WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.760 --> 00:00:13.640 Adventist Radio London inspiration for the song good afternoon, Good afternoon, Good afternoon. 2 00:00:15.320 --> 00:00:19.839 Welcome to Talking Point. It is a wonderful Sabbath day, and I 3 00:00:19.879 --> 00:00:23.559 hope you're all having a good sabbath. From what I can see, the 4 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:28.480 sun is shining, the sky is blue, and it's the first of July. 5 00:00:29.440 --> 00:00:34.960 We are officially halfway through the year, so welcome to Talking Point. 6 00:00:35.920 --> 00:00:40.439 We've got a wonderful show ahead of us today and with me, I'm in 7 00:00:40.479 --> 00:00:44.439 Shuja today at the desk by myself, well not quite by myself, actually, 8 00:00:45.320 --> 00:00:49.399 my favorite person, Josephine, is hanging out with us today. And 9 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:53.600 then on zoom we've got Zenya. How are you doing, Zenya? I 10 00:00:53.679 --> 00:00:58.880 am very well. Good afternoon everyone, Happy Sabbath, and welcome to Talking 11 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.399 Point. Yes, and hopefully Pedro will be joining us at some point later 12 00:01:03.439 --> 00:01:07.319 on. It's got another engagement, so it'll be myself and Sonia having a 13 00:01:07.319 --> 00:01:14.079 conversation. So to get us started, we'll say a word of prayer and 14 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:17.200 then we are going to Yeah, I've got an interesting topic that we can 15 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:22.120 talk about today, So yes, let's pray. Father God. I want 16 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:26.000 to thank you for blessing us with a wonderful Sabbath day, Dear Lord. 17 00:01:26.239 --> 00:01:30.000 The beauty of Sabbath is that we can take time out to rest, hopefully 18 00:01:30.159 --> 00:01:34.280 and to focus our minds and hearts on you, dear Lord. Today we're 19 00:01:34.280 --> 00:01:38.760 going to be saying thank you for the many things that you do, but 20 00:01:38.840 --> 00:01:42.599 also people around us as well. I thank you for blessing our listeners. 21 00:01:42.319 --> 00:01:47.680 I pray that they will be blessed by the program and it'll set them up 22 00:01:47.680 --> 00:01:53.200 for a good week. This is my prayer. Amen. The clue was 23 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:57.519 in my part of my prayer there. I started up by saying thank you 24 00:01:59.120 --> 00:02:01.640 because I was going to be our topic for today. We're gonna be talking 25 00:02:01.680 --> 00:02:07.439 about saying thank you and the idea of gratitude and what that means for us. 26 00:02:07.759 --> 00:02:12.159 Yeah, soor of an interesting one really, And there's a reason why 27 00:02:12.240 --> 00:02:15.680 we are talking about thank you saying thank you as well, So I'll share 28 00:02:15.719 --> 00:02:21.639 the a second. But Zenya, how are we and how is your week 29 00:02:21.719 --> 00:02:25.759 being? Oh gosh, it's always a bit of a blurer, I think, 30 00:02:27.439 --> 00:02:29.319 Oh yeah, I remember the last time I said that. I got 31 00:02:29.319 --> 00:02:35.960 such a grilling. It's such a blur. Why is it? What's been 32 00:02:36.000 --> 00:02:42.800 happening to make the blur it to be so blurry, very pot just so 33 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:46.000 much. I mean you said it at the top. It's already mid year, 34 00:02:46.360 --> 00:02:51.520 and I feel like it was just yesterday that we were ringing in twenty 35 00:02:51.599 --> 00:02:54.439 twenty three. It just seems to be flying by the days, the weeks, 36 00:02:54.439 --> 00:03:00.639 the months even. But of course I've got to shout out to Josephine, 37 00:03:00.759 --> 00:03:06.439 I've got to shout out past the ray. He's celebrating his birthday even 38 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:12.560 now, yes, and that we had an amazing time with him and the 39 00:03:12.719 --> 00:03:19.000 brethren last night as we just gave God thanks, sort of in tune with 40 00:03:19.039 --> 00:03:23.199 our program today, just giving God thanks for his life and his ministry. 41 00:03:23.240 --> 00:03:29.680 So that was really for me the highlight of the week. Also doing a 42 00:03:29.680 --> 00:03:35.719 bit of mortgage shopping and property shopping as of things going on. So it's 43 00:03:35.759 --> 00:03:40.080 really been busy as well as work and the usual. So yeah, he's 44 00:03:40.080 --> 00:03:47.319 giving God thanks for life and for he's keeping mercies. Really yeah, because 45 00:03:47.319 --> 00:03:53.039 it can be exhausting and overwhelming, but God, you know, yeah, 46 00:03:53.120 --> 00:03:55.599 yeah, no, definitely, and I definitely hear you on the exhaustedness because 47 00:03:55.680 --> 00:04:00.159 now I've come to the end of the weekend. Week's been really busy and 48 00:04:00.199 --> 00:04:06.960 actually quite stressful. Actually I have the role of a career. It does 49 00:04:08.000 --> 00:04:11.960 take its toll, as it were, kind of being on all the time, 50 00:04:12.000 --> 00:04:15.120 and you know, never know quite what's going to happen from day to 51 00:04:15.199 --> 00:04:19.439 day whilst trying to maintain a full time job and doing everything else. I 52 00:04:19.480 --> 00:04:24.480 do sometimes wonder how people do it, and I know, I'm very thankful 53 00:04:24.480 --> 00:04:29.120 for those people who do support. My mum goes to a well being center 54 00:04:29.399 --> 00:04:34.399 during the week and I am so thankful for those those ladies that work there. 55 00:04:34.839 --> 00:04:38.680 They are such lovely people and it really made me think, you know, 56 00:04:38.920 --> 00:04:41.759 in terms of the service that they offer, the way they treat people, 57 00:04:41.879 --> 00:04:44.399 the way they are kind. And I thought, I actually thought, 58 00:04:44.600 --> 00:04:46.160 and I don't know, maybe I'll do this. I don't know, but 59 00:04:46.480 --> 00:04:48.519 you know, the idea of fundraising, and I was thinking, oh, 60 00:04:48.560 --> 00:04:53.720 you know, that definitely would be a charity that I would support, you 61 00:04:53.759 --> 00:04:56.600 know, to raise money for them. I think maybe I'll do some kind 62 00:04:56.639 --> 00:05:00.759 of sponsored run or walk, what have you. Well, you know, 63 00:05:00.839 --> 00:05:01.600 I thought about that. Then I thought, oh, maybe it could be 64 00:05:01.639 --> 00:05:04.680 more, it could be more dramatic. Maybe I'll do add in a parachute 65 00:05:04.720 --> 00:05:09.360 jump or something. Like that, but yeah, I might have to rethink 66 00:05:09.439 --> 00:05:15.000 some of that supporting you from the side, so I shall be cheering you 67 00:05:15.120 --> 00:05:17.519 on. Yeah, so I mean, you know, we'll see. But 68 00:05:17.639 --> 00:05:19.160 I was, you know, I was thinking, you know, just how 69 00:05:19.199 --> 00:05:23.879 one to be kind they are and just so lovely and just yeah, being 70 00:05:23.920 --> 00:05:28.240 a real godsend. I would say, um, you know so, but 71 00:05:28.560 --> 00:05:32.240 yeah, but again, thankful for the week and getting to the end of 72 00:05:32.240 --> 00:05:36.839 the week, thankful for the Sabbath. I was down at Ballam today they 73 00:05:36.879 --> 00:05:43.000 had their prayer day and it was also thirteen Sabbath actually as well. But 74 00:05:43.199 --> 00:05:46.759 really loved to see the children. Even though I'm not always there every week. 75 00:05:48.000 --> 00:05:54.240 My kindergarten class has grown, so they were reciting them mem reverses and 76 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:58.720 even performed a couple of songs, and one of which was an original written 77 00:05:58.800 --> 00:06:02.360 by Gabballa, who is three, you know, And it's just like wow, 78 00:06:02.399 --> 00:06:04.920 and they're there with their instruments and everything, and I was just like, 79 00:06:04.959 --> 00:06:06.800 oh, this is what we'd like to see. You know, we 80 00:06:06.920 --> 00:06:11.160 talk about train up a child and the way they will go, and you 81 00:06:11.199 --> 00:06:14.439 know, these things hopefully are going to have an impact. I'm really real 82 00:06:14.480 --> 00:06:18.680 believer in kind of creative worship and you know, using play in different things 83 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.720 with its arts, crafts, music, you know, to bring the word 84 00:06:21.720 --> 00:06:26.720 alive. And you know, I'm grateful for I'm really thankful for the parents 85 00:06:26.879 --> 00:06:30.680 that play a huge part in that. But that was really lovely to see. 86 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:33.360 So you know, they're despite the kind of challenges of the week, 87 00:06:33.480 --> 00:06:39.680 there are definite highlights which we're talking about. And again I echo what you're 88 00:06:39.680 --> 00:06:43.120 saying about, you know, celebrating Pastor Ray. Um, it seems so 89 00:06:43.240 --> 00:06:47.160 weird him not being on the show these days actually listening. Yeah, I 90 00:06:47.160 --> 00:06:51.000 think he was preaching and reading I think today, but you come back, 91 00:06:51.120 --> 00:06:55.000 come back and be a guest on our show. Um, you know, 92 00:06:55.079 --> 00:06:58.040 but again, really thankful. I'm thankful for you know, the impact has 93 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:00.079 had on us as well, you know, giving I'm saying, given me 94 00:07:00.120 --> 00:07:03.199 the opportunity to come on the radio, I mean part of the show. 95 00:07:03.839 --> 00:07:09.519 Um, you know, definitely learned a lot and you know, whilst you 96 00:07:09.600 --> 00:07:12.920 hear the banter and you know, there's all love there and everything else. 97 00:07:12.959 --> 00:07:24.600 So definitely grateful and secretly we know he misses us somewhere exactly, so you 98 00:07:24.639 --> 00:07:30.680 know, I'm seeing the face right now if it was an emoji. We 99 00:07:30.800 --> 00:07:36.519 know which one it would be, but yes, so yeah, yeah, 100 00:07:36.720 --> 00:07:40.399 that's so. That's been the week. And I hope you know, to 101 00:07:40.439 --> 00:07:43.279 our listeners out there, I hope your week has been a blessed one. 102 00:07:43.839 --> 00:07:47.639 I can imagine maybe it might have been challenging for some people. Um if 103 00:07:47.639 --> 00:07:55.000 it's not, then that's been fantastic. But whatever you've done throughout this week, 104 00:07:55.040 --> 00:07:58.399 I hope then you've come to the weekend and you're able to get some 105 00:07:58.480 --> 00:08:01.160 rest, recuperation or just some fun things, because I think sometimes we get 106 00:08:01.160 --> 00:08:05.279 to the weekend and sometimes we're so tired that it's just like, oh, 107 00:08:05.319 --> 00:08:07.240 well I can do is rest all the things that you want to do for 108 00:08:07.279 --> 00:08:13.079 yourself. Sometimes this goes by the wayside, but you blink it's Monday, 109 00:08:13.199 --> 00:08:18.639 then yeah, but you know, yeah, hopefully you've had a good week 110 00:08:18.199 --> 00:08:24.279 and here we are so as per usual. If you'd like to join the 111 00:08:24.319 --> 00:08:30.360 conversation, we'd love to hear from you. You can email us at studio 112 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:35.960 at Adventist Radio dot London, or you can text us on eight triple two 113 00:08:37.120 --> 00:08:43.000 eight do you write Hope and then your message do yeah do contact us Today 114 00:08:43.039 --> 00:08:50.279 we're talking about being thank you being saying thank you and being grateful. Now 115 00:08:50.600 --> 00:08:54.879 why this topic I hear you ask, well, today as the first of 116 00:08:54.960 --> 00:08:58.279 July, and as I'm thinking about that, it's also Canada Day today. 117 00:08:58.399 --> 00:09:05.559 So yes, so for any Canadian listeners, if anybody's out there, happy 118 00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:11.240 Canada Day. I could go into the history of that, but I won't. 119 00:09:13.559 --> 00:09:18.799 But tomorrow is actually thank You Day. Now. We've often talked about 120 00:09:18.879 --> 00:09:22.000 on this show. We're often, you know, looking at different things that 121 00:09:22.039 --> 00:09:26.279 are happening throughout the year, different awareness days, different themes and topics, 122 00:09:26.440 --> 00:09:30.960 and we've often said there is kind of a day for everything. And I 123 00:09:31.039 --> 00:09:33.320 know there are calendars out there that will tell you that there are is a 124 00:09:33.399 --> 00:09:41.399 day celebrating something, but tomorrow is thank You Day. And really the idea 125 00:09:41.440 --> 00:09:46.080 behind this is an opportunity for you or for anybody to say thank you for 126 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:52.639 anybody or everything that helps to make our communities great places to live in those 127 00:09:52.639 --> 00:09:56.279 people who have made an impact on your life, done something special for you 128 00:09:58.240 --> 00:10:01.639 and ultimately for if you're a Christian, and we'd like to encourage people to 129 00:10:01.639 --> 00:10:07.320 do that is to really thank God for everything He's done for us. Often 130 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:13.320 saying thank you generally sometimes kind of comes fairly comes naturally for some people, 131 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:16.480 and often if somebody's done something for you, you're naturally going to say thank 132 00:10:16.519 --> 00:10:22.000 you as a response. But having said that, there are many times where 133 00:10:22.480 --> 00:10:28.279 we often don't sometimes take the time to really say thank you and appreciate whether 134 00:10:28.279 --> 00:10:31.440 it's people or situations or those people who have made a difference in your life. 135 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:37.600 And the idea has been for Thank You Day to actually do some of 136 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.559 that. Give the opportunity. Now again, this is another sort of annual 137 00:10:41.600 --> 00:10:45.960 campaign, and there is a whole thing to kind of I know people may 138 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:50.519 have been organizing events and activities. There was an official song which I think 139 00:10:50.759 --> 00:10:56.200 was thank You for being a Friend, and I know that was being sponsored 140 00:10:56.240 --> 00:11:00.639 by Music for Dementia. They'd put together a whole music passage that package there. 141 00:11:01.480 --> 00:11:07.879 But it is a time to to recognize and to celebrate saying thank you, 142 00:11:09.279 --> 00:11:13.159 which again is a really important thing. And also you know we're saying 143 00:11:13.159 --> 00:11:18.399 thank you but also looking at the benefits of gratitude as well. So we're 144 00:11:18.440 --> 00:11:22.399 going to be playing some music throughout this we want to say thank you and 145 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:24.159 give thanks. So if anybody's got any favorite songs, they'd love to hear 146 00:11:24.480 --> 00:11:30.320 that, dude, demonstrate how much they want to say thank you to God 147 00:11:30.399 --> 00:11:33.679 or to anybody. Please do message that as well. Send that in. 148 00:11:35.440 --> 00:11:39.879 But we're going to go to a piece of music now anyway, I think 149 00:11:39.879 --> 00:11:46.840 you chose this one, Thankful by Mary. Mary started playing it, So 150 00:11:46.840 --> 00:11:52.679 we're going to go back to and also just encouraging our lists as well to 151 00:11:52.840 --> 00:11:56.919 let us know what they're that's for for yes, if you want to share 152 00:11:56.960 --> 00:12:01.159 a brief testimony, we'll be happy to put that on the ear for you. 153 00:12:03.480 --> 00:12:07.360 Yes, so let's get back to that one. Actually, no, 154 00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:09.559 I'm not gonna go to that one. I'm gonna go to thank you by 155 00:12:09.559 --> 00:12:13.559 Smoking Norfeel Parts on my choice. Yes, yes, I love smoking awful 156 00:12:13.639 --> 00:12:18.320 and yeah, but the message is in there is in the lyrics. Okay, 157 00:12:18.519 --> 00:12:22.519 so we'll go to that one. So thank you by Smoky Dorfiel. 