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>> Hello and thank you
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for joining us on
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It Is Written Canada.
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Our guests today are Norwill
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and Hollace Simmonds who are
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about to share from their
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hearts the joy of their
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inspirational relationship
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with Jesus, their music,
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their story, and their
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magnetic personalities.
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Prepare to be inspired.
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>> Norwill and Hollace, thank
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you so much for inviting us
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into your beautiful home.
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>> We're humbled.
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>> So, Hollace, I'm gonna
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start with you.
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Take us back to your
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beginnings and how you ended
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up in Canada and how you met
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Norwill.
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>> Well, I was born in
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Barbados, I'm the fourth child
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of seven.
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My dad who was a carpenter was
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also an artist and my mom was
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a homemaker.
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[Mike] And being an artist,
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this is one of his paintings
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sitting on the mantelpiece.
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>> It is.
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>> And this is a scene in the
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Barbados...
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>> Yes.
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>> ...beautiful.
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Getting ready to
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get on a ship.
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>> Yes, it's a historical
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piece actually.
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>> Awesome.
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>> And my mom was one of a
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twin and her sister who had
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no children of her own,
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brought me to Canada to be
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with her for a few years.
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I went back to Barbados after
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that and I completed high
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school, visiting in the
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summers, but I completed high
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school there and then I
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decided I wanted to come back
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to Canada.
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And that's when I met Norwill.
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>> And both of you are very
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musical so part of that
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journey was your journey to
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get to Canada.
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Tell us about your musical
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journey, Norwill.
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>> Mmm, I started singing at
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the age of, I think it was
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nine years old, and it was
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just a little class party that
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we were having, I don't
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remember the occasion, but...
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we-- everybody, all the kids
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did their little thing and I
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thought, "Oh, I could sing"
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"this song."
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And I got up and sang this--
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It was a very popular song
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at the time.
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They thought it was good,
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I thought it was, yeah, OK.
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By the time I got home, my mom
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heard that I did the song.
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Now, we're all Adventist and,
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you know, in those times
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Adventists, we don't go just
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singing reggae songs all over
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and she pulled me up that
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evening, she says,
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"How are you going to school"
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"singing reggae songs?"
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"How come you never sing"
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"at church?"
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And I thought about it and I
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said to her, "They never"
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"asked me to sing at church."
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And she said, "Well, you're"
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"singing on Saturday."
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I said, "OK."
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Now I know lots of songs
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because every Sunday it's
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traditional, people just play
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gospel music all over and so
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there were songs that I know
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so the Sabbath I sang a song.
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And they thought, "Wow!"
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They were blown away by it.
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>> He can sing!
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>> Yeah. (laughs)
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I have no idea
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what that is, but!
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But anyhow, so who were not
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there in the morning, by
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evening everybody was pulling
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me aside,
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"Hey, sing the song for me."
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And then that's when,
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you know, everybody realized
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that there was Spurgie, Norwill.
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[Everol] I will tell you
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about Spurgie.
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You will know him as Norwill,
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a lot of people know him as
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Norwill Simmonds, but I'll
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tell you about Spurgie because
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that's who I know.
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Spurgie brought out something
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in me at that time in my life
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to where I started-- I saw
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Jesus in a different light.
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I start studying Jesus,
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I start seeing how Jesus moved
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and I became so taken up with
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Jesus and that was all because
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of Spurgie,
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the way our Spurgie start
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living his life.
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His contribution
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must be to God.
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That's him today and that's
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where he has always been.
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His voice must be for God
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and that's the Spurgie
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that I know.
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>> There was one season when
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we were doing Harvest
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Ingathering, which we call
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"ADRA" now,
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and one of the ways in which
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we do ADRA, we go out downtown
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in the community or stuff like
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that, but we as a group, we
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decided that we were going to
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go into an area called
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Ironshore, just where just
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guest houses are.
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And so we went in there.
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I went to this one house,
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last house we went to one
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evening and it was an older
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couple and we sang for them
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and they were just so thrilled
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and by the end of the evening
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she says, "Would you"
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"like to go to Canada?"
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And I thought, "Yes!"
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And it happened so fast.
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By then I went home, I told my
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parents and they came and they
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met with them and, to cut a
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long story short, I made it to
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Canada in 1976, June of 1976.
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>> Wow, how old were you at
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that time?
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>> I was twelve,
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going on thirteen.
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>> Wow, so that was a big time
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for you?
