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And the caregiver here in America.

This is Peter Rosenberg.

This is the show you as a family. 65 million Americans were putting themselves between vulnerable disaster taking care of an agent care of especially your siblings with trauma, mental illness, addiction, alcoholism name is always some kind of impairment there's always some kind. Maybe from a distance) 24 seven. But you still showing up caring for someone who has some type of chronic impairment you doing this without pay, often without any kind of training and often on reserve because we are we are running out of our own resources and were straining over that how you help the caregiver. What does that look like, how do you help someone stay strong monthly take care of someone who is not.

That's what this show is all about and we're glad that you're with this 888-589-8840 888-589-8840 and I will talk about several things got a lot of things to talk about several things as you journey near passive of caring for someone and I wanted to talk about your resources, your depletion, your heart, your stamina, how is that going for you. How you feel about what what's what's going on with what do you do to to gain strength. How do you pace yourself. These things were to talk about today.

I got up to him that I will do in that this this actually has two different musical versions.

It's an older text that many, many people are familiar with and then it was.

There was a new tune written to someone to both update and see if you know this.

This can apply what were talking about today and if you know this. 888-589-8840 and also I like to hear, why is this important to you was a sobbing.

We know a lot of him sweetly sung them were in the church, and so forth.

The parents on them. But why is this important to you. I do this every week and try to introduce or reintroduce a particular him.

That has meant something to multiple generations and show how it can apply to us right now in our caregiving journey so that we have something that comes sticks in our brain throughout the day when it gets pretty rough.

You you don't have time to go back and and recall the complete works of Francis Schaeffer when you're in a caregiving crisis you don't have time sometimes due to recall all the sermons that you've heard over the years. Whatever. But sometimes you can just remember the first line of the him and it reenters you it helps you focus more in the midst of whatever you're dealing with and this is this is been my experience is been my journey with it and I think it would be extremely helpful to my fellow caregivers to do that. So here's them going over the caregiver keyboard here. I think I'll do the first. The older version 1st and my glasses. Well nevermind yesterday was my birthday and I'm one year older and I'm feeling this is my first show with the new year of life.

Try to think it see how are the symbol looks away from here already. This is this is the older version of that's the old version and then it was Lipscomb Newton was composed back in the 90s think and they took that same letter today with the use this to this and you know that in the course. This would apply to us and in our journeys. Caregivers. This tune if I must've seen this over and over and over throughout Daisy get a little bit stressful in days.

It are a bit gnarly and so we go back to.

Sometimes people who came way before us, and what did they do in the book of Hebrews says remember those who spoke the word of the Lord to you when appropriate, imitate their faith and we are so blessed to have so many people who came before us who took the time to write down their faith in a way that we can easily remember. And that's with these hymns do for us what the book of Psalms does this what Scripture does force when you have these songs a burst forth in cells and in and after what Jesus do after the Last Supper, they went out to the garden of Gethsemane is a good that they did what they were singing songs we sing. Jesus knew what was coming and he was sitting and if that's is what helped prepare Jesus and that imagine for us.

So these are things that I want us to think about is caregivers in our journey on on what are we doing here what would would we are we just flailing around, or we able to anchor ourselves in greater truths that will will calm us down in the midst of this that will settle our spirits down and that's what this hymn is all about. I was thinking about the other day but I was Gratian. I went to just a little update. We went to Denver to meet with the surgeon we are facing the significant surgery with her and some of you, for me, allude to this 20 years ago she had disc that blew out in her back in the future. Back in the way they did back then they could've pitched her little bit forward.

That's the way they did it twice 20 years ago and over the years. Her back is compensated for that fusion and she's developed what they call flatback syndrome in the upper part of the thoracic area of her back has lost its curvature. So she just kept keeps leaning over and leaning over and it's it causes a great deal of pain is very difficult for her to function and walk and so forth and we've done as much as we can do with prosthetics with her prosthetic legs to compensate for that. And so it was time to escalate it. We been known this was coming for some time, but she wasn't physically up for and we've gone through kind of a whole series of things and it turns out that it's top and we met with the neurosurgeon and it was a good visit. I asked questions that I think that you is caregivers would would understand this kind of questions one of us into the surgeon a look can the surgery done on her and then the second question is should surgery be done on her. Those are important questions to ask and the surgeon affirmatively said yes and yes doesn't mean to stop and come without challenges and risk and difficult things, but think you were put that together now and if once this happens, Gratian has the opportunity with a successful surgery to stand up straight for the first time in many so we can talk about lifeless number and on the way back from that Denver will become the Rosenberg 888-589-8840 know that song played medico eight 885-8988 back to hoping caregiver this Rosenberg this is the family caregiver is lost 39 years ago this past week on 28 July and what think was 20 July it was he was he was only 28 years old and what a life he lived in those 28 years. What a legacy left for us. Do you CDC.

