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Good morning and welcome to Christian Car Guy Radio. And again, this is a call-in show, so I'm gonna go ahead and give you the number right off the bat. No one is. And I'm Jerry Mathis, Ray's Body Shop and Record Service, Christian Body Shop Guy. I'm going to tell you right now, just right off the bat, I'm going to let you know this is going to be a fun show.
Right in front of me are three of my favorite people. I got Mark. Morning, Mark. Mark with Poium's Hot Dogs and BBQ. If you haven't had Tell you what, I know by getting ready for that turkey, but I'm gonna tell you what.
Pulliam's hot dogs, hard to beat. I tell you, brother.
Some good stuff. Junior Reynolds, Reynolds Garage, retired now. Reynolds Garage in Towen. Good to have you this morning. And the Christian Junkyard Guy, the one and only Bob Young.
It's great to be here this morning. Looking forward to it. Yeah, well this morning is is it's the Saturday before Thanksgiving. I'm gonna give the guys here, I told them this morning, be thinking about Thanksgiving memory. We're going to hit on a couple things, but one of them I just wanted to make sure we do is really want to lean into that because we as Christians have so much to be thankful for.
Biggest thing we have to be thankful for is we have a Lord and Savior that's willing to die on Calvary and that loves us and cares for us. But I mean, it's not families and stuff. And for me, it's kind of, and I'm going to go into that a little bit. little different because it'd be the first Thanksgiving without my mom and dad. And I'm looking at guys in front of me that are probably have the same feeling, but There's still a lot of great memories, and it brings up those memories, and it's an exciting time to get family together, and I hope.
If you're listening and you don't get with family, it should take this opportunity to do it. Also this morning I always like to give a little bit of a car safety or something that's going to save people money with their automobiles. And so we're going to hit on real quick, we're going to hit on five. Things or the five fall driving hazard or safety tips to help prevent accidents. And these are probably just the top five.
This is the ones that I have a brochure that we have at the shop and stuff that has these on there, and I talk about them, and I've done a couple interviews. Because you don't really think about some of them, and I'm going to talk about the first one, which is decreased daylight hours. And it isn't just that, it's just the time change. I know that when I was... I like the first week of getting up.
And hitting the road, it kind of messed my whole schedule up because in Winston Sylvia, I'm going down. Clemersa Road, West Clemerser Road. In the morning at about 7.15, That sun is dead in your eyes and I'm I'm tell you what, I'm always just hoping that I can Catch a glimpse of the car in front of me because I have no clue when they're stopping.
So I'm driving that early in the morning, so I had to kind of adjust my driving time. And it's the same thing within the evenings. When heading home, I'm facing the sun going down.
So, well, as a matter of fact, most of the time the sun has gone down by the time I head home, especially now. But it's just that. I know your hours. Unfortunately, I must say I have some terrible hours. But it's just the daylight savings time, and just, you know, all of a sudden, the daylight changes, and which that increases accidents.
And I think Mark's going to talk a little bit about the weather conditions. Yeah, uh yeah, this time of year it's got pretty bad, or it is bad when you got the leaves falling. and what not, and with the rain and what not with it, People like to, you know. And Getting your leaves up. And not properly putting them where they should be, and they might be out in the road.
It can, with the rain and getting wet and everything else, it can really. It could really make a hazard big time for you as far as being so slick is bi it's like being on ice. And a lot of people now using all this equipment to get it up. You've also got Your grass. In with the leaves, also.
So that that's always been a hazard, especially for motorcycles.
So it it's just it's just a really bad time of year when it comes to putting your leaves out and not being responsible enough to keep 'em off the road. Yeah, I know we all have gone through neighborhoods, and especially where they'll get them. If they've got a sidewalk, they get them on the other side, so they put them out in the street. A day goes by, wind blows, those things are, like Bob's blowing, the wind blows them right out in the street. And it is, it is like a sheet of ice out there.
