Happy Labor Day weekend. It is labor day weekend, do we show appreciation to god for having jobs? Are we obidient when working in jobs that we don't like, but God has us there now for a season. Jeff got a God wink and Steph began a new job & is moving. She is experiencing new beginnings. Always trust in God.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Wait the day night sucks. I gotta get to the Starbucks.
Get some magic beings, be on my way. Magical, as
was my pon We Don't Know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Says that today, Well, hello everybody, and welcome to these
days with Jeff and Steph. We I hope you're getting
ready to have a really great labor day weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am Jeff, Steph. I are things out there in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Things are great here, Jeff. I actually just got home
from my first day of actual work training, going to
the y m C. A facility that's fun. It was great.
I mean, it's it's cool. I feel like I'm I
feel like I'm coming out of like this. I realized,
like I don't know if it's because I'm a songwriter
and a like a script, right, you know, right, being
(00:54):
a writer, I think I have to process life through
the lens of a story, right, And so it's like,
so this YMCA in Green Hills has been recently remodeled,
and it looks I love mid century modern. It looks
like a sixties building. And as I'm walking in, I'm
hearing the theme song from Mary Toller Moore, and you know,
like she's gonna make it after.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
All, Well, that's a lot better than hearing the village people.
Why and.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Exactly, Well, but it is great. It's like the nicest
people I've ever worked with, and they're so cool. The
job's fun. There's like no downside too, there's not It's
not much money, right, but God keep God keeps saying,
don't worry about the money. I've got that covered. And
I think that is gonna like you and I have talked,
I think that it's going to be coming through through
(01:41):
some really cool new avenues. And yeah, it was fine.
I get to go to work wearing shorts and tennis
shoes now, so that's awesome that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I think most people will go that and actually,
you know, people think about going to work again. It's
kind of nice. Just it's basically like you've been in
a rut to get out and be in people and
around people. Even though they might have anny, at least
you're around them again.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, it's great. I mean it just and it seems
like everybody there just is such a well meaning I mean,
you're always going to deal with with people right that
have Like she said, you know, yesterday, the big thing
was having to explain to having to argue with one
guy that wanted to be in the hot tape area
that there's a difference between underwear and a swimsuit. She said,
(02:26):
you might get these from Tom to tom, but in
general people are pretty cool and really nice. So yeah,
that should should be interesting. You had an interesting morning
and texted me about a little God experience.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Actually, we're going to have a preface this a little bit.
So all you who are believe in mysticism and signs
and all that stuff, Stephan, why don't you tell us
about your connection with birds.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So God has been speaking to me through birds for
a while, and the first time I noticed it was
about a week before my parents died, and so obviously
that stands out. They would line up at my window
and peck and try to get in, and there'd be
several of them my window at work, and I was like, Okay,
God's trying to tell me something. I've always been pretty
in tune like that, and I was like, something's about
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to happen. And then when my mom died and then
my dad died six weeks later, it was just I
was like, okay that he was I wasn't really sure
what the birds were saying. But I was like it
was a sign that God was trying to get my attention,
and I guess, let me know I'm here. I really
think one of my purposes is helping, you know, break
God out of the box and letting people know God
(03:32):
loves to communicate with nature. And so lately, when I'm
going through another big life change, birds have been coming up,
especially hummingbirds. And even He's so good even to make
a point that I've heard at least three neighbors literally say,
I don't know where all the humming birds are this year.
I haven't seen any. And they have humming bird feeders
(03:53):
and everything, and they're like, I keep replacing all this
stuff and them, I've got my humming bird feeders out
and I just don't see a hummingbird. And I'll have
like three of them. I'll be sitting on my front
porch and like three will come up to me and
they'll just have her around me. And usually when I
it's usually when I say, come, Holy Spirit, and just
give me a sign. It's usually when I. I mean,
I'm always praying and I'm asking for signs, and they
(04:14):
are supposed to represent sudden change and joy. I think
they definitely are a sign of joy and that God
and of God's goodness, and he likes to surprise us,
he really does. He likes to bring change and blessings
and joy. I just I definitely feel like that's a
season that you and I are entering into, right And
so now.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That you guys are all caught up, so I've been
hearing her talking about the birds, and I haven't been
discounting it or anything. I've just been, oh, that's cool,
you know. And I've been going on around. Well, today's
sitting there and dealing with my cloud or cats, and
all of a sudden they hear this tap tap chap
on my sliding glass door. Looking around, tap tat. I
looked on, all the cats are inside, so one can
be outside. And what that there's a hummingbird trying to
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get inside in the door, going back and forth. And
I was going, what did he pray for?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Exactly? And you and I just talked about doing the
Nolvena just for you know, our success to Saint Joseph.
And I'm telling you, when you invoke the company of
Heaven and angels, You're gonna see miracles. Your life is
going to change. Just open your eyes, open your heart,
because it's just there's so many God moments I see
throughout the day, and I mean it's just awesome because
(05:25):
I've literally gone through and also I think you have
to go through these seasons. I've gone through a season
just like you have a lot of tears, a lot
of darkness, a lot of pain, a lot of suffering.
