Episode 41

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13th Nov 2024

O Remember!

What blessings come when we acknowledge God’s influence in our lives? And how do you remember them? each day we fight the battle between forgetting and remembering the Lord. Join me to hear what I plan on doing to Always Remember.

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Yeti X-1: Sonny Bonanni.

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My friends, welcome to the

creative, spiritual journey podcast.

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Where Guian I walk with you for a moment

on this fabulous journey we call life.

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Sharing with you, things of our

hearts, the joys and the lessons

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we are discovering along the way

back to our heavenly parents.

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I hope the holy ghost will be

our guide as we walk together.

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I'm Judy also known as sister Cooley

here in the Durban, South Africa mission.

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I'm your host for this

episode, I'm calling.

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Oh, remember.

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I'm wondering if you've ever read.

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Our podcast about.

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On the information page.

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Let me read it to you.

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Quote, this journey gets messy with

rainstorms and sleepless nights, but

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the hard times, the miserable times.

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Those make the best stories.

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And the vistas, the sunsets, the

little bird outside the window.

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Those are all reminders

that God is in the details.

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He is aware of us.

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He has tried the path before.

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Okay.

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The reason I'm reading you the about,

on the podcast information page.

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Is that.

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I want to share with you.

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Where those words come from.

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Coming on mission.

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Uh, it was hard.

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I was so homesick and gay and I

were just starting up this podcast.

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And.

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Those moments, those rainstorms

and sleepless nights.

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And the bird on the window seal

and the vistas and the sunset were

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things that I was experiencing

that Gear wrote it so beautifully.

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reminded me.

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That God knew where I was in the world

and that I was here for a reason.

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I want to also share with you

how G and I work together.

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She is in castle valley

and I'm here in new castle.

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We live on the opposite sides of the

world, and it's hard to find time to talk.

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I hope you listen to Ghias last

episode, exploring gratitude with

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the moon, where she invited us to

engage in a moon cycle project.

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She has chosen to explore

gratitude for the next few weeks.

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What's interesting is that we don't

plan and coordinate our episodes.

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Ghia is what she calls

a con crashed a Nadir.

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She has her episodes.

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Well-planned out written and

recorded weeks in advanced.

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And you can see the common thread

running through her episodes.

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They are so creative.

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And rich with visual imagery.

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Me.

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I'm more of a procrastinator.

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I fly by the seat of my pants.

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I spent the whole week before wondering

what the heck I'm even going to say.

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when I was writing this podcast,

it was days after it was due.

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I had tossed several ideas into the

trash ban and hoping that today,

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Wednesday, the 13th of November, I would

finally get it recorded and released.

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Probably not polished as much as I'd like.

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See, we're not only 12,000 miles apart.

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So it's our approach at creating

our episodes for this podcast.

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Yet.

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The one thing we have both experienced

is this beautiful serendipity

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of the holy spirit who helps us.

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We both prayerfully search.

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To know what to say to you.

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As she was releasing her moon

cycle project to explore gratitude.

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I was answering a question post in the

come follow me manual last week This

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is from the come follow me manual.

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It says, quote, they did not realize

it was the Lord that had spared them.

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The prophet Mormon observed that

the neophytes didn't acknowledge the

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ways that the Lord had blessed them.

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And as you read Mormon three, three, you

might ponder how you're acknowledging

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God's influence in your life.

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What blessings come when you

acknowledge his influence?

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And what are the consequences

of not acknowledging him?

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And at the.

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Bottom of this in the manual.

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It says to also see Henry B

Irene's all remember, remember.

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I love this talk.

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This was conference of October, 2007.

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I remember this so well,

there's talk because.

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He talked about seeing the hand of God

in his life and the spirit, teaching

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him to write it down in a journal so

that him and his family can have it.

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And they can always remember

that God was there to help them.

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Let me read a little quote from

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This Tonight or tomorrow night you might pray in ponder asking the question.

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Did God send a message

that was just for me.

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Did I see his hand in my life

or the lives of my children.

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I will do that.

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And then I will find a way to

preserve that memory for that day.

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That I, and those that I love

will need to remember how much God

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loves us and how much we need him.

