She Lost Her Leg at 19… But Never Lost Her Faith | Marcia Lucas on Resilience & God’s Plan - The Front Porch Chronicles

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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Welcome back Front Porch Chronicles. I'm your host, Clinton, Folks say,
today's guest is someone very near and dear to my heart.
She started out. I met her on Instagram. She started
out she was going to teach me Brazilian Portuguese. As

(00:21):
God always does, he had a bigger plan. You know,
She's taught me more than words. She has taught me
how to love deeper other people and myself, how to
walk stronger in faith, and how to receive resilience in

(00:42):
a whole new way. Please please welcome to the Front
Porch my near and dear friend, Marcia Lucas.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 3 (01:02):
It's amazing and I love this place. You know, it's
my first time here with you, but you know how
much I love you.

Speaker 4 (01:11):
Bro.

Speaker 3 (01:12):
You two. It's your lifestyle with your kids, it's your
faith and your heart because I know you're.

Speaker 5 (01:22):
Not You always knows.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
It's funny like it's like you said, it's funny because.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
We instantly had like this connection, and it's it's funny,
like you said before we even got on the air.
God always, I don't think he ever puts people in
our lives that aren't meant to be there. Sometimes that's
for the good. Sometimes that's for the bad, for a
learning lesson.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
But you have been you have been the good. Yeah,
you have been the good for me eat no matter what, what, when, where, why?

Speaker 1 (02:04):
When I'm up, when I'm down, I always i'll see
your post or I'll think about you, and I instantly
smile at thinking of you.

Speaker 2 (02:15):
And I'm grateful. So let's take it all the way back.
Where are you from.

Speaker 3 (02:24):
I'm from a beautiful and lovely country, Brazil, where you
can have the most dear people, delicious food, and the
wonderful climb. You know that amazing? Definitely, of course there

(02:51):
are some things that I'm not very proud nowadays. But
from the south of Brazil. I live now in a
small city named Saint Helena and Baranay States and Baranay
is bordered over Paraguay and Argentine. I live close by

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nearby fall. It was too false, one hundred kilometers from
the borders. It's a beautiful place to leave, and I'm
so glad to be here because I've been being big
city as before, and as we are getting old, we

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need to slow down. Right. When I was very young,
I loved some Paula city, Oh it was amazing. But
now my city is perfect to me. It's two thousand
and six people.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Oh wow, Green City.

Speaker 3 (03:58):
My grandson can ride a bicycle, can go to school
by bicycle. I can walk around. It's so delicious. There
there were some squares at the night the evening people
go there to have some sports or talk or drink
some tea whatever. It's a countryside awesome.

Speaker 2 (04:23):
Did you grow up where did you grow up? Originally?

Speaker 3 (04:26):
Well, my life of story is something very amazing because
I've been in so many cities I'm from. I was
born in Kamm the same state I don't know. Then
I moved to another city, and then I moved to

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some Paulo State countryside and there I got my graduation,
I got married, and my life and some most of
my family leaving country side, some power country side. And
also I lived in Kuri Chiba. I think it is

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one of the most beautiful, organized, the clean city in
the world. Ku Chiba. I lived there for twelve and
a half year, and then I moved to Santelena and
I'm here now.

Speaker 2 (05:24):
Slow down, Who who were the people when you were
a kid that helped shape you the most?

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Us? So I can't listen you can you speak a
loud Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:41):
As a kid, who was it that influenced you or
gave you lessons the most?

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Well, I was a different kind of kids. I wrote
a book about that because I needed to exter, explode,
you know, extern my life, my life of childhood. I
was a kid. When I was a kid, I remember,
I have I have memories, believe me, clinton from five

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four six years and always I was trying to learn something,
trying to learn something. I don't know when, but before
I go to school, I put something in my mind.
I need to learn. From the good people, I will
learn what to do and from the bad people, I

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will learn what I can't do. And I brother is
in my heart, very deep, very deep. I during that time,
I didn't have a psychology. I'm fifty six years so
I'm talking about I have a century ago. Nobody told

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me that that time. My mom, she wasn't in a
church or something. We were. I come from a very
miserable family in all kinds and areas. So I remember

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I had a now and she spoke bad things in
my ear and my mom just in my mouth. So
I learned from that lady. I will learn what I
can't do. I can't I don't you know, I don't be.