But it's it's a tangible shift that's happening now where
I feel joy again. I feel you know that Bible
verse where God has turned my sorrow into dancing, He's
(05:46):
turned my morning into laughter or something like that. I
feel like that's happening. It's just really happening right.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now, right And so we are doing the novena for
Joseph one day. We sorry first SEMy burden in Colorado,
And if you're wondering here, I'm on the eastern plains
the color out on the mountains, there's plenty of but
out there on the plains, you don't see home embirds.
So that's what it was kind of, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You don't see hummingbirds in your area, do you?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And you want to know of God's son that you
you do good for another person she is getting ready
to move, and uh, so I looked up and the
patron Saint of moving is Saint Anne. So I told
her I was doing a uh prayer for Saint Anne
for and if you listen to the other show, it's
kind of a little tie in there.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, it's crazy. So I get I get the text
from you as I'm going to my first day of
work saying that I am, you know, prayed to Saint
Anne for you and your move. And she's the patron
Saint of moving and I didn't even know that. And
I'm a parishioner of Saint Anne's. That's literally where I'm registered.
And the priest that I had lunch with was it yesterday.
My days are kind of flowing together. I don't know
yesterday of the day before was the priest at Saint
(06:53):
Anne's and that's his parish, and it's not normal for
he and I to even have time to get together.
We had already postponed it twice, like literally, we were
supposed to start with. This lunch was supposed to happen
in July, and it's finally just happened the weekend I
was about to move. And so some people might just
overlook that. It's like, oh, that's nothing, that's a coincidence.
(07:13):
But no, it's not a coincidence. That's just God showing
up in your life saying, you know, I'm just in
my representative of price to comfort you, to uplift you.
To He did inspire me. He always inspires me. And
just to let you know, I'm with you in this
move and I totally feel his presence with me in
this move.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you can think about what you're going through. You're
going through a move and a new job on the
same weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's kind of yeah, and saying goodbye to home, my love,
and you know, even even my animals. Ashes 've talked
about Tico and Samba, my dog and my cat that
I had for sixteen and eighteen years. It's a long
time to have two pets. They were, you know, my
best friends, and you know, even saying goodbye to them
like literally because I'm gonna I haven't told him yet,
(07:55):
but I'm going to leave them here, the ashes here,
and hopefully my ex husband will bury them because I'm
not strong enough to dig a grave, but I just
feel strongly. Number one, I'm not one that thinks you
should just carry around people's remains with your animals remains,
which you like. Some people might want to do that,
but for me, it's like, no, they're gone. They're in
my heart, they're in my memory, and it just seems
(08:17):
to me like they need to stay with the house.
They don't. This was their home, you know, this is
where they died. And I don't think I need to
take them with me.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, I think, And that's part of what you just
were talking about a new beginning. You can't be carrying
ashes figurlatatively and literally. You can't be bringing the dead
with you as you're moving on to a new lifetime.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's a really good point. That's while i've you're my
co host, you make these points, I don't even think about.
That's And do you hear I don't know if you
can hear I'm outside? Can you hear the wind chimes? Uh? Huh?
Well that is what a friend sent to me. That's
my Teaco wind chimes that literally has a dog's paw
and a person's hand and a Paul print on it.
And she sent that to me after Teko, after I
(08:57):
had to put him down. It's just like a you know,
a gift to commemorate his memory. And it's been the
wind has been blowing the same the whole time we've
been talking, and it just started ringing just now when.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Him Yeah, okay, well this is the holiday weekend and
we hope you all have a fun and safe fun.
We want to bring a little bit up because we're
all celebrating Labor Day and everything. Let's be honest, nobody
really likes to work. I mean, like Steph's starting her
new job, so she's all excited and on it. We'll
see how happy she is in about three months, right,
But you know, but you have to realize, trust me,
(09:32):
I'm not above this at all. This me too. You
get in this job and oh man, I don't want
to go. I don't like the people there and all
this kind of stuff, and you know, oh man, but
you have to think about how much there is to
be grateful for having that job. One you have a job,
you know, and think about all the people out there
who would love to have your job. I'll take it,
you know. And not only that, it helps build you
(09:56):
and strengthen you. You're not going to get that on
your own. You need the communal support by being on
the public kind of stuff, even though they can drive
you crazy. I mean, I don't think they should think
it's smart to sit in a hot tub and nonwork.
But okay, right, some people have to write on the
little school bus too.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You know that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So when you're doing that as much as you're dragging
and you don't want to, just remember, you know, be
grateful for the job that you have. I mean, there's
nothing wrong with trying to improve. If you don't like it, well,
then like would you have to do thirty hours of
training to get this job?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, it was insane. I'm a professional rescuer now I'm certified.
