Redeemed Conversations with A.R. Ledgister
Redeemed Conversations with A.R. Ledgister
Embracing Imperfection: Finding Connection Through Life's Valleys
Redeemed Conversations picks up here after 2 years of podcasting. Join us for a great conversations.
Struggling with the notion that we must be perfect to approach GOD, I've discovered a liberating truth that's reshaped my spiritual journey: belief is our starting point, not our destination. Through the loss of my father and the postponement of long-held dreams, I've unearthed the strength to bring my genuine self before God—case and all. In our latest heartfelt episode, we walk together through the intimate landscape of spiritual dialogues, exploring the freedom found in recognizing that our flaws are not barriers but bridges to a deeper connection with the divine.
Entering the dark valleys of life can often feel like a solitary trek, but I've come to see that even in our lowest moments, we are far from alone. I share insights on how God's guidance is a constant presence, likening it to the shepherd's rod and staff leading us through personal trials. We discuss the profound impact of carrying our full selves into our faith, facing financial struggles, emotional wounds, and even parenting hurdles with honesty and hope. It's a journey of navigating tough times with a sense of divine companionship, reassurance, and shared experience.
As we wrap up our time together, we pause for a collective reflection, extending our prayers for safety and wellbeing, especially for those in vulnerable situations. It's a powerful moment of community and gratitude, as we invoke blessings for those facing the night without shelter and for safe travels for all. Join us in this sacred space as we express our concerns, share our gratitude, and uplift each other in a spirit of love and worship, with the comforting knowledge that our conversations with God can transform fear and shame into growth and fulfillment.
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um, I'm an orthodox angolacci. You know I do a little things a little different. You know, um, I say things a little different. Those who know me off this camera know that I still got a few things to work out with the Lord. But that's okay. You know, it's just going to be what it is.
ARL:But I do want to let you know that it is a wonderful thing to have an opportunity to really work towards your salvation and work towards your thought process of who you are in God. And when I say who you are in God, I mean who you really are. You know, not the hype, not the, not the um, the, the, the, the colored and the pulled pulled together kind of person, but who you really are. And if you're comfortable bringing that level of yourself to God, I hope we are, and I'm not going to lie to you. I struggle with it and I hope to be like that one day. But I'm not going to lie to you. You know it's. It's a struggle and with it being a struggle, you know, I looked for a Bible verse that could help me understand how this redeemed conversations thing can go, and one of the things that I found in our finding scriptures.
ARL:It talks about you. Lord took up my case and you redeemed my life. You know the whole word case. So many people have cases. Doctors have cases, lawyers have cases, musicians have cases, psychologists have cases and we have cases. And the thing about it is what's in your case, how your case is defined. There's no right or wrong way to define your case. So, if you really think of it, god does not have a prerequisite to what you can and what you should bring to him. And the thing about that is I think a lot of people get that misconstrued to what you should and should not bring to God. And I'm not going to lie. You know this podcast will consist of guests and conversations, real deep conversations and just you know, in the midst of a bunch of different things that you want to talk about. But tonight I didn't want to bring a guest on. You know, I wanted to redeem the conversation between God and ourselves, god and myself.
ARL:You know there's a thing that I often I say to my homies and I say to my friends, and when somebody says something and that doesn't really correlate to the heart that I think God has, my first thing to tell them is who told you that you know. Who told you that God's not interested in talking to you about your sex life? Who told you God's not interested in talking to you about the things that bother you about your parents, that bother you about your wife or your husband, that bother you about the things which you know? Then you think about it like, okay, well, god, I can't bring certain things to you because I'm in this mess or I'm in this thing and you know I get it.
ARL:You know I had my regular issues of not wanting to bring bring things to God, and I had my thoughts at times and my reasons and my reasons were different. You know, I I took the framework of my thought with God and I just kind of like okay, well, god, I think you know your will and your timing may be taking a little too long. And that was a little bothersome to me, you know, because at an early age I lost my dad and I was like God, you know everybody's father, and here we go, and I don't know if it's in your will, and here you go. I prayed about it and yet he still passed away, and I'm still trying to figure those things out.
ARL:Okay, well then the next thing for me was God, what's taking you so long with my dreams? What's? You know I'm? I'm hoping for particular things to happen and I'm hoping that I'm not wasting time in certain relationships and looking for certain things. You know, did my dreams fail? Is it too late for me?