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I can't be like her. And from my teachers when
I went to school, I don't know if you know
the sonic, the blue Ye no song. You have kids,
you know the rings of the Sonic. Of course it's
fifty years ago, we didn't have a sonic. But in

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my idea now the school, every teacher at school has
the pot, the purse, the.

Speaker 2 (08:11):
Ring, the rings.

Speaker 3 (08:14):
And I was talking to teachers, I hope to get
something magical, like a like how magic. Now she's going
to teach me something. She's going to teach me something,
and I need to. I need to learn. I need
to learn. I remember when I was in the second
second grade, I don't know how old, seven maybe or eight,

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and the lady brought me the numbers, the multiplications. She
taught me the number two and I said, oh, it's beautiful.
Do you have something more? She said, well, we haven't
two to ten. I said, you must teach me because
I don't want to learn. In two weeks she did

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because I was just I need to, I need to.
And the teachers were my heroes. I remember all my
teachers from the beginning. I remember because I was the
best student in the school at school, best student by learning,

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but in behavior, oh please, I talked too much. Please,
I don't know. When my mom went to school during
a meeting school, I was like, now, I was terrified
because I said I was the end of my life.

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The teacher just said, oh, your daughter is perfect, she's amazing.
She learns so fast. We are so proud of her.
And I felt myself like, oh, you know so teachers.
Teachers were the best of people in my life during
my childhood and until now.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
They they they taught you. They were the ones that
taught you the good to do. Yeah, I get it,
I get it. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (10:17):
When you look back, now, what was a lesson that
really stuck out for.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
You to kind of evolve as a kid.

Speaker 6 (10:32):
Well, learn from bad things, like when I saw somebody
doing something very bad.

Speaker 3 (10:51):
I always talk to my always talk to myself, you know, yeah, always,
And I remember I'm selling to myself, Marcia, you can't
do that because it's not good for you. You can't
you can't do that, you know. And I was very

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straight with me telling and I saw many bad things,
man a lot because the environment that I lived in
a poor situation. You know, it was so hard. And
my mom she was very well we could say aggressive,

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but she was trying to put me in a in
a good way. But she she used to spank me
every single day. So I used to a coup in
the morning. I say to myself, what can you do
todays because she's going to spank you anyway. But I

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chose three things. I never have a date because I
thought in my mind girls could get pregnant. So I said, no,
I don't want this from me. I was less than ten. Yeah,
never never get a date. And also I will never

(12:24):
as I said to myself, I will never tell a
lie because my mama always would discovery and she would
whisp's taking me twice on the truth? Yeah, you know,
and it is hard to true because sometimes you get
in trouble because you tell the truth.

Speaker 2 (12:45):
The truth hurts some people.

Speaker 3 (12:48):
Until now the people say don't tell Anybody said, no,
don't tell me. It is because I will tell you
my family. They say, if you what the secrets, don't
tell not of secrets. But you know it don't be
like like when I bet your mom said tell her,

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I'm an I at home. Oh, no, no, I will
not tell. The third thing is get something from somebody
else that's not mine, you know, because I felt so
when I saw some kids at school getting something in

(13:31):
bad somebody's bags or whatever, tables or teachers, I said, well,
it's horrible. How can you survive get in something that's
not yours? And Clinton believe me unto Now I have
I have trouble with this. I can't. I can't. My
mind can't concept the idea that people are able to

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get something that's not I remember when when I was
adults at school, there was again again at the table
and I loved him. It was big, and the other
teacher said me, oh, how's that? I said, well, I

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know that the principal thing, the most important thing, what
a moment, there's no mine. That's enough, it's not mine.
Like you feel yourself like an alien sometimes because because
you do not do what everybody's.

Speaker 1 (14:33):
Doing, it makes it, it makes it makes it hard
to do that.

Speaker 2 (14:43):
It goes as the older we go. It's the same
thing though, It's like.

Speaker 1 (14:47):
You surround yourself with people so that you don't feel
odd because you like to do the right thing rather
than the wrong thing.

Speaker 3 (14:57):
But it was a very happy child, very heck yeah.
I was born to be hecky.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
And make and make others.

Speaker 1 (15:10):
You if there was a teacher, you know, if there
was a teacher, to be a teacher. And it's crazy
that sometimes people are just meant to be teachers.

Speaker 2 (15:22):
I have you on You're the Second Teacher.

