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866-348-7884. It's crunch time, and even though people have maybe alluded to this in the past, this is the most consequential election I think America has ever faced. And it is a, we're coming down to the last several days of it. It's no-holds-barred, and I have somebody here today on the program to offer expert insights, somebody who you know, and his opinion is very important to me, and I, and so many others, and I really am glad that he's here.
Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. Lieutenant Colonel, I am thrilled that you're on the program today. Thank you for joining us, and I know you are watching this with, are you going to get any sleep between now and Wednesday?
Well, I'm getting, you know, I'll always get sleep, you know, soldier, we can get through three hours, we're good to go, we're ready to go on to the fight. And this is a fight, and it's a pleasure and honor to be with you, because there could be no clearer choice for the way ahead for our constitutional republic. When you look at the progressive socialist Marxist left, that's who they are, and their desire for centralized control of every aspect of our lives, to include, you know, our children, and liberty, freedom, and individual rights.
That's what's on the other side. And so I don't know how anyone could be confused about, you know, being undecided or what they want to stand for, because to me, it is very clear. And I think that Kamala Harris, she has pretty much so fired two torpedoes into her own battleship, when she was on CNN, and with Dana Basher, she said that my values have not changed. And then of course, when she was on The View with Sunny Hostin, asked her the question, is there anything that you would do differently, other than from the Biden administration, the administration you're in? She said, no. Nothing comes to mind.
I can't think of anything to do differently, and I have no regrets. To me, that tells me everything that I need to know. It does indeed. You see the dust up that's going on right now with Liz Cheney? Yeah, but again, go back and look at the language, what Donald Trump said.
Donald Trump said, you know, maybe we should put a rifle in her hands or in her arms and allow her to be on the other side of, you know, nine people shooting at her. Look, I'm a combat veteran. My dad served in World War Two. My father-in-law served two combat tours of duty in Vietnam. My older brother served in Vietnam as a Marine infantryman. I served Desert Shield, Desert Storm Iraq and went to be a civilian military advisor to the Afghan army.
And my nephew has three combat tours of duty. So, you know, what he was trying to say is that he's kind of sick and tired of these people that have no skin in the game going out there and sacrificing our, you know, blood and treasure of our sons and daughters so that they can enrich themselves. And it just shows the desperation of the left that they're trying to actually say that he's talking about, you know, assassination or murdering her when he's been the guy that's been the target of two assassination attempts, for real. Darrell Bock That we know of. Reg Grant Yeah, that we know of. I mean, who knows whether the plots that are out there, and I'm sure, based upon his success next Tuesday, they might be some that try to enact some of those plots. Darrell Bock I am deeply concerned.
As you have been out talking about this, you're certainly in demand, and that's why I'm very grateful you took time from my program today here. Your thoughts as you head into these last several days here, I'm like you, how can you be undecided at this point? I mean, that doesn't even make any sense to me.
Reg Grant No, it doesn't. And, you know, look, I guess you have the uninformed voter that is out there, and they're just now tuning in. And there'll be people that will call their friends and say, Hey, look, I guess there's an election on Tuesday. Who do you recommend I vote for?
That's that's pretty sad indictment on, you know, you know, Americans are citizens. But, you know, as I travel around, and I listen, and I see what is happening, you know, I look at trends. And from the polling aspect, the trend that I most, you know, pay attention to is that four years ago in the race against Joe Biden, you know, he was up seven to eight percentage points. Four years prior to that Hillary Clinton was up five to six percentage points. When you say that at this point, that, you know, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are tied, or maybe he's up plus one, and she's up plus one plus two, that means that he is probably up eight or nine percentage points, because Trump always under polls, and people that are, you know, supporting the former president, they just don't really number one, get called to do these surveys. And number two, they don't trust. And they'll say whatever they think the pollster wants to hear. So I believe that that's why you see the incredible you know, nervousness, and really the vicious, vile attack, the denigration of people calling them, you know, Nazis, you know, because they attended a rally in Madison Square Garden, compare him to Hitler, he wants to be a fascist, a dictator, I think garbage is another one, all of these things that are coming out, Mark Cuban, coming out just recently, I guess yesterday and saying that you never see Donald Trump surrounded by strong, intelligent women.