ARL:I mean, you have all those different levels of thought process and then one of the hard ones for me was you know, was I sure I heard you right in my dreams? You know, was I sure that I heard you right in the things that I was going towards and looking towards and thinking about? And, to be honest, if you look through tradition and mindsets, you take on the thought process that maybe what it is I'm looking for and what it is that I'm trying to discuss with God, he's not willing to talk to me about because of my lifestyle or because of what I think and what I say and how I think and how I say. And I wasn't totally sure if I could bring things to God, if they were crazy or unclean, if they were cool or not. I wasn't a hundred percent sure what I could bring to God. And you know I'm not going to think that we're all that, that I'm by myself.
ARL:You know, I think one of the things that we, um, we deal with, you know I won't say the body of Christ and I won't say just millennials, but I say we deal with. We deal with a level of not really understanding if what it is we got going on, god will help us with it because we got ourselves into it and you know, when you think about getting yourself into situations, when you think about getting yourselves in, your heart brings you to them Sometimes. Sometimes your mind brings you to them, sometimes your heart and your mind and, yes, sometimes your body brings you to them, and then you think, ok, it's a mess, we've got a mess on our hands. So now I don't know if I'm able to really counteract what's going on and, god, I really need some help. But through the things I may have been thought and taught and and things I may not think you want to help me and that bothered me. You know that. That that kind of put me in the thought process that said, you know you are the author and the finisher of our faith and, yes, you are the the alpha and the Omega, and this stuff I got going on may be a little too dark. They may be a little too whatever, and you know I'm not going to I was.
ARL:I was a young, young man who grew up with my mom babysitter was teaching me bible scriptures, you know, and he taught me one of the popular scriptures in the word of God, which is Psalms 23. But the the part that I wanted to kind of bring up was this scripture here it says even though I walk through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil, for you are with me, your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Now. This scripture starts off in Psalms 23. It starts off with the Lord is my shepherd. Right now. It's super. It is a known churchy colloquialism that we talk through that, the 23rd Psalm. You memorize it, it, and if I knew this, this scripture, from seven, eight years old and nine years old, um, other things started for me now, but I never thought it through the way I read it in dealing with this. And just in this one verse where God talks about even though, even though I walk through the darkest valleys. Now, what do we talk about?
ARL:Dark valleys? A lot of people don't want to talk about what a dark valley is. Well, I'm going to bring some of them up. You know dark valleys are issues with money you can't get control of your money. Issues with a sex you can't get control of what's going on. One of the reasons why I wanted to be on at 11 o'clock because you know there's other things that be happening and some of the other dark valleys. Here goes one dark valley for us, which is our past hurts. Sometimes it's literally impossible to get past past hurts. And, you know, I think one of the things that often give us an opportunity to really give a train of thought is relationships. Sometimes dark valleys can be relationships. They can last for years, on years, on years.
ARL:And then you think about it and you say, okay, well, god, what is your ability to help me in these dark valleys, when tradition tells me God is not a part of the darkness in your life? But that's not what the scripture says. See, the scripture says that he's with us and even though you walk, even though I've walked through the valleys and the dark valleys, you're with me and no evil, there ain't nothing. You know people think about it. You know there's absolutely nothing, nothing you can think about that will ever make you alone with that whole dark valley thing. So then, why we don't bring them up. What do we? Why don't we bring them up? Why do we question you know, god? Are you really a part of what it is? I got going on and I just really want to know do you, do you really walk with me through through these dark valleys? And and if you do, you know how much of the responsibility of getting me out of this is on you.
ARL:And again, we just talk about this one verse in this one scripture. Again, we just talking about this one verse in this one scripture. Now, understand, I'm laying foundation for the naysayers that may say oh, this podcast is going, is this worldly? And this podcast don't necessarily, um, have biblical orientation, not true? I'm not on here, just speaking from a? Uh, from a weird place. You know I'm, uh, I am ordained. I worked hard towards it, um, I fought through discouragement to try to figure it out. So one of the things that I've really gotten to learn is that God is so interested, god is so interested in in. God laid things out for you to be able to understand and know that he is a part of every step and everything that you're looking to do.