Speaker 1 (15:25):
One of my college roommates came on a few episodes ago,
Fred and he's just like you, super like, energy, vibrant,
all of those things. And so you know with that,
when did you first start falling in love with learning

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multiple languages?

Speaker 3 (15:50):
Well, it's a it's something to you, very straight from
God's heart. Because when I went to the college, my
first course was pedagogy. I would teach it. I would
study to work at school, but not as a teacher,

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and I did because I went to I quit because
I went to a camp for the carnival, a Christian camp,
and decided to go to the seminary for two years
to be a missionaire. But the half of the year
I got an auto accident and changed my life a
lot of a lot. Anyway, Then after the auto accident,

(16:37):
I decided to go back to the college, and I
remind remembered a teacher of mine, a Portuguese teacher, and
she was very special to me, and that's like to be.
To take the course I did. I thought I would
work in a newspaper writing because I love read. If

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you tell me, I'll give you a million dollar if
you tell me how many books you have read. I said, Oh,
I'm going to lose the money because I'm not anyway.
I read because I love and I write. Then I
went to take the course of Portuguese course, and of
course I could be a Portuguese teacher. But that course

(17:20):
was Portuguese in English, and I had I told you,
I'll learn it from the best from the worst, and
my English teacher was the worst trilogy. But I didn't

(17:42):
pass in English the last year. But I took the
graduation all the pictures, the beautiful pictures or whatever, and
then I went to the college to finish. Once I finished,
it was so hard work. I finished got my certificate.

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Then after a lot of troubles in my life anyway,
and I needed a new prostiss and I didn't have
money to get that because it's so expensive now in Brazil.
Wekend get some from the government. But that point it
was thirty thirty I don't know thirty six years ago. Well, anyway,

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onto my accident. But on two thousand a friend of
mine opened a coffee shop in front of any university
in Kenyon, close by Amoril. And there is a guy
who was from Emerald. And I went to take the
course once a week and he called my friend, Oh,
can you prepare my coffee that I will pass by?

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And so, oh, yes, get a coffee as all talk.
What do you do at the university? Oh, I take
a course of proceieds because I work with a Limbeth
or whatever. One more conversation, a small, small conversation, and
he said, I have a friend. He wears a prostigs

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bring girl to the America to make a very nice guy.
We were like a tween's this guy that? And he said, no,
my friend doesn't have money to afford. Oh, we will talk
to my boss. And he talked to this boss and
his boss said, bring the girl all way. And God

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spoke to me, You were not in this country only
to get the proceeds. You must learn the language. Clinton.
I traveled, we taught English. I got in an airport
and I said to the lady salagi. She said what

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I said, the s logie s logie. She said what
because she did like to hear salad salad. Please, I
want to hear that point, I promised to myself. Mar said,
loocause you are going to learn this language. And also
I was I was divorced at at that point, was

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but I was suffering, suffering. I was thirty one years old, suffering.
My heart was like a small pieces. And the last,
the last, oh before the last airplane, I sat and
sat beside me. A man. He was like a I

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don't know, it's he was handsome, handsome. I didn't have
a language to speak to him. If you had no
like I just I lost.

Speaker 7 (21:03):
The opportunity because I didn't have lun English, okay when
I got it. And in Atlanta, I guess I don't remember.
I got there and I said I can't go before.

Speaker 3 (21:21):
I will try to see if I can get a
flight before, because I'm not going to wait for five hours.
And I went to the desk and the lady didn't
speak Portuguese, I didn't speak English. She found somebody else
on the phone anyway, she changed my chickens and she said,

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oh no, you can't because the airplane is already closed
and there was the pilot was closed. Me closebum and
he said, no, she can go with me, but he didn't. No,
I was wearing a prostisis. He got my hand and like, ah,

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I'm glad. I was a skid because that point, I
mean the airport, I said, think you think, Oh no, no,
that's okay, that's okay.

Speaker 2 (22:16):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (22:17):
So I got in Amyl three hours before and I said,
ohow less, And God spoke to me. You were going
to change your ticketing. I said no, I can't. God
spoke me go and change your tickety because it was
November and my my back, my tree back was would

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be in January.

Speaker 2 (22:41):
And God spoke to me.

Speaker 3 (22:42):
Change said how And I went to the desk again
and the change I got it. I don't know, thirty
days or sixty days more? Yeah, right there? And immigration
my visa was for three months, only for three months,
but the immigration gave me back six months.

