and we've got Nurses Day, Peace Offered Peace Officers Memorial Day.
I guess at the end of the hour, what we
would want to encourage International Tea Day? Did anybody have
any tea today? Did anybody have tea today? You need
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to just acknowledge and say thank you anybody that's changed
your life, that's touched your life, even in a negative way.
I had te today, Thank you, Rebel Reel said she
had day. Then you go see you're writing in the
midst of that. Amen, we're all Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Oh,
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there's a group. I think we need to join them
because we communicate. I think, yeah, I think we need
to you know, so say thank you. Give folks their
flowers while they live, if you don't think you'll ever
see them again, or you don't know if they're still alive. Lord,
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thank you for them, thank you for what the impact
they made in my life. Because we don't say thank
you enough. I don't think. I don't think we we
just let people know how much we do appreciate them.
And there's never enough of that. There's never not enough
of that. You know. This weekend, my daughter just we
did our three day fast and part of that is
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that we go and feed the hunger, hungry and the poor.
And I gotta work on that. I gotta be able
to transition that because again, all those who are homeless
are not poor, and all those are poor not homeless,
so and hungry, not everybody is hungry. But she said
this is I said, well, how are you going to
do it? And she says, well, I'm going to do cheeseburgers, fries,
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and waters. I said, okay, yeah, I'll ride with you.
And I put an envelope in each bag for people.
And these two guys that were so funny. One had
walked across the street and one was on the embankment
and he said, hey, Charlie, look at your bag. No,
he said, I got your bag over here. She said,
we need to look at the bag. I said, don't
tell everybody. Everybody all of a sudden that come running
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out what's in the bag? And he was thinking talking
about food, But like I happened, we made a U
turn and I'm watching him and he's looking like where
are they? Where are and we blew the horn and
then he's like, you know. And one young lady if
I'm a lady, and she's like, well, I'm going to
eat for a week. But somebody also brought her a
plate of food, you know, and a little cover thing,
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so she said, I'm going to be able to eat
for a week, you know. And you and my daughter
we just looked at each other like you can't imagine,
And you know, it's it's just saying the people who
said thank you, and I believe them they were they
were appreciative, They weren't trying to they weren't begging for
anything or anything. They just was there and again we
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had to go find them in some cases. So please
make sure that you thank the people that's been in
your life and that made it a profound impact on you.
And again, even though now I'm wondering what father Mike
is doing these days, I have to look him up. Okay,
there you go, there you go, you know, because you
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don't know how many people don't do that. I know.
When I used to perform at the History Center, I
was doing Mayor McLeod, Bethune and the Lord and you
know placed this in my script. I would ask the
students who's the teacher? And they said, right there, that's him,
that's her. I said, give them a round of applause,
and everybody will be clapping, even the volunteers. And I said,
because you don't know what it took for him or
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her to get you here, to get you to spring
y'all from school today, you know, And I hope you're
on the best behavior. And I said, and for the
adults in the room who can remember their favorite teacher
they had the most impact on you, just shout them out, Oh,
third grade miss so and so, Coach so and so
from high school, all miss so and so from ninth grade,
I mean. And they were all like happy to do that,
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like they remembered these people who made an impact that
I said, I want you to know. And I look
at the teacher, I said, I want you to know.
They may leave your class, graduating to the next grade
and never say thank you, but today they're gonna say
thank you. And I make them say thank you, mister
so and so, thank you, Miss so and so. And
the teacher's like, you don't have to do that. Yes
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we do, because that may be the only time you
get thanked and maybe the only time I think I lived.
And once I accepted the Lord of my life and
got rid of the anger towards my biological people, especially
the grandmothers, I asked God to allow them to stay
in their right mind long enough so I could say
thank you. I know one you said, don't bring no
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more babies here, and the other one's like, well, we
don't even know if it's his, and I know what
they lived with. They had to live with that, but
I was able to meet them, they were able to see,
so I turned out, hey, okay, and I want to
say thank you for that decision that you had to make,
because I don't know who I would be today. I
wouldn't be on here today. I don't know if I
would have accepted the Lord in my life today, you know,
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And I'm not down on the people they've got. You know,
they've been interesting people. And I'm like, you know, even
my family that raised me now just found out one
of my students maybe related to me. Third third cousin
removed twice over something like that. I just got an
ancestry alert and I texted him. I said, are you serious?
He said, can you believe that? And I said, well,
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we third third cousins removed. That's gonna be funny. That
is so funny. But just thank people. All right, y'all
talk tonight. We got some time now because I'm I'm
gonna be quiet.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
You know. One of the things. One of the things,
Miss Gray, and you kind of really as I was
hearing how you were thanking your family members, and I
was thinking back a while ago when the Academy Awards
we were the big thing on TV, and how the
actors when they received their Academy Award, they would go
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and give you a laundry list of who they were
being very thankful for, and you know, the directors, their
their their their coaches. And then I don't know when
it happened, but there was a shift. The shift now
became I'm going to use this platform to express my
political feelings, my stance on this, and forget about the
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people that went to the movie and took some time
to watch your movie. Now you're going to use your
your fifteen seconds of fame and use that platform to
express your stance on how you feel of where the
direction the country is going. Really, it's really disappointing that
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instead of being thankful now you're shifting it for something else.
What people don't understand is when they see these kind
of things, it gets programmed into the person's mind. Then
they start doing the same and then it becomes a
domino effect. So it really and it's funny because yesterday
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my wife and I were talking. We were talking about, well,
I guess common sense isn't common anymore. The same thing
as guess, common courtesy is no longer common because people
aren't curtious. So it really has shifted to a point
where people want to be respected and get recognized, but
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they're not willing to say, hey, thank you. And that's
where people really lose the value of friendship, where they
lose the value of a relationship, where they lose the
value of someone that you can talk to your your
you can fight in because all of a sudden, now
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you're concerned. Who are they going to tell? Mm hmm,
And it's it's it's it's really sad, really is sad.
And this is where we have to be thankful that
we're able to recognize the opportunity. Now we can be
able to make a difference. All it takes is just
one person go to one person, say hey, thank you
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for letting me go ahead of you the grocery store. Hey,
thank you for letting me go ahead because I'm really
am going to rush. People don't understand the value, the encouragement,
the uplifting when you say thank you and be sincere
about it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Amen, Amen to that. I think I've shared before that
you know, there are times a group of deputies will
be eating lunch and I'll be walking by and say,
I pray for you all. You all stay safe? Is it?
Thank you, ma'am? Thank you so much, ma'am, thank you,
thank you. You'd be safe too. Because I do pray
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for the sheriff Department, my men and women in Green
I did on my you know, on my prayer point list,
and because I've always interacted with them whenever I had,
you know, situations, or when I was a part of PTA,
the safety officer at the school, you know, it was
the sheriff deputy. And yeah, I mean we just don't
say things anymore. We're not courteous anymore. We're not, you know.
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And when we are, I'm like, I look in folks
eyes and say thank you. I have to think about
what my answer would be to what teacher made the
most difference for me? Okay, missy, yeah, you see, you
have to sit and wonder, like but I remember missus Hoyt,
you know ms kits mister Keenan, which was an odd fellow.
