Welcome to Thinking About Home,
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I am Kathy Matthews and I'm glad
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you're back with us again.
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Our guests today are
John and Millie Youngberg.
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And I just want to
welcome them again.
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We're going to be
talking about Sabbath family
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traditions today, aren't we?
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And I want to tell our viewers
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I want you to tell our viewers
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what you are
linked with or your work.
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What do you work with
on marriage and family?
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We are marriage and
family commitment incorporated,
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incorporated. Yes that's right
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I just wanted to be
able to get that end again
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so that those
who haven't seen you
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before they know
where your work is and
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what you are doing and.
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This is something that's
really close to my heart.
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I've traveled around
and as we visit churches
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and we get to know people,
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it's not always
found that the people are
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remembering or do
they know sometimes
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what they want to do
or what they need to do
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to prepare and
get ready for Sabbath
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and have things
that they get involved
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with their
families and make traditions
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in their families.
So John what have been
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some of the
traditions that you've had
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for Sabbath preparation
and family traditions.
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Well Kathy family
means certain things to us.
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It probably means Veggie Wieners
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It or rebook cook and the,
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our sons were born
in the South America
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and they got a
custom to eating cook
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and a Germen cake,
right, on Friday night.
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It probably means going out.
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Millie and I would say
give us an hour on Sabbath
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afternoon to do our
thing maybe take a little nap
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or whatever. And after that
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the afternoon is
yours and we went everywhere
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over Southern Michigan,
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climbed every tree
and then we've been some,
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you did a lot of hiking,
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and the kids knew
that they could expect
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our attention on
Sabbath afternoon.
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Right! And you've
got a especial burden
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I think to talk
about the preparation day,
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don't you? Yes I do.
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Because I think
many people don't know
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that there is a
need for preparation
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in order to
enjoy the Sabbath fully
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that if we do prepare
then we can have this time
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as more of a Holy
sacred time and yet
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a fun time and enjoyable time.
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And so I felt it
was very important that
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we prepared our home and
ourselves for the Sabbath.
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I guess I go
back to my childhood,
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I didn't that grow up
Seventh-day Adventist.
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I didn't know how
to keep the Sabbath.
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But I started
keeping the Sabbath
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and I would not work on Friday,
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I would work on Friday evening
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but I wouldn't work Saturday.
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And then at home I would go to,
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I would go to
church and then at home
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I would say, oh
where do I go now.
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So I clean out
the doors and doors,
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with the house things.
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So you really didn't learn.
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You didn't know at the time.
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No I did not know.
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But when I went to
college there were girls
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there who had good mothers
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who taught them how to
keep the Sabbath, amen,
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and how to
prepare for the Sabbath
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and they taught me, amen.
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And so it was very
important for me to get
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my house very clean.
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And so as a whole family
we would clean the house.
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Everybody was
bustling around doing
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all sorts of things
in the home and then
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we try to get our food
prepared for the Sabbath.
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We all try to take our
bowls and we all prepared.
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You know I was thinking
about when Moses went up
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on the top of the mountain
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and the people
came he asked them to
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come around the mountain.
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And they were told
to bathe and be cleaned,
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and be ready.
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So if we are ready
for God for Jesus to come
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into our home, to
come and meet with us,
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I know He is
with us all the time.
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I mean to come in
specially and, especially,
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and I think there is too,
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the angels love to be
where we have prepared
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for the Sabbath and
where we have been orderly
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and clean and ready for them.
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I think, just like
the Zacchaeus story
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when Jesus says Zacchaeus
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I'm gonna be in
your house today. Oh yes.
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And he came down from the tree
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and received
Jesus into his house.
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Well Sabbath is
really a time that we receive
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Jesus into our
house a special guest.
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Alright, a special
guest! I would like to mention
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I usually did my own homework
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but there was a period of time
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where we had a
girl from Bolivia,
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Delia who lived in our home
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and it was so special
to walk into the house
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after she had our home all ready
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and our meals all
ready for our family
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and I walk in the
house and I would smell the
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potato dish being prepared,
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the aroma would just
come meet you at the door.