158 00:12:37.440 --> 00:12:58.240 I've had and I've happen, my heart has been broken and my life has 159 00:12:58.320 --> 00:13:13.320 been straight. But it in't Spider everything been through I Steve gotta say, 160 00:13:16.039 --> 00:13:37.919 I've been and i'fe been time had like turn turn turn complain all right, 161 00:13:39.679 --> 00:13:52.720 but it's Spider everything I feel through I Steel I gotta say thank you, 162 00:13:54.480 --> 00:14:16.120 thank you, thank you for your many blessing. Spider my man, Lord, 163 00:14:16.279 --> 00:14:24.279 you look down and you're cuteless me. He even in the midst of 164 00:14:24.039 --> 00:14:43.279 my ten in spinding everything I step. Oh, thank you Jesus boy, 165 00:14:43.200 --> 00:15:01.279 your blessing in spider mind, Lord, do you bless me right, Dad, 166 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:13.080 in the middle of my teens get Spider everything, Spider everything. But 167 00:15:13.320 --> 00:15:26.240 I yeah, thank you. Oh, I want to say. I just 168 00:15:26.279 --> 00:15:39.000 want to say thank you, cheesus. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, 169 00:15:39.120 --> 00:15:46.840 I just want to say thank you, Jeesus. Oh, I gotta say 170 00:15:46.960 --> 00:15:54.279 thank you. Yeah, a little bit off I've done in my life. 171 00:15:54.159 --> 00:16:15.840 Yeah, the way you make me call the no. I want to say, 172 00:16:08.039 --> 00:16:27.679 yeah, you've done in my life. You've been Lord. Yea't you've 173 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:45.000 been my protection of the way. I thank you, thank you, thank 174 00:16:45.080 --> 00:17:07.200 you, thank you. You still gotta look to heaven and thank you Lord. 175 00:17:07.599 --> 00:17:14.599 I thank you for every little bit of thing you've done in my life. 176 00:17:15.200 --> 00:17:22.559 Ah, I say thank you. I just want to thank you. 177 00:17:26.559 --> 00:17:34.119 How must I must? I shall say thank you? Oh, thank you, 178 00:17:38.359 --> 00:17:55.720 I thank you. I just want to say thank you. Thank you. 179 00:17:56.160 --> 00:18:00.240 By Smokey Northfield. Now it's a powerful and powerful words in that so 180 00:18:00.720 --> 00:18:07.519 Zenia smoking off it, as I said, one of my favorite singers. 181 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:11.880 That have had too many favorite singers, but this one. And when you 182 00:18:11.960 --> 00:18:18.920 spoke earlier about how our weeks have been and sort of offered to our listeners 183 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:22.960 that whether it be up or down, and this song speaks to it. 184 00:18:22.039 --> 00:18:26.400 I've been up and I've been down, had my life turned completely around. 185 00:18:26.440 --> 00:18:33.240 But in spite of everything I've been through, I still must say, got 186 00:18:33.400 --> 00:18:37.799 to say, should say even thank you, and for me, that's the 187 00:18:38.000 --> 00:18:42.880 essence of it all, being able to be grateful no matter what. It 188 00:18:42.920 --> 00:18:48.200 also brings to my mind the song it is well, It is well with 189 00:18:48.359 --> 00:18:56.559 my soul because really we have to learn that everything comes together and everything works 190 00:18:56.599 --> 00:18:59.640 out to those who love God and trust God, whether it be up, 191 00:18:59.680 --> 00:19:03.720 whether it down, whether it be good or bad, let's remember to give 192 00:19:03.880 --> 00:19:10.839 him thanks. Yes indeed indeed yeah, definitely powerful words there. Um. 193 00:19:11.000 --> 00:19:14.279 Yes, So there'll be more songs coming through. Like I said, if 194 00:19:14.319 --> 00:19:17.279 anybody's got any favorites and we want to hit them, hear what you've got 195 00:19:17.319 --> 00:19:21.000 to say thankful for as well as the song says, you know, and 196 00:19:21.119 --> 00:19:23.440 as Zenya said, we go up and down, you know, life throws 197 00:19:23.680 --> 00:19:26.839 challenges at ours. But it's not even just about the challenges. We have 198 00:19:26.960 --> 00:19:30.200 good times as well. So even that kind of recognizing, you know, 199 00:19:30.480 --> 00:19:33.880 the positives, the highs and lows, everything in between. So it's easier, 200 00:19:33.960 --> 00:19:37.599 it's easier to give praise and to give thanks when we are in the 201 00:19:37.720 --> 00:19:41.759 highs. Yes, yes, I think it's more challenging to and perhaps I've 202 00:19:41.839 --> 00:19:45.720 read somewhere and several quotes, et cetera, say that it is in the 203 00:19:45.880 --> 00:19:51.359 downs of life that we really ought to say praise and ought to give thanks, 204 00:19:51.400 --> 00:19:53.720 because I think that is that is the attitude that we need to have 205 00:19:53.839 --> 00:20:00.039 and the attitude that we'll get us through it. Definitely quite important attitude that 206 00:20:00.160 --> 00:20:03.079 it's the praise in the midst of the trouble that will pull us through it, 207 00:20:03.279 --> 00:20:07.920 and that's important, definitely. And actually having that that attitude of gratitude, 208 00:20:07.960 --> 00:20:11.000 it's actually good for us. And we'll talk a little bit a bit 209 00:20:11.039 --> 00:20:14.440 about that. It's actually good for your well being and it's good self caring. 210 00:20:14.519 --> 00:20:15.880 You know, they're buzzwords that we hear all the time, but actually, 211 00:20:17.480 --> 00:20:18.559 you know, and we can sort of say, you know, that's 212 00:20:18.880 --> 00:20:22.920 scripturally biblically based as well, So you know, there's a lot to be 213 00:20:22.000 --> 00:20:26.079 said about that. But as I was talking about, you know, thank 214 00:20:26.160 --> 00:20:30.200 You Day is tomorrow second of July. It's organized by the Together Cloelisition and 215 00:20:30.720 --> 00:20:34.880 what this year they'd kind of done a pole in terms of you know, 216 00:20:34.920 --> 00:20:38.680 it's looking at what people do and how people kind of interact with people. 217 00:20:40.960 --> 00:20:42.960 So there was a pole by the walk, by the Walnut Pole, and 218 00:20:44.039 --> 00:20:48.200 it actually has some quite interesting things that it revealed. Despite the challenges and 219 00:20:48.279 --> 00:20:49.400 you know, for many of us over the last few years, it's been 220 00:20:49.519 --> 00:20:53.960 a really difficult, tough time. Obviously, we are post pandemic. It 221 00:20:55.039 --> 00:20:56.960 seems alms weird to say that. I've had lots of conversations with people recently 222 00:20:57.000 --> 00:21:00.440 who were just like, it seems really un I can't believe we kind of 223 00:21:00.480 --> 00:21:04.079 went through that. You know, time has flown past and here we are, 224 00:21:04.599 --> 00:21:10.880 but things have not necessarily as much as that's over, and you know, 225 00:21:10.960 --> 00:21:14.799 COVID is still around and it's still kind of impacting people. We have 226 00:21:14.880 --> 00:21:19.160 gone into kind of economic crisis now, so you know, and there's lots 227 00:21:19.200 --> 00:21:23.480 that are happening that are not necessarily you know, I wouldn't necessarily say that 228 00:21:23.519 --> 00:21:27.480 things have got much much better. They have in some respects, but despite 229 00:21:27.519 --> 00:21:32.279 that, the pole shows us that we are actually a nation of helpers. 230 00:21:32.880 --> 00:21:34.519 So if they're saying, you know, half of us fifty three percent will 231 00:21:34.559 --> 00:21:38.839 help our neighbors and friends with things like d I Y, maybe putting out 232 00:21:38.880 --> 00:21:42.279 your bins or just checking in on those who might be living alone or on 233 00:21:42.359 --> 00:21:45.920 their own. One of the key one of the big things that came out 234 00:21:47.000 --> 00:21:52.920 of the over the pandemic was about loneliness and you know how people were losing 235 00:21:52.960 --> 00:21:56.200 connections with people. Whilst we have the technology to kind of connect in the 236 00:21:56.319 --> 00:22:00.559 virtual world, you know, personal interaction. You know, people weren't necessarily 237 00:22:00.599 --> 00:22:04.400 have not even having that, or they were having connections. You know, 238 00:22:04.480 --> 00:22:07.200 you're kind of in the house with people and sudden you're having to really interact. 239 00:22:07.279 --> 00:22:11.799 That's very different. But you know, people are checking whiles nineteen percent 240 00:22:11.920 --> 00:22:18.880 of people are running clubs events within their communities. So people are doing stuff 241 00:22:18.960 --> 00:22:23.039 now. However, there is one group and a lot of people think that 242 00:22:23.200 --> 00:22:27.960 there are many sort of unpaid cares. So whether that's you know, whatever 243 00:22:29.039 --> 00:22:33.119 caring responsibility you have, are probably the kind of most under thanked group of 244 00:22:33.240 --> 00:22:37.039 them all. They're saying that fifty one percent of unpaid cares are not thanked 245 00:22:37.119 --> 00:22:41.240 enough for the work they do, followed by nurses at about forty six percent 246 00:22:41.880 --> 00:22:48.559 paid carers. After that volunteers, cleaners, and refuse collectors. So those 247 00:22:48.640 --> 00:22:52.480 kind of people who maybe seem like they're behind the scenes in many instances, 248 00:22:52.960 --> 00:22:55.799 you know, and many I'm sure some of these roles. We take it 249 00:22:55.880 --> 00:22:59.200 for granted that you know, our rubbish will be picked up, or there 250 00:22:59.200 --> 00:23:03.319 are people who going to help to get things run. But actually they apparently 251 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:07.039 are probably the post people who you know, we don't really thank them for 252 00:23:07.119 --> 00:23:12.400 the work that they do. Thankless jobs, absolutely, absolutely, but really 253 00:23:12.480 --> 00:23:17.599 key to kind of keeping the society going at times as well. It also 254 00:23:17.640 --> 00:23:21.039 says interestingly that younger people, maybe in the ages of eighteen to twenty five, 255 00:23:21.359 --> 00:23:25.559 are twice as likely to say the arrange events or do activities to support 256 00:23:25.599 --> 00:23:29.880 those in need than the rest of the population, and they're also more likely 257 00:23:29.880 --> 00:23:32.960 to recognize the support that others give to them. Now, I found that 258 00:23:33.119 --> 00:23:37.759 quite encouraging because sometimes young people, despite all the things that they may do, 259 00:23:37.799 --> 00:23:41.079 sometimes get a bad rep at times. But it's showed this pole is 260 00:23:41.160 --> 00:23:45.079 showing that actually there are young people who really do care about people and they 261 00:23:45.160 --> 00:23:48.119 want to help people and want to do stuff, and you know, often 262 00:23:48.119 --> 00:23:52.200 they're campaigning for different things. But the question is do we sometimes recognize that 263 00:23:52.599 --> 00:23:59.079 and appreciated it and thank those young people. So it was kind of an 264 00:23:59.160 --> 00:24:02.680 interesting and it's kind of interesting that you're actually doing a survey on, you 265 00:24:02.759 --> 00:24:07.559 know, whether people do say thank you and appreciate what's happening around them. 266 00:24:07.480 --> 00:24:11.039 So the question would go out to everybody, to our listeners. You know, 267 00:24:11.720 --> 00:24:15.240 do you regularly say thank you to people? Is it something that you 268 00:24:15.400 --> 00:24:21.599 do just when somebody does something for you as a natural emotional response, or 269 00:24:21.720 --> 00:24:25.319 is it something that you practice and you really go out of your way to 270 00:24:25.440 --> 00:24:30.640 recognize just because you know, to say thank you, to show your appreciation, 271 00:24:30.680 --> 00:24:33.599 to show your gratitude. So again, yeah, here's up with that 272 00:24:33.720 --> 00:24:37.079 to sort of see, you know, whether you do that sort of thing. 273 00:24:37.599 --> 00:24:41.160 So we're talking about so we're talking about saying thank you and being gratitude. 274 00:24:41.279 --> 00:24:47.079 Now, if I ask asked the question what does gratitude mean? What 275 00:24:47.160 --> 00:24:52.400 would we say? What would you say, Zenya, gratitude means gratitude? 276 00:24:55.119 --> 00:25:00.119 I would have said that the words are interchangeable, gratitude and thankful. I'm 277 00:25:00.119 --> 00:25:06.319 sure you're going to to break it all down for me. But when I 278 00:25:06.400 --> 00:25:12.359 think of gratitude, I think of being thankful, being grateful for what's I 279 00:25:12.400 --> 00:25:15.519 don't know, for something that's happening, for me, going for me, 280 00:25:15.720 --> 00:25:21.759 for someone, for something. That's where I think of or where I go 281 00:25:21.880 --> 00:25:26.960 when I think of gratitude. Gratitude. Yeah, you're right. So you 282 00:25:26.039 --> 00:25:30.880 know, gratitude is the Dictionary definition would say the quality of being thankful. 283 00:25:32.880 --> 00:25:34.599 And actually I did find it a really interesting article that actually did break down 284 00:25:34.640 --> 00:25:40.799 the differences of thank thankfulness, and gratitude about that. Yeah, but it's 285 00:25:40.799 --> 00:25:47.079 a readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness. It's one of the 286 00:25:47.160 --> 00:25:49.599 many positive emotions that we have. And as you said, it is about 287 00:25:49.640 --> 00:25:53.880 sometimes it is about focusing on the good in our life and being thankful for 288 00:25:53.920 --> 00:25:59.799 the things that we have. It's also, and this is maybe what I'd 289 00:25:59.839 --> 00:26:03.559 like to highlight as well, is actually pausing to notice and appreciate those things 290 00:26:04.559 --> 00:26:08.440 that we often take for granted. So again that pole where they talk about, 291 00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:12.000 you know, the people who are the most under thanked groups in our 292 00:26:12.039 --> 00:26:17.799 society Again, do we stop and think or do we take them for granted? 293 00:26:18.400 --> 00:26:19.880 You know, some of the things that we have. Many of us 294 00:26:19.880 --> 00:26:22.759 are blessed with having a roof, ever, a head, somewhere to live. 295 00:26:23.359 --> 00:26:29.559 We've got food, we've got clean water, friends, family, even 296 00:26:29.640 --> 00:26:32.680 the kind of you know, the technical side of life. You know, 297 00:26:32.759 --> 00:26:33.839 one of the things with the pandemic, I kind of look back and I 298 00:26:33.920 --> 00:26:37.960 think how difference it would have been if we didn't have technology that an able 299 00:26:38.000 --> 00:26:41.599 to do these things and what it's we can kind of it could be four 300 00:26:41.759 --> 00:26:47.440 or against technology as it were. I'm really grateful that we did have those 301 00:26:47.480 --> 00:26:53.200 opportunities, you know, I mean without Wi Fi, I mean, I 302 00:26:53.319 --> 00:26:56.000 just don't know how people would have done. I mean, I was about 303 00:26:56.000 --> 00:27:02.640 to say I celebrated two birthdays during lockdown, and the first one I literally 304 00:27:02.759 --> 00:27:04.640 was in the house by myself. But I was able to have a zoom 305 00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:10.160 call or phone calls for people kind of to keep in contact. Just imagine 306 00:27:10.200 --> 00:27:12.200 if you didn't have that. But you know, butv't said that. There 307 00:27:12.240 --> 00:27:15.920 are many people around the world who maybe don't have those opportunities and have those 308 00:27:17.079 --> 00:27:21.319 resources. But again, you know, how thankful and grateful are we? 309 00:27:22.039 --> 00:27:26.480 UM, you know, to have those things and to recognize those things and 310 00:27:26.559 --> 00:27:33.000 really appreciate them. UM. So I went to just to to mention. 311 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:37.559 I went to a virtual conference UM a week of equipping women and UM. 312 00:27:38.640 --> 00:27:45.240 One of the nights they were talking about how we as women and integrate ourselves 313 00:27:45.279 --> 00:27:51.160 into the community in essence and the things that we need to do that go 314 00:27:51.359 --> 00:28:00.240 beyond maybe in ministry that's not the term I want, but ministry that goes 315 00:28:00.319 --> 00:28:06.000 beyond the church walls. And a lot of suggestions we put forward, but 316 00:28:06.200 --> 00:28:12.599 one that representated with me that may have surprised others was she suggested a certificate 317 00:28:12.680 --> 00:28:18.720 of thanks. That we generate a certificate of thanks and just fill them in 318 00:28:18.799 --> 00:28:22.039 as we go through the community, as we go through our day, for 319 00:28:22.200 --> 00:28:26.119 people who have gone the extra mile. And I really love that because that 320 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:29.359 particular day, and I'm sorry I didn't say it on the conference, and 321 00:28:29.359 --> 00:28:33.079 I'll say it now that particular day. I have a love hate relationship with 322 00:28:33.200 --> 00:28:41.079 my bus drivers. Anyone that goes by bus, they must feel what I 323 00:28:41.240 --> 00:28:48.240 feel. But some days I'm like but but this day I was running late 324 00:28:48.319 --> 00:28:52.400 for work and had I missed the bus. I would have been late, 325 00:28:52.480 --> 00:28:55.839 and I don't. I don't like to as hr with the gatekeepers of time, 326 00:28:55.920 --> 00:28:57.680 and I don't want to set that precedence, and I don't like to 327 00:28:57.759 --> 00:29:03.319 be late at all. And I run from one bus stop to the next 328 00:29:03.400 --> 00:29:06.519 in terms of connecting buses. So I'm trying to make the show. But 329 00:29:06.720 --> 00:29:08.799 one bus takes me to the to the next bus that I'd take for his 330 00:29:08.880 --> 00:29:15.119 two buses to work. And I'm chasing this bus down and the bus driver 331 00:29:15.240 --> 00:29:19.640 hasn't even gotten to the bus stop and he stops for me. Now listen. 