ARL:So then you look at it and in this verse. It talked about your rod and your staff. That okay. So the shepherd got tools, the shepherd got tools, the shepherd has the rod and the staff. The shepherd got tools, the shepherd has the rod and the staff. And if you know just some context behind that, when a shepherd is leading sheep, sheeps often are trying to just take care of feeding themselves walking along. They don't always know the right or wrong thing to do, but therefore there's something long enough to get them. And hey, come over to this side. Not that far yet. So there's tools long enough to get them and hey, come over to this side. Not that far yet. So there's tools that God has. There's rods and there's staffs and there's circumstances that God has. There's closed doors, there's missed opportunities, but you know that's discouraging sometimes. But then there's also there's hopes, there's dreams, there's faith, there's peaceful relationships. You know there's. There's podcasts. You know, shameless plug, you know I'm just going to talk about it.
ARL:But if you really think about it, god has tools and everyone has a journey where God will use tools to guide you. So God really had to get me right. God really had to get me good in my thought process of what do you really think is not okay to bring to me and what do you really push yourself to be comfortable with bringing to me? And if God wants everything I'm like, okay, god, how do I, how do I bring, how do I bring that to you? You know, how do I, how do I bring, how do I bring the struggle that I can't stop fighting with my girl. I can't stop fighting with my husband. I can't stop fighting with with my child. I mean, I'm not going to lie, everybody got struggles. Everybody got things going on and, the truth be told, as a parent, I'll tell you.
ARL:One example for me is that, as a parent, you think about it and you say you know, I have a 10-year-old who was a tremendous blessing to my life, grew me all the way up, and then I have a four year old who is just as much of a um blessing in my life and they, uh, they have put me in a place of always studying what I do, because I was growing up in a household that you know. At times it says you know, do as I say it, not as I do not for any. You know ways that my parents weren't doing things, but parents didn't always give me an understanding of the what things were going right, what things were going wrong, and therefore sometimes it made it a little uncomfortable for me to bring them back to them. To bring things back to them, you know, and I try to fight hard now with my babies and my kids to kind of help walk through OK. Well, what does that look like in walking?
ARL:As a dad, you know, and I try to to be honest, because this is the shepherd thing Try to be honest and you try to say okay, bet, son, if you forget to take out the garbage, you know it's, you'll also forget to wash your clothes and you'll also forget to take out the dog. And if you want to be able to do something in life, then you have to remember to take care of responsibilities. And then you know. But then I thought about it because I would start to take away things from them and I'm like I bet taking away the things from them are not necessarily the, the punishment that works, but guiding them through the forgetfulness, guiding them through what they're thinking about, why they're not being able to do things. You know, parenting, you kind of work through that and then it just kind of got me to think you know, ok, well, god, you know the valleys that you can see me through and the things that, god, you can see me through.
ARL:I'm interested in knowing your perspective. And if I want to see your perspective, is it OK if I take the limits off? And that brought me to my, to my, my last scripture, which kind of gave me the the carte blanche to say you know, um, I have told you these things so that, in me, you may have peace in this world and you will have trouble, but take heart, I have overcome the world. And here's the thing about that. Here's the thing about that. This overcoming the fear, because that's really what this is about tonight.
ARL:Tonight is about overcoming the obstacle of wanting to push and wanting to hide what it is we are ashamed of. Now, the thing about being ashamed is you're aware of the things that you are trying to hide and, to be honest, if you really think about it, that's the first step to self-improvement, is self-awareness. So why waste the opportunity, you know, why waste the opportunity of saying I don't like this, but yeah, you don't like it. But what about studying why you can't stop watching certain things and why you can't stop raising your voice at her when she's not trying to fight or he trying to fight. You know, you think about it and you may be in these levels of valleys and you in, as you're thinking and studying life, you're absolutely able to really think through what it is that can, if you brought it to God and changed it, how much better life could be. You know, and I think often people, people misunderstand, you know, I think sometimes they they misunderstand or they misconstrue repentance with relationship. They, they, they disconnect repentance with relationship. The repentance is the kickoff of the conversation in the relationship. And I'm not even just saying things that you just do wrong, because at times you have to repent for sins, but sometimes you got to repent for thinking poorly.
ARL:Norman Peale has a book out that's called the Power of Positive Thinking, book out that's called the Power of Positive Thinking. I encourage you to take a look at it because you realize how many people take so much away from their lives not taking on the thought process of positivity. And, to be honest, if you're not thinking positive, what are you thinking? If you're not thinking positive, what are you thinking? So if you really think about it, you have overcome all the things that you possibly really could be dealing with in your life. None of those things are new to God. Now, I'm not trying to get to a preacher place, but if you really look at it, none of those things are new to God. Now, I'm not trying to get to a preacher place, but if you really look at it, none of those things are new to God.