Speaker 2 (23:04):
Oh wow.

Speaker 3 (23:05):
May eight when I saw may ate my heart, I
don't know, I f u. I said, what is this
may Oh, I'm I will come back on January. Then
my friend came to the airport picked me up. The

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guy who got my the f the uh proceeds and
he said, hello, hold Ah, when did you arrive all
three years ago? I can't live you were here in
a long trip like that? Why didn't you call me? Holdama?
I said, no, no, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay.
I changed my text, did you?

Speaker 2 (23:45):
Oh?

Speaker 3 (23:46):
Everybody was good? Okay. I went to his home now too, sisters,
his sister, and in forty five days, studying every day,
I knew every single word in English by listening and
understanding but not speaking. Forty five days, I spent about eight, ten,

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twelve hours of watching TV and learning. My friend and
his husband, Her husband taught me, you know, with all
the love of all care and my friends. The guy
from the coffee shop came to me with his wife.
That are very good friends. And she decided to pay

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for me one semester at the college.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
Oh wow, she did.

Speaker 3 (24:39):
And I got a job in Brazil. I feelished. Shared
My teacher from a composition went to the last day
to give me the test with a Brazilian short. You know,
I got friends, I got everything, you know when I
left the United States, maybe after my tests. So it

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is amazing because I got everything. I have a lot
of friends in Amarillo and Kenyan, and I became a
translator official translator from for Paramout Baptist Church because I
went there. My teacher from Emerald Collogy, she's my friend
until now. She took me there to take a test,

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a test. She said, can you have your test in
other plays? I said, yes, So you're going to speak
about Brazil and about yourself and ten minutes. Is that
okay for you? Yes? I went there, but there were
sixty people listen to me try to win to the
microphone and said, oh wow, I need my grade and
I certificate and I spoke. At the end. Cam came

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in and said, are you would you like to work
with us as a translator in Brazil? I said, how
you know my language is enough? He said, we recorded
and analyzing you. So I worked I don't know how
many years.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (26:12):
What what do you think is the most fulfilling thing.

Speaker 2 (26:17):
For you with being an educator?

Speaker 3 (26:22):
I think it is. How can I say it's It's
not only one thing. It's something like a daughter accident.
I lost one one footing part of my leg. I
got a prostise our. A prostis an artificial leg. So

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and I lost my leg when I was nineteen. Wow,
you know. So my public at school as teenagers, you
know how hard is there lives? And I love them.
I love they are my favorite public. Why I think

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my mission there is show them the most important thing
is here and here of course what we not what
we have, but who we have we can be to
others life, big lives. Because Clinton the leader, I know

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I can help who doesn't have anything. So my philosophy,
if I can do this, I can say I say
this my philosophy, my life is. Philosophy is getting the
best from the worst. Doesn't matter what you have come
to say me tell me. I'll say, well, what can

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you do with this? Look at the other side.

Speaker 1 (27:58):
You know you said something earlier as a kid. You
said you look for things to do and things not
to do. You're the person that was put on this
earth to show people what to do and who to be.

Speaker 3 (28:19):
You know I already told you. I know that, but
I will tell again. Lucas, I would be Marcel Lucas.
There is no people on earth and outside or whatever
that's as.

Speaker 8 (28:35):
You like to be.

Speaker 3 (28:35):
I love to be myself. I love myself. I love,
my hair, love, my love, my my my. What can
I say this special Mark? I love this. I love
because it's my story.

Speaker 2 (28:49):
You know, it's a very it's a very powerful one.

Speaker 3 (28:57):
I'm sorry.

Speaker 2 (28:59):
Have you ever had and had a student that taught.

Speaker 1 (29:03):
You as much as you taught them?

Speaker 3 (29:06):
Sure, of course I teach them. For this. I tell
my students, you must be much better than me. You
must teach because I want to learn from you. That's
the reason I teach. She I want to see my
students farther than I am. And also it's about my book,

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teaching loving Learning, not without comment, without the leader letter E.
It's teaching learning. It's teaching loving learning because while I
teach all learning with love and love, and what I'm teaching,
of course, i'm learning always Clinton, I have a student.