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[Norwill] Oh, it was amazing.
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>> Very exciting.
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>> Yeah, first time my eyes
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were open to flying in a
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plane and seeing a
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different country.
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I got involved with choirs and
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stuff like that and I ended up
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singing with an amazing choir
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called Sound Idea and we went
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one weekend to a place called
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Guelph to sing and that's
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where I met Hollace.
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Yeah, she was-- she came as a
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visitor to one of our
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directors and she sat her down
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beside me and she whispered,
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she said, "Take care of her"
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"for me."
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I said, "OK." Yeah.
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Not with any intention, but
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here it is, I'm still taking
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care of her.
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(laughter)
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[René] I was gonna say, and
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the rest is history.
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(laughter)
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[René] So if someone came to
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you and you had to tell them
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about Hollace, like...
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what would make-- what makes
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Hollace Hollace?
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[Norwill] Oh, her smile...
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it was so electric,
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it was so pulling.
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I love her smile.
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You know, every time we sit
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and we talk about it, we say,
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"That was just God's doing."
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[Mike] Yeah, putting you
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together, yeah.
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So then let me throw the same
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question to you then, Hollace.
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What makes Norwill Norwill?
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>> He's a people person.
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He has a very real way
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about him.
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He treats everybody the same
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and I think that's one of the
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things that really touched my
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heart because he didn't treat
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me any different to my
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girlfriends when we were all
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together so that kinda told me
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that he wasn't just flattering
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me so that really had an
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effect on me.
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So I was interested in getting
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to know him better.
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[Norwill] Can I add one more
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thing, Mike?
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Hollace could adapt to my
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friends also.
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That was the greatest thing.
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You know?
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She was so comfortable with my
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friends and that was awesome.
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And I realized that behind the
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smile there was somebody there
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that I really liked.
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>> Yeah, yeah.
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And you both sing as well.
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That's beautiful.
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[René] So, Norwill and Hollace,
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you are both very musical,
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so please can you sing a song
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for us right now?
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>> Definitely.
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This Song of Worship is a very
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beautiful song, it was written
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by Dana Marie Smith.
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We would definitely love to do
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this for you.
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¤¤
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¤I'm not one of many words
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¤Average speech at best
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¤All I know
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¤if I don't praise
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¤my soul will have no rest
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¤I don't want to wait until
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¤the day for You to come
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¤To sing of Your goodness
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¤Your mercy and grace
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¤and all that You have done
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my heart
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my soul
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my mouth
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¤This song of worship
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¤is for You
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¤The greatness of
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¤Your majesty
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¤exceeds the universal bounds
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¤Yet in the smallest
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¤and simplest things
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¤Your handiwork is found
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¤The folly of the wisest men
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¤ry to prove that
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¤You're not real
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¤But they can't take away
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¤that You live in me
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¤or the peace or joy I feel
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my heart
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my soul
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my mouth
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¤This song of worship
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¤is for You
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¤Awesome Father, my Creator
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¤Living waters
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¤flow through me
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¤Precious Jesus, my Redeemer
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¤You are worthy of all praise
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my heart
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my soul
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¤This song of worship
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¤is coming from my mouth
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¤This song of worship
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¤is for You
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¤My heart's desire
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¤is to worship You
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¤My sinful soul cries out
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>> Thank you so much for that
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song and, you know, worship,
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that's what it was about,
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but worship for your lives is
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what it's all about.
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I know from talking to your
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friends, talking to your
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children that Jesus,
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your relationship with Jesus,
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your relationship with God
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is so central.
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So what does your worship
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experience look like?
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Your daily experience.
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>> We rise very early in the
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mornings for worship and we
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separate our worship and it's
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very intense, our study time.
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So we have maybe an hour and a
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half, two hours of study time
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by ourselves and then we will
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come together and will do
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another study.
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And, again, I love to use my
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guitar, so I use my guitar,
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we will sing a song.
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What's our favourite song
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again that we do for morning?
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¤Lord, in the morning
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¤Thou shalt hear my voice
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¤ascending high...
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We love doing that and so
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we do that and we have our
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really intense time of
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studying and, you know, really
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getting to understand what the
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whole message is all about.
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And we were able to figure it
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out, it was about character,
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the gospel is about character.
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God simply just wants to
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change our character.
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So that's what we dwell on
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every day, how do we change
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this character to look like
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the character of Christ.
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[Mike] Mmm, beautiful.