There's a lot in that of the church is the world is dying in the dark in the church hold up his her sleep in the light list will be asleep in the light.

Let's be aggressive in going out and ministering to these folks who are hurting, lost, broken and weary and worn, and that is that's a great call to action from Keith Green 888-589-8840 888-589-8840 if you want to be a part of the show if you know our song this one and maybe a little bit tougher sometime I give you guys easy. Once, but this one once you hear the title of this and once you once you get this in your heart and your mind and your ears.

Then add my hope and prayer is that as you go through the day you remember this title and you will understand how important it is for you as a caregiver play the course. However, if the caregiver keyboard here and there was an old there's an old version that was done the original version that that's the new melody and music that was written for the old standard version here in the hymnal is and so that's the old if you know there's this one. I think a lot of people now so you know that 888-589-8840 888-589-8840 I was coming back from the airport and I looked at the gas gauge cells leave the airport in gracing our we have a but it's about 60 miles to get home from the airport we live in Montana and when we lived in Nashville for lo those many years. We lived there for 35 years you just a quick jaunt to the airport but adhere to its commitment to go to the airport and that I need to get some gas gray. She's tired and she's now IBR you can do that you could do that. My wife is very optimistic about things like that and so I went ahead against my better judgment, but because once you get outside the area of their property, or both. Were we flying in to the drive to the house is not there's a gas station every quarter you to go through places where there's no cell service others nothing. There's nobody. You drive by the river near the canyon and you like Udo Ed and out, but the car was running just fine and everything was fine when run, but I got to thinking about it, the gas gauge said that I was getting close to empty. I did make it. Gracie was right. I will say that on the air did make it and I did get back to town eventually and Philip but people that I don't know people that I don't know built that gas gauge company filled with people that I don't know design the scar to communicate information to me objectively for me that that that that I looked out and I can trust that they did what they said they're going to do and all of the car seem like it was running just fine.

It was heading towards empty and you know I was and I still had a ways to go and I put myself in the needless concern.

I should've got hit.

Got gas but I I thought about that of his caregivers do we do that we have objective measurements, telling us that we are running out of gas and will just punch through it and take a chance it will get there okay and and do those kinds of things that does that doesn't resonate with any of you will, is that something that you found yourself doing is is going all the way to the limit. I've done that so many times myself and I realize there are objective things around us that we can count on that are advising us.

It's time to to take up time to rest. It's time to fill up our hearts know we can look at our own behavior that way. Sometimes it is important to cultivate relationships and friends people to ask as we can look at the scales.

Are we gaining weight, we can look at her irritability. We can look at there's a lot of different signs that we can.

If will pay attention that something is wrong when you to pull over and take up. That's what I did this on this morning because I think is going to resonate and I'm going to go to Becky in Texas.

Becky good morning how you feeling you do you know the song song I was singing when he passed and I am renting.

I love that we do the older version or or this the new version. I know about and about 10 date modern version. I believe Steve Green I'm not here, maybe some other artist to Bennett that we were playing several different songs on the day packing midget MDA Indiana Senate had mollified barcodes within the very rare form of leukemia and he has been cell transplant. When he got back the and so and it just kind of taken down.

I was not gotten we were at.

We were there for six weeks.

Elastic life and the day before I had cried and he had been trying very very difficult time in the last that laugh today at the very last day.

I'm sorry.

The last three days, but the very last day I pray that morning, and for godly and you not let them be with you today and please don't let me be alone and on family gathered that day I the couple a date for the head gently golf. I didn't want been seeing him like that, but that – a docking turn talk and whatever and I had finally gotten sort of you know in palliative care to where he was able to just rest and that song came to me at 6 o'clock on Sunday night and I just drinking at an breakfast article going down to about three seconds and Abby or whatever and I in any way his needs were there with me and his sister Eric man. His sister is praying that she could be with him when he passed since I wasn't alone in the May got there or answered. They got to be recommend. It was beautiful. It was 24 hours before that he he opened his eyes and waved like a little kid on Christmas morning and I knew he wasn't saying as I knew he was and that he was king heaven. Beautiful, beautiful experience you and you were singing this yield to him as he is. He passed away their use at which you see the modern version of the older version yet. March 1 modern green is a real surreal privilege to play that for you Becky because I know that the rest of your life that tunes will be incredibly meaningful to you and it is. It is my. Eli, I don't play weddings anymore. If I can help it.