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I testify that he loves us and bless us us

More than most of us have yet recognized.

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I know that is true.

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And it brings me joy to remember him.

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So in 2007, after hearing other

Irene's message, I started a gratitude

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journal and recorded daily where I

had seen the hand of God in our lives.

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I have since replaced that with my

study journal, my mission journal, and

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I forgotten all about that journal.

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And tell upon reading the question

in the come follow me manual

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last week and listening again

to president Irene's message.

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So I decided to start again.

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I purchased a journal.

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That sits now by my bedside to

right before going to sleep.

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The things that I see in the day, the

miracles, the thoughts of gratitudes

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and where I had seen the hand of God.

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The next morning I listened to Ghias.

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Moon project.

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This is how the spirit directed

both of us to the same message.

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Connecting with gratitude

through our daily walk.

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Through life.

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Coincidence, not likely.

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So this tells me.

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Some of you, or at least one of

you listening to geek and I, that

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this message might be just for you.

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I know that's how it works for me.

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I'm guided to hear answers to my prayers.

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spoken through others.

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We hope.

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That the spirit is using us to send

a message that is just what you need

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to hear, and that you will receive a

witness that the heavens are aware of.

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You.

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Okay.

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I admit I am a.

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Nature hoarder, I guess you could call it.

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I collect rocks.

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And feathers and seashells and pine cones.

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I collect him.

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Yeti X-9: Because they

just simply bring me joy.

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Yeti X-1: They're like souvenirs.

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For more.

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I go from all around the world.

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I find rocks and feathers

and seashells and pine cones.

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And they are to help me to

remember the experience.

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Many of them.

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I write the date and the place.

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Of where I picked it up.

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This is so I can remember.

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The hand of God, because I see

him in nature everywhere I go.

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And I want to always remember him.

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Just recently, my daughter sent

me a video of her singing come

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thou fount of every blessing.

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Yeti X-10: That she was preparing to

sing in sacrament, meeting back at home.

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Yeti X-1: Ah, I love to hear

her sing and what I loved even

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more is that she was remembering

what joy it brings her to sing.

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In this, him, there is a verse.

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I wish my daughter was

here to sing it for you.

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And I'm not going to hear.

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I raise my Ebeneezer.

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Heather by.

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They help I'm com.

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And I hope by thy.

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Good pleasure.

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Safely to arrive at home.

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Jesus sought me when a stranger

wandering from the folder.

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God, he to rescue me from danger

interposed, his precious blood.

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And that beautiful.

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I love that hymn.

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Do you know what an Ebeneezer he is?

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That's the question.

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In first, Samuel.

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Chapter seven verses 10 through 12.

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Yeti X-4: We read how the Israelites

with the prophet Samuel go out

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to war against the Philistines.

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And smoked them.

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That means they won.

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And so Samuel takes a large stone.

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Yeti X-1: So what it is, it's he sets

up this great stone as a Memorial.

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To remind his people that God

had saved them in battle and

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he called the stone Ebeneezer.

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Or stone of help.

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And from that day on, whenever the

Israelites would walk past that

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stone, the father could point to a

sentence, say, remember, Remember.

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The stone of help.

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God helped us.

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And a rude remind them.

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At the fact that God had rescued

them and been there, deliver.

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Have you ever heard Jesus

Christ called Ebenezer?

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I hadn't.

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That explains why the word Ebeneezer

literally means stone of help.

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Taking a sacrament, each Sabbath.

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Is like an Ebenezer, a covenant to

always remember him, our stone of help.

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That we may always have

his spirit to be with us.

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Each day is a battle between

forgetting and remembering.

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I started with the neophytes

for getting the Lord.

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Not even realizing it was the Lord

that has speared their lives forgetting

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from where their blessings flowed.

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Yeti X-6: I want to

share with you a story.

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I love to look up the story.

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Behind the church hymns.

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And so I looked up, come

down, found it was written by

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Robert Robinson born in 1735.

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He ran the streets of London in gangs,

not caring for anything spiritual.

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As a small boy, his father had died.

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And there was little in way of social

welfare system and that meant he had

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to go to work while we're really young.

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Without a father to

guide him and steady him.

