Speaker 1: In some of our podcasts that I've been recording, and
Speaker 1: on some of our live Facebook feeds that I've been doing,
Speaker 1: and in a lot of our calls and letters on
Speaker 1: the radio, I've been touching upon the topic of recovery.
Speaker 1: And one of the tools that I use every day
Speaker 1: in my life and my own life are books, meditation
Speaker 1: books and inspirational books that just every day give me
Speaker 1: something to think about every day, give me a little
Speaker 1: piece of wisdom. And I wanted to share a couple
Speaker 1: of those thoughts with you today. One is by somebody
Speaker 1: named Charlie Shed, and Charlie Shed said, patience is a
Speaker 1: particular requirement. Without it, you can destroy in an hour
Speaker 1: what might take you weeks to repair. For some of us,
Speaker 1: it doesn't even take an hour. It just takes two
Speaker 1: or three minutes. Have you ever typed something out and
Speaker 1: then hit send and then had to spend the next
Speaker 1: few days or weeks trying to repair the damage. Here's
Speaker 1: the thing. You can't repair that kind of damage because
Speaker 1: once once a china cup is broken, you can glue
Speaker 1: it back together, but it's never going to hold tea again.
Speaker 1: Once you put a hole in the picasso and you
Speaker 1: tear the fabric. You can try to put tape on
Speaker 1: the back, you can try to put paint on the
Speaker 1: chips that you tore off, but it's never going to
Speaker 1: be whole again. So that's why patience is a particular
Speaker 1: requirement in life. When you enjoy a moment to its fullest,
Speaker 1: and you can learn to be patient with your thoughts,
Speaker 1: that then governs your actions. It's something, sadly that's taken
Speaker 1: me years to learn, because I am not a patient
Speaker 1: person by nature, and I will say things off the cuff.
Speaker 1: I will hit send without thinking it through, and I
Speaker 1: will feel justified in it because I'm right. My producer, Janie,
Speaker 1: on the other hand, is much more patient than me,
Speaker 1: and she and I both agreed years ago it is
Speaker 1: better to be effective than to prove you are right.
Speaker 1: And so now when I'm feeling like hitting send, I
Speaker 1: will call her and I'll say, please talk me through
Speaker 1: this before I hit dear jerk, stop me, and we
Speaker 1: talk it through. And a lot of times, once I
Speaker 1: get that poison, that anger out of my system, I
Speaker 1: can use reason before I hit send. Do you have
Speaker 1: patience in your life or do you think you need
Speaker 1: to have something? And you need to say it. You
Speaker 1: need to say it now. Other people need to hear it,
Speaker 1: and they need to act on it. That's not patience,
Speaker 1: that's immaturity. I know I recognize that well because that
Speaker 1: was me for so many years, and it still is me.
Speaker 1: When I'm tired, when I'm hungry, angry, or lonely or tired,
Speaker 1: halt hungry, angry, lonely or tired, That's when I know
Speaker 1: I don't hit sin. That's when I know I shouldn't
Speaker 1: call somebody and give them a piece of my mind.
Speaker 1: That's when I know maybe I should cancel a meeting
Speaker 1: because I'm going to be ugly in that meeting. Patience
Speaker 1: is a particular requirement. Do you have the patience it
Speaker 1: requires to be a good husband, a good wife, a
Speaker 1: good friend, a good employee, a good boss, a good leader,
Speaker 1: a good follower? Do you have the patience it requires
Speaker 1: to be a good and decent and kind human being?
Speaker 1: Our world needs needs kindness right now. More than anything.
Speaker 1: Our world needs kindness. There are people who have been very,
Speaker 1: very wounded by cruel words spoken by impatient people, and
Speaker 1: their response is to speak cruel words back, and the
Speaker 1: same kind of ugly that hurt them, they feel justified
Speaker 1: in hurting others with That's not patience, that's not kindness,
Speaker 1: that's not love. That's not going to get us anywhere.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not going to get us anywhere when
Speaker 1: you reach out and love, when you put your need
Speaker 1: to be right and to prove your right aside, when
Speaker 1: you use patience before you respond or when you act,
Speaker 1: everything changes. When your heart is motivated by kindness, everything changes.
Speaker 1: And it's so hard to do when you feel like
Speaker 1: you've been attacked, when you feel you've been wronged, and
Speaker 1: when you have been wronged, and I'm not saying when
Speaker 1: you feel like it unjustified when you have been when
Speaker 1: you have been wronged, when you have been attacked, when
Speaker 1: somebody has hurt you, it is so hard to be
Speaker 1: patient or kind. I think that's why God tells us
Speaker 1: to turn the other cheek. That literally means when somebody
Speaker 1: strikes you on one side of the face, to turn
Speaker 1: the other cheek, not to strike back. And that's oh,
Speaker 1: such a hard lesson for people like me. Yeah, forgiveness
Speaker 1: does not come naturally to me, just like patience does
Speaker 1: not come naturally to me. Neither does forgiveness I'm a fighter.