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And then there
was a bread baking
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and you could
smell the fragrance there
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but besides that
there was some mingling
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of lemon pledge
that had been used
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on the furniture and
as we took our baths,
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there's a smell of
dove and all the cleaning
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ingredients and
shampoo fragrances and all,
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and I said you know
I think God likes this.
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I think it's like a incense
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that we sent to the father.
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And it's saying to
him we are ready for you
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and we are
ready for the Sabbath.
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We are ready to worship God.
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We don't have to
worry about all things
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that we still have to do.
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Right, and we
are ready for the God
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and it brings the
Holiness into our home
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and, it's exciting to
have that feeling that
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you are ready for your Lord.
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And if the parents are involved
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that transfers over to
the children's feelings
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and if you get them
involved in preparing
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for the Sabbath and having them
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to recognize it. Now I want
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to go back just
a second about the,
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around the world or
rather about the fragrances
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because around the
world maybe not everyone
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has all of those fragrances.
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But what is just as
important is orderliness
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in preparing that for your home,
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your cleanliness
and things like that.
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I think that's
important to mention
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since not everybody
will have what we have.
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I knew of a young fellow.
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He only had one pair of pants.
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But Friday afternoon
he came back from school
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and he went down to the creek
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and he washed those pants.
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He dried them out
there and they were ready
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in clean for the
Sabbath. Amen, right.
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And all of that preparation,
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I remember when I
was learning about
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all of this and the
couple that nurtured my husband
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and I into the church,
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we didn't have any
children at the time,
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but they nurtured
us into the church
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and as I began to read
and really get involved
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into what God had
for me for the Sabbath.
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One of the things
that was really important
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to me was to put away
our sins to be sure that
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we were in
harmony with each other
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and as the Sabbath drew near
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that we were timely
with what we were doing
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and it took a lot of
thought and planning.
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You're saying
Cathy that it's not just
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a physical material
preparation of polishing
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your shoes or taking the bath.
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There's also a
heart preparation,
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yes there is, asking the God
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to forgive us our sins.
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Absolutely and
making things right
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and harmonious in our home.
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And that if the
world understood,
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if even all the people
of God's family understood
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how close that could bring you,
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if you practice
these things than a lot
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of our heartaches,
pains would not be there
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because we've made it
right with one another.
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You know Friday
is very difficult
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because we have all our goals,
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all these things
we wanna do before
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the Sun goes
down. We wanna be ready
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and so sometimes we
get a little annoyed
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and we were tried to encourage
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the children to
help with the cleaning
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and so there can be
some conflict on Friday.
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And sometimes I
feel like the devil works
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the hardest.
Well I was just gonna
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say something like
that. It seems that way.
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But you know how you
can eliminate a lot of that.
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Friday is the preparation day.
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But we start
early. But we start early.
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I wanna you to say
something about that.
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I wanna go back
to this, on Friday
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when we can't get all
upset with each other.
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I was thinking of one
time Wes was going upstairs
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and I was going downstairs.
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And we had had some conflict
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and so as we were
passing on a stairway.
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Now Wes is your
son. Wes is our son.
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And as we were
passing on the stairway
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I said Wes I'm
sorry I got all uptight
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when the situation happened,
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he says oh mom that's alright.
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I caused you to get uptight.
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You know so this
is kind of on the run
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please forgive me.
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But we really cannot
into what the Sabbath day
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when we are
angry with each other
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on the Sabbath.
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Yeah, I think that's
important to remember
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as much as the, just
the preparing physically
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like you were talking about.
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Well you're gonna say
something else about that.
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You look like maybe you have
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something on your mind.
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Well I was gonna say that really
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there are six
days of preparation.
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Right! That's what
I was talking about
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at a moment ago.
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And so remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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And I'm gonna come back to this.
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If we don't remember from Sunday
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through Friday we
won't be ready on Sabbath.
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Right! So we
need to have a lot of
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forethought into it right.
