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Good morning, my friend. Happy Thanksgiving. I hope that you are doing well.
And doing great with family and friends today and hope you don't even hear this today.
I hope you're having such a great Thanksgiving that you don't hear this,
but if case you're working or working out or traveling and you just find yourself
wanting to listen to the Dr.
Lee Warren podcast today, I'm going
to give you back the 2021 and 2022 Thanksgiving episodes back to back.
There's a lot of great music in here, a little reminder that some people are
struggling on holidays and what to do for them, and some things to be grateful about.
I am incredibly grateful for you.
The show has grown and spread all over the world in the last year,
and we've really dug into the messages around hope is the first dose.
I hope you've read that book. If you haven't yet, I highly encourage you to
read it or give it as a gift for the holidays.
Be a great Christmas gift for somebody who's looking for hope.
But, we've also dug deep into the neuroscience and I've learned so much with
you over the last year about how self-brain surgery really is taking control of.
The incredible power of your mind to improve your life and help you to become
healthier, feel better, and be happier using all the incredible,
fearfully, and wonderfully things about how you're made that your Creator has given you.
And we're just grateful. I'm grateful for you, grateful for the prayer wall,
grateful for this incredible community around the world of people who are trying
to change their minds and change their lives.
So we're going to smash all that stuff together today and get after it with
two back-to-back episodes from the last two years.
We're having a week with some family and we're trying to take a little time down.
So I didn't record a brand new episode for 2023.
And like I said, hope you don't hear this today, but if you do,
here's some great information that's been offline for a while.
And I think you'll enjoy the two episodes back to back coming at you with lots
of great music so that you can get after it, but before we do that,
I just have one question for you.
Hey, are you ready to change your life? If the answer is yes, there's only one rule.
You have to change your mind first. And my friend, there's a place where the
neuroscience of how your mind works smashes together with faith and everything
starts to make sense. Are you ready to change your life?
Well, this is the place, Self Brain Surgery School. I'm Dr. Lee Warren and this
is where we go deep into how we're wired.
Take control of our thinking and find real hope. This is where we learn to become
healthier, feel better, and be happier.
This is where we leave the past behind and transform our minds.
This is where we start today. Are you ready?
This is your podcast. This is your place. This is your time,
my friend. Let's get after it.
Music.
Dr. Warren, Lisa, and Tata, I just wanted to tell you happy Thanksgiving and
how grateful I am for each of you and how thankful I am that God made each of you just as you are,
and the individuals that God is growing you to keep becoming.
You've been such a huge grace to my life, and I share your podcast with so, so many people.
And yes, Dr. Warren, I would love for you to share some of your top five worship
albums or songs in future podcasts.
Now you have time to be refreshed today and just enjoying being present with
all the many blessings God has for you in this day.
You all take care and know that you are loved and prayed for very often.
Music.
My strength is failing, the end draws near And my time has come,
Jesus still my soul We'll sing your praise unending.
Music.
Ten thousand years and then forevermore,
It's gonna be forevermore Bless the Lord,
O my soul, O my soul Worship His holy name Sing like never before,
O my soul I worship Your holy name All of my days, I worship your holy name.
And then forever gone, I worship your holy name,
your holy name. Happy Thanksgiving, my friend.
It is Thursday morning, 25 November 2021.
And I want to send a shout out to listeners all over the world.
And I always say, hey, my friend, because I don't ever want you to think I'm
talking to a large group of people. I'm just talking to you.
Lisa and I and Tata are so grateful for each and every person who spends their
time every day listening to the podcast.
And we pray that it's beneficial to you. And I just want to send a shout out,
to the thousands of listeners in the United States, but also for the last two
weeks, we've been in the top 25 in Croatia.
We don't personally know anyone in Croatia, but whoever's listening out there
and know that we're praying for you and we love you.
We got a shout out to Canada, Germany, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand,
United Kingdom, South Africa, Spain, Russia, India, Romania,
Japan, Serbia, Puerto Rico,
Mexico, Singapore, Italy, the Philippines, Iraq, Norway, Brazil,
Montenegro, Denmark, the Netherlands, United Arab Emirates, Belgium,
France, Austria, Switzerland, Ecuador, Ghana, Hong Kong, Jamaica, Poland, and Thailand.
Those are all places where someone has listened to the podcast just in the last day or two.
There's another 300 or so IP addresses that we don't have the ability to track.
So we know that there are people all over the world.
Last month, there were over 80 countries that downloaded the podcast.
