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Trusting GOD Amidst Political Chaos
The episode emphasizes the importance of faith in navigating political turmoil, underscoring how it can anchor us amidst uncertainty. With practical insights on activism and maintaining unity, the conversation inspires listeners to actively engage in their communities with a spirit of love and courage.
• Discussion on the role of faith over fear in challenging times
• Biblical insights on governance and transformative faith
• Exploring community activism rooted in spiritual principles
• The significance of prayer for leaders and communities
• Strategies for fostering respectful dialogue and unity
• The power of collaboration within faith communities
people right, you know, as long as we know we are treating people right and we are doing what we need to do to help others. Today I was studying my Sabbath school lesson, and one of the things that we're talking about this week is making sure that we do everything we can do for ourselves because of our faith and because of our love for God, and helping whoever we can. So if we can pitch in to help, then pitch in to help, you know, the people. Help them to understand that God is on their side and that they're going to be okay. Help them not to be fearful. I think that's the biggest thing that we could do at this point is to just help people not to be fearful.
Speaker 2:Absolutely, because I feel like as spiritual leaders and even as spiritual followers or people of God, and we say we love God and we trust God with all our might, whom shall we fear, right? So I feel like if we really truly believe those words and we believe in God, then we should believe in the word and that word saying, like you so eloquently put about the scripture that you read, but also in Romans 8, 28. And we know that in all things, god works for the good of those who love him and who have been called according to his purpose, right, and in Isaiah 41 and 10. So do not fear, for I am with you, do not be dismayed, for I am your God and I will strengthen you and I will help you. And I think that's really the purpose of having that faith of a muster seat, because without faith you're all over the place. So as long as you believe in something or someone, nothing can touch you. I feel like I'm invincible when I put my oil on honey, before I leave out the door, I put on my blessed oil and I put it over my kids and my husband, and you can't tell us we ain't covered, and we walk around like we covered because we know that God has everything he has to bring it over all things.
Speaker 2:So people are getting this big uproar about it and it's just like, okay, well, I understand the first four years of the current administration's reign we really didn't feel too much of it because we were going through COVID, right, so everybody was in the house and he was doing things. We couldn't do too much because, you know, we were in the house. But now that you know we're not at home and his previous plan is now being implemented, we have to know that we serve a God that is much greater. That is much greater, like you said, it's knowing where you at, who's doing it. But God, you know what I'm you at, who's doing it. But God, you know what I'm saying, who's doing it. But God, it's snowing in the sunny states.
Speaker 2:I see y'all out there making snowmen and I'm like what is going on? They making snowmen in Texas, what they do? That? Yeah, I thought we were here and then here in Illinois we barely got snow. I said this has been a good. Did God turn the world upside down? What is going on, you know? But in all things, trust in God, in all things. So thank you so much for that, audrey, and I appreciate you. I want to go to my next person and I will. That will be elena maria. Elena, your question tonight, well, your, your from your point of view, um, yours is on biblical insights and government, on governance, um, discuss, uh, we want to have discussions around the moral implications of the political decisions regarding media coverage, especially regarding social justice issues. I wanted to ask you what biblical figures exemplify faith and governance and how can their stories inspire current leaders and citizens.
Speaker 3:Okay, well, that's a loaded question. Well, first, I want to start off with when you started to say biblical leaders to today's time. Today's time with a leader, you're a leader of all people, right, so you're leading everybody. Everybody's not a believer. So I always like to start off with that. You know us as believers, we can have our set way of seeing and feeling and doing. But when you're a leader of all people, you got to have a broader mind, right? Of course I'm a Christian, so I believe in God. So you know, at the core of me, you know I believe in holiness. You know I believe in decorum. I believe in certain things, but you know, when dealing with the world, they may not, all you know, conform to the biblical side of things, if you will. But as far as who was it? Paul? His name was changed to Saul. You know he was an abuser of the people, right, and we know. You know, when God transformed him, he changed his name, cleaned him up, made him whole, made him new, you know, reformed him and he then became good to the people. So I guess that's a good correlation to use for today's leaders.
Speaker 3:I don't like to talk politics too much, I try to stay away from it because it's a sore subject for me, but I'm not a fan of the current administration and some of the ways they interact and talk and deal with people because they don't believe the way they believe, or they aren't, you know, when it comes to sexuality or gender and all of those things. When you live in a world full of people, you have to live in a world full of people, right? And it's such a touchy subject. It's an awkward place to be in. When you're a believer, certain things you may not necessarily agree or disagree with, but, like I said, when you're in politics, you are the leader of all people. So I pray for the politicians that they are able to stand firm in their faith but also use wisdom and fairness in their judgment and decision-making, where we're not putting off a whole group of people because we don't believe as they believe, but we realize that we need to make sure we're making a fair decision for everybody.
Speaker 2:So I know I'm kind of dancing around the question, but no, no, no, you're fine because you know I don't know if you were in when I was talking at first I was saying, um, that even though this is a platform speaking on political chaos, this is not a bashing of the administration type of thing. This is more so of a how do we trust in God during today's? You know the things that's going on today and and I guess I needed to kind of tell you like, I wanted to kind of know like and you explained it so eloquently when you mentioned Saul and you know Paul turning into Saul and exemplifying his faith in governance, right, so you did. You explained it very well that how can his story inspire current leaders and citizens, and you did that with what you just said. Basically, um, his story basically tells how god can turn someone with so much hate and so much vile and so much vengeance and just trying to just spew out hate and division against everybody. We have to know that God is a God of all things and trust that, no matter how bad somebody may seem, god always has a plan. Nothing is getting past God's vision. God knows everything that is going to happen before it happens. And just trusting in his plan and knowing that, yes, they are up in the air, they are doing these wild things, but just know it's a reason for the season and you definitely put that so eloquently. And you definitely put that so eloquently.
Speaker 2:I just love you so much and I'm so glad you're on this platform tonight. You'll be thinking you'll be having it, girl, and you'll be hitting it right on the mark. Every time, every single time. I appreciate your point of view and I'm going to get back to you in a minute Because I think I have another one for you as well. Okay, elena, so if you could stay on and if you can't, that's fine, because I know that you're out and about, but you definitely definitely explained that very well. So I appreciate that the next person I want to get to is going to be Myla Marie. So, myla, thank you so much for coming on again.
Speaker 2:I appreciate you for just coming on and giving your point of view on this topic tonight. So your discussion point would be activism in response to current events. Okay, so because you're an activist and an advocate, I thought that this would be perfect for you. Protests and advocacy efforts have emerged around issues like voting rights and social justice, with faith leaders often taking a prominent role. Discuss how the movements can be rooted in faith and scripture. How can we ensure that our actions reflect our faith values?
Speaker 4:Oh, that's a good one. We can be sure by number um believing that God is God and knowing that God is God and following the voice of God, and um just doing what he says, because he says it will keep you in perfect peace as long as you are in him, you know. And um also. I believe this is. This is what I believe my whole life. So we have the ability to live on top of the world, like we. We have the ability to live on top of all of this Right and and Psalms 91 is one of my favorite scriptures he that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high God shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. That means, no matter what you do, no matter what you say, you are untouchable. No matter what you say, you are untouchable.