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There is a famous writer in Brazil name Adamachadow Jessis
and at a high school we must study read his books.
And that was and I teach literatory and my classes
are good. I'm sorry. Well, my classes are good because

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I prepare myself and I love to do what I do.
And there was a shouldent of mine. He gave a
class from one my shadow's book. He changed my mind
about You know, I didn't cry because I controlled myself.
But I tell everybody that guy is much better than

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I am. His class was much better than than mine.
Always always Wow. You know why I teach because I
love to learn. I love to learn, and teaching is
the shorter way to learn.

Speaker 2 (30:55):
It really it really is.

Speaker 1 (30:59):
You know, life has a really crazy way of testiness.
What has been a season that you felt the most
tested in your life?

Speaker 3 (31:16):
Well, when I got the accident, the accident, I was
planning finished to finish my seminar in two years, and
then I wouldn't work for a very famous important person
in Brazil. We would me and my friend, My best

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friend would work with children, children for poor areas. You know.
Then at the half of the course I got the accident.
I thought, I will gut the imputation and put my
prostiges in life, will go on far month at the hospital,

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far month in the hospital in twenties you One day
I got seventh surgery. Wow. Then I stayed in a
wheel chair for two years because the doctors I would

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like to imputate my left leg too, because I got
a uh themage in my psiotic and the last my feet,
my left feet. So I got a miracle in a prayer, reunion,
prayer meeting a lady, that very old lady that she

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didn't have any good Portuguese. She said, Marcia, do you
believe Jesus is able to heal your leg? I said yes,
and she prayed and my leg was healed instantly. That's
the reason I believe in Jesus. He is the same today, yesterday, today,
and whatever he has the same, and he healed my

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leg and I started to walk again. But how you
can imagine the testing is a good word for that.
But the sad and as the most sad time, frustration

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and whatever the worst words you can imagine, you can
put it in this time of my life because people
called my mom, Oh I went to a vidante, she
is going to kill herself. Oh she's going you know
other things. Also the church, my church, they went to

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visit me. But it was so fine psychology, you know,
I was. They didn't go anymore. They quit. So the people,
when your people get get out from you, when you
are in a hard situation, that's very sad. And I

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was a very active person, talk too much, doing too
much and stay in a wheelchair wasn't easy. There are
some more things that I could say here, but involving
people other people, and I can't now writing. So I

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had all the the not only not not about the body,
the lossing the leg, because when I lost my leg
in people was huh, you lose you lost your leg.
You know what I did. I got in the room,
shut the door, locked the door, went to the mirror,
take out the bands and looked to the mirror and

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used to say, Maricia, you lost your leg. And I
answer to myself, yes, but it's okay. No, you lost
your leg. People are telling me that you're going to
kill yourself, that you're going to be crazy or whatever,
you are going to get depression. And I say, oh,
it's okay because it's only one foot. You have to
and part of your leg. The most important thing is

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in your mind and your heart, and it's still there.
Don't worry what people say. Okay, Marcy, but you lost
your leg. You need my almost to know that because
I thought her to myself. I didn't realize it, you know,
because people was more worried than I was. I don't

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know if you understand me.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
No, your is so powerful. I get caught sometimes like.

Speaker 3 (36:03):
Now, my my prostess my food broke and I put
a silver tape and what I'm around and I went
to the technique and he got my leg. I said,
what are you Oh way, I'm trying to fix. No, no, no,
don't touch. Don't touch this way because it's part of
my body. And he no, it's a proceeds. No, it's

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my body. And I start to cry and he said no, no, no, no,
don't cry, don't cry. No, he will get the he'll
get the.

Speaker 4 (36:31):
Pieces for you, because well, it's serving me as part
of my body.

Speaker 3 (36:43):
It's taking me out and come and you know, bringing
me home. I'll walk with this. Oh well no, I'll
walk because of this. Huh.

Speaker 2 (36:54):
Let me ask you a question. Have you always have
you always had like you walk with.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
This confidence and with this faith that is so powerful?

Speaker 2 (37:09):
Have you always had that?

