Participants: Karen Pierson & Pierre Quinn (Host)
Series Code: SOR
Program Code: SOR000008A
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00:23 Welcome to another episode of Stones of Remembrance.
00:26 I'm Karen Pearson 00:28 and I'm here with my friend and co-host Pierre Quinn. 00:31 Hi, Pierre. How you doing? 00:33 We are going to take another look at someone's life story, 00:38 someone who has gone through her own river 00:41 and found those stories that have helped 00:44 to shape the direction that her life has taken. 00:46 Just as Joshua built an altar 00:49 with those stones from the middle of the river, 00:51 when the water covered it over, 00:53 those stones were never seen again 00:55 and yet they impacted 00:56 the whole direction of his life, didn't they? 00:59 What a powerful analogy. 01:02 Before I introduce you today's guest, 01:04 I'd like to share something from the word with you. 01:07 It's taken from Matthew 5:16, 01:12 "Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, 01:15 on light stand, shine, keep open house, 01:19 be generous with your lives by opening up to others. 01:23 You'll prompt people to open up with God, 01:26 this generous father in heaven." 01:29 Amen. 01:30 I just love that passage. Good verse. 01:32 And I know that our guest not only loves that passage 01:36 but it actually really typifies who she is as a person. 01:42 Our guest, welcome. 01:43 Hi. Thank you. It's Emily Wilkens Poole. 01:46 Welcome, Emily, to our program. 01:48 Emily, tell us a little bit about yourself. 01:50 I know that you're newly married. 01:51 Yes. 01:53 So I got married about six months ago. 01:55 Congratulations. 01:56 It's been a new adventure and it's fun, 01:58 we're having a good time. 01:59 We live in Walla Walla, Washington 02:02 and we've been kind of settling in with a new home and things. 02:06 So it's been really, really wonderful. 02:08 That's awesome. 02:10 Emily is a gifted writer 02:12 and she has written the book African Rice Heart. 02:16 She also has her degree, Master of Finance, 02:19 Creative writing with the specialty in-- 02:22 Non fiction. Non-fiction. 02:24 Yeah. How awesome is that? 02:26 Yeah. 02:27 And as I said, a gifted writer. 02:30 You spend some time as a student missionary. 02:35 Tell us about that experience? Yeah. 02:38 So that was kind of the basis for what I wrote about. 02:40 And I really, I hadn't done much writing before, you know. 02:43 I've done a little bit of writing 02:45 but never considered myself really a writer. 02:48 But as I went there to Chad 02:51 and I was actually on the track to go to PA school. 02:54 So for PA school, 02:55 you have to have 2,000 hours of clinical work before. 02:58 And so I went to work at Bere Adventist Hospital 03:01 and I was working as a nurse-- 03:03 Where is that? It's in Chad, Africa. 03:05 So it's in Bere, Bere is a small village, 03:08 kind of you have to take a bus for eight hours 03:10 and then a motorcycling for few hours 03:12 and, so then you get in there. 03:14 The neat thing about that experience in one of the things 03:18 that shaped my life is living with the family there, 03:21 one of the local Chadian families. 03:23 And that was kind of how the program was set up. 03:25 And so you'd have somebody 03:26 who would not only take you in as their daughter 03:29 but could help cook for you 03:30 because I don't know how to cook over a fire 03:32 and that sort of thing. 03:33 And so, so that was kind of the set up 03:36 and then working in the hospital. 03:37 Now as a student missionary, 03:39 the opportunities to be a missionary are virtually. 03:42 I mean, you can go anywhere around the world. 03:44 What make you decide to take Chad? 03:47 My family had a lot of different experiences in-- 03:50 has had experiences around different parts of Africa. 03:53 My Uncle, Carl Wilkens who was in Rwanda during the genocide, 03:56 and my dad actually did a rotation in Zambia. 04:00 When he was in school, medical school. 04:02 And so my grandpa's worked over there. 04:04 And I think the attraction for this specific spot 04:08 was that I had followed a girl's blog 04:10 who was working as a nurse there. 