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>> When I think of Hollace and
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Norwill as a couple and what
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they've actually journeyed on
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together, I think of them
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even-- I'm not quite sure
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which one of them first
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started on the vegan
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lifestyle, but, again, it's a
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journey that they took
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together.
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They explore things together
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and I think that's what just
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makes their union so strong.
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When it comes to having
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worship and family, morning
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and evening, that's something
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that they have done with their
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boys all along and I just
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appreciate the fact that
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they-- it's not a solo unit,
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even though they're very
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strong individually, together
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the seem to solidify an even
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better bond because of the
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unity in what they do.
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So it's-- they don't leave
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each other behind in terms of
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growing in their faith, in
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terms of trying to deepen
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their relationship with God.
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They share with each other in
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a way that just makes you want
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to even be around them even
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more and I truly appreciate
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that about them.
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>> So, Norwill and Hollace,
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you were blessed with
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four sons.
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So, Hollace, can you tell us
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what it was like raising boys,
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about homeschooling, and your
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relationship with it like it
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is with them today?
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>> Raising sons...
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Boys are energetic,
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they're very challenging,
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but they have a very
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special bond with Mom.
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For homeschooling, it was
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challenging, but like anything
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else in life, you know, you
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have to pick the most
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practical and adaptable way of
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dealing with life's challenges
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and to home school at that
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point was what was necessary
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I think.
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Out of homeschooling came
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three young men who decided
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that they all want to be
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entrepreneurs.
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They wanna use their talents
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and their abilities to,
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you know, to run their lives
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and not have somebody else run
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their lives for them and
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decide how and when and why
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and where.
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>> We wanted them to have a
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good education, but we also
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wanted them to have something
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they can always lean on because
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if something fails you need
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something in your back pocket
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to pull out and I thought,
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with all these different
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skills that they have,
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that they more than one
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trump card to use.
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>> Yeah, no life experience is
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definitely what brought them
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to the way they are.
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It influenced everything
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based on how they grew up,
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the way they travelled around,
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'cause my dad came to Canada--
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Both my parents came to Canada
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young age, going back and
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forth between the islands and
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here and eventually settling
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here and creating a life for
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themselves away from their
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families and I think having to
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figure out a lot on your own
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will just...
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Like when you figure it out,
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it's kinda settled in your
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mind for sure that this is
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how I came to this
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understanding and it was based
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on my own experiences and not
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the experience of others and
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people telling me
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this is how it is.
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>> I think our parents are
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also pretty, like, they're
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independent thinkers and I
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think that's one thing that
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they always taught us to be,
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like, just reason things out
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for yourself.
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Like when you get information,
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think about the information,
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don't just take the
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information, you know?
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So I think the way they are
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now is also just like, partly
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just naturally where life
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brought them to be because of
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the way that they taught
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themselves to think.
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>> I think that's why we're
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also so flexible in, like,
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where we go and what we do.
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>> Yeah.
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>> ...'cause we've seen them
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move around and do a bunch of
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different things and just try
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and figure out the kinks
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and just enjoy the learning
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process as well which has
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definitely, I think has
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definitely influenced us to
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try any and everything even if
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it's, like, the trajectory is
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good and we're going down this
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path strongly, we still wanna
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look around and see what else
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there is to do learn.
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So yeah.
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>> My parents are very
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strong-willed.
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That's what I think my
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parents have shown me a lot of
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will over the years to pretty
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much get through anything,
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do anything and it's always
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just the both of them
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together, so...
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I think that, I don't know
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from, like, their perceptive,
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but my parents have always
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been like, kinda like, to me,
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different from all their
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friends, but they're different
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together, so like...
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>> Yeah, they're on the same
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page, but they're unafraid to
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be themselves, you know?
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Unafraid to be themselves and
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unafraid to-- they cheer each
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other on so they're kind of
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like the-- all the validation
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they need is from each other
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so they...
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they're in their own world,
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you know?
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>> Entrepreneurship, I
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definitely think that that's
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something that our dad just
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kind of, not even purposely,
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just instilled in us, kind of
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just over the years we've seen
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him try so many different
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business ideas and, you know,
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every way to, like, you know,
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just try and put food on the
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table type thing, so I think
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over the years we all just
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learned that, you know, you
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can make your money the way
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you want to make your money
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and it doesn't have to be,
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like, you know, the same way
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everybody else does it.
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>> Nobody being able to tell
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you what to do.
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Just being able to do what you
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want when you want and...