I have a firm policy explain weddings because as you so much drama that is I won't. I just won't do it unless they play I charge an outrageous amount of money if I go to play way because I just don't want to do it but I will play for funerals upon request. If I can make it and never asked for anything in return, because I feel like that is my that is my opportunity to just care for families who are I think often at their most vulnerable, and I want you careful with that. And so when I think of you singing that to your husband is steps into the arms of Jesus. There is no greater for me as a pianist.

There is no greater privilege to play for people who are in that place and it is a privilege to play that for you this morning. Becky had to know that every time you play that now. Whatever you do this tomorrow church service music minister, church out here in Montana out against my better judgment, they'll they hired me and I told him I said God bless you all for y'all's lack of judgment, and they they wanted me to do it despite day and but I would do this this morning. Tomorrow morning because I love this hill but I love what they did with it because I think it it I love the old version 2 are reversing it as a kid to Jesus, I am resting, resting it's it's a little bit. It's a little bit more.

It doesn't feel very restful when using the old version as now and this one right here.

Yeah, it just feels like a warm blanket around. He doesn't really and in the one of the things that I I am almost just banging this drum on his these of these hymns is because just the title alone of this hymn, Jesus, I am resting, resting, speaks volumes to assist caregivers in the midst of our stuff. Becky week I go to break and you hang on to the next segment you will this accursed about the color I wanted to stay out of the couldn't do it. Well that's okay you touch my heart this morning. Thank you very much for that. This is Peter Rosenberg is come up like this on your family. 888-589-8840 if you know this is important to give us a call to talk more about resting when we come back to hope to hear this Peter Rosenberg.

This is the stove caregiver that is your chip.

One of my all-time favorite songs and gears, but on the show couple times and shared his journey that is often filled and filled with great pain and sorrow and loss difficult things that is been very candid about what I normally wrote that when I first heard it sold almost 40 years ago and he's written.

These were my favorite songwriters is written songs that that are part of now or are means are soundtrack of our life of me Tennessee Christmas father's eyes, and of family, which was a number one hit for him and and but this one right here. I love this just truly love the so there's a treasure at the end of this narrow road on track. This is the so what would we do a lot of music on the show because I think music Hans Christian Anderson said when words fail.

Music speaks and those of you regular listeners know that I'm coming. Music is a huge part of my life I've been playing piano since I was five years old and I started playing, picking up stuff by ear and my parents helped save and and and it costs them for me to take lessons in date they invested in that with me and I think that they listen each week on the show on Alexa and hope there enjoying the the fruit of what they invested in and I love to play for them in, and I love these hymns our never forget that there's a reason I do all these things with the hymns when I was a little boy, my mother held the hymnal in front of me and I couldn't see the words because I could read, but I could make out the lines in the shapes of the notes that it known to sit with admit that I could see those and I was fascinated by this written piece of music. This printed music on the page of this thing and that's what.

And then there was a piano there. My dad was a pastor. The church there was a piano over there to the side and I would go over there and and plunk out tunes and I'm sure I because a few people stick their fingers in their ears set was just a little kid had that piano but I never stop playing and both of our sons play. My oldest son has three children.

He's teaching his children play they get pictures of the little thing is at the piano and it's been a huge part of my life in these hymns of the church great great songs written most of them out a very difficult things are are sustaining to me and I hope they will be to you as a caregivers of the song today was Jesus, I am resting, resting, and you know I'm in Agra. Like a lot of you did the older version of it. When this newer version came out that was written by David Hampton, and in its there's just something about it that just wraps his arms around, and the difference for us is caregivers in my life that means something to you if this all mean something to you at it in an overview of another one that is similar to it for free to give us a call 888-589-8840 888-589-8840. I sometimes when it when it gets so gnarly for us is caregivers and it's hard to think straight in your you know that you are grinding your teeth or or you just so frustrated simply recalling the first line of somebody's hymns can reorient your thinking. Jesus, I am resting, resting Jesus, I am resting, resting, and an end by the wake sleep and rest are two different things we can sleep. We can get a lot of sleep, but as we resting what is it mean to rest. How do you rest. What is rest look like to you. We just because you getting eight hours of sleep a night doesn't mean you're resting Jesus, I am resting, resting in the joy of what thou art I am finding out the greatness of thy loving heart, thou has bid me gaze upon the NI beauty fills my soul. For by thy transforming power that has made me whole. There's no mention of sleep.