04:12 And I had heard the stories you know, 04:13 and that really inspired me watching her live so simply 04:17 for a period of time in her life, 04:19 which I think they had us living in huts, their mud huts. 04:25 And so kind of stepping back from this busy college culture 04:29 into a really slower pace of life in many ways. 04:33 That kind of drew me into that experience definitely. 04:37 So how long did it take you to make that adjustment? 04:40 Some busy college student and here you are. 04:43 And I'm sure there were 04:44 not a lot of street lights out there, right? 04:46 No street lights. The dark nights. 04:49 And how was that for you? 04:51 I remember that first night 04:53 actually showing up in the dark, 04:55 it was about 9:00 pm by the time 04:56 we came in on motorcycles 04:57 and a volunteer dragged my bag in 05:00 around into this courtyard of mud huts 05:04 and set it there inside my mud hut. 05:06 And there was nothing in there except for a cot, 05:08 and a mosquito net there. 05:10 And he just set the bag in there and said, 05:13 this is the people who will take care of you. 05:15 And there was this quiet woman and she-- 05:17 we didn't speak any of the same language 05:19 because I didn't speak French yet. 05:20 And so she was the one, her name was Jolie, 05:24 which means pretty, her name was Jolie Povera, 05:26 which is pretty poor, 05:28 pretty much is what her name translates as. 05:31 And she was the one that kind of, 05:34 kind of introduced me to the culture. 05:35 But that first night actually, I was very shocked, 05:38 I think just-- I remember I didn't pull out my blanket, 05:42 it's really, it was so hot there I just fell asleep 05:45 and I woke up with mosquito bites all over me 05:47 and I was like, what is this going to be, you know. 05:49 Quite the experience, so. 05:51 Well, you said in your book that, that first night, 05:54 they left you to eat by yourself 05:55 and you were crying. 05:57 Yes. 05:58 Tell us more about that experience? 05:59 Yeah. 06:01 So there, in Chad it's a real privilege to be-- 06:03 to sit by yourself, to have a chair by yourself, 06:06 to have a table by yourself. 06:08 Everybody usually eats around one big ball of rice, 06:11 everybody grabbing off the ball of rice. 06:13 And so to have my own plate 06:16 with my own food in their mind was, 06:18 how you would treat an honored guest. 06:20 And so that's what they were doing for me, 06:21 they set all my food in this dark hut. 06:24 And I remember I could hear all of them laughing 06:27 and having fun out there, and I was just all by myself. 06:30 And so it took-- it took some time 06:32 and it was funny because I went back and visited later to Chad, 06:35 a second time and I could speak better at that-- 06:38 better French and I told Samedi and Jolie, 06:41 the father and mother of the family, 06:43 I said, you put me in that dark hut to eat by myself, you know. 06:47 And I told them, I was crying. 06:49 And they said, you were crying, oh, no. 06:51 And they said we didn't know either, Emily. 06:53 We didn't know what you would want, 06:55 we didn't know if you'd want to eat with everyone 06:57 and we found out that you did. 06:59 And that was, you know, learning for us too. 07:01 Right. So. 07:02 One of the things that I love about you, Emily, 07:04 you have such an infectious love for people. 07:07 It just, it just draws people in and I love that. 07:10 So here you are in this new culture that's so strange 07:14 and I know that this family 07:17 have become your adopted second family. 07:20 Do you still-- are you still in touch with them? 07:22 I actually got to go back to Chad 07:24 right before I got married. 07:26 And that was really fun 07:28 to be able to deliver the news in person 07:29 that I was getting married. 07:31 And so I got to stay with them again 07:32 in their hut for about five nights. 07:34 It was a short trip. 07:36 But I-- for a long time we were keeping in touch over phone, 07:40 but it's so hard 07:41 with the shoddy connections and things 07:43 it's almost just not satisfying to talk over the phone, 07:46 you miss-- you know, you miss that connection. 