Speaker 3 (37:12):
Yes? Because the most important thing I have I can
lose everything everything. Well, there are there are two things
people can't take it out of us. Our faith, in
our learning, our knowledge. When you learn, nobody will get

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from you. I mean, I'm not talking about the manage
or an accident or whatever. I'm talking about taking out
because when the faith we have is through the word
of God, because the faith comes comes by hearing. In

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the hearing the word of God right point. And I
believe in the Bible. I've been reading in the Bible
eighteen times. This is my nineteen and some books. I
don't know how many. And I was still learned because
we can't learn. It's a life alive. It's a book alive.
So I believe like it Jonah, Jonah was swallowed by

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the big fish even the Bible was written, Uh, Jonah
swallowed the big fish swallow. I would believe because it's
the Bible. Bible is my book of faith and for
a rule for life. And also you know what I

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have that comes from God. And there's my I don't
know the word in English, like the gas, the comb,
the thing that to feed my life. Yeah, joy, the joy.
I When the doctor came in, the said Marcia, the

(39:05):
infection is so big, it's growing up. I will need
to protect your knee and I need if you'll let
me and potat now, I will save your knee. I said,
it's okay, you are talking to me in a smart way.
That's okay. Let's have an apputation. Okay. When he got
out from I said to myself, well, it's true, but

(39:33):
it's not the end. And I asked God took things. God,
please don't let my joy go out, and also please
help me with the time. Make it passing so fast.
And he did. Because I'm fifty six, it's here. Why

(39:57):
why the joy is here? Because I have my joy
comes from the salvation. What is one hundred year here?
One hundred and fifty. I don't know how long we're
going to live here. It's nothing for it compared to

(40:18):
the eternity. I have ever, everlasting life, patern little life
waiting for me where I'll have my my body glorified, beautiful.
I will dance with the angels. You know, I can't
see myself dancing on a gold street. I can't start.

(40:42):
I can't start to talk about the heaven because I
can't be crazy with this because it's a place that.

Speaker 5 (40:49):
Whoo, I'll be there. It's my God, and it's not
it's not by telling me it's my it's by experience.
It's by experience.

Speaker 3 (41:03):
I know this God. He healed my my food instantly.
He takes care of my life doing all this, you know, Clinton,
when the doctor said I was laid down a mad
waiting for the surgeries. Came a doctor from the veins.

Speaker 2 (41:21):
Vascular, Yeah, vascular.

Speaker 3 (41:24):
May I take a picture girl? Because you were a
lucky girl. I said, why? Because only the arteria arteria.

Speaker 2 (41:33):
Arteries.

Speaker 3 (41:36):
Where perfect. All the things was cut. I said, well,
you can take the pictures. But I'm not a lucky girl.
I'm a blessed because God takes girl of me. He
put his hand, Clinton, tell me what you can you
can first, all the bones are the muschool whatever. Only

(42:03):
can you imagine a foot connected to a lad with
a vein? Oh? Please? God was there with me. Uh,
and there are there are a lot of details that
he speaks to me. I don't God spoke to me,
I would be here with you.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
I said, Oh, no, you're you can. The people watching
this episode are gonna know why I love you so much.
You know you're you're always teaching.

Speaker 9 (42:41):
You're always teaching life lessons. Uh what with your in
regards to your classroom?

Speaker 1 (42:55):
What's your mission teaching beyond just languages.

Speaker 3 (43:03):
With the teams the teens?

Speaker 2 (43:05):
You said, with the students?

Speaker 1 (43:07):
Yeah, what is it that you hope they learn from
you besides just languages?

Speaker 3 (43:15):
Oh, it's amazing because I have I always have some
declaration and I feel myself very proud of, you know,
and well I think as I know they are there,
they know I know they exist. You know why because

(43:36):
of the classes in Brazil starts on February and at
at least on May, April or May. I know all
their names last year. Last year I thought I had
five hundred forty six students.

Speaker 1 (43:57):
Well, but I had.

Speaker 3 (43:59):
I gotta take niche. Of course, how many years in
the classroom. And you know that's the reason. I like
it when they sit in the same place, so that
I put them not a one behind, because I like circle,
I like totally different, class different. And I memorized their names,

(44:23):
their names, and also I'm able to read the body
and soul, and I would tell them, I tell I
used to tell them, I can almost read your take
your thoughts. So look at me and try to think
good things. Put your mind where your body is and

(44:49):
look at me as you're a happy person. Because you
think something bad, especially about me, I will see. I
will know that. And their names and were using these techniquians.
I knew when they were not okay. The simple action

(45:09):
to put my hands in their hands in somebody's hand
and said are you okay? To day? I had experience
like before I leave, I hear put some cereal bars
in her pockets. I said, why, I'm not glad to
meet this. Put it something, some protein or somebody something.