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We don't want to get
into that too soon I suppose.
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Where we're going next?
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You mentioned
earlier about some missionary
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family stories, you can tell us
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about their Friday
worships and so forth.
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A while ago we were
talking about your family
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before we are on the
set and you mentioned
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you had some special memories.
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And many people
have special memories
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that take them back
to their early childhood
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and I think of
one of my friends,
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her name is Bonnie.
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And she said that
there were missionaries
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in South America.
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John they were in what country?
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In Bolivia! In Bolivia!
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And they lived
way, way out from,
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on the headwaters of the Amazon.
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Yeah! Wow! So they are way off
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from other people.
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So Sabbath was
really very special to them.
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They look forward to the Sabbath
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and they had a special rug.
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It was an alpaca
rug and the whole family
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got on this rug.
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And they wanted to
make the Sabbath a special.
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They wanted to feel like God
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was with them there
in the mission field
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and they would sing their songs
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but they had
your story hour tapes
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and they could be
only listen to on Sabbath,
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on Friday evening.
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So they save it as special.
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They save it for
the Sabbath hours.
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They also had the Bible stories
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and that was just
for the Sabbath hours
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and Bonnie said I
was an avid reader
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and I wanted to hear
the rest of the story.
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And I could hardly wait,
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until next Friday evening,
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until next Friday to
hear the rest of the story.
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Yes. And the food they
planned some special food
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and they brought in
from the distinct lands,
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chocolates so they
can have hot chocolate
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on that evening.
And they had their
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special songs that they sing,
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"Days dying in the West",
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and all these kinds of things.
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But they said now
their family continues
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to do some of the
things that she did
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when she was a child.
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Right! They also have a rug.
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They get on the rug
and they start playing
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tapes of the
songs that they played
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when she was a young girl.
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And they play these songs,
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30 minutes before
the Sabbath arrives,
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really, to bring
them into the mood
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of having worshiped.
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And so they are just
lot of nice memories.
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That makes me think
though of the same thing
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that we did, of
course I don't know
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how far back that was and
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and we did some of
the programs here on 3ABN,
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where we had the menorah
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and we had our
candles lit and daddy
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had the special
one in the center
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and it all had
it's meaning to us
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and we would do that at home
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we turn the lights
out, light these candles
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and the girls were smaller
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and we did this
for several years.
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And our menorah
is packed right now,
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but we miss that
and they have long
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memories about that.
And we would look over the,
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we would get down like
this in the living room
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floor and look over
the table and through the
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candle light each
others eyes and we would say
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thank you as we lit our candles
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and so forth like
that we had fruit soup
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you talked about.
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We would have fruit soup
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and bread and things like that,
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they remember the lot.
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And just a second
and the other thing
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was the special music.
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We had special
music that we only play it
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on Friday when we
were preparing the house.
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And we still like that
music for preparation day.
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And the girls would say,
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Oh! Every time I hear
that I think of preparing
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for Sabbath. And
that's what we want.
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That's the way we like it.
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Yes! When you
were speaking of music
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I also thought about our
family on Friday evening,
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we would have a
special record at that time.
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That was played just as everyone
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went to bed and it was,
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how long has it been
since you talked with the Lord.
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Oh! Yes. And that means so much
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to us even today,
and then on Sabbath.
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Nostalgia! Yes it is.
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And then in the
morning while the kids
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are rising we put
the heritage song,
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The King Is Coming. Oh! Yes.
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And it was exciting and
it just made you realize
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that this is
gonna be a special day,
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the King of
Kings is in our home,
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and we're going to worship today
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this beautiful
King. That's beautiful.
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Well, you want to
add anymore about this
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or let's move on to music
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and the worship hours.
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Well we are used to sing
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"Day is dying in the West".
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It's still a
tradition. It's a good one.
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We still do that. And
then there is also a song
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that our granddaughters,
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grandmother had prepared
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and we would sing that sometime.
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It's in the hymn too.
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But we had a friend K.B. Myers
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who is an author and
then a composer of music
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and we said we
want a new song to sing.