Speaker 4:I agree that we should just stand firm in our faith and move on. God's command, whatever he says, goes. However, he tells us to walk. That's what we do because of. That is our safety. Like that is the shadow that we reside in, that's the shadow that we sit in. So that would be my take on it Like, just as long as we are spirit led in everything that we do and stay steadfast in that word. That word is our sword, that word we have to put on the whole armor of God. We have to, we have to put on a breastplate of righteousness, we have to put on the helmet, we have to put a, you know, have the swore like. We have to, um, stay steadfast in that word and just move on God's commands and know that, um, he is our, our shield, he's everything that was so eloquently put.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. I appreciate you, myla marie. I might be having something. One more thing I have to get back to you about, okay, so stay steadfast. The next person that I want to call on is tracy. Glad you back, girl. You came back just a tad. Thought you trying to get rid of. Thought you trying to run, girl. Don to run, girl, don't run, don't run.
Speaker 5:Not at all.
Speaker 2:So yours you are a teacher. You also are more so like a community advocate, especially for your students, especially during this time. So I definitely commend you just for being who you are. You are a superhero for most people and you do not know. You advocate for your students, you advocate for your community. You do a lot of outreach and we appreciate all teachers here on this platform tonight. So I think most of you are teachers and professors and have spoken in a lot of different education arenas. So I commend you all, but this one is for you, tracy, and yours is community response to political decisions. Ok, so local churches and organizations have mobilized to provide aid and support in response to executive orders affecting immigrants and the homeless. Yours is how can faith communities mobilize resources to support those affected by ICE as far as recent executive orders, and what partnerships can be formed for a greater impact?
Speaker 5:Well, I think the first thing that needs to happen is being well informed of those. You know political offices and you know what their intentions are. As far as you know what their intentions are, as far as what they intend to do to help, you know communities such as. You know schools and teachers and things of that nature, I've heard a lot of teachers say, well, you know we're not going to be affected. You know because you know we're teachers and they're not going to bother us. But yes, it does affect us, especially you know, with me being a special needs teacher and us. But yes, it does affect us, especially, you know, with me being a special needs teacher and writing IEPs. It's federal, you know, and it's funding that comes with that, and you just have to be informed. You know I work with parents every single day and you know they come to me with Ms Adams and we need an IEP. We need an IEP and you know. My next question is do you know why you need this? You know, for your child.
Speaker 5:I feel that it's extremely important to be informed so that you can make an informed decision and so that you can give information that's accurate. Information that's accurate, I just you know, for me, I just I feel like teachers. You know education as a whole all over the country, no matter what state you go to, I feel like education is just at the bottom of the totem pole. I don't feel like you know these people that are in office and that are in rulership. I don't feel like they care about the future of our kids. And we need teachers. You know you've gone into this profession. It certainly is not to be rich. You know as we. You know those of us that are teachers. We know we did not get in this profession to be rich. You know as we. You know those of us that are teachers. We know we did not get in this profession to be rich. Right, you're there because you care, you love and care about children and you want to do what's best for children. So for me, being informed and doing the research that's necessary to make sure that you know our kids are appropriately educated, you know, don't just put it on us as the teachers. You know all of us here are parents, right. We're all mamas right. So you know we got snowed out this week so I'm not going to leave it to my children's teacher to make sure that they are caught up on the things that they missed. That's my job, even if I wasn't a teacher. That's my job to make sure that, you know, my kids are well educated. They're educated based on what they need to go out into the world and become, you know, stronger, stronger women than I was. That's you know. That's my prayer every day is that my girls will be better than me.
Speaker 5:And if we want scripture, jeremiah 29, I know the plans that I have for you says the Lord plans to do you good and not evil. So if we can remember that, that God Almighty wants to do us good and not evil, and he's you know the weapons can form but they're not going to prosper. And you know I was watching a minister and I don't mean to be long winded, but I was watching a minister on YouTube and she was preaching and talking about her divorce and different things and she said the devil is a punk and a liar. So I've adopted that saying and I'm not. I don't feel fearful in saying that because he is not. I don't feel fearful in saying that because he is. I mean God calls him a liar and if we're going to call ourselves Christians and walking with Christ and living for Christ, then we have to say what he says. He says the devil is a liar, but I'm going to add to that he's a punk too. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he is. You mentioned the name of.
Speaker 2:God, he, yeah, yeah, yeah, amen, amen, girl, don't get me up here catching the Holy Spirit up here now. I'm been shaking some tables and stuff. Okay, yes, yes, yes, I appreciate you so much, tracy. I'm definitely have another question for you as well, so just stick around and I'll be right back to you. My next question is actually for Carolyn Coleman. Nope, not for Carolyn Coleman. I apologize for both Carolyn Coleman and Sandra. I need you guys to tag team this one. So this one is about faith and political change and in recent events, the new administration has issued executive orders affecting health care, climate change as well as immigration. These policies have sparked both support and opposition among various faith communities. I want you guys to consider how faith groups are responding to changes in healthcare regulations, especially regarding reproductive rights and access to services for vulnerable populations like children with disabilities and immigrants and veterans. How I'm going to start with the first question is going to go through. It's going to go to Carolyn Coleman. Carolyn, how do you interpret these changes through your faith lens?
Speaker 6:You know one thing that is constant, that is change. But through my faith lens, I know God is in total control. Yes, we get frustrated when we hear things. You know I know God is in total control. Yes, we get frustrated when we hear things, you know, we get annoyed. I think sometimes people speak, and that's politicians, or you know, john Q Publix. Do they definitely have all the data? Nine times out of 10, neither one do. Are they really looking at long-term goals, long-term plans? Nine times out of 10, neither one does, because everyone has their own agenda.
Speaker 6:So some of my favorite scriptures that I read when I'm really perplexed or need some comfort I start with Psalm 24. The earth is the Lord in the fullness thereof, the world and they that dwell therein. Everything is about the Lord. God created this earth. He allows man to do some of the things that man does. And if you don't have a conscience, if you don't have a conscience, if you are bought, if it's just about me, me, me and I, I, I, it's not going to work for you long range anyway. And when I said long range, that could be 100 years. There could be some generational wealth attached to it. But if it's wrong, it's wrong. I don't care how many people get behind you and hold up a sign and say, yeah, he right, yeah, he right. And I'm talking John T, public, loyal politician unto you, public or politician.
Speaker 6:Here's another one, psalm 27,. I'm sorry, yeah, psalm 27, 14. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage and he shall strengthen thine heart. Wait, I say on the Lord, because a lot of times we hear things and emotionally we get attached or we get knocked off our feet. So if we wait on God and God's timing is not our timing so we wait on him and we repeat these scriptures to ourselves. It gives us strength to go on.
Speaker 6:There are some people who are just negative, nancy. They're just negative. I don't care about the snow, I don't care about the sun. There is something negative with them. Those are people we don't care about the snow, I don't care about the sun. There is something negative with them. Those are people we don't need to be around because they will drain your spirit, they will drain you. So, psalm 34, I will bless the Lord at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth. When I am just perplexed, feeling down, all I can say is hallelujah. Hallelujah is the highest praise. Sometimes that's all you need to say Amen.