I do have to watch my neighbor because he's libel. I've been watching him like a hawkeye because he may be blowing his leaves over into my yard. I think he seems like the kind of guy that would. Yeah. On purpose.
Mm-hmm. All right, Bob is going to talk a little bit about the wildlife activity. And there's been a lot of talk about that this season already. Not many people really think about it, but the wild, you see more dead animals on the side of the road than ever. I've seen more deer this year.
But when I was thinking about it the other day, they're building so many houses and developments in our area. That their natural habitat is gone and so they're out in the street and uh in front of your car and It's not only deer, I've seen more skunks in the past year. than I have ever seen. Ever, ever, ever. And uh, you know, I think it's because uh, you know, the woods are getting tore down to cleared and and they They don't have as much of their I see more deer in my neighborhood than than I ever have.
They're just Come up in the yard and graze like they're cattle in a pasture, and they're welcome to the grass. I love for them to come up and do that. It's fun to see them. You when you're driving down the road, just realize there's more of a a wildlife. Um hazard than there's ever been before because they're Home and hangout places are getting developed and development of their land.
puts them traveling an hour in our natural spaces uh a little bit more. Yeah, th and Bob talk I mean, being in the Salvage business. You've seen enough of those come through the damage that these that an animal will do to a vehicle. I mean, we don't realize how dense any kind of wildlife is. When it comes to deer, those fuzzy little creatures sold a whole lot of parts for me.
But it's really detrimental. I hit a deer as a young guy, and I was in an older car, and so it didn't do as much damage. as, you know, the new ones sus uh sustain when they're hit a hit a a big creature like that. But uh It's just it's a whole lot. and you've here heard of people them jumping over the hood, coming through the windshield.
Co I've heard of one coming through the side glass. And a good friend of mine, he was just driving down the road and one was flying across the field and shot right out to and crashed into his uh passenger door. with him driving down the road. Yeah. We see more of that now.
I mean, I at the shop we see more come in where you used you know, you h a deer hit, you think you hit a deer, usually front end damage, but now we get roof damage. Sides damaged, but they just run right into the vehicles and stuff. And also, Bob.
Now thank you. We always think about deer when we think about wildlife, but This past week we wrote At Ray's Body Shop, we wrote uh and two estimates for people that hit owls. and one wild turkey. And were they first? Uh no, we've we've had them before, but it wasn't like, I mean, within these were within two days they all three came in.
We was thinking, wow, and they were all pretty close to Southside Winston over there where our shop is. And the damage that they do, you wouldn't think an owl was that awful big of an animal, but they are just they can do some damage. Pretty beefy coming through a windshield. Yeah, yeah. One of them still had the owl was still stuck in the grill, so we definitely knew it was an owl.
New ornament on the front of it. Yeah, I was going to add to Bob's thing, too. A lot of people don't realize it, like myself. Let's tell you the truth. A lot of deer running in packs.
So if you see a pack running in front of you, go ahead and slow down anyway if you think they're already past you, because there might be some. There's one other night the whole pack come across from me.
Next, it wasn't a few seconds or so later. Here come a couple more.
So, you still want to be. You still want to be aware of your surroundings as far as when you got a pack running in front of you. You still stop to slow down because there might be another right behind you. The one just trying to catch up with everybody else. That's right.
Also, I want to add one thing to you guys. Another thing that we have problems with is when they start building roads. that changes the animal's habitat.
So you gotta find some nice place to go. And thank you. They gotta find some other place to go. And that's what happens there. They get in the road looking for a home.
And you know, AC sent me a picture last fall. He said, look what's coming through our neighborhood, and it's dear right in front of mine and his house. Was there? He took a picture and sent it to me. And we live in a We don't live in a really wooded area.
Per se? But that said before there was knocking it out. All right, we're fixing to go to a break. We're going to come back. We're going to talk about back-to-school traffic and driver fatigue.
Again, this is a call-in show. Let me give you the number, 8, I mean, yeah, 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com. Gonna save all my money and buy Welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio and before we jump in the last two top five. Fall driving hazards.
