Welcome Back!
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You know some of
these things are so heavy.
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You know recovery is tough.
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I don't think we break or have
disease, or all of a sudden you
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can see so much
on the outside of us.
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Like car accidents,
cancer and those things.
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God is still
faithful in all this.
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I just interviewed a
guy named Craig DeMartino.
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He is a mountain climber
and an incredible man of God.
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We are doing the interview and
he said, you know one time I am
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on this mountain and
I am climbing 130 feet.
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He thinks his friend has
him on a line that is hooked up.
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He decides he is going to
go down where his friend is.
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130 feet down, so he leans
off a cliff and is going to fall
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and his friend of
course is going to catch him,
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and lower him down slowly.
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His friend thought, that
he wanted to take him off
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that line and so he
had totally unhooked him.
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So when he leaned down he
fell, hit a tree, the tree
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stood him straight up,
and he landed on his feet.
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130 feet down.
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Broke his feet first, his
ankles went into his shins,
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his shins went into his knees,
his knees went into his hips,
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hips went into his ribs,
his ribs went into his lungs.
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Broke his back and his neck.
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So everything broke all
the way up before he fell over.
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His Rehab was forever.
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Forever, and lost his
leg, did some other things.
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He said during that time,
he went through all the stages
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that Dahlia went through.
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Sometimes you think why
did I even survive that?
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It took them 5 hours to
get him off the mountain.
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They didn't think he
would survive any of this.
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He was in a comma forever.
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He said during his Rehab, He
really understood who he was,
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who God was, he loves life.
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He loves his family.
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People have surrounded
him with all this stuff.
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He sees God for the first time
in a different way and has a
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ministry working with people
with chronic pain and he has
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chronic pain, he is
not out of all that.
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So I want to say that if
you are out there and dealing
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with these pretty heavy issues,
please hold on to God anyway.
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If you have cancer, if you have
fibromyalgia, if you have all
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these things that you
think I wish I didn't have them,
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Well, Hello! I
so agree with you.
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I wish I didn't have them
and do not know why I have them.
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But I am learning
that I trust God anyway.
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I really do trust God
anyway, that is not lip service.
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So acceptance in any kind
of recovery is a huge deal.
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I look at who I am, what I have,
what is actually on my plate.
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I somehow get to a place
where I say Okay, alright.
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So now I am going to
let go and let God take it.
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Take it, teach me
how to survive this.
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Teach me how to live
with this, teach me what do.
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How do I do one step
in front of the other?
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How do I learn to
do my life anyway?
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God says, you know what?
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I am going to bless you.
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I am going to bless you in
ways you won't even dream of.
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And when I do, please
go and bless someone else.
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I am thinking
are you kidding me?
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So not only do you want me to
get it, is that when I get it,
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show someone else.
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You know what? I am
a poster child for the
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Leukemia Society now.
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That cracks me up, I
don't know how that happened.
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But how does people deal with
chronic illness or things that
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you look at and I am learning
and then I teach someone
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else and that is our gig.
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God will bless us in that.
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So I want to say
thank you for joining us.
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Please, please email us if
you need to say anything about
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this program or your own
life because we would love
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to hear from you.
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But until then, take everything
you deal with to God and let
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Him bless you, bless
someone else and always remember
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that God is crazy
about you, me too!
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