332 00:29:19.880 --> 00:29:22.200 I got on the bus and I said, thank you, thank you, 333 00:29:22.359 --> 00:29:25.799 thank you. You're amazing, You're awesome bus driver. And I wish 334 00:29:25.799 --> 00:29:29.079 I had a certificate to give him, because often there are days that I 335 00:29:29.240 --> 00:29:33.640 am at the bus stops door and the bus driver will still go past me. 336 00:29:33.880 --> 00:29:38.039 Yes, yeah, bus driver will see me running legging it and still 337 00:29:38.160 --> 00:29:42.519 go past me. And for that guy to actually stop ahead of the bus 338 00:29:42.559 --> 00:29:45.720 stop because he knew I would never get there in time, um, I 339 00:29:45.839 --> 00:29:49.759 just I was like overwhelmed. I was so grateful that day had already started, 340 00:29:49.960 --> 00:29:53.480 you know a little bit haphazardly, and everything else, and I felt 341 00:29:53.480 --> 00:29:57.480 like crying. I was just so overwhelmed and so grateful, and I wish 342 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:02.799 I had a certificate of thankfulness or you know, a thank you car. 343 00:30:02.920 --> 00:30:07.000 Maybe that's something I'll keep, because to generate a certificate may seem hard work 344 00:30:07.079 --> 00:30:08.039 for others. But I'm sure if we go to one of the shops, 345 00:30:08.319 --> 00:30:12.160 they have little batches of boxes of thank you cars, empty cars that we 346 00:30:12.240 --> 00:30:18.119 can get and just leave in our pockets or handbags and just issue them as 347 00:30:18.160 --> 00:30:21.440 we go along for people who have gone the extra mile for us. And 348 00:30:21.680 --> 00:30:25.160 beyond that, when you say about the garbage man and all that kind of 349 00:30:25.240 --> 00:30:29.319 thing, that to me just sounds so good. And these things are seeds 350 00:30:29.440 --> 00:30:32.839 that you saw, because I'm sure if I had something like that to give 351 00:30:33.000 --> 00:30:36.200 him the next time he's coming to the bus, but he would be inclined 352 00:30:36.240 --> 00:30:38.359 to stop for someone else because that ill. He share that with one of 353 00:30:38.400 --> 00:30:41.000 his colleagues, and they might be inclined to stop for someone else. I'm 354 00:30:41.039 --> 00:30:44.920 not sure if they're supposed to. I guess a lot of people, a 355 00:30:44.960 --> 00:30:48.480 lot of the bus drivers live by the law and they're not supposed to stop 356 00:30:48.880 --> 00:30:52.000 outside the bus stop, and once the door is closed, they're allowed to 357 00:30:52.079 --> 00:30:55.519 drive off and all these kind of nonsense, but it doesn't take anything off 358 00:30:55.599 --> 00:30:59.519 them to do that. And I just appreciated that man. Up to now, 359 00:30:59.599 --> 00:31:03.240 how many months after, I'm still thinking this phrases. And the thing 360 00:31:03.400 --> 00:31:04.920 is, it's made an impact. It's made an impact on you, and 361 00:31:06.039 --> 00:31:10.039 whilst you know, in the grand scheme of everything, it may seem really 362 00:31:10.119 --> 00:31:12.839 minor. And you know what, maybe he did it without even necessary thinking 363 00:31:12.960 --> 00:31:15.400 and you know, sure of you actually you know obviously you're thanking him there. 364 00:31:15.440 --> 00:31:18.480 And then sometimes you know, some of these things that happen, we 365 00:31:18.640 --> 00:31:22.640 just don't know the impact it's going to have, and it's you know, 366 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.279 it's made a difference for you. Really, Yeah, you know, had 367 00:31:29.279 --> 00:31:30.400 I done that, he would have had a look hard and maybe to stick 368 00:31:30.440 --> 00:31:33.640 in the bath, maybe someone will ask the question. Maybe your colleague would 369 00:31:33.640 --> 00:31:37.440 have asked a question. It might have been a seed that was planted that 370 00:31:37.480 --> 00:31:41.480 would have, you know, generate generated thankfulness throughout the rest of the day 371 00:31:41.519 --> 00:31:45.960 to other of his colleagues or someone else. Definitely, I really really thought 372 00:31:45.039 --> 00:31:48.039 that was a good idea when I heard it on the Okay on the program, 373 00:31:48.119 --> 00:31:52.200 and I think it's something that we can top tip there. And you 374 00:31:52.240 --> 00:31:55.400 know some of the things we're going to suggest a few things that you know, 375 00:31:55.559 --> 00:31:57.519 ideas that we have in terms of what you can do for a different 376 00:31:57.559 --> 00:32:02.160 ways of you know, show appreciation, serving thankful this and what have you. 377 00:32:02.319 --> 00:32:07.559 So yes, so, certificates of thanks I love that, oh thank 378 00:32:07.599 --> 00:32:12.559 you, simple thank you cards, so yes, and you know, unultimately, 379 00:32:14.079 --> 00:32:19.599 as Christians, the idea of gratitude and appreciation is spread all through the 380 00:32:19.680 --> 00:32:23.440 Bible. I mean, you know, it's the Bible teachers, and you 381 00:32:23.480 --> 00:32:27.240 know, when I was thinking about this today, there are so many Bible 382 00:32:27.400 --> 00:32:29.799 verses. I mean, when we think about, you know, the Bible 383 00:32:29.880 --> 00:32:35.279 being our guidebook, it's the book of knowledge, of information. It kind 384 00:32:35.279 --> 00:32:37.680 of has everything in there and whilst we have to put things into context and 385 00:32:37.799 --> 00:32:42.119 everything else, there are so many things that we can take from that, 386 00:32:42.279 --> 00:32:45.480 and there are so many Bible verses about gratitude as well. You know, 387 00:32:45.680 --> 00:32:49.880 it helps us focus on the blessings of God and finding the blessings in our 388 00:32:49.960 --> 00:32:53.680 everyday life. As we were talking before, one of my story of the 389 00:32:53.799 --> 00:32:57.160 letter, oh do you know what I was? You took the words where 390 00:32:57.160 --> 00:33:00.519 iust at my mouth because it's actually when I think about because I'm trying to 391 00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:02.200 also think about that. It's only you look at biblical stories and you think 392 00:33:02.559 --> 00:33:06.799 if you put that into modern terms, and the reality of that is, 393 00:33:07.480 --> 00:33:10.920 you know, those ten men had I don't know how life threatening, let 394 00:33:12.000 --> 00:33:15.319 prissy is, but let's say it is. It's a pretty serious condition. 395 00:33:15.119 --> 00:33:20.880 And you've been afflicted. You've have this condition, you know, it means 396 00:33:20.920 --> 00:33:22.279 that you you know, for them, they're cast out of the city, 397 00:33:22.720 --> 00:33:25.519 they're not in their communities, They're in a little place, you know, 398 00:33:25.559 --> 00:33:30.440 they have to stick together, as it were. And then this man Jesus 399 00:33:30.559 --> 00:33:35.240 who performs miracles, has been doing all these things, telling amazing stories and 400 00:33:35.319 --> 00:33:38.079 what have you, says you know, yes I'm going to heal you. 401 00:33:38.279 --> 00:33:45.079 And I'm really prey facing this story here. I mean, that must have 402 00:33:45.079 --> 00:33:49.000 been just I mean to see that miracle knowing and I don't know how many 403 00:33:49.079 --> 00:33:52.400 years these people were had this condition, how many years their life has been 404 00:33:52.480 --> 00:33:55.200 impacted. They can't do all the things that they wanted to do, they 405 00:33:55.200 --> 00:33:59.000 would like to do, you know, for many And I kind of think 406 00:33:59.000 --> 00:34:01.039 of that in modern time. You know what that would be like for somebody. 407 00:34:01.160 --> 00:34:05.000 Would that feel with a person feel like their life is ruined, they 408 00:34:05.039 --> 00:34:07.159 can't do all the things, et cetera, et cetera. Then suddenly one 409 00:34:07.239 --> 00:34:14.480 day they are healed. Now the fact, I mean, if I have 410 00:34:14.559 --> 00:34:19.880 a headache and I take I take particular headache tablet and I've visibly noticed that 411 00:34:19.960 --> 00:34:23.400 my headache is gone, I am rejoicing. I'm saying thank you, and 412 00:34:23.559 --> 00:34:28.599 I'm thankful for the medication that I can take. I can thankful for maybe 413 00:34:28.679 --> 00:34:31.320 the water or whatever it is that's helped me. I'm thanking God sometimes because 414 00:34:31.360 --> 00:34:35.079 sometimes in a moment, I'm like, I need this headache to go. 415 00:34:36.360 --> 00:34:39.840 I can't imagine being in that situation and they're not saying thank you for that. 416 00:34:40.920 --> 00:34:45.320 I really I can't. I can't get my head around that. And 417 00:34:45.480 --> 00:34:50.199 the fact that out of those ten only one went back. I mean, 418 00:34:50.960 --> 00:34:58.239 wow, yeah, exactly exactly. I mean to be healed, Oh my 419 00:34:58.440 --> 00:35:00.960 goodness. I'm not for that not to be the first thing that comes out. 420 00:35:00.960 --> 00:35:07.960 To be testifying and giving shouts and songs of praise, to be dancing 421 00:35:07.039 --> 00:35:10.400 all over and letting people know what God or Jesus had done for you. 422 00:35:10.519 --> 00:35:15.239 I mean, that should have been automatic. That should have been in the 423 00:35:15.360 --> 00:35:17.599 instant in the moment. I mean, when't you just said thank you? 424 00:35:17.719 --> 00:35:21.159 They're in there. I mean, yeah, that's right, that's right. 425 00:35:21.239 --> 00:35:24.119 I've been. It's been lovelier to come back. But he went back to 426 00:35:24.360 --> 00:35:28.679 you. In your own mind, you're thinking, yeah, that would have 427 00:35:28.719 --> 00:35:32.280 been an automatic fall on your knees, prostrate on the ground. Yeah, 428 00:35:34.320 --> 00:35:39.840 yeah, yeah yeah. So I mean, you know, first Sesalonians five 429 00:35:39.920 --> 00:35:44.119 eighteen reminds us to give thanks in all circumstances, you know, for this 430 00:35:44.239 --> 00:35:46.559 is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. That's ultimately what that 431 00:35:46.599 --> 00:35:50.559 should have been. And I kind of get the excitement because you know, 432 00:35:50.760 --> 00:35:53.280 I guess from one it's like one extreme to the other. However, to 433 00:35:53.440 --> 00:35:59.840 for kind of forget yourself, I don't know. Yeah, listens today, 434 00:36:00.079 --> 00:36:01.719 you know, I mean, it's a story how many years old, but 435 00:36:01.880 --> 00:36:09.719 it happens today, and too often I feel and maybe it is the Maybe 436 00:36:09.800 --> 00:36:15.400 it's the big miracles that we say thankful for, thanks for, And I 437 00:36:15.519 --> 00:36:21.119 know I'm guilty of that. It's the major blessings, it's the major breakthroughs. 438 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:27.639 But I want to challenge our listeners to say thank you, even for 439 00:36:27.840 --> 00:36:32.559 what we may think as small nurses and small blessings, you know, finding 440 00:36:32.639 --> 00:36:37.880 the car keys or losing the car keys, as as as it may be. 441 00:36:38.400 --> 00:36:43.599 I mean, how many times have we been spared from from danger, 442 00:36:43.719 --> 00:36:46.320 etc. Because we were delayed and we didn't realize that that was what the 443 00:36:46.400 --> 00:36:51.840 delay was. We get all frustrated and flustered. But maybe that five minutes, 444 00:36:51.920 --> 00:36:54.760 that ten minutes meant that we weren't you know, in the middle of 445 00:36:54.840 --> 00:37:00.239 an accident or whatever the case might be. Those little things that we got 446 00:37:00.320 --> 00:37:04.760 to say thank you for, you know, bus drivers who stop before they 447 00:37:04.840 --> 00:37:10.079 get to bus stops, or you know, finding something or whatever it may 448 00:37:10.159 --> 00:37:15.119 be. Just be grateful in all things, not just the major miracles, 449 00:37:15.199 --> 00:37:22.760 not just that the healing from bet I don't know, um, I want 450 00:37:22.800 --> 00:37:24.360 to say cancer, and it's a major thing. When I think of leprocy, 451 00:37:24.400 --> 00:37:28.440 that's that's what comes to mind. Obviously it's not the same, but 452 00:37:28.800 --> 00:37:32.440 I think of I think of those major illnesses that you know, limit our 453 00:37:32.559 --> 00:37:37.039 lives, can be life threatening, and you think, had I been healed 454 00:37:37.119 --> 00:37:40.880 from canpher, I really want to believe that the first thing that would have 455 00:37:40.960 --> 00:37:45.840 come out of my mouth would have been thank you. But also I want 456 00:37:45.880 --> 00:37:50.039 to challenge us to say thank you for those small merses waking up, opening 457 00:37:50.079 --> 00:37:52.039 our eyes, being able to hear, to see, to to talk, 458 00:37:52.280 --> 00:37:58.239 to walk. M we've got to be thankful there too. Yeah, I 459 00:37:58.400 --> 00:38:01.000 agreed, and which makes me brings me nicely in to be saying thank you 460 00:38:01.079 --> 00:38:06.880 to another person who has just joined us. Hey, it's Petro. Welcome, 461 00:38:07.039 --> 00:38:09.440 welcome, welcome, how you doing. I'm good, good afternoon, 462 00:38:09.440 --> 00:38:12.519 everybody. Welcome to talking for me. I know I'm a little bit late. 463 00:38:13.320 --> 00:38:16.400 That's okay, okay, welcome to you. I know, but that's 464 00:38:16.440 --> 00:38:19.719 what I said. I said, it's come to you. It's just like 465 00:38:19.800 --> 00:38:22.760 a week like and I was like, oh man, But as I'm saying, 466 00:38:22.800 --> 00:38:24.519 I'm like, uh, they're already into it. Peter, what are 467 00:38:24.559 --> 00:38:30.360 you talking about? That's okay, welcome anytime, and yeah, good course. 468 00:38:30.519 --> 00:38:32.280 And have you been Petro, I've been good. I've been good. 469 00:38:32.440 --> 00:38:38.079 Um had a my wife had a Huddersfield community choir was singing at an opening 470 00:38:38.079 --> 00:38:45.519 event that at a community center. So we went to that and then they 471 00:38:45.519 --> 00:38:49.239 actually started on time and finished on time. Cool. We was able to 472 00:38:49.360 --> 00:38:52.119 yeah, because you know, we talked about like what if they're little late, 473 00:38:52.159 --> 00:38:55.360 but they started on time. Good. So we got there and we 474 00:38:55.440 --> 00:39:00.760 got done and rushed back home. And here I am me allowing me to 475 00:39:00.840 --> 00:39:05.920 get on for listening. I was listening to you guys on the way end. 476 00:39:06.159 --> 00:39:08.360 Yeah, I kind of had an idea what you guys were talking. 477 00:39:08.400 --> 00:39:10.159 I knew we was talking about. But you know what I mean, like 478 00:39:10.519 --> 00:39:15.599 you've been talking about and with the bus thing saying yes, there is actually 479 00:39:16.079 --> 00:39:20.760 a role that you're not supposed to stop off the bus stop. They can 480 00:39:20.800 --> 00:39:23.440 actually believe it or not. As being a bus driver from mbum Guida, 481 00:39:24.119 --> 00:39:30.559 they can actually if the because they have like people that watch the buses can 482 00:39:30.679 --> 00:39:32.880 actually get fined. You can actually get fined or you can actually get things 483 00:39:34.239 --> 00:39:36.719 for stopping off the buses. Now, it's nothing wrong going to the bus 484 00:39:36.840 --> 00:39:40.320 and waiting. Yeah, I'll go to the bus stop and waiting. But 485 00:39:40.440 --> 00:39:46.360 the bus is technically not supposed to stop. But but you know, but 486 00:39:46.519 --> 00:39:50.519 it's it's coming sense because there's been times when I was driving a bus I 487 00:39:50.599 --> 00:39:53.159 did stop when I saw somebody when you see them running, or people are 488 00:39:53.159 --> 00:39:57.960 like yelling, um, such and such a coming because everybody know everybody, 489 00:39:58.039 --> 00:40:00.639 so they're like, you know, Joan is running down the street, you 490 00:40:01.559 --> 00:40:05.119 know, because like you're past the street, you're past the street, you 491 00:40:05.199 --> 00:40:07.679 see them running, you know, you see them running up the street, 492 00:40:07.719 --> 00:40:08.639 but not to the to the main street. So you running up to the 493 00:40:08.679 --> 00:40:13.280 main stream and the bus people like Joan's running to the street holding up, 494 00:40:13.320 --> 00:40:16.199 hold it up. So you know. So that happened a lot. Yeah, 495 00:40:16.199 --> 00:40:19.239 that happened a lot when I drove the bus, you know, like 496 00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:22.840 they you know. So yeah, and then she mentioned that actually going back 497 00:40:22.880 --> 00:40:27.039 to that as well. I think also another impact of that is people watching, 498 00:40:27.559 --> 00:40:29.920 like I may if I'd still somebody running for the bus, I am 499 00:40:30.000 --> 00:40:34.199 willing that person and I'm so grateful again for the bus driver to stop because 500 00:40:34.199 --> 00:40:37.199 I'm not and that makes me feel good. Okay, they don't say nothing. 