Speaker 6:Listening to one of my mom's favorite pastors he went on to be with the Lord last year I can see his face. He said when you don't know what to say, when you don't know what to pray, just say help me, jesus. And sometimes we don't know what to say, we don't know what to pray. And it could be, you know, you could be just so tormented by all the negativity coming around us and that's just life. And you'd be like I'm so glad I don't live in this world of negativity, I'm so glad I. And when I said live in this world, you're like you know I live in the world, but I'm not, but you're not of the world I'm not of the world, and being of the world that means you get consumed with all this stuff too.
Speaker 6:I know some people trust in riches okay, but I'm going to trust in the Lord because I know riches fade, okay, things go away.
Speaker 6:You know we have storms. We're having storms we've never had before. Yes, there is climate change, whether people want to admit to it or not. I'm not a scientist, I'm not a meteorologist, I don't play one on daytime TV, but goodness, goodness, goodness, we got snow on the beach.
Speaker 6:Guys down here in Alabama, these things let you know that you can't predict what God got for us. But one thing he said he would never leave us nor forsake us. Those are the ones that believe in him, right? So we're going to have to stay on that planet, on that plane, and say Lord, yet will I trust you? I have been walking down the halls, I have been walking in the classrooms, I have been driving to school, I have been driving to work. I have been driving to work. I said Lord, yet will I trust you? Yet will I trust you? Because we don't know what is on the other side of getting out that car, we don't know what's on the other side of walking through that door, we don't know what's on the other side of walking down that corridor. Lord, yet will I trust you?
Speaker 6:Okay, a lot of people think because, okay, I'm a nurse, that I am, let's say Miss Jane Hathaway. Okay, from the Beverly Hillbillies. I'm like Miss Jane, I don't know nothing, okay. But so they tell me anything. They tell me anything. My spirit man said don't believe that. Don't believe that. They tell you because they think you're innocent and that you haven't lived life or that you're not in this world. Okay, well, just because I don't do some of the things that other people do, patients will tell you anything, just like some students will tell you anything. Just like some students will tell you anything. But you know, I have this faith where everybody tells me I look unconcerned. Well, I thank God for the unconcerned faith because they say some things to you to knock you off your game. Okay, so yet will I trust him?
Speaker 6:Every day I went to work, when I've worked inside the hospital, took care of patients, every day I drove to work, I prayed. I don't care if I was five minutes away from the hospital or 30 minutes from the hospital. I said, lord, give me strength to recognize the change in my patient. When I have to speak to a physician, let me speak in an intelligent manner where he will understand what I am saying. Let me catch any change in my patient. I don't really want to code anybody today, lord, but if we have to code somebody, let me be on my game. I didn't think about me. I really was thinking about the patient. I don't know who I'm going to have that day. You don't know the patient you had today. You're about to send him home. Okay, he collapsed and you'd be like what happened, you know. But we have to put God first.
Speaker 4:And I know a lot of times.
Speaker 6:We don't do it. Let it just be 100%. We don't do it. I get up praying, thanking the Lord for a new day, but if we listen to the world, we wouldn't get out of the bed in the morning. You would be under the covers. But God didn't want us to live that way. Now does he? No, ladies, he does not. Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man that trust is in him. That comes from Psalm 34 and 8. There's a lot of scriptures we have to go back on to build up our spirit. Man, If you can't think of the entire scriptures, just say help me, Lord, Lord, which?
Speaker 2:is your word. Or say, like what Marvin Sapp said, you can always play that song. Know I'm a song girl. Praise them in advance. Okay, praise them in advance. Praise them in advance. You can praise them in advance.
Speaker 2:You can just, in all things, never worry, always worship. So if you replace that worry with worship and you just, no matter what is going on, you praise God because you know that it's something the devil is fighting against, because the devil don't fight against people that he is in connection with. So if you're doing things that is not right or that is not of God, he's not going to fight you. So when you feel like you have an attack coming against, you just know that you are on the right path. It's not that you need to pivot or go somewhere else or run away from the problem. You face the problem head on, because nine times out of 10 after that storm, that rainbow is always there. That's 10 times out of 10, I must say so.
Speaker 2:Yes, thank you so much, carolyn. I do have some more questions for you as well, sandra. I'm going to bring you up. You're going right back to the discussion point. Consider how faith groups are responding to challenges in health care regulations, especially regarding the reproductive rights that are being stripped away and access to services for vulnerable populations. What actions, as a faith based community, can we all take to respond effectively?
Speaker 7:is this. Look at Psalms 145 and 2, which tells us every day I thank the Lord. Every day I thank God. Every day I thank Jesus, whichever one you want to call him by, because we all know that he goes by so many names. And if we hold fast to that and be thankful for the fact that, yes, we are in rough times, but, as I stated earlier, it's a fight between God and the devil, and who always comes out on top? Who would you say? You know what? I got my bet on God Boy. I got my bet on the devil right.
Speaker 7:We have gone through some changes. We're going to continue to go through some changes, but if you remember, if you're faithful and you stay within where you're supposed to and you're thankful and you go every day by being thankful, you should have no problem. There should be no worry because you know, in the end you're going to come out on top. So that's what I would add to that. What can we do? We can be thankful. We can be thankful. We should all be thankful, Every last one of us, no matter what we go through. We should be thankful that we're still here on earth, Meaning that God is not finished with us yet Because when he's finished he's going to tap us and say come on home, you did your work. So we should all be thankful that we're still allowed to breathe.
Speaker 7:And those patients who are out here, the people who are hurting, should know because we're thankful they get the benefit of that Because they have resources they can go to when they feel down and out and they're struggling and they just really don't understand what's going on. All of us on this call and more who are believers. They should be able to turn to us and get what we have. That thanks. They should be able to rub that off. It should be able to come off on them so that we don't continue to worry and stress out. Once again, my bet is on God that he's going to pull us through. I don't know who you are, but I know my bet is on God that he's going to pull us all through this. We got some rough times. We've been through them, we went through them before and, once again, I've never seen his seed break and break Never.
Speaker 4:And I don't think.
Speaker 7:I'm going to see it now, because there's too many of us that we can go to the occasion and rise up for those that can't rise up for themselves. So that's what I'm going to add.
Speaker 2:Sorry y'all, my mic was muted. I'm new to spring. Y'all Y'all know I don't spring. Y'all y'all know I'll go laugh, okay. So one more question for sandra. Uh, what partnerships can be formed for greater impact? So I know that you have choms, meta health as well, as sandra is on the board. Um, as far as you know them stripping away a lot of things from the veterans and and how can people come together and form partnerships for a greater impact?
Speaker 7:None of us should be doing anything alone. We should be having God as our head and we should be looking to outreach as many organizations as we can. You know, I used to do videos once a week, every Wednesday, where I would have smaller, lesser known nonprofits join us as we were growing. Because it's going to take a collaboration of all of us to make this move. It's going to take a collaboration of all of us to bring those who are hurting in the healthcare field, to bring them out and to make them feel safe and secure. Because guess what, if I don't have the resources to do something, I have the resource connections.