There was a lot of training. I still have to
go do the in persons CPR class. You have to
do that in your first thirty days. So if you're
a member of the YMCA anywhere, you can rest assured
people are very well trained to help you if you
pass out or whatever might be going on. Because it
was a lot more than just CPR. It was like,
(10:50):
you know, recognizing child abuse, child neglect, cardiac issues, poisoning,
heat exhaustion. It was a lot, but it was pretty cool.
It was actually interesting, and you know it was it
was more interesting than other training I've been through at
all these corporate jobs where you're just sitting there watching
videos on policy and stuff, at least you're learning how
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to save someone's life and help someone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And think about it. Hopefully not we're gonna knock on
wood or I don't know what kind of sceint we
impreed you on that, but hopefully won't need it. But
I mean, look by going through this, who knows maybe
a year down the road, she's somebody's gonna need her
to know this.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You never know, Yeah, you never know. Actually that's a fear.
I thought, Well, now that I know this, God's going
to make sure that people that you know, I just
see the way he orchestrates everything, and I'm thinking, you know,
he's probably going to have somebody who's been trained in
the general vicinity if somebody does collapse or you know,
get injured and need help, and I hope it's not me, but.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If it is all help, exactly, thank you guys for
thening me get that. I know really well, But give
somebody else the glory.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Exactly, you get the glory. Yeah, and uh yeah, I
mean it's just it's just I feel I just feel
God's light and there's just we are coming these times.
You know, our show is called these Times. I think
we are coming into times where you're gonna see mighty
miracles and blessings and God's move will be equal to
the shakings and the tribulations that are probably going to
(12:17):
be happening too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And when we're talking about this too, well, I'm sitting
there be happy for your job and you're like, yeah,
but you don't know my job not Well, actually, have
you asked God for another one? And have you actually listened?
I mean you might not like it, but maybe have
you ever just said, hey, God, you know, I'm ready
to move on, you know. And I think if you
do that and you actually listen, you'll either get a
(12:39):
feeling in your gut that you know you're stuck there
for right now doesn't mean forever, or he's like, well, okay,
do something about it, you know, go online and take
some classes, you know, go put in and it's kind
of like winning the lottery ticket lottery. Well, if you
don't buy a ticket, you can't win the lottery. If
you don't put in applications, you can't get a better job.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Absolutely, And I'm so glad you brought that up because
it's so important to be surrendered to God and also
to be listening to God. And he will let you hear.
And whether it's verbally or he'll guide you, I'll just
tell you or somebody will walk up and say something
to you. But so my personal story, I had journaled
back in January when I was journaling in the Adoration Chapel,
(13:20):
he had said, this job you're in, I'm going to
be breaking you free of it. I had forgotten I
wrote this. So's why it's good to write things down.
Because I was looking back through my notebooks and I
had written, I'm going to be breaking you free of
this job in April, and literally I left that job
April third because I was written up for a bunch
of stuff that was actually lies about me and false
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and not true. And I just didn't go back because
I was like, exactly what he said. And then I
was without a job for four months. I was applying
for jobs, and I knew that there's probably people who
looked at me and judged me and thought she's not
even trying or whatever. But I was applying for at
least three to four five jobs. A teacos of green
(14:02):
his wing chilms are going a week. And like all
the jobs that I was qualified for, like apartment jobs
and even places where I knew somebody, nobody would even
call me back. And I would hear God every time
I would apply. He would be like, Nope, you're not
going to get that one. Nope, I don't want you
to have that one. And then a friend of mine
who's you know, really spends a lot of time in prayer,
(14:22):
she said, God told me today he is going to
put you exactly where he wants you, and you're not
going to get a job a minute sooner. And then
the day I got this job offer. And it's also
important to be obedient to God because I'm paying. So
I had I had journaled that morning. I had written
down take the job offer, it is from me, and
I knew that it was Jesus talking to me. Take
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the job offer, it is from me. Well, that morning
I did not have any job offers, and so by
the time I got to the Adoration Chapel, I had
gotten the email from the YMCA, and I had a
job offer, and I had two other job offers come
through later that day, but the YMCA was the only
official I'll offered. The other two were like, you know,
people texting me saying, yeah, you can come work here,
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private owners something like that. But the YMCA was the
least amount of money. But because God said take this one,
and I knew he was saying, this is the one
I want you to take, and He's like, I'm going
to take care of the money in a different way.
And so sometimes you just have to trust him because
if you really want happiness, obedience is so linked. And
when the Bible says, oh, blessings come after obedience, so
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I know that God's gonna bless me because I was obedient,
I already feel blessed. These are great people to work with.
It's a fun job. It's a flexible job. I can
kind of works as little or as much as I
want to. It's real easy to like put up your
shift if you don't want it, and other people put
up their shifts and if you want it, you can
grab one. So it's very flexible. I love that. And yeah,
and I just know that the money's going to come
(15:48):
hopefully from us doing this podcast, but who knows what
God has planned that's right for Yeah, So I mean
it's because I listened, and I was obedient, and that's
that's why, literally he changed me into a whole new
industry that really aligns with me a lot more. Even
the mission statement, like some of the training we had
to listen to how our loyalty to Jesus Christ was
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part of the mission and the foundation of this organization.