501 00:40:37.239 --> 00:40:38.639 They just sit there and look like, you know, stupefied. They're 502 00:40:38.639 --> 00:40:47.199 just like Bama. They definitely be watching for people because the same people get 503 00:40:47.280 --> 00:40:51.159 on the same bus almost the same time to get to work on time. 504 00:40:51.239 --> 00:40:53.159 So they you get almost such a clock to certain people getting on the bus 505 00:40:53.199 --> 00:40:55.719 because you know, they get on every day at the same time, same 506 00:40:55.800 --> 00:41:00.880 spot. So yeah, yeah, it's a community, you know, that's 507 00:41:00.920 --> 00:41:05.360 what And yeah, everybody knows everybody. You got your your favorite bus driver 508 00:41:05.519 --> 00:41:07.400 at all this kind exactly. Yeah, you got something that you just cannot 509 00:41:07.440 --> 00:41:09.599 stand that people will not even get on the bus. They see the bus 510 00:41:09.719 --> 00:41:15.760 driver and they're like no, no, there's a wait for the next one, 511 00:41:15.039 --> 00:41:17.920 or they just tell them to go on, Like yeah, yeah, 512 00:41:20.079 --> 00:41:23.119 yeah, I agree. I've seen that happen too. So so Pet, 513 00:41:23.239 --> 00:41:27.719 we're talking about OK, we're talking about you than we're talking about thank you, 514 00:41:28.000 --> 00:41:30.400 thank being thankful and grateful. So I'm going to ask you the question, 515 00:41:30.480 --> 00:41:35.239 like, so, even this week or generally, UM, what would 516 00:41:35.239 --> 00:41:39.119 you say you're thankful for? Um? Thank you, be thankful to be 517 00:41:39.199 --> 00:41:43.599 alive this morning, to wake up this morning, and as we always say 518 00:41:43.639 --> 00:41:46.239 that our favorite you know, wake up in my right mind, wake up 519 00:41:46.280 --> 00:41:51.360 my kids, waking up healthy, my wife, my family, friends. 520 00:41:51.639 --> 00:41:55.119 UM, just thankful that I have another day to serve God and just be 521 00:41:55.320 --> 00:41:59.440 here, you know, to do the things that I love. UM. 522 00:42:00.119 --> 00:42:05.519 I'm always thankful for the things that um happen, that happened to me. 523 00:42:05.679 --> 00:42:07.760 I don't ever think like, UM, there's a quote that says that UM, 524 00:42:07.840 --> 00:42:13.639 God doesn't let things happen. They don't let things don't happen to you 525 00:42:13.719 --> 00:42:17.719 unless God lets it, unless God lets it happen. So I'm thankful for 526 00:42:17.800 --> 00:42:21.360 that. So even the bad things that may happen to me, sometimes I 527 00:42:21.480 --> 00:42:28.480 know that they will, um make me a better PERSONA So I try to 528 00:42:28.599 --> 00:42:31.800 learn. I try to learn from those bad things. I try to understand 529 00:42:32.000 --> 00:42:36.880 why did this happen to me? And then I thank God for learning that 530 00:42:36.960 --> 00:42:39.239 happened and showing me a way that I cannot make it better for myself. 531 00:42:39.440 --> 00:42:43.360 Yeah. Yeah, I'm also thankful real quick. I know we're about to 532 00:42:43.360 --> 00:42:45.480 go to break, but I'm really thankful because I find out yesterday that my 533 00:42:45.599 --> 00:42:51.800 son, starting next year, will be head boy of his school. Yes, 534 00:42:51.920 --> 00:42:53.719 I'm really happy about that. Um, he went into be the head 535 00:42:54.320 --> 00:43:00.079 prefect. Is that boy depends on schools have different things, but yeah, 536 00:43:00.119 --> 00:43:04.440 but he went in to be that. He applied for that and they turned 537 00:43:04.440 --> 00:43:07.280 around and gave him a hit boy. Oh wow. So um, he's 538 00:43:07.360 --> 00:43:10.960 very he's very excited about that right now. So I'm happy for him for 539 00:43:12.039 --> 00:43:14.639 that because for me, I don't even know this stuff is because you know, 540 00:43:14.719 --> 00:43:17.639 going up in the States, we don't have that burbage in the States, 541 00:43:17.880 --> 00:43:22.599 so coming here. I've been learning about it, and so yeah, 542 00:43:22.639 --> 00:43:27.679 it seems they have a lot to do with um or you'll know UM was 543 00:43:27.719 --> 00:43:32.679 that UM. I can't think of a word during the school they lead, 544 00:43:32.719 --> 00:43:36.880 do not lead the school. They will go in place of the school, 545 00:43:36.960 --> 00:43:40.039 so like they will be there. Couldn't get the word out. They'll be 546 00:43:40.079 --> 00:43:45.239 a representative from the school, right, So I mean, and they have 547 00:43:45.320 --> 00:43:49.159 another girl, she's a head girl. And they're actually both black. And 548 00:43:49.400 --> 00:43:52.519 I say that only because the school is all white. Okay, So the 549 00:43:52.679 --> 00:43:57.880 fact that they will have a different ethnicity representing the school, I think it 550 00:43:57.920 --> 00:44:00.280 will be a good thing for the school going forward and would get them to 551 00:44:00.360 --> 00:44:05.920 be better students and better teachers and better a better school. Yeah, I 552 00:44:06.039 --> 00:44:09.159 know you have to have so you have to have good grades to behavior and 553 00:44:09.159 --> 00:44:14.400 all that kind. Exactly. He has excellent grades, and I know that. 554 00:44:14.639 --> 00:44:15.679 I know the young lady that got it. I know she has excellent 555 00:44:15.719 --> 00:44:19.559 grades because he tells me about her. So they have they have that good 556 00:44:19.599 --> 00:44:24.880 grades, good character, good but good behavior. And what I'm really thankful 557 00:44:24.920 --> 00:44:29.000 about on anything, because I think I told you guys before, and I've 558 00:44:29.039 --> 00:44:32.360 told the radio station before on not this station. But on the podcast that 559 00:44:34.440 --> 00:44:37.960 Junior really had a hard time his year seven and eight where he dealt with 560 00:44:37.000 --> 00:44:40.159 a lot of racism, he dealt for a lot of bigotry and a lot 561 00:44:40.239 --> 00:44:44.920 of people being mean to him. And the fact that he pushed through that 562 00:44:45.079 --> 00:44:50.320 and not same school, Wow, because the school was in the transition when 563 00:44:50.360 --> 00:44:52.719 he first started. It was it was really a bad It was not a 564 00:44:52.760 --> 00:44:58.599 basketball but it was like the UM needs improvement, Like it was at the 565 00:44:58.639 --> 00:45:04.000 bottom of the rating the the report, and they that turnover, so they 566 00:45:04.119 --> 00:45:06.639 was building up the school. So as the years of one, they've gotten 567 00:45:06.719 --> 00:45:13.239 better and now the school is pretty it's got a good rating. No it's 568 00:45:13.280 --> 00:45:16.000 got a UM needs improvement, but that's better than what it was. They 569 00:45:16.119 --> 00:45:20.679 was happy for that because it shows that they're improving. So next year they 570 00:45:20.760 --> 00:45:22.800 hope the next one they go up to go for good. But UM. 571 00:45:23.719 --> 00:45:25.639 So he had a lot of stuff that he had to go through. So 572 00:45:25.760 --> 00:45:29.239 the fact that he was able to push the last two years through that and 573 00:45:29.360 --> 00:45:32.559 now to become the head boy, it just shows the determination and the stamina 574 00:45:32.679 --> 00:45:36.679 that he has as a young man. So I'm really proud of him because 575 00:45:36.719 --> 00:45:38.639 you know, some kids would have just wiltered. Some kids would have just 576 00:45:38.760 --> 00:45:40.960 been like, oh you know, I'm just gonna try to make it to 577 00:45:42.440 --> 00:45:45.199 leave or not want to go to school. But he just kept pushing. 578 00:45:45.320 --> 00:45:50.280 So I'm really happy for him. So I'm thankful for that and grateful both. 579 00:45:50.679 --> 00:45:54.320 Sorry which citizens was lovely into our feeling taken music break here. I 580 00:45:54.360 --> 00:46:00.360 think this is your choice. Actually, um petrom grateful by Jumping Key. 581 00:46:00.920 --> 00:46:07.519 Don't think specific about that song that um means something to you was relevant or 582 00:46:07.719 --> 00:46:09.880 obvious. I just love I just love the song. I just like I 583 00:46:10.039 --> 00:46:13.199 like the beat, I like the song, I like the words. I 584 00:46:13.280 --> 00:46:15.480 just like the song and hole, I just like the what it means. 585 00:46:15.719 --> 00:46:20.119 Just be grateful, grateful for everything, Grateful for the rain, grateful for 586 00:46:20.159 --> 00:46:23.159 the sun, grateful for the wind, grateful for life. Just grateful for 587 00:46:23.280 --> 00:46:28.000 the snow. I'm grateful for the snow to actually I like the snow. 588 00:46:28.400 --> 00:46:30.519 Yeah, I remember he doesn't like the sunshine, as we keep selling us 589 00:46:31.719 --> 00:46:37.119 love the snow. Let it be snow right now they all day. Okay, 590 00:46:37.280 --> 00:46:54.880 let's play m Grateful by John Peeky. Thank you for the morning. 591 00:46:57.079 --> 00:47:06.679 Thank you for then Tanky even to me, heive unto me. Thank you 592 00:47:06.880 --> 00:47:15.239 for the even my darkest kind you live. We see you shine your light 593 00:47:15.400 --> 00:47:25.400 on me, your grace and mercy sustay when I did not he who will 594 00:47:25.519 --> 00:47:37.360 to remain you have to do? When you saved my life, my past, 595 00:47:40.519 --> 00:47:47.280 he did not judge me. You reach out love me. That's why 596 00:47:47.440 --> 00:48:05.159 I lay you all me all the time to save me. And I can't 597 00:48:05.239 --> 00:48:14.000 see my way, grating all the time to change my hardness, to wait 598 00:48:14.159 --> 00:48:22.280 for the all the time about your brothers, find myself in time of flow 599 00:48:30.960 --> 00:48:45.800 for me. Thank you for the sunshion you ate into my clown day. 600 00:48:46.119 --> 00:48:54.039 You shall need the way, gave al new meaning, gave me the will 601 00:48:54.840 --> 00:49:05.039 to leave again. You are my class spree. I owe my all to 602 00:49:05.519 --> 00:49:14.320 you. I spoke, you're reading and you rob me. Don't have to 603 00:49:14.679 --> 00:49:27.760 do it but you because time for my sins you you did not judge me. 604 00:49:28.639 --> 00:49:46.079 You read. That's why I rate for you for me. Please before 605 00:49:46.119 --> 00:49:54.880 the time to lose my shapples on my dear gray, I make I can 606 00:49:55.000 --> 00:50:02.639 send to day. I'm play for ever on the time I name the same. 607 00:50:02.920 --> 00:50:24.280 I'm play my man, I die on me, I'm resigning. Who 608 00:50:27.840 --> 00:50:42.639 should I listen when I see it. I was waiting on mine larger the 609 00:50:43.159 --> 00:50:52.559 hardest time. My dad. Any morning I shun the program. Tell me 610 00:50:52.679 --> 00:51:05.920 I'm a bege. That's what I listen. So that's grateful by John p 611 00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:09.400 Key. Definitely need some great words in there to reminders, and as Pedro 612 00:51:09.599 --> 00:51:15.199 said, it's about those everyday things to say thankful for. So we're talking 613 00:51:15.239 --> 00:51:21.880 about being saying thank you and yeah, being grateful. And you know, 614 00:51:21.920 --> 00:51:25.440 we've talked about we mentioned one story about as many stories and texts in the 615 00:51:25.519 --> 00:51:30.159 Bible about being grateful, and we spoke about the ten Leppers, and you 616 00:51:30.239 --> 00:51:34.519 know the realization of what that was. Somebody actually had a life changing illness 617 00:51:34.920 --> 00:51:39.920 condition was instantly healed and nine of them forgot to say thank you, and 618 00:51:40.039 --> 00:51:45.920 any one came back. But what other stories or characters can we think about 619 00:51:46.119 --> 00:51:49.920 in the Bible? I think Pedro, you said you had someone that comes 620 00:51:49.960 --> 00:51:54.800 to mind. Yeah, I had only because today I was listening to a 621 00:51:54.880 --> 00:52:01.000 simmon at Chiswick's by all of m I forgot her last name Blackwell, and 622 00:52:01.159 --> 00:52:06.320 she was talking about Hannah, and I just thought, and I just thought 623 00:52:06.360 --> 00:52:10.639 that she was grateful. She was barren, she had been chastised by the 624 00:52:10.679 --> 00:52:15.320 other women. She loved her husband, she loved the Lord, and she 625 00:52:15.599 --> 00:52:19.920 asked God, you know, to give her a child. And even though 626 00:52:19.960 --> 00:52:22.519 she didn't get it right away, she just kept her faith. And even 627 00:52:22.559 --> 00:52:24.840 though she worked a lot of anguish from deep pain, you know, she 628 00:52:25.039 --> 00:52:28.920 just cried to God and she said, you know, she asked God that 629 00:52:29.039 --> 00:52:30.119 if she gave her a son, that she would give him, you know, 630 00:52:30.320 --> 00:52:34.880 long, long length service. And so then God did give her a 631 00:52:34.960 --> 00:52:37.920 son, and you know, she just the gratefulness that she had. She 632 00:52:38.039 --> 00:52:40.760 kept up promise, and of course, you know, she had Samuel, 633 00:52:42.239 --> 00:52:46.960 who was her son, and we all know what Samuel ended up becoming later 634 00:52:47.079 --> 00:52:51.840 on in the Bible. So I just thought of Hannah when you thought about 635 00:52:51.880 --> 00:52:55.159 being grateful. She was so grateful for the gift that God gave her that 636 00:52:55.320 --> 00:52:59.239 she kept up promise and she, you know, she served the Lord for 637 00:52:59.280 --> 00:53:02.840 as long as she lived. Yeah, and you know, in a similar 638 00:53:02.880 --> 00:53:07.760 way as what actually it also brings her mind Mary as well, um, 639 00:53:07.440 --> 00:53:12.599 in the sense of you know, being grateful and thankful for being the chosen 640 00:53:12.679 --> 00:53:17.599 person to you know, bear Jesus in Luke one forty fifty five. You 641 00:53:17.719 --> 00:53:22.679 know, she talks about how her soul magnifies the Lord and her spirit rejoices, 642 00:53:22.039 --> 00:53:24.239 and she was thankful even though it must have come as a bit of 643 00:53:24.280 --> 00:53:29.079 a shock to her that situation, on the realization of what was going to 644 00:53:29.159 --> 00:53:32.079 happen. But again she kind of, you know, gave thanks for her 645 00:53:32.159 --> 00:53:37.840 situation and there are you know, um, and I think the idea like, 646 00:53:37.880 --> 00:53:39.800 yeah, there are, but you know, especially that you know, 647 00:53:40.199 --> 00:53:45.239 for women in terms of bearing children, and as you mentioned with Hannah, 648 00:53:45.920 --> 00:53:50.400 the fact that that was seen as almost kind of taboo as it were, 649 00:53:50.599 --> 00:53:52.199 you know, there's something definitely wrong with you, why this can't happen, 650 00:53:52.239 --> 00:53:57.800 et cetera. And then the desire and not only then she kind of dedicated 651 00:53:57.880 --> 00:54:00.880 her son to the Lord and kind of sow that through because I guess it 652 00:54:00.880 --> 00:54:04.480 could have been quite easier to say, yep, if I have a child, 653 00:54:04.960 --> 00:54:07.000 I'll be as I promise that, but hey, I've got what I 654 00:54:07.039 --> 00:54:14.679 wanted now. Um. But she definitely followed through. Um, yes, 655 00:54:15.519 --> 00:54:20.079 definitely, But yeah, because I think grateful. I think being grateful is 656 00:54:20.639 --> 00:54:24.840 part of when you're grateful, you follow through with because sometimes to be grateful 657 00:54:25.039 --> 00:54:29.639 you have you get something, So you're grateful for what you get. But 658 00:54:29.880 --> 00:54:31.159 just like in life, you know, like we get it and then we 659 00:54:31.280 --> 00:54:36.599 don't, we become ungrateful. Yeah, definitely. So when you're to be 660 