Speaker 7:Who I can say well, we don't do it, but here's somebody else that does. So. If you own a business or a nonprofit, well, a nonprofit is a business. But whatever kind of business you own, stop trying to do things on your own, because very often it doesn't lead to great things. Look to collaborate as much as you can with like-minded people, with like-minded organizations, so that all of you grow together. It's going to take a togetherness, not a separation, in order for us to be able to grow.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much for that. And we have Classy Define LLC chiming in saying check out Sandra's organization on YouTube, MetaHelps. So if you go to YouTube, I want you to search in for MetaHelps and some of her previous discussions are on there and how you can become involved in organizations and nonprofits, such as herself with Choms Men. It Helps. So thank you so much for that. Is there anything else you want to chime in and say?
Speaker 7:Yeah, I do actually want to add in the oneary we'll be actually showcasing some of those organizations that we do, that we do have a relationship with, through our black history month event that we'll be hosting all month long through february. So you'll be able to see some of those very people who we actually connect with and, some of them, organizations who, together, we grow this thing.
Speaker 2:So and where can they purchase tickets?
Speaker 7:tickets are on eventbrite and they're actually also a link for it, so if you need to actually register, um, the registration is five dollars per show. There's a total of 18 live shows. The recordings, the pre-recorded shows, will be on my LinkedIn and Facebook, but all of the live shows you will need to register for.
Speaker 2:Okay, and Sandra, if you can put your, once this live is over, you can find the link to the event right in the comment section at the bottom of the screen. Thank you so much, sandra, for that. I'm going to move on to the next person, and that will be Miss Audrey Ann. Audrey Ann, can you come back up? Yes, ma'am. Ok, so I have for you is coping with division? Ok, that's the next topic and that is. There are reports on polarization in politics that highlight the challenges of maintaining unity within community. Maintaining unity within community how can we create spaces for open conversations?
Speaker 1:without compromising our beliefs. I think the best place is community, community centers and churches, where people can gather and voice their opinion in a safe place. Excuse me, it's really important that whoever the organizers are, make sure there is a safe place where people's voices can be heard without them worrying about being attacked, or verbally or physically being attacked verbally or physically. So I think that the best way would be for community leaders and county leaders be able to ensure that. Otherwise, people are not going to come out to talk. Even though they may have great ideas about how to mend the community, they're not going to come out if they feel they are not safe. So the first thing is that the local authorities need to make sure that they have a spot that's going to be safe for them to be able to voice their opinions.
Speaker 1:I also think that it needs to start in the home as well.
Speaker 1:I think that in the home, if parents have these conversations honest conversations with their children, even if they're teenage children, if they have these honest conversations, children, even if they're teenage children, if they have these honest conversations, if husbands and wives have these honest conversations about how they feel about things that are going on and what can they do as a family to be able to start in the home and letting it come out how the children treat each other at school, or if something's going on at work, the spouses can discuss it. If it starts there, then it'll make it easier for it to merge out into the community and we shouldn't wait on higher authorities. A lot of times we wait on higher authorities to do things when sometimes just having a gathering of people. Well, first of all, like I said, starting in our schools and in our churches and have a gathering of people that can have a conversation and make plans for what they can do to pull their communities together. If every community does that, then I mean we would have a fabulous country.
Speaker 2:Absolutely 100%. I knew you was going to hit that one out the park. I know I had the right person. I just love my panel. This is a great panel discussion tonight. I really do. I knew I had the people for the job. Myla marie, I got another one for you. Love um. Prayer for leaders and policies. Okay, um, in recent events, faith leaders are often called upon to pray for national leaders and policies during challenging times. You know I'm getting that girl, you know I'm getting it, especially as new legislation is introduced. I want to discuss organized prayer events for leaders and communities. Prayer events for leaders and communities. How can we encourage our congregations to pray for leaders and what specific prayers can we offer for those navigating complex political landscapes, such as Ms Bishop? God bless her ministry this past week.
Speaker 4:I bless her ministry this past week. Well, that's a really good question because, in my opinion, you should want to pray for them, like that's a given why? Because, at the end of the day, like you know, like we have, we all coexist in this world together, right, and in order for us to cohesively coexist. Finally, like I believe that God can change anything, so we should, we should want to pray, especially if it's something that a lot of people are having trouble and strife with, that a lot of people are having trouble and strife with. So, as far as encouraging you know the people, I mean to pray. This is the main time we need to be on our face. You know, this is how things should go. We should pray the word before anything, anything, even when it comes to our families, of our children, when our children go out into this world, we need to be sending the word before them so they come home wrapped in that word and their, their, their ear gates are guarded and their eye gates are guarded so that, no, no matter, you know what happened, nothing can penetrate. Those are the same prayers that we need to have for our leaders and that should be our posture, just for God's will to prevail and that it be revealed to everyone that's involved and everyone that is shaping this government, because there is a physical government but there's also the government of Christ. There are, there are um positions that are signed to cover these uh principalities, powers, spiritual wickedness in high places, like there are um prayers that are in the word that has been set forth in those. That is what we need to be doing.
Speaker 4:We need to be praying the word, and this is the time where we need to do it, and I think we will get to a point, as the government of Christ, to kind of recognize that and stop allowing the fear mongering to kind of kick in, because that's that's, um a lot of the reason why we get distracted on where we supposed to be as the body of Christ, as the government of Christ, um, we let fear creep in because we don't necessarily um weed out, you know, uh, what we take in. We we just take in everything you know, and and we just don't necessarily weed it out. Well, we're coming to a time where we need to be cautious, or we need to be not necessarily cautious, but aware of what's entering into our ear gate, what's going, you know. What's entering into our eye gate, you know, and we need to learn how to be what Christ has made us to be. We need to know that wherever we go, wherever we stand, like if Christ abides in us, we have the ability to pray into that territory and shift the atmosphere like Christ. Wherever you go, whatever room you go into with Christ inside of you, everything in there must shift, must go.
Speaker 4:So I think we as the people, as the government of Christ, as the body, just have to get back to that place, to where we are really on our face and we are really praying for revelation and we are really praying for alignment and without. We need to learn to respect each other's perspective because a lot of times, what we do is we pray from a place where we're angry and it's not getting hurt. We pray from a place where we are. There's a motive there. You know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4:There's a motive there. You know what I'm saying, and the only motive needs to be God's motive. So we need to, once we learn how to pray from a heart posture of purity, of love. I think that our prayers would be more effective when it comes to covering the leaders of the nation, when it comes to covering the leaders of the church of. It comes to covering the leaders of the church of the body or any type of leaders. We have to check out heart posture and that's what it should be Like it should. We should want to pray right now.
Speaker 2:Exactly, we should want to basically mimic Christ.
Speaker 4:Absolutely.