So wherever you are and whatever you're going through today,
know that Lisa, Tata, and I, Harvey, and Lewis love you, and we're grateful
for you, and we're thankful for you.
One of the things we're thankful for is this community of people all over the
world who are bearing one another's burdens, especially on the prayer wall.
The prayer wall, w1md.com slash prayer, has become an amazing community where
people are lifting each other up, praying with and for each other,
and often even praying for us, like Lola just said. Thank you, by the way.
Lola kicked off this episode. Lola from Kentucky, great listener.
Just a fabulous supporter. We love you very much, Lola. Thank you for starting us off today.
And then we had Matt Redman. A song that's about giving thanks.
10,000 Reasons, one of my favorites.
And here's another one of my favorite songs. Just for you on this Thanksgiving.
Music.
Take and seal it, seal it for the courts of love.
Music.
Hey, that was Shane and Shane with O Thou Fount of Every Blessing,
great song for Thanksgiving.
And here's a spoiler alert. It's no longer Thanksgiving.
It's Friday, the 26th of November, 2021, it's about 5.30 in the morning.
Tata just went back to his room after being out for a while.
Dog's got up at three this morning. So just kind of one of those days that's
not getting off to the kind of start that we thought it would.
Sort of the theme of this week, right? We've had a lot of unexpected challenges
this week. Yesterday, Thanksgiving, was a beautiful day.
Pretty cold here in Nebraska, but Lisa spent a lot of the morning and the day
before cooking and getting ready.
And our plans changed a bit. We were going to be in San Antonio,
and that didn't work out for reasons we'll discuss later.
But basically, the dogs got up on the counter and ate four sticks of butter
while she was cooking and then they got up at three o'clock this morning,
probably because of the butter.
Just things kind of, kind of different. We had a moment yesterday and I just
want to share this with you because it's on my mind and on my heart this morning
that Thanksgiving and Christmas and the holidays, they're not always easy for people.
Sometimes holidays can bring a lot of sad feelings back and grief and pain and difficulties.
And holidays aren't always easy, especially if it's the first year since you
lost someone or the first year since you went through a divorce or the first
year since something big happened in your life.
I had a moment yesterday when Lisa was cooking and took the turkey out of the
oven and it just smelled so perfect.
And Thanksgiving has always been our favorite holiday. And as the kids were
growing up, We always played a Turkey Bowl football game out in the field by our house in Auburn.
But just Thanksgiving is just, from a Christian perspective,
really is probably one of our always favorite holidays because you have a moment
to acknowledge all the things you're grateful for.
Well, we took the turkey out and I turned around and I noticed the two drumsticks
down in the pan, perfectly roasted and just beautiful.
And it just, it wrecked me for a moment.
And it wrecked me because the drumsticks were always Josh and Mitch,
our two sons, their favorite part of the turkey, and they would always eat them.
We got these pictures of them eating the drumsticks, and when Mitch was a little
boy holding that giant drumstick up.
Fighting over the wishbone and all those things, and it just took me back to
all those times, and this feeling of profound loss, right?
Just kind of sweeps over you, and when you're not ready for it,
it kind of comes back to you. We've talked about that before.
And I was talking to Josh on FaceTime yesterday, and of course he had his first
son, Riker, who was born about nine months ago.
And we were chatting, and Josh said, you know, something happened this week
that really kind of hit me, and I said, what happened?
And he said, before he had a son, when he would hear about somebody being sick
or somebody getting hurt, he would say, oh, that's terrible,
I'm sorry that happened.
But now that he has a son, Riker's been sick this week, and Riker's been struggling,
he's had a fever, and hasn't felt good, and Josh said, you know, now that I have a son.
I feel it in my bones, it hurts in my spirit when he's not okay,
when he bumps his head or when he has a fever, it crushes me internally and
I feel it as if it's happening to me.
And that's exactly right. It reminded me of Romans 12, 15, where he says,
Paul says, rejoice with those who rejoice and mourn with those who mourn.
The New Living Translation says, be happy with those who are happy and weep with those who weep.
The idea is we're supposed to be able to empathize with other people when they're feeling things.
I've said it many times, I've even written about it, I'm writing about it in my new book.
Feelings aren't facts, okay? Just because you feel something,
that's a neurochemical event, but it doesn't mean it's really happening to you.
But that doesn't mean, when I say feelings aren't facts, I'm not trying to diminish
the fact that you do feel those things.
I felt grief yesterday, I felt pain, as if I just lost Mitch right then.