00:54:36.719 --> 00:54:43.519 grateful is to follow through with the promise for the things that you get and 661 00:54:43.639 --> 00:54:45.920 be grateful and always recognize, you know, like they say, you know, 662 00:54:45.960 --> 00:54:49.239 always you remember where you come from, Remember where you come from, 663 00:54:49.360 --> 00:54:53.719 remember how you got there, and always being grateful for the opportunity or the 664 00:54:54.280 --> 00:54:59.199 platform that you may have to to minister the people, to talk to people, 665 00:54:59.320 --> 00:55:01.079 to be there for people, but for your family, you know, 666 00:55:01.159 --> 00:55:05.760 for your family, friends in general. Yeah, and I think I'm about 667 00:55:07.440 --> 00:55:15.840 I was just also saying that what about being thankful in the journey? That 668 00:55:15.280 --> 00:55:21.599 that for me is what the story speaks to. And even though it is 669 00:55:22.639 --> 00:55:29.360 twenty years, forty years, sixty years, however along the wait, are 670 00:55:29.440 --> 00:55:34.760 we going to be thankful and faithful through the process? Because I don't know, 671 00:55:35.079 --> 00:55:37.719 I'll be honest, I don't know if I could be. I don't 672 00:55:37.760 --> 00:55:43.159 know if I would be you know, um would I would? I really 673 00:55:43.239 --> 00:55:46.440 be? Be faithful and committed to a God that let me wait ten years 674 00:55:46.559 --> 00:55:51.760 for my my answer, twelve years for my answer, you know, fifteen 675 00:55:51.840 --> 00:55:55.199 years for my healing, seventeen years for my blessing. I mean, this 676 00:55:55.440 --> 00:56:00.760 is what these these ladies did. Um, and you know that that's not 677 00:56:00.920 --> 00:56:06.280 easy to do, but it just shows that it can be done and that 678 00:56:06.480 --> 00:56:10.320 God's timing is perfect. Yeah. And I guess the key thinking that's about 679 00:56:10.400 --> 00:56:15.199 faith because we always talk about faith, you know as having faith and the 680 00:56:15.320 --> 00:56:19.239 belief that God will do these things for us. And I guess that has 681 00:56:19.280 --> 00:56:22.360 to be real part of it to kind of keep us going as it were, 682 00:56:22.599 --> 00:56:25.039 because I guess if you think about it, if we knew this was 683 00:56:25.079 --> 00:56:30.039 going to happen, would that make a difference for us, Like if we 684 00:56:30.079 --> 00:56:32.320 could kind of foresee the future and say, okay, it may take ten 685 00:56:32.440 --> 00:56:37.159 years, right, but I know it's going to happen, would that make 686 00:56:37.360 --> 00:56:42.599 our experience, our journey would be very different. But we we are we 687 00:56:42.679 --> 00:56:45.800 are encouraged to have the faith that we can believe that God can do all 688 00:56:45.880 --> 00:56:49.840 things and can do for us. Yeah. So that's an interesting one. 689 00:56:49.960 --> 00:56:52.639 I think that's what the stories are. The stories are there to show us 690 00:56:52.960 --> 00:56:57.159 what we can and cannot do, and to show us that we can. 691 00:56:58.199 --> 00:57:00.920 Right. It's like it's like a blueprint for what we should do. And 692 00:57:00.039 --> 00:57:04.239 just as an example, like say a single person that's looking for a spouse 693 00:57:05.519 --> 00:57:09.039 and they're twenty and you know, young, and they want to spouse so 694 00:57:09.159 --> 00:57:14.159 bad, and they're like, Lord, send me somebody. And then you 695 00:57:14.239 --> 00:57:15.880 know, year by year goes by, you still don't have anybody, and 696 00:57:16.000 --> 00:57:19.880 you're waiting, and you're waiting and waiting, and you're waiting and you're just 697 00:57:19.960 --> 00:57:23.000 like, Lord, is you ever going to happen? And then and then 698 00:57:23.119 --> 00:57:27.199 you know it could take ten years before you finally find the right mate. 699 00:57:27.280 --> 00:57:29.920 Could you go? You decided your own Oh, I want this person and 700 00:57:29.960 --> 00:57:34.320 it's the wrong person, you know, So that I mean, that's just 701 00:57:34.719 --> 00:57:37.480 like I just I just popped in my head and that's that's true. And 702 00:57:37.519 --> 00:57:39.880 it's having That's what I mean. It's about having the right attitude through the 703 00:57:39.960 --> 00:57:44.360 way right. And that's the hardest part because you're sitting there waiting, you 704 00:57:44.519 --> 00:57:46.159 want it so bad, you just like you could taste me like I just 705 00:57:46.360 --> 00:57:49.440 I just need it, I need it now, I need it now. 706 00:57:49.480 --> 00:57:51.599 And he's like God, just like no wait. You're like, but I 707 00:57:51.679 --> 00:57:54.320 can't wait. He's like just wait, yeah, And it's not getting angry, 708 00:57:54.519 --> 00:57:58.559 not getting angry at God, not getting as you say, not not 709 00:57:58.719 --> 00:58:00.519 taking myself into my own hands. You know what, God, if you 710 00:58:00.559 --> 00:58:04.159 ain't gon provide me with a husband, I'm just gonna go to the local 711 00:58:05.039 --> 00:58:10.079 class and then under the purses of God gave it. But yeah, I 712 00:58:10.239 --> 00:58:15.559 was just gonna pick up anybody whose free is available, um and then we 713 00:58:15.679 --> 00:58:19.519 all know how that can that can end up. Or even if you're praying 714 00:58:19.559 --> 00:58:22.800 for our healing and you know, we're like, okay, are we going 715 00:58:22.840 --> 00:58:25.960 to be miserable for the process, miserable for the through the weight, or 716 00:58:25.960 --> 00:58:30.800 are we still going to give him praise and giving fact for the for the 717 00:58:30.920 --> 00:58:35.199 journey, you know, for the process. You know, back in the 718 00:58:35.280 --> 00:58:37.639 day, I read a book and it was a it was a yellow book. 719 00:58:37.719 --> 00:58:38.880 It's a Christian book. It has had a smiley face on it, 720 00:58:39.440 --> 00:58:46.000 and they talked about um being happy through everything and even when you're sick. 721 00:58:46.480 --> 00:58:50.960 If you can be happy while you're sick. And I know this sounds weird 722 00:58:51.519 --> 00:58:53.239 and it sounds hard, but if you can be happy while you're sick, 723 00:58:53.440 --> 00:59:00.639 you will heal faster than when if you um become depress us or if you 724 00:59:00.719 --> 00:59:02.920 start saying I'm gonna, you know, like I'm sick. I'm you know, 725 00:59:04.039 --> 00:59:06.639 I you know, I star like I'm gonna die, like I'm sick, 726 00:59:07.119 --> 00:59:10.000 I don't feel well because your mind will be like, well, you're 727 00:59:10.000 --> 00:59:14.119 sick, so I'm gonna continue to be sick. But if you can, 728 00:59:14.280 --> 00:59:16.320 if you can, and it's a hard thing to do, but if you 729 00:59:16.400 --> 00:59:22.480 can, like bring happiness, like people that get cancer, they can, 730 00:59:22.800 --> 00:59:25.079 you can. Part of the part of the thing of beating cancer is to 731 00:59:25.239 --> 00:59:30.840 be Um, yeah, it's to be thankful. And I know that sounds 732 00:59:30.880 --> 00:59:32.239 weird, but it's true. It's to be thankful and say, Okay, 733 00:59:32.280 --> 00:59:37.000 God, we can beat this. I can beat this with your with walking 734 00:59:37.159 --> 00:59:39.119 with you, I can beat this because you have to believe. You have 735 00:59:39.199 --> 00:59:44.840 to be grateful. And I know that sounds kind of weird, but yeah, 736 00:59:45.159 --> 00:59:46.360 it was just a book that I thought was very interesting that I read 737 00:59:46.400 --> 00:59:50.000 back in the day. But well, that's I mean, as you say 738 00:59:50.079 --> 00:59:52.519 that, the idea has been actually quite a bit of research done on this. 739 00:59:52.760 --> 00:59:58.079 Actually gratitude and giving thanks can actually they say, can actually make you 740 00:59:58.239 --> 01:00:01.679 happier, is good for your well being, good for your overall mental health 741 01:00:01.719 --> 01:00:12.880 as well. You know where you've definitely definitely, yeah, gratitude. We're 742 01:00:12.880 --> 01:00:16.079 acknowledging the good things in our life or even the situations in our life that 743 01:00:16.159 --> 01:00:21.639 we can take things and recognize you lessons from. But it's also a lot 744 01:00:21.679 --> 01:00:25.639 of sort of positive psychology. When they've done the research gratitude is it's strongly 745 01:00:25.679 --> 01:00:30.719 associated with greater happiness. I mean they sort of you know, search has 746 01:00:30.760 --> 01:00:36.039 shown that if you adopt the attitude to gratitude, you are often happier, 747 01:00:36.480 --> 01:00:42.159 you may have more friends, and it enables you to feel more positive emotions. 748 01:00:43.639 --> 01:00:46.719 You are you know, looking at those good experiences, those positive experiences 749 01:00:47.039 --> 01:00:52.760 and all those things can help you build you on your resilience, help you 750 01:00:52.880 --> 01:00:55.440 deal with the challenges that you can come across, and also building healthy, 751 01:00:55.519 --> 01:01:00.840 strong relationships and connections with people. So it's quite interesting that you say, 752 01:01:00.840 --> 01:01:02.519 you know, these things can be linked. And as you know, there 753 01:01:02.559 --> 01:01:07.320 are many have we talked about there many verses in the Bible that can that 754 01:01:07.480 --> 01:01:12.199 can attest to them as well. And you know, I was looking at 755 01:01:12.239 --> 01:01:15.880 some of the research that's been done and you know, they've looked at there 756 01:01:15.920 --> 01:01:20.679 was one research studied that sort of they got two groups together and they were 757 01:01:20.920 --> 01:01:27.079 asking one group to write things that they were grateful for that occurred during the 758 01:01:27.159 --> 01:01:31.440 week. The second group wrote about their daily sort of irritations and the things 759 01:01:31.519 --> 01:01:36.320 that had displeased them, things that they weren't happy about. And then the 760 01:01:36.599 --> 01:01:42.199 third group just wrote about offense and things that happened to them, with no 761 01:01:42.400 --> 01:01:45.199 kind of real emphasis on whether it's positive or negative. So they did this 762 01:01:45.280 --> 01:01:52.039 for about ten weeks, and they found that those who wrote about being gratitude 763 01:01:52.159 --> 01:01:57.960 and being grateful were much more optimistic and felt much better overall about their their 764 01:01:58.039 --> 01:02:04.599 lives. And interestingly, they said that they exercised more and they had few 765 01:02:05.000 --> 01:02:09.079 fewer visits to the doctors than those who were focused on their sources of aggravation 766 01:02:09.199 --> 01:02:14.400 and irritations. Um. So again it's about that sort of positive thinking. 767 01:02:14.519 --> 01:02:17.079 Now, whilst that may not necessarily be, you know, the answer to 768 01:02:17.239 --> 01:02:22.079 everything, because as we know, despite the challenges will come our way and 769 01:02:22.159 --> 01:02:27.119 sometimes it can be tricky to focus on those things. When you when you 770 01:02:27.239 --> 01:02:32.480 do focus in a positive way and you are recognizing gratitude and you're grateful for 771 01:02:32.559 --> 01:02:37.719 the things that are happening good, bad, maybe indifferent, it definitely can 772 01:02:37.760 --> 01:02:40.679 give us a different perspective on the way we view things. What do we 773 01:02:40.760 --> 01:02:47.079 think about that in terms of you know, I mean the research is showing 774 01:02:47.280 --> 01:02:58.239 the Bible will tell us. What do we think that. I wouldn't disagree. 775 01:02:58.280 --> 01:03:04.960 I haven't done any researchself, but only in my own experience I can 776 01:03:05.039 --> 01:03:10.320 say that it is true. There's nothing like a positive outlook that will change 777 01:03:10.360 --> 01:03:15.639 your perspective for the day. You know, it's often been said that you've 778 01:03:15.639 --> 01:03:21.800 got to speak life and speak positivity and surround yourself with positive people, and 779 01:03:21.840 --> 01:03:28.559 all of that comes from, in my mind, an attitude of gratitude. 780 01:03:29.920 --> 01:03:34.480 As any you work in HR, and I wonder whether you know, you 781 01:03:34.639 --> 01:03:37.119 have ever seen or you kind of know when you're doing any training what have 782 01:03:37.320 --> 01:03:42.760 you what the difference will be with say, managers and their employees or leaders 783 01:03:42.800 --> 01:03:45.599 and their employees who do actually remember to say thank you for things? You 784 01:03:45.679 --> 01:03:52.400 know, what impact that has on their staff or their teams where that makes 785 01:03:52.400 --> 01:03:54.519 a difference to the matter what they do. I guess if people know that 786 01:03:54.559 --> 01:04:00.599 they're being appreciated, I'm sure that makes a big difference. Oh, that 787 01:04:00.920 --> 01:04:06.800 is often a very important arm to HR being able to roll out appreciation and 788 01:04:09.000 --> 01:04:13.679 sort of nominating your yourlleague of the month and colleague of the year, and 789 01:04:13.800 --> 01:04:17.119 that process of highlighting persons who have done a great job and an excellent job, 790 01:04:17.159 --> 01:04:23.880 and that even is a section, but on a day to day basis, 791 01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:27.360 there's nothing wrong with just cornering a colleague and saying, you know what, 792 01:04:27.559 --> 01:04:30.679 thank you for yesterday is an excellent job yesterday. And colleagues who hear 793 01:04:30.800 --> 01:04:36.519 that, and employees who hear that put more effort in because that makes a 794 01:04:36.599 --> 01:04:42.559 difference. When you feel appreciated, and when you feel that what you're doing 795 01:04:42.679 --> 01:04:48.800 makes a difference and counts towards the greater good, then it makes a difference 796 01:04:48.800 --> 01:04:55.840 to what you do. And the opposite also applies. Yeah, if you're 797 01:04:55.880 --> 01:04:59.280 coming into day by day and no one ever shows an appreciation, no one 798 01:04:59.320 --> 01:05:02.920 ever says that you for good job, and unfortunately you have that coupled with 799 01:05:03.599 --> 01:05:09.880 the nitpicking or the blaming or you know, the same managers who don't say 800 01:05:09.960 --> 01:05:14.719 thank you, always equipped to criticize, always see the mistakes, and you 801 01:05:14.760 --> 01:05:21.039 know, you put all that together and it destroys morale h team. It's 802 01:05:21.079 --> 01:05:25.679 just, yeah, there's a whole life. There's a whole world of research 803 01:05:25.800 --> 01:05:30.000 that says that thank you makes the difference, and colleagues and employees who feel 804 01:05:30.320 --> 01:05:34.400 that go the extra mile. Yeah, yeah, I think on that note, 805 01:05:35.239 --> 01:05:40.360 on that note, what you're talking about. I think that when the 806 01:05:41.400 --> 01:05:45.480 HR or when the manager or something is like always saying thank you, even 807 01:05:45.519 --> 01:05:49.119 though you're like, oh I don't I'm just doing my job, but it 808 01:05:49.199 --> 01:05:53.400 still feels good to hear it. But I think when the manager does come 809 01:05:53.480 --> 01:05:57.159 and say to you, Okay, you did this wrong, because if they 810 01:05:57.239 --> 01:06:00.320 are, if they're constantly giving you praise, when they do, because they 811 01:06:00.360 --> 01:06:01.840 do have to come time and say, oh, you did this wrong or 812 01:06:02.239 --> 01:06:08.519 you know this problem of rose, you don't react the same way as if 813 01:06:08.559 --> 01:06:12.400 they was always just nagging you or picking on you like you like. It 814 01:06:12.559 --> 01:06:15.320 makes a difference because you're gonna have to sometimes. You have to be able 815 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:17.719 to take criticism. You have to some you do make more human We make 816 01:06:17.800 --> 01:06:20.639 mistakes. So the manager still has to come to you sometimes and say, 817 01:06:20.679 --> 01:06:25.679 hey, you know you forgot this or you did that, But your your 818 01:06:25.760 --> 01:06:29.920 response, I mean, my response would be different because my manager is always 819 01:06:30.559 --> 01:06:32.519 saying, you know you're doing a good job, you know this, but 820 01:06:33.360 --> 01:06:35.360 you know every now and then you do. I think it just helps. 