And that was like such a breath of fresh air
from the last job I had, where you weren't even
literally allowed to talk about religion or I tried to
put it, put a cross on my desk and they
told me to take it down. So it was nice.
It's nice. I feel like he's moved me into position
in all areas of my life to really just to
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be in more of an in alignment with him and
who he's called me to be.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And just so you know, we were fifteen hundred miles away,
so we're friends. We're not that close or anything. So,
but if the whole thing is when she's talking about
obedience and following God and all that kind of stuff,
and it's kind of like, well, if she's doing all
that and we're on the same show, and I can
ride her coat tails by her obedience, So remember that
in your marriages too. When you guys are a lot closer.
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If one of you is really obedient and all that,
don't discourage it, you know, just let them basically break
the trail for you and just tag along.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, it's so cool that you just can't make this
stuff up, because I actually just watched a prophetic video
that said exactly what you just said. Her whole message
was that sometimes one person, sometimes you know, one person
is called to step out and kind of be a
trail blazer, and sometimes we don't want to, and we'll
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miss opportunities because we're like, oh, my partner's not really
there yet, or they're not ready or they or this
friend or this business partner or whatever it is. But
sometimes if we'll just follow God and be obedient and
be the trailblazer and like go the path he's calling,
then it will actually inspire the other people connected to
us to get on board, and then they'll end up
going along God's plat that he wants them on too.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So remember that. So we've got hummingbirds and prophecy everything
for you on this holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm telling you it's going to be a glorious September.
Oh and another thing. My birthday is coming up in September,
and it was the front desk girl's birthday today and
then all through and it was like the girl that
trained the girl that's training me, my boss is actually
a personal trainer, and she even told me she'd helped
me get certified if I wanted to. So there's like
all kinds of opportunity here. But there's like four other
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people who have birthdays a big thing, like for other
people around my work environment have birthdays in September coming
up or just happened.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, that'd be fun, I'm sure, but that it's at
the gym though, whenever you have like like carrot cake
or something like a real fudgy cake.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I don't know. They're pretty practical. I bet they do
get people cakes. I don't know. They seem to be
like she's about to leave on a trip for a
week to the Outer Banks and she was talking about
trying to find a good Irish bar to go watch
notertainment she drinks. So I mean, it's not like they're
it's not like they, you know, are so ultra healthy.
They don't have any fun, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And not only labor days. College football kickoff too, so
for you football fans. So this will be a fun
weekend for everybody, but we're glad we could do. Yeah. Yeah,
it's like there's a real big one and never I
don't know who it is, honestly, it's one versus three.
It might be like Michigan or Ohio State versus Texas
or something like that, and they never have a big
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game like that right off the bat. But then all
of a sudden this year abandon. So yeah, there is
one big one. Then all the rest will probably be routes.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Gotcha. Well, I doubt I'll be watching any football this weekend,
just because I'll be busy moving. But but yeah, I
hope everybody does that. It is fun. I'll like, I
love fall and when you start to get into the
cooler weather and I don't know, you can sit outside
and actually not die.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, And it's I don't know where where everybody listens.
Is that listening to us? But I mean, we still
got three more weeks of summer technically on the calendar,
but I think we all just assume at the end
of August that's fall. But even though it's end of summer, man,
you walk out in the morning and it's a little
nippy here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's nippy here too, and I just hope that told you.
I'm moving to Melrose Place. There's a pool in the
in the middle of the whole development, and it's this
small little development. I hope the pool's not too cold
to get into because it because it actually looks like
a pretty normally. I'm not a big public pool kind
of person, but I don't think anybody. I've never seen
anybody in it when I've been over there, and it's
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it just looks like a nice little pool. I'd love
to get up in the mornings and go for a swim.
So hopefully it's not it's not too cold to do that.
Hopefully I get a month of doing that before it
gets bad, and.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
If not, then you just move till afternoon when it's
warmed up during the day.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, maybe I'll have to do it. I like, I
don't like the middle of the day. I like the
morning swims, in the evening swims, but the middle of
the day. I'm not a layout in the sun kind
of person.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But if you are, you have a great three day
weekend out there. If you're camping and you're on the beach,
or you just have a big barbecue at the house
sitting around there. We sure appreciate you joining us, and
uh we'll probably come back to you about on Tuesday
or Wednesday and we'll talk some one and you can
hear how we're doing. And uh so just remember, hey man,
you guys just have a a really great weekend. We're
glad that you're listening to us and hoping you don't
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lose
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hope, and remember we are all in it together, and
these times
Wait the day night sucks. I gotta get to the Starbucks.
Get some magic beings, be on my way. Magical, as
was my pon We Don't Know.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Says that today, Well, hello everybody, and welcome to these
days with Jeff and Steph. We I hope you're getting
ready to have a really great labor day weekend.
Speaker 1 (00:31):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
I am Jeff, Steph. I are things out there in Nashville.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
Things are great here, Jeff. I actually just got home
from my first day of actual work training, going to
the y m C. A facility that's fun. It was great.