Speaker 1: I was born that way, but I don't need to
Speaker 1: stay that way because it's not going to help make
Speaker 1: the world a better place. My job, my ultimate mission
Speaker 1: that I feel God has called me to in this world,
Speaker 1: is to make the world a better place by sharing
Speaker 1: the reality of God's love with as many people as
Speaker 1: I possibly can. And the way that I'm going to
Speaker 1: do that is one heart at a time. The way
Speaker 1: that I'm going to do that is by learning to
Speaker 1: be patient, learning to be kind, learning to turn the
Speaker 1: other cheek, learning that people will know my faith not
Speaker 1: by my words, but by my love. I don't want
Speaker 1: you to know my faith to say, hey, Delilah believes
Speaker 1: blah blah blah because of my words. Saint Francis of
Speaker 1: ASSISI I think it was said, go out and share
Speaker 1: the gospel. And if you must use words, I don't
Speaker 1: want to have to use words for you to know
Speaker 1: my faith. I want you to know my faith by
Speaker 1: my actions. I want my life to exemplify, to be
Speaker 1: a model of patience and kindness and goodness and mercy,
Speaker 1: not just to those who deserve it, but especially to
Speaker 1: those who don't deserve it. I want my life to
Speaker 1: be a model of God's love, of God's light in
Speaker 1: a dark and dying world. I want my life, my words,
Speaker 1: my actions, the way I conduct myself to be a
Speaker 1: light in the darkness. And when I am impatient, when
Speaker 1: I am feeling justified in being right or insisting on
Speaker 1: my way, I'm not shining that light at all. No,
Speaker 1: I'm not shining that light, and I'm quenching that light
Speaker 1: for others. I don't want to quench the light. I
Speaker 1: don't want to blow out the candle of hope. I
Speaker 1: want to fan the flames of hope until it's a
Speaker 1: bright light on a hill for all to see. I
Speaker 1: want my life, my actions, the way that I respond
Speaker 1: to my kids, to your kids, to the neighbor kids,
Speaker 1: The way that I treat my animals, the way that
Speaker 1: I treat my dogs and my horses. I want that
Speaker 1: to shine the light of God. The way that I
Speaker 1: talk to you on the phone, the way that I
Speaker 1: answer my email messages, the way that I work with
Speaker 1: my employees, or the way that I am an employee
Speaker 1: because I work for somebody. The way that I submit
Speaker 1: my authority even if I disagree veheimately with what they're saying.
Speaker 1: I want my life to shine the love of God.
Speaker 1: So today I encourage you to practice patience, to develop patience,
Speaker 1: to be a light in the darkness, to be especially kind,
Speaker 1: To be kind to those who deserve it, to be
Speaker 1: kind to strangers on the street, to be kind to yourself,
Speaker 1: and to be kind to those who don't deserve it. Faith, hope,
Speaker 1: and love. But the greatest of these is love. Do
Speaker 1: you share your love with others in a tangible way?
Speaker 1: Do you share your love? Do you share your faith
Speaker 1: in a way that people see by your actions that
Speaker 1: it's strong and true and real? Or do you just
Speaker 1: use words. I hope the words that I speak on
Speaker 1: the radio. I hope that the words that I speak
Speaker 1: in these podcasts are on my Facebook live feeds are
Speaker 1: backed up by my actions. If they're not, then they
Speaker 1: mean nothing. If I'm not backing up my words with
Speaker 1: my actions in the way I conduct my life, those
Speaker 1: words mean nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing. They're just I'm just
Speaker 1: a clanging symbol. There's a scripture that says, but you
Speaker 1: can know all the words in the Bible, you can
Speaker 1: have all the faith in the world. You can be
Speaker 1: a holy man or a holy woman. But if you
Speaker 1: have not love. You're just a clanging symbol. You're just
Speaker 1: making noise. If you don't have love for strangers, for
Speaker 1: your family, for your enemies, then nothing you say is
Speaker 1: worth anything. If you have not love, your a clanging symbol.
Speaker 1: I don't want to be a clanging symbol. There's too
Speaker 1: much noise in this world. There is too much noise,
Speaker 1: ugly noise, screaming noise, violent noise, ugly vulgar words. People
Speaker 1: behaving in such ugly vulgar ways, happy to offend others
Speaker 1: because they're right. They're right, they have the right, they
Speaker 1: get to They feel like they are justified to hurt
Speaker 1: others and to behave in ways that are just disgusting.
Speaker 1: Show love, Have love, Demonstrate love by your actions, by
Speaker 1: your words, by the way you conduct yourself, by the
Speaker 1: way you treat others. Faith, hope, and love. But the
Speaker 1: greatest of these is love. Thank you for sharing this
Speaker 1: time on this podcast with me. I invite you to
Speaker 1: go out and love boldly, to use patience and kindness
Speaker 1: and all that you do and all your activities and
Speaker 1: in all your relationships, and to love boldly. I also
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