That's going to take just a moment just to mention. We're moving into the season of giving that people always think about giving and stuff. Jesus' labor of love. as an opportunity if you're listening first time or you know about it. I always will say one thing: do not take away from your local church to give.
But this is a great, if you're looking for an opportunity to give and that go directly. to helping someone, Jesus labor of love, where Would that That charity gives cars to started out just being single moms and widows, and that was kind of expanded. But um If you have an automobile that's just sitting there and you need to get it out of your front driveway, you know it runs, even if it doesn't run, we can turn it into cash somehow. It's a great opportunity to give. Also, if you'd like to make a donation, you can go to Christian Cargyle Radio, and there's a link for Jesus' Labor of Love.
And I can I always say this. I'm just amazed how God has used that ministry. I can tell you that When God laid it on Robbie's heart, and Robbie is a man that will follow what God lays on his heart. He met with me and Bob. We had lunch at a little restaurant down in Gumtree Road, I think.
Oh yeah. Gumtree and 109. Yep, down below where 109 U Pullet was located at. But Bob did. Robbie explained that and had what his vision was, God laid on his heart.
And I think me and Bob walked out, both of us walked out of there thinking, if Robbie believes in it, I'm with them. But I don't see how in the world this is gonna work. At least that's what I thought. It was a mystery to me. It it caught me off guard.
It just seemed so far-fetched and so broad thinking. And you know, I tend to think small. But when it comes to God laying something on Robbie Dilmore, he's going to think large. And he did think large, and it has really, really, really helped so many people. And uh It's expanded and doing very well and helping a lot of people.
Helping a lot of people.
So, if the opportunity God lays on your heart to look for somewhere to give this season, Jesus' labor of love, a great opportunity. And I also say, in Babel, Back me up on this, every penny that you give goes to that ministry. And goes to the people in need. There is not a. I don't know if anybody's administrative fees or none of that.
It just goes directly to them.
So you don't have to worry about how much of my, what percentage is going to the ministry, what part is going to help somebody, what's administration fees, 100%. The other thing I just want to take a moment to mention, Fonda Bryant with suicide prevention training coming up in December the 13th. At 12 noon to 2 is the last suicide prevention training. Free class that she does online. If you've been if you look and you hear and read the papers and the news, you see suicide is on a Huge upswing.
And it's really, you know, it's hard to even recognize it, but this is a great class. I've taken it. Fonda's a dear friend of mine. She's got a heart for this ministry. You can go to.
Wellnessactionrecovery.org and go to the events and it'll get you to the information about the December 13th. Free suicide prevention training. I encourage everyone to do that, or you can go to it's Fonda NC, just spelled out F-O-N-D-A-N-C underscore Fonda. 40 at yahoo.com. Or you can just put Fonda Bryant and it'll bring up all that.
Suicide Prevention December 13th, free class online from 12 noon to 2. I encourage you to look at that and You may be someone who takes that train and change and take and save somebody's life. And I'm amazed how many people take this training, Bob, that come away saying, you know what, some of those tendencies, it's kind of stirred something that I've had some of those tendencies and it made them aware of it to make sure they got help.
So. I encourage you to look into that.
Okay, number four on the Five fall hazards in driving to keep us from having an accident. Back to school traffic. If that is not, that's another one that I had to change my schedule every year in the mornings because it was I go by like three major schools on my way to work. And if my timing isn't right, I'm in line trying to get And it can be tough.
So, just being aware of that, and not just the lines for the drop-off. But also there's kids walking to school and not every kid pays attention to drivers, especially when that school bus stops and that arm goes out. A lot of these elementary kids, all they know is that's their bus to get on, so they're running across there. And there's cars, and I've seen it multiple times already this year, where cars go through that stop. Stop arm, especially on like a road like 150 in Winston is where it's four lanes and it's over in that far lane.
