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 back. What a journey.
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You know, Casey, I am
amazed that you survived.
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I'm amazed that you are alive.
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That you didn't get just trashed
on every part of that journey.
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But I want you to talk about
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what are some of the main
things that God has shown you
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over the years
to help you change?
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Well, about surviving,
and I do want to witness
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about the grace of God
because I have been in--
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ran over on motor cycles,
while I was on a motor cycle,
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I've been shot at,
I've been beat down.
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I mean, I've been through it.
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And so God's
grace, I did survive that.
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A lot of the things
through-- through studying
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and coming to an understanding
and having the Holy Spirit
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be able to work in me,
I didn't understand things
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that I had done how it
can affect other people.
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An example, let's say,
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if I was robbing a
store or mugging some guy
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and you assault him, you hit
him in the head with a pistol,
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they got stitches in their head,
they have to go back home hurt
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and they have a child or
son in the home or family
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that instills insecurity
within that whole family.
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And I never understood that.
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Before I was just
committing these crimes
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with relatively no
conscious of what I was doing.
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I didn't have no
fear or understanding
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that I was hurting this person
and I would just--I did it.
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But through the Holy Spirit
working with me, looking back,
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I've come to an
understanding that these acts
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that I was committing
affected the whole family.
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You know, if you
throw a rock in a pond
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and it has a
ripple effect going out,
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it affects everybody in
that house hold. So the--
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And you know what I--
we are so out of time.
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I want to just
say, I am so grateful
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now that you're on this side.
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That if you're gonna
have a battle at all,
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it's gonna be a battle
for God and for somebody
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to be in recovery
and that's amazing.
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You know, even towards
what Casey just talked about
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is the Holy Spirit that'll start
showing us about repentance,
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about who we were, who we are,
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what--how our actions
affected everybody around us.
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And that is such a gift,
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people try to run from
that, don't run from that.
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The more you
understand about your behavior,
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the more you understand
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how ugly it is and
all the affects of that.
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God shows us that only so that
we could choose something else,
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because He really
does want to protect us
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and those that are
around us. It's amazing.
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I would love to ask
Casey, "What did you do
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when you heard the
text, 'turn the other cheek?'"
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You know, those are huge ones
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for somebody in recovery,
but God says, you know,
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it's not just that
you stopped the drug.
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You're gonna have
to learn how to act,
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how to deal with your
anger, all of those things.
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And God doesn't get tired
of teaching us, it's amazing.
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In your recovery, trust God,
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get some people around you.
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And know that you're gonna be
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on a little tricycle at first.
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You're not gonna know
anything, but He's faithful.
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So until next time,
always remember that
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God is crazy about
you, me too, God bless.
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I will see you next week.
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