Speaker 2:I agree with you a thousand percent on that. I think a lot of times we just get so caught up in our emotional what we feel we don't like or who we don't like, or we're so wrapped up in as far as politics about who we voted for and that person didn't win. And, yes, it is getting so chaotic and things seem like they are not just. Everything is going out of control and people are in fear and I think I feel, with my point of view, that we are begging and pleading to the wrong person. We feel like this person has dominion over our lives because they hold a space in a political arena temporarily and we feel that because they hold that space, that they hold the key to our future. And they don't. And they don't. I feel like true believers know that God doesn't call the qualified, he qualifies the called. And while most people are seeing the pages of the Bill of Rights and the civil rights being snatched away, they think that that's in all be all and that is not the case. But you know, it's easier said than what is going on and the things that we see right. But that's where faith comes in, that's where imagination as a child comes in. You never seen Santa Claus? I never saw Santa Claus, but we were taught as kids to believe in Santa Claus and a lot of people say, oh, don't teach your kids you know that Santa Claus and this and that. Well, how do you expect them to believe in God if they don't believe in something of an imagination at first? That's why they're introduced to Barney and all these things, because that is setting them up to believe in God or believe in things that they cannot see. And right now, people are so distraught and they're heartbroken and they are in pain and it really just hurts my heart because, although I'm not a fan of what's going on, I'm totally against everything that's going on right now.
Speaker 2:That bishop that spoke to our new administration, she has so much fear of God, she, she conducted herself so eloquently and she really looked, looked opposition and looked, uh, just the unjust, right in the face, right, and she called out the beast. But she didn't do it with animosity, she didn't do it with anger, she didn't do it with frustration. She did it all soft-spoken, eloquently, with the love of Christ and as if she had Christ within herself. And that made me and my perspective because if anybody know listen, linda, I'm a firecracker and this time last year I would have been on this platform giving it everything I had. I'd have been doing all of this, but I know all of that is just theatrics and what does it solve? What does it help that we are on here attacking who right and who wrong, who did this and who did that?
Speaker 2:This is not a debate. This is not a smear campaign. What this is is this is a gathering of women of God who are coming together to tell you guys, hey, you guys, hey, fear not, fear not. God is not an author of confusion. He does not give the spirit of fear. Okay, what does he give? What does he give? Who knows what he gives?
Speaker 4:Love, power and a sound mind.
Speaker 2:Amen and peace, Peace that passes all understanding. And when you know that, when you know that and you live in peace and you live in a tranquility of knowing that god is going to fight the battle for you, who can be against you? You know that god is coming. He coming absolutely. He's showing himself already. He's showing himself already with um. He's showing himself already. He's showing himself already with um. He's showing himself already with with the storms and with the snow storms and with the fires and with all of these things that are going on. He is showing you, guys, there's only one person that can do that and that is God almighty. Nobody else can come in and do those things.
Speaker 2:So, just basically, what I'm saying is the world is in a waiting room right now. Yes, the world is in the waiting room right now. Thank you so much for that, Myla Marie Carolyn, I have another question for you. Are you there, Miss Gentry? Are you there? Ms Gentry? Yes, I'm here. Okay, great. So we're talking long-term faith and civic engagement right now, especially by you having run for political office just recently and knowing just who you are as a human being and as a person of Christ and a woman of God and a woman of faith. Ongoing discussions about voter engagement and participation in the democratic process continues today, right so I want to explore the role of faith communities in encouraging civic responsibility and participating in local governance. Let's discuss how can we inspire congregations to be active in their communities beyond the election cycles right Now. How can we inspire others to see faith as a call to action in the public life?
Speaker 6:Okay, that may be a twofold question. I'm going to answer it from my heart. Maybe not from my head, but from my heart. People are so nonchalant these days. They razz up about things that they shouldn't razz up about. Local government is very, very important. The midterm elections are very important. The majority of people gather for the general elections. Just like we assume that people's votes are bought or purchased or bartered. That just may be very well true when the deck is stacked. I'm like him. He hit my daddy two years ago. I ain't forgot he hit.
Speaker 6:Okay now, what's the whole story behind it? What's the inside story behind it? But people won't, and it bothers me. People won't stop and they won't. And it's free, but there's no. They want it free, but there's no such thing as free.
Speaker 6:When you work and you earn your own money, then you have a degree of freedom, but when you constantly have your hand out, when a person hands you something, it's just a little something, something. Little something for the church, little something for the church. Everybody got to know about this. You don't even have to put it in the collection. Now you know. You got to pay that back. Whether you pay it with money or your voice or something. This goes on. You know, when people say, oh, he's bought, the election is rigged.
Speaker 6:When I was a kid, my parents used to laugh about the number of people that were in the cemetery that voted. I mean, I'm a kid, I'm like how do they vote? How do they vote voting? Because people use their name. They use their name. People have become more sophisticated in that process where they're going to the person they think is going to help promote which nothing wrong with that. Who's going to pick the sorriest player on the team to try to help win the game? They're going to try to find the person that's the strongest to win the game, but at the same time, are we doing them a disservice Exactly Because, just because they're strong and they're popular, do you guys share the same ideology? There are some people who are, and I watch it from time to time.
Speaker 6:Politics is not my forte. I will say that Medicine is, nursing is, but you don't have to watch it, but a little while to know, as the people said, there's a dead cat on the line. Know, as the people said, there's a dead cat on the line. We don't know in totality what the presidents go through. They go in with black hair, they come out with white. So that lets me know the weight of the world literally is on their shoulders so we can say what they should do, what they shouldn't do, how they're going to do it.
Speaker 6:But we don't have the entire story. We have to trust the process. We have to trust the process and we have to pray. Part of my prayer for years is Lord, be with our political and religious leaders. Help them to do what's right by your people. The pastor has an obligation. People who said that they are leaders have an obligation to do what's right by the people. It's not just talking points. You need to be a doer and I know some people just will argue you all the way down and they're good at arguing. But is that healthy? Sometimes? We just need to be wise.
Speaker 2:Yeah, a lot of times, you know people want to, they want to have you know a back and forth or some type of you know people want to, they want to have you know a back and forth, or some type of you know um, tumultuous banter when it does not have to be um. Like you know, the serenity prayer is one of my favorite prayers of all time. God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can't, and the wisdom to know the difference. My dad used to always say and y'all know, I quote this all the time my daddy used to always say a wise man knows he does not know everything. A wise man knows he does not know everything. A wise man knows he does not know everything. So a lot of people may feel like they. You know what they say is Bible. Whatever they say is end all to be all. We all feel that way sometimes.
Speaker 2:I know I'm right. I know you're right in your world, in your bubble, that you live in world in your bubble, that you live in Absolutely. I'm never going to say Myra, myla, you're wrong or Audrey, you're wrong. Your belief is your belief. What you feel is what you feel. I can never tell you that you're wrong. However, I can show you another way or another point of view to view things by. What I feel in my heart and what I believe to be right can also be true. Two things can be true at one time. Okay, it can be true for me. My truth can be my truth, your truth can be your truth, but I do believe in respecting other people's opinions, other people's point of views, without necessarily debating or going back and forth about who's right and who's wrong.
Speaker 2:That's not what this platform is about and that's not what we, as women of the waiting room, stand for. Our main focus and our main mission is to come together to show people hey, look, I went through A, b, c, d and I got out of it. And guess how I did it? Because because of God, y'all think he not real. Well, I'm a show you because I went through all of this. And look at me today. Oh, I'm going through this right now. You want to know what's getting me through? It's through this book. It's through this book. It's called the Holy Bible, and these words and these affirmations that I'm speaking into existence over my life, these things are coming to life. I've been called the prophet, I've been called the vessel, I've been called a woman of God, I've been called all of these things.