People don't realize you need to be stopping also on the Forest Lane because kids could be coming across the street.
So that's something to be aware of, just the back-to-school traffic. A lot of a lot of hazards there. Then Junior is going to talk about driver fatigue. Driver fatigue does not separate the old from the young. It can happen to all of us.
And um this ta change of time is really important to understand that Not only does it time change, Your daily routines change, so you got the plan. The um mm Let me tell you a little story right quick. When I was in the military, I was stationed in Fort Carson, Colorado. 1,785 miles from Weston Saturn. I would get a 15-day pass.
You walked home. There you go. It took me three days to get from there to here.
Now trust me, the the roads wasn't as popular then as is now. But I had to stop each night and be sure I got my eight hours rest before I went on the next day. You got nobody to talk to, you can't pick up all radio channels. You say, I've got a little pier here to take.
Well, take that pill and see how long you sleep on the side of the road. But just take your time. And when you feel tired, stop, get out, walk around, get a Coke, whatever you need to do. But don't stress it because you're not invisible. You can get it.
Straight by just listening, paying attention to what's going on with your body.
Well, I've got some good news for you, though. You can get the truth broadcasting app and you can pick it up everywhere. There you go. There you go. So we're in play there.
But just be safe, not only to yourself, but your passengers and other people on the road you're sharing it with. All right. And when we come back, we're going to talk Thanksgiving and some of the memories and what Thanksgiving means to. To each one of us, and that's an opportunity for you to call in and tell us your memory or what you're excited about getting together for Thanksgiving: 866-348-7884. You're listening to the Truth Network and TruthNetwork.com.
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Now's the time. Welcome back to Christian Car Guy Radio. Again, this is a call-in show 866-348-7884. I'm Jerry Mathis with Ray's Body Shop and Record Service. My buddies Mark and Jr.
and Bob. And as I said, I wanted to spend some time just talking about Well, we got holidays coming up. Once we get past you know, October it seemed like it's a In the business world, I kinda I'm not a fond of it because it sure messes my schedules up. But there's a lot of holidays and Thanksgiving is one of them, and it's a big holiday. I Is I say it I think we all, as followers of Jesus Christ, have so much to be thankful for.
And I think sometimes we can get, just like the world, we can kind of lose focus on the things we should be thankful for. And I want us to share some memories, and I will start. Because this will be My mom and and dad both had well, mom had Alzheimer's and dad had dementia and So in a way five years ago, six years ago, seven years ago, I guess, if I start thinking time flies. To a point I'd lost, especially my mom and then my dad, sort of lost both of them just because of the disease. and stuff, but still they were physically always there.
And so we still celebrated all the holidays with them. Um But this'll be the first year without either one of them. And it's just and I started thinking about that this past week, and that's why I wanted to talk about it on the show this morning because it it's kind of it kind of stirs feelings that you don't even know we're there. And it's a great time for our family. I mean, we all.
We'll be going down to my sister's house this year and There'll probably be when we all get together, not as big as uh Bob will tell us his numbers. He has a a small army that'll be at his house. We'll probably have uh twenty five, thirty people When all the family gets there, it'll be the first time I'll be able to have a Thanksgiving with my daughter who has just got married. And I'm so lucky to have a, I hate to tell you all this, but probably the best daughter in the world, Taylor.
So, but. You know It's just good to kind of all get there. And one of the things we always do is the tradition that mom started. I I can't tell you when she first started, but every time when we get ready to have the pray for the meal and stuff for Thanksgiving, we go around the room and everybody has to share something they're thankful for. And we'll be doing that again this year.
But it To me that's just I don't know, just getting together with family, but yet there's still you know, empty seats there that that normally were for somebody that you cared about. And if they knew Jesus Christ, they're they're in heaven having the best Thanksgiving of all.