He was a speech teacher and he always sit in
the back are you're making your speeches, and he would
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tap the desk with his ruler and you would just
tap his desk, you know. Mister Johnson, he was the
acting teacher. We put on some great plays. And mister
Poe uh you know elementary school. Yeah, sit and think
about that. Who shaped you, who helped you, who helped
to develop you. The nuns and priests took me under
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their arm, you know, and and the sister Helen Wilson,
you know, father Curly, but father Lim and Selly And
now that we see that they're getting ready to vote
the pope. I don't know if they've done it or not,
but I think they've gone into the conclave and they're
getting ready to do that. So we got to see
if the smoke come out. But who was who was who?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yes, Tray, Yeah, I was just because there was a
cargoing bibles loud. So oh, I mean there were there
were quite a few people that made a difference. So parents,
of course, the mother's days coming up. I no longer
have my parents with me, but I do appreciate the
things that they instilled in me. So mother was a teacher,
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father military, and you know, different experiences, but similar things,
you know, with the things that they had. That's four
girls in our family, so and I fallow number three
in the category.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
So I mean, I do appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
And then their teachers that were helped shape me in
my life too.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
When my parents went around, it was a different type.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Of things, so we didn't have all this stuff that
they have in the school system now, not all this.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Mess and things you have to continue with in a classroom.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
So you know, I definitely appreciate that the time and
era that I that I grew up in bullying was
not like it is now. I mean, it wasn't great
growing up being bully, but this is taking it to
a whole different level with guns and all this other stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I don't understand that. You know, not my time, it
was fitst fights and let it be it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
And so I just pray for the children that.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Have to grow up right now in this area, the
ones previously maybe the last fifteen twenty years, and the
ones going through now because it's definitely harder. And I
just pray right now for the people who I just
pray for situations right now. You know, there's a human
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side to a lot of things, and though we don't
agree with the methods that some people came in, but
I think it's humanity, human side humanity, and just I
just I'm just disheartened that children have to go to
school and worry about whether they're be able to go home,
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whether their parents will be home when they get there.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I feel bad for the people who are.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Going to places of worship and have to worry whether
or not they're going to be taken out. That there's
like that those who are trying to do it correctly,
and being taken out of the courts right there, out
of the court buildings to wherever I just pray on it.
I just I unders stand, but I do believe there's
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a human side to this.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You know, it's got to be some humanity, uh, some
type of feeling.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You know, you might not agree with it, but there
is a way to do some stuff. And I'm just
disheartened by some of the things that I've seen, you know,
on the news, some things that I hear on the news,
and I'm just going to keep them in prayer and
and and in the direction of this country. I am
fearful of it, you know, for people, for the directions,
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and I just pray that we allow God to intervene
and do what's best for everyone. And so that's where
I am as a as a social worker by trade,
as a qualified mental health professional by certification, and I
just I'm just.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
It's kind of a little melancholy here here.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You I hear you, And prayer is the only thing
we can do. That's the most constructive thing. I'm I'm
I'm getting out of the commentary and and everything. I'm
not I let me pray, Let me just pray this out.
I gotta pray this through. And yeah, I hear you
loud and clear, loud and clear. I want my country back.
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I want my country back. And well that and that
means that we're doing whatever we need to do inside
this country. That's what we're going to be doing. Let's
do it. And everybody in here, okay, we are still
you know, home with the land of the break home
of the free, and let whatever that is free and brave,
that's us. That is still us. And you know, I
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know God's will will be done. And and I really
want one to in the Lord's prayer, you know, on
earth as it is in heaven. What else is supposed
to come to earth that's in heaven. I want to
live to see that and I want to be a
part of that. So you make decisions, Yes, Pastor.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I was. You know, it's interesting the timeliness. Good good call,
Miss Gray. You. I know, I'm in my last week
of my class work today and we have to write
discussion board in regards to the meaning of the resurrection.
(30:16):
And you touched on something that I had already read
and I have it here and I wanted to share
it because I even highlighted it, and it says that
we must learn to cultivate disciplines like prayer and thanksgiving.
Then we need to identify the things we tell ourselves
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that are not only misplaced but merely contribute to our worry.
And lastly, we must substitute anxious anxiousness thought anxious thoughts
for godly ones. So it's interesting how you were able
to incorporate prayer and thanksgiving. And this was something that
(30:57):
I just read from a book by called The Risen
Jesus in Future ho by Gary fer Mass and he's
an apologeticist, apologetic professor actually his name is doctor Habermass
and and really incorporated everything that you just finished saying.
And the theological word of giving thanks is called doxology,
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and this is where you're you're giving praise, you're being
thankful to God for everything that has done for you.
And and it really begins there for us to have
that that that attitude of gratitude everything, you know, not
not just oh look I got some extra money from
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this check and just say oh, thank God, and then
all of a sudden, if you're a little short, you know,
you forget about God about the extra money. And then
when you're short, you remember God, and we got to
be consistent about it.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Like the song.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Line of Judah from Elevation Worship, there's a line that says,
no valley be raised up, a mountain be made low.
So in other words, we're raising the valley so we
can be level and bringing the mountain low so we
can praise God. Not not allow the valleys to distract us,
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not the mountains that's in front of us to distract us.
We know who has The answer. Question is are we
willing to submit? Are we willing to repent, turn away
from our old ways and walk the new way in
the in the on the path that the Lord has
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given us. Because this is where we have to understand
what resurrection Sunday means. If Jesus did not die, and
if Jesus did not resurrect, we would be a heaping
mess right now. But because of the sadness that Jesus
got crucified, sadness has only lived for a short while.
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Because the Bible says that Jesus said that you're going
to turn your sorrow into joyfulness, and it's in the
Book of John, and that's how we have to look
at it. We're facing. If we're facing some challenges, to
thank God that he put the people in our lives
that gives us the encouragement so we can be able
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to get through it. And that's when we should be
praising God for the people that he placed in our lives,
because God works through people, and that's so important for
us to understand because God uses everything. And I'm a
quick testimony, quick testimony. I had a knee problem, okay,
and I walked out my front door to go get
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the mail and this happened, like in mid march. This
frog showed up out of nowhere and landed on me
and I twisted my bad knee point where I actually
went to my wife. I said, look, you want to
see something funny. Look and I showed her what happened.
Do you believe that frog healed me? I need pain
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is gone. I need pain is gone because I'm a frog.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I'm like, thank you God for that frog because now
I'm gonna enjoy my trip because I'm not going to
be limping here. Ben Amen's I know, I know it's
a weird testimony.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Hey, but I'm telling you it is. Things are peculiar.
God is not going to do the things that you
That's why don't try to shake shape how God should
bless you. Don't try to shape and try to you
figure it out and you take it to God. Oh God,
now I need you to if you can just get out,
get me out of this debt, what I'll do is
listen to it. Lord, this is your prayer. Lord. You
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know I need to make more money on my job,
but I'm also doing the part time job, so I
need more money there. Now, if you could get me
out of this, what I can do is I could
go find another job too, and maybe I could get
rid of this job. So you telling God to creative
all how to bless you. That's like you're telling me
how to teach. You're telling Pastor Miguel how to preach.