There is no mention of hay everything in my life is going great and now I can be okay. There is this simply the the wonder and the joy of being in the presence of Jesus, of the transforming work that that is happened in our lives. Oh how great thy lovingkindness vaster broader than the sea will have a marvelous, thy goodness lavished all on me. Do you understand that word lavished on me is still applicable when you're sitting in a neurosurgeon's office discussing your wife's 81st surgery that I can count that as we sit there we met with the surgeon is little tiny room and I and I looked around the room. This is this is in Denver and and I thought about all the different doctors offices.

I've been to the Ulster County look-alike after while grace is been treated by more than 100 different doctors and now this will be her 14th hospital. I think about all the exam room.

She's been in that all the different just it just kind of goes into a blur, but in that moment. Oh, how marvelous thy goodness lavished all on me.

Those words were applicable even in that place, and as we prepare for the surgery for her. Those words are still applicable. There is a greater truth that anchors us, so that when were faced with long quarters going back into surgery or is Becky called inspired all of us that we all push shares produce the show would she see said by it. I want to keep fish hung plucker nothing. Everybody want to keep iCal because she's singing Jesus, I am resting, resting to her husband as a sty and in that moment the lavishness of God's goodness was was still present even more so, but it's so hard for us in this culture of ours. We get so wrapped up in thinking, oh okay working to get our breakthrough and and and will get a feel good about this, and then will be able to praise God know we praise God right now we do it right now.

If you go back and look at Paul and Silas in the book of acts.

What were they were imprisoned in assist around midnight and they been beaten that day. They were chained up in a prison and is not like prison like we have here in America as they were singing hymns.

I know I don't I don't singularly hymns at midnight but you can do that you know this because it been beaten were imprisoned doing Jesus was on his way to Gethsemane. He was singing hymns after he just washed his disciples feet and he knew that Judas was good poetry. He knew what was coming, singing hymns.

Oh, how marvelous I goodness lavished all on me think this is the problem when you when you hear these guys on television these preachers and so forth. Do this thing. They say were going to get you breakthrough new. This isn't get into this whole abundant thinking and all that. God bless this great God bless.

But there's a greater truth we've Artie had a breakthrough. He is already lavished goodness on us and while we may endure seasons in this life or maybe a lifetime of hardship. We can rejoice, even as we are sorrowful discrepancies.

We understand that this broken world is filled with all kinds of of very difficult things. Martin Luther said this this world with devil's fifth. He who began a good working you is faithful to complete it to the day of Christ Jesus.

Yes, I rest in the beloved know what wealth of grace is that I know that certainty of promise and have made it mine, Jesus, I am resting in this my sleeping, resting, and that gives us the confidence then to seeing these hymns to our loved ones like Becky did as he passed away.

That gives the confidence to sit in a doctor's office in here what's getting ready to happen to know that, however painful it is, we can rest in his goodness simply trusting the Lord Jesus. I behold the as thou art, and I love so pure, so changeless satisfies my heart. Jesus, I am resting, resting, this is this is what we this is why these hymns are so important to us because it cuts through sometimes all the other noise in her life and settles our spirits down and if there's one thing that a caregiver needs it's a settled heart. That's what separates this show from any other show out there addressing the needs of family caregivers because if our heart is a train wreck.

Guess what our caregiving will be verbal will reflect that it will be a train wreck as well. If our heart is a train wreck.

Our wallets will be our bodies will be a relationships will be art our jobs will be. It's only a matter of time and I've got 35 years into this so I have a little bit of credibility and saying it's only a matter of time before it all comes off the rails.

You may be able to do this for a couple of months. A couple years.

You can't do this for a couple of decades without understanding this greater truth JoAnn in Arkansas joy good morning are you feeling good morning. I can hear you just fine. JoAnn you know this him to dig. I like it.

I'm hoping that I write and then I put it and then every time after that.

I found it in Robert J Morgan book then sings my soul, I was just looking at that now and you are you know about the word, I just talked to Rob he's a friend of mine from Nashville been on the show timer to get a new book coming out so he'll be joining us here in the next couple weeks or so, but wow wonderful wonderful man, wonderful man. We went to the same bubble, and he's a wonderful man. Tell me why this tell me why the song is important to you, joy will hang on hang onto the brick.