I mean, why would you be saying these things? He's never going to live that one down, you know. And like I said, I'm here in Dallas. And, you know, one of the things that people brought out, you just sold the Dallas Mavericks to Miss Adelson, who is a big Donald Trump supporter. So I guess you just sold the Dallas Mavericks to a woman that is weak and unintelligent. Yeah, he's going to carry that one around for a very, very long time, if not for the rest of his life.
It's out there now, and it's not going to go away. By the way, I've performed at Madison Square Gardens. My wife and I did many years ago, 20 years ago, she performed one of the nights at the Republican National Convention. And so I guess if you perform at Madison Square Gardens, you're going to be a Nazi.
Is that the rule now? And I remember Frank Sinatra performed there, too. Bill Clinton accepted the nomination there, if I'm correct. And, you know, other Democrats have accepted nominations there, and, you know, there have been rallies.
So, you know, all of that, you know, denigrating speech, that divisive speech, that's not what you say and do if you think that you're winning. I think that they're very concerned. They see the internal polls. They understand those trends.
And also just recently, when you have one of the biggest feminists also who worked in the Clinton and Gore White House, Naomi Wolf, come out and say she's voting for Donald Trump. That tells you a lot. Tells you a lot. And we'll talk about that in a minute when we come back. This is Peter Rosenberger. I'm talking with Lieutenant Colonel Allen West.
I'm just so thrilled to have him with us today. 866-34-TRUTH. If you want to be on the program, we'll be right back. We're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad to have you with us. 866-34-TRUTH.
If you want to be on the program, we'll get to the phone calls here in a bit. I'm talking with Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. No stranger to so many of you all.
Just an amazing guy with an amazing record and insights into what's going on in our country. And we were talking about the internal polls, Lieutenant Colonel. You know, the internal polls must be rather telling, I would think. And yet, I just recently saw Karl Rove, and he held up his whiteboard that he draws so famously on all the stuff, and he just said it was a coin toss. Who knows?
It's going to be a wild several days. Any of your thoughts as you go into this on this one particular subject? So many Christians have been sitting out elections. What are your thoughts on that?
Well, if you go and read the George Barna report, the Barna Research Group, he just recently did a poll, and I was part of the conservative Christian group that asked him to do that survey and poll. It was released back in September, and his estimation is that 31 million Christians will not come out to vote. And some of the reasons given were quite disturbing, because again, when you think about a person in Kamala Harris, who at one of her rallies, I believe in Madison, Wisconsin, someone stood up and said, you know, Jesus is Lord, Christ is the King. She said, you're at the wrong rally.
I think that's a clear indicator of who she is. And then all of a sudden, she goes down to North Carolina, and somehow she finds a southern pastor, iambic pentameter rhythmic speech, when she started, you know, chanting about joy cometh in the morning out of Psalms. So here's a person that will say and do anything to include mocking the words of the Bible and mocking, you know, the followers of Christ. Christians need to understand that, you know, they don't understand the mind of God. In the Old Testament, God chose Cyrus, Xerxes, and Nebuchadnezzar to, you know, do what was right by his people.
And so that's what our people should be praying for, is someone that will, you know, be aligned with their values. And I think that that's what you have to look at these issues, according to your biblical worldview and perspective and values, especially the life issue. Deuteronomy 30 and 19 is very clear. Psalms 127, 325, very clear. Jeremiah 1 and 5, I knew you before I phoned you in the womb, is very clear.
God is pro-life. And so if you are part of the body of Christ, you need to be out there participating and voting. And you know, now it's too late to get registered to vote. But this final Sunday, we need to be asking people in our church pews, you know, have you gone out to vote? You need to make sure you get out to vote. You need to vote your biblical perspective's worldview and your values. That's so critical.
Well, it comes down to stewardship. You know, we've been given this amazing privilege of living in this country, and if we squander that privilege and not participate in the stewardship of citizenry of our vote, I don't know how that lines up with everything I see in scripture. Paul talked about this, like you just said, you quoted all these scriptures.
Pray for the peace of the place that you're living in. You go back and look at Jeremiah 29 and the first part, everybody knows Jeremiah 29 and 11. I know the plans I have for you. I know the plans, yes.
