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Speaker 1: Hello, friends, Welcome to Story Behind podcast. This is the

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Speaker 1: show for people who love hearing a good story and

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Speaker 1: who believe the world could use more positivity. We're the

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Speaker 1: team behind God Updates and God Too, and we hope

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Speaker 1: these weekly short stories will brighten your day.

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Speaker 2: High Schoolers take a class and give back by fixing

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Speaker 2: cars and donating them to single moms. Written by Heather Wrinkleman,

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Speaker 2: read by Julie Propost. High schoolers take a class and

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Speaker 2: give back to the community by fixing cars and donating

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Speaker 2: them to single moms. I cannot love this active kindness

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Speaker 2: and compassion more than I do. What an incredible way

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Speaker 2: to teach about selfless giving, compassion, and learning a trade

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Speaker 2: all at once. There are some stories that just don't

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Speaker 2: make you smile. They make your heart pause, soften, and whisper.

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Speaker 2: This is what it looks like to love your neighbor well.

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Speaker 2: In Luisa County in Virginia, a group of high school

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Speaker 2: students are doing something extraordinary with ordinary tools in a

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Speaker 2: classroom that spells like oil and metal and hard work.

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Speaker 2: They're not just learning to trade, they're learning how to

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Speaker 2: change someone's entire life. These students, kids really are rolling

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Speaker 2: up their sleeves and repairing donated cars, not for a grade,

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Speaker 2: not for recognition, but for single moms who need a

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Speaker 2: way forward. They're a partnership with nonprofit Giving Words, founded

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Speaker 2: by Eddie and Jenny Brown. These cars are restored and

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Speaker 2: given away at no cost because they realize something simple

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Speaker 2: and profound. Without transportation, everything else feels out of reach. Jobs, education,

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Speaker 2: doctor's appointments, stability. So these teenagers step into the gap.

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Speaker 2: They check every bolt, tighten every screw, make sure everything

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Speaker 2: is torque to spec because they know what's at stake.

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Speaker 2: This isn't just a project, it's someone's future sitting on

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Speaker 2: four wheels, and oh the beauty of that kind of responsibility.

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Speaker 2: One student shared how emotional it becomes watching the moms

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Speaker 2: receive their cars. When they tear up and cry, it

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Speaker 2: makes you want to cheer up and cry, and you

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Speaker 2: can just picture it, can't you. Grease still on their hands,

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Speaker 2: standing a little taller, realizing they didn't just fix a car,

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Speaker 2: they help restore hope. Their teachers. Shane Robinson Wants, a

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Speaker 2: student in that very same program, said it best. It's

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Speaker 2: not just a car, it's not just nuts of bolts,

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Speaker 2: It's literally a difference between somebody making it and somebody not.

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Speaker 2: And there it is because for Jessica Williams, a single

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Speaker 2: mom up three, this wasn't just a set of keys.

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Speaker 2: It was a doorway, a chance to go back to school,

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Speaker 2: to get a better job, to have more time with

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Speaker 2: her children, to breathe again. And she won't forget the

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Speaker 2: hands that made it possible. Neither will we, because in

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Speaker 2: a world that can feel loud and heavy and uncertain,

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Speaker 2: here are these teenagers quietly choosing compassion, learning that real

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Speaker 2: success isn't just about what you build for yourself, but

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Speaker 2: what you give away to someone else. And I don't

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Speaker 2: know about you, but I think that that's the kind

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Speaker 2: of lesson that changes everything. Carry each other's burdens, and

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Speaker 2: in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ

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Speaker 2: Galatians six' to. Two he fought in three. Wars now

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Speaker 2: this veteran is celebrating one hundred years of. Life written

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Speaker 2: By Heather, wrigglemann read By Juli. Provost can you believe

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Speaker 2: this man fought in three? Wars and now this veteran

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Speaker 2: is celebrating one hundred years of. Life and here's the

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Speaker 2: kicker he's aiming for one hundred and. Ten there's something deeply,

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Speaker 2: humbling almost sacred about a life that stretches across one hundred.

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Speaker 2: Years and when you look at the story Of John,

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Speaker 2: mozilla you can't help but pause and take it. In

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Speaker 2: one hundred years a full century of, living, loving, serving

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Speaker 2: and still choosing to wake up every day with. Purpose

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Speaker 2: it's not just, impressive it's inspiring in a way that

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Speaker 2: settles deep in your. Bones he didn't just live those,

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Speaker 2: years he filled. Them for thirty years he served faithfully

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Speaker 2: in the, military stepping into some of the hardest seasons

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Speaker 2: our world has, Known World War, two The Korean, war

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Speaker 2: and The Vietnam. War thirty years of showing, up of,

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Speaker 2: perseverance of doing what needed to be done even when

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Speaker 2: it wasn't. Easy and if that alone doesn't leave you in,

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Speaker 2: all what he did after retirement. Will he kept. Going

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Speaker 2: most people might slow down after a lifetime of, service

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Speaker 2: but Not. John he lighted up his shoes and started running.

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Speaker 2: Marathons not just any, marathons but one that pushed his,

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Speaker 2: limits like running Up Pike's, peak a mountain that rises

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Speaker 2: over fourteen thousand feet into the, sky three times at

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Speaker 2: an age where most are told to take it. Easy

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Speaker 2: he leaned into, strength, movement and, determination and even, now

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Speaker 2: at one hundred years, old he's still, walking still lifting,

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Speaker 2: weights still living with. Intention but maybe what stands out

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Speaker 2: even more than his strength is his. Spirit after losing

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Speaker 2: his wife of sixty three, years a kind of heartbreak

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Speaker 2: most of us can't even imagine, carrying he still chooses.

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Speaker 2: Optimism he still speaks. Life he still looks ahead and,

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Speaker 2: Says i'm going for one hundred and. Ten there's something

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Speaker 2: so powerful about that kind of, hope the kind that

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Speaker 2: refuses to dim even after, loss even after time has

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Speaker 2: taken so. Much he, Added i'm an optimistic. Individual in

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Speaker 2: spite of losing my wife after sixty three years of.

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Speaker 2: Marriage i'm still positive about, Life optimistic and. Positive it

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Speaker 2: makes you stop and, think what does it mean to really?

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Speaker 2: Live not to just, exist not to just get through the,

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Speaker 2: days but to keep showing up with, courage with, grit

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Speaker 2: with a willingness to keep moving forward no matter what

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Speaker 2: season you're. In john's life is a reminder that purpose

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Speaker 2: doesn't expire no matter how old we, are that strength

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Speaker 2: isn't limited by. Age it's never too late to keep,

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Speaker 2: dreaming keep, moving keep believing there's still more. Ahead and

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Speaker 2: maybe that's what makes his one hundred years so, extraordinary

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Speaker 2: not just the, number but the way he, lived every

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Speaker 2: single one of, them even to your old age and gray.

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Speaker 2: HAIRS i am. HE i am he who sustain. YOU

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Speaker 2: i have made, you AND i will carry. YOU i

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Speaker 2: will sustain, you AND i will rescue. You isaiah forty six.

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