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And we commissioned her to do it
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and she wrote the song
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"Welcome, Welcome Sabbath Day",
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and it's in the mind of key,
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so it kind goes
along with the Jewish
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traditional sounds, right.
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And I like the words.
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And we start with on
Friday evening preparing
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for the Sabbath and so on.
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The second stanza is at
the close of the Sabbath.
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But John the verses so special
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would you just
read the first one,
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the first stanza which
deals with Friday Evening.
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"With the set of
sun the Sabbath day
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has now begun.
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We remember how God rested
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when His work was done.
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He had breath
the brand new world,
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a beauty piece in harmony then
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He made a special day to spend
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with his new family.
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Welcome, Welcome Sabbath day,
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the Queen of all the week.
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Come Lord Jesus; come to us,
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your presence sweet we seek.
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Speak to us
through your Holy Word
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through the flower bride
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and the singing bird,
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through the rippling brook
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and wind soft touch.
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Dear, dear Jesus
we love you very much.
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Amen. That's beautiful.
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And we sing it.
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And, and it moves right along.
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If you have a minor key slow
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it's a thinner drudge,
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but if you have one
that moves right along,
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it's very alive and happy.
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Oh! Is that right?
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I would like to hear it.
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I wish we could have heard it,
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I know that we would,
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we had wanted but
it was just impossible
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but I thank you
for reading the words.
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Music is really so
important for Friday
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evening to get everybody going.
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And we just like
this particular song
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we just thankful that
the Lord impressed her,
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what to say in the song. Okay.
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Now we wanna go to,
we've had a wonderful
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Sabbath day and we could
say what are the elements
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that day would have in it. Okay.
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So you come on Sabbath day
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what made this a great day,
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what makes it a good Sabbath.
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And I just like to
mention maybe five things
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with a little introduction.
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Really the business
of life I think Kathy
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is to make good memories.
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You know they
can take everything
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else away from us,
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we can lose our
material blessings, yes,
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but those memories nobody can,
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it becomes really important
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as we grow along.
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So we look back as a family
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and as children
and we have nostalgia
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as we think of
those Sabbath traditions
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and memories. To
be a good Sabbath,
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I think that
there ought to be a time
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of personal
growth, a personal devotion
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with the Lord
that we come to the end
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of the day and we
say I feel renewed,
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I feel restored from
that whole experience.
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But I think Kathy
that in order to have
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that we would have to
plan all during the week.
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If I was running
around like a chicken
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and the head cutoff for six days
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then I come to Sun down
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and probably the best thing
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I could do is a collapse.
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We feel like a chicken
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with her head cut off, alright.
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And so keeping the Sabbath Jesus
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said broadly, Ten Commandments
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say remember the Seventh-day,
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the Sabbath day to keep it holy.
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I need to remember all week.
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And Millie and I have to
look at our own lifestyle
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and maybe our
viewers feel the same way
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that this really calls
us to a kind of a lifestyle
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all week long that if
we can't keep to Sabbath
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right because
life is just to busy
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something is wrong
with the other six days
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and maybe we're
not really living
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in God's priorities
and with God's agenda.
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We need to check ourselves
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out a little bit. That's right.
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This is a
little evaluation form,
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so. Going back to
this planning to make it
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really special,
there was one family
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that I knew that,
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they would
always ask the children
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now Sabbath it will
be here in three days
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what would you like to
do during the Sabbath time?
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And often the children
say we wanna go this zoo,
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or we wanna go
on this walk or down
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to the beach to
walk through the shores
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or whatever, but the parents
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said if you can't
think of something
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that you would like
to do we can think of
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something for you.
But they always gave
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the children the chance to say,
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hey let's do this and
then they would be happier
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because they were doing
what they would like to do.
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Right! You know if
I could add something
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that happened here
I think I've said it
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recently to someone else
but I would like to add it
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here as well. My daughter and I,
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our older
daughter who was leaving,
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she'd been home for the
first time in five years
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and it was a special
time for her to be at home
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for longer than
ten days or two days
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or something like that.