Speaker 2:But I don't take that and I don't use that or those terminologies lightly when it comes to me. I just know when God tells me something and he speaks to me, he don't speak to me to say God told me to tell Audrey and this, or God told me to tell Myla Marie, that God didn't tell me to tell y'all nothing. He told me something and I said this may apply to somebody else's life too. So let me tell y'all what God telling me today. Okay, because God, if he wants to speak to you, because God, if he wants to speak to you, he know you, he made you, he, your daddy, just like he mine, he going to tell you. So when I hear or I feel people coming to me and they telling me well, god told me to tell you I know it was a group chat he, he don't, he don't tell people to come to them to tell me nothing. Know my number. He gave me the number. He know where I'm at, he know my address, he know where to find me, he know where my war room at, because he right there with me. So why would he send a two-way text through you to tell me something? Now he shows me things through using people as vessels. I give that. But in the same token, we have to learn true discernment and how to move through the days that we're going through and the time that we're going through now in a place of peace. Because if we're going to be combative through this, through these next four years, we will not win. Because the fight is not ours. Vengeance is mine, said the lord, not ours. And where you, lying to adam, say because y'all know, I'm a one, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a sound girl, the battle is not yours, it's the Lord's. And in knowing that the battle is not ours, let's stop, ladies and gentlemen, let's stop. Let's stop the fighting, let's stop.
Speaker 2:We are wasting time coming on social media talking about who we should have voted for. I'm not saying nothing. I'm not advocating for nobody. I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. Y'all should have, y'all should have, y'all should have. If we just concentrate on what we're doing inside of our household, inside of our bubble, and to help others outside become better, live better, be better and find their faith in God by coming and rubbing on our garments and what we and our faith and tuning into us and what we're doing collectively as women of Christ, as people of God, then we won't have time to keep spewing out hate and division and what we should have could have would have done If we just focus on our faith, pray to God, know that he is going to deliver us from everything that's going on in the world today. That I promise you a shift will happen. A shift will happen, but let's stop focusing on the other people and what they're doing wrong and because we wasting time and we taking our eyes off of the calling and what God has and his plan for us. We're taking the focus off of the right thing and we're putting it on the wrong thing because we were.
Speaker 2:I'm over here worrying about Audrey Ann and what she talking about or what she got going on. Then I'm down here. I'm looking at Sandra like hey, you forgot to do this. You forgot to do this, sandra. Then I'm over here talking about Myla Myla. Why you ain't doing this? You supposed to be doing this. You forgot to do this, sandra. Then I'm over here talking about Myla Myla. Why you ain't doing this. You supposed to be doing this the whole time. I'd have missed three steps up the ladder and I'd have fell back down 10 because I'm not focused on his mission and what he called me to do, because I'm too busy getting on social media, scrolling through there to see all the wrong stuff and calling out all the wrong stuff everybody else doing. And while I'm on this subject, I'm going to say this because I'm the moderator and I had a chance to really speak, so now I'm going to get it out there.
Speaker 2:We are supposed to uphold the word of God and everything that's in the word of God. I know that to be true, but please, please, let's come together and stop picking and choosing what we want to go and be obedient to when it comes to the word. Can we do that? Can we stop picking and choosing what verses we want to be obedient to and stop skipping the ones that rub us a little wrong, because we know we wrong in that arena and we ain't all the way clean? Let me tell you something people Never be ashamed that you are not all the way clean.
Speaker 2:The point of going to your waiting room and going to church is seeking God. We all going to fall short. That don't mean you are not worthy. That does not mean. But that also don't mean that when you become a seasoned saint or you become a retired sinner, that you have to gavel to judge everybody. God didn't give you that. He didn't give you the right to condemn other people. All he wants you to do is trust in him, follow his plan.
Speaker 2:You do those things that everybody else will too, and if they don't pray for him, pray that they do. Pray God, change their heart and keep it moving, because Abraham had a lot to lose. Did y'all catch that? Because I caught it last week when I saw it on Facebook. He had a lot to lose If I got my brother with me and my brother is carrying all this baggage and he got all this chaos going on over here. I got to lose that brother because if I don't, it's going to distract me. I ain't trying to turn to a pillow or something for nobody, and I ain't finna sit up here and be looking back trying to figure out who ain't doing what God told them to do.
Speaker 2:And y'all need to do what God told y'all to do. I don't need to tell y'all nothing. All I need y'all to do is have faith, trust that God will bring you through and keep moving towards your purpose and whatever it is that you feel that God called you to do, you do those three things and you will not worry. You will worship and, through all things, trust in him. So I'm getting ready to close out. I want you guys to once again because I now started the stream a little late to once again because I now started the stream a little late. So, once again, I want you guys to introduce yourselves. I mean, before we go, introduce yourselves one more time for the audience, tell who you are and how they can reach you in anything that you have coming up, and I'm going to start with Dr Audrey Ann.
Speaker 1:Again, I'm Dr Audrey Ann Moses. Never Say my um. My website is transition life coach. For you is the number four letter, youcom, and I have uh, I'm working on a couple books. I'm working on the sequel today, girl walking, and again my. I just started a new podcast. I was doing it last year but we're really rolling into it this year A moment with Dr Audrey Ann Moses, and you'll be able to find it on YouTube, on my YouTube page and on Facebook Live, so I'm really excited about that. We also have a local radio station here that we go on live every Thursday morning at 10 o'clock. So I've just been doing whatever God tells me to do and having fun doing it, and it was just been a wonderful. Thank you, ms Linda, for inviting me on this platform, and I hope that I get to serve on it some other times as well. And it was a nice meeting all of you ladies, and my sister, carolyn, is always good to see her, so thank you very much.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much and we're going to go to Carolyn Coleman, okay.
Speaker 6:Let me read this verse first. It comes from Psalm 71. Let them be confounded and consumed, that are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt. It's really self-explanatory. I just wanted to sort of close out with that, because everyone who pretends to be your friend is not always your friend.
Speaker 6:I'm like Elena Politics, sex and religion are three things that I try to stay away from, especially in the workplace. Sure, around family you can do it, but it still gets to be heated. But at work, you're not going to hear me doing stuff on that nature. If it's on the news, baby, it's just on the news. I didn't put it there, you know. You got to go talk to the people who get when it comes to things in the community, things in the country, and what we really need to be doing is praying for one another, because, just like what happened in LA, that can happen anywhere that we live. Ok. So we pray for the people who are going through. We're supposed to be praying for our leadership. There's no way we can expect them to make good decisions and we're not covering them and lifting them up in prayer. So, with that being said, I am Carolyn Coleman.
Speaker 6:Like I said, I am an author. Christian nonfiction and fiction are my things. I am working on a couple of things that I can't make up my mind if they're going to be nonfiction or not. I can easily twist it. That is what it is. Hopefully one of the books will be out by the end of this year. The Gentry series is being repurposed. My website is cpwbookshelfcom. If you want to purchase any of the things, any of my works that I have done.