So but still we miss them here on this side and I'm going to go. I don't know what Bob's going to do. I will guarantee you that Bob, I'm going to come back to Bob because he's got the biggest ordeal going on in the biggest event. Mark's gonna I don't know if it'll include now if it was m if I was Mark, it would have to do with something with hot dogs and barbecue, but I think that everybody else probably would rather have a little turkey and the traditional stuff. That's right.
Yeah. Uh unfortunately all my side of the family's pretty much gone, but think with my wife and all they She's still got a large family and we get together with them and I mean, I just With my side of the family, I do I do miss that part too because you know going to grandma's or My mom's on Christmas Eve Gu you know, when you got a big thing like you're talking with Bob and all, it don't last just a uh one time. I mean, In my family it was You was Christmas Eve Christmas and you may even be going somewhere the day after Christmas. It was a real busy time, but I I do miss all that. But I've I've been able to get together and That, but my wife's family makes up for it.
We have a great time. We get together and I don't think there's too many lies told, but marginalizing the truth. It's a Christian show, but we would bet on that. Yeah, it is a. And it is.
I want to come to mind as far as the church goes. It's always great to all the festivities going on with your church, and I'd suggest you make sure you get involved with them. go and do what you can do there and to help out. And I mean, you know, We've got these shoebox things going on now in the churches and and what nots and black We got the tree that we pick kids' names off of. and buy on kids that's not able to have anything to buy them gifts.
Yeah. Poplar Springs.
So, I mean, it's it's just a you know, it's just a great time of the year to get together with family. Absolutely. And and I uh as you mentioned, Mark, you sort of have the Florida families die off. When I first got married to Myra, Tradition was that we drove to Roanoke every morning on Thanksgiving morning and Christmas morning. And had Thanksgiving with uh Myra's dad's side of the family.
They were all in the Roanoke area. And then I had to jump in the car about usually never eat at twelve, it'd be about one o'clock where they would eat and had to jump in the car and drive as hard as I could to get us back down to Winston so I could go to mamma's house and eat again. And I had to make sure I'd plenty because if I didn't eat enough she was disappointed so But those memories, and that whole side of the family has passed. And it's kind of tough. You mentioned church.
I want to, real quick, just say one thing: church. Let me find it. Wednesday, this coming Wednesday, Thanksgiving Eve, we have a Thanksgiving Eve service at Pinedale Christian Church, which we first year to do. That was a couple years ago. We thought nobody would show up.
It has been a great turnout on the day before Thanksgiving, that Wednesday. 6 o'clock, Pine Dale Christian Church in Winston-Salem. If you're in the area, come and join us. It's a great praise and worship service. Was you fixed to say something, Mark?
Well, no, I was just sitting there thinking. I said, you know, I'm sitting here talking, we're doing Thanksgiving. We're not doing Christmas. I was talking about doing this Christmas Eve, this Christmas Day, and the day after. I think.
We're doing Thanksgiving. We understand. Do you think it has anything to do with the people I'm sitting with? But you know, I was going to make thinking of Thanksgiving too back in the day when I had show cars. you know Thursday.
Christmas Eve uh or Thanksgiving Day was the day you always went down here to the convention center to put your cars in for that car show. I don't know if y'all remember the old car shows, the the SCCA car shows that they had. But that's one thing I did miss going to my grandma's 'cause they had their Thanksgiving going on and I'm down there sitting the old car up to show for the weekend. All right, Junior.
Well, Thanksgiving has just always been family to us. You know, we Have always been together, thank you. Get Junior, get up here and huddle up to this mic here. Just drifting back. I'm the shortest one in here.
But. As you grow older, You add to that family. Marriage, um children, things like that. and once you feel like it's gone to as far as it can go. Then You enjoy it.
for a while, for a season. And then you start listening. But you don't think on that, you think about what's being. And you keep. that part of life once again.
And we're down right now. We're just Lost uh my sister, lost my sister-in-law. My cousin, and then the other morning my friend came and he had his wife had died during the night.
So it changes us, but it doesn't allow us. Do not worship Who's gave us?