I mean, it's it's cool. I feel like I'm I
feel like I'm coming out of like this. I realized,
like I don't know if it's because I'm a songwriter
and a like a script, right, you know, right, being
(00:54):
a writer, I think I have to process life through
the lens of a story, right, And so it's like,
so this YMCA in Green Hills has been recently remodeled,
and it looks I love mid century modern. It looks
like a sixties building. And as I'm walking in, I'm
hearing the theme song from Mary Toller Moore, and you know,
like she's gonna make it after.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
All, Well, that's a lot better than hearing the village people.
Why and.
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Exactly, Well, but it is great. It's like the nicest
people I've ever worked with, and they're so cool. The
job's fun. There's like no downside too, there's not It's
not much money, right, but God keep God keeps saying,
don't worry about the money. I've got that covered. And
I think that is gonna like you and I have talked,
I think that it's going to be coming through through
(01:41):
some really cool new avenues. And yeah, it was fine.
I get to go to work wearing shorts and tennis
shoes now, so that's awesome that.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
Yeah, I think most people will go that and actually,
you know, people think about going to work again. It's
kind of nice. Just it's basically like you've been in
a rut to get out and be in people and
around people. Even though they might have anny, at least
you're around them again.
Speaker 1 (02:03):
Yeah, it's great. I mean it just and it seems
like everybody there just is such a well meaning I mean,
you're always going to deal with with people right that
have Like she said, you know, yesterday, the big thing
was having to explain to having to argue with one
guy that wanted to be in the hot tape area
that there's a difference between underwear and a swimsuit. She said,
(02:26):
you might get these from Tom to tom, but in
general people are pretty cool and really nice. So yeah,
that should should be interesting. You had an interesting morning
and texted me about a little God experience.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Yeah, I did.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Well.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
Actually, we're going to have a preface this a little bit.
So all you who are believe in mysticism and signs
and all that stuff, Stephan, why don't you tell us
about your connection with birds.
Speaker 1 (02:50):
So God has been speaking to me through birds for
a while, and the first time I noticed it was
about a week before my parents died, and so obviously
that stands out. They would line up at my window
and peck and try to get in, and there'd be
several of them my window at work, and I was like, Okay,
God's trying to tell me something. I've always been pretty
in tune like that, and I was like, something's about
(03:11):
to happen. And then when my mom died and then
my dad died six weeks later, it was just I
was like, okay that he was I wasn't really sure
what the birds were saying. But I was like it
was a sign that God was trying to get my attention,
and I guess, let me know I'm here. I really
think one of my purposes is helping, you know, break
God out of the box and letting people know God
(03:32):
loves to communicate with nature. And so lately, when I'm
going through another big life change, birds have been coming up,
especially hummingbirds. And even He's so good even to make
a point that I've heard at least three neighbors literally say,
I don't know where all the humming birds are this year.
I haven't seen any. And they have humming bird feeders
(03:53):
and everything, and they're like, I keep replacing all this
stuff and them, I've got my humming bird feeders out
and I just don't see a hummingbird. And I'll have
like three of them. I'll be sitting on my front
porch and like three will come up to me and
they'll just have her around me. And usually when I
it's usually when I say, come, Holy Spirit, and just
give me a sign. It's usually when I. I mean,
I'm always praying and I'm asking for signs, and they
(04:14):
are supposed to represent sudden change and joy. I think
they definitely are a sign of joy and that God
and of God's goodness, and he likes to surprise us,
he really does. He likes to bring change and blessings
and joy. I just I definitely feel like that's a
season that you and I are entering into, right And
so now.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
That you guys are all caught up, so I've been
hearing her talking about the birds, and I haven't been
discounting it or anything. I've just been, oh, that's cool,
you know. And I've been going on around. Well, today's
sitting there and dealing with my cloud or cats, and
all of a sudden they hear this tap tap chap
on my sliding glass door. Looking around, tap tat. I
looked on, all the cats are inside, so one can
be outside. And what that there's a hummingbird trying to
(04:54):
get inside in the door, going back and forth. And
I was going, what did he pray for?
Speaker 1 (05:01):
Exactly? And you and I just talked about doing the
Nolvena just for you know, our success to Saint Joseph.
And I'm telling you, when you invoke the company of
Heaven and angels, You're gonna see miracles. Your life is
going to change. Just open your eyes, open your heart,
because it's just there's so many God moments I see
throughout the day, and I mean it's just awesome because
(05:25):
I've literally gone through and also I think you have
to go through these seasons. I've gone through a season
just like you have a lot of tears, a lot
of darkness, a lot of pain, a lot of suffering.
But it's it's a tangible shift that's happening now where
I feel joy again. I feel you know that Bible
verse where God has turned my sorrow into dancing, He's
(05:46):
turned my morning into laughter or something like that. I
feel like that's happening. It's just really happening right.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
Now, right And so we are doing the novena for
Joseph one day. We sorry first SEMy burden in Colorado,
And if you're wondering here, I'm on the eastern plains
the color out on the mountains, there's plenty of but
out there on the plains, you don't see home embirds.