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And it was coming close for her
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not to be leaving again.
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And my husband and
our younger daughter
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had gone off to a crusade
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and they were working in that
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and the two of us
had stayed back home.
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And at the time we
live up in South Dakota
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and we were walking down.
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We had exercise in
the afternoon little bit
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after everything else
and then we were walking down
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the road and
there was a beaver pond.
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There is a
beaver pond and the red,
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red rocks are there on the side
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and it echoes all
around and the water
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was clear and that
night the moon was coming up.
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So we sat out
there Friday evening
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and we said why don't
we just get on the rock
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and welcome the Sabbath for,
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out here tonight.
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So before that was happening,
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just you know before the sunset
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and we were on
the rock and she laid,
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she is 20 and she
laid her head on my lap
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and we just wrapped
up around each other
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and it was kind of
cool so we were really
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kind of getting close
and warm with each other
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and because it's
important in her life
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is to who her
companion maybe in the future.
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We had a special talk
about that sort of thing
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and how God would feel about it
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and we entered into the Sabbath
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with a prayer there
on the rock as the moon
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came up over
the beaver pond and,
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and she had tears running
down her face and I know,
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she told me she
wrote in her journal
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this has burned into my memory.
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I'll never forget the warmth
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that we have there
and as we prayed maybe
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there is someone that
will be for her future
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young man, for her companion
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that who might be praying
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under this
moonlit night tonight.
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And, but we brought
in the Sabbath this way
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and it was very, very nice.
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And it's, we'll never forget it.
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I think John and his son,
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our son John had a
very special Sabbath
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once on the canoe
where a blessing was given.
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He was 40 and we
went out to camping
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just the two of us again.
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Really! And in a
canoe out there in the lake,
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Sabbath ahead our Bible study
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and I said son I'm being hungry
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let's go back in
the camp and chow down.
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He said wait a minute dad,
00:21:53.64\00:21:54.92
he says like ask your favor.
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I said what it would be.
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He said I'd like
to ask you to give me
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the paternal blessing.
00:22:02.86\00:22:04.31
Oh! I think that's beautiful.
00:22:04.32\00:22:06.25
And tears are
coming in your eyes.
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And so these two grown men right
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in the middle of a canoe
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and I put my
hands son John's head
00:22:12.30\00:22:17.44
said the Lord
bless you and keep you
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the Lord lift up his come,
00:22:19.23\00:22:20.96
lifts upon you
and give you peace,
00:22:20.97\00:22:23.84
and made a
personalized special prayer
00:22:23.85\00:22:27.49
for his particular circumstance,
00:22:27.50\00:22:29.96
and I finished that prayer.
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There were tears coming down
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and she sees two
grown men out there
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in the middle of that
lake. Yes. I like that.
00:22:35.98\00:22:37.19
I like that and tears
in Millie's eyes right now.
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There are just some
of these very special
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moments on the Sabbath hours
00:22:41.90\00:22:45.20
where you can
have freedom to talk
00:22:45.21\00:22:47.22
and get close to each other.
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I'm thankful that
you're intimidated
00:22:48.84\00:22:50.15
by that request and
that you could follow
00:22:50.16\00:22:52.34
through as a father.
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Okay, you know we
don't have a lot of time
00:22:53.45\00:22:55.68
left you've got
a lot to say of it.
00:22:55.69\00:22:57.02
So a good Sabbath would say
00:22:57.03\00:22:59.63
a time of personal growth,
00:22:59.64\00:23:01.15
a time for also a
time for corporate worship.
00:23:01.16\00:23:05.91
We shouldn't forget
the meeting together,
00:23:05.92\00:23:08.85
fellowship together,
00:23:08.86\00:23:09.83
as a church
family we need each other
00:23:09.84\00:23:11.90
as a family. And then
00:23:11.91\00:23:14.60
the prayers of those
I love, that's right.
00:23:14.61\00:23:16.53
I think a good Sabbath are
00:23:16.54\00:23:18.71
that have family time in it.