821 01:06:35.400 --> 01:06:41.800 It helps on both sides. I don't know if you see that being an 822 01:06:41.920 --> 01:06:45.920 HR, yeah, I feel you are more resleptive to the criticism if you've 823 01:06:45.960 --> 01:06:48.920 had the praise right, You're more receptive to the criticism if you have the 824 01:06:49.000 --> 01:06:54.159 praise right, absolutely right, because you know that they're not just nick they're 825 01:06:54.199 --> 01:06:57.320 not just picking on you, or they're not just oh, you're always doing 826 01:06:57.400 --> 01:07:00.840 this wrong or you're always you know, doing this, and you're like, 827 01:07:00.960 --> 01:07:03.079 Okay, maybe I actually did something wrong, and then you actually sit there 828 01:07:03.079 --> 01:07:06.360 and listen and say, okay, whe did I do wrong? How can 829 01:07:06.400 --> 01:07:10.400 I fix it? And then you go fix it or whatever the situation maybe, 830 01:07:11.119 --> 01:07:14.320 and it shows that you're being fair because as you said, there there 831 01:07:14.360 --> 01:07:16.719 are times as a manager that you have to criticize or you'll have to you 832 01:07:16.800 --> 01:07:20.280 know, flag a mistake. It may be something that's quite significant and if 833 01:07:20.320 --> 01:07:25.480 it's left to continue, then you can have you know, far reaching impact. 834 01:07:25.840 --> 01:07:29.199 So you have to say something, um, but if if you are, 835 01:07:29.440 --> 01:07:32.199 sometimes you deliver that on the back of on the back of praise. 836 01:07:32.840 --> 01:07:36.360 You know, there's there's a whole there's a whole book on that that if 837 01:07:36.400 --> 01:07:41.920 you're going to say something negative, you know, package it amongst you know, 838 01:07:41.960 --> 01:07:46.639 two or three positive things up. I've been there putting a little set 839 01:07:46.719 --> 01:07:49.280 up. Yeah, do you want to get the good news for us or 840 01:07:49.280 --> 01:07:55.599 the bad news first? Um, there's a lot of research and et cetera 841 01:07:55.719 --> 01:07:59.960 to ship to show that. But yeah, it makes for a better environment, 842 01:08:00.039 --> 01:08:04.760 meant yeah, if you have that full picture, that's full package to 843 01:08:04.880 --> 01:08:11.199 praise. Yes, and you know, if you you have to I criticize 844 01:08:11.239 --> 01:08:13.679 in doing it in the right way as well. If there has to be 845 01:08:13.760 --> 01:08:20.800 some criticism or some you know, um, correction always criticism, think it's 846 01:08:20.840 --> 01:08:29.479 negative. Sometimes it's just correction. Yeah, if it has to be the 847 01:08:29.560 --> 01:08:31.720 system, maybe you wrote the name wrong, or you forgot a letter, 848 01:08:31.800 --> 01:08:35.079 or you forgot to take something. I mean that's not negative for criticism, 849 01:08:35.199 --> 01:08:39.560 That just in a mental error that you know that needs to be fixed. 850 01:08:39.600 --> 01:08:43.079 So I think it's more like sometimes it could be just correction. Yeah. 851 01:08:43.239 --> 01:08:47.640 And it goes even beyond the HR or the employer employee relationship, but it 852 01:08:47.760 --> 01:08:53.680 goes through every relationship. I mean that's a husband and a wife, a 853 01:08:53.920 --> 01:08:57.680 mother and a son, whatever. It man be a father and a daughter, 854 01:08:57.920 --> 01:09:01.319 whatever, whatever, the relationship. It's really really important to have balance. 855 01:09:01.840 --> 01:09:06.600 And if you're always being negative, you're always nitpicking, you're always criticizing, 856 01:09:06.720 --> 01:09:13.760 etc. Then it just it just makes for a very nasty relationship or 857 01:09:14.800 --> 01:09:19.800 or you know, it's not where you can grow and bloom and blossom if 858 01:09:19.840 --> 01:09:25.039 you can package it in praise or even I want to say, I would 859 01:09:25.039 --> 01:09:29.520 do the negativity, negativity with the positivity. If you've got to air on 860 01:09:29.640 --> 01:09:33.720 one side, ad say be positive. You know he praised on someone. 861 01:09:34.079 --> 01:09:39.680 It really it shows, Yeah, it shows you can tell an environment where 862 01:09:39.720 --> 01:09:44.439 people are praised for what they do and the contributions they make. And just 863 01:09:44.560 --> 01:09:46.359 telling someone I love you and thank you, thank you for watching the dishes 864 01:09:46.439 --> 01:09:49.840 yesterday, thank you, thank you for being there, thank you for your 865 01:09:49.880 --> 01:09:55.399 love and your kindness towards me goes a mile. It's funny as you said 866 01:09:55.439 --> 01:09:58.000 that, because, um, well I was just talking about with my son 867 01:09:58.760 --> 01:10:00.439 doing he did the letter. So when we got home, my wife and 868 01:10:00.479 --> 01:10:04.199 I got home, he had wrote the letter himself, and he was so 869 01:10:04.359 --> 01:10:08.159 proud of the letter he wrote. But he had made a couple of mistakes 870 01:10:08.199 --> 01:10:11.079 and he had wrote it on just on just regular paper. He just wrote 871 01:10:11.119 --> 01:10:14.359 on some you know, random paper, ripped off the paper and just wrote 872 01:10:14.399 --> 01:10:15.640 it. So it was like, Son, you know, you need to 873 01:10:15.880 --> 01:10:19.039 fix a couple of things and put it on better paper. And at first 874 01:10:19.039 --> 01:10:21.960 it's like, I'm not rewriting this, and I'm like, but we're trying 875 01:10:23.000 --> 01:10:25.159 to explain, you know, make it look more professional, make it look 876 01:10:25.239 --> 01:10:29.159 more you know, presentable, you know, And so at first he was 877 01:10:29.319 --> 01:10:30.880 kind of like, oh, and you know about this then because you have 878 01:10:30.960 --> 01:10:34.439 the same age, you know, like, oh why should I and like 879 01:10:34.640 --> 01:10:38.960 son, then you know this is why you do this, and then explaining 880 01:10:39.000 --> 01:10:41.720 it. So at first he took it as we was being critical, but 881 01:10:41.840 --> 01:10:44.319 as he listened to us, he realized we were just trying to help him. 882 01:10:44.720 --> 01:10:46.399 So after he wrote it, he went to my wife and he said, 883 01:10:46.720 --> 01:10:48.960 you know what, I'm glad you made me rewrite this because this actually 884 01:10:49.000 --> 01:10:53.920 does look better. So when you're talking about it, just it's it's in 885 01:10:54.000 --> 01:10:59.199 family life is and work isn't, friends isn't isn't everything. Just it's something 886 01:10:59.279 --> 01:11:02.359 that we can do throughout our you know, daily use our daily life, 887 01:11:02.840 --> 01:11:08.720 which kind and didn't you say that as well? Sorry, didn't you say 888 01:11:08.760 --> 01:11:11.720 that as well? That it's strengtheness a relationship, and that that for me, 889 01:11:11.880 --> 01:11:15.720 is what it's all about. It's strengthened whatever the relationship is, whether 890 01:11:15.760 --> 01:11:19.520 it's you know, a professional relationship or otherwise, it's strengthens the relationship. 891 01:11:19.640 --> 01:11:24.640 When that's one of the benefits of saying thanks and thankfulness and gratitude, I 892 01:11:24.760 --> 01:11:29.800 think it's cements and strengthens the relationship. And therefore, on the basis of 893 01:11:29.920 --> 01:11:32.840 that, other things can do using from it. Yeah, definitely, which 894 01:11:32.920 --> 01:11:35.840 kind of as you just segments nicely to what I's going to say, I 895 01:11:35.920 --> 01:11:40.520 came across a quote that was saying, gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. 896 01:11:41.000 --> 01:11:45.479 It turns what we have into enough and more. It turns denial into acceptance, 897 01:11:45.960 --> 01:11:49.000 chaos to order, and confusion into clarity. It can turn a meal 898 01:11:49.039 --> 01:11:53.800 into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. 899 01:11:54.359 --> 01:11:58.159 Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates 900 01:11:58.199 --> 01:12:01.479 a vision for tomorrow. Which you know, and I think we mentioned before 901 01:12:01.600 --> 01:12:05.520 that the difference between thankfulness and maybe gratitude, it's how far that goes. 902 01:12:05.560 --> 01:12:11.800 It takes that one step further, you know, Sometimes thankfulness is an emotional 903 01:12:11.880 --> 01:12:15.760 reaction to something that might happen in the moment, as much as you may 904 01:12:15.800 --> 01:12:19.159 continue that, but gratitude takes that one step further. Where you are, 905 01:12:19.960 --> 01:12:24.720 the way in which you live your life, what you're recognizing, what you're 906 01:12:24.720 --> 01:12:29.399 appreciative, it's a chosen state of being, as it were. You know. 907 01:12:29.560 --> 01:12:32.119 Well, that makes me think of the difference between happiness and joy. 908 01:12:32.840 --> 01:12:39.560 Maybe, yes, yes, that's very similar analogy. It seems joy runs 909 01:12:39.560 --> 01:12:43.800 a bit bit deeper and perhaps gratitude runs a bit deeper. And I think, 910 01:12:43.840 --> 01:12:48.000 you know, you can choose to cultivate that kind of attitude of gratitude 911 01:12:48.039 --> 01:12:51.680 within your life. You know, it's how you see things Pedro mentioned before 912 01:12:51.720 --> 01:12:56.199 about you know, as much as you're grateful for things, things that happen 913 01:12:56.359 --> 01:12:59.560 that are good and positive for you, even in those challenging times, if 914 01:12:59.600 --> 01:13:01.920 you can look at that and say, Okay, I'm grateful for the experience, 915 01:13:02.039 --> 01:13:05.439 what can I learn from that? You know? And the Bible is 916 01:13:05.479 --> 01:13:10.039 teaching us to be kind of grateful in all things. But how do we 917 01:13:10.159 --> 01:13:15.000 do that? Because when we're going through that challenge, being thankful is probably 918 01:13:15.039 --> 01:13:17.119 maybe the last thing on our minds, really, um in terms of what 919 01:13:17.199 --> 01:13:21.279 we want to do about that. But if all things work together, and 920 01:13:21.479 --> 01:13:26.039 we must understand that whatever we're going through, good or bad, there's a 921 01:13:26.159 --> 01:13:30.560 purpose. Yes, yeah, I think that's really where we've got to think 922 01:13:30.680 --> 01:13:32.680 and let our minds go. There is a purpose to it. If it's 923 01:13:33.000 --> 01:13:38.640 if our garden father loves us um and he's allowed us to go through. 924 01:13:38.720 --> 01:13:46.960 I think of job wisdom, what a story, yes, everything everything and 925 01:13:47.399 --> 01:13:54.479 still praise God. Yeah. Well, well but if he can do that, 926 01:13:56.319 --> 01:13:59.359 it's true. It's true. Again, it's impossible for us. I 927 01:13:59.520 --> 01:14:03.159 know because again, yeah, he went through I mean you know, he 928 01:14:04.039 --> 01:14:08.880 he went through it. You know, every possible thing that possibly could go 929 01:14:08.960 --> 01:14:12.000 wrong that he could think about when he'd gone through and went wrong in a 930 01:14:12.079 --> 01:14:17.159 short space of time, and talk about calamity and to say he will not 931 01:14:18.159 --> 01:14:26.720 he will not be moved. He will still despite in spite because of give 932 01:14:26.800 --> 01:14:31.359 thanks to God and praise God and served God. Well, yeah, so 933 01:14:31.560 --> 01:14:35.479 we will yeah, I don't know. Yeah, And he talks to think 934 01:14:35.560 --> 01:14:43.279 about these stories, You're just like, wow, wow, could I Yeah, 935 01:14:43.560 --> 01:14:46.039 I don't know. Might I cuts God and die? I don't know. 936 01:14:47.239 --> 01:14:51.239 But when you see God says considered my servant I'd love him to be 937 01:14:51.319 --> 01:14:56.079 able to say that about me and about you. Yeah. And again my 938 01:14:56.199 --> 01:15:01.000 servant. Yeah and again I've put her through and whatever I've allowed her to 939 01:15:01.079 --> 01:15:05.399 go through, I know that she will come through with victoria. Yeah, 940 01:15:05.600 --> 01:15:09.560 and that's that. And again the difference between sort of thankfulness and gratitude. 941 01:15:09.720 --> 01:15:12.960 The thankfulness may fade because it's in that moment, possibly, But gratitude is 942 01:15:13.000 --> 01:15:15.800 that kind of you know, it starts there, but you know it's a 943 01:15:15.880 --> 01:15:20.880 continual thing. You want it to remain. Yeah, and deepen that connection 944 01:15:20.960 --> 01:15:25.880 that we have so we can take another Actually, this is not another piece 945 01:15:25.880 --> 01:15:30.079 of word this music. This is a spoken word piece by Motion Worship, 946 01:15:30.399 --> 01:15:32.479 so spoken word of thanks. And again I really liked what it was saying, 947 01:15:32.479 --> 01:15:35.319 and it's kind of really been kind of highlighting what we've been talking about 948 01:15:35.359 --> 01:15:40.399 today. So we're going to take a listen to the spoken word of thanks. 949 01:15:48.600 --> 01:15:54.399 Give thanks for the good days, when the traffic lights all turn green, 950 01:15:55.119 --> 01:16:00.520 when promotions come and bad habits are broken. Thanks for warm meals and 951 01:16:00.640 --> 01:16:08.000 the company of friends. Give thanks for undeniable blessings and clear direction. When 952 01:16:08.039 --> 01:16:13.600 the music floods your soul and the worship songs flow without effort. Give thanks 953 01:16:13.680 --> 01:16:18.560 for coffee and clothing, and hope that the two never mix. Give thanks 954 01:16:18.640 --> 01:16:24.239 for the mother who battles daily in prayer, for the father working three jobs. 955 01:16:24.600 --> 01:16:28.840 For the brothers and sisters who build blanket forts and read bedtime stories. 956 01:16:30.359 --> 01:16:34.159 Give thanks for sons and daughters and all our family who remind us of what 957 01:16:34.359 --> 01:16:40.760 truly matters. Give thanks for the stranger who holds the door open and the 958 01:16:40.880 --> 01:16:47.000 lifelong friend who holds you when life is broken. Give thanks for the hard 959 01:16:47.159 --> 01:16:54.359 days, for the phone call that brings life crashing down, for jobs lost 960 01:16:54.600 --> 01:16:59.800 and friendships fallen into conflict. Give thanks for the anger that reminds us we 961 01:17:00.039 --> 01:17:03.399 are human, and the tears that express more than words can effort. Father, 962 01:17:06.359 --> 01:17:12.600 give thanks though the pain is overwhelming, your energy spent, your spirit 963 01:17:12.760 --> 01:17:15.960 falling, and your only option is to fall to your knees before your Holy 964 01:17:16.039 --> 01:17:25.199 Father and cry out, God, please help me, for in that moment, 965 01:17:26.600 --> 01:17:34.880 his power is made perfect, his love is made evident. He becomes 966 01:17:34.960 --> 01:17:43.439 your strength, your comfort, and your salvation. Give thanks for the power 967 01:17:43.680 --> 01:17:48.960 of redemption from Genesis to Revelation, for the endless promises of a God who 968 01:17:49.000 --> 01:17:57.239 would rather sacrifice his son than give up on his children, for nail pierced 969 01:17:57.279 --> 01:18:01.439 hands, for brilliant dawns, for the cool touch of rain, and the 970 01:18:01.560 --> 01:18:10.920 simplicity of a quiet day, For all things great and small. Let us 971 01:18:11.760 --> 01:18:25.119 give thanks, Let us give thanks. And again, as I was saying, 972 01:18:25.239 --> 01:18:30.720 that basically really summed up a lot of what we were talking about on 973 01:18:30.880 --> 01:18:36.840 this piece here, more things great and small. Yeah, it's just thanks 974 01:18:36.960 --> 01:18:42.319 for them all. Yeah, it's like a moment there to kind of think 975 01:18:42.359 --> 01:18:45.600 about that. And again that kind of really went through. And ultimately, 976 01:18:45.840 --> 01:18:48.760 if we're saying thank you to God and to Jesus, to God for kind 977 01:18:48.760 --> 01:18:57.199 of sacrificing his son, allowing him to come down live amongst us, and 978 01:18:57.359 --> 01:19:00.760 for the sacrifice and the difference the impact that he made, which you know, 979 01:19:02.039 --> 01:19:04.800 we are saved by grace at the end of the day. And you 980 01:19:04.880 --> 01:19:09.640 know, sometimes we think about those smaller things that may have a really big 981 01:19:09.760 --> 01:19:14.600 impact. There's nothing greater than what Christ has done for us and the sacrifice 982 01:19:14.640 --> 01:19:18.479 that He's made for us. Yeah, all of those things, let us 983 01:19:18.560 --> 01:19:26.239 give thanks. So we've talked a lot about, yeah, being thankful and 984 01:19:26.359 --> 01:19:29.000 what that's like, and you know what we can do, So how can 985 01:19:29.119 --> 01:19:34.119 we I guess, thinking about how can we adopt their attitude of gratitude, 986 01:19:34.279 --> 01:19:40.960 how can that become, you know, part of our daily lives. We 987 01:19:41.119 --> 01:19:44.119 mentioned a couple of things. I really love the ideas, and we talked 988 01:19:44.159 --> 01:19:48.319 about, you know, a certificate of thanks or giving people thank you cards. 