So that's what it was kind of, Yeah, you don't.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
You don't see hummingbirds in your area, do you?
Speaker 2 (06:11):
And you want to know of God's son that you
you do good for another person she is getting ready
to move, and uh, so I looked up and the
patron Saint of moving is Saint Anne. So I told
her I was doing a uh prayer for Saint Anne
for and if you listen to the other show, it's
kind of a little tie in there.
Speaker 1 (06:30):
Yeah, it's crazy. So I get I get the text
from you as I'm going to my first day of
work saying that I am, you know, prayed to Saint
Anne for you and your move. And she's the patron
Saint of moving and I didn't even know that. And
I'm a parishioner of Saint Anne's. That's literally where I'm registered.
And the priest that I had lunch with was it yesterday.
My days are kind of flowing together. I don't know
yesterday of the day before was the priest at Saint
(06:53):
Anne's and that's his parish, and it's not normal for
he and I to even have time to get together.
We had already postponed it twice, like literally, we were
supposed to start with. This lunch was supposed to happen
in July, and it's finally just happened the weekend I
was about to move. And so some people might just
overlook that. It's like, oh, that's nothing, that's a coincidence.
(07:13):
But no, it's not a coincidence. That's just God showing
up in your life saying, you know, I'm just in
my representative of price to comfort you, to uplift you.
To He did inspire me. He always inspires me. And
just to let you know, I'm with you in this
move and I totally feel his presence with me in
this move.
Speaker 2 (07:30):
Well, you can think about what you're going through. You're
going through a move and a new job on the
same weekend.
Speaker 1 (07:34):
That's kind of yeah, and saying goodbye to home, my love,
and you know, even even my animals. Ashes 've talked
about Tico and Samba, my dog and my cat that
I had for sixteen and eighteen years. It's a long
time to have two pets. They were, you know, my
best friends, and you know, even saying goodbye to them
like literally because I'm gonna I haven't told him yet,
(07:55):
but I'm going to leave them here, the ashes here,
and hopefully my ex husband will bury them because I'm
not strong enough to dig a grave, but I just
feel strongly. Number one, I'm not one that thinks you
should just carry around people's remains with your animals remains,
which you like. Some people might want to do that,
but for me, it's like, no, they're gone. They're in
my heart, they're in my memory, and it just seems
(08:17):
to me like they need to stay with the house.
They don't. This was their home, you know, this is
where they died. And I don't think I need to
take them with me.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
No, I think, And that's part of what you just
were talking about a new beginning. You can't be carrying
ashes figurlatatively and literally. You can't be bringing the dead
with you as you're moving on to a new lifetime.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
That's a really good point. That's while i've you're my
co host, you make these points, I don't even think about.
That's And do you hear I don't know if you
can hear I'm outside? Can you hear the wind chimes? Uh? Huh?
Well that is what a friend sent to me. That's
my Teaco wind chimes that literally has a dog's paw
and a person's hand and a Paul print on it.
And she sent that to me after Teko, after I
(08:57):
had to put him down. It's just like a you know,
a gift to commemorate his memory. And it's been the
wind has been blowing the same the whole time we've
been talking, and it just started ringing just now when.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Him Yeah, okay, well this is the holiday weekend and
we hope you all have a fun and safe fun.
We want to bring a little bit up because we're
all celebrating Labor Day and everything. Let's be honest, nobody
really likes to work. I mean, like Steph's starting her
new job, so she's all excited and on it. We'll
see how happy she is in about three months, right,
But you know, but you have to realize, trust me,
(09:32):
I'm not above this at all. This me too. You
get in this job and oh man, I don't want
to go. I don't like the people there and all
this kind of stuff, and you know, oh man, but
you have to think about how much there is to
be grateful for having that job. One you have a job,
you know, and think about all the people out there
who would love to have your job. I'll take it,
you know. And not only that, it helps build you
(09:56):
and strengthen you. You're not going to get that on
your own. You need the communal support by being on
the public kind of stuff, even though they can drive
you crazy. I mean, I don't think they should think
it's smart to sit in a hot tub and nonwork.
But okay, right, some people have to write on the
little school bus too.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
You know that's true.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
So when you're doing that as much as you're dragging
and you don't want to, just remember, you know, be
grateful for the job that you have. I mean, there's
nothing wrong with trying to improve. If you don't like it, well,
then like would you have to do thirty hours of
training to get this job?
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Yeah, it was insane. I'm a professional rescuer now I'm certified.
There was a lot of training. I still have to
go do the in persons CPR class. You have to
do that in your first thirty days. So if you're
a member of the YMCA anywhere, you can rest assured
people are very well trained to help you if you
pass out or whatever might be going on. Because it
was a lot more than just CPR. It was like,
(10:50):
you know, recognizing child abuse, child neglect, cardiac issues, poisoning,
heat exhaustion. It was a lot, but it was pretty cool.