Something to be thanking thanking for. and to share it with a family he's given us. And just enjoy it while you can and make it one of the biggest festivals it's ever been.
Okay. All right, Bob.
Well, I want to thank uh the other fellows in here for their comments. But uh I buried into a really huge family. And every Thanksgiving and Christmas. We have at least forty to forty five and we have had as many as sixty five people at the house. And there's a whole lot of cooking going on at our house and other houses and Uh people bring food and and we We have a really, really uh big family and we have a big time and it used to be a little stressful for me.
But As time went on, I finally figured out. You're not supposed to get this stressed out about it, you know. Just relax, do it the best you can do it. and everything's going to work out just fine. And uh a couple of weeks ago my wife found out that Our two sons are both spending Thanksgiving with their significant others and they won't be at our house.
So this Wednesday, this past Wednesday, We had turkey, ham, uh all the fixings and everything at our house so the boys could come by. Our two sons and their uh significant others could come by. and have Thanksgiving with us. And uh it's just big to my wife and it's big to me. It just And for her to have the heart to do that f for just a small group, to do it all.
I guess that's practice for next week. But or this week. But she's just a wonderful woman, and I'm awful blessed to have her in my life. Yep. I think we can all, all four of us could probably say that.
We married up. I know that. Again, I'd love to hear your Thanksgiving memory. 866. 348-7884.
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We'd love to hear your story about Thanksgiving or a memory or something that you get excited about. And, Bob, as I said earlier, part of the thing is followers of Jesus Christ that we have to be thankful for every day, and it shouldn't be just one holiday we put it in there. Jesus loves us. I'm really excited this year because I have some family members that have extra things to be thankful for. There's been some changes in some people's lives and their family situations and we have a new daughter-in-law and it's just so many things to be thankful for and even a few extra this year.
Yeah. I tell you what, since you said that, I'm going to go ahead. I'm going to start with you again, Bob. You don't give us the lead into it. We're going to work our way around.
As I said, as mamma used to always say, okay, go around the circle. Everybody get make a circle. We're going to tell about something that we are thankful for. And if it's more than one thing, that's fine. But just something that you're thankful for.
And Bob's already spilt the beans on it, I believe.
Well, I am. You know, family growth is good, even though we're pretty big already, but to have a new daughter-in-law in the family is really awesome. To have people in the family that have made changes in their life that they're happy and proud of and and feel really good about. to see people changing their li their lives, uh It it's just It makes you, if that don't make you grateful and thankful. It's just nothing will because some people have struggled for a long time with this or that.
And when you see somebody getting a hold on their life and and making positive steps, uh it just It's very uplifting. And one thing about, I think about Thanksgiving, I think about Christmas, I think about Easter, the holidays. For me, and I say this a lot, I say this a lot during our Sunday school class. and other people that I I deal with. Those holidays are also a great opportunity to share your faith.
and to do it in a way that's not you know, we all know people that will always push back. But it seems like when we get into holiday season We can Kind of tie it into it and really share our faith with people and it's not be as Um Exactly. What seems to be offensive to them, and which it shouldn't be, but people take offense to it, and especially people who don't believe in Jesus Christ and don't understand what we are thankful for. I mean, so many people don't, like you said, You see, people's lives have been changed. Is that something to be thankful for?
Absolutely. And I think we get those opportunities during the holidays because even A lot of times I'll ask people as I'm talking, you've got to be thankful for something. And that'll kind of open the door for me to say what I'm thankful for and stuff. And the same thing about Christmas? What do you celebrate Christmas for?
You know, for me, it means. The birth of Jesus Christ. Why am I celebrating Easter? For me, it's not the Easter bunny and the the candy in a basket. Our Lord and Savior died on Calvary.
Most important part, rose from that grave, that built us a bridge to eternity in heaven. And I think we can use these opportunities during the holidays to share Jesus Christ and share share what He means to us. That can be huge for somebody who doesn't understand that or have that. What about Christmas and excuse me? Christmas.