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You're telling Trey how to do her job. And you've
never done our job before. Go and let God truly
just cut it and hasn't worked. How much more suffering?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The whole world is suffering. Before it was just you,
not the whole world. And there's no antidote, there's no
there's no answer is coming. It's already here. I can't.
This is the last pleading from me. It's the last,
because Heaven's windows is gonna close up for a little bit,
because he's gathering his chosen, his remnant within the remnant,
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because he's got some promises he made to us, and
we're gonna reap that. We're gonna live in that. You
try it your way forever. Nothing worked. You went down
rabbit holes that you weren't supposed to go down. You
you delayed all your blessings. Nobody delaying them. I've got
some folks and my clothes telling about the white man
got his foot on my neck. No he don't. You
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came at him ignorant. You came at him hood who.
I don't want to hire you. I'm not gonna have
my answer the phone for my my business. Hello? Who is?
Come on? Now? Come on? I used to do trainings
and tell people don't hire your relatives. Well, I gotta
do something mable she got to come up. Can Mabel
answer the phone like, Hello, Jackson, Jackson nursery? How can
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I help you? Can Auntie say that? No she answered
for Hello, No, she ain't here. Your mask person can
make you up breaking what you say? Trey call him
back later. I'm mapping my lunch. Click hang off the phone.
(36:46):
But can I leave a passage? Who is this? No,
you can't what a pant? I don't see nothing? Just
called back click?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
But you forgot you forgot? I forgot you forgot all? Lord?
Where's that pen?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I tell people when I do training on business and
and and and and and courtesy and customer service, your
front person will make or break you. Who's ever sitting
at that desk when I walk in that office, They're
gonna make or break you. Be like, hey, how you
doing fine? How you doing? Oh? I mean just the
whole how you doing well? I'm here having eleven o'clock?
(37:26):
Well you early? Okay?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yeah, you go to a restaurant, act like you're inconvenience
and now, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
We were having a service. She was scared to that.
She I guess, I think she's new to the waiting
staff business. So I say, I'm fine, how are you okay? Lord?
So I had the dollar back, and Lord, have mercy,
(37:56):
you're having a nice day. I Belisa, please just leave alone,
I said, But she got I gotta bring her out
a little bit more. Come on that. And then when
she saw I knew the boss, the owner, that really
(38:16):
just didn't make her day. I don't know what she
was thinking. I know the lady jomped all over you know,
I mean, come on now, let go and let gone
and really live this. That's a real thing. And don't
hire your relatives, especially when you're born of directors. It's
seven of y'all. You got five people who don't like you.
They can vote you out of your old stuff. Just
(38:37):
a little commercial, just a little commercial. But you know,
all these awarenesses, and like I said, most of them
are diseases and disorders and and people who had to
fight to get the recognition. And you know, you're not
talking to people, you're not thanking people, you don't even
some people you forgot common courtesy. And two ladies held
the door open for me. And I was gonna be
(38:59):
okay because I was gonna use these hips and there's
u haul to get out the post office door. I
had a box in my head. I'm okay, I'll make it.
I'll make it. And then oh, so sorry, because they
just let the door. I was like, okay, I ain't
saying nothing. And they both took two of them to
open up the door. I said, thank you both, and
God bless you have a great day to day. The
salespeople have a great day to day when they when
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they package up your stuff. It don't hurt you to
just be courteous, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
I think that it's lost somewhere because everybody is on
their phone. It's it's almost av I mean, it's it's
avoidance at I've seen people in restaurant on dates we're found.
Everybody's on the phone looking down people crossing the street,
down people walking in the park, down, child in astroler
(39:46):
to die. And it's no connection. It's a big disconnect.
And some of that if I you know, I'm no
child psychologists or you know, familiar with our development in
that way, but they get it. It really gets attached
where you are. It seems like addicted to it, you know,
(40:10):
right right. And so growing up we had to be creative,
you know, get bred, go read a book, you know,
or go do this. And we didn't have things, not
very many things that require a battery. Battery and you
can play with them, and the remote control. We had
to make things move. We had to make things talk,
you know.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Even if it had a sealed mouth, you and make
it tell. You have given us things.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
To think about. Oh, a station. Manners need to come back.
They could come back. You're right, misty, because.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
People don't recognize man a simple thing. People walk across
you by your foot in your personal space. I was
always taught say excuse me when you're walking past, and
don't walk so close like it looks like you're gonna
step on their foot. Excuse me when you do this type,
cover your mouth when you're cough. You know, those types
of things we learned. Thank you, have a nice day,
(40:59):
good morning. People don't.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
They don't do that anymore, and so it's disheartening.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I don't know, and I'm not here to teach you
to do this. I'm going I choose when I leave
my house, I choose to be a certain way that day.
I want people to see Jesus Christ. I don't want
them to see me. And I know, you know, with
this little added here, they're gonna sit and stay on standing.
Many times I have to say, look up, look up,
somebody's coming straight at me on the phone. I'm like,
(41:29):
look up, look up, and then I'm sorry, and I'm like,
if you would be you know, because I promise you
you knocked me over, you're going with me. I can't
you know you're going with me? You're gonna hit me
with the basket. I'm like you, and hurry you want
to go? You all right? And a girl I was
at CBS. She had her baby, and now we started
the line where the line's supposed to be. She went
over there and she looking at him, and she grabbed
(41:51):
the baby. And I mean, there's a basket. You could
have put the baby in the basket. And you tried
to carry stuff, which was really strange to be. You
had a little the little cart thing, I mean a
little you know, basket too. And so she gets she
comes and the guy in front of me ain't moved.
So she's like, hum, I can hear her, and so
she walks. She comes around me, but she stands like
right here. So I give it a look, like where
(42:14):
you going? We ain't together. We ain't together. I don't
care if you got a baby in your hand. We
ain't together. I'm not gonna feel sorry for you, you know,
and where you're going? And I get will you give
it a look again? Now? This time she said, what
they ain't got no matter? People here? I didn't give
it a look then, No, I ain't gonna get in
your conversation. I don't want to get I'm praying at
this place, this CBS location, to stay open, So no,
(42:35):
I'm not saying nothing. Didn't give her nothing. She piped down,
and I moved shifted myself to the right. I had
a basket because I'm like, no, I want I don't
want nobody to think you and how together, because you
ain't gonna go up to the registrate with me, you know,
and then she gonna ask this question, y'all will take quick.
I had to hold myself. I had to hold myself.
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And the other gentleman, he must have been a manager,
he said, no, we've never taken it. When the lady
told me you took what you told me that yesterday.
I just Lord, help me to keep my face. I
have my mask on. I was not going to get
in the conversation. I'm like, okay, you just got to
just come out and you I don't know what you
were hoping for, but you ain't going there today, you know.
So and then there was a cashier guy. He was
(43:17):
just as nice, and you know, and he's like wick.
I said, no, no, no, leave that alone into the college. No, no, no,
leave that alone. He said, I said, oh, my number
is for seven, you know. Oh okay, no, no, no, get
out of that. You don't know she's dragging you. And
I'm not gonna be a part of that, you know.