ARL:So, absolutely, if you want to have a conversation with God after smoking a blunt talk, people get upset about me saying that that's okay. But if you really think about it, is you know what could the kingdom be? What could the kingdom be if we allowed people to bleed in church instead of trying to look healthy and notice, I said look healthy in church, see a relationship with God. And a true conversation with God is revealing. It helps you see who you are. It helps you understand who you are. It gets you to a place of really pushing yourself to love who you are, because God is talking to what he created. We are made in the image of God. Wow To be made in the image of God. Wow To be made in the image of God. So you're going back to the manufacturer when there's an issue. You're going back to the manufacturer when there's an issue.
ARL:So if I really had to think about it, why wouldn't I bring my sexual addiction to God? Why wouldn't I bring my sexual addiction to God? Why wouldn't I bring the fact that I can't keep my eyes off of everything with a pulse? Why can't I? Why can't I bring that to God? And my main thing about that is you know, I'm tired of the, of the, the squeaky clean thing. You know the squeaky clean thing that says I got the squeaky clean thing that says I got to have all of my my stuff together. I almost slipped up. I got to have all of my stuff together before I can really get into a deep relationship with you, god. But could you imagine, and you got to realize, when Christ was looking for his disciples? He was looking at what they did, where they came from, their current gifts, their current thoughts, their current attitudes. You know, you kind of got to think about it.
ARL:One of the stories that come to mind that I've been dealing on is the story of Peter. You know, and you know Peter was a oh. You know, he was the dude that he'll fly off at the mouth and yoke a joker up real quick. And you think about it though. But there's a story of Peter that a lot of people don't really push on, but if you think about it it will kind of put me in a good place. That said, okay, sometimes the tenacity behind who you are is necessary. Sometimes the things that make you dirty and make you look crazy are the things that God wants to use the most to bring people back into relationship with him. So why are we hiding it? We hide in things that really make a difference, that make us all different, because who wants to be cookie cutter? I mean, who's there to be cookie cutter? I'm not. I'm not really trying to be cookie cutter. I mean, who's there to be cookie cutter? I'm not. I'm not really trying to be cookie cutter.
ARL:You know, a lot of people see, you know I'm doing a podcast at 11 o'clock at night. 11 o'clock at night, people's either going to the club or coming home from the club, or thinking about calling going to the club, or thinking about other things, making other phone calls. You know, and that was one of the things why I wanted to have the podcast at this time of night, because I wanted to set a space, you know, to really go down the road of, of, of dealing with conversations in a way that has some trusted foundation. Now, I'm not knocking nobody else out there. You know it takes a lot to come out here and do this, this type of podcast. I've been prepping on this for a while, so I honor every podcast and YouTuber and everybody who's out there, and I applaud you. I encourage you to keep going and doing what you got to do because you're following your dream.
ARL:I'm just wanting to help others follow their dream and get some of the roadblocks out the way, and you know, I think we owe it to ourselves and Honestly, I think we owe it to ourselves to give God a chance. You know, I think one of the things that people kind of forget at times that the whole point of a relationship is for consistent and continual communication. So the part that you got to redeem between you and God is that, whatever it is, however it is, whatever's going on in the midst of it, I think you owe it to yourself, and we owe it to ourselves, to give God a chance. Now, beloved, I know that's not an easy thing to do. I'm not looking for it to be an easy thing to do. What I would like for you to do is to realize as hard as it is is as hard as God will fight to do it with you. You know a lot of people don't really get that. If your case is hard, then you have God to help you with a hard case. You don't have to unload things before the case is able to be picked up by God.
ARL:That's not what the scripture says. It talks through us understanding that whatever it is, whatever you're doing, whatever you're dealing with, god is absolutely interested into working through it all with you. So when we don't want to bring things to God, when we, when we don't want to bring things to God, when we don't want to push things to God, when we don't want to allow God to really talk to us from a place of honesty not condemnation, not judgment, nothing of that nature but to talk to you from a place of honesty and true understanding you then think about that. That says okay, god, if I am in the midst of this with you, surely after I get through this with you I'll be stronger. That's the whole point, y'all. That's the whole point, y'all. The whole point of that is that God's interest is as hard as it is is as hard as God is looking for us to work with him, to try to work through it.