But I didn't, it happened eight years ago, it's our eighth Thanksgiving without him.
But just because I feel it doesn't mean it's true, right? It doesn't mean it's happening afresh.
But at the same time, when people are feeling things, we have a responsibility,
a spiritual responsibility to be there with them in those moments.
Not to tell them that the feeling isn't valid, but to mourn with them,
rejoice with them, weep with them, be happy with them, be there in those moments with people.
And so in the spirit of yesterday being Thanksgiving and this being a holiday
season, I was thinking about you.
If you're out there and you're hurting, and my friend Hank Young lost his wife a year ago.
There's a lot of people who Thanksgiving is hard and it's not easy.
And it sometimes can be hard to find something to feel thankful for.
We have a guy on our prayer wall that writes in all the time,
Daniel Cahill. He's homeless in New York City, 70 years old.
And he's struggling. They can't find a place to live.
And it's hard sometimes. We make all these statements about,
you know, be thankful, be positive.
And sometimes it's hard to find something to be thankful for.
There's a woman named Jennifer Greenberg, who's a writer, read her book,
wrote a really great book, I think 2019, it came out called Not Forsaken,
about her story of being abused by her father as she grew up,
who was a Christian and was a pastor.
And I don't know if he was a pastor, but he was certainly a leader in their church.
And basically her story of overcoming that and still finding her faith.
And she wrote an article this week that came out on October 28th on Crosswalk,
which is a website that we read, a newsletter that we get in the email,
and I saw this article and realized it was her, and I'd read her book before.
And Jennifer Greenberg wrote an article called Three Steps Toward Feeling Thankful
on Thanksgiving When You're Sad.
And I won't go through the whole thing, but I'll put the link in the show notes.
But basically she said, remember that it's okay to mourn.
It's okay to acknowledge that you're feeling something on a holiday.
There's so many memories that come up. Like when we have Thanksgiving, there's football on TV.
Inevitably, I'm gonna think about all those games we played on Thanksgiving
day with the kids and all the times that we spent out there with them.
And it's okay to mourn. It's okay to grieve. Even if it's not happening now,
it's still okay to feel that.
And the number one, the number two thing that she said is create new traditions.
If you have a history of having abuse or trouble in your family or loss or something
like that and the event of the holiday is triggering for you,
then maybe your family needs to make some new traditions.
Maybe she talked about how one year they ordered tamales instead of making a
traditional meal and it just was to help them kind of shake out of a routine
that they had and now they've got some new routines.
And so now you have a new thing to remember and look forward to instead of the
one that brings up all that old pain. And so maybe sometimes you need to shake things up a little bit.
And the third one is, sometimes you need to just be thankful that you went through something hard.
Because it can remind you that yes, you went through it, but God got you through
it. And yes, you had a hard time, but it taught you how to be resilient.
Or yes, you went through a difficult thing, but it made you stronger.
And she wrote something that I thought was really beautiful.
She said, if I hadn't had a dad who was dysfunctional and who manipulated and
harassed and berated me, I might not have been so protective of my own daughters.
I might not be so careful about how they're treated.
I might not be so conscious of all the ways my attitudes, behaviors,
and words would color their perception of themselves.
I might not be able to work alongside my husband to guide our family in ways
that avoid those unhealthy pitfalls I know so well.
And then she says this, it's really important, friend, to hear this.
She says, I'm not saying abuse benefited me.
I'm saying that surviving by the grace of God did benefit me.
Like a desert flower that's endured droughts floods
blazing days and freezing nights survivors are strengthened
by experience We remain strong when circumstances grow difficult We can identify
unhealthy behavior because we've seen those behaviors taken to extremes we can
cope with hardship Because we've coped with hardship we endure and overcome
because we've done it all before We're tough as nails because we've been through the furnace.
That's what Isaiah was talking about by the way friends is Lee again That's
what Isaiah was talking about when he says that he refined you in the furnace of suffering.
It's not good that you suffered, but you can come out of it by the grace of
God in a refined way that makes you stronger and more resilient.
So I'm just bending, making a nod right now to weep with you if you're weeping today.
If it's a hard day for you, if it's a hard season for you, we're with you.
Lisa and I and Tata, we're weeping with you. We're rejoicing with you.
I'm just saying there's some ways to process that. It doesn't have to be so painful.
Well, it might be so painful, but it doesn't have to be the end of the story.
Because there's ways to cope with it and deal with it. I'm gonna leave you,
Tommy Walker released a video this week.