989 01:19:50.039 --> 01:19:51.479 But I know, and there's one of the things that I know, 990 01:19:51.880 --> 01:19:56.319 and I work as a well being advised as many of you know, and 991 01:19:57.800 --> 01:20:01.720 one of the things I often say to just my students and often, you 992 01:20:01.800 --> 01:20:05.479 know, this is an exercise that we can all try, is actually thinking 993 01:20:05.520 --> 01:20:12.399 about journaling and starting a gratitude journal. Now there's various ways to do this, 994 01:20:12.520 --> 01:20:15.960 whether you handwright this or it could be digitally on your phone or on 995 01:20:15.039 --> 01:20:21.239 a laptop or even voice recording notes and stuff as well. Actually recognizing, 996 01:20:21.880 --> 01:20:26.159 you know, what you can be grateful for. And a simple exercise of 997 01:20:26.399 --> 01:20:30.960 every day is to think of three things that you're grateful and thankful for. 998 01:20:31.520 --> 01:20:33.439 And I have to say to students, you know, try that, you 999 01:20:33.479 --> 01:20:36.880 know, especially when you know things are often I speak to students and they're 1000 01:20:36.880 --> 01:20:41.119 having a bit of a challenge, they're having a challenge, and sometimes it's 1001 01:20:41.239 --> 01:20:44.720 really difficult for them to kind of see the positives in anything that they're doing. 1002 01:20:45.159 --> 01:20:46.840 You know, you've got something going on for you, and the world 1003 01:20:46.880 --> 01:20:50.880 seems very very dark, But actually, what can you focus on and think 1004 01:20:50.920 --> 01:20:56.399 about three things? Three is quite a good number, not too many, 1005 01:20:56.520 --> 01:20:59.920 not too little, And to kind of try and record that every day, 1006 01:21:00.640 --> 01:21:02.359 and then I encourage them to kind of go to come to the end of 1007 01:21:02.399 --> 01:21:08.319 the week and just reflect back and the sort of thing. Actually, if 1008 01:21:08.359 --> 01:21:12.159 you've done that every day, my maths is terrible, but there'll be twenty 1009 01:21:12.359 --> 01:21:17.119 one things of things that you can be thankful and grateful for. My maths 1010 01:21:17.199 --> 01:21:23.760 is terrible. I'm not ashamed to admit that. But but again, that's 1011 01:21:23.760 --> 01:21:27.199 a very simple exercise to do, and I would encourage anybody out there to 1012 01:21:27.319 --> 01:21:32.439 do that as well. I'm thinking as well, you can think about that. 1013 01:21:32.880 --> 01:21:35.760 We've talked of a couple of texts as well, but there are so 1014 01:21:35.960 --> 01:21:41.319 many texts in the Bible, and if it meant sort of kind of picking 1015 01:21:41.439 --> 01:21:45.079 one every day and using that as your kind of your focus every day to 1016 01:21:45.199 --> 01:21:48.159 kind of base your day on sort of you know, a text of gratitude, 1017 01:21:48.439 --> 01:21:53.560 a text of thank you, thankfulness, that can be another way. 1018 01:21:54.039 --> 01:21:59.319 So Pedro's DNA, any other kinds of ways that you think we can adopt 1019 01:21:59.359 --> 01:22:04.720 this at you to gratitude. I think you've sort of covered where I was 1020 01:22:04.760 --> 01:22:10.039 going to go in terms of journaling, And in fact, the song comes 1021 01:22:10.039 --> 01:22:12.960 to mind, and maybe if we've got time, we might find a version 1022 01:22:13.079 --> 01:22:16.560 somewhere on the system. But count your blessing, name them one by one, 1023 01:22:17.520 --> 01:22:23.720 and it will surprise you what the Lord hath done. And I feel 1024 01:22:23.760 --> 01:22:29.119 if you're if you're making a special effort to pull from your day the things 1025 01:22:29.159 --> 01:22:32.319 that you're grateful for, the things, the wonderful things that have happened to 1026 01:22:32.560 --> 01:22:39.680 you and for you, then there is really little space and place for being 1027 01:22:39.920 --> 01:22:45.199 miserable or happy or you know, once your day is filled with that attitude 1028 01:22:45.239 --> 01:22:49.880 with gratitude. As you said, so journaling I totally agree with and using 1029 01:22:50.079 --> 01:22:55.720 scriptures, maybe you know, plastering them over your walls, you know, 1030 01:22:55.800 --> 01:22:59.920 and your note your bulletin board at work or whatever, so that whenever you 1031 01:23:00.199 --> 01:23:03.720 are feeling down or whenever you look up even there will be a reminder. 1032 01:23:05.159 --> 01:23:12.600 And there are several scriptures in the Bible about about thanksgiving, and I would 1033 01:23:12.680 --> 01:23:15.800 would even want to encourage you to share that we spoke earlier about the certificate 1034 01:23:15.840 --> 01:23:19.359 of thanks or the thank you card where you can just write it up and 1035 01:23:21.920 --> 01:23:27.640 give it to random strangers who have gone the extra mile for you or you 1036 01:23:27.760 --> 01:23:30.439 know, you know, do a service for you on a daily basis that 1037 01:23:30.600 --> 01:23:35.640 probably don't get planked enough. Your your local bid man, or your your 1038 01:23:35.760 --> 01:23:40.119 nurse or even your doctor, teaachers. And it's coming to the end of 1039 01:23:40.159 --> 01:23:45.039 school years or the school year, if you know, young people want to 1040 01:23:45.560 --> 01:23:50.000 say thank you to their teachers and um the staff at their school. Because 1041 01:23:50.000 --> 01:23:53.239 it's not just the teachers. Here we go again. You know, they 1042 01:23:53.520 --> 01:23:59.960 have several people who work within that support team and often it's to teach, 1043 01:24:00.000 --> 01:24:05.239 do that maybe get to thank you the janitor, etc. So just say 1044 01:24:05.279 --> 01:24:13.319 thank you to them all. And as well of as sharing that, why 1045 01:24:13.399 --> 01:24:17.199 not just calling a friend, calling a member of your family, someone you 1046 01:24:17.279 --> 01:24:20.439 haven't spoke to in a very long time or you haven't said thank you to 1047 01:24:20.760 --> 01:24:29.239 enough, and saying it, yeah, thank you and meaning it, and 1048 01:24:29.439 --> 01:24:34.000 just make that a special task of yours to say thank you to someone or 1049 01:24:34.079 --> 01:24:40.439 say thank you to something that you maybe overlook. Maybe it's your husband or 1050 01:24:40.520 --> 01:24:45.720 your wife or whatever. Just make a note of it to make sure the 1051 01:24:45.840 --> 01:24:50.119 next time they do that that you thank them and maybe put your words into 1052 01:24:50.159 --> 01:24:56.039 action. So if you want to take it to step further, take them 1053 01:24:56.079 --> 01:25:00.640 out for a meal. Maybe it's flowers, you know. Um. Put 1054 01:25:01.000 --> 01:25:08.159 Yeah, I'm pushing you now to make it tangible because sometimes words are not 1055 01:25:08.439 --> 01:25:15.079 enough. UM. Sometimes it's better we see you if you reciprocate. Yeah, 1056 01:25:15.279 --> 01:25:18.880 so you know you've you've massaged my back today, Maybe I massage your 1057 01:25:18.880 --> 01:25:26.479 feet tomorrow. Um. So we just been saying thank you tangibly to those 1058 01:25:26.560 --> 01:25:30.680 around us who make a difference in our lives. And yeah, ultimately the 1059 01:25:31.520 --> 01:25:36.640 most thanks goes to the most high Yes, definitely, And as you as 1060 01:25:36.680 --> 01:25:41.800 you talk about actions, another thing that you could do to show gratitude is 1061 01:25:41.800 --> 01:25:45.920 actually sign up to volunteer somewhere. Um, if there's an organization or a 1062 01:25:46.039 --> 01:25:50.319 charity or something you know giving you of your time's a great way to share 1063 01:25:50.359 --> 01:25:57.039 that you're grateful for. Um, to show your gratitude and resources as well. 1064 01:25:57.159 --> 01:26:00.439 Yeah, maybe you want to donate to Definitely, And you talking at 1065 01:26:00.479 --> 01:26:02.840 the top of the hour of you know, the help that you get that 1066 01:26:03.000 --> 01:26:08.119 you so much appreciate with your mom. And you know, so many of 1067 01:26:08.279 --> 01:26:11.920 us, in one way or the other get support from you know, various 1068 01:26:12.039 --> 01:26:15.399 charities, et cetera. But the only way they thrive and survive as if 1069 01:26:15.479 --> 01:26:18.319 people give back. Yes, so, um, and I'm going to shamelessly 1070 01:26:18.399 --> 01:26:28.279 plug a pentuspadia here. Um yeah, yes, I had the ministries are 1071 01:26:28.479 --> 01:26:31.600 on the radio. Then yes, gives that tantibly. Um, that's a 1072 01:26:31.680 --> 01:26:35.840 great way to say thank you. Yeah. Yeah, because you know, 1073 01:26:36.319 --> 01:26:40.800 you know, when we help others, you know, we've we're reminded of 1074 01:26:40.880 --> 01:26:45.119 the things that we have as well, and you know, hopefully that helps 1075 01:26:45.159 --> 01:26:48.119 us to feel grateful for things as well. Um. So giving of your 1076 01:26:48.199 --> 01:26:54.479 time, giving of your resources, you know, um, having a good 1077 01:26:54.520 --> 01:26:57.880 declutter of your wardrobes, you know, to give to a charity shop, 1078 01:26:58.079 --> 01:27:01.119 that kind of thing, you know, Um, can all make it all 1079 01:27:01.239 --> 01:27:04.760 make a difference. I mean, and it's a whole idea of giving back 1080 01:27:04.800 --> 01:27:11.159 as well and paying it forward. Yes, you know, Um, any 1081 01:27:11.199 --> 01:27:17.279 thoughts on that, petro Yeah, I was I'm thinking, um pretty much 1082 01:27:17.279 --> 01:27:25.079 everything you guys just said. Um being gratitude, by just being joyful, 1083 01:27:26.119 --> 01:27:32.119 by just um being joyful all the time, by um always smiling, always 1084 01:27:32.159 --> 01:27:36.800 helping others, never thinking of yourself in the sense of you know, what 1085 01:27:38.000 --> 01:27:40.560 can I get out of this for myself or what can I get out of 1086 01:27:40.600 --> 01:27:45.520 it for other people? You know, as you said, UM, giving 1087 01:27:45.600 --> 01:27:50.039 back, pay it forward. UM. Always helping, you know, helping 1088 01:27:50.079 --> 01:27:55.000 somebody, stopping and just letting the woman and the child cross the street, 1089 01:27:56.119 --> 01:27:59.000 you know, because they're on a busy street and they're just trying to get 1090 01:27:59.039 --> 01:28:01.119 across and they can't get a cause because the cause are just flying by. 1091 01:28:02.359 --> 01:28:10.119 UM. Just always daily UM, having a smile on your face. I 1092 01:28:10.199 --> 01:28:14.039 think having a smile on your face every day on the just generality, just 1093 01:28:14.199 --> 01:28:18.920 a general over day can make you can see people just start smiling back at 1094 01:28:18.960 --> 01:28:23.840 you, even when they're even when they're frowning, they just had naturally smiled 1095 01:28:23.920 --> 01:28:27.640 back at you and you never know how. Or just saying hello, like 1096 01:28:27.920 --> 01:28:32.000 I think you all so much earlier. Just saying hello or thank you UM 1097 01:28:32.880 --> 01:28:40.279 constantly will make a person's UM, they be so much better, you know. 1098 01:28:40.479 --> 01:28:43.600 Making when you call somebody on the phone saying how you doing, how 1099 01:28:43.760 --> 01:28:45.760 is your day? How is you how is your day going? Asking them 1100 01:28:45.800 --> 01:28:48.960 a question, UM, asking them UM, you'd be surprised how many times 1101 01:28:50.000 --> 01:28:55.079 people may even say to like, nobody ever asked me that question, but 1102 01:28:55.159 --> 01:28:59.079 they work in customer service, so you know you'd be surprised, you know, 1103 01:28:59.279 --> 01:29:05.319 so anything I'm sorry to cut you. No, I mean no, 1104 01:29:05.399 --> 01:29:11.439 it's said I maybe maybe some people, some some folks that I speak to, 1105 01:29:11.760 --> 01:29:15.439 they they say that they don't they have never heard a person say thank 1106 01:29:15.479 --> 01:29:20.479 you or like keys in point. I actually had to call somebody yesterday and 1107 01:29:21.000 --> 01:29:24.600 there was something and at the end I told her, I told her, 1108 01:29:24.640 --> 01:29:27.279 you know what, I love the UK and she was like wise like, 1109 01:29:27.359 --> 01:29:30.640 because you do, you can call and talk about whatever problem you're having. 1110 01:29:30.640 --> 01:29:34.039 And I just want to say thank you. And she was like what And 1111 01:29:34.159 --> 01:29:38.720 I was like thank you and she was like, nobody says that to me. 1112 01:29:40.239 --> 01:29:43.680 So it does happen. It does that. It literally does happen. 1113 01:29:43.800 --> 01:29:48.600 So just you know, bring that joy. So backs they say it's harder, 1114 01:29:48.720 --> 01:29:55.000 it's harder to frown than it is to smile, more muscles to frown 1115 01:29:55.119 --> 01:29:59.279 than it does. So why can't we all smile and be you know, 1116 01:29:59.399 --> 01:30:01.319 I'm not saying I have to be like, you know, like happy, 1117 01:30:01.439 --> 01:30:04.680 like you know, happy, like you know, jump into the streets of 1118 01:30:04.800 --> 01:30:08.600 singing a song. But you know, you can still be happy, you 1119 01:30:08.640 --> 01:30:11.239 could be joyful. And you also to think about you know, if you 1120 01:30:11.439 --> 01:30:15.399 if you have a spirit of gratitude, what does that say to about you 1121 01:30:15.520 --> 01:30:18.119 as a person as well? You know, how does that really how does 1122 01:30:18.159 --> 01:30:24.560 that influence your life and impact Because you talked about being joyful, do you 1123 01:30:24.600 --> 01:30:28.720 think that makes us less selfish in things, makes you less selfish, makes 1124 01:30:28.760 --> 01:30:32.880 you healthier? Yep, it doesn't make it healthier. Like I'm forty nine 1125 01:30:32.920 --> 01:30:35.840 and I don't take any medicine. I don't take any medication. Now I 1126 01:30:35.920 --> 01:30:40.359 do have aches and pains because I'm forty nine, But I really do believe. 1127 01:30:40.520 --> 01:30:44.880 My mother is older than me obviously, and she doesn't take it any 1128 01:30:44.920 --> 01:30:46.439 when people act. When she went to the doctor and he said what medicine 1129 01:30:46.520 --> 01:30:49.880 is doing, She's like nothing. He was like shocked. And my mother's 1130 01:30:49.920 --> 01:30:54.560 want to That's what I was going. Sorry, So growing up, my 1131 01:30:54.680 --> 01:31:00.439 mother and my father taught me to be joyful all time. And my father 1132 01:31:00.520 --> 01:31:04.399 did dive cancer from when he worked in a mechanic as a mechanic. But 1133 01:31:04.600 --> 01:31:10.079 my mother, um, she's my mother's one of the most joyful people you 1134 01:31:10.119 --> 01:31:14.159 will meet. She's always smiling, always got something positive to say, always 1135 01:31:14.199 --> 01:31:17.680 got something you know. I think even when she's upset, she will still 1136 01:31:17.760 --> 01:31:21.319 be positive about being upset. I don't know how my mother does it, 1137 01:31:21.600 --> 01:31:27.239 but she does it. And um she to this day. She don't take 1138 01:31:27.319 --> 01:31:30.600 medication, she don't take um. She don't have a leading any health issues. 1139 01:31:31.119 --> 01:31:34.159 And I found myself doing the same thing, following her, following her 1140 01:31:34.159 --> 01:31:39.640 footsteps. Where like it's easy. I'm not saying I have bad days. 1141 01:31:39.720 --> 01:31:42.920 I still have my days where I'm just grumpy, yeah, because I'm human. 1142 01:31:43.359 --> 01:31:45.640 But to being joyful, I think it does help you to be more 1143 01:31:45.720 --> 01:31:50.359 healthy, more upbeat, more energy, more every things in general, things 1144 01:31:50.399 --> 01:31:55.600 that you take for granted. Yeah, well if strus, if strust is 1145 01:31:55.800 --> 01:32:00.960 a silent killer, then the gratitude of gratitude must think, you know, 1146 01:32:00.479 --> 01:32:05.439 the opposite, must give life and health and strength, because both I think 1147 01:32:05.520 --> 01:32:10.199 can't reside in the same heart. If you're being grateful and you've got nattics 1148 01:32:10.239 --> 01:32:15.159 with regret to you, then you know the stress and the moaning and the 1149 01:32:15.279 --> 01:32:18.960 complaining and all that kind of filters out. But again it is not easy 1150 01:32:19.039 --> 01:32:21.680 to do. It is not easy to do, as humans. I think 1151 01:32:21.800 --> 01:32:28.000 our DeVault or default position is to complain, to moan, you know, 1152 01:32:28.199 --> 01:32:31.880 to to to say all that's wrong and you know, awful with the world 1153 01:32:31.920 --> 01:32:36.159 and everyone in it. But um, as Christians, that certainly shouldn't be 1154 01:32:36.279 --> 01:32:42.560 our our position, and it shouldn't be our desire. It should always be 1155 01:32:43.079 --> 01:32:45.800 to give that science for all that we that we have folks out here in 1156 01:32:45.800 --> 01:32:51.680 the brit and they do that that's that's actually your your forte as they say, 1157 01:32:53.239 --> 01:32:56.000 like folks in the States would say that the Brits are always complaining about 1158 01:32:56.000 --> 01:32:58.880 everything. If it's too sunny, it's too hot, if it's raining, 1159 01:32:58.960 --> 01:33:01.079 it's raining. It's like you guys, it's like you can never be happy. 