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Robert fell into bad company.

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Yeah, he's in the gang.

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One day, his gang.

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Uh, Rowdy's harassed a drunken, gypsy.

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And pointing her finger at Robert.

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She told him that he would live to see

his children and his grandchildren.

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So this struck a tender spot in his heart

and he thought, wow, if I'm going to live

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to see my children and my grandchildren.

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I'll have to change the way I'm living.

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I can't keep on going.

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Like I'm going now.

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A few nights later, him and his friend

went to hear a a Methodist preacher.

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Speak, his name was George Whitefield.

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And.

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They hackle the people in the

audience and the preacher.

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But the preacher said these words.

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Oh, generation of Vipers who hath warned

you to flee from the wrath to come.

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He left in dread and under a sense that

he needed to change and change now.

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So, what does he do?

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He goes and writes a letter to George

Whitefield and told them how he envied the

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happiness he saw on the faces of those.

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that were listening to him preach.

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two years later in 1757, he wrote the hymn

which expresses his joy F his new faith.

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Come down fount of every blessing.

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Now, what I found really

interesting to the story is.

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Years later.

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Robert once again.

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He wanders away from God.

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Robert.

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Was traveling on a stage coach one day.

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And his companion was a

young lady And known to him.

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And not realizing who she was

speaking to the women quoted

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combat found of every blessing.

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Saying what an encouragement

it had been to her.

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I try as he might, Robinson could

not get her to change the subject.

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She asked him.

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What he thought of the, him, she was

humming and he responded quote, Madam.

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I am the poor and happy man who

wrote that him many years ago.

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And I would give a thousand worlds.

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If I had them to enjoy

that feeling I had then.

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She gently replied, sir.

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The streams of mercy are still flowing.

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He was deeply touched by that.

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And as a result, he repented and

returned to the Lord and restored.

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through the ministry of

His own ham, his own words.

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And that sweet young ladies willingness.

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To testify and share her testimony.

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Yeti X-7: And you love that.

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I guess you could say that

she was an Ebeneezer for

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Robert reminding him remember.

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Over remember.

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Okay.

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Before coming to an end

of our time together.

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Let me share with you.

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Yeti X-1: What blessings.

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Have come from when I acknowledged

God's influence in my life.

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Being on mission so far from home

with all the happenings going on,

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their babies being born baptisms.

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Sicknesses.

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Challenges that would be very helpful

to have a mom and a grandma, therefore.

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I have seen time and time

again, the hand of God.

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Uh, working through you.

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My friends and others and my family.

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To lift one another and take my place.

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Angels have attended them.

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I can testify that many

blessings have come.

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And I know that they will

continue to come to them.

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How grateful I am.

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I see the hand of God in our lives.

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And I always want to remember.

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So when the storms hit

again, we want to remember.

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So we know from where our strength

comes, we can look to our savior.

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I joyfully testify of our Ebeneezer, our

great rock, the Redeemer Jesus Christ.

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I hope this message was just for you.

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So that's my moon cycle project.

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To write and remember where we have

seen the hand of God and to express

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gratitude, always to raise my Ebeneezer.

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And with that said, Gary and I are

also grateful for you for taking

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the time to listen to this podcast.

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We thank you.

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And hope you'll share it with someone.

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You are walking with on this journey.

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Remember?

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We were all just walking each other

home and I'll see you on the trail.

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And Ghia could Tonda

humbler, Ashley that's Izzy.

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Zulu for, I love you.

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Go well.

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Creative Spiritual Journey
one small, deliberate step at a time
We are all on a journey—a journey home to our heavenly parents. Any experienced traveler knows there are days you laugh and days you cry.

We aren’t here to tell you how to live—we are here to share how we live—how we survive, thrive, and even find joy!

The journey gets messy with rainstorms and sleepless flights but the hard times—the miserable times—those make the best stories.

And the vistas, the sunsets, the little birds outside the window—those are the reminders that God is in the details, he is aware of us, he has trod the path before.

The Creative Spiritual Journey Podcast is hosted by Judy and Ghia Cooley—two sisters in their wisdom years—who love the savior and are dedicated to making this journey one small, deliberate step at a time.

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