But if you go back a couple verses, God said, look, you're going to be here for a while. You need to stay put. You need to be good citizens here. And I know where you are.
I know the plans I have for you. I think for me, and I want to hear your thoughts on this, but I think for me, this thing took a very dark turn back when Obama was president. He was speaking out in Texas, where you are. I don't think it was in Dallas, but it may have been in Dallas, at a Planned Parenthood convention. And he said, God bless Planned Parenthood.
Yeah. A sitting U.S. president said this, and the first question I had in my mind was, which God is he referring to? Because he ain't referring to the God of Scripture.
No, he's referring to Baal. He's referring to Moloch, which was the God of child sacrifice, if you go back and read in Judges 2, verses 10 through 18, and the anger of the Lord burned against the children of Israel, because they fell down and worshiped the Baals. I mean, they started to sacrifice their own children and took the fire to Moloch, and that's what they're talking about. When you look at Minnesota, and Governor Tim Walz and his policy there, that you can dismember a baby all the way up until the time of birth, that's infanticide. And there have been five cases where babies have been left to die. And so the body of Christ, I mean, how can you align yourself with that? Psalms 127, 3 through 5 talks about children being that gift from God, and blessed is the man who has many of them.
They're like arrows in his quiver. So we need to make a stand, and also Romans 12 and 2, when Paul writes that we are not supposed to conform to the world, we're supposed to transform it by the renewing of our minds. So if we refuse to renew our minds, we refuse to understand that we have to walk in righteousness, and we should demand that type of righteousness and respect of our, you know, values, because what happened with COVID, the very first thing that the government wanted to shut down was churches. It didn't want to shut down McDonald's. So the government and authorities basically said that, you know, a Big Mac is more essential than our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
That should be offensive and condescending to the body of Christ. But if you don't get out and participate in this electoral process, if you think that this is not your calling, if you think that you're supposed to be the hands and feet of the Lord, well, you also have to be a voice, and you have to speak out. And the best way to speak out is to get out and participate and vote.
I think it was Plato who once said, one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you should be governed by your inferiors. Wow. Say that one more time. I think that needs to be said twice there.
Sure. It was Plato who said, one of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you shall be governed by your inferiors. And this is where we are. And I go back to, again, this whole thing of life, and then I saw this thing with Obama saying that. And then, flash forward to Governor Ralph Northam of Virginia, when he was talking about a child being born, and we'll put the child aside and we'll have a discussion. I host a... He didn't even say child, Peter. He said it.
If you go back to his call, he said it. I host a radio program on this network and others for family caregivers. And I deal with a lot of families with special needs. My brother has a daughter that is 36 years old with special needs. My cousin, I'll be featuring her on my program tomorrow morning. It will air on this program as well, that has a daughter with special needs. They didn't expect her to live for a couple of years.
She's 20 years old now. And then I've been a caregiver for four decades for somebody with severe disabilities. How long before we start going from abortion to euthanasia? As long as we go down the path of devaluing life, this is where we are.
Yeah, it's already happening in Canada. It kind of reminds me, remember the old movie with Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, Soylent Green? Soylent Green. Yeah, Soylent Green.
They're people. I mean, that freaked me out the first time I saw it as a kid. Or even the movie Logan's Run, where all of a sudden when you got to a certain age, the little light in your hand went off and quote, unquote, you were being redo, you were being killed. So we're not far away from that. It is, it is frightening. Rosenberg, we've got more to go. So glad that you're with us. This is Truth Talk Live, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884.
We'll be right back. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger, and I'm glad that you are with us, 866-34-TRUTH, 866-348-7884.
I'm joined today. It is just my pleasure to have Lieutenant Colonel Allen West. I'm so grateful that he took time today. And we've been talking about all that's getting ready to happen here over the next several days.
It's coming down to crunch time. And I have one more thought I wanted to ask you, sir. You've been watching the Harris campaign and what they've been trying to do. And Obama was out fussing at young black men and black men in general.