I know I play a lot of Tommy Walker songs, but he's just like,
he's the guy for me songwriting-wise in terms of helping me worship and focus
my thoughts and I love the way he plays and all that.
Tommy did a song back in 2016 called What Else.
It's about what else could you do but be grateful when God has been so good
to us. And I just want to leave you with that. What else from Tommy Walker?
Listen friend, Thanksgiving didn't turn out like I thought it would.
It was a beautiful meal and a great day, but lots of crazy things happened this
week and I intended to have this special episode with lots of listeners involved
and all that. It just didn't pan out that way, so we'll get it next year.
But not everything pans out the way you think. Your life doesn't either, right?
There's hard things. Jesus said, in this world you will have trouble,
but take heart, I've overcome the world.
But he also said in John 10, 10, I came here that you might have life and have
it abundantly and have it to the full. Friend, it's Thanksgiving.
I hope you didn't eat too much, but I hope you had the opportunity to.
And if you're alone or things are hard, we're with you. We're weeping with you.
If you're rejoicing today, we're rejoicing with you.
Friend, you can always find a way to be grateful. Colossians 3,
17 says, whatever you do in word or deed, You do it all in the name of the Lord
Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.
So even if it's hard right now for you, give thanks that you know he's gonna
get you through it because he's done it before.
Give thanks that you know he's gonna refine you through the process.
And if you're tired of being refined, if you're just so tired of it,
feeling like it's never gonna get up, then just give thanks to him,
knowing that the dawn will come, as Arthur said a couple of weeks ago.
If you find yourself in the dark, you just gotta wait for the light,
because it's coming. You don't have to make it come, it will come.
All you have to do, my friend, is start today.
Here's Tommy Walker. Happy Thanksgiving. We're with you. We love you. We'll see you tomorrow.
Music.
Good morning, my friend. I hope you're doing well. I am excited to be here with
you on Thanksgiving day and I am not going to keep you very long.
I just thought if you're going to work out or drive to the store or do something
today where you have a few minutes to not take time away from your family,
you might want a little bit of something to think about on Thanksgiving.
I am with people I love. We're doing things that we love and surrounded by family
and we're so grateful and I just I'm incredibly grateful for you.
But I want to take a moment to acknowledge that it's sometimes hard to
be okay on these holidays and it's okay if you're
struggling today if you've lost someone or you're going through something hard it's
okay to be a little melancholy it's normal I mean we always
are too there's always a missing seat empty seat at the table Lisa's mom or
son Mitch there's always somebody missing so it's okay to be a little melancholy
but I just want to give you some things to think about today so that you can
change your mind and change your life about Thanksgiving because gratitude is
the path forward out of of despair and hopelessness.
We're gonna talk tomorrow and Friday conversations with Tommy Walker about that,
and it's gonna be wonderful.
But you can't change your life until you change your mind. Today I wanna help
you change your mind just for
a few minutes with a little worship and some scripture about Thanksgiving.
And Lisa's gonna help us start today. Hey, are you ready to change your life?
If the answer is yes, there's only one rule. You have to change your mind first.
And my friend, there's a place where the neuroscience of how your mind works,
smashes together with faith, and everything starts to make sense.
That place is called self-brain surgery.
You can learn it, and it will help you become healthier, feel better,
and be happier. And the good news is, you can start today.
Thanks, Lisa. Hey, so glad to have you listening today. I'm Dr.
Lee Warren, and I live in Nebraska in the United States of America with my incredible
wife, Lisa, my father-in-law, Tata, and the super pups, Harvey and Louis.
I'm a neurosurgeon and an author, and I'm here to help you harness neuroscience,
the power of your brain, faith, the power of your spirit, and good old common
sense to help you lead a healthier, better, happier life.
Listen, friend, you can't change your life until you change your mind,
and I'm here to help you learn the art of self-brain surgery to get it done.
And if you like the show, please subscribe so you never miss an episode and
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If you tell two or three friends this podcast was helpful to you,
imagine how much good we can all do around the world together.
I'm Dr. Lee Warren, and I'm here to help you change your mind so you can change
your life. Let's get after it.
Okay, I told you our verse for November, our verse for new thing November is
gonna be Isaiah 43, 18 and 19.
Remember not the former things, nor consider the things of old.
That's hard on holidays.
It's hard not to, if you've lost somebody, if you've gone through something
hard, you're dealing with something impossible, it's hard not to remember the
former things and consider the things of old.