It was actually interesting, and you know it was it
was more interesting than other training I've been through at
all these corporate jobs where you're just sitting there watching
videos on policy and stuff, at least you're learning how
(11:11):
to save someone's life and help someone.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
And think about it. Hopefully not we're gonna knock on
wood or I don't know what kind of sceint we
impreed you on that, but hopefully won't need it. But
I mean, look by going through this, who knows maybe
a year down the road, she's somebody's gonna need her
to know this.
Speaker 1 (11:26):
You never know, Yeah, you never know. Actually that's a fear.
I thought, Well, now that I know this, God's going
to make sure that people that you know, I just
see the way he orchestrates everything, and I'm thinking, you know,
he's probably going to have somebody who's been trained in
the general vicinity if somebody does collapse or you know,
get injured and need help, and I hope it's not me, but.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
If it is all help, exactly, thank you guys for
thening me get that. I know really well, But give
somebody else the glory.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Exactly, you get the glory. Yeah, and uh yeah, I
mean it's just it's just I feel I just feel
God's light and there's just we are coming these times.
You know, our show is called these Times. I think
we are coming into times where you're gonna see mighty
miracles and blessings and God's move will be equal to
the shakings and the tribulations that are probably going to
(12:17):
be happening too.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
And when we're talking about this too, well, I'm sitting
there be happy for your job and you're like, yeah,
but you don't know my job not Well, actually, have
you asked God for another one? And have you actually listened?
I mean you might not like it, but maybe have
you ever just said, hey, God, you know, I'm ready
to move on, you know. And I think if you
do that and you actually listen, you'll either get a
(12:39):
feeling in your gut that you know you're stuck there
for right now doesn't mean forever, or he's like, well, okay,
do something about it, you know, go online and take
some classes, you know, go put in and it's kind
of like winning the lottery ticket lottery. Well, if you
don't buy a ticket, you can't win the lottery. If
you don't put in applications, you can't get a better job.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Absolutely, And I'm so glad you brought that up because
it's so important to be surrendered to God and also
to be listening to God. And he will let you hear.
And whether it's verbally or he'll guide you, I'll just
tell you or somebody will walk up and say something
to you. But so my personal story, I had journaled
back in January when I was journaling in the Adoration Chapel,
(13:20):
he had said, this job you're in, I'm going to
be breaking you free of it. I had forgotten I
wrote this. So's why it's good to write things down.
Because I was looking back through my notebooks and I
had written, I'm going to be breaking you free of
this job in April, and literally I left that job
April third because I was written up for a bunch
of stuff that was actually lies about me and false
(13:41):
and not true. And I just didn't go back because
I was like, exactly what he said. And then I
was without a job for four months. I was applying
for jobs, and I knew that there's probably people who
looked at me and judged me and thought she's not
even trying or whatever. But I was applying for at
least three to four five jobs. A teacos of green
(14:02):
his wing chilms are going a week. And like all
the jobs that I was qualified for, like apartment jobs
and even places where I knew somebody, nobody would even
call me back. And I would hear God every time
I would apply. He would be like, Nope, you're not
going to get that one. Nope, I don't want you
to have that one. And then a friend of mine
who's you know, really spends a lot of time in prayer,
(14:22):
she said, God told me today he is going to
put you exactly where he wants you, and you're not
going to get a job a minute sooner. And then
the day I got this job offer. And it's also
important to be obedient to God because I'm paying. So
I had I had journaled that morning. I had written
down take the job offer, it is from me, and
I knew that it was Jesus talking to me. Take
(14:43):
the job offer, it is from me. Well, that morning
I did not have any job offers, and so by
the time I got to the Adoration Chapel, I had
gotten the email from the YMCA, and I had a
job offer, and I had two other job offers come
through later that day, but the YMCA was the only
official I'll offered. The other two were like, you know,
people texting me saying, yeah, you can come work here,
(15:04):
private owners something like that. But the YMCA was the
least amount of money. But because God said take this one,
and I knew he was saying, this is the one
I want you to take, and He's like, I'm going
to take care of the money in a different way.
And so sometimes you just have to trust him because
if you really want happiness, obedience is so linked. And
when the Bible says, oh, blessings come after obedience, so
(15:26):
I know that God's gonna bless me because I was obedient,
I already feel blessed. These are great people to work with.
It's a fun job. It's a flexible job. I can
kind of works as little or as much as I
want to. It's real easy to like put up your
shift if you don't want it, and other people put
up their shifts and if you want it, you can
grab one. So it's very flexible. I love that. And yeah,
and I just know that the money's going to come
(15:48):
hopefully from us doing this podcast, but who knows what
God has planned that's right for Yeah, So I mean
it's because I listened, and I was obedient, and that's
that's why, literally he changed me into a whole new
industry that really aligns with me a lot more. Even
the mission statement, like some of the training we had
to listen to how our loyalty to Jesus Christ was
(16:10):
part of the mission and the foundation of this organization.