And I assume he did not have you in that list that he was fussing at. But what are your thoughts on this as you see them trying to castigate an entire demographic of men, black men, that's saying, hey, you should be doing this. And that had to spark some feelings in you. What were your thoughts of that? Well, absolutely so. I mean, there's no skinny little Delta male that's going to intimidate me.
So no, he was not talking to me. But the important thing you got to understand is that I have never seen a time when all of a sudden the level of melanin in my skin is supposed to dictate the thoughts of my brain or the convictions of my heart or my concerns for my country. So this shows once again, the level of desperation that they have on the other side, because people can do a side by side comparison of what life was like under the Trump administration. They know what it was like going to the grocery stores. They know what it was like going to the gas pump. They know that they did not hear about Houthis, Hamas, Hezbollah, Islamic Jihad.
They know that there was no Russian invasion of Ukraine. They know that there was not all of this crime that was out there on the streets unless you were, you know, up in Minnesota, Minneapolis, and you saw the rampage of the left that typically that's what they do or in Portland, Oregon. But they they are they understand that, you know, in the black community, you had a an incredible all time high low unemployment rate, all time low unemployment rate.
I'm sorry. You had urban economic empowerment zones. There was, you know, economic incentives for small business. There was criminal justice reform. They will support the historical black colleges and universities.
Now all of a sudden you come along and say, hey, forget about that. You just need to because you're black, you need to vote for this person because they're black. Well, half Indian.
I don't know what it is. Just the same as Barack Obama's half white. But you should still be voting for this individual. And if you're not voting for this because you don't you can't understand except the woman's president. No, I think that they're tired of the lies. They're tired of being manipulated.
They're tired of, you know, just people showing up every four years saying, all right, time to cash in your vote when they know that it is not going to their better way of life. And again, coming back to the life issue, over 20 million black babies have been dismembered in the womb since 1973 Roe v. Wade. When you talk about Planned Parenthood and how Barack Obama praised Planned Parenthood, the largest facility for dismembering babies or second largest in the world is in Houston, Texas. Planned Parenthood, founded by white supremacists or racist, a woman who spoke at Klan rallies referred to blacks as undesirables and weeds, where 70 to 73 percent of Planned Parenthood clinics are in black communities. You know, he's basically saying, you know, I support the genocide of black people, but you should still vote for this.
It is truly unconscionable. And I think it shows a not only the desperation, but it seems to show to me a lack of what's really going on in the minds and hearts of black men these days. We have more and more executives, more and more millionaires, more and more business leaders and so forth who are not buying into this victim status because they're accomplishing so much. And it just it seems like a huge disconnect. And I'm an unabashed, huge fan of Rush Limbaugh, and I miss him terribly. But one of the things he said was about winning hearts and minds. That's not a winning hearts and minds kind of strategy. I mean, is that a fair statement? No, it's a very fair statement. And the difference between progressive, socialist, Marxist, statist, communist, whatever you want to refer to them as, leftist, is that they want victims. They need victims because victims perpetuate their existence. Constitutional conservatives, we believe in making people victors. The left believes in equality of outcomes. We believe in equality of opportunity. The left believes in economic enslavement. We believe in economic empowerment. And that's what we need to be doing. Just that simple side by side comparison of who they are and who we are and how it's better for your future of not just yourself, but for your children and grandchildren.
Well, I do appreciate very much your insights on this. And now there's one more contest that I need to talk to you about because I was telling a couple of buddies of mine that I was going to be talking to you. And these two guys are both graduates of the University of Tennessee. And there's a big contest tonight.
They say it's going to be a walk-off contest. I don't believe that anymore because it's such a rivalry. So you need to weigh in on University of Tennessee and University of Kentucky tomorrow night. Well, I got to tell you, you never take anybody for granted in the SEC. Just ask Alabama about Vanderbilt. So you got to come with your A game because I think we kind of lax when we lost to Arkansas.
So I expect the balls to come out, to be sharp, be on top of things. They had a bye week off and they do normally play pretty well when they put on the dark uniforms. As a matter of fact, the last time they had the dark uniforms against Kentucky at home, I think we beat them by about 25, 28 points.