But the reason he says not to, in this context, is verse 19.
Behold I am doing a new thing. Now it springs forth, do you not perceive it?
I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
Sorry if you can hear that, the heat just kicked on. It is five degrees outside,
so our house, the heat is running. So if you can hear it, it's okay.
God says, I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert.
I'm gonna tell you, I've been in a literal desert in Iraq, and one day I got
caught outside in a mortar attack, and I didn't have a bomb shelter nearby,
I didn't have my body armor, my helmet on. and all I could find was this concrete wall.
And there was a barrier there, and I was able to hunker up against that wall.
And I thought, well, at least if the mortar lands on the other side of this
wall, this wall's gonna protect me.
And I found some comfort in that wall that was there for me,
even though there was nothing else in that desert.
I was in the middle of the kind of remote part of the base.
I decided to walk over to the BX to get some stuff, and I took a shortcut across
the base and found myself in the open.
And that story I told in my book, No Place to Hide, is actually the story where
the title of that book came from, if you've never read my Iraq War Memoir,
that story's in there about why that.
What I felt when I was caught alone in a mortar attack.
And what I felt was that for the first time in my life, I realized I was not actually in control.
I wasn't in control of what happened. There's a woman that I follow on Twitter
named Jennifer Greenberg, and she's got a good book out and been following her for a long time.
She's got a tough story of some abuse and some difficult things.
And a couple of weeks ago, she posted that her husband had been laid off,
a bunch of engineers at his firm had been laid off.
And she said something that made me think about you and it made me remember my time in Iraq.
She said, I realized, I feel so out of control now that my husband's lost his
job and we're worried and we're stressed and we're not sure what's going to
happen. It's right before the holidays.
She said, but I, but it dawned on me that I wasn't actually in any more control
the day before my husband got laid off than I was the day after he got laid
off. I just now was more aware of my lack of control.
And friend, that's such an important point because before that mortar attack,
before I was caught in that mortar attack out in the open, I wasn't in no more
control of my life than I was once the bomb started falling.
And that is a super important thing. I've been telling you about Lucky Chuck,
this guy in my new book that's getting ready to come out next summer.
Lucky Chuck said his wife told him when she got sick with cancer how you need
to decide what you think about God before,
We get the diagnosis back before I get really sick And if I die from this illness
decide what you think about God now because you're gonna need him and friends
That is a secret To dealing and keeping your head about you and finally hope
again when you're going through hard things make that decision before You're
not in control of your own life.
I live in a world where I see people with bad diagnoses I saw three people with
malignant cancers in the last week They're not in control of what happens.
They can choose to have surgery or not. They can choose to have radiation and chemotherapy or not.
But ultimately, they're not in control of whether they survive that illness or not.
For the most part, it's gonna be up to the genetics of those tumors and how
much they can be removed and how they respond to chemotherapy and all those things.
And God's got a plan for those people, but they're not in control. But guess what?
They weren't in any more control before they found out about their tumor,
were they? So I just want to, today on Thanksgiving Day, I want to give you
a little toolkit, okay, of things that you can do.
One of them is to decide that God is going to keep His promise,
and because in the past whatever happened to you didn't kill you.
If you were hungry, you didn't starve to death. If you were thirsty,
you didn't die of thirst.
If you were worried about finances, you didn't become naked and destitute.
You made it because you're listening to this podcast on some sort of device
that you had enough money to own to purchase.
You've got headphones or a speaker in your car or you're listening on the radio
or you are listening to a smartphone.
You've got a device in your hand which means you're in some sort of financial
situation where you have enough
to be able to provide some education and entertainment for yourself.
So God has done some things to get you to this point and sometimes it feels
like you never quite have enough or you never quite have enough to be comfortable, right?
But guess what? God led people through the desert with
manna and he gave them just enough for that day and
they always had enough and sometimes they might have wished that they had a
big storehouse full of stuff but they had enough and
so my challenge to you today will be that if
you find yourself in some difficult situation think about the fact that you
do actually have tools and resources and God's given you the ability to make
decisions and find ways forward he will make a way in the wilderness he'll put
a concrete wall up for you to hide behind there's a song called, Honey in the Rock,
that Brooke Lighterwood and Brandon Lake released, and it's out of this obscure
verse, not obscure, this verse that many people don't talk about often, Psalm 81-16.
But he would feed you with the finest of the wheat and with honey from the rock I would satisfy you.
This is another one of those verses, like I'll make a way in the wilderness
and streams of living water.