ARL:Those of you who are married, you know one of the most difficult things to really deal with in a marriage is having a baby. You know, it sounds all joyful and happy and wonderful, but you think about something for a second. When you're having a child, there are so many things that can go wrong. From the first trimester to the last trimester. There's so many things that could happen. And if you think about it, you worry. But then, in the midst of the worrying, because you have somebody to sit there to worry with, sometimes it makes it a little easier, doesn't it? So then, what do you do? In the midst of worrying and through it all, you, you, you'll, you'll prep your plan, you'll strategize with your partner, and and then you, strategizing with your partner, you'll think of contingencies. Okay, what this happens, we'll work through this. If this happens, we'll work through this, if this. And then you say to yourself babe, I think we're ready. You build a backbone, you build confidence.
ARL:Wouldn't you love that for life? Wouldn't you love that for the opportunity for God to give you definition to your dark place? And when I say definition, all of the definition, where it came from, how to solve it, how to not go back in it, how to, if you go back in it, how to get back out of it. God is interested in having that level of definition with you. So why wouldn't you bring it to God and beloved? I'm not going to lie to you. You know this is not an easy concept. It's a concept that's going to take time. It's a concept that's going to take time. It's a concept that's going to take effort. It's a concept that's going to take a bit of self-fear denial Because sometimes the negativity and the fear is much easier to give into than you actually working towards doing something and move past your fear. Steve Harvey got that joint right Leaping.
ARL:Sometimes leaping ain't really going to start a business. Sometimes leaping is to start talking and trying to pull yourself from a place of self-doubt, of discouragement, of self-denial, sometimes of self-indulgence. But all those things have a definition of why and what they're for and what they do. And here it is. Sometimes, when you're dealing with those things, you're not really just dealing with it for someone, for you, but you're dealing with it for someone else.
ARL:I was nervous about doing podcasts, absolutely nervous. And the thing about being nervous in it was I didn't think I could do it. I didn't want to fail at it, I didn't really want to get to the place of looking stupid because nobody would listen. And then the Lord kind of really got on me and was like dude, if you just try, sometimes the actual effort in trying is the blessing. So take the effort. I think we owe that to God.
ARL:Take the opportunity effort to say God. I am going to try God. I am going to give you a few minutes a day to talk to you about whatever is on my mind, whatever. Could you try that? Could you try that for a week To bring back every conversation to God, the good, the bad, the indifferent, all of it. If you could bring all of it back to God and just talk to him about where you stand. Don't just ask, you know, don't just ask where he, where he stands, but bring him where you stand.
ARL:Then you ask where he stands and then in the midst of that, you come together in a strategic thought process that brings you to a relevance, an internal, personal relevance, and believe it, believe it. Believe the fact that if you say I'm scared to follow a dream and God shows you that you're scared to follow it because as a child you always were told no. So naturally, no is your first response to a lot of the things that you say. So if you have a hard time thinking through how to accomplish a dream, sometimes it's not seeing things outside, but it's having the conversation internally to push you to a place that allows you to be okay with strategically dreaming with God. Could you imagine? Could you imagine that talking to God about your dark valleys and getting your dark valleys out of the way Because, listen, they're going to be there. But if prayer time and conversation time with God could be about, you know, asking for forgiveness but then asking for a strategic thought process, then you'll start believing in yourself, then you'll start getting yourself to a place of I can, I will, I will do, and you'll have a foundation in you that's not controlled by anyone else except for a personal relationship between you and God. And you know, beloved, don't, don't get it twisted, don't get it twisted.
ARL:I'm not naive to think that everybody that's listening to this and seeing this is, you know, a saved Christian. That's, that's not what this is. That's not what this is. Sometimes people stay out of church because they don't want to bring themselves to church or bring themselves to God, because they feel that there's a necessity of them being clean.
ARL:Believing is the prerequisite. Can you believe that Believing is the prerequisite? How do beliefs start? Beliefs start through convincing, whether it's through thought, whether it's through ego, whether it's through conversation, but they start through thought. Beliefs start through thought and conversation. So sometimes I think we try to push people towards God without trying to push God towards them and who they naturally are. Now, all of us have things that we got to work through. There is a level of love and understanding that comes with a redeemed conversation between God and us.
ARL:I'm not going to lie to you. I don't see any other way to begin a walk with God, whether it's through a fear or it's through a dream, whether it's through anything else, that we don't want to necessarily push towards God. I think if we, if we really get to the nitty gritty of it, giving God an opportunity To pick up your case from where it currently is, no cleaning necessary, no work necessary. Start the conversations Now. No cleaning necessary, no work necessary. Start the conversations now. Start the conversations now.