One thing we were taught from our family is sharing. Not just receiving, but sharing. And I can remember my dad and mom. We'd get up Christmas Day, be daylight. Um And they'd be dressed to go somewhere.
And my sisters was gonna fix breakfast for us and the sisters told us, Well, mom and dad forgot some people that they were supposed to leave some gifts for us, so they're gonna go out and give 'em out. What I found out Danny and Mama had bought Fine. trunk full of toys for kids that weren't gonna get any Christmas. And they were going to give them out. to those kids.
And that taught me a lot once I got old enough to realize. It's an art back. Resaving. It's all about giving, just like He gave us. you know, Christmas, the baby came He gave us the greatest gift of all.
And that's one thing we need to put first and foremost is that. And all my Christmases. I had wonderful Memories. What are you thankful for for this Thanksgiving? I'm thankful.
that I'm here and sure with my family. And we got new ones in our family too. And we got A great, great. Niece coming soon. I didn't think I'd ever see a great anything.
But we got one coming, so we'll just wait and see about that.
So that's going to be a good Thanksgiving gift. If we do that. Make care of family. Large again. That's what I'm thankful for family.
Yeah. Yeah. All right, Mark, what do you think before?
Well, the first thing will be Jesus Christ for what he did for us. Um Washington is relevant to Murphy Sands. If Well, I mean, that's something that we can take care of through him. And of course the wife, the kids, the grandkids. My uh Church family I mean, I've got a real supportive We've got real supportive groups there at church and love being involved with that and AC talking about him being in service a while ago.
I'm thankful for our. service people that we can, that they give us the freedom. to be able to do what we do as far as going to church and and um experiencing Jesus is Thank you what not. to do and that I mean you know they've done a the military has done a great job as far as keeping us free to be able to do that.
So I appreciate AC and all the people that have served and are serving. Absolutely. And I'm glad you mentioned that because I have really gone out of my way over the last. to make a conscious effort of When I see some first responder, firefighter, EMS, police officer, military, we have a lot of military, ex-military who come in, and these guys are and women are proud of that service because. It's amazing.
Most of them will have a cap on that'll have what branch they served in and stuff. And some of them can be in their 80s and 90s and 70s who haven't served in years. And we'll always always tell the guys in the office and and stuff, and I try to acknowledge them and say thank you. And what that means, I mean, you can just see their faces light up. And I just think that's just so important because we we have a lot in this country we have so much to be thankful for.
And we do need to pray for them too that because they're not going to be able to be here. A lot of them to be with their family over the holidays.
So need to definitely keep military and I mean, even as far as you're saying, the rescue and police and all that's out here having to work. those days that everybody else like ourselves are spending with their family. Yeah, I mean, they're keeping us safe and saving our lives.
So, I mean, it's something we should be giving them thanks for. For me, what am I thankful for? And I go back, I said, I'm just thankful for getting together with family. I'm thankful for Jesus Christ. I'm thankful for my church.
And I'm thankful that I do are still able to get together with with my family. I mean, I'm missing we're missing some. But uh I mean, my my sister will always struggle during holidays a little bit because she lost her son. It's 30 I forgot, I must I'm not gonna say the age 'cause I'll get it wrong, but uh young man man died and so holidays were always tough for her and I tried to go out of my way to to reach out to her. But I'm thankful for this year.
I'll be bringing in a new son-in-law, Tracy. I swear if he's going to get around to it. I'm very thankful for that. He better get around to it. I better get around to it.
Yeah, with both arms. But I want to say, too, I'm thankful for your invite to all of us here. We really enjoyed being on Truth Radio. Yeah, it was a great morning. Again, Go to church.
I hope tomorrow you're in a church somewhere. And also take time this Thanksgiving just to give God thanks and thanks for his love. Thanks for all the opportunities we have. Things that we absolutely are, Jerry overlooks almost every day, the things I should be grateful for. Have a great weekend and hope to hear you back next week.
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