Welcome back!
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You know this whole program
has actually gotten to my heart.
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You guys have won my
heart again and every time I see
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your presentation,
every time somebody
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someone gives me
a DVD, every time I
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talked to you on the
phone, Rick, you win my heart.
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But I know that there are
some questions that I want to
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ask and then I also want
you if you have anything you
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want to say to folks at
the Café or the viewers.
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But one of questions is that
somebody that hears that you
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have been diagnosed with AIDS
where do you find your hope?
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What I would say is to
place your hope, if you find
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that you have HIV and AIDS,
to not look at what is seen,
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but to place your
hope in what is unseen.
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I would just picture myself
as this giant spotlight the
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kind you see a car dealerships,
and I would just turn it on
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turn it on like a beam and
beam it up to God in Heaven and
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just say, you are my God
and I would just look to Him.
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I would just get this
peace and know who I was in
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relationship with Him and
all this around could melt away.
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- so we talk about that
self talk, the way you tell
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yourself that I am a woman
God, a child of God, and we
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talked about HIV because
that is what you are sharing.
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But we talked about cancer,
your spouse left you, stop
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looking at what you
are telling yourself.
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All the fearful thoughts
and really just when you need
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that spotlight, is just
you and I God right now,
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or anybody that is
going to reinforce, like Rick,
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what you did as far as
bringing in the Scripture.
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Anybody that is going to
reinforce the fact that God is
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in control and He
knows where I'm at.
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He knows who I am.
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- and when you surround
yourself with people, when I
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told Rick in the car about
HIV, he didn't push me away
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and all my pain.
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When I had all the crazy
emotions, he didn't push me away
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When I had all these
things I thought were shameful,
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Rick didn't push me away.
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He just kept let
me press into him.
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If I were to walk away
from that kind of love,
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what would you say to me?
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How crazy are you.
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That's just what I
say, nuts and crazy, right?
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Well the only reason our story
really has power, it is because
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of Rick's love for me,
is that picture of His love.
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So if I can just tell you
that God is big enough for any
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pain, He's big enough
for any emotion, and He's big
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enough for anything
you think is too shameful.
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He walked into the pain
on the cross just because He
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loves you and He wants to
be in a relationship with you.
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- Thanks for being on
the program and if you were
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watching this program I just
have to say I don't even care,
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I don't care what
you're dealing with,
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and I don't mean
that I don't care.
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It's just that nothing is
bigger than God's love and
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whatever is on your plate,
whatever you have to deal with,
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take it to Him.
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Surrender to Him, let
Him change your self-talk.
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Let Him change what you're
telling yourself about the
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situation and be
at rest in His love.
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See you next time and
until then always remember that
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God is crazy
about you and me too!
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Bye-bye and God bless!
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