(45:29):
I'll put them. And I got to the classroom and
I saw a guy and I listened give to him
because he's hungry. I said, wow, I call it. Are
you okay? Yes, teacher, to do it today? Oh teacher,
I didn't have time for because I worked at all
day and now I came to the school. I said, well,

(45:52):
go outside and eat this. You know, it's so small
things like a There were some experience that how are
you to day? Clinton? This question how are you today?
It's a very powerful question, and there are sometimes some

(46:15):
students that I asked this very close in my desk,
I said, I called, like, come to my desk, told
the name and come to my desk please, I said,
are you okay today? And they start to cry.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
You know yes.

Speaker 3 (46:34):
I think it's the most important thing was they knew
I know them, I still know them. I knew they
were there and there were they started to talk about everything, everything,
every every I said, I'm a teacher. I need to

(46:54):
teach you. What what do you think, I'm not a
psychologist or whatever. And they said, well, but you listen
to us. You always listened us.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
That's that's that's big, you know, That's what Most of
the time I've noticed people just walked to feel like
they're being heard.

Speaker 3 (47:15):
M huh. There's a guy that's his preacher in the
United States.

Speaker 2 (47:20):
Yeah, big George, he.

Speaker 3 (47:23):
Wrote me, teaching teacher. You you didn't teach your own English.
You teach much more than English. And I went to
the gas station and the other day and I was
without my glass. I asked my daughter, please reader his name,
reader his name for me on the tag, and she read,
and he came to give them the key or whatever.

(47:44):
I said. I called him by name, and he teacher,
how do you remember my name? And his mild like,
how do you remember? My un said well, how could
I forget their name? Get when you get old?

Speaker 10 (48:10):
You know, if somebody right now is in the middle
of a tough season, what would you tell them?

Speaker 3 (48:22):
It will not be forever. It's your best because bad
things past, but good too, So enjoy the best.

Speaker 2 (48:37):
You dropped it.

Speaker 3 (48:39):
You get to end it. You must go out that
will not that will not be anything else.

Speaker 2 (48:46):
When you go to the end, you always drop the best.

Speaker 3 (48:50):
You know it's painful, but wow, we will not be forever.
Don't ask why? Don't ask why? But what for?

Speaker 1 (49:04):
What's one truth about God that you hold on to
when everything feels shaky?

Speaker 3 (49:12):
Sorry, I need you to take this. It's noisy here.

Speaker 2 (49:18):
What's one What's one truth about God that you hold
on to no matter what?

Speaker 3 (49:28):
Oh? His mind and I belonged to him. I'm his child,
I'm his loved child, you know.

Speaker 2 (49:39):
Yes, see how I.

Speaker 3 (49:42):
See me these days? Oh yeah, Psalm forty verse one,
waiting with patience and God, and he came to me
and listen to me. You know how I feel myself?
With my ear I may sat down and my God

(50:05):
like here with his mond his ear here, listen to
his ear is here. Listen me when I cry, when
I complain, when I glorify, and I praise when besides

(50:26):
as I love her.

Speaker 1 (50:27):
Now, what's something that you've learned about yourself in your
life that you didn't know before?

Speaker 3 (50:40):
Okay, I was made to be strong. I need you.
But I've been strong all my life. And I used
to say I was self sufficient. Then I learned it.
It's just totally wrong because when I was telling I'm

(51:08):
self sufficient, I I was telling God you were not enough.
And I learned that and it was very powerful because
I learned that. It's about two decades ago. I guess

(51:30):
a little bit more. And I was so proud to
say I'm self self sufficient because I lost my leg
and I got out. I'm read that I got through
I got through divorce, I got through this, I got
through that, and I got spoke to me. Now it's
not about you, It's about me because I'm away you. Wow. Powerful.

(51:55):
So when I went to Jesus, grow is I me.
I needed to.

Speaker 1 (52:05):
You know, I think where we align, where we really
align is I think we had so much chaos as
kids for me, like how you said earlier today, this
is really weird that we have this conversation.

Speaker 2 (52:22):
For me lately.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
Like you said, I could see this growth and I
see this shift in you, and that comes from as
a kid. I never felt like I had control. I
always felt like that alien, like you said, because at
the end of the.

Speaker 11 (52:41):
Day, I had a very pure heart and I lived
around very people that weren't very pure.

Speaker 2 (52:50):
They chose to do evil things.

