E58 - Guarding Your Freedom: When It's Correct to Think It's All About Me

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In this culture.

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We always see it's all about me.

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believe it or not, there is a

time when it is all about me.

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It's when it's my responsibility.

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And stemming from that, it leads to my

accountability, whether I like it or not.

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There is an account.

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And this account will either be a good.

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Thing or a bag thing.

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And it can either give me a peace of

mind or I can lose my peace of mind.

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And even worse.

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I can lose my freedom if

I don't get this right.

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Hello.

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And welcome to a prisoners part in

podcast with me, your holes, me, TJ.

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If you followed this podcast,

so you wouldn't know that I'm

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mostly interviewed guests.

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Who have amazing stories and backgrounds.

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And by listening to their stories.

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We learn new and relevant ways to help

avoid doing any type of prison time.

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As my last guest, Jamal Jumanji said.

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Prison starts in the mind first.

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So these stories.

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Are not just good.

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For people going in and

out of physical prison.

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But it is good for everyone

to hear and to share.

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Now today I have a story and

it happened last week to me.

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At the mall while I was

there with a friend, we went

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there for coffee and a chat.

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Not long after we sat down,

a young lady approached us.

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She was a Spanish descent was pregnant

and had a little boy with her.

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She politely asked us if

we'd like to take a survey.

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, my friend and I was like, sure.

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She then asked us if we

heard of God, the mother.

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We both said no.

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And asked her where she

had heard that from.

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She said it would send a Bible.

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She pointed us to two scripture verses.

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My friend immediately say, you do know

that the use of the term mother is used.

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Interchangeably with Jerusalem.

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And I told her that you have to

read the whole context to get the

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true meaning and full understanding

of what's actually going on.

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In this particular story and that

you just can't take out parts.

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She just kept pointing to

this one verse in the Bible.

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And that was in the book of

Galatians within chapter four.

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Now at this time, her little boy.

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Was antsy and he had

to go to the bathroom.

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I told her, Hey, just take him

to the bathroom, come back so

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we can further discuss this.

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You know, because he

was just interrupting.

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It was obviously he really had to go.

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But she kept pointing to the

verse and we said, fine, fine.

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I wanted her to go to the bathroom

and come back so we can really discuss

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this and not have to rush through it.

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So while she was gone.

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My friend and I pulled up.

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The chapter.

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I won't go into a lot of detail.

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About.

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That chapter or get into the motos,

possibly behind why she was doing what she

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was doing, because actually that's not the

point of me discussing this here with you.

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Telling this story, the main point.

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Of this.

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Story into any story you should be

listening to is to learn how to respond.

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If you are in a similar situation.

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That's your responsibility.

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That's our responsibility.

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I should say, because at the end

of this, there's going to be some

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accountability to this responsibility.

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Now, this is when it's correct to

think it's all about me because.

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Guess what.

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The responsibility is going to be on me.

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And the account is going to be on me.

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The account, meaning.

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It will either count for a good way.

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Or a bad way for me.

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The bad way is that it

can get me caught up.

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Just get me thinking the wrong thing

and making the wrong decisions.

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And then it can cost me my freedom.

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As well as my peace of mind.

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Upon reviewing it ourselves.

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We found that it didn't

stay what she stated.

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Again, this is why it is critical.

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That you review things yourself.

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So, you know, what's right.

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And you keep doing the right thing.

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Therefore keeping your freedom

and your peace of mind.

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Unfortunately.

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The young lady never came back.

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Let's just say we won that battle.

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And we need to win a lot more.

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We need to always check for ourselves.

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It doesn't matter.

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Who's talking to us.

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And that includes if it's me,

you need to check things out for

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yourself and look at the evidence.

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Now, lastly, I like to say I

found it like very ironic because.

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This happened a few

days after mother's day.

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Remember she was talking about mother God.

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God, the mother.

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Again, this was just a few

days after mother's day.

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She was obviously pregnant.

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She was there for a mother.

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And she had her a small

son with her as well.

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And also the chapter that she was

referring to, mostly in Galatians four.

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It talked about a mother being

in slavery with her children.

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And how the mother.

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Who was right.

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Is standing free.

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And that's the message to us.

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? That's all today that I have for you.

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I'm so glad that you're taking

the time to listen., Take care.

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And may you have a weak

field with blessings?