07:48 So I hope to be able to continue to visit 07:51 and they're doing wonderful over there, 07:54 they are wonderfully there. 07:55 How large was the family that you were staying with? 07:57 There were 19 members. 07:59 So in Chad, families range in size, definitely. 08:03 The more modern families, the newer families, 08:05 they're having fewer children. 08:07 But kind of before many of the families 08:10 were raising rice fields, they had rice fields. 08:13 And so the more children you have to, you-- 08:15 that's how you have your crew of working in the field. 08:18 And then birth control too, 08:20 that's not something that's something 08:22 that's just being introduced and-- so it was 19 members. 08:26 But this family actually was 19 08:28 because they had adopted people in, 08:30 which I think is why I felt so. 08:32 They were so easy to say, you know, 08:34 come on over and help me cook you know, because 08:37 you know, you're being part of the family now. 08:40 And yeah, they really had an open arm mentality. 08:45 So African Rice Hearts, where-- 08:48 how did you come up with that title? 08:50 Because that's a really unusual title. 08:52 Yeah. 08:54 I think it kind of came-- 08:55 well, it did come out of the process of preparing rice. 08:57 So we ate rice every day in Chad. 08:59 And Jolie and Samedi both had rice fields. 09:02 So they would harvest their own grain you know, 09:05 you would plant it, you would then you know, let it grow. 09:09 And then once it was to full potential or whatever, 09:13 you'd let it die and brown and then you'd cut every stock, 09:16 you know, then you thrash every stock. 09:18 And then you pound every kernel so that you get the chaff off. 09:21 And it was just this process that took-- it was difficult, 09:26 it was such a difficult long process. 09:28 You didn't just go down to the store to buy a bag of rice? 09:32 No, it took afternoon and into the evening, 09:34 and then you ate in 30 minutes after it was all gone. 09:37 And it's just this, 09:38 their patients with their lifestyle 09:40 is very admirable. 09:41 But they-- so kind of watching this process 09:45 and in the first chapter of the book, 09:47 I kind of go through that process in depth 09:49 and say, you know, this is life for us, like, 09:52 even our lives, we have two sides of it. 09:56 One second you're being pounded and the next second, 09:59 they're washing the rice gently 10:01 or they're letting the rice fall 10:03 from one bucket to the other 10:04 and the chaff blows away in the wind. 10:06 So it's like sometimes life is gentle with you 10:08 and sometimes it just pounds you. 10:10 And this is I think what I found 10:12 in Chad was this exposure 10:14 where you're completely exposed to both, joy and pain. 10:18 You know and in one hand this pain 10:24 that you're exposed to is so difficult 10:26 and this vulnerability, 10:27 you almost want to shut it off in life, you know, 10:29 you want to become numb, you want to become bitter, 10:31 you want to become careful, really cautious with people. 10:35 But on the other hand, vulnerability is where we love, 10:39 it's where we have faith. 10:40 And there's an author Brene Brown, 10:42 she's a vulnerability researcher. 10:44 And she talks about this and it's just, 10:47 you can't cut yourself off and protect yourself so much 10:51 or you won't, you won't experience that love. 10:54 And that's I think what I experienced is this need 10:57 to drop walls with people 10:58 so I could connect in that God given way that, 11:02 you know, His love flows between people, 11:04 I think, when you do that. 11:05 So you had a practical hands-on-experience with that 11:09 in the hospital, right? 11:10 Because there are no formalized privacy structure. 11:14 Yeah. How did you adjust to that? 11:17 You know, I was a phlebotomist before I went, 11:20 and I had worked as a medical assistant, 11:21 so I had some background 11:23 and I'd been studying you know, the sciences. 11:24 But I wasn't a full blown nurse. 11:26 And so many of the things that I was learning to do 11:30 and having responsibility to do were things 11:33 outside of my scope of training. 