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and just, yeah, true freedom
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is being able to move on
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your own clock.
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I would say a big part of
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their confidence is that they
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have an extreme belief in
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reliance on God, you know?
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And their beliefs are a large
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part of their identity and I
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believe that has an effect on
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the way someone will think and
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navigate the world.
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You know, you're backed up by
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the Big Guy upstairs,
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you know? (laughs)
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Like together their
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relationship is so strong
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'cause they, like-- they both
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love God more than they love
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each other and then it
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strengthens their love for
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each other that also,
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you know?
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So I would say, yeah,
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that's another thing.
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¤¤
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¤Take my hand
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¤follow me and stand
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¤Where you are weak
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¤I am strong
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¤So trust in Me
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¤and give me all your heart
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¤Nothing, nothing, nothing
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¤nothing can
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¤ever tear us apart
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¤So trust in Me
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¤and give me all your heart
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¤Nothing can
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¤ever tear us apart
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¤So I promise to
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¤To take care of you
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¤I promise to
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¤To love you true
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¤Hey, yes
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¤Why is it so hard
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¤to get through to you
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¤My nail-pierced hands
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¤show My love for you
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¤So why is it so hard
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¤to get through to you
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¤My nail-pierced hands
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¤show My love for you
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¤I promise to
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¤To take care of you
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¤I promise to
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¤To love you true
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¤I promise to
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¤To take care of you
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¤I promise to
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¤To love you true
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¤I spread my hands
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¤and died for you
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¤And loving' you is all
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¤I'd rather do, yeah
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¤So don't break My heart
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¤and turn away from Me
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¤Oh, no
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¤So in your darkest moment
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¤I'll be there with you
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¤So put the world aside
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¤there's much for you to do
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¤Finally, I will always
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¤be your guide
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¤I'll stand by your side
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¤Yeah, yeah, yeah
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¤Oh, I love you, child
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¤and I'll take care of you
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¤and I promise to
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¤love you true
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¤Yes
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¤I love you so
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¤So I promise to
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¤love you true
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¤I promise to
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¤take care of you
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¤I promise to
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¤take care of you
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>> So that song, thank you for
00:25:42.44\00:25:44.41
singing that, Norwill, and
00:25:44.41\00:25:46.91
those words, you wrote
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that song.
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So what does it mean to you,
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that song, and how does it
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give you hope?
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>> In 1988 when I was here and
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I was struggling and I was
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asking God, "What am I doing"
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"here? I don't wanna be here."
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And He kept saying,
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"Just hang on."
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"I have plans for you."
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It was those promises that I
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rest on and it gave me the
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encouragement to write
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that song.
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>> That's beautiful.
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So God was talking to you
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personally.
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[Norwill] Mm-hmm, always.
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>> So we've come to the end of
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our time, sorry about that,
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but we have-- I think it's
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time to end.
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>> Mm-hmm, thank you so much
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for spending time with us,
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it was wonderful having you
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on our show.
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>> We are so blessed to have
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you, thank you so much.
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>> It has been a pleasure.
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>> Hollace, I wonder if I
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could ask you to pray for us.
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>> Certainly.
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Dear Father in heaven,
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we thank you so much for Your
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love and for Your faithfulness
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towards us.
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We also thank You for the
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challenges that You allow
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to come into our lives.
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And we also thank You for the
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strength that You give us
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to push through and
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to overcome them.
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Thank You for Mike and René
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and for their ministry and we
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pray that all that listen and
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hear will be blessed.
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Thank You for continuing to
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direct our path, in Jesus'
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name we pray, amen.
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[All] Amen.
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>> Friends, we have
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>> We want you to get to know
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the Lord as your personal
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friend through reading the
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Bible so that you can
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experience the truth that is
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found in the words of Jesus
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when He said, "It is written,"
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"man shall not live by bread"
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"alone, but by every word"
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"that proceeds out of the"
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"mouth of God."
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>> I remember once I was going
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through a valley and I was
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coming home from work and
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sitting in the car and I was
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praying and talking to God.
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About five minutes after
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I got home, I got a call
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from Hollace.
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She said, "Hey, friend."
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"I left you something on"
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"your patio."
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I went and I slid the door
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open and there was a big box
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on my patio.
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And in this box it had
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everything I needed plus more.
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And I asked myself,
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"How did she know?"
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"I didn't tell her."
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But that's the kind of person
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Hollace is.
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She came through for me
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and that's the kind of
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friendship we have.
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