Okay, I hear I hear the official theme song of the Peter Rosenberger show here. I wrote that things are bustling with my friend Chris Latham and his tell me I got go to break.

We got a heartbreak here joy. Can you hang on to the break. Okay great dispute arose and this is hope caregiver 888-589-8040 885 89 80 show you hope caregiver.com as well.

There's a lot of stuff in there for you and the dispute. Rosenberger never helped somebody walk for the first time I've had that privilege many times through our organization.

Standing with hope when my wife Gracie gave up both of her legs follow this horrible Rick that she had as a teenager and she try to save them for years and if it just wouldn't work out.

And finally she relinquished him and thought wow this is that I'm not happy legs anymore. What can God do with that and then she had this vision for use in prosthetic limbs as a means of sharing the gospel to put legs on her fellow amputees and that's what we been doing now since 2005 was standing with hope. We work in the West African country of Ghana and you can be a part of that through supplies through supporting team members through supporting the work that were doing over there, you can designate a limb. There's all kinds of ways that you can be a part of giving the gift that keeps on walking and standing with hope.com would you take a moment ago understanding with hope.com and see how you can give they go walking and leaping and praising God. You could be a part of that@standingwithhope.com John and and that joy of the Lord is your strength. That's how she does. This is how she endures and does the things she does. She faces a difficult journey ahead of us, but both of us. Over the next couple months. This all will continue to be important to her as well.

The joy of the Lord is her strength. You want to find out more about Gracie going to hope for the caregiver.com you want a copy for CD whatever. It's all the instructions are out there just want take a look hope the caregiver.com to check out our podcast from what I understand we have the largest podcast for family caregivers in the world and so take a look and share with folks that you know are hurting, you don't know what to say to caregiver. Don't worry about I do and you can share that with them right there from the website over the caregiver.com talking with Becky in Arkansas. Becky so you hurt you first heard the song you looked up and tell me tell me of why this all mean so much to you now that word.

Like everything before I started work there to help Gloria. Now it just a personal message about the and in fact I can make when I was home a lot.

I'm an older person in Black Mountain and I couldn't get out and thing that I felt like he did put in my lap. You know, listen to this song every day for a while in the word where I found them to my heart you know it was beautiful.

You know that the land that Jesus didn't. And now that what we can.

What we Being with and now it's just been so special to me. You know I that that sparks of thought with me because I think just what we get for being with the beatings presence and if you if you if you come at it from that viewpoint, then you start seeing things in Scripture that reinforce that it makes sense that Neil when Mary was sitting there, Jesus feet and Martha got all upset. You know I what about me. A major cook and enslave them, which up with identify with Martha a lot because you have the chief cook and bottle washer around here and of Jesus and now you get this wrong just just be just be that's very hard for me as a caregiver.

That's hard for. I think for a lot of folks but just being with him when taught when he when he when Thomas finally got it when Jesus appeared to them after the resurrection. Thomas had been doubting said look, I'm not completed to not touch his hands inside you by the bleak and when he did he filled out a disease you my Lord my God it and in it he wasn't thinking about anything else other than just the awesome presence of of Christ and you know I love that ever lift a face upon me as I work and wait for the resting beneath a small Lord Jesus earth dark shadows flee brightness of my father's glory sunshine of my father's face keep me ever trusting, resting, fill me with thy grace and and you know, that takes on a different meaning when you're caregiver and you're dealing with all the craziness and yet you're still willing yourself to understand this truth and it settles your spirit now and I just love that the deep did you know the first musical version of this or what digit did you get introduced to this on just on the newer version now your program earlier. The newer version of the younger version not yet been delivered on that Kurt will and I like the older version, but it is a little bit clunky. That's nice.

I mean, I would probably dressing up and even of a play that was you know and you can smooth it out but this new version, so I'm still him so here with this newer version though is just that. Just just you just tell it is just such a beautiful ability such a beautiful arrangement of it so I just love it and I appreciate the fact that you knew it as well and I think that it's as we go through the day is caregivers, particularly to be faced with difficult things will be faced with the temptation to spout off to say something to be angry to be frustrated to be bitter to be resentful, all those kinds of things that happen in our journeys part of the human condition that we as caregivers you'll get ample opportunity to experience those things and I'm hoping that if you do nothing else. Just remember the title of this tune. Jesus, I am resting, resting, not sleeping, resting, and there is a difference. And so Joe and I do appreciate you calling and sharing this with you. Are you getting out more now.