11:37 And so I think there was you know, a lot of learning. 11:40 I'd only seen one person die before I went to Chad, 11:43 and that was my great grandma, and she was 96. 11:45 And so it was very different 11:47 to see a baby die or a young person 11:50 you know, that of something preventable. 11:54 So, yeah, that's that side that's like, 11:56 it's just right up in your face, this suffering, 11:58 you know, and yet then I would go home 12:00 and I would show up at home and Jolie, the mother, 12:04 she would say, oh, Emily, you're tired, 12:07 you must be so tired, come in here, come here. 12:09 And she would tell me, lay down on the mat, you know. 12:11 And I would-- she's like, okay, kids, 12:13 everyone come, massage Emily, you know. 12:15 And they would all start giving me massages like, 12:17 no part of your body untouched, 12:19 all the little kids, you know. 12:20 And so you have these extremes 12:23 and I think the title of the book African Rice Heart, 12:25 I just watched this process that-- 12:28 and these two sides of life 12:30 and it's kind of a metaphor of how the rice is prepared. 12:33 But in the end the rice becomes something nourishing, 12:38 it becomes something through both of these heart, 12:41 both heart and positive experiences we are nourished 12:45 and we grow and-- 12:48 So that was, that then the book kind of just continues 12:50 in a bunch of a collage of those kind of stories really. 12:54 Yes, which is life. 12:55 Yeah, it really is. 12:56 You pounded in the clinic, and then come home 13:00 and just suck into that that circle of love. 13:03 And you need that. 13:04 You won't survive the other part of life 13:06 if you do not let God feed you 13:08 through His community of believers 13:10 and other people who can show you love. 13:13 Right. So, yeah. 13:16 African Rice Heart is an incredible book 13:19 and it is beautifully written. 13:22 And we're going to take a look 13:25 just for a moment how you can get your copy. 13:31 African Rice Heart takes a candid look at life 13:34 through the eyes of a young student missionary 13:36 serving in Africa. 13:37 Stories of wonder and longing, 13:39 tragedy and tears are skillfully woven together 13:42 as Emily Wilkenson Poole shares challenges 13:45 and discoveries common to us all. 13:47 Experiences that make us a part of the human family. 13:51 In this remarkable book 13:53 you will feel the heartbeat of Africa. 13:55 Sometimes strong, sometimes irregular but always present. 14:00 With uncommon beauty, African Rice Heart shares 14:03 how one young girl found a sense of belonging 14:06 and discovered that in God's hands the poor become rich, 14:10 the cowardly become courageous and the weak become strong. 14:14 To get your copy of African Rice Heart, 14:17 call 1800-765-6955. 14:22 Stop by your local Adventist book center 14:25 or order online at AdventistBookCenter.com. 14:37 Welcome back to Stones of Remembrance. 14:40 We're here with our guest Emily Wilkens Poole. 14:42 And Emily, we spoke a little bit about your book, 14:46 African Rice Heart, and we use the parallel of the altar 14:49 that Joshua set up and that's the visible sign, 14:52 the book, if you would. 14:54 But what about the altar that he built in the river? 14:58 What was the experience in your life? 15:00 You have such a beautiful 15:03 and such a moving love for Jesus. 15:06 Where did that come from? 15:09 You know I think, 15:11 I think all of us are on this spiritual journey 15:13 where we're getting to know Jesus better through our lives 15:16 and I think for me, definitely when I was younger, 15:21 I remember these experiences, a couple of experiences 15:24 that were both you know, positive and difficult. 15:29 And through both of these 15:30 I feel like we draw closer to Jesus. 15:32 But I think as you get older and I don't know 15:34 if you guys have experienced this 15:36 but I feel like, for me there's this tendency 15:39 as you experience loss or you are betrayed 15:43 or, you know, these sort of things, 15:45 they make you, they put you on the defense. 15:47 And they almost cause you to become less willing 15:52 to be out there for Jesus or to reach out to others. 