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We thank our loyal listeners, We thank our it, our engineer,
our producer, our girl around in the background. We know
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us out, she keeps us. Thank you, Thank you listeners.
You get to your phones, you get to your however
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that's saying thank you to us. You don't have to
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and we really do. We like each other. We kind
of like each other no matter, you know. That's mcguil
will talk about his knee, the frog, the knee at
the frog. There you go, my knee and the frog.
That's a book day.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
I see. We got one minute, just real quick. Thank
Go to Mayo is celebrated in Puebla, Mexico. Is not
a national holiday like Mexican Independence Day, so it is
not observed as a holiday, so schools and businesses remain
open on Cinco de Maya. The only city that actually
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celebrates it is Puebla, Mexico and.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
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Speaker 2 (01:18):
Good evening, Good evening, and good evening. Welcome to another
dynamic opportunity night of conversation, excitement, discovery awareness. Thank you,
Thank you for joining us tonight here on setting it
straight with Miss Gray. I have Pastor Miguel, our other
lively co hosts may pop in shortly. Good evening, sir,
(01:38):
how are you I'm on vacation. Okay, he's on vacation,
so his answers and responses may be a little different tonight. Amen. Well,
let's pray. Lord, we just thank you so much. If
we just for ever give you the praise and glory
and honor. Bah. We are learning every minute of the
day that no man knows the hour. We just have
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to extend our prayers out to people who have experienced
loss and awareness. I'm sending out a special prayer set
of prayers to the Ray family in Palm Beach County
who lost a powerful, powerful, powerful voice yesterday evening. My
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former pastor and pastor now Bishop Harold Calvin Ray, sending
out love and just hope and strength to his wife,
Pastor Brenda, and their adult children, their grandchildren, the Redemptive
Life Family, current folks, current members, former members lost. What
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can we say, Lord, We don't know the day of
they all. We just trust, We just trust you with
everything we've got. Now, Lord be with us tonight. Do
what you do best, and that's set your captives free. Please,
Papa God, we're getting behind the cross now. You lead
and direct and guide us. We're just going to sit
in wonderment and in awe of you. We love you
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so much. We're ever giving you the praise, the glory
and the honor and Jesus matchless, magnificent mighty mighty name.
Amen and Amen.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Amen.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
Well good evening, everybody, It's I tell you time hate
tre tray. Time can really you just don't know in
a day or an hour. One minute, you're doing things,
and you're doing things with your family, or you're doing
things and you're just sitting and next thing you know,
(03:38):
you're getting a phone call, you're getting a text, and
someone's life has changed, and a whole group of people.
My former pastor, Pastor Harold Cavin Ray, passed away yesterday evening.
I was somewhat aware that he had some illnesses, and
(04:00):
you know, when you hear things, you pray for people.
And I have to thank God that when I went
home in March, one of the three things that God
had directed me to do was to get in touch
with him and his wife. And it's been years, years
and years and years since we spoke, definitely since we've
seen each other. But I received their phone numbers from
(04:22):
a friend of mine and I text them and just
to say hello and hey, I don't know if you
remember me, and the Lord had me to just tell
them how important the foundation that they laid for my
life was and is and it continues to be despite
what I've done. And of course, you know, with the
(04:43):
last twenty four hours, I've just been thinking, I've been
bombarded in my brain with experiences and events of you know,
when people helped me and people taught me, especially my teachers,
and that made it a profound effect upon my life.
I know most of them have passed and now someone
who laid the found the foundation for me. With Spiritual Warfare,
(05:07):
we were up and coming. We were what you would
consider a mini megachurch. You know, we were adding daily
thousands of people and we were on TVN. We've had
the greats were well, not the greats. We've had people
who in their early years of their ministries. Uh uh
(05:28):
Tim's story, Uh Jesse to plantis Miles Monroe who's passed away,
Carlton Pearson who's passed away. I mean I can name
Paula White.
Speaker 1 (05:42):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
In their early years. We we had all these people
come through. T. D. Jakes came through and we were
learning spiritual warfare and that's that was my beginning, my
the beginning of my foundation and my knowledge. And I
text them and just let them know that, you know, hey,
thank you. I never thought I would get a chance
(06:02):
to say thank you, but I thank god I did
and I was obedient. And tonight we're gonna be talking
about awarenesses and acknowledgments and things that are people are
celebrating all over, but at the end of the hour,
I hope that we're thinking, as we're going to call
out all of these things, and most of them are
medical things and diseases and disorders, some groups of people
(06:27):
and things. But think about the people who helped you
to get where you are today, who helped to shape you,
to form you. I remember mss Kits. I went to
a private I mean, yeah, well college prep, high school
and ms kits senior year taught creative writing. And I've
never been a writer. I've never been and she would
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we would write in our little blue books. I don't
know anybody had those experiences, but we'd have a blue
book and you'd have to write and next thing, you know,
it would get the things back. You got read inche everywhere.
But I get no grade. I don't know if any
of my other classmates think. Some some got grades. Sometimes
they were like not good grades. But and so you know,
a couple of more assignments and you know days of class,
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you know, classroom stuff, and I'm like, and I would
get my stuff back, some marks on some grammatical errors
or whatever, but no grade, and I, which made me
stay after class one day. I said, miss kids, I
don't understand you're not giving me a grade. And she'd
look at me with her these big bumble bee glasses.
I said, you could do better. Have a nice day.
And I'm like what what? And I'm like okay, And
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then back to the class and back to the writing
writing assignment, and then you know, I managed to get
a B out of the class. She started putting my
grades on. She would say, improvement, very good, give me
a star, give me a check mark. And so I
went my freshman year to college at Fort and the
Southern Baptist College at home, and I signed up a
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freshman comp one. That's the class because I just came
from a college prep high school. And we're in the
English class and all of a sudden, a runner comes
in and said, we need the following people to go
to the registrar. And ironically all of us were black
and brown skin. We had to leave the classroom, take
our stuff with us, and go to the registrar. And
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there was Don Harp and he's like, all of you
own need to be in ESAU or either basic English class.
I'm like, no, I'm not, No, I'm not supposed to
be no basic English. I had that my freshman year
high school. He said, well, you're paying for it to
be if you fail your classes on you. I said, oh, okay,
I see you, and I went back to class. The
(08:35):
teacher said, okay, You're gonna be in his so on you.
And I'm like, what's wrong with y'all. It's college, you know,
And sure enough I got to be out of the
course and guess what. I took my little happy hips
with my report card to the registrar office. Mister Hart
got to be thank you for your support, you know,
and not knowing that years, many years later, I'll be
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writing books to motivate and influence people and going through
experiences that people would want to hear about. I'm just
so thankful that I was able to talk to Pastor Ray,
even though it was through text, and he even prayed
for me through texts and was so proud and he said, wow,
(09:18):
look at you. And I shared some pictures of my
book signing and my books and my children how they
Because he didn't know anything about the twins, Donald was born,
and the last time I think he saw Donald was
maybe when he's well up to six years old because
we moved up here when he was seven. So it's
a loss, it's a big loss, and that will be
(09:39):
a funeral. Just just don't know that's going to be
a funeral because folks are coming from all over. He
touched a lot of lives and made a big difference.
