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Speaker 1: The season is meant to inspire If you're struggling, today's

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Speaker 1: More important than the gifters' identities, Hope learns about love, forgiveness,

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Speaker 1: Jars cookbook, which is in the right tradition far more

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Speaker 1: Love Someone Holiday Style Holiday Edition and with me on

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Speaker 1: today's show, Jason and Cody Wright, how many how many

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Speaker 2: Long, right, all inexpensive and easy to do and nothing,

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Speaker 1: Cody, Right, It's not a cookbook that you're going to

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Speaker 1: a gift to the heart. So, Cody, how many how

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Speaker 1: Well, I pray that God continues the movement continues to

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Speaker 2: Because this is the first radio interview Cody and I

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Speaker 1: That's Mercyships dot org. So, Jason and Cody, I know

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Speaker 1: that that it's been twenty years since the original Christmas Jars,

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Speaker 1: but you haven't been just like setting around taking pictures

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Speaker 1: twenty years, what are you guys doing? Oh, boy, and

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Speaker 2: Now we have I've written a few more books, twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty books since that one, A couple more that are

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Speaker 2: in the Christmas Jars universe, as they say, some other novels,

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Speaker 2: I might be the only author dumb enough to say

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Speaker 2: You most say, it's well, whoa you.

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Speaker 3: Have ever, ever, ever, ever ever ever heard that?

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Speaker 2: Oh, I'm telling you, the movie is so so good.

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Speaker 2: They did a terrific job. And lately, BOYD For the

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Speaker 2: movement that launched kind of unexpectedly in our lives about

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Speaker 2: more than fifty thousand dollars in gift cards for meals

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Speaker 2: to the un house and the lonely, and the wandering,

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Speaker 2: now become a formal nonprofit that we're standing up in

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Speaker 2: twenty twenty six and it's been such a blessing to

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Speaker 2: meet people now in thirty three states, we've given these

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Speaker 2: cards away for meals and gotten to meet some people

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Speaker 2: who more than a little bit of food, need a

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Speaker 1: And how do people find out about all these things?

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Speaker 1: How can they contact you if they want to get

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Speaker 1: involved with Christmas jars, Kindness cards or just putting love

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Speaker 1: into action being the You know, there's a great quote

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Speaker 1: that God wants us to the blessed of the feet

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Speaker 1: your hands and feet doing good work and bringing good news.

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Speaker 2: I appreciate that. I always like to tell people that

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Speaker 2: you can't be the hands and feed of the Lord

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Speaker 2: unless you're first the eyes. You have to have your

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Speaker 2: eyes open to see the needs of other people. And

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Speaker 2: now that's all we're trying to do with these different projects.

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Speaker 2: So you can visit Jasonoffright dot com, the Kindnesscard Movement

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Speaker 2: dot com and see some of our press appearances around

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Speaker 2: the country and write up some different newspapers, magazines and

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Speaker 2: websites and all the things links to the books. But

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Speaker 2: most importantly, we would just invite people to just go

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Speaker 2: do something this holiday season for someone, whether it's a

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Speaker 2: Christmas jar, or a kindness card or a plate of cookies,

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Speaker 2: just go see someone and love them the way that

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Speaker 2: God does.

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Speaker 1: You know, local fire stations get really excited when you

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Speaker 1: bring in plates of cookies and cukcakes. Great Cody and Jason,

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Speaker 1: thank you, and God just continue to bless you, Bless

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Speaker 1: everything you put your hand to.

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Speaker 3: Well, thank you, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas.

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Speaker 3: Merry Christmas to you.

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Speaker 1: Jason Wright, Cody Wright. Your time has been such a gift.

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Speaker 1: Your message is beautiful, It's important, and I hope you

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Speaker 1: continue to share it far and wide. And I am

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Speaker 1: especially grateful to you for being with us twenty years

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Speaker 1: ago and again today. The Christmas Jars cookbook marks two

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Speaker 1: decades of a kindness movement that has changed countless lives.

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Speaker 1: In it, Cody and Jason invite you to cook, to craft,

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Speaker 1: to connect, ah to connect with others in new creative ways.

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Speaker 1: It is available wherever books are sold. It includes a

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Speaker 1: special section of personal Christmas Jar memories from the Right family,

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Speaker 1: including the children that grew up with the phenomenon, Oakley, JD. Jason,

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Speaker 1: and Colson Oakley, JD. Cason, and Colson, each contributing their

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Speaker 1: stories of meaningful moments. Twenty years on, The Right's family's

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Speaker 1: message remains the same as that first year. Small, simple

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Speaker 1: acts of kindness can change lives, sometimes even your own.

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Speaker 1: Merry Christmas, my friends. I hope you are safe and

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Speaker 1: well and feeling loved and valued. We are celebrating a beautiful,

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Speaker 1: miraculous season. If you aren't putting up a single twinkling

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Speaker 1: light or even exchanging one gift, I hope you're still

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Speaker 1: able to feel the Christmas spirit in your heart. To

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Speaker 1: that end, I'll leave you with a quote from one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite Christmas characters, The Grinch. It came without ribbons,

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Speaker 1: it came without tags, It came without packages, boxes or bags.

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Speaker 1: And he puzzled and puzzled till his puzzler was sore.

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Speaker 1: Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What

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Speaker 1: of Christmas? He thought, doesn't come from a store? Maybe

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Speaker 1: Christmas perhaps means a little bit more. Wishing you all

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Speaker 1: the joys all the love of the season. Let's meet

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Speaker 1: again here next year on Season eight of Love Someone.

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Speaker 1: Until then, join me each evening as I share Christmas

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Speaker 1: music and stories from the heart with you via the radio.

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Speaker 1: Lord bless you, and take some time out of your

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Speaker 1: busy holiday schedule to slow down and love someone