15:55 And I think that we have to continually 15:58 look back to Jesus in that in His example. 16:00 And He's-- some of the stories that I love 16:03 are Him with the woman at the well, you know. 16:05 I love that image of Him, kind of shocking everybody, 16:09 you know, stepping out and talking to somebody 16:10 who He's not supposed to talk to, you know. 16:12 It was just not-- it's not the norm 16:14 and it's pushing the borders 16:17 and yet Jesus does it, you know, 16:18 and he does it with a confidence 16:20 and a care that is so genuine. 16:22 And I think we can do that. 16:23 And with the tax collectors, the same, you know. 16:27 The Image of Zacchaeus of Him 16:29 kind of putting Himself out there 16:31 you know, saying, Zacchaeus, come down, 16:32 you know, I'm coming to your house. 16:34 Like, when was the last time we did that to somebody, you know? 16:36 But I think that, that verse that we talked about, 16:40 that you've read in the beginning 16:41 about keeping an open house 16:44 and being generous with our lives 16:46 and by doing that we open others up to God, 16:49 by being open to others we open them up to the Father. 16:52 And so that's something that I by no means do perfectly, 16:56 and I continually have to say like, Emily, be bolder, 16:59 you know, be willing to be vulnerable. 17:02 And so I think that's somebody 17:05 I have to keep looking back to those stories of Jesus 17:06 and how He did it. 17:08 Yes. 17:09 One of the challenges I know sometimes 17:12 is our tendency to take things for granted, 17:16 especially with our relationship with God. 17:18 There are so many things that we take for granted. 17:20 And you have this, this thing with soap 17:23 that you talk about in your book, 17:25 that was a constant reminder of you 17:27 of how sometimes we take things for granted. 17:28 Tells us a little about bars of soap when you were in Chad? 17:31 Yeah, that was even-- it was funny 17:33 because when I was packing my bags, I'm a horrible packer, 17:37 like in the sense that I wait till the last minute, 17:39 the last night. 17:40 And then, you know, I'm putting things in 17:41 but by that time you don't know what you put in, 17:43 what you haven't put in. 17:44 So packing for Chad, I tried to do it ahead of time 17:46 but I remember, my mom actually at the last minute, 17:52 she brought like seven bars of soap. 17:54 And I don't use bar soap ever in the States, 17:57 I use body wash or something, you know, but never bar soap. 17:59 And I told her like, mom, I'm not going to use that, 18:01 it's bar soap, like I don't-- 18:03 And she's like, I think you'll use it, just take it, you know. 18:06 Listen to your mother. Yeah, I know. 18:08 And so I just I remember getting off 18:11 and in the shower there in Chad is an open air shower. 18:14 So you-- it's a wall about this tall 18:17 and you can see everybody while you're showering. 18:19 I mean, it's tall enough, they can't really see you, 18:21 but you're kind of showering thinking like, 18:23 you know, hey, everybody. 18:25 But using those bars of soap and I use them all the time, 18:29 you know, just after I was constantly sweating over there, 18:33 and after shifts at the hospital 18:34 when you've injected penicillin 18:36 and you have these different drugs 18:40 that have sprayed or blood and things, you just-- 18:42 I just, I realized how such a simple thing, you know, 18:45 to have that bar of soap 18:46 at the end of the day really meant a lot. 18:49 But, yeah, I had that. 18:51 I use a lot of bars of soap. 18:55 So here you are, college student, 18:57 you hadn't finished your degree, 18:59 but you were pretty skilled in many areas 19:03 and you find yourself in this little village, far away, 19:07 thousands of miles away from home. 19:09 Did you feel like you were the one 19:14 taking them all of the stuff that you knew, 19:17 that you were kind of like the teacher? 19:20 By no means. 19:21 In fact I always laugh 19:23 because I felt like a baby coming in there. 