Sometimes he says, if you're hungry, go look in the rock and I'll put some honey there.
If you're thirsty, I'll bring water forth from the stone. If you're hungry,
I'll put manna on the ground.
I'll give you enough. I may not give you a massive mansion in Beverly Hills,
but I'll give you enough. He'll be faithful to you, friend.
So decide before you get into this situation that you're gonna be grateful for
whatever he gives you, even if it's just honey from the rock.
Here's the song. ♪ There's honey in the rock ♪.
Music.
I love that song. One of my favorite songs for Thanksgiving is Paul Belash's song, What Can I Do?
Because it says this idea of what could I do besides thank him? He's done so much for me.
He's given me so much. What else, what other reasonable response would there
be besides Thanksgiving?
What else could I do but just praise him and thank him?
And I wanna tell you, we're gonna talk to Tommy Walker tomorrow about what worship
and gratitude does for you when you're desperate,
And what it does for you is it resets your neurochemistry and it gives you an
opportunity to clear out that fear and anxiety from the limbic system and use
your frontal lobes to say, wait a minute, I'm not destitute, I'm not dead,
I'm not hopeless, I've got opportunity here to grab on to something and I'm
going to just say thank you for that.
Even if John Swanson said it before, even if all you can think about is the
breath in your lungs right now, give thanks for that and say, okay.
I took a breath, thank you God for the oxygen and the gas exchange that just
happened in my lungs. And thank you for my heart that's beating.
Because guess what? There are people on transplant lists that literally are
dying because their heart's giving out and I'm not there.
Even if I've got to go have heart surgery next week or I need to stent or my
heart's racing a little bit, I've got to have a pacemaker, I still have a heart.
So give thanks for that, right?
So when you are able to clear out the fear and anxiety and find some way to
be grateful for something.
It's a rung on the ladder.
It's a rung on the ladder that will give you an opportunity to climb up out
of that desperate, hopeless situation.
And it'll help you. It'll help reset your brain and get you back on your feet.
So what else can you do but say thank you when you're hurting?
And Paul Belash is going to help us worship with that for now. Here's what can I do.
Music.
I love that song, thank you Paul. Listen friend, I'm gonna get you back to your
family on Thanksgiving Day. I just wanted to give you a few minutes of stuff
to worship and think about.
God's always there. He's always made of way. And wherever you are right now,
whatever you're facing, you need to make a decision that you're gonna face it
with gratitude and thanksgiving and hope because there's always a valid reason to hope.
And the reason you know that is because in the past with whatever went on and
even in times when you weren't faithful or you weren't as courageous just as
you should have been, or you weren't as holy as you should have been,
he still made a way for you. He still got you through.
And even when you were scared, he gave you enough food and enough oxygen and
enough blood flow and enough money and enough provision to make it through that
situation so that you're here now listening to me talk to you on Thanksgiving Day.
If I had to put out one worship album that I thought was my favorite of all
time, it'd be really hard, because I love worship music so much.
And there's so many great artists like Paul Velache and the ones I just played,
Brooke Lighterwood and Brandon Lake and Cody Carnes and all these amazing worship artists that I love.
But my favorite, obviously, for all time is Tommy Walker and his album,
Make It Glorious, would probably be at or very close to the top of my favorite albums.
And there's a song on that album called Thank You For Loving Me.
And it just puts you in the right posture. It's this posture of,
I haven't always done it right, God.
I've sinned, I've fallen, I'm scared, I'm weak, I'm not exactly what I want
to be but you still love me.
Thank you. You're this this great king of heaven. You're this amazing.
Sinless flawless king and yet you still love me and for that I am incredibly
grateful friend if you can clear out,
all the stuff that you're worried about all that anxiety and fear and if you
can just find one thing to be grateful for even if It's just a breath in your
lungs That's a rung on the ladder that will lead you out of the pit of despair
and back towards hope and hopefulness and that will lead you towards joy and
happiness and a full life again, no matter what you're facing.
Listen, we love you, we're with you, we're praying for you, we're grateful for you.
It's Thanksgiving Day and I hope that you are somewhere safe and warm with people
that you love and I hope that this day is gonna turn out to be a great day in
your life and we're with you and grateful. Here's Tommy Walker,
thank you for loving me, friend.
We will see you tomorrow. We had a great Friday conversation with Tommy And
we'll be back Saturday with cell brain surgery Saturday and whatever you're
doing today Just know that you're loved and we're grateful for you. God bless.
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