But again, that was in the past. Kentucky's going to play you hard. So get out there, play the whole four quarters. Well, I did that for my buddy Randy. He and I are very close friends. He played for the University of Tennessee back in the seventies and he's just a great, great guy. And he said, talk to him about the Vols. Go Vols. I will be back in Knoxville for the last home game of the season because that's the military alumni appreciation weekend. And so I get to see a lot of my old army buddies.
We always come back, but it's great to be back up there in Knoxville on Rocky Top and go big orange, go Vols. Well, my wife is a ninth generation Tennessean. And so it's, it goes deep. And then my son did the unconscionable. He moved to Alabama and had all four of our grandchildren in Alabama and he taught them how to say roll tide.
I'm still struggling. I, you know, when you hear your grandchildren say roll tide, it's, it's uncomfortable. I got to tell you, it's.
Well, you know what? This is my, my oldest daughter married a young man from Tuscaloosa. So the running bet every year is whoever wins the Alabama Tennessee game. That's what my grandson will wear for an entire year.
So starting tomorrow, my grandson will be in Tennessee orange because we beat Alabama. That's great. Well, listen, if people want to find out more about you, if they want to get in touch with you, your books, everything, you have such a body of work. You have such a presence and it means a lot. And before we came on to talking about your time in Atlanta, my dad was there and in inner city Atlanta ministering for many, many years. And he was a, he retired as a captain in the Navy and he was a chaplain. In fact, one of the things he did during his chaplaincy was to go into these very difficult areas during Vietnam and he had to make the notification to family to next of kin. Yeah. That's tough.
It was a tough thing, but it shaped who he was as a pastor. And I could talk to you forever, but I want people to be able to find out how to get in touch with you. What's the best way for them to find you? Well, I'm on all the social media platforms, a separate TikTok because I'm not supporting the Chinese communist party. I am the executive director of the American constitutional rights union that is the acru.org. I'm the chairman for the Dallas County Republican party, and that is Dallas gop.org. And I have a podcast program called steadfast and loyal that people can check out. And if you'd like any of the three books that I've written, you can go through Amazon. Please go out there and I'm going to put this in the links on the program.
When I put the podcast out myself, it means a lot that you've taken the time. We're on the present. This is a very dangerous time for our country and yet we serve a great sovereign God. And if my people who are called by my name, that's us as believers, will seek out him and pray and ask for forgiveness, he's going to heal our land. But we as Christians have got to do it and you are unabashed in your love for country and your love for your savior. And it means an awful lot, sir. Get out the vote, folks. Get out the vote. No excuse.
Don't make me show my skills and come find you. Last thoughts. I have to ask you think Tennessee is going to be the sec championship. I tell you what, it's going to be really hard, Peter, to go down to Athens if we are one loss and they're one loss because that really does put everything on line. So we'll see. It's tough winning in Athens down there.
Those folks go doggone crazy. But the surprise out here is Texas A&M and we'll see if they can continue to be undefeated in the SEC. They got a big game this weekend going to South Carolina. Well, I was born in South Carolina. My folks lived in Atlanta, but I was born in South Carolina. So I've got Gamecocks in my family and it gets a little gnarly this time of year. My sister went to Georgia. They still have a varsity in Athens, but they closed the big one downtown in Atlanta. We used to go there as kids all the time. Did you go over there?
Oh, absolutely. Chili cheese dog. What do you have? What do you have?
What do you have? Yeah, chili cheese dog. Chili cheese dog. I love it. Lieutenant Colonel Allen West, it is a treat, sir. Thank you for what you do for this country. Thank you for what you have done for this country. And more importantly, thank you for what you do for the Kingdom of God.
We're grateful to have you. God bless you. Take care, Peter. You too.
All right. This is Peter Rosenberg. Don't go away. We'll be right back. Welcome back to Truth Talk Live. This is Peter Rosenberger. Glad that you are with us.
866-34-TRUTH-86348-7884. You know, this is November 1st. It is National Caregiver Awareness Month.
It's November. I do a radio program for caregivers. I have a whole focus that I do for family caregivers.
I've been one now for four decades. And if you want to see more about that, if you are a said caregiver, then go out to my website, PeterRosenberger.com. If you get out there, you'll see all kinds of things that I have for caregivers. There's a caregiver 911.