19:25 I felt like a baby coming into that culture 19:29 and I mean, I didn't know how to get water in the beginning, 19:32 I didn't know where, I didn't know how. 19:34 And it was even-- even little things like, 19:37 I lived in a mud hut. 19:39 So you think about keeping a mud hut clean, 19:41 you know, like, how do you keep a mud hut clean? 19:43 Well, they do, they sweep it. 19:44 They sweep all as you shuffle around in a hut, 19:47 it gets kind of dirty and you have to sweep it clean. 19:49 And so I was in there one day 19:51 with the stock of rice stocks bundled up, 19:55 trying to sweep out my hut 19:56 and the smoke is just billowing, 19:58 the dust was billowing all around. 20:00 And I'm just like kind of coughing, 20:02 it's like I can't breathe in there anymore. 20:03 And one of the sisters comes in 20:05 and she's like, Emily, no, no, no, not good, 20:08 this is not how you do it. 20:09 And she takes it from me and she grabs another pitcher 20:12 and it's a pitcher of water, 20:14 and she takes and she pours that all over the dirt floor. 20:17 Okay, so then, and then she starts sweeping. 20:19 And instead of billowing up in dust, 20:21 it sweeps out in clumps 20:23 and pretty soon my floor is perfectly clean. 20:25 And so those moments when I was like, oh, wow, 20:29 like, I am constantly learning. 20:31 And I learned so much about family 20:33 and about really loving others in their suffering like-- 20:38 I often want to love to a degree 20:40 and then it's somebody else's problem. 20:42 But some of those nurses and physicians over there 20:45 are loving people till the end, you know, and they are-- 20:48 Yes. 20:50 Tell us a little bit about some of your experiences 20:52 in the clinic itself? 20:53 What kinds of things did you deal with? 20:55 That must have been challenging? 20:56 Yeah. 20:57 It was both ends of the spectrum again. 20:59 Like, we had-- I got to help deliver my first-- 21:01 the first baby. 21:03 You know, if you-- I just, I'm now-- 21:05 I'm doing some photography 21:06 and I just want to shoot birth documentary 21:08 because I just think that experience is so beautiful. 21:11 And so there was that side of it 21:14 and then there was the side, 21:15 I was often working 21:17 in the pediatrics board on that end. 21:22 And that was just so difficult, you know, 21:24 we would work that 18 hour night shift. 21:25 So from 3:00 until-- 3:00 pm until the morning. 21:30 And the electricity would go off at midnight 21:32 and at that time. 21:34 Now they've improved all of that. 21:35 But at that time electricity would go off midnight 21:37 and you would work by headlamp and I just had this-- 21:41 this heaviness when the darkness was there, 21:43 you know, when there was-- 21:45 when it was night time and there was-- 21:47 I just waited for the morning. 21:49 There were knowing if a patient 21:52 was going to make it through the night. 21:53 There's no life support, 21:54 there's nothing that you can do 21:57 besides once you start the quinine, 21:59 that's a medication for malaria 22:00 and you start some of these other basic, basic things, 22:04 it's a matter of if this person's body 22:06 is going to pull out of it or not. 22:08 And so I think that was a very difficult, 22:12 difficult thing to watch and realize 22:15 that you're very out of control in those, to that degree. 22:18 We would love-- I hate to jump in here, 22:21 it's getting really good 22:22 and we love to hear more about the story. 22:24 But that's encouragement to buy the book, right? 22:26 Yes, absolutely. 22:27 So if you had to share something, 22:29 a few things with someone who may be struggling 22:31 and whether they can make a difference in the world 22:34 or should I be a missionary or discovery my purpose. 22:37 What do you want to say to people who are watching us? 22:40 I just-- especially college students I know, even for me, 22:43 I was on a medical track and so there was this big push 22:45 to get through school 22:47 and but I look back in the amount of learning 22:50 that I did in the year-- 22:51 of year of service is just incredible, it's just I could-- 22:56 I can't, I could never pay for that kind of learning. 22:59 And so I would say, if you if you at all can, 23:03 you know, I think that God will impress upon your heart, 23:07 but pray about it 23:08 and see if you can make something like that happen. 