00:23:18.72\00:23:21.21
God made the family at creation
00:23:21.22\00:23:23.87
God also made the
Sabbath its creation.
00:23:23.88\00:23:26.18
Now the two were
made for each other.
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We could establish
that theologically.
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It's a time for nature
and we were saying before,
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yes, nature is a necessarily
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God's second proclamation.
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Oh! We were talking about that.
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Yeah Jim Tucker told me that
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the first time I
ever heard that because
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usually we hear
that God's second book
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of nature, but he
says now I think God's
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first book was nature
because it was there before
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anything was written. Go ahead.
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But I just want to
add to this children
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are so energetic ours were,
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oh they were all over the place.
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They had so much
energy and when we took
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a mountain nature,
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by the end of the day
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they had lost
some of their energy
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but it was so much fun.
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I remember there was a tree
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where it was
hollowed out and the children
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will go up top of
the tree and stand up
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and poke their head out
from the top of the tree.
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And we would go
to the sand dunes
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and just we had
such a wonderful time.
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We have unbelievable memories.
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The family with some friends
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up on top of the sand
dunes by Lake Michigan,
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the Sun going down on the West
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and it happened
that as that golden orb
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just hit their
horizon situated there
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with the skyscrapers in Chicago
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with what at that
time was a world's tallest
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building right in the Sun.
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And you just can't forget these
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kinds of things.
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Right all those
are beautiful memories.
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I just enjoy them
so much. What else?
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I think Kathy that the Sabbath
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will be a day
you can look back on
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and say well we did some good
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maybe let's take a
flower to a neighbor
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or food basket or whatever,
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singing thing
in the nursing home
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or other thing,
visit a prison camp,
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a prison man or
whatever, doing good.
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Mother can make
some extra dessert
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and take over to an
inviolate or someone else.
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I think that's
another, that's do good,
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having been made
on the preparation day
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or the other day,
yeah that's right,
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and if we probably
think of these doing
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good things on Thursday,
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Friday or earlier in the wake.
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Well there was something
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that I was
thinking of a moment ago
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about the Sabbath
and Sister White talked
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about how Kellogg
taught their children
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and he would point
out things in nature
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and teach them about God.
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So it wasn't just
a rip snorting day
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necessarily out.
No. And I was taught
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when I first came
into the church to remember
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to speak about God
as we were out in nature
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and to trying the
children to think about
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things of nature
and we did a little game
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where we would gather up things
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and at the end at
whispers at the end of Sabbath
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on Saturday night,
we would say what does
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this remind you
out of God's word
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and how does this
reminds you of the
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blood of Christ or
and they would tell us
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little things like
that, out of nature they would
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gather up pieces of things.
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I think we're
saying that Sabbath
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is special and
these memories are primate
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the whole week.
I tell you a story
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that a missionary
traveled to far away
00:26:33.71\00:26:35.79
land and there he was,
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they just had their
worship and suddenly
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there was a knock at his door.
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So he went to see who was there
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and there was indigenous man
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from that
country and he said well
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I would like to
join your church.
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And the missionary
was a little mystified
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and it said well
you must have come
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and heard my
meetings, haven't you?
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No I never heard your meetings.
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Have you read a book?
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I don't know your black book.
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Well what do you know?
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He said well I
have heard the laughter
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and the singing in your home
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and I would like my
home to be just like yours.
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Oh! Amen. A witness isn't it?
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You know I want to thank you.
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You're going to be coming back
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we're gonna do some
really special Sabbath
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tradition things
right, next time.
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And I want to invite
our viewers to come back
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with us and if your
Sabbath is not exactly
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the way you
would like for to be,
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just listen to
this and pray about it
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and may the
Lord bless you as you
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incorporate these
things into your life.
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And I'm going to ask
Millie to pray for us
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as we go out,
please pray for us.
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Dear heavenly
Father we just thank you
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that you gave us a Sabbath day.
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Lord we can come
apart in rest of all.
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You knew we need it
the Sabbath, you know.
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