Speaker 1 (52:54):
They choose to be bad people, and so I felt
like a in that situation.

Speaker 2 (53:02):
But over the.

Speaker 1 (53:04):
Past time or year or so, is when I, like
you just said, I really just let go and let
God in.

Speaker 11 (53:13):
It free me up, because now I don't I don't
feel like I have to fight everything. I don't feel
like I have to be the self sufficient.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I mean, I'm self sufficient in the aspect of God
provides me what I need and I use those tools,
and I'm grateful for that.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
I don't need anything more.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
I don't need anything other than what He gives me,
and I'm going to make it do what it do
and continue to fight the good fight with that. You know,
you came into my life as a language teacher, teaching
me Brazilian Portuguese, but you've taught me so much more

(54:01):
than that, resilience, faith, love, and I'm forever grateful and
will be here for you. You've got books, and you know,
I'm sure other people want to learn from you. What
would be the best way for them to get in
contact with you?

Speaker 3 (54:21):
Oh? May I show you my book?

Speaker 8 (54:24):
I forgot this, Yes, of course, I can't believe that
I'm not a good seller.

Speaker 3 (54:42):
Of Clinton is Portuguese now, but I already wrote and
I'm going to publish. It's hard to publish in Brazil,
I think it's everywhere. It takes time because you know,
I do like to say one last thing about teaching.

Speaker 2 (55:02):
May I yeah, yes, of course.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
I've been teaching for my entire life. I'm fifty six
and I started with at thirteen years old. And I
know for sure I couldn't work because I'm a very
talented person. I have. I've been studying reading, and you know,
I could have been working with a lot of things

(55:25):
and making a lot of money. And I like money.
I'm not stupid. But you know, as a teacher from
a public school, I wasn't supposed to make a love
of money. And now I'm retired from the public school,
I have less money, but I don't believe I couldn't

(55:46):
touch people's lives in other work as I did being
a teacher.

Speaker 2 (55:56):
So and and you're still there.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
Myself to spend the best part of my life, the
best years my youth teaching, you know, emerging in a
in a classroom with a lot of kids. I know
it's not about money, but it's about people and people
is the most priceless thing on earth.

Speaker 1 (56:22):
You you you, you might have retired from the classroom,
but this world is a classroom that you teach, you teach,
you teach every day. I'm going to tag your uh
social media stuff on here if you want to show
your book too.

Speaker 3 (56:44):
This book. This picture is me when my third grade
the best shouldn't in this college. It's a real picture
from this school group. Scholar Robert Brazinski in the City
of the Computa. Look at my hair, totally different.

Speaker 2 (57:03):
I love it.

Speaker 3 (57:05):
I know this teaching, loving learning Incinando Mando Brendento now
is in English, in Portuguese but in English. Is ready
to publish and I'm organizing my financials and i will
launch in the United States.

Speaker 2 (57:25):
Perfect. You know. I'm going to read it, you know,
for all of the viewers out there.

Speaker 1 (57:31):
I'll link your info in the bio for all of
the listeners out there. If this conversation spoke to you,
share it with somebody, subscribe, libor review. This woman has

(57:52):
got knowledge beyond anything that I can ever put into words.
And I've said it several times, but I'll say it again.
I love you and I'm so grateful for you and
thank you so much for coming on.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
I need to say something.

Speaker 2 (58:10):
Yes, of course, your life.

Speaker 3 (58:12):
You know that. I admire you as a man, as
a professional, as a father, a father. You are doing
a great mission with your kids, and I really appreciate that.
And I know God is spoken to you, speaking to
you through the kids, and you are doing great. Never

(58:33):
let anybody or anything tell you you're not a good father.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
I love you so much and I thank you God.

Speaker 3 (58:46):
You to this mission, and you are doing good. And
sometimes we are not good enough for everybody, but we
are doing our best and it's enough to God. I
love you enough for your kids because they know your heart.

(59:06):
The kids know much more than we to your kids.
And I love you. You know that. And I love
the Brazil for Brazil, and I'm waiting for you here.
I want to cook you.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
I'm coming. I'm coming to visit.

Speaker 4 (59:30):
Much.

Speaker 2 (59:30):
I love you to have a good rest of your day.
Thank you so much for coming home.

Speaker 3 (59:35):
Is that Brazilian away.

Speaker 2 (59:37):
Thank you so much. I love you.

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