23:12 Did you find that your walk with Jesus grew 23:15 and deepened in your months there in Bere? 23:18 Yes, definitely. 23:19 I think the amount that I needed to pray was much more. 23:23 I felt like, praying felt like more of a constant thing, 23:27 you know, every sigh out Lord. 23:30 That's the prayer, that's the real prayer, 23:31 you know what I am saying? 23:33 Yes, sometimes you don't need words, 23:34 just say His name is the prayer. 23:38 Yeah, definitely. 23:40 Maybe as we close, you can just look into the camera 23:42 and share with the viewers, 23:44 how that experience has totally transform your life 23:47 and now how you live as a result of having gone there. 23:51 I think if I can share one last thing 23:54 it's just, just continue to-- 23:57 if you feel lonely 23:59 or if you're looking around for where God is in your life, 24:01 I mean, there are so many dark places and dark experiences 24:04 that we go through but I know that God is dwelling in people. 24:08 His home is within us. 24:10 And so if we can reach out to others 24:13 and we can know others more deeply, 24:15 people who may even seem so different from us 24:17 and yet as we get closer we start uncovering 24:21 the incredible common ground 24:23 that we have and also the encouragement 24:25 and love that we can draw from each other. 24:27 And sometimes that means 24:28 just getting out of the house on a day that's hard, 24:30 sometimes that means heading out to the park, 24:33 or talking to somebody at a cash register 24:36 but put yourself out there 24:37 and see what that does to connect you to others. 24:42 And then the other thing 24:43 I would say is there's a verse in Romans 12, 24:46 it's another of my favorites and it says, 24:49 "Take your every day ordinary life, you are eating, 24:52 sleeping, going to work and walking around life, 24:55 and place that before God." 24:57 It says, by embracing what God does for you, 25:03 you are-- by embracing what God does for you for-- 25:06 You can embrace what-- 25:08 Oh, I forgotten how it goes the last part. 25:10 But basically that, by embracing 25:11 what God does in your life, 25:13 you're able to turn things back to Him in praise. 25:15 And that's what He's asked of us, 25:17 is to give thanks in those moments. 25:18 So I guess that's what I would love to say to you. 25:22 Emily, thanks for sharing with us some of your experiences 25:25 and this captivating book that you've written. 25:28 And one of the things that really sticks 25:30 about Emily's story is the process 25:32 in Chad of getting the rice from the fields to the plate, 25:36 that has to be pounded and dried 25:38 and go through this extreme process 25:41 in order to have something good to eat. 25:43 The same way God has to take our lives, 25:45 He has to sometime pound us 25:47 and wash us and dry us out so that 25:50 when He wants to put us on display, 25:51 we've gone through enough process 25:53 to make a difference in the lives of other people. 25:55 This has been another episode of Stones of Remembrance. 25:59 I am Pierre Quinn 26:01 and with my co-host, Karen Pearson, 26:02 we thank you for joining us. 26:04 Take care, and we'll see you next time. 26:45 Health and Wellness: Secrets That Will Change Your Life, 26:48 shows you spectacularly simple ways 26:51 to avoid such chronic killers as cancer, 26:54 diabetes, heart disease, and obesity. 26:58 Contained in these insightful chapters 27:01 is an emphasis on making wise choices 27:04 about the riches entrusted to each of us, 27:07 a body that has the potential to heal itself, 27:10 a mind capable of the extraordinary, 27:13 and a spirit that longs to be reunited with the Creator. 27:17 This book not only offers a road map for a healthier, 27:20 more productive life, 27:22 it provides the greatest gift of all, 27:24 the reason for the journey. 27:27 Quantity pricing available. 27:29 To order your copy of Health and Wellness, 27:32 call 1-800-765-6955. 27:37 Stop by your local Adventist book center 27:40 or order online at AdventistBookCenter.com. |
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