ARL:Allow God to bring definition to the places that you do need definition, and sometimes you go to the wrong people to have it. God knew everything that was going to be dealing with your life. God knew every part of it. People can talk about things all the time, about what is right or wrong. That's a consistent argument what's right or wrong? But the one thing that I know is right is bringing a willing heart to God. Everybody wants to be past what it is they're dealing with. Everybody wants to be past the things that sometimes put you to a place of fear and tears, and all I'm letting you know is that who told you you couldn't bring it to God? Who told you that you're not allowed to bleed with God? God set everything up before that. So, beloved.
ARL:I didn't want to keep you guys long. We're at our marker point here and I just want to leave you with that thought. I just want to leave you with that thought that who told you you can't? When God says you can bring it all to me, god says and when you do, we'll walk through it. When you do, we'll walk through it. When you do, we will discuss it and rock through it.
ARL:So on the other end of it, you can be stronger. That's the whole point of this. All Just so you know, the heart I have for y'all is, through everything and everything we do, that you can see yourself stronger, that you can speak about your life in a stronger way, that you can dream strong. Because do you believe that or not? Sometimes we dream little because we believe little, because we're scared to believe in more, because we don't think we deserve more, or we think that we have gone too far and we're too old, or we're too deep in for something better and greater to happen. That's a lie, so I'll leave you with that. You can gain your strength from a conversation, from a conversation. You can gain your strength From a conversation that Used to be In another place, but we don't redeem this thing now and we're not done.
ARL:We're going to do some more conversating with it. We're going to have some guests on here. We have some awesome people that have been watching. I thank you guys for your comments. Some of you are going to be up on here because I know your stories, I know what you're looking to do and I know so, if you ever never do before before you got a friend in me, you got a friend in God and through it, all the love of God that surpasses all understanding. These are scriptures that we've all taught and said in church and said all the time. You think about that, though it might not look right to bring adultery and you're the adulterer to God, you got to start somewhere, don't you? So, beloved, listen, we are here every Friday night. I'm committed to be here with you every Friday night Because we want to redeem more of these levels of conversation.
ARL:This one was foundational. This one of conversation. This one was foundational. This one was biblical. This one was between us and God and getting some mindset sets with God. And we're going to have some more conversations with some other people. I'm going to bring some heavy hitters in here because, praise God, I've needed them in my life, because I've never felt like I had everything right. But this is where we are. Give God a chance, won't you? Give God an opportunity to define your dark places? And as the shepherd defines your dark places, he will use the tools that he's already orchestrated, that he already knew you needed to guide your life. And with that, I want to go ahead and pray for us. For us, because I needed to. I needed to.
ARL:So, father, it is with the utmost honor and respect that we tell you thank you for wanting to deal with us. We want to tell you, god, thank you for giving us the opportunity to bring everything that we're afraid to bring, that we're ashamed to bring, that we have the wrong thought process about bringing. We want to thank you for the opportunity of bringing everything to you. We want to thank you for the opportunity of bringing everything to you, whatever our status and God, as we bring it to you. God, we thank you For your heart of defining the dark things, defining the dark places that we try to hide. We thank you, father, for the opportunity to see ourselves through your eyes, and we thank you for the opportunity of wanting to tell us about ourselves through your eyes. And we know, god, we can't see them or see it unless we talk to you.
ARL:So, father, I thank you for every single person that's watching, every person that's watching and going back to watch. I thank you for them. I thank you for them. I thank you for their heart, lord God, to be able to try. I thank you, father, for their willingness to try. I even thank you, lord God, for our stubbornness at times to try, because it is through, sometimes, the stubbornness that we really get to see other things about ourselves.
ARL:So, god, we thank you, we bless you, father, we honor you and God. I thank you for the opportunity, god, to be able just to sit and commune and speak with my homeless, my family, at this time. I honor you, father. Give everybody safe sleep, those who are going out to hang out. Give them safe traveling to and fro. We honor you, god, and we thank you for your will. We thank you for your grace and God. We believe in you, for all things are yours, all things are yours and God. We thank you, we honor you. It is in your son, jesus Christ, that we do pray and continue to bring all things to you. We love you, god, and we bless your name. Amen, we love you. See you next week, thank you.