A big thank you, thank you missy. Good evening. But anyway,
you know, and I'm going to slowly segue into all
of these awarenesses and acknowledgements and things to be aware of.
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Some of it is to celebrate something. You know. If
I could say anything tonight and we're gonna go ahead
and go forward with that, please acknowledge, please be thankful
for those who helped to shape you, helped you, who
took you as is and said, you know what, I'm
gonna work with this person, and I'm gonna whether it's
a student, I'm gonna work with this person. Acknowledge them.
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Think if they's still alive, thank God for them, because
you none of us will be where we are if
we did not have these people. And in the experience
could have been good or could have been ugly. I've
learned from I've had some bad supervisors, which taught me
on how to truit volunteers and deal with people in general. Oh,
I've had some. I've had some doctors who was just
(10:47):
you know. I've had some influences people, you know, and
they had to govern my grades and tell me what
to do, and they had their experiences in the classroom.
Oh I've been there, done that. But what I did
was I learned what not to do, how not to
be and and and that's a valuable lesson. So I
take you good, bad and ugly, you know. But let's
(11:09):
let's let's go with some of these. Of course, it's
Old Americans Month. Of course, we got Mother's Day around
the corner. We got a Native American Day. We've got
and and y'all, i'm muting, come on and hop in here.
And National Nurses Day we've got I'm gonna let pastor
say this one. I'm gonna let him city. What's the
one that everybody's celebrating the day We've got World Migratory
(11:35):
Bird Day, So I guess we got to acknowledge the
birds of migrating somewhere. They're going from north to south
or east of I don't know, but it's it's on
here and you know, International Nurses Day and International Day
of Living Together in Peace. We got medical stuff out there.
Come on and help me, guys, come on in because
I'm all over there now.
Speaker 4 (11:56):
Health huh? Health Awareness Month?
Speaker 2 (12:00):
I think? Is this?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Is it a military appreciation month?
Speaker 2 (12:03):
A week? I think? Yeah? Oh, let's see.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You appreciate Did I say teacher appreciate.
Speaker 2 (12:10):
No, that's a good one. That's a good one.
Speaker 4 (12:13):
Teacher week or something?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yeah, yeah, I see children Mental Health Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
There you go, there you go, and awareness is I mean?
And unfortunately, like I said, most of this is medical
and diseases, you know, and it's a sad day that
we've got that many. We've got that many. Let me
go back to my calendar because this Google is not
helping me.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Here. Here here's one that the Food Allergy Awareness Week.
Speaker 2 (12:43):
There you go, there you go.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Something different.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Yeah, Armed Forces Day, We've got Public Lands Day. We
got World b Day for your be lovers out there.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
For your day coming up.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Yes, we got more thank you ahead, what'd you say? Pastor?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Brain Tumor Awareness mark the month of May.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Wow, we got law Day. We've got Loyalty Day, and
we're going to talk about that another time. We had
the National Day of Prayer. That was a big one.
That was a big one. World Tuna Day. Who likes
tuna fish? You know, so acknowledge those. Acknowledging those. I
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know Mother's Day is gonna be oh, National Explosive Ordinance
Disposal Day. So if you got this, if you got
stuff in the backyard, it's time to take it. You
got to take it. So you know what you say, Pastor.
Speaker 3 (13:40):
I was like, wow, okay, explosive, Okay, and dispose it.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Please dispose it? Can you dispose it?
Speaker 4 (13:46):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:47):
Okay, don't wait till the fourth of July. I just
do it now.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
They got the whole block.
Speaker 4 (13:55):
Exactly, exactly.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
That's just just for a little giggles here. Did you
know that they do not celebrate single to Mayo in Mexico?
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Oh? I got to sit back on this one. What
what Wait a minute, wait a minute, what are you saying?
Speaker 3 (14:12):
I came across something real. I mean I didn't get
a chance to read it all, but it was say, yeah,
lots of things going on, Missy. I found out that
think of to Mao is not celebrated by Mexican.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Mexican they say, there's no reason why.
Speaker 3 (14:34):
Talk about why they don't do that. Wow, we can
we can research that. That's the beauty. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:42):
I think you need to come back with that one
and give us an idea after your vacation, sir, please,
because that's that's weird. Oh, we've got the time of
Remembrance and Reconciliation for those who lost their lives during
the Second World War. Say that real fast? Three times.
We got Truman Day. Interesting, Yeah, mickey, it is interesting.
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Military Spouse Appreciation Day, Native American Day, Confederate Memorial Day,
and we've got Nurses Day, Peace Offered Peace Officers Memorial Day.
I guess at the end of the hour, what we
would want to encourage International Tea Day? Did anybody have
any tea today? Did anybody have tea today? You need
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to just acknowledge and say thank you anybody that's changed
your life, that's touched your life, even in a negative way.
I had te today, Thank you, Rebel Reel said she
had day. Then you go see you're writing in the
midst of that. Amen, we're all Telecommunication and Information Society Day. Oh,
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there's a group. I think we need to join them
because we communicate. I think, yeah, I think we need
to you know, so say thank you. Give folks their
flowers while they live, if you don't think you'll ever
see them again, or you don't know if they're still alive. Lord,
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thank you for them, thank you for what the impact
they made in my life. Because we don't say thank
you enough. I don't think. I don't think we we
just let people know how much we do appreciate them.
And there's never enough of that. There's never not enough
of that. You know. This weekend, my daughter just we
did our three day fast and part of that is
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that we go and feed the hunger, hungry and the poor.
And I gotta work on that. I gotta be able
to transition that because again, all those who are homeless
are not poor, and all those are poor not homeless,
so and hungry, not everybody is hungry. But she said
this is I said, well, how are you going to
do it? And she says, well, I'm going to do cheeseburgers, fries,
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and waters. I said, okay, yeah, I'll ride with you.
And I put an envelope in each bag for people.
And these two guys that were so funny. One had
walked across the street and one was on the embankment
and he said, hey, Charlie, look at your bag. No,
he said, I got your bag over here. She said,
we need to look at the bag. I said, don't
tell everybody. Everybody all of a sudden that come running
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out what's in the bag? And he was thinking talking
about food, But like I happened, we made a U
turn and I'm watching him and he's looking like where
are they? Where are and we blew the horn and
then he's like, you know. And one young lady if
I'm a lady, and she's like, well, I'm going to
eat for a week. But somebody also brought her a
plate of food, you know, and a little cover thing,
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so she said, I'm going to be able to eat
for a week, you know. And you and my daughter
we just looked at each other like you can't imagine,
And you know, it's it's just saying the people who
said thank you, and I believe them they were they
were appreciative, They weren't trying to they weren't begging for
anything or anything. They just was there and again we
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had to go find them in some cases. So please
make sure that you thank the people that's been in
your life and that made it a profound impact on you.
And again, even though now I'm wondering what father Mike
is doing these days, I have to look him up. Okay,
there you go, there you go, you know, because you
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don't know how many people don't do that. I know.