Speaker 6:Once you become an author, you don't stop. You might not publish, but you don't stop writing. There's always something dancing in your head. My podcast is Gentry's Journey and I've done my first one for this year already they are. It gives you a deeper dive into the lives or the reasons why people write what they write, or they select the career choice that they have, or their business or brand, why they developed it. So that's what that platform is basically for to give other people exposure. You can't get exposure being in your hometown. You have to get out and be on various platforms for people to see and hear what you have to say.
Speaker 6:I am thankful to God for my life. I am thankful to God for the journey that he put me on. I never would have thought in a million years talk about podcasts I mean they didn't exist. But I never would have thought in a million years Talk about podcast I mean they didn't exist, but I never would have thought. I've always wanted to write because I love to read, but I never would have thought that I would have become a number one bestselling author. I want to thank Jackie, this listening lender herself, for this opportunity.
Speaker 6:But let's just keep an open mind, not just when it comes to politics, but what well you can. Politics is in everything. It's on your job, it is everywhere, it is in these companies. So where money is, politics will be okay. That's just life, that's just what it is. Is politics will be okay. That's just life, that's just what it is. But let's continue to pray for our leaders as well as ourselves. Like I say, my prayer and has been for years for God to touch the hearts of our political and religious leaders, to do what's best for God's people, and we need to keep them lifted up. They have the weight of the world on them. Like I said, it may not show. I'm sure they have to be stone-faced on a lot of things. They can't reveal a lot of things. It's nothing we could do about it if they did, okay. So let's keep them prayed up, let's keep them covered, let's keep ourselves prayed up, and I think that's basically it, miss Listen. Is there anything else that I need to say?
Speaker 2:Baby, you said it all. You said it all and basically, that's, once again, that's what this platform was about, and basically, that's, once again that's what this platform was about. This platform, like you so eloquently put, and like I put it in the beginning of the show, in the middle of the show and towards the end of the show, this is not to bash any political leaders. This show is titled Trusting God in the Mist of Political Chaos, of political chaos. So this is not a we're speaking on politics show tonight. This is how do we trust God in the midst of the political chaos? So this discussion is not to bash our political arena or anyone inside of it.
Speaker 2:I don't speak politics as well, but I know that politics, right now and in current events, is what the topic just is. That is, the reason for the chaos of the world today is because of politics, and that's why I'm so glad that each of you decided to come on and, although it is a touch and go subject, to keep a clear mind of what the topic is about, and it is and has always been about having faith in God and praying for them and not throwing stones in glass houses, and keeping our vision and what God's vision is for us at the forefront of our glasses, keeping our peace and our sanity, and not more so our religion, but more so of our faith in God, at the forefront of our lives, and know that through all things, we are strengthened and we have dominion over the things in our lives because God lives within us. Okay, so the next person I'm going to have come up and speak and introduce their selves and tell a little bit about their selves and what they have going on coming up is Myla Marie.
Speaker 4:Okay, first of all, thank you for sharing your platform with me. I really, really believe it was nothing but God that led me to everything that you have going on. I mean, it just happened so miraculously in it Like I was in, that I am in the waiting room, that I am in the waiting room and for so long like I've been feeling unheard, and you gave me that. You shared your platform with me so that you know I can begin to release what God has to say and what he's been put there, and so I appreciate you for that. I love everybody that is on this panel tonight. Everybody has some beautiful answers to the questions. Hit the nail on the head, everybody. I'm just so thankful to be in the presence of so much wisdom. You know God is good.
Speaker 4:So I'm Myla Marie. I'm a CEO. I own my own real estate company. Well, it's property preservation, but we do real estate. I'm also an author Amazon bestselling author. My book is Elijah Awakened. Jezebel Must Die, it's number one in Christian church growth for a long time. And then I also just finished my first novel, which is the Vanishing, which is a fiction novel but is based on a true story. It's inspired by a true story, rather, and also I'm a mom of three children 19, 17, 16. And I own I'm a founder of Purple Rivers in honor of LaMesha Bazil, which is a nonprofit that caters to the lupus warriors, and I'm just so glad that God gave me the opportunity to be a part of this, be a part of this devotional, be a part of this panel and just really sit in all of this wisdom we had tonight. It's been such an amazing night. Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
Speaker 2:Oh, no problem. No problem, and we are so grateful that you have decided to come and join us. Um, myla, myla Marie is actually the newest co-author in the women of the waiting room, surgery for your soul, devotional volume two, uh, which will be coming out late March. Um, so we're excited to see her story and all that she will be giving us access to actually knowing about her and while she's in her waiting season and in her waiting room right now. So I'm excited to get her submission back. I just I want to see what she got cooking over there in the waiting room. I'm excited. I'm actually excited to read all of these ladies' stories that are actually coming up in volume two. So, thank you, myla.
Speaker 2:I posted a video that I made for the waiting room asking, you know, doing an author call, because we are still accepting submissions right now. So if you want to be a part of the waiting room, I have one spot left, one. That's it. I'm going to take one more person like pass, to say one more. I know it's one more out there with a story.
Speaker 2:So if you know someone who probably is never written before or not, you don't have to be a professional writer, you don't have to be a published author. If you are someone with a testimony who just wants to share your testimony, or how God delivered you from your waiting season, how God covered you in the midst of your storms, this is the anthology for you. We have a great publisher, payprov Publishing Laquita Parks. She will help you with one-on-ones to kind of perfect your story and get it out. I'm also available for consultation calls as well to help you kind of perfect and get the thought from your mind to the paper, and that's how you start. So thank you so much, myla. Again. Her nonprofit is called Purple Rivers Nonprofit. Is that correct?
Speaker 4:Rivers, non-profit. Is that correct? Yes, it's Purple Rivers in honor of Lamisha Bazile. Okay, but it's um, it's on there, it's Purple, purple Rivers. It's such a tongue twister, but it was given. It was given by God. So we was like, okay, that's it.
Speaker 2:Lila will put it in the comment section after this live is over and she will actually put a link into the comment section as well on Facebook, and you guys can click on that link to find out more about her non-profit. Next we have Tracy Adams. Tracy, come on up, give us a little bit more about you and what you have going on.
Speaker 5:All right, good evening again, ladies. Listen Linda podcast. I'm Tracy Adams. I am a creator and owner of TNA Literary Works Presents and basically what my business is is promoting and marketing the projects that I'm working on. My most recent projects that I'm working on is I've written a book called A Runner's Journey and it's basically about my journey as a runner over the years and what running has done for me over the years. So that is coming out. It's going to be live soon. The sample is already done. How William Met Mommy that's the sequel to my first published book, how William Got His Wings that will be coming out live as well, probably by the middle of February. I'm looking at my baby girl. Maya has written a book called the Sister's First Chores and it's a story about her and her big sister doing chores. As I think Dr Audrey said, you know you're always writing even if you're not publishing. Audrey said you know you're always writing even if you're not publishing. But those are the publishing projects that I have coming up here soon during this first quarter. I'm also working on a book that I wrote about my oldest girl is called there's Nothing Dreadful About my Hair and it's a story about her journey as she started locking her hair. Her hair is down to her bottom almost Beautiful, beautiful story. So that'll be coming out here soon and I'm starting on.
