The following program
discusses sensitive issues
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related to addictive behavior.
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Parents are
cautioned that some material
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may be too candid
for younger children.
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Welcome to
"Celebrating Life in Recovery,"
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I'm Cheri your host.
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And today we're gonna be
talking about forgiveness.
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I get to interview my
husband which is really fun.
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But more than that
we're gonna be celebrating
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our 100th episode on
"Celebrating Life in Recovery."
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It is gonna be a
blast you got to join us.
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Welcome back. We are
celebrating our 100th program.
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You can see the balloons
and you see all of us here.
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We are so grateful to be
here on our eighth season.
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We have--I knew when I
first presented this program,
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I knew that there was a need.
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I knew that people needed
recovery, they needed support.
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We need to be-- have
a voice out there saying
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that God is crazy about us
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and He's bigger
than all our issues.
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But you know what, I had no
idea how successful it would be.
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I had not idea that
people watching would literally
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step into recovery from drug
addiction and sexual addiction
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and from domestic violence
and from all kinds of stuff.
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And I want to say,
our celebration is,
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we're celebrating you,
we're celebrating your recovery.
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We're celebrating the fact
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that people are
watching and they're learning
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and they're stepping
into healthier lives.
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And I just think that's
awesome. That is so awesome.
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I want to say hi to
my friends in Australia.
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I have people in Australia
that have called and email.
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I've flown out
there and met them.
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One girl in
particular that was suicidal,
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trying to kill
herself, turned the channel
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and someone on the program
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was giving their
testimony and it got her to say,
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"You know what, if they can get
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through this I
can get through this."
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And she stood up
and decided to live.
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How cool is that? I
think that is so cool.
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I've had people
from Canada, you know.
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Ashley, if you're watching.
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I've had people
from Canada that,
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you know, they were so lost.
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"I don't know where I'm at.
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I don't even know with
the sexual abuse in my life
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and the relationship
addictions in my life
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and the things that
I have struggled with,
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I don't think
I'm gonna survive."
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And again, somehow
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they were flipping through
the channel and found us.
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And so we were
celebrating all of you guys.
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We were celebrating all of that.
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We've had people emailing
and calling and fly over even
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to hang out at our home
and deal with some issues.
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And so I just want to
say, a 100 episodes, how cool?
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All right, I want to let
this go so I can use my hands
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because I cannot do
this without my hands.
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And so even though
we are celebrating,
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we are gonna do a program today.
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The program is
gonna be on forgiveness.
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And what's
interesting about that
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is we cannot step into recovery,
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we cannot do any
of that kind of stuff
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until we start to look
at what our resentments are,
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what our junk
is, how do we get out
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from underneath
all of that stuff.
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And so today
we're gonna cover that.
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We also are going
to, at the end of program
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bring everybody on set
that has had anything to do
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with putting
this program together.
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So I want you to know
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that when we come to
the end of the program.
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When we do the close
like we typically do,
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I'm gonna invite camera people,
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I'm gonna invite
the administration,
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I'm gonna invite
C.A., who is our producer.
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I'm gonna invite everybody up
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and we are really gonna close
this program with a celebration.
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But right now I just
want to say, thank you.
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Thank you. Thank you.
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Thank you. And keep watching.
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We're gonna break, I'm
gonna come back with our guest,
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our guest today is my
husband and I love that.
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Because, you know,
when we first got married,
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I thought I had all
the issues and I thought
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I was gonna be
dealing with a lot of stuff.
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But he's had his own
journey and he's gonna share
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some of that with you today.
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He's also a musician. He
plays in the philharmonic.
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And I asked him for this program
where we are celebrating,
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if he would play
something for us.
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And he chooses a
song, "To God Be the Glory."
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I'm like how cool is that?
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Because that's
exactly the truth in recovery,
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is I can't take any glory,
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I'm not smart enough
to take the next step.
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But God is faithful and
every step I had to take.
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And so I hope you
enjoy it. Brad's gonna play.
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We're gonna dim the
lights a little bit.
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We're going to kind of
set the cafe up in a way that,
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we're gonna feature him,
I love that. Stay with us.
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Then sings my soul
my savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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How great Thou art
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Then sings my soul
my savior God to Thee
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How great Thou art
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We're gonna continue
celebrating our 100th program.
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Stay with us,
we'll be right back.
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