When I used to perform at the History Center, I
was doing Mayor McLeod, Bethune and the Lord and you
know placed this in my script. I would ask the
students who's the teacher? And they said, right there, that's him,
that's her. I said, give them a round of applause,
and everybody will be clapping, even the volunteers. And I said,
because you don't know what it took for him or
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her to get you here, to get you to spring
y'all from school today, you know, And I hope you're
on the best behavior. And I said, and for the
adults in the room who can remember their favorite teacher
they had the most impact on you, just shout them out, Oh,
third grade miss so and so, Coach so and so
from high school, all miss so and so from ninth grade,
I mean. And they were all like happy to do that,
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like they remembered these people who made an impact that
I said, I want you to know. And I look
at the teacher, I said, I want you to know.
They may leave your class, graduating to the next grade
and never say thank you, but today they're gonna say
thank you. And I make them say thank you, mister
so and so, thank you, Miss so and so. And
the teacher's like, you don't have to do that. Yes
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we do, because that may be the only time you
get thanked and maybe the only time I think I lived.
And once I accepted the Lord of my life and
got rid of the anger towards my biological people, especially
the grandmothers, I asked God to allow them to stay
in their right mind long enough so I could say
thank you. I know one you said, don't bring no
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more babies here, and the other one's like, well, we
don't even know if it's his, and I know what
they lived with. They had to live with that, but
I was able to meet them, they were able to see,
so I turned out, hey, okay, and I want to
say thank you for that decision that you had to make,
because I don't know who I would be today. I
wouldn't be on here today. I don't know if I
would have accepted the Lord in my life today, you know,
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And I'm not down on the people they've got. You know,
they've been interesting people. And I'm like, you know, even
my family that raised me now just found out one
of my students maybe related to me. Third third cousin
removed twice over something like that. I just got an
ancestry alert and I texted him. I said, are you serious?
He said, can you believe that? And I said, well,
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we third third cousins removed. That's gonna be funny. That
is so funny. But just thank people. All right, y'all
talk tonight. We got some time now because I'm I'm
gonna be quiet.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
You know. One of the things. One of the things,
Miss Gray, and you kind of really as I was
hearing how you were thanking your family members, and I
was thinking back a while ago when the Academy Awards
we were the big thing on TV, and how the
actors when they received their Academy Award, they would go
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and give you a laundry list of who they were
being very thankful for, and you know, the directors, their
their their their coaches. And then I don't know when
it happened, but there was a shift. The shift now
became I'm going to use this platform to express my
political feelings, my stance on this, and forget about the
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people that went to the movie and took some time
to watch your movie. Now you're going to use your
your fifteen seconds of fame and use that platform to
express your stance on how you feel of where the
direction the country is going. Really, it's really disappointing that
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instead of being thankful now you're shifting it for something else.
What people don't understand is when they see these kind
of things, it gets programmed into the person's mind. Then
they start doing the same and then it becomes a
domino effect. So it really and it's funny because yesterday
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my wife and I were talking. We were talking about, well,
I guess common sense isn't common anymore. The same thing
as guess, common courtesy is no longer common because people
aren't curtious. So it really has shifted to a point
where people want to be respected and get recognized, but
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they're not willing to say, hey, thank you. And that's
where people really lose the value of friendship, where they
lose the value of a relationship, where they lose the
value of someone that you can talk to your your
you can fight in because all of a sudden, now
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you're concerned. Who are they going to tell? Mm hmm,
And it's it's it's it's really sad, really is sad.
And this is where we have to be thankful that
we're able to recognize the opportunity. Now we can be
able to make a difference. All it takes is just
one person go to one person, say hey, thank you
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for letting me go ahead of you the grocery store. Hey,
thank you for letting me go ahead because I'm really
am going to rush. People don't understand the value, the encouragement,
the uplifting when you say thank you and be sincere
about it.
Speaker 2 (23:45):
Amen, Amen to that. I think I've shared before that
you know, there are times a group of deputies will
be eating lunch and I'll be walking by and say,
I pray for you all. You all stay safe? Is it?
Thank you, ma'am? Thank you so much, ma'am, thank you,
thank you. You'd be safe too. Because I do pray
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for the sheriff Department, my men and women in Green
I did on my you know, on my prayer point list,
and because I've always interacted with them whenever I had,
you know, situations, or when I was a part of PTA,
the safety officer at the school, you know, it was
the sheriff deputy. And yeah, I mean we just don't
say things anymore. We're not courteous anymore. We're not, you know.
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And when we are, I'm like, I look in folks
eyes and say thank you. I have to think about
what my answer would be to what teacher made the
most difference for me? Okay, missy, yeah, you see, you
have to sit and wonder, like but I remember missus Hoyt,
you know ms kits mister Keenan, which was an odd fellow.
He was a speech teacher and he always sit in
the back are you're making your speeches, and he would
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tap the desk with his ruler and you would just
tap his desk, you know. Mister Johnson, he was the
acting teacher. We put on some great plays. And mister
Poe uh you know elementary school. Yeah, sit and think
about that. Who shaped you, who helped you, who helped
to develop you. The nuns and priests took me under
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their arm, you know, and and the sister Helen Wilson,
you know, father Curly, but father Lim and Selly And
now that we see that they're getting ready to vote
the pope. I don't know if they've done it or not,
but I think they've gone into the conclave and they're
getting ready to do that. So we got to see
if the smoke come out. But who was who was who?
Speaker 5 (25:28):
Yes, Tray, Yeah, I was just because there was a
cargoing bibles loud. So oh, I mean there were there
were quite a few people that made a difference. So parents,
of course, the mother's days coming up. I no longer
have my parents with me, but I do appreciate the
things that they instilled in me. So mother was a teacher,
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father military, and you know, different experiences, but similar things,
you know, with the things that they had. That's four
girls in our family, so and I fallow number three
in the category.
Speaker 4 (26:06):
So I mean, I do appreciate it.
Speaker 5 (26:08):
And then their teachers that were helped shape me in
my life too.
Speaker 4 (26:12):
When my parents went around, it was a different type.
Speaker 5 (26:15):
Of things, so we didn't have all this stuff that
they have in the school system now, not all this.
Speaker 4 (26:23):
Mess and things you have to continue with in a classroom.
Speaker 5 (26:27):
So you know, I definitely appreciate that the time and
era that I that I grew up in bullying was
not like it is now. I mean, it wasn't great
growing up being bully, but this is taking it to
a whole different level with guns and all this other stuff.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I don't understand that. You know, not my time, it
was fitst fights and let it be it.
Speaker 3 (26:48):
That's it.
Speaker 4 (26:49):
And so I just pray for the children that.
Speaker 5 (26:53):
Have to grow up right now in this area, the
ones previously maybe the last fifteen twenty years, and the
ones going through now because it's definitely harder. And I
just pray right now for the people who I just
pray for situations right now. You know, there's a human
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side to a lot of things, and though we don't
agree with the methods that some people came in, but
I think it's humanity, human side humanity, and just I
just I'm just disheartened that children have to go to
school and worry about whether they're be able to go home,
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whether their parents will be home when they get there.
Speaker 4 (27:39):
I feel bad for the people who are.
Speaker 5 (27:42):
Going to places of worship and have to worry whether
or not they're going to be taken out. That there's
like that those who are trying to do it correctly,
and being taken out of the courts right there, out
of the court buildings to wherever I just pray on it.