Speaker 5:I've already started an anthology. It started off as an independent book and it was about my thoughts and my memories of my mom. She passed away. July will be three years, three years that mama's been gone, and it was just my thoughts and just you know things that she shared with me over the years. But I decided to make it an anthology because so many of my friends, sister Jackie, have lost their moms and for me it was my way of getting through that grieving process.
Speaker 5:You know a lot of people when they lose their mother. You know they're just going through it. They're having a hard time, especially with the holidays passing, and for me it was just an outlet. When I think about my mother I smile because she was a very strong woman, a strong mother. She raised seven of us, had to bury two of her children to gun violence. So just God is just. He really blessed her.
Speaker 5:You know she lived to be almost 90 years old and so if you know anybody, miss Jackie, I would love for you to be part of that project. It's called Missing Mommy Moments and I'm hoping, crossing my fingers and praying, that we can get that released by Mother's Day. I think it would be a wonderful project to release by Mother's Day. I think it would be a wonderful project to release by Mother's Day. My email is TNAliteraryworks at yahoocom and I'm going to post my oh gosh, my link is very long. It shouldn't be that long, but anyhow, click on it and you'll be able to look at my other projects that I have going on, and I appreciate you, ladies.
Speaker 2:Thank you so much. Is this your email here? Yes, ok, so you guys can email Tracy here and she will then forward you Tracy here and she will then forward you her website. Yes, okay, so I think that would be better. Last, but certainly not least, my favorite, favorite, favorite favorite, sandra Chi-Town tell everybody who you are and how they can get in contact with you and what you have coming up.
Speaker 7:I'm on mute. We hear you. Okay, to keep this short and sweet, I am all things healthcare, whether it's resources or research, I'm all things healthcare. My website well, actually, my website isn't on screen. My website is wwwmedihelpscom. Please make sure, if you're going to my website, that you use that Z instead of the S. You'll find a bunch of information on there, a reference to how busy we've been and the things that we've been doing to make sure all patients have access to optimal healthcare not just healthcare, but optimal healthcare. That's our whole mission is to make sure that each of us gets that chance.
Speaker 7:What I do want to close out with is three things. First, let's continue to pray for those who are in leadership roles right now that they do what's right by all men, not just by some, but by all men. Let's also pray for those individuals who were promised federal jobs promised federal job who, because of the hold on hiring, don't have those jobs anymore. I was just reading on LinkedIn the other day that there was a nurse that left her job, sold her property in one part of the state and moved to another part of the state, thinking that she had a job at the VA, only to be told that she no longer had it because they have a hiring freeze. So let's remember our workers who are federal workers, who are in jeopardy of losing their jobs because we work, because we have to work. If we were millionaires or billionaires, of course we would work, but we would do a different kind of work. But to get up each and every day worried about the fact that I don't have a job anymore, or like the young lady sold everything because she thought she had a job of her lifetime to come to find out that they had to rescind the offer. So let's make sure we do that.
Speaker 7:And I do want to close out with two scriptures that are actually a part of my new upcoming book. And before I do that, thank you, miss Jackie, for having me come on this evening. I appreciate you and love you to bunches, that's a word, but in my new up, and thank you for allowing me to be a part of the devotional part one, I'm waiting for you to roll out part three, so by that time I'll be ready to be back. This is it, though. Two scriptures that I'm going to read are taken from my upcoming book your Voice, your Tool, a Guide to Becoming an Empowered, engaged and Educated Patient. Hopefully it will be out by the end of this month. I got the first revision back, but I had to make some changes, so hopefully it'll be out within the next couple of days.
Speaker 7:Actually, the first that I want to read to you is this the mind of man plans his way. So we have people in office right now that plan in their way, but God directs their steps. So that's taken from the New King James Version, proverbs, chapter 16, verses 9. And then I have the other one that I want to read which says be on your guard, stand firm in the faith, be courageous, be strong. We all need to be strong now, in the next four years and even further on to the future. That's taken from first corinthians, new international version, chapter 16, verse 13. So please keep those words at your heart, live by them so that we can all get through these times that we are upon us now. God is in control. Remember that.
Speaker 2:And for those of you who don't. Thank you so much, sandra again. For those of you who may have missed it, elena Maria is no longer on the screen. She had to step away. I want to give her a shout out and thank her for coming on and being a part of this discussion. You can find her. All things, elena Maria. Right now she is working on, I think, about three or four movies that she is actually starring in, co-starring in.
Speaker 2:She's also a part of the women of the waiting room volume one, the devotional, and volume two, the anthology. She has a 10 book journal, um, that she's promoting, as well as her new um up-and-coming book, mariah. Two um and she has a number one best-selling book, mariah, and she has a number one best selling book, mariah, and she's all over the place. Girl is awesome and you can find her at ElenaMariacom. I'm going to put her banner up here so we can make sure that we shout our sister out and wwwElenaamariacom. Also. I want to give a quick shout out to the publisher of Listen. Linda Presents the Women of the Waiting Room. Sur books um. She's um also published a lot of the women who are on this panel tonight, books tracy adams um um. Dr audrey ann, a dead girl walking um carolyn coleman. She's working on some projects with her as well, so we definitely want to acknowledge Miss Dr Laquita Chanel Parks for her contribution to the women of the waiting room, as well as our journey from girls to women, in which I had the pleasure of being a co-author in right here, had the pleasure of being a co-author in right here me and Tracy and Carolyn Coleman and this book is out right now on all platforms. But I would suggest that you purchase it directly from me, because it's my show, so you can buy it right here at Young Saved Leaders for $25 and put in your name and email me at classiedefined or youngsavedleaders at gmailcom and with your name and your address and I will ship it out right to you as soon as possible $25.
Speaker 2:Our journey from girls to women. My chapter is called the me, you see, and it basically speaks on my, my journey From being a Child born With Struggles, my mom and my dad both addicted to drugs and just being homeless and just going through life alone and having a lot of things happen to me and meeting my husband, and then having to deal with things as far as family is concerned, and just finding out who I am as a woman. So my journey from a girl to a woman and evolving from not just becoming a woman and a mother and a wife, but a woman of God, and putting God in the forefront of those things and how it can just change your life for the better. So it's an outstanding book. It's over 25 amazing women involved in this project and Melissa Summers is actually the person who did the foreword for this book. It's a phenomenal book 300 pages of beautiful women. Here's my page right there with little me, little Jackie. I ain't mean no more, I got a smile these days.
Speaker 2:So I thank you guys again, days.
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Speaker 2:Thank you to everybody for coming on and I want you guys to love like Christ loved the church. Okay, that's all I can say. Thank you again for tuning in and have an amazing, amazing, amazing night. Thank you to all my panelists again, I love y'all like Christ loved the church. Oh, and before I go, I want to shout out Dr Velma Bagby for this wonderful woman of worth shirt. You can contact her at wwwdrvelmabagbycom and get yours right now. I love it. It's an amazing shirt. Let's see if I can, if I can do promo the correct way and get in the screen A wow, woman of worth shirt. I also have the coffee mug as well. It is an amazing shirt. Woman of worth, woman of faith, woman of God. Have an amazing night you.