And that was like such a breath of fresh air
from the last job I had, where you weren't even
literally allowed to talk about religion or I tried to
put it, put a cross on my desk and they
told me to take it down. So it was nice.
It's nice. I feel like he's moved me into position
in all areas of my life to really just to
(16:32):
be in more of an in alignment with him and
who he's called me to be.
Speaker 2 (16:35):
And just so you know, we were fifteen hundred miles away,
so we're friends. We're not that close or anything. So,
but if the whole thing is when she's talking about
obedience and following God and all that kind of stuff,
and it's kind of like, well, if she's doing all
that and we're on the same show, and I can
ride her coat tails by her obedience, So remember that
in your marriages too. When you guys are a lot closer.
(16:56):
If one of you is really obedient and all that,
don't discourage it, you know, just let them basically break
the trail for you and just tag along.
Speaker 1 (17:04):
Yeah, it's so cool that you just can't make this
stuff up, because I actually just watched a prophetic video
that said exactly what you just said. Her whole message
was that sometimes one person, sometimes you know, one person
is called to step out and kind of be a
trail blazer, and sometimes we don't want to, and we'll
(17:25):
miss opportunities because we're like, oh, my partner's not really
there yet, or they're not ready or they or this
friend or this business partner or whatever it is. But
sometimes if we'll just follow God and be obedient and
be the trailblazer and like go the path he's calling,
then it will actually inspire the other people connected to
us to get on board, and then they'll end up
going along God's plat that he wants them on too.
Speaker 2 (17:47):
So remember that. So we've got hummingbirds and prophecy everything
for you on this holiday weekend.
Speaker 1 (17:53):
I'm telling you it's going to be a glorious September.
Oh and another thing. My birthday is coming up in September,
and it was the front desk girl's birthday today and
then all through and it was like the girl that
trained the girl that's training me, my boss is actually
a personal trainer, and she even told me she'd helped
me get certified if I wanted to. So there's like
all kinds of opportunity here. But there's like four other
(18:14):
people who have birthdays a big thing, like for other
people around my work environment have birthdays in September coming
up or just happened.
Speaker 2 (18:22):
Well, that'd be fun, I'm sure, but that it's at
the gym though, whenever you have like like carrot cake
or something like a real fudgy cake.
Speaker 1 (18:32):
I don't know. They're pretty practical. I bet they do
get people cakes. I don't know. They seem to be
like she's about to leave on a trip for a
week to the Outer Banks and she was talking about
trying to find a good Irish bar to go watch
notertainment she drinks. So I mean, it's not like they're
it's not like they, you know, are so ultra healthy.
They don't have any fun, that's right.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
And not only labor days. College football kickoff too, so
for you football fans. So this will be a fun
weekend for everybody, but we're glad we could do. Yeah. Yeah,
it's like there's a real big one and never I
don't know who it is, honestly, it's one versus three.
It might be like Michigan or Ohio State versus Texas
or something like that, and they never have a big
(19:15):
game like that right off the bat. But then all
of a sudden this year abandon. So yeah, there is
one big one. Then all the rest will probably be routes.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Gotcha. Well, I doubt I'll be watching any football this weekend,
just because I'll be busy moving. But but yeah, I
hope everybody does that. It is fun. I'll like, I
love fall and when you start to get into the
cooler weather and I don't know, you can sit outside
and actually not die.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
Yeah, And it's I don't know where where everybody listens.
Is that listening to us? But I mean, we still
got three more weeks of summer technically on the calendar,
but I think we all just assume at the end
of August that's fall. But even though it's end of summer, man,
you walk out in the morning and it's a little
nippy here in Colorado.
Speaker 1 (19:56):
It's nippy here too, and I just hope that told you.
I'm moving to Melrose Place. There's a pool in the
in the middle of the whole development, and it's this
small little development. I hope the pool's not too cold
to get into because it because it actually looks like
a pretty normally. I'm not a big public pool kind
of person, but I don't think anybody. I've never seen
anybody in it when I've been over there, and it's
(20:19):
it just looks like a nice little pool. I'd love
to get up in the mornings and go for a swim.
So hopefully it's not it's not too cold to do that.
Hopefully I get a month of doing that before it
gets bad, and.
Speaker 2 (20:29):
If not, then you just move till afternoon when it's
warmed up during the day.
Speaker 1 (20:33):
Yeah, maybe I'll have to do it. I like, I
don't like the middle of the day. I like the
morning swims, in the evening swims, but the middle of
the day. I'm not a layout in the sun kind
of person.
Speaker 2 (20:43):
But if you are, you have a great three day
weekend out there. If you're camping and you're on the beach,
or you just have a big barbecue at the house
sitting around there. We sure appreciate you joining us, and
uh we'll probably come back to you about on Tuesday
or Wednesday and we'll talk some one and you can
hear how we're doing. And uh so just remember, hey man,
you guys just have a a really great weekend. We're
glad that you're listening to us and hoping you don't
(21:04):
lose
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Hope, and remember we are all in it together, and
these times
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