I just I unders stand, but I do believe there's
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a human side to this.
Speaker 4 (28:05):
You know, it's got to be some humanity, uh, some
type of feeling.
Speaker 5 (28:10):
You know, you might not agree with it, but there
is a way to do some stuff. And I'm just
disheartened by some of the things that I've seen, you know,
on the news, some things that I hear on the news,
and I'm just going to keep them in prayer and
and and in the direction of this country. I am
fearful of it, you know, for people, for the directions,
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and I just pray that we allow God to intervene
and do what's best for everyone. And so that's where
I am as a as a social worker by trade,
as a qualified mental health professional by certification, and I
just I'm just.
Speaker 4 (28:54):
It's kind of a little melancholy here here.
Speaker 2 (28:56):
You I hear you, And prayer is the only thing
we can do. That's the most constructive thing. I'm I'm
I'm getting out of the commentary and and everything. I'm
not I let me pray, Let me just pray this out.
I gotta pray this through. And yeah, I hear you
loud and clear, loud and clear. I want my country back.
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I want my country back. And well that and that
means that we're doing whatever we need to do inside
this country. That's what we're going to be doing. Let's
do it. And everybody in here, okay, we are still
you know, home with the land of the break home
of the free, and let whatever that is free and brave,
that's us. That is still us. And you know, I
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know God's will will be done. And and I really
want one to in the Lord's prayer, you know, on
earth as it is in heaven. What else is supposed
to come to earth that's in heaven. I want to
live to see that and I want to be a
part of that. So you make decisions, Yes, Pastor.
Speaker 3 (29:55):
I was. You know, it's interesting the timeliness. Good good call,
Miss Gray. You. I know, I'm in my last week
of my class work today and we have to write
discussion board in regards to the meaning of the resurrection.
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And you touched on something that I had already read
and I have it here and I wanted to share
it because I even highlighted it, and it says that
we must learn to cultivate disciplines like prayer and thanksgiving.
Then we need to identify the things we tell ourselves
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that are not only misplaced but merely contribute to our worry.
And lastly, we must substitute anxious anxiousness thought anxious thoughts
for godly ones. So it's interesting how you were able
to incorporate prayer and thanksgiving. And this was something that
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I just read from a book by called The Risen
Jesus in Future ho by Gary fer Mass and he's
an apologeticist, apologetic professor actually his name is doctor Habermass
and and really incorporated everything that you just finished saying.
And the theological word of giving thanks is called doxology,
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and this is where you're you're giving praise, you're being
thankful to God for everything that has done for you.
And and it really begins there for us to have
that that that attitude of gratitude everything, you know, not
not just oh look I got some extra money from
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this check and just say oh, thank God, and then
all of a sudden, if you're a little short, you know,
you forget about God about the extra money. And then
when you're short, you remember God, and we got to
be consistent about it.
Speaker 2 (31:55):
Like the song.
Speaker 3 (31:58):
Line of Judah from Elevation Worship, there's a line that says,
no valley be raised up, a mountain be made low.
So in other words, we're raising the valley so we
can be level and bringing the mountain low so we
can praise God. Not not allow the valleys to distract us,
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not the mountains that's in front of us to distract us.
We know who has The answer. Question is are we
willing to submit? Are we willing to repent, turn away
from our old ways and walk the new way in
the in the on the path that the Lord has
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given us. Because this is where we have to understand
what resurrection Sunday means. If Jesus did not die, and
if Jesus did not resurrect, we would be a heaping
mess right now. But because of the sadness that Jesus
got crucified, sadness has only lived for a short while.
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Because the Bible says that Jesus said that you're going
to turn your sorrow into joyfulness, and it's in the
Book of John, and that's how we have to look
at it. We're facing. If we're facing some challenges, to
thank God that he put the people in our lives
that gives us the encouragement so we can be able
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to get through it. And that's when we should be
praising God for the people that he placed in our lives,
because God works through people, and that's so important for
us to understand because God uses everything. And I'm a
quick testimony, quick testimony. I had a knee problem, okay,
and I walked out my front door to go get
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the mail and this happened, like in mid march. This
frog showed up out of nowhere and landed on me
and I twisted my bad knee point where I actually
went to my wife. I said, look, you want to
see something funny. Look and I showed her what happened.
Do you believe that frog healed me? I need pain
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is gone. I need pain is gone because I'm a frog.
Speaker 2 (34:09):
Hey.
Speaker 3 (34:09):
I'm like, thank you God for that frog because now
I'm gonna enjoy my trip because I'm not going to
be limping here. Ben Amen's I know, I know it's
a weird testimony.
Speaker 2 (34:22):
Hey, but I'm telling you it is. Things are peculiar.
God is not going to do the things that you
That's why don't try to shake shape how God should
bless you. Don't try to shape and try to you
figure it out and you take it to God. Oh God,
now I need you to if you can just get out,
get me out of this debt, what I'll do is
listen to it. Lord, this is your prayer. Lord. You
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know I need to make more money on my job,
but I'm also doing the part time job, so I
need more money there. Now, if you could get me
out of this, what I can do is I could
go find another job too, and maybe I could get
rid of this job. So you telling God to creative
all how to bless you. That's like you're telling me
how to teach. You're telling Pastor Miguel how to preach.
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You're telling Trey how to do her job. And you've
never done our job before. Go and let God truly
just cut it and hasn't worked. How much more suffering?
Speaker 3 (35:20):
Now?
Speaker 2 (35:20):
The whole world is suffering. Before it was just you,
not the whole world. And there's no antidote, there's no
there's no answer is coming. It's already here. I can't.
This is the last pleading from me. It's the last,
because Heaven's windows is gonna close up for a little bit,
because he's gathering his chosen, his remnant within the remnant,
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because he's got some promises he made to us, and
we're gonna reap that. We're gonna live in that. You
try it your way forever. Nothing worked. You went down
rabbit holes that you weren't supposed to go down. You
you delayed all your blessings. Nobody delaying them. I've got
some folks and my clothes telling about the white man
got his foot on my neck. No he don't. You
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came at him ignorant. You came at him hood who.
I don't want to hire you. I'm not gonna have
my answer the phone for my my business. Hello? Who is?
Come on? Now? Come on? I used to do trainings
and tell people don't hire your relatives. Well, I gotta
do something mable she got to come up. Can Mabel
answer the phone like, Hello, Jackson, Jackson nursery? How can
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I help you? Can Auntie say that? No she answered
for Hello, No, she ain't here. Your mask person can
make you up breaking what you say? Trey call him
back later. I'm mapping my lunch. Click hang off the phone.
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But can I leave a passage? Who is this? No,
you can't what a pant? I don't see nothing? Just
called back click?
Speaker 3 (36:55):
But you forgot you forgot? I forgot you forgot all? Lord?
Where's that pen?
Speaker 2 (37:05):
I tell people when I do training on business and
and and and and and courtesy and customer service, your
front person will make or break you. Who's ever sitting
at that desk when I walk in that office, They're
gonna make or break you. Be like, hey, how you
doing fine? How you doing? Oh? I mean just the
whole how you doing well? I'm here having eleven o'clock?