1160 01:33:01.479 --> 01:33:04.199 I go out to the house and they're like, why are you from? 1161 01:33:04.279 --> 01:33:08.319 Why are you here from New York? You soun an American And I'm 1162 01:33:08.359 --> 01:33:11.199 like, well, I'm British of Bermuda. Oh why are you here? 1163 01:33:11.279 --> 01:33:13.960 You let Bermuda. I'm like, I love it here and they're like, 1164 01:33:14.079 --> 01:33:16.680 why do you love it here? The weather? And I'm like, what's 1165 01:33:16.720 --> 01:33:19.520 wrong the weather? And they're like, oh, it's raining, okay, 1166 01:33:19.760 --> 01:33:23.399 the ground is getting water, the grass is getting you know, wet. 1167 01:33:24.199 --> 01:33:28.520 Um, it's not like if it's too sunny. Oh the sun okay, 1168 01:33:28.600 --> 01:33:30.439 well you know it's it's brightening up to day like and they look at me 1169 01:33:30.520 --> 01:33:34.199 like I'm crazy because I'm like, what all A few folks like it's it's 1170 01:33:34.520 --> 01:33:40.279 it's good, it's it's a really I think me personally, I love it 1171 01:33:40.399 --> 01:33:43.800 here. The weather doesn't bother me at all, you know it could you 1172 01:33:43.880 --> 01:33:47.560 know it doesn't. I like, I love the weather, so as the 1173 01:33:47.600 --> 01:33:53.359 sun I just had don't like the sun? The sun is were here, 1174 01:33:54.359 --> 01:33:59.239 yes, and that is right I do, and maybe that's why. Oh 1175 01:34:00.439 --> 01:34:08.800 yeah, let's see, look here we are complaining about this. I'm not 1176 01:34:08.920 --> 01:34:14.760 complaining. I had to say that, you know, I had to say 1177 01:34:14.840 --> 01:34:19.479 that I sent out some feelings amongst that my friends and a couple of message 1178 01:34:19.600 --> 01:34:24.399 just coming through. I don't know if any have come through to the studio. 1179 01:34:25.600 --> 01:34:28.920 I'm hoping that we've heard from one or two listeners, but um, 1180 01:34:29.720 --> 01:34:33.079 a couple of messages that have come through is I'm thankful for life, thankful 1181 01:34:33.119 --> 01:34:38.880 for health, friends, um, nothing that we have not mentioned before. 1182 01:34:39.039 --> 01:34:44.520 Thankful for friends, family. Um, so that's basically what's coming in. 1183 01:34:45.680 --> 01:34:49.720 Yeah, similar actually, um, grateful for God giving life and good health 1184 01:34:50.760 --> 01:34:55.800 and thankful for protection. Um. You know, if there's so much happening 1185 01:34:56.359 --> 01:35:00.720 at the moment, you know tomorrow is not a given. So every day 1186 01:35:00.800 --> 01:35:05.920 you say we wake up, Um, another one was grateful for their journey 1187 01:35:06.800 --> 01:35:14.479 for their children. Um yeah, and let's had another one again, grateful 1188 01:35:14.560 --> 01:35:18.640 for health, they were ill, they've got got better or on their journey 1189 01:35:18.680 --> 01:35:23.760 to getting better. So again, um, all of those things can. 1190 01:35:24.920 --> 01:35:29.720 Yeah, people are thankful for we're grateful for um. And doesn't it doesn't 1191 01:35:29.720 --> 01:35:32.479 it formal testimony a lot when we go through things. When we do, 1192 01:35:32.600 --> 01:35:35.560 I take the words out of your mouth again, you literally did, literally 1193 01:35:35.640 --> 01:35:42.640 did because again looking at kind of carry on all the benefits of being grateful. 1194 01:35:45.399 --> 01:35:49.600 But yeah, that's for me. Our testimony is sort of based on 1195 01:35:49.720 --> 01:35:54.159 what we go through and what what we are most thankful for. In fact, 1196 01:35:54.239 --> 01:35:57.920 Alabasa Box is a song that comes to my own when we when we 1197 01:35:58.239 --> 01:36:02.920 when we talk about grow grateful and gratitude in that Here is a lady who 1198 01:36:03.479 --> 01:36:11.159 whom she's sort of outcast, She's a sinner. You know, why is 1199 01:36:11.199 --> 01:36:15.640 she around Jesus? Why is Jesus allowing her to touch him? And to 1200 01:36:16.479 --> 01:36:23.720 a minister to him, and everybody's like questioning, and Jesus says, well, 1201 01:36:23.800 --> 01:36:28.199 you know what, she's grateful, that's why. And if you were 1202 01:36:28.279 --> 01:36:31.560 forgiven much, you'd be grateful for much. And that forms a lot about 1203 01:36:31.640 --> 01:36:35.239 testimony. If you've been through a hard time in terms of sickness, and 1204 01:36:36.840 --> 01:36:41.279 when you've been healed or when you've come through, then you dance a bit 1205 01:36:41.399 --> 01:36:45.000 more and you shout a bit more about your healing. And that's for me 1206 01:36:45.199 --> 01:36:48.479 a lot of where we find our testimony, where we find our joy, 1207 01:36:48.640 --> 01:36:53.640 where we find our happiness, where we find our thankfulness, it's after we've 1208 01:36:53.720 --> 01:36:57.960 been through. And maybe that is the purpose. If I'm to think about 1209 01:36:58.000 --> 01:37:01.640 why God puts us in those positions and footsoing those battles, it's so that 1210 01:37:01.760 --> 01:37:06.479 we can be a little bit more thankful on the other side, not become 1211 01:37:06.520 --> 01:37:11.600 placent, not to take him for granted. Yeah, and that reminds me 1212 01:37:11.640 --> 01:37:15.399 of First Corinthians fifteen, verse thirty seven fifty seven. I should say thanks 1213 01:37:15.439 --> 01:37:19.119 be to God who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. You 1214 01:37:19.199 --> 01:37:26.680 know that's exactly that definitely there and again there are so many you know, 1215 01:37:26.800 --> 01:37:29.760 and also, our gratitude is a you know, the highest form of one 1216 01:37:29.760 --> 01:37:31.560 of the world you know, forms of worship as well. When we think 1217 01:37:31.560 --> 01:37:38.399 about Psalms, of how many texts they're about thanksgiving, praise, worship, 1218 01:37:38.920 --> 01:37:43.000 you know, it's all about that that gives us an opportunity to say thank 1219 01:37:43.079 --> 01:37:45.720 you and recognize, you know, and again that could be another way of 1220 01:37:46.279 --> 01:37:48.560 Again we talked about the verse that you can find, but you know, 1221 01:37:48.880 --> 01:37:56.119 Psalms is a great chapter to start David worship. Definitely, yeah, definitely. 1222 01:37:56.239 --> 01:38:00.199 So you know, there are definite benefits to being thankful. Um, 1223 01:38:00.960 --> 01:38:04.640 we're talking about, you know, how we can be thankful. There are 1224 01:38:05.880 --> 01:38:11.279 we're given the greatest thanks to our heavenly Father, but there are people around 1225 01:38:11.439 --> 01:38:15.600 us who make our world much better, you know, in our community with 1226 01:38:15.680 --> 01:38:19.720 it's in the general community or in our families, with our friends, you 1227 01:38:19.800 --> 01:38:24.920 know, and it's really important. So we want to encourage you not only 1228 01:38:25.680 --> 01:38:31.439 today and tomorrow as it is thank You Day, but also to be thankful 1229 01:38:31.720 --> 01:38:38.760 all year round, um too. Yeah, have that have that attitude of 1230 01:38:38.840 --> 01:38:43.000 gratitude. M And as we're coming to the end of our show, we've 1231 01:38:43.039 --> 01:38:49.920 got another guest too, has joined us today Hello, Michael. One of 1232 01:38:49.960 --> 01:38:58.199 our reasons that therapists from a little while all the way from um British Columbia, 1233 01:38:59.039 --> 01:39:04.800 Munny, Canada, Canada, Canada, day to day or tomorrow, 1234 01:39:05.479 --> 01:39:13.560 it's today, today, today, So indeed, so in our sort of 1235 01:39:13.600 --> 01:39:16.960 closing thoughts and actually this was segment nicely into what we come to the end, 1236 01:39:17.520 --> 01:39:21.800 we've been talking about thankfulness and gratitude. UM, So for you, 1237 01:39:21.920 --> 01:39:25.000 Michael, I guess what I can say is you know, what are you 1238 01:39:25.079 --> 01:39:29.960 thankful for? And you know why? Is it important? We've talked about 1239 01:39:29.960 --> 01:39:31.479 lots of reasons and what have you. What can you offer, as you 1240 01:39:31.560 --> 01:39:36.520 know, as a kind of our final thoughts on gratitude, why we should 1241 01:39:36.560 --> 01:39:41.880 be thankful, why we should adopt this actually the gratitude, Yeah, why 1242 01:39:42.159 --> 01:39:50.600 why I'm going to start off buy embarrassing you by embarrassing you if I'm to 1243 01:39:50.640 --> 01:39:56.159 say what I'm thankful for outside of thankful to God for it really has done 1244 01:39:56.199 --> 01:40:00.279 for me, especially this year in accomplishing some of the things I have. 1245 01:40:00.119 --> 01:40:04.840 I'm thankful for my family the support that they have been and are to me 1246 01:40:05.000 --> 01:40:12.279 that they're just comfort for me. But I'm also thankful for Angela. I'm 1247 01:40:12.680 --> 01:40:17.159 actually growing. I would say, I'm growing in grace. I am growing 1248 01:40:17.319 --> 01:40:26.039 in understanding what love is. I'm growing in patience. I'm learning more about 1249 01:40:26.199 --> 01:40:31.560 me because of who she is. I'm because of our circumstance. She's she 1250 01:40:32.039 --> 01:40:38.199 no, not me, she is thousands of miles away, and and and 1251 01:40:38.640 --> 01:40:42.239 it's it's just great to be able to connect the way the way we do 1252 01:40:42.359 --> 01:40:47.439 and learn. So I'm so grateful for for and well, thank you. 1253 01:40:48.199 --> 01:40:58.840 And when I went when I face as your I'm Michael, I had to 1254 01:40:58.880 --> 01:41:04.159 say that people, that's okay, oh good, oh good, Sorry, 1255 01:41:05.680 --> 01:41:11.680 I think not not at all. I also think that you guys have covered 1256 01:41:11.720 --> 01:41:15.680 the subject so well. The program has flowed so so nicely. And when 1257 01:41:15.720 --> 01:41:21.600 I think of when I think of gratitude as well, it's all about knowing 1258 01:41:21.720 --> 01:41:28.279 that it's not only me, it's it's what's happened to me, how others 1259 01:41:28.399 --> 01:41:32.319 have used other things to support me, and how I have grown. So 1260 01:41:32.560 --> 01:41:40.079 I am literally grateful for the experiences that I actually go through. And I 1261 01:41:40.199 --> 01:41:44.600 think when we self reflect and look at the things that have happened to us 1262 01:41:45.119 --> 01:41:48.920 and how we have come through, it tells us a lot about ourselves, 1263 01:41:49.560 --> 01:41:54.279 you know. And Therefore, a sense of gratitude is great and also tells 1264 01:41:54.359 --> 01:41:59.640 us as Christians. It really does tell us that even when we cannot see 1265 01:42:00.159 --> 01:42:03.199 or feel God. And I think Angela mentioned this earlier on, to have 1266 01:42:03.399 --> 01:42:09.760 faith that He is there and He is walking us through. And therefore, 1267 01:42:10.880 --> 01:42:13.439 go to the end of the Bible, go to the end of the story, 1268 01:42:13.520 --> 01:42:16.279 go to the end of the book, and know that you know it's 1269 01:42:16.279 --> 01:42:18.560 going to turn out. Okay, I don't know how it's going to turn 1270 01:42:18.640 --> 01:42:23.600 out, but because He is with me, I know it's going to turn 1271 01:42:23.680 --> 01:42:27.119 out all right. And it gives that sense of peace, that sense of 1272 01:42:27.359 --> 01:42:30.199 calm to one. And that's what I think thankfulness and gratitude does. It 1273 01:42:30.319 --> 01:42:34.800 brings happiness to others, and it brings a sense of peace and calm to 1274 01:42:34.960 --> 01:42:41.800 ourselves. Sure love that, love that, and oh as for usual, 1275 01:42:41.880 --> 01:42:44.520 we've got them so much more. I'm thinking, okay, this good seguate 1276 01:42:44.600 --> 01:42:47.600 it so much more. But again, like possibly a part two, you 1277 01:42:47.680 --> 01:42:53.000 know, saying thankful, saying thank you can happen any time of the year, 1278 01:42:53.399 --> 01:42:57.000 not necessarily on the second of July, but in my closing moments, 1279 01:42:58.880 --> 01:43:02.760 that's want to thank you listeners for joining us on talking point. I want 1280 01:43:02.840 --> 01:43:09.479 to encourage you to adopt that attitude of gratitude, recognize a small, the 1281 01:43:09.760 --> 01:43:13.000 large, the things that happen in your life that really impact, and also 1282 01:43:13.039 --> 01:43:15.199 think about how you can impact people and the things that you do as well. 1283 01:43:15.880 --> 01:43:23.640 So, as we're closing, Michael, would you pray for us and 1284 01:43:23.800 --> 01:43:27.399 pray that you know we can be grateful. We've got three minutes we as 1285 01:43:27.439 --> 01:43:30.960 you finish on time today because there's a special service happen Pragram happening afterwards, 1286 01:43:31.439 --> 01:43:33.800 and then we're going to close that with a piece of music. So everything 1287 01:43:33.840 --> 01:43:39.600 and Michael to pray. Thank you, Father God. We're just saying thank 1288 01:43:39.640 --> 01:43:43.319 you, thank you for who you are, thank you for what you've done 1289 01:43:43.520 --> 01:43:47.479 in our lives. And may we become a reflection of you, a reflection 1290 01:43:47.560 --> 01:43:51.520 of gratitude, a sense of calm, a sense of who you are, 1291 01:43:51.800 --> 01:43:57.439 a sense of a great and magnificent God who is willing to be in our 1292 01:43:57.520 --> 01:44:03.279 lives. Thank you so much, and maybe forever be grateful. Man. 1293 01:44:03.920 --> 01:44:11.079 So thank you for listening to us today on talking Point. Um again, 1294 01:44:11.439 --> 01:44:15.199 we're thankful, And with that we're going to close up with Mary. Mary, 1295 01:44:15.520 --> 01:44:16.600 before you do that, can I say a quick quote. It's just 1296 01:44:16.680 --> 01:44:19.520 based on what he was just talking. Michael was just talking about very quick 1297 01:44:19.560 --> 01:44:23.399 we've got life. Yeah, yeahs when life is sweet, say thank you 1298 01:44:23.520 --> 01:44:28.399 and celebrate where life is better, say thank you and grow. Oh nice. 1299 01:44:29.760 --> 01:44:31.079 I found it earlier when he was I was like, we'll use it. 1300 01:44:31.319 --> 01:44:38.760 Yeah, I love that. So Yesians five six to eighteen with Joyce 1301 01:44:38.840 --> 01:44:43.319 always pray, continually give fans in all circumstances, for this is God's will 1302 01:44:43.800 --> 01:44:47.199 for you. In um thank you. It's been talking points, so thank 1303 01:44:47.239 --> 01:44:55.359 you for myself. Angela. Then yeah, Pad and Michael, Michael, 1304 01:44:56.439 --> 01:45:00.920 thank you for joining us in the last few minutes. U have a good 1305 01:45:00.359 --> 01:45:05.439 rest of the evening. There's a program going to be broadcast from Wilsdon after 1306 01:45:05.520 --> 01:45:10.279 straight after us, and I hope, I pray that you do have a 1307 01:45:10.359 --> 01:45:13.880 wonderful week coming up. So we're gonna finish off. It ends with Mary 1308 01:45:14.000 --> 01:45:20.880 Mary and thankful. Oh Lord, I'm thankful for my blessing, everything that 1309 01:45:21.199 --> 01:45:27.760 you gave times when danger was around me my life. Lord, you say, 1310 01:45:28.159 --> 01:45:31.319 where would I be without Joel Love? Will would I be without Joel 1311 01:45:31.479 --> 01:45:40.359 brain? He didn't have the doing, But I can't attend that word of 1312 01:45:40.520 --> 01:45:45.479 God. I got it on my own. Never remove that to me. 1313 01:45:45.840 --> 01:45:49.560 Can't say you've never been at home when a fair pay me up again, 1314 01:45:49.920 --> 01:45:56.680 or I blot it all myself. I can always depend on you whatever I 1315 01:45:56.880 --> 01:46:10.880 need. My day around me, my life looking without show, come up 1316 01:46:11.279 --> 01:46:19.800 without your face. You didn't never do it. Next time you call you 1317 01:46:19.960 --> 01:46:27.359 wake up all right, will remember that he kept the same through the night. 1318 01:46:28.359 --> 01:46:32.680 Need your hand and raise them high. This is why you say you 1319 01:46:32.840 --> 01:47:17.199 did. Didn't have to get me time where the bank danger men? Thank 1320 01:47:17.199 --> 01:47:20.159 you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank 1321 01:47:20.239 --> 01:47:41.760 God, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank 1322 01:47:41.880 --> 01:48:24.680 you gave me my day. I'm wow. Game made all the times the 1323 01:48:24.960 --> 01:48:43.319 same Bottom Adventist Radio, London inspiration for the song