And why is this important? Well, 65 million Americans are serving as a family caregiver right now, whether it's taking care of a child with autism, somebody with an addiction, somebody with Alzheimer's. The list of afflictions are so long, but there's always a caregiver. You may be in a relationship with an alcoholic or an addict, and you don't consider yourself a caregiver, but you are. It's a chronic impairment. Wherever there's a chronic impairment, there's a caregiver. How are you doing? How are you holding up?
What's going on with you? President Trump just came out the other day and talked about a tax credit for caregivers. He said they've been ignored and overlooked for so long, that's going to change.
And I'm very grateful. I've got an article out there in several publications, including my Substack page, which you can go out and take a look at now. It's called Beyond Band-Aids, Trump's Agenda to Support America's Caregivers.
I'd like for you to take a look at it and see what you think of it. Caregiver.substack.com, or you can just search for me, Peter Rosenberger, on the website. And if you go out to my website, there's links to all the stuff that I've written out there for that. Please, please share it with somebody you know, if you're not a caregiver. If you are a caregiver, still share it with somebody you know who's a caregiver, because it's hard enough to do this.
It's brutal to do it in isolation. And I would be privileged to be able to provide you with as much information as I can to help you. My podcast is free.
I have over 800 episodes. I remember when I first started doing my program for family caregivers. And I went to a big radio station in Nashville, there on Music Row, and I told them my vision for doing it. And they looked at me and they said, what are you going to talk about, nursing homes? We don't get it.
No, they didn't get it. So I went to a really small station on the other side of Music Row, and I started doing it for about eight months. And it wasn't a big station at all. I think I could probably reach more people if I yelled from my backyard. And then the big iHeart station called me, and this is the big station on Music Row, and they said, we've been listening to your program. Now we understand. Come on over here. And so I did. And then I got picked up by more and more networks, including this network, the Truth Network, of reaching this group of people who, as Trump said the other day in Madison Square Gardens, have been overlooked too long.
And they have been. My wife's had 86 surgeries that I can count, both her legs amputated, treatment by more than 100 doctors in 13 different hospitals. And this has been going on since she was hurt in a horrific car accident back in 1983, 41 years ago this month. And I have been her sole caregiver for well, almost 40 years of that. And it has been a, I met her after the wreck. I didn't know her when she got hurt.
She was 17 years old. And along the way, I've learned a lot about life, love, faith, perseverance, endurance, and God's provision in suffering. And I didn't know what to do. I mean, I was floundering for so long, and people didn't know what to say to me.
And that's all changed now because I've learned these hard lessons. And if you don't know what to say to a family caregiver, that's okay. I do.
And you can get a copy of my book if you're a pastor and you've got people, I know you've got people in your church that are struggling with all kinds of things. Don't flounder trying to say something. I've got it.
It's right there. I speak fluent caregiver. I've learned to do that over the lifetime I've been doing this, but here's the better news. It's our Savior's native tongue.
Okay. When my wife lost her legs, she started a ministry to her fellow amputees. It's called Standing with Hope. And the goal was to provide quality prosthetic legs and point them to Jesus. And her verse that she uses, Acts 3, she says, Silver and gold have I none, but such as I have I give, and the name of Jesus stand up and walk. And they do, by the way. And we've been doing this for almost 20 years in the West African country of Ghana.
It's where we hub, but we've treated patients in Kenya, in Nigeria, in Cameroon, and Togo. And we continue doing this. But when I started this secondary program of Standing with Hope, which is to reach my fellow caregivers, the verse that really came to me was comfort one another. Paul said in Corinthians, comfort one another with the same comfort that you yourself have received from the God of all comfort. Well, what comfort have I received in my decades of doing this?
Four decades I've been doing this. And I don't get comforted by people coming up and saying, well, they're there, Peter. You know, they're there. I'm so sorry or whatever. That doesn't comfort me. That's consolation, I guess. Consoling me is not comfort. Comfort is when people point me clearly to Christ, so that I'm able to draw on his inexhaustible strength, not my own failing strength, to stay in the race, to persevere. Sometimes I take care of a woman who suffers greatly, and I want to pass on that same comfort, that sustaining comfort to my fellow caregivers. And we do all of that at Standing with Hope. And if you go out to PeterRosenberger.com, R-O-S-E-N-B-E-R-G-E-R, if you go out there, you're going to see all kinds of things.