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Well you early? Okay?
Speaker 5 (37:28):
Yeah, you go to a restaurant, act like you're inconvenience
and now, yes, yeah.
Speaker 2 (37:34):
We were having a service. She was scared to that.
She I guess, I think she's new to the waiting
staff business. So I say, I'm fine, how are you okay? Lord?
So I had the dollar back, and Lord, have mercy,
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you're having a nice day. I Belisa, please just leave alone,
I said, But she got I gotta bring her out
a little bit more. Come on that. And then when
she saw I knew the boss, the owner, that really
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just didn't make her day. I don't know what she
was thinking. I know the lady jomped all over you know,
I mean, come on now, let go and let gone
and really live this. That's a real thing. And don't
hire your relatives, especially when you're born of directors. It's
seven of y'all. You got five people who don't like you.
They can vote you out of your old stuff. Just
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a little commercial, just a little commercial. But you know,
all these awarenesses, and like I said, most of them
are diseases and disorders and and people who had to
fight to get the recognition. And you know, you're not
talking to people, you're not thanking people, you don't even
some people you forgot common courtesy. And two ladies held
the door open for me. And I was gonna be
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okay because I was gonna use these hips and there's
u haul to get out the post office door. I
had a box in my head. I'm okay, I'll make it.
I'll make it. And then oh, so sorry, because they
just let the door. I was like, okay, I ain't
saying nothing. And they both took two of them to
open up the door. I said, thank you both, and
God bless you have a great day to day. The
salespeople have a great day to day when they when
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they package up your stuff. It don't hurt you to
just be courteous, you know.
Speaker 5 (39:26):
I think that it's lost somewhere because everybody is on
their phone. It's it's almost av I mean, it's it's
avoidance at I've seen people in restaurant on dates we're found.
Everybody's on the phone looking down people crossing the street,
down people walking in the park, down, child in astroler
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to die. And it's no connection. It's a big disconnect.
And some of that if I you know, I'm no
child psychologists or you know, familiar with our development in
that way, but they get it. It really gets attached
where you are. It seems like addicted to it, you know,
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right right. And so growing up we had to be creative,
you know, get bred, go read a book, you know,
or go do this. And we didn't have things, not
very many things that require a battery. Battery and you
can play with them, and the remote control. We had
to make things move. We had to make things talk,
you know.
Speaker 4 (40:29):
Even if it had a sealed mouth, you and make
it tell. You have given us things.
Speaker 2 (40:32):
To think about. Oh, a station. Manners need to come back.
They could come back. You're right, misty, because.
Speaker 5 (40:38):
People don't recognize man a simple thing. People walk across
you by your foot in your personal space. I was
always taught say excuse me when you're walking past, and
don't walk so close like it looks like you're gonna
step on their foot. Excuse me when you do this type,
cover your mouth when you're cough. You know, those types
of things we learned. Thank you, have a nice day,
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good morning. People don't.
Speaker 4 (41:01):
They don't do that anymore, and so it's disheartening.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
I don't know, and I'm not here to teach you
to do this. I'm going I choose when I leave
my house, I choose to be a certain way that day.
I want people to see Jesus Christ. I don't want
them to see me. And I know, you know, with
this little added here, they're gonna sit and stay on standing.
Many times I have to say, look up, look up,
somebody's coming straight at me on the phone. I'm like,
(41:29):
look up, look up, and then I'm sorry, and I'm like,
if you would be you know, because I promise you
you knocked me over, you're going with me. I can't
you know you're going with me? You're gonna hit me
with the basket. I'm like you, and hurry you want
to go? You all right? And a girl I was
at CBS. She had her baby, and now we started
the line where the line's supposed to be. She went
over there and she looking at him, and she grabbed
(41:51):
the baby. And I mean, there's a basket. You could
have put the baby in the basket. And you tried
to carry stuff, which was really strange to be. You
had a little the little cart thing, I mean a
little you know, basket too. And so she gets she
comes and the guy in front of me ain't moved.
So she's like, hum, I can hear her, and so
she walks. She comes around me, but she stands like
right here. So I give it a look, like where
(42:14):
you going? We ain't together. We ain't together. I don't
care if you got a baby in your hand. We
ain't together. I'm not gonna feel sorry for you, you know,
and where you're going? And I get will you give
it a look again? Now? This time she said, what
they ain't got no matter? People here? I didn't give
it a look then, No, I ain't gonna get in
your conversation. I don't want to get I'm praying at
this place, this CBS location, to stay open, So no,
(42:35):
I'm not saying nothing. Didn't give her nothing. She piped down,
and I moved shifted myself to the right. I had
a basket because I'm like, no, I want I don't
want nobody to think you and how together, because you
ain't gonna go up to the registrate with me, you know,
and then she gonna ask this question, y'all will take quick.
I had to hold myself. I had to hold myself.
(42:56):
And the other gentleman, he must have been a manager,
he said, no, we've never taken it. When the lady
told me you took what you told me that yesterday.
I just Lord, help me to keep my face. I
have my mask on. I was not going to get
in the conversation. I'm like, okay, you just got to
just come out and you I don't know what you
were hoping for, but you ain't going there today, you know.
So and then there was a cashier guy. He was
(43:17):
just as nice, and you know, and he's like wick.
I said, no, no, no, leave that alone into the college. No, no, no,
leave that alone. He said, I said, oh, my number
is for seven, you know. Oh okay, no, no, no, get
out of that. You don't know she's dragging you. And
I'm not gonna be a part of that, you know.
(43:38):
So tonight, if anything, we want to say just thank you.
We thank our loyal listeners, We thank our it, our engineer,
our producer, our girl around in the background. We know
she's there. We thank her forever. Just I know it's
her job, but she goes out of her way. I
(43:59):
can't speak for nobody else, but she goes out of
a way to make sure we're on point. She calls
us out, she keeps us. Thank you, Thank you listeners.
You get to your phones, you get to your however
your viewing us, you say thank you, you know, and
that's saying thank you to us. You don't have to
ever say thank you for coming on. No, we thank
(44:20):
you for coming on. And to my loyal coworker co
host here, thank you. And I'm gonna thank you forever
because you take your human you make the time. Okay,
thank you because we couldn't do it without you. We
couldn't do it without you, and we wouldn't want to
because we kinda like y'all. We kinda like y'all, you know,
(44:41):
and we really do. We like each other. We kind
of like each other no matter, you know. That's mcguil
will talk about his knee, the frog, the knee at
the frog. There you go, my knee and the frog.
That's a book day.
Speaker 3 (44:57):
I see. We got one minute, just real quick. Thank
Go to Mayo is celebrated in Puebla, Mexico. Is not
a national holiday like Mexican Independence Day, so it is
not observed as a holiday, so schools and businesses remain
open on Cinco de Maya. The only city that actually
(45:21):
celebrates it is Puebla, Mexico and.
Speaker 2 (45:24):
New Jersey and Florida. Yeah, there we go. Okay, that's it.
That's it. Thank you guys, We love you, We got
you at our prayers. You'd be safe out there and
we'll see you next week, same time, same station, Night night.
Thank you as poss
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