Good when he got plant what you got planned for today where I might have my neighbor over the will to tell your neighbor about this song about this and that is that's a great thing with thank you so much for calling. Thank you for for knowing the ceiling and sharing your thoughts with us this again. This is why we do these particular hills because you're going to go through things today as a caregiver just as a human being yelling at me caregiver you go to things that are going to want to hook you and I'm asking you to reorient your money.

Just remember this tune. Jesus and resting, resting, and if you could just home that couple times and you'll find that it'll stick with you sleep and rest are two different things. Resting is knowing that this is not mine to fix. I didn't do this and cause us to Gracie and I can't fix and I can rest that she has a Savior and I'm not that Savior you know I looked out my hands periodically and I have never seen nail prints that assures me that this is not mine to fix Stuart here. I'm caring for, but I can rest knowing that she has a Savior and I'm not that Savior.

What about you what about you looked at your hands. Do you see nail prints that you don't mean just not yours to fix and that your loved one has a Savior you're not that Savior you do not have the power to change this, but you do have it in you because of the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. You do have it in you like her collar from Texas this morning. Becky just seen Jesus, I am resting, resting at a deathbed that you can't and you can sing songs like this during moments of great heartache and strife and disappointment and loss and grief and pain.

I watched Gracie many many times seeing through the pain and I don't think she mind me tell you, but my friend John Erickson taught us to get up many times in the middle the night she wakes up in pain and she can't move. She's paralyzed and shall sing these hymns and sometimes a texture him that I'm going to talk about on the show and say oh I love that jumped into it. She said I'm putting that the incident the list tonight when I know that I'm that awake. Think she knows she can wake up and pain. She knows that Ken has to help to get comfortable so that she can get back to sleep and Sissy sings these hymns have gone into our bedroom or hospital room and I see Gracie knowing she's in pain and ceasing to herself, Jesus, Jesus, how I trust him proven over Jesus. Jesus, precious Jesus and then she'll add 04 Gracie to trust him more now between the two of Johnny and Gracie yesterday was the 54th anniversary of Johnny's accident this fall will be the 38th anniversary of Gracie's 90 years 92 years of of of disability and suffering between these two women and their going back to these hymns that set what gets them through the dark night of the soul. If I can co-opt watchmen needs title there's this would get some through the what gets you through this. What sustains you in this. What causes you to rest in the midst of sorrow and pain and grief and loss. What are you doing can you remember this particular him today knowing that sleep and rest are two different things. You may be getting sleep but are you resting by the way, I need you to repeat this back to me.

I'm still character and I need to hear these things do I have caregiver amnesia have gospel image. I need to hear these things over and over, sing them over and over again, wonderful words of life. I did hear it over and over. But today, for today. As you look at the world is going on around you look at what's evident.

By the way, if you watch the news for any moment you got a need to sing this him if you listen to what's coming out of Washington. The absolute nut jobs that are running this country, you know you're going to have to have something greater for these folks to anchor yourself Jesus, I am resting rest that that is on it is a call that is that is in the joy of what thou art I am finding out the greatness of the matter with what you see on the news. What area of COBIT. There is none of that can compare to the grace the redemptive work. This is hopeful this is the show for you healthy caregivers make better caregivers start seated some of you know the remarkable story of Peter's wife Gracie and recently Peter talk to Gracie about all the wonderful things that have emerged from her difficult journey. Take a listen Gracie. When you envision doing a prosthetic limb outreach. Did you ever think the inmates would help you do that, not in a million years. When you go to the facility run by core civic and you see the faces of these inmates that are working on prosthetic limbs that you helped collect from all of the country that you put out the plea for and their disassembly sell these legs like what you have your own prosody and arms and orange everything when you see all this makes me cry as I see this miles on their faces and I know what it is like someplace where you can't get out without somebody else allowing you to get out the hospital. These men are so glad that they get to be doing is one thing said something good with my did you know before you became in a PT that parts of prosthetic limbs could be recycled now had no idea I thought Peg leg. I thought a wooden legs.

I never thought of titanium and carbon legs and flexibly the legs and all that.

I never thought about. As you watch these inmates participate in something like this, knowing that there there helping other people all providing the means for the supplies to get over there. What is it do to you. Just on the heart level.

I wish I could explain to the world.

What I see in here and I wish that I can be able to come and say the this guy right here in East Africa with that. I never not feel that way out every time you know you always make me have to leave. I don't want to leave.

I feel like I'm at home with them and I feel like that we have a common bond that would never expected that only God could put together. Now that you could experience with it what you think of the faith-based programs.

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