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I've got a podcast I've picked out, an episode for you, a book that you can read. There's so many things that you can take advantage of. By the way, you may know somebody who's an amputee, who's passed away, and the family doesn't know what to do with the limb. Did you know that we recycle prosthetic limbs? They go to a prison in Arizona run by a company called CoreCivic out of Nashville.
And these people have been working with us now for 13 years. And it's a faith-based program that prisoners volunteer to help us disassemble legs. In fact, I'm getting ready to pick up a shipment there now that's on a pallet and send all these parts. These legs come in from all over the country, from Alaska to Miami, and they disassemble them, sometimes down to the screw level, so we can take all those raw parts and ship them over to West Africa, where they will be used to fabricate a brand new leg. Now, you can't recycle the socket. That's what's custom-fitted to the patient.
It's made out of carbon fiber, acrylic resin, and so forth. We purchased all those things, and we've trained workers there. We work with them every week. There's somebody getting a leg all the time, every week. And we share the stories.
You can see that on the website. You can see these stories of people walking, and they are leaping and praising God, going back to work, kids going to school, all because a woman missing both legs trusted God with her pain. You have a woman with a broken body working with broken lives in a prison to take parts from broken people, and they're sending them over to Africa to put upon more broken people and raising them up to point to the one who was broken for us.
Is that not extraordinary? That, my friends, is such a picture of grace. And I invite you to be a part of this. November is National Caregiver Awareness Month. I am somebody who has walked this very difficult journey for a long time.
I'm the Wile E. Coyote of caregivers. If you could make a mistake, I've done it. And I've forgotten more mistakes that most people are going to make. But what I've learned is that God is greater than all these things, and He does give us the strength to endure. Bright hope for today, you know.
Strength for today, bright hope for tomorrow, as the hymn writer said. And it's not something that I'm despairing over. It's hard. It's brutal. It's a very difficult journey.
But you know what? It's in that journey that you get to see the provision of God. If you are in that place right now, this is your month, okay? I mean, every month as far as I'm concerned is caregiver month.
But this is a month that the country recognizes. And if you are there now, I invite you to go out to my website and start today to just not be so alone in this. Friends don't let friends care give alone. This is a brutal journey. But you have one who is acquainted with sorrow and grief, who will meet you there. Your Savior knows this pain. He knows this pain. And He will meet you there. I promise you this. I know this because I'm testifying that He met me this single day. And as I care for a woman who has a broken body, I realize something extraordinary.
And you know what it is? Because people used to say, Oh, trust Jesus. He understands.
He understands. I couldn't see it. I looked through all the scripture. There was nowhere in scripture where a guy was taking care of his wife through 80 plus surgeries and both her legs amputated and all this kind of stuff. Nobody, there's not anywhere in the scripture with that. And then I stepped back and saw the whole of scripture. You know, they refer to Christ in scripture is the bridegroom. And the church is the bride of Christ. And I came to understand that our Savior is in love with a wounded bride.
Just like me. What an amazing moment that was for me to realize I have a Savior who understands this in ways I can't even understand it. And I'm going to tell you, He understands your heartache too. Do not do this by yourself. Go out to the website. I've got a special message for you. I've got a podcast I've picked out for you episode. It's free. Just listen. It's not going to cost you anything to listen, to hear from somebody who's been there. PeterRosenberger.com.
And if you know somebody who has a prosthetic leg from a family member who passed away or a kid that's outgrown or whatever, please, we really always need pediatric limbs. If you want to be a part of what we're doing, this is the time and we would welcome your help on this. Okay. PeterRosenberger.com. Thank you for spending the hour with me today.
I love doing this program. Thank you to the Truth Network. And I want you to go out and vote. I want you to please pray for our country. Okay. It's a tough time right now. It's a dangerous time for our country. This is a decision point. Your prayers, the effective, perfect prayers of a righteous man availeth month.
And we're righteous because of Christ. Okay. This is Peter Rosenberger. PeterRosenberger.com. We'll see you next time. Another program powered by the Truth Network.
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